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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. T WESTBROOK PEGLER New Racket Exposed T HE New York court of appeals has ruled that a person who has falsely been called a Communist or accused of sympathizing with communism may be hurt in his reputa tion and feelings. According to the present rule of the United States Supreme court, all such charges must be false unless the victim admits his guilt, in which case he couldn’t sue anyway. The Supreme court rejected proof uncorroborated by the defendant. A plain citizen with a non-legal point of view might remark that persons desiring not to be mistaken for Communists or sympathizers had better take care not to court suspicion. After all, courts do recognize contributory negligence. So, granting that it is even a little more unpleasant to be mistaken for a traitor these days than in other times, isn’t it always incumbent on any plaintiff to shun bad company, meaning the commies? Another thing, the asking price in this kind of lawsuit varies in an enormous range and would seem to be fixed by whim rather than by any calculation of the victim’s woe. Often they are professionals in con troversy who draw lightning and then run screaming for their attorneys. In many cases they clothe themselves in the appearances of defiant sedition to invite the reliable scorn of patriotic men. In any case, a jury would be justified in denying damages if plaintiff had earned his unsavory reputation by offensive conduct all his life. The action for big judgments in these Communist and communism cases has become a racket as distinct as some of the old personal-injury specialties. ★ ★ ★ ★ H. L PHILLIPS Confession of a Communist "Yes, I am a Communist and I am all out for the overthrow of the American system. Why not? I am sick of being downtrodden. Were you ever downtrodden in an outdoor swimming pool? Then think what it means to be downtrodden in three! All in one yard! * “Once I was a happy American, getting a small salary and fooling nobody. I knew I was mediocre. Then came a chance to go into the movies and — presto — I was in Hollywood at $3,000 a week. It was all a capitalistic plot. • “Everywhere I went I encoun tered other wretches, happy, carefree and overpaid like me. I was one of the great herd of soft money people. It was de- DREW PEARSON grading. I tried to get out by doing poorer work, but they raised my pay. I went nine months and did only one two- minute interlude which was de leted. And they made me a di- f rector and part owner! * “It was hell. Where could I turn? I was helpless. Then a friend told me about Kremyl — beg pardon — about the Kremlin. “So I went for the Kremlin treat ment. I am a new man, bolstered by the firm belief that the time will come when horrid things like dough, fame and a life of opulence will bother me no more. Fellow citi zens, revolt! Revolt now! And if possible in technicolor!” ★ ★ Solons Prove Convincing W ITH one or two exceptions, the congressmen who went to Europe to study conditions last summer returned feeling just about the same toward helping Europe as when they left. Whether originally for it or against it, they were able to convince themselves that they were right. Rep. August Andresen of Minnesota spoke over a Norway-wide net work in the Norwegian language when he visisted that country. American- born himself, Andresen visited the village where his parents had lived in Norway before coming to America. In the early fall months, when cattle eat best, Rep. Bob Foage of Texas saw Norwegians feeding cows from huge rolls of wood cellulose. "If they’re eating that paper now can you imagine what they’ll be eating in the winter?” Foage remarked. He was told that the cows that survive the winter in Norway will do it largely on dried fish. What their milk will taste like is another question. Back from a tour of Europe, tawny Montana Congressman Mike Mansfield called at the White House to report on conditions there. “Unlike Mr. Taber,” reported Mansfield, referring to the GOP congressman from New York, who claimed he saw no underfed people in Europe, “I saw plenty of underfed children. They are there by the millions for anyone with two good eyes to see, to wonder and worry about.” WALTER WINCHELL Late Watch on Broadway The Metopera forgets your son’s wac wounds easily. It has imported Hitler’s darling tenor, Herr Max Lorenz. Herr Maxie was the sweet heart of the Nazi elite, but zo vahss Fascist Schipa, Gigli and Flagstad. . . . It should surprise no one that the Dock and Dookess of Win- zer weren’t invited to the royal wedding. After all, they had trouble getting invited to their own. . . . Willys, the big nylon man, is sup posed to have told intimates that all his machines now are changed to making parachutes. Vignette: Brooklyn