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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
UNDER A BuTToNWoop TREE

In 1892 when George Washington still serving his first
term President the government found that it had TO sell
stocks to help for the Revolutionary War But people had
natural reluctance TO buy these securities unless they
they could be easily and quickly reod In other words,
market place needed.
So established. under buttonwood tree which
stood the location Of the New York Stock Exchange
Traders met there each day 10 buy and SELL And the stock
changes OF the precisely the
that they list thousands of securities representing the in
dustry and enterprise of America.
Actually the basic idea underlying the security exchanges is
simplicity itself In effect the stocks auctioned AS with any
thing else OF value from piece of furniture to farm the buyer
wants TO little possible and the seller TO get
much possible The exchanges provide market where the
Two meet adjust their differences TO value and transact
their business.
The exchanges do not buy sell securities influence
prices The and woudbe do that And
those number something like 1000 600 Americans
most OF whom only moderate and incomes.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
Health Work
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Health Department on health
plans for civil defense.
Mr.. Robinson's statement as
serted that it is highly important
in civil defense to know that the
population, especially children,
will be protected against epidem-
les of diseases that can be pre-
vented by immunization such as
diphtheria and smallpox. The
adult population should also parti-
cipate he said.
The health program was set up
by the Medical Director of Civil
Defense and the Health Depart
ment requested to provide certain
services. Teachers are also re-
quested to help as their part in
Civil Defense and to assume the
responsibility of knowing the
students status of protection for
diphtheria and smallpox.
All students under IL years of
age should be immunized against
dlphtheria, according to the
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
Veterans In Farm
Training Report
Earnings ByMarch |

Veterans taking CT Bill in
stitutional on-farm training were
reminded again today that re-
ports of their 1850 earnings must
be submitted to their VA regional
offices by March l, 1851.
Failure to submit the reports
by the deadline, VA said, may
result in suspension of subsistence
payments until such time as the
reports are received. The earning
reports cover only income from
productive labor for the calendar
year 1850.
The reports serve a double pur-
pose. First, they are used by VA
as the basis for adjusting each
veterans subsistence for the cur
rent year (1951). Second, they are
part of the veterans course of
instruction in farm accounting,
thus giving him the opportunity
to put into practice what he
learns in the classroom.
Generally, farm trainees re-
ceive assistance from their in
structors in closing their books
for the past year and in trans
ferring data to the VA reporting
form.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23

The state departments reply
Saturday fiigfA mildly denounc-
ing the Stalngscommenrs d mis-
statement, I expressed hope that
Stains attack On the United
Nations and all U.N. members
who voted against the communists
in Korea will awaken the So
Wet people to the dangerous road
down which they are being led.
3. Stains personal prestige has
now become involved in Russia's
diplomatic and propaganda battle
more derectly than ever before.
Previously he had held aloof
from the east-west conflict in
most of his public pronounce
ments.
The State Department opened
an attack on this point last night.
Its voice of America" began tell
ing the world Stain had taken
over from puppets and stooges"
the task of propagandizing the
world with fake charges and
claims.
The voice broadcast added
that Stain "has now put himself
on record and on trial before the
world by lending his own name
to the Soviet deception"
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
Predict Stain
Blast In Three
Way Backfire

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19-tAP)
Diplomatic officials predicted
today Premier Stalin's blast at
the United Nations and the free
world generally will bacl<fire in
three ways.
These authorities speculated it
may have these effects:
1. To tighten up, rather than di-
vide, the West in its determine
ton to build military strength
against Soviet expansion because,
despite his avowals of seeking
peace, the overall tone Of what
Stain said was tough and un-
compromising.
The first concrete reaction
along this line is expected to be
quick western agreement on a
note to Moscow calling on the
Russians to say if they are will
ing to hold big four talks on the
real causes of world tension.
2. Inside Russia where Stalin's
words are universally read, re-
read and debated for months or
years, his descriptions of the ar
ray of nations against the COM
munist bloc though not so
intended may give the Russian
people a new idea of what they
are up against.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
School Board
Funds Short

GAINESVILLE, O., Feb. 20 =
(AP) - The state auditors of
flee today reported a shortage of
S3,034 in funds of the Perry
Township school board.
Gordon Spillman. board presi-
dent said another shortage of
$1,000 had been uncovered.
Sproat w. SIasor. 80, clerk of
the board and principal of the
Perry Townsh hip elementary
school, has been missing since
Jan. 19.
Robert Drury, deputy superVis-
or in the state auditors office,
said state examiners reported the
missing S3,034 should be recover
ed from Slasor.
Meanwhile, the First National
Bank obtained a judgment for
S1998 against Slasor. The amount
represents the unpaid balance on
a loan.
Spillman said slasor had been
seen in Phoenix, Ariz., two weeks
ago.
Slasor. a bachelor, has been a
teacher at the Perry Township
school for five years.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
BILL TO KEEP
BUREAU HERE
PASSES HOUSE

