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A Maine Joke
E avesdropping is an old fam
ily pastime with "Maine’s Sen.
Owen Brewster who. as this col
umn revealed, tapped the telephone
wires of California airplane man
ufacturer Howard Hughes.
More than three years ago—
February 18, 1947, Senator Brew
ster appeared before a judiciary
subcommittee to oppose the ap
pointment of John Clifford as U.S.
district judge for Maine. The sen
ator explained that Clifford came
to Brewster’s hotel room to discuss
a local housing problem.
"He said he would come up to
my hotel room and see me,"
Brewster continued. “I did some
thing which I have never done be
fore, and I do not think I will ever
do again. We had two rooms at the
hotel, the door open between, and
I asked Mrs. Brewster to listen to
the conversation."
Since then it’s been a standing
Joke in Maine whenever anyone
mentions having a talk with Sen
ator Brewster to ask: "And was
! Mrs. B. standing behind the door?"
Dlofenes’ Lantern
Most congressmen are scrupu-
lously honest about taking grat
uities for introducing legislation for
their constituents—unlike Congress
man Wood of Georgia whose office
collected $1,000 for passing a bill
compensating Ralph Stanfield after
he was crippled by a U.S. army
truck.
For example, when Senator
Sparkman of Alabama was still
a congressman, he introduced a
private bill to compensate a
constituent who also had been
injured by an army truck. The
constituent was so grateful that
he deposited $500 in the bank
in Sparkman’s name and sent
the deposit slip to Sparkman.
This was promptly returned, how
ever, with a courteous note, thank
ing the constituent but asking him
to keep his money.
After Sparkman changed the de
posit back to the constituent’s
name, the bank returned the worth
less deposit slip to Sparkman.
Across it was scribbled: "At last
Diogenes can put down that lan
tern."
s This referred to the Greek philo
sopher who carried a lighted lan
tern around in mid-day, searching
for an honest man.
McCarthy's $10,000
There may be more than meets
the eye behind the $10,000 paid to
Sen. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin
by the now bankrupt Lustron cor
poration for writing a 7,000-word
booklet on housing.
It’s well known that the $10,000
the Lustron people paid McCarthy
was part of the RFC millions
which the government advanced
to Lustron. Thus, in effect, all the
American taxpayers helped to sub
sidize the senator from Wisconsin.
But not generally known is
that McCarthy had done a ter
rific Job for the real estate
lobby prior to receipt of the
fee. Not only had he engaged
in a tenacious, vitriolic battle
against the housing bill—a bat
tle Just as tenacious as his
present row over alleged com
munism in government—but he
also dominated the appoint
ment of a house-senate hons-
tag committee supposed to in
vestigate the need for public
housing.
In the closed-door battle over
the appointment of this committee,
in October, 1947, Senator Tobey of
New Hampshire, chairman of the
banking and currency committee,
turned up with the proxies of four
senators in his pocket. All four
would have voted against Mc
Carthy.
Whereupon McCarthy moved that
the committee refuse to honor prox
ies. Such a refusal is almost unheard
of in congressional committees.
However, McCarthy had a scant ma
jority of the committee with him,
\ and got away with it. He then ob
tained the appointment of New
York’s Congressman Gamble, a foe
of housing, as chairman of the
housing committee, with himself as
vice-chairman. It was as vice-chair
man that McCarthy spent the tax
payers' money to tour the country
studying housing, and later cashed
in cm that trip by getting $10,000
from the Lustron Corporation.
Though McCarthy now states he
sold his article to the highest bidder,
actually, according to Lustron offi
cials, McCarthy pleaded for more
dough.
His Income tax for 1948 may
show the reason why. As filed
In the state of Wisconsin, Mc
Carthy’s tax return shows his
total income was $28,947, in
cluding his senate salary of $12,-
1 M0 plus the $10,000 from Lus
tron, plus $4,535 hi dividends
from the Milwaukee and the
Central of Georgia railroads.
However, McCarthy also lists
losses to the tune of $25,-
881 .which he claimed from the
sale of securities of the same
. railroads.
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Cold War Flames Into Hot War
On Korea Front; U.N. Condemns
Invasion by Communist Forces
(EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these eolnmns, they are thoso of
Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not neeessarily of this newspaper.)
KOREA:
A Hot War
The cold war, which has caused
one crisis after another in recent
months, had flamed into a hot war
on one front. Soviet sponsored arm
ies of North Korea invaded South
Korea, established by the United
Nations with the blessing and aid
of the United States.
First reports of the attack were
confused. It was known, however,
that the invaders advanced as much
as 12 miles into South Korea by
using ground forces totaling as
many as 40,000 men, plus 90 tanks.
An additional 10,000 men were be
lieved ready to reinforce the in
vaders.
Some reports indicated the invad
ers had penetrated within 12 miles
of Seoul, capital of South Korea,
while others said the northerners
had been checked almost immedia
tely. There were reports also of
amphibious landing on the east
coast of South Korea.
The main attack was directed
along the Uijongbu valley, for cen
turies the path of invaders. Maj.
Gen. Choi Byung Kud, chief of staff
of the South Korea army, reported.
Sihn Sung Mo, acting Premier
and defense minister, said he had
evidence that of northern tanks cap
tured in the first attack, half of the
crews were Russian. Minister Kim
Yong Ju was in Tokyo when the at
tack was launched.
