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.