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DOUBT Tbe Fortean Society Magazine

Edite,l by TIFFANY TIIA YEH Secretary uf the

FORTEAN SOCIETY Box 192 G rand Central Annex

New York City

1931 A D = the yen r 1 F S We use the Fortenn 13-month cnleruJur

Membership available to all Annual Jues $2.00

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First, something called the "Hairy Gho.st of Edison "-chat is, of Edison, Georgia-had made: that name for itself and then appeared 30 miles away, ncar Dawson. A forestry worker fought it with his scythe but finally gave up and ran away, terrified.

. But now, so you shouldn't be skeered no more, Delmar Jones, Director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Atlanta, said "the fantastic shapes reported by 'witnesses' near Edison, Ga., were pure imagination . . . his investigators found ch:at (a) farmer, who was unidentified, had wrapped himself in a sheet like a Halloween gho.st to discourage trespassers from his priTate lake."

Usually, such a steady performer as Elscnder is taken out of this competition, but this item is such a ranker, and we are going to be woefully pressed for space again, so . . . Mrs. Phyllis Mastaglio, of Newcasd� called the Evt'1ti11g Chr01ticl1 to report that, while she was talking on the telephone to her brother, Raymond Robson, in Felling, their convenation was interrupted-2bout 1 1 : 10 a.m.�y a voice saying, "This is the police." Then they heard the Toice of a Canberra bomber pilot off the coast near Amble reporting co Acklington (airfield) that his port engine was on fire. They listened to the conversation for 1 1 minutes ... and the R.A.F. station passing him instructions and telling him that an emergency air strip had been prepared for his landing."

A Chronicle reporter went to work on the story. Aclillngton denied any knowledge of the incident.

Likewise the R.A.F. Station Owton, ditto that at Blyth.

"Mr. G. Green, Newcastle Telephone Manager, said that such a thing (as the onrheard connrsation) is technically impossible."

Nonetheless, the testimony of the lady and her bro:her contains many subtle details which m:�kc invention incredible.

That was Aug. 12. In the CbroNicl, the next d:�y the reporter h:�d talked to one Osmond Edward and his wife Grace, of Gosforth, who recalled :1 ring on their phone one night about two yean ago when they were in bed. A voice c:�lled, "Emergency! Emergency! Keep this line dear." Edward hung up, and the phone rang again. "PI11U1 keep chit line clear," said someone, but Edward hung on, and heard a plane in trouble brought in to a landing, apparently by intercom directions, and-as he thought--at A.cklingon field.

"Mr. Edward reported the incident to The G.P.O. but heard nothing more about it."

Elsender's further· grist for the period includes the news that windmills ARE practical, and will soon be on the market! If you wane to make your own electricity, write to John Brown and Company, London.

Last July 1}, whilst molt of England was suffering heat up to 17£., the coaat Tillap of Flamboroup, Yorkshire, rqistcrcd only

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From what stones? Are chey trying co say chat all diamonds ue going dim and yellow, or only chose one p:awns?

"Some scientists say :m X ray m:achine or :1 cyclotron could bring lwtre co :1 dull di:amond. Others claim atomic udiation would change che colour permanently . . . Another eltpert s:aid flatly: 'It can't be done with X-rays.'

"A dealer said he had seen diamonds creued successfully with fluoride."

Treated for wh:at? Jaundice? Said 2 spokesman for a lo:an company: "The whole

thing is a very traJUparent racket." What whole thing? What is the racket? And if it is so traJUparcnt-where does that first

paragraph come from? Maybe I :am the only bafilehead in the audience. Will somebody in the diamond ncket please explain that "news" to me?

Here's another about people close to home. H:ave you read anything about this in local papers?

IbiJ, May 23: "Farmers living near the Vera Cruz State border. in Mexico, are reported arming and fleeing for safety coday following che hanging, under mysteriow circumstances, of 1 0 fumers during the last cwo months . . . P:anic :1nd efforts to re:ach the safety of che mounuins :1re reported from the towns of Matias, Romero :1nd Kuchitan following che hanging of seven men in the nearby r:ailway town of Ubero by an :armed band of 20 men last Friday ... The raiders (were) described u 'rural police' by some farmers ... Units of Mexic:m Sutc troopers ue now guuding Ubero."

In a paper called the S1111, but where published I cannot decipher, is suted that an Irish child of nine weeks died in Londonderry City and Count Hospital. lu father, Robert Donaldson, was irformed by police. He telephoned the hospital and "arranged to have the body sent by rail to Fintona.'' -40 miles distance. When he inquired of 2 station porter if a coffin had arrived he wu handed a brown paper parcel, with a stick-on label, containing the child's body. The label read, "For immediate delivery. Carriage forward." I don't know what "Carriage forward" may mean, bu� assume it is something like our, "Return postage guaranteed."

In Beech Grove, Bedlington, is a howe where water began flowing under the floor boards :about July 1 . Not a leak, says the water company. Not from 2 drain. Not a spring, say workmen who have been pumping it out for a week without reducing the dow or locating its source. North Mail, 7-8- H .

Senral other Old Faithfuls performed i n their wonted manner. MFS Millar of Alberta reported that, in Kenrick, Ontario, ' the TOlunteer fire department had just bought a new "inhalator" ( ?pulmotor?) lut July when a man drowned. Nobody knew how to get the machine started. Now they arc taking lessons.

MFS Oltcher, co-ed alumnus of good old F.U., sent the news that, only a few minutes after the Ci vii Defense sirem started screaming in VI ashington, D. C., June U, the deputy director of wardens was fired. His name is John. Garrett Underhill,

. and John wu fired for calling the Operation a "fi-uco-not a drill, but a show." Pituburgh PostGautt,, 6-1 8 -H.

Also from Oltcher, several versions o f che story of Jesse F. Reese who lets people sit on his fum near Comanche, Texas, :at $ 2 .00 :1 head, for an hour :lnd :l half. An nengc of roo to 600 people :1 day come :1nd bury their feet or their hands in the dust there which contains :1 trace of ur:anium. They hope co cure themselves of rheumatism, :srthricis :and even cancer, but Reese makes each one sign :1 document stuing ch:at HE has m:ade no curative claims for the place :and did not uk them to come.

An AP photo of the sitters appeared in Nrwsw��lt. 7-Z S - H , and we have it :also from MFS Forster, :as it :appeared in the San Jose (Calif.) M�rcury, 7- 1 2 - H . Cr Russell, :also, Liverpool Echo, 7- 1 1 - H .

Forster's contributions :slso contained a n account of price control in Istanbul, Turkey, 7-29-H. AP cites the Istanbul Milliyd. After the government had permitted increases in sugar :and "transport" prices, the "Bordello M:adams' Associ:acion" petitioned for an increase in their rates. The gov't turned them down on the ground chat, while it could control the price of goods, it could not regulate services.

A bit of inconsistency there, even if Milliyd w:as jesting. Is not "cr:ansport" also :1 service?·

In Chicago is a m:an who has the police deputment upset bec:ause he p:awns money. There's nothing illeg:1l about chat, so the cops charged him with "disorderly conduct" :and held him while they tried to find out wh:at he was up to, :lS if it were any of their bwiness.

The man is Joseph K. Johnson, :1 butcher, :and he has pawned between $7f0 and $ 1 000 in 1 f pawnshops in che lut 3 years. It cons him 3 o/o every time he moves money from one pawnshop to another, but if he doesn't mind, why should the police?

Judge Emmett Morrisey dismissed the case, saying, "there's- something in the wind here, and I can't smell it.'' Pittsburgh Post-GtJutl1, 7-8 - H and 7-9-H.

In North Puk, near Pittsburgh is a sp�g which has been dubbed "the Fountain of Youth," :and for years people have come from miles around to drink the water and carry it home.

Now Charles R. Stowell, "regional sanitarian for the State Health Department" has ordered the spring. closed to the public. No harm is known to have come to anyone from drinking the water, no complainu whatever, but a regional sanitarian has to do something to jwtify his existence and so he found "coliform organisms" in the water. Coliform organisms arc normally found in the intestinal tracts of all living humaJU and animals. Ncnrthcless, the Fountain of Youth is c:loeed "until it can be adequately chlorinated." Pittsburgh Press, r - 1 1 -H.

Oltchcr matches the radioacti..-e duclt eggs, above, with one laid by a hen, in the WorlJ. Almta114c, 1 9 H old style, p. 382.

Anonymous found this in theN. Y. Nrws, 7-3-H: "The Army today notUied iu odicers to quit calling chemical, germ and radiological material 'mass destruction' weapons." From now on these mass destruc:tion weapons will be called 'special purpose' weapons. Maybe that will fool the masses of women and children who· arc destroyed by these material• for the Army's . special purposa4

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MARKHAM ERUPTS

Out of Denver comes a flow of Forteana, 1 7 epistles wide, 7 3 pages long, and of depth beyond sounding, all from MFS Markham whose contributions you have admired here before. All chu is original scuff and does not count the body of press clips which came along in between.

You will have the opportunity to read a good part of Markham's cogitations in future issues, but in chis cramped space we can only touch the high spou of his gleanings from the news.

