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Milford chronicle., 1947-06-06
Vets
THINNING Line Of Blue

The Grand Army of the Republic,
its ranks prey to the one invincible
enemy, mustered little more than a
platoon on Memorial Day.
There were only 81 Civil War vet
Grams remaining on Veterans Admin
istration pension rolls on May 7, So
fewer than year ago and 143 less
than in 1945.
There are no government records
of the men who fought on the other
side in the War Between the States.
1t is estimated however, that less
than 80 men of the former Confed-
crate Army survive.
The veterans in blue who have
seen united America fight and win
three wars since the Appomattox
surrender, now live in % states. More
than half are 100 or older.
Eldest of the group, is Albert Hard
of Rochester, N. Y, who will be los
on July. is. Youngest is Charles
Knecht of st. James, Mo, who was IL
when the war ended and who will be
81 next November.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-06

rather than wages, would be the firsi
10 ieel the effect Of recession. Il
indicated cautiously that if high or
rising prices keep business receipts
up, the relatively large portion going
Tor profit-as against the portion go-
ing for wages-might have repercus-
slons in the present high level of em-
ployment.
A recent Associated Press survey Of
American conditions disclosed that
many business leaders share the opin-
ion OF economists that boom times
might last through June, but that
early summer would bring noticeable
signs OF a setback. Most authorities
agree, however, that it is unlikely to
become 1929 variety depression.
World Eyes on us.
World eyes are trained on America
because US. economic fortunes are
bound to affect those of other coun-
tries.
More than 56,OO0,0O0 civilians are
gainfully employed against only $780,
600 out of work. Basic industries like
SsSSA, loA uiiliS dIlO dutOIIlOOll6S are
riding the peak of the postwar boom
but some warbahies like shipbuildine
and aircraft manufacturing are sag.
ging.
In certain lines of luxury goods,
lay-offs have created an unemploy-
ment problem. When a couple of mill
lion job-hunting college students, in
cluding many ex-GI's, hit the labor
market this summer they may face
disappointment.
The Federal Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics says retail prices of necessities
are 20 percent above a year ago and
more than So percent higher than in
August, 1899.
Inflated costs have slowed home
construction and the new homeoWner
is apt to have too big mortgage on
his new or old house for which he
may have paid too much.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-06
Medicine
Synthetic Plusmu

Synthetic blood plasma-made from
a mineral with the properties of
limestone and coke-saved thousands
of German lives during the war.
The German drug, known as peris-
ton, has no chemical similarity to hu-
man blood but appears to act in the
same manner as plasma, delegates to
the American Chemical Corps Asso-
citation convention were told at the
Edgewood Arsenal, Md
Clinical records acquired by Amer
lean investigating teams in Germany
showed that Wehrmacht doctors used
the drug as plasma substitute in
transfusions and operations more than
100000 times on more than 10000 pa
tients.
Periston cannot be used as a re-
placement for whole blood but it may
prove satisfactory substitute or ad-
junct for plasma. 1t still is under
study and has not yet been accepted
by the American Medical Association.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-06
Arctic Is
Strategic

CONGRESS showed little dis
~ position this week to get to
work Immediately on President
Truman's plea for military coop
Grafton with the other Americas.
The attitude in both Senate and
House appeared to be that while Mr..
Truman's bid for law to make pos
sible standardized military organiza-
tons, training and equipment through
out the hemisphere might be good
idea it could wait for awhile.
Meanwhile almost the same impress
sion was left by Gen. Carl Spaatz,
commander of the Army Air Forces,
testifying before the House appropria-
tions committee on the l948 budget.
"As we fabricated this budget" said
Gen. Spaatz, 1--WE had continually in
mind the concept of the Arctic from
tier. While none of us, of course,
knows when war may come, we can
with reasonable assurance tell whence
it will come. -.
Reference to a global map will
show at once that the southern hemi-
sphere may be dismissed. There are
no vast populations there and there is
no great industrial capacity south OF
the equator"
Three Strategic Areas
Without naming any possible ag-
gressor, Spaatz said there are three
areas in the northern hemisphere
where these two conditions do exist.
The first he. said, "is in western
Europe where the first and second
world wars originated. The second is
+ in eastern Eurasia and the western
Pacific islands whence the japanese
jumped of. The third is the land mass
of central Asia"
The weapon of the future of grav-
est concern to this country, Spaatz
said. is the long-range bomber or the
long-range guided missile.
Regardless of where the next war
comes from. Spaatz stressed, hostile
shots will be fred on the US. and
aerial attacks, whether by heavy
bomber or guided missile, will hit the
US. and do terrific damage.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-06

