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Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
Aerial
ree-Engine Jet

Ihree-Engine jet
The Air Force has new expert
mental three-engine jet bomber, de-
signed to support ground forces, built
by the Glenn L. Martin Co., of Balti-
more.
Known as the XB-51, it is the first
three-engine jet plane ever built.
Only two planes, to be used for tests,
have been ordered. The first one is
expected to fly within a couple of
months.
The new bomber is distinguished by
its long fuselage, sweptback wings,
horizontal tail plane surface, and two
engines hung on pylons from the
fuselage just ahead of the wings. The
third engine is in the tail.
The wing span is SIS feet and the
length is 80 feet. The sweptback
wings indicate top speed above SOC
miles an hour. The crew will consist
only Of pilot and a radioman-navi-
gator.
The Navy revealed last week thai
pilot had tipped himself out of I
jet fighter doing more than 600 mile:
an hour and parachuted safely tC
earth. 1t is believed he was the frs
man to do it, at that speed.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
Body Chemistry

New chemical evidence that men
and women age in different ways was
described to the American Chemical
Society in convention last week at
Atlantic City.
DR.. Philip G. Ackerman, Lille Hof-
statter and William 3. Kountz of the
Washington University School of
Medicine and ST. Louis Infirmary Hos
pital, reported they had found that
old people need lots of proteins like
meats, eggs and milk.
But they also found evidence that
old people can't make as good use of
protein foods as young ones.
The body breaks meat Or other pro-
teins down into separate building
blocks called amino acids. 1t uses
these blocks to build up the muscle,
nerve and other protein tissue that
the body needs.
The scientists found that amino
acids varied in amount in the blood
of old and young men and women
Age, they found, apparently brings on
differences in the way men ano
women use protein building blocks
This may help explain some puzzle:
of degenerative diseases with age anc
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
MEDICINE: Problems Of Old and Young

and keeps him constantly tired, de-
pressed and irritable through chem
icai tug-of-war in his body, DR.. So
mogyi said.
Diet alone can solve the problem il
the disease hasn't progressed too far.
he said. If it has, small injections of
insulin still may be needed for awhile.
Peak Year for Polio
The National Foundation for Infan-
tile Paralysis predicts that 1949 polio-
myelitis cases will reach 10000, far
SURPRISING 1916 when 1888 cases
were reported.
DR.. Hart e. Van Ripper, National
Foundation medical director, says vir-
tually all epidemic aid funds of the
foundation now are wiped out. He
estimates the cost of medical care for
this years cases will amount to 81
million dollars.
The foundation currently is con-
Quoting an emergency drive for $l4,-
100000.
The foundation said 26,461 cases
had been recorded so far this year. II
said five states already have exceeded
their all-time highs. They are Arkan-
sas, Indiana, Maine, Michigan and
Oklahoma.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30

go per cent of the worlds known sup
ply ($24,5OO,0OO,O0
The us. Treasury price for gold is
$35 fine ounce. When the British cut
their pound from $4.03 to $3.50, they
also raised the price of gold from l73
shillings pence to $50 shillings a fine
ounce.
That puts the British pound and
British gold on the same devalued
footing against the American dollar
and American gold. Other countries
devaluing their currencies either have
or will shortly raise their gold price
to keep in line.
The British Goal
The drastic devaluation is counted
on to spur British sales in this coun-
try because Americans now can buy
in Britain for $3.50 what used to cost
them $4.03.
Those same economics in reverse
spell out to the British public Sir
Stafford's edict of Don't Buy Ameri-
can"
Both factors - more exports to
America and less US. imports-will
help England balance her dollar ac-
counts, which are lopsided in Ameri-
cas- favor and have been cutting into
Britain's reserve of dollars and gold
at fearful rate.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
Slash Is Drastic
WELL-KEPT SECRET

The, British Cabinets decision to
devalue the pound-made last Au-
gust before the Washington financial
conference-was one of the years
best-kept secrets.
Australian Prime Minister Joseph
B. Chifiey and Dr.. Herbert Coombes,
governor of the Commonwealth Bank,
helped guard the secret by making it
practice to talk of devaluation plans
only when driving in an automobile
to avoid leaks"
Even the Treasury's prepared an
nouncements didn't show the exact
extent of the devaluation.
Sir Stafford Cripps linked it on his
own copy while walking up to the
microphone to broadcast the an
notncement.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
COURT: Hint New Alliance
THE Second Mrs. Simpson"

