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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
] DREW PEARSON
'Future Giants of Army
T HE flight of a pilotless army plane across the Atlantic
gave the first real hint that the air corps is quietly build
ing a nucleus for the use of robot planes in every type of war
fare. Officially this nucleus is known as the experimental
guided missile group, a specialized unit whose activities are
clouded in secrecy. But in time of war, the tiny guided missile group may
spring into the young giant of the army.
Located at Eglin Field, Fla., this unit has not only V-2 rockets, but also
pilotless planes, under its scope. Its pilots and technicians can sit at the
controls of a mother plane and guide a squadron of bombers over a target
several miles away. What is more, they actually can see the target—by
television.
Chief problem now stumping the gnided missile group is how to
operate without a mother plane, or without radio navigation bea
cons in the country to which the plane is flying. The pUotless
bomber that flew the Atlantic to England could not have landed in
enemy territory. Radio guides in England helped it land.
Another difficulty is the electronic brain which now pilots the ships.
Jt is too cumbersome.
All these problems are being mulled over behind locked doors at Eglin
Field, which may become one of the most Important air bases in the world.
In their spare time, the young scientists at Eglin Field have figured
on paper that they could shoot a plane to the moon by packing a booster
charge which would explode after it reached the ionosphere (100 to 150 miles
up). They haven’t yet figured how to bring the rocket back, or any practi
cal reason for wasting millions of the taxpayers’ dollars on the experiment,
WALTER WINCHELL
Memos of a Midnighter
Show folks are worried about the
coming season. Slowest in years.
Many shows ready for production
are being retarded for lack of ma-
zoom. . . . Treasury department fig
ures for the first half of '47 reveal a
drop of almost 27 per cent in the
earnings of performers not in films.
(Stage, night club, vaudeville, et
cetera).
It’s funny to see the manufac
turers lowering the skirt lengths
for housewives. They’ve raised
everything else for them! . . .
The new style summed up:
Long skirts for women; long
faces for men.
Philip Montbatten must be marrying
Princess Elizabeth for love. The shape
England’s in—be couldn’t be marrying
for her money. ... At the Cub
room they were discussing the British
situation. "After all," said a sympa
thizer, "England has gone through
eight lean years." "Sure," was Don
Pallini’s quickie, "leaning on us!"
Town’s meanest crook: The punk
who thefted the counter coin box for
war orphans at Hanson’s. . . . Isn't
that waiter at the Mayflower restau
rant FDR’s former butler (four
years at Albany’s statehouse and
Hyde Park)?
WALTER SHE AD*
It’s the Cost of High Living
I T MIGHT very well be that what the country is suffering from most right
now is the cost of high living instead of the high cost of living. There is
no question but that in maintaining our high standard of living the Ameri
can people are eating more and better than ever before. But the fact re
mains that we are fast using up our reserve of savings and approximately
25 per cent of the people this year are spending more than their income.
The federal reserve board has just issued figures showing that
for the first half of 1947 savings in the nation amounted to only 6.8
per cent of income, or about 11 billion dollars, as compared to 17
per cent of income in 1945 amounting to 29 billion dollars.
With the highest national income in history, about 67 per cent of the
farmers were able to save some money and 20 per cent put away more
than $1,000 in 1946. But they paid off a lot of mortgages and other debts.
★ ★ ★ ★
H. I. PHILLIPS
Playing the Food Market
("So hectic were the changes in food
prices that bidders followed quotations
the way bullish spectators followed
stock market prices in 1929.")—News
item. —*—
“What’s American Barnyard Hen-
Egg?” we asked our broker today.
"Well, you know about eggs; they
can drop; in fact, they have to. The
tendency of an egg is to come down
rather than go up."
“Would you say we could put a
egg away and forget it?” we asked.
“Hardly,” our broker admitted,
“even with the best refrigeration.”
»
“How’s lamb doing in this
market? A friend of mine gave
me a tip on it.”
“Lambs are fast movers,”
was the reply.
“I noticed that last night while
trying to go to sleep,” we said.
*
"How is milk acting?”
“We’re cowish on milk, not bull
ish,” our broker answered.
•
4< What are hogs doing?”
PAUL MALLON
“Very good. The Three Little Pigs
reached a new high at the opening,
and the Little Pig That Went to
Market has been cornered.”
* * »
Thumbnail description: — He
looked as battered as if he had
been through a peace.