The first was the multiple shotgun
Staying of four Negroes-two men and
their wives - near Monroe, Ca, last
July Is. Despite rewards totalling
$4,000, no one was ever identified as
member of the mob of about 20
white men. One of the Negro victims,
Roger Malcolm, had been accused of
stabbing his white employer and was
out on bond.
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama's Negro
school, lists three lynchings in 1943,
two in 1914 and one in 1945. During
the first postwar year, 1916, the num-
ber increased to six
Escape From Mob
The south's most pressing racial
problem was highlighted during the
week by the escape of another Negro,
Goodwin Buddy Bush, "a, from a
white mob which took him from the
Jackson, N c., Jail where he was
held for the attempted rape of a
young married white woman at Rich
Square, village IL miles from Jack
son.
Bush broke away from his masked
captors in the darkness and hid for
48 hours before giving himself up to
the FBI.
The FBI said it obtained a confess
sion from one of the mob duplicating
seven other white men in Jackson.
The evidence was turned over to
state authorities after ]. Edgar Hoover
said no violation of federal law was
involved. The state prepared to try
them for kidnapping.
Another Negro, Billie Simmons,
was rushed to the same prison from
Sampson County where he had been
arrested on a charge of raping a
white woman. The sheriff said his
prisoner had been arrested before
many people knew about the reported
rape
In Darlington, S. c., another Negro
youth. Willie Pooler 20, was whisked
from under the noses of a gathering
throng at the county Jail to the state
penitentiary. He was charged with
raping an elderly white woman.
Still another Negro, Willie Lee
Duke, was under heavy guard in an
undisclosed Jail in Arkansas as an
aftermath of the fatal knitting of Mrs.
Ethel Ellis Boyd, taxicat owner
driver.
Legal Precedent
The mass murder trial at Greenville
was unprecedented in southern legal
history. 1t was notable not alone for
the lengthy list of defendants, but also
for the speed with which suspects
were indicted.
Earle had been taken from a Jail
last February II where he was being
held in connection with the fatal stab
bing of taxi driver Many of the de-
PENDANTS tried for his murder were
Greenville taxi drivers. TWenty-six oi
the defendants signed unsworn state.
ments that they had aided in taking
the Negro to an old slaughter per
where he was savagely beaten anc
stabbed and eventually shot to death
with shotgun.
The defense did not contest the
truth of the statements. None of thu
defendants took the stand to defent
himself
Of the 81 white men tried TO
Earle's death, three were acquitted
by directed verdict and the other
were freed by jury which delib
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-06
Japan
Grab Bog


Four wartime Allies soon will draw
lots for what's left of the former Jap
anese navy-it's not much.
The United States, Britain. Russia
and China will take the vessels in
accordance with an Allied agreement
covering japanese combat ships Of
destroyer tonnage or less. Ships of
larger tonnage are being destroyed.
The first drawing, for which Gen.
Douglas MacArthnr VIII set the date
will be for four groups of ships, each
comprised of six destroyers and II
destroyer escorts. The vessels will be
delivered by Japanese crews to far
eastern ports named by the claiming
nation.
Russia is reported to be sending
rear admiral and six-man staff to
Tokyo for the drawing.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-06

tn Q Or : l! D This & I E Eek
Quotes

President Truman, explaining
his vigil beside his mothers bed:
"She sat up with me many times
when / needed her"
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt: "a wo-
man would have no chance at all
to be elected Ito the Presidency
of the United States). What is
more, 1 wouldn't wish it on her.
:. Whoever goes into public life
has to have hide like
rhinoceros."
The Communist Party magazine
BOIsheuik: "Capitalistic America
is not able in peace to manage its
great producing forces. This is
going to create even greater un-
employment than on the eve of
war"
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-06
Grim Months Ahead

While delegates from "a nations 20
the International Emergency Food
Council debated in Washington how
to meet the grim" grain shortage
foreseen for Europe during the next
IL months, Herbert Hoover, testifying
before a Congressional committee,
supported the Administrations re-
quest for $725, 100000 for civilian re-
lief in the American zones of occupa-
ton in Germany, Austria, Korea and
Japan.
His, face grave with concern over
the job still to be done, the former
Chief Executive made these points:
With Europe shor of farm ma
chinery and fertilizer, the fall har-
vest will range about IS to 80
percent of the prewar average.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-06
Drive for Evuders

