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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Washington, D. C. ARMY DISCHARGE CREDITS Here is how the army will deter mine what men are to be discharged after the war in Europe is over. Spe cial forms have been quietly sent to commanding officers in all theatres. They are to be distributed to the G.I.s who will fill them out, try to figure out the number of credits they have earned to give them a quick return home. The one thing still undecided by the army is the number of credits necessary for immediate release. This columnist is able to reveal, however, that: 1. All credits will be deter mined as of the date the war in Enrope is over. 2. Special credits will be given for overseas service, and over seas service will mean any service outside the continental limits of the U. S., including Alaska. Thousands of men who served in Alaska will receive overseas credit. Overseas serv ice will be determined from the day a man leaves a port of embarkation. 3. Combat credit will be given only for those receiving the med al of honor, distinguished serv ice eross, legion of merit, silver star, distinguished flying eross, soldiers’ medal, bronze star, air medal, purple heart or bronze service stars for battle partici pation. No other awards or rib bons will be included. 4. Credit will be given for children who are under 18 years of age on the day the war in Europe ends, but for some mys terious reason the army will not allow credits for more than three children. • • • HENRY KAISER CONCILIATES Few people realize it, and ship builder Henry Kaiser is too modest to admit it, but he was the guid ing genius behind the recently signed pledge for postwar industrial peace just promulgated by Eric Johnston, president of the U. S. chamber of commerce, CIO Pres. Phil Murray and AFL Pres. Bill Green. Kaiser figured out the scheme last fall after seeing the terrific bitter ness of the election campaign. He first approached Bill Green, told him that if Green was sincere about be lieving in a 60,000,000-job program, management needed assurances of labor peace. Green was agreeable. Johnston agreed to call the first meeting, invited Kaiser, Murray and Green to a hush-hush dinner in his Mayflower hotel suite, debated the entire proposal up, down and sideways. Not content with a bare state ment of unity and pledge of la bor-management peace, Kaiser has now quietly proposed that the U. S. chamber of commerce, the AFL and the CIO set up a new, well - financed organiza tion which can actively go about the business of contact ing local labor leaders and lo cal business men, preaching the gospel of cooperation on that level. • • • PETRILLO CRACKDOWN Congress is so steamed up about the rambunctious practices of horn-: tooter James Caesar Petrillo, head of the American Federation of Musi cians, and bushy-browed John L. Lewis, mine workers’ chief, that re sponsible labor leaders are greatly worried that it may pass the Bailey bill. This would invalidate the agreement Petrillo won after de fying the record manufacturers and the government for two years, and which provides that the manufacturers pay his union a royalty on every record made. It would also rule out the 10- eent-per-ton coal royalty Lewis asked after he saw Petrillo get I his. Even though many of them have little sympathy for the Petrillo-Lewis methods, labor leaders see in the Bailey bill far more danger than appears on the surface. For if the bill becomes law, it will knock out not only Petrillo royalty setups, but also numerous negotiated agree ments whereby employers agree to pay a small portion of their payroll into health funds jointly adminis tered by the union and the employer. These are used to pay sickness and accident benefits, medical costs and^ death benefits for employes, and more and more employers are agreeing to include contributions to these funds in their contracts with the unions. There have been no com plaints about these funds, but they will be illegal if the Bailey bill be comes law. • • • CAPITOL CHAFF <L The RFC has named the New York firm of Fuller, Smith and Ross to handle advertising of surplus property to be sold through RFC. This firm is also the advertising representative for the Aluminum company of America, which has a major interest in plant facilities to be sold through RFC. C. Despite the wide publicity ridicul ing him a few months ago, Rep. William Gallagher, former Minne apolis street cleaner, has won the re spect of his colleagues in the house. Notes of a New York Newsboy: An exciting biog of a fine Ameri can, “Eisenhower” (Winston) by F. T. Miller, contains this interesting paragraph: “General Eisenhower was aroused to outbursts of indigna tion at the subversive groups that j were giving ‘aid and comfort to the enemy’ at a time of our nation’s peril. Ike’s scathing remarks would scorch this paper. He had no toler ance for the ‘damned deaf, dumb and blind fools’ who could not see what was sure to happen if we failed to heed the warnings. The Axis was out to conquer the world and enslave humanity.Naziism and Fas cism must be crushed if human free dom was to be saved. . . . Eisen hower had become known as ‘Alarm ist Ike’ because of his constant pre dictions.” Move over, Walter—and make room for Eisenhower! The same tome also offers a de lightful anecdote about General Eisenhower’s mother. . . . When ever soldiers pass her home at Abi lene, Kans., she proudly remarks to neighbors: “I have a son in the army, too!” When