The piece that moved me most, and should be made the basis for a lead article with both fi.su swinging, appeared in the Denver Pod, J - 1 8- H . It's an AP dupatch from Washington, D . C.

"In a report written by Representative Fogarty (D) of Rhode Island, the (appropriations) committee said from J million to 1 million children are in the 'mentally retarded' category, 'yet the problem has gone almost unnoticed by the leaders in education and in medical research.' ••

UNNOTICED, hell! If the "leaders in education and in medical research'' as well u the Congress and all its committees, and all their sisters and their cousins and their aunts, were not doing everything in their power to retard the mentality of the children the problem would not exist.

Pertinent is another squib in the batch, from the Rocky Moant11in N'ws, 4-8- 1 4. The headline reads, U.S. MIUTARY MAY NEED SUB-NORMAL PERSONS, and the article quotes Capt. Elmer L. Caveny, head of the neuropsychiatric branch of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, speaking in Chicago. He said that "manpower planning for future emergencies must provide for the mentally marginal, substandard and handicapped individuals."

ElDIU can say that again. What other kind of man would voluntarily join his vicious, degrading, monkey-suit brotherhood?

Out ip .. L.A., Henry Quintana was found dead under a bridge. It wu learned that his "home" wu Pueblo, Colo. The body wu sent there with a coroner's certiiicates attesting death by "coronary sclerosiJ".

Deputy Coroner A. C. Jones of Pueblo discovered a wound in the abdomen. Coroner C. N. Caldwell of Pueblo removed a bullet slug. "The bullet wu sent to Los Angeles police with a request for further investigation." Rocky Mmmt11in Nrws, J - 1 0- S 4.

Oltcher has a tie-in with that, but in reverse. Elmer Glacklin was found bleeding from um and wrist in his hotel room. His condition was critic:�.l fro=n lou of blood. A note pinned to a calendar indicated a suicide attempt. "Doctors claimed the wounds were at lease four days old" but "guests of the hotel said they had seen Mr. Glacklin walking around luc night" and-"No trace of a weapon was found." Piltsb.rgh Pr,s, 7-1- 1 1 .

V:1nce L. Wise, principal of Steele School, Denver, sent parents of his students a mimeographed letter of school newa containing chis note: "Will you please help to see that children do not bring knives and guns of any kind to school? It has long been the policy of Steele School that pup.ila not carry knives and guns co school. We· are sure you realize the reason for this policy."

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If a non resident may be permitted a guess , is it to keep the students' pockets from bulging?

Lase October 1, the Denver Post quoted Rep. Charles B. Deane (D) o£ N. C., speaking at Mackin:�.c Isbnd. Mich. "That Americ:1 (should be U.S.A.) will lose its fight against communism in this country unless ic finds a superior ideology b:I.Sed on absolute moral standards. Unless we in Americ:1 (should be U.S.A.) solve our ideological problems we will be sunk."

On Oct. 1 0 , a headline in the Rocky Mou1ttflin Nrws showed how seriously Rep. Deane's remarks had been taken. NEW COURSE IN KILLING IS PLANNED BY ARMY, and the story begins, "Dr. Francu E. Jones wants co make a more efficient killer out of the American (should be U.S.A. ) \/ soldier. In hu opinion, a doughfooc who uses two i \_ bullets to kill one man is 1 0 per cent off. A psychologist on loan from George W:�.Shington University to the Army (at Fort Benning, Ga.), Jones is evolving and testing methods to m:1ke more competent killers."

If memory serves correctly, George Washington University is a Roman Catholic institution.

In a Scripps-Howard dispatch to the Rocky Moanlt�ill N nvs, S - 1 9- S f , this list of observations appears. YS has eliminated the semantic garbage.

· In Russia

there are:-"No air raid sirens.

"No drills.

"No demonstrations.

"No public evacuation plans.

"No 'in case of wu' signs on the highways. "No shelters.

"No newspaper editorials demanding same.

"Students of Soviet life cannot remember seeing

a single reference in Russian newspapers or magazines co civil defense as we understand it-methods to protect civilian populations. especially in large cities, from the destruction of nuclear war.

"There have been no published accounts of radar defenses for Russian cities."

In a word, the suckers trust us. So--now that we have our "absolute moral ideology" all straightened out-now that we have changed the name of "mass destruction" weapons-now that we have college Profs making us more efficient killen---' what are we waiting for? What the hell good is Moral Rearmament if you don't move in when The Enemy's guard is. down?

Markham saw this in the Denver Post, 4-7- H. "The French News agency said Thursday police hue arrested a man they believe has been putting needles in asparagus sold l'lear site of a U.S. air base in Morocco." A woman u Sidi Slimane pricked her finger on one. ''Examining the rest of the bunch, she found a needle in each stalk." Several similar bunches were found in local markets.

And the last of Markh:�.m for chis session: "A Colorado Springs pediatrician revealed Saturday that the number of juvenile ulcers in his care jumped a fantastic 600 per cent in the first three months after Colorado Springs got TV." Roc-lt.y M0111tt11in Nnvs, 4- f - f4.

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THOSE HOSES

The only mystery :1bout why water hoses bury themselves in certain types of soil is the same mystery as why does water usually run down hill, or why do guys like gals. For five years YS lived in the S:1n Fernando V :1lley, :1nd did a lot of sprinkling with :1 hose. Every time :1 hose was left running in m :�ppropriate position it crawled into the ground. It will be genuine Forteana when a hose does NOT do that.

The papers are mighty hard up for "news" when they begin beating the drum for the ordinary. Probably the reporters who went off their nuts on the subject would think a Manx cat c:1mc from Mars in a saucer.

THAT WINDOW

The plate glass that healed itself reminds one of the insects which now fatten :1nd thrive on DDT. After several years of splintering for no rcason :It all at :�ll, glass has now developed the defense mcchan.Um of human skin :1nd animal hide. Break it, it grows together again, and apparently lc:�.ves a less discernible scar than most surgeons.

For the benefit of anyone who may have missed it, the story is, th:m on Thursday, June 30 old style, "lightning" struck the display window in the front of Eleanor Cline's dress shop, International Falls, Minn.

There, at the outset is Forteana. Since when has "glass''--one of the better known non-conductor,__ :1ttracced lightning? But, we may assume that the "strike'' was of the metal frame around the glass, not the pane itself. All the accounts we have are identical save one. The Oklahoma City Tim's inserts this sentmce which does not occur in any other of the AP reprints: "She (Mrs. Cline) said the light was more like a flash than like a bolt of lightning." All agree that "no one was hurt and nothing in the store was scorched."

A crack was opened in the glass, they say, an eighth· of an inch wide and some eight feet long. Rain came through it, so the dresses had to be moved out of the window.

Witnesses attesting the crack, besides Mrs. Cline, are Fire Chief Vernin McMicken and twenty nameless.

The story does not state when the glass people were called, but glaziers seldom work in the rain, so, we ask, how long did the storm last? Not waiting for an answer, the story states that "workmen arri�ed • half hour latcr"-that is, after they were called--and the crac.lt was gone. All that remained wu a strca.lt "like a pencil mark, and 'We couldn't rub it off!' Cr E. S. Anderson, Borden, Scandrett, and ma.ny othcn who do not •rite their names on their data.

NOT FOR US

Amongst the Gustine data is a snip from Tnrtpo, a mag, 7-12 H, stating that the Vatican "has announced that it is willing to work with the U.N. in planning a world calendar." But the details go on to describe a calendar of "equal quarters" but months quite unequal in length. Why change?

Also in hand is one from Russell, Vienna dateline, nating that "Communist Czechoslovakia will introduce a so-called World Calendar from j:1nuary 1, 19 S 6." The details look to be the same :.u the Vatican's with months of unequal length.

Wouldn't you know that when the Vatican and those Damned Reds got together on something they would both be wrong?

MRS. THEODORE DREISER Helen, the widow of Theodore Drciser, she an

Honorary Life Member, and he a Founder of the Fortcan Society, died in Gcesham, Oregon, 9-22-H old style.

FALLS

Worms, in Central Finland, says Reuter from Helsinki, night of S -H - H old style. ''Violent winds whipped th:m up from a wet meadow and blew them onto the town of Kinom:�eki." Any other questions? Cr C. Williams. ! "A block of ice found in a garden at Loughtoa

· is beli::ved to have hllcn from :1n airpl�ne." That is :1ll. Evt'ning Standard, 6- 1 - H . Cr N. Harris.

Whether Boating on the water oc in the air is no': stated, but, ''yellow dust" in :1 "belt" 1 S miles long, reported by the Japanese freighter Shinchi M:�ru, 80 miles north of Keelung, Formosa. Called "unexplained." Journal Ev"'Y Evnting, 7-2 -S S. Cr Wrobbel.

•• A piece of icc measuring four by six inches :1nd ·· weighing six pounds fell on a Brampton, One., � rooftop today during a hailstorm. Officials said

they believe it was the largest hailstone on record." Philadelphia Inq-uirt'r, 7- 16- H. Cr W rob bel-who should tell those officials to read Fort, eh?

