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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. They Tried—and Failed (By John Edgar Hoover, Director Fed •oral Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice.) Nazis in America have been tak ing a drubbing like the Nazis tacing the Ysnks in Normandy, the British at Caen, and the Russians in their victorious sweep through Poland. The much - vaunted methodical planning and scheming of the Nazis have contributed to their own down fall. They tried, but failed, to swing their Fifth Column into action in America. It suffered setbacks be fore Pearl Harbor, but its back was broken once we were freed of peace time restraints. Since Pearl Harbor, over 15,750 suspected Fifth Colum nists have been arrested. The more dangerous were interned, others paroled, and others re leased when it was certain they would do no harm. The German High Command ad mitted the ineffectiveness of their Fifth Column when they dispatched the eight saboteurs to America by submarine two years ago. We have learned that other saboteurs were trained to take their places. But so far they have not put in their ap- pearance. The Nazi rats must not be under estimated. Try cornering a rat and see how he bares his teeth and strikes back. We can expect the same from the Germans until the last vestige of Nazi ism is crushed ■by our Armed Forces. America has a perfect score in combatting the experts in doom and destruction. No act of enemy-directed sabotage has yet occurred in the United States. I am sorry to say that even native-born Americans have tried; f am happy to say that they, too, have failed. One 23-year-old worker in an aircraft plant cut 21 wires in two bombers just to see how the FBI handled a sabotage investiga tion. He found out. The “Blunder Bund,” which once scoffed at American faith in human nature, was set back when its chief espionage ring was penetrated by the FBI. We built a radio station with their funds, gave them mis leading information, sold them fic titious plans, and at the concluson of the case turned over a profit of $17,000 to the U. S. Treasury to buy 'bullets to shoot back at the "super race.” Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, convict ed leader of the German-American Bund, fled to Mexico. He was tripped up when the alert Mexican military authorities became suspi cious after he stacked a 25-foot fish ing boat with 200 pounds of food, 450 liters of drinking water, and 50 •packages of cigarettes. Ernst Fritz Lehmitz was caught as the result of some of his newsy letters designed to conceal reports in secret writing mi convoy move ments. He wrote that his dog was sick, he was busy with a victory garden and as an air raid warden. These jig-saw bits of information were pieced together and after some additional hard work he and his as sociate, Erwin Harry De Spretter, were arrested. Before Pearl Harbor, the Nazi Embassy in Washington had de tailed plans to foment strikes and incite domestic strife. An important Nazi official in this country was discarded by his fiancee when she learned of Ids scheming against the United States. Another Nazi official of fered to nay $500 for documen tary proof of the canard and lie that Benjamin Franklin was anti-Semitic. The Germans built up a dollar balance of over $21,000,000 by selling Bueckwan- derer marks in this country prior to the war to be redeemed in Germany. Practically all the German consulates in the Unit ed States were active in pro moting the German-American Nazi brazenness reached its height when Baron von Spiegel, the German Consul in New Orleans, boasted that the United States would be repaid when the Reich completed its conquest in Europe. A Midwest consular attache was greatly em barrassed when he was caught mak- &g pictures in a factory area. The Nazi spy, Heinz August Lun- ing, arrested and executed in Cuba, kept canaries in his room to conceal the noise of his short wave radio transmitter. Heavily populated prisoner of war camps in the United States hold thousands of frustrated Germans. Occasionally, some try to get away. Sometimes they succeed — for a time. But no prisoner has yet been able to get back to Germany, and their periods of freedom generally are limited to a few hours. ELMER ON SUMMER RESORT CEILINGS OPA is investigating overcharging at summer amusement resorts, fol lowing complaints of exorbitant prices for hotdogs, soda pop, salami sandwiches, etc. This column is not in sympathy. Pleasure seekers at amusement resorts eat too much. Nothing they stuff themselves with is necessary. We think the dollar hotdog would be a good thing, with an extra two- bits for mustard. It is responsible for much of. the irritability found at summer resorts. But Elmer Twitchell is for ceil ings on many other items at the sum mer playgrounds of America. He wants the OPA to put a limit on what can be charged for picture gallery photographs, bathing houses, sideshow freaks and fortune tellers. * “1 demand OPA protection at the picture galleries,” he snapped to day. “They are getting twice as much for a snapshot of me leaning against a fake cabin endser as in prewar days and I’m using the same face. When I squawk to the photog rapher what does he say? He says photography has gone to war! He tells me camera parts are hard to get, that all the best assistants are in Normandy and that the artist who painted the backdrop gets 50 per cent more than last year fot the same waves, whitecaps and rocks.” 