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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Security Council Gets Berlin Issue, Inconclusive Meeting Stalls Action; Russia Proposes Big Four Parley By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are Western Newspaper Union’s news ana * n these columns, they are those of y*ts and not necessarily of this newspaper./ DEBATE: Inconclusive For better or tor worse the U. N. security council had become wed ded to the problem of what to do about Berlin, but there was no Honeymoon. Russia had boycotted the secur ity council debate, and although An drei Vishinsky, Soviet delegate, at tended the first meeting in body he remained monstrously aloof from the proceedings in spirit. THAT FIRST session was not only inconclusive but downright dull. No one would have thought that the 11 men mulling over this world crisis in the Chaillot palace in Paris were engaged in delibera tions of so momentous a nature that they might turn the balance for peace or war in the world. While Vishinsky sat dourly and silently—playing the part of the vi carious witness to the hilt — the American and French delegates read polite tirades against the man ners and morals of Soviet motives and politics. WHEN THE T\yO western speak ers were done, Juan A. Bramuglia of Argentina, acting president of the council, was forced simply to drop the whole business, temporari ly at least, with a hollow thud. After the French delegate had completed his review, Bramuglia waited expectantly for a time, then observed mildly that since he didn’t seem to have any more speakers on the list the meeting would be recessed. It appeared probable that the del egates would take considerable time for studying the charges of the U. S., Great Britain and France against Russia before meeting again. There was a possibility, too, that the security council might de lay further formal meditation on the oCF chance that Russia might lift the Berlin blockade and the Big Four foreign ministers might take up the entire German ques tion. BIG FOUR: More Talks? Russia, whether the Kremlin ad mitted it or not, was dissatisfied with the way its pet Berlin situa tion was being handled. The Sovi ets wanted it out of the hands of the U. N. and in the hands of the Big Four foreign ministers. EVEN WHILE the United Nations was deciding to discuss the issue, Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Mol otov was sending a note to the U. S., Britain and France urging that the four foreign ministers meet to consider both the Berlin crisis and the problem of Germany as a whole. It was a peculiar development, ^inasmuch as it set the western na tions to wondering how the Soviets could justify such a conference in view of their fla grant defection in the long, futile and disillusioning Mos cow talks which had ended recently. Molotov’s note, however, claimed that the U. N. security council did not have the authority to deal either with the Berlin crisis or the overall subject of Germany. REVIEWING the six weeks of ne gotiations in Moscow, the note said that the talks did not break down over a Russian demand for control of. all air traffic in and out of Ber lin, as the allies had contended. All that Russia wanted, said Mol otov, was some control over air transport to prevent black market money deals. U. S. Ambassador Bedell Smith had agreed with that condition, Mol otov insisted, and quoted him as saying: “It is quite understandable the Soviet government wishes^ to have certain guarantees against utilization of air transport for il legal currency deals or black mar ket operations. Satisfactory guar antees of such kind could easily be • secured.” IF SMITH’S statement is correct, Molotov reasoned, then the Soviet Union believes it is possible an agreement may be reached be tween the four powers on “a mu tually satisfactory basis.” Anyway, Molotov continued right eously, he couldn’t see what all the fuss was about. He claimed there was no blockade of Berlin, adding that the “defensive, pro tective measure” did not threaten international peace and security. One More Alliance Sen. Chan Gurney (R., S. D.) f chairman of the senate armed serv ices committee, has proposed a for mal military alliance that woald pledge the U. S. to fight if the na tions of western Europe were to be attacked by Russia. He announced that he would ask the next congress to approve his proposed alliance and to back it up with a new lend-lease program to help rearm western powers. Ex ‘Vice’ Twice Former Vice President John Garner and President Harry Trn- man, also a former vice presi dent, staged a cheery reunion when Mr. Truman came to Uvalde, Tex., in the course of his pre-election campaign tour. The two are old buddies from way back, and (he visit didn’t hurt the President any politically, either, because Cactus Jack is a mighty popular man in Texas. INFLATION: What Price Bread? Ever since the price of wheat de clined under the impetus of this year’s bumper crop a good many in flation-harried Americans have been asking when the price of bread was going to take a corresponding drop. The answer is that it probably won’t, and the reason is that al though the price of wheat is down the cost of the other basic bread ingredients are not. BAKING INDUSTRY leaders, in a considerable ferment over recent charges that bread prices are de liberately being kept aloft, have said—and with some justification— that the present costs of bakery goods reflects “a