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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. BIG BUSINESS AND TAXES WASHINGTON.—Juciest gravy in the current tax legislation is the continuance of the carry-back of un used excess profits credit. The sen ate finance committee, always frienaly to big business, not only knocked out the excess profits tax last year, but retained carry-back refunds. This permits corporations whose current earnings do not pro portionately match their 1936-1939 earnings, to claim adjustments in their 1946 tax payments. This is one reason some firms didn’t worry too much about pro longed strikes. General Motors alone will probably hit the treas ury for a refund of 80 million dollars. To head off this drain on the treasury, Rep. Cleveland Bailey of Clarksburg, W. Va., Democrat, introduced a bill last January to repeal the carry back provisions. On January 23, the house ways and means com mittee asked the treasury for a report. Recently impatient Rep. Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, Democrat, pro posed that congress act independent ly, without waiting for the treasury report. He pointed out that large credits can be claimed by corpora tions which actually make more money this year than they did in any of the years from 1936 to 1939, simply because their capital invest ment is now larger,. Mills charged that many large corporations are taking advantage of this loophole, and as a result the taxpayer foots the bill for the expan sion of private industries. He also listed a long series of “abuses and transactions which will no doubt be resorted to in order to create car ry-back refunds or tax credits.” 0 0 0 KANSAS ATOMIC STRAW The Eastman Kodak company has been having trouble as a result of the first atomic bomb test in New Mexico—one year ago. Eastman found that, for some mysterious rea son, some of its film was turning black before exposure. Finally ex perts discovered that the film had been packed in straw which came from western Kansas. After the Los Alamos bomb test, radioactive dust from New Mexico settled on Kansas wheat fields, and is still so powerful that the Kodak company has had to stop using Kansas straw for packing film. • * * TRUMAN WRITES A VETO President Truman was convinced that the half-breed price-control bill would not work. The Taft amend ment, he especially argued, was ab solutely impossible, and he cited ac countancy experts of various big manufacturing firms, all of them against OPA, who branded the Taft cost-plus formula as likely to bring chaos to industry. “I just have to put what I con sider the country’s welfare first,” the President told his congressional leaders. “Let’s not fool the country and give them something that won’t work.” When they told him that they would not be able to persuade their reluctant colleagues to pass any sort of price-control bill, the President replied: “If it’s this or nothing, then we’ll just have to take nothing.” Among other things, the Presi dent figured that during the chaot ic period sure to follow if the poly glot price-control bill were passed, congress would claim it was his fault fcr not making the bill work, when, in actual fact, the bill was unworkable. He felt also that if congress did dare to go home with out a price-control bill, things would be hotter for them in their districts than in Washington. He also warned that in this case he would call a special session of congress. • * * WHO WON THE WAR? It is now getting close to a year, since the end ofnhe war with Japan, and yet the strategic bombing sur vey for Japan has not been made public. Inside reason is a vigorous backstage tug-of-war between the army and navy which boils down to the basic question: ‘ Which of them won the war in the Pacific?” Civilian members of the survey staff, liowever, summarize the situ ation : 1. Heaviest damage to Japan was inflicted by U. S. submarines. They had just about shut off all Jap sup plies toward ’he end of the war and Japan was paralyzed. 2. Next greatest damage was done by long-range army land- based planes. 3. The navy’s carrier - based planes were important, but ranked second to the B-29s. ENDLESS ARGUMENTS RAGE World Awaits Test of Atomic Second Bomb t»t bomb droppoJ by piano. I . id bomb M bo planted ju»t I under surface of the water, f 3rd "borhysphore" bomb to | explode ot depth of 12Sf*. By WALTER A. SHEAD WNU Correspondent. Innocent Bystander: The Cinemagicians: Fred Mac- Murray lights the fuse for a sure fire-cracker christened “Smoky.” The outdoor de luxer has Mother Nature as Fred’s leading lady. . . . “The Searching Wind” went from footlights to kleig lights and re mains a provocative humdinger. It digs beneath the surface of current issues and comes up with a dra matic gusher. Sylvia Sidney heads the trouper-dupers. . . . “Diary of a Chambermaid” is an adult boy-girl opus, highlighted by keen character studies and crisp dialogue that has plenty of spin on its phrases. Paul ette Goddard keeps it twirling. . . . “The Hoodlum Saint” offers a sprightly meller gifted with Bill Powell’s urbane pretending and Es