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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. TRUMAN’S VETO WASHINGTON. — Opinions may differ as to whether President Tru man was right in vetoing the price control bill, but he personally has not changed his mind a bit. When he arrived on Capitol Hill for the Roosevelt memorial service, Tru man was greeted by his old friend, Kenneth Romney, sergeant-at- arms of the house. As they shook hands, the President quipped: “I didn’t know whether you folks would let me come up here today after reading my latest message.” “Oh, don’t worry about that,” chuckled the sergeant-at-arms. “A lot of us are glad you vetoed that OPA bill. And your veto message hit the nail right on the head. You did the right thing, in my opinion.” “I couldn’t do anything else,” replied the President with chin-set seriousness. • •' * EQUIPPING U. S. SCHOOLS When a committee representing the leading national educational organizations tried to see War As sets Chief Lt. Gen. Edmund B. Gregory about getting surplus equipment for American schools, it received two brush-offs. Once Gregory had been “called out”; another time he was “too busy.” However, the educators had no trouble seeing Gregory’s boss, President Truman. Further, Tru man’s callers were definitely as sured that steps would be taken to provide schools, colleges and uni versities with more war surplus. They informed the President that approximately 2,000,000 American youths would seek education next fall in colleges alone. Of these, about 970,000 will be World War II vets. Un less schools are given a “fair and reasonable” access to war surplus goods — laboratory, classroom, cafeteria and kitch en facilities, electronics equip- menl visual aids and other items — a great many of the students cannot be accommo dated. "Education cannot afford to go into the commercial market for what we need — and need drastical ly, Mr. President — because we do not have the money,” asserted one of them. * • • CONSOLIDATING GERMANY Top secret talks between the Americans and the French have now started to weld western Ger many into one economic unit. The move may end up by uniting the U. S., British and French zones into one anti-Russian sector, with the rest of Germany under the ham mer and sickle. The U. S. occupation zone in cludes most of the province of Wurttemberg and the northeastern quarter of Baden. The remainder of the latter province and a small western piece of Wurttemberg are under French control. This suggestion was approved in principle by Maj. Gen. Lucius Clay and Lt. Gen. Joseph Mc- Narney, highest-ranking U. S. commanders in Europe, and the war department has in structed General McNarney to inform the French that this country will discuss the plan if France agrees to discuss, at the same time, internationalizing the vital Ruhr basin. If the deal is worked out, it will be an important step toward ending the economic confusion which exists under the present set-up. The United States, Britain and France are hoping to unscramble the cur rent mess, at least in western Ger many. Russia so far has indicated no willingness to go along. * * * RESEARCH FOR FARMS Secretary of Agriculture Ander son and a delegation from the house agriculture committee re cently called on President Truman - to plug for the Flannagan - Hope farm research bill. However, not much plugging was necessary. Anderson opened the White House : meeting by emphasizing the impor- < tance of the legislation, which is aimed at finding new uses for 1 farm products and improving mar- 1 keting. i “The bill already has been 1 called to my attention,” the 1 President said immediately. “I 1 have looked into it and I am in favor of appropriating whatever money is necessary.” i A primary aim of the bill is to do away with such marketing bottle necks as caused large acreages of j cabbage and lettuce to be plowed under recently in North Carolina. 3 • * * CAPITAL CHAFF Official state department broad- ■ casts to Russia in the Russian lan- ( guage will begin just as soon as x the necessary staffs have completed j their training. . . . One of John t Snyder’s first acts as secretary of , the treasury was to agree to the ; release of gold to Argentina. This gold was seized by the U. S. gov- . emment at the start of the war. Its release is a major victory for Presi dent Peron. . . . President Tru man has decided to abandon his plans for an Alaska vacation. New York Symphony: Silhouettes in the Night: Fannie Hurst and her pup in the Park at the crack of yawn. . . . Tony Eden, the diplomat, checking his luggage at LaGuardia Airport. . . . Frank Thinatra devouring a meal (at Howie’s) that would fill two heavy weights. . . . George Raft among the other Sardines at Sardi’s. . . . Andy Russell and the Ritz (Raff) Bros, dining at Olin’s. . . . Ann Sheridan (and her feller) at