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aji4 Siu} Guypuey ul aeg asp LOVE IIEQ - Jajsuedl —~TESFIZ# Ndl0- DO NOT DESTROY FOIPA # J2Q4o _ LON Od #41 01 dada ¥o Wold GaAOW | JLVILSNF AO .WAWL w ; 2 About Sancers ) ; Piiest Finds ‘Whirring’ Disc In Yard and Holds It for FBI Chicago, July 6 (W.P).—A_Catho- FBI office said he hadn't heard —_—- am ry Saeaheene jlic priest at Grafton, Wis., sald lfonight thak a Tound, metal tise, Se tnina dives have been Te pamlgniDe Oe comin ported “seen” by persons in 30 SEAN thie helo t Brasky's dise was the ee rederal 8 me that actually had been Tat Efi ti found—it that is what waz found. et a Esk fi BS: His” report came a few hours | hea head OF getter 8 military plane made an Segete es on, 29 unsuccessful speed dash in an at- fear nokth of Milwaukee, said he|sampt to track down one of he i - atd/ 4 swishing and whirring) gises and the Army and scientisis| noise this morning. A second later,| sought to ascertai whether coas}-| jite said, he heard a thud and @to-coast reports adout the discs! jmild explosion. |ooming through tie sky were fact| He investigated and found 8 oy faney | sheet metal disc about 18 inches. in| Army planes scoured the arti! diameter, resembling a cirenlat west Pacific skies for them without | jsaw blade. success today and one “eyewitness” | | “The object still was Warm, even reported having seen one of | weighed about four or five pounds!the dises take off in Arizona. A jand was about one eighth of an|st, Louis railroad man exhibited inch thick," he said. some paper “dises” he said he had There was a hole about one|seen floating over St. Louis. | ‘inch in diameter in the middle of ' | the dise, he said, and in the open- The flying saucers which have, ber were “gadgets and some|been reported skimming through wires. s te ski | he priest said he did not a oe at speses uit fo if his discovery were important |1200 miles a's — the usual- . whether it might be an elab- Y de. he ts Sie vp eo mate practical joke. He said ne| Ks eS — ae 3 > ate igs {ad notified the FBI of 1 : orces public relations 5 HK. Johnson of the Milwaukee| See SAUCERS, Page 3, Col. — = an — Wo 40077 JUL 7 1947 WASHHINGTON POST Page o Tolson *~ Clegg Coffey Glavin___ Ladd cae: Nicholg chard Rosen = Tracy Carson __ Egan __ Hendon _ Penning Mr. Nease ; ra) A Miss sGgndy “ a: ; Papas : GERS—From Pag ‘Priest Finds*.. 7 4 desk ¥ a he : ‘ } LJ. .J said. ee ie I rt Yard and Ho ls Id Howard W. Blakeslee, Mei ‘said the Army Airways Communi- Jim-the wake ot inese nawagye.| jated Press science editor, sald the cations Service had reported late tness accounts came a new se whole business may be an. optical | aaeuntar that so far its radar lost of them were tinged with a|| “At any distance which is close &§ comments, and explanations, but ‘illusion, scopes throughout the country|siont tendency to laugh off the ito ‘the limit of how far a person’ j jhave been unable to pick up any strange objects in flight. | And in the Pacific Northwest— where most of the fly-happy plat-|; i ters have been reportéd—the Army intendent of St. Elizabeths Hos has radar equipment which can pierce fog and darkness and pick whole thing. can see,” he wrote, “all objects Dr. Winfred Overholser, nation-| apprar round or nearly so. ‘Th’s ally known psychiatrist and super- law of sight covers both small pital here, said it “has some of the! this seen nearby and large ois earmarks of being national hys-||at great distances. up objects in the sky 200 miles eria.” “The one outstanding fact about away. “Everytime someone comes up|, eat with a sea-serpent story,” said Dr virtually all the saucers is that Even so, Brown acknowledged | Qverholser, “others with vivid) |they had no structure — they that the Air Forces had decided) jmaginations are sure they hav@! |seemed merely round and fiat. “there's something to this” and had been checking it for 10 days. seen the same thing. . That deseription fits exactly with “The critical faculty In man, the . * 4 “And we still haven't the slight-| last one he received, is still not} |the tricks that eyes play. This est idea what they could be,” he| very well developed. Scratch the |trickiness varies with differences added. surface and you find the same mass) |in weather and lighting.” And a new wrinkle—the report- hysteria which predominated dur- | However, Nova Hart, St. Louls S ed landing of a fleet of eight skim-' jing the witchcraft scare ming platters—was reported from Idaho in ful] view of 10 persons. A. things and follow beliefs.” ome |mechanic who-was trained during lpersons are quite ready to see service in the war to spot all types of aircraft, yesterday offered a Dishman, Idaho housewife, said) Dr. Overholser said that when minute description of one of the she