Criminal prosecutions for tax fraud
are increasing, declared Secretary of
the Treasury John w. Snyder in a
report on the drive against tax eva
sion.
The government collected $1,461,-
100000 in extra revenue from the
drive during the first nine months of
the fiscal year, which ends June 80
The sum was 40.5 percent above COL
lections during corresponding pc
riod last year.
The biggest single haul recently
was $3,700,00O in a tax fraud case
against what Snyder described with
out further Identification as a large
paper and metal concern" He said its
officers face criminal prosecution.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-06
Dates
Tuesday, June 3

Confederate M e m mori ial Day
(Tenn., Ky).
,Birt h d ay, Jefferson Davis
celebrated in Ala, Ark, Fla,
Ca, Miss, S. Car, Tex. and Va.).
Friday, June 6
Anniversary (third D-Day,
Allied invasion of Normandy.
Birthday, Nathan Hale, Revo-
lutionary patriot.
Anniversary Q4th), U. S. EN-
ployment Service. 80
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-06
SOUTH: The Racial Problem

NEGRO ynchngs in the south have increased again after
time slump and have included two widely pubczed with
in the past year.
The most recent the ynhing of Willie Earle 23year-old
Negro which resulted in the murder trial Greenve
of 81 white each of whom acquitted
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-06
Il. S. Business Boom
Hit Peak in April

BUSINESS recession even should come not nece
sary lower prices the outset reports the Federal RI
Board The board this week on the hees
Commerce Department report that long upsurge in business
activity had halted in April - '
The Reserve Board also belief that business ras
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12
Woman River Pilot
Still Active at 7Q

CINCINNATI, OHIO. - An Ohio
river pilot for more than so years,
ma" Greene at 70 is ''as good as
ever"
When the coast guard renewed
her five-year pilots license for the
18th time, 1t. Comdr. Harry A.
Voight reported that she passed
her tests with ease.
Familiarly known as MA" Mrs.
Mary Greene is the only woman pi-
lot in the nations inland water
ways. She now takes the wheel
'just to show the passengers l can
do it." Her son, Tom, carries
on the steamboat line her husband
founded.
She got into steamboat plotting
when her husband found himself
with an extra boat and no skipper,
she explains.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12
Don't Yell Moron
At Reckless Driver;
It's Orerrating Him

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. - When
you mutter "Moron!" at the driver
who just missed sideswiping your
car, you may be temporarily over
rating him, it is indicated in traffic
fatality statistics assembled by
Northwestern National Life Insur.
ance company. The vast majority
of our CHASTITY annual toll Of auto.
mobile accidents occurs when driv-
ers are devoting only part Of their
intelligence to driving, the report
emphasizes.
The moron rates at from so to 20
per cent of average human intelli-
gence, the imbecile level is between
Is and so per cent of average and
the idiot rates below Is per cent.
Thus, the report points out,
when the driver of average in
telligence puts from a quarter
to One-haf of his mind on his
driving, and devOtes One-haH to
three-quarters of his brain to
conversation, scOlding the chill
dren, listening to a quiz pro-
gram or admiring scenery, the
hazards are about the same as
if a moron or submorOn were
doing his very best at the
wheel. An average mind logged
by alcohol may have its driv-
ing capabilities actually at the
imbecile level.
The splendid safety records Of the
railroads and the airlines would
take terrific nose dive, the report
suggests, if engineers and pilots
craned necks at scenery-feminine
or otherwise-argued with wives,
necked with the girl friend or were
under the influence of alcohol. while
on duty.
Yet the motorist constantly com
mits these driving sins, while airily
plotting his passengers without the
guidance Of steel rails and through
traffic hundred times as dense al
that of the railroads and the all
lanes.
A probable $4,000 lives could be
saved each year, the insurance
company estimates, il all motorists
could be convinced that plotting ar
automobile safely is job worthy o1
their best intelligence on full-time
basis.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12
Rural School Pupils
Pass Up Desserts
To Aid War Victims

