Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. Washington, D. C. GERMAN UNDERGROUND SEETHES According to uncensored dis patches now reaching Washington, active guerrilla warfare is flaring up on a mounting scale behind the German lines. First real indication of an active Fifth column in Germany came re cently with accurate reports of pitched battles inside Berlin, Bres lau and Bremen. This new guerrilla warfare differs from that of parti san units inside France, Yugoslavia and Greece in that few of the guer rilla troops are Germans. The bulk are Frenchmen and Russians who were captured earlier in the war and have been used as slave labor in the reich. All of these workers were carefully guarded by Himmler until recently. Most lived in big cities and worked in large in dustrial plants. In Berlin for example, hundreds of thousands of slave laborers have been housed in fenced off temporary barracks in the heart of the city. But recent powerful allied air raids have created such chaos that thousands of foreign work ers escaped from their en closures and have hidden in the bomb ruins. At night, the guerrillas prowl the streets, capture Nazi sentries, steal food and ammunition, commit ex tensive sabotage. They have been joined by some German army de serters, afraid to return to the front, advices say. Once Berlin is taken it is expected that the several million slave labor ers will flare into such revolt that Germany—except in the mountain ous south—will cave like an egg shell. • • • OVER-AGE SERVICEMEN Greatest hardship on men in the army probably is with enlisted men over 38, now too old to become offi cers but who can’t resign as officers can. Typical case of how this hard ship works is that of Cpl. Alexander C. Sioris, age 45, who has served in the army three years, most of the time overseas. Corporal Sioris is not only a college graduate, but holds a doctor’s degree. Twice he was recommended for officers’ training school, but each time his unit moved overseas and he had to sail with his unit. Now he is too old to be commissioned, too old for com bat, yet under present army rules must be kept on—doing menial jobs. There are thousands of similar cases. What the army needs is a good overhauling of its manpower, especially older men who have been in the army a long time. • • • NEW MANPOWER PROGRAM War Manpower Commission Director Paul McNutt may put a new program into effect very soon in all light labor areas. This would limit employers in non- essential or less essential indus tries to a certain percentage of the number of workers they em ployed last year. This ceiling-em ployee program has already been tried out in Chicago and proven successful. Chicago employers in non- essential and less essential in dustries will be required to cut the number of employees on the payroll 10 per cent by March 15. 1 I I * 1 SECRET RED WEAPONS The Russians are way ahead of both the United States and Great Britain in the use of rocket guns, have employed them with devas tating effect in the lightning drive through Poland, and particularly in the offensive against the Nazis in East Prussia. One new and very important weapon which Stalin unveiled in the new drive is the 100-ton tank named after himself. The Stalin tank is superior to the German royal tiger tank, and our own Sherman heavy tank. It carries a 4.8-inch gun as against the 3-inch gun carried on our Sherman. So long as the ground re mains hard, the Stalin tank is capa ble of resisting any but the largest point-blank German shells. On the other hand, the mobile gun on the Stalin tank can pierce most of the German secondary fortifications so far encountered by the Russians, it is said. • * • WAR NOTES C. Germans are already trying to escape from the threatened Nazi homeland. Reports from Lisbon, Madrid, Stockholm and Berne re veal hundreds of Germans trying to crash the frontier to get out of Ger many before the Allies take over. C, FDR still hasn’t decided who he will name as high commissioner of the Philippines. WMC Director Paul McNutt and Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy both are ready to go. If Murphy takes it, Roosevelt will nominate Judge Sam Rosen- man to the Supreme court. C. A significant new Slav treaty is now being negotiated. It will bind together the Czechoslovak govern, ment and the Lublin-Polish govern ment in the first step toward the creation of an eastern European Slavic alliance — naturally with Moscow’s blessing. Snapshots of Big Shots: (This is what comes from reading booksl) Edgar Allan Poe was a dollar-a- year-man too. ... He spent 10 years writing and rewriting “The Raven” and got 10 bucks for it. . . . The original manuscript sold the last time for $10,000. . . . Poe paid $3 a month rent for his honeymoon cot tage on Grand Concourse (in the Bronx), which is now a New York state historical shrine. If it hadn’t been a grand neighborhood for dandelions he and his bride would have starved. Mareonl, son of an Italian father and Irish mother, was 27 when he invented radio, and even then there were peop. i who wanted to kill him. . . . These cranks said