University of South Carolina Libraries
•w- m** m: mv WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS U. S. Defense Setup Challenged; Progress Reported in EGA Field; Truman Signs Crop Increase Act OEOnOB'S NOTE: When •plniena are expressed In these eolnmns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) m DEFENSE: Charges Hurled Charge* that the government has been “ragging its feet” in organ izing civil defense against an A- bomb attack and in telling Ameri cans how to protect themselves have been hurled by four big-city officials. MAYOR Elmer E. Robinson of San Francisco minced no words in asserting that federal authorities have “fumbled the ball” of civilian defense. He urged that a policy of total defense be inaugurated imme diately by the federal government. Federal planners have said that local officials will have to assume primary responsibility for civilian v defense against Atomic warfare, tile government's role being that of coordinator. THAT MUST have seemed an odd stand to take to officials who have no knowledge of atomic bomb ef fects or of the first steps t# take toward protection if such bombings occur. Surely public leaders were within the bonds of reason and logic when they demanded that the gov ernment channel to them more in formation on how to provide pro tection against atomic warfare— information which only the federal government possesses, if anyone or any group does possess it. The government's attitude seemed a callous one and hard to reconcile with all the scare techniques prev alent in connection with the possi bility of another war in which the A-bomb or the H-bomb would be the most frightful weapons. FOREIGN AID: Some Progress As the economic cooperation ad ministration started its thifd year of operations, Marshall plan coun tries were being urged to take two steps of paramount importance to make themselves independent of extraordinary outside aid by tha time EGA ends in June of 1952. COUNTRIES participating in the Marshall plan were to be told tfiat they should intensify efforts to sell more products to the United States and other hard-currency areas. EGA pointed to that as one means of closing the dollar gap. In that connection, the agency continued, the U.S. could assist by following increasingly liberal im port policies and commercial pol- cies generally so that trade bar riers do not prevent European countries from increasing dollar earnings in this country. AS to European economic unifi cation, EGA stated its belief that the establishment of an effective European payments union is of great importance. Elimination of public and private trade restric tions also were said to be a con tributing factor to economic unifi cation. As a result of increased produc tion and financial and political stabilization, EGA said, commu nism has been placed on the de fensive in all participating coun tries. 'Hot' Shirt mm. m Hi P ; y ■ vr-x'!- m m Defense Secretary Louis John son (right) talks “cold war” in a “hot” shirt as he and President Truman discuss de fense strategy and anti-Com- mtwist activities at the “little White House” in Key West, Fla. Secretary Johnson’s shirt recalls the “Solomon-in-all-his glory” quotation, t but even it was topped by one the Presi dent frequently donned for pictures. CROP BOOST: A Compromise In any manner likely to affect the farm vote—with the congres sional elections not so many months away—President Truman showed an unwonted disposition to compromise, rather than come out fighting against anything he didn’t like, as he has done su frequently in the past. THE PRESIDENT compromised on an agricultural bill raising ac reage limitations on cotton and peanuts for 1950 and modifying price supports for Irish potatoes next year. In signing the measure after long study, the President noted, according to the presidential press secretary, Charles G. Ross, that “the good features outweighed Ue undesirable features.” And wi'n that profound utterance, the bill was signed into law. The President acted after under going heavy pressure from groups urging approval or veto of the joint resolution. The section affecting potatoes knocks out price supports for po tatoes in 1951 unless marketing quotas are then in effect. Addi tional legislation would be needed, however, to put such quotas into operation in 1951. THE MEASURE as approved authorized an increase of 1.5 mil lion acres in cotton acreage this year and a 50 per cent increase in acreage of peanuts planted for oil production. The previous cotton al lowance was 27 million acres. It