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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C.
THE NAVY’S BUREAUS
WASHINGTON.—If Secretary of
the Navy James Forrestal wants to
head off the army-navy merger, he
might do some merging in his own
department. As it is, some of his
reserve officers are about ready to
believe the army is right.
Perhaps because the navy is suf
fering from admiralitis (too many
admirals), Forrestal has set up a
special duplicating public relations
co-ordinator. This bureau does ex
actly what another bureau also
does. Chief difference between
them is that one is on the first floor
(deck in the navy), the other on
the third floor) one is commanded
by a vice admiral, the other by a
rear admiral; finally, the rear ad
miral takes a few hours to do a job
while the vice admiral son. .times
takes a few days.
Hitherto, navy public relations
have been handled by efficient
young Rear Adm. “Min” Miller, one
of the up-and-coming youngsters in
the navy. If you need a speaker
for a naval rally, want to stage an
air show, or have a ship visit your
city. Miller usually has been able
to arrange it in a few hours.
But now. Vice Adm. Arthur S.
Carpender, newly appointed co
ordinator of public relations,
sits in naval splendor with a
staff of five senior officers, a
large force of junior officers,
and a small army of WAVES
and enlisted men.
• * •
THE BALKY SWISS
Insiders say that Switzerland, the
little nation which posed as the be
nign and friendly neutral, is now
displaying the same tactics as the
Capone gang in hanging on to Nazi
loot.
The secret negotiations now going
on in Washington to recover Nazi
gold from Switzerland have been
carefully guarded, but it has leaked
out that Switzerland’s policy is to
keep all the gold which the Germans
stole from France, Denmark, Bel
gium and other occupied countries
and sent to Switzerland for safe
keeping.
Like the Capone gang, the
Swiss won’t return this looted
gold to France, Denmark, Bel
gium and other countries from
which it was stolen.
Despite all this, some treasury of
ficials urge a lenient policy toward
the Swiss. It happens that they
have $1,500,000,000 of assets now
frozen in this country including
$500,000,000 in gold, and the French
are preparing to clap a lien on these
assets. Some treasury officials,
however, are opposed.
Not so, however, sage Secre
tary of the Treasury Fred in-
son, who remembers all the
Swiss collaboration with the
Nazis during the war.
“Down in my state,” drawled
the Kentuckian, "when you bet
on the wrong horse, you pay off.
The Swiss bet on the wrong
horse.”
* * *
VETERANS COME SECOND
Young GOP Rep. James G. Ful
ton of Pennsylvania, a Pacific war
vet., did some vigorous protesting
about the way veterans are being
“stood up” on surplus war goods
when he called at the White House.
“Veterans are just not getting
an even break in the present
setup,” he told the President.
The Pennsylvania congressman
also gave Truman some inside
slants on RFC purchases of aban
doned property which would war
rant congressional scrutiny. He re
ported that no effort is being made
to sell army and navy equipment
piled helter-skelter in and around
a Pennsylvania glue factory pur
chased by the RFC in May, 1945,
for use as a surplus property depot.
* * *
RED ARMY WITHDRAWS
The inscrutable Russians have a
way of refusing to do something
when asked, and then going ahead
and doing it when not asked. For
instance, Secretary of State James
Byrnes has been hammering at the
Russians to reduce their troops in
the Balkans, Austria and Hungary.
Among other things he has warned
that the United States won’t send
food into these countries while tre
mendous Russian armies are living
off the land, in effect taking away
the food we send in.
Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav
Molotov, however, has turned a
deaf ear to Byrnes’ plea. He has
been just as stubborn on this as
about most things.
But here is the payoff. U. S.
representatives in Vienna have
wired the state department that
the Red army has started a
large scale withdrawal from
Austria. There is no explanation,
and state department officials
are mystified as to the reason.
• • •
UNDER THE DOME
Democratic National Committee
Chairman Bob Hannegan tried to
submit his resignation to President
Truman last week-end, but was
turned down cold. Hannegan’s wife
and doctor are both urging him to
resign. However, the President told
Hannegan he could not be spared,
at least until after the November
elections. . . . President Truman
has asked Secretary of the Interior
Cap Krug to set up an interdepart
mental committee to handle oil
problems.
BASEBALL UNIONS
Unionized baseball is now in the
works. We may yet see the regu
lar umps replaced by the NLRB
with Bob Wagner stepping into
“Happy” Chandler’s shoes and the
battery for the day including J
Caesar Petrillo or John L. Lewis.
*
The next few years may bring a
demand for the five-inning game!
*
Possible news from the baseball
game of tomorrow:
CHICAGO, MAY 30. — Today’s
game with the Yankees was stopped
in the third. Players on both teams
refused to continue until they were
granted the right to examine the
company books.
