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ri THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. DREW PEARSON Deadlock Over Korea M AJ. GEN. ARCHER L. LERCH, military governor of Korea, gave an off-the-record talk to reserve officers re cently expressing great pessimism regarding U. S. relations with Russia in Korea. Latest efforts to get together with Rus sia, General Lerch said, may as well be written off as failure. What caused the deadlock was recognition of political parties, since Rus sia would not recognize any Korean parties not controlled by Communists, General Lerch also revealed: (1) Russia’s agrarian reforms in northern Korea have back fired. Northern native farmers, oppressed by a 50 per cent tax on produce and strict control under the "cooperative” system, are drifting south across the 38th parallel. / (2) Border incidents have been reduced along the Russian- American line. However, two Russian soldiers, prowling for rice below the border, were shot and killed by Korean police. (3) Only 53 Japs are left in southern Korea—all hospital cases. (4) Russia, which controls the industrial half of the country, is permitting a smooth flow of electricity into the American zone without interference. General Lerch said he was not worried about too many Koreans be coming converted to communism. "Koreans,” he said, "could never be regimented into communism, I am sure.” WALTER W1NCHF.U* Oddities in the Radio City has three employees whose duties consist of picking up ciggie butts all day. ... In the year 2015 Rockefeller Center’s maze of skyscraper buildings will become the property of Columbia university without cost. Hew Times Change: At the turn of the century a shave and haircut in the Big Burg cost two- bits. Tipping was taboo. . . . The reason some of the old brownstones have blue windows: At one time it was believed that sunlight streaming through blue glass was very healthful. Big Burg Slavery was abolished in Manhat- tag before the Revolutionary war exploded. . . . It’s well known that New York once was called New Am sterdam. But for a few years it also had another monicker: New Orange. . . . Scientists claim the land that makes up lower Manhat tan is probably the oldest known part of the earth’s surface. Many of the jewels in the door of the tabernacle at the Little Church Around the Comer are stones from the rings of women married there. . . . Maiden Lane gots its name because Dutch maidens once washed theii clothes in a brook there. WALTER SHE AD* Doom to Veterans’ Loans O NE of the main reasons why veterans are failing to obtain loans under the G.I. Bill of Rights is the fact that the 80th congress has clipped the power of Reconstruction Finance corporation to purchase these mort gages from banks. The 79th congress, which passed the G.I. bill, gave RFC authority to purchase mortgages on homes where the loans had been guaranteed by Veterans’ administration under terms of the G.I. bill. The authority under which the RFC purchased these mortgages expired June 30. When the new law was passed by this congress extending the RFC for another year and slashing its loan authority from something like 18 billion do’-ars to two billion dollars, congress not only swept away the only soui le of small business and small industrial loans but refused to give RFC authority to purchase G.I. home, business and farm mortgage loans. Banks throughout the country, therefore, have no outlet for disposal of these loans and must hold them in their own portfolios, and from all over the country veterans are finding it almost im possible to obtain home loans no matter how well they are armed with letters of eligibility. Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama introduced a bill in the last minute rush of congress seeking to extend this authority of the RFC. ★ ★ ★ ★ H. 1. PHILLIPS Treasure Hunt of Long Ago William O’Keefe, who used to be a reporter back home, wants to know if we ever heard of a morning paper publisher many years ago who moved a half-ton safe one day to get at a nickel beneath it, and explained, after a severe injury to his back, "I wouldn’t have moved it only I thought it was a dime.” • And he tells the one of the fellow who, urged to take another drink by a friend pretty well under the weather, refused. "Oh, come on,” the friend argued. "If anybody notices anything. I’ll say it’s my breath.” “Perhaps,” was the an swer, “but suppose they also ask, ‘Is that your stagger?’ ” PAUL MALLON VANISHING AMERICANISMS "House to Let. $20 a Month With Heat." • "Everybody is entitled to a summer vacation, and it doesn't cost much." * "All You Can Eat for $1.25.” * "Mommer, may l bring a couple of friends home to dinner?” * • • “Corn Crop Much Improved." — Headline. * "Listening in on the radio I would think it was the best ever,” says J. J. W. ★ ★ Military Weakness of Russia M UCH has been made of the superior size of the Russian army. Our military men frequently mentioned this recently to get their appropriations through congress. But little or nothing has been reported of the critical military weaknesses of Russia. She may be an isolated economic and political power existing behind an iron curtain, but from the military standpoint, she is wide open from the air on three sides, and extremely vulnerable in oil. FOUR WET HENNS . . . While practically everyone else in the coun try was sweltering and squirming in the supercharged heat wave a while back, this foursome got cooled off with a sprinkling can wield ed by Nurse Virginia McCormick at St. Agnes hospital in Baltimore, Md. The tots are quadruplets, born last December to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henn. EARTH SHIFTING THREATENS TOWN . . . Two hardy members of the opposite sex, residents of Welch, W. Va., brave a stroll on the buckled streets of the town after sections of the little city started to sag alarmingly because of a mysterious shifting of the earth. Huge cracks appeared in several large buildings, and inhabitants were fearful that their homes would be destroyed. The custom is to regard Russia as unconquerable because of her vast spaces. Hitler’s military mistake was in attempting to devour more than he could chew. No one seems to think of Rus sia’s far vaster, outer circumference of defense, which is really too extensive to be defensible. But these considerations run beyond current military realities. The Russia which has become so aggressive in the world of politics, does not comprise eight million square miles, but the few square miles occupied by its few thousand political leaders, chiefly in a few large cities (say Moscow and Leningrad). Russia could be effectively isolated in war from the rest of the world without much difficulty. On the other hand, the atomic missile and other bombing rocket threats against her are somewhat dulled by her farflung distribution of industry (except oil). For our part, defense against use of such missiles is our most vital necessary concern. We are protected everywhere except in the air. We are protected in every way excepting from atomic possibilities and missiles. In these baskets most of our eggs may now be put. We must think of atomic defense, not offense. We must concentrate on air and missile protection. WRIGHT PATTERSON Stolen Fruits Are 'Sweetest D URING boyhood days in Iowa I was taught that it was wicked to stealthily appropriate the other fellow’s watermelons. Later, for more than half a century, I was never tempted. Now, living in a small community, I have a water melon vine in my own back yard— but that vine is rooted in a neigh bor’s garden. The friendly, neigh borly argument has ‘been over the question: “Whose melons are those in my back yard?” To settle it, I ate the melons. • • • If we have to fight the next war across the North Pole we will find it hard sledding, espe cially for the ground troops. + -dr IWO JIMA, TWO YEARS LATER . . . Two years after V-J Day, the once bloody and embattled isle of Iwo Jima presents a peaceful, if barren, appearance. Two members of the present United States garrison there are looking at the flag on the memorial erected to the men of the 28th regiment, fifth marine division. TRACTORS TO THE ARGENTINE . . . Members of the institute of Argentine trade promotion are shown seated on some of the new type tractors scheduled for shipment to Argentina where they will be used to cultivate that country’s vast wheat fields. The tractors are lined np outside the factory at Manayunk, Pa. There are 1,000 of them ready for shipment to the Sonth American nation. TURKISH TRACK STAR . . . Long distance runner Esref Avdin of Is tanbul, who came 10,000 miles to run 10,000 meters in national AAU meet, liked the U. 8. so well ho decided to stay and enroll in Uni versity of Nebraska. DOG DAYS MADE EASY ... At this stage in the life (all one month of it) ot Corky the pup, the only thing he can lick is an ice cream cone. Corky, who belongs to Joan Struck, 16, of Milwaukee, Wis., turned to ice cream as an escape from the heat. RECORD BREAKER . . . MaJ. Howard (Deacon) Hively, AAF pilot of Norman, Okla., made a record-breaking round trip in a P-80 Shooting Star jet plane from Mitchell Field, L. I., to Washing ton, D. C., and back. BACK TOGETHER . . . Mrs. Flora Van Buskirk (left) of Lem