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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C,
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
West Asks Reds for Peace Effort;
Pact Nations Would Rearm Italy;
Costliest Steel Strike Terminated
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When eplnlone ere expressed In thee columns, the, are these ef
Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts end net neeesssrily sf this newspaper./
Air-Sea Confliet
r ’S EASY to understand why the
air admirals are boiling mad at
unification. To some extent you
have to sympathize with them.
What they can't forget is that
Cor years the navy’s airmen had to
Sight the battleship admirals and
now, just as the airplane carrier
has come into its own, they find
themselves stymied by unifies*
tftflB.
The admirals who put up this
long running-fight with the old-
Sashloned battleship admirals in
clude such brilliant officers as
Gerald Bogan, Arthur Radford, L.
T. Sprague and Jack Towers, now
retired. Thirty years ago, just out
ml Annapolis, they went into the
relatively new naval aviation as
Silers and worked up to the top.
They were convinced that the fu
ture of the navy lay in the air.
They had the courage to believe
this even at a time when most of
Che admirals swore that nothing
•mild ever sink a battleship.
During the recent campaign
in the Pacific, Admiral Sprague
had the ranking admirals tak
ing orders from him. Because
operating carriers in battle
formation, with their network
•f protecting airplanes and de
stroyers, is such a skilled job,
Sprague, a junior, was in com
mand. When the squadron put
Into Pearl Harbor or any other
base, the senior admirals, un
trained in carrier battle forma
tion, then took over.
With the war over and the battle
ship being laid up in mothballs,
naval aviation at long last ap
peared about to achieve full recog-
Bition. Whereupon congress passed
Hie unification act, and with it,
the chief air responsibility went to
file air force. No wonder the air
admirals are indignant!
• • •
Naval Carriers Heroes
The full story of the navy’s air
plane carriers was one of the most
heroic of the war, and the heroism
was even greater because of a
serious defect discovered in the
carriers after the navy had built
Boost of them. .
This defect — like most of the
navy’s trouble—was due to faulty
engineering and bad planning.
Airplane - carrier designers had
failed to take into consideration the
possibility that decks were vulner
able and that once the deck of a
carrier was tom up, no plane could
take off.
The Japs, however, soon discov
ered this. The result was that sui
cide Jap fighter planes dived for
the deck of carrier after carrier
With deadly casualties. Entirely
aside from the tragic loss of life,
•o many carriers were put out of
commission that they had to be
•ent all the way through the Pana
ma canal to the Atlantic coast for
repairs. The west coast yards were
too fulL
e e e
Okinawa Losses
At one time during the battle of
Okinawa, virtually all of the navy's
Carriers were either en route back
to the U. S. for repairs or en route
to battle after being repaired. The
shipyards at Pearl Harbor were
fulL The west coast yards were at
capacity, and the east coast yards
had to handle the overflow—despite
the extra time necessary to carry
the limping vessels through the
Panama canal.
Thus one Jap suicide plane could
put a carrier out of commission for
four to six months.
The British, foreseeing this,
•quipped their carriers with
•rmored decks. Toward the
end of the war, new American
carriers were also built with
armored decks. But it took a
long time for the navy to wake
■p to Its mistake.
Experience in the Pacific proved
that carriers were at their peak
effectiveness in making surprise
raids on the enemy. If carriers had
to stay in one place, as at Oki
nawa, they suffered unmercifully.
But If they could sneak up on the
Japanese mainland under cover
of night, make their attack at
dawn, and then retreat, their losses
were much less.
• • •
Leyte Battle Blunder
It was the battle of Leyte, where
carriers also played an important
part, which convinced many navy
men that unification was neces-
•ary. Divided American command
and a Japanese feint almost proved
disastrous for U. S. ships.
The command in the battle of
Leyte was divided as follows. Gen
eral MacArthur commanded not
only the army but the western
fleet under Adm. Tom Kincaid. It
was Kincaid’s job to protect the
landing of MacArthur’s troops. The
rest of the fleet was under Admiral
Nimitz who had delegated the im
mediate command to Admiral Hal-
•ey.