*
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 2.—Fol
lowing the walkout of the home
team and the Boston team here yes
terday both clubs were taken over
by the government today. Connie
Mack was carried out by four mem
bers of the state militia. President
Truman promised the fans the bal
ance of the season would see the
best games of which the Demo
cratic party is capable.
*
NEW YORK, JULY 15.—Before
the game could get under way here
today both club owners had to sub
mit to a demand that no pitcher
could be removed from the box
without six weeks’ notice, subject to
immediate reinstatement unless
sufficient cause shall be established
in hearings before joint state and
federal boards.
Large crowds were on hand to
see the first contest played under
the new union rules which entitle
the batter to five strikes.
*
BROOKLYN, N. Y„ AUGUST 10.
—Fans who arrived here early to
see the teams warm up were sur
prised to find that all pre-game
practice had been abolished by the
National Labor Relations board fol
lowing a two-months huddle on un
ion demands. The board upheld the
players’ contention that batting and
fielding practice constituted capital
istic exploitation of the ball play
ers, deprived them of spare time
to which they were entitled as free
men and was in violation of the
Wagner act.
*
ST. LOUIS, MO., AUGUST 4—
The new rule, under which all the
pitchers on any one ball club get
full credit for any victory won by
any one pitcher, went into effect
here this afternoon.
Next week will inaugurate the
newly won union concession under
which no errors are publicly called
or published.
*
BOSTON, AUGUST 22.—No game
today. Contest called off on account
of picketing.
» • •
LINES TO BOBBY SOCKERS
(“It is a sorry thing when the most pub
licized American girl is the one who
wears a man’s dirty shirt, a sagging skirt
and socks bogging around the ankles. The
bobby sockers are awful.'’—James Mont
gomery Flagg.)
*
Blessings on thee (in reverse)
Little girl who can’t look worse!
Bobby-socker, honey chile.
With your catch-as-catch-can
style,
Rumpled miss who always looks
Very anti “Use-No-Hooks”;
Happiest when dressing calls
Just for shirt and overalls,
Careless as the barefoot boy,
You, too, lead a life of joy
If life is, as some declare.
Just a case of what you wear.
• » *
War Vets and Street Signs
A sergeant, now stationed at Oki
nawa, wrote home asking for the
street signs from the corner of
Church street and Flatbush avenue
near his home in Brooklyn. The
city promptly took them down and
sent them to him. Ex-Pfc. Oscar
Puikey wrote in today to state that
he understood perfectly the desire
of the Brooklyn man. “I felt this
yen for street signs, especially when
the fighting was on. In the Battle
of the Bulge I asked for the signs
from the corner of Riverside Drive
and Shubert Alley at once. That
shows you how groggy I was,” he
writes.
FEACF AT LAST
The highest priced private in the world
is James Lewis Triplet of Vallejo, Calif.,
who has just enlisted in the air services.
He has a wife and ten children, the kids
ranging from under a year to 9 years of
age. To make provision for all these.
Uncle Sam pays Private Triplet between
S300 and $400 a month. This is not paying
a man to serve his country, it is under
writing a needed rest and a little quiet.
W. Averell Harriman has re
ceived a gift horse from Russia.
A follower of the tactics at the
U. N. conferences is justified in
assuming it has three paces, the
walk, the walk and the walk.
“HAUNTED house wanted by
family who are just ghosts of their
former selves. Box 1149 Journal of
fice.”—Providence Bulletin.
*
We know how it is.
JAPAN’S WOMEN NOW POLICE TOKYO ... Not only have the women of Japan been given the right to
vote, and many elected to office, under the American army occupation, but they have been placed on the
police and ether civic departments of government. Photo shows one of the female police force patrolling
the streets of Tokyo along the market place in the Konda district of Japan’s capitol.
SERVICE
BUREAU
In Our Town:
Sallies in Our Alley; Rogers
Stearns (the 1-2-3 host) says he
didden go to the Derby this year—
just mailed ’em his shirt. . . . Oz
Nelson’s nifty sum-up: “There are
two kinds of people in H’wood—the
stand-ins and the stand-outs.” . . .
Jerry Lester thinks the guy who
dug up Mussolini’s body and took
only his leg musta been his agent.
Midtown Vignette: It happened
the other afternoon in a Radio City
elevator. ... A prim looking wom
an was teddibly embarrassed when
her garter slipped from her nylon.
. . . The elevator operator, noting
her predicament, stopped the car
and doused the lights until she
made the adjustment.
Irving Berlin’s famous song hit,
“Blue Skies,” will be a click all
over again this year when it is re
vived in Paramount’s film of the
same handle. Count Basie waxed the
first recording of it, due next week.
