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/ V THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. DREW PEARSON Farm Co-ops to Evade Tax F ARMERS don’t need to get excited about the chances of farm cooperatives losing their tax-exempt status. Most members of the house ways and means committee prefer not to be quoted on this hot tamale, but privately both Republicans and Democrats doubt that the co-ops will be hit in new tax legislation. To get at the co-ops, the committee would have to "open up” sacro sanct Section 101 of the internal revenue code, which exempts not only the co-ops, but also churches and religious groups, labor unions, educa tional institutions. Daughters of the American Revolution, veterans' groups and other segments in the “no-man’s land” of our tax system. Any effort to tamper with Section 101 to take one these groups ont of the non-profit class and make it taxable is likely to encounter strong opposition from the others, fearing they may be next on the program. All this is why ways and means chairman, Harold Knutson, is so anxious to pass the buck to the treasury department, for an “opinion” on whether co-ops should be tax-exempt. A majority of the ways and means committee favors $ome formula fear tapping the revenue of the cooperatives as distinguished from the small co-ops. Some of these big outfits export their goods, have adver tising budgets and function much as private business. Section 101 eventually will be amended so the government can move in on these Big Berthas, but the country’s 10,000 or more small farm co-ops won’t be touched by congress in the immediate future. They have too many potent allies in Section 101. ★ ★ ★ ★ WALTER WINCHELL Notes of a Bystander American Legion Post 65 (Miami Beach) and other war vet outfits in Florida went on unanimous record opposing Flagstad’s sponsors, who are bringing her there. They agreed that the flag in Flagstad is not American. . . . Most sugary racket in town: The oodles of thousands collected by big-time auto dealers as deposits which they bank and nachelly draw interest on. The price we’re paying for food is almost as ridiculous as the price we’re paying for peace. . . . Frances E. Kaye just heard that the Russian gals also are getting the “new look.” They’re lengthening their overalls. * ★ ★ WALTER SHEAD Henry Wallace won’t stump for Truman — saving it for "progres sive” office-seekers. (He’s still un happy over being dropped from the cabinet.) . . . Elmo Roper (the highly respected poll - taker) and Frank Kent (the ditto Washington observer) both spurned Benton's state department headache. If you need a job and don’t care how short you live, there’s your chance. Some locals were wondering wheth er General Ike was a Demmy or Re pub. "He must be a Democrat," figured a reporter. "Otherwise he wouldn’t have become a college prexy — he’d have become a bank president. 1 ” ★ ★ Western Areas Reclaimed S ECRETARY of the Interior, J. A. Krug, has a vision of possibly 10 mil lion people settling in western reclamation areas by 1960. If this vision is to materialize, however, the program of the bureau of reclamation must be carried through to irrigate up to 15 million acres of arid and semi-arid land and to produce possibly 22 million kilowatts of hydro electric power. This program has been definitely projected until 1954 and for that seven-year period it calls for an investment of $2,148,000,000. It would bring irrigation to about four million newly irrigated acres embracing 40,000 farms and it would add 2,250,000 kilowatts of generating capacity or enough power for 21 cities the size of Denver. Total invest ment would be something like 15 billion dollars. Secretary Krug contends no other area of the nation has the same economic opportunity for these 10 millions of people. H. /. PHILLIPS MacPhail’s New Farm Club Larry MacPhail, the eccentric and colorful former manager of the New York Yankees ball club, has re turned to his farm in Maryland and says he will devote himself to rais ing Black Angus cattle and possibly breed some race horses. We await the news that he is planning to get his cattle to play under lights. * Elmer Twitchell insists that he has been a visitor at the MacPhail farm. “I’ve got a membership in the Angus club, with a special box re served for me for the style shows to be staged in the meadow sweet with hay,” he declares. • “From what I heard Larry is not satisfied with Black Angus and wants to get up a league which will include White Angus, Red Angus and Pink Angus. My hunch is that he will try to breed ’em in techni color.” * * • It would seem that John L. Lewis has been left so far out in the coal by the A.F.L. that he at last faces a per sonal fuel problem- • • • Larry Parks of “Jolson Story” fame is appearing in a new movie in which he is a dashing leader of a Scotch clan. We