Wrobbel also sent us a "black snow" over Geneva. Switzerland, but that occurs whenever U. S. representatives ue there, and its cause is known./ It's the waste paper of the delegates, including Dulles' doodles, which is burned in the hotel furnace to keep native junkmcn from finding out how stupid our diplomats are. Journ��l Evt'ry EvNJing, 7-2 1 -H.

Sheets of "filmy, transparent pl:.utic", of various sizes and shapes, falling around Wilton, C:1lif., and on ranches for miles around, through the last two weeks of July and up to Aug. 4. The largest piece, "pretty well shredded", measured 7 S by S O to 60 feet. Nobody will admit knowing, :1nd :�11 guesses are brushed aside. Sacramento Union, 7-29 :1nd 84. Cr W akeficld.

In an :�djoining column in the earliec issue, :1 fall of nails in Rariton, N. J. Daniel Funchino appears to have been the target. One nail '"stuck in bis arm". AP states that, "Pigeons had been taking them from a box of nails a carpenter left in a tower" etc. And--as everybody knows-pigeons h•tr Franchinos.

The fall of a sturgeon, four feet long, "weighing more than 1� pounds," on the porch of Walter Hudson at Grand Bay, New Brunswick, may inspire some incredulity. Be pleased to remember that this is not our story, but one put out by AP. Mr. Hudson subdued the live fish with a club, and then kept it alive "for some time" in a tub of water.

An eagle is suggested as the fisherman. "There were small claw marks in the (fish's) tail." Cr Goldstein and Steinberg.

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RUSSEL'S BEST The value of human life in India is fairly exem

plified by � Reuter dispatch to the Liverpool Echo, printed 8-l J - f f .

Some 200 unburied bodies have been lying o n the shore of Rupkundt Lake, in the Himalayas, north of Nainital, since they �ere disconred in September 1 9-42, old style, and nobody knows how long before that, "obviowly, for years," says the finder, Mr. H. K. Madhwal. The only other person known to have seen the bodies was Lt. Hamilton of the British Army, also in 1 9 .. 2.

England was still in the saddle then, but "becuse the authorities were too preoccupied with the war effort, no steps were taken to investigate the tragedy . . . Nothing can be done until September, however (that is to say this month jwt expired), aa heavy momoon rains make the lake in:acces�ible until then.''

The dear old Echo, again with the hdp of Reuter, reports a flourishing racket in Germany. West German firms have been doing wdl with "an electrical device which is claimed to prevent illness by neu tralizing the effect of 'earth rays' on the body.''

An enterprising Briton, Mn. Muriel Howonh, of no stated �ddrcss, seven yean ago founded the IAIL or IF AIFTL, Institute for Atomic Information for the Layman. "The Institute runs monthly atomic energy club meetings in London for women, and now Mrs. Howorth plans a book for the housewife with the tide, Atom •1tJ E"'·"

One of the gang of convicts working in Mbabane, ·swaziland, made a break for it. A guard shot "at his feet". The man stopped �nd stood until handcuffed and put in the wagon. Then he died. No trace of his having been hit could be found on his body. Echo, 8 - 1 9-H.

We can at least tie that with a datum from the L.A. Tiwus, 11-4-14, which tdls of two J-yearold boys "hunting" in a vacant lot at Gnnd Rapids, Mich., with a broken pop-gun. They pointed the gun n a pheasant in a tree, shouted, ••Bang!" :and the bird fell. They brought it home--otlivc.

OAT A BLIZZARD

Our guess is that MFS Gwtine haa been hoarding Forteana for yean, perhaps with :a view toward publishing a book of his own, but when his mother could no longer sweep under his bed, she said, "You get that TNT out of here!"

True or not, it aJJ landed on TT in a shower as big u hailstones, and sorting it 'will take a while. It jwt goes to show bow greatly we need more space, because the Gwtinc countribution is a wheacy lot of data, and that brinp w to the vari-colored fall of lctten about a biger DOUBT and incraMd dues.

An amazing number responded, and with rouaing enthusium. AI a matter of face, to date, only one dissent hu been received, and that is essential :o make the move /xnu. fiJ, Fortean.

On details, some difference developed. Only that one member objected to raising dues to $ ... 00, but a majority said, ••Don't go back to the old page size. just gin w more pages of the present size."

That's okay with YS, but several took occaaion to complain about the small size of our present type, thereby hooking w on the horm of :a new dilcmm�

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I£ we :1dd 8 pages and increase the type 'ize throughout, the one will cancel out a substanti:1l portion of the other. So, please �wer me these questions:

Is the present type too small to read with ease? Which would you rather, more matter or larger

type? MITCHELL'S BEST

The West German province of Hesse has h:1lted anti-Polio injections of the Salk formula, f - 2 1 - 1 J . The British Government-backed program for Salk inoculations has been 'Cancelled, 7- 1 6- H , both N. Y. Tim, f.

In Peoria, Ill., on that same drill day that the Washington man called a "fiasco"--6-H-JJ-no drill was hdd. The local Civil Defense Director, Marvin L. Merritt, said, "I jwt can't see a lot of people running around with armbands on."'

In Coral Gables, Fla., Mrs. Martha Brumenbach has gone on a "fast unto death"---or until her son is released from drafted military service. Her son is in :u � dentist. N�wJJtJy, 7- 1 8- H. We should have " follow up on that by now but none has �ppeared.

SATELLITE EXPOSED "Please expose this Artificial Satellite bwiness,"

writes MFS Gee, from London, "on present showing it is extremely doubtful if anything can get that high off the earth and keep there."

The lady's point is well taken if we approach these announcements Bat-footcdly, with the same literal-mindedncss that causes the President of the United States to accept the dreams of his technological propagandisu aa fact, but--are we Flatfeet or arc we Forte:an.s? If we be Forteans, the press releases threatening to "launch arti.6.cial satellites" are self-expoli.ng. The purposes of such announcements are accomplished by the announcemcnu themselves. It is �o more necessary for such drawingboard satdlita to stay aloft than for God to make a six-year-old calf in a day. AI long· as thowands of men can be employed in the project, and billions of dollan spent on the experiments, what officeholder or scientist era whether the man-made moons will stay up there or not?

Let there be ten thousand launchings, say we. It is a damned sight better to keep the economy inBated with this nonsense than by burning 1 &-yearold schoolboys to death with napalm.

DOWN THE DRAIN by Jay J. M. Scandrett

(l11 fllfiW�r to our •PP�11I /or • volu1'111ur to l11lu ov'r • c'rllli1t b•lch of a.t• which haJ bu1t piliJtg »;--.Jtd tlw lilu of which COiflilfJU'f to 11rri11r ;,. JI,.Jy flow-who slxnJJ Jt,p /orw•rJ b.t lh•t olJ-tnr., p..,.;hld,r •Jtd IUclur /rom lltvtty b.clt., MFS /•Y ]. M. Sc•Jtdrdl. Foll0111i1tg bn, is his •wJit,J rmJnmg of lh•l ,..t,,.;.J. Pnh.;s Ibis ;, tlw blgimriftg o/ • """ J,;.rtWUJtl ;,. DOUBT, ¥1fi,SI, of C'tnlrSI, Ibis poi11lmg {aJtgff SCtJTIS tJw vnJ 0111 o/ tlw milil•ry. U1tlil Ibn., •ll o•r th•Jtlu to J•y J. /or "DOWJt th, DrlliJt." EJ.) WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELFEVIDENT:

I. Th:�t, primarily, to secure the righu and powen of the Owncn of Big Bwincss, governments, especially the United States Government, arc instituted :among men;

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II. Th.t, secondarily and. expediently, the Ownen of Big Agriculture, and Big Labor Unions, may receive seemly material recognition in proportion to their capacity to generate political pressure;

III. That all other denizens of the terrU!l, to wit, the great majority, are, and of right ought to be, glad to subordinate their lives, their fornmes, and their sacred honor to the Governmental Policies hereinbefore specified;

( Youse and me� The booboisie And the yokelry, Mwt think we're free. )

IV. Tht�t anyone in any wise recalcitrant, unenthusiastic, or lax in approving the foregoing obviowly Sacred and Benign Principles is a pinko, a security risk, a fellow-trneler, a creeping socialist, a subversive, an anarchist, a filthy bastard, and a communist, deserving nothing better than enermi:. nation;

V. T htll the Giant Bwiness Corporation is the Image of God : Immortal, Inhuman, Inexorable, and the Giver of Every Good and Perfect Gift; and it is altogether sweet and proper for w jackaua to be killed in far distant places unto the uttermost reaches of the globe, or even ch': nmu-menu, that the Blessed Privileges of such Reverend and Godlike Creatures may continue uninterrupted and burgeoning;

( "If I should die, say only this of me: There is some comer of a foreign field That is forever asinine. ")

VI. That ••whatever is good for General Moton is good for the United States" and the universe.

VII. That, in furtherance of the Governmental Objectives hereinbefore devoutly recognized, the most dlicient imaginable agency for the absorption of the fruits of human and mechanical endeavor, at a suitable profit, is a gigantic military establishment, endowed by the Creator with insatiable appetites (such being indeed the prime function of the Military Establishment ) , for thw perpetual produCtion at a high level, and without the gruesome peril of unsold inventory, is assured, and therefore,-

VTII. That the steadfast and staunch loyalty of the intermediaries, to wit, political office-holden, should be assured by a seemly recognition of their right to partake of the rich gravy;

IX. That there should be officially constituted and authorized a superb quantity of Big Brass, to effectuate the Holy Principles hereinbefore :reverently approved ;

X. That, nevertheless, it is deemed prudent not to stress the fact that waste is of the essence of the procedure, but rather to pretend that the waste is but incidental, like the fleas on the: dog, and to be vigilantly deprecated.