The Associated Press, reporting
on the Ohio General Assembly,
said today the House passed
bill to formalize the removal of
the State Bureau of Identifica-
tion from Ohio Penitentiary in Co
lumbus to the State Prison Farm
near London.
The Bureau has been at the
London Farm since shortly after
the disastrous penitentiary fire
since 1880, but the shift never
has been sanctioned by law The
measure was introduced by Rep.
Elton Kile (R-Madison) and now
goes TO the Senate.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
Army Considers
Changing Rifles
And Machine Guns

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19-(AP)
The army is considering chang
ing over to new and better mod
els of two if its most widely used
weapons machine guns and
rifles.
The decision isn't easy. And if
made, the transition undoubtedly
win be slow steady process TAX
ing years instead of a sudden toss
ing away of existing weapons and
picking up of new ones.
In the instance of machine
guns, the army has hundreds of
thousands of caliber 80 and so
It's rifles, automatics and carbines
number in the millions.
The cost of a shift to new and
better arms is only one factor 1t
would mean not only that pro-
duction lines for guns would have
to be stopped and new ones set
up, but facilities for entirely new
types of ammunition production,
on mass scale, would have to be
provided.
The army showed experimental
types of the machine guns and
rifles to President Truman over
the weekend in a demonstration
at the Aberdeen, Md, Proving
Ground where it also presented
for him shows of other new ord
nance materials, including tanks.
1T is considering adoption of
go calibre machine gun apparent
ly far faster and harder hitting
than anything used now. Expert
mental types of this gun are not
new. Army Ordnance produced
first ones during World War II
for the air force, then part of the
army. 1t contemplated their use
in aircraft. Since then improve
ments have been made on the ex-
perimental models and bugs re-
moved from their performance so
that now they appear about ready
for production.
The new gun has another high
~ important feature devel-
opment since its first wartime in
vention. In a minute, it can be
+. converted from a so caliber to
a 20 millimeter weapon, merely
by nnscrewing the smaller size
barrel and putting in the 20 mil
limeter, with no special tools re-
quired. Thus. the gun can be used
as a so caliber for such conven-
ton ground targets as enemy in
fantry in the open or changed
swiftly to a caliber more effective
against strafing aircraft or in
fantry moving behind light shield
ing.
Moreover. it is fired electrical
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23

ly That means the crew can
place the gun, get away from it
i'll case the enemy start pouring
in mortar or other fire, and fire
it by remote control.
The lightweight, calibre 80
rifle still is definitely in the ex-
perimental phase. The goal of the
designers is to get the weight
down to about seven pounds. This,
for gun which can be used to
fire fully automatic as we'll as
semi-automatic, would be remark
ably featherweight. The most
popular World War III and pres
ent weapon of similar perform
ance is the bar, weighing II
pounds.
The gun is fed by 20-round
mazazine. 1t has stabilizer to
reduce the kick, but, in the dem
onstration at Aberdeen, seemed to
have the tendency of all auto
matte guns to climb" as the
guns fires.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
Town

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know how 1t IS. Things are
always marked down after
the holidays"
CAPITALIST
In Madison County a cap
italist is said to be a fellow
who doesn't have Red scent.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
u. \. Forces
Open Giant
New Drive
Resistance Spot+y
AS Allies Advance
In Killer Operation
BY Olen Clements