electrical waves were passing through their bodies, destroying their nerves and making it impossible for them to sleep. Barnnm, who said “there’s one born every minute,” was one himself. He lost a fortune on a bear’s grease hair tonic, was swindled out of another selling il lustrated bibles, trimmed again on a fire extinguisher that wouldn’t extinguish, went into bankruptcy for half a million making alarm clocks. . . . With out a dime to his name he wrote a lecture on “How to Make Money,” grossing $1,0C0 a night. . . . And that’s how the famous Barnumism was born. Alexander Dumas, one-fourth Negro, whose bock, “The Three Musketeers,” was a best seller for almost 100 years, used to boast that he had more than 500 children and swore he would never marry. . . . He changed his mind when a smart sweetheart bought up all his debts and gave him a choice between marriage and jail. ... He wrote novels on blue paper, poetry on yel low, articles on red, and nothing else would do. ... He wrote more than 1,200 volumes of plays, novels and histories, made over 5 million dollars and died broke, living off the charity of hirf son. Woolworth started his flve- and-dime stores on a capital of $300, and his first three failed. Thirty years later he was able to pay $14,000,000 cash for the building bearing his name, then the world’s highest office build ing. George Gershwin sold his first song for $5; nine years later a Hollywood studio paid $50,000 just to use “Rhapsody in Blue,” which he wrote in his spare time, in a single picture. Sir Isaac Newton was so ab sent-minded he once rammed his niece’s fingers into his pipe. . . . Trying to fix himself a three- minute egg, he boiled his watch while watching the egg. . . . When he went to fetch anything he usually came back without it. . . . He was usually last in his class at school. . . . He was a woman hater and never mar ried. ... He always claimed he solved many of his mathemati cal problems in his sleep. Dr. Samuel Johnson continually distorted his face by violent grim aces. . . . When walking in the street he touched every post he passed and if he missed one he al ways returned. He always made a point of entering or leaving a door on a certain foot, but his biograph er, Boswell, wasn’t sure which one. Lord Byron was so emotional that once a theatrical performance put him into convulsions. ... In a fit of temper he threw his watch into the fire and hammered it to 'pieces with the poker. ... He also fired a pistol in the bedroom of his wife, who left him after a year of mar riage, ... So he went to Venice and bought a harem. *— Schiller liked to keep his feet in ice while working. ... He once wrote a full and perfect description of the Swiss land and people — al though he knew neither. . . . Cole ridge, who wrote “Kubla Khan” un der the influence of an opiate, could remember only 54 lines when he sufficiently recovered to write. . . . Richelieu at times imagined himself to be a horse and neighed, trotted and jumped like one. . . . Beau Brummel, the fashion plate (who taught the Prince of Wales how to dress), died in rags in an insane asylum. Beethoven had a passion for moving and sometimes was pay ing rent on two or three places at once, but Mozart, who died at 35, starved and frozen, never could pay rent on one. Chopin walked out on the biggest love of his life because she didn’t offer him a chair before she offered one to others in the room. ... In his will he ordered himself buried ir white tie, dress shoes and silker knee breeches. Gen. Stilwell Road Completed to Supply China The greatest engineering feat in the annals of the United States army was the completion of the Stilwell road through Burma, by Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Peck, his American engineers and thousands of native labor ers. Not only was the road constructed, air fields built, mountains and jungles conquered, the monsoons defeated, raging rivers bridged, but malaria was licked in solving the problem as General Peck and his men slaved against time, nature and the Japanese, thousands of miles from home. Ex-G.I.s Enter College for Postwar Training While industry is still laying its careful plans for the day when swords may be beaten into plowshares, the government has already put into operation its machinery of reconversion for the men discharged from the armed forces. Thousands of young men are being discharged monthly, and many of them, like those shown above, have resumed their studies or are receiving training for new vocations. General Eddy Wins Decoration Assistant Chaplain Maj. Ge. . Manton S. Eddy, right, receives the Distinguished Service medal from Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, for his leadership of the 12th army corps in the drive across France. He is the officer who out- maneuvered German Field Marshal Von Rundstedt on the Moselle river and led assault between Nancy and Metz. Believed to be the first woman to serve as a chaplain’s assistant. Miss Ethel Wilson of Harrogate, England, will serve overseas. She has been assigned for an 18-month commis sion in East Africa. The Lady