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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This newspaper,
through special arrangement with the
Washinglon bureau oj Western Newspaper
Union at 1616 Eye Street, N. W^ Washing
ton, D. C., is able to bring readers this
weekly column on problems of the veteran
and serviceman and his family. Questions
may be addressed to the above Bureau
and they will be answered in a subsequent
column. No replies can be made direct
by mail, but only in the column which
will appear in this newspaper regularly.
Unemployment Increase*
The veterans’ administration has
paid out approximately $102,750,000
as ot December 15, for unemploy
ment compensation to approximate
ly 331,000 veterans of World War II.
For the week ending December 1,
the total of jobless veterans was
247,360 out of about 4,000,000 dis
charged from the armed services.
But according to records of the
veterans’ administration, each week
sees an increase in the number of
jobless in all states except three.
These three are Michigan, where as
of November 24 and the week end
ing December 1, unemployment had
decreased from 18,414 to 13,770;
Ohio, where the decrease was from
3,964 to 1,337 and in Oklahoma
where jobless decreased from 2,430
to 1,434.
In New York unemployed veter
ans increased from 32,000 to 52,000;
Texas from 12,000 to 22,000; New
Jersey from 11,000 to 16,000; Califor
nia from 10,000 to 14,000; Illinois
from 9,000 to 13,000 and Massachu
setts from 13,000 to 17,000. All other
states showed a proportionate in
crease.
Questions and Answers
Q. My boy entered the army in
June, 1943, and went overseas early
in December of the same year. I
am his aged and crippled mother,
all the dependent he has. Is he en
titled to a discharge? — M. W.,
South Edmuston, N. Y.
A. Not necessarily. If you wish
to apply for his discharge on a de
pendency or hardship basis, consult
with your local Red Cross about in
augurating such a discharge.
Q. Would a discharged soldier
with 40 months’ service, 27 months
overseas, be eligible for the $20 per
week income, where he has rented
a farm and moved to same, is mar
ried and has no regular income?—
A. L., Winfield, Kans.
A. No. The veterans’ administra
tion says you must register with
the USES and apply for a job in
order to be eligible for unemploy
ment compensation. However, the
law says that where a veteran en
ters business for himself and his
earnings in the previous month were
less tha^. $100, he may apply for
an allowance equal to the differ
ence between $100 and his net earn
ings for that month. Suggest you
apply to your nearest regional vet
erans’ administration office to deter
mine if farming is regarded as a
business.
Q. My brother has served four
years in the army, two in the states
and two overseas. He is in the air
corps and has 70 points. Why is he
not already discharged? — Sister,
Converse, La.
A. There is no reason why he is
not already out of the army, if he
wants to be out, unless he is in the
Pacific theater where there is a
shortage of transportation. Return
of some high point men is being
held up because of lack of trans
portation from this area.
Q. My husband was inducted into
the army in July, 1942, at which time
we hsvd one child. For three months,
August, September and October,
1942, 1 did not receive an allotment.
Am I entitled to get that pay now?
I wrote to them many times but
never got an answer. My husband
is now discharged.—Wife, Green-
bnsh, Minn.
A. Write to the Office of Depend
ency Benefits, War department,
Newark, N. J.
Q. If boys who had signed up for
one year in the regular army are
sent overseas, will they be returned
to the states when their year is up
or will they have to remain until
they get enough points?—F. L., Lan
caster, Wis.
A. If you mean boys who have re
enlisted in the regular army for one
year after at least six months’ serv
ice, they will be discharged at the
end of ihe year’s service.
Q. Is there any chance of my
husband getting a discharge from
the army on the ground of owning
a small farm? He is over 35 but has
only three points to his credit.—A
reader, Columbus, Ohio.
A. There is not much chance un
less he can prove that the produce
from his farm constitutes s public
necessity in his community.
Q. Please tell me why there are
men walking around with dis
charges and 41 points and no chil
dren, when my husband is in Eu
rope with 68 points and four chil
dren?—Mrs. L. H., Charlottesville,
Va.
