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Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31
Lords 5 Acre
Charity Begins Everywhere

Last November in Byron, a tiny
western New York community of $50,
a committee met to discuss painting
the village Presbyterian Church but
decided instead to help the worlds
needy
Their Lords Acre" was originally
planned as community plot of one
acre on which produce could be grown
and sold. It grew to 16-acre plot
which initially yielded $l,127 pea
crop. More than 300 persons of all
faiths in the community actually
worked on the project.
The grand climax came this week
with an auction attended by 5000 and
netting the Lords Acre" fund more
than $4,000
More than 500 items were sold to
the highest bidders for gross of $2l.-
$50. The auction lasted eight and
half hours, ended in darkness and
was dampened but not halted by
shower.
Included in the sale were two new
automobiles, four tractors, combine.
10 radio -phonograph combinations.
three deep freeze units, an electric
refrigerator, % tons of coal, clothing.
furniture, ITS dozen eggs, 200 loaves
of home baked bread, livestock, fer
tilizer and farm produce.
Most of the larger new items, in
cluding the cars and heavy farm
equipment, were purchased by the
auction committee at dealers dis
count for resale.
The auction brought total of ST.
700 each for three relief organizations
United Jewish Appeal, the National
Catholic Welfare Association and tbs
Restoration Fund, representing Prot
eStantiSm.
The balance of more than $1,50i
. went to form the nucleus of con-
5 tinuing fund for nine needy familiet
: (Jewish, Catholic and Protestant il
Europe, Asia and the United States)
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31
Etiquette
Compassion Plus

compassion Plus
Cincinnati fireman Walter Saul sat
through double feature in a neigh
borhood movie theater with the head
of a dead man resting on his shoulder
Saul and his wife sat next to Alo-
ysius Bollin, So, d printer, and his six
year-old son, Joseph. A few moments
after the picture started, Saul felt a
head on his shoulder and, thinking
Bollin had fallen asleep, attempted to
rouse him. Then he put his ear over
the mans heart and checked his pulse
to discover the nan was dead-and
already turning cold.
The fireman said he decided to wait
for break in the program before re-
moving the corpse because he didn't
want to cause disturbance that might
have led to a panic"
The second picture over, Saul car
ried the body from the theater and
summoned an ambulance-afters send
ing little Joseph home to get his
smother because your father is sick
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31
In Short.

Received: By Secretary of State
George C. Marshall, the 1947 Freedom
House award, particularly for project
ing plan for European self-help.
Investigated: BY the FBI, Americas
super secret Central Intelligence
Agency, with the result that several
employees have been dropped fol
security reasons"
Banned: BY James c. Petrillo, AFI
Musicians boss, making of recording.
by any of his 225,000 members begin
ming January l.
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31
BOYCOTT: Russia's New Tactic in the u. N.

THE refusal of Soviet Russia
i and her satellites to partici-
pate in the Balkan commission
and strong indications that it
would adopt a similar stand on
u. S. Secretary of State George
c. MarshalIs proposed year-round
Little Assembly amounts to a new
version of the veto.
This latest Soviet tactic of boy
cotting what it is unable to talk or
vote down in the General Assembly
threatens to minimize the authority
of all United Nations decisions on
controversial subjects. :,
The veto itself is restricted to the
Security Council where Russia and
any of the other great powers can
block decision of the majority by
merely voting mo-" The assembly can
Only make recommendations to MEM
ber countries.
Russian and Polish Refusal
Russia refused to serve on the new
11-nation Balkan border watch COM
mission, created this week by the
general assembly over furious and
lengthy Soviet opposition. So did Po-
land, a member of the Russian bloc.
Moscow's delegate Andrei Y. Vi
shinsky further made it plain that
none of the Soviet satellites will
cooperate with the commission on the
grounds that it is "illegal" This ap-
parently is intended to restrict the
commissions activity to Greece alone
and prevent it from crossing the bor-
der into Yugoslavia, Albania and
Bulgaria, the three nations accused of
aiding Greek guerrillas. !
Russia was overwhelmed in the
showdown votes eliminating the Bal
kan case. The vote on the border
watch commission was 40 to 6, with
ii nations abstaining.
The assembly rejected two resolu-
tions Zone Polish and one RuSsian)
demanding recall of all foreign mill
tary missions in Greece and creation
of a commission to supervise eco
nomic aid to the Greeks.
The Balkan debate ended with g
final bitter display between east ano
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31

