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Montgomery County sentinel., 1948-12-16

OEhINlNh
templating an operatic career,
with the Italian opera houses as a
springboard for later appearances
at our own Metropolitan?
~
When President Truman was in
Los Angeles on his campaign tour.
Dorothy Lamour, star of Colum-
bias Slightly French" got his
autograph for her son by remind
ing him that when he was Senator
Truman she gave him hers for
Margaret.
Fifty years ago George Bernard
Shaw insisted that a young British
actor be hired for one of his plays,
never dreaming that one day his
protege would win an Academy
Award-which Edmund Gwenn did
as Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th
Street" He will recreate the role
on the Christmas broadcast of the
Lux Radio Theater, December 20.
on CHS, with the other members
of the original cast.
y
Edmond O'Brien is through with
practical jokes. During a showing
of an old horror picture in his
home he painted his face green,
flashed a fiashlight on it and shout
ed "Bool" Mary Hatcher tainted.
y
Bing Crosby is always will
ing to oblige friend. When AL
Jarvis, the disc jockey, wanted
to impersonate Bing in Column
bias Make Believe Ball
room." he phoned to ask per-
mission. Crosby not only gave
his 0kay but also sent Jarvis
a battered hat and a brilliantly
checked sports jacket, to add
authenticity 10 the perform
ance. Gave everything but his
voice!
The second round of the match
between Jacks Dempsey and Luis
Firpo in 1922 was used as a model
for one of the prize fight sequences
in RKO's "The Set-Up." starring
Robert Ryan. Director Robert
Wise studied more than 200 reels
of professional bouts, and concluded
that the second round of that one
contained some of the heaviest hit
ting ever seen in the prize ring.
~
Way back in 1885. Teri Keane
and Michael O'Day worked to-
gether as two of the original ten
New York radio juveniles. Now
they are back together again-but
this time they appear as husband
and wife on CBSs big Sister"
=
Three years ago Glenn Ford
and his wife, Eleanor Powell,
were entering n theater when a
15-year-old girl asked for his
autograph. He was late. so he
gave her a nickel, told her TO
phone him when she was Is,
and he'd show her around the
studio. During the filming of
Return of October" he was
called to the phone by the girl.
where are you?" asked Ford.
Just look across the set and
get ready to escort Terry
Moore on tour of the studio"
said Terry. who plays opposite
him. And thanks for the
nickel" she added impishly.
Two-year-old Guy Mansfield, son
OF Arthur Godfrey's Talent
Montgomery County sentinel., 1948-12-16

HEARD ON cas-. rA,ln, seov1s
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
SideIiahrs

@ To cut the cost Of zoo living, the
Philadelphia Zoo is selling fish at a
nickel apiece for visitors to throw TO
the sea lions.
o Imitation has hit darkest Africa.
according to an American Museum Of
Natural History expedition. It said
natives hired for safaris demanded
more money and better working con-
ditions.
O The American Sunbathing Associ.
alton, nudists, passed a resolution EN-.
bodying new idea on how to OUT
law war. If none Of the armies wear
clothes. it would be impossible for
any fighter to recognize his enemy
and peace would be automatic.
o More than two-thirds of the SS,-
094,OO0 in counterfeit American money
seized in the last year was made in
Europe, according to the Secret Serv-
ice.
o Mrs. Sarah J. Munro of Ceilings
wood, N. j., was granted divorce in
Chancery Court when she said her
husband refused to eat leftover food.
Q In Edmore, Mich, Larry Flaugher.
23-year-old engineering college grad.
uate, was wed-loeked formally, de.
spite efforts Of student pranksters at
Tulsa, Okla. Just before he boarded a
plane at Tulsa, classmates seized
Flaugher and shaclzled about his leg
g 24-pound ball and chain. They
mailed the key to the bride who rec
ceived it a few hours before the ceres
Elony.
Q The New Jersey State Supreme
Court held that a punch in the face is
one OF the recognizable risks Of care
rying on labor-management relations.
It awarded state disability benefits
to a company official struck by
union negotiator.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
The WORLD This WEEK
Wartime Migrations Boom West