NEWTOWN, PA.-As a memorial
to alumni who lost their lives in
World War II, pupils of George
rural school in Bucks county have
launched a project to aid pupils Of
two German schools. Recipients of
the aid are the Gertraudenschule,
girls school in Berlin, and the
jacob gymnasium, school for
boys at Dusseldorf.
Pupils are voluntarily sacrificing
their mealtime luxuries to provide
food, clothing and other necessities
for the 300 German school children.
Pennies saved by skipping ice
cream and dessert are contributed
to a special relief fund.
During the first six weeks of its
operation, the relief chest amounted
to $1,319. Collections included regu-
lar contributions as well as money
saved by giving up some item on
the menu.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12

disc, this unique country store mu-
scum is typical of the general store
which grandfather knew in his
youth.
Although the present Vermont
Country Store dates back only to
June, 1916, its predecessor OF the
same name originally was founded
at North Calais, VT, in 1897 by
Gardner L. Orton. This store later
was moved to Weston, and it was in
this same location that Vrest Orton,
son of the founder, reopened the
old-fashioned crossroads general
store in the summer of 1946.
Background Of the store is au-
thentic, most of the fixtures
coming from the store of the
original founder. Other fixtures
were presented by nearby Yer
mont storekeepers interested IN
the project.
While the building itself, con-
structed in 1928, and the fixtures
are as old-fashioned as it is possible
to make them, the country store
museum is not a dead, lifeless af-
fair. On the old shelves and coun-
ters Orton has stocked as varied a
display of goods as would have been
found in his fathers emporium a
half century ago.
The place is redolent of mingled
odors of spices, kerosene and cattle
feed, while dim lights are a re-
minder of long bygone days.
Revived also around the old,
high, wOOd-burning stove under
the hand-hewn rafters is the old
country store forum where peO-
pie gather to express their
frank opinions ON subjects rang
ing from local politics to the
state of the nation.
The Vermont Country Store is
more than a typical museum. Or
toms experiment, in a day when the
stereotyped, chain-store, slot ma
chine atmosphere prevails in gro
Gerry stores, may have far-reaching
implications, for he. is re-introduc-
ing the old-fashioned storekeeper's
policy of knowing thoroughly the
goods he was selling.
This type Of store, Orton explains,
makes it possible once again ''for
people to enjoy the experience OF
going into a store"
Nearly $4,000 people visited the
novel store museum last summer
and fall, and even larger attendance
has been recorded during the pres
ent season.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12
Future Teachers Instructed in Makeup

the series students staged style
show, modelling classroom anc
other clothes for teachers.
In classroom clothes, one gir
modelled an outfit suited to the
classical old maid school teacher
a black silk dress complete with
high lace collar. Other girls mod
eled softly tailored suits with ruf
fed blouse and tailored dresses con
sidered appropriate for the moderr
school marm.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12

To pan fry is to cook in shallow
fat in a skillet. This is sometimes
called sauteeing.
To broil or grill is to cook over or
under a clear fire or in broiling
oven. Do not pierce broiled foods
with fork or they will loose their
juices.
Creaming means letting food
stand at room temperature until it
is Softened and then working with a
wooden spoon or an electric mixer
until it Is creamy. The phrase is
often used Of butter.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12

NEW YORK. - Although it may
not solve the teacher shortage, the
City College of New York believes
it has taken a step in the right
direction by teaching students of
education how to dress, fix their
hair and make up their faces for
the classroom.
A series of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
was devoted to teaching the stu
dents how to look like, as well as
be, up-to-date teachers. To conclude
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12


plan to use a lot of poultry now,
and give your family something Of
a treat with unusually prepared
chicken dishes.
Chicken should be cooked to
''fork tenderness" There is little ex-
cuse for underdone or overdone
chicken if you follow the recipes
given today, with particular care to
temperatures and time for the
cookery. A moderate temperature
is best to use for chicken so as not
to shrink it too much, make it dry
or tough.
Most people who like chicken say
there's no better way to cook it
than to fry it. The generally ac-
cepted method is as follows:
1. Rub seasoned flour into pieces.
For each pound of chicken, blend "a
cup -four, 1 teaspoon paprika, "
teaspoon salt, and scant 6 tea
spoon pepper. Save leftover flour
for gravy.
2. Heat enough fat in a heavy
skillet to give depth Of about II
inch, using any desired fat. A drop
of water should sizzle when tenn
perature of fat is just hot enough.
3. Start meaty pieces first, slip
ping less meaty pieces in between
as chicken browns. Avoid crowd
ing; use two skillets if necessary.
4. AS soon as chicken begins to
brown, about 10 minutes, reduce
heat, and cook slowly until tender,
80 to 60 minutes, depending on size
Of pieces. Cover tightly as soon as
It is a light, uniform tan.
S. Turn 2 or 3 times with spoons
or fork and spoon to brown and
cook evenly. Avoid piercing with
fork.
6. Add / or tablespoons water
before covering, especially recon-
.mended if pan cannot be covered
tightly, or If bird is heavier than 8
pounds.
Z. Uncover last Is minutes to re-
crisp skin if desired. The liver and
precooked heart, gizzard, and neck
may be Toured and Drowned with
chicken the last Is minutes.
8. Lift fried chicken to hot plat
ter. Prepare gravy in pan drip
pings.
Huntington Chicken
(Serves 6 to 81
2 cups macarOni
u tablespoon butter
" tablespoon -four
" cup cream, scalded
1 cup cream cheese
3 tablespoons pimiento. finely cut
cup hot chicken broth
2 cups cooked chicken, diced
Salt
Pepper
Cook macaroni. Make cream
sauce of butter, flour, and cream.
AID cheese, pimiento, and chicken
broth; mix. Add chicken and maca-
roni, add seasonings. Pour into but
tered casserole. Bake in a moder-
ate oven $3.50 degrees) 80 to As
minutes.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12
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Tuolumne county in central Cali
fornia has many ghcst towns. On
Jackass hin is Mark Twain's cabin,
which still contains his personal eff
fects. Nearby is the Wells Fargo
stagecoach building. reminiscent Of
the gold-carrying days when mil
lions of dollars in gold were found
at Mount Badly and Coloma.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12
Ruling Princes of India
Assume Modest Titles

