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I THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. TITO DEAL EXPOSED WASHINGTON. — When the full details of the Teheran conference are told, they will show that after Josef Stalin and Winston Churchill finished dividing up the Balkans— one of the worst things FDR let them do—Stalin then sold Churchill on the trigger-happy little dictator who recently caused such a crisis between the United States and Yugoslavia. Marshal Stalin, at that stage of the Teheran conference, was in expansive mood. He had beaten down Churchill’s insistence that the second front against Hitler be staged through the Balkans and had put across an agreement instead that Russia take over Romania and Bulgaria, with Britain getting Greece and Yugoslavia. So at this point, Stalin gave his friend Churchill some ad vice. The Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia and the areas in which Britain is especially in terested, he said, are Croatian, not Serb. Therefore General Mihailovitch, a Ser was the wrong man to run Jugoslavia. Instead, Stalin offered Chm ch ill his man Tito, a Croat. Those are the inside facts on how Churchill happened to take on Tito, and how the United States immedi ately switched tons of valuable lend-lease equipment to Stalin’s pup pet-in-disguise. The finishing touches to this tragic error were applied when Churchill sent his bungling son, Randolph, together with equally bungling Brig. Fitzroy McLean, to serve as liaison officers to Tito. They, in turn, played right into the hands of Stalin’s shrewd plan to steal Yugoslavia right out from under the British. * • • TITO SHOWS HIS TEETH When Dictator Tito fired on U. S airplanes recently it was not the first time he had shown his teeth. His first snarling display of force came toward the end of the war as relations between himself and the British began to cool. One night Tito’s headquarters were raided by a Nazi airborne division and he barely escaped. It so happened that on this particular night, Randolph Churchill and all other Britishers left Tito’s head quarters for the first time in two months. Tito was beside himself with rage and suspicion, figured the British were out to doublecross him, and shortly thereafter flew to Bari, Italy, then headquarters for refugee Yugoslavs. As Tito’s plane landed, several hundred Yugoslavs armed with tom my guns surrounded it. No British official was allowed anywhere near their chief. Later Tito was invited to dine with Gen. Sir Henry Mait land Wilson, British commander in the Mediterranean, and arrived at the dinner with two dozen husky Yugoslav guards, who lined up with tommy guns on both sides of the dining room. ‘‘I say, marshal,” remarked General Wilson, ‘‘isn’t this a most unusual procedure?” “This, general,” replied Tito, “is a most unusual war.” Next day he flew to Bucharest, conferred with Russian officials, then returned to Yugoslavia. His co operation with the British was ab solutely dead. He was now openly working for Russia. Meanwhile the United States had poured millions in lend-lease material into Tito’s hands. Shortly after that, when British commandos landed at Split on the Yugoslav coast to try to head off the German army, Tito’s men disarmed the British and sent them back to Italy. • * • BALKANS BREED CUTTHROATS Today in Yugoslavia, Tito is any thing but popular and, if it wasn’t for the support of Russia, he would be out on his ear. The Serbs, who formerly ran the country, don’t like him, because he is a Croat and they have been put on the sidelines. The Croat people don’t particularly like him because they are strong Roman Catholics and he is a Communist. Only people who really like Tito are the Montenegrins, and their lead ers adore him—for a very special reason. The Montenegrins are the born fighters of Yugoslavia. Living in one of the rockiest countries in the world, they have nothing to do but fight—or migrate to America, which they did in large numbers before the war. Almost every third Mon tenegrin you met in the old days spoke a little broken English and had worked for a time in the steel mills of Pittsburgh or Youngstown. * • * BALKANIZING AMERICA Although the mystery is unsolved as to how the grand mufti of Jeru salem was permitted to slip out of his comfortable villa in France to Egypt, some highly important addi tional information has now leaked out about his activities — as a result of U. S. army cross-examination of Nazi prisoners. The cross-examina tion lays bare Hitler’s plot to Bal- kanize the United States; also to stir uj) terror against the Jews. For Hitler the two projects invariably went hand-in-hand. I President Truman is a President among Presidents! He has just come out openly with a statement that he considers fishing a waste of time! ♦ He caught some fish on the Ber muda trip without posing for photo graphs. This supplemented a simi lar thumbs down on newsreel pic tures of him holding a fish in Puget Sound last year. What’s the Presi dency of this country coming to, anyhow? * We think Harry Truman lost the fishermen’s vote by this attitude. But he more than offset it by gain ing the vote of their wives. * It has been an inviolable custom for Presidents to act as if they liked fishing, no matter how they really felt. Tradition has required that any White House occupant get himself into fishing regalia, go fishing and invite the photographers. • No President ever looked as sad in fishing clothes as Cal Coolidge, but we loved him for it. H«*rb Hoover never seemed the type in a trout brook, but it helped with the votes. * Roosevelt was a great one for photographic angling. GroVer Cleve