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i w ¥ WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Plane Incident Heats Up Cold War; German Rearmament Pleas Spread; Court Upholds Georgia Vote System (EDITOR'S NOTE: When eptnlona are expressed in these eolnmns, they are those ef Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newsnaoer.) COLD WAR: Heating Up > Russia had heated up the Cold iwar. A United States air force navy Privateer had disappeared after a flight in which it was reported to fhave flown over Russian territory. 'Hie Russians claimed the plane had fired upon a Russian aircraft, and 'then had disappeared over the Baltic sea. A WIDESPREAD HUNT by Amer- jican officials was launched for the missing plane. Erroneous reports had it that life rafts from the plane had been found. The first reported rafts turned out to be only fishing boxes. But later, a life raft was picked up and air force officials indicated a conviction it came from the missing plane, which had 10 crew members aboard. A British ship under com mand of Captain J. Henderson re ported finding the raft and said it was partly collapsed. The air-supply bottle was exhausted and supply pockets were open and empty. There were no signs of life and na messages were found. Had the Soviets shot down the plane, or so crippled it by gunfire that it crashed in the Baltic? That was the big question. Bigger yet was the question: “What would the United States do if it were developed that the plane was a victim of Rus sian gunfire? THOSE were questions that would have to wait, however, until the an- j swer to what had actually happened ■ to the plane had been cleared up— 'if it ever could be cleared up. Meanwhile, American tempers grew a little shorter with Russian tactics and there was no denying that the Cold War had taken on a degree or so more heat. GEORGIA: <Unit Vote Stays The county-unit vote determina tion system is unique in the United States because only two states use it. It is unique, too, in that it is found acceptable by city populations in these states, when its use gives votes in some rural counties up to 122 times more weight than those in city areas. But, the U.S. supreme court has I »aid the system is all right. In a 7 j to 2 decision it refused to strike idown the county-unit vote in Geor- > gia. Maryland is the only other state employing this system. JUSTICE BLACK and Douglas protested bitterly against the ma jority opinion, which was brief and ’nasigned. These two members of the court declared the action failed jto plug what they called the last loopholes in the court’s decision which gives Negroes the right to Vote. The majority opinion said that I federal courts have no right to in terfere with the way a state geo graphically apportions voting strength. It made no mention of any racial issue the dissenters saw in the case. Two Georgia voters attacked the Starts Sixth Year Harry S. Truman, looking trim and fit, has started his sixth year as President of the United States. The Chief Ex ecutive, 66 on May 8th, rounded out his fifth year with a renewed determination to win the “cold war’* with Soviet Russia. existing law. Under the system, each | of Georgia’s 159 counties is alloted ja number of unit votes, ranging (from six for the eight most-populous ; counties down to two for most of the counties. THE CANDIDATE who receives ; the most popular votes in a county is awarded all its unit votes. The j system, in that respect, works ! something like the electoral col- ilege. ROYALTY: Tough Going Everyone has known for a long time that with the exception of Eng land, royalty has been having a tough time. With the changing times have gone royal privilege and pomp but, chiefly regretful to royalty, the cash, too, has gone. LATEST to join the ranks of im poverished noblemen was a German duke, Ernst August, of Coumebr- land and Brunswick, father of a queen and cousin of a king. Duke Ernst was really up against it. He was so badly off, financial ly, that he had to sell treasured antiques just to pay his grocery bills. Rare old relics of his family’s medieval splendor were to go under the auctioneer's hammer. Said the duke, philosophically, **Ot course, I’m sorry to part with these things, but it just can’t be helped.’’ The duke was down to his last two castles—and one of them is a war ruin. GERMANY: A Repetition? Any mention of rearming Ger many makes cold chills run down the backs of those who remember how a beaten, dismantled Reich was permitted to come back and plunge the world into the most dev astating conflict it had ever known. THREE TIMES in the past 80 years, German war machines have struck swiftly and ruthlessly at the peace of the world. Had the Ger manic hordes ever won a world con flict, something of what the van quished might have expected is pro vided in the terms laid down by these conquerors of the French in 1870, when German troops stayed on French soil until every penny of reparations demanded was paid. How the individual may have fared under the Teuton heel was re- voltingly demonstrated by Hitler and his sadistic Nazis. Now, all the great talk, the board planning, the global thinking is merging into one resounding chorus: “Rearm Germany!” Joining this chorus was General Jacob L. Devers, retired chief of U.S. army field forces, who said in an address in Louisville, Ky., that western Germans “Would like to fight for us, under American offi cers, against the Russians,” if war should come, and he added “They can fight like Hell!” NO ONE disputes that. But re cent history is too grim for such proposals to be received with gen eral equanimity. Too many people of the world will remember that it was that very fear of possible Rus sian attack which led France and England to sit by with folded hands while Hitler flouted the Versailles treaty and served notice on the world that he was going to rearm Germany. “Let him go,” seemed to be the whispered desire, “he’ll serve as an excellent buffer against the Russians.” So Chamberlain went to Berches- gaden writh his folded umbrella and came back hugging to his breast the miserable pledge of the Austrian madman of “peace in our time.” The world had a horrible taste of that kind of “peace.” To rearm Germany creates a fearful possi bility that the dose may be re» peated. STRIKE THREAT: Old Issue Flares TV FOOTBALL: One Show Over Football fans who have been fol lowing Big Ten football via tele vision screen, will find that this fall the show’s over. They’D have to go out to the stadium now, instead of sitting cozily at home and following the play. Big Ten athletic directors, meet ing in Chicago, voted to ban Uve 'television of their schools’ football <gmmes for this season. The action tmay cost the conference $200,000. Two big railway unions were ready to “review the whole case” of their Diesel-engine dispute with the nation’s railroads. If the re sults weren’t satisfactory to the brotherhoods, the country faced a major strike threat. The argument was two years old and was easy to state. The unions felt that the adoption of Diesel- powered locomotives discriminat ed against manpower and insisted that an extra man be put on these locomotives, whether there was any need for him or not. The railroads, on the other hand, have refused to do this. Union leaders refused to discuss just how imminent a strike might be or when and in what matter it might be called. Instead, they indi cated a review of the situation. The union was in a highly stra tegic position. It was free to strike at any time, inasmuch as aU “cooling off provisions of the railway labor act have been ex hausted. Thunderjef The air force’s Republic “Thun- derjet” was reaching out farther and farther to deal death and con fusion to any potential U.S. enemy. The air force reported that the F-843’s range has been increased to where It can carry out most types of missions more than 1,000 miles from base. The increased operation radi us is available for straffing mis sions, bomber escort and hunting enemy fighters. CHINA: Cry for Help As has been the case since the dawn of history, it is the innocents who seem to suffer most in intern ecine strife. China is no exception. In that country of vast population and so frequently too little food, many Chinese are starving. A nat urally difficult struggle for exist ence has been intensified by Chi na’s civil war in which the Conv munists emerged victorious. NOW there is a cry for help. A Chinese Nationalist group has ap pealed to American labor, as an organization, to help combat fa mine in Communist China. But with their usual skill in that de partment, the Reds have managed to confuse world opinion on the sit uation. The Communist regime has done a good job of beclouding what al most all non-Communist sources say is one of the worst famines in China’s history. The Reds have ad mitted that the situation is critical, saying some 16 million people were affected. Private letters filtering from Red-held China indicated the number was 53 million. The Chinese Nationalists and western relief agencies and re ligious organizations have been seeking some means to help the starving, hence the appeal to American labor for help. AN EASILY understandable ob stacle, of course, was the uncer tainty as to final disposition of any aid that might be forthcoming. Borne assurances would have to be made that relief goods went to those for whom supplies were in tended. Who could give that as surance? Hie Chinese Commu nists? Yes, there was a way. If the Reds would agree to give safe conduct to relief missions into the area, perhaps the job of staving off starvation by death for thou sands might be successfuUy com pleted. But, barring some such procedure, the outlook was dim in deed. GAMBLING: Up to Congress Congress itself may hold the key to solution of the nation’s gam bling problem and existence of the gambling “syndicates.” That, at Least, is the opinion of Senator Ed win C. Johnson, Colorado Demo crat, who has urged congress to pass an anti-slot-machine bill im mediately. Johnson believes that should be done before beginning a aation-wide crime investigation. THE SENATOR happens to be on good solid ground, because it is partly through federal winking at slot-machines that the individual states have so much trouble cop ing with the “one-armed bandits.” The federal government licenses slot-machines, despite the fact that In the vast majority of states their use and operation are illegal. If the federal government slapped a ban on the machines, as it has on nar cotics, white-slave traffic and oth er morals offenses, the state would find it far easier to deal with the slot-machine problem. THE BILL envisioned by John son would outlaw manufacture of gaming devices in states where they are prohibited and forbid their shipment into such states. It would not apply, however, to states where slot-machine operation has been made legal by legislative act. Johnson explained his ideas on the subject as indications pointed to a fight on the senate floor on the question of who would get the job of inquiring into the nation’s crime. Johnson’s biU already is through the commerce committee, where it was approved without hearings. Whether it would win congress approval might rest on the politic* 'nvolved. Free Man Barnard J. Smith, Jr., 24, of Fair Haven, Vt., thumps his chest and takes a deep breath of snow-filled air upon his release from jail after taking the poor- debtor’s oath. His case attracted national attention because of the prevalent bnt obviously errone ous opinion that no one can be jailed for debt In this country. Smith was jailed for failure to satisfy a $2,500 judgment. CENSUS: 40 in 1,000 If one should have a friend oi acquaintance with whom he is out of contact, and whose whereabouts are unknown, the odds are one-in- 25 that he, or she, is on some kind of public payroU. That’s what the U.S. census bureau reports. Fed eral, state and local governments, the report stated, has a total of 6,204,000 workers drawing a record- high monthly total of one biHlen, 406 million dollars. THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. SAVINGS BY THE BELL . . . Lois McCullough, daughter of the curator at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, unveils the first of 52 replicas of the Liberty Bell at a ceremony in Washington. Symbol of the U. S. savings bonds independence drive. May 15-July 4, the replicas wiU be displayed in every state during the drive. OUT OF THE FIRE INTO THE FLOOD ... An unidentified and struggling man braves a current of water on New York’s Woolworth building 12th floor during a spectacular blaze in one of the city’s tall est buildings. The blaze gained enough headway to sweep the entire 23rd floor with the result that water used to combat it inflicted heavy damage upon floors below the 28rd. New York firemen from several fire stations battled for more than an hour to bring the fire under control. No lives were lost and no one was reported seriously injured. WHAT’S ON THE CALENDAR? . . . Dave Heckle, Litchfield, Ariz., in Phoenix for the annual reunion of the Arizona pioneer’s association, gets a wee-bit excited about an up-to-date calendar girl. Heckle joined 1,200 other residents in a big two-day meeting that included a giant barbecue and dance. All members of the association arrived in Ari zona as early as 1890, 22 years before Arizona was admitted to state hood. A BULLION FOR EACH YEAR Nine-year-old William Thornton White in, shown with sister Gay, 11, became sole heir to a nine-mil- lion-dollar estate when the will of his grandmother, Mrs. Katherine Brown Irvine, 64, was filed in Marlines, Calif. The lad’s father, Wil liam Thornton White, Jr., was named executor of the estate Which Includes extensive holdings in California and Montana. A friend of lbs family describes the boy as brown-haired, blue-eyed, lively. SHOT TO DEATH . . . Gunfire ended the political career of Boss Charles Blnaggio in north side Kansas City recently. Slain with him was his top “muscle-man” Charles Gargotta. They were killed In the first district Demo cratic club rooms. PITS FEDERAL OFFICIALS . . . Mayor Elmer E. Robinson, San Francisco, testifies before the joint congressional atomic com mittee that federal officials are “fumbling civilian defense” while mystery subs cruise off our coast. ON LEOPOLD’S SIDE . . . King Leopold’s friend. Dr. Paul van Zeeland, was nominated by the regent. Prince Charles, to form a new Belgian government, setting in motion machinery that the king’s supporters expect to bring the monarch back from exile. RED-CONTROL . . . Thomas Har ris, assistant general counsel for the C.I.O., tells un-American ac tivities committee that commu nism can be and is being success fully combatted in the U.S. with out recourse to measures like the