denounced a group of screen writers
and directors specifically by name as
unquestioned Communists serving, in
his opinion, as agents of an alien
power"
Red Broadway
Screen critic-writer John Charles
Moffitt asserted that Broadway is
practically dominated" by Commun-
lists. He testified that material fur.
thering the Communist line seeped
into A Broadway plays produced be-
tween 1896 and this season while 80
others favored Communism.
Mofitt said he considers the Screen
Writers Guild, to which he said some
80 per cent of Hollywood writer's be-
long, as under Communist control.
Senator Claude Pepper (D.-Fla.)
criticized the hearings as under
handed" and IAN affront to the dignity
of citizenship" He referred to the
hearings as an attempt to 'intimidate
motion picture producers.
Il resent an American Congress
sional committee presuming to set
itself up as a censor" Pepper said. i
know nothing that would give more
encouragement to Fascists and othev
totalitarians."
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31
Prison Train
TronsconfinentoI Hell Run

One hundred and forty-one Army
prisoners-sullen, grim, dirty and ex-
hausted-detrained at Camp Cooke,
Calf, this week after a transconti-
mental shell run" from New York
State.
The men were described by Col.
Wade D. Killen, train commander for
the last leg of the trip, as "habitual
criminals" many of whom were in
ured to crime before they entered the
Army.
Trouble started almost as soon as
tl.c train pulled out of Greenhaven,
NJ Y. Because they Travelled in out
moded railroad equipment and none
of the coach, windows were barred,
the prisoners were handcuffed to-
gether. In addition many wore leg
irons.
Rioting broke out on the train and
additional MPs were assigned. Many
escape attempts were made as "hard
cases, facing life terms" leaped reck-
lessly from moving cars. Additional
guard reinforcements were put on in
Utah but still the rioting and escape
attempts went on.
An undisclosed number of prison.
erS were shot.
Only one prisoner made good his
escape. John D. Anders, 81, of James,
town, N. Y, was being sought in CEN
trail Kansas.
At Los Angeles, the Southern Pa
cific Railroad provided coaches with
barred mesh windows and the men
had some freedom of movement. Col
Killen said the trip from Los Angeles
to Camp Cooke was without incident
The California prison camp is one
of the finest of its kind in the coun-
try, Col. Killen said, and escape from
it would be as difficult as from any
first-class state prison.
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31

west. Hector Mcneil, British minister
of state, speaking in defense of Brit
ish troops in Greece was interrupted
twice from the floor by shouts from
Dmitri v. Manuilsky, Ukrainian for
eign minister, and Sava Kosanovic,
Yugoslavia's ambassador to the United
States. Since the shouts were not
translated, they were not understood.
DR.. Herbert " Evatt, Australian
foreign minister, had accused Russia
of hypocrisy for attacking British
American aid to Greece while giving
aid itself to Poland, Yugoslavia and
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31

AAAA4Sl4OCAl GA4AOA10 .
The hearings, scheduled to last
three weeks, were dramatic and often
uproariouS. The cast of witnesses was
studded with big names. Hot lights
beat down for the benefit of newsreel
cameras. On the second day, one law
yer was thrown out of the hearings
and another was threatened with ejec-
ton.
witch Hunter Menj0u
Adolphe Menjou, garbed in a dove
brown, double-breasted suit with
chalk stripes and padded shoulders,
was the first glamorous witness. The
veteran screen actor called Commun-
ism ian incredibly serious menace"
and said there were many, many
dangerous directors and actors in the
film capital He declared:
II believe that Hollywood is one of
the main centers of Communist activ-
ity in America because our greatest
medium for propaganda, the motion
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31
Hot Shots

o The London black market opera
tors are reported offering $4,000 each
for invitations to the marriage of
Princess Elizabeth, despite the fact
that the invitation IS not transferable.
More than 5000 foreigners are expect
ed in London for the occasion, most
of them hoping tc crowd into West
minister Abbey, whih holds no more
than 1900.
Q In Gurnee, ILL.,, truck carrying
5000 pounds of butter burned. With
wholesale butter at 70 cents a pound
the cargo was worth $4,000 before il
melted and ran down highway cutters
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31

picture, is located there and that it is
the desire of the masters of Moscow
to use this medium for their purpose:
the overthrow of the American gov
ernment."
Menjou said he himself was a
witch hunter if the witches are Com
munistS."
If Communism ever came to Amer
lea, the suave actor said he would run
for Texas because l think Texans
would kill 'em on sight
Producers Louis B. Mayer, Jack
Warner and Sam Wood conceded
there had been and still were Com
munists trying to penetrate the movie
colony but maintained these Red ef-
forts had been foiled in their produc-
tions and that the bulk of the film
industry was patriotic
Wood, president of the newly.
formed Motion Picture Alliance fol-
the Preservation of American Ideals
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31
Curb Peers,
Labor Asks