Halsey was supposed to keep
Kincaid advised at all times of his
movements, but not take orders
from him. His telephone lacked
enough range.
PEACE TRY:
Reds Asked In
Russia’s Andrei Vishlnsky had
said, in effect, to United Nations
members: Set up an atomic con
trol system of periodic inspection
of manufacture and materials, and
Russia will let you in to inspect
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, this
week and next week—but instead
you want to inspect from minute
to minute, day by day, week by
week.
THE U. N. didn’t go for that
Russia, its members claimed, was
referring only to declared manu
facture and materials, but what
of the "hidden and undeclared”
production and stockpiles. Vishin-
aky got nowhere with his proposaL
Then, the U. N. turned around,
placed the shoe of warmongering
on the foot upon which they felt
it belonged. The United States and
other western powers called upon
Russia to stop its “campaign of
hate” and cooperate in a 12-point
program for peace.
The 12 points were: Stop threat
ening or using force contrary to
the U. N. charter. Stop interfering
with the independence of any other
country and the fomenting of civil
strife. Carry out in good faith all
international agreements Afford
all U. N. bodies full cooperation.
Promote full freedom of religion
and political expression and full
respect of all other fundamental
rights. Promote higher standards
of living for all peoples. Remove
information barriers. Participate
fully in the U. N.’s work. Settle
international disputes peacefully.
Cooperate in armaments controL
Agree to exercise national sover
eignty jointly with other nations
to attain international control of
atomic energy. Urge five big pow
ers to broaden their cooperation
in the security council of the U. N.,
and to exercise restraint in using
the veto.
THE FIRST REACTION of those
conversant with Russian policy as
it has been manifest thus far must
have wondered if the western pow
ers had taken complete leave of
their senses i(i making any such
proposal to Moscow. They might
as well have asked the Russians
to turn over the Kremlin to the
Christian Endeavor society, enroll
Joe Stalin as a Boy Scoutmaster,
and to turn the politburo into a
Sunday choral society. Even a
kindergarten child would have
known better than to expect Soviet
agreement to any of the 12 points.
STRIKE ENDS:
Steel Costliest
America's costliest steel strike
ended, appropriately enough on
Armistice day, with the CIO steel
workers winning demands for an
industry-financed insurance-pen
sion formula.
THE CAPITULATION of U. S.
steel, bellwether of the industry
as regards labor relations, brought
an end to the crippling strike.
Four smaller firms settled on the
same terms the same day, terms
which followed the pattern ac
cepted by Bethlehem steel, first
big company to sign with the
union.
According to a CIO spokesman,
the union-company agreement em
bodied such terms as a minimum
$100 monthly pension to workers
aged 65 with 25 years service,
with the employer paying all the
cost, and an insurance program,
costing five cents an hour per
man, with the company and work
er sharing the cost.
FARM RATS:
A Formula
The farmers in the Rio Grande
tomato fields were beginning to
get results in their interminable
war on rats after garnishing their
crops with poisoned grain.
A FEW WEEKS AGO the rats
were swarming into tomato and
green pepper fields near La Grul-
la. Tex. TTiey spread methodically
up and down the Rio Grande until
the invasion covered a 15-mile
strip, one to two miles wide in
places. Farmers lost first pickings
completely in several fields.
Then they began to dust their
crops with poisoned grain. Said
grower Ralph Jones: "That poison
sure does the business. It’s stopped
the losses.”
But not before serious damage
was done to 2,000 irrigated and
cultivated acres.
U.S. PAY ROLL:
Tops 10 Billion
United States government opera
tional expense, long in the astro
nomical bracket, had reached a
total annual figure of 10 billion,
200 million dollars. That figure, in
the aggregate, is almost meaning
less to the average American. But
broken down to show how it af
fects the individual, it could be
brought very much home to the
taxpayer. It was costing each
American $227 per capita.
Prize Winner
Dr. William F. Glanqne, 54,
professor at the University of
California, was a Nobel prise
winner for his work in the
study of entropies. The entropy
of a compound determines
whether a chemical reaction
can take place.
ITALY:
New Weapons
Experience, though a hard
teacher, is supposed to teach well.
In international events, however,
this doesn’t always follow.