( "Calling all cars! Calling all cars! Go to Washington! Go to Washington! Investigate go·vernmental extraYagancef Investigate governmental extravagance!· That is all ! '')

The following items are merely a few sample drippings from the capacious tank; and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is strictly fortuitow.

Left Behind In War Areas Hundreds of bombers; aircraft hangars; tanks un

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filled with military supplies; uncounted drums of petroleum products ; masses of heavy and light artillery.-N. Y. Sunday News Magazine ( With photognphs ) , 6-8 -47.

MINE IN SEA REPORT - Brighton Sur, 1 2-22-0-C ylindrical object believed to be a mine seen otf shore by Ovingdean people, drifting slowly toward Brighton.

FISHERMEN HAUL UP A 500 -LB. UNEXPLODED BOMB-- ( reference undecipherable ) 1 9 5 5 -The fishing smack Zyava made the catch in Liverpool Bay with a net.

KOREAN SCRAP-Newsweek, 9-3 - 5 1-" . . . pro ducers are starting a campaign to have the metal shipped right to America."

REPORTED DEAD IN SHIP BLAST-N. Y . Times, 1-10-21 F5--"Seven crewmen were reported killed . . . as World War II shells were being loaded" (at Taipei, Formosa ) "to be dumped at sea.''

GAME PRESERVE-Oakland Tribune, 1 1 -22 - 0 -"Masses o f United St:ltes Army equipment and more particularly of munitions are stored in wooded are:u near Kaiserslautern, Germany, surrounded by high fences and guarded carefully. The areas are 'otf limits' to everyone. Deer and hare have discovered these refuges and are making the most of them, feeding unconcernedly in the view of hunters who don't dare risk a shot."

U. S. OWNS 60 ACRES IN CITY OF A.J.vlSTERDAM. WHY? NO ONE KNOWS.-Boston Globe, 2-7- 5 4---"Rep. James B. Utt ( Rep. Cal. ) is all set for critics of Congressional junketing abroad this past summer.

"He not only reminds Howe members of the traveling Congressmen who discovered a multimillion dollar, 80-mile pipeline constructed by the Air Force which was laid . to carry gasoline for an airfield that was never built, but points out also that one Howe member discovered millions of board feet of lumber rotting in a desert dump abroad, which wu salvaged for over $ 10 ,000,000. The Congressman's trip cost the taxpayers $ 1 0,000.

"Utt also noted that one Congressional committee discovered that the United States owned 60 acres of high-priced land in the middle of Amsterdam, but couldn't fi nd anybody in our government who knew why it had been purchased, or what for."

MINE WASHED UP AT NEWBIGGEN- ( reference illegible) 3 - 1 3 - 1 5-Near Edinburgh, Scotland.

Ships HUDSON RIVER RESERVE-A FLEET IN

BEING :-N. Y. Times Mag. 1 0- 1 7-48-ln this on� location, 1 60 ships "laid up" ( Tompkins Cove ) . Continuous· upkeep and materials costs, with 300 permanent keeper-uppers. There are at least eight other ••sites" · in we, including those near San Francisco, Mobile and Newport News. There are some 2,000 ships costing S-4,000 per ship per year.

SCRAPPING SHIP COSTING $ 9 , 100,000 IRKS CONGRESSMAN-Boston Globe, 1 -2+14---Tbe ship in question was the Corn Husker Mariner, "only six months old . . . one of 3 f high-speed cargo vessels congress ordered constructed."

BARGAIN WARSHIPs--A. P., 1 1 -24- 5 0-"U. S. Government officials said today that 'bargain price' surplw U. S. warships have been offered to the Argentine, Brazil, and Chile to maintain the existing naval balance in South America. The total number

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Atom-Bomb TWO GREAT DELUSIONS ABOUT THE

A-BOMB-N. Y. Times M:ag., 7 - 1 0 -48 (H:ansen W. B:aldwin) -( 1) "That the bomb insures complete security," ( 2 ) "that secrecy means security."

ATOMIC WORK COST UP TO $4,9 38_,0 9 2.,9 3 9 -N. Y . Times, 1 - 3 1 - 5 2.

GIANT ATOM HOOP TO CREATE ENERGY OF 2J BILLION VOLT5-N. Y. Times, 1 - 1 0 - f ...._ ". . . to be built at Brookh:aven for $ 20,000,000, will use new 'strong focusing' principles." (The strong-focusing principle is not mentioned. It ain't new.)

SEALED CONTAINERS DROPPED BY NAVY IN ATLANTIC-(reference illegible) , 1 -29- H" I S O O tons of r:adio:active w:aste into 1 200 fathoms southwest of L:and's End . . . elaborate precautiona had been taken to insure that che containers did not disintegrate until their contents h:ad become harmless. In some cases chis would not be for 3 0 years. Some of the m;uerial . • . would h:ave gone into disused coal mines in Gloucestershire, but the plans had to be changed because of local protests." (Contemptible cowards, chose Gloucestershire:ms !)

POLICE DUMP LOAD OF WAR SOUVENIRsVERY EXPLOSIVE-Buffalo Evening News, 1 - 1 f - f4 -"Lake Erie swallowed a 'hot' dish today . . . outside the breakwall . . . discarded wu souvenirs . . • 200 small-bore shells, 2 f hand grenades, a live shell-detonator and several hundred dynamite bl:asting caps . . . 'People ue careless about how they throw out battle souvenirs,' Mr. Schmidt" (Police laboratory director) "added. He said some of the explosives were turned in from garbage c:ans, vac:ant lots, and scrap-pile shipments reaching local foundries.''

CLAY MAY SAVE 2 1TH CENTURY FROM A-LAB WASTE RAY5-Newsday, 6-23 - 1 4-"According to a finding m:adc public today :at the Inter,. n:ational Congress of Nuclear Engineering . . . at the University of Michigan by Brookh:aven National Atomic Lab Scientist L. P. Hatch . . . 'Since the radioactive elements will retain their toxic properties t,hroughout their entire period of existence, reg:ardless of any physical, chemical, or biological forms they may eventually take, it is clear th:at we c:annot simply discharge the fission product w:astes from nuclear reactors (atomic piles) into the streams, or the ground, or into oce:ans, or hold them :as soluble subst:ances in stockpiles, ponds, or even in tanks and :at the same time give :assurances of s:afe di.spos:al for centuries to come', Hatch asserted.

"This. Hatch s:aid, if done, would me:an th:at there would be hidden time bombs which would thre:aten men hundreds of years frem now . • • Hatch explained th:at 'an :attempt' is being m:ade at Broolth:ann to chemically combine radioactive subst:anca within st:able, solid subst:anccs. 'One st:able material,' he said, 'which shows consider:able promise . . • is :a JUnd of d:ay known :as montmorillonite • . . Briefiy, the r:adioactive fission products :are ab.Orbed in the cl:ay· mineral by :a process known u an ion exchange and :an then fixed there by beating the cl:ay to :a high temper:ature. The end result is :a radioactive ceramic product which is intmded for final burial,'

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wASHINGTON CALLING - Scripps-Howard, 2 - 1 1 - f !-"Underground 'Penugon' costing millions is being built in mountains near Maryland-Pennsylvani:a border."

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formed the town bo:ard yesterday chat construction of a guided missile site in North Amityville will sure on schedule next month. . . . Leading the fight co enlist board opposition were the Central Long Island Branch of the National Association for the Advancements of Colored People and the North Amityville Civic As.wciation.

"Civic leader Edw:ud Greene of Wyandanch , a retired Nni Yor.k. policeman, had criticized the opposition group. He said that there were 'a lot of floaters behind it and the people of chis town are fed up with them.' "

"THE BRAIN" BLASTS ROBOTS - London Herald, S - 1 -4- J +-"The latest and deadliest of antiaircraft guns-nicknamed 'The Bcain'-showed its paces yesterday. The gun, an American 7S -millimeter, is the fine to incorporate radar :md a computer on the mounting. It can: Pick up and automatically track a plane 1 S miles away. Fire -4 J shells a minute u p co 7,2 0 0 yards ( about four miles) . Shoot with equal efficiency by day or night, in any weather, as the crew does not need co see the c:arget . . . . In a few seconds it shot three 2 J O m.p.h. radio-controlled robot planes out of the s.k.y. It is claimed to be effective against planes traveling at 900 m.p.h." Cost of each : £ 1 1 2 ,000.

