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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. ,M "" WALTER SHEAD Three Items Consume Budget "IT WHENEVER the cost of food, rent anchclothing consumes YV all the income of the masses of the people, nothing can preretit a depression. That’s solid logic because the people have nothing left to spend for anything else. The bureau of Isftior statistics says that at the present time these three items, food, dothing and rent, are taking more than two-thirds of the average *s income. it makes no difference what the amount of the income is, whether it's $20 or $100 a week, the fact remains that the con- anmer’s dollar is worth only 51 cents in a grocery and 55 cents hi a clothing store and his total dollar for everything else is worth •mtf 64 cents. Those who attempt to blame high prices on exports in our efforts to aid starving Europe are barking up the wrong tree. For instance, from Mar. 1946, to May, 1947, our exports of meat were only 2.2 per cent of tathl production yet wholesale meat prices increased 83 per cent. The •ngoBizations which a year ago were heatedly berating OPA are now in noisy argument over who is to blame for what has happened since. ★ ★ ★ ★ H, /. PHILLIPS The Golden Touch Vaele Sam, reacting to that pro posal to redistribute the Fort Knox gold, might quote from Hamlet: ‘‘Oh, my offense is rank, it smells to Bevia.” The understatement of the year! • Prices are up now where we art compelled to get along with almost everything we don’t need. • • • ^ Maybe Emie, on the other hand, has Ws Keats mixed up and would put it: “Marti have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly forts and metals seen.’’ * * • At Los Alamos, atomic energy has been harnessed to do peaceful work. We want to get a little to open a hotel bureau drawer. • • • “The Soviet government has the Mtest inspect and confidence to ward the Bulgarian court set up by jostioe.”—From the Moscow reply to an American note. ★ ★ Ben Ames Williams has written a book of 720,000 words. This is 230,000 more than in “Gone With The Wind.” A title “Gone With The Sec ond Wind’’ is hereby suggested. • • • Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, once chancellor of Austria and who lost all through compromising with Hit ler, is in America. He says all he wants is to live a quiet life, perhaps in Brooklyn. It is our guess that he will Just have to keep compro mising. • • • Maybe we had better turn over Fori Knox to the British, at that, before we wake up some day and find some body has won it as a prize on a radio quiz show. ★ ★ PAUL MALLON GOP Presidential Possibilities ^ M UCH may happen before the Republican presidential convention, but as it looks now, Taft is out in front as most likely candidate, with Dewey a doubtful second. Half a dozen are bunched for third place. The somewhat guarded endorsement of Governor Dewey for the youth draft military training at the Legion convention brought him forward on a national subject in response to the grumbling heard in Republican ranks that he had not taken forthright stands on big issues of the day. His Washington friends say he will speak out more nationally and inter nationally, from now on. There is no question of the unanimous sup port he will get from New York. Results of Taft’s speaking tour will largely tell the tale for the Ohioan, although his candidacy has received stronger private growth within the party than has been advertised. Last spring the swing was to Dewey because of Taft’s connection with union reform; now a reaction has set in attributable to the growth of feeling that the bill may not be unpopular. Both General Eisenhower and Governor Warren are credited with being sincere in their recent renunciations of incipient campaigns. Be fore their public disavowal, they let friends circulate the word of theii lack of interest, and then made it public. Eisenhower does not think he will be an important figure, despite the Kansas City campaign fot him but the presidency of Columbia university is a good place from which to view efforts in his behalf academically. The California delegation dis- counts current reports of a coalition between Dewey and Warren. WALTER WINCH ELL Notes of a Bystander The candidate profiting most from all the Eisenhower talk is Stassen. The more talk for Eisenhower, the harder it becomes for Dewey and Taft to crash through. After Stas- seo’s Washington press conference (in which he suavely posey'd the Taft-Hartley bill and said that fur ther aid to Britain should be stopped if the English socialize the steel in dustry), one gal reporter wistfully said: “And he used to be such