TOKYO, Feb. q - fAP) - AL
lied forces lunged out today on
new campaign to wipe out 40,-
600 Reds south of parallel 38 in
rainswept central Korea.
1t was Operation Killer" An
army spokesman called it also
"a vital phase of the Korean
campaign"
The new offensive. was begun
in secrecy Wednesday and an
nounced today by General Mac
Arthur 1t had gained up to 812
miles on a 60-mile mountains
front of mud.
Resistance was spotty. Chinese
and Korean Reds fought and then
ran-some of them in panic The
greatest obstacle to the allied
troops of five nations was the
weather.
They were beset by rain, snow,
fog, mud, washed-out bridges,
raging streams and landslides.
Such conditions virtually ruled
out close aerial support at the
outset. But US. Air Force, Ma
rine, Navy, Australian and South
African warplanes roared through
holes in the clouds Thursday to
plaster Red targets.
Teamed up in the new hunter
killer drive were American, Brit
ish, Australian, New Zealand and
South Korean troops. They NOV
ed up behind tanks, self-propelled
guns, weapons carriers and jeeps.
The rugged front extends in
an arc from point near Yang
pyong, q miles east-southwest of
Seoul, to pyongchang, on the
east-central sector. Wonju, 25
miles west of Pyongchang, is
roughly in the center of the kick
off point
The biggest communist force
was dug in the lofty mountains
about six miles north of Wonju.
Red soldiers south of those po-
sitions rushed for cover after brief
delaying actions.
A senior staff officer said
fresh Chinese Reds of the 196th
Division with 10000 men and
other Chinese units were in the
Hoengsong area. He said the
Chinese had orders to hold the
town at all costs.
Hoengsong is 10 miles north of
Wonju. It fell to the Chinese in
their recent attempt to sweep
down the middle of the penin-
sula to the key mountain passes
below Womb. But the allies
cracked that drive wide open
with devastating fire power that
killed thousands of Reds.
AP Correspondent Stan SWIM
ton said it appeared another big
battle was in the offing for
Hoengsong. It's outcome could
materially affect the whole war,
he surmised.
AT Elgntn army Headquarters,
AP Correspondent William j.
Waugh reported the allied forces
are applying pincers on Hoeng-
song from the west and south.
By nightfall Wednesday, a South
Korean spearhead had rolled more
than eight miles to within six
miles west Of the town. An
American force was five miles
to the South
On the West-central front, us.
infantrymen pushed two miles
north and northeast Of Chipyong,
20 miles northwest of Wonju A
British force advanced 31s miles
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23

to a point five miles southeast Of
Chipyong.
On the east-eentral 'front.' Anaeri-
cans and South Koreans punched
So miles against Korean Reds
northeast of Chuchon and were
five road miles southwest Of
Pyongchang Wednesday night
Chuchon, erstwhile communist
stronghold, was captured by an
American division Tuesday.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
81 MILLION TO PUT
LINES UNDERGROUND

WARREN, o., Feb. q -(AP)
Ohio Edison Co. announced to-
day it would spend a million dol
lars during the next five years
putting downtown electric power
lines here under ground. They
now are hung on poles.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
NO WHOLESALE DEFERMENT" OF
MID-TERM COLLEGE GRADUATES

COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 20
tAP) There will be no whole
sale Deferment" of mid-term coll
lege graduates, the Ohio Selective
Service Director said today.
Col. c. w. Goble, the director,
issued a statement clarifying re-
cent orders which directed that
the statutory induction postpone
1nent of mid-term college and
university graduates be contin-
ued for an additional 30 days
after graduation.
Said Col. Goble:
Considerable misunderstand-
ing seems to have arisen since
the postponement announcement
from the National Director was
received and the idea is abroad in
some quarters that the bulk of
these mid-term graduates or at
least very large numbers would
automatically receive deferements
merely on the basis of their de-
gree, or at least because they had
a job, almost any kind of a job" !"
Col. Goble explained the "ex-
panding defense program vital
ly needs a relatively few of these
graduates men who can qualify
to hold highly technical positions.
Relatively few would qualify, he
said.
He outlined the procedure this
way:
If the graduate obtains en-
ployment in a defense industry
activity essential to the national
health, safety or interest" with
in the 30-day period after md
term graduation he submits the
evidence to his local board, which
will, if it considers the evidence
warrants, reopen his classification
to determine whether he meets
the criteria for occupational de-
ferment established in selective
service regulations.
To qualify for occupational de-
ferment under selective service
a registrant must meet all these
conditions: ID The registrant is
engaged in an activity essential
to the national health, safety OF
interest; ~ The registrant is
but for seasonal or temporary in
terruptions, engaged full time in
such activity; (3) The registrant
can not be replaced because of q
shortage of persons with his quail
fications or skill in such activity
and (4) The removal of the regis
trant would cause a material loss
of effectiveness in such activity
The Selective Service Act OF
1948 provides that if those salts.
factoriiy pursuing a full-time
course of instruction at a college
or university or similar institution
is ordered to report for induction
he shall, upon facts being pre-.
sented to the local board, have
the induction postponed until the
end of the academic year or un-
til he ceases satisfactorily to pur.
sue such course of instruction
whichever is the earlier.
Col. Goble said if student
ordered to report for induction
graduates and leaves school The
statutory reason for continuance
of the postponement ceases to ex
ist. The 30-day postponement
order simply continues that post
ponement another 30-days," ht
added
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23

