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Milford chronicle., 1948-07-30
Spies
Imported & Domestic

ImPorTeo q Domestic
Several hundred foreign spies have
sneaked into this country as employees
of the United Nations and similar in
ternational good will organizations.
the State Department recently dis
closed to a Senate judiciary COM
mittee.
The US. can do nothing about il
because the foreign agents are COW
cred by an immunity act, one diplo-
matte spokesman said.
Robert G. Alexander, assistant chief
OF the Departments Visa Commission.
told senators that at least several hun
dred known or suspected subversive
foreign agents now here "are not SUBJ
Ject to exclusion under US. laws"
Under the headquarters agreement
between the United States and the
U.N., provision is made for talks be-
tween the State Department and Sec
retary-Genersl Trygve Lie if this pov-
ernment questions actions of anv UN.
personnel as improper.
Crack Down on Reds
There is no diplomatic immunity
clOaking American Communists, how
ever, and this week the government
did something about them.
Twelve top domestic Communists
were rounded up by the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation to face indict-
ments charging them with seeking
the violent overthrow of the Ameri-
can government.
They included William 2. Foster.
national chairman of the Communist
Party; Eugene Dennis, Communist
general secretary, and Benjamin J.
Davis, Jr., Communist member of the
New York City Council.
Carl Winters, chairman of the
Michigan State Communist Council,
was arrested in Detroit.
They were indicted under the Alien
Registration Act of 1910 by a blue
ribbon federal grand jury following
a lS-month investigation of Commu-
mist activity. The act carries a MAXI
mum penalty Of $4,000 fine and 10
years in Jail.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-30

Gov Dewey, the Republican presiden-
tial nominee.
There was even speculation that
President Truman had called Congress
back for special session opening
Monday primarily because of the Ber-
lin crisis.
Mounting tension over Berlin over
shadOWed the Hague parley where
Britain, France and the Benelux coun-
tries were to set up military coopera-
ton among the western powers.
The British press increasingly be-
gan to discuss preparedness measures
and one newspaper took the Labor
government to task for not having
rushed civilian. defense projects many
months ago.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-30
Dehydrufed Claims

A year ago enthusiasm over rain
making reached such a peak that the
practice Of sending planes up to seed
clouds with dry ice became virtually
a fad. This was particularly true in
the west where sufficient water could
transform millions of semi-arid acres
into fertile farmland.
The Weather Bureau this week de-
hydrated a lot of rash claims after
a winter-long series Of experiments.
A similar set of summer tests is un-
derway now and not until they are
over will the Weather Bureau be
willing to say whether there is any
hope left.
When the excitement was at its
highest a year ago, Bureau Chief
Francis w. Reichelderfer said: at is
necessary to secure highly reliable
factual data, obtained in carefully
controlled experiments to prove or
disprove the many published reports
of making rain artifcially."
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-30

a bridge across the only entrance to
an important harbor.
City engineers said a tunnel under
the NarrOws is "out of the question"
because-of prOhibitive costs.
The proposed bridge would give
motorists a through route from New
Jersey highways to Long Island, the
Bronx and New England.
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-30
The WORLD This WEEK
Quotes

Prime Minister Joseph B. Chit
ley Of Australia: There's only
one real cure for disequilibrium
of dollars-for the United States
and hard currency countries to
buy something equivalent in
value to what they are selling"
Leon Blum, former French
premier: ''In Berlin the east and
west are like two goats whose
horns are locked in struggle"
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-30
President e Congress
Play Political Poker

GAME Of political poker in Washington Monday with the
rcOnvenng Of the 80h Congress President Truman the
dealer he called the special session He will try call the
his special message Mr. Truman purpose to put the Repub
anconoed Congress the spot by challenging it good
the montod pledges in the party platform enacted the
Milford chronicle., 1948-07-30

fAH Rights Reserved. AP NelDsteaturesJ
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19

