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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C, DREW PEARSON Must We Fight Russia? M OST significant talk newspaper editors have had in Wash ington recently was an off-the-record conference with George Kennan, General Marshall’s chief Russian policy maker. Here are the highlights. Kussia’s tough talk is nothing new. It has been going on for 160 years, under both Czars and the Soviets. It was soft-pedalled in the 1920s and 1930s because the Bolsheviks were too weak to talk tough. The main problem in Europe is the vacuum in France and Italy. This vacuum has to be filled. Big question is whether Russia or the United States will move in. The vacuum was recognized by Russia even during the war, and Stalin prepared then to fill it. The U. S. doesn’t want to fill it, but does want to see it filled by democratic Frenchmen and Italians themselves. Whoever first fills this hole in Europe will be successful in dominating all Europe. People of Europe are afraid of Russia but not of the United States. Because they are scared stiff, they would appease Russia before they helped the United States. Inside Russia, the people are cynical, don’t take Moscow’s propaganda too seriously. Vishinsky’s barbed thunderbolts at U. N. are nothing new. He’s only saying what he has said for two years, only this time it’s louder. There is no real worry over war with Russia. Its people haven’t recovered. Furthermore, the Russians figure they can get what they want by political means. Most significant key to the fact that Russia doesn’t want War is that the Soviets always try to ride out war. They made a deal with Hitler in the last war in order to stay on the sidelines, and the last thing they want is war now with the United States. "We are very far from war,” concluded Kennan. WALTER WINCHELL * . Doodling on the Typewriter Wisest thing the Thomas investi gating group has done yet is shove Rankin (allegedly electioneering at home) to the background. He is con gress’ worst ad. . . . Capitol news men are wondering when Secretary of Agriculture Anderson and the President will get their signals straight. . . . One of the President’s closest aides will be front paged before the 1948 campaign starts. For “connections” with the sale of lucrative (seized) German firms. GOPeople hope to have the matter well documented in six months. Oh, those terrible capitalistic na tions. The V. S. is spending more coin to aid foreign nations than to rebuild its armed forces. If this world isn’t careful, there’ll he nothing left to be careful about. . . . On Madison avenue there’s a Society for the Prevention of World War III. Must be workiiig over time. ... The Metopera may not do Prokofiev’s "War and Peace" this sea son, not only because of "technical rea sons" (as announced) hut also because they see possibilities of an early war. Such airs: Oscar Levant has three governesses, one for each of his heiresses. ... If you never want to catch pneumonia, stay clear when Talu Bankhead and Lillian Heilman meet. Brrr! . . . All you have to do to have a Broadway hit show is to use a title starting with "A.” Currently there are five that start with it. ★ WESTBROOK *PEGLER Special Rules Prevail in Sports ^.OME of my colleagues on the sport side have been arguing that It isn’t right to punish a man by some special law of baseball or pugilism for an act which is not illicit in the view of the cops, or to punish him for some offense already expiated in the public clink. That would be double jeopardy, wouldn’t it? Yes, it would and it is supposed to be repugnant to our delicate sense of justice, but that is just what we say. It really is not repugnant at all. The miscreants or martyrs here concerned are Leo Durocher and Rocky Graziano. Both are good but both were bad. Happy Chandler, commissioner of the baseball industry, gave no reason why he suspended Durocher for the season of 1947. In my opinion, which is never humble or erroneous although it often stands alone, this was a whimsical, personal judgment of a man who had been touched off balance by a confusion of events. An equal effect might have been wrought by a briefer suspension or just some loud, public wigging. Graziano is a guttersnipe. But anyone who tries to argue that his environment was responsible for his police record and his misconduct in the army must explain away A1 Smith and the late Cardinal Hayes, who came from the same neighborhood, and explain the overprivileged sons of the Park avenue branch of the Jeeter Lester family. H. I. PHILLIPS Undernourished? See Your Doctor A fellow in New York got meat on meatless Tuesday by doctor’s pre scription. We now look for the man who will insist that his physician has found him in such shape he has to take two eggs in hot water daily. • • • U. N. STUDY