MOT since the gold rush did
IN Pacific coast states expert
ence such a population boom as
the war brought. The industrial
surge to the coast, headed by air
plane, shipyard and atomic plants,
brought workers with it. New cities
sprang up almost overnight.
The west now not only is holding its
wartime gains, but says the Census
Bureau, it is adding to them, although
at a slower rate than during the war.
Vast military training depots and
embarkation ports acquainted many
Americans with the west for the first
time. It has become a mecca for many
ex-GIs.
California Boom
California, says the Census Bureau,
is the fastest growing state in the
union. It's population scared 1905, 900
since 1910 to $4,000 in July, 1947,
an increase Of AL per cent.
The whole west coast spurted' up
ward, too. California, Oregon and
Washington show a combined 40.8 per
cent gain in population during the pc
riod against a 5 per cent advance in
New York. Oregon gained Alb per
cent and Washington S5.8 per cent.
The Census Bureau says these three
states led the United States to an esti-
mated population total of 143,414,OOO
in July, 1947, a rise of SO per cent
since the 1910 census.
The national total at the first of this
year has been estimated by census ex-
perts at 145,34O,OOO.
MigFatiOns Between States
In report rejecting great migra-
tions between states, the bureau says
$685. 900 more persons were living in
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Women Beef
About Meat

QUDGET-HARRIED house
~ wives came out of the kitchen
to do something besides talk
about meat prices.
On picket lines, over the tele-
phone and through the mail, they
promoted a campaign among them
selves to observation-disclosures
drop.
The boycott, originating in Dallas,
spread from coast to coast, Including
such cities as Louisville, Salt Lake
City, Kansas City, San Francisco, In
dianapOlis.
Ten thousand Dallas women began
It when Mrs. r. D. Vaughn, president
of the Dallas Women's Chamber Of
Commerce, took to the telephone.
Plug Meatless Days
In Kansas City, Mrs. Edward S.
Munnele, 25-year-old former Wave,
spanked a chain-telephone drive to get
her colleagues to quit buying meat all
week and observe three meatless days
each week thereafter until prices fall.
In the same city, James Browne,
president Of the State Independent
Retail Grocers Association, said, eff
people would quit eating meat for a
week, the country would be flooded
with meat, and prices would break
sharply"
In Oregon, Portland, women pledged
TO buy no more beef until prices fell
.One-third and to pay mol more than go
cents a pound for any meat.
Slump in Portland
A meat-buying slump has been
underway for several weeks in Port
land Slaughtering has fallen 80 to 40
per cent and some packing houses
have had to cut prices to move stocks.
One chain store manager in Wash
ington, D. c., reported an undertone
of resistance to meat prices but added:
Housewives still are buying more
than they should" to make any boy
colt effective on prices.
Meanwhile the Agriculture Depart
ment predicted that meat and other
livestock prices will lead a retail food
price advance in the next few months.
Nothing Extreme Says Taft
In Washington, where Congress
ended its special session without
granting President Truman's demand
for price-control legislation, Sen.
Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) said the
White House has all it needs to control
situation mot likely to produce an
extreme imitation or a depression"
Sen. Taft, Republican chairman of
the upper House, said he now sees no
need for any further legislation of
consequence to combat high prices
when Congress returns in January.
BY the time we get back, he said,
Eve may be trying to do something
about dehation"
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Army
Urge Federal Guard

A siX-man Defense Department rec
commended to Secretary Forrestal that
the National Guard be shifted from
state to federal control. Dual direc-
ton, it warned, is a threat to national
security in the atomic age.
Congress may be asked to authorize
the suggested sweeping changes when
the next session opens in January.
Meanwhile, the Army has hung out
the "help wanted" sign for Reserve
and National Guard officers and nurses
to volunteer for extended active duty
to help train and staff the expanding
force.
A total of $4,000 additional officers
will be needed between now and the
end of next year, the Army says.
The immediate need is for 5000 Re-
serve and National Guard officers who
held the rank of lieutenant and cap
tain before discharge after the last
war.
While vacancies exist in all branches
Of the Army, new training officers are
needed especially in the infantry, field
and coast artillery, signal corps, medi-
cal and dental service corps.
Applications will be considered
from ieutenants and captains under
AZ years Of age. Officer veterans of the
last war who did not join the Reserve
also may volunteer.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
CANADA: New Prime Minister