A. Your husband is certainly eligi
ble for a discharge and the war de
partment says he should be horn*
by January 1, 1946, unless he has
requested continued overseas serv
ice. All men with three children are
eligible for discharge under present
discharge rulings of army.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
By VIRGINIA VALE
J UST before Alan Young
headed for Hollywood and
his first motion picture he un
intentionally entertained a
miscellaneous gathering of
New Yorkers. They were
watching the skaters at the
Radio City rink. Alan was
brushing up on his skating.
He put on his skates, started
Jut, and slid—not on the skates—
lulte a distance. The housing short
age has separated the Young
lamily temporarily; Mrs. Mary
Anne Young and the children fled to
Seattle when they couldn't find a
aome in New York, and she's been
attending Washington State college,
completing studies interrupted bv
marriage.
*
Bob Crosby was getting along fine
as • singing cowboy movie star be
fore he joined the marines, and it
looks as if he’d pick up that career
again before long, now that he’s dis
charged. Meanwhile he’s returning
to radio, on CBS Sunday nights at
10:00 (EST).
*
When a New York subway acci
dent takes place in Hollywood it’s
worth mentioning. Eddie Bracken,
Virginia Welles, Spike Jones and
his City Slickers, Director William
Russell and 50 extras and crew
members just escaped serious in
jury when a New York subway car
split during a scene for Para
mount’s ‘‘Ladies’ Man”; seven peo
ple were treated at the studio hos
pital for minor cuts and bruises.
*
Joe Kirkwood Jr., winner of
Monogram’s search for a young man
to play the lead hi “Joe Palooka,
Champ,” tried his luck in Holly
wood last AprU and gave up; he
signed with Warner Bros., worked
In “Night and Day” and “The
Ghost of Berchtesgaden,” and re
turned to being a golf professional.
(He’s the son of the famous Joe
Kirkwood, Australian trick-shot pro./
Now Monogram’s signed him.
*
From President Truman’s speech
about the atomic bomb, Metro
picked “The Beginning or the End”
as the title for its atomic energy
picture. We hear that Donna Reed
had a hand in planting the idea for
the movie. She'd studied with Dr.
Edward Tompkins at the Univer
sity of Iowa; she wrote him when
his work on the bomb was disclosed,
ensuing correspondence led to the
suggestion that an atomic energy
picture be made. Donna's husband,
Tony Owen, and agent, took the cor
respondence to Metro’s Producer
Sam Marx — result, “The Begin
ning or the End.’
*
Johnny WelssmuHer and Buster
Crabbe, male leads of “Swamp
Fire,” have cooked up plans io go
right ou swimming. Weissmuller Is
assembling a troupe to leave short
ly on a tour of Central and South
America; Crabbe and his swimming
stars tour this country next sum
mer.
*
Alfred Hitchcock brought Peter
Von Zemeck, New York stage
actor, to Hollywood for a role in
“Notorious.” During a two-day lay
off Von Zerneck drove to San Juan
Capistrano to visit the mission —
and bought 20 acres of land before
he left Says he’ll h'.ld onto it just
as an investment Meanwhile Wil
liam Gargan of “The Bells of St.
Mary’s,” has sold his San Jacinto
ranch.
*
Bonnie Blair left the New York
stage for the RKO studio; she
makes her screen debut in u bar-
ror.m sequence in “Badman’s Terri
tory." As a dance hall girl she saves
Randolph Scott from ambush, so
effectively that RKO plans to con
tinue using her.
*
ODDS AND ENDS—Only Broadway
stage players ora used on the CBS
“Grand Central Station," except for
Madeleine Pierce, radio actress: she
cries like a baby to perfectly that the
rule is broken for her. . . . When Co
lumbia screens the radio thriller,
"Night Editor," Jans* Carter will play
the feminine lead. . , . Although Bar
bara Stanwyck has been a motion pic
ture star for nine years, fans will sea
her in technicolor for the first time in
"California.". . . Six different languages
ore spoken in Paramount’s "Calcutta,"
starring Alan Ladd, Gail Russell and
William Bondi*.
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(^WiLoila VyiuhapA, 1945
By PAUL JONES
{Director of Public Information.
National Safety Council.)
B IG things happened in 1945.
The war ended. The atom
bomb busted. Taxes began to
come down. And Mr. Bonner
was shot by a duck.
Mr. Bonner is, of course, Mr.
