Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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m V. \ THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. BRITISH AID IN PACIFIC Ex-Representative Norris Poulson of California, Republican, returned from London recently and refused to be quoted in the press on what he had learned there about British aid to the U. S. A. against Japan. Finally, confronted with the detail of a conversation in which he had participated, Poulson admitted that he had discussed the Pacific war with two influential members of the British parliament. “Just what sort of help can we expect from you people once Ger many is knocked out?” Poulson asked them. “Well, we’ve got an army of over 7,000,000 Indians,” one of the two Britons replied. "You can have them.” “But you know perfectly well we cannot rely on them,” Poulson said bluntly. “You’ll be lucky if they don’t fight against you; let alone fight for you against Japan.” The Britisher admitted he, too, was worried about the Indians^ but added, “At any rate, there’s a large army of Australians and New Zea landers.” “In other words,” countered Poul son, "you people here on the island are going to pull out just as soon as you can, leaving to your coloni als the responsibility for any aid we get in the Pacific.” “That’s about right,” was the re ply. “We’ve had five years of war here. That’s enough.” Note—Despite congressional con cern, some high U. S. navy men are not enthusiastic about either British or Russian help against Ja pan. They feel U. S. forces can do the job themselves. When the British wanted to send a naval force to cooperate with the American fleet in the Philippines, Admiral King objected and the Pres ident virtually had to overrule him. * • • BRITISH TROOPS PROTECT GREEKS For some reason the news wai suppressed in the United States, but a very significant event took place in Salonika, Greece, during the trouble between the British and the EAM-ELAS Greeks. When the British ordered troops in Salonika to suppress the Greeks, the troops sided with the Greeks and refused to fire on them. The troops were a garrison of the British Indian army. The Indians threw their weight on the side of the Greek organization which bitter ly opposed the return of King George, and which Churchill claims to be communist. There was no rioting or bloodshed. The Indian troops simply cooperated with the Greeks. Simultaneously Krishna Menon, secretary of the India league, made a speech in London attended by sev eral members of the British parlia ment in which he praised the Indian troops in Salonika and said: “They go in their landlords’ cars and vote against him.” The incident is considered ex tremely important not only as it effects Greece, but as it ef fects India and the Far East. General Stilwell, when in the Burma theater, was reported by U. S. Ambassador William Phil lips as considering British-In- dian troops mercenaries who would not put their hearts into any battle as long as India was not given its independence. * • • SECOND CALVIN COOLIDGE In more ways than one, Harry Tru man is like Calvin Coolidg*:. He comes from the same backwoods origin. He seldom makes speeches on the senate floor. He is thrifty, remembers the days when the drug store paid him $3 a week. But more than anything else Tru man has the same brand of Coolidge political luck. The lightning hit Cal first during the Boston police strike, later when the party bosses in the smoke filled room at the Blackstone hotel wanted a good composite vice president to go with Harding. The lightning struck Truman when his investigating committee hurtled him to fame, later when the Demo cratic bosses dining at the White House decided that he was the com promise candidate to replace Henry Wallace. That is the man who has assumed the life insurance duties of vice pres ident of the United States. He will be worth watching. • • • CAPITAL CHAFF C. When Allied troops entered a little Belgian town for the first time the local church warden climbed to the carillon tower of the church and the bells started to ring out “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Next came “God Save the King” and, finally, “Swanee River.” C John Danaher of Connecticut, who failed cf reelection to the senate in November, may get back here even though he lost out to Brien McMa hon. Connecticut law requires A four-month notice before an election to replace the late Francis Ma loney can be held, and Republican Governor Ray Baldwin may name Republican Danaher to serve in the interim, with Danaher also running in the election. <L Burma engineers have coined a new word to describe jungle trails. A fairly good trail is described as •'ieenable.” Regular Diary of the Life of a Girl’s Dog Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Radioafs: Fred Allen shelved his regular once-a-week program be- ; cause the rigorous routine taxed his health.