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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C,
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
U.S. Revamps Planning, Policy
For Defense on Red A-Bomb Tip;
Truman Says Critics Antedated
‘Awful’ Tobacco
B ritish economic czar sir
Stafford Cripps and Foreign
Minister Bevin attended a National
Press Club luncheon while in Wash
ington where Cripps, who control*
Britain’s economy with a vice-like
grip, told in detail of British sac
rifices of the dollar shortage.
"Just to give you an example of
the sacrifices we are making,"
■aid Cripps, "both Mr. Bevin and
I have given up tobacco as our
part of the program to save dol
lars.”
Whereupon Bevin, turning to his
luncheon companion, whispered:
“That’s not the case at all.
The fact Is I gave up smoking
because I couldn’t stand the
bloody awful tobacco Cripps
has been buying.”
Note—In order to save dollars
the British have been partly shun
ning North Carolina tobacco and
turning to their African colonies.
Capital News Capsules
G. O. P. Blocks Civil Rights—It
wasn’t a southern Democrat byt a
midwest Republican who stopped
the senate labor committee from
approving the fair employment
practices bill behind closed doors.
This is the most controversial
measure in President Truman’s
civil rights program. But the vote
was blocked on a technicality by
G. O. P. senator Donnell from the
President’s home state—Missouri.
Atlantic Defense — The state
department has called a highly
secret meeting of the joint
chiefs of staff of the 12 coun
tries in the north Atlantic pact.
They will meet in Washington.
Food for Democratic Countries
—The food and agricultural branch
of the United Nations is setting up
an important organization to sell
surplus American farm products
to the undernourished countries ol
western Europe and India. The
plan should benefit both American
farmers and Democratic countries,
and the experts claim they have
worked out a plan to lick the tough
est problem in international trade
—the dollar shortage.
Senatorial Speculator
It looks as if Senator Thomas’s
speculating partner. Dyke Cullum,
has diverse and widespread in
terests.
Last week it was revealed that
Cullum, who frequently claims to
represent Thomas, had bought 10
carloads of egg futures at the same
time that the senator from Okla
homa had introduced legislation
talcing the support price off of eggs.
Senator Thomas and Cullum have
used a joint trading account on
the commodity exchange in the
past.
Now, In addition to eggs, it de
velops that Cullum has been pull
ing wires with the agriculture de
partment regarding lard.
Cullum’s Influence In agri
cultural matters results from
the fact that Thomas, as chair
man of the senate agriculture
committee, can block or pass
most farm legislation.
Therefore, when Cullum, who
helps the senator write legislation,
demands inside information from
the agriculture department, ag
riculture officials can’t tell whether
they are giving it for legislative
purposes or for speculative pur
poses. Naturally, inside knowledge
of government purchases and price
supports could be used to make
big profits on the commodity mar
ket.
Is Senator in Lard?
In August, Cullum began pester
ing the agriculture department to
support lard prices. Naturally, such
support would cause a spectacular
jump in lard prices.
The agriculture department, how
ever, has adopted a policy of sup
porting only agricultural products,
not by-products. A support price
for a by-product such as lard, it
feels, would not help farmers, but
the meat packers.
Nevertheless, Cullum phoned
George Parks In the fats and
oil* branch In the name of
Senator Thomas and demanded
a price support for lard. Parks
promised a written reply, and
when it didn’t come fast enough,
Cullum made two phone calls
to David Pettus in the livestock
branch for information on price
supports. Again he suggested
that the government buy lard.
Each time he represented him
self as speaking for Senator
Thomas and the senate agri
culture committee.
As a result of Cullum’s activity,
the agriculture department finally
sent a letter to Senator Thomas.
"This is in reply to a recent tele
phone request from Mr. Dyke Cul
lum to the fats and oils branch for
information regarding the calcula
tion of a parity price for lard. As
you know, the parity price con
cept heretofore has applied only to
direct agricultural commodities
sold by farmers. It has not applied
to products such as fats and oils
which are processed from agricul
tural products and sold by pro
cessors. . . .”
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(EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions nre expressed In theso columns, the? are thoso of
Western Newspaper Union's news snalrsts and not noeessarllr of this newspaper.)
