Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 51, Number 152, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 2 August 1949 — Page 1
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WEATHER FAIR, PLEASANT Indiana: Clearing, cooler tonight. Wednesday fair and pleasant.
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VOL. 51 No. 152
UNITED PRESS SERVICE
SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES TUESDAY, AUG. 2. 1949.
INTERNATIONAL PICTURE SERVICE PRICE THREE CENTS
Commissioners Meet Monday At Court House
Ray Dills and Ray Woods of
Farmersburg Post American Legion appeared and expressed need that Veterans Affairs office should be continued but stated opposition to the building of a memorial building at this time. Merom Post and Fairbanks Post American Legion request continuance of Veterans Affairs office. Walter M. Routt, Samuel M. Springer and Roland Campbell, viewers heretofore appointed herein and file report that the vacation of the highway will be a public utility and that the relocation thereof will be a public utility. Board finds that said highway should be vacated and said highway relocated in accordance with said report and all of which is now ordered and approved per written entry. And said highway over said new route is taken into and becomes a part of the county highway system of this county. Monthly report of the county treasurer filed, examined and approved. Monthly report of the county home filed, examined and approved. Deed of Berndt Olson and Car
rie Olson, his wife, and deed of
Bessie L. Riggs, a widow, to Sul
livan County upon consideration furnished by the Illinois Central
Railroad Co., were accepted, ap proved and ordered .recorded. Board approved budget esti
mates as filed and same ordered filed with auditor for action by
county council per statute. Bids received from seven bid ders opened at 1 p. m. and it ap
pearing to board that the bid of
Ervin Mayfield was the lowest
and best bid same was accepted
and approved and bidder ordered to file bond in amount of $500.00.
All bids received ordered filed in
bidders record. . ,- , I Bid9 filed were .opened at 2 p m. and bid of Stockberger-Sea-
strom Company in amount of
$10,952.00 for drag line and $450.-
Speaks Here Tonight
Charles E. Caniff, executive di
rector of the Vandenburgh County Society for Crippled Children,'
will be the speaker for the meeting of the Sullivan County society at the Methodist Church Annex tonight at 7:30 p.m. ,
Mr. Caniff, himself a paralyzed
veteran, has been connected with
the Evansville society for the past
year. He became interested in
the work of the group during his work with paralyzed veterans, and was active in the organization of paralyzed veterans at a meeting held in Evansville last year.
He was injured while serving as
commanding officer for a Marine
Corps night fighter squadron. He
spent eighteen months in hospit
als recovering from his injuries
and went through a rehabilitation program in military and civilian
hospitals before learning to walk
again and take care of his daily needs on braces and crutches.
The local society will elect of
ficers at the meeting tonight.
Senate Approval Of Tom C ark Seems Certain . WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -4U.R) Republican and Democratic leaders in the Senate today viewed Senate flnnrnval nf the on.
00 for 22 in. marsh pads accepted. polntment 0f Attorney General
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amount of $910.00 for clam shell bucket accepted. All bids on trailers were rejected as in excess of amount appropriated. All
as almost a sure Jhing.
And there was' even less doubt
that . Sen. .T. Howard MrfJrat.h
bids on front end loaders were.D., R. I., would be confirmed as
rejected as in excess of amount
appropriated. Bid of Cleotus Follbwell for two International trucks in amount of $4520.84 approved and accepted. Bid of Auto Finance for used one-half ton Willys Jeep truck in amount of $650.00 accepted and approved. All bids ordered filed in bidders record and checks of unsuccessful bidders ordered returned. Checks of successful bidders ordered held until delivery and acceptance of equipment. Auditor ordered to give notice to taxpayers of additional appropriations for the County General Fund, the Highway Repair Fund, the County Hospital Fund and the County Welfare Fund as per requisitions filed and approved for the year ending December 31, 1949. Requests to be passed upon by the county council at its annual meeting September 6, 1949.
Clark's successor in the Justice
Department.
President Truman formally
sent the nominations to the Sen
ate today. Clark and McGrath
were offered the jobs at a secret
White House meeting last Thurs
day and asked time to think the
offer over. Both accepted yester-1 services will be held at 9 o'clock
day. Clark was named for the Thursday morning with contincourt vacancy created by the ued services at the Dugger
death two weeks ago of Justice
Frank Murphy.
