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SOUTHERN OREGON N E W S R E V IE W SAVINGS BO N D DRIVE BROADV/AY AND M A IN STREET Replicas of Liberty Bell Tour Nation During Bond Campaign Rose Allows as How He Saw Some Flying Saucers; Claims He W asn't in His Cups at the Time, Either By BILLY ROSE At the risk of being laughed out of court and countenance. I’d flight it looks like a hundred-foot flaming cigar. like to report that I’ve seen flying saucers. It happened on a clear and moon-minus night two summers ago In Newton, Conn., on the lawn of the home belonging to Paul Osborne, the playwright. Among my fellow oglers were Paul and his wife. Director Josh Logan and his missus, and Author John Hersey and his. What’s more, none of us was in his cups the night we watched the flying saucery. The show began about 10 p.m. while we were sitting outdoors, en bare face hanging out in print. I’m joying and shooting the breeze, and spilling the story now? Well, until the first thing we recently the talk about the per noticed were sev snickety pancakes has been more eral searchlights loose than lucid—according to some miles away some writers, they were manned poking their yellow by Martins two inches tall: accord fingers into the sky. ing to others, by Russians two A few minutes droshkies wide. later, three bits of Recently, however, documenta- celestial chinaware lion bat begun Io replace delir ekittered into view, ium, and it's becoming evident and from then until that the overgrown manhole cov m i d n i g h t they Billy Rose ers are not only real, but. de skipped and scam spite all denials, one of the top- pered above our bewildered heads. secret weapons of our oun navy As nearly as I could judge, these and air force. whatzises were at least 200 feet in The most convincing testimony diameter and were flying at an al titude of from 3.000 to 5,000 feet. was offered April 3rd by Henry J. Their edges gave off a ghostly glow, Taylor on a General Motors broad very much like blue neon tubing cast over the ABC network. Taylor, after treking all around the country seen through a heavy fog. and talking to people who had seen, WHEN THE SEARCHLIGHTS fi touched and even flown these cred nally cut off and the discs got lost ulity-cracking craft, made the fol in the stars, we put what was left lowing flat and unfrivolous state of our heads together and decided ments about them: that what we had witnessed must One type of saucer is the “true” have been some kind of hush-hush disc, which ranges anywhere from military exercise. We also decided 20 inches to 200 feet in diameter, is that, if we didn't want a butterfly unmanned and generally guided by net slipped over our heads, it would some form of remote control. The be smart to keep our lips zipped other is a jet-driven platter which about the whole thing. carries a crew and is capable of How come, then, that with my such supersonic speeds that in FURTHERMORE, according to Henry J., a ''true” disc was actual ly photographed near Wildwood. N. J.; another was found in the vicinity of Galveston, Texas, and stenciled on its surface was the following: MILITARY SECRET OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ANYONE DAMAGING OR RE VEALING D E S C R I P T I O N OR WHEREABOUTS OF THIS MIS SILE IS SUBJECT TO PROSECU TION BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. CALL COLLECT AT ONCE. (Then a long distance telephone number, and the address of a U S Air Base, and finally the words on the “saucer" in big. black letters: NON-EXPLOSIVE.) Well, I don’t know wbat the saucers are for, but on the basil of Ibis and other reports—plus the evidence of my own bug- eyes — I'm convinced they exist and. praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, are ours. Moscow papers plead copy. I wrote a column recently about the bureaucratic blabbermouths in our nation's capital who, at the drop of a daiquiri, blurt out top military secrets to anyone who will listen. Well, I'm plenty happy to learn that—at least as regards one vital weapon—there are some folks in Washington who not only know their beans but can keep from spill ing them. Isolationists Fight ECA in passing the for T HE eign SENATE, aid bill which includes au SCA-AAT . . , This ferocious show of teeth by a western mountain lion didn't scare off the photographer who wanted to get this picture. And broth er, how he must have wanted 'to get it. This Is Your Paper Censorship Is Dangerous By W illiam R. Nelson is an action Ameri C ENSORSHIP cans resist so aggressively it By IN E Z G ER H A R D C LAUDETTE popularity COLBERT won a poll that really means a lot—the one conducted by the Woman's Home Companion; her latest picture is “Three Came Home." June Allyson was second; her ‘The Stratton Story" was voted last year’s best picture. In third place, Loretta Young; fourth, Oli via de Havilland. Bing Crosby headed the men’s list for the fifth time in succession; then came Spencer Tracy; his “Adam’s Rib” was the second best picture. Third, Cary Grant; fourth, Clark Gable. Jeanne Crain got a special aw'ard lor her “Pinky” performance. Last year Ingrid Bergman, Irene