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Show PROVO, UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1945 Sealed, Signed and Delivered Editorial.... Hidden Taxes Webster's new International dictionary defines the word royalty as, among other things : "A percentage, as on output, paid to the owners of an article, especially a machine, ma-chine, by one who hires the use of it." To this may be added, on the basis of James C. Petrillo's accomplishments and John L. Lewis' present demand, a further definition: "A percentage, as on output, paid to the officers of a labor union, by one who employs members of that union, as a supplement supple-ment to or in place of dues pafd by those members to the union." Mr. Petrillo's arrangement with all American Ameri-can manufacturers of phonograph records for. royalty payments to the American Federation Fed-eration of .Musicians is legal and unchallenged. unchal-lenged. Thus there seems to be no reason why Mr. Lewis, by threatening a disastrous wartjme strike, cannot make a similar arrangement ar-rangement for his United Mine Workers. Mr. Lewis is asking a royalty of 10 cents on each ton of coal mined, to be paid to the UMW treasury for "modern medical and surgical service, hospitalization, insurance, rehabilitation and economic protection" as a "partial payment ... for the establishment establish-ment and maintenance of his (the miner's) ready-to-serve status." A dime-a-ton royalty on all the coal mined in 1944 would have brought $58,000,000 into the UMW coffers. Even at peacetime production pro-duction rates, Mr. Lewis' union would be assured as-sured an annual income of $45,000,000 or more. This ought to take care of medical and haspital service and all- the rest, plus a good bit of routine operating expense, without with-out taking much if any bite out of the miner's weekly pay check. This royalty would not be like royalties paid a manufacturer, or mine and forest royalties paid to tax-paying landowners, both of which are obviously legitimate. This would be a royalty payment to union officials offi-cials for-no discernible service or benefit. Operators now negotiating with Mr. Lewis estimate that his royalty demand, with the contract, would add from 28 to 66 cents to the price of a ton of coal. This increase would have to be passed along to the consumer. Now everybody is a consumer of coal, or of products which use coal in the manufacturing manufac-turing process. And somewhere along the line everybody would feel the result of that price rise in his pocketbook. This is not only inflationary. It also is in effect taxation on the public by a labor union for the benefit Of a small segment of our wage-earning population. If Mr. Petrillo and Mr. Lewis can do it and Mr. Petrillo his demonstrated that he can there seems to be no reason why more and more unions cannot tax employers and thence consumers, creating an expensive system of hidden, private taxes without being be-ing obliged to account to the public for their expenditure. Opportunities for Aviation Veterans The United States will emerge from this war with the greatest aircraft manufacturing manufac-turing facilities and the largest body of trained aircraft personnel in the history of flying. The army and navy air forces have taught 3,000,000 men to operate and service serv-ice airplanes, to conduct airways communications communi-cations and operate airports. Many of Jhese 3,000,000 will certainly want to find peacetime jobs that will let them make use of their specialized know ledge. Certainly, too, the fruits of that specialized knowledge are too valuable to be wasted. But where are the jobs to be found? It is most unlikely that they can all be developed de-veloped in this country. There is no reason. however, why they should. American air planes will likely be sold all over the world. So why should there not be opportunities for our air-trained and air-minded veterans in many of these foreign markets? They have gained an intimate knowledge of American Amer-ican aviation products and technique in a rugged, thorough school. These men could play an important part in opening new commerical frontiers, and in stimulating the international trade which is essential to international prosperity and peace. The assurance of American service for American planes could hardly fail to make our aircraft more desirable to foreign buyers, especially in the immediate postwar years. There is assurance that the government will assist business in this expanding field of foreign trade as it has in others. The state department is planning to add civil air attaches to its various diplomatic staffs. But it seems to us that the aviation in dustry, for its own good, should assume re sponsibility for developing foreign job op- jwrt unities for aviation veterans. Industry, not government, should inform fhe veterans of these opportunities, encourage them to take them and. if