Little insults bitter. Little cracks quite hot Make a League of Nations Quite a hectic spot. * * • "The Duke of Windsor’s private secretary said that neither the duke nor his wife had received invitations to the royal nuptials, and that it was doubtful if they would attend.” —News item. WALTER SHEAD* The secretarial understatement of 1947. * • • The Chiseler of the Week has just been discovered: He takes a couple of eggs to the lunchroom Wednesday night and leaves an order to have them scrambled for him Thursday morning. * * * We hear nothing keeps that great actor Vishinsky from a Hollywood offer except a conviction that he wouldn’t look right in a cowboy hat and at some point in the screen ing would shoot the horse. • * • It’s just possible that when J. Caesar Petrillo shuffles off and reaches the Golden Gate he will be barred on the ground that he is merely a duplicate of the original. ★ ★ G.I.s Lose Business Battle W ORLD WAR II veterans chalked up better records on the battle- front than they have on the business front, it is indicated in reports from the Veterans’ administration loan guarantee office. Figures compiled by the VA loan division for the Washington area disclose that about 1 out of every 10 business enterprises begun here with G.I. loans has gone in the red. The situation has reached the point where some banks want nothing to do with G.I. business loans. Charging that many bankers flatly state “no G.I. business loans,” Morgan Callahan, loan guarantee officer for the local office, has appealed to lending institutions to reach a happy medium. “Lots of veterans are still good propositions for loans,” he insists. There’s a bright side to the .story, however. Hundreds of successful businesses have originated from G.I. business lra.is. Success stories appear from every field, from physicians who have outfitted offices to gift shop owners. In between are valuable restaurants, cigar stores, frozen food marts, drug stores, frozen custard emporiums, bakeries, tailor shops, furrier shops and multiple other business, all started from G.I. loans. "ic 'Pc "jc "fc WRIGHT PATTERSON Education Needed on Labor Act 1 WAS staying at a San Francisco hotel filled with delegates to the recent American Federation of Labor convention. It afforded me an opportunity to talk to a consider able number of those present, in cluding both leaders and delegates. It was very evident the opinion of the rank and file delegates had been formed by labor leader propaganda, and that the rank and file were not informed as to provisions of the act. The leaders very definitely had sold it to the union members as a “slave” law, without offering any information as to its provisions. Union members need some educa tion as to what that law contains. * * * + WINTER AGAIN . . . Ruth Wilde of Cheyenne, Wyo., rushed out to pick one last bouquet when the first snow of the year blanketed Cheyenne recently. Unusually warm weather had given Chey enne’s summer flowers an extra long season this year. TUGBOAT ANNIE’S RIVAL'. . . Bellowing orders from wheelhouse of the salvage tug, Beaver, in Los Angeles harbor is stalwart Marion McKaye, able seaman, 200 pounds plus, who is saving up to buy a tugboat of her own. DECRIES ’FUMBLING’ . . . Tes tifying in Washington before the senate war investigating commit tee, Bernard Baruch, 77-year-old adviser of presidents, declared ‘‘foot-dragging and fumbling” in World War II cost the U. S. thou sands of lives and billions of dollars. REFUGEE . . . Stanislaw Miko- lajczyk, leader of the Polish Peas ant party and head of the anti communist forces in Poland, has fled from his country to escape possible persecution by Commu nists there. SAFE BY A NOSE . . . Mrs. Walter Politte of St. Louis bravely (no understatement) demonstrates how tame is “Snooper,” her pet ocelot, by letting it nibble at her nose. r f JOHN BARLEYCORN TAKES A HOLIDAY . . . With Americans cut ting down on their drinking so that hungry Europeans may step up their eating, distilleries have stopped making whiskey for GO days upon request of the citizens’ food committee. Here, Joseph Rodo, employee at a Philadelphia distillery, is shutting off the valve that stops the mash from entering one of the huge vats. All grain unused by the dis tillers up to the shutdown will be turned back to the government. HIPPO, HIPPO, HOORAY ... Pygmy hippos—that’s a new one. 1 At any rate, this one in the picture is a new one, and its proud mother looks like she might be cheering the event lustily. Gumdrop IV, the pygmy, was born not so long ago at the Washington, D. C., zoo. He weighs 12 pounds, his mother is a delicate 450. The Washington zoo has bred about eight pygmy hippos, and is the only zoo in the country that does. Cache of Gold Hunted in Reich U. S. Gets Tip on Existence Of Vast Treasure Hidden By