Dunne and Bette Davis were the three lead ers among the women. M-G-M is going to resurrect “The Merry Widow” again, this time in Technicolor, starring Lana Turner •nd Richardo Montalban. They made it first in 1925, with John Gilbert and May Murray; then in 1935, with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. Louis Calhern must be very hap py. Ever since he starred so suc cessfully on the stage in “The Magnificent Yankee,” as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, he has wanted to do it in pictures. Now it's all arranged, at Metro. Wally Butterworth thought he had an easy name to remem ber, but some of the bushels of letters coming in to his “Voices that Live” treasure hunt have made him wonder. Mall has come addressed to “ Walla Walla,” “Valley Water Works,” “Wally Boderwald” and “Walter Warwurst," among others, And he’s acquired such first names as “Roily,” “Art,” “Perry” and “Olive.” Why, oh why doesn’t some record company persuade Pia Tassinari and Ferrucio Tagliavini to record “Lontano, lontano” ? It has brought the greatest listener response in the history of the Telephone Hour whenever they sing it. Ed “Duffy’s Tavern” Gardner’s first film production will be “The Man with My Face.” The story’s locale was a western frontier town but Ed changed it to Puerto Rico, where he now lives. The police of Miami, Fla., were bewildered; instead of getting offi cial orders on their radio-phone system they got instruction like “Rush lunches to ‘The Breaking Point’ unit at Newport Harbor, Calif. John Garfield and Patricia Neal are getting mighty hungry." They appealed to the Federal Com munications Commission—and War ner Bros, had their frequency changed. Stanley Kramer wisely chose Mala Powers to play “Roxanne” in “Cyrano de Bergerac.” Discov ered by Ida Lupino, her first pic ture was "Outrage” ; Howard Hughes subsequ..itly took over her contract. Jose Ferrer predicts that “In another ten years she will have so many Oscars in her pocket she'll be able to use them for book ebds.” He took part in her tests. Said Senator Wherry: “ M r. President I have found little substantiation In either the pres entations of the proponents of this legislation or in the hear ings and reports by the foreign relations committee, for con tinuation of this kind of pro gram. Nor has any reasonable evidence been adduced to sub stantiate that the ECA program Is still needed by most of its participants, or that the pro gram continues to serve the purposes for which It was cre ated.’ has not even been imposed by law in time of war. Whenever some mis guided attempt is made, whether against press, movies or radio, it is quickly squelched by aroused public opinion. Yet there are other attempts which fail only because of the knowledge, tact or courage of a home town newspaper editor. Every newspaper has frequently to resist minor efforts at censor ship. They are resisted because edi tors know that a minor success to day can become a major one to morrow. Said Senator Ken: “The question St - a g e 1 y Danger enough, v e r y arises, will it be to the best Inter Is tew who par- ests of European recovery, will it THE inherent ticipate in these be to the best interests of our FIC TIO N m i n o r in American economy, to encourage stances fully realize what they are the Integration of the socialistic, CORNER By Richard H. W ilkinson doing. Having the best of intentions, planned economies which exist in they fail to see the danger inherent so many of the Marshall-planned countries. He (Paul Hoffman, ECA in their actions. 'UD HAD SEEN the redheaded or don’t you?” administrator) wants American pro Whenever a "request” is made ducers to give up part of their over Mr. Jones stalked out of the of girl in Mr. Jones’ outer office that a newspaper omit facts con fice. A man came in another door every day for a week. seas business and forfeit part of He himself was a copy man, and and told Jud to follow him. “Kate cerning a public matter, censor their markets here at home to for if she were after the same job always wins,” the man said. ship is being attempted. eign producers." Even a spat between neighbors that he wanted “Here's your desk. Kate wants you These quotations set off the tenor it would compli to go to lunch with her this noon." becomes a matter in which the j of other speeches made on the floor Minute cate things. It UD SAT DOWN, speechless. “Do public is entitled to the facts, if the | of the senate by others of the Iso- services of police or a court are cut his Fiction would you mean—am I one of several required. Police and courts belong i lationist group against the ECA chances of suc authorization measure. In fact so cess in half, and who have been hired in this fash to the public which authorizes and J strong was the opposition to ECA ion?” pays for them, and how their serv it would be rather embarrassing Jud passed a hand through his ices are employed is of concern to on one roll call to slash the author because—well, because he thought ization by a half-billion dollars, the she was an awfully pretty girl and hair. The man left. Jud sat down at the public. . measure