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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Anti-Communist Coalition Crushes Red Opponents in Italian Election; Lewis, Miners Fined for Contempt By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these colnmns, they are those o! Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) EAST, WEST: In Italy By the time officials finished counting the first vote returns from Italy’s national election there was no longer any element of surprise in the fact that the anti-Communist coalition parties were winning two- to-one. Unusual thing was that the anti- Bed Christian Democrats, Repub licans and Social Unity party had scored such a top-heavy victory. They led everywhere, even in the so-called “Red North” where Com munists had amassed considerable strength in the industrial cities. It appeared that the anti-Communists had secured absolute majority in both the Italian senate and chamber of deputies. Communist front spokesmen con ceded that the election results “must be considered a victory” for Pre mier Alcide De Gasperi’s coalition. This Italian election had been the plum for which both the U. S. and Soviet Russia had been competing frantically for six months. It was a real contest. Each nation had sent myriads of entries: “I think Italy should be anti-Communist (or Com munist) because—” Each entry was accompanied, not by boxtops, but by boxcars of food and machinery as *well as other blandishments. Victory of the anti-Communists in the election was, in a manner of speaking, a clear-cut victory of benevolent capitalism over militant communism. As such it could exert tremendons influence on the course of European history. Probably the principal factors de ciding the outcome of the election were passage of the European recov ery program and the U. S. proposal to return Trieste to Italy. Further, the election appeared to make an important point concern ing the workings of Communist ag gression: Ability of the Communists to take over a country is greatly reduced in cases where the Red army cannot be brought into posi tion to exert pressure on the in tended victim. The Red army was not a factor in the Italian elections. It was a factor, either through its immediate presence or its threatening prox imity, in the coups of Czechoslo vakia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and eastern Germany. If that reasoning is sound, a dis turbing conclusion is evident: Should Russia realize that Soviet domina tion of Europe cannot be accom plished without use of military force, the next step might be to bring the Red army into action. LEWIS: Lost and Fined All things considered, John L. Lewis came away from his brush with the government in fairly good shape—suffering only relatively minor abrasions of the pocketbook. For ignoring a federal order to end the soft coal strike that began March 15 over a pension dispute, Lewis was convicted by Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough of criminal contempt of court. As punishment Judge Goldsborough imposed a $20,000 fine on Lewis personally and fined his United Mine Workers union a total of 1.4 million dollars. It was almost a verbatim rp-en- actment of the Lewis-Goldsborough drama of 1946 when the judge fined Lewis $10,000 and the union 3.5 mil lion dollars for contempt. This time, however. Judge Golds borough wanted to be tough. He wanted to give Lewis a jail term but refrained from doing so upon advice from the government, chief prose cutor in the case. Nevertheless, he deplored the gov ernment’s policy of “expediency” which dictated that the mine chiefs punishment should be limited to a fine and that he should not be given a jail sentence because that would make a martyr of him in the eyes of the miners. It was a bad spot for Lewis—per haps the worst of his career. Not only had he failed to beat the Taft- Hartley act and been forced to ac cept terms far short of his original demands in settlement of the pension dispute, but he also had put his UMW treasury 1.4 million dollars in the hole. And now, if the miners continued to stay away from work in protest against the punishment, the govern ment retained a powerful weapon it could wield. The Taft-Hartley in junction against them still was pend ing. I Ancient Africans A heavy flint cleaver, reduced to chalk-like consistency after having lain in the earth for milleniums, is part of the evidence a Harvard an thropologist brought back from Northwest Africa to support his claim that man existed in that sec tion of the world 150,000 years ago. Dr. Hugh Hencken, director of the American School of Prehistoric Re search, returned from the expedi tion with two tons of fossils. Requirements Gen. Omar Bradley, army chief of staff, told the house armed services committee that in the event of another war the U. S. must occupy Greenland, Iceland, Spitzbergen and the Azores or ex pose its industrial and population centers to air attack. In a bid for congressional support of the draft and UMT, General Bradley warned that the army today would be in no position to take such posi tive action should the need arise. HOLY LAND: What Now? In its first positive action since the U. S. backed away from its stand favoring partition, the United Na tions security council issued a call to both Jews and