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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Washington, D. C. PLANS FOR PACIFIC WAR It has all been kept very hush- hush, but top army officials have made a vitally important decision on war production after Germany’s defeat. Original war production schedules called for a 40 per cent cutback after Germany caves in, permitting a vast reconversion program and the early production of automobiles, refrigerators, radios and other goods. However, the army plus WPBig- wigs have now decided to keep the war machine rolling full tilt, not cut ting back any but a few items until Japan is defeated. Behind the vital decision is an important new plan to speed victory in the Pacific. Confi dential war department surveys disclosed that it would take over a year to return European veterans, together with their equipment, much of it geared for winter rather than tropical fighting. Allied shipping short ages would make it a long Job to crate, sort, repair and re ship heavy equipment from the Atlantic to the Pacific. In addition, the army survey dis closed that a lot of European equip ment will be obsolete for Pacific fighting; would have to be rebuilt, taking valuable time. Instead, the new plan calls for bringing the men back at once,' issuing them new equipment specifically designed for Far Eastern combat. Later, the army will bring back overseas war gear and use it for Pacific replace ments. This should speed final blows against Japan, and shorten the Far Eastern war by many months. As a result, 1945 production sched ules will probably be a billion dol lars higher than those of 1944. The war department, which had a pile of telegrams two feet high cancel ing war contracts to be sent out the day Germany is licked, has now culled through them and may only cancel a few dozen orders. MacARTHUR AND MARINES The boys in the Pacific long have known about the rivalry between General MacArthur and the U. S. navy. Many are the wisecracks about MacArthur and the U. S. ma rines, land army of the navy. How ever, in only one case so far as is known, has MacArthur ever come up against one of these jokes face to face. It happened on one of the Philip pine islands a few days after it was taken and when MacArthur was in specting a battery of marine artil lery. Solemnly, he passed from gun to gun, making no comment. Then suddenly as he came to one gun, he' turned on the marine lieu tenant in command and let loose the most terrific dressing-down that young officer ever had received. The air was smoky with expletives. The lieutenant at first stood be wildered. The gun was carefully polished. Everything was in place. Then he looked a little closer. Be side the gun an enlisted man had placed a sign. It read: “With the help of God and a few marines, MacArthur retakes the Philip pines.” t The lieutenant thought at first that he would be busted. But several days passed and nothing happened. He is now back in the United States and the story can be told. INSURANCE LOBBY The insurance lobby is headed for trouble regarding its toil! to exempt insurance companies from the Sher man anti-trust act. If the lobbyists aren’t careful they will get a White House veto. The bill passed the senate in a form which met with all-round ap proval. But in the house, the in surance lobby sharpened its ax and quietly tacked on some amendments which will not be acceptable either to the White House or, probably, to a majority of the senate. Chief ef fect of the amendments was to make it impossible to revive the anti-trust act regarding insurance companies, without a special act of congress. Fair-minded Senator O’Mahoney of Wyoming, who was quite willing to give the insurance companies a reasonable compromise, will fight this extra grab to the end. So will a great many of his colleagues. • • • CAPITAL CHAFF C. General Franco’s controlled Span ish press has been using the same propaganda line as Hitler regard ing the recent Bi^ Three conference. C. Despite the fact that American diplomatic relations with Lithu ania hang by a thread, the Lithu anian delegation celebrated Lithu anian Independence Day even after the Big Three conference. C The war department’s G-2 or military intelligence is being re organized again, partly as a result of failures to spot Nazi troop concen trations preparing foi the bulge at tack. C. The Mexico City confab is the most sorrowful Pan-American con ference in history for Dr. Leo S. Rowe, benign, longtime director of the Pan American union. This is the first important Pan-Am parley > held outside the confines of his union. Dr. Rowe says: “I cannot speak, but my heart is running ever." ■ Notes of a Newspaper Man: This, they tell you, happened at the Big 3 conference. . . . One eve ning after dinner Roosevelt, Church ill and Stalin started speculating on what nationality' they’d prefer to be if they couldn’t be their own. . . . Churchill said: “If I couldn’t be British I’d want to be American.” . . . Roosevelt said: “If I wasn’t American, I’d be British.” . . . Stalin said: “If I wasn’t Russian I’d be ashamed of myself!” During the recent run of the Thea ter Guild’s “Embezzled Heaven,” tlie star, Ethel Barrymore, was rushed to the hospital with pneu monia. She was placed in an oxy gen tent. . . . President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were among the many who sent posies and tele grams, and for a few weeks every one despaired of her pulling through. . . . Finally, the worst