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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C,
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Gen. Clay Out as Berlin Chief;
New Rent Curb Formula Attacked;
Tafl-Hartley Bill Wins in Test
(EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these eolnmns, they are those ot
Western Newspaper Unioa's news analysts and not necessarUy of this newspaper.)
BERLIN:
Clay Is Done
G«n. Lucius D. Clay, stormy
petrel of American administration
in Berlin, was relieved of his
post as military commander in
Germany. The action was taken
at the general’s own request.
CLAY, who has been widely criti
cized for his apparent “soft” atti
tude toward German war crimi
nals, notably in the case of Elsa
Koch, the "witch of Buchenwald,”
frequently asked to be relieved of
notorious German horror camp, had
his command. He said he wanted to
return to his home in Marietta,
Ga., and "go catfishing.”
Clay’s leaving would open the
way for appointment of the first
civilian high commissioner for
Germany, something the army has
been wanting for a long time.
PRESIDENT TRUMAN, in mak
ing the announcement Clay was to
leave, said the general deserved
the thanks of the American people
for his execution "of one of the
toughest tasks and accomplish
ments of American history."
It was no secret that the Presi
dent and Dean Acheson, secretary
of state, were trying to persuade
John J. McCloy to take the assign
ment in Berlin. McCloy is now
head of the international bank for
reconstruction and development, a
position which carries a $30,000,
tax-free annual salary.
Pending the appointment of a
civilian commissioner. President
Truman announced military gov
ernment deputies and two generals
would carry on Clay’s work.
The United States, Britain and
France have agreed to arrange
ments for turning over civilian con
trol to the Germans when a pro
visional government is established
for the western zones.
Meanwhile, hope continued for
an end, through four-power negoti
ations, of the Berlin blockade by
the Russians.
HOUSING:
Nobody Pleased
The government, it appeared,
couldn’t please anyone in its ef
forts to implement the newly-
enacted rent control bill.
Scores of landlords and tenants
in New York turned out in angry
confusion after Federal Housing
Chief Tighe Woods announced a
program for putting the new law
Into operation. Woods had come
up with a plan which he hoped
would provide owners of rental
property with a “fair net operat
ing income.” This was one thing
the new law said should be done.
BUT WOODS, in a personal ap
pearance in the nation’s largest
city, stepped personally into a hot
bed of landlords’ inquiries.
Landlords assailed the Woods
formula as giving inadequate re
lief to hard-pressed property
owners.
The formula was confusing be
cause it contained so many inde
terminate factors. It was intended
to produce a “net operating in
come” of 25 to 30 per cent of gross
income on some 14 million dwellings
throughout the nation still under
federal rent control.
As Woods expressed belief both
landlords and tenants would be
happier under the new formula, a
surprised murmur of laughter
swept the audience which over
flowed the 869-seat hall. Woods
dashed from the meeting, where he
answered some 50 questions, to a
conference with New York’s Mayor
William O'Dwyer.
WOODS SAID the new formula
“goes right down the middle, pro
tecting landlords against rents that
would deny them a fair profit, and
protecting tenants against being
charged a higher rent than the
fair net operating income allows.”
Meanwhile both property owners
and tenants seethed, each fearing
they were being put upon by the
Woods formula; landlords obviously
resentful that specific rent in
formula which they feared held
nothing but bad news for them
selves.
One most probable result of the
formula was that local govern
mental units would be disposed to
let existing conditions alone with
out petitioning their governors or
state legislatures for lifting of rent
controls in their respective areas.
NEW DRUG DISCOVERED
N Loyalty Queen
Radio actress Mrs. Ted Steele
Is shown jnst after she was
chosen as “Miss Loyalty of 1949”
in ceremonies on the steps of the
U.S. subtreasury building in New
York.
LABOR LAW:
Rough Going
If a big league scout were re
porting on Harry Truman’s per
formance against congressional
moundsmen, he would have to say:
“The President simply can’t hit
fast ball pitching.”
And that certainly appeared to
be the case. Mr. Truman had been
to bat twice already. In his turn
during the Mon. C. Walgren ap
pointment to head the national se
curity resources board, he had
struck out. Next up with his civil
rights program for a bat, he struck
out again. Now, with his espousal
-of repeal of the Taft-Hartley labor
law, he was at the plate again and,
with the house of representatives
pitching, there were two strikes
on him.