Arabs to stop fight ing in Palestine. It probably was a gesture of im potence. rendered even more im potent by the fact that th6 security council, although it laid down spe cific truce directives to both fac tions, decided against sending a U.N. commission to the scene of trouble to check on compliance. Russia, continuing to favor the partition plan, refused to support the truce proposal but at the same time Andrei Gromyko, Soviet delegate, re frained from applying Russia's big- power veto and thus permitted the agreement to be concluded. There was no assurance that either Jewish or Arab forces would agree to a United Nations truce and lay down their arms. Well aware that the truce proposal had little or no significance in the pattern of the Holy Land tragedy, U. N. delegates shook their heads gloomily and wondered if the United Nations, not yet three years old, might not be a blue baby. It was clear that the U. N.'s lack of “elan vital” in the Palestine prob lem stemmed directly from the de cline of American prestige and leadership in the world organization. After having pushed the partition plan through the U. N. by the sheer weight of its apparent conviction, the U. S. suddenly abandoned its suppbrt of partition in order to dab ble in power politics with Middle East oil as the stakes. Instead of partition U. S. leaders advocated a temporary United Nations trustee ship. But they failed to indicate what kind of trusteeship or exactly how they thought it should be en forced. While the American U. N. delega tion was playing hard-to-get, other delegates were asking “What are we here for?” Unofficial explanation was that the U. S. was trying, through Secretary of State George Marshall jn Bogota, Colombia, to get some South Amer ican nations to offer to supply the troops that will be needed to enforce a trusteeship. A-WEAPON: Bingo ! Another batch of atoms has been exploded on the sea-girt wastes of Eniwetok atoll in the far western Pacific. In the words of the U. S. atomic energy commission, the event marked the successful completion of an “atomic weapon.” There was no further description of the sixth known atomic explosion in world history; but, as always in the case of applied nuclear physics, the ele ment of mystery involved was at least as awesome as specific knowl edge of the instrument might be. At this stage, the situation between U. S. and Russia was not unlike a popular American game of chance. Democracy had just completed a row of numbers on its card; and in the U. S. announcement of a new atomi# weapon kibitzers around the world could hear a loud cry of “Bingo!” HYBRID CORN: North Central Twelve North Central states are well in advance of the South in the percentage of corn acreage planted with high-yield hybrid seed, accord ing to a report by the department of agriculture. The North Central group has in creased its use of hybrid seed from zero in 1933 to 92.5 per cent of all its acreage planted last year, while the South has only 27.2 per cent planted to hybrid seed. NEBRASKA: Stassen Again Harold E. Stassen had husked hii political com well in Nebraska. Voters in the state’s preferential primary—typed this year as a “pop ularity poll”—showered their favors on the wayfaring campaigner from Minnesota in a field of seven Re publican presidential aspirants. Results of the Nebraska balloting gave Stassen 15 national convention delegates for at least the first bal lot. Legally, Nebraska’s delegates go to the national convention un pledged. By custom, however, the outcome of the preferential primary is binding on the delegates for the first ballot. Stassen now estimated that he would command at least 300 delegates on the first ballot in Phila delphia this June. As far as Thomas E. Dewey was concerned, the Nebraska primary added not a cubit to his political stature. He ran an indifferent sec ond to Stassen; and there were many who predicted that this defeat, close ly following the complete rout of Dewey forces in Wisconsin, virtually eliminated the New York governor from the GOP presidential campaign arena. Ohio’s Sen. Robert Taft, who had the support of Sen. Hugh Butler’s state political organization, took third place, although he had been expected to show considerable strength in Nebraska. It was a critical blow to his political stock. Far down the list and completely out of the money were the other four contenders: Sen. Arthur Van- denberg, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gov. Earl Warren of California and Speaker of the House Joseph Martin. As always after a pivotal political event such as the Nebraska pri mary, innumerable experts were scurrying through their mental gymnasiums to find significances. This was the consensus: Stassen had generated a lot of horsepower because of his Wiscon sin and Nebraska victories. Con ceivably, he could sweep the GOP convention, although that contin gency was by no means certain yet. Taft and Dewey were in shoal water and heading for the rocks un less some outside force gave their candidacies a boost. The question no longer was whether Taft or Dewey would get the nomination but whether they could resolve their differences long enough to get to gether to stop Stassen. General MacArthur, it appeared, would not get a chance to accept the nomination. Successor Epidio Quirino, vice-president