ther Williams’ natural hipnotic gift. The Press Box: Thomas B. Sher man in the St. Louis P-D spanks W. Lippmann and other tall-domed thinkers for using the annoying word combination “know-how.” We don’t like it either, know-how. . . . William S. Hart’s passing received appropriate adieulogies, one editori al concluding: “There will never be another Bill Hart. The background is faded and the type is dated, but the memory is still green and fresh.” Quotation Marksmanship: T. Ful ler: If you’d have a hen lay, you must bear with her cackling. . . . Old Russian Adage: Wounds heal but harsh words stay in the heart and mind. . . . J. Baker: The guests were all having an uncorking good time. . . . J. Elinson: He’s always torning a phrase. . . . Ida James: I hope the atom test isn’t the Bikin- iffg of the End. . . . J. Gart: The British seem to be more interested in getting the Grand Mufti to Palestine than The Hundred Grand who belong there. . . . J. Cannon: Louis is a credit to his race. The human race, of course. . . . E. Cuneo: I would gladly change the orchids I deserve for the scallions I don’t. . . . G. J. Nathan: Men go to the theater to forget; women, to remember. Jimmy Gardiner, the play-produc er, told this at Leone’s the other night. During the war he was visit ed by a wealthy neighbor from Tex as, an aging woman who had an overpowering yen for the perfect string of pearls. Gardiner recom mended Cartier’s. . . . There she was served by a young clerk who mistook her unprepossessing ap pearance for poverty and showed her the lowest-priced strings. . . . She demanded better ones until the store’s stock was exhausted and only the vault remained. She in sisted on going into it. . . . The clerk pulled out their finest pearls and showed them to her. It was just what she was looking for. She asked how much. . . . “The price,” said the clerk haughtily, “is $500,000.” . . . “I’ll take it,” said the woman, opening her purse and extracting a half-million dollars in cash! . . . The clerk keeled over with a heart attack. Norman Granz recently produced a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall. It sold out. . . . Norman was once en gaged to a Southern society gal named Virginia. He was so in love with Virginia that he christened the theme song of the concert: “Love You Virginia Blues.” . . . But, alas, Virginia, who never hung around back stage before, changed fellers —from Norman to a hot jazz man in the crew. . . She returned his ring. . . . And now, sohelpus, as the curtain comes down on each concert an announcer introduces the newly titled theme song, to wit: “Drop Dead Virginia Blues.” Torrid temperatures turning the town into a stone and steel Sahar-. . . . Flimsy gowns clinging to tri.u torsos—as though they loved them. . . . Weary salesmen scurrying into the foyers of Broadway’s a r-cooled movie places. . . . The silken rustle of luxury in swanky spots, where the ladies are chin-deep in ermine. . . . Sidewalk cafes in the Gramercy Park sector and in the 40s and 50s between 5th and the AoftheA. The most attractive is the one outside the St. Moritz Hotel. When the mon ster motors of the buses stop growl ing at 59th you can hear the tinkle of the Cafe de la Paix ice cubes. The geyser of chatter and giggles in ice-cream places—the teenager’s Stork Club. . . . The sweltering cab bie who groans: “In this weather just breathing is hard work!” . . . Tenement youngsters using sea-bit ten docks as their personal diving boards. ABOARD USS APPALACHIAN OPERATIONS CROSSROADS. — Second or Baker test of the atomic bomb in Bikini lagoon, ‘now tenta tively set for July 25, will be like dynamiting fish in a pond. Lacking will be the glamour fit the army air force and precision bombing as the whole thing will be a navy show. The bonjb will be submerged some 75 feet beneath the surface in about 30 fathoms of water, 180 feet, and detonated in the midst of the target fleet, which is being regrouped to meet new con ditions of the test. This second test also will lack the drama of the bomb burst and the atomic cloud, which is characteris tic of atomic bombs exploded in air. What is likely to happen is that the intense heat will generate steam in the water and the terrific force will expend a part of its energy in a waterspout with a cloud of steam and vapor shooting into the air. In tent of this test is to measure force of atomic energy upon the hull structure of naval ships spaced at various distances from the center of the explosion. Subs to Submerge. There will not be the visible dam age v.’hich was inflicted wholly upon the topsides or superstructures as in the first blast. Since there is to be no ship placed directly above the point of blast, the prediction is be ing made freely that no capital ships will be sunk, although lighter craft may be capsized. Another feature of the second blast is the placing of submerged submarines in the target fleet, and it will be interesting to note the effect of the bomb force upon the steel hulls of these ves sels beneath the water. Navul scientists predict that force of the underwater blast will create waves