FOR THE HOUSE, by a vote of
217-203 approved the Wood bill
which retained most of the features
of the Taft-Hartley law.
Administration forces were
plunged into gloom. But a coalition
of southern Democrats and north
ern Republicans were jubilant.
They were bent on retaining the
Taft-Hartley law largely intact,
and at the moment they were vic
torious.
The Wood bill would repeal the
Taft-Hartley law on paper, but
would re-enact most of its impor
tant features. For instance, it
would retain the 80-day injunction
in "national emergency” strikes.
It would keep the present non-
Communist oath requirements, but
would apply them to company of
ficers as well as union officers.
It would ban closed-shop con
tracts, but permit them in any
state which took affirmative ac
tion to permit them by state law.
SPEAKER SAM RAYBURN had
made a plea to the house for a com
promise bill he put forward in an
effort to salvage part of the admin
istration’s program, but his speech
was in vain.
Whatever else congress might be
doing, and whatever good or ill
might result, lawmakers were serv
ing notice on presidential candi
dates that campaign promises to
enact or repeal this or that law
ought to be conditioned, with the
candidate making such pledges add
ing a word to the effect that those
pledges would be kept "provided
congress cooperates.”
LEOPOLD:
Wants Throne
Disliking the common life, exiled
King Leopold III of Belgium has
made it clear he wants to return
to the throne of his country.
THIS was made known in a
letter to his brother. Prince
Charles, Belgian regent, in which
Leopold said:
“I am convinced you are sharing
my views that the time has come
for a return to constitutional nor
malcy.” That would mean, of
course, an end to the regency and
return to kingly rule.
HOWEVER, the outlook for any
such development appeared dim.
Leopold surrendered the Belgian
forces to the Germans early in the
war and became a prisoner-of-war.
His action in that respect was crit
icized by many Belgians. The ex-
king has not returned to his coun
try since the war. He has been liv
ing in exile in Switzerland.
Anti-Allergy Medicine Battles Colds
There was new hope for cold suf
ferers.
An industrial physician reported
that an anti-allergy drug has been
found effective in controlling com
mon-cold symptoms.
Dr. Halstead G. Murray said that
75 per cent of 494 persons treated
during early stages of colds re
ported "they were cured or had
their symptoms alleviated.”
The drug, pyribenzamine hydro
chloride, was administered in 50
milligram tablets at four-hour in
tervals at the onset of a cold. The
drug is used extensively in the
treatment of hay fever. It is classed
as an antihistamine because it
neutralizes histamine, an irritant
substance released by the body in
allergic reactions. Checking results,
testers found:
GRANDMAS:
Enough's Enough
Grandma was getting fed up.
Enough was enough. And she was
becoming vocal about it.
Mrs. Lyn Greene, president of the
New York chapter of the National
Grandmotners’ club, was the
spokesman for the grandmas, the
spearhead of a drive to make grand
ma a respected member of every
family.
MRS. GREENE and all the other
grandmas were up in arms against
all the corny gags about grandmas
and mothers-in-law, too. They were
in a crusade to ban such alleged
humor from the face of the earth
forever. And they held some power
ful weapons in their arsenal.
For instance, if the jokes aren’t
banned, the grandmas said, there
would be no more baby-sitting, no
more crocheting, no more cookies
and cakes. That was the grandmas’
ultimatum.
Also knitting needles would stop,
not one lullaby would be hummed,
and daughters "going home to
mother” after a tiff with their hus
bands would have to find hotel
rooms, instead.
THE GRANNIES were tired of
being made to appear as jabbering,
ridiculous troublemakers. But the
grandmas were fair about the whole
thing. In return for a new status as
a “sweet, lovable old dear” they
would agree to mind their own knit
ting.
Mrs. Greene, a professional art
ist, philanthropist, mother of two
sons and grandmother of four small
children, believes she is just the
person to take the giggles out of
references to grandmas.
"THERE ARE STILL a few rock
ing-chair grandmas, bridge-table
grandmas, and drudge grandmas
who need to be reformed,” she said,
but contends this reformation will
never come about through silly
radio and movie jokes and sillier
cartoons.
Eventually Mrs. Greene and the
thousands of other grannies in the
national organization hope to win
so much respect that October 10
will be proclaimed as national
Grandmothers’ day.