and others in her party had seen the saucers land on a moun-) tainside near St. Maries, Idaho. he said they came into view at al¥extreme speed, suddenly slowed, and then “fluttered like leaves to tie ground.” “The mysterious part was th we couldn't see them after th landed,” she said. “We could sep them flutter down into the timbe yet we couldn't see that they did anything to the trees.” | She said she hoped to hike into the timber tomorrow and search for the objects which she said were saucer-shaped but resembled wash- tubs mofe than disks and were “about the size of a five-room house.” Locally, Hazen Kennedy of 2615 PPR eae 4th st. ne. reported he had seen may be because of hysteria. he made his rounds of the mental) gying patterns which he claimed he patients yesterday at St. Eliza- saw flying at an altitude of about beths not a one commented on the, 390 feet, / flying saucers stony. } . | Reporter Sees One / | “] think they may be a little E , skeptical,” he added. ' He described it as circular with | However, Dr. Overholser said he’ 8 aie noes Msc rate | wasn't sagt dismiss the matter to Hove @ cacti’ with: & araciier r mah avaies thine yea tr ee attached in the center and that f y that one can’: be sure.” awe ag is an airplane do- Mai. Alexander P. de Seversfy,| - d | |no®d aircraft designer, told 4 Rose gm ogee | Po§t by telephone from New York |c§nvincing. A Los Angeles news] | thgt until he sees a flying saucer paper quoted an unnamed nuclea he “wouldn't like to pass judg- P ysicist as saying the silvery disc} ment.” r@ulted from experiments in thé \ '“fransmutation of atomie energy.” | He agreed with Dri Overholser | whia report Bik iSite mcd | that much if not all of the story jjinto the boax column by David! |Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic one passing over the Northeast “After all,” he said, “we are ‘Energy Commission, and several section of the city at about 8:40 more or less an hysterical Nation.” p. m This would be the first one re- ginje ty é ported over the District, although sible that: the persons: ¥ |prominent atomic scientists, F Starr Expects Word Louis E, Starr, national com-| Major de. Seversky said it was pos- ho claim|'mander of the Veterans of Foreign others have been reported over to have seen the aerial discs have||Wars, announced Saturday at Co- nearby Maryland. instead glimpsed the exhaust of |!umbus, Ohio, that he was expect- Kennedy, who has 125 hours; jet-propelled plants. ing “momentarily” information flying time as a student pilot in) He conceded, too,‘ that they |from Washington which would ex-| the Army Air Forces to his credit.) might be guided missiles let loose plain the dashing discs. But the said he believed the saucer he! 8S part of an experiment, but Message never arrived. had seen was traveling at “welll added: The Air Forces said that Gen.) over” 1000 miles an hour at an| “I don’t think the Government Carl Spaatz, Air Forces chief, was altitude of between 1200 and 1500, would fire them so promiscuously. 1" Me Racine. Hactener: Tees feet. “The best way I can describe it,” said Kennedy, “was that it looked ) They would test them in one spot, MOS of the saucers have been re- i ‘ ? ported, but added that his trip oe ene hg like they did there ‘was planned ‘two months like an orange lamp bulb without Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, who \ago, long before the saucers scare. the socket. It was going faster than|as Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Seen lute ones back In any jet plane I've ever seen.” gin Hagerstown, Md., Mrs. Ma Ganoe, 30, said she had sec e of the dises, racing in 2-1 rmation at “terrific speed,” fro: * backporch, “They sounded a faraway train,” she said. esearch and Development would eld yet if the saucers involved ex- er rpde piety occ periments with guided missiles, jing by, and the National Guard | ppiawnented: >regon had prepared six regu atever these people have |fighters to give chase shot + all ; (pat it hasn't been anything re- |saucers be reported nearby, + sulting from experiments by the Army Air Forces. As for as I'm concerned there's nothing to it at all. The whole tpipg ig. A Gourn YrUasr rome fEWSNORLZAL ANEOUS« RECEIVED = = ee] x 2 = s 5 BY SPECIAL MESSENGER August 5, 1947 Director of Intelligence War Department General Staff The Pentagon Washington 25, D. ¢. Attention: Colonel L. R,. Forney, Chief, Security Group John Edgar Hoover - Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation FRED R. REIBOLD There are attached hereto copies of a letter received from the above-captioned individual, together with copies of a newspaper otipping enclosure, concerning "flying discs." — Mr. Reibold's letter has been acknowledged and not has been advised hat gopies of his letter have been furnished to you for sted consideration. De Ao tt l thiel Cee Mf, FOF *. 