Show I I I ON Famous Sons Arrested C CHIEF HIEF Justice Fred M. M VInson is not going to Moscow and hii hi name therefore will not become a word by-word with the Russian people Down in Virginia however his name is so well known that it caused a Virginia traffic cop to rub his eyes Among the students at Washing ton and Lee university happen to be the grandson of ot a late famous Virginia senator the great grandson grand grand- son of a famed Civil war hero and the son of ot a chief chiet Justice All three were riding together near Lexington Lexing Lexing- ton Va when arrested for speed speed- ing The policeman proceeding to book them asked their names name Robert E. E Lee IV replied the first student It happened that he was telling the truth The traffic cop looked up quizzically but wrote the name down then asked for the next name Carter Glass III was th the re- re ply The cop wrote the name down then queried the third student yours Fred M. M Vinson Jr replied young Vinson Then my names' names Napoleon exclaimed the flustered cop and let all three boys go NOTE NOTE Mrs Vinson w wife e of ot the chief Justice suggested to her son that after graduating at Washington Washing Washing- ton and Lee he might want to take his law degree at Yale A Yale degree degree degree de de- de- de gree she intimated might give him hima a better springboard into the legal fraternity Replied her son Little Old Center college Kentucky was I 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 thousands thou thou- sands of dollars taking worthless movies of ot the Bikini bomb atomic tests For some unexplained reason reason rea rca son the Job was turned over to Inexperienced inexperienced inexperienced in in- experienced officers Brig Gen Paul Cullen then a colonel had charge of the air force camera crews at Bikini His masterpiece masterpiece masterpiece master master- piece was a glorified technicolor training raining film called Able Baker Day which he sent over to Metro- Metro Mayer 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 he army and navy that It couldn't be e shown Instead the top brass ordered all the e. e extra tra prints burned and only two copies kept for the files Since Cullen had gone ahead and ordered 48 prints this made an expensive bonfire paid paid for out of the taxpayers taxpayers' taxpayers taxpayers' taxpayers taxpayers' ers' ers pocket Cost of the film film alone that went up in smoke Since the atomic energy commission commis commis- sion zion had called upon all aU 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 wasn in n such a hurry to finish the air force orce picture first and scoop the navy that he sent an air force technical tech tech- adviser under the pretense of ot helping the navy though with secret instructions to obstruct and delay the navy picture The air force also made another technicolor extravaganza of ot Bikini called Phantom Wings This smelled so that it also was never shown again It was produced by MaJ James L. L Gaylord Galord whose total photographic background up to that time had been as a personnel personnel personnel per per- officer And here is how the air force has las rewarded the two officers who wasted so much of ot the taxpayers' taxpayers money Cullen was promoted from colonel to brigadier general and Gaylord Gaylord in in spite of ot his first flop flop flop- was vas placed in charge of ot filming the recent super-secret super tests at for or the atomic energy commission He Ie was supposed to have finished 24 films by October 1 so far hay has delivered only five S U U. U S S. S Army's Prisoners Unfortunately several thousand U. U S. S prisoners still remain in U. U S. S I prisons for desertion crime or violation of discipline during the recent recent re reo re- re cent war Even more tragic some prisoners have suffered permanent perma nent physical impairment in solitary solitary soli soli- oli- oli tary confinement This was confessed confessed con- con essed in a recent circular issued by ay the air force torce inspector general Meant only for the eyes of the thc top brass the circular warned grimly that regulations governing the thc treatment of oT these prisoners were not being complied complied com corn plied piled with It is essential the air inspector tor general stressed that prisoners pris 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 the prescribed examination examination examination examina examina- to perform tion has in the past led to permanent permanent perma perma- nent physical impairment |