necessary, give them further training. Such a program would not be a guarantee of 3,000,000 jobs. But it seems likely that it would be another safeguard against a complete and catastrophic collapse of our war-expanded aviation industry, besides giving congenial and richly deserved jobs to many of the men who won victory in the air. Debt io Society The well-worn phrase about "paying a debt to society" takes on new meaning in the Merry-Go-Round The Washington By Draw Pearson (CoL Robert & Allan on active doty) A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs WASHINGTON Rfrman nrimnon set such excellent treatment In American hanH ,that the Russian government has now actually asxea mat its civilians inside Germany be treated as prisoners after they are liberated by the allies. There in ahnut innnnnn SmtU ..i i- I . " -,wwwwww wvv.fc klvuWJU held as forced laborers inside Germany, and their swiiua uas nven me suDjeci or a significant controversy. con-troversy. When U. S. and British armies first began be-gan liberating these work-slaves they were held mwpiiws ui war, oui soon a aeiuge of complaints com-plaints came from Red army officers that the Russian Rus-sian civilians were being insulted. wnereupon, the Allies segregated Russian work battalions and nut thm intn ,-o . .v. -. t i-aiiiisa Ihere $ey were iven rations similar to that of the civilian nomilatinn However. Civilian ration nr. , l- France and Belgium that' the Russians have now icvckmtu uiemseives ana want ail Russians captured cap-tured or liberated hv th A lit.. 1 prisoners of war. This means that they will get wuiic iwu as uerman prisoners who get the same ration as the American or British armies. The Whole Question, fit hanrUim A people, including slave laborers, refugees, and war prisoners, is on of the major Allied headaches. Some 10,000.000 people are involved. Note: The French whn ain mm.i.i i ...1 the Allies treated their repatriated citizens as war prisoners, have now changed their mind, are Dressing the IT. S nnH r.r.. r .!.. . " uuwin vj treat 111 non-collaborationist Frenchmen freed in Germany 2,.?SJ,rs so they wI11' et Allied rations. , The Office Of dfnu tnntnnralnn k. navy and the office of war mobilization have a Joint board which passes on all requests to hold conventions. Lat wir K.H..,. u . u stvw ...- it vi ..vri, uie ulii spent the time of important government officials Having we ngnt or tne state department to nOld the United Nation rnn(or.nn. c r , - vviuvtviivc in k?au x i an clsco. RUSSIAN VODKA War MohiHzar .IlmmU Rvm.. v,- galing friends with stories of his mission to Yalta. Byrnes said he sampled Russian vodka for the first time, found that It "mDt. . i and has lots of authority." 1V in recanea to Byrnes' friends the first time the late Secretary nf th Naw Tnni. v-nw - - ' J AWUA alW., V1C to Visit former Amhnini- T ik. ci.i -- wwuuxs. uic ouvici embassy. Litvinov proposed a toast to the United tjtm. nnox was a mie reluctant to down the potent vodka, tried to sip it. Litvinov stopped him and said: "Drink the stuff down in a hurry and VOU Will kill tha mnrtttl GAS AND RIFLE ON TOP If you ask Lt Gen. George Patton, famous for his tank attacks, what weapon, he considered the mOSt Important in the ntir. war vmi mrs,.1A naturally expect the answer to be "tanks." x-anon usea tanKs to make his meteoric charge across France, and he used them when he Went to th rr-ii n ht,i4.n.M..j 4. i the Belgium budge. ut the other day MaJ. Gen. Levin Campbell, efficient chief of ordnance, asked Patton that Question While on a tnnr nf thm war rn. got a surprising answer. Patton didn't think the yoj me mow unporiani weapon of the war. imutr me uarana ruie. Alter considering the matter carefullv. Patton rnii4 t bell as follows: "In m v onfnlnn th T1 rn r!t.. i. - .iv tuaiauu; la the greatest battle implement ever devised. "However." Patton rnntinuorl "Mv nHmr94nn for ordnance products does not stop with the M-l rme. uur maenme guns, mortars, artillery and tanks are without eaual on th hattWioin. nt th world." ' STALIN-DE GAULLE AGREEMENT It hasn't bn rmHHViH v..., m iinnit cret clause was incorporated in the agreement B'nea oeiween aiaiin ana ue uaulle in Moscow last fall. Strangely enough it parallels another Russo-Franco pact signed in 1913 when the czar. A. 1.11 . a at a . ... . noi ouiiin ruiea Kussia. Ana although Stalin has now overthrown the rrnr h hat cin4 h .am. thing. The secret clause approves a free hand for France in the west, and a free hand for Russia in the east. Alan It n1Hi T?.. c tn velop a strong independent Poland, friendly to Dow r ranee ana ine aoviet union. But the amazing fact about the secret clause is that the wording is idantiral with a no- clnnnrl by the French ambassador to the Czar's govern- . f A.M meai in ivia. A member of De Gaulle's entourage thought the wnrHtn nrmm an atr41rns1w ilmlU. aAM . thing he had seen before that he asked Foreign rii mr,A . . n