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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1946
Few Yanks In Paris
But City About Same
Paris —^American faces, Yank ex
uberance and U. S. Army uniforms
are vanishing rapidly from the
streets of Paris and this once light
hearted capital misses, them.
War-time fun center for Ameri
can and other Allied military men
are colorful beyond all telling for
that reason, Paris has become just
another capital in an impoverished
hungry, Europe. The glitter is gone
and all that is left are the tatered
coats of the poor and the dark af
fluence of the conspirators of black
market who acost you on every
historic comer. That the city misses
its former visitors is evident in a
hundred ways, but perhaps the
most obvious is the almost exagger
ated courtesy which Parisians lend
to even the most prosaic contact with
Americans. Ask directions from one
Frenchman and at least two others
will overhear and hasten to help.
Ask for a menu in a restaurant and
the resultant scraping and bowing is
embarrassing.
Cost Of Living
Incidentally, so are the prices.
Food and drink pjrices (in restau
rants patronized by Americans are
fabulous, although this was also
true in the black market places
which would take on a hungry Yank
while the war was on. The differ
ence now is that if you are an
American unconnected with the Gov
ernment you can no longer eat in
U. S. messes and must do so in civ
ilian eating places. Prices for a
meal, with the necessary “supple
ments”, range upwards from 400
francs, with the bracket from 800 to
1200 francs the one you're likely to
land in. A very ordinary meal thus
might cost between six and ten
dollars.
Actually, though, Parisians are
not the only ones who miss Ameri
can faces. Yanks on furlough from
other sections of Europe feel the
same if they can compare Paris now
to the roaring closing days of the
war. The famed Rainbow Corner is
gone and the Hotel de Paris turned
back to civilian hands. Only two
Red Cross clubs remain—the Colum
bia Club for enlisted men and the
Mayflower Club" for officers. The
usual army facilities like post ex
changes and casual messes have
been pared to the point where they
are hard to find.
Metro Works Better
There are other changes besides'
the numerical shrinking of perman
ent and visiting U. S. Army person
nel. For one thing all Allied
troops must now pay Metro fares of
two francs, for second class and
five francs for first class cars. The
subway now runs until 12:30 a. m.,
which eases somewhat that old
last-train rush from bars and night
clubs. More of the closed stations
are reopening daily and many have
been retagged with names like
Stalingrad—names associated with
this war.
Store windows look much more
enticing. There are radios and even
new cars and trucks on display and
the quality of everything seems to
have improved greatly without
heavy price increases as a result of
devaluation of French currency,
Because gas rationing has been lift
ed, there are many more cars on the
streets, adding new peril to the lives
of those who must cross boulevards
afoot. French drivers themcelves,
notoriously bad, haven’t changed a
bit. Military vehicles are now in
the very small minority.
Cabs have just been taken from
control of the police and, providing
FOREIGN POLICY
PROBE IS ASKED
•
Wherry Critical of Alleged Secrecy
Maintained by State Department
WASHINGTON, April 7.—Senator
Kenneth S. Wherry (R-Neb.) minor
ity whip said tonight that he will
keep plugging for a full investiga
tion of the State department until
its foreign policy is well known,
“even of the man in the street.”
Author of a pending resolution that
would create a five-man committee
to inquire into the operations and
policies of the State department,
Wherry told reporters that not even
the Senate knows whether the office
of Secretary James F. Byrnes is op
erating under any secret agreements.
Secrecy Is Charged
“The Senate does not know any
more about the foreign policy of
the United States than do any 96
citizens that you could go out and
pick up on he streets,” he added.
Wherry’s plan became apparent
late last week after two democratic
colleagues—Senators Claude Pepper
of Florida and Francis J. Myers of
Pennsylvania—made speeches high
ly critical of American foreign pol
icy as it relates to Great Britain
and Russia. Pepper charged that
the United States and Britain were
ganging up on Russia. Myers as
serted that the United States—
through the State department—had
failed to protest British abrogation
of a treaty in granting independence
to trans-Jordan.
After Pepper’s speech, Wherry had
his resolution reprinted and placed
on the clerk’s desk. It was introduc
ed originally late last year.
