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Laurel outlook., 1948-03-10
Laurel News Items


Mr.. and Mrs. Woodward Taylor
and Nh. Taylor's mother, Mrs. Anna
Taylor, all of Billings, were guests
Sunday of MI. and Mrs. Ralph
Lumsdon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Dickson have
as guests their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Johnny
Dawson and daughter Glenda of
Powell, Wyo. Mr. and Mrs. Dawson
returned this week from a four
weeks trip and a visit with relatives
and friends in Colorado, Texas,
Arizona and California. During the
absence of her parents, Glenda spent
the time here with her grandpar-
ents.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-10

in the books; Hardin came through
in a story book finish to win the
game.
Yes, it's hard to explain Mondays
game, but Saturday night really was
the climax and a let-down, even a
big let-down, was inevitable. There
are no excuses to be offered, we
did not get the breaks, and to en-
terrain any thoughts that the of
ficials in any capacity had any
thing to do with the final outcome,
is only taking away from both
teams the credit due the players for
their excellent performances.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-10

Yes, it's a fact that there was
some truly fine craftsmanship dis
played-by the players that is.
Elmer Skeie in awarding the troph-
les Monday night commented OH
the fine way in which Bill Sorg and
Don Hammer left the game in Sat-
urday's contest, and mentioned that
he hoped the fans would catch some
of that spirit. He is right; other
wise the bigger purpose behind the
competitive playing of athletic con
tests will be lost should the atti-
tude of fans ever take hold in the
development of the athlete.
Saturday nights game with Hard
in was almost an inevitable climax
for Laurel. The boys worked I'M
usually hard for the whole season,
pointing to that game that was
bound to come. Hardin represented
an objective to them, and rightly
So, since there are few who will
argue that the Hardin team does
not represent the best in the state.
The two teams played Saturday in
what was probably one of the best
played games in these parts for
many a season. The Laurel boys
put to use all of the things they
had so faithfully practiced for
weeks. They came from behind, in
fact wore down a team that for two
years had worn down opponents
with their speed and aggressiveness,
and with but four seconds left had
a one point lead. But it was not
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-10
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Auxiliary
Activities

Laurel unit of the American LIE.
gion Auxiliary will be hostess Sun
day, March ID, at a dinner in honor
of the birthday of the American
Legion, with Legionnaires and their
wives as guests. The dinner will
be at $50 p. m. at the club house
in Riverside park. All members Of
the Legion are invited to attend.
A social meeting of the American
Legion Auxiliary will be held
March 16 at 8 p. m. at Riverside
park with Odessa Griffey, Hattie
Cloyd and Esther Sterrett as hos
tesses. Call Edith Packard, phone
211, for transportation.
Mrs. R. B. Packard was hostess
to the Past Presidents parley of
the American Legion at a business
session Tuesday at her home. A st.
Patrick motif was used in decora-
ton when lunch was served. The
next meeting is to be held at Mrs.
A. w. Richardson's home.
First Grain Elevator
The first grain elevator was con-
structed in 1912.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-10
Royal Theatre
WEEKLY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY
March 11-12-13
Never has the screen searched so
deeply into the love and hate that
lie hidden i'm the human heart.
It's the story of a squealer who
had been cut off from his wife
by a wall of steel and stone.
Victor Mature Richard Widmark
Brian DOnlevy Taylor Holmes
Colleen Grey Howard Smith
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-10
SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY
March 14-15-16

A Gal becomes the pawn in the
smuggling racket of the city with
out a conscience. She was a beauty
dressed in black satin and plenty
of bait for intrigue and excitement.
Fred MacMurray Roland Culver
Ava Gardner Spring Byington
Richard Haydn Porter Hall
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-10

Bank Night Thursday with shows
at GAS and 9 P. M. One show
Friday at 8 P. M. Saturday shows
at GAS and 9 P. M.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-10
Singapore"

Added: March of Time entitled
Marriage and Divorce" Also ar
toon. Musical ard Newsreel.
Sunday shows at 2:30 P. NJ,
6:45 and 9 P. M. Monday and
Tuesday shows at 8 P. M.
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-10
Kiss Of Death"

End Feature
Hot diggety. The Vests jumping
with action and adventure again as
the King of the Cowboys swings
back into action again at his all
time best.
Roy Rogers Andy Devine
Tito GUITAR Estelita Rodriguez
Jane Frazee George Meeker
Laurel outlook., 1948-03-10