t ... wiuiisier jnoiuiov wnere me nussians got tne Wording. Molotnv fnv:tlatrt 0Tnloinrl tho when the Bolshevist vnvrrnmfnf Karl rtuniut nut the old czarist foreign office after the revolution. uiey zouna a copy oi tne oia r ranco-Russlan pact with the same clause in it. They had preserved it ever since as a model of basic Russian foreign policy. For the first time in four years, the Democrats Demo-crats now control the important council of state governments, and Democratic national committee commit-tee Chairman Bob Hannegan is quietly maneuver ing to put governor j. mo war a nicuratn of Knoae Island in as the next president. Leverett Sal tons tall of Massachusetts, now a senator, was president of the council Jast year the fourth in a line of Republicans. For the first time since 1940 there is a majority of Democratic governors, with Democrat Herbert Maw of Utah president this year. Custom in the council is to elect a new chief evecntivo each vear anri vouna McGrath. the onlv c?ovcmor now servinp his third successive term, is in line for the honor. (Copyright. 1945. by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) j ?sys .us v jrm, win . m LrJMa case of the several hundred inmates of three prisons who have volunteered as "guinea pigs in testing new drugs to combat malaria. ma-laria. Their volunteer duty will extend beyond that of the soldiers who bared their arms to the anopheles mosquito in Walter Reed's search for the malaria carrier. For these men will not only contract the disease, but will submit to experiments with potential remedies whose properties and correct dosage dos-age are as yet imperfectly known. If the tests are successful, malaria sufferers suf-ferers have promise not of the relief and control that quinine and atabrine bring, but of complete cure of this recurring disease. Most important, success will provide a remedy for thousands of soldiers who have contracted this painful, exhausting and sometimes fatal disease. It is significant that these prisoners are promised nothing beyond the best of care. They take full responsibility for all consequences. con-sequences. They are offered no special privileges, commutation of sentence, or other reward. They are simply, in the best and 'truest sense, paying their debt to society. Pyle Finds Very Best People In Army Working In Kitchen BY ERNIE PYLE IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS In my long career with the United States army, I've made a hobby of cultivating the very best people in it. And for some strange reason the very best people usually usual-ly turn out to work in the kitchen. Isn't that odd? My latest acquisitions arc a Mutt & Jeff team known as Mickey and Bill. They serve the food in our messhall. They have to work like dogs and they dash around in such intent haste that you think they are mad at everybody every-body all the time. But they aren't. That's just a look of concentration on their faces. Whenever we give them time to relax, they're the best-natured best-natured pair you ever saw. These two boys are Sgt. Thomas Bill, of (3347 Belt Ave.) St Louis, and Cpl. Mickey Rovinsky, of (49 Short St..) Edwardsville, Pa. They're as different as day and night, but they work together like cogs in a gearwheel. Sergeant Bill is tall and thin and white-skinned and has curly black hair and a sensitive face, and he doesn't say much. Mickey is so short he could stand under Bill's arm, and his skin is dark. His eyes are almost shut and he talks all the time and such talk. Mickey is unquotable, because you couldn't possibly remember things the way he says them. His colloqualisms are not sectional, they re pure Rovinsky. Mickey is outspoken about his likes and dislikes; He fusses back at the officers who ask for extra service, but they know Mickey and don t get sore about it. He s a sassy wise-cracking little heart- of-gold fellow. He never laughs, but he's pretty happy. He wears his cap turned up in front, which gives him a cocky air. The boys' special favorite among all the fliers is my friend Capt. Bill Gifford. He's always giving them things, and sits up and talks with them in the mess-hall mess-hall after supper, and as a result they'd stay up all night for him if he merely suggested it. By good fortune, I fell in with this trio, and every night Giff and I would stay away from supper sup-per until everybody else had finished fin-ished and the two boys had their tables all cleaned up and set for breakfast. Then we'd wander over through the dark and the four of us would have a banquet such as steak and French fried potatoes. The boys would cook it and then we'd all sit down and eat, and the talk would start to fly. The first Tokyo mission was a highlight in Mickey's life. The pilots are always tense the night before a mission, and Mickey has his troubles. "They took off six times for Tokyo,"' Mickey says. "I mean they was scheduled to go every day for six days, and