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Show r THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH Tuesday, March 2, 1948 PAGE THRE3 W Army Pilots Find ' Easily Built, Durable Dog House All-Weat- Three, Not One, Magnetic Poles stagescreen;radio Released Features. Research in Frigid Regions Explains Mystery cf Apparent Shift. by WNU By INEZ GERHARD ',v TUNE LOCKHART, who be-- J came the toast of New York )ver night after the opening of WASHINGTON. After more than ,he Broadway hit, For Love 12 months of intensive research in ?r Money, plans to leave the the frigid Alaskan polar regions, 3lay when it goes on tour May army air forces have solved the 10. Eagle Lion Films have mystery raised by the w ? I A V I " 4' j .5 f 9,422-mil- e -- ier under contract, and want her to :ome back to Hollywood to discuss ier next picture; she is currently in a lead-n- g eatured in their role opposite Dennis OKeefe. Returning to California will be no lardship for June, as it would be for nost girls if they had to leave a suc- ' nonstop flight of the Pacusan Dream-boa- t from Honolulu to Cairo, Egypt, last year. The Dreamboats flight proved feasibility of regular air communications over the top of the world, but it also caused a stir in scientific circles by reporting an apparent "shift in the magnetic North Pole. The navigator of the reported the magnetic pole more than 200 miles off its previously charted posi9 ' 0 gentleman with touch of gray in his thatch was watching one of his Olympic vaulters shooting at 14 feet His name was bean Cromwell, head coach of the U. S. Olympic track team for the year 1948 destination London. Cromwell has been head track coach at Southern California aince Paddock Charley "'u n" U was a kid and Fred A Kelly was a hur- J,' dler. That means ofa 0 t t s long parade first head Cromwell was not too sensa- tional: "How are we fixed for the THE FAST BUCK . . . Gripped by nostalgia for the Old Sooth, suh. Rep. Prince Preston (Dem., Ga.) made the mistake of redeeming a Confederate bill sent in by a fellow Georgian. Word got around, and now the Confederate spinach is pouring in by the carpetbagful. five-doll- ar tion. K Some scientists explained at the time that this was caused by the fact that the magnetic pole was a large oval shaped area. The air force has revealed that as the result of more than 1,000 variation readings, it has discovered that there are three, and not just one, magnetic North Poles. Major Pole Located. Major pole in the elliptical magnetic field was determined to be on ' Prince of Wales island, with two minor poles on Bathurst island and Boothia peninsula. JUNE LOCKHART It was the minor magnetic pole on the lower tip of the ellipse on inzessful play She will be able to Boothia peninsula which had always dulge in the sport she enjoys more loca.han anything else water skiing at been given previously as the tion of the pole. ,ake Arrowhead, where her parents Exploratory work done by the 46th lave a house. reconnaissance squadron showed that the center of the magnetic field It will be a perfect vacation for was 1,750 miles northeast of Ladd Red Skelton next summer if his field, Fairbanks, Alaska. plans go through. He wants to tour The squadron flew more than 100 with Ringling Brothers or Clyde over the geographic- - North flights 16 mm. 3eattys circus, and make a Pole its immediate vicinity and, and dim of what goes on behind the scenes Red, who has finished his for the .first time, obtained a celes"fix over the geographic pole. The tial starring stint in Columbia's was on a night flight in OctoThis duller Brush Man, was born to the 1946. An air force navigator, by ber, his a was father clown with nrcus; plotting his exact location according Haggenbeck and Wallace. to the stars, determined he was diMotion picture rights to The rectly over the geographic North Heiress, one of the seasons most Pole. Test Combat Conditions. .uceessful plays, have been sold to In ail, the squadron, sent to AlasParamount the price, $250,000. Dlivia de Haviland will star, in the ka in June, 1946, as the pioneer unit to attempt operaole played on the stage by Wendy combat-typ- e tions under polar conditions, flew Hiller. more than 5,000 hours and one milA radio man in Hollywood tried lion miles to test materia and personnel. o sign up Howard Duff for a proWhen the 46th arrived in Alaska, gram that tries to give aspiring and navigators found their maps marked oung actors a radio break hen learned that Duff has been with large white areas indicating starring m "The Adventures of Sam unexplored fields. They were told that conventional means of navigathe last 18 months! Spade tion could not be used in the polar Ezra Stone, busy directing one regions. In their first missions, navigation 3roadway show, has received offers .o stage two more this season. A was difficult. They found many of good many actors would feel that the landmarks indicated on the map ns Henry Aldrich role was work were out of position and that small islands, closely grouped, in some mough. House Jameson (Mr. stepped into a different char- instances were shown as large bodacter in the new film, The Naked ies of land. In the past year, pilots have 3ity emerges on the screen as a 'ark avenue doctor who resorts to worked out a system of reference-headin- g navigation enabling the ihady practises. planes to fly anywhere and to know to within one mile. Edgar Kennedy, one of the few their location To flown by the airtrack the still active Kops keep anginal Keystone n films, passed his 500th milestone craft using this grid system, radar xhen he finished RKOs Almost a operators have learned to estimate Millionaire It also marked the wind, drift and ground speed to a fine margin even through an over-cas.- t. .tart of his 37th year in motion Ald-ich- Y L Jy.. PORPOISE POISE POISONIFIED . . . Down yonder In the tropical waters of the marine gardens at Islamorado, Florida keys, the peripatetic porpoises' do everything except get down on one knee and sing Mammy. Any porpoise lover would find his manifest destiny here at the Theater of the Sea, new marine studio In which all the marine life Uvea not in confining tanks but In natural pools. ... Sir Oliver Shewell LENVOI Franks, British statesman and authority on Europes needs under the Marshall plan, has been named new British ambassador to the U. S. He succeeds Lord Inverchapel who is retiring from diplomatic service. cy Parks Johnson and Warren THE MEMORIES HE HAS . . . Charles E. Taylor of Los Angeles, who was left $890 a year for life by Orville Wright, holds book of the Wright brothers and recalls thrilling days when he assisted in the bnilding of the first airplane engine the brothers used in 1903 at KUty Haw k, N. C., In their epochal flight. Ill of a serious heart ailment, Taylor, when told of the bequest, said he was grateful to Orville. will make a flying trip from Alaska ;o San Juan, Porto Rico, to join the Atlantic Fleet on Caribbean maneuvers for a Vox Pop broadcast March 10, over ABC. Only about i,000 miles! band on Danny Thomas new radio show has become an band. Seems the almost girls got tired of being women with-u- t men, so now the band features girls in the string and bass fiddle sections only. all-gi- rl ns all-gi- Dwight Weist, newsreel commentator. radio actor, announcer and master of ceremonies, leaves the heard but not seen group soon. Oue to be released soon is a Pathe lewsreel showing Dwight, as mas-ie- r of ceremonies on We, the Peo-alinterviewing the Smit sisters, the singing sextette, aged 74 to 84, who made a recent appearance on ;he popular CBS program. ... The Rev. William Leising is one of six Catholic priests who operate radio and weather stations in the Icy wastes of Canadas Mackenzie territory. Part of his job is to warn U. S. if an aggressor tries to strike over the polar regions without warning. MISSIONARY 1 n t . Ground speed can be computed to within five knots. Thimble of Gold Settled Battle Over Pirate Loot v4NLi 5V sewing attractive. But, as Justice of the Peace Mercedes Adams will tell you, the aking method solved at least two loot arguments for the notorious Gulf coast pirate, Jean LaFitte. Judge Adms owns one of two known thimbles salvaged from the LaFitte gang. According to her information, the golden gadget, which doesnt fit any of her fingers, resulted from a division of piratical spoils. "Each buccaneer had to have his exact share, she explained. One time, when everything had been divided equally, two golden Spanish doubloons remained. LaFitte settled the matter by hammering the coins into a thimble for the wife of one of his men. ODDS AND ENDS Jack Bennys sponsor has cut out the free cigarettes for the studio assdiencet. . . . Glenn ord and William Holden began work n Columbia t "The Man From Colorado" without make-ugot such heavy Uns after a Jew days in the open that bey had to lighten their complexions with grease pasnt. . . . Producer Irving Curntningt gift to John Sturges baby was the set of solid gold safety psnt in 1918 given him by Ethel Barrymore for Irving Cummings Jr, Slur get m i, rector of Cummings "The Sign of the Vam." . . . Edgar Bergen plans a sum-rea- r vacation in Sweden, ADDED STARTER . . . Herbert C. Holdridge, retired brigadier general, says he is rnnning for President. He claims that his own Peoples party offers the only hope for tomorrow under American traditions, thus avoiding the necessity of choice between fascism and communism. Woodbine, AND ALL I ASK IS A TALL SHIP . . . Swift and graceful as It cuts the waters off Miami Beach, the Cyclone, Cubas entry in this years Lipton cup race, inevitably calls to mind the memory of Sir Thomas Lipton. Except for his tea, the amateur yachtsman asked for little but a tall ship and a atar to steer her by. Sometimes called the worlds greatest sportsman, Lipton spent millions over a period of many years In an attempt to bring the yachting title to England. r.