. . . Both Louis and Conn tell lis
teners they expect to win by kayos
—on the ground both are now “old
er” than they were. . . . The John
Erskines (Helen Worden) are study
ing Greek for their visit to Greece.
Erskine plans a book comparing
ancient Greece with today’s ver
sion. . . . 20th Century-Fox bought
“Foxes of Harrow,” the best seller,
for 150 Gs, outbidding Paramount
and several Independents. . . . The
Rockefellers and the broadcasting
firms have been having'a quiet feud
for years as to whether that part of
the city should be called Rockefel
ler Center or Radio City.
Hotel rooms are so scarce for
any purpose that the hotelmen find
themselves the worst victims. . . .
Needing a hotel for their annual
convention they were unable to find
a single leading hotel in the U. S.
to accommodate them on the con
vention date—except one. . . . That
; hotel is in Biloxi, Mississippi, and
they can have it, because the sea-
'son will have been over and it’s
the hottest time of the year down
there. They took it!
TWELVE BABY FINGERS AND TWELVE BABY TOES . . . When Mrs. Jeanne Diaz, 20, plays “this
little piggy” with her three-months-old son, Michael, she has to figure on a few extra porkers. Michael,
born March 10, is shown here in two poses in which his mother displays his six fingers on each hand, and
six toes on each foot. Physicians in Chicago, where the child lives, are unable to recall similar babies in
their experiences. The baby is reported normal in every other way.
Mm
Sounds in the Night: At the Singa
pore: “I hear Serge Rubenstein is
in such deep water that he’s gonna
show up at hir. trial in a diving
suit.” ... At Cur’s: “She’s so broke
she doesn’t know where her next
heel is coming from.” ... In the
Stork: “Get a look at that beauti
ful fiddle of a figure.” ... At the
! Village Corners: “She’s decided not
to be 25 until she’s married.” . . .
At Gilmore’s: “Aw, stop talkin’
through your halo!” . . .At the Mer
maid Room: “Marriage is the magic
wand that changes Pupply Love into
a dog’s life.” ... In the Cub Room:
“I got a novel idea for the radio.
A Mr. and Mistress program.”
The Federation of Churches is go
ing to raise heck with the Army for
allegedly burning tens of thousands
of Bibles left over in army camps.
PRESIDENT NOW A PHOTOGRAPHER . . . Members of the White
House News Photographers association, composed of ace cameramen
who cover the White House, gave the chief executive a desk set as a
present and made him an honorary member of this organization.
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ROXAS VISITS THE UNITED STATES . . . Philippines president
elect, Manuel Roxas, left, is shown at breakfast with (left to right)
Col. A. C. Strictland, commanding officer of McChord field, Seattle;
Paul McNutt, U. S. high commissioner to the Philippines, and his mili
tary air aide. Col. M. A. Libby. Roxas and McNutt later visited Presi
dent Truman and other government officials.
BIG LEAGUER IN MAKING . . .
Richard “No-Hit” Klimozak, 17,
St. Florian high school, Detroit,
pitched four no-hit games.
General Motors’ Frigidaire
I branch has the inside track, they
say, on Bing’s return to the air—
if they can deliver a half-hour NBC
spot. . . . LaGuardia has refused
to accept any part of the $15,000 sal
ary as chief of UNRRA. . . . London
j reports that Sean O’Casey’s play,
j “Red Roses for Me,” is his best
since “The Plough and the Stars.”
It is headed for The Big Apple. . . .
Car dealers hear that 180,000 new
ones will be rolling off the assem
bly lines sooner than suspected. . . .
The authors of “Woman Bites Dog”
will be amused to know that on
the night the show premiered a
woman publisher’s mutt bit her!
Physicians and vets were dragged
in, and there was an air of general
hysteria.
I!
David Terry, who is of Italian de-
| ! scent, was listening to a bigot be
littling foreigners. . . . “And I sup
pose your ancestors came over on
j j the Mayflower,” challenged Terry.
“Well, yes,” said the louse, “now
that you mention it, they did ”
“Well,” said the descendant of
Columbus, “where do you think they
would have landed — if mine hadn’t
found the place first?”
At a round table discussion of
newspaper editors the other eve a
publisher opined that Congress, on
matters of OPA and such legisla
ture, was running the country be
hind closed doors.
“That part isn’t so bad,” observed
an editor. “What worries me is the
way Congress runs things behind
closed minds.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: Thu newspaper,
through special arrangement with the
' Washington Bureau of Western Newspaper
Union at 1616 Eye Street, N. IV., 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 col
umn. No replies can be made direct by
mail, but only in the column which will,
appear in this newspaper regularly.
New Vet Hospitals
Horace Greeley’s line on the
craft: “Journalism will kill you, but
it will keep you alive while you’re
at it.”
