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THE MT. VERNON, ILLINOIS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1951 MVBR OF BOWI Brazil's River of Doubt was dLscovered by Theodore Roosevelt, the name being given to the discovery by the discovery by the skeptical press. It later was named Rio Teodoro, when itt existence was confirmed. Original 'Boy Wonder of Electronics' Traces Long Career From AC to X-Ray SPECIAL Sturdy, All Metal Venetian Blinds 2 29 Each Melal slah and box kead have off-white baked enamel finish. Duck fapat.

23 k) meh widths. G. C. MURPHY South Side of DICK KLIINER NEA Stiff MEW YORK When William Dubilier was 12, his home was robbed. The thief didn't know it, but he did mankind a great service.

The robbeiy turned Dubilier into an inventor, a 50- year career that has resulted in hundreds of starting with a home-made burglar alarm. And now, 500 patents later, Dubilier is being honored with the first Gano Medal to bo awarded by the Cooper Union Alumni Association. It's a tribute to his "outstanding professional achievement." Dubilier's greatest creation was the mica condenser, which made possible radios ir. airplanes, boats, trains eliminated (he need for batteries. The conden industry' he started now over 100,000 people and does in annual business in the hundreds of millions.

"I was working on a telephone," he says, "and the only condensers then in me big glass jars. They were too big for the set I wanted to build, and they'd break in an airplane. So I had to find something else." -o- He knew tiiat mica was a better insulator than glass, but all the textbooks said it couldn't be used in a conductor. "Those two facts were contradictions," Dubilier says. "It took me several years to figure out how it could be done, but I finally did it." While still in his 20s, he demonstrated his wireless telephone to the British admiralty.

They asked him what kind of a condenser he used. He held up his little invention, then slammed it to the ground. "See, it doesn't break." he said. All British battleshps used Dubilier's radio during World War I. He was one of the original "boy wonders" of electronics.

An East Side New York boy, he'd gone from home-built burglar alarm to being an "eltcrical contractor" at 15. He installed burg- Jar alarms in neighborhood stores iob a week was better WHItE CITY PARK BALLROOM HERRm, nx. SATURDAY, JUNE Uih MUSIC Adm. $1.50 Tax Inc. COMINO SATUROAY, JUNE 18TH America'! Vocal StyUst TONY PASTOR end Hit ORCHESTRA PHONI 37411 DUBILIER: By wireless phone, the first disc jockey.

the S3 I'd been making de- liverin.g groceries." -o- -o- -o- Then, at 16, he saw Maixwni demonstrate iiis radio. From then on, he was fascinated with the 23, he built a wireless tplephone in Seattle that reached Tacoma and startled the wits out of West Coast test voice transmissions were coming in on their telegraph sets. There was speculation in the paper as to whether the mystery transmissions were from Mai-s, He hitched up a phonograph to his telephone and began playing records. An enterprising Seattle amusement park operator charged 10 cents to listen, and Dublier unwittingly was the first disc This was 1911. Emissaries of the Tsar saw his demonstrations and mduced him a SoO.OOO inducement to come lo St, Petersburg and install a wireless telephone there.

He went, but got tired of the court graft and blackmail and "escaped" to The Russians sent secret police to kidnap him and bring him back, but he got the secret policemen drunk and called Scotland Yard. Tn he was back in this time, at the bf the Soviet government. But he still couldn't stand the Russian attitude, and quit after five weeks. Besides, he had to attend a sian scientific meeting and listen while a Soviet scientist introduced as the of the invention, -o- asked the director how they had the nerve to do that," he said. "And they told "ne.

'This gives them Between and his Fviissian e.xcui'sions, Diitiilier has busily inventing and traxeliiic. He's just made his civssing of the Atlantic, liis inventions keep piling up. lie 's currently perfecting method for cold uelding. his other achievements: one of the first electric heaters; the first airplane radio; a submarine detector; the fii-st AC-DC radio: the first inexpensive dental X-ray; and dozens of otliers. Some of his inventions have been technically sound but practical flops.