-- - ;T X r 'True Love Wins Once Again; Clears Up Mistaken Identity True love EVANSTON, ILL. can accomplish miracles, and it Dor-ban- p, x NEW ORLEANS. Pounding doubloons into thimbles golden might appear to the 2Gth century mind to be an odd way to make saved Ley McFarland, a waiter, from a case of mistaken identity. Two enterprising Evanston detectives, Robert Labbe and Elmer heard on the radio that a man with true love tattooed on his fingers was wanted In Kentucky. They stopped for lunch end, when McFarland came up to serve them, they noticed true love tattooed on his fingers. The detectives questioned McFarland and arrested him when he told them he came from vV t ' a MU Ifl i - U: j b f Later, fingerprint records cleared the waiter, and the detective! learned, to their chagrin, they had listened to a radio mystery thriller. you would like to make your dog comfortable in all kinds of weather, build this durable dog house. You dont have to know anything about carpentry or need a lot of different tools. The pattern offered below takes all the mystery out of constructing the dog house illustrated. The pattern contains a complete pur chase list oi materials. It spectlies stock size lumber readily available at most lumber yard. Each piece of the everyhouse Is cut according to the printed dog pattern and assembled aa step by step directions Indicate. All directions are written In language everyone can understand. Printed assembly illustrations indicate exactly where to nail each piece and size sf nails to use . 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The Swedes will be tough at the mile or the 1,500 meters. The Finns will be tough at 5,000 and 10,000 meters. Here and there someone else will pick up a victory. But we have too much manpower, are too ably coached to lose out The Swedes may need one or two of those 4.02 or 4 03 milers with the way Gil Dodds is running. Well havq sqme good sprinters, some good jumpers and pole vaulters, but I can't see men now who can any run with some Finns and Swedes who were running for S to 10 miles when they were mere youths only 10 years old. We don't have many athletes who like the grind of training for 5,000 or 10,000 meters. Most of them want the dashes, the hurdles or the half mile. We won't have any Jesse Owens around, but Mel Patton can travel a bit It is bound to be a good team. Harsh Laxatives (ecp requfar this fjeathfvf iver- vThe juice of a lemon tn a glass of water, when taken first thing on arising, is all that most people need to insure prompt, normal elimination. 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The last American to finish in front was Mel Sheppar'd, in London, in 1908. Since that time the British, the Finns or some other foreign nation baa taken over the job of mopping up in this long dis- tyre Back in 1936, in the games st Berlin, we seemed to have a shining chance with Glenn Cunningham on the job. But "Cunningham couldnt handle the fast flyer from New Zealand, who set a new Olympic record. This was Jack Lovelock, who Ignored time and yet set a record. He ran only fast enough to win. i I - ....... Cromwell has been looking for some time at our record at the mile or 1,500 meters. Td sure like to end that losing streak this summer, he said, but the way those Swedes can cover the distance makes it tough. Theyve had two that broke 4.02 for the mile Anderson and Hagg. Thats too fast for ar NO PAUPER . . . E. T. Maynard, Chicago speculator, leaves meeting of senate grain gambling in- ... 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I dont know who the best men are today, Cromwell admitted. "Neither does any other coach. But they soon will be popping up all over the map a few of them great, some of them good, others not so good. The East and the Midwest are strong. The South and the Southwest re far from weak. The world has been better off before, but these next games will be among the best weve had. Perhaps they can help create a better feeling. thimble-m- Hull IF 1 e Century-Fox- L d a Gil Dodds pic-hue- Fred Clark, who started in 20th s The Chair for Mar-,i- n Rome as a ruthless, grim depictive, is winding up in the same oicture as a comedian. Director Robert Diomak discovered Clark's .alent for comedy, and the part plajed by the actor, on loan from Michael Curtis Productions, has Peen revised and built up to include comedy bits. pink-haire- three-generati- . ua. 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