lost on a tie vote 35 to 35. his desk. He tried to straighten he liked the way she held her chin There are instances, of course, As it passed the senate however, things out in his mind, and was high and tried to appear brave. where private rights outweigh those It carried the same >250.000.000 cut beginning to get places, when Kate On Monday of the second of the public, and the edito- is I made In the House. entered. week, the redheaded g i r l justified in suppressing such news. At lunch Kate said: “Would you dropped her handbag. Its con There are other instances, also, Appropriation Battle Seen like to marry m e?” tents spilled all over the place. So ECA came through by a close "Sure,” said Jud, grinning weak where good taste may dictate that Jud helped pick them up—lip an item be omitted. But, whatever , margin with authorization of $2,- ly stick. a bunch of keys, a pawn “All right then. Right after work. the fine points involved, it is the j 700,000.000 in new funds for the ticket! Jud's lips tightened editor’s judgement which should ! third year of operation. This amount I’ll be waiting.” when he saw that. Just as he prevail. | Is In addition to $149 Million ECA She was, too. thought—she’s had to pawn News p a p e r , had saved from last year's appro- He wondered what was next. something in order to live. Honesty editors do not i priation. He found out. She took him to Of course the handbag episode or resent honestly Now the fight will be In the a minister’s. She produced a li gave him the liberty of talking with Coercion? i n t e n d e d re house appropriations commit cense. Jud tried to grin. He quests to over her. Without half trying, he got her tee and the senate finance com- gulped and stared at her. look incidents where there is doubt story. It was just as he figured. mlitee where the funds must A sad tale of deprivation and lost Jud suddenly no longer had the that the public interest outweighs actually be appropriated. hope. If only she could see Mr. feeling that he liked all this. “Now the private rights They do resent • • • Jones. She knew he needed a sten listen,” he said. “I can’t marry them if accompanied by coercion ographer and she really was awful you. In the first place I don’t love in whatever form. Foreign Policy Issue ly good. you. In the second I think you and The editor is expert in such mat A determined light came into your old man are crazy. And in ters as public right to news. He is Since interest is so tense and the Jud’s eyes. the next place, I’m already mar the best judge of whether or not division so close on this important Ignoring the protestations of the ried and have three kids!” public interests outweigh those of question, a look at the various funds switchboard girl, he burst through Mr. Jones called Jud on the individuals or organizations In and where they go should be of in the railed-in space, crossed it in phone the next morning. "Mister, volved. His judgment should be ac terest to the folks in the home towns two bounds and threw open the you’re still working for me if you cepted without resentment. Censor of the nation. The total as now au door to Mr. Jones’ office. want the job. I won a bet from ship is a dangerous force, too dan thorized in HR-7797 is $3.090,490,- Mr. Jones was sitting at his desk, Kate, and it's cured her of her gerous to set in motion, no mat 000. This sum includes $2,700,000,• smoking a cigar. He looked up with screwy notions. Come on down. ter how innocently it may be em 000 for ECA; a carry-over of $94 million In funds for China; $100 mil a startled expression when Jud en Your salary’s doubled.” ployed. lion for economic recovery in Kor tered. He had heavy jowls and a ea; $27,450,000 for relief of Pales shock of grey hair and belligerent, IA ST WEEK'S tine refugees. bushy eyebrows. ANSWER ■ The cigar fell from his mouth. In addition, the senate ver He stood up. Before Jud could utter sion and the house bill differed * SiATëTÂ UQLIOU In these reaperts: The senate HAIG Al« □ □ □ □ □ DOWN 13. Cut bill authorized $45 million for ACROSS □□□□□ □□□□□ 1. One of 1. Fragrance 15. Split point four program of technical □□□□□ Israel's 2. Vandal 18. Cornered, IB U Z Z A R P I assistance in backward areas, 8. Sum up great as in a tree ofN le 1 DLlaano the house only $25 million. The kings 4. God of 19. Girl’s name □□□□□ □□□□D senate version authorized use of □□□□□□ (Bib.) pleasure 20. Make choice a carryover of $25 million for □□□□□□□ (Egypt.) 6. Mutilate 21. Large contributions to the Internation □ □□□□ 6. Flat-topped 9. Impolite fish net [A|o à Me □□□□□ al childrens’ emergency funds 10. Girl's hills 23. Flippant N GOT □□□□□ of the United Nations. The 6. Land held 24. Quick name □□□□□ aaucD house bill did not. The Senate 11. Bodies of In absolute 25. Tending denied use of counterpart water Inde to erode funds to any country receiving 12. Dirties 26. Trick pendence 37. By way of ECA aid “ so long as any depen 14. Part of 7. River 30. Companion 38. Dickens' dent area of such country fails (Russ.