The 88 chief ruling princes OF
India, or those who rate salutes OF
II or more guns, use a total OF
968 descriptive titles, one of the
favorites adopted by many OF
them being King of Kings.
Other modest titles are Son OF
God, Emperor of the Earth, No
blest of All Mobiles, Wisest Man OF
the World, and Greatest Con-
queror of All Times.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12
New Training. Sky

A Boston inventor has been
awarded a patent on an improve
ment in the artificial night sky
under which aviation students in
trainers do their simulated flying.
It changes the apparent rate Of mo-
ton Of the stars according to the
direction Of fight.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12
stop That Vicious Dog

1t. Comdr. Willie Necker, noted
dog trainer, says that one Of the
best ways to outbluff vicious dog
at night is to stand stiIl and turn a
fashlight directly in his eyes. This
will temporarily blind him and
nearly always avoid attack.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12
Leads i'm Horses

Iowa farmers had 569, 900 horses
and colts last year on their farms,
the largest number Of such animals
Of any state. Utah and Nevada had
the lowest number, about 1000 each.
These did not include the wild
horses on range.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12

,XX/HAT beautiful wedding!"
w The perfect ending to a
perfect day hearing the fatter-
ling comments of your guests as
you and the groom walk up the
aisle.
The loveliness of any wedding depends
on the amount and KIND OF planning tna'
goes into it. # you want yours to be nlen.-
I9rable, start planning well in advance.
Our booklet No 2O4 can help you. Gov
ers every detail from the engagement to
the wedding reception-expenses. dress.
etiquette, everything. Send Csc in coin for
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12
Telephones of World

Americas telephone industry re-
ports that there are 81, ZOO, 900 tele-
phones to 40 million persons in the
United States; 3,575, ,O00 telephones
to 40 million persons in semi-social-
lied Great Britain, and 1872, 500
telephones to 100 million persons In
communized Russia.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12
Dissolving Castings

New coatings for sausage and
other meat products are being
made from citurs peel and other
fruit and vegetable wastes. This
thin protective film of good strength
is so tender it dissolves on food that
is boiled; if fried or roasted it can
be eaten right along with the food.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12
Wearing Good Protein

Recent medical research on the
value of high protein diets is paral-
1eled by the fact it long has been
realized that leather shoes were
beneficial. They consist largely Of
proteinl
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12
Cost of Your Letter

The cost to the post office depart
ment of moving one pound of letter
mail by rail in 1948 was 9515 cents
compared with $208A by air. The
charge made by the post office de-
partment to the public was three
cents for letter mail by rail and five
cents for air mail. If speed is de-
sired the American public pays for
a -
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12
LYNN SAYS:
Know Cookery Terms
For All Recipes

To bake means to cook in an oven
at a required temperature. Use an
oven regulator or an oven ther-
mometer if you have no other con-
troll.
To blanch means to dip in boiling
water, usually for the purpose Of
loosening the skins.
To fricassee means to fry IN q
small amount of fat and to serve
with q sauce.
Arizona sun., 1947-09-12
The Ancient Peach

The peach has long been cult
waited in China, where written rec
ords, were found about the peach
some 1000 years before its intro
duction to the Roman world.