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Last week, in the stifling summer heat of a makeshift courtroom outside Belgrade, the onetime hero of Yugoslav resistance was very tired. Prison-pale and peering myopically through his thick-lensed glasses, he tried wearily to turn aside the charges of his Partisan accusers. Seven hours a day, for three days, fortified by a breakfast of rum and tea, the bushy-bearded Chetnik answered their hammering questions and returned to his cell for a dinner of ham & cabbage, topped off by tall schooners of beer. But neither rum nor beer nor the efforts of two of Yugoslavia's best...
...most effective documentaries of World War II, a two-reeler called The Pale Horseman, was still going begging last week. Movie audiences were seeing it in only a few of the nation's big & little picture palaces...
...Pale Horseman, originally put together by OWI Overseas, is bold-faced propaganda. Its message: there are millions of war-battered people in Europe and in Asia who must have food, shelter and medical supplies at once. The Allied armies and UNRRA have done what they could, but the U.S. people must do a lot more...
...film until Washington officialdom decides definitely that it wants the U.S. public disturbed. Until Washington makes up its mind, commercial distributors don't like to run the risk of making regular audiences uncomfortable. Meanwhile, clubs and other private organizations may rent or buy prints of The Pale Horseman through Brandon Films, Inc., 1600 Broadway, New York...
Blister rust symptoms: a circular, yellowish-orange patch or canker, ¼ in. in diameter, appears in the familiar fine-needle cluster of the white pine. The canker matures, in two to four years, into a festering blister, outlined by bile-green and pale yellow rings, exuding small drops of a yellow, poisonous fluid. Wherever this poison touches the bark, black or dark red scars appear. The following year these scars develop into new, white blisters, crammed with spores which the wind carries away for further propagation. The canker grows until the branch, and eventually the tree, sickens and dies...