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Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31
By CARL HELM

NEW YORK-Where anything is
liable to happen. Such as:
Alarmed by murder, assault. rob-
berry, in their halls, tenants of il
6story apt. bldg. hired their own
police force;
Drivers of hearses and funeral
cars threatened to go out on strike,
posing ii problem;
Two men feuding in storage
warehouse threw 5000 eggs at each
other:
Cocktails at Il Swank dinner were
chilled with chunks from an Alas
kan glacier. flown $500 mi. to NY:
Things left by distracted sar-
dimes in the subway included false
teeth. crutchcs. an urn bearing
somebody's ashes. bowls of gold
fish, cages Of canaries. and Il
wooden leg:
81 percent of 10000 school kids
pOlled never heard of Horatio
Alger;
A StOrmtOSSed steamship, dock
ing days late. reported Soft waves
and 10000 seasick pills passed out
to passengers, and
Thieves broke into Carnegie
Hall, stealing two obocs (musical
things. that ISL
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31
Fans Call Play
Officials Miss
IP Nf7usjr1Iurrc

COMMERCE., TEX.-The specta-
tors finally got to decide plav.
1t was good thing there werc
fans present or they might have
had to do this all over.
1t happened in a basketball game
between East Texas State and Ea.t
Central Oklahoma.
Travis Bruce Of East Tovoc
State and Max McClearin of Fast
Central plOwed head-on toward Tho
Oklahoma goal. McClearin nlavod
his shot just before he and Rruco
crashed into the gymnasium wall
Neither of the officials w II
Keeling or +. 0. Hayes, saw wboth
er the ball went through the hoon
Their eyes were on McClearin \,
ing unconscious on the floor
Witnesses said the shot was ooo,
SO scorekeeper Lee Watson vs.
Dallas gave the Oklahoma team two
points-but he still wasn't sire y
But il didn't matter too nanoh
East Texas state won 1919 ''> IT,
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31
PARADISE FOR
BALL FANS
THAT'S TEXAS
by HAROLD V. RATLIFF
AP NeWSfeatureS


DALLAS Texas next spring
should be the fans and young base
ball players paradise The players
can break into almost any minor
league classification. The fans will
see more teams than ever before.
Five professional leagueS-the
largest number ever operated in
this state--will place more than
30 clubs i'll the field in 1947. They
rank from ID to AA. with only A
and Al missing.
Texas, in fact. will be pushing
North Carolina for the largest re-
presentation in professional base
ball among the As states.
Five members of the Glass AA
Texas League are in Texas. They
are Dallas. San Antonio, Fort
Worth. Houston and Beaumont.
The Class B East Texas League
has six clubs definitely lined up
with prospects of an eight-club
circuit. In the league are TeXark-
ana, Paris. Greenville. Sherman
Waco and Wichita Falls. Temple.
COrsicana. Gainesville and Pales-
tine are being considered for the
other two spots.
These are two Glass G circuits
the West TcXas-Ncw Mexico
! League and the Lone Star League
Six members of the former loop
are in Texas; Abilene. Amarillo.
! Berger. Lamesa. Lubbock and Pam
pa. All of the Lone Star League
clubs are in Texas. They are Bryan,
Lufkin, Jacksonville. Henderson.
/ Tyler. kilGorc, LOngvicw and Mar
shall
The newest league is the Long
horn. a Class ID circuit with six
members: Odessa, Midland. Sweet
water Big Spring. Ballineer and
Vernon. They're all in Texas.
These circuits play schedules
from 1870 games to 1874. All fur
nish opportunity to youngsters just
breaking into baseball. The Texas
League goes in strongly for youth
SO. young fellow. if you want to
play the game. stop off i'll Texas
If there isn't Il league to your lik :
ing somebody will be glad to or
ganize one. But already there is
room for about 800 ball players
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31
Trainer Says CT
Athlete Has Bad Legs
IP Ncqrsfc1fUrrs

~ ht(<S fUiWfS
SEATTLE E-The weakest link in
the Gl athletes armOr?
'LegS!" declares Click Clark. We
tcran trainer at the University of
Washington.
Most of the casualties hobblin2
into Clicks arnica emporium dur
ing the track, baseball and football
campaigns were ex-GIs with ailing
cams
I'VE lost the services of several
tOp-nOtch athletes because of
muscle pulls. or charlie horses,
and almost without exception these
boys were back from the service"
Clark commented.
This is no critiSm of service
conditioning. My point is that train
Ing for war is a thing far divorced
from training for major college
athletics. In athletics legs are all
important. In war, trucks jeeps
tanks and planes carried our fight
ers on many of their tasks. There
fore, they missed lot of leg work
in their physical buildup."
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31
The Low-Down From
Hickory Grove

