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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C, Church Dewey People VSEiKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Raps Mindszenty Verdict; Dons Attire of Liberalism; Checked Inflation Threat (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these colnmns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) MINDSZENTY: Gets Life Term The trial o( Cardinal Mindszenty, primate of Hungary, was over and the verdict came as no surprise. The Cardinal was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of trea son and black marketing. If there were an unexpected element in the outcome it was that the primate’s life had been spared. But at trial’s end even that hung in the balance. Cardinal Mindszen ty still could lose his life. Under Hungarian law, while his sentence of life could be appealed, the su preme peoples tribunal, last court of appeal, could increase the sever ity of the sentence which, in this case, could mean only death. THE CARDINAL was doomed from , the outset. His plight had so stirred the Christian world that de nunciations of the Hungarian gov ernment’s actions were almost uni versal. Powerful western nations, through their leading churchmen, had attacked the trial procedure ana this, in turn, had incensed the Communist-dominated Hungarian court to a point where the issue was never in doubt. It was generally believed that It was only reluctance to make a martyr out of the Cardinal that averted the death penalty. Hungary lost no time in assail ing American representatives who actually, or purportedly, sided with the cardinal. Among targets of these attacks were Cardinal Spell man, of New York, who delivered a scathing sermon against prosecu tion of Mindszenty, and Selden Chapin, U. S. envoy to Hungary. AMONG OTHER THINGS, Cardi nal Mindszenty was accused of gathering information for Chapin in a scheme to overthrow the Hun garian government. Chapin im mediately branded this charge as “pure fantasy.” General opinion was that in the prosecution of the Cardinal Rus sian communism had made its first great blunder. For in the move was discerned the fact that religion and religious concepts — whether Catholic or Protestant — would not be permitted to stand in the way of Soviet aims of expansion and domination. The Russians had resurrected a policy which once before had so alarmed them that they had for sworn it. But now they were pub licly and dramatically recommitted to it—a policy of the Kremlin ver sus Christ, and this time the Soviet Union was up against an adversary for whom there can be no defeat. INFLATION: People Curbed It The people, themselves, can claim major credit for the recent check to national inflation. That is the conclusion of the fam ily economics bureau of the North western National Life Insurance Company which conducted a study of the subject. THE STUDY developed that a slowdown, halt, or reverse of six main factors in the 76 per cent rise from pre-war price levels had been brought about. It found that as late as last September, the public still was bid ding frantically against each other for more goods than were being produced in many lines. But in the final two months of 1948, con sumers suddenly quit trying to out bid e^ch other. With industrial production in high gear and comparatively free from interruptions, output and available supplies of most consum er goods were gaining steadily. Government bidding for grain in Europe, which ran grain prices up to record heights last year, slowed down as world grain production recovered. THE LONG RISE in wage-costs- per-unit of goods was slowing down, the study said. Continuing its listing of the six factors, the study reported that rapid expansion in money supply, both cash and credit, due to vast government borrowing, had also slowed down. Borrowing by business for ex pansion was listed as the sixth fac tor which was slowed down because of tightened restrictions. But the first and foremost cause of the current price deflation, the study concludes, has been the halt in the public’s scramble for goods. By trimming their demands to fit within available supplies, the peo ple have recaptured some of their normal control over prices. CARDINAL MINDSZENTY For a principle, life COP'S DEWEY: New Liberalism For a man who was strangely reticent about plans while seeking the presidency of the United States, New York’s Thomas E. Dewey turned vocal and voluble in his Lin coln Day address in Washington. In the diminutive governor’s re marks there was no apology for defeat and no supine bid for favor. Instead, he lashed out vigorously against party policy and advocated a purge of “anti-liberals” from GOP ranks. That there was a noticeable para dox in his position apparently dis turbed him not at all. While cry ing for those who oppose “liberal progressive” policies to get out of the party, he struck out also at New Dealish elements inside the organization. Urging his party to stop bemoan ing the past, he recommended that it dedicate itself anew to forward- looking programs of social progress but without “trying to outbid the Democrats with the public money.” It was Dewey’s first public ad dress since his defeat last Novem ber, and in it he reminded his lis teners that the last GOP platform expressed wholehearted belief in unemployment insurance, increased old-age assistance, broader social security generally, slum clearance and public housing, public develop ment of water power, and farm price supports. These words must have left some of his hearers stunned. Surely, they must have asked themselves, why weren’t some of these things men tioned during the multiple appear ances of their presidential candi date last year? But, Dewey, ever the realist in facing a situation, however he may react to it, conceded that the par ty was split wide open in a fight between two extremes of thought. And then he uttered a remark which must have brought some sly smiles. He said: “What we ought to do ... is to make it everlasting ly clear to the country where we stand and why.” INCOME: Average $3,000 The average annual income of the American family was climbing. In 1947 the average was $3,000, highest ever recorded up to that time. The federal census bureau, which issued the report, found that in come was distributed among the' country’s 37 million families in this manner: FOUR MILLION had under $1,000; six million had $1,000 to $2,000; eight million. $2,000 to $3,000; eight million. $3,000 to $4,000; four million. $4,000 to $5,000; three million. $5,000 to $6,000; three million $6,000 to $10,- 000, and one million, $10,000 or more. Thus only four million families— or slightly fewer than one out of each nine families in the country— had in that year the $6,000 which President Truman has suggested as the starting point for the income tax increase he asked Congress to consider. An interesting factor is that in one fourth of the families, women earned 25 per cent or more of the family income, and more than two million families were supported en tirely be female breadwinners. Who fared best in the average- income increase? Farm wage-workers came out best. The income of this class had jumped from an average of $300 in 1939 to $900 in 1947. HELP GIVEN NAVAJOS Government Feeding Operating overland and by air, the federal government was en gaged in the business of caring for its snowbound Navajo wards. Caught ■_ almost as helplessly as cattle in the worst blizzard to strike the plains states in years, Indians on the vast Navajo reservation were being fed by a 300-mile life line maintained by the government. With sheep and cattle starving Snowbound Indians and freezing, with horse transporta tion impossible, the Navajos were in actual distress. The government’s Indian service doctors reported the health situa tion was fairly good among the 60,000 Indians living within the reservation area. Workers toiled with all kinds of mobile equipment to get through to families cut off for six weeks. Girl Friday Reports Dear Mr. W.: Here’s an angle none of the gazettes touched in the Aly Khan-Rita Hayworth thing. The Prince was in love with Lady Thel ma Furness, just when her romance with the Duke of Windsor was dis integrating ... I happened across it in the book, “Champagne Cholly,” by Eve Brown, who was the late Maury Paul’s right-hander. She re veals it was Aly who broke up the romance with His Royal Highness . . . Hundreds of wires, letters and phone calls regarding Gieseking; only three complaints . . . Benny has the throne again in the new Hooper with 28.9. Radio Theatre is 2nd with 28.6. Fibber McGee and Molly are 3rd with 26.9. We’re 4th with 26.8. Your recent 29.7 is still the season’s high. Time’s book reviewer panned Lajos Zilhy’s novel, “The Du- kays,” which Prentice-Hall just unveiled. It is getting rave re views all over the nation. The book Is about two sisters, daugh ters of a fabulous Hungarian aristocrat—so Time’s critic calls them mother and daughter . . . The same mag roasted “The Miracle of the Bells,” which went over 500,000 copies and is printed in almost every lingo . . . The Immigration people are cracking down on mnsicians— deporting many rhumba lads. Some of the pickets were ready to put lamp shades on the lights at Carnegie Hall—but the news flashed about Gieseking being cancelled—so they’re saving