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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. PAUL MALLON British Blame U. S. for Plight T HE latest good reporter to survey the British plight is Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington Post. Meyer reported to his paper recently the British public has not been told “the facts of life” regarding their plight, and also that socialism simply has failed to bring the needed production through which Britain could recover. Everyone knows this outside Britain. It has been evident almost officially since a British embassy official here conceded last February Britain had coal in the ground of workable thickness for a production at economic prices of 250 million tons a year for 200 years at least, but was not able last winter to mine enough of it to keep herself warm. (He blamed shortage of miners, of course, not socialism.) The truth behind all this is, Britain’s political crisis is worse than her economic crisis. Her socialist politicians are trying to save their own skins with the British people by blaming us, rather than themselves, for her condition. With an unbelievable propaganda campaign, they even succeeded in saving themselves from blame for their food shortage by convincing the British we were not giving them enough food. They did not let the public know their own socialist experiments with land seizures had threatened private farmers and discouraged production. Now they are compromising slightly on their socialist planning (delaying further steps for a while, they say) and are trying to dig themselves out by focusing accusations against their leading and only benefactor, the United States. ★ ★ ★ ★ H. /. PHILLIPS The Play’s the Thing Dear Ed—Well, I am in the show business. A feller dropped in on the farm a few weeks ago and asked if I was using my barn. I thought he was just a city man who had sublet his apartment and couldn’t get it back. I told him I had some live stock in it, some old buggies, quite a little hay, et cetera. He explained he wanted the barn for the drama. ♦ I got them to sign a contract agreeing to return the bam in good condition, not to worry the cows and never to look for an egg until the hens got off the nests. Then they brought in as crazy a lot of folks as I ever seen and things be gan to hum. ★ ★ Well, I haven’t had any peace since. Both cows are sick, the horse ran away and every hen has stopped laying except a couple that are nesting in the woods. * Shakespeare said the play’s the thing but he wasn’t counting on fresh milk and eggs when he said it. » If I ever get my farm back the drama can stay in the city for the rest of my life. Next week they’re putting on “Two Orphans” and the wife and I are in shape to play both parts. Your loving uncle, Chet Hostetters. ★ ★ WALTER SHEAD Lobbyists Lead Cooperative Fight TF THE number of lobbyists involved is any criterion, a bitter fight is in * the offing in connection with the effort to remove tax exemption of farm cooperatives. The National Tax Equality association, which is spearheading the drive, has three registered lobbyists on the job. They are Paul L. Court ney, annual salary $10,000; Joseph F. Leopold, annual salary $8,500, and Clare A. Johnson, salary not specified. In addition, there are registered lobbyists from tax equality committees of New York, Indiana, Kentucky, Colorado, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Michigan, Missouri, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Te^as, with recorded expenditures ranging from $500 to $3,700 for the first six months of 1947. Leading the fight on behalf of the cooperatives are six registered lob byists, including John H. Davis, salary $11,000, William Heckendom, sal ary $7,500, and John J. Higgle, salary $7,500, representing the National Council of Farm Cooperatives; Jerry Voorhis, salary $7,500, representing the Cooperative League of the United States; R. Wayne Newton, salary $10,000, representing the National Association of Cooperatives, and Russell Smith, salary $8,400, representing the National Farmers Union. ★ ★ ★ ★ WALTER WINCHELL Notes of a Newspaper Man President Truman, in an inter view, stated the problems of his office have not in the least affected his health. The Truman constitution wouldn’t be quite so strong if he worried a little more about the sedi- tionists undermining the American constitution . . . The Republicans still are trying to find out who’s re sponsible for the war. What Ameri cans would like to know is who’s re sponsible for this peace. Our Oh, Lord! Dept.