the Riv iera ringside. . . . B. Baruch (the United Statesman) quitting his Cen tra] Park bench to amuse the tots at the playground. . . . Meeshaaa Auer thrilled about being cast for the radio version of “Tovarich.” . . . Mrs. John Mason Brown (wife of the critic) looking refreshing de spite the whewmidity. . . . Mrs. Wendell Willkie at the Blue Angel. . . . The man who makes you pause and say: “Oooh, there’s Mr. Molo tov!” He is Bill McKamy, execu tive at the J. Walter Thompson agency. Memos of a Midnighter: Her ex-husband says Rita Hayworth isn’t at all proud about the Atomb being named for her and her film, “Gilda,” one of the best press agent tie-ups (we thawt) in history. He says it wasn’t any tie-up—that they really adore Rita and so christened it after her. He wished, however, their child, Rebecca, could one day say: “My mother’s name was on the very last atomic bomb!” Midtown Vignette: It happened in the Krots Bulc the other night. Our reporter was none other than the boss hisself, Shoim Billingsberg. . . . He was touched by the episode. . . . An army officer asked that bar keeper Tony Butrico join him at his table for a drink. “We served together overseas,” said the officer. . . . He reminisced long with Tony and then insisted on having a photo taken of their meeting. . . . The of ficer made a terrific hit with the staff and patrons by this demon stration of democracy and being a nice guy. . . . His name (and mark it down high on your list) is Gen eral H. F. Kramer. Sounds in the Dark: At the China Doll: “She knows all the answers. It’s the questions that confuse her.” . . . At the Mermaid Room: “He’s lost weight, but he was once the biggest jerk in town.” ... At Monte’s on the Park: “She has the lead in his next flop.” ... At Leon & Eddies: “She’s saving her hus band’s money for a Reno day.” . . . At Chandler’s: “Now that there’s no OPA people should be reminded that a fool and his money are soon worthless.” Lois Thrasher, a Chicago news- gal, belongs in any column about newspaper heroes. . . . Not too long ago the wife of a gov’t official was slain in a Chicago hotel and Lois took a job there as a chambermaid to check the movements of a sus pect. . . . After maneuvering to be assigned to the floor where the sus pect lived, Lois inspected his suite with no luck. ... In addition she had to scrub a dozen bathrooms on hands and knees: Jackie Kelk witnessed a woman trying to navigate in a traffic jam. She rammed the car in front of her, then tried to back up and knocked down a pedestrian. Then she tried to move over to the curb and smacked into a nydrant. A gendarme rushed up. “O.K., lady,” he demanded, “let’s see your license.” “Don’t be silly,” she grunted. “Who’d give ME a license?” When Frank Ward O’Malley (one of the craft’s greatest) was on the New York newspapers they could always be counted on to give you your two cents worth. . . . Frank once had a city editor (of the old school) who made him rewrite his copy at least once—no matter how good it was. ... To even matters with him, O’Malley (who was doing an article on the origin of the Su preme Court) dug up a piece the city editor had written on the sub ject years before. . . . O’Malley copied it word for word and then handed it in. . . . The editor glared, read and barked: “I could do a better job than this when I was in the . newspaper business six months!” “That’s funny,” jibed Frank. “You wrote this junk when you were in the business six years!” Judy Canova knows the laziest television performer in the country: “A comedian who just holds up his joke book before the camera.” Morton Thompson’s new book, “How to Be a Civilian,” revives the one about the G.I. in his first Auto mat. He kept putting nickels in slot® and carrying the food back to a table, repeating the trick for 15 minutes. The food was a foot high all over the table. A fascinated civilian asked him: “Haven’t you enough food? You’ll never eat all that. Why don’t you quit?” “What!” exclaimed the G.I “Quit when I’m winning?” MEAT tfEGINS TO FLOOD MARKETS . . . Interior view of meat packing plant in New York City a scant few days following expiration of the office of price administration — showing meat on the hook and plentiful. In meat centers such as Chicago, Kansas City and Los Angeles the supply was even more plentiful. Whether it was a rush by farmers to get cattle to market before enactment of new OPA or be cause of, at least, temporary end of black market, the reason is not entirely clear. Higher prices was a factor U.S. CAVALRY PARADES IN TOKYO . . . The U.S. 1st cavalry division is shown parading down one of the main streets of Tokyo during celebration held in the Japanese capital. Lt. Gen. Robert Eichelberger, commanding officer of the 8th army and Maj. Gen. William Chase, commanding officer of the crack cav alry unit, reviewed the display of U.S. might