understand the temptation to sing “Maxwelton’s Braes Are Bonny” on his knees was terrific. • • * Ima Dodo says she knows of a home which has no hidden photos of the atom bomb development. • * • H. S. Marks, counsel to the atomic energy board, has quit because of the low pay. But look at all the time he gets for “fission”! ★ ★ ★ ★ WESTBROOK PEGLER Adventure in Glamour F OR three delirious days and nights, the Statler hotel was just a glamor ous little bit of Hollywood dropped into stately Washington. A whole shipload of unreal idols of our dreams flew in to protest about the hearings on un-Americanism. Some Hollywood committee about free dom of speech was back of the party. By a happy coincidence most of them were on my floor. Some times, in the elevator, I even rubbed elbows with them. I wanted to ask Danny Kaye for his autograph in my book, along with the autographs of his friends, Leo Durocher, George Raft, Frankie Boy Sinatra and Buggsy Siegel, but I choked up, I lost my nerve. Then there was gorgeous June Havoc, who is a certain party’s nomi nation for “Miss Constitution of the U. S. A.,” for 1947. Heh-heh-heh! I foxed them! When I said she was a “certain party’s” nomination I bet they thought I was going to say the Communist party, and then they would sue me for calling her a Communist. But I am too clever. Maybe I am “that certain party” myself! But now we must go, Cinderella, for the clock is striking 12, and our adventure in the realm of glamour comes to an end. WRIGHT PATTERSON * A Lesson for Politicians A BROCHURE issued by Citizen’s National committee contains extensive evidence that “Be Kind to Taxpayers” Week of last June was a popular movement. That week was no*, proclaimed by President T niman or any tax-spending public official. It started with a proclama tion by one of the 140 million Ameri can private citizens and, it would seem, quickly aroused the interest of all of that 140 million who were called upon to participate, and they did. The tax-voting and tax-spend ing politicians can well take heed of the evidence concerning the average American voter which that small brochure contains. MET OPENS 63RD SEASON ... In case yon weren’t able to get to the Metropolitan opera house in New York for opening of the opera season this fall, this is the way it would have looked if yon had been sitting off to one side in the first balcony. The brilliant scene of New York’s assembled elite included several kings’ ransoms of jewels, assorted ermine, chinchilla and silver fox fur coats, and a few hundred boiled shirts. The performance was Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschero.” CHURCH SERVES THE WORLD . . . These Filipinos are getting medical treatment at this clinic near Manila because of the generosity of church-going Americans. Contributions from churches in every state in the union made it possible for Church World service to send the drugs, instruments and other medical supplies nsed at the clinic. CHIVALRY IS NOT DEAD . . . These chivalric looking gentlemen are some of the boys from Siena, medieval city of Italy, which nos talgically recalls the good old days twice every year by reverting to fifth century clothes, customs and habits. Big feature on these occa sions is the “Palio of Siena,” a medieval horse race through the city’s square. ROUND-TRIPPERS COME HOME ... George Truman (left) and Clifford Evans, now safely back in the U. S., stand beside one of their flag-bedecked Piper Cubs shortly after landing at Elmendorf field in Anchorage, Alaska, on their round-the-world flight. Flags were painted on each plane for every nation they crossed during the leisurely global jaunt which they began last August. FLEES RED SLAVE CAMP . . . Irma Mohanpt, native of Cincin nati, Ohio, is back in U. S. after three years in a Russian slave la bor camp in the Ukraine. She finally escaped into the American zone in Germany. MARTIN BALKS TAX CUT. . . . All hope for passage of an income tax redoction bill during* the spe cial session of congress died when Rep. Harold Knutson (Rep., Minn.), left, conceded defeat after Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin (Rep., Mass.) opposed presenting the bill at this time. ONE MAN’S BEST FRIEND . . . Purchased 10 years ago as a 25- cent souvenir, this personable alli gator, still a baby of 82 pounds, has won the heart of his master, Carl E. King of Chicago, with his gentle, mature habits. WHAT, NO HAM? . . . Pre-per formance ritual of soprano Astrid Varnay, youthful queen of the Metropolitan Opera’s Wagnerian section, is to gulp a raw egg straight from the shell as a vocal tonic. Gives her egg-shaped tones. WAR BRIDEGROOM . . . Wil helm Mueller of Frankfnrt, Ger many, first German war bride groom-to-be to reach the U. S., is welcomed at airport by his intend ed bride, Thelma Domeiian of Taunton, Mass. Radar Bolsters Arctic Deiense Air Force Lifts Curtain on Activities in Alaska During Last Year. WASHINGTON.