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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Miners Cited on Contempt Charge;
Compromise Reached on Oleo Bill;
U.S. - Bulgarian Relations Severed
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PIT MEN:
A New Angle
• Federal Judge Richmond B. Keech
wrote a new angle into the contin
uing fight between the United
Mine Workers and the coal opera-
tons. The Judge cited the miners
themselves for criminal contempt
on grounds that the 370,000 UMW
members had “willfully and wrong
fully” ignored his back-to-work
order.
THE NEW ANGLE was that this
time the UMW’s boss, John L.
Lewis was not even mentioned in
the citation. Observers pointed out
that the citation could lead to
heavy fines against the union. On
two previous occasions, Lewis was
aamed defendant when strike issue
came into federal court.
There was some speculation that
omission of Lewis’ name from the
contempt citation might mean that
the government felt that Lewis had
been really sincere when he or
dered his miners back to work—but
no government official would com
ment on the subject
Judge Keech’s action came as
the east was gripped with bitter
cold, with many housewives’ coal
bins nearly empty.
In the meantime, violence flared
tn the eastern Kentucky coal field
as roving mobs wrecked equip
ment at several mines and beat up
at least 11 miners. Ten men were
beaten in Knox county and one was
attacked in Harlan county.
SIXTEEN AUTOMOBILES
loaded with six men each visited a
number of mines, Kentucky state
police reported. Twenty-eight bul
lets were fired into a mine man-
car hauling miners up an incline,
and two automobiles belonging to
miners were overturned.
As for the hope of the contempt
citation to end the mine walkout,
no one would say how effective it
would be. It was recalled .rthere
is no limit on the penalty a federal
court may impose for contempt,
but the Constitution forbids “un
usual and excessive” punishment,
and the supreme court in 1947 re
duced the UMW’s contempt fine
from three million dollars to
$710,000.
BULGARIA:
H U.S. Cuts Off
Uncle Sam finally “got his dan-
der up” and began to get tough
with the Communist - dominated
Balkan countries. In one of the
toughest U S. foreign policy actions
since World War II, this nation
broke off diplomatic relations with
Bulgaria and ordered home Amer
ican Minister Donald R. Heath and
his entire staff.
At the same time, the state de
partment demanded the recall of
Dr. Peter Voutov and his smaller
Bulgarian staff in Washington.
DEVELOPMENTS in the same
vein included a ban on American
travel in Hungary and the order
ing from Communist China of all
American consuls.
The U.S. action was seen as a cli
max to what the state department
called a "long series of intoler
ances and indignities” against the
U.S. legation in Sofia.
In that the state department
was on solid ground because since
the legation was established in
1947, Bulgarian officials and the
controlled Bulgarian press, the
department said, had been “con
stantly denouncing and insulting
the United States.” The depart
ment charged the Sofia govern
ment had carried on an “unprin
cipled campaign of prosecution”
against Bulgarian employees of the
legation.
THE DIRECT CAUSE of the
break was said to* be Bulgaria’s
demand of January 19 that Heath
be recalled for “interference” in
Bulgarian internal affairs. Charges
at spying also had been made
against Americans in the legation
Ihe break was significant be
cause it indicated a stronger atti
tude by President Truman and
state secretary Acheson toward
Moscow satellites with which the
U.S has been waging postwar dis
putes.
However, there was no cause for
alarm as to military repercussions
For, as Winston Churchill put it.
diplomatic recognition of one na
tion by another does not mean es
pousal of that nation’s policies or
attitudes—it Is an act to secure
certain conveniences. Conversely,
when diplomatic relations are brok-
*n off. it means chiefly that those
conveniences are at an end. but
not necdfcf&rfly military action.
MEN'S CLOTHES:
Going Up
Early in 1950, there was much
newspaper space devoted to fea
hire articles in which a happy
era of low-cost men’s clothing was
about to descend upon the Amer
ican male.
Indeed, the old standby—the $35
suit—was pictured as coming into
Its own again and a man could
anticipate clothes buy-
But apparently it was all a
dream, for clothing costs are up.
Out and In
William Dudley Pelley (left),
former Silver Shirt leader,
was released on parole from
the U.S. prison In Terre Haute,
Ind., where he had been serving
a 15-year sentence on a crim-
ial sedition charge. But as he
left the prison gates he was
promptly arrested again, be
cause North Carolina has re
quested his extradition in order
to try him for violation of the
state’s securities law.
