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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1949
Page
11
A singing cowboy on a stallion and a tiny Hindu rider on the smallest elephant quieted a stampede across Texas hill country during a movie jungle scene. The elephants had bolted while being filmed, echoing frontier cattle drives and drawing crowd attention.
A Daily Brothers Circus herd of 25 in winter quarters near Gonzales triggered a near disaster when pistol blanks fired by Dudley Autry and Chuck Carson prompted a staged stampede that became real. Cowboys and handlers fled as elephants charged, with Orr’s camera capturing the chaotic moment before the beasts buried the shuttered reel. Butch the baby elephant and Singh the Hindu rode out the frenzy as Butch lagged behind the others. Davenport defended the stunt as unsafe and said the elephants milled outside city limits while Autry spurred the herd head-on to provoke the scene. The film survived.
Washington reports that the United States Britain and France aim to settle key questions on governance and oversight of Germany in the western zones. Acheson Bevin and Schuman held preliminary talks after North Atlantic Treaty events and plan to brief subordinates on agreed basics.
A belief among some Indians holds that elephants possess two trunks three eyes and ten legs in the realm elephants reach after death. This idea reflects folklore about animal spirits and the mysteries of the afterlife in Indian culture.
Summer crochet tease for a dainty chair-set featuring a butterfly medallion center and pineapple frame. Laura Wheeler improves the pattern with charts photos and concise directions. Send twenty cents for this pattern to The Middletown Journal in Brooklyn NY.
Middletown teachers backed the Guthrie Bill in a special session, proposing a three percent gross receipts tax to replace the current sales tax. It aims to save administration costs, boost school funding, child welfare, health, pensions, and state employee salaries, with funds to raise local salaries.
The first mint likely began in Lydia in Asia Minor toward the end of the eighth century B C. The fragment notes this early origin and hints at the development of coinage in the ancient region.
A Russian embassy worker in Moscow accuses Alfred Gibson a long time resident of the Soviet Union of kicking her on a stairway. She says the act shows hostile attitudes by some Englishstaff and quits her job appealing to officials to act.
Mrs. Helen Deutemeier, investigator for Butler County Court of Common Pleas, told Civitan Club members that divorce cases have fallen recently as many war marriages endure. She described the process from initial applications to reconciliation efforts and, if needed, arranging for children and presenting evidence to the court.
Cecil Butts and Edward Rathbun will attend a Columbus meeting of state officers and district directors of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. The gathering will discuss the coining of gold, silver, and electrum, an alloy of gold and silver.
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