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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET ragedy of the Couple Watching the Carousel tgan When the Nazis Caught Them in Vienna By BILLY ROSE Some of the sprightliest talk to be heard in Manhattan these | bights is in the coffeehouses frequented by the talented and thread bare refuges of Mittel-Europa. Night after loquacious night, you’ll find them huddled over red - and - white checked tablecloths, and jh many a cultural door has been slammed in their faces, they remain a spirited and sociable lot, short on money, perhaps, but long on banter and bravado. Most of the stories spun by these continental katzenjammers are on the comic side; yet, once in a while they come up with a yarn which leaves a ping-pong ball in your throat For instance, there’s the tale about the old gentleman and his greying wife who, during the sum mer months, can be seen almost •vary day on the carousel near the Central park zoo, bolding hands as their adjoining ponies pump up and down, t Who are they? Well. to tell you. I’ll have to go back several years and several thousand miles. Shortly after Billy Rose the Nazis goose- atepped into Vienna and decency Went underground, a well-known surgeon and his wife, both of frowned-upon ancestry, were urged by friends to take their six-year- aid son and leave the country. The surgeon refused. “I’m need ed at the hospital,” he said, “and I intend to stay as long as I can be of use.” His usefulness, however, came i to as enJ a few afternoons later when a detachment of SS men rang his doorbell. The doctor, who had been warned to expect them, led his wife and son out the rear door, but as they hurried up the street a neighbor spotted them and gave the alarm. As the hunted trio turned a cor ner, they came upon a small ca rousel which had been set up in a public square to celebrate the ar rival of the German “liberators,” and thinking fast, the surgeon bought three tickets and climbed aboard with his family as the bat tered runabout started up. The child was placed astride a gaudy zebra while the parents sank way back in one of those chairs whose outsides made a swan. The SS men searched the square and were about to move on when the boy, to whom it was all a game, reached out, and grabbed a brass ring and, turning to his parents, shouted, “Look, look! Now I get a free ride!” Attracted by the boy’s cries, the storm troopers dragged the doctor and his wife from the carousel and were about to take the child when their leader, a youth with a hang man’s sense of humor, stopped them. “The kid got the brass ring,” he said. “He’s entitled to a free ride.” As the carousel started up again, the tinny strains of "Chiri- biri-bim” drowned out the mother's screams, and the last the couple saw of their son he was riding on the merry-go-round. The surgeon was too valuable a commodity to kill right off, and so was his wife, a skilled nurse. They were sent to a slave labor camp to tend those prisoners considered too healthy for the ovens, and when the Allies marched into the camp in 1945, the couple were still alive. By this time, however, the surgeon’s brain was a bit misty, but friends in New York paid his passage, and he and his wife were among the lucky ones who got by the immigra tion quota. Ever since, the pair has been spending most of their summer days in the vicinity of the Central park carousel. The old boy is pretty much off his trolley, but his wife continues to humor him, and when ever he gets agitated and mutters, “Where’s Otto? I saw him on the zebra a minute ago,” she patiently takes him by the hand and says, “Come along, dear, maybe he got tired and went home.” \ E^SCRE By INEZ GERHARD T WO YEARS AGO Frances Gif ford’s movie career looked fine; she had been in about a dozen pic tures, with increasingly important roles. Then, at the height of the New Year’s festivities, she was in an automobile accident. She spent THE FICTION CORNER PERPLEXING RIDDLE By Richard H. Wilkinson FRANCES GIFFORD Agonizing months in bed, never sure whether she would ever face a camera again. Complete recovery finally came, plastic surgery re stored her beauty, and she has returned to the screen in Para mount’s “Riding High”, opposite Bing Crosby. Ahead lies the success she deserves. M Riding High”, a Frank Capra production, is one of Crosby’s best. It is a race track story, with Bing starred as a broken-down vaga bond, owner of one horse and no money. There is a nice little love story, there are new songs and old ones, and a fine cast, which in cludes Coleen Gray, William Demarest, Jimmy Gleason, Gene Lockhart, Charles Bickford and Oliver Hardy. Jean Simmons seems to be in Heed of good advice. She was to iuave had the lead in “Quo Vadis”, but when she demanded a huge salary and Stewart Granger for her leading man, M-G-M decided that She wanted too much. With Robert Taylor slated for the male starring role, they had originally wanted Elizabeth Taylor to play opposite ;him, so once more they tried to '^jursuade her. f Sammy Kaye is recording a series of 14 radio shows to step «p the United States navy re cruiting program. The series will be heard on 1,500 radio stations throughout the country, starting In July. George Hicks does the announcing. Following the appearance of his article, “Be Kind to Bachelors,” Ben Grauer reports the receipt of letters from all parts of the coun try applauding his stand on bach- \ elordom. More than 60 per cent 'are from women. Ben’s a most eligible bachelor. George Fisher has joined the ranks of radio commentators who have become movie actors. Fisher, whose “Hollywood Whispers” CBS Show is one of the West coast’s most popular daily