Confused

Time was running out in Palestine,
and with it the hope for averting a
Jewish-Arab civil war for possession
of Jerusalem.
In the waning days before Great
Britain removed her troops from the
Holy Land upon expiration of the
British mandate on May Is, Pales-
tine had become a savagely con-
fused, moribund state.
Bitterly, the United Nations trus-
teeship council virtually abandoned
its efforts to devise an effective plan
to safeguard Jerusalem from ravish-
ment by the warning factions. Dele
gates could not hit upon a scheme
that could be enforced.
Nor was any A~rab-Jewish agree
ment in sight which might result in
a truce necessary to give any U. N.
plan a chance. Like a little boy
watching his father trying to get his
kite out of a tree, the council looked
hopefully to Jerusalem where the
Red Cross was doing its best to
bring a halt to the fighting.
AS far as the threatened invasion
Of Palestine by neighboring Arab
states was concerned, no N seemed
able to sum up the situation accur-
ately.
Jews were insisting, in the face of
denials, that Syrian and Lebanese
armies had invaded northern Pales-
tine, and the British were reported
to have rushed troops back into the
country to deal with what they called
a seriously d~eteriorated" situation.
Still an unknown factor in the
rapidly climaxing events was willy
old King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan.
Commander of the finest army in
Arabia, the spike-helmeted Arab Lee
gion, he had been talking big about
invading Palestine from the East.
He had been talking, too, about max
ing himself king of Palestine. His
ambition is a Middle East amalgam
of states that would be in the nature
of a greater Syria.
Experts were not d~iscounting the
role Abdullah and his power-politick-
ing could play in the drama. In the
end he could turn out to be the cat
alytic agent that might bring the in
regenerate events in Palestine to a
reasonable, if not a happy, conclu-
sion.
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19
BIG PLANES:
Russian

Russia put some big four-engined
planes into the air over Moscow for
the annual Soviet May Day parade
and managed thereby to instill a
modicum of uneasiness in the hearts
of U. S. military experts.
At last reports they we're awaiting
more detailed reports Of the planes
from U. S. observers in order to
gain, if possible, a new insight into
Soviet airborne army equipment.
1t is likely, the experts thought,
that at least some of the planes were
the Soviet TU-70, an aircraft bearing
close resemblance to the American
BIG. Assumption has been that the
Russians copied many of the fea-
lures of the five BIOS known to have
been forced down in Soviet-controlled
areas during the war.
Reported to be a hybrid transport
bomber, the TU-70 has a passenger
capacity of Y. This probably could
be increased substantially, however,
if the plane were used strictly as a
troop carrier.
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19
THE BREAK:
Colombia

Not quite a month after the abor-
tive revolution in April swept the
capital city of Bogota into turmoil
and caused damage throughout the
republic, the government of Colon
bia formally severed diplomatic re-
lations with Russia.
That the break was a direct result
of the revolt, repeatedly Communist
led and inspired, no n bothered to
deny.
Officially, however, no mention
was made of the uprising. Foreign
Minister Eduardo Angels note to the
Russian charge d'affaires said SIM
ply that Colombia considered that
there were no ties which warranted
a continuation of diplomatic and
consular relations between the two
countries.
In concordance with the diplomatic
action the Colombian government
began to redeploy its troops and re-
organize administrative machinery
to strengthen it's hold and prevent
further outbreaks by Communists.
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19
This Man Favors
A 'DiekIe' Cup
Of Good Coffee

NEW YORK. - Edward Walsh
Mehren is going to Washington with
an idea he Says will save the public
S billion dollars a year.
The billions of dollars savings
estimate comes from Mehren's fig
ures showing Americans drank rs
billion cups of nickel coffee in 1889.
Today that coffee ranges up in price
to a dime. Drinking nickel coffee
would save 625 million dollars a
year, he says. 1t is the same with
other things.
He wants a dickle or maybe a
jime.
That is, he wants the United States
to make coins worth 21h cents, TIE
cents, and 1914 cents.
His friends suggested the coin
halfway between a dime and a
nickel be called a "dickle" or lime"
for jitney and dime. That would
make the 2h cent piece a pickle"
for penny and nickel, or Jenny"
for jitney and penny. The 1914
cents coin of course would be a
''bit," two bits being a quarter.
For nearly a year Mehren has
been on his crusade for fractional
coinage. Now the Beverly Hills,
Calf, soft drink manufacturer is
heading directly for President Tru-
man.
Mehren argues this way:
America has only four coins
worth a quarter or less. But Britain
has six, and The Netherlands and
Sweden each have seven coins worth
a quarter OF less.
With the addition Of three new
coins, the United States would have
seven, too.
"They would be used for soft
drinks, sales taxs, telephones, street
car and bus tokens, magazines,
newspapers and all other commodi-
ties and services that are too cheap
at S cents and too expensive at 10
cents" says Mehren.
Everybody is for it," he said.
1--WE got hundreds of letters from
all over the country. This is a thing
America needs. The people want it.
And I'm going to get a plank in both
the Democratic and Republican plat
forms at Philadelphia calling for
this currency reform.
It will take a lot of silver. West
ern Senators would not oppose that.
But then | also propose to abolish
silver dollar and half dollar.
Nobody ever uses them any
more"
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19
Doctors Discover Method
To Keep Flowers Forever