a nice liberal, too." All that Stassen is trying to do is show the GOP big gies that he really belongs to the club and wouldn’t be such a bad guy to nominate. DREW PEARSON* Remember when Bilbo cried poverty and was allowed to stay on the senate payroll at $50,000 per annum (including staffers’ expenses) to pay for his opera tions? Now he bequeaths $100,- 000. Of your money! Topic “A” in South America wasn’t President Truman's visit bul what Evita did when she returned from her 78-day Yurropean trip and found that Peron had installed a beauty contest winner in the Presi dential Palace of Olivos. . . . In A1 fred Dunhill’s store (Radio City) all the male and female solicitors ar« compelled to wear gloves. ★ ★ Our No. 1 Enemy—Rats r MAY sound hard to believe, but the huge shortage of this year’s com crop could be largely offset if the American people were able to elimi nate one factor In their economy—rats. Most people don’t realize it, but one healthy rat eats or spoils around 1M pounds of grain per year. While it’s impossible to count the rat popu lation, interior department experts estimate that rats are almost double the human population—probably totaling 250 million in the U. S. Entirely aside from the disease which rats spread from privy to pantry and the havoc they wreak upon the waterfronts of Amer ican seaports, their effect upon the food supply of the United States is almost beyond realization. Between the time a farmer stores his corn in the fall and cleans out his comcrib in the summer, rats may have eaten the difference between profit and loss for the year. In addition, they spoil as much corn as they eat. If the food destroyed by rats could be shipped overseas, this alone would about save Europe from its current danger of starvation. At present one government agency, the fish and wildlife service ol the interior department, is working on rat eradication. Handicapped by lack of funds, government rat eradicators are able to do little beyond circulating anti-rat propaganda. ★ ★ ★ ★ ^ WRIGHT PATTERSON Inflation Helps Debtors T IOSE who are in debt are the only ones who can profit from ii.iiation, from cheap money. The United States government, as the greatest debtor in the nation, stands to profit most from the inflation we / s0 greatly fear. The government has premised to pay some 260 billion dollars to those who hold its bonds. In that promise there is no specif! cation as to the value of the dollar: the creditor is to receive. Runaway inflation could make our dollar: practically valueless, but they sth would be dollars. The best gambh would be to hold on, if the govern ment does not call the bonds, unti the value of the dollar comes back HIGH COST OF LIVING PROBE . . . Mrs. Nessa Feldman of the League of Women Shoppers presented her case against soaring food prices in graphic fashion when she appeared before a joint congressional sub-com mittee which was holding hearings on the abnormally high cost of living. She demonstrated the difference between prices of the same foods in 1939 and 1947. Numerous other groups also appeared before the com mittee, headed by Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (Rep., Vt.) to protest against prices. WIND OF FURY STRIKES SOUTH . . . Rolling in from the Atlantic ocean, the worst hurricane this coun try had experienced since 1935 slashed destructively across the southern third of Florida, leaving in its wake desolate scenes like this one at West Palm Beach. Veering out across the Gulf of Mexico, the swirling winds then struck savagely at New Orleans and Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss. Thousands in Florida and along the Gulf coast were left homeless. Damage to property and crops soared into millions of dollars. FOOTBALL PRACTICE DE LUXE . . . Tough, cigar-chewing sports writers told Coach Jack Harding that this was a silly way to train the University of Miami football team for such opponents as Texas Chris tian, South Carolina, Vanderbilt and Alabam^ His reply was brutally frank: “This part of training is being conducted especially for newsreel men and news photographers." The hurricane-battered Miami chamber of commerce probably didn’t object to a little sunshine and pretty girl publicity either. G.I.S HOLDING THE BORDER . . . American s&Idiers of the 88th divi sion are shown on duty at the recently established provisional border between Italy and Yugoslavia pending arrival of Italian and Yugo slav troops. When Marshal Tito’s forces did move into position, they forced a number of “incidents" all along the line by attempting to move up into Italian territory. PERFECT GAME . . . Ruth Elston of Toronto, Canada, en tered softball's hall of fame when she pitched a perfect game against a Fort Worth team in a tournament at Cleveland. She struck out nine, allowed no hits or walks. It was the first perfect game in 15 years. RIGHT OFF THE VINE . . . This daughter of la belle France doesn’t even bother to look for wine. She prefers the juice of the grape unfermented and makes a picture of ecstasy as she demol ishes a bunch of France’s choicest. High Nazi Chief Caught in China Former Gestapo Leader Is Found in Hole Where He Hid Two Years. PEIPING, CHINA.