S o u th ern O regon N ews Review, T hursday, May 20, 1948
- e- e- e e- e- e- e e- e- a - e- e- e- •»- e- e e . •»-
Washington D ipestj
Voluntary Help Can Save
Europe's Dying Children
By BAI kHACE
Aries Analyst anil C.nmmentnlor
W ASHINGTON— W hat to do until the doctor conies.
Pretty important to know that. Pretty important to be willing and
able to do it. There are 230 million children in this world today who need
first aid. The European recovery plan (E.C.A.) will help a lot of these
children who have the stamina to outlive the ugly interim period when,
dirty, almost naked, they must roam the countryside or live in cellars
and hovels, hungry or starving.
; ASK MS
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ANOTHER
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* A G en eral Quiz
S7AGE 5CREÉN RADIO
Low-Cost Mousing B ill
Beetle Is Voracious
By IN E Z G E K IIA K I)
rpOUK MEN deserve chief credit
I TN "LETTER From an Unknown
for senate passage of the Taft- Enemy of Potatoes
Woman," Joan Fontaine has the
Ellender-Wagner bill, which will pro­
j type of role most actresses yearn to
vide low-cost public housing for an 1 Dusting or Spraying
i play. As a young girl she falls In
estimated 500.000 families in the next
, love with a man who returns her
W
ill
Control
Menace
five years. They are: G.O.P. Sen-
■ love but soon forgets her. Later in
ators Charles Tobey of New Hamp­
Ranking as the most serious threat '
they meet und fall in love again.
shire. Co-Author Bob Taft of Ohio, to the grower of potatoes und other Sister Olivia do lluvillund won an
Ralph Flanders of yermont und vegetables is the Colorado potato , Oscar in "To Each His Own In a
Democrat John Sparkman of Ala- beetle, which is prevalent throughout somewhat similar part, This pic-
bama
many areas of the country.
Only insiders know how tirelessly J The beetle is yellowish in color,
Toby worked to get the housing 8tout bodied, about two-fifths of an
measure out of the banking and cur- jnch |n length and with wing covers
rency committee, which he heads. bearing 10 longitudinal stripes. Tho
Almost equal credit belongs to Flan­
larva or "slug" is
ders. who chairmanned the sub-com­
soft - bodied, red- ;
mittee. and who teamed with Taft
dish in color and 1
in blocking last-minute efforts by the
reaches a maxi- ,
real estate lobby to gut the legisla­
m u m s iz e of
tion.
about three-fifths
Sparkman was a pillar of strength
of an inch in
on the Democratic side. So was
length.
Late in
South Carolina's Burnet Maybank,
June when the po­
who did yeoman service lining uo
tato plants begin to
Democratic support both in commit­
appear
above
tee and on the floor. Democrats
ground, the beetles
Alben Barkley of Kentucky, senate attack the foliage and lay their
minority leader, and Scott Lucas orange-colored eggs on the under
of Illinois also struck some potent side of the leaves.
JOAN FONTAINE
blows for war vets and others af­ The eggs hatch in a few days Into
fected by the housing shortage dur­
voracious larvae which, after feed- ture docs not give Miss Fontaine
ing the floor fight.
lng for about 10 days, leave the much scope for her talents, but it
On the "debit" side, the colors plants and enter the soil to complete does give her an opportunity to wear
of the real estate lobby were car­ their development. They emerge ns beautiful clothes und play opposite
ried by G.O.P. Senators Joe Mc­ adult beetles by the latter part of the new French sensation. Louis
Carthy of Wisconsin and Harry July. A second brood is produced Jourdan. Warning—there’s a sad
Cain of Washington. Both battlrd in August and adults of this genera ending, she dies, he will soon.
to the last against the long-range tion winter in the soil. Both the f
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public housing program. G.O.P. larvae and adults are severe defoli- ,
Marjorie
Hughes,
vocalist on
Sen. James Kent of Missouri and ators of the plants.
Frankie Carle’s new radio show.