heavily on his advice. But political
experts say he will bring into the gov
ernment bright young men as parlia-
mentary assistants to give recognition
to young liberals.
st. Laurent was a, highly successful
corporation lawyer and never gave a
thought to politics until 1941 when he
was 59-when many men think of re-
tiring.
Mackenzie King brought him into
the Cabinet as Minister of Justice
during the wartime crisis over con-
scriptiOn. He became Minister for Ex-
ternal Affairs at the end of 1946 when
King divested himself of that job.
The son of a French-Canadian gen.
eral storekeeper and an Irish mother.
st. Laurent speaks English and
French with equal huency. He says
that as child he did not know Can
ada had two official languages but
thought there "Was one way to talk
to my father and another to talk to
my mother"
The smooth spoken, grey haired
st. Laurent in a speech which gained
him the nomination by delegates
spoke both in English and French,
urging above all else national unity.
A touchy question in Canada is that
of the French and English-speaking
populations. st. Laurent declared both
the French and English were 'here to
stay" and urged them to hold to-
gether.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Science
Giant Meteorite

An expedition of the Soviet Acad-
emy Of Sciences returned to Moscow
with collection of eyewitness stories
Of a giant meteOrite that fell in Si-
IBERIA.
The expedition interviewed nearly
800 persons in so villages who saw the
Shooting star" before it landed Feb
ruary IL, 1947, on ridge north of
Vladivostok. Says their report:
witnesses unanimously declared
that the tail of the meteorite, the fight
of which was visible for four or five
seconds, was brighter than sunlight
in clear weather in a cloudless sky on
that day."
The body was said to have travelled
IL miles a second with a roar heard
125 miles away. It's weight is esti-
mated at 1000 tons.
The 30-square-mile area where the
meteorite fell has been proclaimed a
national reserve.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Sport
XIV OIympiod

The Olympic games wound up in
London this week with Americans.
as usual, winning a majority of the
track and field events but being shut
out, also as usual, in races beyond a
half mile or 300 meters.
Europeans refer to the Americans
as acrObatic specialists in sprints. pole
vaUlting, jumping and shot putting
but lacking in stamina for the Cruel
ing distance tests.
The United States won II of the
track and field events, compared with
IL firstS at the last Olympiad in Berlin.
This included a disputed 4OO-meter
relay race in which an Olympic iurv
reversed the decision of judges dis
qualifying the American team which
finished 10 yards ahead of the British.
Movie films showed that the baton
had not been passed illegally between
the first and second runners of the
American team, as decided by judges.
Matthias, Yankee Star
The athletic star from an American
point of view is Bob Matthias, 17-vear-
old high school graduate of Tulare.
Calf, youngest competitor ever to
win the decathlon. Matthias announced
his retirement from track competition
Immediately after the victory.
The sensation of the Olympic car
nival, however, was Mrs. Fannie
Blankers-Koen of The Netherlands
This mother of two children won the
100-meter dash, the 2OO-meter run.
the 80-meter hurdles and anchored
the 400-meter relay for women. She
is the first four-time Olympic winner
since Jesse Owens turned the feat for
America at Berlin.
Americans also swept every event
in the mems swimming and diving.
The University of California crew
beat Britain in the eight-oared race
while a University of Washington
four -Oared crew took another Olvm-
pic title by beating the Swiss.
The marathon, considered by manv
the chief Olympic event, was won bv
Delfo Cabrera, an Argentine shepherd
boy. He duplicated the feat of his
countryman, Juan Zabala, who won
the marathon at Los Angeles in 1882.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20

Texas, almost even with California
in 1910, had a 1917 per cent rise and
now is sixth with 100000 residents.
Florida gained 22.7 per cent and the
District of Columbia 29.8 per. cent.
Births Are Up
Nine states lost population-Arkan-
sas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma,
West Virginia, Nebraska, North Da-
kota, South Dakota and Montana.
Excess of births over deaths ac-
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20

a different state in 1947 than in 1910.
New York with a per cent gain
during the period remains firmly in
first place with 14,165,OOO, a rise of
$4,000. Pennsylvania is second with
1O,5l2,00O a gain of 81 per cent.
California with $4,000, scared
past Illinois and Ohio during the war,
to press Pennsylvania as the second
largest state. Illinois with a 6.3 per
cent gain is fourth with 1897 900 and
Ohio with an 1l.2 per cent gain is fifth
with 7,675,0O0.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20

