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✓ THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C, Washington Digest Autumn Brings Washington A Potpourri of 'Occasions' *■ By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.*—After a tropically terrible summer the capital burst into autumnal glory with cool weathei*providing the zest and zip necessary to meet the feverish renewal of activity after the summer doldrums. Let me review some o( the varied events which provided pungent relief from the news of diplomatic quarrels, political billingsgate, and war. Out at the airport, an American^ Airlines plane, christened for the occasion “Don Caspar de Por- tola,” dropped out of the skies. Down the ramp came a black - bearded, helmeted Spanish Conquistadbre, re splendent in flow ing scarlet cape and shining broad sword. Next came a charming Chi- •nese girl in her ruffled dress, al luring as a lotus BAUKHAGE blossom. Then a less exotic crowd of beauties, sportsfolk, business men, headed by the mayor of San Francisco. They had come to tell us about the resumption tills year of the Portola Festival at the Gold en Gate. (They visited eight other major cities, too.) Don Caspar de Portola was the famous explorer who was sent to America from Spain in 1769 to chase the Jesuits from California, the English from Canada, and the Russians from Alaska. He didn’t quite fill that order but he did locate and ex plore San Francisco Bay and discover a couple of other har bors. I paid my respects to His Excel lency Don Caspar, to the tall, slim, pretty and modest water-nymph, Ann Curtis, Olympiad winner, and to my old pal Jimmy Abbey, one time international photographer who made even Stalin “look pleas ant.’’ Now Jimmy is an ABC com mentator on the Pacific coast. But something bet'-er was to come. We sat down to luncheon and I felt right at home! There was Chef John Lischetti, of the Nugget Grill, founded way back in the gold rush days when nuggets were the medium of exchange. And better still there were sand-dabs, that strange flat creature sans-scalcs in PORTOLA AND ENTOURAGE the ocean and sans-rival when pre pared “a la Pescad’ oro.” (Get the nugget?) But best of all was the crab salad nugget, which makes all other crabs seem crabbed by com parison. The food was all native, flown from San Francisco for the occasion! Viva Portola! • • • George C. Marshall As a Humanitarian The Marine band blares out a march from the platform overlook ing the huge Presidential room of the Statler where more than 500 guests are gathered for the cere mony in which Variety Interna tional, that cheerful and charitable group of show folk, is to confer its annual Humanitarian award. In march the guests of honor, statesmen, diplomats, tycoons, ac tors, legal lights, and whatnot. They stand at their places at the head tables which form two tiers banked with roses. A fanfare and George Catlett Marshall takes bis place amid cheers that drown the music. The salute to the colors. We sit down to drown any modicum of sorrow that has survived the preceding recep tion. Speeches are short and good. Marshall, as secretary of state, could say little that was new, some thing that was grim, much that was encouraging and all of it “off the record" for we are already in the midst of parlous international ne gotiations. Variety club president reads the citation: "The career of the Hon. George Catlett Marshall has embraced leadership in peace as well as in war. “Soldier by profession, he has ever displayed a conspicuous and consistent genius for the military. “Shunning the opportunity to seek surcease from the cumula tive burdens of two world wars, his devotion to principle and country has led him along the paths toward world amity and peace since the end of hostili ties. "As author of the Marshall Plan, he translated into gener ous and inspiring fulfillment the shining hope for liberty, honor and dignity j»f free men every where. ’ “We salute the breadth of vision and warmth of heart of a great and beloved American.” And so to bed. • * • Review of Byrd’s Antarctic Expedition Rain pours, we drive through the slippery Washington streets to the navy yard (now the naval gun fac tory). The Washington navy yard was planned by President John Adams when French aggression made “freedom of the seas” a menacing international issue. Work began on the site in 1800. Here the “Wasp” and the "Hornet” were built to play their roles in the War of 1812, here the “Constitution” and the “Presi dent” came for overhauling and re pairs. We stop at the sentry box: “Guests of Admiral Davis.” The marine sentry salutes. We know our way to the officers’ club. Hand shakes and refreshments and into a bus that takes us to the event of/the evening which the rain prevented us from witnessing aboard