would permit peanut growers —^principally in Texas and Ala bama — 100,000 more acres and would permit excess peanuts to be grown for oil without penalties on certain conditions. HOGS: No Props For the first time within the past eight years, hogs were being bought and sold at major U.S. markets without any price supports—and dealers admitted it was difficult to note any difference. PRICES were steady to 25 cents higher. What did that mean? Was it an indication that federal agri cultural planners could have been wrong all these years? If that were the case, there probably would be no admission of it. In fact, one U.S. department of agriculture spokesman hailed the event as a “normal market.” It was “just a matter of supply and demand,” he naid, as if the de partment had been aware of and had considered that venerable Jaw ever since the government went into the farming business. FARMERS and traders, however, held varying opinions as to what might happen when the markets opened for the first time since hog price supports were allowed to die. Some felt growers would become panicky and flood the market with hogs. But, as was reported, nothing happened. Anti-support adherents, never theless, could draw little consola tion from the evident, for farm ders had made it clear vigorous efforts would be made to restore hog price props. SUBMARINES: But Whose? Cloaked with all the color and trappings of mystery and suspense was the report that a naval officer had made instrument contact with “one or more” unidentified sub marines about 17 miles off the Cali fornia coast. OFFICIALLY, the western sea frontier, which ordered the hunt, •reported “results and comment negative.” It added the search had discontinued. JAPAN: Bible vs. Marx Believing that Christianity and the Bible are the dykes that are holding up the flood of communism in Japan, the American Bible So ciety is beginning a campaign to send Bibles to Japan — Bibles printed in the Japanese language. Already the society has dis tributed a total of 2,789,956 Bibles among the Japanese, but it is felt —and this sentiment is shared by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, that isn’t enough. GENERAL MacARTHUR isn’t alone in that opinion. He has asked for millions more. And Dr. Shiro Murata, an officer of the Japan Bible Society, said: “The eyes of Japan are fixed on two books. One is Das Kapital by Karl Marx. The other is the Holy Bible. Japan is at the crossroads.” To usher in its program of Bibles for the Japanese, the American Bible Society this month is spon soring a huge signature book of donors for the purpose of raising funds with which to purchase and send the Bibles. Every person who contributes one dollar or more to the project will be asked to sign the donor book. WHEN the campaign comes to an end, probably this fall, the huge book, bearing the signature of ev ery donor, will be forwarded to Japan where it will be displayed in the offices of the Japan Bible Society as a token of friendship from the people of America to the people of Japan. Adam’s Daughter? Did Adam have a daughter, no mention of whom is in the Bible? Dr. Guido Kisch, noted scholar, has declared that a 900-year-old Latin manuscript claims that Ad am had a daughter whose name was never mentioned in any ver sion of the Old Testament. Dr. Kisch said the manuscript, oldest and most accurate version known as “Biblical Antiquities,” men tioned a daughter named Noaba. SECURITY: A Denial U. S. State Secretary Dean Ache- son branded as falsehoods state ments by Sen. Joseph McCarthy that Owen Lattimore—whom Mc Carthy has called a Soviet agent —was the actual director of Ameri can policy in the Far East. An swering questions at a press con ference, Acheson added that: 1. Lattimore never was em ployed by the state department. 2. He (Acheson) isn’t sure he ever met Lattimore. 3. Lattimore’s contacts with the state department have been limit ed to a few occasions. 