You know, in this age of hurry
up-and middle-Of-the-r driving
and i'll manners generally. | been
reSearchin' around to see how it
all got started. And you know, a
lot of signs point to high places.
For years our Govt. has said,
'brOther you do this or you do that
or you don't eat" And the brother
| am referrin' to is you and your
Uncle JOSephus. So if the Govt.
can become bossy and sassy and
take push-alOund attitude. how
come other folks can't catch on
and also go uncouth and sassy.
They can-and do.
That is how | deduct it.. and if
| am jake on my theory. then there
is cure for our bad manners. Let
the folks headin' our Govt. and
the ones making the laws. sweep
out the MUST and the YOU
GOTTA and the all-high OR
ELSE orders. and the rest Of us
will catch on.
And going further into my re-
search, it is the North more than
the South that is needing an eX-
ample. | have lived South and |
have lived North. The North keeps
harpin', superiorlike, about max
ing laws to help the Southland
uplift them down there. But if the
South had the same bump of con-
ceit and cared to stOOp to inter
fering where it was none of their
drafted business, it could do some
vice versa uplift talk.
Manners is what the L. S. A.
needs more Of
Yours with the low down.
IN SERBIA
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31
lII2;5615!2l''syIIl2IA;;;, u,
By FARMAN HOLME

CHANGING through Il mail = order
house catalogue doesn't seem very
much to get excited about-in the
u. s.. that is.
But the chance just to look at
such Il catalogue is major event
in Russia If million copies were
distributed in Russia, says Eddie
Gilmore, Associated Press CORE
spondent. they would give the Rus
sian people a better impression OF
America than any high priced.
high powered propaganda.
1t seems that his wife had Il
copy of mail-Order catalogue and
showed it to her friends in the
Communist capital News of its
wonders spread.
Washing machines. radios, china,
vacuum cleaners at prices
within the reach of every pocket
book. available to the lowest peas
ant as we'll as to the highest COM
misSar. Soon the line of people
who wanted to see this wonderful
book was forming on the left.
! Apparently the comrades accept
/ ed the mail-order catalogue and its
! prices as genuine and not a form
/. of foreign propaganda.
On the other hand. newsreel of
! d typical U. S. street scene show
ing average free American citizens
! in their everyday clothes, is re-
garded with suspicion as being
staged and costumed" as form
of "anti-Communist" propaganda.
The catalogue is just an exam
pie of the high standards which
the American people demand-and
receive. The highest standards in
the world, and the most taken for
granted
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31
Many Of Us Have
No Experience
Of Free Economy

America must face the grim fact
that the task Of rcviving the faith
of her people in our unique system
OF government and economics and
personal freedom is going to he
vastly more difficult with every
year that we let slip by without eff
ective action. II. w. Prentis, Jr.,
president, Armstrong Cork Co.,
Lancaster, Pa, warned recently.
Mr.. Prcntis showed cGually
grim" figures to show why Ameri-
cas- freedoms are endangered by
that segment of the population
which never knew much about a
free economy.
To-day. he said, "4l per cent of
our populatiOn-63 million people
have had no adult experience
experience, that is. after the age of
21-with Il free market for homes
motor cars, radios and many other
consumer articles.
"TOday As per cent SO million
have had no adult experience with
d peacetime economy.
To-day 5S per cent-S3 million
nave had no adult experience with
ia conservative administration in
Washington
"Today-63 per cent 90 million
have had no adult experience
with the 1929 crisis.
To-day IS per cent Ill million
have had no adult experience
with the event following the first
World War.
THE world fills up and empties
very rapidly. Those of us who are
convinced that there are real vir-
tues in the American system have
no time to lose"
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31
Death 10 Entcrprise
Listening Posts For
Flu Epidemic
.U NrqcS(rafu,rS


BERLIN The American Mill
tary Governments public health
branch has established influenza
listening posts" to guard the
German population in the U. S.
zone against an epidemic this win
ter.
According to the influenza cycle
for Germany, such an epidemic is
considered possible this winter
and factors which increase the
danger are the crowded living con-
ditions and poor sanitary facilities
prevailing, especially in the bomb
ed cities.
Chief precautionary measures
are the listening posts which
are laboratories manned by Ameri-
can-trained German technicians.
Any increases in epidemic influen-
"a. which can be recognized
through special laboratory tests.
Immediately would be reported
throughout the zone and d system
of controls put into effect.
In the event Of an outbreak the
threatened community would be
isolated and influenza vaccine
rushed to the spot An immediate q
information campaign would be
begun warning the people against
the danger of the disease and Civ
ing instructions for combating il.
Special stocks of L. S. Army
hospital supplies have been set
aside for emergency use.
The problem of typhus in the
u. S. zone has decreased consid-
erably since Il year ago because
of emphasis upon prompt treat
ment of incoming refugees from
Eastern Europe.
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31
Drops Portal Suit
On Learning Facts

