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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. Shah Takes Hint (ED. NOTE — While Drew Pearson is on vacation, the Washingtin Merry-Go-Round is written by his old partner, Rob ert A. Allen.) A HIGH U. S. OFFICIAL just re turned from a tour of the Middle East reports one outstand> lug impression. It is this: That, amid the welter of assas aination, intrigue and autocratic rule in this ancient cockpit, the prestige and power of the United States stands out like a gleaming beacon. The official related this episode to prove his point: Following the attempted slaying some months ago of the Shah of Iran, he imposed iron-handed mar tial rule. The Iranian press par ticularly felt the weight of the Shah’s fury. Seventeen liberal, non- Communi-i newspapers were sup pressed and their editors thrown into jail. He also ordered them tried on charges of subversive ac tivities. To support these charges, ar ticles dating back as far as 20 years were brought into court against the editors. Despite these extreme measures, only six were convicted. U.S. ambassador in Iran is John Wiley. An able, tough-minded career man, he has been an out standing success in his delicate and arduous post. A firm believer in democracy and freedom of the press, Wiley, privately, was shocked by the autocratic perse cution of the editors. But because it was a strictly internal affair, he meticulously kept hands off until after the six editors were sen tenced. Several days later, Wiley sent each of them a small package. It consisted of one pack of American cigarettes—with Wiley’s personal card. Nothing was written on the card. Also, there was nothing secret about Wiley’s action. His chauffeur delivered the packages to the prison and turned them over to the warden to give to the editors. That was all there was to it. The Shah, of course, was im mediately informed. Also, he got the point. The following day the editors were pardoned. Note—Because of Wiley’s penetra ting and forthright reports to the state department, the Iranian am bassador in Washington is very hostile toward him. The Iranian has repeatedly tried to undermine Wiley. No Merger Behind-the-scenes, the widely publicized merger between Am- vets and AVC has gotten nowhere. Reason is strong rank-and-file op position in both veteran organiza tions. At the bottom of this are two factors: Amvet membership Is much more conservative than AVC, and a confidential memoran dum sent out by AVC Commander Harold A. Keats. In this document, he stresses the financial benefits that will accrue to Amvets by ab sorbing the 35,000 AVC dues-paying members. AVC officials are aware that Amvet’s headquarters is hard up and that its national officers draw (35,000 a year in salaries and ex penses. No Loss A British correspondent tele phoned Sen. Kenneth Wherry, Nebr., Republican floor leader, for an interview on the forthcoming international monetary conference. “All I can say,” remarked Wherry, “is that Sir Stafford Crippe is obviously coming here to promote a new loan. He wouldn’t be interrupting his rest cure in Switzerland for any other reason.” The British newsman protested this view. “Well,” observed Wherry, “if he’s coming over to lend us some money. I’ll be glad to see him.” “Can I quote you on that?” “Certainly,” replied Wherry. Ifcen, turning to a friend, he added, “I was safe in letting him quote me. After all I can’t lose any votes In England.” Deadlock Illustrative of the snafued state of congressional business is an un publicized but long-standing dead lock between the house and senate over the army civil functions bill. This stalemate has been going on since June 1, with no sign of a break in sight. Cause of the deadlock is a 590 million dollar rivers and harbors rider that the senate wrote into the measure. This huge local gravy grab was not included in the Pres ident’s budget. The fund would be spent by the army engineers, which have one of the most potent under cover lobbies in Washington. Militant backers of the rider are Bens. John McClelland (D., Ark.), Pat McCarran (D„ Nev.) and Chan Gurney (R., S.D.). McClelland is bead of the Rivers & Harbors Congress, an army engineers lobby, and all three are economical. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Russia Threatens Yugoslav Regime; Truman Takes Arms Row to People; Excise Tax Cut Stymied This Year (EDITOR’S NOTE: When •pinions are expressed in these columns, the? are thos« of Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and n«t necessarily of this newspaper.) YUGOSLAVIA: War Clouds Was the United States ready to go to war on behalf of Yugoslavia? That was a paramount question as the hard-boiled struggle between Yugoslavia and Russia reached tl threat-of-war stage. Diplomats pon dered the question: What would the United States do if Stalin sent the Soviet army to overthrow Marshal Tito’s regime in Yugoslavia? BRITISH and American diplomats, however, ruled out the likelihood of a shooting war. They regarded Moscow’s threat to “take more ef fective measures” in Yugoslavia as only a part of the war of nerves. British newspapers took a differ ent view. They regarded the Soviet note as the “worst threat of war since 1939.” No one outside the Kremlin could know for sure what was com ing next. But the threat that began 14 months ago to upset Tito when the Cominform read him out of the Communist party developed long ago into frequent shootings along the satellite borders. Diplomats in Belgrade frankly were worried. As an example of the jittery situation, one embassy thought it had an inside tip on an "invasion” date. THE QUESTION of American in volvement was not quite as ac ademic as it might appear. With the issue squarely joined between Communism and the west, and with the U.S. serving as the arsen al of the west, involvement as a result of any warlike Kremlin move was an ever-present possibility. EXCISE TAX: Not This Year All hope for any reduction this year of federal excise taxes ap peared doomed as congress shut the door on the issue. Excise taxes are collected on such items as furs, jewelry, luggage, cosmetics, transportation and telephone bills. CHAIRMAN DOUGHTON <D., N.C.) of the tax-writing house ways and means committee issued a statement saying that he sees no prospect for a reduction in these taxes now. He gave as a reason the federal deficit threat of more than five billion dollars in the cur rent fiscal year. To clarify the subject for con sumers, he added: T believe it is important to make this clear so that consumers will not postpone the purchase of goods subject to tax in the hope of an immediate reduction.” BUT HE HELD out hope of tax reliefs in the future. He said he had requested the congressional staff of tax experts to begin now a study of possible tax revisions and re ductions for the consideration of congress next year. There was a hint, however, that if present ex cises are lowered, some other taxes may be increased—unless federal expenditures are reduced. There remained a middle course, Doughton went on, which might provide a reasonable reduction in government expenditures, to re quire some increase in taxes where the increase can be borne without disturbing the economy, and to pro vide for a reduction in those taxes which are crippling enterprise and interfering with business expansion. Prep for Shirley ACID TEST: Fails For Granny The gambling grandmother of Gardena, Calif., had a relapse. MRS. SULA BELL STIMSON, 49, had been stricken with a com pelling urge to gamble. She reached the stage where she forged checks with which to obtain funds for poker playing. She just couldn’t resist the yen to see what that next card would be. Last November she was brought into court for her weakness and was placed on probation for three years. Last April she was arrested again and a physician testified she had undergone a personality change from a normal housewife to a person afflicted with a craving for gambling. HE SAID doses of glutamic acid had been used with some success in similar cases, recommended such treatment for Mrs. Stimson. The court agreed, and she was re leased to the custody of her fam ily with court orders to continue the treatment. It didn’t work. The gambling grandmother had succumbed again to the fascination of the poker deck. The acid test had failed. Shirley May France, 17-year •Id Somerset, Mass., school girl, prepares for one of her last workouts prior to attempt ing to swim the English chan nel. TRUMAN: To The People President Truman submitted his arms-for-Europe proposal to the people through the medium of the golden jubilee convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at Miami. DECLARING the armament pro posal was the “price of peace,” he termed it this nation’s guarantee against war and urged approval. The President, contending that peace with freedom and justice cannot be “bought cheaply, urged that congress immediately approve the 1.5 billion-dollar arms outlay. He conceded the cost was “con siderable,” but added that it “rep resents an investment in security that will be worth many times its cost” There were those in congress, however, who were in noticeable dis agreement with President Truman. These included several congress men who have been stalwart sup porters of administration policy. THE DISSENTERS argued that it was “pouring money down a rat- hole” to attempt to prevent war or adequately arm the north Atlan tic pact signatories as the Truman proposal planned. Others