THE Second Mrs. Simpson"
The name ''Mrs. Simpson" is being
whispered around Britain's royal
court this week almost like an echo
from the prewar era
This time it refers to Mrs Romaine
Simpson, lovely New York divorcee,
reported engaged to handsome David
Michael, Marquess of Milford Haven.
She is 27.
The Marquess, 80, a great grandson
of Queen Victoria, was one of Primo
ess Margaret's favorite dates during
the past year A night club enthusiast,
he has also frequently squirrel Shar-
man Douglas, daughter of the US.
ambassador, Lewis Douglas.
Another of Victoria's grandsons-
now the Duke of Windsor-gave up
the throne in 1896 for 'the woman I
love" That, of course, was another
Mrs Simpson: Wallie Warfeld Simp-
son, Baltimore divorce.
The Church OF England frowns on
remarriage of divorced persons The
Duchess of Windsor has yet to be re-
ceived by the royal family.
The Marques of Milford Haven
disclosed that he and Mrs Simpson
had their portraits taken together by
court photographer
'The Second Mrs. Simpson" is the
daughter of the late Vinton Dahlgren
Pierce of Washington, DC. Her mar
riage to William Simpson of Locust
Valley. N. Y, in 1916 ended in Reno
divorce two years later.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
In Shorf

Reported: BY Czech Church sources,
arrest of more than 200 Roman Catho-
lie priests and nuns in an intensified
drive to force the Church to bow to
government controls.
Indicted: BY Westchester, N. Y,
grand jury, the son of the Peekskill
nolice chief and five others. in con-
nection with violence following a
Paul Robson concert, Sept A.
Ended: The 22-month Chicago
printer strike against major news
papers with union acceptance of a
$40 weekly wage boost.
Announced: BY Chinese Commu-
nists, organization of formal Red
government for China.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
Anywhere in the World

The Military Air Transport Service
has announced that with its expert
ence in Operation Vittles," it now is
ready to conduct an intensive strate-
gic airlift anywhere in the world if
necessary.
The first annual report of MATS
the integrated Air Force and Navy
Transport Services-emphasized the
experience gained in a year of flying
supplies into beleaguered Berlin.
The report found unifcation effec-
tive in the Berlin operation, COM
mentfng: "On the bases, personnel OF
the two services work and live to-
gether with no evidence of friction al
any level"
Another important aspect of the Ber-
lin airlift was long range weather fore
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
PuctNutiOns
MapDefense

THE IL western democratic ma
i tions took just an hour to agree
on complex defense machinery
for the new North Atlantic Pact.
The foreign ministers chose
u. S. Secretary of State Dean
Acheson a. their council chairman,
created cabinet-level defense COM
mittee, set UP half dozen top-rank-
ing military planning groups and de-
cided on Washington as alliance head
quarters
The Defense Committee, headed by
us. Secretary of Defense Louis A..
Johnson, will meet in Washington
October to establish the military
planning groups authorized by the
council
Five Regional Areas
Regional planning groups will work
out joint defense plans for ID
northern Europe, (2) western Europe,
(3) southern Europe and the western
Mediterranean, (4)s north America
and (5) the north Atlantic Ocean
area.
Emerging from one of the closed
council sessions in Washington, one of
the foreign ministers remarked:
what we did in an hour probably
would have taken several years had
Russia been present"
In New York where the fourth
General Assembly of the United Ma
tions got underway, Carlos P. Romu-
10 of the Philippines was elected AS
sembly president, succeeding DR.. Her
bert " Evatt, Australian foreign min
ister
Split in Soviet Bloc
Romulo was accorded SO votes, only
five nations voting against him. This
was significant in that Yugoslavia ap-
parently voted against the Soviet bloc
for the first time Always before, the
Russian group had polled at least sis
votes.
Several other ballots for COMMITTEES
chairman posts also saw the Sovie
bloc reduced to FIVE votes for the frs
time in UN history. -
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
What Pound Deva|uation Means

pRITAIN'S long-anticipated de-
II valuation of the pound was
far deeper than had been gener-
ally expected.
An average of the forecasts
would have produced a pound
rated somewhere between So and
$500, with the latter the more widely
quoted figure. The 30.5 per cent slash
to $3.50 cut the pound to the free
market level.
Slash Is Drastic
Some monetary experts, particu-
larly the French, believe that Britain,
forced to depress her already austere
standard of living, may have acted
decisively to force all other currencies
down and thus cushion the effect on
prices of the things she must import.
Sir Stafford Cripps says the drastic
cut was decided upon to rule out pos
sibility of any talk of further devalu-
alton, and with the idea that the
pound could be raised if future cir
cumstances permit.
But an immediate effect has been to
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
SideIites

