GI's Meet British Brass
THEL BONGRÖNG TILLSKAPR, FRIDAY, DETODE 6, 1950.
British 27th lines in and Pfc.
GI's shake hands with Brigadier B. A. Coad, Commander of the Brigade, during his visit to a forward command post near the front South Korea. Left to right are; Pfc. Jesse J. Hall, Knoxville, Tenn..
Wilfred Jalbert of Detroit, Mich. (Aeme).
London Diary :
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE HAS
TWO HOURS IN
LONDON
GREATER CRISIS
THAN
RUSSIAN
AGGRESSION
Los Altos, California.
Walter B. Pitkin, who wrote "Life Begins at Forty" in 1932 and is still going strong at 73, thinks the greatest crisis faced by the US. is the haustion of farm land rather than possible Russinh aggression.
ex-
So Pitkin hopes to ease the problem by shop- ping around for 5,000,000 acres of good crop land not now in use. He recently scattered 50 letters from his home here to editors in every section of the nation asking for reference to the owners of such land. He wants the tracts for the "extras of 1950,"
The "extras" are the 2,000,000 babies Pitkin says are going to be born this year. Before long, he contends, they are going to be enting everything good farmer can raise On our best farm soil.
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The first week brought a nitiful trickle of replies," Pitkin maid sadly. "I've only hndi
Irish Bird
Lovers Up In
Arms
Dublin,
positive answers from seven Letters have been pour-
rez'ons."
RAG WEED
Playwright Clare Boothe Lace, tall, slim, fair-haired wife of maga- zine magnate Henry Luce, had two hours in England the other day, on her way to Munich to see her play, "The Women." She tried in the time to give her secretary, Mrs Dorothy Farmer, a quick glimpse of London.
From the airport they heals, new play, "Love is a Verb.“ I
towards the West Bud, bet † her as
character central
One potential male come from ing into Dublin newspaper. an estates in Virginia, But the offices protesting against owners wanted $300 an nere for the landing of a cargo of the property, Pitkin said.
cats by plane on Little Saltee Island, off the const of County Wexford. The land wasn't worth two dollars an nere," Pitkin ald Little Saltee Island for years scornfully. "It was burned out has been a bird sanctuary and tobacco land, and you couldn't vs such has the protection of raise a decent crop of rag weed law. On it, blus may not be on it."
molested, Detinite rules aro The idea of large farm land lad down as to how the birds purchased 11'1 a new one with must be treated. ritkin, who said he is one of a few survivors of
The trouble began when it was group of investors who, in 1931, pouled {{hcovered that the rate on the $50,000,000 to buy fr grade land had shown an alarming farm nereage.
fecrease and were attacking the But even with all that
prds and their eggs during the spend their money in Brildi cach, the group could only get breeding season Little Saltee all they rawy was a wenties tanlar Engloution was in her pected and how much will they rid of about $400,000, he said,
"In the last six year:;" Pitkin the breediny years been ground for many of ten hinds, und The Travel and Holidays As single tract of the land we want toralists
plitographers Cortation unw say we had 555,-
gone
visits 000 forriga visitors
here to and make periodic 111 1919 The good and i they spent £84.000.000. In the people are
third rate al
Wen
someone" hit on the Pitkin at my of the re-idea that a hundred cats would! toon, we can expect more than pites the past reveral years do a lot to keep down the rat 600,000 visitors, who will start offered "sub-divisons in swanky copulation, de apparently forgot that the cats might and the birds an easier prey.
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b. fflowed them down and Bulk himan. She adenil: a par-
mind: 1 am at telling who it
At the thin the driver Pant- med hanef in the dong, Mr
fird-aid, Luer adeninktered Then drove back to the airport.
There
tesoned that her Ciper wa.. delayed me an
Mi Live workum on
But be na starling."
FESTIVAL VISITORS Critics of the Festival Britana, which will Cust tempayer about £10,000,000, are todd that it will bring in a
of
treat flood of foreign visilos fo
How many visitors Dre ex-
end?
kaid, "wo
calif
bland has for
have not found a kindn
ved
the rival year, may the Associator second fantastic prices turis bird life.
Vivien Leigh Miss Europe
Learns All About Smog
in
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The biggest changes Hollywood in the last years are more traffic and less sunshine, Vivien Leigh has decided.
Beyond that, ak the Brilish star, who is making her first movie in the Am city since
1910, Hollywood is just about
the same.
brcome wote,"
Trufle has le cald. "I frighteny e every time I go back and forta from the studio. And since I've Been here, the driving becomes steadily more erratic.
"I didn't know what people cant by smog when est arrived in town. Since then 1 have experienced it. All I can way now is no comment.'...,"
TOO BUSY TO LOOK
Miss Leigh has been so busy co-starring with Marlin Brando in "A Streetcar Named Desire" that she has not had tine 10 set entirely how the city changed
"I've been too busy to get about, except for the inlles be- tween our home in the hills and the studio Lay Hurbank," she
I understand said, "but towa
ready to iz
burst
seams.
1:0 its
"My 16-year-old gaughter Is sceing Hollywood for the first time. I definitely plan to get about with her og soon Anish the picture. There's much I didn't see here on my previous visit."
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HANNI Schall, 23-year- old Miss Austria, was selected as Miss Europe of 1950 in Rimini, Italy. She competed with beauties from 13 other countries to win her coveted title.