D’Artagnans Practice The Lady D’Artagnans of the University of Pennsylvania loosen np their sword arms in preparation for forthcoming season. The duellists here are Elaine Wexler, Emily Lou Butler, Gerry Cipola, all of Phila delphia, Jean Alice Brenna, Gloucester, N. J., Irene Quinlan and Arlene I'entis of Philadelphia. Admiral to Senator Adm. Thomas C. Hart has taken office in the U. S. senate by appoint ment of the governor of Connecticut. He is shown with his wife and their youngest daughter, Harriet Taft Hart. INSOFAR as so-called fan mail goes, the bulk of the correspond ence we have received lately con cerns the scoring in boxing matches. Apparently there is a na tionwide interest in attempting to solve this problem, which Commis sioner Eddie Eagan of New York has tackled so intelligently. He is making progress, but there are still many tall barricades along the road. His campaign, however, has started many fans to thinking along these lines. For example here is one letter I think worth recording. It comes to me from Maj. Rich ard Maibaum of the U. S. army signal corps: “Dear Mr. Rice: As chief, combat films branch, signal corps photographic center, one of my duties is supervis ing the review of several hundred thousand feet of film per month shot GrantlandRIce by army combat cameramen, all over the world, much of it under battle conditions. The exposed negative, unprocessed, is sent in from the field accompanied by caption sheets in which the cam eramen describe the action they have photographed. And I am often amazed at the discrepancy between what actually appears on the film and what the cameramen in all good faith believe will be found there. Wish Fulfillment’ “I think I four * -he answer to the puzzler about scoring boxing matches the night a friend of mine lost a unanimous decision after a fight in which I thought he won every round. The boy was young, clean-cut, honest, stout-hearted and skillful. I had a strong personal in terest in his career. The match was crucial, a big step up if he won. “On (he heels of the shock admin istered by the decision I indulged in a little introspection. It came down to this: how could my eyes have so completely deceived me? “Yet deceived me they had, and with my own stubborn connivance. I ’saw’ that boy win because I wanted him to win. It was a pure case of wish-fulfillment. Actually I had fought that fight with him, identify ing myself with his efforts, and see ing it through his eyes. Haven’t you caught yourself ‘following’ only one of the fighters in the ring and say ing, ‘Now I’ll “follow” the other fel low for a while?’ “When the two men touch off no special pre-fight interest, it is usually some incident during the bout that suddenly ‘fixes’ your preference upon one of the combatants. A dis play of courage, a sudden personal ity appeal, a common prejudice aroused (or overcome). “No matter how impartial we try to be, we do subjectively choose the man we want to emerge victorious. And we interpret what we see in that light. Especially in close bouts. “The bafflement is caused by the fact that the choice we make is often a subconscious one. We’re not aware that we have installed one of the men as a ‘psychic favorite,’ the one who somehow squares with a lot of preconceived notions so much a part of us we don’t even realize we have them. “I think this also applies to the officials, who may be as honest as Abe Lincoln, but who are still sub ject to the same psychological laws that govern the rest of us. Maj. Richard Maiburn, Signal Corps, U. S. army” Six-Year-Old Judges Here is a true report of at least a part of the picture. You and I, sit ting together, see two different ac tions taking place. “I have only one solution to of fer,” the major says. “The age limit of officials should be around six years. After the scrap the kids should be asked—‘Who got licked?’ I think you’d usually get the true answer. The kids haven’t had time to sop up that ego that makes most fight fans see what they want to see, because what they want to see must be the way it is.” This is a completely correct state ment. We usually see only what we want to see. As Hughey Keogh once wrote— “The world’s greatest liar is the man who says he can bet one way and root another.” This is like saying a man can stand on his head and his feet at the same time. A contortionist can perform this feat, but he won’t be standing. He will be in a knot. How About Eyesight? Along this line I have just received a letter from Dr. M. T. Gilden, optometrist and eye specialist, in connection with boxing decisions. “Because you speak of the impor tance of eyesight and I am an op tometrist, I suggest that both judges and the referee should have their eyes examined to determine their visual acuity. In plain words to de termine what their degree of vision is, and their visual speed of recog nition.” (An extremely important detail, seldom mentioned.) CLASSIFIED DE P A R T M ENT AGENTS WANTED LADY WANTED in every community, both rural and city, to sell line of household necessities to her neighbors. 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