British Are Criticized
A frequent critic of the adminis
tration’s foreign policies, Wherry
broke into Myers’ speech to invite
the Pennsylvanian to join him in
demanding the State department in
quiry. Myers, who favored asking
Byrnes’ office for an explanation of
the trans-Jordan episode, skirted
the matter but said he would read
the resolution and then confer with
the Nebraskan.
you can coax the driver out of his
morning paper, you are free to hire
him without special preliminaries.
Flowers In The Madeleine -
Travel agencies and Embassy of
fices are crowded with would-be
travelers, possibly reflecting to some
extent the impact on human relations
of the long visit of large numbers of
Americans in uniform. War wives
and war fiancees presumably, are
part of this throng.
Basically, however, Paris still is
pretty much the same place it was
a year ago. The flower stands lend
bright color to the Place de la
Concorde and the Boulevard Made
leine. Plants and wreaths still
shiver under the plaques marking
the spot where nine patriots died
in the fighting for liberation of the
city in August, 1944. The Eiffel
tower still flaunts its doubtful beauty
above the brown Seine, where fish
ermen still rub tiny wads of dough
from thumb-joint cups and dangle
them on tiny hooks before the tiny
fish in that avenue of commerce.
There are fewer salutes before the
tomb of the Unknown Soldier under
the Arc de Triomphe, but the Eeter-
nal Flame burns on. The ruined
German vehicles that clung to the
roadsides in the suburbs a year ago
still are there too, only they’re brok
en up and stacked neatly as scrap
in junkyards.
Yes, basically, Paris hasn’t chang
ed. It's really just all thotse Amer
ican faces that simply are no long
er there.
Retail Field Favored
By Most Veterans
Start ing Businesses
WASHINGTON.—Thar’s gold in
the retail field, judging from the
number of veterans who are willing
to brave the risks of the business
world by investing their money in
retail ventures.
The April issue of “Domestic
Commerce”, monthly publication of
he U. S. Department of Commerce,
revealed this fact after a survey
indicated that most ex-GIs who are
pinning their hopes of success on
their own business are getting into
the retail field.
More than 6500 inquiries in a 14-
month period that ended February
28, indicated that 46.8 per cent of
the business-minded veterans wanted
to enter the retail field; 13.6 per cent,
service establishments; 4.7 per cent,
manufacturing; 3.9 per cent, whole
saling; 2.8 per cent, construction and
contracting, and 0.8 per cent, trans
portation, communications and utili
ties.
Household appliance and radio
shops were found to be the most
popular type of business. Next in
order of popularity were apparel
stores, filling stations, grocery
stores, restaurants and other eating
places.
r Ex-GIs are interested chiefly in
businesses requiring small invest
ments and demanding relatively little
special skill, the survey showed.
Opportunities in the most popu
lar group—household appliance and
radio—are good because many stores
in these fields were forced to close
during the war, it was pointed out.
Between September 30 1941, and
June 30, 1943, 530,000 businesses of
all types were discontinued. Most of
these were small businesses and 375,-
000 were in retail or service trade.
Summer-Forkner
Engagement Told
Mrs. James Harrison Summer, Jr.,
of Columbia, anounces the engage
ment and approaching marriage of
her daughter, Miss Sara Margaret
Summer to Charles Malcolm Fork-
ner, of Seattle, Washington.
Miss Summer is the granddaugh
ter of Mr. J. H. Summer, Main
street.
Wherry atacked the so-called
“Morganthau plan” whereby Ger
many would be stripped of her in
dustrial strength and become an
agricultural nation. He implied that
the State department still was ad-
hearing to it.
“There can’t be any real peace
unless the Morganthau plan is
scrapped ” he said. “The State de
partment just can’t continue with
it. Unless we shelve it, we may
get into another war. My feeling
is that this plan will be scrapped
sooner if we have the investigation
I have proposed.”
Displaced persons of Europe re
ceived the 9,000,000 American Red
Cross food parcels which were left
over when the war ended.
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Redeemer Church To
Observe Palm Sunday
The Church of the Redeemer will
fittingly observe Palm Sunday at its
Sunday morning services on that
day. Amid appropriate decorations
a class of fifteen will be confirmed
and several received into the mem
bership by Letter of Transfer.