REPUBLIC SEES PROSPEROUS ' s J. PROFITS UP -400% IN FIRST QUARTER __: Newsday, J - 1 1 - J S - "Wilmington, Del. - Republic Aviation Corp.'s fine-quarter profits :are up more than -400 per cent over the same period last year, and th: F:armingdale airplane firm expects a big year, Mundy I. Peale, president, cold stockholders ;&t the company's annual meeting yesterday. . . . Sales of $ 1 2-4,1 3 1 , 1 1 2 were markedly up in the fine quarter of this year. . . . The company is in volume production of F-84F Thundentreak fighter bombers and RF-8-4F photo recoDDaiuancc planes • . . • Denlopment of the F- 1 0 J, the 'follow up' airplane for the F-84 series, is progressing smoothly • • • . The company hu an experimental contnct for a radically new interceptor model; its guided miuilc program is moving along well. • • • Republic planes arc sening now in Japan and Formosa as well as in NATO countries."

AIR FORCE ASSAILED ON ROCKET CONTRACT-N. Y. Times, -4 1 S - 2 J F5-"Investigators ch:arged today that the Air Force had given a SJ ,660,000 contract for rocket launchers to a California concern after the Navy had rejected some of the company's launchers as 'a hazard to planes. '

ARMY SECRET CLASSIFIED RIGHT OUT OF ARMY-N. Y. Times, J - 1 8- H-"Robert T. Stevens, Secretary of the Army, asked CongrcSi · today to approve $4 J ,000,000 in military construction work so secret that even he doa not know what it is."

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2 6' MILLIONS FOR T ANKS-N. Y. Daily News, 7- 1 1-.J-4.

ARMY ACCOUNTS FOR 9,000 • TANKS THOUGHT LOST-Seattle Times, 1 1 - 1 J - s o-"Thc committee" (on the Hoover Report ) "reported the Army couldn't account for 9,000 tanks during the three yean following V-J Day. But the Army, after a three-hour check, came up with the report saying only 7, 1 70 were 'missing' in the fine place. All since have been accounted for, it added. The

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ADMIRAL DEFIES ANYONE TO SAY LIFTTRUCKS AREN'T JUNK-Savannah Evening Press, 6-2 2 - J S-". . . came with gasoline engines under the drivers' seats. They seemed co squirt raw gasoline onto the exhaust pipes when an innocent customer stepped on the starter. This causes ;�n explosion which wasn't lethal as a rule, but which left his ears ringing . . . The committee, it developed, has been investigating Gibson trucks now for a long time . . .it would be pleased when all 8 8 J of them are sold for junk. The Gibson Manuf:cturing Co. of Longmont, Colo., it turned out further, had been a manufacturer of garden tractors and lawn mowers. Somebody in the military ( name still not available ) decided the grass-cutting specialists could make life-trucks, too, and awarded them a contract for $ 2 , 1 00,000 worth.

"Gibson and Co. started delivery in a hurry bac.k. in 1 9 S O , but nobody dared hurry i ts merchandise. Pieces kept falling off these behemoths, which continued to turn ov� when negotiating corners, and to envelope themselves in noise and black smoke when their starter buttons were touched.

"The navy delivered 600 of these trucks to the army and kept 28 f of them. Representative Riehlman said it also spent between $ 3 00,000 and $-400,000 trying co rebuild them so the driven could wor.k. without fear of being maimed, or worse. This was money down the flame-spurting carburetors. The machines kept on disintegrating. So eventually they were parked, shiny and new, in supply depots around the country.

"They're junk for sure, and the admiral defies anyone to say otherwise. '' ( How about yourself, Admiral? )

CHRYSLER. WINS BIG TANK OR.DER-N. Y. World-Telegram, 9-29-J+-'•. · . . News of the decision came a few days after Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D. Wash. ) had charged that General Moton Corp., which Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson formerly headed, had been receiving the bulk of military contracts. Mr. Wilson's reply was chat the majority of the orders with G.M. had been placed under the previous administration."

The Chrysler deal was "a $ 1 60,60 1 ,200 contract . . . for production of Patton M-48 medium tanks . . . part of a $ 2 66 ,000,000 vehicle procurement project announced by the Army July 1 J . "

LATEST NEWs-United Press, 9-29-J+-"The Army disclosed today that the Chrysler Corp. soon 'Will begin production of a long-r:mge guided missile called the Bedstonc. It said Chrysler had contracts totaling more than $22,000,000 for production of the miuilc." ( How do you like tbntt apples, you snoopy old Democrat? )

Surplus Equipment ARMS FOR. THE ATLANTIC PACT-N. Y.

Tunes Mas., 8 - 1 -4-49 (with piccures)-" 3 9,000,000 square feet of outside storage in addition to covered spaces." "Hundreda of mobile gun mounts" kept in condition in scaled metal containers. Etc.

COMMITTEE WAS IMPRESSED BY SURPLUS RUBBER. HE.ELS-SavaDDah Evening Press, 6-24-H -"The subject today is heels. Millions of heels. Army heels. Navy heels. Air Force heels. Rubber heels, of course. Seems that a special committee of

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government follu went on a tour of military warehouses . . . The committeemen were particularly impressed by heels. They saw w:arehowes in Schenectady, N. Y., jammed with heels, floor to ceiling and wall to wall. . . . The committee �ventually wrote a report, saying it had seen in military warehouses between 1 0 ,000,000 and 1 2 ,000,000 pairs of surplus rubber heels. That, as even :1 mere civilian like a congressman can figure out, is a lot of heels.

"So the government operating subcommittee a.sked Maj. Gen- Andrew T. McNamara of the Army's surplus department how come be bad 10 many heels in Schenectady • . . . The general . . • said 1 0 ,000,000 was a Iitle high. He pulled out a piece of paper which showed that the Army's entire heel supply amounted to J ,792,000 pain. He did not know how many heels the Navy and Air Force had."

NO MORE BOLTS, PLEASE, FOR THIS ARMY ENGINEER-Ass. Pres�, 8 - 1 8 - 1 2-"The young engineer depot commander held up his band in resignation and said: 'Please do something about the bolts. '

" He has 1 1 , 1 H bolts today. . " 'More come in on every train from Pusan,' he

said. 'I can't get rid. of them.' "They are all eighteen-inch steel bolts, three

quarters of an inch thick- About all they are used for iJ to build timber trestle bridges, the lieutenant said. He figures be has enough on hand for J 00 bridges each finy feet long, about the normal length for Korea.

" 'I told another engineer outttt there was a shortage of eighteen-inch bolts,'' he said. 'I got rid of ten boxes that way. Those guys probably still han thOM ten boxes. It didn't do me much good,' he added. 'I got in thirty boxes from Pusan the next day. ' ''

ILLINOIS POLICE FIND PLANE VALVES WORTH MILLION ON DUMP GROUND-U.P. , 1 1 -23 -49-"State police reported today that they have found more than s r,ooo,ooo worth of high quality Army aircraft engine valves discarded in a suburban dumping ground.

"Fonner officials of the Dodge-Chicago �ircnft plant said the valves, made of tungsten carbide steel, were dumped after the war. The plant made 1 & -cylinder engines for B-29 bombers. . . .

"Officials said the Army gave a.s its reason for dumping the valves the fact that the cost of disassembling :md scrapping them would be prohibitive.

. But one airline said it currently iJ paying $71 apiece for valves of the same type. The Army and Nary also have in use planes of the type which could use the TalTes, arutioa experts said."

TilE NAVY CONTINUES TO DRINK QUICKMIX UNDER FORCED DRAFr-Sannah Enning Press, 6-2 6- H-.. Let us pity today the satiated sailors faced with consuming thirty-elena million gallons of a drink (fUSt add water and sugar and stir ) known as Quix-Mix, orange flaTor, deal, but the salts in our Nary are going to drink every l::st tank of it. Some of them like it. . . .

"Ellis said . . • some stewards refused to inflict it on their passengers. "I understand there iJ a serious question about the utility of thiJ material, • added Ellis. who has been a gonmment man now

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"Rear Admiral Neil K. Dietrich . . . swore under oath that some people like it. . . . "

WRONG CONCERN NAMED-N. Y. Times. 6-29- f 1-"A United Press dispatch incorrectly identified Hal B. G rubbs & Co. of Long Beach , Calif., as the manufacturer of . . . Quix . . . . The G rubbs Company said it had no part in making the sale to the Navy and merely made deliveries from its warehouses on behalf of the manufacturer's representatives."