of sufficient height, possibly 10 or more feet which will sweep over low-lying Bikini island, although this was also forecast in the first blast and did not materialize. Meantime, endless arguments pro ceed as to the degree of damage to the ships, the location of the bomb burst, whether the drop from the plane was a “near miss,” probable loss of life had the ships been manned with full complement, and comparative efficiency of this first Bikini bomb as compared to the bombs at Alamogordo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Precision Bombing. When it is considered that this bomb was dropped from a height of something like six miles and hit within a 1,000-yard circle, this re porter would consider that pret ty good precision bombing. Adm. T. A. Solberg of the bu reau of ships, however, declared that insofar as he could judge, every ship damaged by the bomb, with the exception of the Independence, could be put into fighting shape within two or three months. For the Independence, battered and ripped apart by explosions of her own torpedoes, her ammunition and aviation gasoline and burning for almost two days, it would take about nine months to put her in shape. Also all ships damaged, with the single exception of the Independ ence, towed away and anchored far out in the lagoon, likely could have pulled away under their own steam, had they been manned with crews. Study Effects. In the meantime, Bikini lagoon has been turned into a vast labora tory of science, chief interest be ing the effect of the bomb and its subsequent radiological rays upon the live animals placed aboard the ships at various locations likely to be occupied by the men aboard. Amazingly, only about 10 per cent of the animals were killed by the force of the blast. Some are burned and sick and others may become ill from effects of radioactivity. As a matter of fact, a few already have been destroyed by medical doctors, who are studying this phase of atomic energy in an effort to deter mine how this radioactivity can be used in medicine in treatment of disease. Persons or animals which receive these powerful rays into their sys tems are variously affected and the boarding teams upon these ships are preceded by a trained man carry ing a “Geiger counter,” a small box-like apparatus which registers radioactivity by a ticking noise. Estimate Losses. A fleet such as those which com posed the target fleet would normal ly carry approximately 30,000 men. It is reasonable to assume then that approximately 10 per cent, or 3,000 men, would have been killed by the atomic bomb blast and that more would have been injured by radio activity. Whether much of the dam age to ships caused by subsequent fires aboard could have been avert ed had crews been aboard is a moot question. . Some ships captains de clare that damage would have been much less had the ship fire-fighting equipment been brought into play, and this seems reasonable in that most of the loss on the Independ ence was due to fire and explosion and not the bomb blast. There is no attempt however on the part of naval authorities to minimize the terrible power of this atomic bomb. No other single bomb ever did the dam age to a fleet that this one did . . . five ships sunk, one com pletely out of commission and approximately 10 others out of action for two months or long er, and small to negligible dam age done to 10 others. However another atomic bomb likely would not find 73 ships to make up a helpless ghost fleet grouped conveniently like sitting ducks and whether use of the atom ic bomb as an offensive weapon of naval warfare upon ships at sea is militarily sound still is a debat ed question and one which the naval evaluation board will study during the next few weeks or months. It must be remembered that what ever is said about this second bomb test before the actual test is in the realm of conjecture, and much of the conjecture made prior to the first test did not materialize. Arkansas May Be Second Target Ship DIPLOMATIC POUCH It’s only been a short time since the war, but two former enemies, Italy and Austria, now earnestly seeking to become democracies, will be proposed by the United States for admission to the United Nations next September. Truman o.k.d this move last week. . . . Prime Minis ter De Valera has decided not to apply for Irish membership in the United Nations. . . . The pro-Soviet Mongolian peoples’ republic, how ever, thinks otherwise about the United Nations. Footlights and Spotlights: There was a* bib and tucker event in the hayloft circuit last week. Tallulah Bankhead zoomed into the Green wich (Conn.) Playhouse with Noel Coward’s “Private Lives.” The play’s romantic rough-housing is admirably suited to the star’s cy clonic personality, and she kept the comedy pin-wheeling across the stage. Several Broadway aisle- perchers enjoyed her triumph—crit- ife Vernon Rice ejaculating: “Tallu lah, the magnificent; Tallulah, the wonderful!" Target ship, or vessel nearest cen ter of the blast, for the second atomic bomb test may be the over age battleship Arkansas, it has been indicated by reliable sources