The special mjsic arranged by Miss
Mazie Dominick, church organist,
and choir director, will consist of
two appropriate and beautiful an
thems, together with a season pre
lude and postlude. Following the
reading of the Epistle, “Palms” by
Faure will be rendered by the regu
lar church choir and “Jerusalem” by
Parker will be sung as the offertory
anthem. For the prelude Miss Dom
inick will play “Jerusalem the Gold
en’’ by Ashford and for the postlude,
“Processional to Calvary” from The
Crucifixion.
Rev. E. B. Keisler, pastor of the
church, will preach on, “Living the
Mind of 1 Christ.”
The evening service next Sunday
will be the first in a series of Holy
Week services which will be held
each evening through Friday. On
Holy Thursday evening the Holy
Communion will be administered.
On Easter Day two services will
be held in the church. The first
will be at 7:00 o’clock in the morn
ing. It is expected that many of
other churches will share in this ser
vice. Mr. Keisler’s subject will be,
“The Meaning of Easter”. At the
1:30 service on Easter the Holy
Communion will be administered
again.
Limeli&rht And Fame
Exact Heavy Death
Toll In United Staues
WASHINGTON, April 7. — The
limelight and fame are a poor re
cipe for a long life, Dr. Mapheus
Smith, sociologist for the selective
service system, reported tonight.
The little known people, who take
it easy and lead retiring lives, have
a much better chance to reach a
ripe old age, contrary to wide
spread belief that greait men are im
perishable, the former University of
Kansas professor said.
Greeks Started Story
The idea that fame means long
evity took hold in the early days of
the Greek philosophers, he said. But
in the “feverishness” of modern
times, Americans with the excep
tion of Supreme Court justices, seem
to die younger if they are famous.
Dr. Smith based his conclusions on
a study of great and neargreat
Americans in Who’s Who. By com
paring ages by prominent men when
they were first listed and the time
they died, he found they are not
reaching their life expectancy.
Actually, he said, they should
live longer because they have the
advantages of wealth education,
medical attention and servants—tout
these are offset by strain, lack of
exercise, overwork and erratic hours.
The nation, as a whole does not
have a good record for longevity of
its public officials and the “strain”
of being one is partly responsible, he
said.
“Terrific Burden’’
He called the presidency a “terri
fic burden” that does not contribute
to long life today although many
presidents lived to be quite old when
the nation was young.
He said the late President Roose
velt “burdened himself out,” while
“worry” overcame President Hard
ing, and “exhaustion” killed World
War I President Woodrow Wilson.
Heads of government agencies are
under similiar life-shortening strains,
he said. And in Congress, while some
older members “last on and on,’’ a
large number of younger men die in
office.
He said the same is true in other
walks of life and that more and
more people who achieve reputations
are dying around the age of 50.
T-4 LEWIS J. SHEALY, 1720
Caldwell street, who went into the
service on March 2, 1945, was hon
orably discharged at the Fort Mc
Pherson Separation Center, April
2. He was awarded the American
Service and World War II Victory
medals.
Thousand Pounds
- Of Rattlers Taken
OKEENE, Okla., April 7.—Hund
reds of rattlesnakes were captured
alive today in the first postwar rat
tler roundup in the gypsum hills of
northwest Oklahoma.
More than 800 reptile hunters
armed with weapons ranging from
old fashioned forked sticks to a
$10,000 DDT spraying unit spread
over a 150-mile square area to bag
the dreaded serpents.
Earl Records, president of the
newly organized International As
sociation of Rattlesnake Hunters, es
timated that 1,000 pounds of rattle
snakes were taken. The snakes will
be shipped to medical laboratories
museums, circuses, and curio manu
facturers by a group of snake brok
ers who gathered here to buy the
catch.
A $10,000 fee was offered by one
snake dealer for the first eight-foot
specimen. But Records said the long
est bagged before nightfall was a
six-foot diamond back.
Guides and doctors carrying snake
bite serum accompanied each group
but none of the hunters got a
scratch.