4 ofS Ab: DIS. feernstacscott Ae ee ae ying saucer” that f Himebaugh Avenue Pras was nothing from somebody's Pipe So says Dr. C L. Kenny, head of the chemistry de the Creighton College o tistry. He had two students an- alyze the ashes, They found ‘S0- um, Potassium, iron, al » Carbonate, sulphate and t pce e said, Ss ne. Monday eve but “ashes re hrniiy 1087 about 10°F De - ently July 11, 1947. Dear Sirs Have you seen one of the mysterious "Saucers"? What did it look like? Do you think these strange, celestial manifesta- tions are harbingers of a better day? Do you believe it means that a new and revolutionary advance is coming? Will it make your life brighter, happier, more useful? We believe one of these startling discs is onits way to you. Then the secret will be out. The Combined and Amalgamated Committee of Sky-Scanners, Dise Decipherers and New-Product Introducers. STANDARD FORM NO. 64 & a 4, . , a Office Memorandum + wwnirep states GOVERNMENT ae es WR a pare: July 7, 1947 FROM : H. B. FLETCHER.) SUBJECT: ye At 10:45 aeme, July 7, 1947, I talked to SAC Johnson of the Milwaukee Office concerning the United Press item appearing in the Washington Post for Monday, July 7, with reference to a flying disc or flying saucer, allegedly reported to the Milwaukee Office by Reverend Josep Brasky of St. Joseph's Church, Grafton, Wisconsin. GED SRERO RRR REE RRO EE SAC Johnson advised that the Associated Press and the Unitedd Press between the hours 1:00 and 6:00 asm. today had made inquiry of - him as to whether anything had been reported to the Milwaukee Officés — He declined to comment. He stated as a matter of fact the priest had- not made any contact with him, and he learned from the Associated Press that the priest was intoxicated and as far as the Associated Press was concerned they were not releasing the story because all that was involved was a circular saw. Mr. Johnson stated the Milwaukee Sentinel apparently sent the report out and that they handled United Press service. He stated a photograph of the priest was in this morning's paper holding a circular saw which apparently covers the body of the priest from arm pit to arm pit. \ Attached to the saw are several wires and two small tubes described as ' about three inches long and one inch in Gismeter. The news item in the Milwaukee Sentinel indicates it was believed some prankster had thrown it into the yard, perhaps with a firecracker attached. Mr. Johnson stated the Milwaukee Sentinel had stated the priest would make a report of this matter today to the Milwaukee Office. I instructed SAC Johnson in the event the priest made a report to furnish details of the report immediately, but in view of the nature of the information in his possession, no inquiry should be conducted at the present. HBRF : cmw | 58 JUL 6 S194 he Hde@S G 7 wp WLSAr 40 ‘Ld3@ “S"F 401334) L ROOM : Nb SHINGTO ? RECEIVED JUL 15 1947 J-TIMES 5 CENTS PER COPY. No. 91 set Home Boy | FIRST ITS FLYING DISKS — NOW ITS “FIRE BALLS” PEOPLE. SEF Winner In ‘say Contest he second time in the past of menths a Sweet Heme has bronght honor to his nnity “by winning literary holastie acclaim, ‘st to achieve himself was du Anthony Matusek, Yoa- High School graduate who a sehelarship to A, and M. ‘é. Now word reaches ns Donms Brenek, eleyen-year- son of Mr, and Mrs. Ed. 1k of Sweet Home ,has been ided-a prize of-a $25 Savings l in the KTRH Farm Essay ést. annis won sixth place with bis y on the subject ‘‘How Radio Best Serve the Farm and Farm Home.’* this essay, George Roesner, tH Farm and Ranch Director | di: “Your essay contsined vy @xcellant ideas. whieh we! future et te use in st farm pro- ‘nning contests is nothing to Dennis, who, in 1946, won istered pig with an essay éd/in the Sears-Roebuek con- Again, in February 1947, he od a calf in the Hallettsville Cinh Show, and out of 12 8 awarded he took fifth 5. Brenek is Sweet Home's nistress. Growing cellent Form akum seftbal] teams showed of good playing in the gomes ‘d at the Bulldez Stadinni week. ‘9 teams, organized by var- méschanis and concerns in 1, Are eompose, of members amatenr standing who have some previons experience with I-lot or seheol ball playing. vever, some of the players ® shown such expert — ball dling and sportsmanship that i) hard to believe they are nol ‘easionals ont of place, The chants Who organized these nS ave certainly déing their © toward providing recreation lities for the young people of community, aud are {to he iplithented on their fine work. er mérehants or concerns. who tn orgamze a team may nm all the particulars from ph MeMaster af the Firestone re on Loft Street, or from R. C. MeClendon at hack’s oviate Stere