• • •
Henry Kaiser, we learn from John
Gunther’j book, began his business
career running a camera store at
Lake Placid, N. Y. Nothing he has
attempted since has seemed out of
focus.
• • •
Mr. Vishinsky was so re
strained in his recent speech
that you could hear a peace
drop.
• *’ *
Bob Hilliard says it is becoming
increasingly clear that Ernie Bevin
has a heart of gall.
*
Situation as summed up by dis
tracted Britishers:
ALL THIS AND BEVIN, TOO!
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Tax Reduction Is Likely
A DEMOCRATIC senator back from the Rockies says people are not much
interested in tax reduction. His vote for the Truman veto was not pro
tested by his constituents. Other Democrats back this view. In fact, they
back it so well as to suggest a concerted plan has been made to talk along
this line.
A Republican from the western farm belt found exactly the opposite
situation, unsurprisingly, in his nearby state. He says people are alive to
the needs of venture capital and tax reduction, and are not overconscious
of the high public debt. Personally, I have found few taxpayers who were
not interested in tax reduction.
The Republican reports mean a reduction bill, possibly stronger
than last year, will be enacted early in the session before the pri
mary elections, as Republican finance authorities in the house now
are advertising.
They may revise income base rates almost entirely, may make no
difference » capital gains, although excises may be cut in half (from 20
down to roughly 10 per cent). Any bill undoubtedly will be retroactive un
til next January 1. It will not get to Mr. Truman’s desk until February or
March, although Republicans are likely to make it the first order of busi
ness.
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WRIGHT PATTERSON
Incentive Pay in Britain
P AYMENT of incentives to British
miners as a means of producing
more coal was recommended by
Lewis H. Brown, chairman of the
board of Johns-Manville corpora
tion, after a two-month trip to Eu
rope, made at request of Gen.
Lucius D. Clay, commanding Amer
ican occupation forces in Germany.
In all probability this proposal
would work, but can it be expected
that a socialistic government will
violate the basic and fundamental
principle of socialism that provides
for an equality of distribution of
everything for everybody, regard
less of individual effort or ability?
FOOD CZAR . . . Predicting that
“America won’t fail,” Charles
Lnckman, president of Lever
Bros, company of Cambridge,
Mass., took charge of the nation’s
effort to conserve food to help
hungry peoples abroad.
BIG GIRL NOW . . . Diminutive
film actress Margaret O’Brien
had a thrill even Hollywood
doesn’t provide when she intro
duced President Truman over all
radio networks of the nation as
he opened the Community Chest
drive.
GAS AND LIGHT FOR BRITONS ... The tall stacks of Battersea
power plant, near London, loom over huge coal stockpiles which, it
is said, will assure domestic British consumers of sufficient gas and
electricity during the winter months without rationing.
SIGNING PARIS CONFERENCE REPORT . . . One of the most im
portant and far-reaching documents to be produced in 1947 was the
report stressing the need for emergency aid, of the 16-nation Paris
conference of Western European countries. Here Ernest Bevin, British
foreign minister, signs the report. At left is Duff Cooper, British am
bassador to France, and at right is Herve Alphund of France.
ATOMICAL TOM . . . Now able to
sit up and eat a hearty meal,
Frederick Thomas Humphreys of
Perth, Australia, known as “Atom
ical Tom,” was treated with first
atomic isotopes to be distributed
by the U. S.
STOUT FELLOW ... It took this
giant tortoise, “Amelia,” at the
London zoo most of her 150 years
to learn how to drink a pint of
stout through a straw. So now
she’s trying to teach the little
turtle how to do it.
YOU CAN’T THROW IT AWAY HERE ... At Blowing Rock, N. C.,
there is peculiar kind of precipice that specializes in strong up-drafts.
A constant breeze flows up the face of the reck, returning to your
hands any light object tossed over the edge, in witness whereof the
young lady in the photo flings her kerchief into the air and it returns
like a lace-trimmed boomerang.
NEW ‘COMMANDO’ JOINS KEL
LY ... Charles E. (Commando)
Kelly, Congressional Medal of
Honor winner, and his wife. May,
admire the new “Commando,”
Charles Jr., who, if he’s lucky,
might not have to fight in a war
like bis father did.
MALE LINGERIE TAKES SPOTLIGHT . . . Congressmen conducting
a probe of high prices in the New York area turned their attention
rather timidly to the fine feathers of the lordly male. Robert A. Seidel
(left), vice president of a retail store chain, displays a pair of men’s
shorts to Sen. Raymond E. Baldwin (Rep., Conn.) (left) and Rep.