FOR INSTANCE, Italy, two-time
foe of the democracies in as
many world wars, will be rearmed
soon if top-planners of the Atlantic
pact countries have their way. Dis
cussions looking toward rearming
the Italians under the Atlantic pact
already were underway between
high-ranking U. S. and Italian mili
tary officers and diplomats.
James C. Dunn, U. S. ambassa
dor to Italy, attended the first of
a series of closed sessions aimed
at modernizing and re-equipping
Italy’s treaty-limited armed forces
under the Atlantic pact’s defense
system.
ITALY’S RECORD in connection
with disservice to the democracies
smells to high heaven. In World
War I the country started out with
Germany and the Central Powers
and turned coat only when it was
evident her side was losing. In
World War II, she started out with
II Duce Mussolini and forsook him
only when it became apparent shr
was on the wrong horse again.
RAILS:
Fares Up
The third tare Increase tor east
ern railroads in the past three
years has been authorized by the
interstate commerce commission.
The increase this time amounted
to a 12.5 per cent hike in rail
passenger fares in the East, esti
mated to give the railroads anoth
er 37.8 million dollars a year in
revenue.
THE RISE applies to the area
east of the Mississippi river and
north of the Ohio and Potomac
rivers. Commuter fares were not
to be affected.
In 1947 these same roads were
granted a 10 per cent boost in
passenger fares, and last year
another hike of approximately 17
per cent Southern and western
railroads did not apply for the in
crease granted the eastern roads.
THE NEW RATES, It was said,
would raise eastern coach fares
to about 3.37 cents a mile, and
parlor-car and sleeping-car fares
to about 4.5 cents a mile.
In New York, a railway official
said the new increase would boost
one-way coach fares from New
York to Chicago from $27.30 to
$30.75. First class fares would b«
raised from $36.35 to $40.89.
A-BOMBS:
Men at Work
According to a British-licensed
Berlin newspaper, the Telegraf,
Russians are operating a plant
near Berlin to produce explosives
used solely for making atomic
bombs.
THE PAPER, giving no authori
ty for the source of its informa
tion declared, nevertheless, that
the plant where the explosives are
being made is the peoples’ owned
Teerchemie plant in Erkner, sub
urban east Berlin. The newspaper
story said 600 workers were em
ployed on the project
It said the plant produced a
chemical called “carbazol” which
the paper described as highly ex
plosive.
Rocket With ‘Brain’
The U. S. air force appeared
ready to hold its own in the guided
missile department. It announced
it had a rocket-propelled guided
missile with “human intelligence”
in tracking and destroying enemy
aircraft
Launched from a “mother” Jet
fighter plane the missile, named
the “Firebird,” is capable of head
ing off and destroying its objective
in a matter of seconds.
SWEDEN
Talks Back
The United States senate, col
lectively and individually, has
been called by some colorful and
lurid names—but it remained for
some Swedish editors to hurl the
most devastating blast at that au
gust body.
A SWEDISH NEWSPAPER, the
liberal afternoon Expressen, had
this to say:
“The U. S. senate is certainly a
high assembly, but it is also a
dumping place for all sorts of
quaint characters and the most ig
norant politicans from the dark- I
est corners of the union. And it
must be pretty dark in Oklahoma.”
The shaft was aimed, really, at
Oklahoma’s Senator Thomas, a
Democrat, who was critical of the
way Sweden had received a sen
ate appropriations subcommittee
visiting Marshall plan countries to
see how U. S. funds were being
used.
Sweden, it appeared, had re
ceived quite a bit of Marshall plan
aid, but had sort of “snubbed”
Thomas and his committee. Thom
as declared the country to which
he “referred” in his criticism, ex
pressed in Vienna, “had helped no
one in the past 135 years,” and if
it got any more Marshall plan
funds, it would be over his pro
test.
The “QUAINT CHARACTERS"
and “most ignorant politicians”
the Swedes referred to in the sen
ate, or who had ever been a mem
ber of it, included some right in
fluential fellows who might have
much to say about continuing
Marshall plan aid — among them.
President and former Senator Har«
ry S. Truman.