it for next time. A recent flop show, “Leaf and Bough,” elicited some eyebrow raising critical reactions. One critic hailed the director, another praised the cast and a third lauded the auth or. But all three panned the show . . . Arturo Godfrey (who may be trying to catch up with some hearse for all I know) plans taking on ex tra work, again. He will do between- innings chatter at the N. Y. Giants’ games this Summer . . . The book business is still not so good. The Book-of-the-Month Club selection used to guarantee an author over $100,000. They just cut the guarantee again—down to 70 . . . You’ll adore Milada Mladova, the galerina in "All for Love.” Resembles Hedy and dances like Zorina. Made my heart jig. The literary world iras aghast at the Authors’ Dinner last week where Dr. Henry Seidel Canby lit into the "young” war writers. He said nothing worthwhile had come from them to date. John Hersey and Ira Wolfert were in the audience and when Canby said there were only two good war books (“War and Peace” and "Gone with the Wind”) someone cracked: “Doc, you stopped at tbe t Civil War!” After “Miss Liberty” is staged Moss Hart and family will dwell abroad for six months . . . Gene Autry bought “Beyond the Pur ple Hills” for his next flicker. It’s by Nick and Charles Kenny. Johnny Brandford’s Victor record of it is a hit . . . It’s a girl for the Robert Healys (Mary McCabe) . . . Edwin James, the m.e. at the Times, and his ass’t. Turner Cat- ledge, are fussin’ over the wis dom of putting out an edition at 9 p.m. Mr. James says nh-nh. Here’s another citation for the FBI. Several minutes after the tirmy gave that traitor (Monti) an honorable discharge and re leased him — the G-Men locked him up for treason. He’s doing 25 years. He’s the one who said (at his trial) that isolationist pub lications and speeches “poisoned his mind.” For which some of them sued you for libel. And lost . . . Massachusetts gambling, I hear, is expected to be wide open within the month . . . One of the swank spot o#vners was recently vetoed for membership at the Play ers’ club. No less than six black balls . . . Fascist chief of London Moseley’s only daughter, Vivian, has merged with Desmond Francis Forbes Adams . . . Funniest bit in years is Peter Lind Hayes’ panto- mine of the Pres. Doesn’t say a word. They recognize the smile and walk! Gabe Heatter was praised in an editorial in a Southern paper (name I know not) for praising something you said on the air recently. He did it again Mon day night when Gieseking was chased back to Germany. He pref aced the news with. “Winchell’s right again!” Doesn’t Mr. Heat ter know you’re not on his network? . . . Dean Acheson’s mustache (turned up) has started a bunch of them among the swank set. In early September we said Nehru’s niece would soon wed, and she confirmed it the other day. We scooped the Hindustani Times, by heck! Prima donnas nowadays have be come so tame that two rivals at the Met (Pons and Munsel) are handled by the same publicist. \gREEN LIGHT: Waits Faithfully Harry S. Truman, of Indepen dence, Mo., is getting into a habit of popping up as a poll topper in this or that department. “Man of the year . . . most pop ular, etc., etc ...” are some of the poll winning titles he already possesses. Now, he has come up with an other. Mr. Truman is the nation’s No. 1 pedestrian. No less an authority than that National Safety Council has so designated Mr. Truman. THE ASSOCIATION'S magazine, Public Safety, pictured Mr. Tru man on its cover and commended him for his interest in safety. The traffic advisory board of the District of Columbia hailed the President’s "firm decision to wait faithfully for the green light be fore crossing Pennsylvania avenue." Mr. Truman turned down a sug gestion that a special traffic con trol be established for his daily walks between his temporary resi dence at Blair House and the White House. Mr. Truman said he preferred to obey the traffic signals “like any other citizen.” A-BOMB DATA: Reds Demand It The Russians just couldn’t stay out of the news. But in an utterance which com manded American headlines, they revealed themselves as almost childishly naive. With the cold war as hot as it could be, short of the bullet stage, the Soviets had the gall to demand that the United States tell them how many A-bombs this country has and provide full data on armed forces ard armaments. Never modest in demands, the Soviets set a deadline for receipt of this information. It was March 31, 1949 HOWEVER, they wouldn’t be completely selfish about the matter. They demanded that the report on these matters be made to the United Nations, of which Russia is a member. Warren R. Austin. U. S. delegate