4. According to his information, Lattimore never had a desk at the state department. Lattimore, a Far Eastern expert and a professor at John Hopkins university, had reached London from Afghanistan, from whence he was returning to answer •Mc Carthy’s charges. In London, Lat timore branded the McCarthy charges as “unmitigated lies.” McCarthy, meanwhile, was in a hospital after a four-hour senate speech in which he said he would produce a witness who would swear Lattimore was a member of the Communist party. He told the senate he has documents to prove that Lattimore was a Soviet agent who was getting instructions from Moscow as long ago as 1936. Lattimore was most important to McCarthy, for the senator had declared he would rest his entire case of Communist leanings in the state department on the outcome of his charges against Lattimore. And, unless the senator could produce his witness and his docu ments, the case boiled down to one of the senator’s word against that of Acheson and Lattimore, with the public deciding as it pleased about who was right. FLYING DISKS: Navy Says 'No' If there are, or were, any flying saucers whirring through space, the United States navy has nothing to do with them and knows nothing about them. The air force said the same thing. THE SERVICES also denied that they are developing secret planes, guided missiles or anything else that could be mistaken for flying saucers. These denials were issued after two published reports traced the saucers to navy and air force “se cret” projects. An air force spokesman declared that “the armed forces are not do ing anything that could be traced to being the basis of reports of fly ing saucers.” He said the air force position was the same as it was last December when it announced—after investi gating 375 reports of flying saucers — that they were “misinterpreta tions of various conventional ob jects, a mild form of mass hysteria or hoaxes.” In other words “there ain’t no such thing” as a flying saucer. A NAVY SPOKESMAN denied with equal vigor that the navy is developing super-speed planes that have been spotted as “saucers.” Said he: “The navy is not ex perimenting with, or doing research on, any type of plane or guided missile that resembles in any way a flying saucer.” So, that should be that. However, it would be difficult to convince many Americans that there are no flying saucers, and if a troubled citizen, seeking, subconsciously or not, a momentary relief from his woes and burdens, thinks an object in the sky is a flying saucer, no particular harm has been done. In fact it may do him some good. Boy of The Year David Russo, who was se lected “Boy of The Year” of the Boys Clubs of America, holds the plaque awarded him and gets a kiss from his moth er after arriving in Hollywood for a three-day tour of film and radio studios. GERMANY: Crisis Impends According to U. S. German High Commissioner John J. McCloy, a “real crisis” appears inevitable in Germany. McCloy uttered the warning in a talk before a con gress subcommittee. He told a house group that Soviet pressure- is a result of confidence, rather than any “sense of inferiority or fear ofi attack” by western forces. “Hie; Russians feel their strength,” he< said. jrfpRfffw THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. * w mm -v m* m r mmM wm m -* i If mm I ^ 4? vs ' ' v - *'•. Hr «' *?M. §§§ I ' v ■ , .. ■' V, mM '•v.;.. i: : ...v < • . •x-x-.:-:-. a< x-x-x-xx-x-x-x .v.v .vX*. x-. .- x.-.-x-yx- «•>» •*■£. v ' ^ <\V « ? S- x > SURPLUS OF SURPLUS . • . The problem of disposing pt U.S. food surpluses seems to have brought a surplus of bills designed to deal with the surpluses. Miss Lorraine Adamson, of the house agricultural com mittee staff, displays some of the proposed bills. If taped end to end. they measure 20 feet In length. OPPOSE RELEASING LOYALTY FILES . . . Attorney General J. Howard McGrath (left) and Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover testify in the senate loyalty Investigation of Senator McCarthy’s accusations that Communists infiltrate the state department. Both the. attorney general and the director of the F.B.I. voiced opposi tion to release of United States loyalty flies to the senate committee. BONE BANK . . . The U.S. navy has a bone bank, similar to a blood bank, at the naval hospital in Bethesda, Md. Bones are obtained from amputations and operations. Some are kept in whole sections; some are ground. Here, a technician processes a rib for the bank under sterile conditions. The bone will be ground Into small bits and made into bone “patties” for storage. Navy scientists are seeking ways to keep skin alive indefinitely as they can keep bones. A skin bank has already been started. •SsHF v ; x : y+y^y'-^-y: ■>: POWER BEHIND PRINCESS . . . The girl behind Princess Margaret Is first-lady-to-waiting, Jenifer Jane Bevan. She has been described as the “brake” on the princess, the only person, ontside of the princess' parents, who can direct the headstrong Margaret. Although Miss Bevan frequently and diplomatically places restrictions upon Margaret, the flrst-lady-towaiting Is one of the British princess' favorite friends. Her la a