OLEO BILL:
A Compromise
Congress had reached a compro
mise on what should be done about
the bill to repeal federal taxes on
oleomargarine. One factor helping
the compromise along was the
striking out of a senate require
ment that colored margarine sold
at retail be put up in triangular
packages.
But the conference committees
which effected the compromise put
in strict labeling requirements.
IF THE SENATE and house ac
cept the compromise, it would be
come effective July 1. The bill
had been in the hands of the confer
ence committees since February
2. The House passed the measure
last year, with one senate version
being approved in January of this
year.
It had been agreed by both
houses to knock out federal taxes
on oleo, but dairy interests had
held out for the triangular-package
requirement, arguing that this was
necessary to make sure nobody got
margarine thinking it was butter.
HERE are the taxes the bill
would wipe out:
One-fourth of a cent a pound on
uncolored margarine, 10 cents a
pound on the colored form; $600 a
year on manufacturers whether
their output was colored or not;
$480 a year on wholesalers of col
ored margarine, $200 on whole
salers of the uncolored. $48 on re
tailers of colored margarine, and
$6 a year on retailers of the uncol
ored variety.
Unaffected by the bill are laws
In 21 states banning manufacture
or sale of colored margarine.
SEARCH:
No Sharp Guide
The inviolability / of a man’s
home against search without due
course of law—meaning a properly
executed warrant—is now in ques
tion as the result of a recent su
preme court decision.
The court, in a 5 to 3 ruling, held
that when police legally arrest a
man, they also may search a lim
ited area under his immediate con
trol for evidence of a crime. But
the court didn’t say exactly how
far the police may go.
Justice Felix Frankfurter pro
tested vigorously Dissenting from
the opinion, he declared that the
“decision makes mockery of the
fourth amendment to the constitu
tion which bans unreasonable
search and seizure.
He added that the court by its
action had overturned a long series
of decisions and argued that the
tribunal should “show respect for
continuity in the law.”
The majority opinion was writ
ten by one of the new justices,
Sherman Minton, who said, “What
is reasonable search is not to be
determined by any fixed formula.
The recurring questions of the rea
sonableness of searches must find
resolution in the facts and circum
stances of each case.”
The decision came in the case of
Albert J. Rabinowitz, who was
charged with the sale of four al
tered postage stamps. When he
was arrested, officers searched his
office and found 573 more stamps.
These were made the basis of a
new charge that he possessed and
concealed altered stamps.
Defense Move
Ever since World War II thera
has been considerable discussion of
a proposal to scatter U.S. agencies
and industrial manufacturing cen
ters so that in the event of anothez
war the nation would not face the
threat of complete paralysis from
bombing attacks.
Now, the proposal had the sup
port of the head of the office oi
civilian defense. Dr. Paul J. Lar
sen.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of
Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
iHARING:
One Great Hour*
This Sunday March 12, there will
>ccur one of the most unique
tvents in the history of spiritual
ilevation and man’s efforts to help
lis fellow man. For, on that day
lome 100,000 churches with approx-
mately 25 million members will
oin in a coordinated appeal for the
lupport of overseas relief and re-
:onstruction projects.
THE APPEAL will be conducted
inder the slogan: ’’One Great
Tour of Sharing,” and will be made
limultaneously in all cooperating
jhurches as part of the regular
vorship of the day.
Church World Service, which is
tonducting the campaign, is the
>verseas relief agency of 23 coop-
trating Protestant and Eastern
Orthodox church bodies In addi-
ion to the denominations affiliated
vith it, it is supported by the fol
lowing interdenominational agen-
:ies:
Federal Council of Churches of
Christ in America, Foreign Mis
sions Conference of North Amer-
ca, American Committee of the
iVorld Council of Churches, and the
United Council of Church Women.
These affiliated organizations un-
lerstand better than perhaps any
>ther organization can the vast
iced of relief and reconstruction
jverseas. That so many millions of
lelpless people may be helped, that
diey can be given new hope for the
future, is one of the chief goals of
these many organizations.
Last year. Church World Service
shipped materials amounting to
more than eight million dollars to
50 foreign countries. These relief
shipments included about 24 mil
lion pounds of farm products,
clothing, bedding, medicines, hos
pital equipment and miscellaneous
items.
But Church World Service knows
that more, much more is needed.
It is for that reason that the uni
fied campaign of “One Great Hour
of Sharing” is to be conducted so
that all who wish to may have a
hand in the organization’s humani
tarian work.
PADUCAH:
War Capital?