Spessard Holland of Florida. Dem­
To rid the potatoes, tomatoes, egg
ocrat, gave them vigorous support. plants, peppers, ground cherries and "Carle Comes Calling," has to be a
stand-out as a singer, because she
Major house opponents of the cabbage plants of the Colorado po- is Frankie's daughter. Too many
housing bill are Banking and Cur- tato beetle, dust or spray with paris people would be eager to say that's
rency Chairman Jesse Wolcott ol green, calcium arsenate or cryolite. the reason she got the job if she
Michigan. who has persistently Hand picking of the beetles and didn’t prove at every performance
blocked house action, together with crushing of the egg masses is effec- that she's deserving of it. Just as
Charles Fletcher of San Diego, ! tive if done often.
many are cheering her return to the
Calif,
air after a serious illness.
THE QUESTIONS
1. When was the "Star Spangled
Banner" officially adopted as our
national anthem?
2. What Is the fastest speed ever
reached by a human being under
his own power?
S. Where did the word "khaki"
originate?
4. When Is the last veteran of
World War II expected to die?
0. How long will the U. S. coal
■upply last If used at the present
rate?
0. How big was Tom Thumb?
T IIE
ANSWERS
1. March 3, 1031. by an act of
But the E.C.A. is a huge under­
Congress.
taking. and like all great bodies, it
It provides direct citizen-to-citizen
2. 108 92 miles per hour which
moves slowly. Anyhow, its chief aid which is administered carefully
Alfred Lctourner attained on a bi­
—■» purpose is to pro- with experienced personnel on the
cycle behind a wind-shielding mo­
> vide the means to scene — personnel which cuts red
torcar at Bakersfield, California,
<
restore n o r m a l tape and is free from many of the
May 7. 1041.
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conditions to the rules, regulations and restrictions
3. India. It means earthlike.
--
stricken areas of which a government necessarily
4. I l y 2030 T h e |a; t W.rl.l War
Europe. It is large­ must employ. As a matter of fact,
I, vet by 1905.
ly indirect aid, not when tl\e European recovery plan
5. For the next 1500 years.
gauged to indi­ was first drawn up, it was contem­
0. Torn Thumb stood three feet
vidual cases.
plated that voluntary private aid
four Inches when fully grown. He
Meanwhile thou­ would supplement it.
weighed seventy pounds.
sands upon thou
As an example of the type of thing
sands of these chil­ Crusade for Children is designed tc
dren will die. Some further: In Europe at present, there
will be saved by are some 50,000 distributing points,
individual help — such as schools, child clinics and
your help. To make that help effec­ hospitals serviced by the Interna
tive the many humanitarian organi­ tional Children's Emergency Fund
sations which seek to save as many of the United Nations.
young lives as possible have been
At schools and child centers, par­
merged into one great Crusade for ticularly through dried milk. ICEF
Children. Local groups are organiz­ makes a supplementary contribu­
ing in the cities. In the rural dis­ tion to the noon meal, which costs
tricts, the Farm Grange, Farm Bu­ the fund about three and a hall
reau federation. Farmers’ Union, cents per child. The entire mea!
Council for Farm Cooperatives, U.S.
department of agriculture and other
groups are furthering the movement
To anyone who has seen this tor­
tured young generation, the effect
is as staggering as the sight of a
battlefield. To a young soldier,
there is no shock like the sight of
your first dead comrade. That still
form, wearing the same uniform
you wear, lying crushed against
the earth. To me, the shock of the
e
a
e
sight of European children moving
Backstage
in
Ita
ly
Something
new
in
cinema
fights:
with the shadow of a living death
Robert Ryan’s battle with Michael
NOW THAT THE ITALIAN elec­
upon them was a terrible thing too.
Harvey In RKO'a "Berlin Express’*
tions are over, some of the back-
L E M O N IN W A T C H
I can remember getting off a train
takes place in the Interior o f a
stage developments can be told.
IS G O O D F O R Y O U
in what once had been one of the
beer vat. Director Jacques Tour­
One factor which influenced Ital­
Try it IO doy». S u n k is t
great railway stations of Europe—
neur had It shot by three cameras,
ian votes was the state department's
rubble ground into black mud, the
so there would be ho re-takes.
offer to return Trieste to Italy—an
ghastly smell of those buried deep
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offer which the Russians eventually
under the foundations of ruined
WITH
turned down.