remarkable achievemept in resisting inflation ary pressures.” They base this contention on bu reau of labor statistics figures which show, among other things, that the baker today is paying $2.53 for the four major ingredients of bread that cost him $1.00 in 1939. THAT FIGURES out to an in crease of 153 per cent in the cost of raw materials; yet the American housewife is paying on the average only about 63 per cent more for her .bread than during the 1935-39 base . period used by the bureau of labor statistics in computing its cost-of- living index. Last November, BLS figures show, flour reached a record of 164 per cent over the base period, and in December wheat of the type used for bread flour hit a record high of 214 per cent over the base. And although flour and wheat prices have slid somewhat recently, the flour used in bread now on the grocers’ shelves was purchased by the baker several weeks ago when prices were up. OF THE FOUR major bread in gredients—flour, sugar, shortening and milk—only sugar now has a lower BLS index than bread. And still another factor which has the bread-makers beside themselves singing in the wilderness is the mounting costs of other elements in volved in producing the staff of life —such as labor, machinery, distri bution and packaging. Any way you slice it, it’s still in flation. ASSISTANCE: For President Former President Herbert Hoover, who knows whereof he speaks when he dwells on the rigors of being the nation’s chief executive, has a cam paign under way now to add more members to the U. S. cabinet who could act as “operating vice presi dents” assisting the president. HOOVER IS chairman of the non political government reorganization commission which will recommend additional cabinet members to act in that capacity. He did not specify how many will be urged beyond the present nine- man cabinet, but members of his commission said the figure under consideration was three. “Every president has recommended additions to the cabinet,” said Hoo ver. “There are nearly 80 independ ent agencies of the government running around loose in addition to the nine cabinet departments.” Members of the commission have revealed that among the additional cabinet departments that have been considered—but not decided upon— is a social security department, in cluding public health, public works and education. They are separate bureaus now. ‘ THE REORGANIZATION commis sion, which is working on all angles of government reorganization, was appointed under an act of the last congress. President Truman ap pointed a third of the commission and the senate and house each named a third. LEWISIAN: Anti-Truman * It was an accomplished fact that sooner or later John L. Lewis would have his say about the 1948 elec tion, feeUng as he obviously does that no political campaign would be complete without his having ex pressed an opinion on it. At the United Mine Workers’ 40th convention in Cincinnati the UMW chief shoved his foot in Mr. Tru man’s campaign machinery by turning a sour and sarcastic eye on the President’s bid for re-elec tion. PRESIDENT Truman is "danger ous to the United States,” said Lewis, and he had his mine worker convention delegates agreeing with him. They made it clear that they would not go along with the bulk of AFL, CIO and other independent unions now working for Mr. Tru man’s election. While the delegates cheered and applauded his criticisms, Lewis de clared that: “Harry Truman is totally unfit for the position. His principles are elastic. He is careless with the truth. He has no special knowledge of anything. He is a malignant, scheming sort of individual who is dangerouk not only to the United Mine Workers but dangerous to the United States of America.” PROCEEDING oratorically in this vituperative vein, Lewis devot ed 25 of the 50 minutes he took for his speech to derogating the Presi dent in general and specific terms. He charged that Mr. Truman ve toed the Taft-Hartley labor law only “for the record of his campaign.” He said the President prosecuted the mine workers and had them fined twice “because he was too cowardly to send me to jail.” “I WAS WISHING he would put me in jail,” Lewis went on remi niscently, “which is what a white man would have done rather th%n rob you.” John L. Lewis was saving his opinions on Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican candidate, for a lat er phase of the UMW convention. Lewis doesn’t especially like Dewey, either. Statesman Cordell Hull, former secretary of state, observed his 77th birth day anniversary quietly at Be- thesda naval hospital where he has been a patient for the last two years since his retirement from the high public office. Doc tors told him he would be able to leave the hospital soon. URANIUM: New Find Practically nobody, except the people who look for it and work with it, knows much about uranium —the raw material of splitting atoms—but the world-wide search for that metal is constant, often frenetic and .of inestimable impor tance. CLAIMS THAT “another uranium deposit has been discovered” are becoming more and more frequent. And more often than not, the dis covery flops completely. Or if it does turn but to be a possible source of supply the whole thing is immediately wrapped in atomic se crecy and the world hears nothing more about it. The latest of these discoveries, an nounced recently by Columbia uni versity, might turn out to be pro ductive enough to be of vast sig nificance to the world. SCIENTISTS have