al though no definite announcement has been made by Adm. W. H. P. Blandy, commander of operations crossroads and the joint task force. The carrier Saratoga was first slated to be second target ship. An interesting sidelight on fate of the Saratoga, which suffered only negligible damage in the first test, is that her commander, Capt. Don ald MacMahon, knowing that she was slated for the second target ship made a wager with a friend in Washington, before bringing the ship to Bikini, that he would take her back to the East coast under her own power. It looks now that he has better than a 50-50 chance of winning his bet. Some Thoughts About Unionized Baseball That uneasiness in the bleachers these days is due to apprehension among the fans as to how unionized baseball, still being talked of, will change the national game. Up to now it has been regarded wholly as a sporting event in which noth ing counted but athletic suprem acy, physical fitness and skill with a ball and bat. Now it may become tied up with the rights of man, eco nomic equality and the war between capital and labor. 0 No matter how good a pitcher may be, the question may become: “Can he go the route on a picket parade?” * We may look at a sensational shortstop grabbing them from all angles and merely wonder how good he is in a double header between management and the working man. Even as we rise to cheer an out fielder for spShring one at the fence we may find ourselves thinking: “A fine outfielder, but has he commu nistic leanings?” * “And how is baseball going to benefit from a lot of arguments over whether Abner Doubleday or Sam uel Gompers was the greaf trail- breaker of baseball and which was the greatest figure on the diamond. Bob Wagner or Bonus? * Mr. Twitchell said he was greatly worried, too, whether, once organ ized, a player would stand for boo ing. “When I boo Leo Durocher will I not be booing the CIO and the AFL? Can I yell ‘Gwan, ya big bum!’ at Hank Borowy without hav ing it interpreted as applying to the Baseball Guild?” he asked. * “It looks bad,” sighed Mr. Twitchell. “I’m afraid we may see double headers of the future played on forums of the air!” 0 0 0 Explaining the American Scene “The country is going haywire,” said Citizen A. “It has no sense about money. How can we get any where with such screwball econom ic thinking? (He excused himself while he phoned in a $500 bet on a nine-year-old horse that had never been in the money.) “Everything’s snafu,” agreed Cit izen B. “People are crazy. What’s become pf their common sense?” (A phone call interrupted him. Somebody was offering him a house for $30,000 that he could have bought for $17,500 a year ago. He grabbed it at once.) “The trouble with America is that everybody’s on a bender,” said Citi zen C. “The way they’re tossing their money around is awful. I can’t understand it.” (He would have pursued the subject, but he had to see a man about a seat for an out door fight that could be had for $300 if he acted fast.) • a • Whatever became of that much publi cized drive that America was going to make against the black market? • • • WITH RUNNING WATER? “FOR SALE—A cave with three large rooms, undeveloped and un-. explored, three miles north of Harrisburg on United States Route No. II. W. P. Anthony, 214 First National Bank, Harrisburg, Va.”— New York Times. • a • Jackie Miles hqars a rumor that the United States Supreme court will soon take its troubles to the John J. Anthony hour. * • • Can You Remember Away back when Americans ar rested for serious crimes didn’t laugh for the photographers? Away back when, no matter how long it took you to locate your old shirt and overalls, you would never think maybe your daughter was wearing them? • • • INFLATIONARY DIALOGUES “I just bought a new sedan and I’m willing to sacrifice it as I’m called out of the country.” “What are you asking for it?” “Twenty-eight hundred.” “What did it cost you new?” “Two thousand.” • • * Summer Fashion Reaction Blessings on thee, screwball belle. All rigged out to look likell; Papa’s shirt and blue jeans, too, Are no bargain, babe on you. • • • “Statue of Liberty to Be Painted.” —Headline. * It seems to us that here is the perfect opportunity for another strike. We can see the pickets pa rading around the statue now with big banners: “This Statue Unfair.” • • • “Louis Injured Thumb in Bout.” —headline. • Well, if a fighter these days gets careless enough to use his fists in an outdoor fight it serves him right. T HIS sporting life may be check ered, dizzy and dumb, but it is never wholly dull. One never can tell from what direction the harpoon will be thrown. Here is a double example. A few weeks ago the Louis-Conn party was to be the season's greatest thriller. At that time the Phil lies were the joke of the sporting world. They had been tagged as the eternal occupants of baseball’s dog house. They were supposed to be im bedded in the ce ment of the cellar. All this sounded reasonable enough as we looked over the chart. Then, with little warning, a cloud no larg er than a man’s hand or thumb worked into a western twister, while the