* But during one week Allen guestarred on three different shows —and improved them all . . .’ The new Danny Kaye program is bound to click. He rates a tip of the hat for avoiding the gag files and for trying a unique brand of microfun with original stuff . . . Henny Young- man’s gagging is funnier than it has ever seemed before . . . The “Two on a Clue” CBSession rates atten tion. A welcome relief from the usual afternoonsense. . . . Radio sta tions may be forced to suspend the round-the-clock (all night) recorded programs—if skilled technicians are drafted. It would save electricity, say Gov’t execs, for both stations and tuner-inners. Midtown Favorite: This one will amaze his pals—not that Frank Far rell would run from a fight, but none of us ever saw him in one. . . . He is better described as a mild guy. . . . Slim, good-looking and we all like him very much. ... A Life artist (who drew a picture of Far rell in action last year) told this story last night. . . . Frank was pos ing for the artist, nonchalantly (with a gun over his knees), in one of the South Pacific islands. . . . Suddenly Frank (Cap’t, pod’n me, sir) Farrell of the Marines looked up and said: “Look at that over there!” . . . The artist looked across to the other side of the atoll and saw nothing but • jungle. . . . But Frank had spotted a camouflaged Jap. . . . And fired four times in rapid succession. . . . Later when Frank and the artist walked over—they found four very dead Japs there. . . . Pretty good shooting for an ex-Night Club editor. The Magazines: Mr. Justice James F. Byrnes has turned out an incisive blueprint via American Magazine, which should serve as an excellent guide for taking Congres sional procedure out of its covered- wagon rut and converting it into a legislative streamliner. This article is a model of constructive criticism. . . . Harper’s contains a plague-by plague report of the Argentinazi malady. ... In Vogue, Harriet Van Horne takes apart radio listening gullibles who write letters of condo lence when a character in a soap opera dies. Difficult to believe that people with their mentality can write. . . . W. Davenport’s “The President and the Press” in Collier’s is a must for editorialists, too. . . . The Page 121 cartoon in Esquire shows two penguins looking at a de serted shack marked “Byrd,” with one saying: “Wonder whatever hap pened to him?” . . . FDR decorated him last week! The Intelligentsia: Walter Daven port, associate ed. of Collier’s, is fly ing with the Air Transport Command in the Pacific for a 6 weeks’ tour. . . . Paul Hunter, publisher of Lib erty, says Marshall Field was inter ested “about a year and a half ago” in the purchase of the weekly, “but it never came to anything.” The recent rumors came from staff ers. . . . Perfect name for a critic: Motion Picture Herald’s London movie embalmer is Peter Burnup. . . . Bing Crosby’s top songs for 1945 are expected to be his recordings of Cole Porter’s “Begin the Beguine” and “Night and Day.” . . . Philip Wylie was unimpressed by an item concerning a Marine’s children who were bom on the same day in vari ous years. Wylie was born on May 12, 1902. His late brother on the same day in 1904, and his late half- brother, Ted, on May 12, 1913. The Grandest Canyon: Faces About Town: Jimmy Du rante, in the ailing room between broadcasts, prepares this financial report: Owe $50—you’re a piker. Owe $50,000—you’re a businessman. Owe $50,000,000—you’re a tycoon. Owe $50,000,000,000—you’re a guwin- mint. . . . Harold Lloyd, the clown prince, near the City Center Theatre, unrecognized by autografters—who were searching for him. ... In Reu bens, Frank Conville (the No. 1 man of the U.S.O. entertainers three years overseas) handing his butter to a civilian at the next table, who was making such a to-do about "only one piece.” ... Bea Lillie of the flaw less diction pausing outside Theo dore’s to chat (in rich cockney) with a lonely-looking British tar. . . . Ann Sheridan, bound for South America, where she has a job at $2,000 per week. “Beau,” the 8-months-old Welsh Terrier playmate of little Mary Frances Matthias of Woodside, L. I., N. Y., starts the day with a kiss. Lower left. Beau, is furnished with a babushka. Upper right, time for tea, and Mary does the honors. Lower right, after a hard day at play the two pals retire for the night. Mary does not care for dolls, finds that she has more enjoyment with her faithful pal. Beau. Army Malaria Control Program Proves Effective Lower left, American soldiers spraying sides of streams and checking for isolated pools that might breed the deadly malaria mosquito in Corsica. Upper left, this A-20 bomber is laying a dust of parts green over the swauipland territory near 12th air force fields on