The city of Faducah, Ky., more
famous as the birthplace of Irvin
Cobb and the home of Vice-Pres
ident Barkley than for most any
thing else, wasn’t any too happy
about a new honor which might
come to it.
The city had been proposed by
Rep. John Rankin (D., Tenn.) as
the United States’ secondary cap
ital in the event of war.
The representative’s proposal
met with definitely mixed feelings.
The most frequently heard plaint
was, “Why do they want to pick
an Paducah? We’ve always lived
quietly and peacefully, and would
like to continue living that way.”
SEVERAL PADUCAHANS got a
lot of humor out of Rankin’s saying
that one reason Paducah should be
the war capital is that “it is close
to Mammoth cave.” Paducah na
tives knew that Mammoth cave is
150 miles from Paducah, and, as
several put it, that would be quite
a dash to make in the event of an
atomic bombing.
Giving a serious answer to Ran-
sin’s proposal, John Oehlschlaeger,
president of the Paducah chamber
:>f commerce, said:
“REPRESENTATIVE RANKIN’S
plans poses such a gigantic prob
lem it would be silly for me to com
ment on it at this time. But I might
ask this question. Can you con
ceive of the sudden shifting of the
capital of 150 million people from
a metropolitan center to a town of
15,000 population? Think of the
problems of housing, providing ad
equate building space, and traffic,
to mention only a few, that the
town would face.”
It would be a big problem, in-
3eed, and one likely to be so im
mense that Representative Ran-
cin’s proposal will probably never
get out of its original stage.
Muscling In
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Bing Crosby, part owner of
the Pittsburgh Pirates, gives
rookie pitcher Paul Pettit the
once over a& Pittsburgh opened
a rookie school. Pettit is the
high school southpaw who was
given a $100,000 bonus when he
signed with the Pirates.
TRUMAN AIDE:
Red Link Charged
In all the hysteria over Soviel
spying in connection with the A-
bomb and the H-bomb, there waa
a general tendency to hurl chargea
and let the result attempt to justify
the action.
Latest, but highest circles to be
linked with Communist front or
ganizations, was a White House
speech writer whom Senator Me
Carthy, Republican of Wig const!
charged was a fellow-traveler.
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ANNOUNCES ANNIHILATION ...
Einstein, on Eleanor Roosevelt’s
television program, says that
armament race between U. S. and
Russia is “hysterical,” promising
world annihilation. He called for
doing away with mutual fear.
SOUTHBOUND—SANS DIAMONDS . . . Mrs. Billy Rose (right), who
lost some jewelry to burglars, waits with Mrs. Nick Blair, Philadelphia,
in Miami for Pan-American clipper to take them on a vacation In Nas
sau. Mrs. Rose, wife of the showman-columnist. Is the former Eleanor
Holm, Olympic swim star. Police were searching In the East river in
New York for the safe that contained her stolen jewelry and two sus
pects were in durance awaiting questioning.
PAY FOR PRISONERS . . . Frank H. Bigelow. Rockville, Md.. Is the
first ex-prisoner of war In the U. S. to receive a war claims payment
for time spent as a prisoner of war. Here, he shows his wife and
daughter a $1,198 check, representing $1 for each day he was held by the
Japanese and failed to receive standard food rations. While prisoner,
he was forced to work in a coal mine and lost a leg.
KISS FOR THE BRIDE . . . Sen.
Herbert R. O’Conor (D., Md.) pre
pares to salute his new daughter-
in-law, Mrs. James Patrick O’Con
or, the former Katherine E. Ellis,
after the wedding recently at
Baltimore cathedral.
DEPORTED FROM GERMANY
. . . Joan Von Goetz, ex-secretary
of> military board in Berlin, was
deported to the U. S. after illegally
entering Russian zone. She said
she fled to Soviet zone because her
permit to stay in Germany had ex
pired and would not be renewed.
CONFER ON MILITARY ARMS REPORT ... Dr. Vannevar Bnsh
(left) confers With Chairman Millard Tydings (D„ Md.) of the senate
armed services committee before reporting to the committee on the
progress being made by the United States in military arms, most vital
to the defense against aggression. Dr. Bnsh was formerly head of the
office of scientific research and development. He was called upon to
testify in secret session later.
“MAYBE” . . . George Lackey,
vice chairman of the California
Democratic committee, told re
porters that Truman replied
“maybe” to a proposal that he ran
for re-election in 1952. Lackey was
in Washington to attend the Jeffer-
son-Jackson day dinner.
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
AUTOS, TRUCKS A ACCESS.