HE NEEDS MORE THAN PLAIN
BREAD . . . While this Greek
child has some bread, he needs
much more nourishment. The
Emergency Food collection will
provide food for many such cases.
Street Scene: The little old lady,
an institution on 50th Street (as she
j is the only peddler allowed to squat
in the Saks’ foyer) arriving there
; by keb. . . . They sar an Ameri
can Riviera may spring up at West-
port, Conn., the home of several
cultural leaders. Via the Longshore
Club property into which mucho
mazuma will be chucked. . . . Memo
from Jed Kiley at the St. Francis
Hospital, Miami Beach: “Two years
ago I was married in this town.
One year ago I was divorced here.
This year I was only run over.”
President Truman has approved
the construction of three new vet
erans’ hospitals and the transfer of
the site of another to immediately
expand the VA medical service, ac
cording to an announcement by Gen.
Omar N. Bradley, veterans’ admin
istrator.
The site for a tumor clinic of 600
beds at Hines, 111., has been trans
ferred to a site adjacent to North
western university at Chicago, so as
to be in proximity to the medical
school.
New hospitals authorized are a 500
bed general medical and surgical
hospital in Indianapolis for eventual
expansion to 1,000 beds; construc
tion of a 1,000-bed general and sur
gical hospital in Boston and a new
500-bed general medical and surgi
cal hospital in Omaha, near the
Nebraska medical school.
• * *
Since Pearl Harbor, more than
325,000 World War II veterans havej
been admitted to veterans’ hospitals, i
more than a third of these treated :
for service - incurred disabilities.,
Seven per cent are disabled from
tuberculosis, 23 per cent from neuro- -
psychiatric conditions and 70 per'
cent from general medical and surgi
cal disablements.
Questions and Answers
Q. I would greatly appreciate if
you would aid me in getting infor
mation about my husband, who
was reported missing in action ow
Leyte from November 9, 1944, until
February 5, 1945, when he was final
ly reported killed in action. I have,
received no details from the govern
ment as to what actually happened,
and I have not received any of his
personal effects so far. Also pack
ages mailed to him after his death
have not been returned. I thought
if you would insert this question in
your Veterans’ Service Bureau col
umn I might possibly be able to
get some details from a veteran who
happened to have gone through the
action on Leyte and would know my
husband. He was Pvt. Ross I. Sensi-
baugh, Company C., 21st Infantry.
—Mrs. Moema Sensibaugh, 2715
Patee street, St. Joseph 38, Mo.
A. I would suggest that you write
a letter addressed to the command
ing officer of his company and also
a letter to Casualty branch, Adju
tant General’s office, War depart
ment, Washington 25, D. C. Aud I
hope that some veteran will read
your question and write to you.
Q. As we are parents of a son
who served in World War I, and as
we are Gold Star parents would like
to be informed how to go about re
ceiving a pension?—Mrs. R. A. W.,
Tannersville, N. Y.
A. Write or go to Veterans’ ad
ministration unit office at Pough
keepsie or office at Albany.
Q. I would like to know why some
young men in the service can get
out on 4 months service and some
on 8 months, while others are in 3
and 4 years and still serving.—Miss
E. H., Gayville, S. D.
A. Some get out in less than two
months as a matter of fact, mostly
due to disability for physical ail
ment.
Q. My son has been in the
army since September 11, 1944, and
overseas for over a year with the
77th division and now with the
74th military government in Japan.
We need him on our farm because
our 16-year-old son can’t carry the
increased spring work alone and my
husband and I can’t do any more
than we are doing. Is there any pos
sible way to get our soldier son’s
release for his much needed help
at home? — Mrs. R. E. H., Isa-
quah, Wash.
A. There are a good many thou
sands in your position, but there are
still many thousand men in the serv
ice much more eligible for release
than your son. However, if he can
make out a hardship case, he should
apply to his commanding officer for
a release on those grounds.
Q. I entered the army in April,
1942. My father died and I was
discharged August 20. I remained in
four and a half months. Can I get
the Bill of Rights? — A Worried
Farmer, Bowman, Ga.
A. If you received an honorable
discharge and had at least 90 days 1
of active service you are entitled to
benefits of the G.I. bill.
Q. My son died in Germany Janu
ary 5, 1946. We want his body
brought back to the USA and to
have this done, who should we get
in contact with? Will we have to
bear any of the expense and do you
have any idea when our boys’ bod
ies will be brought home? — Mrs.
E. C. R., Sanger, Texas.
A. Legislation is now before con
gress, providing for an appropri
ation and method of bringing the
bodies of American soldiers, sailors
and marines interred in military
cemeteries abroad, to this court-
try.
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