PATERSON, N 1.-Two brothers,
Drs. Phillip and Sidney Joffe, an
nounced the discovery of a solution
that will preserve freshly cut flow
ers forever.
Their secret process fixes the cell
structure of the flower and pre-
serves it's color, form and texture.
The flower loses its fragrance, how.
ever
The brothers had worked on the
solution in collaboration with an
uncle, Philip Joffe. for the last
eight years.
The preparation will go on sale
in a department store in New York
at "a reasonable price," they an
nounced.
There are three steps in the
preservation process, Joffee said,
and they will be simple enough for
any housewife to perform
First, the flower is dipped into a
solution that dehydrates it, fixing
it's form and stopping bacterial de.
cay. 1t is then dipped into another
solution and dried.
A third solution establishes a
permanent acid-alkaline balance in
the flower.
When finished, the flower is in a
fixed state of preservation that is
impervious to heat, cold or time.
When a fellow buys his gal an
orchid for a dance, she a put it
away after the dance until the next
time. All she'll have to do is dust il
and pin it on again. Joffee said.
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19
OLEO TAX:
Fight ahead

One of the most pressing problems
members Of congress have had to
decide this year is whether their po-
litical bread is spread with butter
or oleomargarine.
1t is further complicated by the
fact that they might, in choosing
one or the other, be letting the gravy
get away from them.
For good or i'll, however, the house
of representatives made its decision.
1t passed by a vote of $50 to LOG a
bill to repeal all federal oleomarga-
rine taxes which have been on the
books for 81 years.
Those taxes are itemized as fol-
lows: 10 cents a pound on colored
oleo, ia cent a pound on uncolored,
5000 a year On manufacturers, $3.50
on wholesalers of colored oleo, 5000
on wholesalers Of the uncolored
product, $48 on retailers of colored
cleo and Sc on retailers of uncolored.
Even if the federal taxes were re-
pealed, it still would be against the
law to sell colored oleo in 20 states.
Nevertheless, the house had rid it.
self of the matter and now it was up
to the senate, where a battle royal
was in prospect.
Reason the cleo tax issue has a
stiff fight ahead in the senate is
that senators are elected by voters
of entire states, rather than by vot-
ers of districts within the states as
are most representatives.
The result, in this case, is a split
in the sentiment of constituents of
many senators.
For example, big northern states
such as Illinois, Wisconsin, Michi-
gan and Ohio, are composed of con-
sumner cities and producer farms.
The country districts include dairy
farmers and soy bean growers. Con-
sumers in cities want repeal of the
taxes, and so do the soy bean men
whose product is used in manufac-
ture of oleo. The dairy farmers,
naturally, want the tax to remain.
The dairy interests are strong.
Their supporters in congress have
been able to retain the oleo tax by
the simple process of shelving any
repeal bills in committee. 1t hap
pened to the current bill in the house
agricultural committee, but a petit
ton circulated among house men,
bers forced the bill on to the floor
where it was approved.
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19
DRAFT BILL:
On the Way

Yielding to the pressure of the
times, congress was putting its hanc
gingerly to the business of passing
a ~selective service act which would
give the nations armed forces {
total manpower of slightly more thar
two million in two years.
The house armed services commit
tee had approved the measure, after
hearing Defense Secretary James
Forrestal term it an excellent" one,
and passed it on to the floor of the
house for debate.
Thus, for the first time since be-
fore the war, congress was facing
~squarely the momentous issue of a
national draft. That this was hap
opening during the hair-trigger days
of an election year only served to
underline the apparent urgency of
the matter.
AS approved by the armed services
committee, the bill would:
I Raise total authorized manpower
L. of the armed forces to zoos, 1872
army 837, 900, air force 500, 900,
navy and marine corps CSC, 1882.
. Require registration of men
Il" from 10 through 80, with those
from 10 through rs liable for two
years service.
q Exempt most veterans from
~. further service, but those under
81 would have to register.
Allow seizure of industrial plants
l. by the government if they re-
fused to give top priorities to arma-
ment orders.
AS it stood, the draft plan was
conceded to have a good chance of
But complications were being threat
ened by the senate armed services
committee which seemed inclined to
combine a universal military train
ing with the draft bill.
The committee was waiting for
Army Secretary Kenneth Royal to
recommend details of a bill to call
161, 900 18-year-olds for a years train
ing. They would be taken in addi-
ton to men procured through the
draft.
AS a combination, that didn't look
so good to many Republicans. Rep.
Walter G. Andrews (Rep., N. W,
chairman of the house armed service
committee, called the idea utterly
foolish, inconceivable and not called
for"
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19
COVENANTS
Just Paper