- “to be” able pen to comply with any treaty be 15. Bounder Turk.) 31. Full of rats name tween the United States and 16 Lines 8. Croquet 32. Timid 39. Old wine (abbr.) such dependent area.” sticks 34. Male cup 17 Subdivi 11. Invalid food descendants 40. Metal The use of ECA funds and the "Of course, I’m serious. 1 sions of entire administration foreign pol made a bet with Dad that I’d scout troops icy is expected to be one of the marry you.” 81. Large main issues in the coming congres body a word, he barked: “Your name sional campaign. of water Jud Essex?” 22. Thick cord Republican Senator Wherry said: “Yes, sir,” said Jud, taken 23. Obtains “President Truman Is chasing rain aback. 24 Establish bows gaudily painted by alien rad “I’ll be damned!” exclaimed Mr. again ical advisers seeking to put across Jones. “Did she tell you who she 27. Scope spendthrift socialism to the United was?” 28. Futile States.” “Did who tell me who who was?” ,29 Seed Jud asked, beginning to think he President Truman told an Illinois vessel was mistaken for some one else. 30. Units of audience: “These men (Isolation “My daughter! That redheaded structure ists) can’t see beyond the end of girl in the outer office?” (Bot.) their noses. They don’t see that It was Jud's turn to drop a cigar, 33. Part of isolationism would let the rest of "to be” if he'd had one. “Your daughter? the world be swallowed up by com 34 Mournful That--------the girl who wants a job munism. That would certainly bring 85. Exclamation as a stenographer?” on a new world war just as it did 36. Piece of Mr. Jones came round his In 1939. We reneged in 1921 just as turf (golf) desk. He was short, but rotund. Russia, today is doing it with the 38 Crazy He glared up at Jud. “ You’re help of our own isolationists.” (slang) hired,” he said. “1 lost a bet, 41 Any climb Truman Is using ridicule In his so you're hired. But you’d ing plant campaign against the enemies of better make good, or you're 42 Leave out his program, asking them to name fired. Get that!” 43. Not difficult specific projects they are against. “Shut up! Do you want the Job, 44. Buffoon ON THE PAYROLL ¡E3SCREI thorization for »3.090.490,000 ECA funds, has weathered another storm of lsolatlonsim spearheaded by sen ators from the Middle-west. The most vocal of these Isolation- minded senators were Sen. Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska, the GOP floor leader. Sen. William E. Jenner of j Indiana, and Sen. James P. Kem of Missouri. Said Senator Jenner: “The Mar shall plan is being used, not only to finance the destruction of Europe’s i economic life and not only to fi nance our destruction by driving us every day deeper Into the red; it is also being used to underwrite a new set of International schemes in which we shall lose control, once and for all. of our own resources, our wealth, our economic freedom and our national defense.” I SSWORD PUZZLE Few historic relics have a greater romantic or sentimental ap peal to the people of this country than the Liberty Bell—symbol of the 1950 Savings Bond drive now underway. None, certainly, could tell so completely the story of a nation winning its independence if it could speak If it could tell of tho great men who touched it and their thoughts, or of Its own udven- ures, a new history of the United States would be revealed. In 1751 the assembly of the colony of Pennsylvania appointed u committee, headed by Isaac Norris, speaker of tho body, to pur chase a bell to be put In the stale house. After due consideration und de bate, the committee commissioned a bell that was cast in London in 1752 and hud It brought to Phila delphia. It was recast the follow Ing year when the Inscription, “proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the Inhabitants thereof," was placed on It. Then on # July 8. 1776. 23 years after it was cast. It pealed the signing of the Declaration of Inde pendence. The next year the Brit ish took It from the tower of Inde pendence Hall and llirew It In the Delaware river. But It was re covered and rung on July 4 every year until the day It cracked That is the bell which Is the symbol of the 1950 Savings Bonds Independence Drive The theme' “Save for your Independence—buy U. S savings bonds.” A * Æây z/r oppor/vn/'/y f i r y o u rs c /f-__ to the mayor of Philadelphia to have the bell sent to the Panama- Pacific exposition Symbol of Freedom There and on Its Journey by rail to and from the Golden Gate, an estimated 17.000.000 Americans turned out to see the bell Since New Year’s. 1926. when it was struck 18 times with a rubber- Silent lor 69 Years tipped gold mallet to spell out the On May 15 the drive got under new year. It has not been sounded way with Secretary of the Treas directly, nor Is It likely to be agsln. uiy John W Snyder symbolically A trip across a continent, the tapping the bell. The drive opened voice of sorrow and happiness, with a nation-wide radio program stolen and cast into a river, the carried by 2,000 stations and fea first to proclaim freedom —ail that turing stars of stage nnd screen is but a part of its history. And It Television stations on networks continues to servo Its country To lined with Philadelphia and New day It ts the symbol telling Ameri