THESE ADD UP TO HOUSING HEADACHE . . . Across the
nation, if there was any relief from the housing shortage, it was
spotty, inadequate. The twins iabove) born to her In Brooklyn’s
women’s hospital made the shortage doubly acute for Mrs. Wil
liam Buckley. She and her husband, together with another child,
add up to five people who must share one-room apartment. Mrs.
Buckley wondered where she’d park the twins when she left the
hospital.
THE BOMB:
Do Reds Hove It?
Does Russia really have the
atomic bomb?
President Harry Truman said
they did; and for once, there was
no presidential contradiction when
Columnist Drew Pearson said they
did.
But whether they have it or not,
the Truman announcement stirred
up a nest of jitters everywhere.
DEFENSE CHIEFS backed up
for a new look at the world situa
tion. Congress reacted as might
have been expected. The arms-to-
Europe program hailed the an
nouncement as added proof of the
correctness of their stand. Other
congressmen blamed laxity over
the past few years in our state de
partment and defense setup for
Russia’s having the bomb now—
if she does have it.
A noted atomic scientist declared
that for Russia to contend it had
the bomb in 1947 was fantastic, that
the date was "one pulled out of a
hat.” But he said the Soviets might
well have the weapon.
Most tangible result in congress
of the President’s statement that
there had been an ‘.‘atomic ex
plosion” inside Soviet Russia was
agreement by house and senate
conferees on the 1.33 billion-dollar
appropriation for arms to Europe.
The legislators got together very
quickly on the view that to cut the
appropriation, as had been first
planned, would be an unwise move.
IN THE UNITED NATIONS, Brit
ain’s foreign secretary, Ernest
Bevin, lashed out with a furious
tirade against the Russians, charg
ing them with stalling efforts to
control atomic energy. Like Russia,
Bevin said, England wants the
atomic bomb banned, but the
British want effective control first.
Skeptics of the idea that the Reds
have the bomb were asking why
Russia wanted to outlaw such a
potent weapon, if she really had it
—or did she think the western
world suckers enough to outlaw and
foreswear use of the bomb and thus
give the edge to any ethics-lacking
nation who might have the bomb
and would drop it without warning?
TITO:
Get Out!
Yugoslavia’s Marshal Tito or
dered nine Hungarian diplomats
expelled and accused Russia and
her Comniform satellites of “rat
tling their arms" along the Yugo
slav border.
HE STATED that his Cominform
enemies were "digging trenches in
Hungary and Romania.”
Apparently, the fiery dictator of
Yugoslavia was not frightened, still
ready to wage war with Moscow,
verbally or otherwise. "We will
permit no one to impose their will
upon us,” he thundered.
Despite the dramatic atmosphere
surrounding expulsion of the Hun
garians, Tito's action was a retalia
tory one, since it followed within
24 hours a similiar action against
10 members of the Yugoslav lega
tion in Budapest.
TITO CLAIMED the Russians
were plotting to stage a revolution
in Yugoslavia in order to supplant
his government with a regime ser
vile to Moscow.
Whether or not the Russians had
the atomic bomb, as has been re
ported, Tito didn’t seem to be any
less disposed to quarrel with the
Kremlin.
Cripps Gets Tough
Sir Stafford Cripps, British fi
nance boss, lost no time in bringing
home to the people the import of
devaluation of the pound sterling
as an effort toward the country’s
financial problems.
His labor government raised the
tax on business profits and threat
ened to restrict dividends by law
in defending the devaluation move
at an emergency session of parlia
ment.
At the same time, the govern
ment rejected any pay raise propo
sals declaring this must be done to
prevent an inflationary spiral.
Cripps madp these moves as he
-opened the cabinet’s appeal for a
vote of confidence from the parlia
ment.
TRUMAN:
Way Ahead
President Harry Truman was still
battling vigorously for his domestic
program in congress. With his usual
expansive attack on critics, he
charged present detractors with
being “160 years behind the times.”
NEVERTHELESS, the President
was making a strategic approach to
the congressional races next year
in a drive for women recruits to
the Democratic party.
In a White House radio address,
beamed at the women of the nation,
Mr. Truman pointed to “certain
people” who denounce his "fair
deal” policies as alien or danger
ous.