the hulking LST moored to the dock in the Ana- costia river. So we must go indoors to see one of the most thrilling things I ever saw on the screen. A motion pic ture made from the actual photo graphic record of the 1946-47 ex ploration of the Antarctic under Adm. Richard E. Byrd. I hope you saw or will see it—“Secret Land.” It had its premier on Navy Day, in t>0 cities. The commercial movie makers used the official film taken by navy, marine corps, coast guard and army cameramen on the scene. The picturing of disaster, of rescue, of tragedy, of suspense, of achievement, (in most cases the actual event as it happened) are something for which I have no comparison. One purpose of the 1946 expedi- I tion which was a follow-up of Byrd's i original 1929 undertaking when he established “Little America” and explored the great Antarctic ice ! cap, was to train the navy in polar | operations. Another aim was to make further : discoveries and release the “un known treasures” (which Byrd’s earlier explorations indicated were | there) for the benefit of mankind. ■ Even the "routinfe” operations, the j ships amidst the ice-floes, the land ing on the ice-cap, the erection of the tent city and the operation of the planes, was an inspiring and thrilling sight, a tremendous trib ute to the American skill in me chanical achievement, in personal endurance, bravery, ingenuity. It will make you proud to be an Amer ican. Admiral Byrd didn’t look much older than when we bid him God speed before he started on his first Antarctic venture. That was close to me for I was connected with the organization that syndicated the story for the press. But I was struck with the passage of time, and the years of study and research that have intervened, when I looked at Dr. Paul Siple, polar authority and geographer. (He was present in the flesh as well as on the screen.) Paul Siple was chosen to go oo the 1929 expedition after win ning in a competition involving 600,000 Boy Scouts of America. Then he was a tall, slender lad of 20. Now he’s stocky and graying. As a prominent geog rapher he has done important research for the war depart ment. The story of the Antarctic is stud ded With great names — Scott, Amundsen. Shackelton, to mention only three—as well as with sacrifice and tragedy. This picture of the “Secret Land,” less secret now, shows the tremendous advances in technology made since the days of the early explorers. It took thousands of years to shape the penguins’ wings into the fins which make his survival in a polar land possible. In a few years in the laboratories and factories ol America we have shaped the means v/hich make survival and explora- tion possib|e in the same environ ment — exploration and discovery which some day may be of tremen dous benefit to mankind. The Russians last month kept scheduling Red air maneuvers over Berlin airlift corridors. Perhaps be cause of the overcrowded condition of the heavens over Moscow, Minsk, Pinsk, Baku, Tartu and Stalingrad? NEW UNIFORM . . . Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower looks completely at home in the cap and gown of the academic world. He is pictured here during the ceremony in which he was formally InstSlIed as president of Columbia university. PRACTICAL RELIGION . . . Aft er preaching on the parable of the talents, the Rev. J. W. Stitt handed out five-dollar bills to as tonished worshippers in New Fork. Next Palm Sunday they’re to return whatever the talent symbol earns. PARA NURSES . . . Medical teams consisting of one medical officer, four nurses and four or derlies were dropped by para chute from RAF planes in a demonstration at a training school in England recently. PREPARE CAPITOL . . . Steel framework for the Inaugural stands at the Capitol is hoisted into place as preparations for the inauguration ceremony next January get under way. The Capitol dome also is getting a new coat of paint. BABT LONG NECK . . . Baby Bedalla, whose arrival in Wash ington, D. C., made that city’s zoo giraffe herd the world’s largest, gets a licking from its mother. Spring Song. Bedalla is only five feet tall—so far. DEDICATE SYNAGOGUE . . . The Israel] army is the only one in the world to build permanent synagogues in various army camps. This picture shows the dedication of the first of these synagogues near Tel Aviv just before Jewish high holy day ceremonies began. The sacred Torah is shown as it is escorted to its new destination by armed soldiers who participated in the ceremonies. DAILY DOUBLE . . . This pair of unrelated “twins” is the reason that some of the good people of Van Dyke, Mich., go about muttering in con fusion. They are Marie Kohler (left) and Charleen Rogocki, both six years old, and they’re as alike as two peas in the proverbial pod. Strange as it may seem, Marie