1 • Elmer was in a temper. “And take the bathhouses. They sock me more than ever for a locker, suit and towel, and when I kick all they say is, ‘Don’t you know there’s a war on?’ • “There should be ceilings on for tune tellers, too. I paid 50 cents more for my fortune this summer than last summer. I insist that the shortage of tea leaves is bogus and that gypsies have to pay more for earrings and hair grease. • “They’ve upped the admission price to see the Two-Headed Boy. Why? Well, they claim there Is a shortage of two-headed boys due to the war, but I am yet to see one In the army or in a war plant. • “The Fat Lady Is getting more money, and I can see some justice in that. It must cost her more to keep fat, but there is one amusement re sort feature that should be punished by OPA at once.” “Who is that?” we asked. “The lady sword swallower,” said Mr. TwitcheU. “I paid 10 per cent more to get into the tent to see her and a flame eater. About the flame eater I’m not sure. Maybe flames are harder to get. But I denounce the alibi of the sword swallower as wholly without foundation.” “What alibi is that?” we asked. “He had the nerve to tell me that swords are being rationed,” con cluded' Elmer. • • • DIFFICULT If voters take to rhyming. It will not be so Jiot: There is no rhyme for Roosevelt, But Dewey’s on the spot. —Eta Beta • A powerful plane is said to be waiting at all times to take Hitler out of the country, but he doesn’t know where he can go. Plenty of people can tell him. • Thumbnail Description He was the kind of man who could make one pat of butter cover three waffles. The Russians are moving so fast they must have a motorcycle escort. Imaginary plea of the Nazi mili tary chiefs to the Russians, “Could we see that again, in slow motion?” » The Pullman company says the present sleeping car is to be a thing of the past before many years. No more will be manufactured. This is going to be a terrific blow to the lad der and net industries. • The new sleeping car will not have the double berths down both sides of the car, with aisle in the center. It will be a car of roomettes, each with running water, etc. It has al ways puzzled us that the conven tional sleeping-car could have sur vived so many years, but we shall regret its complete disappearance. We used to take a sleeper once in a while just to see if we had anything left physically. • • • Can You Remember— Away back when nobody ever complained of the high cost of a glass of beer? When a Japanese reference to Zeroes meant planes instead ol war chiefs? . And when you could talk about governmental thrift and hold any body’s interest? • • • “I am going to write an essay en titled ‘Don’t change barrels going over Niagara Falls.’ ’’—George Dix on in the New York Mirror, P ’ WAS the belief of Rudyard Kip ling that “the female of the spe cies is more deadly than the male.” In support of this angle he intro duced the she-bear, the lioness, the fe male cobra and sev eral other entries from wild life, where nature is in its raw, or primary state. Trainer Ben Jones who has a filly named Twilight Tear under his di rection, backs up Kipling. For Twi light Tear is easily the top three-year old of 1944, a thoroughbred who could have won the Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont going away. As it is she has only won 11 straight races, in cluding the $80,000 Arlington Classic. All of this, however, doesn’t prove that the “female of the species” is even close to dominating sport. I still believe Babe Didrikson, who Is at least first class in 14 major sports —including basketball, golf, tennis, swimming, diving, football, base ball, boxing, running, high jumping, javelin throwing, etc., might be too strong a combination for any male. At least she was 1$ or 12 years ago. But it is sad news to report that the ladies are still behind the best of the males when it comes to rank ing them, game by game. For one example we might take up golf, a game that lacks any form of body contact. I don’t believe the best woman golfer that ever lived could come within 10 or 15 strokes of Byron Nelson, Jug McSpaden or Ben Ho gan in a 72-hole medal test over a championship course. Joyce Weth- ered has been the best. But I doubt that even Joyce Wethered could break 300 under such conditions, where the best pros are anywhere from 275 to 280. Certainly such stars as Babe