There was still no clear indi
cation as to whether the Clark
appointment would be contested.
But one Republican leader said
a contest would be futile. He said there was no doubt that he would
be confirmed unless something new developed at judiciary committee hearings on his nomina
tion.
Name Head Of
Ion Paper
Whopping Corn Crop May Bring
New Federal Storage Space
NEW YORK, Aug. 2. (UP)
Col. Robert R. McCormick, presl dent of The Chicago Tribune, an
nounced last night that he had
turned over The Washington
Times-Herald to his niece, Mrs Maxwell Peter Miller, Jr. McCormick, who recently pur
chased The Times-Herald, said he would be president of the newspaper, Mrs. Miller would be vice-
president and her husband secre
tary or treasurer.
Mrs. Miller, the former Ruth
Elizabeth McCormick, is president
of the company which publishes
the LaSalle, 111., News-Tribune
Her husband is publisher of that
. paper.
McCormick said that F. M,
Flynn, president and general
manager of the News Syndicate
Co., Inc., which publishes The New York Daily News, will be
chairman of the board of The Times-Herald. He added that the
present Times-Herald staff, in
eluding Editor-in-Chief Frank C.
Waldrop and General Manager W. C. Shelton will retain their
tfosts.
Rotary Club Hears Polio Talk Monday Dr. J. W. Jackson of the State Board, of Health gave a talk on poliomyelitis at the Monday meeting of the Rotary Club at the Davis Hotel. Using charts and maps, he told of the spread of polio in Indiana this year, with its heaviest concentration in the east central counties of Jay, Randolph, Howard, Delaware and Madison. The disease is a virus disease, he said, but as yet there is no positive evidence of how the virus enters the body, or how it is
transmitted. He admitted that
sometimes the first indication of polio is the presence of paralysis, although in most cases it is preceded by a slight headache, a stiff neck, and intestinal disorders. Often, he continued, a cold,
sometimes severe and other times
slight, will precede the polio attack. While polio is difficult to diag
nose in the pre-paralysis stage,
Dr. Jackson stated, it is better to
see your doctor if any of the
symptoms do appear. That way, if there is polio, the physician
will be in a better position to as
sist. No vaccine has been developed that can prevent the disease, the speaker said. A few have been developed which have been tried,
and there is one now in the pro-
Worker Beaten In Disturbance At Steel Plant
CHICAGO, Aug. 2 -- (UP)
One worker was injured slightly and three persons arrested in a
disturbance that, broke out to
day when CIO United Steelworkrs rade " membership, drive at the Republic Steel Corporation's
plant. - The plant. w t scone n -
disastrous riot in 1937 in which ten rersons were killed.
Police said the union staked
out "picket lines" in a dues check-off of workers reporting for the day shift. However, Joseph Germano, reeional , director
for the union, said the union ac)"iv was to "discii" the issues"
with non-union members and to try to pet them to join.
Scuffling broe out when a non-union member objected to
questions by the union members.
The worker, Peter Zanko, age 52, said he was ridine a bm into the plant when a man with a union card asked him if he were
a member of the union.
Quit Union . ' . ' "I told him no, that I quit the union two years aso," Zankp told Detective Alez Kandyba. "He asked why I didn't rejoin, i told him 'I don't like dictators like you.' " ; Zanko charged that three other men pulled him off the bus and beat and kicked him. At a district police station he identified
cess of being developed, but as Norman L. Harris, described by
yet nothing definite has
done. Dr. M. H. Bedwell was pro-
the
been police as an organizer for
union, as one of the men.
He signed a disorderly con
gram chairman for the meeting duct complaint against Harris,
and introduced the speaker,
County Students Sing In Chorus Doris Lathrop, Farmersburg, and Ruth McCammon, R. R. 1, Carlisle, will go to Chicago this week-end to sing with the Indiana University Chorus in two performances on the Grant Park summer concert series. ; The I. U. Chorus of 180 voices will present Verdi's "Requiem" and "Td Deum" Saturday and Sunday evenings at 8 o'clock in Grant Park. Antal Dorati, conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, will direct the University singers. Accompanied by Dean Wilfred C. Bain and Prof. George F. Krueger of the I. U. School of Music, the Chorus will leave for Chicago in chartered buses Friday afternoon and will return to Bloomington next Monday; During the week-end the group will be housed in University pf Chicago dormitories. ;. This will be the second successive summer for the University Chorus to appear on the outdoor concert series. The I. U. singers' performance at Grant Park last year was hailed by music critics as one of the outstanding presentations on Chicago's summer entertainment schedule.