—The bedrag gled one-time ruthless chief of the German gestapo in North China and Mongolia sighed with relief when he was dragged from an earthen pit under a rambling old Peiping house by Chinese police. It was the melo dramatic climax of a two-year hunt. “I’m glad it’s over. I do not believe I could have stood it much longer. I haven’t seen the sun for two years," gasped Charles Schmidt, who was Himmler’s swag gering bully boy here for 18 months at the height of the war. Emaciated, scantily clad and coughing with what he said was tu berculosis contracted during his hid ing, Schmidt was meek but garru lous. He said he weighed 228 pounds when he went into hiding but now weighed less than 150. Can’t Explain It. In a driving rainstorm, he was hustled off to the airfield for re moval to Shanghai. Beside his name on the list of wanted Nazis was the notation “believed implicated in murder,” but Peiping authorities were unable to explain it Schmidt himself said he had been sought ever since Germany surren dered in May, 1945; first by the Jap anese, who feared and hated him, and then by the Allies after Japan’s defeat. After fleeing to Tokyo and then back to Peiping in 1945, Schmidt said he had gone into hid ing in the house where he was found. It was the home of a middle aged German widow of a Chinese doctor in Peiping’s east city—a building full of broken furniture and disor dered rubble. A Chinese reporter who was the only witness of the arrest said the police made a long search of the nouse—their third in recent months —and finally rolled back a rug and found a trapdoor. Beneath it, Schmidt crouched in a hole about five feet deep and four feet square. Clad in Rags. "Don't move or we will shoot,” a policeman warned in English. Clad only in an undershirt and overalls, Schmidt was lifted out and thrown on the floor. “Mr. Charley Schmidt,” said the police captain unnecessarily, “we are looking for you.” “Yes,” Schmidt replied wearily. “Two years is a long time.” He volunteered that he possessed no gun and had destroyed all his papers long ago. Asked about his successor, Adel- bert Schulze, who vanished from Peiping Just as Americans were pre paring to fly him to Shanghai for repatriation, Schmidt was con temptuous. “I heard he was working for the Russians,” Schmidt said. “He is a fool. No man can work for more than one master.” Hunt Amphibious Monster On Day and Night Watch SHANGHAI.—Villagers and peas ants around Pootung, across the Whangpoo river from Shanghai, have established a day and night watch for an amphibiods monster which they believe is carrying off children. Descriptions of the alleged beast vary, some saying it is half-man, naif-ape, others that it resembles a huge wild boar. The neighborhood has no doubts about its existence, however, and has erected a bamboo watchtower which is manned constantly. Volunteers also patrol the creek banks. The China Press said a 30-year-old woman was killed by a posse which threw her into a pond when she re fused to confess to any knowledge af the monster. Russians Grant Amnesty To Thousands of ‘Nazis’ BERLIN. — Admitting that some former active Nazis still were hold ing public offices in Soviet-occupied territory, the Russians granted a political amnesty to the thousands of “little Nazis” in their zone of Germany. • A proclamation to this effect was issued by Marshal Vassily D. Sokolovsky, Russian military gov ernor. It granted the right to vote and to hold office to all Germans in the Russian zone who had formerly been nominal members of the Nazi party and who “have not committed crimes against the peace and secu rity of the peoples of Germany or other nations.” Thirteen Buffalo Become 5,200 Pounds of Good Meat COLDWATER, MICH. — Thirteen buffalo that ran at large, trampling lawns and frightening Coldwater’s citizens, were just 5,200 pounds of tasty meat ready for sale to bid ders. Their brief bid for freedom from the buffalo ranch operated by Ed win Butters, four miles southwest of here, was brought to an abrupt halt by a posse headed by Sheriff Wil liam Bums and Police Chief Harry Hutchins. The authorities first tried to cap ture the animals as they ran into the city, providing a free Wild West ■how, but finally had to shoot them. Decrease Reported In Army Enlistments High Intelligence Standards Result in Decline. WASHINGTON.