Did rikson, Patty Berg, Helen Hicks, etc., could never meet this pro pace. Women Tennis Stars In the game of tennis, we might move in Bill Tilden against Helen Wills and Suzanne Lenglen. I know that Bill Tilden has always felt that he could beat either 6-0, 6-0, 6-0. He has played against both often enough to feel that his judgment in this respect was sound. I doubt that either Helen Wills or Suzanne Leng len could ever have gotten a game from Tilden when all were at the main peak. Certainly no woman sprinter has ever been within 10 yards of Pad- dock, Wykoff, Jesse Owen or the faster males, in a hundred yard or 100 meter dash. They would all be still farther back from the 220 to the mile. They would be outclassed in the high jump, the hurdles, the broad jump, in baseball, football or basket- balL The women have continued to break swimming records, month by month and year by year. But they are still well back of every mascu line mark from the 100 yards to longer races, no matter what the swimming style may be. The facts are that so far the wom en can’t yet play games on a par with the best of the men. In their ranks they have nothing to com pare with the she-bear, the tigress, the lioness, the female cobra, or Twilight Tear. But here is a peculiar slant. In the jungle the female of the species is even tougher than the male. But it is different along the highway of civilization, if there is any such high way left. Looking to the Future For all of this, it is amazing how far women have advanced in every form of the sport in the last 20 years. Their improvement has been a bril liant epic. This includes golf, swim ming, tennis and other games where they at least have a chance in physi cal ways. Only give them a little more time. For example, taking each at the top, Babe Didrikson would have been outclassed by Dempsey, Tunney, Bronko Nagurski, Ty Cobb, etc., in their major sports. But she would have outclassed them at golf, tennis, swimming, diving, jumping, basket ball, and several other major enter prises. Just how long it will take the women to produce a Twilight Tear, a female better than all the males, is another argument. But if it can happen to a horse, why not to a hu man? It might be. The “female of the species” is at least upon her way. Football Odds and Ends Five football scouts, early start ers, write me that Walker of Chi cago and Yale, is the best college football player in the country, not even barring the pick of the many stars at Annapolis and West Point. It seems that Walker is only 6 feet 2 or 3, that he only weighs 220 pounds, that he is fast and rugged and happens to like the game. For the sake of Howie Odell, the Yale coach, I i.ope he is even better than the scouts think he is. Hqjvie deserves it. - - Grantland Rice edd& Looking at HLirwoto JF ANY Hollywood movie lays an A egg this year it will surely be a golden one, ’cause our movie moguls have cooked up the most elaborate, ambitious, and expensive program in the history of this industry. The period i94J-’44 is known as the Year of the Big Take in movie circles. Box office returns hit a new high, exceeding even producers’ wildest nightmares. If there ever wa^ a time when movie men could get away with a slap-dash pred uct, now is tnat time. But, true to the counter-clock wise method of working, for which they take so much ribbing, the boys are planning films Rosa Stradaer with multimillion budgets and enough star names in the cast to choke a horse. Well, that’s Holly wood for you. Darryl Zanuck, never one to do anything by halves, wiped all B pic tures off the slate and came up with two super-films—“Wilson" and ' “The Keys of the Kingdom”—which top anything before attempted in size, outlay, and big-name casts. “The Keys of the Kingdom” is the logical Academy award rival to “Wilson,” since it is in black and white and the latter in technicolor, which makes both films eligible for the Oscar. “The Keys” also has an all-star cast, although Gregory Feck and Rosa Strafiner, who play the most uppprtant roles, have each had but one previous Hollywood film ex perience. But they’ve both had fine theatrical training. In lighter Vein With these two films as a sample, and the B’s thrown into the discard, Twentieth’s staff of producers has had some reorganizing to do, but quick. The upshot is a program lean ing heavily on musicals — extrava gant musicals that will rival the big gest attractions on Broadway. Mqjrb-Goldwyn-Maysr has much the same idea. It’s sofag to be a struggle in this era of super-produc tions to see whether William Perl- berg’s musical can outdo Jack Cum mings’ “Little Bit of Heaven.” Or whether “The Ziegfeld FoUies,” into which Arthur Freed has thrown the two top dancing men of the world to day— Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly— plus Fanny Briee, Jimmy Durante, Judy Garland, John Hodlak, Lena Horne, James Melton, Marion Bell, Victor Moore, Miekey Rooney, and