to the U. N., dubbed the Soviet res olution a '“succotash of all the beans and different constituents" Russia has put to the U. N. on the arms and atomic questions since the world peace organization was formed. Even a non-betting citizen might be excused for risking a sawbuck that the Russians would have noth ing but their pains in proposing that the U. S. bare its atomic war potentials to the Kremlin. B-29'S: Direct Hits The army air force was making a point for its contention of its importance as an effective arm in itself. Four air force B-29’s scored direct hits on nine fighting ships attacking Kodiak island in the navy’s north Pacific war games. An airman aboard one of the bombers said the formation spot ted the nine ships 250 miles south east of Kodiak and registered bombing hits in three runs at 20,- 000 feet. THE SftlPS were part of a navy task force attempting to retake the island from a theoretical enemy. The report was significant from two standpoints. First, because the air force termed it important enough to report. Since that was done, it was motivated, probably, by the fact that the air force wanted to show that it had demon- of land-based planes in an off- strated the efficacy of the power shore attack. Closeup This latest excellent profile of General of the Army Donglas MacArthur was made when he ar rived at Haneda airport, Tokyo, to welcome ranking generals and officials of the far east command. ALLIGATOR: Nothing Fatal In Alencon, France, Santos Du- mot, circus performer, stuck his head into the mouth of a 300-pound alligator—his regular act. As us ual, the audience oohed and aabed. But this time, the alligator snap ped his big jaws shut. The actor’s father rushed to the rescue with an iron bar and forced the jaws open. The younger Dumot suffered deep head wounds, but will live. For Ladies in Army It's Same Old Story Of Clothes Problem CAMP LEE, VA.—Apparently for a woman, in the Army or out, it is the same old story—clothes. What the Wacs would like tc know is how many wartime short skirts do they have to wear out be fore they get the New Look. Skirt length is a problem at this initial postwar Wac training centei which this week graduated its first women’s Regular Army basic-train ing company.* The Army Quartermaster Corps has left over from the last war a supply of khaki skirts. That’s fine for the taxpayers—except in those days ladies admittedly had knees. President Trumand intends to stick by his cut in our military budget Now knees are strictly covered. Whereas civilian women measure the length of their hems from the floor, Wacs are having to compute theirs from the knee down. The boss Wac, Col. Mary Hallar- en, Lowell, Mass., has decreed hems 2% inches below the knee. There is hardly a Wac officer or enlisted woman who does not ha v e a skirt with a faced hem or one let down at the waist. Uniforms are issued to enlisted Wacs. Officers buy theirs. Officers could go out and have a skirt tail ored a fashionable 10 inches from the floor except for one reason: the military frowns on a lack of uni formity. But the postwar woman soldier has won one victory. Several years ago when civilian women and USO girls could look glamorous in page boy bobs and shoulder-length hair dos, Wacs had to keep their hair “well above the collar.” “But no one is able to describe just what ‘well above the collar’ means,” said Colonel Hallaren. The new regulation is that coiffures must be neat and appropriate to tailored uniforms. Man Having Tough Time Proving He Really Exists ROME. — Giovanni Villa, 35, of Palermo, Sicily, has been try ing for four years to get himself declared alive. He has succeed ed only with the tax collector, who sends him bills regularly. The Palermo civil -registry has him listed as dead since 1944 at the village of Patricia, which Villa said he never visited. His wife recently had a baby. He tried in vain to get the child reg istered but officials said: “Dead men can’t father children.” Villa, however, gets and pays all tax bills. Southern Governors Plan FulMime Capital Bureau SAVANNAH, GA.