from a stand in front of the Imperial hotel in Tokyo. Many GI’s watched from the sidewalks. THE WINNER AND HIS CANDIDATE . . . Former governor of Min nesota, Harold Stassen, and Mrs. Stassen are shown as they voted at St. Paul in Minnesota Republican primary election. Insert shows Edward J. Thye, Republican governor of Minnesota and political protege of Stassen, who defeated Senator Henrik Shipstead. Stassen fought Shipstead on his record of having voted against the U. N. CLOUD OVER BIKINI . . . Th* atom bomb as it exploded over the “guinea pig” fleet moored in the lagoon at Bikini, (ftie photog rapher was in a B-29 flying at a safe distance and altitude from the atom bomb explosion on the atolls. TOKYO GANGSTER LAID TO REST ... Tokyo had its first gangster funeral since the occupation, when Matsuda, the “Boss of Shimbashi” district, was sent off to his ancestors in the true gangster fashion, “a-la-Chicago.” The streets were banked with flowers as the two- hour memorial service began with the chanting of the priests and the oeating of tom-toms by his << boys. ,, Photo shows Matsuda*s asbfes being carried in the procession through streets of Shimbashi. VET DANCES WITH PLASTIC LEGS . . . Jerry Singer, Holly wood film dancer, who lost a leg at Okinawa, is dancing again these days, despite artificial leg. He is shown roing t»-r *• a dance for film, “If I’m Lucky-** Jimmy Durante at Yale Jimmy Durante was a guest at the Yale commencement exercises the other day. The Yale classic fes tivities coincided with the opening of Jimmy’s latest movie “Two Sis ters From Boston” in the college town. Both Yale and the picture people made the most of it. No re sult was announced officially, but observers say Yale lost another close one. * Believe it or not, the class of 1913 adopted Durante. And in one of the class costumes “The Schnozzle” paraded in the traditional com mencement parade, did his stuff at the annual ball game and was pho tographed being welcomed by Pres. Charles Seymour of Yale and Mrs. Seymour, a distinction not record ed by the photographers in the case of Trygve Lie, secretary of the United Nations, and many notable Americans present for honorary degrees. * Proving that by the scale of cock eyed values existing in this screw ball age there is no limit ^ to how far a radio celebrity and Hollywood star may go. * News that Jimmy Durante would be a Yale commencement figure drew out greater crowds than any commencement in years and there are those who insist that the closing line of the famous old Yale theme song was rendered “For God, for Country and for the Schnozzle.” . “I never realized them Yale scouts was even watchin’ me,” said Jimmy. -“I admit I never stopped Harvard or Yale, but on the other hand I kept Notre Dame from getting on the Yale sched ule. * “I was always a Yale man at heart, even if my soul belonged to the University of Hard Knocks and my body to good old Crossley Rat ings. Blue is my favorite color and I’ll see that it gets a break in tele vision. * “I was cut out to be a college man, but in my youth I could never get much practice in punting and drop kicking on account of them low ceilings in Greenwich village night- eries. My first words as a baby were ‘Boola Boola.’ I was chris tened James but my folks called me Elihu for short. And I was short er than most kids. * “Yale was in my blood. I could feel it thumping there, but not get ting nowhere. Maybe it was on ac count of the good blocking by Har vard and Princeton. » “I wanted the higher education but I was particular. I said it’s Yale or nuthin’ with me. Yale lost that one too!” * ♦ * CAN YOV REMEMBER— Away back when you took it in the tight spirit ij somebody offered you a dollar? * And when packing a picnic box with cold meats was no problem whatever? • * * Love and Flagpoles America must be getting back to normal. A couple were married on top of a flagpole the other day. * Marshall Jacobs, a professional flagpole sitter and Yolanda Cos- mar, the girl of his choice, went through the wedding ceremony of the year at Coshockton, Pa. The wedding numbers were announced as “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life” and “I Love You Truly.” We would have recommended “Don’t Fence Me In” and “Upsie Daisie.” * Evidence of a return to daffiness in this country is most comforting. And we needed a demonstration of true and unswerving love and de votion. When a bride goes up to the top of a 176 foot flagpole for her man that is it. * * * Why America Is Great "I have seen magnificent univer sities in America. I have seen its wonderful laboratories and its mu seums of which old European cul ture would be proud, and I have also seen Lions’ club luncheons where full-grown men, imitating lions, roared upon command. It is a curious country.” — Ilya Ehren- burg, visiting Russian writer. * We know a Lions’ club, Ilya, in