and Charleen are not related to each other except in the duplication of physical characteristics. NEW QUARTERBACK . . . Lieut. Felix “Doc” Blanchard, the army all-American fullback, has a new quarterback calling signals. The pretty new boss is Mrs. Blanchard, the former Miss Jody King of San Antonio, Tex. The pair said their “I do’s” at the home of the * 1 bride’s parents. Best man was Lieut. W. J. Sharpe, Blanchard’s West Point roommate. Doc received his air corps wings recently, too. FLIRTING WITH A JET . . . Lieut. A. L. Hall of the navy’s medical corps service is shown standing in front of the intake of a jet aircraft during a test to determine just how close a person can come to It without being sucked into the inferno. He wears a heavy belt to which is attached a safety line. The lieutenant found that you can give the deadly sucker an even break to within three feet of the intake. Good Word for Franco CENATORS Scott Lucas of Illi- ^ nois and Bill Fulbright of Arkan sas, both Democrats, gave news men the slip the other day and paid a private call at the state depart ment. Their purpose was to put in a good word for Franco Spain. Just back from a trip to Madrid, Lucas and Fulbright said they thought it was about time Spain was admitted back inW the good graces of the western nations. They urged the state department to take the lead and review American pol icy toward Spain. State department diplomats, how- ' ever, cautioned against appeasing Franco at the risk of antagonizing the United Nations. It was by a U. N. vote that Spain became an international outcast, the senators were reminded. • • « Berlin Trouble U. S. air force chiefs flatly deny it, but the Berlin airlift is expected to break down in November. Chief difficulty will be weather. Other difficulties are the fact that planes are subject to terrific wear and tear, with little time for over haul. Also, it’s significant that Brit ain’s RAF actually is carrying 45 per cent of all freight into Berlin. Anglo-American cooperation has been excellent, though the British aren’t getting credit for their part of the job. In November, simultaneous with murky weather, the airlift will be called upon to carry much more coal. Several million people in Ber lin will be howling for it. The city already is on minimum rations. A deep-freeze unit in Berlin is worth nothing. Reason: electricity is turned off most of the day. House wives can’t begin cooking until 6 p. m. Berlin’s complete blackout to save coal has made the city a paradise for burglars. They are now so brazen they have been breaking into homes while oc cupants were still awake.’ November bad weather also will coincide with probable political un certainty in the U. S. If Dewey wins, as seems certain, the American government will be in a state of flux between November and Janu ary. That is the time to watch for real trouble with the Russians. U. S. Plot Against Peron? Here is the exclusive inside story of the alleged “assassination plot” in Argentina: John S. Griffiths, the American named as “chief instigator of the conspiracy," was cultural attache of the U. S. embassy in Buenos Aires under former Ambassador Spruille Braden. As such, he took an active part in Braden’s cam paign to aid the Argentine Demo cratic Union, which opposed the presidential candidacy of Juan D. Peron in 1945-46. When Braden returned to Wash ington in September, 1945, Grif fiths took over direction of this Democratic Union campaign. His activties, however, were consist ently hindered by John Cabot, who remained as U. S. charge d'affaires, and who had never sympathized with Braden's methods. After Braden departed, Cabot refused to cooperate with Griffiths in any way, even denying him access to cables received from Washington. Following Feron’a election and the appoint-ient of George S. Messersmith as ambassador to B. A., Griffiths resigned from the U. S. diplomatic service, but remained in the Argentine cap ital as technical adviser to sev eral U. 8. export firms. Seven months ago, Griffiths was summarily expelled from Argentina, on the charge that he had fomented a strike of bank employees in ’ Buenos Aires. Two bank-strike lead ers, whp had been fired from their jobs, submitted testimony that they had no connection or ac quaintance with Griffiths. However, these statements were rejected by the court and never published in Argentina. Griffiths returned to the U. S. last March, lined up three export representations from Uruguay, and departed for Montevideo in May. He has since been living there with his son, John Jr., 17, in a $25-a- month apartment, scantily fur nished, making just enough money to get along. On a strictly voluntary and un official basis, without pay, Griffiths has also served as confidential ad viser to Ellis