—Southern Gov ernors planned today to set up per- maent shop in Washington to help wage war against Federal civil rights proposals and carry the South’s banner on other issues. Several Dixie executives said a southern governors’ bureau in the capital was likely to spring from a resolution approved last night by the Southern governors’ conference. The resolution deplored “hostli- ty” toward the South in the rest of the country and declared this un favorable attitude was "created and perpetuated by untruths and half- truths.” A southern foundation was estab- lished to “correct” the picture and give the rest of the nation the South’s story. The governor’s conference, which ended last night formally noted that “many economic indicators” show more progress in the South than in the nation as a whole. The South '.till retans materal wealth, highly attractive to industry, which hardly has been touched yet, the governors declared. But despite this progress, they added, there is “a serious lack of information about the South, which, coupled with misinformation, has resulted in the formation in the minds of millions of Americans an unfavorably attitude toward this great area.” Animal Lovers Protest Their Use in Circuses LONDON.—A parson who distrib uted free circus tickets to poor children in his parish had his church picketed by two memoers ot the performing animals defense league. The director of the league and an assistant stood outside St. Paul’s church at Harringay, handing out pamphlets alleging that the circus animals were treated cruelly to make them perform. On a placard were attached instnunents said to have been used on the animals. Takes Draft Registration To Recall to Man His Name ALBANY, N. Y.—William Ladis- laus Thomas Wisniewski told the judge it took registration for the World War I draft for him to learn that his real name was not Walter DeBerry. The judge granted his plea for a change of name when he explained that his parents had intended to name him Walter and he had been known as DeBerry all his life except on two occasions— when he signed up for the 1917 draft and in 1925 when he was married. Released by WNU Features. By INEZ GERHARD ONE OF THE REMARKABLE things about Evelyn Keyes is that she is not overshadowed by her brilliant husband, John Huston. She t)as worked hard for her success its an actress; at first she was al ways having to lose her southern accent for one picture and then feet it back for another. One of her nobbies is collecting pre-Columbian EVELYN KEYES Mexican jewelry; the Hustons shopped for it in New York, only to have the dealer recognize them and double his prices. In her re cent Columbia picture, "The Mat ing of Millie,” Miss Keyes has a comedy role, but big dramatic parts are the goal she hopes to achieve. Jenifer Jones had to rehearse wearing a hat for “We Were Strang ers,” since she and hats are strang- fers too—she never wears one. The fecript caled for her to wear sev eral, and that called for practise. John Huston warns that his new picture, based on part of the book “Rough Sketch”, is a shocker, in New York to receive the critics’ award as the year’s best director, tor “Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” he gave that warning. There’s no heed to ask if it will be gqpd; Hus ton has the magic touch—possibly because he likes to write his own screen treatments, so he knows his characters thoroughly. Jenifer Jones, John Garfield and Pedro Ar- mendariz star in this one, Colum bia releases. If ever yon encounter Mr. and Mrs. Gail Shlkles, don’t be de ceived; they are Alexis Smith and her husband, Craig Stevens, osing their right names. They did it during their auto tour of the Grand Canyon; when people asked Alexis if she wasn’t the star of “Whiplash” she said de murely that she was just Mrs. Shlkles of Kansas City. Gary Cooper isn’t so lanky any more. He gained eight pounds in 24 days on G. I. rations, aboard the U. S. S. Antietam, while making ac tion scenes for Warner Bros. “Task Force”, now weighs an all-time high, 109 pounds. Barbara Hale has a wonderful fan club. With headquarters in Phil adelphia, it bought radio time to tell the world about Barbara’s work in RKO’s “The Window” and “The Boy with Green Hair.” Whenever anyone mentions par enthood in “Professor Quiz’s” hear ing he smiles. As progenitor of radio’s first quiz show he’s known as the daddy of the 400 or more now on the air. “Quite a family I’ve reared”, he says. It was nothing new for Eddie Cantor to celebrate his 57th birth day by staging a big show for handicapped children and the March of Dimes. While on the Broadway stage he played six benefits in one night, a record. He was the first radio actor to combine good citizenship with good entertainment; is credited with coining the phrase, “The March of Dimes.” Radio executives' plan to fill the summer season, when stars are on vacation for 13 weeks, with record ings of past shows by the same stars was no go. The American Federation of Radio Artists object ed on the grounds that it would shut down an important talent showcase for AFRA members. They’re right; many a good show has come from a summer replace ment. It looks as if Wendell Corey may have to fight to avoid being typed. 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