SteelworkersSay Sick Benefits Are Too Low
Claude Marlindale Dies At Linton Claude Martindale. of 828
North State Street, age 56, diedj at the Linton Hospital at 9:15 p.m. last night. He was born in Greene County and lived - there I until he moved to Sullivan a few years ago. He was a member, of the East Jackson Church of Christ. , 1
He is survived by the1 widow, Rachael; three sons, Ward Martindale of Langley Field, Va Wade Martindale, of Sullivan route 4, and Maurice Martindale, of Memphis, Tenn.; two brothers, Frank Martindale, of Linton, and Hugh Martindale, of Blooming-
ton; two sisters, Mrs. Eliza Ham
NEW YORK, Aug. 2. (UP) An insurance . consultant testifying for the United Steelworkers
who was ordered to appear in " J."",
court tomorrow morning. A com- T ,.,;, .j a . , sick receives weekly benefits that pany official earlier had reported . , .?.. . ,
that it appeared eight or 10 men had attacked Zanko.
Seventeen New Cases Of Polio.
Are Reported
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 2 (U.R) Seventeen new cases of polio were reported today to the Indiana State Health Board as the year's total shot up to 272 with 26 deaths. . ' , ' Five new counties were added to the list of areas invaded by the crippling disease in its 1949
of Linton route, and Mrs. Jane spread far beyond last year's toGoodwin of Linton, and three, tal. The new ones, where one
are roughly one-fourth the minimum budget for a family of four set by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The witness, Murray W. Latimer, told the three-man presidential fact-finding board that in
United States Steel Corporation
subsidiaries, sick employes !re-
Jqeiye an average;, of . $15.17 ' a
week. He said the figure for
Bethlehem Steel averaged $11.52. Latimer said the cost of sick benefits in U. S. Steel subsidiaries was paid entirely by the employes. He said that for the entire steel industry the employes bear "not less than 95 per cent of the total costs." , ':; Demand Benefits.
The union is demanding a cash sick and accident benefit of $31.50
a week, payable immediately in Dm
case oi accidental injury, ana Be
ginning on the eighth day in case
grandchildren. -The body was taken to the
' Billman Funeral Home where
case was reported yesterday and this morning, were Gibson, Cass, Knox, Parke and Kosciusko. Today's new cases duplicated yesterday's reports ,for a 48-hour period including part of Satur-
Church of Christ at 10 o'clock, day, all of Sunday and Monay.
Burial will cemetery.
be in the Dugger
GOUCKENOUR'S CONDITION GOOD Robert Gouckenour, who underwent an appendectomy at the
Mary Sherman Hospital Saturday jan effort to control the spread of night, is doing fairly well, hos- tne disease. Earlier, Delaware
pital attendants said today.
They were scattered over 10 counties, but Delaware's hard-hit area added four new cases for a total of 33. Meanwhile, Randolph County joined two other Hoosier coun
ties where bans were clamped on public gatherings of all kinds in
and Jay Counties had prohibited further public gatherings. The death total stood at 26, after the report of the death of an 11 year old Fort Wayne boy, Max Everett, at his home. Dr. W. C. Anderson of the State Board of Health reported
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vln.ni .T. Burke farmers announced two months "-- v tu
Dy . - jn i care of tne present pono cases, United Press Staff Corresponded A "unless the soread of the disease
WASHINGTON, Aug. rurtnermore, tne much more ranid rate."
this montn plans to otib - ...
Prospects of the greatest U. S.
corn surplus in history may u the government to broaden its program to boost grain storage construction in the corn belt.
Agriculture officials are worried about where farmers and the
government will find storage space for the corn they will own
this fall, if the 1949 crop turns
out to be as big as lorecast.
