European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday january 28, 1950 potatoes . Can t give pm away by Vincent j. Burke a Ashington up for w i cent the government will sell you a Brand new Burlap sack Worth 17 cents. There s practically no limit on the number you can buy hundreds thousands Mil Lions. But there s a catch to it. You also have to take the 100 pounds of potatoes in the bag. They re free but you can t eat the potatoes or let anybody else in this country eat them. If you do the government will charge you s3 per bag. Don to try to throw them away either. If you do the govern ment s charge is �1 per bag. You must Export the potatoes and you can t ship them to Canada Cuba or the Caribbean. Suppose you decide to Send them to Europe. That s when your trouble begins. It costs about 30 cents per bag to ship potatoes to Klieg Light sleuths offer solutions for Boston theft h Oll Woodwood s private eyes who solve Many a crime in movies and radio told How their fictional characters would have cracked that Boston robbery. The Case of the missing Mil lion dollars from the Boston Money transportation firm is right out of a movie script any Way they said. So two of the Arm chair advisers would bring in sex Appeal before the third reel. You be got a cleverly executed robbery by pretty smart and pos Sibly Normal Guys drawled Dick Powell like he does in movies and As Richard Diamond on the radio. They re smart so they la lie Low for a while. But the fact they re Normal Means they la get restless for Normal activity and go in search of various forms of amusement. Gals in minks now Diamond is expert in various forms of amusement blonds redheads Brunet. Dia mond would beat around for the gals who Blossom out in freshly bought  Glenn Ford who soon will play an Erie Stanley Gardiner charac Ter Christopher London on the radio said he figured it was an inside Job. London would quietly investigate wives of the men who worked in the place he said. Women essentially Are More moral than men and there would be a greater evidence of emotional disturbance on the part of a wife if her husband were in  Howard Duff who s Sam Spade on the radio narrowed his eyes and said he d look for clues in the rubber masks shoes and gloves the bandits wore. By Aline Mosby up Holly in this Boston heist i detect the i aint smell of rubber said Duff from under his snap brim hat. It sounds like a plot of the rubber Industry. Che Chez la press agent. Next thing those checks will turn out to be rubber  Alan Ladd snarled that he d handle this Case like he did in his last whodunit ".  i d disguise myself As a gang Ster and get in on the inside he said. In his movie the thieves steal a million Bucks too. Writers on another picture code three were ordered by the producer last month to pare their robbers haul from �1,000,000 to �500,000. A million he said was t  after Reading recent headlines the producer ordered the loot upped Back to $1,000,000 showing that life at last is catching up with the movies. Years ago. Jan. 28, 1946 prices on the . Stock Market Are the highest in nine to 15 years Jan. 28, 1947 . Army g2 Calls nazi groups in Germany isolated and Dis organized. Jan. 28, 1948 the Senate confirms the Nomi nation of Gen Omar n. Bradley As army chief of. Staff succeed ing Gen Dwight d. Eisenhower. Jan. 28, 1949 radio Frankfurt is turned Over to German management after More than three years control by military government. Port from country shipping Points up in Maine where most of the potatoes Are stored. Then it costs another $1.50 to get them across the Ocean. If you can find a european buyer who la pay $1.81 per bag which officials say is doubtful you la break even. . Loses not so Uncle Sam. He loses $2.09 on every 100-Pound bag you buy. The 1-cent Export Deal is part of the government s program to get rid of at any Cost surplus potatoes Farmers have produced under the Price support. Officials doubt it will help dispose of Man of them. Supports for the 1949 crop were set at the lowest level permitted by Law yet for the third straight year formers produced far More than Consumers would eat at that Price. So Uncle Sam has to buy up the surplus expected to total 65,000,000 bushels. The government could save Money As much As 49 cents in every �2.10 bag of Maine potatoes if it dumped them. But Secretary of agriculture Charles f. Brannan does t want to do that until Congress says it s Okay. As for the 17-cent bag officials say the spuds must be sacked so they can be moved in preheated rail cats and be protected from freezing. Of course the govern ment could charge the exporter for the bag. If the government were to dig a big Hole up in Maine and had Farmers dump surplus potatoes into it the Farmer would get his farm support Price of $1.60 per 100 pounds plus 1 cent for inspection. The taxpayer would save up to 49 cents on every 100 pounds. That would mean a savings of millions of dollars on this year surplus. Here Are the charges the tax payer must pay under the 1-cent Export program which could be saved by dumping the potatoes grading 12 cents bag 17 cents sacking charge 3 cents Selling charge the Cut the dealer gets on every bag handled 6 cents loading into cars 9 cents Insulat ing the Railroad car with paper and preheating it 2 cents. Scientist seeks Meson secret midget plane at air Maneu vers Bill Starr of Mason mich., stands in the cockpit of a plane believed to be the world s smallest. It has a nine foot Wing Span and weighs Only 398 pounds. Known As the suits jr., if is one of the attractions