mon, £>! D., and her twin sister, Mrs. Cora Scougall of San Fran cisco, celebrated their joint birth day anniversaries in San Francis co as a climax to their first visit together in 32 years. AILING HIPPO . . . Pete the hip po, his Bronx zoo attendants final ly decided, was feeling poorly. He was listless during the day and suffered from insominia at night. It turned out he was suffering from the heat. Buys Cone With $50 Bill; Trouble Begins Big Sanitation Need Is Shown 100 Million D. S. Families Can Use Improvements, Wide Survey Finds. WASHINGTON. — More than 100 million Americans need improved water supplies and waste disposal facilities, a nationwide survey of sanitation needs indicates. The United States public health service said that the cost of rem edying the condition is estimated at $7,834,581,000. "This represents,” the service said, "a minimum sum that should be spent to reduce the incidence or potential incidence of filth-borne diseases such as dysentery, diar rhea and typhoid fever.” The sanitary engineering division of the health service, in making the survey, found that almost 40 per cent of the needed construction of facilities "is at least at the plan ning stage.” Conclusions Listed. Health service officials described the study as “the most complete in ventory of basic sanitary needs ever compiled for the nation.” Sur geon Gen. Thomas Parran said: ''A sanitary environment for ev eryone is a basic requirement for a national health program. By fur nishing data on the volume of con struction needs, the survey will guide future action aimed at pro viding nation - wide protection against filth-borne diseases." The survey, which consisted of a study of the sanitation facilities of 78 million persons in 5,800 commu nities, came up with these conclu sions: The nation needs 2.2 billion dol lars in water works construction to serve more than 81 million persons in towns and cities. Sewerage facilities are needed by 85 million persons in communities of over 200 population at a cost of approximately 3.7 billion dollars. Rural Area. Another 1.6 billion dollars in con struction is needed to provide “de cent sanitation for 27 million per sons living in rural homes with un satisfactory water supplies and for 33 million rural residents who lack adequate waste disposal facilities.” The report also said that only 12 million persons in rural areas “have reasonably good water.” Cost of needed garbage collection and disposal facilities for the nation is estimated at 166 million dollars.- The health service, in its sum mary of the report, declared: “Results indicate that more than two million persons, living in com munities of over 200 population, have no community water supply systems and 79 million have sys tems needing improvements. Near ly 11 million live in communities for which no water supply improve ments are scheduled. More than six million persons in towns and cities need new sewerage systems; over 79 million need improved systems; and only about six and a half mil lion are served by adequate sys tems at present.” U. S. Is Exporting Radios To Europe at Record Rate WASHINGTON. — Radios, scarce in this country a comparatively short time ago, now are being ex ported at a record rate. A new high volume of over 60 million dollars for this year is "practically cer tain,” the commerce department said. The department said that radio exports during the first four months totaled $31,175,055, more than five times as much as in the correspond ing months of last year. That is equivalent to an annual rate of $93,- 566,000 a year, but the department doubted that would be attained. It said the biggest block to main taining the current rate is the shrinkage of dollar reserves of many foreign countries. Winston Churchill Elected to Revolutionary War Society HARTFORD, CONN. — Winston Churchill, wartime prime minister of Great Britain, was elected to the Connecticut chapter. Society of the Cincinnati. It is an organization of descendants of officers in the Amer ican army which fought England in the Revolutionary war. He was the first Englishman to be made a member of the society. Churchill is a great-great-grand son of Re'uben Murray of Guilford. He said in a letter read at the an nual meeting here that he would be happy to accept membership. Five Wrens Born in Overalls Pocket; Snug as Bug in Rug STAMFORD, CONN. — A pair of wrens that set up housekeeping in a pocket of Warren Simmons’ over alls a month ago, chirped the an nouncement of the arrival of five little wrens. All were snug and comfortable in the spacious pocket, protected by a flap which the wrens used as an awning to keep out the rain. The