In New York City, it seems, you
can't carry an unloaded rifle despite
the Constitutional guarantee of ''the
right of the people to keep and bear
arms" Thomas Jordan, 40, EXCL, de-
cided to test it and marched down the
street with an empty souvenir Ger
man army rifle over his shoulder. He
was arrested. Johnson quoted the
Constitution in night court, but was
convicted of causing CONSERVATION
and alarm and a crowd to collect,
constituting a breach of the peace"
He was given suspended sentence.
. In Little Rock, Ark, $4,000 persons
showed up at the zoo for a birthday
party to Ruthie, the elephant, 36. At
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30

another little man and both were epi-
leptics."
Judd, an average sized American,
says ne always has believed one sof
the big reasons the Japanese are so
aggressive is that they are such small
people.
'''They wear the longest swords"
Judd says, land sit on the tallest
horses. They have to strut and throw
their weight around ostensibly to i'm
press others but really to bolster their
own ego"
Judd says efforts of conquerors and
dictators to compensate for Affections
or abnormalities have often led to
overcompensation- couldn't do
ordinary things so they did extraordi-
nary things.
Can Be Force for Good
In many cases, however, this energy
has been a force for good. Judd noted
that Steinmetz, the electrical wizard,
was humpbacked, and that Beethoven,
the great composer, and Edison, the
great inventor, were deaf. He de-
clared:
1.-TWO of the greatest of all orators,
Demosthenes and Winston Churchill,
were Sufferers. They became orators
to prove to themselves they could
overcome their troubles"
Russians Crave Attention
The Minnesota physician has some
observations on the Russians. He says
the reason they talk the way they do,
claiming discovery of everything first
is a sort of childish desire for atten-
ton and security. He explains:
= ''They have to have somebody say
something good about them. Nobody
else does, so they say it themselves
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
MATS: Benefit From Berlin

casting. In this, MATS cooperated
with the Airways Communication
Service and the Strategic Air Com
nand.
Weather reconnaissance units, using
90 converted B-29s, flew $4,000 miles
daily over the Atlantic, Pacific and
Arctic regions.
In addition, fixed and mobile
weather stations on the ground COW
cred an area extending from Japan
eastward to Saudi Arabia.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
Vets
Insurance Dividends

fiiSOfOIlCS DiVlOenOS
The Veterans Administration has
announced the formula by which
some 16 million World War II veter-
ans may figure out the life insurance
dividend checks they may expect
within the next nine months.
The biggest checks, $528, will go to
ex-GIs of 40 years or under when the
policy was issued who (A) took out
the maximum amount of insurance,
$4,000, in 1910 when it first became
available and (B) retained it in full
force for the 96 months that followed.
For veterans 40 or younger, the
dividend rate is SIS cents a month for
each $1,000 of insurance. For those
over 40 when the policy was issued,
there is descending scale.
This is the formula:
For those age 40 or younger at is
sue, multiply SIS cents times each
$1,000, times each month the policy
was in effect before its l948 anniver-
sary date; age Al, So cents; AZ, 40
cents; 43, 46 cents; A, 43 cents; As, 40
cents; 46, 81 cents; AT, "a cents; 48, 81
cents; 40, % cents; so, 25 cents; 81, "a
cents; 81, % cents; SO, % cents; 54, 81
cents; 90 and over, 20 cents.
The dividend will be paid at the
same rate on both term and converted
policies. 1t is not subject to income
tax. Veterans must apply for it.
Application blanks are available al
all postoffices and veterans centerS
Some IL million already have been
sent in.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30

