The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, October 25, 1946, Image 2
THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
BEDS CONVERT NAZIS
WASHINGTON. — U. S. intelli
gence officials have sent the White
House a highly important report on
Soviet operations in Germany show
ing how the Russians have convert
ed large segments of the old Ger
man army to the Communist ban
ner.
Nucleus of the new Red-Nazi
army is the old German Libera
tion committee, organized by the
Russians when they captured sev
eral thousand Nazis at Stalingrad.
Field Marshal Frederich Von Paul-
us, who surrendered at Stalingrad,
was chairman of this committee and
appealed by radio to the Nazi
army in Germany during the war,
urging them to desert Hitler and
come over to the Russians.
Today thousands of Von Paulus’s
men and officers have been put
through Russian indoctrination
schools designed to sell them on
sympathy for the Soviet and are
ready to govern the Soviet zone of
Germany.
Here are other salient points in
the U. S. intelligence report:
1. The Russian zone is now more
than twice as efficient as a produc
tive unit as the American zone and
three times as productive as the
British zone.
2. The Russians are prepared to
set up a government of their own
in Germany if the Americans and
the British set up an autonomous
German government in the western
part of the Reich. It will be under
Von Paulus. /
3. The Russians are not retaining
Germans for slave labor, as gener
ally expected. They have already
sent a million and a half captured
Nazis from Russia to the Soviet
zone of Germany, where each has
completed one year’s schooling
under Soviet and German Commu
nist instructors. Only a half million
Germans still are being used in la
bor battalions in Russia. These are
the leading Nazis whom the Rus
sians know they can’t either con
vert or trust.
The U. S. Intel.igence report
strongly recommends against an
autonomous German government in
the Anglo-American zone, as pro
posed by Secretary Byrnes, and
urges instead agreement with the
Russians on the control of Germany.
It points out that unless agreement
is reached, Germany again will be
the source of a new world war in
the not too distant future.
* * *
LA GUARDIA SEES STALIN
When UNRRA Director La
Guardia and aides visited Mos
cow on their recent tour of Eu
rope, the entire party was eager
to see Stalin. The Kremlin in
vitation, however, permitted
only La Guardia and two other
UNRRA officials to call on the
top Soviet leader.
La Guardia, therefore, sug
gested to his aide, Joseph Lilly,
that he divert the rest of the
party by taking them to Lenin’s
tomb, where the body of the fa
ther of the Russian revolution
is still perfectly preserved.
Late that night, the party re
assembled, and Lilly eagerly
asked La Guardia what he had
learned from Stalin. Replied
Fiorello:
“I got as much out of Stalin
as you did out of Lenin.”
• * *
NO MONET FOR FINLAND
Finland has been known to Amer
icans as the little country which al
ways paid its debts. Now, howev
er, the U. S. is getting the repu
tation among Finns as a country
which breaks its financial promises.
What happened is that a year ago
Finland sent a trade delegation here
to arrange for a 70 million dollar
loan from the Export-Import bank.
The loan was promised, and on the
basis of this promise, the Finns
made purchases amounting to 35
million dollars in the United States,
with partial commitments for the
remaining 35 million dollars.
Part of the deal was that Finland
was to secure coal from this coun
try, which in turn would help in
crease her newsprint production.
Many American newspapers made
arrangements to buy this extra
newsprint.
However, something has caused
the state department to reverse it
self. The Export-Import bank loan
tc Finland has been held up.
Actual, although unannounced
reason for the reversal is the fact
that Finland is now in the Soviet
sphere of influence and it’s feared
that any financial help indirectly
would aid Russia. However, there
is considerable difference of opinion
regarding this.
So far, however, Finns still
are waiting.
* • •
ADMIRAL HALSEY GETS BORED
Admiral William (Bull) Halsey is
beginning to fidget in his new job
on the President’s super-advisory
board of five-star army-navy offi
cers. Since his semi-diplomatic mis
sion to South America, Halsey has
had little to do. Privately, the tough
little skipper hankers to take that
job as vice president of Pan Amer
ican airways, which is still open to
him. He isn’t interested in the ex
tra money. His sparkplug tempera
ment craves action, in or out of the
raw.