jeweler Murray Pittluck {one of the victims of a hold up gang rounded up recently) was summoned by police to identify them .. . He phoned a newspaper editor pal WALTER SHE*AD* and tipped him off to the arrests . . . Pittluck lost $9,000 in jools—most un insured . . . But his loss is being cut down somewhat . . . An afternoon gazette is sending him a $5 check for the scoop-tip. Ginger Rogers and ma are re ported tiffing. Ginger wants ma to stay outta political oggermints. Mama no wanna. . . . Frieda Fish- bein (the play agent) is streamlin ing her trade. She now submits manuscripts to showmen on record ings, which a cast of semi-pros act out. ... A ham was arguing with his agent. "What do you do,” he quarreled, “to earn your 10 per cent of my salary?” "Nothing,” snapped Paul Small, "except kid people into believing you’re worth the other 90 per cent!” ★ ★ The Spotlight on Hearings JJST for the record, the blundering, impotent, intolerant and un-demo- cratic hearings of the house un-American Activities committee or of the recent senate war investigating committee^ in the Howard Hughes case under kleiglights and with movie cameras grinding out the record are certainly not typical of congressional committee hearings. As a result of these show-off and blow-off inquisitions, let’s hope the American people do not get a distorted opinion of the usual comffiittee hearing. Generally congressional committee hearings are in a small quiet room, conducted with utter decorum and dignity where a witness has the right to have his say, read a statement or give whatever other testimony or opinion be may have on the subject of the hearing. Copies of the statements generally are handed to the newspapermen in attendance. Members of the committee ask questions quietly and an official reporter takes down all testimony which later is printed for all to read. ★ ★ ★ ★ WRIGHT PATTERSON Danger Lurks in T HE last of the government re strictions on credit buying has been withdrawn. Credit buying took an immediate jump, and credit buy ing helps along that inflation we fear and have fought against. Even under the credit limitations of war times each American family, as an average, was in debt to an extent Easy Credit of $750 in addition to its share of the national, state and local govern ment indebtedness. It is a stagger ing total; more than we can afford under present conditions. For the good of all of us it can be hoped the sellers will not make easy cred it terms. Getting into debt is easier than getting out. GERMAN BISHOP . . . Bishop Friedrich Otto Dibelius, ranking Protestant minister of Berlin, paid a courtesy call on President Tru man when he arrived in the IT. s. to visit theological seminaries. SPELUNKER ... Mrs. Norma Lee Fisher, shown with son Freddy, 2, is Pittsburgh’s only woman spelunker. A spelunker, by the way, is a member of the na tional speleological society, a group of cave hunters and ex plorers. ANOTHER DECORATION . . . Gen. “Hap” Arnold, retired chief of army air forces, received a new decoration, this one from the Chi nese government for achievement in military aviation. BIT OF OLD CHINA . . . Authen tic wedding dress, with an original headdress from Peking embroid ered with seed pearls, makes Vir ginia Lee look like an emperor’s bride. DESTRUCTIVE BALL GAME . . . The engineer at the controls of this giant crane has to keep his eye on the ball, literally. The pellet he is swinging, a two-ton steel sphere suspended from a 120-foot boom, is being used to demolish a building in the vicinity of New York’s East river where a site is being cleared for construction of the United Na tions world capitaL FOOD CRISIS WILL LAST THROUGH 1949 ... Sir John Boyd Orr, director general of the U. N. food and agriculture organization, warned that the world food crisis will last through 1949, and that “long con tinued hunger in wide areas will result in increasing social and politi cal unrest.” With him in the photo are Lord Bruce of Australia (center), chairman of the U. N. food council, and U. S. Undersecre tary of Agriculture Norris E. Dodd. TURFDOM’S TOM THUMB . . . Meet Jimmy Lane, the tiniest horse man in the world. Jimmy, a native of Newmarket, England, weighs only 49 pounds and is so short that he has to be lifted on a mount when he works one out, as be often does. FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD ... In the back yard of his Uvalde, Tex., home, John Nance Garner, former vice presi dent of the U. S., now sits placidly in the sun and shucks pecans. GREECE ARMS AGAINST CHOLERA ... As the death toU in Egypt mounts into the thousands as a result of the cholera epidemic sweeping that Middle East nation, Greece, fearful that the disease may spread to the north, is taking precautionary methods. The government, in co operation with the Greek Red Cross, is