land is better known as a fisher man than as a ruler. Even Hard ing fished in response to the public demand. But now comes a Presi dent who says: “I say it is spinach and the heck with it!” * Personally, we think Harry is an old fresh-water, Missouri typt fish erman who can go for bullheads and catfish, but thinks nothing else counts. But we welcome his posi tion. It may be that nothing would do America more good today than less fishing. It certainly must Inter fere with reconversion. * Truman might make a tremen dous hit by a White House state ment declaring that fishing takes too much time, that it is far too unproductive, that it encourages de ceit, causes pneumonia, breeds al coholism and, furthermore, that most fishermen go fishing to avoid necessary work around the house. * The fisherman never lived who was 100 per cent honest and reliable. Fishing makes liars of the best of us. It is a racket conducted for the benefit of bait salesmen, tackle stores and rowboat renters. Long live Harry Truman. (Hi Phillips has wasted most of August trying to catch one striped bass.—Editorial explanation.) • • • Desire Let me build me a bouse by the side of the road— (If those race tracks are com plete) ; A house unpretentious but still a home That won’t balk some racing meet; I crave a home of the mCdest type, With fireplace quite new-:- (If the builders of some new grand stand Can spare a plank or two!) Oh, I yearn for my home by the side of the road, With four wails, even three— (If the boys who are building the paddock sheds Will waive their priority)— A little house where the sun comes in And contentment seldom fails (If the lads who are rushing the clubhouse plant Can spare me a couple of nails!) Oh I care not for any handsome manse— Just a plain four walls will do (If the contemplated amusement park Doesn’t need stuff P. D. Q.) AH I want’s a place fit to hang my hat. And I’ve got an outside chance— (If the footbaU parks and the new fight clubs Plan no superdooper plants!) Oh, give me a shack by the side of the road (If the play work’ has enough) — A little place for the ^wife and me (If no nightclub needs the stuff); Just a simple hut with a chimney there Which need not be extra thick— (If the race tracks, parks and the honky-tonks WiU just give a guy a brick!) • • • The influences of the movies on child life is getting pretty terri fying. We heard a nine-year-old child decline an offer to go to a picture the other night because, “I’m sick of murders with just guns and hatchets; I wanna wait for a good poison story.” • * * The time seems at hand when we shaU hear of a peace conference delegate being decommissioned for somebody with more modern arma ments. BIG FOUR AT PARIS CONFERENCE . . . During the Paris peace conference, representatives of the Big Four hold special sessions to determine policies. French Premier Georges Bidault serves as host to representatives of the United States, Russia and Great Britain. Sen. Tom ConnaUy, Sec. of State James F. Byrnes and Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg are shown at extreme right. THIS STRIKE MET WITH FAVOR ... No need for these students to wish that the school house would burn down. The teachers at Norwalk, Conn., went on strike. No teachers, no school. Vacation days can begin again. Here Rudy Baxa, custodian Norwalk Center Junior high school, tells the students to go home. Bone of contention for the teachers is that $90,112 be added to the $813,000 school budget for pay raises for the 236 teachers. This is one strike where those who are concerned are willing that it be contin ued for some time. - A PROPOSED PLANS FOR JEWISH ZONE . . . Some 1,800 square miles in Palestine would be granted the Jews under a reported Ameri can compromise which President Truman is believed to favor and which has been favored by the Jewish Agency for Palestine. The new plan also would demand Jewish and Arab autonomy in their respective areas. Aboe at left is the Palestinian division originally proposed by the Anglo-American cabinet committee and backed by Britain. At right is the approximate division under the plan favored by the Jewish agency. TERMINAL LEAVE SIGN-UP ... Flood of 10,000 veterans at Los Angeles office to obtain the first terminal leave forms available in Southern CaUfornia is shown in above photograph. This rush was typi cal of that to be found in nearly every city in the United States. The forms were printed locally through special arrangement with the war department, and are identical with those issued by the govern ment. Bonds will be issued for amount of pay due. MISS SHANGHAI ... Not to be outdone by the selection of “Miss America 1946,” Miss Wong Yung- Mai, poses in the approved man ner after she was chosen “Miss Shanghai of 1946,” at the contest staged in the Chinese city for re lief funds. ATOM FOR PEACE ... Dr. Wil liam L. Doyle, University of Chi cago, measures out a tiny amount of radioactive carbon. First ship ment from U. S. atomic labora tory, Oak Ridge, Tenn., is de signed for diseases experiments. ■\\fHETHER it is Eddie Dyer's v ' Cardinals or Leo Durocher’s Dodgers who will be called on to meet Joe Cronin’s Red Sox this fall, there is one basic idea you can keep in mind—neither National league team is going to surrender in ad vance. No other teams in baseball have been so well seasoned under fire from April into the final September stretch. There has been no resting spot for either club — no loafing time or any recess in the day- by-day battle for the top. Both Car dinals and Dodgers by now should have steel - shod nerves under the pressure that has kept both to the limit in an all summer dog fight that