Arthur Patrick Lake, five-year-
homes and shelters. Military police,
What wasn't known was that Tito
old son of Arthur (Dagwood) Lake
hardened to the sights around them,
An Austrian orphan waits on had been planning to make exactly
of the Sunday CBS "Blondie” show,
walked back and forth. In the sin­ snow-covered steps for the daily the same offer himself—on behali
has been placed under contract to
ister shadows of the ruins the ghost­ meal provided for him by the of Russia. But U. S. intelligence
his father's film producing company
ly movement of little wraiths slip­ United Nations* International Chil­ I services picked up this fact, and we
nnd will have a part in Lake's next
ping in and cut of sight, bent on any
dren’s Emergency Fund. He is one , beat Tito to it. This was some of
— Double-duty IntecM-
film, "White Devils.”
¿ X , «Idei KHh b y contorti
mission, no matter hew fair or foul,
of millions who wonld starve with­ 1 the fastest footwork the state de­
j*»* kill» by fume*. D aitroy*
that would win some chocolate, a
out this vital service. *
partment has put across in some
* plant Wee but >par»t
Robert Shaw’s chcrus of 30 pro­ (
piece of K-ration, a cigarette that
1 time.
beneficial Insect*. lo i/tt
fessional
voices
will
take
over
for
costs
only
seven
cents
per
child.
One
might be traded for some bit of food.
tu o r ltio tl I t d t r j u t l t J can.
OnaOiXKapIv.
Another factor was Ambassador
Bergen and McCarthy this summer.
hundred dollars provides 7,500 hun­
lo iorrt lo in lo n / o ll Ur r o lli.
loop
m
ok.i
6
No matter what the sins of the gry, undernourished children one I Dunn's insistence that the American
aaltona ol «f-
TOBACCO BT-rSOOUCTS A
Barn cleaners should have all Although Shaw is only 31, he has
fathers, they cculd not be great
fe«i»a aphid-
C H IM IC A l CORPORATION
glass of milk each at every meal. fleet get out of Italian waters. Some mechanical parts, of simple de­ conducted everything from ballads
•pro/.
N
iro lio r Sptcioliili Sótto I tilt
enough to justify the punishment But because of limited funds, ICEF i of the military men around the
to
Brahms
and
is
one
of
the
fore
l
o
u n v iu i j.
k in t u c k v
sign, yet sturdy and easy to con­
inflicted on these children. There
COOK TOM TH I I f A t ON THI PACKAGI
is feeding only four million of Eu­ White House didn’t like this advice, trol. It is possible to thoroughly most choral conductors In the coun
is only one way their bodies and
thought the fleet should remain. But clean the average dairy barn by try.
rope’s 30 million hungry children.
their souls can be saved. That is
• • •
Here are some of the sickening Dunn argued that its presence gave use of mechanical barn cleaners.
threngh the groups which are sup­ facts, carefully c o l l e c t e d and political ammunition to the Commu­
O U T OF P A W N !
Harold Peary, "The Great Gil-
A
clean
barn
is
the
first
requisite
ported by individual donations,
dersleeve,” had to cancel his
checked by United Nations authori­ nists. He was right. The fleet wa3 for clean and hcaltby cows. In­
OSMONDS
until economic life is restored to a
withdrawn, and the Commies had to stallation of a mechanical cleaner,
scheduled p e r s o n a l appearance
ties:
degree of normalcy when society
V
pipe down. t
tour of the country. So many of
D ir e c t to Y o u — a t A m a rin e
such as illustrated above, will do
Infant mortality in Europe and
vin<a' O ver 10OOOO aatiohod
can be rebuilt, broken homes
One thing which nearly upset the away with much of the drudgery of
the
principals
of
the
cast
had
"riiaiom
i-ra Said w ith Ir o n c l a d
Asia has jumped from 40 deaths
mended and the institutions which
’ M o n a y -lla r li C u a ra n tra Orilr-r
applecart
was
the
amendment
by
summer
commitments
that
he
this
farm
operation.
per
1,000
live
births
to
as
high
as
fro m tlna ad W r ite for l-'K K K
can care for the homeless put into
Congressman O'Konski of Wisconsin
couldn't assemble the right group.
¡in “ “ , * * , IL L U 8 T H A T B O CATALOG
330 deaths per 1,000—compared
operation as a part of a healthy
making Marshall plan money avail­
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•
M sis' (ONUS COG AUDI LOAN DM
Ä S » U
with the United States rate of 38.3
community existence.
