European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes May 194as science sees storm curb in dry ice Washington has predicted the birth of a new around in planes plucking lightning out of Vincent who associates is famed for Mak ing artificial told a science meeting that under cer Tain conditions lightning storms can be these conditions Are typical in regions like the Rocky where lightning is the chief cause of costly Forest Schaefer said storms can be broken by scattering dry ice into before they change from Ordinary Clouds to lightning for Clouds change in parts of the West and in other Clouds frequently develop Over mountains about mid morning and change into lightning storms by mid after there would be several hours in which Man would have the Chance to break them with dry before lightning Schaefer he said Laboratory experiments have shown that it is possible to make pounds of Snow by tossing out Only a tiny piece of dry one into a cold the lightning Clouds would shed whatever moisture they contained and disappear without doing after being sprinkled with a few pounds of dry Schaefer spoke at a meeting of the meteorology Section of the american physical Dis cussing experiments in artificial Snow making being made by the general electric court ponders Sitters rights Cincinnati ques of whether a Man has the right to sit in his underwear in his own Kitchen reached the Hamilton county common pleas court Max 73yearold thinks a Man has that he is suing Stephen Pennock for for false Pennock filed a charge of in decent exposure against Gold june 3 after he anal his wife saw Gold sitting in Kitchen in his underwear when they descended the Back Steps of their the charge against Gold was dismissed in police but Gold wants retribution for his he also wants to know the Legal rights of a Man to sit in his underwear in his own i Ike moving to new residence j Mother of 10 children s Only 27 years old John Cole believes she May be americas youngest Mother with the largest wife of an elec is she has 10 Chil All births were the boys and five girls in age from four weeks to 10 miss Perks prefers pigs London Perks prefers after five years work on a farm during the War she came to town and got a Job in a London perfume to Day she left 10 return to the the perfume she got me workmen prepare of unpack crates marked with symbols and Ike outside 60 Morningside the residence which will be occupied by Dwight Eisenhower As president of Columbia University in new the former army chief of staff will assume his new duties in High civilian casualty rate seen by doctors in War american medical has warned that the must expect to suffer a great number of Hor Rible civilian casualties in event of another world James of Mil Waukee spokesman for the As issued the warning in the House armed services committee to restrict the unlimited drafting of doctors in pro posed selective service Sargent said the one great Challenge con fronting american Medicine and the Congress of the United states today is the proper and adequate provision for the care of the great number of horrible civilian casualties that Are promised if an other world War Sargent said that too Many doctors were called into the armed services during the last he declared to give the military establish years May 1943 the Navy announces Amer ican troops have captured Russell near May 1944 the blackout in the hawaiian islands is completely lifted for the first time since the japanese attack on Pearl May 1945 three pockets of nazi resistance continue to hold out in Germany Between Magdeburg and Branden around Dresden and chem Nitz and North of the austrian May 1946 the big four Powers reach a Dea Joek Over the ital yugoslav Boundry May 1947 French Premier Paul Ramaier drops communists from his ment carte As this Bill pro poses to would surely Lead to the same Over procurement of medical personnel As in warning of civilian Sargent declared if another War is to biological and atomic warfare this disaster areas with terrible civilian casualties must be expected and must be adequately provided for if the nation is to Ordinary civilian Agri culture and especially the very foundations of our National War will never sur Vive the High casualties in store for them in another War if civil Ian doctors Are to be pinned Down to the ration that was reached during the last control of diseases seen extending life Edward president of the american medical believes that when controls Are found for cancer and diseases causing the breakdown of blood vessels Many people will live to be 100 and remain in Good As men and women utilize the benefits of modern knowledge of and prevention of the various destructive the vitality and of bodies and minds will be pre served longer and Bortz said in an article in the state health departments monthly bul dogs better off than jailed Chicago gives its dogs a better break than its a citizens committee the John Howard a private prison Reform said the cites police lockups tire cesspools of disease and keeping to familiar plane types on the big air Power Bill now before Congress have punctured a few illusions about a Buck Rogers Type of defense Secretary James for Restal testified that the air Force and Navy Are going to buy combat planes that we know Are usable aeronautical advances in the next two or three years will not be so rapid As to warrant wait ing for them to build up our air he added if we we might get caught this Means the air establish ment will be modernized not with the horrifying Craft so frequently mentioned right after the War but with heavy bombers and Jet planes which some quarters once freely but erroneously called obsolete even before they were super plane unborn what happened to super sonic combat rocket launch ing platforms in outer Pilot less intercontinental planes and missiles their Advent is still some tune five according to the carefully Quali fied estimates of president tru mans air policy commission and the congressional aviation policy these Are some of the research now being from scientific information will be obtained for eventual building of supersonic combat planes Bell reportedly has flown faster than designed for twice the Speed of air Force Douglas d558 holds worlds Speed record of Navy Douglas d5582 and rocket powered sister to the designed for research flights at 650 to 750 coming soon Are the Bell swept Back Wing successor to the xs1 Douglas being designed for two to three times sonic Speed and Northrop these All Are air Force research specialists urge Leper marriages Havana specialists Are advocating that lepers should be permitted to marry either other lepers or healthy they made their observations in a paper presented to the world Leper Congress the Guillermo of Buenos and of Sao said Matrimony was very in important As a Means of spread ing the they said they were discussing Light Henri of san Luis discussed the invisible which does not show on the 15th of Aims to save at b29base by James Strebig i Colorado Springs the 15th air Force is looking for a Long Range Dollar to with its the plan is to reduce Roll but not the efficiency off bases for the big an pediment which will Start soon at Castle air near is expected to save More than a that would run into quite a few millions if applied to the entire strategic air of which the 15thj air Force is a f Leon Johnson commanding the recognizes that Castle Field happens to be Ideal for the Experiment and sol will no represent the exact total of manpower necessary for Viking a bomber group at All but the economies made there can largely be applied he personnel to be Cut Lee of Castle air will reduces the total personnel from persons to an even the annual saving in salaries alone will be additional amounts will be saved on the Cost of supplying feeding the smaller since efficiency of the combat unit cannot be auctions will be largely in the servicing i believe that if put in an honest eight work a the service test will prove its Coats told Yaj Here Are some of the elemental of the plan flying officers will have ground jobs As administrative officials addition to their operational Asl other features of plan general and guard squadrons will be continued and the personnel Asl signed to other various units will Supply men for j mess policing and firefighting administrative officers will i have More than one 4 will be kept on Loaff ing during working Rej porting late or leaving and the granting of leaves and indi1 visuals More than one will be expanded to simplify filling of gaps caused by unit avoidable Castle is a compactly arranged i base with mild some bases require additional personnel of extreme Winter weather and the need of bus ice on the the stars and stripes 150 editor chief managing editor sports editor May 1918 William Summers i Ken Zumwalt Jack Ellis executive manager chief of distribution Maurice Kirkwood Bernard Mcguigan 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