unearthed a new, green mineral which was found clinging to mine walls in the Bel gian Congo. It is a relative of the yellow camotite, from which the U. S. gets its domestic uranium in the Rocky mountains. Camotite is one of the two best sources of the atomic element, uranium. Whether the green mineral is plentiful is not yet known. It now is being analyzed at Columbia uni versity. Like the yellow camotite, it contains about 60 per cent urani um. If the new mineral proves a good uranium source, the discovery might be the most important of its kind since the atomic bomb first burst upon the world. More than 100 minerals containing uranium are known, but the element has been too difficult to extract FOOD, COAL: Root of Evil Two shortages, food and coal, are responsible for most of the discom fort and quite a few of the major troubles in the world, a report by the United Nations economic af fairs department says. Scarcity of basic foods and coal have lamed reconstmction efforts, provided an impetus to inflation and generally upset the world’s economy by reducing human strength to work and produce. Salvage Crews Comb Berlin For Treasures BERLIN.—They call themselves the “Kings of the Ruins.” Theirs is a perilous profession. Its . dangers run from collapsing walls to bites from overgrown and ferocious rats. They are the men—and boys—who make a profession of digging in Ber lin's thousands of bomb-ruined buildings for such treasures as scrap metal, plumbing and heating fixtures, furniture and wood. This "treasure under the rubble” is a much greater lure now than the old boyhood business of picking up scrap metal for sale to junkmen for a few pennies. In Germany's battered cities, it’s more danger ous, too. Perilous Work. The greatest peril to the salvage gangs is the collapse of walls. Hardly a day passes in Berlin but someone is killed or injured in such an accident. Another ever present danger is the explosion of old bombs or other munitions in the ruins. The salvagers have a system which requires that every working crew always must post a sentry to keep an eye on the weak walls. "We also post a sentry to keep an eye on the rats,” one salvager said. “We run across some pretty big ones in the ruins, large and savage ones. Smells of the Dead. “But no sentry coqld do anything about the terrible smells. They are the smells of the unburied dead of the bombing war, or dead animals and of stagnant pools.” These probers of the ruins need no maps to find the treasures they seek. “All one needs to know,” said the foreman of one crew, “is the ordi nary architecture of an apartment building. What we are after espe cially for salvage is the plumbing pipes and fixtures. Metal eaves- troughs also fetch valuable re turns.” Cattle Buyer, 9, Claims Title of Youngest Trader MOSCOW, TENN.—Nine-year-old Corbett-Yeager Jr., sop of a farm er, strikes a hard bargain as a cattle buyer. He’s making money, too, for a youngster, because he knows a good calf when he sees one. Corbett started in business for himself when he was five years old. His father gave him a patch of cot ton—half an acre to be exact. Corbett was too young to plant his own cotton the first year. But he watched over his crop. When he marketed his first bale he got $75. His father helped him buy two heifers. Two years later he swapped one heifer for a saddle horse. He sold the other for $116.42. Corbett has been buying and sell ing ever since. Now he grows an acre of cotton which nets him around $190. Some time ago young Corbett bought a 250-pound calf for $65. Lat er he sold it for $251.12. “Now I think I’m going to get me a heifer to raise as a grand cham pion,” he said. Sailors and Marines Swim Underwater in Arctic Ice SAN DIEGO.—Marine corps and navy underwater swirmners trained during the war have penetrated Arctic ice and slush in below-sur- face forays in recent Alaskan ma neuvers, Vice Adm. George D. Murray, commander of the first task fleet, disclosed. Operating from submarines off Kodiak island, the rubber-suited swimmers knifed through slush six inches deep and brushed against four-inch ice to carry out assign- ments.-They were able to remain in water estimated at four degrees below freezing for periods of more than an hour. Adm. Murray said that not even during the war did swimmers oper ate so far north. Underwater scout ing teams were developed by the marine corps and the navy during World War II to blast obstacles from enemy beaches in pre-invasion mis sions. Pilot Receives a Ticket for ‘Parking’ Over White House WASHINGTON.—A helicopter pilot received a ticket for “parking” too close to the White House. The piece of aerial history was made by Roland Roelofs of the Rotowing air service. He kept the White House police force in a dither for about 20 minutes with his windmill. They complained that he flew down to within 200 feet of the execu tive mansion and hovered motion less in the air while his passenger, Luis Marden, snapped their pic tures. A similar complaint came from capitol police. They telephoned the civil aeronautics administration for some advice on how to shoo off a helicopter. CAA Inspector Robert E. Bell promptly drew up a whole string of charges against Roelofs, all of which added up to illegal air park- ing. This lamb shoulder takes on its extender in the form of a delight ful fruit-bread dressing. The dress ing has in it prunes and apricots as well as orange for tartness. The boned meat also makes an easy Job of carving. Dress Economy