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Show nTi i ir-a-V I I I I I I i rVl Famous Sons Arrested CHIEF Justice Fred M vinson r, J 1 g01ng t0 Moscow and his name, therefore, will not become a by-word with the Russian people Down m Virginia, however his name is so well known that it caused Virginia traffic cop to rub his Among the students at Washing, ton and Lee university happen to be the grandson of a jate famous Virginia senator, the great grand- ,ra 01 a IameJ Civil war hero, and the son ot a chief justice. All three were riding together near Lexing-ton, Lexing-ton, Va., when arrested for speed- The policeman, proceeding to book them, asked their nameu "Robert E. Lee IV," replied the first student. It happened that he was telling the truth. The traffic cop looked up qmzz.cally, but wrote the name down, then asked for the next name Carter Glass III," was the re-Ply. re-Ply. The cop wrote the name down then queried the third student "What's yours?" "Fred M. Vinson Jr.," replied voung Vinson. "Then my names' Napoleon," exclaimed the flustered cop, and let all three boys go. NOTE Mrs. Vinson, wife of the chief justice, suggested to her son that after graduating at Washington Washing-ton and Lee he might want to take his law degree at Yale. A Yale degree, de-gree, she intimated, might give him a better springboard into the legal fraternity. Replied her son: "Little Old Center college (Kentucky) was good enough for dad, wasn't it?" Taxes Go Up in Smoke Brass hats have kept it hushed up, but the air force wasted thousands thou-sands of dollars taking worthless movies of the Bikini atomic-bomb tests. For some unexplained reason, rea-son, the job was turned over to inexperienced in-experienced officers. Brig. Gen. Paul Cullen, then a colonel, had charge of the air force camera crews at Bikini. His masterpiece master-piece was a glorified, technicolor training film called "Able Baker Day," which he sent over to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to be edited. But even after the Hollywood experts added their touches, the picture was such a flop and so hostile to the army and navy that it couldn't be shown. Instead the top brass ordered all the extra prints burned, and only two copies kept for the files. Since Cullen had gone ahead and ordered 48 prints, this made an expensive bonfire 1 paid for out of the taxpayers' taxpay-ers' pocket. Cost of the film alone that went up in smoke: 586,000. Since the atomic energy commission commis-sion had called upon all the armed services to cooperate in filming the Bikini explosions, the navy was working on a similar picture at the same time Cullen was making "Able Baker Day." But Cullen was in such a hurry to finish the air force picture first and scoop the navy that he sent an air force tech nical adviser under the pretense of helping the navy, though with secret instructions to obstruct and delay the navy picture. The air force also made another $50,000 technicolor extravaganza of Bikini, called "Phantom Wings." This smelled so that it also was never shown again. It was produced by Maj. James L. Gaylord whose total photographic background, up to that time, had been as a personnel per-sonnel officer. And here is how the air force has rewarded the two officers, who wasted so much of the taxpayers money: Cullen was promoted from colonel to brigadier general, and Gaylord in spite of his first flop-was flop-was placed in charge of filming the recent super-secret tests atEniwetok for the atomic energy commission. He was supposed to have finished 24 films by October 1; so far, hap delivered only five. U. S. Army's Prisoners Unfortunately, several thousand U. S. prisoners still remain in U. S. prisons for desertion, crime, or violation of discipline during the recent re-cent war. Even more tragic, some prisoners have suffered "permanent "perma-nent physical impairment" In solitary soli-tary confinement. This was confessed con-fessed in a recent circular issued by the air force inspector general. Meant only for the eyes of the top brass, the circular warned grimly that regulations governing the treatment of these prisoners were "not being complied com-plied with." "It is essential," the air inspector inspec-tor general stressed, "that prisoners pris-oners in solitary confinement on bread and water be given one full meal every three days and that medical authorities examine them daily. "Failure of medical authorities to perform the prescribed examination examina-tion has, in the past, led to permanent perma-nent physical impairment." |