THEY’RE NOTHING of the kind,
declared the President. In fact he
asserted, “Our program consists of
measures which have come up
from the grassroots. Our program
is as American as the soil we walk
on. It is a program unshakably
founded on the principle that the
power of the government should be
used to promote the general wel
fare.”
Dissidents might go along with
such items of the program as pub
lic housing and expanded social
security benefits—but on the sub
jects of farm price supports, as
advocated by the administration,
and socialized medicine, there
would be some arguments about
these being of “grassroots” origin.
TOSSING A BOUQUET to wom
an’s intelligence, the President de
clared that women are not misled
by political slogans, added: “They
look beneath the labels to see the
facts.”
ROCKETS:
Far Targets
Just before the end of World War
II, the Germans reported experi
menting with rockets that could
span oceans. Now, according to
information emanating from the
Soviet zone of Berlin, German
scientists are producing such rock
ets for the Russians.
The informants, who were said
to have access to the offices of the
Soviet-packed east German police,
said the mammoth under-ground
munitions plant at Peenemuende on
the Baltic coast was turning out
rockets at full speed.
Allied intelligence officers con
ceded they knew of “certain ac
tivity” at Pennemuende, but de
clined to elaborate. One of them ex
plained:
"If Russia is making munitions
in Germany, it’s a high level mat
ter and not for discussion here.”
EFFECTIVE KILLER
Navy Discovers Potent Remedy for Colds
The United States navy was man
ifesting its efficiency again—but in
an entirely different field. Veering
away from its military side for the
moment, the navy found a "cold-
killer” pill that was reported 90
per cent effective.
The fight to control t«e common
cold has been one of the longest,
most difficult in all medical his
tory. A great majority of physi
cians have expressed a conviction
that the common cold, like the
poor, will always be with us.
The navy’s cold-killer has been
named “Corcidin,” derived from
"coryza,” meaning the common
cold, and “cide,” to kill. The pill
must be taken at the first sign of
a cold to insure its maximum effi
ciency. That it was discovered ac
cidentally is beside the point.
AMERICA:
The Big Story
The Advertising Council, Inc., has
just issued its revised booklet, “The
Miracle of America,” which tells
why Americans live better, how
machines make jobs, and why free
dom and security go together.
THE BOOKLET should be pre
scribed reading for that fast-grow
ing element among the people’s of
ficials which seems to think every
one should apologize for America,
rather than be proud of it.
Approved by representatives of
both labor and management, “The
Miracle of America” tells in inter
esting, readable prose why Amer
ica is great and why every Ameri
can should be proud of his country.
In the booklet the mythical
Uncle Sam asks questions about
America which might be posed by
any typical American family.
EXCERPT: "Freedom and secu
rity go together.” Uncle Sam as
serted. "Men follow two great im
pulses—to be politically free and to
be economically secure. In Amer
ica we have won freedom and we
are winning economic security.
Dictators promise security if the
people will give up their freedom.
But experience shows that free
dom and economic security must
grow together. The history of the
United States proves it.”
Americans may have a copy of
“The Miracle of America” free of
charge. Just write to: Dept. N, The
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BESTSELLER:
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The Bible has always had a
significant place in the lives of
Americans. Acknowledgement of
and homage to a Supreme Being is
inherent in the American govern
ment setup, with American trust in
God declared on the nation’s coins.
Therefore, National Bible Week,
October 17-23, will be' observed
throughout the nation, with mayors
and governors in the 48 states join
ing in proclamations urging the
people to support the observance.
OUTLINING the purpose of Na
tional Bible Week, Rear Admiral
Reginald R. Belknap (USN, Re
tired), who is chairman, declared:
“National Bible Week is used to
stimulate people in all walks of life
to be Bible conscious and to turn
to the Bible in these times of nation
al and personal moral confusion.”
"WE NOW SEE a proud, power
ful nation, whose people the world
over were looked up to and re
spected for their sense of righteous
ness, fair play, charity and re
sourcefulness, decayed to the point
where they are not shocked at . . .
glaring examples of moral decay.”
While Chairman Belknap didn’t
say it in words, his examples of
"moral decay” pointed at none
other than Soviet Russia.