One of his bi.ggcst di.s- appointments was a new kind of toy electric train track. Vtis two sons were great model railroad fans, but over one summer their track rusted. So he invented a new bendable, more i-ealistic. "Rut the electric train eom- i pan.v," he "told me t'ney made their profits on track replacement. So they said no, they weren't interested." Now 67, Dubilier is a gray-haired, pleasant-face'd man with the air of somebody's favorite uncle.

He still does some research, although he's cut down his activities. On the u'all in his office is this motto: "The Alibi lives in the land of empty promises, flies backward, sits on the eggs of opportunity and hatches out only hard luck." Dubilier has flown forward. APPEALING Ann Lawrie of Indianapolis, peeled off her curly locks and came up with this surprisingly attractive brush haircut. The 16-year-oId took the short cut as a practical matter for the hot months and good swimming ahead. EXCLUSIVE NEA PHOTO.

WASHINGTON Column Offer Duty To Reserve Officers By associated WASHINGTON aiie Navy said today it will accept up to qtjalified reserve offifors for limited tours of duty starting July 1. This nuinbei- is tlie quota during the current fiscal year. The Bureau of Personnel said the duty tours will be for two, three or four vcars. Railroad. Truck Struggle Comes For ICC Rulings By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent WASHI.NGTON Should trtiok oix-rators l)e denied the nciit to a freight-hauling service because the cities they wi.s'n to serve are already connected by railroads? is the key question in five eases that have come before the Interstate Commerce Commis- in the last two yeai-s.

Two of these cases have been favor of the truckers after original ICC recommendations were reversed. The other cisions banning triick operations in thos would railroad monopol.s" and protect the railroads from "legitimate com- VKMition imiior e.UTiers." In the first of these cases. Jan- 1953, ICC denied the Mc- Culiough Transfer of Youngslow II, Oiiio, the right to transport bulk cement for the Federal Portland Cement Co, from Hamburg. to four counties in Pennsylvania. Tlie reason given was that the area was already served hy a short- line railway.

American Trucking Association's attorneys filed a petition of intervention, opposing the ICC decision. ATK maintained that if this decision were exlended to other similar cases, it might seriously threaten tlie entire interstate trucking industry. ICC turned down the 'tition. lawyers then filed a hill of complaint in S. District Court, Cleveland, ICC thereupon Snap Historic Picture Baby Kangaroo By Asaociatad Press first baby kr.ngatw in the history of the Bnltimorc zoo made a brief ptih- lic debut Monday and a abtivo and beyond the call of, duty-snapped his picture.

(X )k and lilddie Nolan, Siinpa))- ers photographers, alternated for 18 payivii hours in the balxxin cage waiting for the Nihy or Jooy, as they're called in show his face, Tlie Ballimorc Zoo's Joey is believed to be 'i months old. The Joey hairless, blind and only atwut an inch long at birth fastened in.sido the er's uiiiil it is aliout montlvs oki. The ordeal ended after Cook had waited for two liotirs yester- The Joey, looking more like a scared pup than a .10, stuck his head out of M.nna's PiHich, then once more withdrew from the hurly-huily. Hut C(Xik hispicture. FOR SALE 1 New 13 Foot RUNABOUT BOAT Front and Canter Deck Seati Five.

Priced Reasonable Easy Tarmi. RALPH D. PAVITT Phone 4391 Negroes Slash Mississippians In Washington By Aiiociatttrf Press MACX1N, officials of No.xubee County want to send the Mississippi National Guard or state patixil to Washington to protect touring hicii students fmm They made that request day ill, a telegram to Gov, Much White and Senators James Eastland and John C. Steniiis. They rcferriHt to last slashing of three youths from Lulu.

by two Negroes on a downtown Wnshingtim sidewalk. Police in Washington said they could find no idi'iiee tlie Mississippi youths provoked the attack. of the youths were hospi- taUzed but were not injured critically. WANTED One or two men from 25 to 50 years of oge who is willing to work and earn his salary. Good proposition for men who can qualify.