wrens took possession of the trousers when Mrs. Simmons hung them on the clothesline to dry. Rather than evict the birds, Sim mons bought another pair. Angel-Faced Youngster Finds Wealth Embarrassing. NEWARK, N. J. — A 10-year-olu boy with an angelic face was order ing a six-cent chocolate ice cream cone when he found, to his embar rassment, that he had nothing less than a $50 bill. His predicament attracted the attention of Police Sgt. Edward O’Mara, who thereupon subjected him to a psychological inquisition and what is known as a quick frisk. The former produced confusion and the latter a $100 bill. At police headquarters the young ster was recognized as an old of fender, with a police record going back to when he was 5 years old. Realizing that the jig was up, he confessed that he and a 9-year-old boy had robbed a safe in the White- head and Hoag company plant. They entered the place by climbing a high wire fence and smashing a rear window. In the warehouse they found two safes. The first was full of valuable metals, which the boys rejected. The other safe held coupon certifi cates and about $300 in large bills. They took the money and departed for a weekend spree at movies and soda fountains. The parents of the 9-year-old boy brought him to police headquarters, and he was found to have $11 on his person. He said that he threw some money down a sewer, where detectives fished out a $100 bill. The boys’ names were not made public. Police said the elder had been in custody at least twice be fore for shoplifting in 5 and 10 cent stores. Bridegroom Is in Hospital During Wedding in Church HASTINGS, NEB.—It was a beautiful wedding but the bride groom missed it. The organist at the First Meth odist church played nuptial mu sic. The soloist sang, the candles were lighted and the bridal party welcomed some 100 guests. Then the Rev. Ralph Rasmus sen rose to his feet and told the assemblage that Robert Kellogg and Miss Phyllis Osterbuhr had been married a few hours ear lier so that Kellogg could be rushed to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. Judge Releases Embezzler; Assails Bank for Low Pay DETROIT. — Federal Judge Frank A. Picard refused to send a Commonwealth bank employee to jail for embezzlement after accus ing the institution’s officials of "dangling large sums of money” before him and of underpaying him. The judge suspended a one-year- and-a-day sentence upon Arthur Al fred Craig, 42, even though Craig admitted taking $2,500 in a two-year period by juggling service charge records. He placed Craig on proba tion for two years. > "I’m not condoning you,” Judge Picard told the defendant. “Steal ing is stealing. It is never justi fied.” In questioning Craig, the judge brought out that he had been em ployed by the bank for 15, years and was head of the analysis de partment at a salary averaging $250 monthly. "The bank informs me you were one of its best men,” Judge Picard said. “You worked late hours and appeared to have the bank’s inter est at heart. A man with your posi tion at the bank has to maintain a certain standing in the community. If they expect you to wear a white shirt at work, they should pay a white shirt salary.” Poultry Prices Reported At Same Level as 1926 CHICAGO.— Harried housewives, confronted by ever-mounting costs in the food budget, were assured by the Poultry and Egg National board that at least one commodity chicken—can be purchased for the same price today as in 1926. Using the recognized base year of 1926, poultry values today are 100 as compared with 163 for all foods, Homer I. Huntington, general man ager of the board, reports. The fig ure is based on the commodity in dex of the department of labor, which uses 1926 as a base year to record the rise and fall of wholesale prices of basic commodities. Retail prices, which determine the cost of living, generally reflect the whole sale prices, Huntington adds. Reasons advanced for the low cost trend of poultry today as com parted with other foods include: High cost of grain in forcing fowl to market; large freezer supply, and increased efficiency in produc ing and processing poultry. Brothers Married Same Day; Wives of Each Ask Divorce ST. JOSEPH, MO.—Leo W. Mun son and Floyd E. Munson, brothers, were married on the same day—and their wives both filed suits for di vorce the same day. The brothers took brides at Troy. Kas., on June 4, one in a morning ceremony and one*in the afternoon. The divorce suits were filed July 15 in circuit court in this city. CLASSIFIED DE P A R T M ENT BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. 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