Lawyers and Advertising
California State Bar associatioi
has let down the time-honored bars
on advertising. It still holds it un
ethical for an attorney to advertise
individually, but has inaugurated an
advertising campaign by the asso
ciation to sell the public on the
importance of legal advice.
*
“A lawyer is your personal ad
viser. He will serve you in con
fidence. He aims to clarify your
legal problems,” says a sample ad
vertisement. Sounds okay. What’s
wrong with letting the public in on
what a lawyer is supposed to do,
with maybe a little emphasis on
what he is NOT supposed to do?
•
The public as a whole has been
kept in darkness as to some of the
.sworn obligations of a barrister,
and few know that he is supposed
to be, first of all, an agent of the
court in getting at the honest facts
and securing strict justice.
*
There are individual counsellors
who, if allowed to advertise, would
put their faces on surface cars and
billboards and their telephone num
bers in electric lights. It would be
hard to tell whether they were sell
ing legal services or a new sham
poo.
*
We can imagine the country plas
tered with signs, “Let Smuggs Get
You Out of It,” “Fool the Judge
With Lawyer Pootle” and “Guilty
or Not, Boggle Can Fix It Up.”
And even:
Keep out of jail
By book or crook;
Consult by mail
Attorney Gook!
*
We think the California bar does
well to limit the advertising to bar
associations. But we warn it that,
anticipating a further weakening of
the old concepts on legal ethics, a
lot of radio boys are busily engaged
in thinking up jingles to suit the
individual barrister. Like these:
Does a lawsuit bother you?
Tinkle, tinkle, toodle-oo!
Phone for Lawyer Chidsey Pott:
Five opinions, that’s a lot.
Affidavits, will and such.
Three flights up will save you much;
If it’s legal aid you seek,
Special prices all this week!
*
Boy, turn off that radio! We’re
going to pass up legal advice and
take a bottle of hair oil instead.
• • •
The Village Blacksmith,
1946 Model
Under a spreading snafu tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a.helpless man is he,
With trouble on his ,hands,
For he’s short of everything he
needs
In all the types and brands.
He’s short of iron, short of steel,
He’s short of horseshoe files;
The only horseshoes he can get
Are in soybean-plastic styles.
And to get a keg of nails he must
Go seven hundred miles.
Week in, week out, from morn till
night,
You can hear him telephone;
You can hear him pleading for some
stuff
In a voice that seems a groan,
As he hears of further bottlenecks.
While the shoeless horses moan.
And children coming home from
school
Look in at the open door;
They know, whatever he’s doing,
he
Is shoeing nags no more!
He’s even short of sufficient coal
To make the bellows roar!
* * *
Down Memory Lane
(From Typo Union No. 6.)
Hitchock’s and Dolan’s — Beef and
beans. . . . Bridge cafe and Perry’s drug
store. . . . Billy Watson’s Beef Trust.
. . . Tony Pastor’s. . . . The old Madison
Square Garden. . . . The Hippodrome.
. . . Miner’s Bowery. . . . Coney island
and nickel beer. . . . (Or 10 cents a pint
to take' out!) . . . “Let Me Call You
Sweetheart.”. . . Caruso and the Monkey
House. . . . “See what the boys in the
back room will hate”. . . Cops with
handlebar mustaches. . . . Horse cars.
. . . Big Tim. ... “I love my wife, but
on, you kid.”. . . Steve Brody. . . . Mayor
“Red Mike.” . . . Gas lamps. . . . “The
boss wants to set ’em up". . . John L.
Sullivan. . . . “The Bucket of Blood.”
. . . Charley Murphy. . . . Those IScent
mellerdramas with Indians biting the dust
at about the rate of six for a nickel.
* • *
Oscar of the Waldorf, on his
80th birthday anniversary, says
that a cocktail, well shaken, is
an aid to long life. It’s those lit
tle slabs of toast with the fish,
eggs and cheese that kill people
off young.
There was another strike in Holly
wood, with considerable street fight
ing, all of which, many movie men
insist, lacks the direction to make
it seem authentic.
EISENHOWER HONORED IN EUROPE ... More and more honors
Were heaped upon Gen. Dwight Eisenhower on his trip through Europe.