First Grain Elevator
The first grain elevator was con-
structed in 1912.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05

under the Communist Minister of the
Interior raided headquarters of the
Socialist Democrats (second largest
Czech party) and arrested its leaders.
Among those jailed was DR.. Zde-
mex Marjanko, Ministry Of Justice
officer, who last fall linked Commu-
nists with an attempt to assassinate
three government ministers, incluGng
Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk.
Police with machine guns guarded
al government buildings. Afmored
cars patrolled the streets.
Communist Premier Klement Gott-
wald demanded expulsion from the
coalition cabinet of IL anti-Comnu-
mist ministers as "agents of foreign
reaction" They were from the Ma
tional Socialist, Slovak Democrat and
Catholic Peoples Parties. Gottwald
wanted to appoint his own cabinet.
Czech President Eduard Benes re-
fused.
GOttwald and the Communist Party
Central Committee repeated their de-
mands, this time as the will of the
people"
Token Strike
The Trade Union Congress staged a
one-hour strike to show labor's soil
darity behind the Communists.
In Slovakia, Communist Vice Pre-
mier Gustav Husak ruled out of Of
flee the Slovak Democrats (Slovakia
major party) and divided their cabi-
net seats among Communists.
Ga~v u
to the ultimatum, accepted the resig-
nations of his IL non-Communist
ministers.
Premier Gottwald formed his new
one-party cabinet. The coup was COM
plete.
Actually, observers say, the Czechs
were able to hold their political inde-
pendence> longer than satellite neigh
bors because they escaped military
occupation. The Red Army tradition
ally has been one of the Communists
handiest machines for dominating
country.
Trend Began Last Fall
The first major blows came last faII
with announcement of the Marshall
plan. CzechoSlovakia accepted an in
vitatiOn to sit in with western Euro
pean countries and discuss economic
self-help. The decision was changed
on orders from Moscow. Since then
the Czech national economy has been
chained closer and closer to the So
Wet wheel.
Recently Czech Communists have
been trying to make the Security Po-
lice strictly party force. They tried
to swamp opposition in the coalition
government by bringing in controlled
representatives from labor unions.
Opposition parties foresaw this
would mean complete Communist
control of election machinery. Thev
tried to force an election before that
happened.
The combined opposition held ths
majority, but the Communists were
the largest single party with ia Of
the 300 seats in Parliament.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05
Sign of the Times

Premier Joseph Stain has
stopped buying drinks for Nor
man E. Hyams and his New York
friends.
Hyams, a Navy veteran cred
tied with shooting down eight
Nazi planes on the Murmansk
convoy run during the war, was
awarded the Russian Order of
Glory, third claSs-and a grant
of $48.21 a year.
But the glory road ended sud-
denly. The Soviet government
notified him and other Ameri-
cans similarly honored that their
payments had been cut off.
whenever I'd collect, I'd take
the boys out" Hyams said.
Everybody enjoyed having a
few on joe"
When the pension ended,
Hyams said his gang started yell
ing, where's our party on Joe
Stalin?"
He went to the Russian con-
sulate and was told the reason:
Orders from Moscow"
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05
Business
Steel & Prices


President Truman was in the Carib-
bean but his long executive hand
stretched back home and made big
news.
He ordered the Department of JUS
tlce to probe the recent industry-wide
boost of SIS ton in steel for possible
antitrust law violations. He directed
the Department of Commerce and the
Council of Economic Advisers to aid
IN the inquiry and study the basis of
the price increase and its conse-
quences on general industry.
FBl agents famed out to 16 leading
steel companies and began quizzing
executives.
In Congress there was talk of re-
viving the wartime excess profits tax.
Sen. Robert A. Taft had called steel
industry spOkesmen to appear before
the Senate-House Economic Commit
tee, which he heads, but this was post
poned until March 2.
On the House floor, Rep. Norris
Paulson (R-Calif) spoke of Excessive
profits in steel for the last two years
and commented that the corporations
were seeking excess profits taxes and
price controls whether they know it
or not"
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05
FRIGlD: Antarctic Argument
A-B-C Dispute

