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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.”
\
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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.
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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
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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.
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Receptacle
for flowers
Devoured
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father’s
sister
Middle
State of
being
aroused
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Firearm
Girl’s name
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No. 49
MIRROR
Of Your
MIND
^ U Success Breeds
Envy, Resentment
By Lawrence Gould
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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.
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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. "Evidences of nervous im
balance such as cold clammy hands
and feet, low blood pressure, ex
cessive sweating, rapid heart beat,
and irregularities of stomach and
intestine processes, are frequently
discovered in the history and physi
cal examination.”
Formerly, trying to get a living
cornea for grafting has been al
most impossible, but this difficulty
has been overcome by the estab
lishment of the eye-bank for sight
restoration. New York City.
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Today, so much more is known
about epilepsy than formerly that
most patients now under treatment
are kept free of attacks.
The reason some are afflicted
with hay fever, urticaria (hives),
frequent head colds and itching of
the skin is that the afflicted ones
have too much histamine in their
systems.
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