Lookinq al the Record

Looking at the Record
The 1948 political campaign shifted
from Washington to Main Street as
the Both Congress home from the spe-
cial session talked over its record with
voters.
Americans will decide on Novem-
Der 2 whether the Republican-domi-
mated Both Congress was zone of the
worst in history" as President Truman.
claims.
The 13-day extra session granted
Mr.. Truman only a fraction of the
program he outlined on July q, the
day after lawmakers came back to
the capital at his bidding.
Opposing Formulas
They gave him an anti-iniation
program cut to their own pattern. It
is based on bank and installment
credit curbs and wholly disregards
Mr.. TrUman's request for price, wage,
rent and ratiOning controls.
Their answer to his housing pro-
gram is a bill to encourage private
construction of low-cOst homes and
rental housing. The President signed
it reluctantly.
The only two nOn-controversia1 bills
passed were authorization for a $685.
100000 loan to the United Nations for
permanent headquarters in New York
and $5,0OO,000 for cars for disabled
veterans.
Fundamental Differences
Sen. Robert A. Taft, the Senate Re-
publican chairman, said the President
was angry at Congress because of
fundamental differences which could
be settled only by a vote Of the people
in November.
Imitation, Taft said, can be attrib-
Uted directly to the war and to
Administration policies of the last IA
years. He charged that Mr.. Truman in
demanding price control and ration
ing powers was only trying ito tie
down the safety valve while Continu-
ing to stoke the furnace"
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20

counted for nationwide gain of H.
$4,000, the Census Bureau estimated,
with civilian immigrants adding
1,016,000.
Migration among the states was a
major factor in the population shifts.
The net migration into the west
(mountain and Pacific states) almost
counterbalanced the exodus from the
south. Twenty eight states showed
such net losses through migration, but
in most cases births made up the diff
ference.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20

against communism. The opposition Il
directed at policies Of the Russiano
sponsored, Communist-controlledS Sos
cialist Unity Party (SED).
Resistance has become so wide.
spread that the Russians may not per.
init scheduled township elections this
fall.
Violence has been reported in soma
districts. Heavy prison terms are
being imposed increasingly on Ger-
man "terrorists" by Russian military
courts for attacking democratic orr
ganizations."
Food Crisis Evident
A food crisis was evident IN the
Soviet sector this week. Occupation
authorities dealt severe Jail Sentences
to farmers and store keepers for
boarding food.
Hunger. demonstrations have taken
place in many cities. Soviet zone
police have arrested demonstrators
and turned fire hoses on crowds. II is
repeatedly standard practice to set
dogs on hungry Germans found CLEAN
ing food in the fields or plundering
food trains.
The Soviet military governor, Mar
shal VASTLY D. Sokol0Vsky, said re-
Gently: "H the Germans want TO eat
more they must produce more"
Urges End to German Quarrel
In his third annual report, Secre-
tary General 'Trygve Lie Of the United
Nations called on the great powers to
halt their quarrel over Germany and
end their race to develop and stock
pile lethal meteorological and chemi-
cal weapons. ~
Lie ranged over the entire field OF
political, economic and social prob
lens; painting a grim picture of strife
and conflict. He spared neither the
United States nor the Soviet Union
in his analysis of U.N. activities dur
ing the past year.
He said the United States supported
the Palestine partition plan but re-
fused to use force to carry it out.
Russia boyeotted several U.N. bodies.
including Korean and Balkan COM
missions.
No Single System
''It would be a grave mistake" said
Lie, "to believe that most of the world
has any intention of accepting any
single economic system, whether
based on the Communist doctrine os
Classless society or the most extreme
American capitalist version Of free
enterprise system.
"It is equally unthinlable that any
one nation or group. Of nations could
establish and maintain in such a
world a new empire resting on either
economic power or military might"
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Quotes

The Archbishop of York: "With
discovery of the atomic bomb, we
live more nearly in the spiritual
atmosphere of the first Christians,
who expected at any time the
end Of the world"
1t. Gen. H. c. H. Robertson,
commander Of the British Com
monwealth occupation forces in
Japan, speaking at m-bombed
Hiroshima's peace festival: "I
must remind you that you caused
this disaster yourselves"
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
In Short