Unless something happens to
curtail production prospects, the nation's total corn on hand may sky-rocket into the neighborhood of 4,300,000,000 bushels.
Bigger This Year. That would be 500,000,000 more
than the record-smashing supply last fall.
The 1949 crop was forecast last
month at 3,530,000,000 bushels. Indications now are that about
800,000,000 bushels of last year's crop will be carried over into the
new crop year.
The government already has
taken two major steps to expand
corn belt grain storage. A great expansion in farm storage construction is underway under the
liberal plan of construction loans sideration.
Harriman Says Arms Aid Plan Badly Needed ' By Rex Chaney
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U.R)
Roving Ambassador W. Aver-
11 Harriman today asked Con
gress to approve President Tru
man's $1,450,000,000 arms ' aid program "to protect the growing
generation from war."
He told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the program is urgently needed now to keep Western Europe's mounting confidence from bogging down into
fear and doubt.
"I believe," Harriman said, "that it is our duty to make the present sacrifices which may be necessary to protect the growing
generation from war .... for our own security, for the interests of
our young people who have to
deal with the condition that our actions create, it is my conviction that we should seize this opportunity to strengthen the will and ability of these (Western Europe) nations both to deter aggression and ,to reinforce them as allies."
Committee Restive Harriman addressed a commit
tee which has been increasingly
restive because of what some of
its members call administration
"window dressing" about the
arms bill. Committee members call for ore facts and less talk.
Harriman told the committee
that this country must understand clearly that Soviet Russia
s bent on "internal and external
aggression which threatens both
the United States and other free
peoples. i But he said he has "never been
as optimistic as I am today that
he maintenance of peace and freedom is within our reach in
Europe."
He added the qualification provided we carry out vigor
ously the policies and programs in which we are engaged, includthe military assistance program."
By George E. Reedy, Jr. United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Ausr. 2. (UP) The House Labor Com
mittee today in effect killed Federal aid to education for this
session. But it refused to pronounce the corpse dead.
The legislators wrangled for two hours behind the closed
doors of the committee room without agreeing cn anything
in the dispute that has become partly a religious issue. The
only unanimous vote came cn a motion to receive but not
to adopt a report from a subcommittee.
Committee Chairman John Lesmski, v., Mich., said he .vould call the legislators together in a few days for another try at an agreement. But it was conceded that it is too late for the House to act. this session even if the committee could igree on something. .
Bonus Blank Ho. 2
Now Available
Federal iducat tonal Dead In This Session
Mine Welfare Fund Expense Exceeds Income WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. (UP)
Soft coal operators were alarmed today over disclosures that John L. Lewis is spending the United Mine Workers welfare fund at a rate faster than its in
come.
But they declined official com
ment until they can analyze the figures presented to a Senate
Banking subcommittee yesterday
by Josephine Roche, the fund's
director. She said that, from March through June, fund ex
penditures exceeded income by
$2,000,000 a month.
Producers said unofficially,
however, that the figures only confirmed their fears that the fund is spending money too fast. They said it is not on a sound fin
ancial basis and that it is not be
ing administered in accordance with provisions of the Taft-Hart
ley Act.
May Seek Control. The fund is financed by a levy
of 20 cents a ton on all coal mined. Operators said that they
would use the figures in further
Indiana veteran bonus blanks negotiation on a new 1949 wage
No. 2 are available at the office 'Contract with Lewis in an effort of the veterans affairs officer in to obtain stricter control over the
the Court House, the Rev. Tom expenditures.
Jennings has announced. He said Mls Roche revealed for the the forms would be available on first time that the fund pays a
Mondays, Wednesdays, and on Thursdays from .9:30 a.m. to 5
These forms, for deceased vet-
ok mi,. liana Department of Veterans Af
lull a.il a jiiaAiiiiuiil M v nccas. . . , . . . . . . . . fa re TnHinnnrnlla ann tno HoQrl.