declared the program was simply “putting small arms in the hands of con stabulary of little nations.” U. S. military experts agreed that even with the program operative as en visioned by the President, Russia could overrun the continent in 60 days. Claiming this, they added that since the U.S. would have to pay for World War HI anyway if and when it came, the wiser course would be to build up national de fense and striking power to the point where no surprise attack on this nation could be successfuL ELECTRONICS: Machine Has 'Brain' The parade of “mechanical brain” devices appeared never- ending. The newest group—an auto matic computer called Binac—is smaller, cheaper, brighter than the others. It can calculate 12,000 times fast er than a human being and does problems 25 times faster than more complicated machines. The inven tors predicted it would usher in an other industrial revolution in which machines can take over many jobs now done by man. BINAC, built to order for Northrop aircraft company, was designed especially for complicated engi neering problems such as in de signing new military aircraft and guided missiles. But Binac was not the last word- in the field of mechanical “brains.’ A larger, general-purpose type of “magic brain” called Univac was under construction. Its first cus tomer will be the U.S. census bu reau. UNIVAC, it was said, could even play chess, but only about as good as an average player, not an ex pert. It is expected that the ma chine also would be able to write simple melodies and lyrics because musical harmonics follow simple rules. With Univac, according to re ports, the American people will find out a lot of things they didn’t know about themselves—that is, statistically speaking. U.S. AGENCIES Six Departments Undergo 'Streamlining' As a result of congressional ac tion several government agencies went under the streamline plan and some mild reshuffling came about. Some 3,300 federal employes were affected as six of President Tru man’s reorganization plans went into effect under terms of the re organization act of 1949. Summing up, here is the gist of what ocfurred: The U.S. employ ment service went back into the labor department; the post office department and the maritime and civil service commissions were re vamped with greater efficiency as the aim; the bureau of public roads became part of the com merce department; the national security resources board and the national security council became parts of the executive office. CHINA REDS: Trading Is Out It had a familiar ring: "You can’t do business with the Chinese Communists.” Remember? “You can’t do business with Hitler.” That certainly was true, and according to officials best informed on the Chinese situation, it was equally true of the Chinese Reds. SLOWLY BUT SURELY. Amer ican businessmen and officials are finding out the truth of the statement. In ever-increasing num bers they are pulling out of the great centers in China. And with them goes inevitably the prospect for any important trade agree ments between the United States and Communist China. Yet there was an annoying para dox in the situation for the Chinese friends of the Kremlin. For the fact was that the Reds would have to turn to the United States if they were to obtain many things they need to fill the gaping holes in China’s distraught economy. THE American state department and oth?r U.S. officials are in censed at the way American offi cials and private citizens have been treated by the Communists in China. They apparently have come to the conclusion that nothing can be accomplished by maintaining large consulate staffs in cities where the Reds have taken over. Weeks of trying to come to some terms with the Communists show nothing but failure. To the initiate, this came as a surprise to U.S. policy makers. They had expected that as the Chi nese Communists poured into Shanghai and other coastal points they would take a live-and-let-live attitude toward the Americans. They also figured that the Com munists would have to do business with the U.S., inasmuch as they would have to look to the West rather than Russia for imports to meet China’s economic needs. But somehow or other it didn’t work out that way. POLIO: Isolation Cut Sufficient beds for polio patients in the nation’s hospitals—a major problem in fighting the malady— appeared to be in sight as a re sult of a new approach to treat ment and diagnosis in the early stages of the disease. THIS may be brought about almost overnight and it can be done without adding • single bed in hos pitals for acute cases, or training another nurse. Too, it will save millions of dollars in the cost of treatment All this is declared possible be cause of a decision by public health and