close friend of Queen Elisabeth. aSmm mm mm X. im ;>• mm ■ WM ■yy>>i ACCUSED . . . Owen Lattimore. John Hopkins university official, replied to Senator McCarthy's charge that he is a “bad security risk” by labeling it “mere moon shine.” iUffir iMi'ini II FWI wt v FACES TRIAL . . . Jack Jordan, Los Angeles, says he faces trial in Bermuda because of bis refusal to divulge private business trans actions to the Bermuda govern ment. He represents American and British interests in a housing project in Bermuda. JUSTICE RECOVERS . . . Justice William O. Douglas returns to his office at, the supreme court after a 10-month absence. He says he has fully recovered from near-fatal Injuries he suffered when a u«. se he was riding slipped and fell upon him. -.-x | o-S AIR FATALITY . . . Lawrence Steinhardt, United States am bassador to Canada, was killed when a C-47 aircraft on which he was a passenger crashed near Ottawa, Ontario. Four other per sons were killed in the crash which occurred in a dense fog. APPLE QUEEN . . . Marylyle Cunningham, 17, high school senior, has been named to rale over the 31st apple blossom festival of the state of Washington in Wenatchee. The festival, planned for May 4, S, C, attracts 100,Mt. ri*\ Truman Hits Bask P RESIDENT TRUMAN v really poured it on mud-slinging Sen. Joe McCarthy in a long-distance phone conference from his vaca tion headquarters at Key West with congressional leaders in Washington. “What’s wrong with ,that fellow, anyway? ” exploded Truman. “Doesn’t he know that he is doing irreparable harm to his govern ment by all this loose talk?” The President commented that McCarthy's unsupported charges that the state .department is “loaded with pro-Communists” al ready - had seriously undermined the morale, and perhaps the effi ciency, of this vital branch of the government “Think of the great numbers of loyal personnel In the de partment who have given their whole lives to their govern- < ment,” he said, “and think * what McCarthy has done to the spirit of these people. It wouldn't surprise me if many of them were thinking of re signing) They probably figure that they'll be next on Mo- > earthy's v list and they dont want to have their families dragged through such an or deal.” / The effects of McCarthy’s char acter assassination and reckless ran tings were even more damag ing .on U.S. prestige abroad, Tru man emphasized, particularly in western Europe, .where we must keep our heads high in the, cold war with Russia. McCarthy has played right into the hands of Russian propagand ists who are doing everything to sell their satellites and other west ern European countries the idea that the United States is divided against itself, the president de clared. ' He added that McCarthy had made the job of our fdreign diplo mats “doubly difficult,” because they are afraid to be seen talking to anyone who might be accused of pro-Communist leanings in France, Italy and other countries, even in the course of their duties. As a result, the President said, our embassies and legations in some countries had become “vir tually isolated” and our foreign- servieg personnel in thdse places seriously demoralized. Inside Facts Things most people dont know about alleged “Commies” in gov ernment: Chairman of the state department’s loyalty review board charged with weeding out Commu nists is a Republican—Gen. Con rad Snow of NeW Hampshire. He was appointed on the recommenda tion of GOP Sen. Styles Bridges, a backstage brain-truster for Sen ator McCarthy’s attacks . . . Chair man of tpe top loyalty review board is also a republican, Seth Richardson, who served under Hoover. Most of the lawyers under him are also Republican. Neither Truman nor anyone else can overrale them .. . only the courts . . . Actually, Ache son has fired more state de partment employees than any other secretary of state . . . McCarthy's attacks have been almost as vitriolic as Mos cow's. Here is its latest dia tribe against Acheson, “This Fascist-like diplomat ... a truly incorrigible liar . . swind ler ... a hired lackey of the instigators of war who spent his scanty brains to belie truth, freedom and peace . * . Ache- son’s true mastert are the banks and concerns who dream of looting the globe.” . . . Acheson's family is wor ried over his terrific strain. He is wondering whether he has not beebme a liability, that for the good of U.S. foreign policy he should resign . . . Writes another secretary of state, Henry L. Stim- son, in the Hoover cabinet, about Senator McCarthy: “The man who seeks to gain political