Miscellaneous Waste

BILLIONS FOR DEFENSE-HOW MUCH FOR WASTE?-Readen Digest, Feb. 1 949-

Bomben: $4,000,000 each; Warships : $ 1 1 0,000,000 each ; Military budget for 1 9 f 0 : $ J O ,OOO ,OOO ,OOO

( more than double the entire national budget before Pearl Harbor) ;

Public Relations: $ 8 ,000,000 ; 1 146 M46 tanlu for National Guard :

S J J 7 , 1 0 0 each 8 3 8 ,000 tropical worsted uniforms: S 1 2 9 each ; "Modernizing" 1 2 0 1 tank.s ( including 1 02 non

existent ) : $ 1 00,000 each ; etc. REFUSES TO OPEN RECORDS TO SENATORS

-Savannah Evening Press, 6 - 2 J - 1 f-Military batmaker "Sol 0. Schlesinger said he was withholding che dau on grounds of possible self-incrimination because federal tax 1gents are 1fter him. He denied making any 'payotfs' to federal procurement officials, and said it wa.s 'preposterous' when asked if he gave $ 1 00,000 to three such officials in 1 9 1 0 .

"Schlesinger said he has done some three million dollars worth of government cap work in the pa.st 1 0 yean."

BRITISH JET ENGINES REPORTED IN PLANES S HOT DOWN BY U. S.-U.P., 4-2 1 - 1 1 -.. Rep. Brown (R. Ohio ) said 'every single enemy plane' shot down in Korea was found to be powered by British-built jet engines. "He said he wa.s told chis by a member of Gen. of the Army Douglas MacArthur 's staff. ''

HOW THE MONEY GOE�London Express, 1 2 -2 2 - 1 3-"lt cost the United States Defence Department about £ 1 0,000,000 to work out how many billions the military budget should be for the 1 9 1 4 fiscal year. About 1 2 ,000,000 man-hours went into drawing up the budget which goes to Congress next month. The hourly wage of the people working on the Budget average about 17 s. '' (EnTious, bub ? )

" THE SHADOW'' ON U. S. PAYROLL SEEMS A BIT ODD TO SEN. AIKEN-U.P., 7-1 0- 1 1 -"Thcre he was listening to the radio, Aiken said, when all of a sudden: 'I was surprised to nod that '"The Shadow' bad a new sponso�The United States Armed Forces. • ..

ANT ARCTIC AIR. BASE FOR U. S.-N. E. C., 4-7- H-.. Amcrican Nary men will build an air base and runway on the Antarctic continent next ye::r about a oo miles from the South Pole. '' ( That will stop any communist infiltration among the penguins. )

SOLDIERS IN TIN�N. Y. Herald, 1 - 1 6- 1 1-"United States Air Force engineers are experimenting with metal containers capable of holding infantry.

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( PUNY LITTLE BANG ) -Wall St. Journ;�l, S -2 3 - 5 1 -"Army engineers set off :1 blast of 1 60 tons of TNT yesterday in western Utah. It was the most powerful explosion ever to occur without the we of atomic energy. " ( The hell it was. How ;�bout that explosion in Halifax harbor during WW I ? ) "It was made u part of a series of tests to determine the effect of underground blasu on buildings and installations."

U. S. SCIENCE COST LEVELS FROM PEAKN. Y. Times, 1 0- S -HF$--" . . • The report estimates the Government will obligate itself to spend about $ 1 ,890,0 0 0,000 in the present fiscal year on research and development, about 1 0 per cent under the preceding year. Actual spending on research and development is estimated at about $2,0 1 9,1 00,000 • • • •

"Actual spending on research related to the nation's security, such as new weapons and aircraft, was estimated at $ 1 ,7 1 1 ,900,000 · for the current fiscal year, about $ 1 1 1 ,0 00,000 less than the preceding year.

" 'We felt the increase in actual expenditures from $ 1 00,000,000 in 1 940 to around $ 2 ,000,000,000 in 1 9 S 4 gives a misleading estimate of increasing governmental activity,' Mr. Gant said. ' Actually, a lot of the increased cost represents changes in the purchasing power of dollars. ' " (At last ! A good S -cent dollar ! )

MOFFETT FIELD TO GET ANOTHER WIND TUNNEL--Oakland Tribune, 2 -6- J $ -"Another new wind tunnel, under construction for four yelrs and costing $ 27 , $ 00,000, wi ll go into operation this summer at the Ames Aeronautical Labor;�tory at Moffett Field.

"The Ames Laboratory, one of three operated by the N;�tional Advisory Committee for Aeronautia already has 1 S wind tunnels which are among the largest and fastest in the world.

"These would seem to be enough, but they aren't. Each tunnel serves a limited purpose. " ( Sure. Everything's limited but the dough and the wi :1d. )

MANY WAYS TO WASTE MONEY-N. Y. SunTelegraph, 4 - 1 -4 - $ 1 -"A House Appropriations Committee has j ust discovered th :n the Navy has 1 1 ,000,000 dozen oyster forks on hand. That's 1 1 million dozen. Nobody in the Navy quite knows why or how so many were purchased, or what they are going to do with them. There aren't that many oysters, let alone Navy personnel.

"The Government is buying I 00 electric organs, valued at $ 1 1 0 ,2 8 1 .

"Along with a 9 3 -year supply of light bul�s accumulated by one Washington bureau there arc sucked up 3 ,000,000 pounds of peanut butter, 6 ,000,000 pounds of sugar, 1 7 S ,0 2 8 cans of coadenscd milk and, something to sneeze about, 100,000 . pounds of black pepper.

"The Department of Jwtice,. (sic ) "has 1 ,600 lawyers on its payroll, wants more. Sixteen of them engage in private practice, seldom visit their offices, yet receive full pay, accrued leave, and a 3 0-day annual vacation. '' ( An annual vacation from staying away from the office mwt be confwing. )

ARMY SEEKS DOGS TO HUNT PLANE5-N. Y. Times, 1 -H- f S-" . . • General Michelsen said he wished to try out the German shepherd as a

plane spotter . . . He reasoned,. (Watch that cerebral pressure, Genenl ! ) "that a dog, endowed with h yper-sensitive hearing, could pick up the roar of an aircraft engine even before the troops. '' (For supersonic targets, special supersonic dogs will be bred, no doubt. )

Grace a Dieu, un Peu de Difference! CONGRESSMEN WANTED TO KNOW WHAT

TAIL GATE BUSINESS MEANT-Savannah Evening News, 6-2 3 - S 1-"The air force chis year ex pects to sell more than $ 1 ,000,000,0 0 0 worth of surplw property, ranging from flying machines to radio tubes, from chaplains' supplies co women's winter-weight panties.

"For these mountains of merchandise the aerial merchants should, if they maintain their present record, get back about five cents on every dollar they spend • . . . Rep. Chet Holifield ( D.-Calif. ) and company on the government operations committee. insist these military salesmen ought to do better chan chat, parcicul:lrly on items of genenl we. That's where the feminine underwe:ar came in. The question was whether 1 4,6 1 9 pairs of olive drab panties, size medium, and 1 2,800 pairs, size large, were special military items. . . . They cost the government $ 22,3 90.3 9, they were made of half wool and half cotton, and they were available as is, F.O.B. T:lil Gate.

"The congressmen wanted to know what that tail gate bwiness meant; it developed chat the panties would be delivered to the back of a truck at Shelby Air Force Base, Ohio. . . . They went for a fraction of their cost, and the lawgiven thought they should have brought more, particularly if they were desirable to ladies in general.

"Some of the gents ( the married ones ) gave it as their considered off-the-record opinion that olivedrab underwear does not appe:al to females. Particularly when it is half wool.'' ( And with no tail g:ate.)

Japanese Anns MACARTHUR DRAWS JAPAN'S FANG$--N.Y.

Sunday News, 1 2 - 1 6-·41-Collected and photographed by the untold millions of items and uncounted thowands of tons, and chen dumped in the ocean by MacArthur's minions. Thw were the nasty Nips demilitarized.

BUSINESS BRIEF5-Jour. of Commerce, N. Y. C., 2 -2 6 - S S -"A new, as yet unnamed synthetic fibre . . . The Gifu plant of the Kawasaki Aircraft Co. has received an order from · the U. S. Far East Air Force to partially overhaul 41 training planes, eventually expected to be given to ];�pan's embryo :lir force. " (T empw fugit. )

Agriculture DEAD STORAGE-Monthly Economic Letter,

Northeast Farm Foundation, 1 1 - 1 -49--"The government now has its hands on one-third of last year's cotton crop. Ditto one-third of the wheat, threefourths of the peanuts, four-fifths of the flaxseed, and well toward one-half of the potatoes and dry beans.

"It owns about half the butter now in cold storage.

"It has corn piled up in all manner of cribs from Kansas to Ohio, until the landscape of the Central Scates is speckled with government corn.

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STEERS FATTEN ON POT A TOEs-Seattle PostIntelligencer, 1 0 -2 3 - J G-"Me:�t and potatoes are getting together by the mouthful. . . . Hereford steers are fattening on surplw spuds.

"With a surplw of potatoes, many growers have had to sell their crops to the government lt support pric�ess sorting, sacking, warehowing :1nd transportation costs.

"By the time the growers get their checks, they realize about $ 1 0 a ton. . . . Tons of No. 2 potatoes are sold to r2nchen for cattle feed. First the government has the potatoes dyed, so they can't sift back into the commercial market, and then ranchers pay $2 a ton for the c:�ttle feed."