he was given the Peabody award for “presenting outstanding radio humor over a period of 12 years,” Fred Allen was introduced on the air this way: "Three great men of American humor,” said the announcer, “—are Mark Twain, Will Rogers and Fred Allen!” “Fine state humor is in,” Allen ad- libbed. “Two of them are dead and one is out of work!” Stories about newspapermen are as arresting as the yarns they write. Horace Greeley inspired some of the best bits of newspaperman stuff. He was once parked in a hotel lobby reading his Tribune when a stran ger informed him: “I never read that sheet. I feed it to my goats.” . . . Greeley merely intoned: “If you continue reading other pa pers and feed your goats these Trib unes, one fine day you’ll wake up and find that your goats know more than you do!” When Joseph Pulitzer retired, he sent his staff a message which de serves to be framed in every news boy’s office. The Pulitzer prize ad vice is now a part of the masthead Of a St. Louis newspaper: “I know that my retirement will make no difference in its cardinal principles; that it will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice Or corruption, always fight dema gogues, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sym pathy for the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing the news.” Add Good News: One of the Bund camps in New Jersey has been turned into a boys’ vacation camp. Happy to learn that a part of the U. S. once again belongs to Ameri ca. . . . The legit stage takes bows as a haven for intellectual issues. Yet the season has produced only one expert play on a serious theme: “A Bell for Adano.” . . . Trend of the Times: We used to hear a great deal about Nazi supermen—now we hear more about American super fortresses. Hoop-la isn’t everything: A. J. Cronin’s “The Green Years” has topped the fiction best-seller list long er than “Forever Amber,” despite the latter’s publicity barrage. • • • The house foreign affairs committee is now probing America’s war crimi nal policies. We hope they will spot light the peculiar activities of the state dep’t boys dealing with that problem. . . . Joseph Conrad once said: “Gossip is what no one claims to like—but everybody enoys it.”. . . Our Sherlock Ho-Holmes Dept’t: A UP dispatch states: “Rifle shots were fired into the office of Mario Berlinguer, high commissioner in Rome for the punishment of Fascist crimes. The official was wounded by flying glass. Police believe the shooting was an attempt to assassi nate Signor Berlinguer.” AwgwanI Two soldiers and a sailor on Broadway, reports Jan Murray, were discussing their plans after curfew time. The first serviceman said: “Gee, it’s midnight. Let’s have some fun riding through the park in a hansom kebl” . . . “Naw,” naw’d the second. “Let’s call up Mabel and Jean!” . . . “Oh, nuts!” said the third. “Let’s do something really ex citing! Let’s go to some restaurant and watch the civilians eat!” Among the strange sidelights of the war is the almost complete brushoff most newspapers have given to the fighting in Burma. Re ports of the battles in that sector are buried on inside pages or ig nored. Many Americans will prob ably be surprised to learn that bit ter fighting has taken place there, which has resulted in important Al lied victories. . . . And the battles are continuing. . . . During the last year the amount of Japs killed in the Burma theatre equals the num ber eradicated in the Pacific! High Officers Given Promotions Recent promotions announced by President Roosevelt include: (1) Henry K. Hewitt, commander of the Mediterranean fleet, to be admiral. (2) Vice Admiral Waesche, coast guard commandant, to be an admiral. (3) Lt. Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift, commandant of the marine corps, to full rank of general. (4) Vice Adm. Richard S. Edward, deputy chief of naval operations, to be admiral. (5) Vice Adm. T. C. Kincaid to he admiral. Vinson Takes Over Byrnes’ Job Fred M. Vinson, former federal loan administrator, has taken over the office of director of war mobilization and reconversion, following the resignation of James F. Byrnes. Byrnes announced that V-E Day was not far off and he believed whoever was to direct the reconversion program should begin his work immediately. Allied Leaders Inspect Germany Churchill and Eisenhower, upper left, talk things over on the Rhine river bank. Upper right. Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery visits British and Canadian troops in the forward areas. Lower, Prime Minister Winston Churchill persuaded Gen. William Simpson to make the trip across the Rhine where he had a narrow escape from German shells. Watermelon for Iwo Warriors Third division marines on the front lines at Iwo Jima use a Japanese Samurai sword to slice a watermelon, a rare fruit on that barren volcanic island. The melons, in addition to other produce, comprised a ship ment sent by transport plane from the United States farms on Guam, where experiments in soilless agriculture were conducted. G.I. and Nazi Heroes Above photographs show the dif ference between the U. S. and the Nazi heroes. Upper, Maj. Carroll C. Smith, America’s first night fighter ace, who flew a Black Widow P-61. Below, Fritzie sniper, a hero to his comrades before capture. What’s This About? TXTTTH the bluebird chirping ’ ’ again and the “red red robin now bob bob bobbin’ around,” base ball with all its future troubles is still in a far better way than it looked to be some weeks ago. Many teams have lost