programs, also conducts ''Confidential Closeups” over NBC Saturdays. He will make his movie debut in E. A. Dupont’s 'The Dungeon,” co-starring John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge and Emlyn Williams. L T. JEFF BOYNTON of the Union army’s Company E, second regiment, Massachusetts volun teers, wore a look of utter dejec tion as he entered headquarters tent, nodded wearily to Capt. Finn Lacey and slumped onto a stool. The captain stopped writing, leaned back in his chair. “She wouldn’t talk, eh?” “No, she wouldn’t talk,” Boyn ton answered. He stretched his long legs out in 3 front of him and • Minute studied the worn Fietion toe of his boot. “Maybe she’s not a spy after all,” Lacey hazarded. Boynton’s blue eyes flashed as he jerked up his head. “Yes, she is! I’m sure of it.” Lacey . shrugged and gestured with his cigar. “If you’re so sure, we’ll hold a court-martial and—” “No!” Boynton was on his feet. “Don’t do that, sir. We haven’t enough evidence to convict. It will mean she’ll go free and we’ll lose our one chance of stopping the leak. In formation is getting through somehow. Alice Struthers is responsible. We must learn her methods.” “How?” How? That was the question that had driven Lt. Boynton nearly to distraction, had caused him the loss of sleep and wearied his brain from thinking. A week ago, basing the act on the slimmest of reasons, he had had Alice Struthers ar- One day while going through the relics of long-ago battles, he came upon a letter. rested, to be held for questioning regarding the leakage of informa tion to Confederate Gen. Johnson. “You can’t hold her forever with out a trial, Boynton,” the older man pointed out after another week had passed in which the lieu tenant had failed completely in his efforts to unearth some grain of evidence. “Miss Struthers is pop ular among the officers. Some swear they have known her for years and will vouch for her loyal ty to the Union.” “Which makes it all the more likely she would succeed as a spy. I happen to know that all of Miss Struthers* maternal ancestors came from Georgia. She herself spent a good part of her girlhood in Savannah.” Idly he fingered a package of letters that he brought in with him. “I’m convinced that in these let ters the girl is sending out the in formation. How, I don’t know. Cer tainly she is using no code. I have checked every letter a dozen times. Purposely I have permitted each to be mailed. Events immediately following convince me that some how those letters are the means of conveying the information.” C APT. LACEY picked up the let ters and read them briefly. They contained nothing to excite suspicion—mere messages of love and devotion to friends in the South. Lacey suddenly pounded the table. “By George, Boynton, I be lieve I have it! Obviously some thing has to be done, and I’m more than half convinced—though heav en knows why—that your suspicions are well founded.” “So?” “So we’ll deport her. Turn her over to the Confederate army. If that stops the leakage we’ll know she was the guilty party, and there will no longer be danger of its continuance.” “And it will mean Alice Struth ers’ complete freedom.” Two days later prisoner Alice Struthers was turned over to Con federate Gen. Johnson under a flag of truce. But it wasn’t until after the war had ended that he found the an swer to the riddle. One day while going through his relics of long ago battles he came upon a letter. It was one that Alice Struthers had written to her friends in the South, and which he had kept for a sou venir. The paper was yellow, the ink faded. The postage stamp had dried and was hanging by a mere thread. As he looked at it, Lt. Boyn ton’s eyes grew wide. For beneath the stamp were some closely writ ten, finely penned words, obviously the cipher employed by Alice Struthers which he had tried so hard to locate. SAFE . . ..Leo Battershell has set what probably is a world’s record by driving 1,098,375 miles during the past nine years with out a single accident—not so much as a scratched fender. He is a member of the protec tion department of the western Cartridge company at East Alton, 111. This Is Your Paper Printing News Is a Duty By William R. Nelson M ANY readers of newspapers are mistakenly reluctant to report newsworthy events about which only they know the facts. To some it apparently is embarrassing to tell the paper about social affairs in their homes, visitors, informa tion received in letters, or other equally newsworthy items. Telling the paper about news, whatever its nature, whether large or small in importance, should hot cause embarrassment, and will not if rightly regarded. In fact, giving news to the home town newspaper might better be looked upon as a social and civic duty one owes to the community. Certainly the news paper will receive it in that way. Newspape r s Must Rely cannot afford on to mai n tain News Tips staffs large enough to ac tually hunt out every news item they publish. All must and do rely upon voluntarily supplied news tips and items for a large part of the news they publish. But there is another way to look, at it that is equally important. Whenever you invite guests into your home you are honoring them. When they accept they are honor ing you. To acquaint the community with such incidents is a gracious action which your guests and the community will fully approve. Even information received in let ters, excepting of course the confi dential and purely personal, is nefrs if the writer is known by others. On those oc- Community casions when Is sickness, acci- Interested dents, or other personal trou bles occur, the community will want to know about them so it can re spond accordingly. To