providing anti-cholera inocula tions free to the people in specially improvised centers. Shown here are some Athenians, eager to immunize themselves against the disease. Recruits Decline In Armed Forces Enlistments Fail to Keep Manpower of Services At Full Strength. WASHINGTON. — Diminishing manpower is causing grave concern to the high commands of all armed forces — army, navy and air. Re cruiting for the services is running far below the levels necessary to keep the armed forces at authorized strength, in some cases as much as 20 per cent too low, officials say. The navy, which customarily is in a better recruiting position than the army, is getting only about 80 per cent of the needed number of re cruits on the basis of latest figures. Navy officials estimate they need about 15,000 men a month. The army, which also carries on air force enlistments, gained about 21,- 000 men in September, compared with a desired total of about 30,000. Prospects Termed Poor. The army has a present actual strength of about 960,000 compared with its authorized force of 1,070,- 000. The navy currently is somewhat above the average strength figure authorized for the current fiscal year (ending next June 30) but the present rate of discharges compared with enlistments will drop it below strength, officials said. The navy strength, in men and officers, is about 477,000 compared with an au thorized 437,000 figure for the fiscal year. The air force is understood to be between 70,000 and 80,000 short of its 391,000 authorized strength (a part of the 1,070,000 total for the army). Guard Sagging, Too. An intensive effort is under way to build up another vitally import ant component of national defense, the national guard. Like the regular establishments, that, too, lags far behind requirements. High army^ officials said that they were still able to keep up the man power required by Gen. Lucius D. Clay in Germany and Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Japan for occupation duties. But, they added, the point is being reached where the drain of manpower in the United States to keep those forces at proper strength is threatening to upset the man power pool here required to sup port the overseas forces. The closing out of the Italian oc cupation area under terms of the peace treaty is helping the Euro pean situation some. Suicide by Hitler Depicted By Nazi for American Probers NUERNBERG, GERMANY.— Hitler’s suicide and funeral pyre were described for United States in vestigators by a prominent Nazi, Arthur Axmann, leader of the Hit ler Youth, who asserted he saw Hit ler and Eva Braun dead in their Berlin air raid bunker and that he helped bum the bodies in the gar den of the reichschancellery. Ax mann, under automatic arrest be cause of his high rank in Nazi party councils, said that he was in Hit ler’s headquarters under the Fueh rer’s orders from April 22, 1945, to April 30, Hitler’s last day. Hitler had been told that Reichs- marshal Hermann Goering and Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler had deserted him. In his last few days he became a strangely changed man. He strode up and down the bunker floor almost ceaselessly and spoke to no one, but “he was calm,” Axmann related. Late the night of April 30 Paul Joseph Goebbels took Axmann by the hand and said “the Fuehrer is dead.” The propaganda minister led Axmann into the death chamber. Hitler was sitting upright on the divan. He had shot himself through the mouth, and there was blood on his temples from the concussion. Eva evidently had taken poison. Many Try Patent Medicines Before They Call on Doctor ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—A survey of 1,215 Pennsylvania homes and their medicine cabinets indicates that 60 per cent of Americans may try patent medicines or home reme dies before summoning doctors when they’re ill. The survey, dealing with the in fluence of commercial health adver tising, was reported to American Public Health association meeting by a special committee. The committee said that if this self-treatment based on advertised claims for drugs was true in other parts of the country also, then something should be done to im prove health practices and educa tion. TB Increases 50 Per Cent In U. S. Zone in Germany BERLIN. — Tuberculosis among Germans in the United States zone of Germany has increased nearly 50 per cent in the last year and there are no hospital facilities for 15,905 sufferers, a report of Gen. Lucius D. Clay disclosed. Since July, 1946, when 93,821 cases of the disease were under medical supervision in the zone, the number of active cases has increased to more than 137,000. Of this number, more than 38,900 were classified as "open infectious cases.” 