social insurance programs as such.
Many ofsthem already have such COM
pany plans of their own. The crux is
that the Presidential Fact-fnding
Board recommended a system in
which management was to pay all
the costs of pension and welfare
plan.
Revolutionary Doctrine
Benjamin F. Fairless,, president of
United States Steel. has called the
non-contributory system in which
workers pay nothing and the COM
panies pay all "a revolutionary doc
trine of far-reaching and serious con-
sequences to the whole nation"
Philip Murray, president of the
100000 CIO United Steelworkers, re-
torted that the steel industry is OBJ
serving double standard" He said
many executives-and he named sew
eral-receive pensions paid for by the
companies.
"It resolves itself to this" Murray
declared, 'for an official of COM
pany to receive pension paid for
solely by the company is good thing.
For the workers to receive the same
benefits is loss Of individual free
DOM
Coal Walkout
The walkout of 480, 900 coal miners
which has thrown hundreds of thou
sands of other workers in allied In
dustries out of work, stems from a
similar issue. The contract with John
L. Lewis United Mine Workers expired
last June but negotiations continued.
Southern operators refused, however,
to continue 20-cents-per-ton royalty
payments to the Miners Welfare
Fund and benefits had to be sus-
pended.
Miners refused to 60 back to the
pits last Monday, coming new
phrase to replace their traditional slo-
gan of mo contract-no work." which
was abandoned last June. This time
the slogan is mo pensions-no work
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
Dates
Monday, September &c

New Zealand Day (major ma
tional holiday.
Federal Communications
Commission opens hearings on
new television channels in Wash
ington.
Wednesday, September 20
Jake La Motta, champion, de-
fends world middleweight title
against Marcel Cerdan of France
in New York.
Saturday, October /
National Newspaper Week
starts.
Loyalty Day.
Sunday, October 2
World Communion Sunday.
Birthday (71st), Cordell Hull.
Fire Prevention Week starts.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30

anu Is d CLOSE STU
dent of history, be-
sides.
"Stalin is small
and has a withered
arm," Judd says
"The Kaiser had G
withered arm. Mus
solini was only five
feet two. Hitler wa:
obviously abnormal
''Then there were
Napoleon and Cae'
sar. Napoleon wa,
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
Quotes

Sen.. Tom ConnalIy (D-Tex),
speaking in defense of $1,314,-
100000 arms aid, bill: SIN this
shrunken world in which we
live, we cannot afford to permit
our friends to remain so weak
they will invite aggression and
be picked off one by one like
pigeons in shooting gallery"
Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Soviet
foreign minister: Il have neither
pounds nor dollars. l am a bad
financier."
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
THE SUMS NEVER SET

Devaluation has made gold the king
around the world with the dollar as
crown prince
That's because gold still is the yard
stick of money value and the United
States has more gold than anyone
else. The US. now owns more than
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30

disturb the currencies of some coun-
tries which had been highly stable,
such as Switzerland and Belgium.
France, which had previously de-
valued the franc, made still another
cut.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
Fame
A Doctors Diagnosis

Most of The aDorld's great conquer
ors and dictators haze been afflicted
tpith illness or physical handicaps.
Their drives to push foraDard despite
these handicaps haze spurred them to
extraordinary deeds.
That's the diagnosis of Rep. Walter
Judd (R-Minn), who switched his
practice from medicine to politics,
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
DEVALUED DOUGH

More than a score of countries have
devalued their money. Here are the
old and new values of some of these
national currencies in relation to the
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
Pensions Are Core
In Steel Showdown

THE of the coal and steel disputes relatively
principle conflicts between American labor and
This time the issue is not The showdown
of security Labor holds that management should for
lection of workers against illness and old age
The steel companies do object retirement
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
Aid for Diabetes

Daily shots Of insulin are no longer
necessary for nearly all people with
diabetes.
With a new treatment based on diet,
SO per cent of adults with diabetes
can get along without insulin, reports
DR.. Michal Somogyi, biochemist of
the Jewish Hospital of st. Louis. The
others may need only small amount
of insulin daily.
Describing the freedom from insu-
lin program found during a 14-year
study of 1000 diabetes, DR.. Somogyi
said the main basis is diet that keeps
body weight at the ideal level for a
persons age and build
People with diabetes get too much
sugar in their blood and their bodies
don't produce enough insulin, a hor-
none thatiregulates the body's use of
sugar. Extra insulin had been the
main method of treatment, but toe
much insulin can be dangerous. The
drug eventually poisons the diabetic
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30