many good men, but they still have some inter esting talent left. The main point is that we have had too many gonfalonic gallops in the last few sea sons where either Yankees or Cardi nals were so far in front by August that nothing remained of the races except a cloud of indigo dust far down on the stretch. This new season there is a strong possibility for two of the closest races in many years, where almost anything can happen. We put this point up to Larry Mac- Phail and the always astute colonel coyly confessed that such might easily be the case. “We no longer have the matter of picking one or possibly two teams from the two leagues and tagging them on top in April. For one example no manager knows today just what ball players he will lose next week or next month. Grantland Rice Baby duckling, recent arrival at Bronx zoo, wasn’t able to give en lightenment on which came first— the egg or the duck. He was willing to pose for his picture atop an ostrich egg. ‘So Big’—U. S. Push Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., commanding general of the U. S. 3rd army, tells his superior. Gen eral of the Army Dwight Eisenhow er, about the big push into Ger many. He is either indicating ‘ the size of the drive or the final push yet to come. Nazi’s Future Boss Maj. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, who has been named as aide to General Eisenhower, is to be in charge of civilian affairs in Germany when that country accepts surrender. A Big Question Mark “What team could you pick on top in the American league at this point? Or the National league? And if you happened to have one or two favorites, how do you know how they’d look around the middle of May or the middle of June? “Take Detroit. The Tigers still have Trout and Newhouser. Two fine pitchers—two big 1944 winners. But Wakefield is gone and so is Pinky Higgins, and who is left to give these two pitchers any runs to work on? You know where the Tigers were last summer until Wakefield returned. “The Browns look as good as any other baseball team, but this is April—not June or July. Even Joe McCarthy doesn’t know how the Yankees will stack up two months from now. “But that isn’t the important point. The main idea is that each league might easily have five or six clubs well-bunched through the sum mer—ell with a chance to win—and that’s what makes baseball. Natural ly each home city likes to see its team with at least a chance—some where up with the bunch—not 20 games or even more away. You saw what happened last fall when the Browns, Tigers and Yankees were all bunched up. No one ever accused them of being great ball clubs. But still you couldn’t get near their parks, with thousands turned away in St. Louis.” Race Counts Most We have had a few ball players who could draw out the populace, no matter how far out their club:i were. Babe Ruth was the top party in this list. I recall one season when the Babe played in Boston and Philadelphia before overflow crowds, although Boston and Philadelphia, far out if the race, had been play ing to fe wer than a thousand morbid souls daily. In later years Bob Fel ler was a big attraction on the days he worked. So was Ted Williams. But in the main it has been the ball club that drew the crowds— the ball club up in the race. I have always believed that a few seasons ago the Dodgers, playing in the Yankee stadium, would have passed the 2,000,000 mark. I still rate Detroit and Brooklyn as the two best ball towns in the country, and that isn’t barring New York or Chicago. There was a time when Boston belonged in this pre ferred list. But when you get right down to the big check-up most of them need a team somewhere in the race. For some odd reason, although their ball players come from all over the map, from the unknown hamlets and the farms, from spots more than 2,000 miles away, home town pride is always concerned. This has always been a deep mys tery to me—but there it is. For some years the National league had two or three teams neck and neck down the stretch—such as the Cardinals and the Dodgers. When that was happening, the Yankees usually had their race packed away on ice by late July or early August. Then, last fall, the American league suddenly switched into a hot three-club finish as the Cardi nals were wrecking the National. This all speaks for the complete honesty of baseball, which I believe today is taken for granted by every known proof, but it is of no vast help to nationwide interest. I agree with Larry MacPhail that the 1945 season may easily give us five or six clubs from each of the two big leagues which might easily be under a blanket from time to time during the coming months. It is my tip that baseball is on its way to one of the most interest ing seasons in many years unless it is so badly riddled that it isn't given a chance. CLASSIFIED! DEPARTMENT SKETCHING COMIC LIKENESS Drawn from your photo. Pen sketche* Suitable for framing. Photo re turned unharmed. Mail photo and $1 to wyt y c miris DOLLS FOREIGN AND ANTIQUE DOJ-W Send stamp for list. I also buy old dolls In any condition. DOLU SHOP. 6212 Sentk Troy Street. Chlearo 32. HI. SONGS lOaA, (Bondsu UOUSEHffiD niiTra Never crowd the rinse tub. Clothes must have room to move about freely to get soap out. Rugs should be swept or vacu um cleaned, but never beaten, shaken, or snapped, as this may loosen or break the fabric and binding or fringe. Remove the broiler pan at the same time you remove the food. 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