LING GEORGE VI opened o.
~ new session of Parliament
with centuries-old pomp this
week and from the throne of gold
called for curb of the House OF
Lords, hereditary lawmaking
BODY, and naturalization of the gas
industry. Top priority was given, how.
ever, to economic recovery.
Princess Elizabeth, now 21 and SOON
to wed, made her first state appear
ance before Parliament, riding to
Westminster in a coach by herself.
She sat, throughout the speech, to the
right of the throne.
The King does what his ministers
tell him and his speech represents a
formal preview of Prime Minister
Clement Attlee's Socialist program for
the coming year.
Cryptic 10 Words
In 10 words the King announced the
governments momentous decision TO
trim the authority of the Lords: Leg
islation will be introduced to amend
the Parliament act, 1911"
A government spokesman confirmed
that this cryptic statement announced
the Cabinets decision to trim the
power of the Peers
More than a score of new legislative
projects were outlined in the Kings
15-minute speech, including bills to
shift labor from nonessential to essen
tial industry, set up common nation
al status throughout the Common
wealth, grant women the right to re-
tain nationality after marriage and
independence for Burma
Hereditary Powers
OF all the issues, the plan 70 clip
the power of the Lords is the most
controversial Under the 1911 act, the
Lords can veto any measure except
financial, but the House of Commons
can override the veto by passing the
rejected bill at three successive ses-
sions of Parliament
The overwhelming Conservative
character in the House of Lords has
been in sharp contrast to the Laborite
majority in Commons for the last
two years.
Some observers speculated that the
issue of the Lords authority might be
submitted to the country at an early
election on the grounds that the Att
lee government has no mandate from
the people to reform the upper House
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31

Rally of the French
People (RPF) won
38 per cent of the
votes in municipal
elections through
out the nation.
French munich
pal elections ordi-
narily are a mat
ter of only local
interest but the
c a m p al G n this
year was fought
on practically one
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31
Quote

A Soviet delegate to the United
Nations Assembly, informed that
Brazil had<brcken diplomatic re-
lations with Russia because of
attacks in the Russian press on
President Eurico Gaspar Dutra:
"The Soviet Union can live with
out Brazil but it might not be so
easy for Brazil"
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31

other countries in the Soviet sphere.
No Korean Withdrawal
The U, S. formally rejected Rus
sian proposal that Soviet and Ameri-
can occupation troops be withdrawn
simultaneously from Korea. The State
Department explained that because
of repeated inability of American and
Soviet commanders in Korea to agree,
the U. S. felt obligated to seek the
assistance of the United Nations" to
hasten independence for a united
Korea.
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31

The State Department also refused
to disclose report on China and
Korea by 1t. Gen. Albert c. Wede-
meyer, holding that its publication
now would be actually harmful to the
interests of those countries.
During the week Brazil and Chile
severed diplomatic relations with Rus
sia. Chile also broke with Czecho-
slovakia - ------ 49,
A fortnight ago Yugoslavia broke
with Chile after two Slav diplomats
were barred for alleged Communist
plotting.
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31
Needy Europe AaUaits
Il. s. Verdict on Food

TINE Administration produced statistics this week de-
signed to to the nation that this country
export the food machinery western Europe seeking under
the Marshall plan Meanwhile Americans swallowing another
of imitation
Bread went cents loaf OF cities and
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31
CAPITAL: Spotlight on HOLLYWOOD

WASHINGTON the this week of another Congressional
w probe certain to hold the national stage dramatically the
Senate committee inquiry into the wartime plane contracts held by
Howard Hughes Hollywood millionaire film producer and plane de-
sgner This time Hollywood ITSELF the grid of the HoueUn
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trance
De CuuIIe's Comeback

Gen. Charles de Gaulle, wartime
leader of the Free French and one
time provisional president of France,
rallied at the polls this week when
his six-months-old political party, the
Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31
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Evening star., 1947-03-10
Capital Transit Wins
Appeal on Accident