Louis-Conn fight broke all rec ords as a monumental flop—an all- time record. About the same time, the lowly Phillies began their upsurge. With in two weeks they stole the glory of baseball. They became more talked about than the Red Sox or the Yankees, than the Dodgers or the Cardinals. They have made the Louis-Conn dull merry-go-round look like a taffy-pulling exhibition. The Phillies have emerged from the grottoes and the underground into the open. They finally see the light of the sun again. They can see the summer dawn and feel the rain. Challengers flow Through the combined efforts of owner Bob Carpenter, general man ager Herb Pennock and manager Ben Chapman, one of the most lib eral and one of the ablest combi nations in baseball, the Phillies no longer are baseball’s doormat. They no longer belong to the tribe of “God’s green footstools.” At last they are a real baseball team. For several weeks now the Phil lies have been playing the best ball in the National league. This may be no high tribute, but it is an amazing tribute to a team that has defended the cellar with record- breaking stubbornness for a long time. It should go as a high tribute to Messrs. Carpenter, Pennock and Chapman, who have combined to turn out the best job in baseball for 1946. The Phillies of 1946 have carried us back to the Boston Braves of 1914. That happens to be some 32 years ago. Around this date the Braves were in last place. George Stallings, the fiery Braves manager from Georgia, was wearing out a suit a week, moving up and down the bench. There have been many hard-losing managers in baseball— most of them are—but Stallings holds the record. Then, around the first of July, the Braves began their move from the bottom. They had Rabbit Maranville at short and Johnny Evers at second. Great field—smart brain—big heart —no hit. They had Hank Gowdy, the old Sarge, back of the bat. But, above all, they had three great pitchers—Dick Rudolph, George Ty ler and Bill James. Day after day, game after game, we saw these three pitchers in the box score— Rudolph, Tyler and James. This trio proved to us that three pitchers, working every third or fourth day, are all a ball club needs. Working that often a pitcher gets control and confidence. I’m not referring to the sore-arm boys, to the once-a-week pitchers of the mod ern era, where it takes three or four pitchers to finish a ball game. Rudolph, Tyler and James start ed and finished their own games, working at least twice a week. They were not pampered as the modern pitchers are, barring such men as Feller, Newhouser and a few others. From Bottom to Top So the Braves moved from 8th to 7th place, then to 6th. They moved from 6th into the first divi sion, then headed for the top. They made the top—and they didn’t need eight or ten pitchers to carry them along. They needed only three— Rudolph, Tyler and James. The light - hitting overlooked Braves only murdered the Athlet ics in four straight games. They outplayed and outgamed and out- pitched and outhit one of Connie Mack’s greatest teams. Hank Gow- dy hit over .500 in that series. But the main answer again was Ru dolph, Tyler and James, who had been seasoned under fire for over three months, who had been worked often enough to know their trade. Any pitcher who can’t start and finish over 20 games, who can’t work in over 300 innings—or 350 inn ings—isn’t much of a pitcher. WTiat baseball needs Joday is a combina tion of Rudolph, Tyler and James, who can handle a three months’ schedule practically unaided. Mod ern pitchers need far more work than they are getting. No set of arms can be that fragile, that futile, that weak. If Chapman only had another Ru dolph, Tyler and James he would breeze through this 1946 pennant race. It wouldn’t even be a contest. l ASK ME n \ ; ANOTHER I ; £ A General Quiz j <v- fv. fk- O- <■'- The Questions 1. When was the Gregorian cal endar introduced? 2. Does the flying fish actually fly? 3. The United States has award ed how many Congressional Med als of Honor for heroic action dur ing the war? 4. Will a bullet fired horizontally reach the ground as quickly as one dropped from the same height? 5. William Wordsworth wa« poet-laureate of England 7 years. Did he write any poetry during that period? 6. What is the crime record for the average day in the U. S.? 7. What was the purpose of the round table at which King Arthur’s knights sat? 8. What does the existence of the sphinx and pyramids prove to modem science? The Answers 1. In 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII. 2. No; the hatchet fish is the only fish that flies. 3. It has awarded 406 medals. 4. Yes, because of the equal pull of gravity. 5. Not a line. 6. There are 12 accidental kill ings, 18 murders, 31 rapes, 163 aggravated assaults, 149 robberies, 662 cars stolen, 881 places burglar ized and 2,371 other thefts. 7. To indicate that they were all equal, no one sitting at the “head.” 8. It gives credence to all the “Seven Wonders of the World,” which, owing to their destruction, might otherv/ise seem mythologi cal. 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