With Mrs. Eisenhower, he is shown chatting with King George of Eng
land at Balmoral, Scotland, where the Eisenhowers were guests of the
royal family. General Eisenbiwer previously visited the castle which
was presented him by the citizen*, of Scotland. Every city presented
him with medals and keys to the city. He was also given freedom of
the city wherever he appeared in Scotland and England.
TURNS NIGHT INTO DAY . . . Prof. Etienne Vassy, 37, expert on
atmospheric physics at Sorbonne university, Paris, pictured with his
wife in their laboratory as they announced discovery of formula for
turning night into day. By means of radio transmission of optical waves
directed at luminous strata. Professor Vassy say^ he will be able to
capture enough light from the sky to read without lamps or to drive
without headlights at night.
TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS . . . Mountains of Long Island,
N. Y., potatoes, nearly 4,000 bushels on the Charles McVay ranch at
Riverhead. They were purchased by the U. S. government at ap
proximately $1.67 a hundred pounds. While Suffolk county potato
growers have enjoyed bumper crops this year, they are encountering
difficulties in getting their yields to market. Many of the potatoes
started to spoil in the field before freight cars were made available.
NEW CHIEF JUSTICE . . . When
the United States Supreme court
began its new term, in a brief
but ceremonious session, Fred M.
Vinson, was installed as the new
chief justice. He is shown above
as he took his place on the bench.
NEW LEGION COMMANDER . . .
Paul H. Griffith, Uniontown, Pa.,
newly elected commander of the
American Legion. Twenty-eight
years ago he was rolled in an
army blanket and left on road
side for burial after being report
ed dead.
TYPING KING . . . Albert Tan-
gora, seven-time winner of the
world’s championship typing title,
is shown at the National Business
show, New York City. He set a
record of 142 words per minute
for an hour straight to make rec
ord.
KING OF PICKERS . . . Eugene
Chinault, 41, of Memphis, Tenn.,
grins delightedly at the $1,000 first
prize which he won as champion
picker at the National Cotton pick
ing contest at Blytheville, Ark.
He picked 109 pounds in two
hours.
WHO SAYS THERE’S A MEAT SHORTAGE . . . With retail butcher
shops closing in most cities, this is a rare scene at the Reevytown, N. J.,
abattoir, where owner, John Martiniuk, ex-G.L, decided to sell retail
at OPA prices his big supply of all kinds of meat. Martiniuk, who em
ploys 12 butchers, all veterans, opened his slaughterhouse to the public
in order to keep his men on the job and at the same time give meat
hungry customers their favorite cuts.
LEGION AUXILIARY HEAD . . .
Mrs. Dorothy W. Pearl, Detroit,
Mich., who was recently elected
president of the American Legion
Auxiliary, succeeding Mrs. Wal
ter G. Craven, Charlotte, N. C.,
at the national convention.
TJEFORE the record season just
closed, it had always seemed to
us that baseball’s 154-game sched
ule should have been cut to 140
games. As a gen
eral rule all in
terest has been
withering on the
September vine for
12 or 14 of the ma
jor league entries.
The year 1946 has
told a different sto
ry in the way of at
tendance figures,
but certainly not
enough to justify
any 14-game in
crease to 168 contests as proposed
by a few club owners.
With the wild rush to sport after
the war, this has been an abnormal
year. You get the main idea when
the Phillies, a tail-end contender,
could approach the million mark at
home. Most major league clubs
play at least 32 exhibition games.
The 168-game menu would therefore
give ball players 200 games to han
dle between early March and Oc
tober. This is more than most ball
players can absorb without going
stale. Three hours of baseball each
day seems easy work. But three
hours of hustling competitive sport
each afternoon or night is another
story.
Even with the 154-game schedule
the number of weary, injured, -be
draggled ball players is something
greater than you might think. Ty
Cobb told me once that 154 games
was about all any hard-playing hus
tler could handle.
“In the old days,” Ty said, “I
wasn’t a hold out. I siriply didn’t
need or want all that early training
and all of those exhibition games.
I hunted ail winter and kept my legs
in shape. I remember in 1911 I
didn’t join the Tigers until they
reached Evansville, six days before
the season opened. That year I
hit for .420 and stole 83 bases as
I recall it. One answer was that
I was still keen and fresh in August
and September when a lot of the
others were stale and tired.”