Beet..
txt WB. Ill II W ldta II IXlt I. MA
able to Spain. Until this was re­ Insects Launch Early
Priscilla Lane, youngest of the
per
1,000.
Government aid, like E.C.A., can­
versed in the senate, it had a bad
three
Lane
sisters
of
movie
fame,
Tuberculosis
has
doubled
In
Attack on Vegetables
not establish direct contact with the
back-fire in Italy.
returns to the screen after a year
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individual. It is a matter of ar­ many areas, especially among chil­
With the first reasonably warm and a half to play the feminine lead
dren.
Lack
of
food
has
vastly
in­
rangements drawn up between na­
days, insects will make their ad­ In RKO's “Bodyguard," opposite
A lien Sm uggling
creased snch diseases as rickets,
tions. It means dollar credits which
vent. These will be the green worm
scurvy and pellagra.
THE CLOAK - AND - D.’.GGER and lice on cabbage and the Colorado Lawrence Tierney. She retired in
make it possible for the receiving
Physical examinations in one sleuthing of a Pennsylvania con­ beetles and black fleabeetles on po­ 1944 when she married, but returned
nations to buy supplies.
briefly to play the lead in "Fun on
zone
(of Europe) showed that boys gressman soon may blow the lid off tatoes.
Some of this money, of course,
a Weekend” in 1940 when her son
14
years
of
age
are
three
Inches
a
notorious
racket—smuggling
aliens
goes into food. But it takes time for
The cabbage green worm comes was five months old. "Bodyguard"
shorter
than
boys
of
the
same
age
into the U. S.
the machinery to get into operation,
shortly in the wake of the familiar
four years ago. This is the direct
Congressman John McDowell of white-ar.d-yellow "butterflies" that is directed by Richard Fleischer.
and even after it is in operation, it
result
of
malnutrition.
• * •
Wilkinsburg, Pa., has been making
Is inadequate to satisfy the needs of
In some areas half the physicians personal trips to Panama and Mex­ go bobbing about, dropping eggs as
Ed
Byron,
producer,
director and
the whole people. Much of the as­
were killed; teachers, nurses and ico tracking down the border-hop­ they touch the leaves of the cabbage. co-author of “Mr. District Attorney"
sistance goes into material things
This
chewing
insect
is
killed
by
poi­
•uch as the reconstruction of fac­ those trained in child care are ping of Communist spies, war crim­ son; not one of the arsenates, how­ and "Adventure with Christopher
inals and other undesirables. He has ever, but the safe insecticide, ro­ Wells,” still is amazing the radio
tories, replacement and moderniza­ lacking.
uncovered
organized rings t h a t tenone. The best way Is dusting, world by his dramatization of events
tion of tools, machinery and agri­
I have sat in the office of a Ger­
cultural supplies.
man physician—one room left liv­ smuggle political riff-raff into the with a strength of three-fourths of that make headlines either simultan­
Frequently, supplies of such sim­ able in a bombed house, windows United States for a fee, often with 1 per cent of rotenone, as most pre­ eously or a few days later. Byron
Think of it — one »praying
ple things as rakes and shovels are boarded up to replace the smashed political string-pulling.
latlt for week». No bomb
pared dusts have. The first appli­ credits his scoops to his knowledge
For some time, McDowell has won­ cation should be made when the of crimes and the ways of criminals.
glass, operating room, consultation
ty p e » p ra y o r o th e r
office, bedroom, living room, all to­ dered how the dregs of Europe could "butterflies" first come, then re­ Ho has kept a file of newspaper
• pray» containing let»
than 5% DDT con equal
gether with an endless line of pa­ get into the United States, while peated once or twice ten days apart crime stories for 10 years.
•hi» for lotting effect. Flit
tients with nothing to pay for the deserving refugees were barred.