In a decision which may produce
more extensive reaction than any
designed civil rights legislative pro-
gram, the U. S. supreme court hand
ed down a decision that, in effect,
outlaws so-called restrictive cove
nants which bar racial or religious
minorities from buying or occupying
property in many areas throughout
the country.
Declaring the decision, Chief JUS
tice Fred Vinson held that enforce
ment of restrictive covenants by
state or federal courts was a viola
ton of the 18th amendment.
That amendment, adopted in 1868,
reads in part: "No state shall make
or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities
of citizens of the United States 9.
o deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection Of
the laws"
The supreme courts decision did
not declare that restrictive cove-
nants, as such, are violations of the
constitution; but by ruling that it is
unconstitutional for the courts to en-
force the covenants it reduced them,
legally, to mere scraps of paper.
For the most part, covenants r
agreements entered upon by real
estate promoters and buyers of land
or homes. Purchasers agree not to
sell their land or homes to persons
barred by the covenant, terms of the
agreement running from an average
of Is or so years to 'perpetuity."
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19
Power Line Kills
Man in Freak Crash
Trapped Passenger Dies When
1000 Volts Hit Car

WILLIAMSTOWN, N. FRANK
Sullivan, 35, a poultry farmer was
e~lectrocuted by a 1000 power line
which fell across the car in which
he was trapped after it crashed
against an electric pole.
DR.. William Hofer, Williamstown
police surgeon, said Sullivan had
been knocked unconscious when the
automobile swerved from the high
way and struck the pole but death
apparently was due to ele~ctrocution.
His body, hanging from the car door,
was recovered after Wililamstown
firemen extinguished flames set off
by the electric charge.
Sullivan's two companions, George
S. Fey, %, driver of the automobile,
and Herbert S. Lewis, 26, were
thrown clear when the car struck
and escaped with minor bruises.
The accident occurred as the three
men we're returning from Atlantic
City. Fey, according to Patrolman
Joseph Berger of the Monroe town.
ship police, said he fell asleep at
the wheel.
Sullivan, according to police, was
riding between Fey and Lewis in the
front seat. The doors flew open
when the a crashed the pole. Fey
and Lewis were hurled clear. The
wire fell, according to police, send
ing off a shower of sparks as it
landed atop the car.
Berger, in a police cruiser, drove
up a few minutes after the crash. A
moment later the wrecked car burst
into flames. He called for the Will
Jamestown fire department, then
notified the Atlantic City Electric
Co. to cut off the current.
DR.. Louis K. Collins, Gloucester
County coroner, said S~ullivan's body
was partly burned before firemen
could get to it.
Fey was charged with reckless
killing by automobile and was listed
for a hearing before Police Recorder
Vernon Huber.
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19
Come Of "Cops and Robbers"
H~ospitulizes One Brother

PITTSBURGH. - 1t was just a
game of loops and robbers" Joseph
MARTINEZ, 10, was playing with his
three brothers.
Joseph was shot" "Playing
dead" he fell-and was impaled on
a stick.
While Joseph screamed realisti-
cally, his brothers laughed. Their
10y turned to horror when they found
four inches of the stick had pene-
trated his abdomen. His condition
is critical
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19
:? Current Events