the island. Upper right, Corsican marshes are cleared by native laborers to eliminate the breeding place of the “Spotted Wing” mosquito. Fighting Admirals of Pacific From left to right, upper, three naval fighters, Rear A dm. Frederick Carl Sherman, Rear Adm. Gerald Francis Bogan and Rear Adm. Harold Bushnell Sallada. Lower, left to right, Rear Adm. Joseph J. Clark and Vice Adm. John S. McCain. These five admirals are writing new and glorious pages of American naval history. Bombsight Aids Accurate Hits Broadway Confucius: The Trouble With Dream Girls Is That They Keep You Awake All Night. New York Novelette: To stimu late sales at a recent war bond rally at Station WMCA, Mrs. Meyer Da vis donated an actual photograph of Lincoln for auction. . . . Mrs. Davis sat in the audience with her daughter. She stared at a soldier walking up and down the aisles. . . . The daughter whispered: “Mother, if you had one wish to make now, what would it be?” . . . “I’d wish,” said Mrs. Davis, “to see my son again.” ... A second or so later the soldier walked toward Mrs. Da vis. ... He was her boy' Maj. William E. Smith, Hapeville, Ga., is seen with the Norden bombsight with which he has accurately dropped 4,000 tons of bombs on enemy targets in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. He is bom bardier of a U. S. army 9th air force, B-29 Marauder, with one of the best records of accuracy among many excellent records. Car of Tomorrow? -fei j ■mm ! yll ** ^ This is the befure-and-after of how a plain, garden-variety U. S. army jeep was transformed into the “se dan or jeep of the future,” by men of the 8th air force in England, using only salvaged material from crashed-up jeeps and junk piles. A large number of the first-made jeeps have already been offered for sale to the public. Many servicemen desire postwar jeeps. Wants Nurses’ Draft SPEAKING OF CONVENTIONS Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk, sur geon general of the U. S. army, has asked congress for Immediate pas sage of a law authorizing the draft ing of nurses. Washington has now put a ban on conventions, which strikes us as strictly okay. A convention is a ren dezvous of agitated citizens whose wives Will accept no other excuse for a week’s absence from home. # It is a noisy gathering of middle- aged men who think that fighting for a hotel room is good for their morale. « It is a huddle in lobbies and ban quet halls of let’s-get-together once a year to see if the competitors have aged much. * It is a gandy-dance by men who think spending a week trying to get in and out of elevators comes under the head of business promotion. • The whole idea of conventions was started by the railroads and hotel people and perpetuated by the aspirin tablet industry. The theory is that a convention is good for whatever line the delegates are in. But nobody has ever returned from one in shape to be any help to the boss for 30 days. * And his back home discomforts are always added to by the discov ery he lost his watch, packed a pil low case instead of his pajamas and can’t remember the four fellows he had a fight with. • Conventions are a series of lost motions concerning matters that could all be better settled by mail. A delegate spends $25 a day doing nothing he couldn’t do by postcard, except denounce the phone girl. By staying home he could have avoided fallen arches, acidosis, the scrap with the taxicab driver and those foolish words to the manicure girl. • We know men with national repu tations for sagacity and solid sense who will travel 1,000 miles, spend a week in a bum hotel, get ptomaine poisoning, pay 40 cents for a soft- boiled egg and consider it all comes under the head of demonstrating routine business acumen. * And we tan name gents famed for old-fashioned thrift who come to the big chy and pay 25 cents just to get thei* own hat back. * A convention is a device for bring ing to distant points men who think they can only develop bright ideas if their eyes arc full of train cinders. • The only thing we can say in fa vor of a convention is that it gives a fellow a chance to slap on the back and say “Hello, J. D. How’s tricks?” to an associate who otherwise refuses to be friendly ex cept by letter. * You listen to 10 speeches, 18 lec tures and 100 committee reports but you still go home without finding out why a glass of milk in a hotel should cost a half-dollar. * * * i The Real New York How silly the idea that the spirit of New York is found on Broad way! That is where millions of vis itors concentrate, thinking they are seeing the real Gotham. But we took our semi-annual hike along the down town water front a few days ago and know better. The great docks teeming with life, the countless freighters loading up with vita] sup plies, the tugs huffing and puffing around the bay, the coast guard ships (of