-. It happened at the 25th anniversary dinner of the New York Newspaper Women’s club. Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt was being intro duced by one of the town’s food edi tors, Edith Barber. Edith intoned-. "And now, one of our members you all know—Mrs. THEODORE Roose velt!” DREW PEARSON Quotation Marksmanship: George Santayana: There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. . . . D.' C. Peattie: Noon, the hour when bushes tuck shade beneath them like skirts. The 1935 University of Georgia yearbook, “Pandora," contains the photos of 12 of its graduating stu dents on a page titled “All-Ameri can.” The head shots of the students are carried along with the likeness of a huge jackass (which was the editor's way of showing the students pictured as the outstanding “jerks” of their class). Know whose picture leads all the rest? Herman Tal- madge! ★ ★ The Merry-Go-Round T HE supposedly economical senate spent $68,000 for telegrams in one month alone. The telegraph bill included thousands of words wired to local newspapers from the Congressional Record. . . . Four New Eng landers, Speaker Joe Martin of the house. Sens. Henry Cabot Lodge and Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts and Ray Baldwin of Connecticut, are not averse to vice presidential promotion. . . . Looks as if the Puerto Rican government is playing politics with its taxes. After the P. R. government decided to go into the hotel business, it suddenly slapped a higherto unheard of tax assessment on the Condado Beach hotel—its future chief competitor. Despite the fact that the long arm of the law is panting hotter down the back of organized labor, AFL’s Bill Green and CIO’s Phil Murray still can’t get together on labor unity. All Landon, ex-govemor of Kansas, came a cropper in trying to get a radio station at Inglewood, Colo., largely because of Federal Communica tions commission rules that radio stations must be locally owned. After he applied for a license, more than 100 affidavits poured into FCC saying Landon's station was unneeded in Inglewood. Landon withdrew, later got a station in Leavenworth, Kas., on his own stamping ground. ★ ★ ★ ★ WRIGHT PATTERSON History Will Judge Debacle A DMIRAL HALSEY, in his mem oirs published in Collier’s, calls a spade a spade in denouncing the sacrificing of Admiral Kimmel and General Short as the goats for the Pearl Harbor disaster. For Pearl Harbor, Admiral Halsey vaguely blames the American people. But it was not the American people or congress who employed an alien German to erect greatly needed radar equipment, and then coun tenanced needless delay in its erec tion; it was not the American people or congress who failed to give the commanders vital information. The American people or congress were not responsible for Pearl Harbor. LEGION COMMANDER . . . James F. O’Neill, 49, Manchester, N. H., chief of police, is the new national commander of the Amer ican Legion, elected at the Legion convention in New York to suc ceed Paul Griffith. v He is a vet eran of both wars. AUXILIARY HEAD . . . New first lady of the American Legion aux iliary is Mrs. Lee William Hutton of Excelsior, Minn., who was un opposed for the office of national president. She succeeds Mrs. Norton H. Pearl of Detroit, Mich. RICH GIRL, NEW HUBBY . . . American tobacco heiress Doris Duke is pictured with her second husband, Porifirio Rubirosa, after their marriage in Paris. He is Dominican Republic’s charge d’af- fairs in Paris. NOT CUTE BUT COSTLY . . . The price tag on this character— a shoe-billed stork—read $1,400, but the Philadelphia zoo paid it. He is sometimes called a whale- head, and his habitat is the upper reaches of the Nile. PERSIAN PRINCESS . . . Her Royal Highness Princess Asharaf Reza of Persia poses graciously with her favorite puppy. She was at the Persian legation in Stock holm, Sweden, after flying from Teheran, Her old home town. CASH ON HAND FOR VETERANS . . . Howard D. Potter, veteran of 12 years’ service in the U. S. marines, was among the Washing ton, D. C., vets who sweated out pay lines to cash their terminal leave bonds. Many U. S. cities reported big rushes on banks the first few days after bonds became payable. MOCK-UP OF NEW AIR CARGO GIANT . . . Designed to carry heavier loads than any plane yet introduced is this “skytruck” which will haul cargoes of heavy freight such as large military trucks and big field guns. Photo shows a full-scale ground model made of wood of the CW-32, illustrating how the entire tail section of the plane can be