Surface Spray with 5%
doctor’s services which would buy
Worst hole in the dike, he found,
Odds and Ends . . . Jimmie Du­
DDT is to powerful a tin­
anything for the doctor. That doc­ was Windsor on the Canadian bor­ Sugar Beets Considered
rante will not have tho same spon­
gle application kill» in­
tor told me that because of the hope­ der. A parade of notorious Euro­
sor next season, according to the
ject» today—-to m o rro w -
less fate of children, abortions were peans passed right under official Good Crop for Dairymen
latest report . . . Mark Warnow’s
even next month.
the rule rather than the exception, noses, armed with hand-out visi­
The sugar beet is an Important return to "Sound-Off is very In­
with sickness and death as the re­ tors’ permits, good for only six cash crop, according to University definite, because of ill health
sult.
months. Once on the Inside, how­ of Wisconsin. Years of extensive Arnold Moss (“Road of Life" and
Not the government, but private, ever, it was a simple matter to production prove that the crop "Young Dr. Malone” ) Is called the
blends in well with dairy farming, "educated actor" by his colleagues
voluntary agencies can alleviate get the visas extended.
makes
good use of farm manure Hc has a B. A. in Latin and Greek'
these conditions. One may feel that
Other undesirables took a less le­
Europe has brought much of its gal route, secretly flew across the and leaves the soil loose and friable. M. A. In Old French, Ph. D. in "The
anguish upon itself, but it is not the border without any papers. In one
Beets seldom are damaged by Art of Acting" . . . That palomino
childrei» who are to blame.
case, a Frenchman brought a load either late spring or early fall frosts. you’ll see ridden through a ball­
As Secretary of State Marshall of Communists and ex-Nazis across There are few crops that leave the room in "The Great Gatsby" Is a K l / I C « » I I , M O J Q U fT O Ii, ANTS,
soil in as good condition. The tops veteran of "California," "The Vir­ l \ f f f 0 U D IU O S . MOTHS, IO A C H IS .
This tiny child, long in need of said: "Voluntary aid supplements the Atlantic in the same boat.
the general relief which only govern­
are
very valuable feed for cattle ginian" and "Incendiary Blonde"
medical aid, is now in a hospital
McDowell predicts that his inves­
B U Y LO W COST F L /T TODAY!
"Arthur Godfrey’s T a l e n t
supported by the U.N. Internation­ ments can provide. It affords the tigation will shock the country when and sheep. They may be pastured,
things and services, Including spir­ It becomes public. The state and partially cured and put Into trench | Scouts" will be absent from the air
al Children’s Emergency Fund.
itual comfort, needed by the weak­ justice departments already have silos, or used as silage.
from June 21 to August 23.
Funds arc being raised through the
est of the war victims. . . .”
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Crusade for Children of American
asked to see the secret testimony
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Overseas Aid-United Nations Ap­
of one border official, U. S. Consul Evergreen Windbreak
NBC interviewed 3,074 persons in
Secretary of State Marshall has John Bankhead at Windsor.
peal for Children.
1947; 190 passed these auditions, 20
warned South American countries
After word leaked out that Bank- Protects Farmstead
were heard on the air. Robert
so short that farms can't be worked that there will be no Marshall Plan
When planning the layout for im- Adams, talent auditioncr of NBC
until they are furnished. Later they for them. It appears that they either head had talked to McDowell, he
will be manufactured. But that must go out and obtain private received a bottle of poisoned whisky. proving the farmstead include • j , ays experience ,9 csscntia); amai
means machinery for the factories financing or work up a good Com­ Later a mysterious assailant fired good evergreen windbreak to pro- teurs almost never make th
two shots at him and fled. McDowell vide proection from prevailing And Elaine Rost( (..Inza„ on
comes first.
munist threat to share in Uncle has called upon the justice depart­
' Adventures of Frank Merrlwell,” )
Crusade for Children is a well- Sam’s largesse.
about 150 feet from the building. , ays thc bcst way tf) get drama’tIc
ment to protect Bankhead’s life.
organized private effort which has
As a result of McDowell’s inves­ ? at»h8rr th b*i Hh°tet ted' A’ tOiT exPerienco is singing with a band,
the backing and cooperation of the
A modern president spends more tigation, the United States has closed depth of th . whtdbreak on. row Is Shc did ,t for
month
United Nations, and the sponsor­ effort trying to get what he wants both borders, except for persons with good, two rows better and three row. acting meanwhl1e> then
to
ship and approval of the govern­ into the papers and on the air than overwhelming proof of their business w ill give still more protection. Space
York
and
landed
on
"Just
Plain
ment from the President down.
in finding out what’s there already, in this country.
the trees about 18 feet apart
Bill.’
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