Mundt-Nixon-Ferguson bill. HELP! ... An embarrassed man sits at an open hatch of the S. 8. Exeter sailing from New York harbor. Ho was saying “boa- voyage” to a friend and forgot to get off at sailing time. A tog finally took him back to share. Backstagd Interests ■ig’O MATTER which side of the McCarthy - state department dispute you are on, it’s important to know some of the factors behind the energetic senator from Wiscon sin. Supported by a conglomeration of backstage interests, including one or two government figures, here is a roll call of 'the men who are giving him ammunition: 1. THE KUOMINTANG LOBBY— It has millions to spend, once hired Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, includes the powerful brothers-in- law of Chiang Kai-shek, Dr. H. H. and T. V. Soong. More about this lobby later. 2. WILLIAM J. GOODWIN—A former Coughlinite and Christian Fronter, he is paid $25,000 annually by the Kuomintang lobby, wines and dines congressmen, deluges editors with propaganda on China. 8. EX-CONGRESSMAN KERSTEN OF WISCONSIN — Defeated for re- election, Kersten is McCarthy’s chief backstage sleuth. For a time he occupied room 316 in the Con gressional hotel, where he placed so many phone calls it attracted the attention of hotel employees. The hotel bills were paid not by Ker sten, but by McCarthy. Newspaper Friends 4. NEWSPAPER CHAINS — Two newsmen formerly with big chain papers are attached to McCarthy to write speeches and statements. That’s why his statements make good news copy, usually hit the headlines. One newsman is George Watters, formerly with the Chicago Tribune group. The Scripps-Howard chain also gives its blessing. None of these men appears on McCarthy’s senate payroll, nor do the four ex- FBI men he once hired. So someone else must be footing the bill. 5. ALFRED KOHLBERG — Big importer of lace hankies, does a business of $1,506,000 a year with China, and admits he finances his American China Policy association —a pressure association—partly out of that business. Kohlberg is close to the Kuomintang lobby, hates Owen Lattimore and belives any one not a rabble-rousing anti-Red is automaticaDy a Communist. Chinese Money Of these backstage McCarthy helpers, most powerful is the Kuomintang or Chiang Kai-shek lobby, financed by U.S. taxpayers money supposed to have gone to China for relief. A treasury depart ment survey of foreign funds two years ago indicated that about 200 million dollars of this money was now in the United States, but offi cials estimate it has doubled since then, due to the exit of Nationalist funds from China before the Com munists took over. This maybe, explains part of Mc Carthy’s financial backing. Working in friendly coopera tion with the Kuomintang lobby in this country has been ex- Ambassador William C. Bullitt, Gen. Claire Chennault, ex-Sen. Worth Clark of Idaho, Alfred Kohlberg, and Senators Bridges of New Hampshire and Know- land of California. One of the lobby’s neat byplays was sending ex-Senator Clark to China in 1948 to make a supposed ly impartial survey and then rec ommend more U.S. money for Chiang. Here are significant facts behind the byplay: Kohlberg. gave a $1,000 campaign contribution to popular Sen. Styles Bridges, then chairman of the senate appropriations com mittee. Bridges appointed Clark to go to China and make an impartial survey. ‘Impartial’ Survey Clark, however, was by no means impartial. He had been associated with Tom Corcoran, chief represen tative of Chiang’s brother-in-law, T. V. Soong, and who was paid by the Kuomintang crowd. Clark took with him to China Eddie Lockett, formerly with Time magazine, now a publicity man. Part of their expenses were paid by the Chinese Na tionalists, despite the fact that they were supposed to be work ing for the U.S. senate and American taxpayers. Clark and Lockett came back, vigorously recommended more money for Chiang. Unfortunately, according to Gen. George Marshall and the state department white pa per, much of this and other money sent to Chiang either went into private pockets or went in the form of materiel to the Chinese Commu nists. The Communists did most of their fighting with U.S. munitions. NOTE—Money to Chiang might not have gone down the rathole if Chiang had followed General Mar shall’s earlier advice to bring op posing Chinese leaders into a coal ition cabinet, or if the U.S.A. had sent a small army of military ex perts to virtually reorganize the Chinese army and make sure our munitions were not bought by the Communists. The latter course, however, was resented by Chiang and would have been a superman task for the United States and its military advisers. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT AUTOS., TRUCKS A ACCESS. BUSINESS A INVEST. OPPOR. ENERGETIC dtstrlbntor can build enor mous business with display item for first time in USA. Best sales to small and, me dium aized stores. 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