The Court Of Appeals today Sci
aside an award of $1,15o to 5-year.
old Peggy Ann Gamble and her ia.
ther, Charles r. Gamble, for injurie.
the child suffered when struck by 9
Capital Transit Co. streetcar. Ano
the court took occasion 70 absolye
the streetcar operator. g" =
Evidence showed the child ran In
front of the streetcar from between
stacks of furniture on the sidewalk,
the court said, adding: 1--WE can
not see how the motorman could
possibly be held to have been negli-
gent in falling to stop in so brief q
moment of time" &e
Mr.. Gamble and his daughter
lived at 1919 G street NE. at the
time Of the accident but now live 20
miles below Fredericksburg, Va, on
Highway No. 2.
In their suit they maintained q
child Of S cannot be guilty Of con-
tributory negligence. The court,
however, held that depends on the
child and the degree of intelligence
it possesses"
The appeals court ruled the Dis
trict Court should have directed a
verdict for the company. The trial
in District Court ended In q verdict
of 81 900 for Peggy Ann and $50 for
the father.
Evening star., 1947-03-10
Used Surplus Store
Is Opened Informally,
Sells 10 Railway Cars

The War Assets Administrator q
used surplus sales store for Wash
ington opened this morning without
formahties.
Only a handful Of buyers, mostly
representing wholesalers and re-
tailers, were on hand when the doors
swung open at Temporary Building
"R," Fourth street and Jefferson
drive S.W.
But the WAA managed to move
some Of its stock in the first few
minutes, including 10 railroad cars
at $4,000 each and a $4.33 wise.
The wise was the first sale made
when the customers service cen
ter" opened. It was purchased by
1t. q. g. Cornelious Hall, 20, Of 1903
Kenyon street NV, q Merchant
Marine officer.
The railroad cars. which original
ly cost the Government $53,000
each, were purchased by ]. H.
Hatcher, executive general agent for
the Atlantic Coast Lines Railroad
Co. The cars now are in Seattle and
San Francisco and will be trans
ported to the railroad company i'm
mediately.
The cars, which were built for the
government as hospital cars. will
be converted to work crew units, Mr..
Hatcher said. He gave the WAA Of
fetal a check for $150,000.
The 30-foot barrage balloon which
was to be sent aloft over the build
ing to attract customers did not 60
up because it could not be inflated
properly.
Evening star., 1947-03-10
Italian Constitution Fayors
Catholics, Jews Assert
By the Assoeiatsd Press

ROME. Mar. 10.-Italian Jewry
asserting Italy's proposed constitu-
ton favored Roman Catholics,
called on the Constituent Assembly
today to guarantee equal rights for
all religions.
Striking at the proposal to sane
ton the 1929 Lateran pacts, COM
pelling Catholic religious instruction
in public schools, the Jews said
children of non-Catholics found
themselves in the schools in a posi-
ton of inequality, inferority and
discomfort"
The Jews also asked that, If the
charter defines marriage as q re-
ligious rather than a civil act, they
be allowed to judge "the validity
and solubility of our marriages &C.
cording to our ancient laws and by
our rabbnical tribunals" The pro-
posed constitution would not grant
divorces.
Evening star., 1947-03-10
District Dentists 0pen
Postgraduate CIinie;;.
Hear PharmacoIoqisf

Everything for the teeth except
fiuorine, the latest wonder drus. !"
was on display today at the opening
Of the District Postgraduate Dental
Clinic.
Lack Of confidence In fiuorine-an
element supposed to halt tooth de-
|cay-caused drugs containing it to
be omitted from the exhibits, ac-
cording to DR.. Victor v. Skinner Of
the District Dental Society. He said
mouth washes and pills containing
fluorine compounds had not been
used widely enough to prove their
value to the society.
The four-day clinic Is designed
to furnish dentists with the latest
Information on all aspects Of tooth
treatment. Exhibits and meetings
took over the entire mezzanine floor
Of the Statler Hotel. LA
Charles F. Morgan, assistant pro-
lessor OF pharmacology at George
town University, warned dentists
against giving too light a dose of
sulfa drugs in treating tooth decay.
He said an insufficient amount OF
the drug increased resistance and
made bacteria harder to kill.
OtheI talks were scheduled to-
day were to be made by DR.. Sterling
v. Mead. president Of the American
Dental Association; Joseph c. Nc
Garraghy, president Of the WASH
ington Board Of Trade; William E.
Leahy, director OF Selective Service
for the District, and Senator Lucas,
Democrat, Of Illinois.
About 5000 dentists and dental
assistants are expected to attend the
clinic which will last through Thurs
dov
Evening star., 1947-03-10
Witness Testifies
Against Photo Firm
Before FTC Heariinu