LABOR LEADERS VISIT TRUMAN . . . C. 1. O. President Phillip Mui^
ray (left) and President William Green of the American Federation of
Labor leave the White Honse after a conference with President Harry
Truman recently. The two top labor leaders were especially concerned
with the invoking of the Taft-Hartley labor law In connection with the
coal strike and said they did not believe the President’s action win help
settle the dispute.
HOST AND HOSTESS . . . Dean
Achesons arrive at Lars-Anderson
House to welcome guests at recep
tion for foreign dignitaries. Ache-
son pays off social obligations at
once to avoid frequent reciproca
Mam tnr atArilM tafutarflA him.
H-Bomb Costs
A TOM SCIENTISTS have secret
ly informed the congressional
committee on atomic energy that
there is absolutely no way to deter
mine the cost of the frightful H-
bomb until it is built.
However, they have further testi
fied that the new bomb would cost
a lot less than original estimates,
which ran into billions of dollars.
This is because a great deal of
equipment now used for making
atom bombs can be reused or eas
ily converted to the product!cai of
H-bombs.
Officials of the atomic en
ergy commission also have In
formed the committee behind
closed doors that the hydrogen
bomb can be made for consid
erably less than the estimated
two-billion-dollar cost of the
original atom bomb.
The atom chief reveals, in fact,
that all they would need to get
started on production of the H-bomb
is 80 million dollars chiefly for
special facilities and new labora
tory equipment.
This amount is already well on
the way to congressional approval,
being included in the 450 Trillion
deficiency appropriation bill that
passed the house, 'though only a
few house members knew they
were voting for H-bomb funds.
Taft Applauds Harry
When President Truman ad
dressed congress recently, senate
Majority Leader Scott Lucas, sit
ting beside Senators Ken Wherry
of Nebraska and Bob Taft of
Ohio, had to do the applauding for
the Republicans. Finally he whis
pered to Wherry: “After all, this is
the President of the United States.
You ought to applaud whether you
mean it or not.”
Wherry moved his hands polite
ly, but Taft kept his folded.
Finally Lucas nudged Wher
ry again and asked him to sug
gest that Taft applaud, too.
Taft ignored this, unto Tra-
man came to his appeal for a
national science foundation,
which Taft has endorsed. At
this mention, Taft clapped
wildly.
Then he turned to Lucas and re
marked dryly: “I want you to
know that I have complied with
your request”
Remaking John L Lewis
Washington’s rough-a n d-tumble
news photographers, who have seen
about everything, are flabber
gasted at “The new John L.
Lewis.”
In the old days when Lewis was
asked to pose for a picture, the
answer was a snarl or a view of
his back.
But today, when the boys clamor
“Just one more,” Lewis is as
sweet as a fairy godmother. He
will even make gestures.
Credit goes to his new public
relations expert Justin McCarthy,
who has convinced Lewis that one
way to tnake friends and influence
people is to be nice to the photog
raphers.
The Other Lewis
Sitting in sessions with the coal
operators, however, Lewis is an
other man—as witness the “You-
are-a-liar-by-the-clock” charge
hurled at George Love, president
of the Pittsburgh Consolidation
Coal company.
What inspired this piece of ver
ba] gunplay was Love’s testimony
at the fact-finding inquiry that
Lewis had declared during negotia
tions with the operators that he
had 400,000 coal miners “in the
palm of his hand” and urged the
operators to bid for their labor.
Love was referring to a closed-
door meeting at which Lewis
charged that the operators were
controlled by “bankers” who wanted
to make “slaves” of the miners.
When Love insisted that
Lewis offer some specific pro
posals for a new work contract,
the mine labor boss replied:
“This Is onr bargaining tech
nique. It Is a poor, poor thing,
hot It is the best we have. Onr
labor is what we have to offer.
Yon cannot work the mines
without men.”
Then Lewis extended a cupped
hand and added: ’
“I have 400.000 miners. What am
1 bid?”
However, later Love said that
Lewis had 400.000 miners in the
palm of his hand, the mine boss
said it was an “infamous lie” and
added for emphasis, “Mr Love,
you are a liar by the clock.”
Truman’s Bibles
President Truman got into s dls
cussion of Bibles the other day i
after Senator Humphrey of Min- !
nesota presented him with gavel
made by Vigo Rasmussen, a Dan
ish cabinetmaker from Minnea
polis.
“You know.'* smiled the Pres
ident, “I collect just two things—
gavels and Bibles.”
“With those two you should be
able to keep law and order.” re
plied Humphrey.
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