on West Grand. boys or men wishing to play one of the teams may make ‘vation at the Firestone Store, k's, Rehan’s Service Station, Hamilton’s Jewelry Store, de- ding on the player’s choice of eam. to play with. There is plenty of room for good vers, 80 anyone interested is ed to contact one of these ns, nly One game is definitely eduled for next week, and that Monday night, when The Fire ae Btore will tangle with the wales Dr. Peppers. ‘Tuesday bt Lack's’ Associate Store will y, but their opponent has not n named yet, Also, on Thurs- cileht the Firestone team will dn play a game, but no team been stated to oppese them On Priday night of this week, fame will bs played, but ‘the na Who will participate have heen listed yet, hese games will start about each iight. Lyervone is in- 1 to eome and cheer for his \. No adnaissian will he charg- 1URITY MAN Bu HERE 2) aes Hl. Davis, field representa- San Antonio Social Seen- ffiee, will be in Yoakum at ty Hall at 8:30 aan., Wed- » July 23, 1947, for the In commenting ‘town, A lot of Texans are disk-gust- ad with the flying saucers, but ethers are just plain disk-furbed: Flying halls of fire circled a wide area around Palestine, and some nerroes, believing the end of the world was near, began praying, A white man grabbed a rifle and shot at the myster- ious objects, Sheriff Paul Stanford of An- derson County deseribed them as (-arange ‘basket basketballs of» fire Revealing Flying Disk Data May Bring Prosecution Anyone willfully It was the first time the aerial ebjects were reported in that a- rea. Residents of the Brushy Creek community, 15 miles north- east of Palestine, called Sheriff Stanford about 3:30 last night, saying 12 balls were flying in a straight line over the community. Then, they reported, the halls formed a eircle which began may- ing toward Palestine. By 9 p. m. hundreds of Pales- tine spectators reported secing’ as many as three balls in the sky at once, moving in a eirele, Sher- iff Stanford discounted any sug- gestion. that the balls Criginaioe from a spotlight, Bud Everett, druggist, chased them for a hetter view. He said they finally disappeared abont: Wy p. m. Mrs. Horace Valentina said she saw two perfectly round ing uvformation bearing on the | when they delange er seewrite of the nation.| home. “She. s — even in time of peace — is subject to a fine of $10,000 and imprisonment of 10 years, aceord- ing {0 Assistant United States District Attorney Joseph .W Cash. If the present mystery of fly- ing disks are connected with ra- dar or guide} missile experiments, the law might apply, he said, The Jaw applies whether the information is released accident- ally, “through gross negligence,'’ or ‘‘with intent to injure the U- nited States or aid aome foreign nation,’'’ aceording to the act. The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 provides even stricter penalties for revealing information, Mr. ash said. Public Law 585 of the Seventy-Ninth Congress préeides death or life imprisonment, after due process of law, for disclosing atomic information with intent to injure the United Statea, For accidental disclosures a tite of up to #20,006 and in- prisonment up to 20 years are provided, Mx, Cash poimted out. Gas Truck Hits Local Station A ptatanir: finifer truck of the | Texas Consolidated Transport Co. ran into a heavy pipe upright im front of Rohan’s Service Station Monday, dome some damage to the station and more to the truck, The truck was ceming from along West Grand, and turned into the station. As the driver ent the cab back toe swing the trailer into position, the cab skidded into the steel pipe roof support on the right of the truek, bending it considerably, The truck itself suffered a bent bum- per and a smashed fender, A gasoline pump directly behind the upright was net damaged by the erash, Lions To Make Farmer Award The Lions Club has announced that at its regular noon meeting Tuesday, July 15th, it will pre- (sent to Lee Pargmann of Ronte ;5, the plaque for the Ontstanding Farmer for the Middle Guadalupe Basin Soil Conservation District. The plaque is given each ven to the farmer from each conser- vation distriet who has eontribut- ed most to the soil. conservation projects in the partieulan district, The award is spongored by a nun- ber of organizations, among thom the Lions Clubs of the various towns, Sinee the Lions do play an active part in sponsoring this a- ward, the loeal eluh is given the | privilege of presenting the plaque to Mr. Pargmann. Representatives of the Soil Con- servation Service will be presént to make short congratulatory and explanatory speeches on the giv- ing of the annual award, — purpose of receiving claims and discussing Old Age and Survivors Instance with all who. wish’ to contaet tim. Davis