Ribbentrop. NUERNBERG, GERMANY. — A treasure hunt in search of millions of dollars in gold, perhaps as much as 50 million dollars, they believe was cached by Joachim Ribbentrop, Hitler’s foreign minister, has been embarked upon by the American war crimes prosecution. They say the treasure probably was buried in churches, on farms, perhaps still tucked away in forgot ten corners of former German em bassies abroad. Existence of the funds was tipped off here by former henchmen of Ribbentrop in the Nazi foreign min istry. In guarded hints, they dis closed it during interrogations by Rr. Robert M. W. Kempner, who pre pared the prosecution of the German ministers under Hitler. Ribbentrop Hanged. Ribbentrop was hanged here as a war criminal October 16, 1946, before the prosecutors got on the trail of the hidden gold. American agents had done such a magnificent job of finding loot, Kempner said, that it never occurred to anyone to look be hind the foreign office files. Ribbentrop had four funds — a general budget, a “secret” fund of about four million dollars, a war emergency fund of unlimited amounts and a “super-secret” per sonal allotment which held at one time at least 45 million dollars, according to Kempner. Starting in 1935, Kempner said, Ribbentrop began to ship gold in small bars to various embassies “in the event that war should come.” Whether he wanted this as a per sonal “nest egg” is something that remained locked in the minister’s mind. Just Plain Loot. In 1938, he intensified the ship ment campaign after he got control of the ministry itself by replacing Konstantin von Neurath. The first shipment was valued at $100,000, and it was the smallest of alj. So much was sent to the various embassies that German ministers abroad objected to such heavy re sponsibility, the files show. Ribbentrop got some of the gold from Goering’s four year plan set up. The major source, however, amounted to plain loot. When a nation was overrun, Kempner said, Ribbentrop’s men reached the captured national banks before Finance Minister Hjal- mar Schacht’s bankers. In the final days of the Reich, Rib bentrop shipped truckloads of gold to southern Germany for hiding, Kempner said, and some of his trusted female secretaries accom panied the convoys. At the same time, Ribbentrop paid many civil servants salaries as much as sev eral years in advance just to get rid of the surplus. In China, the Nazi embassy diverted much gold to what they called “needy'Gerfnans.” Perplexed Cops Discover For Whom Bridge Tolls PHILADEL’PHIA. — A Delaware river bridge policeman figures he’s seen everything now. A solemn-looking, slow-moving hearse entered the Philadelphia side of the bridge. The policeman saw a pair of feet sticking out the back door. He phoned the Camden side to “stop that hearse.” At the toll gate, Sgt. Joseph Mc Williams told the driver he was los ing his cargo. “Oh, no,” said the driver, “they’re my friends.” Sure enough, there were three young men scattered on the floor of the hearse, one with his feet sticking out. The boys — University of Pennsyl vania students — explained they had raised $300 and bought the hearse. They were out for a joy ride. McWilliams let them go, slowly shaking his head. FIGHTING CHOLERA EPIDEMIC . . . Cholera vaccine is urgently needed to battle cholera plague now sweeping Egypt, and production of the precious vaccine has been stepped up at the Sharpe and Dohme laboratories in Philadelphia. Alice Herron and Betty Guy, working in sterilized room, fill vials with the sernm which will be flown to the plague area in Egypt as soon as it is ready. SAVING GRAIN ... Three ways of stretching grain to save vital foods for the government export program are illustrated here by the grain and feed dealers’ national association. The first two baskets show how grain can be stretched for feeding through grinding. The third and fourth baskets show how much farther supplemented ground grain is increased for feeding. Exposure Kills Sleeper in Forest; Found by Job Seeker MILTON, PA. — Mrs. Bessie Gilles Sincox, 38, was found dead in a woods where she and her hus band had fe^n living without shel ter, State Policeman Leo R. Arm- bruster reported. Dr. Sidney Calloway, Northumber land county coroner, said Mrs. Sin cox apparently died after a heart attack brought on by malnutrition and exposure. Armbruster said the woman’s body was discovered by her hus band, Henry, when he returned from a job hunt. The couple had been sleeping in the wooded section with only a few blankets for protec tion, Armbruster said. Derrick Thief Gets Shock When Judge Hears His Story PITTSBURGH, PA. — Emmitt Thompson, 37, arraigned here on a charge of stealing a 30-foot steel derrick, explained he had a lot of trouble dismantling the apparatus piece by piece before selling the parts to a junkman. Judge Thomas