Latimer presented the follow
ing figures as averages now bein received in weekly sick bene
fits in representative companies:
$35,000-a-year salary to Trustee;
Ezra Van Horn, chosen by the operators, and Sen. Styles Bridges, R., N. H., neutral trustee. Lewis takes no salary as chairman. The salary figure is the same amount paid Capt. N. H. Collisson who served as the government trustee when the mines
were under Federal operation
The $300,000,000 a year measure has been held up by a dispute between Catholic and . Protestant legislators. ,' Ren. Cleveland M. Bailey, D., W. Va., thought earlier that he had found' a compromise that, could settle the dispute. He did not disclose its terms and didn't set 3 chance to offer it this morning. ' With legislators leaving Washington at an increasing rate, it is unlikely that he can get the measure on the floor in sufficient, time for action. Bailey announced his "discovery" after a closed meeting yes- , terdav with 10 other committee . members. Two Bill There are two major as well as several minor ' bills before the committee. They are 1. A Senate-anproved bill to permit each individual state to decide whether th Federal aid could be used for parochial as wpII as nublie schools. . 2. A bill drawn up' by Rep. Graham A. Barden, D., N. C... which would restrict all the funds to public schools. The Barden bill has been denounced as "anti-Catholic" hy Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York. He included Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt i ri his denunciations when she indicated sympathy with the basic principles of the measure. What was considered a Catholic approach to a compromise was offered bv Rep. John F. Kennedy, D., Mass. It would set, aside 10 per cent of the Federal funds to be distributed both to parochial and public tax supported schools for so-called "auxfl-' iary services" transportation, health care and , non-religious', textbooks. The other 90 per cent would be restricted for the use of public schools. House Democratic leaders re
jected a similar compromise last
line for the application is Dec. 31, 1950. j ' Tnr npvt nf kin whn file for
cs in representative companies. I,. r . , , . Miss Roche renorteri that he-J Republic Steel, $20; Jones rf K th? ff1 . We . S.SS I week"
Lauhlin, $12; Copperweld Com-. nuiicauon aenmii m-i it received in March Mav ... o7. ohQr 500i eoi aA company the form if the veteran "la, " recelvea J iviarcn, jviay , ?nT$lLfr,T StCel' $ ' died while in service. If he died and Jn- fund .ave out ! SCHRICKER NAMES
..vv. , yu. , jianharao th. nri!nni Hi some o,uuu,uuu more tnan its in- IKA-VKHN main
lhe board is hearing testimony,"" 'u Icome in ADril. In fact, she said.
must accompany the form. The rank of a deceased vet
eran and whether service was in months from July 1, 1948 to last the Army, Navy, Marines or the,June 30- During the year, she n i yi j u said. exDenditures totaled $104-
than told the board yesterday""1 UT ' luot "c muil""T'l880 785 exceeding income bv tw the steel inrfnetrv eniH hin H any application was ever made exceedin0 income by
9J.o,ooo,oou.
on the union claim that the industry is financially able to increase wages and benefits paid its more than 1,000,000 workers. Labor Economist Robert R. Na-
u . .,. Mo the U. S. Veterans Adminis-
irauon ior any. ueiiein, uisauu
sion by granting the demands.
Australian Dock Workers Battle
ity, schooling, loan, of death benefit, that the XC number or
the C number must be included.
FILES SUIT FOR DIVORCE Gus Mahan has filed suit
The Rev. Jennings said that if divorce against Ellen B. Mahan
.,; r.t ??n nnn nnn hushels
it.-ci stnre'ln the corn had obtained six new iron
' - .n I liivMin v -I -v V-vt i vi art4
belt to help hold grains from m crops which are expected to be t"nal nurses for polio duty by dumped into the government's transferring them from other
lap.
Crop Improves. Even so, many grain experts believe the additional storage won't be enough to handle the tremendous surplus now in prospect. Furthermore, they point to reports that the corn crop has improved in recent weeks.
Some observers believe Secre
tary
Brannan may start a plan to ex-,der 62 year old socialist and pand elevator storage in the former mayor of Berlin, as first cornbelt. This might be done president of the New West Ger-
through a government guarantee man republic, that it would rent any additional Frau Schroeder gained recogstorage capacity built under the riition when she headed the Berprogram for a given period. That un city administration through would assure the elevator own- j the months of crisis after the ers of income from the invest- -war. mtnt. - j - Ralph S. Trigg, president of MARRIAGE LICENSE Commodity Corporation, disclos- A marriage license has been
ed recently that a program of .issued by the county clerk to this nature has been under con- Anchor E. Rabbitt, of Linton,
and John A. McKee, of Detroit.
persons applying for the bonus will bring all the necessary data when seeking to file, it will save infvinvenienne fnr the next of
SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 2. vin (UP) 'Fifteen hundred dock, '
workers fought for 30 minutes
Germans May Name Woman President FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug.