Health Department. If 1t has been
four years since such immuniza-
ton then a booster is needed.
All students, regardless Of age,
should be vaccinated and if 1t
has been 5 years since such vac
eination, a revaccination is need
nd
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
Bond Sales In
County Reported

Paul NJ. Dwyer. Madison Coun-
ty Savings Bonds Chairman an
nounced today that sales of Series
E. Bonds during January totalled
30,41200. Sales for the same
month a year ago were S24, 10000.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
SKUNK IN THEATRE
CLEVELAND, Feb. 19 -

"A bewildered skunk wandered
into the outer lobby of the Pal
ace Theatre, one of Cleveland's
big movie houses, early today.
Four dubious policemen stood
by and watched deputy Adolph
Simon of the Animal Protective
League chase the skunk. Simon
finally bagged him with a blanket.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
HENDERSON DIES

COLUMBUS, o., Feb. 10 -
(AP) Herbert Barr Henderson,
80, former treasurer of the Ameri-
can Ceramis Society for IL years,
died yesterday at the home Of his
daughter, Mrs. George r. schoe-
dinger, Jr., Of Columbus.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23

All sources Of will be held confidential and she right
any publisher editor nespupermcn refuse 10 reveal
such in other ludiciu proceedings will be
defended
Evening star., 1951-01-04
TACKLE FISHING
by "Salty" Mills

Johnny Height dropped me q
card from Florida. At Lake Har-
ris he took 1917 lb. Largemouth
Bass on Spinning Tackle with q
0T,h teSt line
Evening star., 1951-01-04
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
ond Time Of Showing

Current Thedter Attractions
ond Time Of Showing
Stage.
New Gayety-"Apple of His
Eye; $3.50 pm.
Arena-"The Playboy of the
Western World; $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Ambassador - Dallas; 1:25,
1925. $50. 1880 and 9:35 pm.
Capitol Pagan Love Song;
II am. 1850. 4:30, 1920 and 10
pm. Stage Shows: /. $40, $3.50
and 9:10 pm.
Columbia = King Solomon S
Mines; HIS am. lao, $3.50,
$40. 7:50 and 10 pm.
Dupont-"Tight Little Island;
/. 4:05. 7:10, and 1925 pm.
Keith's-"Harvey";; 1928 am,
1:25. $3.50. 5:35, TAO and 9:45 pm.
Little-"The 80 Steps,; 1920,
$3.50, $40 and $50 pm.
Metropolitan-"Girls Under 21";;
1925 am, 1850, Ais, $40 and
9:10-p.m.
National 1.-TWO Weeks-With
Love-; 11:15 am, 1855, 2:35,
4:25. 6:15, 8 and $3.50 pm.
Palace-"For Heavens Sake:
1880 am, 1885. $40, $40. 7:45
and $50 pm.
Pix-"International Burlesque"::
2. 4:45. 7:25 and 1910 pm.
Playhouse-"Trio";; 1855 am,
los, 3:15, 5:25, TAO and 9:55 pm.
Plaza-"Ballet Festival; 1920
am. 1920. 2:15. 4:10, 8, 8 and
$50 pm.
Trans-Lux-"The Blue Angel;
II am. 12:45, 2:35, 4:25. 6:15, 8
and $50 pm.
Warner-"Dallas";; 1880 am,
1:35, 1886, $40. 7:45 and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1951-01-04