Mrs. Donald Lowe Of 3o57 First
street S.W., wife Of . radio engi-
neer In the Naval Research Labora-
tory, appeared today as first witness
in Federal Trade Commission hear
ings on complaint against the
Rembrandt Studio. 708 Thirteenth
street NV, charging that offers OF
81 pictures by door-to-door can
vassers employed by the studio are
not bona flde.
The complaint names Eugene
Petrey, trading as Rembrandt
Studio and Goldcraft Portrait
Studio, TIC Thirteenth street NV,
Dorothy T. Petrey, his wife, and
Nicola Brozilla and B. B. Bishop
the last Of Charleston, w. Va, and
Theodore Rosenberg, also known as
Ted Rose. A sixth respondent, Ben
Schefiman. died in May, 1914, the
trial examiner was informed.
The complaint was issued on Sep
tember ~, 1914.
Mrs. Lowe testified that just be-
fore Christmas -four or five years
ago" she paid one dollar to q sales
man who called at her apartment
She said she went to the Rembrandt
Studio, where man told her he
could not take her picture that day
when she informed him that she wa.
interested solely in the picture
called for In the coupon.
She asked for her money back
she said, but was told that she
would have to get that from the
salesman and he was only In the
ofnce on Saturdays.
II told him I would report him te
the Better Business Bureau" she
said, land he told me to come bacl
next week. That seemed to frighter
him."
She did report the incident t,
the Better Business Bureau, sh,
said on cross
She never got her money back o.
her picture taken, she said.
Evening star., 1947-03-10
Congress Action Due Soon
On Key Home Restoration

Congress will be asked, probably
within two weeks, to authorize res
toration Of the Francis Scott Key
home in Georgetown, officials Of the
National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission and the National
Commission of Fine Arts, said to-
day.
Senators Tydings, Democrat, OF
Maryland. and Taft, Republican, OF
Ohio, are drafting a bill allowing
the Secretary of the Interior tc
spend $65, 900 for restoration of the
house in which the author Of "The
Star Spangled Banner" lived from
1908 to 1928. The house would be
moved from 3516-18 M street NV
to Government-owned land imme-
diately east Of Key Bridge.
H. P. Caemmerer, president Of the
Columbia Historical Society and ad-
ministrative officer of the Fine Arts
Commission, said the society plans
to make the mansion q museum
commemorating the War OF 1912
This project win be discussed at the
society's annual dinner April u at
the Mayhower Hotel, with Senator
Tydings as principal speaker, Mr..
Caemmerer said.
~ Removal and restoration of the
Key house already has been ap-
proved by the Planning Commission
and the Commission Of Fine Arts.
Evening star., 1947-03-10
Case Plant Workers
Prepare 10 Return al
End Of Long Strike
Nv n. A..o~;r,.4 p,...

RACINE, Wis, Mar. 10.-The Na-
tion's second oldest major strike, the
14-month-old walkout at the J. I.
Case Co. plant, was at an end today
after the UAW-CIO Local 100 mem-
bership voted yesterday to accept
what spokesmen termed mot a good
contract"
The announced vote was 927
to 448.
The $500 union members had been
out since December 26, l945, al
though workers in other Case plants
at Rockford and Rock Island, ILL.,,
and Burlington, Iowa, previously had
returned to their jobs.
This is not a good contract, but
1t is the best we could obtain, i"
Leonard Woodcock Of Detroit, spe-
cial representative Of UAW Presi-
dent Walter Reuther, told the men,
bership.
Leaders Urge Acceptance.
He and Harvey Kitzman, presi-
dent Of the local, urged members
to accept the contract. The strike
had been costing the JAW inter-
national about $4,000 week, the
union had announced.
Mr.. Kitzman said the contract
would yield an across the board
pay increase averaging about rs
cents an hour. The union originally
had asked 30 cents.
Provision also was made, Mr..
Kitman said, for vacation pay ad-
justments for the years 1914, 1916
and the current year.
Theodore johnson, company ex-
ecutive vice president, said in a
prepared statement "the (contract)
terms conform to principles basic
to the company's policy.
No Closed-Shop Provision.
Wage increases offered in Octo-
Der, 1916, were accepted by the union
representatives" Mr.. johnson said.
These adjustments vary according
to job classif1cations.
mo provisions were included in
the contract Tor a closed shop, COM
pulsory check-off and assessments
or maintenance of membership"
Mr.. johnson said the workers
would be notified by registered mail
when to return to their Jobs. He
said the strike was settled largely
through the efforts Of John w. Glib
son." the Assistant Secretary of
Labor.
The prolonged dispute. exceeded
in length only by that of workers
Of the Toledo, Peoria & Western
Railroad in Illinois, was character
ized by court clashes and word bat
ties which were almost free Of vio-
lence.