(Acme)
1270,000.
So it rema Perival costing $10,000,000 woll bring a return of £6,000,000.
Not much dollar-corning hear.
MR DOUGLAS
ruburbs
away
"I fear that around 1560 many ther new citizens will have paced
from manlaatution.” Pilkia szkl.
Pitkin feels that 208,000,000 soil is needed but that the nation fatis hert of that much today by more than 91,000,000 acres.
Resignation of Mr Lewis acres of prime Douglas will be felt as a loss hy the British people. During three and half years of office he has established a care re- putation for charm of manneri and honesty of purpose.
Ductors who have allended Mr Dougins in England ofler the Ashing
R
BIRD LOVERS AROUSED
na-
That what happened, andį resorts from the keeper of the Tuskar lighthouse, off the south said thou- tast of Wexford, Tennels of birds, presumably from Little Sitee Island, had taken raluge on the Tuskar rock from | the marauding cats. "More and more of our soil; Il is not yet quite clear on 35. being used 113 by the whine order the cats were flown factones," he said. སཏྟཱརཱུ
use té the island but there can be
the neres every no doubt that
move has
NOBODY EATS
The Tuskor lighthouse men
in 1949 kient to his eye round 30,000,000
The eye it' your la prow colton which proved very unpopular with "safe," although it:t sight is nobody enly. Many more millions Irish bird lovers.
iously impaired. criously
But ion Mr Douglas used for soy beans to make
for plasties, flax
flbres and continues to be overworked, the
| reported that they were doing gratus for the distilleries." eye is able to become inflamed.
their best to fred the young! Also taking
from the vast birds on the rock, but many of He wears a black pufek over it
acreage of rich soil are town-them had been swept away by
cemeteries, golf courses, heavy seas. ranges, city parks sub-divisions.
to protect it from winel Or Lies,
smoke.
Douglas is 56 As Ambassa Jer in Britain, his salary and expenser tofalleci
000.
about £13,-
'BY PERMISSION'
rille
: uborban
Pitkin said
sind
The mool importunt bird
the situation is colonies around the Irish coast
rapidly waching the crisis stage whe on Great Saltce Island,
And that within Afteen years which has no cuts, fewer rats, many of the "extras" will be put many thousands of Que tem in the printed order going hungry. Theoretically,
which are endangering the young tree plantations recently
tx}. That would
be
tors.
Proposed War Memoria
PRESIDENT Truman points to a suggested memorial to the dead of World War II as he tours the White House grounds in Washington, with a group of visi» The memorial has been in the Rose Garden for several weeks, and here the President points it out to, left to right, Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt; Mary Ann
Long, and Charlotte Ingraham. (Acme).
Horse
Lovers"
Service
rabbits the
REV. Arthur Bird, vicar of Burgh Heath in Surrey, is conducting an open ak
"horseman's Sunday Service" at Tattenham Corner, apposite the race course
Epsom. Note the saddle in front of the microphone, (Acme),
nt
Lesson
Im
Safety
Rulse
of Fervice grated on some of Pitkin's plan--if he those present at The memoria 5,000,000 veres--would be to put there. vervice la General Smuts at divide it into tracts of 100.000 It is possible that gas may be The Abbey.
used to liquidate the rabbits in The wervice ended with
the enough and to inalte a populather burrows, an official stated. į Last Post
and Reveille played tien of 30,000 self supporting ir by trumpeters of the Royal it didn't use it up with golf Military School of Music.
The printed order said they
were under the direction nf Major Meredith Roberts and
courses and the lite, he said,
THING OF PAST
played by permission of the "Old fashioned farm life is a Commandant.
thing of the past," he said. "Who
Surely for this ocension that wants to live on a lonely little
been omitted.
BLUE
DIAMOND
Cast trile phrase could have farm away up a gulch? Nobody, Tomorrow's form developers with mass aereage around good small towns A blue diamond mounted as a
or villages. Live work in the 1-rooch, seat for sale to Chris in the city and lie's by Mrs Heriort Maitland, country, That's the sight idea." carried with it a certificate say-
But Pitkin isn't too optimistic ing the colour was natural and fint his group is going to get not induced by radium treat any lund, In fact he thinks i meal.
is pretty hopeless,
It was sold for £10,000, Said the purchaser, a Hatton Carden jeweller: "It will prob- ably be sold in New York,"
But if he eanniel run one of his 100,000 acre tracts, he has something else up his sleeve,
It is new book he is writ- ing on the 100-year war that Fitkin believer
the
world is fighting: He's going to call it
War,"
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Endowment Is
Unique
Birmingham - Southern College of Alabama will get 3 unique endowment in 2050.
Along with other documents, a leller making the endowment was sealed Inside the cornerstone of Birmingham's new skyscraper | elty hall. The letter states that Erskine Ramsay in 1950 de. posited $1,000 with Dr George R. Stuart, president of Birming- ham-Southern College,
When the
cornerstone vauli
is opened 100 years hence, the letter authorising the money to be spent will become effectivó, By that time the $1,000, which Is to be invested, will have Krown to
$330,000 estimated
It
1.
First
A few of the 200 youngsters who received a safety demonstration at a school in - Rockville Contra listen attentively as Police Lieutenant Louis Ferrar explains some safety ABC's. This lesson, which was televised, was followed by regular classes in which children learned more about the reasons for mat
cautions. (Acmo), aman, Kazah