Robert Rich (Rep., Pa.). Seidel said these items were no more ex
pensive than last year and are of better quality. That’s what he said.
Japan Forging
Ahead in Peace
Report Discounts Danger
Of Economic Collapse
In Defeated Nation.
TOKYO. JAPAN.—On the second
anniversary of Japan’s surrender.
General MacArthur declared that
Japan had become one of the few
places in a distraught world where,
despite an economy of critically
short supply, there is a minimum of
fear, of confusion and unrest.
He attributed this to an occupa
tion policy in which "right, rather
than might, has been the criterion”
and urged that a peace treaty “be
approached in the same tolerant
and just atmosphere.”
General MacArthur said the
treaty should insure that this de
feated country has the opportunity
to become self-sustaining, rather
than reduced to a condition of men
dicancy. Japan should not become a
burden on the economy of any other
country, he said.
No Danger of Collapse.
Japan, he added, “is in no danger
of economic collapse,” and if "given
a just opportunity to live in freedom
and peace with her neighbors in the
community of nations, there will be
no threat to the survival and
strengthening of the democratic
processes here inaugurated under
the occupation.
“For democracy, once firmly
rooted in the human heart, has
never voluntarily yielded before any
other conflicting ideology known to
man. If liberty and public morality
do not bring national stability, noth
ing can.”
A year ago, MacArthur’s anniver
sary statement by contrast dis
cussed bluntly what he then termed
“the dread uncertainty arising from
impending ideologies which now stir
mankind.” t V
Discussing the peace treaty, Mac
Arthur said history had proved that
“a people, given a fair chance, will
reach the niche in human society to
which their own industry, their own
skill and their own perserverance
entitle them, without largess from
others—that largess stultifies rather
than quickens the private initiative
and individual energy so essential to
human progress.
“It is, furtheimore, a false con
cept which contends that democracy
can only thrive if maintained in
plenty. On the contrary, history
shows that it springs from hardship
and struggle and toil, to flourish
naturally in the hearts of men who
cherish individual freedom and dig
nity—or not at all. A spiritual com
modity, it is neither for purchase
nor for sale.”
Economy Rebuilt.
Saying that there “need be no
concern over fears recently ex
pressed of imminent economic col
lapse” of Japan, he said the nation’s
economy actually collapsed during
the war, and since had been rebuilt
so that industrial production “has
now risen to over 45 per cent of the
prewar normal and the improve
ment can be expected to continue.”
The Japanese people, he said,
“are diligently endeavoring to ex
piate the breach of peace for which
their nation stands universally con
demned, to overcome the poverty
left by war and defeat, and to ele
vate themselves to trusted and use
ful membership in the family of na
tions.”
The occupation policy has avoided
"vengeance, intolerance and injus
tice,” he said, and has “rested
squarely on the fundamental con
cept which finds immortal exposi
tion in the Sermon on the Mount.”
Occupation headquarters posted
its first prices on Japanese export
goods and readily agreed with the
sour comments of American buyers
that costs were high, quality poor,
styles old-fashioned and quantities
scanty.
British Gunboat Powered
By Gas Turbine Engine
LONDON. — The admiralty has
announced that the British navy is
conducting satisfactory trials of
what it said was the world’s first
naval craft powered by a gas tur
bine engine. The vessel is a 110-
foot triple screw gunboat.
The engine uses oil fuel and its
“motion is entirely rotary,” the ad
miralty statement said, adding:
/"This obviates the vibration and
certain other inherent disadvan
tages of the ‘push-pull’ motion of
the conventional reciprocating in
ternal combustion engine. The en
gine combines the advantages of the
smooth steam running turbine with
economy in weight and space.” A
naval officer emphasized that the
experimental craft was not jet pro
pelled. V
Foundling Owes Life to
Curiosity of Mongrel Dog
CHICAGO. — A blue-eyed, red-
haired baby boy is safe at St. Vin
cent’s orphanage because Pal. a
mongrel dog, insisted on rescuing
him from the basket in v^iich he
had been abandoned in an alley.
Pal and his master, 9-year-old
Jack Hand, were passing down the
alley behind their horfie when Pal
stopped and began sniffing at a
basket. Jack and his mother, Mrs.
LaVerne Hand, called police.
Doctors said the baby, in robust
health, apparently had been bom
without medical help about six
hours earlier.