—A bristUng net work of defenses in strategically critical Alaska, an integrated sys tem including such installations as radar warning stations, under ground command posts and fighter fields is being projected by the air force. The air force high command, in an official summary, lifted a comer of the curtain on air force activities on the arctic frontier during the last year. These include more than 100 flights “over the geographical north pole and its immediate vicinity.” The air force statement did not say how far these arctic projects had been advanced, but army engi neers and the air force have been authorized, so far, to spend more than 73 million dollars in Alaska. In addition to announced construction programs for Ladd field. Mile 26 and the Nenana air base (all in the general area of Fairbanks) there have been unconfirmed but unde nied reports of new bases being built on the Arctic ocean rim of Alaska and Canada. Seek Oil Formations. In addition to surveying for the defense sites, the reconnaissance squadrons have carried on two other projects—exploratory flights for es tablishing regularly scheduled air transport service, and photomap ping a 35,000 square mile area “to determine the possibility of oil for mations.” (This presumably may be a reference to the exploration for oil begun by the navy during the war in the region of Point Barrow.) Valuable geographical, naviga tional and weather discoveries that have been made include the fact that there are three magnetic north poles instead of one. (A magnetic pole is the point toward which an ordinary magnetic compass turns.) The poles are located in an ellipti- cally shaped area with the major pole on Prince of Wales island, in stead of the long reported position at the lower tip of Boothia penin sula. There are local poles on Bath urst island and Boothia peninsula, the statement said. Supplements Testimony. The air force news announcement served to implement testimony ear lier this year by Gen. Carl Spaatz, USAF chief of staff, and Lt. Gen. Ira C. Baker, then deputy AAF com mander and now retired. Spaatz said that the combination of large populations and vast indus trial resources provided three pos sible areas in the northern hemi sphere from which attacks on the United States might be launche4— western Europe, eastern Eurasia and nearby islands in the western Pacific, “the land mass of central Asia.” He referred to long range bombers and the possibilities of long range guided missiles and the paths for them over the pole. This, said he, “changes our whole defense pic ture; it means, for example, that we must have a chain of radar sta tions looking northward to discover the enemy weapons and we must have a means of intercepting and destroying them.” Baker spoke on the need of bases for American long range bombers “closest to possible enemy targets” and referred to the need for two new major air bases, one in northern Maine (which now is being built at Limestone). The other, Baker said, was urgently needed "in the location which would put us closest to the industrial capacity in one of the three areas mentioned by General Spaatz.” His reference here appar ently was to Alaska. Navy Club Seeks to Refit Old Frigate, Constellation ROCKFORD, ILL. — The Navy Club of the USA announced it would sponsor a campaign for refitting the Constellation, oldest ship of the U. S. navy afloat Thomas A. Keegan, national com mandant of the organization, called on other civic and veterans’ groups to join the drive which he said prob ably would follow lines similar to that which made possible refitting of the USS Constitution a number of years ago. The Constellation, built 150 years ago, is tied up in the Boston navy yard. The navy department, which had planned to overhaul the ancient war ship, said fund limitations would not permit the expenditure necessary. The Constellation was one of three frigates built by America in 1797. A sailing craft, it was outfitted with 36 guns. It saw action under Capt. Thomas Truxton at a time when America’s vessels were being seized, her commerce destroyed and her citizens impressed. Students Must Dig Up $900 To Pay Damages for Prank GETTYSBURG, PA.