advantage from personal attack on a secre tary of state is a man who seeks political advantage from damage to his country. “Flying Saucers” Harassed over flying saucers, the air force now refers queries to the first chapter of the phophet Ezekiel who saw a living wheel in the heavens. Airmen are not argu ing with Ezekiel and cast no doubt upon what he s,aw. But they do cast doubt on .modern prophets. They say they have tracked down every flying-saucer report, and there ain’t no such animaL The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, slightly gleeful at pres idential seasickness, remind him: “Mr. President, modern stream liners, manned by competent union crews, run daily between .Wash ington and Florida. And no little brown pills are required.” Two great Bible fans are fight ing for the Republican senatorial nomination in NeuT Hampshire. Sen. Charles Tobey and challenger Wes Powell are doing their best to outquote each other . . . Bradley Nash has written a book on Her bert Hoover’s reforms. DEPARTMEN BUSINESS A INVEST CP FOR- B 49.50 puta ym la Popeoro. o* iow Cone Business. No postcards. Few cere SepRly, Bos 83S. Atfsats. Os- AUTOMATIC LAUNDRY IS BENDIX MACHINES FULLY EQUIPPED $9500 Only Automatic Laundry in VENICE—IS . U.I., So U .h .< Sjr«o<i For D.UU— VENICE. FLA.. Bes 174. Phone t«74. the delicious of Fla. DISTRIBUTION te sell ^ drink apple Jack. In the state l apple All territories open. Act quick to get yous choice territory. Call Lucas Ci<ar Btere. tnd. Ave.. Miami. Pla. HELP WANTED—MEN PHARMACIST—Florida registered, to* Tallahassee store. Answer Bennett Drat Stereo, ISIS.Elder BL. Jaa. Florida. HELP WANTED—WOMEN TEACHERS needed next session ~fox grades, high schools, specials, colleges. Good salanes for well-qualified teachers. Elections begin early. EnrohiftMit free. Write now for, registration blanks. Ga» Teachers' Af easy, P. O. Bex «91. sOeala, Fla. LIVESTOCK TWO CATTLE SALES WEi TUESDAYS AND THURSDi RAGSDALE-LAWHON COMMISSION CO. NATIONAL STOCK YARDS, ATLANTA MACHINERY A SUPPLIES - ; OPEN time on aew qailtlng machines for quilting plastic or other materials. Ch "“"" I’JSS. Cr-I 118 E. Waerh St.. original excess stock of these freezers ar .00 Careliaa. MISCELLANEOUS 1 BOILER—72x18. 1 boiler 68X16. 1 (CORLISS) 16x30. 1 slide valve, engine. 14x20. Vesta Miller, 8) Alabama. JUMBO PRINTS Films work, feseional Made from_ «. Sc e your or Negatives, Se each. Guarj Fast service. TEX A PAL*I «1 Film Finishers. Dabaque. ANTIQUES Original beauty & charm.’ a! LAMPS pou.hinT ade to order Worn you» IS all metals. AMERICAN Park Ave.. St. Leals4. : w Reasonable prices. All work gua ill SUver Plating Service, POULTRY. CHICKS ft EQUIP SPECIAL \sale,' broiler meat chicks from Pullo rum-tested flocks S3.90—100. AAA 100 assorted. Red Rocks, Crosses, heavy and light $4.90—100. C.O.D. F.O.B. Super Chicks. Bernard Merrle, General De- livery. Savannah. Ga.> ■ SEEPS, PLANTS. ETC. SOUTH’S Finest Lawn Grass! 5 Matrella 65.00 a block. 9 Sq. feet. r ide 94.00 bushel. Kings Nnrsery. Drawer 14S1, Aabarn. Ala. jjawM _ v WANTED TO BUY OLD TIME Oar wanted—A Ford A ing (clean), or unusual later car as Sttitz, etc. Whaf do you haVef ’ S rlce. description, etc. E. Ef a H A V. v. , LACOK, i , CbV.* JK«e Inena- Vista, Tallahassee, Fieri By Reading the Ads “HURRY PA1 I’VE FOUND ’EMn’* Think of It—Grandma Used ““ “ r ’Liver was Ac m- xxx i ■ 1 When Her ’jurver was Acimg up- Bhe thought there was. NOTHING ' QUITE LIKE ’EM It— “You'll Like Them Too” LANES ARE THE BEST • x OLIN EH r u vi jn.i v BSli ■B deVelop ANY SIZI (* m •) (XT. kOU MM Mvnoren • mossy mhnts (m* VaJuobU Pr*mi*msG*m ar asms nomas roe u \TACM RABB/T C 3RAR.TAMQ UR.G S.C* EBB MIIBI ACBES All PAIIS 6V RHEUMATISM NEURITIS-LU * CABTIBB: SSI 6IIT AS BIMCTIB ♦ O HI MM MM mill a. IT Nlfl ee rataif t al prtet j BeBIH Bill Ml. Isa. JACBSBBHU1 4, TIBI WNU- 16—50 SLEEP WON’T COME AND YOU FEEL 0LUM Try This Delicious Chewing-Gum Laxative • Wfcea yee reB amd toes all atqbt—feat baadaehy and Just awful because you used A laxative—do this... Qbew me-A-Marr—delicious chewing- gum laxative. The action of vxxN-A-isnr*** ■norlsl nfiniiniw “nsrouss” the stomach. Thai is. It doesn’t act while in the stom ach. but only when farther along in tba lower digestive tract... where you want IS to act. You feel One again quickly l And scientists say chewing mafcps swm-A-acxMT's Aim medicine more effec tive-“readies” u so It flows gently into the system. Get rsmt-A-MiMT at any fg)^ drug counter—25#. 50# or only..... 10 V E feen-a-mint to anmnd-fliHS layattvc ami