of the Republic of the Philippines, succeeded to the presidency upon the death of President Manuel Roxas. Roxas died in a Clark field hospital, only a short time after uttering a pledge of “inde structible faith” between the American and Philippine peoples. UPSWING: Inflation Latest of President Truman’s re curring announcements that the na tion’s economy is being endangered by high prices was backed up this time by department of commerce economists. They found that business activity had been growing stronger in re cent weeks and concluded that this increasing strength must be inter preted in the light of the economic impact of lowered taxes, the foreign aid program and stepped-up military spending. Headliners IN SCRANTON . , . Mrs. Mamie Francione pointed out that drinking is bad for the liver, dancing is hard on the heart, singing weakens the lungs, cited her abstinence from all three activities as the reason she has lived to be 100. IN PHILADELPHIA . . . Raymond Palmer heaved a box through a jewelry store window, was led away to jail muttering, “I did it. I did it. It’s something I wanted to do all my life. It’s this very window I wanted to break.” IN TOKYO . . . Japanese whalers convened in a Buddhist temple, prayed for the souls of the 1,321 whales they caught last winter. IN FORT WORTH . . . Thieves leav ing a lumberyard in the middle of the night with a truckload of loot got stuck in soft ground, called a garage, had a tow truck pull them out, paid the garage man, drove away with their stolen lumber. IN NEW YORK . . . American Bible society announced that it had dis tributed 9,310,439 copies of the Bible in 147 languages during 1947. Cover Crops Reduce Soil Erosion Losses Research Tests Show Four Main Advantages How cover crops seeded in corn and other row crops could help farmers fight erosion, build up the soil’s organic matter and add to the nitrogen supply, is indicated in studies by research men of Iowa agricultural experiment station. Four major advantages are cited: 1 Cover crops protect the soil • from August to May. One- fourth of the annual soil loss occurs during this period. 2 Well-fertilized legumes and ’ grasses add organic matter to the soil that helps resist erosion during the May and June period. This is the time when one-half of the annual soil losses occur. 3 Cover crops add nitrogen to the soil, especially when legumes are a part or all of the mixture. 4 The yield of corn will be slightly • increased in the year following the seeding of cover crops. Research workers have developed a plan that licks the problem of seed ing the cover crops. Just before Good field of corn secured from proper plant food. laying by the com, they broadcast the seed with an endgate seeder. Weeders are attached to the culti vator to help cover the seed and better growth results. Clover and Alfalfa Need Limed, Fertilized Soil Sweet clover and alfalfa Will do a good job of increasing the soil’s sup ply of nitrogen and vitally needed organic matter if they are well fed. Legumes are heavy eaters of phos phate and potash. They thrive best in a soil that has been limed to cor rect acidity and to furnish calcium. WELL-FED LEGUMES DOABETTER JOS When legumeb get a full quota of needed nutrients they will pro duce top results. That was shown in tests with sweet clover at the Newton soil experiment field in Il linois. The accompanying chart sum marizes results. Sweet clover grown on soil that had been limed and fer tilized with phosphate and potash produced 63 pounds more nitrogen and a ton more organic matter per acre than that grown on soil that had received only lime. Another advantage of well-fed legumes comes in improved soil tilth. The sturdy tap roots of well-fed sweet clover and alfalfa drive through plow sole compactions and push mineralized organic matter deep into the soil. They open tight soil to air and moisture. The added organic matter and better tilth 13 to 25 inches deep enable crops follow ing in the rotation to make more effi cient use of the plant food available in the soil. Increased Production Of Butterfat Required Dairy farmers whose average an nual production per cow is only 6,000 pounds are operating on a bare subsistence figure, it is pointed out by Howard O. Selby, general manager of the United Farmers of New England. It is not unreason able to suggest that an annual pro duction per cow of 7,500 pounds would be possible and that it would yield an ecomonic level more nearly in line with other groups in the na tion, he adds. Cleanliness Emphasized In Treating of Wounds Horses under treatment do much better at pasture than in stables, if the weather is suitable. If sick horses must be stabled, quarters should be clean and well-ventilated. Be gentle in dressing wounds, clip closely or shave the hair around the wound and make sure that no dis charge from around the edges is car ried into the wound. Proper drainage of the wound must be assured. By ?A.w.MU6ENTJ 1 2 3 2 3 -4 5 2 • 3 / r > B 3 Y f il 4 • 5 VJ ~z ^ H SZlTAW A T THE CA TS HOSE. A T THE P/6HT ( J AND MAKE TOOK L/NES COT THE BOXES /H THE EXACT POS/T/ONS THEY DO /H THE Op/G/HAL . You IH/U THEN HAVE MADE A PERFECT PEPRODUCT/ON OF THE CAT. 7/zsr cot our the p/ctore apoua/d THE EMT/BE OUTJL/NE. Mhen C8EASE THE 4- eoP/vfPS 3ACK- wat&om the 2>oTTET> l/A/ES. 