has been one of the best in many years. Both Cardinals and Dodgers are loaded with dead-game ball players out to give all they have—such men as Pete Reiser, Peewee Reese, Ed Stankey, Dixie Walker, Stan Musial, Marty Marion, Country Slaughter, Wliitey Kurowski, Terry Moore and others from both scrappy camps. Stan Musial teams hustling Their batting records show no such power as the Red Sox com mand. Howie PoIItjt may be their only 20-game winner. But there is more than enough class on either team to give anyone a battle over the sprint route that a world series calls for. While neither Musial nor Walker has been able to turn on Ted Williams’ power, both have been outhitting the Red Sox star through the greater part of the year. The averages tell you that. Reiser, in condition, is one of the most valuable ball players baseball can show when you consider his worth at bat, in a pinch, in the field and around the bases. The averages and the records of the field also prove that Musial is quite likely to out-hit Williams by a rather wide margin; not in the way of home runs, but in league leadership. Musial is one of the finest hitters we’ve seen in many years. His lifetime average is close to Williams’, who has slipped a trifle from .356 to something around .353, which isn’t too soggy for sev eral years. Outside of Musial and Walker, neither Cardinals nor Dodgers has other run-making hitters to match Pesky, Doerr and York, slashing Ted’s three aiding musketeers. Eddie Dyer on Pitching After all, the pitching can play a star part in any world series, as pitching usually does. We were talking with Eddie Dyer, the Cardinal manager, about this section of the world series argu ment. “In the first place,” Dyer said, '‘the Cardinals haven’t yet won the National league pennant this season. The Dodgers are a tough team to catch and shake loose. They don’t seem to discourage easily. But if the Cardinals do manage to break in and get a shot at the Red Sox, I have a rather hazy idea our pitch ing staff can worry them a lot. “We have some left-handers that Williams and a number of others might not like too well. And if George Munger can work back to his old form in the next few weeks, we’ll have our share of good right handers to match any staff — and that includes the Red Sox staff.” No one can be sure yet just how good the Red Sox pitching is. There have been too many games where a Red Sox pitcher could dish out a flock of hits and runs, and yet breeze home. We were rather astonished to see that Dave Ferris and Tex Hughson, two Red Sox mainstays, had allowed more hostile hits than any two pitchers in their circuit. Both had been tapped safe ly well over 200 times, where Spud Chandler had allowed only 151 hits and Hal Newhouser only 173, far below the Ferris-Hughson totals. The Red Sox have wrecked the American league through a killing margin in runs, base hits and runs batted in. Their stampede has been based on raw power, on attack, not on defense. Hughson, undoubtedly one of the best pitchers now at work, has had a rather spotty year, being slightly over the .500 mark with a great run-making machine at his back. Ferris has been their star workman, but even the able Ferris has absorbed his share of manhandling more than once. Red Sox No Cinch Bet The Red Sox will be favored to win, but anyone who makes them lopsided favorites can be labelled a trifle curious in the cupola. As all around good as the Red Sox are, and they are good enough, up and down the line, they are no invinci ble, overwhelming force against ei ther of the two fast, game outfits. The main burden of proof is also on broad Red Sox backs who are expected by too many camp follow ers to win a four or five game romp. An Old Iron Cot Makes Smart Sofa J UST an old iron cot and odds and ends of cushions was the be-| ginning. The cushions were made over to fit the back and the ends 1 of the cot. Three were covered with plain green. The cot cover, has a number of features that re quire a little more material. • * • The whole job, cushions and all, used 13 yards of 36-inch chintz and three yards of plain sateen the same width. The methods used for making this at tractive corner—even the wall and floor 1 finishes are fully described in BOOK 6 which also contains more than 30 other illustrated ideas for things you will enjoy making. A copy of BOOK 6 may be ob tained by sending 15 cents with name and address direct to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills, N. Y. Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Book No. 6. Namo Aririrogg True to Form, Speakers Proved (W)Right Brothers Probably the most taciturn men of their time were the famous Wright brothers, Wilbur and Or ville. One day they were to be speakers at a luncheon. After a flowery introduction, the toastmaster called on Wilbur. “There must be some mistake,” apologized Wilbur to the assem bled guests. “Orville does the talking for both of us.” The toastmaster turned to Or ville. Whereupon the latter rose and said: “Wilbur has just made the speech,” and sat down abruptly. MORNING^ , WITH LITTLE GEMS OF COMFORT So little but—OH MY! What a dif ference MILES LITTLE PILLS can make when you need an occasional laxative! What a joy to feel regular again, without the harsh, sudden “blasting” sometimes caused by powerful purgatives. So try the laxative that works with you, not through you. Made by the folks who make Alka-Seltzer. Sold by your family druggist. CAUTION—Not to be used when abdominal pain or other symp toms of appendldtfs are present. Take only as directed Miles Laboratories. Inc., Elkhart, Ind. 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