Longer Range for
Jet Planes Sought
Important Problem Put Up tr
Aviation Scientists.
WASHINGTON. — The difficult
problem of getting more effective
range out of America's jet-propelled
military planes is being wrestled
with by aviation scientists.
The jets are fast but they won’t
go far without refueling—a serious
matter for an air force relying heav
ily on the concept of long-range
strategic bombing and concentrat
ing most of its power in this coun
try.
The national advisory committee
for aeronautics revealed that its re
searchers are giving priority atten
tion to means of increasing range
by reducing drag, or resistance, of
planes at high speeds.
There are at present four Ameri
can jet bombers of which there is
public knowledge.
They are the B-45, which is in
production, and the experimental
XB-46, XB-47 and XB-48. The air
force says their tactical radius is
more than 800 miles, speed more
than 480 miles per hour and bomb
load more than 10 tons.
None of these bombers,'therefore,
appears to have much more than
half the range of a B-29 superfort,
although they are twice as fast and
carry a similar bomb load.
This leaves them in the category
of shorter-range tactical bombers
which must operate from forward
bases.
If they had the range, they should
excel the B-29 and other propeller-
driven heavies like the B-50 and the
B-36 in striking at strategic indus
trial objectives deep in enemy terri
tory. Their speed would make them
harder targets.
Recurrence of Ulcers
Stopped by Pig Extract
PITTSBURGH. — A certain
kind of pig muscle may be the
answer to the recurrence of
stomach ulcers.
A report made by Dr. Morton
Grossman, assistant professor of
physiology at University of Illi
nois, reveals that “excellent re
sults” have been obtained from
the use of a new drug in curing
ulcers.
Grossman, who estimated that
ulcers" recur after healing in
7 out of every 10 cases, said
he has slowed the rate consider
ably by using the intestinal ex
tract from a pig.
“Out of 27 cases I obtained ex
cellent results from 23 of the pa
tients,” he said.
He Couldn’t Play Violin;
So Copies Stradivarius
SALEM, ORE. — When Lawrence
G. Prescott was a youth, he aspired
to be a famous violinist. But an
accident cost him four fingers of his
left hand and his dreams vanished.
Today at 75, Prescott is one of
the most skilled violin makers in
the nation, but the craft is “just a
profitable hobby” with him. He
can’t play them but he can make
them.
His instruments sometimes are
confused with original Stradivarius
violins but it does not surprise Pres
cott. He works from blueprints
copied from originals by the famous
17th century Italian craftsman.
Prescott’s violins are made of
fine-grained spruce and curly maple
from the Oregon woods.
Here’s Chance to Buy
Locomotive You Wanted
NEW YORK.—War assets admin
istration blandly announced it had
a few locomotives it would like to
sell.
Persons interested in obtaining
one—without tracks—were advised
they could buy a steam oiler model
at $1,200; two 80-ton steam coalers)
at $6,000 each; a 15-ton gas engine
switcher at $2,200; two 30-ton dies
els at $5,100 and $3,250, and a 60-ton
bargain built in 1907 for only $1,250.
The WAA office also offered 10
hand-push railroad cars (aching
back type) for $10 each.
Chinese Takes Eight Days
To Find $1 to Pay a Fine
SHANGHAI. — Chou Chu-ju, a
blacksmith, thought himself fortu
nate when the judge fined him one
Chinese dollar in a slander case,
but the smallest change he could
find in Shanghai was a $10,000 note.
Single dollars have been out of cir
culation almost two years and it
now takes 400 to equal one United
States cent. Chou offered the court
a $10,000 note (25 cents. United
States) but the judge said the fine
was $1, no more. Eight days after
he was fined, Chou found a $1 note.
Pain in Stomach Brings
Fine and Judge’s Advice
NfiW YORK.—Merwin Lasner, 40,
drove past four red traffic lights be
fore police caught up with him and
charged him with dangerous driv
ing.
Lasner explained in traffic court
that he had pains in his stomach
and was looking for a doctor.
Magistrate Henri Schwob said a
man who g$ts pains that bad should
not be driving a car. He fined Las
ner $25 and suspended his driver’s
license.
Gems of Thought
O UR FRIENDS see the best
in us, and by that very fact
call forth the best in us.—
Black.
• • •
Never esteem anything as of ad
vantage to thee that shall make thee
break thy word or lose thy self-
respect.—Marcus Aurelius.
m • •
Quarrels do not last long If
the wrong is only on one side.
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