The United States has no part in
the three-cornered dispute develop
ing among the A-B-C nations Car
gentina, Britain and Chile) over claim
tc Antarctic regions:
Two American expeditions (Navv
and Finn Ronne) were leaving Ant
arcLica this week and a third is being
planned. r. Adm. Richard E. Byrd an
nounced this week in Rochester he
had applied for Navy retirement and
was planning his fifth expedition to
the South Pole.
Argentina, Chile and Britain all
have sent warships to Antarctica to
back up their claims to territory be-
tween the tip of South America and
the pole.
A fortnight ago President Gabriel
Gonzalez Videla Of Chile stepped off a
corvette at Greenwich Island and
Palmer Peninsula and formally estab-
lished military bases. The ceremonies.
he said. confirmed Chilean sovereign.
ty over islands off Chile's tip.
This territory, however, is claimed
by both Argentina and Great Britain.
Inc BRUSH consider them dependen-
cies OF the Falkland Islands, admins
tered by Gov. Miles Clifford appointed
by the Crown.
Argentina formally notified Britain
It does not recognize any European
colonies or possessions in the Ant
arctic
1t said its navy had a perfect right
70 maneuver IN the area. It's force of
TWO cruisers and six torpedo boats put
IN at Deception Island where an Ar
gentine weather station has been in
service for some time.
In London's House of Commons this
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05
Nuggets

Q In Penang, Malaga, bookmakers
(strictly illegal) issued this manifesto:
Unless police stop arresting them no
bets will be accepted at the next
Penang race meeting.
Q In Miami, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Becker, hailed into court by neighbor
complaints about their barking dog.
had their noisy fox terrier pets vocal
cords shipped by a veterinary.
Q Baltimore police paid homage this
week to a husband who telephoned
them hair-raising tale of a holdup.
The complainant, interviewed by a
detective, Confided the telephone call
had been for his wife's benefit. His
money actually went into a pinball
machine. The detective, a married
man himself, tipped his hat and left
quietly.
Q In Chicago, police picked up tor
investigation, but did not, hold Del
bert Shinn, 36, who readily admitted
drilling holes into several slot ma
chimes, in Ohio, tripping their levers
and collecting Jackpot prizes. "The
slot machine is illegal" he said, land
you can't take money illegally from
something illegal"
Q Japanese soldier Shibangaki Kazuo
came out of the bushes on the island
of Babelthaup in the Marianas. He
fled Peleliu in May. l94S, when the
Marines landed, made his way by
bamboo raft to island after island. In
hiding almost FIVE years, he heard
for the first time week ago that the
war was over, gave himself up hur-
riedly.
O Chinese money nosedived again
this week on the Shanghai black mar
ket. One US. dollar sold for 265,OOa
yuan-a drop of Is per cent over the
weekend. The official rate is 14S. SOC
to /.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05

Soviet expansion in Greece and Tur-
key, would not have Russian troops,
even as part of a U.N, security force,
move into Palestine.
Warren R. Austin, chief us. dele
gate to the U.N., conferred over the
weekend at the State Department
with Secretary Marshall.
Meanwhile violence fared again in
Palestine. Fifty-eight were killed and
nearly 100 injured by an explosion in
the heart of the Jewish section of
Jerusalem.
When Austin rose to make the long
awaited American policy declaration
in the Security Council Tuesday, the
galleries were filled to capacity. He
proposed that the Big Five powers
begin immediate talks with Arabs
and Jews in an effort to settle the
Palestine dispute. At the same time,
he pledged American policy would
conform to U.N. dictates.
Austin told the Security Council it
must act to restore peace in the Holy
Land but warned it had no legal au-
thOrity to enforce a political settle
ment.
''The councils action" Austin said,
lis directed to keeping the peace and
not to enforcing partition"
Austin said the US. would enter
any consultations on creation of an
international force to keep peace in
the Holy Land if the council decided
such a step necessary.
British Colonial Secretary Arthur
Creech-Jones stressed that Britain
had. forecast enforcement would be
necessary. He said Britain would take
no part in an international force or
any other measures to enforce par
tition.
''The United Kingdom" he said, "is
too deeply involved in the past his
tory of Palestine to be called upon
to shoulder any further commit
ments."
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05
Britain
ResUreent Queen Of the Seas