will not be able to fur nish information concerning Old Age Assistance pensions, be playing with each other, the way they junmped around. Her husband and Lee Chavers shot a box of .22 rifle ballets without any effect on the objects. Mrs, Valentine said neighhor- ing negro families thought the world was coming to an end, and began praying as the balls of fire gamboled overhead, Mrs, Lorens Shrader, Big Springs reported she saw a fiery ved ball streaking overhead Iast night. Mrs, Marian Reed, faim. wife, fonnd what she believed was part of a flying disk. It landed in her back yard while she was hanging ouf the clothes yesterday aiter- noon. She admitted she was frightened, She desertbed it a8 a round. piece ot. tinfoil eight inek- es wide, scorched or burned .a- round the edges, Both sides were shiny, but one side was marked with black, steneiled lines a ayar- ter-inch apart. She said the tin- foil dropped ctraight down front the sky, She lifted it with a stick, mit it in a tin can, and droye five miles to Gunter, 20 miles sonth- west of Sherman, Scores erowdéd about to see it, At Melissa, Collin County, Mrs. Marie Killian and Mis. Kay Craft reported seeing a strange oljject at 8:40 p. m. yesterday. Charles Calhoun, and his fath- er, W, J. Calhoun, prominsiit Grayson County farmers, satd they saw a disk yesterday ete Sherman. Cuero Residents See Flying | Disc Cuero has Sree prodiied i first flying dise, It was reported by Mrs. F. W. Haak of 410 Stockdale street, arid both she and her husband saw it: However, Mrs, Haak’s flying dise is ne particular mystery, {6 her. She thinks she Know$ just what caused it. Tt was simply a reflection front an airplane, she said. Sitting on the porch with har husband about 4 psn. Sunday, Mrs. Haak said she heard a strange noise from the sky, and leoked up, Seon an airplane cane into view, high in the elouds. { was very small, but plainly dis- cernable as a plane, she Said, ft was coming from the east. _ Soon it turned north, and just after that a perfeet dise Was) vis- ible some distance from where the plane disappeared into the clouds. The dise appeared Brickt add very silvery. Tt appem to Ke smaller in sizé than 4n ordinary © steering wheel of a car, Mrs. Haak reported. It seemed to be ‘“tloating’? aerosa the heavens. ' She called her husband's at- tention to it, They both saw it. After about five secends the dise was gone, The plane and the sonnd disappeared, Mrs. Haak is convineed tha flying saucer was reflected from the airplane. This theory also las been advanced by others. The flying dise mystery has ihe nation in a dither with reports coming from all sections on the strange objects. Mrs. Haak’s ex- planation is as reasonable as any yet put forth, and may be the solution to the ‘‘pheuomenon,’”’ — PGE TWO HERALD - TIMES | BY THR WAY Yoakum How CaN Owned Ly WMALECG PUBLISHING CGS. JOSEPH J. MALEC, Editor-Manager fLaigest guaranteed circulation of BY ates in this PequON: sires East. | Gonsoudated Get, $5, 1943 Stvscription Rave — — —$2.56 Published every Tuesday and Fri- | ‘ay ulurning — §10-312 Lott Bt. Svuskan; Lexas. ®uvering Lavaca Counties. arters] as secund-class matter at the Post Office, See: Texas, inder the Act of March 3, 1897. | WHEN ADVERTISING CIRGU- LATION OOUNTS — TRY THE | HERALD-TIMES, POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS | For Senator, 18th Dist. 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This is just i | as untolerable today as it was then. x Pa * the! Norman Thomas ; debate about Russia. mas questions gave “T seriously ques | ested in world ‘domina | ing to rehabilitate the says Wallace, just w) What happened Hungary, and what t country, should be b: what the Reds say, 1 “And, once beat ference bketween the || of Hitler Germany, in government struc What Hitler stc simple, and far mort age. But when Russia the same. As to Russian tac they don’t differ grea) When independence is and maintained in Gree 4° ling to Wallace’s reasor But since the Rec mocracy, it’s very simy to suit the purpose. Ei Moscow's fifth column, Wallace talks of h. sistance and sincere pi people.” How can Wall Last Sunday was, for the; | British, a national Day. of | Russia will take : | Prayer. The kine with Prime, without changing in t! Minister Aitlee and other | And now cat he tatc « | government leaders went to! when there cannot be | St. Paul’s Cathedral to pray less, voiceless, and cut with the nation for help in| any friendship reach t these ominous times. | *&) HS = Not so long age England went through the mést desperate struggle in her’ whole history. The peace is not yet established and even a greater menace threatens the people of England and elsewhere to whom freedom meaas so much. In a great danger brave pecple tuna to God. Wallace is not s | politics evidently mea: helping to divide Ame most, Mont. Man Wi Truck Award The oldest’ Chevrélet ti 4 to iv the United Here, too many O NOt! cotered in the recent: cor | fully realize today’s danger.’ 