'CL/ W/U THEN SEE JUST WHA T /s CAUS/HG Ail THE ' EXC/7E- WE/VT. U n- ^0° c&eA Ck ’-"a ^ t ~\ 6^ -rtf* 92* 62 - ^ 4 / * 24 C 68 *66 »6 64 18 16 ^A.w-NU6£NT? 8. jo .12 n CROSSWORD PUZZLE ! Solution In Next Issue. No. 16 HORIZONTAL 1 A clamp 5 Paddle-like instrument 8 Egyptian dancing girl 12 Act of self- examination .15 Member of an Indonesian tribe of Min danao 16 Devotion 17 Period 18 Behold 19 Pastry (pL) 20 Musical syllable 22 Compass point 23 To a disparage 24 Movie celebrity 26 City in Mas sachusetts 28 Form of “to be" 29 To mimic 32 A tune 33 To stroke lightly 34 S]oken 35 Border 36 To sink in. middle 37 To use up 38 Canvas shel ter (pU 40 To be in agitation 41 Exclamation of triumph 42 A tribe in E. Assam, India 43 God of war 44 Prefix: not 46 No more than 48 Peeled 50 Female ruff 51 Brother of Jacob 53 To allow 54 Ireland 55 Sharp to taste 56 Seaport in New Guinea 57 A rolling stone gathers' none VERTICAL 1 Small glass container 2 To and in 3 As it is writ ten (musiC) 4 Teutonic deity . 5 Any of vari ous willows 6 A monkey <pD 7 To soak 8 By 9 Cover 10 Heavenly body 11 Poker stake 13 Drug 14 Abnormal sac (pi.) 19 Petition 21 Midwestern state (abbr.) 23 Muck 24 Occupied a seat 25 Less refined 26 Czechoslo vakian mea sure 27 Grecian wood nymph 28 To oscillate 30 Large basket for carrying provisions 31 Old 33 Dance step 34 A literary work 36 To halt 37 To flow off 39 Symbol for natrium 40 Mediterra nean island 41 To aid 43 Extent of land 45 Sheltered side (pi.) 47 Thick, black substance 49 Entire 50 River (Sp.) 52 Note in Guido’s scale 54 Printer’s measure Answer to Puxzle No. IS. V A S El K R E vT I N T 0 £ E n ol N i. S E a C F "ol 1 R^ : N s E Ij 9 B AJ 2^ H a A f i F 0 R i fp^ L E A s L D L F 0 D M U A 3 S 0 M ■ E R $| A R i L 9 A T T i M I L D E 3 T i T D L E P 0 L D R E D T 0 E [E RAM I V A _P _P E D 0. E^TfE rTn I F N A TED REE 1J. E _E F T UUULj <nrnu 1/616 Hoppi-Copter Carries Man in First Successful Air Flight SEATTLE, WASH.—The Hoppi- Copter—closest thing yet to equip ping man with wings—has passed its first man-carrying free flight outdoor test. The pilot sits in the open air, ap pearing to have the 175-pound craft strapped to his back. The 35-horse power engine is at his back and the twin rotors whirl above his head. It has a tripod landing gear. Coal Mine Owner Attributes Wealth to Penniless Days PITTSBURGH. — Jimmy Lynch, wealthy coal mine owner, believes the reason he’s worth $75,000 to day is because he was flat broke 10 years ago. If he hadn’t been penniless, Lynch claims, he never would have bor rowed money and bought 65 acres of bottom land, from which he hoped to make a few dollars by selling the top soil to property owners. Underneath the top soil Lynch discovered one of the best seams of coal for strip mining in western Pennsylvania. Lynch bought the top soil land for $3,000. Engineers found the hidden vein held 600,000 to one million tons of coal, and estimated the mine could be worked for four years, with a $75,000 return to Lynch. Blind Section Hand. Uses Wife's Eyes ' To See His Work Young Woman Began Working On The Railroad During the War Period KANSAS CITY, MO.—Mary Alonge, who stands over five feet tall in men’s work shoes, admits that her job as a section hand with her blind husband is the best work she’s ever had. A broad grin lights up Mary’s round, smudged face as she tells about her work of cleaning out box cars at the Rock Island dump yards here. Shoveling dirt, unloading whatever debris has accumulated in the cars, wielding a pick in cold weather to loosen frozen ground, all are part of an eight hour daily shift for Mary, who’s been employed here for five years. Working constantly beside the young woman is her husband, Joe, tall, slender and dark, who needs her with him because of failing eye sight. Physicians who have exam ined Joe have given no hope that his sight will ever be improved. “If he could zee better, he would be doing something else. Well, we both work,” commented Mary. Since a railroad yard isn’t exactly the place for frills', this stocky woman wears men’s overalls, a leather jacket and an old wool sc'arf tied around her head. Mary began her job during the war, when all the railroads, desper ate for help, first began hiring women as laborers. Her husband, who had been rejected by the army because of his almost sightless eyes, was employed at the yard doing piecework. One day Joe’s boss came around and asked him if his wife wanted to work. . Mary went down the next day and “never quit.” There were about 40 women in the yards then, cleaning tracks and doing other labor for merly done by men. Most would quit or lay off when cold weather came along. Today, only one other feminine worker, a switch oiler, Is still there. Mary and Joe each earn 94 cents an hour, which brings their week’s income to $90.24. And they are sav ing as much as they are able—what with doctor’s bills and increased prices—so they can buy a little house. They have long dreamed of it Buy U. S. Savings Bonds! Why It’s So Easy To Kill Many Instils with FLIT 5% DDT Think of it —one spraying lasts for weeks. You don’t have to spray every few hours to kill the insects in your home. No bomb type spray or other sprays con- tainiog less than 5% DDT can equal this for lasting effect. 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