The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, September 20, 1946, Image 2
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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.
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toms of appendldtfs are present.
Take only as directed
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