O. Briggs, U. S. ambassador to Uruguay, on various Argentine developments. Briggs is really the top man of the U. S. foreign service for the southern part of South America. The “plot” announced in Buenos Aires named Griffiths as principal conspirator be cause be was the ideal goat. Although identified in the Ar gentine public mind with Brad en, he is now out of public life and can be accused without au tomatically causing an inter national incident. UPhiHipr LETTER TO ALADDIN Dear A’addin: Turn in your lamp. There’s no use hanging onto the thing any more. Television makes anything you can do from now op smalltime stuff. * Nothing irritates me much more than the fellow who belittles video’s appeal, takes a snooty attitude about it and insists he never bothers to look at it unless he is in a tavern. He belongs with the boys who de nounced the telephone as lacking in popular appeal, and said that the movie was a flash in the pap. He probably didn’t think the radio would ever get anywhere. I doubt if he welcomed the electric light. * If a football game played on a distant battlefield and recorded photographically via the air waves on a screen as far as one hundred miles away isn’t mir acle stuff I am a bum judge of wonderland happenings. If I am not haying a fantastic experi ence when I fling myself into an easy chair in Magnolia Cen ter, twist a dial and see every move in a football game, a vau deville show or a prize fight in Bagdad on the Subway, then the guy who rode on the magic car pet was just the last man in a soapbox derby. * Yeah, I was a little late going for television. Like many, others, I elevated my eyebrows and cracked “Who wants to see people on the radio? It’s tough enough lissenin.’ ’f A premature peek at the early mod el video sets was responsible in a way. I got scrambled pictures aipi my images came through the ham- burg grinder. But not long ago I decided I could be wrong, which was quite an admission. To make a long story less boring, I got me a video set. And I am satisfied Alad din. my boy, you can do no more, even if you get a bigger lamp .and team up*With Einstein, Aesop, Mer lin, Caliostro and Circe. Sure there’s "snow” in the picture now and then with oc casional flickers. The images get the blind staggers at times. But would I squawk over minor details if I could go to the Rose Bowl wltifout getting off a sofa? Would I complain of a slight an noyance if I could be at the world series, an epic football game and a Washington spy in vestigation without bothering to put on my shoes or socks? * Is it only a small wonder when philharmonic orchestra, a Broad way show, six sporting events, a rip to South America, a visit to liami, a polo match and a couple f golf tournaments can be trans- orted directly into my living room etween the Spanish table and the iano . . . and without any of the other of getting tickets or catch- ig trains? —* • . Aladdin, my boy, you’re through. There’s no use trying to top your accomplishments. Turn in the lamp and relax with me. I need company. The wife is leaving me. She will sue tele vision for alienation of affec tions. So she says. But she’ll be back. Walt until video really goes in for fashion shows. Gable’s latest releases, the divorce hearings and the gossip columnists in person. Yours, Elmer. • • * Can You Remember— Away back when you never saw a male combing his hair in front of his reflection in a store window in a busy street? • • • The United Nations got its 65 tnil- n dollars for a permanent home, present costs the place should in- <de everything but the roof, a good lor, an extra pair of stairs and ode- ate door knobs. • * * [f the painting of George Wash- jton, who never told a lie, doesn’t 11 off the walls in the capitol ol i nation during these spy ring itimonies, it will prove that the :ture-hangers did a great job. * * . * President Truman ^has been presented with a free pass to ill pro football games this win ter. By that time he may have found himself in the roughest scrimmage of the season and incertain who has the ball. • • • ‘SKUNK BITES MAN.”—Head line. The usual disinclination bite back was reported. to Vanishing Americanisms ”Z can fix that up for about 75 cents It won’t take long. "There’s a little good in every man.’’ "I tvill be glad to answer any ques tion, yes or no." "We aim to please." "If this is not what you ordered wt will be happy to take it back and serve you something else." • * • Installment buying has been put under controls to stop inflation trends. It is now much harder to dig up what you haven’t got in order to buy something you can’t get. Grandma SPEARIN'. sss PERSONALITY may attract folks—but it ’pears to me like it’s good character that makes and keeps friends. ts paid Dorothy BuimD. 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