Stanley J. Bonner of Houston, Tex
as, as every duck now knows. On
a fine October day he grabbed his
trusty automatic pistol and ven
tured into the back yard to shoot a
couple of domestic ducks. Duck No.
1 fell at the first shot. But Duck
No. 2, a more aggressive type,
leaped at Mr. Bonner, jarred his
arm and caused the gun to go off.
The bullet hit Mr. Bonner in the
knee. The duck? Still alive and
sassy.
Wacky? Sure. But no wackier
than a lot of other freak accidents
that happened in 1945. For a round
up by the National Safety Council
reveals that come war, come peace,
people go right on having the darn
edest things happen to them. To
wit:
Mrs. Edward Comfort, of Brook
lyn, was driving through Virginia,
her 15-month-old baby riding happily
beside her in a basket strapped to
the seat of the car. So far as Mrs
Comfort knew, there were no hard
feelings between her and the baby.
But the child suddenly stopped con
tentedly drinking milk out of a
nursing bottle, swung the bottle lust
ily and conked Mrs. Comfort neatly
on the head. Dazed, she let go the
wheel and the car overturned in a
ditch. Neither mother nor baby was
hurt.
Ha’d-Headed Fellow.
Not so aliergic to a thump on the
head is Charles Anderson, a hardy
resident of Los Angeles. Mr. Ander
son, in fact, has reason to re
gard himself as practically inde
structible. He was repairing a wall
one day when a concrete block fell
from a fourth-story scaffold and hit
him smack on the head. He reeled
into the street, just in time to be
struck down by Policeman Jess
Haenel’s motorcycle. He recovered
satisfactorily from both accidents.
And Mrs. Dorothy Jensenius was
walking in Chicago’s loop one day
when, lo and behold, a bucket came
hurtling down and hit her kerplunk.
It had been dropped jy a dismayed
window washer seven stories up. A
shoulder injury to Mrs. Jensenius
and a dent in the bucket comprised
the damage.
In Toledo, Mrs. Margaret Cook’s
car blew a tire at a railroad cross
ing and careened down the tracks
toward an approaching freight train.
The auto struck a signal switch and
threw a red block against the train,
automatically stopping it.
‘Stick of Wood’ Goes Boom!
When a pin in her washing ma
chine broke off, Mrs. Axel Soder of
Makinen, Minn., looked around the
house for a substitute pin and final
ly found something she thought was
just the thing. She sawed off the
end of it and started to hammer it
into the machine. She might have
done it, too, if the substitute pin
hadn’t exploded and blown her clear
across the room. She had selected
a stick of dynamite.
Hits Right Post.
Taxi-driver Ethel Sheffield’s cab
skidded into a lamp post in Regina,
Saskatchewan, one 16-below-zero
night last January. She was knocked
unconscious and might have frozen
to death if a fire alarm box on the
lamp post hadn’t been set off by
the crash, bringing firemen to the
rescue.
Every returning G.I. is mighty
glad to see the family again, but
few are so vociferous in their greet
ings as was Soldier Frank Chian of
Baltimore. He gave his mom a hug
so big it snapped several of her
ribs.
It’s odd enough, perhaps, when a
fire starts itself and then puts itself
out. When it happens twice the
same way, you begin to wonder.
But once in Utica, N. Y., and again
in Dark Harbor, Maine, the sun’s
rays, passing through a bottle of
water in a truck, set fire to the floor
of each truck, only to have the heat
of the fire break the bottle and the
water put out the flames.
Fire in Fire Station.
Probably the most embarrassed
firemen in the country were the
members of the volunteer depart
ment of Columbus Manor, 111., the
night an exploding gasoline tank in
a pumper wagon set fire to the fire
station. Unable to get their own
equipment out of the station to fight
the flames, the Columbus Manor
laddies had to look on glumly while
firemen from nearby towns did the
job.
A lot of people stick their necks
out in various ways, but not so spec
tacularly as did Virginia Triplett, an
elevator operator in St. Paul. Miss
Triplett was leaning her head out
side the elevator on the first floor
when the automatic doors closed.
Passersby tugged at the doors by
hand until they could be opened by
mechanics.