at the All american air a Nevers at Miami. In York ins or. Hideki Yukawa whose Meson theory won him the Nobel prize for physics for 1949, is working today on a new theory to explain the Funda mental nature of matter. The 43-year-old scientist work ing at Columbia University while on leave from Kyoto University in Japan said his new theory May Speed work in nuclear physics. Or. Yukawa s theory will enable him to expand the Meson theory which won him the Nobel prize. His prediction of the existence of the Meson a particle in the nucleus of the atom which holds the atom together startled the world when he announced it in 1935. Independent research later con firmed or. Yukawa s theory and opened wide the door to the harnessing of atomic Energy. The new theory is still in the stage of development and or. Yukawa says there May be some changes before the Complete the Ory is published in final form. A colleague of or. Yukawa explained the general Content of the new theory when he declared professor Yukawa. Has made an initial attempt at building a consistent theory of fundamental particles in which fundamental particles Are no longer treated As Points but Are treated As particles of finite dimensions. Evidently such a theory if r could be formulated would Lead to a much More realistic description of the physical universe than previous  new who have not been to Switzerland realize the variety of people and scenery within her narrow Borders. Places of interest include the Grisons mountains whose valleys shelter Savos St. Moritz and Arosa the Swiss lakes French speaking Valais and italian speaking Ticino. Graubunden or As the French Call it Grisons is one of the largest cantons in Switzerland. Al though the Grisons Are not As High As the Western Alps they Are the Cradle of Swiss skiing. Dotted with sleepy villages the mountains Are transformed by Snow and ice into a playground for worshippers of Sun and fun. Tours to Switzerland can be arranged through american express. A Merican express has announced three Meriter a Ranegan cruises for april july and August. The first april 1 to 13, will be on the ship the Atlantic. It will leave from Genoa and include stops at Naples Alexandria where a two Day Inland excursion to Cairo is offered the Isle of Rhodes and Piraeus to permit a overnight stay in Athens. The italia on the july cruise will take in the Western Mediterranean and part of the Atlantic. The ship will leave Genoa on july 8, Stop at Barcelona and Tangier pass through the Strait of Gibraltar for a nine hour stay at Casablanca and pay a Brief visit to the Island of Mallorca. It will return to Genoa on the 15th. On the August cruise the Atlantic will leave Genoa aug. 12 and Stop at Many ports made famous by the ancient greeks. Stops include Naples. The Isle of Crete Isle of Rhodes Piraeus and Athens. The ship will return to Genoa on the 20th. Rates for the april cruise begin at $150 for the july cruise at $135, and the August one at $120. Meals and recreational facilities will be the same for All cruise members and All will have free run of the ship. All american express officers in Germany Austria and Trieste Are prepared to Supply additional information. Ertain documentation requirements for travelling to Italy Are commonly overlooked by Neucom personnel. Incomplete documentation May prevent participation on a tour so requirements should be checked with the local a office before leaving. . Military personnel must have an italian visa stamped upon their orders. If the traveler passes through the French zone of Austria these orders must carry a French translation. . Civilian personnel Are required to have a passport with Mili tary entry permit. They need an Allied forces White permit to pass through the French zone of Austria. Truman tries cartooning Vaj Ashington ins presi Dent Truman has tried his hand at being a cartoonist with Liberal help from some big names in the profession. Or. Truman became an honorary member of the National cartoonists society. Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder shared the Honor with the president. A requirement for membership was drawing a cartoon so the president proceeded to draw one. With bold strokes he Drew a cartoon of a Man peeping out from behind a cartoonist s drawing Board made the sketch on top of his White House desk. It might be added that the cartoonists provided a faint outline of the car Toon which he sketched in and autographed with his initials. The occasion was presentation by the society of engraved t squares to the president and Snyder. The ceremony was linked to the Aid cartoonists have been giving the government in its Bond drive. The stars and stripes vol. 7, no. 283 saturday january 23, 1950 editor in chief it coi William m summer managing editor Ken Zumwalt sports editor. Phil Taylor executive manager Maurice r Kirkwoo chief of distribution Louis h Brown news bureaus Frankfurt 2181-32361 Darmstadt Iso Berlin 94-668184-6680 Vienna b 47184bremerhaven21044-51363 Munich 81520 the european edition la published daily at Darmstadt. , for the . Occupation forces under the auspices of the army air forces troop information and education division Euco Tel. Frankfurt 34141, the stars and stripes Darmstadt correspondence should be addressed to the stars and stripes. Apo 175 . Arms mall to the new York office should be sent to 641 Washington Street n. Y. This is not an official publication of the . Army re entered As second class matter sept 22. 194? is the Posto Telce m new York n. A. Under the act of Marche 3. 1879