Asked: By eight American corpora.
tions, $145OO,OOO from the us. gov
ernment for use by Russia of their
patents under Lend-lease.
Reimbursed: By a California union.
guilty of 'featherbedding" under the
Taft-Hartley Law, an employer for
salaries paid to workers for work thev
did not perform.
Agreed: BY Palestine Jews and
Arabs, to reopen the water supply for
Jerusalem.
Warned: The U.N. Security Council.
by the western Allied commander in
Trieste, that the present free terri
tory" form of government is economi-
cally and politically unsound.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Statistics
AII-Time Peuk lhebme

AIl-Time Peak Income
The personal income Of Americans
climbed to an atatisI rate Of $211, ,9OO,-
100000 in June, record high.
The sharp increase reported by the
Department Of Commerce centered in
factory pay checks, rejecting "third
round" wage increases in some of the
major durable roOds industries. Higher
farm and live stock prices also con-
tributed to the gain.
The mid-yeat rate Of income COM
pares with the previous all-time peak
of $2O9, 400, ,000, 900 reached in January
of this year. The income total for 1947
was $195, 200, ,0O0,0 900,
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20

This automatically
m axes him tn e
successor to Prime
Minister William
Lyon Mackenzie
King, who is retir-
ing.
Mackenzie King,
who led the party
% years and Can
ada 81, told the con-
vention he would
continue in office
as long as st. Lau-
rent wants him to.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20

Misdireeted Sproy

A government investigation of dam
age done south Texas cotton fields by
weed killer intended for rice fields is
being sought. The chemical, which al
fects broad leaf plants but does not
harm rice, apparently leaked from
faulty nozzles or tanks in the planes
flying from landing fields to rice areas.
A year ago extensive damage was
done Texas and Arkansas crops when
planes. spread 2-4D in dust form and
the wind carried it to cotton fields.
After that experience, the Civil Aero
nautics Administration ruled against
use Of the chemical in dust form
when spread from planes.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Bi-LingUoI ST. Laurent

Canada's next prime minister is
Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 66, the first
French-Canadisn to head Canadas
government since 1919.
st. Laurent, present Minister for
External Affairs, was elected leader of
the dominant National Liberal Party.
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20
Claim Unrest Flares
Behind Iron Curtain

E were signs OF strain and increasing unrest within tbs
Soviet occupation in Germany as yoestsr 4i sS
their conferences in Moscow with Russian leaders over solution to
the eas-west stalemate "
For the past month there have indications Of oro
political revolt among German liberal and middle a It
Milford chronicle., 1948-08-20

Then he'll step down to be available
in the role of an elder statesman.
st. Laurent undoubtedly will rely
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-10-21
. Plain City


Mrs. and Mrs. Guy Wells of
Greenwich Ohio, were weekend
guests of Mrs. Irene B. Killgore
and Mrs. Lucy Biglow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edd Carter of
Pittsburgh, Pa, have been visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Sim Parker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eldon Anderson,
Miss Martha Billingsby were in
Akron last Sunday, visiting Mr.
and Mrs. John Scofield. Mrs. SEQ
field has been quite i'll and is still
confined to her bed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleo Kent, of
Marion, Ind, spent the weekend
here visiting reletives.
Mrs. Milt Travel is patient at
White Cross Hospital in Colum-
bus.
Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor was a guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Maxwell and
daughter, Ann Louise, of Akron
last Sunday.
Mrs. Tlllle MckltrlcK, ana Mrs.
May Woodburn of Columbus,
were calling on friends in Plain
City last Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Elson, Mr..
Warren Elson, of Marysville,
Joyce Ann Elson, of DeGraff,
were Sunday evening callers of
Mrs. Bertha Taylor.
Robert Mitchell, who is employ
ed by the Beach Chandler Co.,
suffered painful injury one day
last week when his hand slipped
against the saw blade. 1t required
several stitches to close the
wound.
Mrs. Alec Mitchell has returned
to Chicago H., after spending
few days with friends and relat-
ives in Plain City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Foust.
daughter, Ellen Louise, Mrs
Margaret Weber, son Jim, daugh-
ter, Marchia, Mrs. Iva Dunam, of
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-10-21
All That Glitters
Isn't Profit

Government reports tell of farm
and ranch income from livestock
that totals more than II billion
dollars. Many folks read those
ronnrtc anJ COW No wondar