HEADACHES:
Sfop Worrying
Have a lot of headaches? Wen,
stop worrying.
That, according to a Columbia
university headache study will cure
your noggin knocks.
THE STUDY was conducted with
531 men and women as subjects.
These sufferers were given three
kinds of treatment. One made use
of drugs supposed to help head
aches; another “make believe”
drugs, and a third a technique in
which doctors spent quite some
time talking to patients about their
worries.
In the first two treatments, the
"make believe” potions worked al
most as well as medicines designed
especially for aching heads. The
patients never knew which kind of
drugs they were taking.
It was learned in the study that
best results came from combining
drugs with conversation about wor
ries. The conversation-type of treat
ment is known as psycho-therapy.
Its purpose is to discover emotional
and mental conflicts. In many
cases the sufferer does not realize
he has these conflicts and is likely
to get better when he learns about
them.
HOWEVER, mere knowledge of
the conflicts isn’t sufficient. The
patient needs faith in his doctor to
make this knowledge work. Some
times this relief depends on how
often the doctor sees the patient.
So Tired
People whose feet have ever
hurt them will feel a twinge of
sympathy for mailman William
E. Lilly, Jr., of the Los Angeles
post office who took 5,000 letters
home with him. Lilly was jailed
despite assertions he meant all
the time to deliver the letters
later.
TRUMAN:
jood Friend
President Truman had some bet
ter friends than he thought. David
S. Wright, 84, proprietor of a feed
store in Dunkirk, N. Y., offered to
advance cash to President Truman
on his salary check.
Reports had said Truman re
ceived only part of one month’s
check because of a congressional
deadlock over a deficiency appro
priation bill.
Wright wired the President.
"PEACE CARAVAN” IN PARIS . . . The flags of the United States,
Britain, France and Russia are carried by this truck, one of many
that participated in the "peace caravan” that brought paraders to the
big mass meeting at Buffalo stadium outside Paris. The meeting was
the windup of the “world peace conference’' at which "Intellectuals”
from many lands sang the praises of Russia.
BROTHERLY GESTURE ... It’s aU in the family (Uncle Sam’s) as
navy Lieut. George M. Thomson administers oath of allegiance to his
sister, Ensign Esther May Thomson, upon her induction into the navy
nurses’ corps. She was graduated from San Diego school of nursing in
1947, and was to be stationed at the Long Beach naval hospital.
AMERICAN MOTHER OF 1949 WITH PART OF HER FAMILY . . .
Mrs. E. A. Gillis of Fort Worth, Tex., named American mother of 1949
by the American mothers’ committee of the Golden Rule Foundation,
New York, said notice of the selection was the happiest day of her life
and only presence of all six children could have made it better. She is
seated in center with daughter Mrs. Evelyn Gray on left; daughter
Mrs. Eileen Plemmons, right; her husband Earle Gillis and a son,
Lewis Gill, standing.
DELEGATE TO FARM YOUTH CONFERENCE . . . Meta Marie
Keller, 21, is the principal of one of the most dramatic stories in 4-H
club history. She is the only known survivor of a "Siamese twin” op
eration, and was picked from thousands of rural youths as a delegate
to take a four-month trip to Europe under the international farm youth
exchange project by the U, S. department of agriculture. She was
chosen because of her outstanding 4-H club work.
FACING DEATH ... Iris Davis,
24, was reported dying of a malig
nant brain tumor and her father.
Jack Davis, American news-reel
executive, has made a desperate
appeal in Europe for any sort of
medical aid which might save his
daughter’s life.
Atlantic Pact Combed
T ERSE, urgent questions affect
ing our hopes for peace came
boiling to the top the other day be
hind closed doors of the senate
foreign relations committee. An
swering them, the men who must
implement the North Atlantic pact
were kept under steady fire for
4Vi hours.
Big, bull-voiced Senator Vanden-
: berg set the pace, but each senator
got a load of questions off his
chest. They combed the pact’s fine
print for pitfalls and loopholes, and
searched for hidden meanings be
tween the lines. As a result, many
tough problems were plowed up.
The chief targets in this verbal
shooting gallery were Secretary of
State Acheson, Secretary of De
fense Johnson and EGA Ambassa
dor Harriman. They talked bril
liantly, but not quite enough to
please the senators.
I "I can’t be offhand and free
! about information that involves
other countries,” Acheson retorted
impatiently, when pressed for de-
I tails.