Anyone WhO can GnsUer all five of
the folloWing questions mag con-
slider himself an expert. 1t doesn't
make any difference What kind of
expert. It's enough Just to be one
without going into boring detail
about it.
l.. Trans-Jordan is playing a key
role in the Palestine situation.
How long has it been an indie
pendent state?
2. State departmen is c0nsid-
ering some form of military lend
lease for the five nations which
signed the Brussels pact. When
did lend-lease begin and when was
it terminated?
8. Do you know about how many
of Americas SAG, 900 troops now
are serving outside the U. S.:
(a) 1853, 900; CD 258,000; (c) 1885,
900; I'D $4,000?
4. Sen. Robert A. Taft Of Ohio
is seeking Republican presiden-
tial nomination. There have been
seven Ohio = born Presidents.
Name them.
S. Bureau of labor statistics re-
ported that the consumer price in
dex declined from 1858 in Janu-
airy to 1863 in March. What event
took place in mid-February that
was a factor in the decline?
ANSWERS
1. A little over two years. In March,
1916, under a treaty with Great Britain.
Trans-Jordan became a sovereign indie
pendent state.
2. President Roosevelt signed the
lend-lease bill on March II. 1871. 1t was
terminated by President Truman as of
August %, 1915.
8. (b) 258. 200.
4. U. S. Grant. Rutherford B.. Hayes.
James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison.
William Mckinley. William Howard
Taft. Warren G.. Harding. All were Re-
publicans.
5. The break in the grain market.
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19
eIimmer, GIimmer

Sciences long search to discover
how the FREELY is able to light up
has been advanced another step as
a result of new experiments.
DR.. Robert D. McElroy, John Hop
kins university biologist, reported to
the National Academy of Sciences
that the lightning bug derives its
power 0; self-luminosity from the
same chemical energy that humans
use in moving the muscles of their
bodies.
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19
Clouds i'm the East

Amateur and professional mill
tary experts now r weighing the
pros and cons of 'war" in the Holy
Land. Palestine is completely en-
circled by Arab states except for
its Mediterranean coastline. Nu-
merals indicate estimated fighting
strength of the various Arab states.
Jewish forces in Palestine are said
to number about $4,000.
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19
GOLD BRICKS HIGHER
Initiation Hits Swind!er, Victims

Professional charity solicitors, who
take so to 90 per cent of the pub
lies donations before turning owe
the balance to the organization in
whose name they operate, now bold
ly ask donations of $40 and $25 in
stead Of the 81 to S. at prewar scale.
Their benefit dance" tickets now
cost 81 each, often more, against so
cents to a dollar in prewar days.
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19

Initiation has hit the swindler and
his victims, just like everybody else
in the postwar world.
Cost Of being rocked by various
popular frauds and rackets has gone
UP in proportion to the rise in the
~swinolers' living costs, a report by
the family economics bureau of
Northwestern National Life Insur-
ance company reveals.
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19
Oldest Mechanical Crafts

Plumbing and sanitary engineer
ing are among mans oldest me-
chanical crafts. Palaces on the is
land of Crete were piped for water
as early as 5000 B. c. and ancient
builders understood many of the
principles of modern sanitary en-
cheering.
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19
SalYageS Mankind

First city in the United States to
establish a plastic surgery clinic,
Philadelphia, salvages fingers and
arms mangled by accidents or ma
chimes. q
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS -
Mouse Group Approves Measure
10 Draft Men into Armed Forces;
Hope for Palestine Agreement Ebbs
By Bill S~choentgen, WNU Staff Writer

EDITORS NOTE: When opinions are,e expressed in these columns, they are those Of
Laurel outlook., 1948-05-19

Just to prove that the old green
back amt what it used to be, Rep.
Helen Gahagan Douglas Oem.,
Calif.) purchased S17.36 worth Of
groceries and toted the slim load
onto the house floor to show her
colleagues how prices have in
flated since OPA controls expired
in 1916. Mrs. Douglas has intro
duced a price control resolution
in the house.
Evening star., 1948-06-25

Egyptian planes bombed Beer Tuvya
and Kefar Warburg near the coast
midway between Tel Aviv and GAIA.
No details were given.
..Irgun disappeared from the mid
city building in Tel Aviv which had
been its headquarters. Blue and
white armbands which publicly de-
noted Irgun members disappeared
as the organization returned to It's
underground status.
Raids on Irgun gathering places
were continued by the Israeli Army
More than 40 new arrests were re-
ported at Haifa. Natanya and other
cities.
Irgun strongholds near Abu Kebir
were said to be under attack. Heavy
explosions were heard this morning
and last night south of Tel Aviv.
Recognition Withdrawn.
Irgun broadcast an announcement
last night that the group had ceased
to exist as an armed force within
Israel and will continue only as an
unarmed political group. Menachem
Beigin. the Irgun commander. an
nounced Wednesday that the group
was withdrawing its recognition
of the government.
A new law forbids any armed
force outside the army and classes
disobedience to civil law as treason.
Under this law Israeli floods have
been rounding up scores of Irgunists