—Eighty thousand men are needed monthly to bring the army up to n*rmal strength, ii was disclosed by the war depart ment. New fall enlistments are running 25 per cent short of the number required for bare replace ment of discharges, an officer said. War department figures show thal enlistments for the first seven months of 1947 averaged 22,862 a month. The army estimates that 80,000 new Recruits a month are needed to keep strength at present levels, with still larger enlistments necessary to build up to the 1,070,- 000 men authorized force. Officials said the army could dou ble its enlistments immediately if it could afford to scrap its new high standards for admission. In one month, the army rejected approx imately half of the men who applied for enlistments—in the majority of cases for failure to pass intelligence tests. The army made its "entrance exam” considerably tougher at the beginning of this year, because ex perience had proved that men of higher intelligence were needed to hold down the many technical jobs in the postwar service. Before the passing grade was raised. 22 out of every 100 prospec tive volunteers failed to pass the test. In a recent month, the aver age was up to 35 failures out of 100 applicants. In addition, 10 per cent of the men who appeared at recruiting offices couldn’t pass the physical examina tions, and a small percentage was rejected for what the army calls “moral disqualifications.” High war department officers are firm in their determination not to lower the army's standards in order to make up recruiting deficits. "We tried it once two years ago,” a spokesman said. "We threw open the ranks to almost anyone but idiots, and the result was nothing but trouble. We just can’t use dull ards in the army now.” Diver Comes Up With ^eeth Adrift in River EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.—Wal ter Ford, whose false teeth popped out and sank in 30 feet of water when he gasped for air on reaching the surface after an underwater swim, paid a profes sional diver $75 to retrieve them. Ford arranged forCharles Delps to dive for the teeth, valued by their owner at $150. He agreed to pay $15 if the dive was un successful, $75 if it was success ful. Deips donned a shallow water mask and dived into the Missis sippi river backwater. After a 10-minute search he broke stir- face with Ford’s set of uppers. “The water was so cold down there I heard the teeth chatter ing,” he said. Thirsty industries Face Shortage of Pure Water PHILADELPHIA. — Add current shortages: A growing scarcity of clean water for America’s increas ingly thirsty industries. The reason for this seeming para dox comes from Richard H. De- Mott, vice president of SKF Indus tries, Inc., who says that the short age is the result of a 20-year lag in production of high-speed water pumping and purification facilities. An estimated three billion dollars must be spent by government and industry for new equipment to avert a “drouth” of unpolluted water, he declares. “On many important rivers and streams water becomes polluted rel atively high upstream and is used and reused so frequently that pres ent limited purification facilities cannot cope with the task,” DeMott says. U. S. industry “drinks” approxi mately 21 billion gallons of this basic element a day—equivalent to twice the flow of the Hudson river. Paper manufacturers consume the greatest volume of water, De- Mott explains, accounting for three billion gallons a day. Other large users include oil refineries, chemi cal plants and food processors. “Continuing demands for larger pumps and other equipment that will increase pump capacity, indi cate that industry is seriously con cerned about additional water sup plies for the immediate future,” DeMott says. Paralyzed Girl Prizes Eighth Grade Diploma O’NEILL, NEB.—Like thousands of other boys and girls all over the country, Donna Mae Fuhrer felt a little bit more grown up after receiv ing her eighth grade diploma. But hers was an extra special one, representing unusual courage and the loving cooperation of teacher* at the little rural school near her home. ''Also unlike others, her diplo ma was accompanied by a letter of congratulation from Gov. Val Peter son. Commencement exercises were held at Donna Mae’s bedside. She never has been able to attend school and the teachers spent their spare time tutoring her. She has been paralyzed since infancy. 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