11OllyWOOQ
Mrs. John Wayne has gone to
Mexico City for a long rest. This
does not mean any marital trouble
with John. Esperanza is feeling a
little desperate over a nervous
condition affecting her skin. She
has been in and out of the Scripps
Clinic for the past year. Now her
doctors hopes the visit to her ma
tive Mexico will supply the cure.
Joan Crawford has good
chance Of getting Robert Mitchum
for her other leading Guy in
Clash BY Night" Bob Ryan is
already set.
It's Bette Davis for THE
Ballad and the Source" and
I hear Walter Wanger will release
the picture through the goth Cen
tury- Fox, which did so we'll for La
Davis in "All About Eve" When
Wanger originally bought the
story, 1t was for Ingrid Bergman.
Then his wife, Joan Bennett, was
mentioned. Now I hear it's Bette
for sure.
Judy Garland holding hands
with Sid Luft at Romanoff's.
Later I saw her talking with Jerry
Valid. and an eavesdropping bird
told me they were discussing
alice Adams" which Judy and
Jerry want to do.
Talking of Wall-Krasna. they
really do have IL completed
scripts ready to shoot. This is
their answer to the skeptics who
have been doing a little bit of kid
ding at their expense.
Keefe Brasselle, listening to a
recording of Mario Lama on his
auto radio, turned to his wife to
say, "It's wonderful" and wham!
he plowed into the car ahead.
That's the wrong way to start
the new year.
Gloria De Haven's holiday week
was brighter because of Norman
Krasna. Both are in the process of
getting divorces.
George Sanders and wife Zsa
Zsa in New York at the Plaza for
couple of weeks of fun and play
going, and reunion with the Gabor
family. Zsa Zsa didn't after all,
get the part of PinZa'S Hungarian
girl friend. in Strictly Dishonor-
able"
Shirley Temple, apart from Hus-
band Charles Blacks good income,
can well afford to retire. Looking
over some old notes, I see that
when Shirley left 10th Century,
Fox, she was reported to own a
$2,500,000 trust fund.
Robert Taylor's chauffeur in
Palm Springs is his pilot buddy.
Ralph Causer. 1t will be some
time before Robert can fly his
plane again, or take gal dancing,
due to that serious operation he
had.
Too bad that Fred MacMurray's
wife, Lillian, has had another
siege of sickness. The poor soul
hasn't known what it is like to
feel we'll for years and years.
It's funny. with majority of
Evening star., 1951-01-04

the hero, a lad utterly incapable
Of killing his father but willing
to take the credit for 1t if he can
thus escape his congential NOUS
mess. Marion Karczmar is less
successful as the elusively fiery
Pegeen, but Mary Pray Conlin
makes solid try at the lustiness
of Widow Quin.
Among the men, Henry Oliver
makes a comedy figure Of Old
Mahon, more his own than
Synge's; Richard O'Neill does
likewise with the roaring father
of Pegeen, and Harry Scully
creates plausibly Milque- toast
character of Shawn Keogh, Pc
geen's village suitor.
Arenas central staging is clearly
not the sort of thing Synge had
in mind when he let his imagina-
ton fly on "Playboy of the West
ern World"
The productions largest virtue
therefore. Is that it reminds one
OF what magnificiently satirical
joke this can be when played by,
say, the Abbey Players.
Evening star., 1951-01-04

Mahon upon a hero's dramatic
idealization by his unadventurous
neighbors, Synge created a comedy
character who cannot be twisted
out of shape. He is an incorruptibly
funny young man. within his
puzzled and timid self and even
more so in Is relations with his
neighbors.
Each of these relationships is
carefully wrought until the pile
up Of human perversity comes
one of the lasting carricatures of
the species.
The best of these, of course, are
the studies of ChriSty'S effect
upon two women of the County
Mayo village to which he wanders
in flight from his sin and his
conscience. Synge's sense of the
vulnerability of women to heroes
gives "Playboy" two characters
the equal Christy in the persons of
Pegeen Flaherty and the Widow
Quin.
The one is the sheltered girl.
with her passionate dreams of
romance. The other is the willy
experienced female who, having
disposed of her own husband. is
willing to settle for another man
without caring too much for any
lack Of virtue in him.
Around this central trio, Synge
dances an assortment of male and
female types who suggest infinite
riches in the joke Of Christy'S
fathers murder.
An artificial Irish brogue added
to the challenge of Synge's
lyrical lines is a necessity cal
culated to divide any save a
Dublin actor down the middle. At
best, he is likely to find himself
only half the man the playwright
had in mind, the other half a
performer treading treacher-
ously boggy terrain.
Arenas actors, headed by Bill
Mcclure who learned his profess
sion at Catholic University, find
no reliable escape from this har-
assing situation. They parry self
consciousness in certain moments
of the play, but not enough of
them to lure the audience into
1t with them.
MCGUIRE, however, manages to
sketch a recognizable portrait of
Evening star., 1951-01-04

popular form SALTY" MILLS
of Angling. Incidently, how Is
this for size,-R. L. McChristian
Jr. of Miami took a % Lib. 8 OF.
Barracuda last year on Spinning
Tackle. If you would like to
make a Spinning Rod or get the
latest in Spinning Rods, Reels,
Lines, g. Lures buy your tackle
from FISHERMEN, not sales
men, at Mills Go. 9th & E. SITS.
NV.