raised for loading cargo. BACK FROM THE JAMBOREE . . . Jerry Strader (left) of Fort Worth, Tex., who takes his souvenir hunting seriously, compares his heavily loaded pack with the Scotch kilt worn by his pal, Claude Goldsmith of Port Arthur, Tex., as they arrived from Europe on U. S. army transport. They were among the thousands of American boy scouts who returned after attending the international boy scout jamboree at Moissons, France. GOVERNMENT STORAGE CAVE . . . Considerable interest has been aroused concerning underground caverns lately, ever since rumors began to fly about alleged atomic bomb assembly plants and storage dumps the U. S. army was supposed to be constructing underground near Albuquerque, N. M. Although having nothing to do with atomic bombs, the cavern in this photo has been used by agriculture de partment for storing perishable foods. Hitler in Panic Near War's End Papers Show Reich in Full Military Defeat; Find Staff Records. LONDON. — The downfall of the third reich was brought about by utter national deterioration and tctel military defeat, a British ad miralty report says. Its conclusions were based on captured documents which lay to rest forever the legend of an unconquerable German army. "Germany suffered total military defeat, and there was no possibility of ascribing that defeat to anything except military conquest,” the re port said. Documents which detail the fuehrer conferences between Hitler and his staff in the final weeks of the war, form the basis for the re port. The papers were among the German archives captured by Brit ish and American intelligence offi cers and contained a day-by-day account of confusion and panic in the German high command. The beginning of the end was in early 1945. when shortages of coal, manpower, and oil made Ger many's situation desperate. Shows Self Up. "By the beginning of 1945 Hitler’s ability had deteriorated and he showed himself quite incapable of viewing the war situation as a whole,” the report said. “Where one would expect to find an acceptance of military defeat leading to plans being made for guerrilla warfare and for continuing the fight underground there are in stead nothing but a series of tac tical schemes for bolstering individ ual sections of the three fronts, neither related to nor coordinated with any general strategy. “The conferences give a clear picture of Hitler and his staff des perate and so harassed that they could not think beyond the imme diate requirements of battle.” Hitler ordered his “scorched earth” policy sent to all commands on March 19. Indicating dissension in the Ger man army, Hitler on March 27 or dered an investigation of officers occupying the posts of fort com manders in the Channel Islands. He said these should be filled mainly by naval officers, “since many for tresses have been given up, but no ships were ever lost without fight ing to the last man.” To add to Hitler’s confusion. Gen eral Eisenhower, on March 31, is sued “instruction to the wehrmacht (German army),” advising the German troops to surrender. U-Boats a Flop. After long trials Germany’s vaunted new U-boats were ready for operation at the end of March. However, during the last five weeks of the war Allied advances squeezed the U-boats out of the Baltic ports. In April, 57 of the U-boats were lost, the highest monthly total for the war. The new U-boats were virtually useless because of the fuel shortage. The manpower shortage and lack of arms also had become desperate. "Allied troops pressed on into the center of Germany, and the position of the wehrmacht became hopeless . . . but as the disorganization in Germany increased . . . Hitler’s armies and air forces that he so diligently moved into action were nothing more than colored pins. on a map.” Hitler’s orders convinced Goering of his insanity and he attempted to take over the leadership. Hitler or dered Goering’s execution, the re port said, but Goering was only re lieved of his command. In the meantime Hitler received press re ports that Himmler had sued for peace with Britain and the United States and ordered Doenitz to take “immediate and decisive action” against those in North Germany. Two Men Exchange Wives After Double Divorce Suit MISSOULA, MONT. — Marcus Daly III, grandson of the late Mar cus Daly, early Montana copper mining magnate, was a principal in friendly wife-switching ceremonies here. District Judge C. E. Comer granted divorces to Daly and Har old J. Clark, Montana State univer sity student, from their wives, Jan ice MacKellary Daly and Florice W. Clark, on almost identical charges of cruelty. The four then stepped across the courthouse hall and Justice of the Peace Ralph L. Starr married Daly to Mrs. Clark and Clark to Mrs. Daly. The four newlyweds left in Daly’s car. Priority to Be Given Vets’ Job Complaints, Says Chief WASHINGTON.