Danger of Staleness
This seems to make sense. No
athlete who has lost his keenness,
who has grown stale, can be of
much help. The right sort of ball
player will keep in shape all win
ter, through golf or hunting. The
spring training and the spring ex
hibition campaign has been badly
overdone. Add 14 extra ball games
to the present list and it will mean
more baseball than most players
could handle—and still retain the
badly needed hustle.
Also with the additional 14 games
suggested, ball players’ salaries
should be lifted from 10 to 15 per
cent over the 154-game p ly. With
the record attendances 1946 has of
fered, you can look for a rousing
scrap on the part of the ball player
for a big jump, even at 154 games.
But who is going to see that the ball
player gets this percentage increase
above the demand he might make
for the present schedule?
* * *
Roughnecks in the Ring
It was James .1. Corbett, a great
boxer and the smartest fighter the
game has ever known in or out of
the ring, who first set a rather sour
example by being known as "Gen
tleman Jim.”
For the ring is no spot for a gen
tleman, or anything approaching the
same. And Jim Corbett was no gen
tleman in any ring. He told me
this himself. The gentleman has
his club or his box at the opera
or track, but he is out of place.
It remained for Hughey Keogh,
years ago, to tell the true story:
“There was no high finance about
The game of spoiling mugs.
When the dear old tub from Boston
Was the King,
When we paid our honest tribute
To the other tanks and jugs
And the soiree with the raw ’uns
Was the thing.
“Fighting bade adieu to its
Traditions long ago,
And kissed its grimy hand
To sentiment,
When they took it to the steam heat
From the hail and rain and snow
And a champion aspired
To be a gent.”
I still recall a story Jim Corbett
once told me. Jim was fighting Joe
Choynski on a barge.
“I nailed him in the ninth round,”
Jim said, “a::d Joe fell to the floor.
I stooped and lifted him up. The
cheers were terrific. But I lifted
him so I could nail him again before
he recovered. Then the boos were
terrific.” Gentleman Jim Corbett
also knew his game.
End Table Easily
Made From Spools
TF THERE is a table shortage in
* your home, here is an easy way
to solve the problem. All you need
is some plain shelf boards with
holes bored in the corners, empty
spools, a set of curtain rods and
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can combine these things to make
the attractive table shown here.
This Is Just one of more than thirty
clever Ideas in BOOK 5. With its aid yo«
can work minor miracles throughout your
house and neither inflation nor the scarc
ity of materials need stop you. A copy of
BOOK 5 may be obtained by sending 15c
with name and address direct to:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
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punk as the dickens, brings ou stomach
upset, sour taste, gassy discomfort,
take Dr. Caldwell’s famous medicine
to quickly pull the trigger on lazy “in
nards” and help you feel bright and
chipper again.
DR. CALDWELL’S is the wonderful sen
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Pepsin to make it so easy to take.
’ANY DOCTORS use pepsin prepara
tions in prescriptions to make the medi
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tfke. So bo sure your laxative is con
tained in Syrup Pepsin.
INSIST ON DR. CALDWELL'S—the fa
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that wholesome relief from constipa
tion. Even finicky children love it.
CAUTION: Use only as directed.
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always usa this graat rub for
COUGHSt'COLDS
Child-. Mild
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ARE YOU PALI
WEAKJIRED
due to MONTHLY LOSSES?
You girls and women who lose so
much during monthly periods that
you’re pale, weak, "dragged out"—
this may be due to lack, of blood-iron.
Bo try Lydia E. Plnkham’s TABLETS
— one of the be it home ways to
build up red bk»d—In such cases.
Plnkham’s Tablets are one of the
best blood-iron tcn’.ci you can buy I
Dempsey the Killer
Jack Dempsey, at heart, was
about as close to being a gentleman,
outside the ring, as anyone I’ve
known. But only outside the ring.
There he was kind, generous,
thoughtful and courteous. Inside the
ring he was a killer. Anything went.
I saw him once giving Max Baer
a few lessons. v
“You can’t do that,” Baer said.
“It’s illegal.”
“You can get away with it once,”
Dempsey said. “I have.”
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