ResUrgent Queen Of the Seas
Britain's merchant fleet is almost
back at its prewar level despite un-
paralleled wartime losses, the United
Kingdom Chamber of Shipping dis
closed this week.
In 1889, the mercantile fleet regis
tered l7750,O00 gross tons. At the end
OF l947, British tonnage was 16,OOO,-
GOO, exclusive Of 100000 tons return
able to other countries.
More than 100000 tons are under
construction in British shipyards for
British owners.
The chamber reported that the
British merchant marine industry
spent $l80,00G,000 for war-buiIt ships
from the United States.
Britain and Denmark were reported
agreed this week on the draft of a
trade treaty, another in the link of
reciprocal agreements with which
Britain Is restoring her foreign trade
balance.
Under the pact, Britain would shin
coal, iron, steel, textiles and chemicals
to Denmark in return for butter. ba-
con and eggs.
No new warshipS will be laid down
Tor the Royal Navy during the year
beginning April l. During the current
hScaI year seven destroyers and seven
submarines were added to the fleet.
The cost of completing craft already
under construction for the Navy. the
Admiralty said, is $138,9 1888. These
include two fleet carriers, 10 light car
rlers' three cruisers, and 10 de-
StroyerS.
During the next year, the Navy will
be cut from a l947 strength Of 19l, 900
to 10000 men.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05
Italy
Atheism VS.. the Church

Political orators were out in force
throughout Italy this week opening a
campaign for the April l8 elections
when the young Italian Republic will
choose its first Parliament.
Major parties have arrived at a truce.
agreeing not to break up rival rallies.
Despite the pact, one campaigner was
killed by machinegun fire at a pro-
Catholic Christian Democratic rally
in Sicily.
Communists and their left-wing
Socialist allies seem sure they can
win the election. The truce represents
d shift in Communist policy, observ-
ers say, and confidence in the election
result IS the best explanation for it.
Catholic Action, a lay organization
of 4,5OO,0OO supervised by the clergy,
IS being modified to group all Catho-
lies into an anti-Communist front.
Pope Plus in an address to 1900
Roman streetcar motormen and con-
ductors declared the paramount cleo
ton issue was Catholicism against
Communist atheism"
The Archbishop of Milan ordered
priests in his diocese to deny absolu-
ton to Communists and adherents of
other movements contrary to Catholi-
CiSm.
At Lecce in southern Italy, Premier
Alcide de Gasperi said Communist at
tacks on the Marshall plan would. if
successful, have lethal consequences
on Italian economy.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05
The WORLD This WEEK
NATIONS: 4 Time for Decision

ME United Nations has faced
i many problems in it's two and
a half years. Some were solved,
some shelved and some still are
pending.
The U.N., however, still is
largely a paper organization. Unlike
the old League of Nations which re-
lied solely on moral force, the U.N.
was intended to have a police agency
to enforce its rules. This international
force, authorized by the charter, has
not been set up.
On Palestine this week, the United
Nations arrived at time for decision.
The Security Council, its top agency,
has to decide whether to back down
before a show of force or create its
police body and enforce a decision.
Milestone or Milestone
The issue is so clear-cut that many
observers believe the Palestine de-
cisiOn,will prove either a milestone or,
milestone. They feel it may be as de-
cisive in U.N. history as Ethiopia was
to the ill-fated League.
Three months ago, the General AS
sembly voted to partition the Holy
Land. Separate Arab and Jewish
states were to be set up under juris-
diction of U.N. Palestine commits
sion.
The Arabs fought the proposal and,
when they were outvoted, refused to
comply. They backed up their threats
Of force with steadily increasing vio-
lence. Arab volunteer armies have
taken the field.
By May Is when the British sur
render their League of Nations man.
date, the Arab League of seven ma
tions has vowed a "holy war"
A fortnight ago, the Palestine COM
mission said it needed the interna-
tional police force to carry out its
assignment. 1t told the Security Coun.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05
Politics
Wallace Comes Back

Henry A. Wallace Appeared before
Congress this week for the first time
since the President fired him from the
cabinet in 1916 and raked the Truman
foreign policy from top to bottom.
The third party presidential candi-
date charged that "big bankers, mo-
nopolistS and militarists'' have turned
the Marshall plan into a blueprint
for war and political and economic
weapon against Americans"
Sen. Glen Taylor of Idaho, who
bolted the Democratic Party to run
Tor Vice President on the Wallace
ticket, looked on approvingly as Wal
lace testified before the House For
eign Relations Committee.
Wallace declared that peace de-
mands a new approach toward Russia
and the first step should be some
new faces in the executive branch of
the government" The second step. he
said, should be meeting between the
new President and the head of the
Russian government.
The Marshall plan had been per-
verted, Wallace claimed, into a Ger
many-tirst program and a colossal
hoax on the American people. It's
initial cost, including military and
hidden items, he placed at $l8,OOO,-
100000 and not $6,800,0O0,0OO as the
Administration estimates.
The Marshall plan will be made the
excuse, Wallace said, for holding
wages down, breaking strikes and
suppressing civil liberties while "big
business is stoking the fires of infla-
tion in its whole-hog drive for super
profits at home and abroad"
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05
Quotes