WASHINGTON SCENE (George Dixon ) -King Features, 1 0-22 - J ()-" . . . The Department of Agriculture . . . has bought upwards of 20 million bushels of this year's potato crop, :1nd says it expects to buy another 80 million bwhels . . . Of chis 1 00 million bwhels . . . 7 5 million bwhels will be dumped, destroyed, or plowed under. . . . What would you expect to do with potatoes ? Eat them? . . . About 1 millions bwhels of these dumpable potatoes were grown in Southern New Jersey, jwt across the Delaware River from one of che country's biggest alcohol plants, which could usc potatoes for alcohol. And you have heard how we ue going to need 1lcohol for the big new synthetic rubber program.

"Well-members of Congress who mwt lppropriate the money for this huge synthetic rubber project have been informed by the same Department of Agriculture • . . that it would be cheaper if we bought the alcohol in France.

"But, hold on I . . . Our ECA has allocated $ 1 ,200,000 • . . to France so that Fr:ance c:an buy 1lcohol from the United States!

Peanuts U. S. GENERAL SPENT £ 1 8 , 5 0 0 DECORATING

MANSION-Yorks Post, l-2 1 -H.-"A Congressional Committee disclosed today how a United States Army General spent 5 2 ,000 dollars ( £ 1 8 , 5 00 ) redecorating a 3 0-room German mansion :1nd used false book keeping to hide che alleged waste and extnvagance.

"He was identified as Brigadier-General Oliver Wen dell Hughes, former head of the Western Area Command at Kaiserlautern (Germany ) . He has been appropriately disciplined, the Committee was told." ( Probably the naughty boy was connned to his 3 0-room quarters for sevenl days. )

ROSY FOR RING5-London Herald, l - 2 1 - 1 1-"Four out of seTen firms tendering to supply streetlis}lting equipment for Wembley all quoted the same price-£ 1 1 ,.96} 7s. 8d. •• (Call th•l collusion? Don't be so petty, cousin. You ought to jwc love that "Sd.")

U. N. SAYS SEOUL BLOCKS AID-N. Y. Times, ,.-2 3 - 2 1 F5-"United Nations official. charged today that 'non-cooperation' by the South Korean Gonrn�ent had resulted in the eying up of · $ 3 6, 1 00 ,000 worth of . United · States air materials in Korean ports.�' (Why, Syngman U )

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BUSINESS VENTURES OF U. S. FACE INQUIRY-N. Y. Times, �-3 - H-"The Senate Committee on Government Operations is considering an investigation of Government-openced businesses." ( It's creeping socialism, ch:n's what i c is ! ) "This was :1nnounced here today by the committee chairman . . . He declared chat only a fnction of government purchases was subjc:ct co proper management :1nd control. In citing 'cosdy examples of mismanagement he said chat lase July che Gov.:rnment had an eight and one-half year supply of shorelife flashlight batteries :1nd chat the Navy accumulated :1n excess of surplw scrap lead while che Army and General Services Administntion bought lead in che open market.

"He :!dded that in 19 f 1 the Army shipped 8 07,000 pounds of tomatoes from the West Coast co New York while the Navy shipped 77 1 ,000 pounds the other way.'' (What's there to kick :1bouc ? They weren't che same toma:o:s, were they ? )

DRUGS COSTING S 2 8 ,0 f 0 DESTROYED BY ARMY -Phil a. Evening Bulletin, 5 - 5 - f 1-"St. Louis, May 5-( A.P. ) -Major J. V. Huffman, chief of che stock control division of the St. Louis Army Medic:�! Depot, said 1 1 ,000 bottles of quinine sulfate cablets were burned last month because it was not economically sound to put them on the surplw market. Each bottle cont:lined 1 ,000 five.�r:tin tablets. They cost a total of $ 2 8 ,0 1 0 :md h:td :1 current value of $7,920. Major Huffman said he did not know when the tablets were :tcquired nor how many were still fit for we.

"He said yesterday there w:ts no longer :1n Army demand for the tablets, which were used for malaria but had been superseded by more . effective drugs."

I.C.I. GIVING UP POT ASH PLAN-SPENT £,.oo.ooo-London Herald, 3 -4- 5 1-"After spending £,.00,000 the giant I.C.I. combine is dropping the North Yorkshire potash scheme . . . failed to solve the problem of mining it."

( OTHER TRICKLES FROM BRITAIN) -Spectator, 1 2- 1 f - 1 0-"A film called 'How To Make a Telephone Call' was made by the Central Office of Information, at the cost of £6,000, to impress on members of the Civil Service che improvement which che efficient handling of the telephone is likely co :1chieve in the conduct of bwiness.

.. A film called 'Four Men in Prison' was made by the COl at the instance of the Home Office at a cost of £ 1 6,000. No reasons given.

A film called 'Come Saturday' was- made by the COl at the instance of the Foreign Office, at :1 cost of £ 1 ,.,6 3 4, 'to show that the British are not an exclwively dour people and do not take their plasures sadly.' Some £1 ,000 was recovered by the exhibition of the film."

PEANUTS FOR ALL FOR 3 00 DAY5-Milwaukee Journal, 1 0- J - J o-"Earlier this year it was estimated that the government had approximately 2,.6 million pounds of peanuu in storage. This would fill 1. J billion three ounce bags. Since four million-odd seats is the rated capacity of major parks, stadiums and arenas in the country, . the. government had enough peanuts to supply eTery seat-holder with about one bag each day for 3 00 days if there were that many capacity events held in a year.''

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CHARLES FORT The material on this page and those

following comes from the MSS no:es of Charles Fort. The notes �gin with the year 1 8 00 AD, and we are printing them chronologically, transcribed to the best of our ability. As you have observed from the seven! we have produced in facsimile -life size-the handwriting is difficult, to say the least; many arc written in symbols and code, a personal shorthand. Each date is on a separate scrap of paper. They fill 3 2 boxes. The boxes are in two series, one num�red, one identified by letters of the alphabet. The numbered boxes contain records of non-human phenomena, the others, records of persons. It is our device to alternate the two series so that the printed record is chronologically consecutive.

The letters BA refer to ReportS of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which many US libraries have. The numerals, such as ' 1 1 or '6-4 etc., in connection with BA sometimes refer to volume num�r, sometimes to year. In applying for chis material at your public library, mention chat to the attendant and you should have no diJficulty.

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2 I ( Original dace smoke ) S : S -4 :1. m. shock San Francisco and ocher places in California ( San Fran Ev Bulletin, 2 1 s t ) buildings damaged, several persons kil}ed I other shocks during the day I Oct 22 I Editorial chat for several weeks preceding the quake there had been a smoky atmosphere along all the coast of California and as far as Puget Sound. There was no forest fire to which it could � attributed I said it had disappeared after the quake. ( p.2 ) "There was a burnt smell." It was destructive in many other places in Cal. ( BO)

2 1 Dry fog and quake I Quake San Francisco · I smoky condition of atmosphere senral

weeJu before I Herald, Oct 24,p.3 See Sept 1 1 - 1 2 and before Alpine

2 1 Several pages of this quake i n Cal in Edward S. Holden's catalog

21 7: 1 0 a.m. Severe shocks California I In many places earth opened and water gushed out. But Bay at San Francisco was not disturbed, though vessels felt shock I L. T. Nov 1 2,p. l 2

2 2 N.Y. Times of,p.-4, quake San Francisco I same paper, 24th,p. 3 , Nov 6,p. 8 , 9th,p. S

2 3 Moon storm I 7h . .3 0 m. I W. R. Bose ( ? name TT, but whoever he was, he

wrote a book or contributed to a periodical called ) Ether ( which see) 3 1 14 1 5 I surface of Mare Serenita of an appearance such as not remem�red I having seen in 1 0 yean ex� I dukness of it and details obscured.

H LT. of,p.8 I Vole Mexico 24 Mallow etc Cork I quake followed by

rumbling noise I L.T. Oct 2 6,p.7 I On 2 3 rd acto Times of 2 8 th

27 sky phe and sound at Moitur:�, Lough Carrib, Ireland acto the Freeman's Journ:U

2 8 Times of,p. l O I quake near Mallow 30 8 :4 f p.m. Brilliant meteor Tainworth,

Awtulia I Syd Morn Herald, Nov 4 J 0 I 0 : 3 f p.m. quake at Carmarthan I W m.