Apply in person to SINGER SEWING MACHINE CO. 107 North ICMh three cases are still pending on 1954, an e.xaminer recomm.ended that McCuUough and two other motor carriers be authorized to trans- In efi'ect, ICC decisions favoring the railroads in these cases would carry out recommendations of President Eisenhower's Cabinet Committee on Transportation. But this would be done before these recommendations been formally adopted as administration policy and before sanction by congressional action, American Trucking Associations, Inc, is a federation of 50 state and territorial organizations representing a majority of the truck fleet operatoi-s in the They have gone to bat for the truckers in opposition to the railroads, ALTA CHARGES that ICC de- LOAN 72nd ANNUAL STATEMENT MT. VERNON and BUILDING ASSOCIATION Phones 586-587 Officers Personnel DONALD S. GRANT PRESIDENT J.

EDWIN RACKAWAY VICE-PRESIDENT HAROLD G. WATSON VICE-PRESIDENT ETHEL M. GREEN EXECUTIVE SECRETARY MATTIE LEE WARREN ASS'T SECRETARY JOHN KIRK ATTORNEY LUCILLE JONES BOOKKEEPER NADA WARNER BOOKKEEPER JO ANN DESELMS CLERK Directors S. T. CASEY DONALD GRANT ETHEL M.

GREEN JOHN KIRK JOHN MANION J. E. RACKAWAY V. E. RICHARDSON RAY SCHWEINFURTH HAROLD G.

WATSON MAY 31st, 1955 ETHEL M. GREEN Executive Officer 112-114 North 10th St. ASSETS First Mortgage Loans $3,536,794.55 Share Loans 32,103.40 Real Estate Sold on 176,919.74 Real Estate in Judgment 4,520.29 Federal Home Loan Bank Stock 65,000.00 Government Bonds 104,439.75 Time Deposits In Banks 40,000.00 Cash on Hand 184,812.08 Accounts Receivable 34.20 Leasehold Improvements 29,614.11 Furniture Fixtures 11,004.90 $4,185,243.02 LIABILITIES Shareholders' investment $3,762,165.19 Notes Payable 100,000.00 Accounts Payable 1,028.16 Loans In Process 4,940.72 RESERVlES 317,108.95 $4,185,243.02 port cement in bulk. This case is considered so important that it is awaiting hearing: by the full Interstate Commerce Commission, IN THE MEANTI.ME, shoi'tly after the examiner's revers.al recommendation in the McCullough case was made public, ICC issued a new ruling. It said: "Complaints or protests by associations of carriers and freight forwarders against existing or new rates, charges, fares, rules, regulations or applications for operating rights will not be entertained," Tills ruling would to deprive independent truck operators of the help of trade association lawyers in major cases.

ATA, for instance, does not try to represent individual truckers in rate or certified cases. But when the entire industi-y is involved. ATA and other carrier associatJoqs intervene. ATA therefore protested the new ICC rule. It was suspended, pending further hearing.

This has permitted the trucking associationjs to intervene in four other cases like the McCullough application. They cover most of the S. In the first of them, last year, Diamond Transportation System of Racine, was denied authority to transport G. I. Case harvester-thresher combines from the Case plant at Burlington, la.

Then the ICC motor carrier division reversed the finding. Diamond was allowed to truck out the deliveries. AFTER THIS came three truck line application denials; In January, 1955. Bums Motor Freight of Marlington, W. was denied permission to transport rough lumber to Ohio, Kentucky and Georgia.

ICC ruled existing rail services were ade quate. In March, ICC denied 'W. Schaeffer of Revillio, S. the right to haul granite from South Dakota to six states and from Vennont to 16 states. In May, International Transport, of Fargo.

N. and Kenosha (Wis.) Auto Transport Corp. were denied authority to truck farm tractors to 44 states. ICC grounds in these two cases, treated as one, were that "reasonably adequate" rail services were available. These five cases have given the U.

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