The MARQUES for the last year OF
so has been committing to the United
States as salesman for a British oil
heater firm. He was, best man at the
marriage of his cousin, Prince Philip,
to Princess Elizabeth.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30
Russians Crave Attention

the differences that develop in men
and women. Heart disease, for exam
pie, is more common in men, while
arthritis is more common in women.
Milford chronicle., 1949-09-30

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
Maryland Counties
Get State School Loans

Allegations Of 100000 for
Montgomery County and $356,483
for Prince Georges County have
been authorized by the State under
its $50, 000, 900 school loan program
approved at special session of
the General Assembly Decem-
Der II.
An additional $1,190,s22 was
authorized for Baltimore County,
the Associated Press reported
today.
The money is coming from the
States surplus and will be repaid
when the bonds actually are sold
by the counties.
Bids on the bonds won't be
opened until January 9. It would
be another As days before funds
would be available from them,
Montgomery, Prince Georges and
Baltimore Counties need money
Immediately, however, so the State
Treasury is making an advance to
be repaid from the bonds.
The State may advance up to
$4,000 900 of the $50,000,000 au-
thorization. But State School
Supt. Thomas G.. Pullen, jr., has
said he does not believe any other
counties are in immediate need
Of funds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
Woman Killed by Car
OF Highway Official

An elderly woman was fatally
injured on a New Jersey highway
last night by an auto State Police
said was driven by Arthur Clement
Butler of Westmoreland Hills
Md, director of National High
way Users Conference.
MIR. Butler, As, of IL Albemarle
street, and his family had been
on a Christmas holiday trip, his
Office here said.
The victim of the accident was
Mrs. Anna Bella Patrick. rs. Of
Warren, Mass, who died in the
Burlington IN. j. Hospital shortly
after she was struck on Highway
Is about so miles south Of Jersey
City.
State Police said she had parked
her car on the shoulder of the
road and crossed the highway
apparently to inquire about rooms
at the Maple Tourist Court. With
her husband. William Patrick, she
was en- route to Miami, Fla.
Mr.. Butler, director Of the Con-
ference since 1945, was released
on his own recognizance pending
q hearing before Magistrate
George Herman In Burlington
January Is.
The conference is q co-ordi-
mating and research organization
made up Of 80 or more national
highway groups and has Offices
in the National Press Building
here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
honticeIIoRo Group
Revived in Fairfax

The Monticello Highway Com
mittee was reorganized last night
at q meeting in Fairfax attended
by representatives from Fairfax,
Prince William and Fauquier
Counties.
Rufus G. Coldwell Of Fairfax
was chosen chairman. Other OFF,
GERS are E. G. Parrish, Manassas,
vice chairman; Norman T. Nc
Manaway. Manassas, executive
secretary. and r. Randolph Buck
ley, Clifton, treasurer. James B.
Cross, Oakton; Stanley A. Owens
Manassas, and A. F. Pitcher, Mid
land, were elected members Of the
Executive Committee.
Mr.. Coldweu said the commit
tee would work for passage Of
legislation by the Virginia Gen.
eral Assembly In January author
izing construction Of highway
from Washington to Charlottes-
vile. The proposed highway
would follow existing secondary
roads in Fairfax and Prince VIII
liam Counties, beginning at q
point on the Shirley highway in
Fairfax County. The State Sen
ate at its last session passed a bill
for the highway, but it was blocked
by the House of Delegates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-12-29
Christmas Tree Profits Seen
Available to Virginia Farmers

consumer, Christmas trees De-
come a $50, 100000 business.
Small landowners are finding
Christmas tree paintings a new
crop for land once considered
worthless. With proper manage
ment, cut-over areas and aban-
doned fields can yield a perpetual
crop. Mr.. O,Byrne thinks that
farmers need have little fear OF
Cutting the Christmas tree
market. The United States still
imports about 61a million trees
each year from other countries.
Christmas trees are ready for
market at eight to is years OF
age. Should the market become
flooded. the trees can be kept
on the land to grow into pulp
wood or sawtimber.
Although Mr.. OByrne believes
there are fine opportunities for
the small landowner in the in
dustry. he warns against large
scale ventures by those not ex-
perienced In farming.