7019 140 model. ‘The> | We suffered comparativelyjtuck was built on Oct little and the Red threat 918 “an © Chevrolet’s \€ seems. to be distant. Butt) California: piant. that’ does not minimize it.| sf Bic lad We need to face the menaca: eV <i es aa hae 4 , With the same seriousness | ;mitted threngh Pioneer _ the British people with their, the Cheyrolet dealer in ¢ leaders manifested last Sun-\ which is locate] in our’Sa day. For, we cannot escape |Vity Zene, it. ‘The witmer’s prize of * Fa sAdvance-Design Chevrolet It cannot be ¢aid anymore will be presented to Mr. that the stories of the “fly-;by. Chevrelet Motor Divisi ins disks” ig meze fiction.) Mote than 6000) Ch trucks were entered froin | One disk was found by a) iion. ge the ‘natien, ite | Pelly man, hear Houston. On| road public interest. Enti it was a warning about its|duded mere than 50-1919 | y |Paris that claims that Ame- _ QUALITY MERCHANDISE i _ military secret and that the! | Army Air Force at Spokane, | onee. * Ba * So the mysterious disks are not messengers Mars or some other star. Nor are they missiles which Red Russia is al- ready showering upon us. They are our own secrets with which our armed | forces are experimenting, What propels them? How far can they fly? What is their purpose? —That is a mighty secret. * i in It isa French paper rica has a far move destruc- fH! tive bomb than any ever in- Ei: vented before. In one blow it ¢ of Paris, could destroy all or Moscow. This is also con- firmed by Robert M. Hut- chins of the University of &| Chicago, familiar with what goes on here. We can thank only the good Providence our hands. ~ Writes John Fisher in his ve {| book “Why ‘They Behave Like Russians”: ‘Officially religion is still ‘regarded as a deplorable superstition, and church-zoers can never hope to gain admittance to the Communist Party.” Yet what do yeu find in this country?’—Even cer- tain church leaders have only praise for the very role which excludes a Christian, but they ccon- demn their fellow Chris- tians, instead of the Reds. | Washington be notified Pe from. = that this immense power is in! still im operation, may cf Were manufactured only months after the winning The laree neamber of jtrucks entered in the seared] le mphasizes the quality anc | bility: of Chevrolet drucles t. | | | MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS This. Paper Is Connected With NCWC Washington News Headquarters by Direct Leased Wire, Has International News Service Daily Wires, Its Ow Special Service, Religious News Service, Inter-Catholic Press Agency, Lumen Service of Chi Fides Service, Religious News Photos, International Illustrated News, NCWC Picture Service, Photo Features : THE (Name Registered in the U. S. Patent Office) Speaking at Castelgandolfo, his summer home, Pius XII asserted that the world today has men who ignore not only the Church, but the “Very rudiments of religion itself ;” men who-see no evil in evil deeds and lust and would spurn “the primary norms of morals and jus- tice;” “there are cynics who would .|deride holy things and weak men who would permit these offenses TO; PasSels soc . Despite this turmoil, His Holi- ness said, “there are great rays of hope and fields white with har- vest for those who labor to bring Christ to the world.” He stressed the oath of the Jesuits, which en- ables them’ to bring “a spirit pre-| |; pared and prompt to obey in all things the true Spouse of Christ . .’. our holy Mother Church.” In another audience, held for the Most Rev. Emmanuel Suarez, O.P., and the Dominicans who elected u.8 > PART MEN COMM TU . ‘ wu17 47/46 2 EXTRA COLLECT SAN MARCOX TEX JULY 7 1947 714P WASHDC CHECK FILES IN INVENTORS COUNCIL FOR DRAWING OF MULTI-APRING CATAPULT THIS INVENTION engl BY ME TO WAR. DEPARTMENT IN 1945 POSSIBLE LEAKAGE OF INFORVATI ON HAS RESULTED MY DEVICE OR VARIATION THERE FROM COULD CONCIEVABLY CATAPULT A DISC AND IN SILENCE FOR SEVERAL MILES RECORDED 10 WOODSON C COPE CLIFFSIDE HALL 2 / ie ae 941P 1945, ETAMOYRD FORM NO. 64 TO FROM SUBJECT: T22% , Sar Liaison »ec +horeir ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Pa SYMBOLS L=Daey Lecter Night Letter sympol aboy ceding the ac Time of receipt is STANDARD TIME at point The filip 947 JUL 6 SH DETAILS \/ “WU GUARD ADV HAVE MSG DLVD SA 7one FORM NO. G4 « ce, Memorandum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DATE: [=] O=);7 FROM SUBJECT: J. UPMATTS, Informant 7 There is being attached hereto a Western Union telegran received from the above individual in which information is Iniort