was over and the star was permitted to sit up in bed and answer the phone. . . . The first caller was the Guild’s Theresa Helbum. “Hello,” she cheerily said, “how’s your cold?” , The other night a Hungarian play wright was told an actor had arrived from Hungary. . . . “Do you know him?” he was asked. “Know him?” was the retort. “He’s my best friend. I hate himl” Our recent paragraphs about misplaced commas brought the one about the London Daily Mail, which has a reputation for mak ing fewest errors. ... All sorts of editorial supervision was em ployed—bonuses were offered the staff to maintain the highest standards, etc. But the Mail was still less than perfect. Finally, the editor summoned the staff and announced: “Here after, the first copy will be print ed on special stock and sent to the King of England.” Editorial blunders dropped 90 per .cent. A Texan in London was trying to impress some Britishers with the size of his home state. “Do you know,” he said, “that in Texas you can hop on a railroad car at 8 in the morning and still be in Texas after riding 24 hours?" “We,” replied a Britisher, “have trains like that in England, too.” • ' It happened at the premiere of “One Man Show.” . . . The curtain was up and a woman was making a big to-do as she got into her seat, huffing and puffing. . . . Seated near her was George Luddy, the Indian- born author. ... He polished her off neatly by audibly remarking: “Don’t worry about her. She’s so used to the second balcony—that sitting in the orchestra tonight has given her the shakes.” The exciting stories from Ma nila included the one about an American radio reporter who was freed after three years as a Jap prisoner. He was forced off the air one day as the Japs entered the city. The other morning, said the papers, he re sumed broadcasting this way: “As I was saying when I was so rudely interrupted—” De Valera of Eire was arrest ed while speaking at a street meeting several years ago. When he was freed years later, his first statement was: “As I was saying when I was so rude ly interrupted—” Margalo Gillmore, the actress, was anxious to become a nurse’s aide but found she didn’t have enough stamina for the work—being frightened by the sight of blood, etc. So she compromised by becoming a Grey Lady (one who reads to the convalescent servicemen, etc.) . . . Margalo was telling Carolyn Burke about her duties. . . . “Just what is a Grey Lady?” asked Carolyn. . . . “A Grey Lady in my case,” said Margalo, “is a yellow nurse’s aide.” There was the time the late Alex Woollcott was the victim of a type setter’s error. . . . The critic once referred to a famous recitalist as “a popular dieuse.” It came out: “Popular disease.” When critic Rascoe covered the new play, “Hope for the Best,” he was no little flattered that the prin cipal comedy line (used intermittent ly throughout the three acts) was something he wrote many years ago. It was: “Something no wife can ever understand, no matter if she lives with the man for 25 years, is that a writer is working when he is star ing out of the window.” A group of newspapermen were gabbing about the current college stories—the basketball scandal and the race discrimination report on dental colleges. One of the scribes said: “No matter what kind of a college yarn I write, I never have to worry about my punch-line.” . . . “Howcum?” asked a chronic-how- cumer. “I just write,” said the first news paper man, “ ‘Nicholas Murray But ler, President of Columbia Univer sity, could not be reached for com ment.’ ” Philippine Capital Set Afire Fires that may continue for weeks have been set on Luzon Island. In the city of Manila, a large part of the city will be in ruins before the American forces can get the flames under control. Many of the Japs are still hiding in the city, setting new fires in various locations. Capture Nazi Guns in Germany Three American soldiers carry captured German guns and ammuni tion near Gurzenich, Germany, to test fire and familiarize themselves with enemy weapons. Left to right, Pfc. Paul L. Kumler, Duncannon, Pa., Pfc. Lawrence A. Totsky, Mayfield, Pa., and Pfc. Stuart L. Rouse, Kins ton, N. C. They report American weapons superior to captured ones. Tests made in the United States with some of these guns pinved them inferior in operation to the newer types of American guns. Roosevelt Meets With Royalty President Roosevelt has a friendly talk with King Farouk, (in ad miral uniform), of Egypt, aboard a U. S. warship near Cairo, and with Haile Selassie 1, emperor of Ethiopia. The result of the Big Three con ference was explained to these rulers. Other visits were scheduled by the President before his return to the United States. This Big Three Also Met—Japs Adm. Marc A. Mitscher and Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, who took part in the directing of the invasion of Iwo Jima. Right shows Maj. Gen. Keller E. Rockey, Virginia Beach, Va., commanding general of the 5th marine divi sion, which participated in the invasion of the Volcano islands. Mitscher is shown at left; Nimitz, center. Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch, com mander of the 7th army, is shown after being decorated by Gen. Charles de Gaulle with the cordon of a Commander of the Legion of Hon or and Croix de Guerre with palm, at Saverne, Alsace, France. Boy Spy Gets Life Karl Arno Punzeler, 16, a Hitler youth leader, is shown as his sen tence of death as a spy was changed to life imprisonment. Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges changed the sen tence. King Attends Meet King Ibn Sand of Saudi, Arabia, is shown aboard an American warship, anchored at Great Bitter Lake, Egypt, when President Roosevelt was host to three kings during a halt there after the conference at Yalta. Emperor Selassie and King Farouk were also present. Given Two Honors Comdr. Harold E. Stassen, formei Republican governor of Minnesota, who was named by President Roose velt to the United Nations conference at San Francisco. He was recently j decorated for his naval work. ‘PLEASE PASS THE BUFFALO!’ Buffalo meat is being put on the market in a fairly big way this win ter. No points are required. The meat is declared sweeter and just as tender as beef. * Maybe so, but we find it hard to work up an appetite for a buffalo, hungry as we are. This may be be cause the nearest thing to a buffalo we have ever had around the house ’•'as a buffalo robe which came down trom Grandpa Gideon. It never looked as if it would taste good. ♦ Then, too, we have m sentimental feeling about buffaloes. They look so nice in those Currier & Ives hunting prints! We never could work ourselves up to eating things out of Currier & Ives prints for fear the chef would get mixed up and cook us up a curry of sleigh or a filet of Central Park bobsledders. * But Grandpa Gideon was differ ent. He was a 100 per cent buffalo- steak man. m He preferred it over bear meat, but when hungry he would take a bear. He never cared for restaurant bear. Grandpa Gideon was of pi oneer stock. He liked to go into the woods and get his own “b’ar meat.” • He would put on his leather stock ings, his horsehide pants, take a snorter and go right after the crit ter. He was a sportsman and always threw the small ones back. Grand- pappy used to grease his arms and face so a bear’s punches would slide off. His only weapons were a corn cob pipe and a bottle. * He would go into a cave, light his pipe and keep taking a slug out of the bottle. He called this “smok ing the b’ar out.” He had a code of ethics and would never kill a b’ar in its own home. Once the ani mal had all the smoke it could stand and had started out of the cave, Grandpa would withdraw 10 yards, take his fighting stance and wait. • • But buffalo was his real dish. There was more zest to getting one. He would ride out into the plains and shoot ’em with the bow and ar row, scorning the feather or metal lure. If the buffalo were running small he would hunt them from a bicycle. When he was 80 years old he attacked a herd by pogo stick and got three. • Grandpa had a great recipe for buffalo meat. It ran: Use half a buffalo. Mince well. Put into a barrel and add 10 pounds of butter, the whites of 4 dozen eggs, 6 gallons of sour milk and a few slabs of salt pork. Beat with a paddle. Sprinkle with pepper, salt, cinnamon, rock candy and sea sand. Cover with a quart of brandy. Add 1 pound of raisins and a crate of Bermuda onions, diced. Flavor with snuff and a jigger of harness oil. Cook overnight. Leave the house around daybreak and find some place where they serve a good bacon and egg order. * •. • Baseball Ruling (“The President said baseball could continue with certain ‘ifs’.”— News item.) An “iffy” question baseball is. With problems rather stiff; Now only players can take part When honestly “4-If.” • • • Essential Men Elmer Twitchell thinks ballplayers should find it simple to be classified in the new list at critical industries. He thinks the heavy hitters plain ly come under the head of “provid ers of belting” for instance, and also “shellackers.” • Twirlers will find under the “Pe troleum Industry” a clause that “pro ducers of pitches” must be deferred. And why can’t catchers and twirlers both come under the exemption granted to “those making batteries.” * Umpires are clearly deferred, he says, as “gatherers of gums and barks” as well as “men engaged in pest control.” • • • Barefaced Bribery “WANTED—Housekeeper; apart ment, Locust Valley; one child; live in or out; salary includes package of cigarettes daily. Glen Cove 271- R.”—Port Washington News. * The line forms on the right! • • • Sign for a flesh reduction estab lishment: Come in for a Battle of the Bulges. • • • Conventions are going to be curbed. Business is going from badge to worse. • • • Ain’t It So? Little children ’round the feet Serve as mirrors hard to beat. Manners, morals, children detect But it’s faults, children reflect. Little children ’round the house Make a man out of a louse. —Sade Talbert. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT AGENTS WANTED LADY WANTED In every community, both rural and city, to seU line of household necessities to her neighbors. Our line in- • i w - as i' nfl CITRUS FRUIT Tree Ripened CITRUS FRUIT A bushel of delicious tree ripened dtrus fruit, containing both oranges and grape fruit fromtbv 'a .nous Nfaxcy Florida Groves, direct to yo •. express prepaid, for $4.50. Mail orders solicited. Fruit picked daily and shipped to you by fast express. Descriptive booklet and price list of vari ous size packages sent free. Reference: Tropical State Bank, Sebring, Florida. Writ* toGUIGNARD MAXCY’S GROVES Sebring, Florida PLANTS COPENHAGEN Cabbage Plants $2 per 1,000; all other varieties 75c per 1.000. Onion plants $1 per 1,000 f. o. b. Lenox. LINDSEY PLANT CO. - Lenox. Ga. GRAPE PLANTS. Highest quality. Genu ine Florida Bencon. Plant now. Full plant ing, growing information furnished. 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