neglect or refuse to give such information de prives your neighbors and other friends of opportunity to show their interest and friendship. One of the main reasons why people like to live in smaller com munities is the greater number of friends they make. One of the surest ways to make friends is by giving news to the home town newspaper. Next time you entertain, have guests, receive news in a letter, there is illness, or some member of your family experiences disap pointment or success, tell the paper about it If you have never done so before you will be surprised and pleased by the glow of satisfaction its publication will generate. mu PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Fragment 5. Scrutinize 9. Vestige 10. Daises 12. Black bird 13. Percolated 14. A bead of a rosary 15. Leap 16. Lord (abbr.) 17. A short legged, flightless bird 20. A wing 21. Constella tion 22. Particle 23. Rude dwelling 26. Conjecture 27. Ireland (poet.) 28. Merriment 29. Bend the head 30. Kind of fish 34. Tungsten (sym.) 35. Exclamation 36. Cuckoo 37. Glacial ridge 39. An amah 41. More infrequent 42. Fragrant wood (E. I.) 43. Wife of a baronet 44. Flat- bottomed boat DOWN 1. Long for LAST WEEK'S ANSWER ^ 2. Harbor 18. 3. Congealed 19. water 4. Enclosure 20. 5. Eating 22. utensil 6. Cage 7. Cutting tool 23. 8. Alloys of 24. sulphur, with silver, etc. 9. Snare 25. 11. A famous 26. social 28. worker 30. 15. Crested hawk- 31. parrot 32. Win Receptacle for flowers Devoured One’s father’s sister Middle State of being aroused Offer Firearm Girl’s name Transport over a river Man’s name Insert BDUDO □□□□□ □□a □□□ H |e 6| T|Q|U rpiv E MA[t|e N □ □ □□□ □□□ DDOE3QE CJQC!D □□□□ □□□ □□ DO □□EE 33. Falsehoods 35. Notica 38. Isthmus, SE Asia 39. Short sleep 40. Eskimo tool No. 49 MIRROR Of Your MIND ^ U Success Breeds Envy, Resentment By Lawrence Gould 'i'A Are successful people apt to forget old friends? Answer: I have, seen this hap pen, but what is more likely to break the old ties is the discom fort both sides feel at recognizing the almost inevitable envy and resentment of the less successful person. When a stranger becomes rich and famous, you can always tell yourself it was because he had a better chance in life than you did. But the more like yourself you know the successful fellow once was, the harder it is to find an excuse for your not having done what he did. And the more Inferior this makes you feel, the ’■nore you hate him. Are there times when most of us are insane? Answer: Technically, yes, though fhe “insanity” cures itself auto matically and is nothing to worry about. For dreams are “hallucina tions,” and the only difference be tween them and other delusions is that we recognize that they are un real when we wake up. Your dream world — and mine — are like the “private worlds” that in sane people live in, in that every thing that happens in them is the product of our fears or wishes, or both. Neither logic nor awareness of reality limits the painful or de lightful situations dreams can create. Should you let a child “do as he pleases”? Answer: It’s a good idea pro vided that he fully understands what the results will be and is willing to accept them. Liz Baker in Baby Post tells how her five- year-old daughter wanted to wear hpr new party dress out to play. The child assumed \that if she got the dress tom or soiled. Mother would mend and wash it. But once she was convinced that this would not happen and that doing as she pleased might mean her going to a party ragged and bedraggled, ahe changed to her play clothes of her own accord. She’d begun to grow up. A YOUNG MOHAMMEDAN WHO HAD EMBRACED CHRISTIANITY GAVE THIS REASON : 'CMR/STIANITY doesnt HAVE MUCH in theology that mohammeoanism doesnt have, there IS JUST ONE THING CHR/STIA N<TV HAS THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE, NOR ANYTHING LIKE IT JESUS CHRIST.* KEEPING HEALTHY | Asthma May Be Caused by Emotions By Dr. James S OME YEARS AGO research physicians in allergy found that emotional distrubances caused or aggravated attacks of asthma. While we are all familiar with the effects of emotional disturbances on the heart, stomach, lungs and in testine, that they could cause asth matic attacks was hard to under stand. It was hard to understand how allergy to various substances and also nose and throat defects could cause asthma. In “The Canadian Medical Asso ciation Journal,” Dr. H. K. Det- weiler, department of medicine, University of Toronto and Toronto Western hospital, states that psysi- cians must keep in mind the psycho somatic (mind and body point of view, which is that the mind ap pears as one of the several factors which produce the condition to be cured. “It is recognized by all good clini cians that the physician who at tempts to treat a patient suffering from ulcer with diet and alkalis, arid who pays no attention to the deri- mental effects of worries and con- W. Barton flicts in home, office or factory, the financial or sociological problems of the family and the effects of fatigue and chronic illness upon the pa tient’s powers of resistance, will achieve little.” While an allergy may be the underlying cause of asthmatic at tacks, Dr. Detweiler states that if a careful history is taken it will be found that in most cases the nervous make-up of the pa tient is such as to predispose him to respond in the usual manner to his underlying allergy and actual ly intensify the asthmatic attacks started by the absorption of ike allergic substance. This history will include inquiry into heredity, childhood neurosis, sensitivity to emotional factors and specific behavior under stress and sixain. 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