Red Skelton, can make a bigger noise than Perlberg’s “State Fair,” for which Richard Rodgers and Os car Hsmmerstein have written mu sic which Twentieth claims will outr Oklahoma “Oklahoma.” Say It With Muaic Ira Gershwin and Kurt Well are responsible for the tunes in “Where Do We Go from Here," Morris Ryskind’s story of a 4-F. Agnes De Mille, C. B.’s talented niece, will do the dance routines. Metro has an answer to this in “Music for Millions," in which Jose Iturbi and Margaraet O’Brien are drawing cards. With Larry Adler’s harmonica, Jimmy Durante and Hugh Herbert for laughs, how can it lose? Warpers have “Hollywood Canteen,” also “Rhapsody in Blue,” the story of George Gershwin’s life. Georgie Jessel is music-minded, too. His “Kitten on the Keys” calls for a hunk of stars. Includes Dick Haymes, Ferry Como, and both Benny Goodman and Jimmy Dorsey, That Lubitech Touch Ernst Lubitsch’s main concern centers about “Czarina,” the sa tiric comedy which will be Tallulah Bankhead’s next. Charles Coburn has been signed to play the chan cellor; also Vincent Price has a big part. “Dragonwyck,”. the story of the Dutch patroons, is another Lu- bitsch epic for Gene Tjerney and Gregory Peck. Bette Davis ripens “The Corn Is Green.” And the set up for “Roughly Speaking” includes Roz Russell and Jack Carson. The Ingrid Bergman-Gsry Cooper spe cial, “Saratoga Trunk," will soon be seen, and “The Conspirators,” with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Hen- reid, can’t fail to please the eye. Yes, producers would seem to be fighting hard for those long, long lines of patrons that bulge the walls of every movie house in the land. • • • Step in Right Direction Gregory Peek Vanity Table From Few Odds and Ends H AVE you a mirror from an old dresser? It doesn’t make any difference about the size or shape or how “queer” the frame may be, because you may hang the mirror any old way you want to and cover three sides with cur tains to make the adorable frilly vanity shown here. Two orange crates or a pair of boxes; some odds and ends of lumber; a curtain rod; hooks and FRAME OS LUMBER UtOO. - SCREWED > C*** TO a little wire for hanging the mir ror; a pair of cup hooks to hold the curtain tie-backs; a pair of hinges for the arms to which the swing - back skirt is fastened; screws and nails—that is all you need. You probably have it all around the house right now. The sketch gives all the details, and it won’t make any difference how crude your carpentry may be. The curtains and skirt will cover a multitude of uneven edges and hammer dents. .* • • NOTE: This dressing table Idea Is from BOOK S of thd series of bonvematdng book lets offered with these articles. This book also sbotks- bow the dresser<to ; mateh tbe mirror was combined with a fish bowl, an old portiere and a ehromo from the attic to make an Important piece of furniture for the living room. Copy of BOOK S will be mailed for U cents. Send your order to: Buy War Savings Bonds 11mm with tannad -dask •*t«rpally eauaad. who want I lighter, a moothar, softer, a hooks ter Or. FOOD Oh—r 1 * Bfcta Iraggiata. OimOMHHteb i poacaga to GALKNOU 8. Box 264, Atlanta. Ga. Pr.rnEPalani , EHJaWM*ii m RIM* Attft Ml MM* RHEUMATISM NEURITIS-LUMBAGO r MCNEILS MAGIC REMEDY * «* sr >M EGO Heart’s Power The average human heart Weighs only 2tt pounds, but in 12 hours It generates enough energy to lift a 65-ton weight one foot off the ground, scientists say. 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Snell, Inc, well-known consult ing chcmiws. have just completed a test with a group of men and women sufieriag from Athlete’s Foot. These people were told to use Sorecoae. At the end of only n ten-day test period, their feet were exons* iced la taro wayss L Scrapings wen taken from the feet and mmiaed by the bacteri- ologbc. 2. Each subject eras nramined by • physician. We quote from the report: “Aft* tka use ef SoretOM accordtaf ti tb> directions on tba labei far a ptrM af mh taa fays. 80.6% af tha cam showed clinical Improvaniant ol anlafac-' tlofi which Is Host stahhara to cditroL* Improvements were shown la tha symp-j toms of Athlete's Foot—the itching, bum-' lag. redness. etc The report says: A1 Pearce believes talented ama teurs who’re entertaining our troops in the camp shows will be stars of tomorrow. So Pearce has made ar rangements with his boss. Herb Yates of Republic, to give six of them an opportunity in “Strictly for Laughs,” which gets under way in September. . . . “This Is the Army” is doing such a morale build ing job for men at the front that the government’s thinking of sending it to South Pacific bases. -— 1i our opbiloB Soretona is of very def inite benefit iu the treatnent of this disease, which Is coauoooly koowo as 1 ‘Athlete's Foef." So If Athlete’* Foot trouble* you, don’t team . porize with thi* nasty, deviUih, stubborn’' Infection. Get foagroNz! McKesson • < Bobbins, be, Bridgeport, Connecticut.