Johnson also buttoned up during
a barrage of questions on atomic
energy from Senator McMahon of
• Connecticut. The queries were
based on secret information which
: McMahon had learned at the Pen
tagon, and Johnson objected to
going into detail in front of com
mittee clerks. This caused
McMahon to declare that he
wouldn’t support the pact if he
couldn’t get the information he
wanted.
VISITOR . . . Michele Gina, Ital
ian Socialist senator, is shown
here as he arrived at La Gnardia
field from Rome. He proposed to
join Henry Wallace on the latter’s
nationwide peace tour in which the
former vice-president is expected
to urge accord with the Rnssians.
OLD WEAPON . . . Mrs. Engene
Schnm is shown behind the cir
cular shield that protected the
user of this old weapon—a King
Henry VIII breech-loading pistol.
The gun is the property of George
Harding’s Museum, Chicago.
SHOCKED . . . Peter Makushak
registers shock and incredulity as
he learns his son, 33-year old Paul,
had been living in the house with
him, walled up in a tiny secret
room since 1939. It was said Paul’s
mother put him in the room to
protect him from military service
draft.
“If the price of the senator’s
vote,” bristled Johnson, “is my vio
lation of what I consider the secur
ity of the nation, then we may have
to forego the senator’s vote.”
Senate Stairs Steep
To add to the turmoil, the meet
ing was interrupted 13 times by
roll-call votes on the senate floor.
This kept the senators straggling
up and down stairs to the senate
j floor until 71-year-old Sen. George
i of Georgia finally snorted in dis-
' gust:
“By God, I can’t go up and down
! those stairs any more!”
And he quit the meeting.
Another problem was how much
j to tell the press. Vandenberg was
against issuing any release until
the secretary of state formally pre
sented the military program to
1 congress. The Michigan Republi
can warned, however, that “Drew
Pearson has a dictaphone hidden
in here.”
Later, chairman Tom Connally
1 stamped angrily into the meeting
after a trip upstairs to vote.
"Somebody has already leaked
the amount (of the proposed mili
tary aid),” he thundered. "Some
newspapermen told me the figure
and asked if that was correct.”
Following this incident, it was
agreed to release an outline of the
one billion, 130 million dollar plan
to help rearm the narth Atlantic
treaty nations. Here are other high-
| lights of the meeting.
Senator Vandenberg wanted to
clarify the important question of
whether the pact was just another
' old-fashioned military alliance or
a genuine instrument of collective
security. He pointed out that the
U. N. charter recognizes the right
of nations to “collective self-de
fense" in case of attack.
The charter, however, adds in
Article 51: "Measures taken by
members (of the U. N.) in the ex
ercise of this right of self-defense
shall be immediately reported to
the security council.”
Does this mean, Vandenberg
asked, that the treaty nations must
report their secret defense plans
to the security council—where Rus
sia has easy access? This was
something none of them wanted to
do, but Senator Pepper of Florida
warned that the pact, itself, prom
ised to abide by the U. N. charter.
Secretary Acheson explained,
however, that the only “measures”
we are obliged to report to the
security council are whatever meas
ures may be taken jointly- -after an
armed attack occurs.
DREAM COMES TRUE . . .
Clowns usually entertain a secret
ambition to play Hamlet. Dancer
Cyd Char is se made no secret of
the fact she’d like to play dramat
ic roles. So, in her next movie
she’ll have a dramatic part.
Only Arms to Europe?
"What I want to know,” chimed
in Utah’s scholarly Sen. Elbert
Thomas, "is what do you mean by
the rearmament of Europe? One
thing Europe knows how to do is
arm. The idea of supplying arms
seems archaic unless we give them
our best bombs and techniques.
But If we do that, I am against the
whole program.
"The aim of the Atlantic pact is
to bring about an atmosphere to
make arms unnecessary. If we are
not going to teach the processes of
peace, we may as well quit now.”
Another question, raised by sev
eral senators, was whether to fur
nish Europe with American-made
; arms or help the treaty nations
manufacture their own arms. If
the United States tries to produce
all the armament needed for the
allied world) the production and
logistic problem, it was argued,
would be terrific. But, on the other
hand, plants built in Europe would
be easy prey to the Russians and
might be turned against us. No one
had a ready answer for this sober
Question.
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