York carried the program direct cans to purchase cavings bonds to from those places. A record num insure their freedom and Inde ber of people heard the broadcasts pendence. and saw the television show. Fifty-two repllras of the bell But the most d’-amatte mo ment of the show was when Secretary Snyder gently tapprd the cracked, old bell that sym bolizes liberty for the people of this country. Why did he Just tap the hell? Therein lies another story of Interest to ev ery American. The last time the Liberty Bell really rang was on Washington's birthday, 1846. The original crack, that had appeared when the bell was being tolled in mourning for Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 had been drilled out in 1846 Bennie Kay Wagner, Jr., 8, Is the son of a war hero. Ills father, I ’fe. Bennie Kay Wag ner, was killed In arlion on I.uzor, March 15, 1945. Here he displays the government bonds he has purchased each month with a government allotment check. He Is well on the way to Independence, his guardian says, with H a v i n g s Bonds amounting to $1,000. have been donated to the sav ings bond cause and are now on tour of the country. The bells, one for each state, one for the District of Columbia, and one each for Alaska, Ha waii and Puerto Rico, are ex act copies of (he original; the crack Is Indlratcd on the sur face; the bells ring and are harmonically tuned. The tour of the replicas, which will end July 4. will enable mil lions of Americans, who have nev er seen the original bell and might never get to Philadelphia to see It. to Inspect sn exact copy of this most hallowed of our historic rel ics. Since its return from the San Francisco exposition In 1915, the bell has not been allowed to leave Philadelphia. Since October 10. 1917, when It was the star attrac tion In Philadelphia’s first liberty Ioan parade during the first World War. it has not even left its shrine In Independence Hall, because of the danger of further cracking of the historic relic. Made in France On the last journey In 1915, a slx-armcd Iron spider was fastened to the clapper bolt Inside its crown, with arms hooked under the lip of the bell to distribute the strain of Its weight, 2080 pounds, more evenly. The bells now on tour of the na tion were made at the foundry of the Sons of George Paccard at Annecy-le-Vleux in France. Dr. Arthur L. Bigelow, professor of engineering and bellmaster of Princeton university, made the measurements and drawings from which the new bells were made. Andrew J. Dunn, director of the labor section of the U. S. savings bonds division in Washington, and its liaison officer with the American Federation of Labor, went to France to expedite the production and shipment of the bells to this so that the edges would not vibrate against each other. The bell rang clear until almost noon in honor of the father of his country, when the crack spread and the ringing changed to a hoarse rumble. That was the last time anyone heard the true voice of the original Liberty country. Bell. To symbolize for m illions of Americans the idea of thrift In 1926, to usher In the sesqul- which Is essential to Indepen centennial year of American Inde dence, the replicas will have pendence, the wife of Philadelphia’s visited 2,000 communities dur mayor tapped out 1-9-2-6. The cere ing the nation-wide tour. mony was broadcast, hut radio could only reach about half the na Authorities report the bells, be tion 24 years ago. cause of the painstaking, old-world The shattered rumble of the production, sound exactly like the cracked relic has been heard by Liberty Bell would if it could be radio only once since then: on D- rung. They attributed this to the Day, June 6, 1944, to signal the In fact the bells are of the same com vasion of the continent of Europe position as the original, 85 plus by American and allied forces in per cent copper, and that their con another way for freedom — and struction gives the same tone. then a recording of Its sound made Millions of Americans will thrill on New Year’s, 1926, was used. to the sound that the people of heard when the On February 11, 1915, the bell’s Philadelphia silence of nearly 69 years was original bell proclaimed liberty broken to signal the linking of the "throughout all the land and to ail Atlantic and Pacific coasts by long the inhabitants thereof." distance telephone. Three times it At the conclusion of the bond rumbled hoarsely over the wire to drive on July 4, the secretary of San Francisco. In the conversation the treasury will lend one bell to that followed, the mayor of San each state and territory for perma Francisco made a personal pica nent exhibit. Bells Donated by Copper Industry Actual cost of the 52 bells on tour in the treasury department’s bond drive is not known. They are being paid for by America’s cop per industry The Ford Motor company will haul the bells from the Brooklyn navy yard to each state capital and Washington. Exact duplicates of the Liberty Bell, each weighs 2080 pounds and is composed of 85 plus per cent copper. They were produced by the ancient bell- master's formula called the "lost wax" process.