M. Marshall lis tened to Thompson’s hard-work story, then ordered him released after he has paid the costs of prose cution plus $500—the estimated cost of the derrick. Sign Words for Deaf Invented by Briton Gesture System Aimed to Help Handicapped Children. LONDON. — A new system of hand gestures whereby the child deaf from birth will think and ex press himself in terms of words pro duced by gestures has been devel oped by Sir Richard Paget, 78-year- old British lawyer and physicist. Sir Richard, who has spent 13 years compounding his new sign language for the education of chil dren bom deaf, a task involving the study of primitive gestures in many parts of the world, demonstrated 150 of the 3,000 signs in the vocabulary to the anthropology section of the British Association for the Advance ment of Science. With his hands, fingers and arms moving slowly, he spoke in the sign sentences which he said a child of four could express in the new sys tem. “We all went to the animal en closure at the zoo. The monkeys made use laugh. The keeper fed the sea lions with fish. I wish you could have seen it.” Sir Richard announced he was proposing to try the experiment of educating a small group of young children deaf from birth by habitu ally speaking to them in the sign language, which is totally different from finger spelling. Instructors will encourage the deaf children themselves to speak in the system, in which every sign is the equivalent of a spoken word. “A normal child of five has a vocabulary of 2,000 words,” Sir Richard said, “and a deaf child leads also to dumbness and mental retardedness. “If the child deaf from birth has a normal vocabulary of, 2,000 of these signs he should be able to learn to lip read as well as the child who has become deaf after learning to speak. “We can give him a language which is as easy to acquire as a spoken language is to the hearing child.” Policemen Get Last Laugh On Frisky Tavern Joker ELKHART, IND. — A woman who called Elkhart police and asked to be arrested was only kidding. But the cops got the last laugh. The woman said she was drunk and would they send a squad car to a tavern to pick her up. When police arrived, she had disap peared. A few minutes later, she called again, from another tavern. This time the desk lieutenant engaged her fti a long conversation. While he talked, other police raced to the tavern and arrested the befuddled woman before she had finished her conversation. Three Scolds Go on Record; Sisters Get Jail Sentences PITTSBURGH, PA. — A phono graph record and a rarely invoked law were combined to bring jail sentences to three sisters, charged with being “common scolds.” Helen Znosko, 35, and her sister, Betty, 26, of West Natrona, were given 13 to 23 months in Muncy In dustrial Home for Women, while the third sister, Josephine, 23, drew three months in the county jail. The phonograph record — played in the courtroom—was produced by Francis Pastor Jr., who said it was made by meaijs of a recording ma chine in the doorway of the Pastor home during an argument involving the three sisters and Pastor’s father over shrubbery. The elder Pastor charged the sisters used “vile and abusive re marks.” The charge of “common scold” can be brought against women only. Woman’s Plea Saves Masher From Digging Up $25 Fine MILWAUKEE, WIS. — It almost cost Wenceslaus Blaha $25 to learn not to invite a lady for a ride unless properly introduced. Mrs. Marcella Breitzman, 35, testified in court that Blaha tried to pick her up. When Judge Harvey L. Neelen imposed a $25 fine, Mrs. Breitzman said: “Go easy on him, judge. Lots of men try to pick me up. I think he’s learned his lesson. Besides, he’s got a wife and four children.” Blaha commented that Mrs. Breitzman had looked familiar and he was only trying to be friend ly. He added that he had told his wife about the incident. • The judge rescinded the fine. Robber Finds Policemen Are Not Good Targets NEW YORK. — As Jerry Sulli van and Andrew Langert stepped from their automobile, a man ap proached and asked for a cigaret. Sullivan obliged, even lighting the cigaret for him. The man pulled a pistol from his shirt and jammed it against Sullvan’s stomach. Langert whirled, knocked him down with a quick blow between the eyes and took the pistol. The man was identified as Mike Gill, 36, and was charged with fel onious assault and illegal possession of a pistol. The men he tried to hold up are New York City detectives. HWAT WHILE BABY SLEEPS^ Often by morning, TO REUEVI MISERIES OF muscular soreness, upper bronchial irri tation of a cold is much relieved. Buy PENETRDSRUB com Buy U. S. Savings Bonds! Grandma SPEARIN’.. YOU CAN’T KEEP trouble from coming, but you needn’t give it a chair to sit in. is paid Mn. S. H. Legendre, Arlington. 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