Fawzi Bey Al Kaukji, chief of
the Arab volunteer army fighting
partition of Palestine: In two
days, a new phase of action be-
gins. In two weeks we expect to
be hitting our stride. In two
months =" he grimaced, ges-
tured with clenched fists.
Four Dixie Governors, after an
unsuccessful attempt in Wash
ington to get the Presidents civil
rights program withdrawn from
Congress: THE Democratic Par
ty will soon realize that the
South is no longer in the bag"
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05
Science
Automatic Eyes

Automatic Eyes
The Army, which revealed develop
ment of a dream camera" last No
vember, announced this week a
dream enlarger" to accompany it.
The enlarger can be operated in
full daylight. It determines the ex-
poSure for a print automatically with
a photo-electric cell. The paper is
built into the easel in which it is ex-
posed.
The new enlarger, built to accom-
modate the 70 millimeter film for the
new camera, is encased in a light
tight hood. The operator can see what
ne IS printing through a filter in the
top.
The dream camera" is impervious
to bumps, moisture and temperature,
and takes pictures automatically as
fast as the photographer can trip the
shutter. Both camera and enlarger
eventually will be available to the
public, the Army said.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05

week, Prime Minister Attlee declined
with thanks Australia's offer to send
a Warship to the Falklands. One Brit
lsh cruiser, H.M.S. Nigeria, flagship OF
the South Atlantic fleet, was dis
patched to the scene.
Can you give assurance that the
government is not prepared to be
checked or chivvied out of British ter
rltories anywhere in the world? asked
Anthony Eden, deputy conservative
leader.
1 certainly can give that assur-
ance," Attlee replied.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05
Aerial
Carrier Jets

Carrier Jets
Jet planes which whoosh along at
eight miles minute-the fastest now
with any operatiOnal unit of the NAVY
soon will be given a tryout on an
aircraft carrier.
The test will be made off San Diego
Gallt' probably from the carrier
The jet is the SJ-1 fighter, built bv
North American. 1t is only one of sew
eral Jets under consideration by the
Navy for carrier service.
Inc SJ-l has a speed of more than
$50 mph, range of more than / SEQ
miles and a rate of climb of more
than a mile a minute
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05
REQUIEM
Let This Be a Lesson

8SN AAaAS AC ~ GCSG0ll
Turkey buried an Air Force SER
geant this week in Istanbul at an i'm
preSsive state funeral, obviously dis
playing the nations anger at Bull
garia, whose anti-aircraft guns shot
him down over the Black Sea.
Generals and governors walked
ahead of the caisson carrying Sgt.
Kemal Mendeed's flag draped coffin.
Virtually all Turkish military and
civil leaders attended.
Let this be a lesson to u.s. an Air
Force officer said in his eulogy at the
grave in the Cemetery of Heroes. 1T
shall not happen again"
Kemal was killed and 1t. Polat
Yurka was wounded when their Spit
fire fighter planes were fired on Feb
ruary 9 by an anti-aircraft battery at
Sozopol. Yurka was held by Bulgaria.
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05
In Short

Wed: American beer heiress Will
helmina Busch, Ga, to Sam Woods. 50.
Germany. .
Elected: Earl K. Long, brother of
the late Huey Long, in the primary
Tor governor, tantamount to election
IN Democratic Louisiana.
Granted: To Minneapolis school pu-
pills, an unscheduled vacation when
teachers went on strike after the
board OF education shortened the
school s. 100 year by four weeks to save
$l,00O,OOO.
Declared: BY Marshal Nikolai A.
Bulganin, Soviet minister of armed
forces, on the 3Oth anniversary of the
Red Army; $50 long as imperialism
exists, there remains danger of at
tack"
Milford chronicle., 1948-03-05
Philippines
Run on Oil

The Philippines is having a run on
petroleum. Prices Of gasoline, kero-
sene and oil have skyrocketed. Lines
of cars jam the few filling stations
still open and most customers get
only one gallon of gasoline.
In one long line before a service
station, a driver, drew a pistol and
fired several shots into the ground.
He was trying to scare off cars ahead
of him.
Oil experts insist the reported
shortage is more imaginary than real.
American oil imports have been cut
but, the companies say, 1948 supplies
will equal last years because of i'm
proving supplies from the Persian
Gulf and Sumatra.