—Six Gettys burg college students have been or dered to raise $900 to pay for dam ages to Western Maryland college buildings. Dr. Henry W. A. Hanson, Gettysburg president, has an nounced. The six were arrested in Westminster, Md., the night before a football game between Gettysburg and Western Maryland. Westmin ster police said paint had been splashed on buildings and several cars were damaged. Allies to Dismantle 682 German Plants Disregard Threats of Strikes And Public Clamor. BERLIN. — Plans have been announced by British and Ameri can military government authori ties to dismantle 682 German indus trial plants in their combined areas, despite threats of strikes and other expressions of non-cooperation. Five plants of the gun-making Krupp company were listed for lev eling. Three plants in the Essen area, one for making armaments, another for miscellaneous steel products and the Barbeck pig iron and steel works, were designated for extinction. A Krupp plant at Lagenhagen in lower Saxony, devoted to making structural steel and submarine hulls, and a pneumatic equipment plant at Geisenheim in Hesse, also were listed for the wreckers’ ax. At Duesseldorf, trade union lead ers voiced comments such as “ap palling” and “crushing” when they learned that, western Germany’s Ruhr and Rhine valleys would lose 294 industrial plants. Under the dismantling schedule, designed to give western Germany the go-ahead on a new level of in dustry plan intended to remove war production from the German econ omy, the bi-zonal area will have a productive capacity approximately equal to that of 1936. The plan calls for exports in excess of 1936. Under the plan, remaining capac ities in heavy industries—including metals, machinery and chemicals— will permit production on the aver age of 5 to 10 per cent less than the 1936 level. However, light in dustries will have a much higher productive capacity than in that year. “If, instead of cooperation, there is conflict, any hope of reviving German economy will disappear,” Lt. Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, Brit ish military governor, said. Farm Income Hits Peak; High Level Seen in 1948 WASHINGTON. — Farm in come this year will be the high est on record and probably will remain high next year, the agri culture department said. This year’s gross farm income was estimated at 34.3 billion dol lars or 18 per cent above last year. Net income—the difference between gross income and pro duction expenses — was esti mated at 18 billion dollars. Looking to 1948, a department report said income would depend largely on the “volume of crop production and foreign demand. “Domestic consumer purchas ing power seems likely to re main high. Farm production ex penses may continue to increase in 1948; and even if gross income is maintained at the 1947 level, net income may not be quite ap high as in 1947.” Dean of Burglars Retires, Declares Business Is Bad LONDON, — Britain’s oldest bur glar retired in disillusionment, de ploring his age and clumsiness and the hard times that have come to house-breakers in modern England. James Ferguson, 90, who in the last 47 years has received jail sen tences totaling 45% years, had his latest sentence commuted recently on condition that he retire to a Sal vation Army hotel. An Oxford court had described him as “the doyen of British burglars.” “I can’t run like I used to,” Fer guson said in his farewell interview before retiring to a hotel at Brigh ton. “And besides I’m getting clum sy. I knock things over on the job. Anyway, country places are hardly worth breaking into now.” New York Irish Meet Kin in Movie Films Made in Erin NEW YORK. — The Rev. Dan Gleason, with his movies of Country Monaghan in Ireland, is one of the most popular men around New York. When Father Gleason went back on vacation to the county where he spent his childhood, he took along a movie camera and shot 2,000 feet of film of the scenes that were dear to him. He and his movies are in great demand among the Irish of New York. » Father Gleason says he turned the camera on any scene or any person who seemed interesting to him, and at nearly every showing someone recognizes friends or relatives. 4 . — , Impending Stork Justifies Taxi Speeding, Judge Rules CHICAGO.—Taxicab drivers have an emergency right to disregard ordinary traffic regulations in event they are racing the stork, says John J. Griffin, traffic court judge. He dismissed a speeding charge against Donald Coyer, 32, a cab driver, arrested for speeding de spite his plea that he was rushing Mrs. Shirlee Delman, 20, an expect ant mother, to a hospital. A physi cian testified any delay in getting Mrs. Delman to the hospital would have been dangerous. In dismissing the case. Judge Griffin said: “If I follow my con science 50,000 expectant mothers in Chicago will pray for me.” FEELING POORLY? See how SCOTT’S helps build you up! If you feel run down,^ and colds hang on — maybe you don*t get enough natural A&D Vitamin food. Then try good-tasting Scott’s Emulsion—the HIGH ENERGY FOOD TONIC I See how you begin to get your strength back ! How you can fight off colds! Scott’s is a “gold mine’* of natural A&D Vitamins and energy-building natural ofL Easy to take. Economical. Buy today at your drug store. MORE than just a tonic— it's powerful nourishment! SCOTT'S EMULSION High Fhergy tonic Answer: Irritation in the nose. 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