they'd all be short - tempered and wanting things just so at night, and then next morning the mission would be postponed. "It was their first mission up there and they'd heard a rumor they was to be 1300 Jap fighters lined up across the sky just like a wall, and they was nervous and grumpy. "Like Captain Gifford here. I can always tell when he's going the next day. He don't say much at supper like he usually does. He just wants that sharp attention and keep your . mouth shut and leave him the hell alone. "Well, them pilots was tense and worried and they didn't drink any beer or anything for five nights and then finally on the fifth night they was up half the night yellin around, and then next morning they really did take off. Boy they didn t feel good either. "It's a good thing they finally went or I was gonna mutiny. I got sick and tired of puttin' grub in them damned airplanes. I was gonna refuse the seventh time. I said I'd take a court martial before I'd put grub in them planes a seventh time. But they went that time. Then Captain Gifford took up. "You should have been here that morning. The mission was called so fast there wasn't time to warm up the engines a few at a time, so they ran them all up at once all over the field. This whole island shook from the vibration. "When I took off I had to weave around through bulldozers and between jeeps and across cane patches and I kept thinking about those 1300 fighters we'd heard about. I sure was put out about ever getting into this business in the first place. But it turned out all right." "When Captain Gifford gets back." Mickey went on, "he's a changed man. He's still full of nerves but he wants to talk and he wants me to keep the beer comin out of the icebox." Sergeant Bill sits and listens and smiles and enjoys it and says almost nothing. He and Mickey arc both married men. although they're only 24 and 23 respectively. respec-tively. Bill was a truck driver and Mickey a machinist before the war. Sergeant Bill has one baby and Mickey has two. Mickey places the birthdate of his latest child by remembering it was born the rright the Nips came and bombed the B-29 base the first time. The boys have to get up at 5 a. m. and their work isn't finished till about 9 at night. They don't even ret to go to the movies, for they don't get through work in time. But they don't seem to care. They feel .they're pretty lucky to have things as nice as they are, The day I was to leave they gave me what Mickey called my "farewell breakfast three fried eggs! There's nothing in this army like knowing the very best people. Desk Chat, Editorial Column WORK The hardest work you aver do is worrying about it. What makes an hour resemble two is worrying about it The time goes mighty slow when you sit and sigh, and sigh again, and think of work ahead. and then keep worrying about it Just buckle up and buckle la . . quit worrying about it By work, not worry, you will win quit worrying about It A task is easy, once begun; It has its labor and its fun. So, grab a-hold and do it son. Quit worry' ing about it Just WORK! DIDJA EVER NOTICE that most of the griping about the new deal is done by those who were not allowed to shuffle and cut the cards? JUVENILE LOGIC "Mummie, do you like stores? "Yes. dear." "Would you, like to hear one?" "Yes." "It won't make you cross, will it mummie?" "Of course not," encouraged the mother. "Well." began the tot, "Once uoon a time mere was a per' fume bottle . . . and I broke it. A truly wise individual never shows a man where he is wrong unless he can help him correct it. Anyhow, the present younger generation can't take aU the credit . . . they aid not invent im morality. And rain brings peace E'en when night's caress Is no release From loneliness. Reluctant as most of us are to admit it, the majority of us are inclined to listen to a new idea . with our prejudices. And on the other hand, one reason there is so much crime is because there are so many crim inals. Your friends know your struggles. i our enemy knows your faults. When Mark Twain was making one of his European tours, an Englishman startled him by say ing abruptly: "Mr. Clemens. I would give ten pounds not to have read your 'Huckleberry Finn'." And as Mark looked up, awaiting await-ing an explanation of this extra - AfHfnarV rmorlr fhn Pntfliehinan . smiled and added: "... so that I could again have the great pleasure pleas-ure of reading it for the first time." One way to tell a donkey is by his lack of horse sense. Sleeping With One Eye Open V ' a I Ml II :. aw.. - f While two of his buddies catch some shut-eye In close quarters of a foxhole, Pfc. Gunther Lang, Bronx. N. Y., keeps a watchful eye on Germans across the Pruem River in Germany. Photo by Charles Haacker, KEA-Acme war picture pool photographer. Once News Now History Twenty Years Ago From the Files of The Provo- Herald Of March 12, 1925 The Provo Kiwanis club passed a resolution