which a college dean leads the roar ing and a laboratory chief tosses his head while he roars like a Nubian species. * $ * What this country needs is a good five cent dollar. * • • “Times Square Ticket Agency Robbed”—headline. » It’s about time. • • * General Eisenhower says three big factors made victory in Europe possible. He fails, however, to men tion the number one factor that broke Hitler down: The way the Yanks said, “Oh yeah,” to Adolf’s mike addresses! npHE ash-swinging mix-up in the -*■ American League among such riflemen as Ted Williams, Hank Greenberg, Charlie Keller and Joe DiMaggio has been more hectic than it at first looked to be. Ted Williams, the Red Sox blast er, was the man to beat back in mid- April, and he is still the one to beat through the long August and Septem ber march ahead. Ted Williams Only Wakefield has fallen behind schedule among the big hitters. The others have picked up just about where they left off and the scramble still will be keen along most of the remaining route. There is little chance now that anyone will come close to overtaking Babe Ruth’s high mark of 60 homers, or the two big years that Jimmy Foxx and Hank Greenberg had in the past — but it will take around 45 homers to lead the two circuits, and the four present leaders all have a shot at this target. While Joe DiMaggio’s general av erage has been well below other years — his lifetime mark is around .337 — the Yankee outfield er hasn’t lost his grip on the home- run bat. His long-distance range remains. It has remained for Charlie Keller to improve in both departments — the Maryland Maul er has moved into his biggest sea son and so far he shows no signs of slipping back. While Yankee hitting generally has been below the expected aver age up to this July date, its home- run count has been healthy enough. In the way of long distance blows, Keller, DiMaggio, Henrich, Gordon, Lindell and others have managed to hold their own or do just a shade better. The American League still has the margin in power. In the National Johnny Mize of the Giants is still the top home-run hitter in the old er circuit. National League support ers will tell you that National League hitters have to face smart er and better pitching. This may be true but we doubt it. We can’t quite visualize better National League pitching than Feller, New- houser, Chandler, Hughson, Ferriss and a few more have been offering. For the past 25 years the Amer ican League has adopted the old Babe Ruth slogan — not to “hit ’em where they ain’t” but to hit ’em where they can’t get at ’em. In the way of a home run market, it is almost a certainty that the Amer ican will have the four top men. Baseball again has proved, as boxing proved in the case of Joe Louis, that the punch is the last thing to leave the athlete’s system/ Hank Greenberg certainly has proved it to a marked degree. Hank is no elastic 'cat around first base —the old legs are not what the young legs used to be. They never are. But the Tiger slugger has proved that he can keep on getting his home runs, whatever else may have happened through the enervating process of added years and a long war layoff. * • • Your Money’s Worth From which sport does one get the best return for the money he invests as a spectator? We offered this query to a rather large group of sports-loving fanatics who follow the fortunes of many games. We be gan to figure out the cost, plus the excitement, the thrill and the sat isfaction derived. It broke down something like this: 1. For a World Series game, the cost for a reserved seat is $5.50. The cost of a seat for a series of three games is $16.50. 2. For an- Army-Notre Dame or an Army-Navy football game the top seat cost is $4.40. The price is no higher for a Michi gan - Ohio State or a Pennsyl vania - Army contest — for any football contest. 3. For an Open Golf contest the cost is $2.50. 4. For an International Polo match the cost tag is around $5. 5. No championship or high- ranking basketball game costs more than $3 or $4 for a seat. 6. You can see a national ten nis championship match for no more than $5 if that much. 7. For a day at the Olympic games you could get a good seat for $3. 8. You can get one of the best seats at the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness or the Belmont for prices that range from $5 to $10. It was here the argument warmed up, all on one side. Then why should a boxing matcH range from $16.50 to $100, when on a gen eral average the contestants involved are far below the average skill of baseball, football and other stars, including golf? One answer might be that the public is willing to pay. It is, of course, all up to the sporting public. It still can be said that no law exists which forces anyone to pay far more than a show is worth — and the public is the only agent that can handle the situation. i