INCOME TAX:
Up & Up & Up
Total income taxes collected in
the United States show an increase
of over 1,100 per cent in 10 years,
from two and one-quarter billion dol
lars in 1939 to just under 31 billion
dollars in the fiscal year of 1949, with
individuals paying 60 per cent cf
this total, says an analysis by the
family economics bureau of North
western National Life Insurance
company.
NUMBER of persons hit by in
come taxes has increased propor
tionately, the bureau finds. There
were 3.9 million individual income
taxpayers in 1939; in 1948 there
were 41.8 million. Although that
number will be reduced for 1949 by
the elimination of several million
small taxpayers from the rolls due
to increased exemptions and other
changes made by congress in 1948,
the list should still run somewhere
around 36 million individual in
come taxpayers in 1949, the bureau
estimates.
'Sweet Sorrow'
Parting was such sweet sor
row for John M. Crawford and
his five monkey charges, one
of whom he is shown caressing.
He kept the five monkeys in his
New York home. Neighbors ob
jected. The court ordered Craw
ford to get rid of the monkeys,
declaring he was violating the
city’s sanitary code.
PAYOFF:
'Unto Caesar'
“Render unto Caesar the things
that are Caesar’s” was a Biblical
line that stuck in the mind of Pastor
Eugene M. Austin of the Baptist
Temple in Charleston, W. Va. Con
struing that "Caesar” meant the
government, the pastor set an
amazing precedent: He voluntarily
went to the courthouse and had
his personal property assessment
increased sixfold. He announced
the action to his congregation.
A GENERAL COMES HOME . . . Brig. Gen. Frank L. Howley, famed
for his firmness with the Soviets during his assignment as military
commander in Berlin, is accompanied on the U.S. army transport
“General Maurice Rose” by his family on his return to New York.
The vessel docked at Staten Island, and the general was taken to. New
York in an army launch. City officials were at the pier to greet him
and a reception was planned at city hall later in the day. Left to
right (front) are Mrs. Edith Howley, Dennis and peneral Howley and
(rear) William, Frances and Peter.
NEW SUPREME COURT JUSTICE . . . Federal Judge Sherman
Minton of Indiana, who was named to the supreme court recently by
President Harry Truman to succeed the late Wiley Rutledge, has
coffee with his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Minton, in their New Albany home
shortly after receiving the nomination.
CROWNING OF "MRS. AMERICA" . . . Mayor George A. Smock o(
Asbury Park, N.J., crowns Frances L. Cloyd, the mother of three
children, “Mrs. America.” The beauty from San Diego, Calif., repre
sented her state against stiff competition and topped the other con
testants in cooking skill as well as in personal appeal.
FOUND A GOOD MAN . . . Margaret Hastings, known to newspaper
readers as the Shangri-La WAC, who wanted to "find a good man and
get married,” now announces that she has found one. She has re
ported that three months ago she was married to Robert C. Atkinson.
In 1945, while she was a corporal in the women’* army corps, she and
two men of the army were the only survivors of a plane crash in New
Guinea.
PUT UP OR SHUT UP . . . Presi
dent John L. Lewis arrives at
U.M.W. headquarters in Washing
ton as a quarter million coal
'miners begin “unofficial walkout”
to protest suspension of welfare
and pension fund payments by
coal companies.
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"I CAN’T GET THEM OUT . . .
They’re batting me all over the
lot,” were the words of Pittsburgh
Pirate pitcher Ernie Bonham be
fore he died recently of complica
tions from an appendectomy.
MEDIATOR . . . Federal Media
tion Director Cyrus S. Ching an
nounces that the government in
tervened in the strike threatening
steel dispute by Inviting manage
ment and labor officials to a
mediation conference in Washing
ton.
DENIES SPY CHARGE . . .
George S. Kovach, New York
hotel manager, denies charges he
asked former Hungarian foreign
minister Rajk, now on trial for
treason in Hungary, to spy for the
United States. Rajk made the
charge.
REWARD FOR SPEED ... The
Harwood trophy and a kiss from
R> h Bride were rewards to
George Sarrant, Freeport, L.I.,
for winning Harwood motorboat
race on Hudson river in New
York recently.
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