Explaining that. after investiga
tlon. he did not feel that the union
had valid claim" to the $4,000,
600 it was seeking from an employ
er. Detroit attorney has announc-
ed that portalto-pOrtal lawsuit
was being dropped.
Investigation showed that en-
ployees checked in within d rea-
sonable period before starting
time; that they ate their lunches
on the cOmpany's time; that -
minutes were accorded them in
winch to clean up before checking
out. with five extra minutes allow
ed to women employees Tor this
purpose.
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31
Instructors Return
To Jobs After
lnstructing GIs
AP NeWSfeaturpS

Sun VALLEY. IdahO-The men
who taught a fighting army how to
ski are on their way back to fun
jobs - instructing winter sports
fans at famed Sun Valley.
The resorts ski teachers were
prominent among Army instruc-
tiOnal StaffS that in seven months
trained and later put into action
the Tenth Armys specialized
Mountain Division, which fought
in northern Italy on skis and
snow shoes.
Virtually every member of the
pre-war teaching staff saw action
most with the Mountain Divi-
sion
Friedl Pfeifer. director of the re-
sorts ski school and national open
slalOm and downhill title-holder in
1910 and 1871 was technical adviser
for the Division during upland
mancuvers in western states. He
taught skiing and rock climbing
and tested war equipment under
simulated battle conditions.
Overseas I'm 1913
/ lie went overseas in January
l9l3 rs an assistant squad leader
after declining an assignment tC
/ officers candidate school. T nc
/ Mountain Division went into tn,
front lines at once at Mt. Belve-
dere, and was in action almost con.
tinually until April. when Pfeifel
was among the wounded in the
final drive to push the Germans
from Italy.
SiSi Engu. 1912 national slalon
champion, reached Italy that win
ter with the Division. His first
glimpse of the front line after NOV
ing up during the night, was of the
AbCtOnc, Italy terrain where he
had won his last ski race before
coming to the United States il
1896. a native Austrian. he twice
was all-arOund champion of hi.
country; won the Italian Open. the
French SlalOm. and at AbetOnc tool
I
Karl llinderman, of Montana
first of the resorts instructors tt
don Il uniform. became the first SIX
instructor in the Army. He wen
overseas III time To participate il
the final push at the Po River Val
ley.
Freddy l'iCrrCn, formerly privat,
instructor for King Leopold O
Belgium and a Swiss by birth. saw
American service both as front
line instructor of mountain com
bat troops and as a special agen
with the Counter Intclligcnc,
Corps.
He won the Austrian slalom an,
downhill championships last win
ter in a meet open to America,
troops and then competed through
out Europe as a member of tn
L. S. Army ski team.
AndreaS lIennig, veteran teach
er and the first sportsman ever #
climb Mt. Rainier on skis. taugh
at Camp Hale, Colo, and then wen
to Italy as combat instructor.
Won Two Medals
He won both the Purple Hear
and the Bronze Star for dragpin
a wounded man to safety Will
, himself injured by the same direc
shell hit He recovered and sa,
more action with his outfit. an
after the war climbed Austria
highest mountain, Grossglockner.
A Marine staff member saw ser
vice in the Pacific. Floyd Depui
, served with Il fighter squadron i
the SOlOmOnS and Marianas.
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31
IN Our Democracy :.

New York States 1916 apple crop
tOtalled 15.390.000 buShels-second
nationally to Washington States.
OF all the bituminous coal mined
underground in America today,
more than 80 percent is mechanic
ally cut and more than 80 percent
loaded. Only about five percent is
mined by pick and shovel.
Seed companies have developed a
true hybrid eggplant strong
that il will hold its eggs" up off
the ground. produce 25 percent
more than present varieties.
A brushless paint that can be ap-
piled with a piece of chccSecloth is
the development of California
manufactures.
In Pennsylvania nearly half the
population is in places under 10000
and four percent in places under
5000 population
Americans use between $50 and
800 pounds OF paper products (all
klnds) per person per year.
Date VOur latferc 1Od7
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31
Brazil's Deficit