2 (UP) German sources today said a strong movement is
of Agriculture Charles F.!underway to elect Louise Schroe-
woiKers iougnt ior mi nines i . . l l I with 200 police in the heart of 1 1 Dp lOf f C iMfl Sydney's shopping section today u' J-JvlJ iVU
Complaint On Pact
in the Sullivan Circuit Court,
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 2. (U.R) Governor Schricker said today
Of the 12.nnV.art T? Wnimham Franklin.
had been appointed to a full term as ezecutive secretary of the state teachers' retirement fund, effective Aug. 15. Hodgham, who served more than 12 years in the, post during Democratic admlnis-' trations in the 1930's and early 1940's, is the fund secretary now. He was appointed last January to succeed Forrest Carmichael, Columbus, who resigned.
for
U.S. To Base All-Jet Air Striking Force in Germany
By Robert Haeger United Press Staff Correspondent GRAFENWOEHR, Germany, Aug. 2 (UP) The United States soon will base an all-jet air striking force in Germany
Sydney's shopping section today
during a one-day 'strike demonstration against shipping com
names.
The battle, which at one time WASHINGTON, Aug. i. tur ) broke down into 12 separate The United States today reerouD fiehts. occurred shortly af- jected "as utterly without foun-
ter noon when police attempted dation official soviet claims mat and will maintain its ground to halt the strikers from march- the North Atlantic treaty has ag- forces at present strength "ready ing on an arbitration court. gressive aims and violates Italy's for any emergency," the visiting No one was injured seriously peace treaty. , U. S. Chiefs of Staff disclosed but scores of police and hysteri-. Secretary of State Dean Ache- today. cal women shoppers were knock-'son rejected the twin Soviet Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Air ed down, scratched, punched and charges in a note delivered io So- chief of Staff, and Gen. Omar beaten in the melee, described as 'viet Ambassador Alexander S. n. Bradley, Army Chief of Staff, one of the worst labor outbreaks I Panyushkin in reply to a Soviet told newsmen here that there in Australian history. . note received several weeks ago. J will be no cutback in the air and
The maior battle occurred on Acheson quoted a statement is- ground forces with which Amer-
busy King Street during the noon sued by foreign ministers of At-(iCa will back up its commitments
rush hour. Fifteen men and one lantic fact nations in April, ae- m Europe under the Atlantic
woman were arrested.
DRILL FOR OIL
ON BEDWELL FARMi
claring the pact is not directed treaty.
against any nation or group of The only exception, Vandennations "but only against armed berg said, will be the Berlin air-
aggression.
Drilling was begun on a wild- TODAY'S TEMPERATURES
cat well on the Carl Bedwell The unofficial temperatures in farm one and three-fourths miles Sullivan today were: south of the Berea Church yes- at 7:30 a.m 70 degrees
terday. at noon 83 degrees regrouped fighter force in Ger-
lift. That is being scaled down gradually now that the Soviet blockade of western land and water routes to Berlin has been llifted. .'
Vandenberg said the recently
many soon will be entirely equipped with jet planes. He said the propeller driven Thunderbolt fighters, which were America's first line fighters at the end of World War II, are being retired. The two generals talked with newsmen after reviewing with Admiral Louis E. Denfield, Chief of Naval Operations, the greatest post-war display of American military might in Germany at Adolph Hitler's former army
training grounds here. Fully 17,000 troops of the. crack First Infantry Division and attached units half the U. S. Army's strength in Europe pa
raded in battle array for the visiting generals and admiral. More than 100 planes, including jet "Shooting Stars," zoomed overhead. The 90-minute review was marred only by a driving wind. As 100 tanks and more than 1,000 other vehicles rumbled by, clouds of dust whipped into the faces of the visiting officers.