Spurrell, Cumarthan I See Oct 21 , 1 8 1 2 ( could be 1 8 02,TT ) Dec 3 0, 1 8 3 2 I Jan 2 4, 1 8 -4 1 I Oct 6 , 1 8 6 3 (X)

Nov night I Blandford, Dorset I shocJu I Land and Water, Nov 7,p. 2 S 6 quake at Melbourne, Castleman and other place in Victoria I Argw of 7th,p. f I ab I a.m. The quake at �demaine I vibration and ten minutes later a loud clap of thunder I Melbourne Age of the 3 rd,p.2 evening I worms I Acto the Argw of the 4th,p. f. That during the storm, Eut Melbourne, fell a shower of many worms ( all alin ) from 2 to 2 � inches long

1 -6 quake Mexico I II I BA ' 1 1

Box A ( Resumed) Worms I Melbourne

Box 3 ( Resumed) J : 2 2 p.m. Swsex I detonating meteor "in full sunshine" LT. Dec 2,p.8 ab 3 : I S p.m. great met in suruhine I Birmingham, Rugby, Chipping Norton I LT. Nov f ,p.4 I Worcester Cit - London I BA 69-242 I 2 8 0 I Appendix I Symon's Met 23 l t 70

4 Isle of Jersey I a dense shower of tiny white fishes like a snowstorm I Land and Water, Nov.-l .f,p.270

-4 Trans Mercury Trans Mercury I Obs. 2 9 I 4 1 6 I 1 uminow point on I M. Notices, 31 I H I I n a letter so dated, Mr. B (paper cut otf) calls attention to something that suggests che ·:architectural I It it ease of Delisle "a · . group of three hills in a (n ) acute-angled triangle and connected by

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8-9 See Oct 8-9 I Midnight I L.T. Dec 9,p. 5 I Clpt of the bark Euphrosyne reports, u lat 1 6 .40 S, long 4.W. Sky suddenly densely overcast - sound like distant c:mnonading - meteors appeared I sea disturbed and vessel shook. I rumbling incrca.Kd I the agitations continued until sunrUe.

1 1 sudden heat and fall of dwt, Melbourne - then rain I Argus of the 1 2 th,p. 5

1 2 7 a.m. Near Mdbournc great waterspout I Mdbourne Leader 1 4th,p. l l

1 2 N o mention of meteors in Melbourne Argus

1 2 soon after midnight slight shock. Lahore I The Pioneer, Allahabad, 1 8 th I severe at Dera I I Mail Khan - 2 3 rd

1 2 Cyclone at A.lr.yab I Pioneer 3 Oth 1 3 9 a.m. Bucharest, violent shock I L.T.

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1 3 - 1 4 Mets reported b y Prof. Daniel Kirkwood, of Bloomington, Indi:ma, as "unexpectedly brilliant. During 3 hours morning of 1 3 th, 1 6 5 seen I Proc. Amer. Phil Soc

.1 0 - 14 I On night of 1 3 - 1 4 from 1 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. ( Probably should read 4 a.m. TT) a committee of students counted 2 , 5 00. From 4 a.m. to 6 : 1 1 , one observer counted 780

13 gre:at shower U.S. ( :md ) Italy I BA 69-2 94

1 3 - 1 4 from 1 0 : 3 0 p.m. until sunrise like a shower of rockets I like other southern obs. moved in all directions. This from a ship 26.3 S. · 2 7-37 W. I BA 69-290

Nov No mention of meteors in Nourse's Hall 's Second Arctic Expedition" I See Appen

. dix I I "Hall's Astronomical Observations" 13 14 (This is a two-page letter to Fort, hand

written. On its folded exterior, Fort has written, "Letter G in sky" TT) Hudson Kansas Aug 1 0- 2 1 ( Presumably 1 92 1 TT) Mr. Charles Fort I My Dear Sir I I have your article relative to meteors falling in Kansas. K.C. Star fell in this vicinitysome 2 1 mi S.W. of center of State. Some 1 ft. in diameter "burned green vegetation" I "Question" how deep would it penetrate. There is depression some 3 ft. deep. Wall perpendicular. Made a loud detonation. I£ it hu not penetrated bdow water level, could euily be brought to top. I am enclosing a clipping from

. K.C. Star in reprd to recent meteors. Seen alJo at Hutchimon. "in Nov 1 8 6 8 or 69. I lind at Knox, Ind., about 69 mi S.E. from Chicago. I saw a shower of meteors u thick. u any fall of snowflaka--but none of them seeming! y larger than an ordinary snow ball; u I remember we mwt have watched for 30 min or longer. When daylight put an end to Our Show and another thing-directly overhead was a flaming Capital letter G or C Probably 4

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times t h e dimensions o f the moon-1 have rud in che Chicago of ochc:rs s�eing chis Meteor Shower but none spoke of this Letter G which I remember u distinctly as though it happened yesterday. ( p. 2 ) C:n One imagine that Jules Verne h as got to the moon and firing Missiles at w "Exploration beyond this Earth " you chink it a coming event." do you mean Spiritually or Phy (s ) ically. Remember we. Our Bodies are of the Earth Earthy. could one carry a supply of Oxygen Sutticienc for a return T ri�nd too there is Gnvitation to be considered. how f:u from the Earth it reaches. co what extent gr:avitation of the Planets extends. Well enough of chis matter that I know so little about. I am getting aged. Born in 1 8 S 7 I and my Grammar and Orthography is not what it Once was.

I have been Much interested in the "Dayton Tennessee Trial." their only trouble is the difference between Belief znd Knowledge "Many of w believe" but a "divine providence" does not permit any One to know "Whence he came or whither goes." I speculate on worlds without number--as Our astronomers Lead us to believe. The toughest "poser" is to my mind "what u,·ould bt: if there was Neither Time Space or foundation.

I would be pleased to get an answer from. Please State if I may have ic printed in Our d:aily Papers K.C. and Hutchinson Papers I Very Truly yours I Ed W French I PO. Hudson Kansas

I J - 1 4 San Francisco Evening Bulletin of 1 4th I display surpassed that of 1 8 (7 . From 1 0 : 3 0 p.m. till about 2 a.m. Some in different directions but mostly from cast to we:;t I "Most wonderful exhibition ever witnessed on the coast" Just before

the display a slight shock of earthquake, and afterward a more pronounced shock. (BO )

1 3 - 1 4 Cor writing Nov 1 2, 1 8 9 8 , t o Nature 1 9- H says on Channel near Calais I clouds suddenly cleared away, and he saw morning of 1 4th I 1 :J 0 I a splendid display of Leonids

1 3 - 1 4 At Toronto from 1 0 :-4 S p.m. to 6 a.m. ab 3 00 0 meteors counted I L.T. Dec. 8·, p. 8 I Many luger than Siriw, appeared mag. ab 90% ( indecipherable) Leo

1 3 - 1 4 Meteors in N.Y. 30 between 1 1 : 1 8- 1 1 : H I T rib 1 4th, p. 1 I Several directions from NE to SW--some from Orion, some from Cancer

1 • Cosmos of / Subterranean detonations at Verona

14 from 2 a.m. to after daybreak.. At �a ab f 1 N and 8 W. Mets li.lr.e innumerable rock�ts I BA 69-2 8 9

14 Morning / North Unst. Scotland I " a great falling o f meu" B A 7 1 -3 9

1 4 4 : 1 f a.m. I n Switzerland extraordinary number of meu I BA 7 1 -3 9

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1-4 Met tnins Mar:uhon, N. Y. Brunswick, Me. New Haven, Conn. Bloomington, Ind. Boston, Mass. MWR 07-3 9 1

14 N.Y. Times of I :�.lso 1 S th I both p . 1 I Meteors

14 S , 6 a.m. New Haven, Conn. Met train I BA 69-246 Appendix I, On l S th train in Bruil and one in Spain

1-4 Morning I from 3 : 3 0 a.m. until between 6-7 at Shetland extraordinary display of meteors until daylight-all from one point in Leo I L T Dec 7, p. 1 o

1 S Great eruption of Vesuvius, in a period of activity I Heavy shower of ashes on ZOth I CR 67- 1 1 09

1 J 1 : 3 0 a.m. Bahia, Brazil I Meu-large train I Sci Op. 1 1 1 17 ( L )

1 J Great meteor at Bahia, Brazil I Seems the display of 1 3 - 1 -4 not seen there but "several'' night of 1 4th I LT Dec 2 3 , p. 9

1 S Nis}tt I eruption of V esuviw I Sec Oct 9 1 S N.Y. Herald of I two columns on the

meteors of 1 4th I also Herald of 1 6th, p. s

1 J Vesuvius began I La Sci Pour To us 1 4- 1 1 1 6 etc Vesuvius violent I Nouvelles Meteoro

logiques 2-240 1 6-27 Atmosphere at Hawaii very smoky, seem

ing to come from Mauna Loa I San Fran. Eve Bulletin Dec 17

1 7 etc Vesuvius provides spectacle I LT 1 8 th, P· S

Box A (Resumed) 20 Disap I New York I Harpers J I I S 07

Box 3 (Resumed) 2 1 Paducah, Ky. shock I San Fran EY Bul

letin, Dec 1 -4 24 Vesuvius las violent I L T ( ?Dec? ) -4,

p. I NoY 27 &: Dec J I Specimens gray stones very much alike

( S. Kensington) NoY 27 Etna began I La Sci Pour Tow 1 4-3 2

26 Etna · violent gradually subsided but Dec a with renewed violence I L T Dec 1 0, p. 7

27 Danville, ' Alabama, F I Sec Dec S 21 Etna in eruption I Trib of 3 0th, p. 1 JO 3 :40 p.m. Nelson, N.Z. smart shock and

had been several on 29th I Tar:�.nchi Herald Dec 2 6

Dec quakes and vole Iceland I Nouv. Met. 2 142 .