RIO DE JANEIRO- Brazil
closed 1916 with d deficit of al
most one hundred million dollars,
according to treasury figures. This
is said to he the largest ever re
corded in the national finances.
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31
QUOTES
OF THE WEEK

Women are very expensive.
Ihey want a lot" DR.. Lynn
nh'te Jr.. president, Mills Col
lege for Women.
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31
Calls Voluntary
Arbitration 'Only
Democratic Way'
By COLLIER

Free collective bargaining and
voluntary arbitration are only dem
ocratic methods for attaining i'll
duStrial peace. Walter b. WeiSen-
burger. executive vice president of
NAM. declared last week. opposing
all forms of government compul-
sion in settling labor disputes.
compulsory arbitration is Il
contradiction of terms" Mr.. Wei
senburger said.
1T is unconstitutional, unfeasi-
Bile and impractical for attaining
the ends desired. and it would
create condition of involuntary
servitude which eventually would
! lead to sabotage or violence"
The principle of compulsory ar
bitratiOn lies in government leg
! iSlative authority to compel both
employer and employee to sub
nit their conflict to an outside ag-
ency for arbitration and award,
Mr.. Weisenburger pointed out
The governments agency then
/ has authority to set terms and CON
ditiOns of employment that have
not been agreed on voluntarily by
/ both sides.
Bargaining Substitutes
| Attempting to diSpel some illu-
/ SiOns about special labor courts
and "other devices as cure-all
for industrial strife" Mr.. Weisen-
burger said that schemes for COM
pulsory arbitration may be dis
%uised by varying terminOlogy. but
all of them are substitutes for vol
untary collective bargaining. and.
i'll greater or lesser degree. impose
settlement by judicial decree or by
board flat
The NAM has steadfastly opposed
the principle Of compulsory arbi-
tratiOn i'll labor disputes.
Amy such system, no matter
what its name," the NAM official
continued, "is actually a system
for compulsory arbitration if it in
wolves the determination by third
party of conditions governing re-
latlOns between management and
labor"
Death TO Enterprise
Organized labor is understand
ably opposcd' to compulsory arbi-
tratiOn, he added, because many OF
the primary functions of labor
nnionS would then be taken over
by the courts and il would be dili
cult, If not impossible. to unionizC
unOrSanized workers. since no un-
ion could get any better terms for
the workers than an arbitration
hoard would aWard
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31

THE free enterprise system
will be safe when it is conceded
that profit is not without honor"
-Pathfnder Maga@ine.
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31

"Nice room. nice bath, no OBJ
lection to Yankees."-Ad. in Co..
untbia, S. c., paper.
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31

"1t will move back the clock for
you."- Mrs. Veronica Deugcl,
20, Atlanta, adrising Wives to
hare children after 10.
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31

eff flourishing national econ
Omy is the goal, it is not enough
to balance an inflated Federal
budget through back breaking
taxes" NJ. S. RukcyScr, econ-
OmiSt.
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31

81 couldn't stand going through
the 7th grade again" ."-Marjorie
Baker, Grand Rapids, getting
married at IS.
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31

Date your letters 1917
Milford chronicle., 1947-01-31

POLITICAL ISSUES are getting tough
III Washington, despite the brief truce be-
tween the President and Congress at the
beginning of the Session. Senator Taft
seems to be the top Republican leader, and
ms party members are following him. He
IS getting hard-boiled as is evidenced by the
Dfle1 remark ne made recently in saying that
he has discovered "the whiskers of the
New Deal peeking around all the corners. "
Strangely enough that same New Deal is un-
popular, even among the Democrats in
Washington.
Evening star., 1947-08-17

pitals and college mission schools
his church sustains in China. Dur
ing the course of his journeyings
by air, rail and motor he visited
China's principal cities and travelled
over 1000 miles inland to the prov
ince of Honan with its dense popu-
lation of over 10000, 900 people.
Even among the humblest farm
ers on tiny. remote holdings, there
is the conception that Free China
is surrounded by enemies" he says.
Bled white by the fantastic spiral
ing of imitation, weary of war,
pillage and looting, those who are
China's very bulwark may be
tempted to clutch at anything
which seems to hold out the hope
of peace and a return to their cher
isned pursuits with freedom from
miSrule."
The church is making long range
plans for the extension of its Chi
nese missionary field, and the re-
sumption on a restricted basis this
coming September Of the work of
its schools and colleges temporarily
suspended by japanese bombing.
Already rebuilding is under way to
reopen its college near Marking in
vacant silk mill whose industry
was entirely wiped out by the war.
Want Stalks Interior.
In Shanghai, Hong Kong, YEN
chung and Nanking, Mr. Nelson OBJ
served an abundance of food and
things to sell, with the people gen.
orally better clothed than had been
the case on his four prewar visits.
In the interior, however, droughts
and floods from the rivers of Kang-
tunga, near Canton, have destroyed
millions of dollars worth of prop
erty and 10 per cent of the crops,
so that need and suffering are in
deed great.
Practically all business is done
on the black market with exchange
tied to the U. S. dollar" Mr.. Nell
son told us. An official market for
the national currency has prac-
tically disappeared"
Hair cuts cost from $4,000 to
$4,000 Chinese. Bread is $1,000 per
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Most Chinese@Are Faithful
To Democracy, Traveller Says