'Hot Lab' to Pioneer In Special Research CLASSIFIED D E P A R T M E N Ti Plan Is Significant for Future • Of Atomic Energy. ST. LOUIS, MO. — A "hot lab” rising on the grounds of Washington university soon will begin pioneer ing significant for the future of sci ence and atomic energy. “Hot” laboratories are those for studies with tracer atoms, the tell tale radioactive kind that can be followed wherever they go. It is the first one at any univer sity that is not under auspices of the Atomic Energy commission, so far as Dr. Joseph W. Kennedy, 31, professor of chemistry and one of the earliest wartime workers on plu tonium, knows. This is one reason for the pioneer ing character of the lab. Many universities are using or will use research facilities estab lished under the AEC, but none other has been provided with a lab oratory of its own. The other reason is that the work at this laboratory likely never will make any headlines for readers in terested only in inventions or im mediately “useful” products from science. It will try to discover some of the basic signposts that later may lead to such inventions. Washington university will get its tracers or radioisotopes from the atomic oven at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and from its own cyclotron. This machine and the larger one at the University of California at Berkeley produced plutonium in the early days of the Manhattan dis trict work. Projects now planned by scien tists here. Dr. Kennedy said, in clude studies of just how molecules behave and affect each other, of photosynthesis in plants, of what chemical changes occur when radio active chemicals decay, how various sugars are formed and their fate in the animal body, of fluorescence, of nucleic acidfc within cells, and what causes the colors in certain chemi cals. First Dinner in 26 Years Tastes ‘Just Wonderful* PITTSBURGH, PA. — Mickey Schuster, who was fed through a tube inserted in his stomach for 26 of his 28 years, ate a pork chop dinner and then nibbled on a chocolate covered cherry. “It’s wonderful to be able to eat like other people,” said Mick ey, who is recovering from a series of operations that enabled him to swallow food normally for the first time since he swallowed a can of lye when two years old. “I could taste the food before,” Mickey added, “but I couldn’t swallow it.” Physicians said the Youngs town, Ohio, furniture worker could look forward to a normal life at the dinner table, although it will be another month before he leaves the hospital and he won’t be able to return to work until next spring. A New Method of Treating Common Cold Described WASHINGTON. — Chance discov ery of a new—and still experimen tal—method of treating the common cold was described by a navy doctor. “Encouraging” results in treat ment of such colds have been achieved by benadryl, a drug origi nally developed as a treatment for certain allergic conditions, Capt. John M. Brewster reported in the U. S. Naval Medical Bulletin. In fact, he said, it was while treating an allergy patient with the drug that he found, to his “sur prise” that it apparently also checked a cold the patient had. Brewster described subsequent experimental trials of the drug in 100 cases of common cold of virus origin as “most satisfying.” But, asserting that benadryl has a soporific (or sleep-inducing) ef fect, Brewster said patients using it should be cautioned "to avoid driving a car or operating poten tially dangerous machinery while taking the drug.” Poor Breakfasts Termed Traffic Accident Hazards TAMPA, FLA. — Burnt toast at breakfast, says a safety group offi cial, may cause many an automo bile accident. “You would be surprised,” said Asher Frank, director of Florida Safety council, “to learn of the number of accidents caused by bad cooking such as the eggs being burned, coffee not good, bacon not crisp and burnt toast. "We have found men who had accidents due to these causes, for instead of having their minds on driving they were thinking of the poor breakfast they had.” Cave in Virginia Gives Up 30 Century-Old Skeletons TAZEWELL, VA.—A cave gave up its century-old secret: 30 skele tons. Unearthed on a farm three miles from here, the cave was explored by two farmers who reported they found the skeletons lying on the floor. Near the Ijodies were a num ber of beads. BUSINESS & INVEST. OFPOB. Electrical supply dealers wanted. Auto matic electric hot water heater retail $20 and $29. 10 years guar. Franchise oner. QUINN C. PARKER Factory Representative Box 218 - Fayetteville, N. C» avyone interested in handling fireworks FOR SALE—Cafe, well-equipped, located in industrial east Alabama town. Reason able. For information contact S. M. WYLIE - Roanoke,. Al». DOGS, CATS, PETS. ETC. DOG COLLARS with Name and Address. $1.00 each, six for $5.00. BALLARD LEATHER CO. __ _ *1* N. College St. - Charlotte. N. C. 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