LS fur 1X lished concerning a "disc." This telegram has been acknowledg dw 2 ACT ION: ° be turned over to the y make the information containe to the Attachment RECEIVES u 23 139 rH iyTERNAL SECURIT £8. ,roT fF {¥/ Saucer’ Stories Disk Found Is . ry ‘ Tries to Call FBI Man ” Priest Hears a Ban Father Brasky said he did not Discovers a ¢ i rcu ] ar} | bother to show the disk to any of his parishioners Sunday. He tried to Blade With Teeth; S ay ea t ’ telephone an FBI agent whom he knows, but was unable to reach him ° ‘ ? Sunday, he added. Asked whether Other Disks Seen it could have been the work of a ) ractical jo he Picture on Picture Page hse all be eee he “what is it?” which Father] Tho disk, apparently of steel, had Jj eph Brasky said he found early| ja one and three-eighth inch héle in nday on the lawn of St. Joseph’s||the center. Through it ran a few é 2 fton may be||“2t¢S: To each end of the cluster [Catholic church in Gra ¥ be lof wires was attached what. looked |just another gadget to add to Fa-\ like a small condenser about three ‘ther Brasky’s already sizable col-,|inches long. The condenserlike ob- lection. oa ales wh de ee! baie os aS : which still was sticky, The disk was Things Wns si log Sundey mad greasy and somewhat dirty. \“what is it?” was a circular saw Stamped on it was: “Approved, blade with a few wires attached. Dunlap.” ‘Father Brasky, who said he knew of Father Brasky declined to part no sawmills in the area, would not| with the disk. He showed a number ‘claim it was a “flying saucer” when} of items in his trinket collection. ‘he called newspapermen. to his} All of them had something to do ‘home. “It may or may not be one of those : flying disks that have been report- 'e@ all over the country,” he said. et’s just call it a ‘what is it?’” ersons reported Seeing the “flying saucers.” Father Brasky’s disk, however, was the only case here in which the “landing” of a “saucer”)| was reported. : Hears “Bang,” Finds Disk Father Brasky gave the follow- ing account of how he found the ob- ject. a steel plate 19 inches in di- ameter, about an eighth of an inch thick and with saw teeth, “I usually get up about 5 a.m. on Sundays. I was at the front door of my house, about to take my dog out for a walk, when I heard a ‘bang!’ like a big firecracker. I istepped outside and found this dj lon the church lawn, “Although the grass was still wet | rom the night rain, the disk was | } ’ le | too fhot to pick up. 1 noticed the ball had been knocked off one e lightning rods on the church, suppose it struck that in land- gla with fishing, Father Brasky’s favor- ite sport. They included his “bass bottles,” beer bottles with the head of a fish—and a fish pole from Manila which folds up into a. cane. When opened, it extends to 12 feet. “I use it in reaching folks w can’t be touched with a 10 foot pole,” Father Brasky quipped. : Others Report “Saucers” Father Brasky also passed out copies of his recent: publication, “Fish Tales.” ‘Ym going to revise this thing,” he explained. “Tye got some new and better tales to put in it,” ; There were other reports around Milwaukee and Wisconsin of “fly- ing saucers.” Mrs, Anthony Hoff- man, 3410 W. Layton ‘ay. p.m, Sunday flying toward Billy Mitchell field from the northwest. | yen it neared the field, it veered | Seamer ne - A toward ateeceugh an red, she said. It was flying high and appeared illuminated, according to Mrs. Hoffman, “It looked like a smal! meat plat- ter,” Mrs. Hoffman asserted. Glenn Rowden of Detroit claimed he saw a “saucer,” about 50 inches in diameter, over Billy Mitchell fiela at 10:05 p.m. when he alighted from an airplane. He said it wag in sight for 90 seconds. William Humphrey, who tives with his wife in a. quonset hut at 3148 S. 20th st. telephoned police | at 9 p.m. Sunday that h Mins, Humphrey had seen a slightly illu- minated disk which-appeared to fall to earth near Pulaski high school. Mrs, Humphrey said Monday that her husband tried unsuccessfully to photograph the disk. x Changed Colors, He Says. Erwin: Rottman, 1328 N, 19th claimed he saw three of them flyi through the air in a northwestemly direction at 6 p.m. Sunday. Th turned from orange to gold to silv befére disappearing, he said. Reports came also from Janes- ville, where Mr. and Mrs. Alva Sie- vert and Mr, and Mrs. Howard Roth reported seeing a flying disk about 11:35 pm. Saturday, The Roths were leaving the Sievert home when Sievert saw it, according to Roth. It appeared to be several thousand feet up and about 10 miles away, Roth said. He described it as vague- ly resembling the moon and as hay- is egular motion in a’ counter- clockwise, elongated orbit. It ap- peared to Roth to be moving faster than an airplane. He said it was yellow on its face, -but when it turned