Doorframes Too Low
Out in Hollywood, where anything
can happen, “Sunset” Carson, six-
foot-five cowboy movie actor, went
to the studio hospital for an aspirin
to help his headache. Coming out,
he struck his head against the door
frame, keeled over unconscious and
had to have four stitches taken in
his scalp. v
Whether it was a suicide pact or
just an accident, no one will ever
know. But when Miss Bette Boren
of Marinette, Wis., returned home
one day last March, she found the
family’s two dogs on the floor,
overcome by gas. They had, in
some manner, turned on the stove.
They were revived and haven’t tried
it again.
Every year someone lets a train
pass over him without serious re
sults. In 1945 it was Jesse Spitzer
of Denver. Mr. Spitzer did it the
hard way by first having himself an
auto accident. This threw him
through the roof of his car and land
ed him on his back in the middle of
the track just as the train came
along. Mr. Spitzer lay quietly and
securely until the engine and long
string of freight cars had roared
over him, then found he had broken
a leg—in the auto accident.
No year would be complete, of
course, without someone falling safe
ly out of a third-story window onto
a cement sidewalk. The 1945 fall-out
girl was Beverly Kay Schwartz, 20
months old, of Maywood, 111., who
escaped with a slight head injury.
Just to be different, a Chicago
baby took his mother along with him
when he went for a two-story plunge
to the street. The year-old child
slipped from a porch railing. His
mother, Mrs. Audrey Hudson,
grabbed for him, got him, lost her
balance, and mother and son fell
together. Neither was seriously
hurt.
Most farsighted plunger of the
year was James Hearn of Seattle,
who fell three floors down an air
shaft to land cozily in an easy chair.
Ambnlance Throws Her Ont.
As Mrs. Clara Wagner accompan
ied a sick friend to a Chicago hos
pital, the ambulance in which they
were riding turned a corner so
sharply that the rear door flew open
and Mrs. Wagner was catapulted
into the street. She was returned to
the ambulance, and continued the
journey—as a patient.
Just to prove that America hasn’t
a comer on freak accidents, a wind
storm in North Adelaide, Australia,
scared a deliveryman’s horse into
running away, but also blew the de
liveryman ahead of the horse in
time to stop it!
Bobcats don’t frighten Mrs. Don
aldson of Breen, Colo. When she
came suddenly upon a big one in
her turkey yard, she fearlessly
seized a club and attacked it. The
bobcat’s hide now hangs in the
kitchen. Mrs. Donaldson did not
suffer a single scratch.
An ordinary field mouse ran up
the steering wheel of an automo
bile driven by Hollis Lee Randolph
of Topanga, Calif. Mr. Randolph,
who couldn’t have been more star
tled had it been an elephant, lost
control of his car, ran it into a
ditch and turned it over. Neither
he nor the mouse was hurt.
A Liberty ship crashed into a
bridge in Boston harbor, knocking
a 90-foot section of the bridge into
the water. Although the structure
carries elevated lines, automobile
traffic and foot ways, there were no
trains, no autos and no pedestrians
on it at the time of the accident.
Yet it was midday, when traffic is
usually heavy. No one was hurt on
the ship, either.
One of life’s little mysteries to
doctors and economists came when
17-month-old Larry Lingle of Har
risburg, Pa., swallowed a nickel
and coughed up a penny.
Henry Hale slipped on the ice in
Chicago. A policeman asked him
if he was hurt. “I broke my leg,”
replied Henry, calmly. “Take me
home.”
The police did so, then asked so
licitously, “What doctor do you
want?”
“Doctor!” Hale snorted. “What
I want is a carpenter.”
Yes, it was a wooden leg.
And just as a reminder of how
tough things really were during the
war, Michael Babich walked up to
a fellow worker in Newark, N. J.,
during the height of the tobacco
shortage, facetiously asked for a cig
arette, got one, and fainted!
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A new railroad safety develop
ment involving instantaneous and
automatic operation of powerful red
lights at both head and rear ends
of trains making emergency stops
is being installed by the Chicago
and North Western Railway system.
Should a train with this equipment
come to an emergency stop, either
because the engineer set the brakes
or because the air hose between
any of the cars had parted, oscU-
lating red lights at both head and
rear ends of the train would go into
operation automatically. The pow
erful beams would serve as “stop”
warnings to all other trains ap
proaching from either direction. On
clear nights the red lights are visi
ble for several miles and have con
siderable penetrative power in rain
or fog. They c an also be seen over
a long range in daylight.