—Secretary of La bor Schwellenbach set up priorities for handling veterans’ complaints against employers accused of fail ure to grant them re-employment rights under the selective service law. Schwellenbach announced that he had temporarily assigned concilia tion commissioners and field repre sentatives of the apprentice training service to handle the veterans’ re employment cases, which have been piling up at the rate of 3,500 a month. He said the commissioners would give priority to these cases over the other tasks of the concilia tion and apprentice services. Scientists Discover Two lost' Elements Atomic Barrage Produces the Missing Factors. BERKELEY, CALIF. — Two ra dioactive elements that existed two billion years ago were reported re discovered by cyclotronic bombard ment. Elements 85 and 87, the “missing links” in the periodic table of ele ments, have been created syntheti cally by cyclotron and atomic oven transmutation for the first time. The discoveries end a 75-year search for the key to one of the fundamental mysteries of science. Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg and Dr. Al bert Ghiorso of the University of California said the two "missing” elements, now called astatine and francium, existed in nature more than two billion years agq but de cayed into other elements. Research that went into the dis covery of the missing elements, carried out independently by two groups of scientists, was reported in the current issue of Physical Review. Seaborg said the cyclotron dis covery accounted for the missing fourth series of heavy radioactive elements in the periodic table, which has been named the "nep tunium” series since it has the long est period of radioactivity of any of the other elements in the series. The other series contain elements in the uranium, thorium and actin ium groupings—all found previous ly in nature or in the laboratory. Seaborg said the inability ot sci entists to find elements 85 and 87 had been one of science’s mysteries since the table of elements was es tablished in 1871. The table lists elements in the order of their atomic “weight,” determined by the number of protons in the nuclei. He explained the neptunium was the “father” of the series and of the two elements. Like all radioactive elements, they decayed at a fixed rate which in the course of millions of years wiped them out of exist-* ence,” he said. Hunch Saves Baby; Tree Falls on Boy’s Playpen PHILADELPHIA. — A young father followed up a hunch—and it probably saved the life of his year-old son. Benjamin Blank noticed sev eral workmen sawing down a large maple tree near his house as he left for work. As he waved good-by to his only child, gur gling happily in his playpen, he suddenly became worried about the tree and asked a worker where it would fall. “Right out there in the middle of the street, boss—that’s the way we’re sawing it,” shot back th« worker. Blank walked some distance, then tumeB and hurried back, taking the child into the house. Then the tree crashed, ripping off a part of Blank's porch £nd smashing the playpen into bits. Dazed Worker and Rescuer Battle at Fourth Story Up BALTIMORE.—Two construction workers struggled on a scaffold four stories above the ground before hundreds of onlookers. The participants were Edward Jones, 41, who fell ill while chip ping bricks on a downtown build ing, and Warren Catherman, 64. who swung nimself up to the res cue on a boatswain’s chair. When Catherman attempted to steady the dazed man on the wood en perch, Jones started struggling frantically. Catherman said he finally tried to knock Jones out to quiet him, and needed the help of Jesse Walker, 38, to hold him lyhile firemen raised a ladder to take them all to the ground. Jones received hospital treatment for face contusions. Catherman broke a knuckle. • Crippled Girl, 12, Bathes In Lourdes Waters; Walks PARIS. — The newspaper Figaro reported that Sallj Ann O’Leary, the 12-year-old Pittsburgh girl who has been crippled since birth, had taken her first unsupported steps after bathing in the waters at the Shrine of Lourdes. The account said she was “con siderably improved” after her first bath and that she left her wheel chair and took several steps with out aid. 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