it. looked silver. Roth said that the four of them viewed the disk for 10 minutes, Stopped in Sky, Claim “It fluttered around, faded out | and came back again, and once ig| just stopped and hung there foy | about two minutes,” Roth said. oa last time we saw it, it had a ve Turn to page 3, col. 5 | ‘Saucer’ Tales | Laws-ef Eyesight Clarifs- Reports of Flying Saucers Buzz in State Disk Found by a Priest Is Circular Saw; Others Seen by Milwaukeeans From page 1, column 3 noticeable tail. When it disap- peared ‘entirely, it just popped out.” Janesville police reported a tele- phone cal] from a Dick Thompson, who said he saw flying disks about 12:15 a.m. Sunday. t Oshkosh, Mrs. L. A, Davis re- rted that she and her husband had sikhted one of the mysterious disks | zing over the city at 6:45 p.m, | Sunday. She said they were driving on a town road six miles west of Osh- kosh, headed east toward the city, when they first sighted the object “flying very fast and very high.” At first, she said, it looked like an airplane and then loomed larger and larger until it “appeared as big as the sun.” Stops Car, Disk Vanishes _ Her husband stopped the car so that they could get a getter look at the disk, which appeared round and silvery, but by the time they got out of the car the object had dis- | appeared, she said. | At Green Bay, Eugene Le Plant reported that he and his 12 year old son, Duane, had seen a rapidly mov- ing silver ball or disk about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday while working in his garden on the western edge of the city, Le Plant said he saw the! object silhouetted against a dark cloud to the north and that he a son watched it for three or fo miputes while it moved away to nothwest Le Plant said he co not} estimate the altitude or d tance, but that it “definitely was not jan airplane.” : By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Editor New York, N. ¥.— The flying saucers may be explained by cer- tain laws of eyesight. All objects appear round or nearly so at any distance close to the limit of how far a person can see. If the objects are seen by re- flected light, as in most cases re- ported, they are almost certain to be round, and if the reflections are sunlight then the sizes report- ed are those which would be ex- pected from distant light reflec- tions. Descriptions of virtually all the saucers as round and flat fit ex- actly with the tricks that eyes play. This trickiness varies with differences in weather and light- ing. This writer has seen flying sauc- ers over Long Island sound, not only this year but in previous’ years. They were round, bright and moving fast. But they were no mystery because they were light reflected from the bodies of . airplanes that soon identified themselves by changing course and coming near enough to be seen distinctly. Many descriptions of move- ments of the flying saucers fit with the common maneuvers of airplanes, singly or in groups. Some of the maneuvering report- ed, which took saucers out of sight and back into sight again, resem- bles what can be seen while watching distant airplanes, _ Whether planes are guided, pi- lotless or jet, they all would look the same at great distances, Mirages, Traveler Says Philadelphia, Pa. -(P)- Dr. Aurel Aczel, editor of a Hungarian lan- guage newspaper, expressed belief that the flying saucers were mi- rages—possibly circularly distort- ed reflections of real airplanes many miles away. A world-wide traveler, Dr. Aczel said: “Years ago I have seen similar things on the Egyptian desert and on the Buszta (Hungarian plain). At sea I have also seen mirages of ships known to be a great distance away. “In July and August, and s times even in June, atmosphpgric conditions are especially adapta- ble to the creation of mirages.” Sharp-Eyed Sight Disks, but-Only a Saw Blade f8Found Who, what, where, why are flying disks? The year's biggest mystery produced these Sunday photos while reports came from} everywhere and everyone that the saucers were everywhere. Top left, a movie mera is fitted to a P-51 fighter plane at Portland, Ore., as Oregon national guard planes are made ready to chase the disks. Lower, Mrs. Walter Johnson (right) of Spokane, Wash., and her chil- dren pose and tell how they saw the saucers land on a mountainside in Idaho and + Sappear. Right, is Father Joseph Brasky of St. Joseph’s Catholic church at Grafton, Wis., with the disk he reported struck his church early Sunday, It turned out that the disk was a prankster made projectile, featuring a Dunlop cir- cular saw blade. Note that something apparently took a glass ball off one of the lightning rods. A whole lot of Milwaukeedns reported that they saw the saucers traveling past Sunday night. —AP Wirephotos and Journal Staff