all types and shapes), the sailors, soldiers and seamen from all ports of the world; and over it all an atmosphere of serious energy, hard work and accomplishment that makes the Times Square area look like a mere dizzy zone. • • • Super Gal A wonder woman surely Is Mrs. Esther Gramps: She really can keep track of Her good and no-good stamps. • • • Lift the Steins! The navy department has ruled that the fleets may carry beer and ale for the sailors to drink ashore. But red tape being what it some times is in the services, we hope the boys don’t get ashore with a few cases of beer and And Washington forgot the "openers.” • It came as a surprise to this de partment to learn that not since Josephus Daniels made the navy bone dry 25 years ago has an Amer ican warship carried anything but soft stuff. Restoration of beer will do more for naval morale than Leyte. • • • Summary Hi diddle diddle, The butch in the middle. The cow jumps over the ceil ing; The customers just Yell “Sirloin or bust!” And it all leads to choice dou ble-dealing. • • • The Barnum - Bailey circus an nounces that it will have metal cir cus seats next season. We knew some use was bound to be found for those old razor blades. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT HELP WANTED • Persons now engaged in essential industry will not apply without state ment oi availability from their local United States Employment Service. WANTED—First-class auto mechanic to care for fleet of trucks and buses. Prefer combination mechanic and body man but will take either. Extra good pay. perma nent work, will last after war. R. K. HOOD. Supt. of Schools, Brunswick. Go- AGENTS WANTED LADY WANTED in every community, both rural and city, to sell line of household necessities to her neighbors. Our line in cludes such scarce items as cheese ana laundry soap. Liberal commission. General Products Company <U-3). Albany, Georgia. DEALER WANTED Dealerships now open for Big Boy Vitam- ixed Chicks, poultry equipment and farm merchandise. Exclusive franchise for sales and service. A better deal for anyone now calling on farmers and poultry raisers as well as produce dealers, feed and hard ware stores. Full or part time basis. Bet ter dealer discounts. Old, reliable nation- ILLINQ18 STATE HATCHERIES Springfield - Hlinem. HOBBIES A SIOO-A-MONTH HOBBY AT HOME! Ho soliciting, no mail order, no meeting peo ple. Easy, enjoyable pastime. Details 25c. (Refundable). LAURA DICKSON, MS Mate Bldg., Lander College, Greenweed, 8. C. Variety in Movements No parts of a mechanism ever varied so greatly in rate of move ment as two of the 93 dials of a clock completed in Belgium about 1936. Although both are six inches in diameter and controlled by the same master movement, the nee dle of one requires 26,000 years to make a complete revolution, while the needle of the other moves around once a second, or 320 bil lion times .faster. CHEST COLO e 8 ™” QUICKLY When chest muscles bei leuEB ,eei “tight" and sore, RELIEVED due to a cold, rub on Menthoiatum. Two vital actions bring quick relief: (1) Menthoiatum stimulates surface circulation— helping to "loosen" the tight muscles. (2) Soothing medicinal vapors comfort irritated mucous membranes of nose and throat. Get Menthoiatum. Jars, tubes, XML M E NTH 0 LATUM Cabbage Worms Cabbage and its relatives cauli flower, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kale, kohlrabi and Chinese cabbage are often severely damaged by vel vety green cabbage worms which chew holes in the leaves and eat their way into the heads, leaving unpleasant deposits of moist green or brown pellets of excrement. Rotenone dusts or sprays are the best and safest materials to control this pest. They should be directed down into the developing heads and to both surfaces of the outer leaves. JUST A OASN IN KATHiRS..' s OR SPREAD ON ROOSTS How To Relieve Bronchitis Creomulslon relieves promptly be cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulslon with the un derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis WNU—7 5—45 That Na<^in'3 Backache May Warn of Disorderod Kidney Action Modem life with Its hurry sod worry, irregular habits, improper eating and drinking—its risk of exposure and infec tion—throws heavy strain on the work of the kidneys. They are apt to become over-taxed and fail to filter excess acid and other impurities from the life-giving blood. You may suffer nagging backache, headache, dizziness, getting up nights, leg pains, swelling—feel constantly tired, nervous, all worn out. Other signs of kidney or bladder disorder are some times burning, scanty or too frequent urination. Try Doan’a PiUe. Doon’e help tbs kidneys to pass off harmful excess body waste. They have had more than half S century of public approval. Are recom mended by grateful users everywharo. Aak your neighbor! DOANS PILLS