at its meeting urging clean picture shows and the club went on record pledging its mem bers to exercise their influence to cooperate with and to encourage encour-age the moving picture industry in its efforts to get and to produce pro-duce better pictures and eliminate those pictures which have a questionable moral tone or suggestion. sug-gestion. Members of the committee com-mittee which prepared the resolution reso-lution were J. A. Buttle, Dr. George H. Brimhall, H. V. Hoyt. Junius Jackson, L .C. Henriod and Alex Hedquist. a a a The Provo hgih school basketball basket-ball team, playing in the state tournament, won the second round game against Lchi, 17 to 14 in a strictly defensive battle. President Calvin Coolidge sub mitted to the senate the name of Charles Beecher Warren as his nomination for attorney general It was the second time Warren's name had been submitted. The first time it was rejected by a vote of 41 to 39. a By special arrangement with Samuel French, the BYU players have secured permission to pro duce Justin McCarthy's master piece, "If I Were King." Glen Guymon and Celestia Johnson will play the leads. Other members mem-bers of the cast are Melba Condic. Jordan Rust, Florence Maw and Richard Harris. a Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Hinckley Hinck-ley are receiving congratulations over the arrival of a baby boy. Wednesday at the Westwood and Beck hospital. A boy was also born the same day to Mr. and Mrs. E. Carlyle Hinckley at the same hospital. The babies are cousins. a Thirty Years Ago From the Files Of March 12, 1915 Governor William Spry still held in his custody the Wootton prohibition bill and it looked like a "pocket" veto might be used to kill the bill. The dry forces are determined to stop the clock and keep the legislature in session ses-sion and pass the bill over his veto, if necessary. Russell H. Convell. known for his most popular lecture, "Acres of Diamonds" is scheduled to lecture in College Hall. m The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company will make some important improvements improve-ments in Provo, moving its poles from Center street between Third East and Fifth West streets, placing the wires in an under ground conduit, the work td cost between $50,000 and 160,000. a a Work is expected to begin within with-in 30 days on the new Knight sugar factory at Layton, Davis county. The original plan of mov ing the Knight factory from Canada was altered alter the Canadian Pacific railway company com-pany brought suit to enjoin the Knight company. The factory is expected to cost $450,000. I see by the paper where a Hollywood 'movie' couple cele brated their second wedding anniversary an-niversary . . . together. INEVITABLE Warm rains for you The cold for me; This is out due For ecstacy. No need for hiding The sign of pain Time always brings To each of us Some rain Stalin's political success at the Yalta conference should convince the other two members that the pipe is better than cigars or cigarettes ciga-rettes in long holders. An oversized cigarette holder is not a good publicity trade mark . . . is it a character revealing affectation. ono Diogenes said: "It is better to have one friend of great value, than to have many friends who are good for nothing." Precedent cannot establish principles unless 'truth' is the foundation. It is the unusual that tests our courage and our ability. IT IS AXIOMATIC THAT your leisure moments are your most dangerous moments. Perhaps the senate and congress con-gress needs the sons of wild jackasses jack-asses for contrast. Anyhow, they seem to get more action with jacks wild. Surplus War Plant Handling SIGNS MORATORIUM ON ANTI-TRUST LAW WASHINGTON, Mar. 12 (U.R President Roosevelt today signed legislation granting the insurance business a three-year moratorium from the application of federal antitrust laws. The president emphasized that when the moratorium ends on Jan. 1, 1948, antitrust regulations will apply "in full, force and effect" ef-fect" except "to the extent that the states have assumed the re sponsibility" for insurance regu lation within their boundaries. By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON. D. C. March 12 What amounts to an unoffi cial revival of the old temporary national economic committee anti-monopoly ideas is now developing de-veloping in the senate in con nection with the disposition of Bovernment-owned surplus war nlants. TNEC is now officially dead, and Senator Joseph C. 0Ma-honev. 