medical authorities cut ting the isolation period for early polio to one week—longer only if the fever lasts longer. Some states have been isolating polio patients for two weeks, some even for three or four, but the average has been two weeks. The one week recommendation, made by 20 medical authorities, is part of a new guide for health of ficers of all the states. The guide is being sent to local health authori ties, hospitals and doctors by the various state health officers. POLIO patients are kept isolated when they are first ill to prevent spread of the disease, but medical studies have concluded that the dis ease is communicable only during the first three or four days before symptoms appear, and for two or three days afterward. So for safety, isolation, the ex perts said, is necessary for only a week, or as long as there is a fever. Open Season mmmgm Since film star Jimmy Stew art abandoned his bachelor status, Farley Granger, bailed as one of the movies’ top ro mantic stars, is now Holly wood’s No. 1 eligible bachelor. He is shown here in the role of Johnse Hatfield in a picture de picting the famous Hatfidd- McCoy feud. ‘BULL'ETIN: Now He Knows Joe King left Empire, Wis., with a 1,600-pound bull—but he got paid for only 1,410 pounds. This will probably teach Joe a lesson. The distance to market was 13 miles overland. Joe had a truck but he decided he and the bull would hoof it. “It was kind of cool,” he said, “and it seemed like a good idea. Five hours and 15 minutes later, Joe and the bull ar rived. The bull lost 190 pounds. LADY MATADOR . . . Edith Laari-Entin, America’s only lady bull fighter, performs a “Veronica” with a red cape on the deck of the S.S. Marine Shark, as she returns from Europe. During her visit to Spain she studied bullfighting under well-known matadors of Pamplona. She also met a few bulls head-on at private bnll fights and was spilled twice without suffering serious injury. She has completed an elementary course in the art and plans to make bullfighting her profession. “HOME AWAY FROM HOME” . . . Pvt. John Sasser of Memphis splits a Virginia watermelon with pretty “Corky” Glllis of Los Angeles at the Wythe street USO club in Petersburg, Va. Sasser is stationed at Camp Lee, Va. He and other GI’s are now being served by the newly reactivated USO at 170 clubs. lounges and centers in the United States and overseas. HOLD THAT HUSBAND! . . . One of Hollywood’s most prominent fashion designers, Orry Kelly, advises that American women should keep at least one fetching negligee in their wardrobes to held the Interest of their husbands. Here, Peggy Dow, who Is making her film debut in the movie capital, demonstrates what is fetching and the kind of apparel the wardrobe designer bas in mind. VICTOR AND VANQUISHED . . . Ezzard Charles (left), Cincinnati heavyweight, NBA world champion, smiles in victory after defeating Gua Lesnevich, Cliffside Park, N.J., in New York heavyweight bout. The beaten Lesnevich displays his pulpy face at right. In the interval be tween the end of the seventh round and scheduled start of the eighth round, referee Buby Goldstein was called over to the Lesnevich corner to receive word that Gua would not come eat for the eighth round. STRONG GUY . . . Louis W. Ba rone, age seven months, of Utica, N. Y., exercises enough to develop his back muscles, his biceps and other muscles far beyond those of ordinary youngsters. The rope ex ercise is used to develop his back. CAPITULATION . . . Actor Jim my Stewart surrenders in his battle with cupid and marries socialite Gloria Hatrick McLean at Brent wood, Calif. Stewart kisses his bride for the benefit of news pho tographers who were barred from the church. CONFESSION . . . Housing ex peditor Tighe Woods tells senate committee that he owes his job to James V. Hunt, alleged “five per center,” known in Washington as “king maker.” The testimony was part of probe of influence peddlers. HAVEN . . . Hakob Matevosian, 2M, product of an Armenian dis placed persons’ camp, arrives in New York from Stuttgart, Ger many. The family plans on mak ing its home in Cambridge, Mass. Used to inclement DP camp con ditions, Hakob distrusts the cli mate of even the land of liberty. SHE WOULD! . . . The reigning Miss America, Miss Be be Shopp, Minnesota blonde, conducts cru sade through Europe demanding honesty in feminine figures. She disapproves of the French bath ing suit. Ain’t It So “Empty pocUetbooks on the farm don’t turn factory wheels in the city.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt. Fan reaction to a photo of a film star up to her pretty neck in a babble bath was—719 dark inquiries about where she gets all those soap chips.—Chicago Daily News. 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