GERMANY:
Gl's to Stay
Russia might do as she pleased
about occupying Germany, but the
western allies intend to keep their
troops in that country whether or
not the Russians pull out.
THAT was the statement of a
west German government spokes
man who indicated this was one
of the decisions reached at the
big three Paris conference.
U. S. secretary of state Dean
Acheson and German chancellor
Konrad Adenauer had agreed upon
the need for keeping western troops
in Germany.
This same spokesman said the
appointment of Soviet Marshal
Konstantin Rokossovsky as com
mander-in-chief of the Polish army
was construed to mean that Rus
sian troops would be withdrawn
from caster a Germany soon.
EVEN THOUGH the Russians
should withdraw their troops, this
same source said, the Russian
secret police and the Soviet-trained
German people’s police still would
remain.
THE PRESS:
285th Year
With technicalities waived, the
Official London Gazette, beginning
its 285th year of continuous publi
cation understandably laid claim
to being the world’s oldest news
paper.
THE twice - weekly government
paper began publication in 1665
during the great plague which rav
aged London. Since that time it
has been the appointed organ for
dissemination of all “announce
ments of the chief executive.”
The paper is issued each Tues
day and Friday with official an
nouncements from Buckingham
palace. Number 10 Downing street,
official residence of the prime min
ister, and government depart
ments. And it never publishes
much else.
Flannel Queen
Darlene Towns, 16, who was
crowned “red flannel” queen
by Michigan Governor G. Men-
nen Williams, is shown here
attired in her red flannel
nightie. Governor Williams
called the square dances at
what has become an annual
Michigan event.
FREE TOUR:
All on a Bet
A 48-state, penniless tour of this
country—could anyone do it?
A 30-year old Los Angeles vet
eran, who used the fictitious name,
Paul Clark, did it. He did it on a
bet to prove the extent of Ameri
can people's hospitality. And in
doing it, he won a bet of $4,800
from a friend. He kept his identi
ty secret, he said, as part of the
wager which he’d made. Other cob-
ditions were not discussed
TRUMAN DAY IN MINNESOTA . . . Minnesota’s Republican governor,
Luther W. Youngdahl (left), presents a book telling the story of his
state to President Truman in St. Paul as the President joined officially
in Minnesota’s centennial observation. Said the governor, “The Presi
dent really smiled as though he did not realize he was in a Republican
state.” Truman wore the coat of a Minnesota state policeman at the
ceremony.
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER . . .
Dr. WUHam F. Giauque, professor
of chemistry at the University of
California, won the 1949 prise for
chemistry. It was for his work in
entropies — study of reaction in
compounds — that he was given
the award.
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president of Columbia university, congratulates Dr. Hldeki Yukawa,
visiting professor of physics, just named winner of the 1949 Nobel prize
in physics. Yukawa, who becomes the first Japanese to win a Nobel
prize, in 1935 announced a new particle now known as meson and de
clared it responsible for special properties of forces holding the atomic
nucleus together. His discovery startled the scientific world.
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was overthrown by Bolshevism,
predicted during a Paris visit that
communism too will be over
thrown in Russia. He anticipates
the victory of democracy.
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VICTIM ... Wei Huan Kno, U. N.
employee, was found stabbed to
death in a New York hotel beside
a woman, also a knife victim. Po
lice do not know which was the
murderer and which was the ant*
cide. The woman was a translator.
CLOSE SQUEEZE . . . Patricia
Robinson gives Robert Collins,
Los Angeles paper carrier, a hug
for saving her life in gas-filled
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! called the police. Patricia bad
turned on a stove jet accidentally.
HEIRESS AT HORSE SHOW BALL ... Socially prominent Nancy
Oakes enters horse show ballroom at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New
York with escort Roy Punnett. Miss Oakes is heiress of the multi-million
dollar fortune left by her father, the late Sir Harry Oakes, Canadian
mining tycoon, whose murder in the Bahamas in 1943 is stilt un
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nulment of her marriage to Count Alfred de Marigny.
KID QUEEN . . . Queen of all the
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Her reign was part of Kiwanis’
National Kids’ Day program. A
recent operation cured Karen of
a rare heart ailment.
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