0Ma-honev. as TNEC chairman, has frequently expressed regret that the war prevented the committee from completing its wonc, out a coalition of Senator Walter F George's postwar economic policy and planning. Senator James E. Murray's small business. Senator Elbert Thomas' military affairs. Senator James M. Mead's war invest isa ting, and Senator Claud Pepper's patents committees is now in a position to take a healthy swing at this job. Senator O'Mahoney, as a member mem-ber of the postwar, military af fairs, patents, and petroleum re sources committees, is In i strategic position to co-ordinaate the task. O'Mahoney As Co-ordinajor It was O'Mahoney who soon sored Section 19 of the surplus property act requiring the but plus property board to report to congress on all government-built war plants costing over five million dollars, dividing the facil ities into 12 groups: aluminum, magnesium, synthetic rubber, chemicals, aviation gas, pipelines. iron and steel, patents, aircraft plants, shipyards, transportation, and radio and electric manuiac- turing. This section of the act set the stage for- the investigation of all these industries now getting under way in the Senate. First to get under way Is the investigation into the aluminum and magnesium industries by the smaller war plants sub-committee on light metals. Hearings on this subject are to continue through March. It is interesting to note that the chief of staff for the lisht metals investigation is Dewey Anderson, who was executive exe-cutive secretary of TNEC under Senator O'Mahoney. Dr. Ander son will also work with O'Ma honey on some of the investiga tions in other fields. There has been no final agree ment on what committees will handle each of the 12 subjects listed in the surplus property act, but a tentative line-up might be something like this: Senator Murray's small busi ness committee to handle the radio and electrical industries, as well as light metals. Senator O'Mahoney's petroleum Investigating committee to handle aviation gasoline and pipeline faculties. Synthetic Rubber Facilities- Senator O'Mahoney's postwar sub-committee on industrial re organization to handle synthetic rubber and chemical plant faculties, facul-ties, synthetic rubber production being tied in with aviation gasoline. Senator Mead's war investigating investigat-ing committee to handle ship yards. Senator Pepper s patents com mittee or Senator Harley M. Kil- gore s military affairs sub-committee on technical mobilization to handle patents and process licensing. Senator Tom Stewarts inter state commerce sub-committee on transport to handle transportation. transporta-tion. Senator Stewart being also chairman of the small business sub-committee on light metals. With an integrated line-up of r Tatar-WASi naray UV JwiOTC ftlROUUM JELLY iVilwan rtiRouuM jelly tSTpQJ Ifli Av.) COLDS' LOCAL CC3CEST1C.1 of children quickly eootbad by Peaetro Grandma's old- time mutton suet idea oarelopad. by modern aoeace iato a coua-j ter-irntant. vaportswg !. Only 25. doable as as. Get, PEN ETRD jaase aicn in mutton iuit this kind, when the surplus pro perty boards sends its report to congress on the government-owned war plants, there will be com mittees of senators already func tioning and familiarizing them- 1vh wifh rnnrlitinns in each of the industries. What this all points up to is that congress is going to have the final word in the disposal of surplus war plants and that its decisions will most likely be influenced by the idea that monopolies and big business must be broken up to give small business the break. Q's and A's Q Where is Grasshopper Hill? At Mexico City. The Aztee name is Chapultepec, site of the Chapultepec Castle Conference. Q What German city, because of its art treasures, is known as the "German Florence"? A Dresden. It is about 750 years old. Q How many planes has the AAF lost in the war? A 17,380 from all causes up tf Dec. 31, 1944. Q What is the cost of butter and coffee in Berlin? A A neutral reports butter at $320 a pound, coffee about three times that price. a a Q What tactical bomb target! are there in Chemnitz, Germany? A Locomotive works, machine shops, motor factories, chemical and textile works, railways. Q Is the Rio de Oro (River of Gold), Spain's West Africa colony, named for a river? A No, a bay. Portuguese explorers ex-plorers envisioned the bay as a river five centuries ago, hence the name. Q What two forms of death hit new lows in 1944? A Homicide and suicide. Q What does the AAF's XP designation mean? A Experimental, pursuit. There are at least six: XP-54, XP-55, XP-55, XP-56, XP-67, XP-77. Q What pressure is maintained in the sealed cabin of a plane at high altitude? A Natural pressure of 8,00t feet until plane is 30,000 feet high, then a gradual decrease for higher high-er altitudes. Q Where does pocketbook manufacturing center? A New York. Q How long has Russia been a sovereign state? A About 450 years. MacArthur Gets Philippine Award MANILA, March 12 (IMS Gen, Douglas MacArthur received the Philippine Commonwealth's high est decoration the medal for valor from President Sergio Osmena Saturday. The citation was made for "extraordinary courage and valor in the face of overwhelming odds shown in Bataan and Corregidor and exceptional performance or service of the highest order to the commonwealth." (Adv.) U 1C1 West Center St U |