The automatic principle and the
lights themselves were developed by
the railroad and the Mars Signal
Light company of Chicago work
ing in close co-operation. It is the
fourth successful step in railroad
safety research accomplished by the
two organizations in the past 10
years. The first came in 1936 when
the Mars oscillating headlight, now
a regular feature on many of the na
tion’s fast trains, was placed on the
original steam-powered ‘‘400.”
WHOLESOME FEAR
Out !n a Western town a number of
lions had broken out of a circus. A
posse was organized to hunt them
down, and the leader suggested that
before the chase began it might be
well for the men to slop in a saloon
and have a drink. This suited all
;he members except the town ne’er-
Jo-well, Jason.
“Whiskey for all!” the leader
yelled, when the men had lined up
before the bar.
“Not for me,” objected Jason.
“Just gimme a jigger of ginger
ale.”
“You’ll take whiskey!” shouted
the leader. “It’ll give you cour
age.’’
“Heck!” rejoined Jason. “That’s
jest what I’m afeered of.”
HE SPOILED IT
Larry—You look positively beau
tiful tonight!
Laura—Oh, you flatterer!
Larry—No, it’s true. I had to look
twice before I recognized you!
Lunch Counter Chat
Harry—Waiter, what’s this fly do
ing in my pretzel?
Waiter—It’s on a bender, sir.
Taken Seriously
Doctor—You certainly have acute
appendicitis.
Patient—Oh, Doctor, you flatter
me!
Woodland Thoughts
Fred—I saw some spinster pines
yesterday.
Ted—What do you mean, spinster
pines?
Fred—Oh, nobody had axed them!
Be Frank, Please!
Waiter—Would you like some
more applesauce with your pork
cnops, sir?
Diner—No, just tell me the truth
about them.
Financial Problem
Wifey—What does a business man
need most to weather a financial
storm?
Hubby—A raft of money.
XMAS SHOPPING
Mr.—I want to buy a train for
my little boy.
Floorwalker — Next floor, sir.
Men’s hobbies.
Romantic John
Mary—Would you like to see a
model ho-
John—1 .e would; where does
she live?
Neighborly Chatter
Butcher—Have you heard the story
about those cookies of yours?
Grocer—No. Is it a good one?
Butcher—Kinda crumby.
Overdoing It
Hostess (to new clergyman)—I’ve
invited my neighbors to dinner at
seven to meet you, but they may be
a little late. I think we should give
them a half hour’s grace.
Clergyman—Well, now, of course
I’m devout and all that, but don’t
you think that would be overdoing it
a bit?
Model Child
Mother—Why, Mary, you’ve left
fingerprints all over the dishes you
washed!
Daughter — Well, mother, that
shows I haven’t got a guilty con
science!
Not Too Keen
Mrs. —Need a new razor blade,
don’t you?
Mr.—Yes, how did you know?
Mrs.—A little beard told me.
Nature Study
Teacher—How do bees dispose of
their honey?
Sally—They cell it, I believe!
Serious Error
Mrs.—I guess I’ve got to go back
to bed!
Mr.—But you just got up!
Mrs.—I know, but I made a mis
take and put night cream on my
face!
Strike!
Son—Do they play baseball 1l
England?
Dad—Not very much.
Son—Then who’s this British um
pire they’re always talking about?
Renovated
Wifey—I saw John with his new
girl at the party last night.
Hubby—New girl nothing; that’s
his old girl painted over.
Pardon Me!
Mac—Has her dress slipped or am
1 seeing things?
Jack—Both!
22 Ships in Mass Collision
Off Coast of Newfoundland
The greatest mass collision o<
ships in history occurred off New
foundland on May 27, 1945, says
Collier’s. A westbound convoy of
76 Allied vessels was steaming
slowly through a dense fog when
Dne of them struck an iceberg, dis
covered eight others near by and
gave the alarm. Instantly, the en
tire convoy swerved sharply with
the result that 22 of the ships col
lided with one another in the fol
lowing 10 minutes. Yet none sank
and no lives were lost.
Incidentally, it happened on the
last day vessels were required to
sail the Atlantic in convoy.
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