Cuts . Of Meat, Save Money, Please Family Tastes EVERY WOMAN will agree that there are very few cuts of meat that are really economical, but it’s true there are some that are at least a bit cheap er than steaks, roasts or chops. You’ll do well to watch for bar gains weekly. If you don’t want to buy as much meat as formerly, then extend what you get with vegetables or stuffings, and have plenty of oth er things to g<P with the dinner. Don’t economize to the extent that the family will grumble about what they eat. Make everything palatable and attractive when served and pay particular attention to having plat ters look lovely. Here’s the time to use pickled fruits and rinds to gar nish meat platters without anyone’s knowing that even these are an ex tender. Fruit Stuffed Lamb Shoulder (Serves 6) 1 lamb shoulder, boned 2 cups bread crumbs- 6 cooked apricots 6 cooked prunes 1 small orange, chopped 1 beaten egg , Salt 'and pepper Have lamb shoulder boned and sew it on three sides, leaving the fourth side open for dressing. Make dressing of bread crumbs, diced apricots and prunes, orange, egg and seasonings. Pile into pocket. Skewer or sew edges together. Place lamb shoulder on a rack in an open roasting pan and roast at 300 degrees, allowing 30 to 35 minutes to the pound. HERE’S A MEAT loaf that has vegetables right in it. You'll like the interesting flavor combination. Vegetable-Meat Loaf (Serves 8) S tablespoons chopped onion % cup ground green pepper 2 cups ground carrots % cup soured cream 1 teaspoon salt % teaspoon pepper 1% pounds ground veal Mix all ingredients together. Shape into a loaf and place in cas serole or loaf pan. Cover. Bake at 400 degrees for 40 minutes, then uncover and bake for 20 minutes longer. • • * HERE’S AN INTERESTING variation for drumsticks, using only a pound and a quarter of meat: California Chicken (Serves 4-6) H pound ground pork 1 pound ground veal % 1 teaspoon salt % teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon chopped green pep per. / H cup crushed pineapple, drained 1 egg, slightly beaten 1 tablespoon water Lard for browning Bread crumbs Combine ground meats, salt, pep per, green pepper and pineapple. Shape like a chicken leg on a wood en skewer. Combine beaten egg with wat£r. Roll “drumsticks” in bread crumbs, then in egg-water mixture, and again in bread crumbs. Let LYNN SAYS: Make Winter Foods , More Savory Next time you’re serving oyster stew, add a sprinkling of grated cheese just before you place it on the table. For your steamed puddings, serve hard sauce which has been patted flat on a cookie sheet, chilled, then cut with fancy cookie cutters. Leftover pieces of fowl which aren’t enough to make a meal, can be mixed with com kernels, milk and egg and baked in a casserole. stand for 30 minutes in the refrig erator. Brown in hot lard; cover closely and cook slowly for 45 min utes. • • • THE RICHNESS of pork sausage combines with nourishing kidney beans to make a hearty, meat-sav ing but appetizing casserole for cool er days: Barbecued Sausage -Casserole (Serves 6-8) 1 pound sausage links 2 tablespoons water I onion, chopped H green pepper, chopped 6 pieces of celery, chopped 1 can tomato soup % cup catchup 1 No. 2 can kidney beans Place sausage links in frying pan. Add water; cover and simmer for five minutes or until water evapo rates. Remove cover and brown links. Add onion, celery, green pep per, catchup and tomato soup. Cov er and simmer slowly for 30 min utes. Add beans to cooked mixture and heat thoroughly. SPANISH PORK is pork simmered to perfection. It’s a beautiful red brown color with peas and toma toes combined with potatoes to make a perfectly extended meat dish that’s com plete enough to serve as a main course. Spanish Pork (Serves 6) 2 pounds pork shoulder, boned and diced Flour and lard 4 medium-sized potatoes 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 2 cups tomatoes 2 cups canned peas ^ 1 green pepper Salt and pepper Have pork shoulder cut into 1-incb cubes. Dredge in fldur and brown in hot lard. Place alternate layers of meat and vegetables in a casser ole dish. Pour tomatoes over all. Season and cook in a moderate (350 degree) oven until meat and vegetables are done, from one and a half to two hours. Spanish pork is a delicious as well as handsome vegetable-ex tended meat dish. The pieces of succulent pork ride in a tomato- red gravy with green peas which will make the family delighted with its eye appeal. WHEN PROPERLY prepared, kidneys can be <*. very tasty dish. Why not try these delicious veal kidneys, braised and served over hot, steaming noodles? Braised Veal Kidneys (Serves 6) 3 veal kidneys Salt and flour 2 tablespoons chopped onion 2 tablespoons fat 1 cup canned tomatoes 1 bay leaf Hot, cooked poodles Cut kidneys in half lengthwise; remove white membrane; soak in cold water for 15 minutes. Cut into one-inch pieces, season with salt and dredge with flour. Brown onion in hot fat. Add kidneys and cook with onion until browned for about five minutes. Add tomatoes and cook for 10 minutes, covered, until kid neys are tender. Drop in bay leaf during last five minutes of cooking. Roast Beef Salad (Serves 4 to 6) 1 cup diced cooked beef 2 hard-cooked eggs, sliced 2 tomatoes, quartered 1 small head of lettuce French dressing or mayonnaise Toss first three ingredients togeth er. Serve on lettuce with dressing. Use diced cooked ham, tongue or corned beet if desired. 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