pound loaf, bananas are $4,000 a
pound. eggs range from $4,000 to
$4,000 dozen. Even rice of good
quality brings from 5000 to $4,000
a pound. Suits of civilian wool
clothes are priced at $1,000. 900
Carpenters, bricklayers, plumbers
and plasterers receive daily wages
of from 5000 to $85 ZOO. Lumber
is from $4,000 to $4,000 a board
foot and nails from $1,000 to 5000
a pound. Postal rates are 1000
times higher than they were before
the war.
Barter System Prevails.
Farmers do not wish to sell any
of their farm products for money.
In fact they refuse to sell unless
they can barter their goods for
commodities they need. AS soon as
the government puts a ceiling price
on goods, everything disappears and
goes underground with the smaller
shopkeepers. The big ones are
forced out of business.
Mr.. Nelson produced paper bag
stuffed full of packets of Chinese
paper money he had bought for
two American half dollars. AS a
souvenir he presented me with
81 900 bank note issued in 1945 by
the Central Bank of China. He
doubts if 1t is worth 10 cents.
Despite all of the undoubted
abuses which have failed of correc-
ton under the Chiang-Kai-shek
government. especially the mulcting
of land and of businesses by inde-
pendent war lords who give a GER
tain lip service to the Nationalists,
it is Mr.. Nelson's impression that
Chang Kai-shek is still China's
only outstanding leader.
Work Continued During War.
Mr.. Nelson is proud of his
church's mission hospital work in
China. Out of it's IA hospitals, all
but the three which were totally
destroyed by Japanese bombing
managed to keep going throughout
the war.
The oldest hospital, the one at
Yenchung started AZ years ago by
DR.. w. H. Miller, who is known to
many Washingtonians, fed 5000
refugees one meal every other day
during the worst Of the Japanese
bombaroments. The Japanese
looted nearly all of its equipment.
Yet, its superintendent, Miss Cert
rude M. Green, r. N, somehow
kept its service an oasis Of hope
Evening star., 1947-08-17
Business Group Plans
Luncheon on Friday

Men members of the American
Business Association will attend Q
luncheon at 1890 pm. Friday at the
Almas Temple. 1915 K street NV.
The association will hold a buffet
supper August 26 at which they
will act as hosts to the eight losing
contestants in the Miss Washington
beauty contest. .
The dinner, to be held at 2400 Six
teenth street NV, will include
plans for the associations's annual
convention, to be held September
ST in Atlantic City, N. J. -.
Evening star., 1947-08-17
AUTOMOBILES WANTED.

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, 1p47 Buick. Pontiac oldsmobile. Chevrolet
youfssI CAN We. aa4a. Mis
1910, 1871 General Motors or chrysier
product car In good condition. Please call
BUSINESSMAN needs auto: late model pre-
DAYS: eL. s232: ewes. 9 to II; x25
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: nesessssy; Ne dsslers, oW. 5!ss; - -; !;
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plymouth or Chevrolet; passed d. c. In
sSDection. Phone CO. 9bl1. LIZ
SUICK, FORD, PONTIAC. or other similal
ar. 1e40-Ie43 model have cash: villini
! e6 pay high price for good car Call OR
SOD6GE OR DE SOTO 4-door sedan. new
wanted by private party: will pay cash
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Evening star., 1947-08-17

and courage" in the vast Honan
area. Mr.. Nelson speaks with pro-
found appreciation of the Al bags
of -four, the codliver oil, evaported
milk, medicines. surgical dressings
and Army cots UNRRA made avail
able when it came into the pic
ture. Not hospital bed had been
left on the premises and patients
were sleeping either on the floors,
on mats or on boards. Today. it Is
treating all kinds of diseases in ad-
dition to its surgical work. and its
training school for nurses has been
-esta blished.
Monumentally grave as he con-
siders China's problems Of internal
management, he Is also equally
positive that her sterilization is
imperitive in order to maintain
China as a democratic bullwark in
the Far East.