“We’ve put on a safety campaign
for the past several months to keep
people from getting hurt,” Orville
Van Gulker, one of the founders of
the annual rattlesnake rounduip ex
plained.
VICTORY RAY SMITH, S 1-c,
1309 Second street, received his hon
orable discharge from the Navy at
the Charleston Naval Separation
Station, Friday, April 5, after be
ing in the service over one year. He
is entitled to wear the American
Cajitpaign and the World War II
Victory medals.
RITZ THEATRE
Thursday and Friday
Ann Southern, George Murphy
Hillary Brooke
IN
“UP GOES MAISIE”
Fox News
Cartoon—Who’s Who In The Jungle
Saturday
Bill Goodwin, Robert Lowery
Virginia Grey
In
“HOUSE OF HORRORS”
NEWS COMEDY
MONDAY & TUESDAY
James Mason, Ann Todd and
Herbert Lorn
, IN
“THE SEVENTH VEIL”
M. G. M. News
Comedy
WEDNESDAY
Martha O’Driscoll, Tom Neal
Donald MacBride
IN
“BLONDE ALIBI”
Chapter 2, Master Key
Comedy
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LOVE, HONOR and GOODBYE
Virginia Bruce and Edard Ashley
Added—SELECTED SHORTS
FRIDAY a nd SATURDAY
ALLAN LANE
in “The Topeka Terror”
Added—PHANTOM RIDER and
ANDY CLYDE Comedy
MONDAY and TUESDAY
WONDER MAN
(In Technicolor)
Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo
Added—PATHS NEWS
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
FALCON IN SAN FRANCISCO
Tom Conway and Aita Cordey
Added—THIS IS AMERICA
Admission 9c-30c every day
Opera House
SATURDAY
JOHNNY MACK BROWN
in “The Texas Kid”
Added—WHO’S GUILTY and
EDGAR KENNEDY Comedy
Admission 9c—25c ALL DAY
Morning Show 10:00 Saturday
Children under 12 years 5c
Late Show 10:15 Saturday Night
WONDER MAN (In Technicolor)
Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo
NICE SELECTION OF EASTER FLOWERS
CORSAGES
Orchids, Roses,
Carnations, Sweet
Peas, etc.
Give your Easter Eve a dainty handpicked Corgage
of our fresh Spring flowers . . . you’re sure to be -her
Easter Knight.
Potted Plants, Hydrangea, Easter and
Calla Lilies, Begonias, etc.
Don’t forget to dress up the home for Easter. We
also have a nice selection of Cut Flowers.
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Newton-Hendrix
A marriage of interest to friends
in Newberry and elsewhere was that
of Mrs. Helen Woodle Newton and
Clifton Eugene Hendrix, which was
solemnized at the home of Mrs.
Newton’s sister, Mrs. A. W. Murray
on Johnstone street, Wednesday af
ternoon at 6 o’clock.
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. J. Aubrey Estes, using the
ring ritual of the Baptist church, in
the presence of the immediate fam
ilies.
Mrs. Hendrix was attired in a
midnight blue two piece suit, with
which she wore white accessories, and
a corsage of white roses, and carna
tions tied with white satin ribbon.
Following a short wedding trip,
Mr. and Mrs. Hendrix will make
their home on Hunt street, Newberry.
We have never understood why
they speak of a man getting drunk
as “getting high.” It looks mighty
low down to us.—Picken County
Progress.
NOTICE OF NEWBERRY COUNTY
DEMOCRATIC CLUB MEETING
Notice is hereby given that all
Democratic Clubs will meet at their
usual places of meeting on April 27,
1946, for the purpose of reorganiz
ing, and election of delegates to the
county convention to be held at the
court house on the first Monday (the
6th day) of May 1946 at 11 o’clock
a. m. Each Club will elect one dele
gate for every twenty-five members
and one delegate for a majority frac
tion thereof, based upon the number
of votes polled in the first primary
in 1944. A list of delegates so elect
ed certified by the president and
secretary of each club, must be filed
with the undersigned on or before
the date of the Convention. Each
club will elect an executive commit
teeman, and other club officers.
Mrs. R. D. WRIGHT,
Chairman.
MRS. A. H. COUNTS,
Secretary. A19-26
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