Meanwhile, the United States be
gan the evacuation of 600 Ameri
cans from the Seoul area. They
were leaving Korea by sea with
U.S. 'air protection. The evacuation
plan was completed only a week be
fore the sneak attack.
According to American military
men who have been directing the
training of the South Korea army,
the defenders have 95,000 rnen to
battle the invaders. They will be
handicapped, however, by the lack
of an air force and tanks.
North Korea is reported to have
IOC military planes, including 70
Russian Yaks and 25 Stormoviks.
FARM SUPPORTS:
Senate Approves
After a hot floor debate, the
senate completed congressional ac
tion and sent to President Truman
a bill to give the Commodity Credit
Corporation an additional $2,000,-
000,000 to finance its federal farm-
price-support programs. The Pres
ident was expected to sign the
measure.
The debate developed over a pro
vision in the bill which would shut
the door on imported foreign farm
crops if they threatened to upset
the domestic farm-support program.
The provision was included in
the bill and requires Secretary of
Agriculture Brannan to demand an
investigation of the tariff commis
sion whenever he believes foreign
imports are interfering with domes
tic farm programs.
The additional $2,000,000,000 would
increase the C.C.C. total borrowing
authority to $6,750,000,000. Most of
the money now available to the
agency is tied up in price-support
loans and purchase agreements.
The measure barely got through
the senate, 36 to 35 after Vice-
President Barkley exercised his
constitutional vote to break a 35-35
tie.
Critics of the measure said it
would wreck the reciprocal-trade
program, sometimes called the key
stone of the nation’s foreign policy.
Retires
Joe McCarthy, 63, has re
signed as manager of the
Boston Red Sox and retired
from baseball because of his
health. He led the New York
Yankees to seven world cham
pionships before retiring in
1946. He came out of retire
ment to take over the Sox.
Above he gets a friendly kiss
from the family pet as he ar
rives home.
ERICKSON:
Goes to Jail
Frank Erickson, called Ameri
ca’s greatest bookmaker and king
of a nationwide gambling business,
has been sentenced to two years
in jail and fined $30,000.
Erickson, could have been sen
tenced to one year on each of 59
counts of bookmaking. He was sen
tenced to one year on the bookmak
ing counts and one year for conspir
acy.
War Scene
Troops from Communist-
dominated North Korea are re
ported pushing their way south
ward following the sneak at
tack on U. S. backed South
Korea. Four thousand troops
were reported killed in the
initial phase of the shooting.
This map shows the 38th paral
lel which separates North Ko
rea from the south.
UNITED NATIONS:
North Korea Guilty
The United Nations, in an emer
gency session shortly after the
sneak attack by Communist dom
inated North Korea on South Korea,
branded the north the aggressor and
ordered an immediate cease-fire
throughout Korea.
The Soviet Union was conspicuous
by the absence of its delegates
from the emergency session.
Acting swiftly and bluntly, the
U.N. termed the assault an "un
provoked attack" and a "clear
threat to international peace and
security.”
The resolution called for imme
diate cease-fire and implicated that
the U.N. would move to take strong
er measures if North Korea flouted
the council.
Meanwhile, reaction in the United
States was immediate and to the
point. President Truman cut short
a visit to Missouri and returned to
Washington. A conference was
called between top diplomatic and
defense chiefs.
The problem they faced was a
critical one. The situation demand
ed a clear and strong reaction since
too much was at stake in terms of
American prestige in the Far East.
As a result, a "critical amount"
of arms aid was said to have been
started to Korea immediately. It
was also reported General Mac-
Arthur had been authorized to draw
on stocks of equipment available in
Japan rather than let Korea wait
for shipments to be put together
in the United States.
Many American observers saw
the attack on South Korea as a
Soviet test of U.S. reaction toward
aggression. They did not believe,
however, that the Communists are
ready for any military aggression
on a broad international scale.
It was recalled by many that
World War II started with acts of
aggression against minor powers
and not from declarations of war.
With this view in mind, the ques
tion arose whether the North Korea
attack is an early test of physical
and moral strength of the democrat
ic nations.
The present situation calls for
firmness, political observers agree.
PLANE CRASH:
Worst In History
The worst commercial airline
tragedy in the nation’s history took
place in Lake Michigan of .St
Joseph, Mich., when a Northwest
Airlines plane plunged into the lake
during a severe thunderstorm with
55 passengers and three crew mem
bers aboard.
Two days after the giant craft
disappeared, parts of the plane, a
section of an airplane log book, and
parts of two bodies were dragged
from the lake.
The plane, filled to capacity, van
ished on a flight from New York to
Seattle by way of Minneapolis.
St. Joseph is about 110 miles
southeast of Milwaukee on the east
ern shore of Lake Michigan.
Teachers
The nationwide shortage of teach
ers and classrooms is going to get
worse unless something "drastic”
is done. Willard E. Givens, execu
tive secretary of the National Edu
cation association reports.
In his annual report, Givens esti
mated school population in the next
decade will increase almost 7,500,-
000, from 26,635,000 to 34,091,000. He
said 750,000 more teachers will be
needed.
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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
THE PRESS:
A New Note
It has been a number of years
since the press of this country has
raised a united howl on any one
subject. A new note was evident,
however, shortly after the invasion
of South Korea by Communist spon
sored North Korea.
The day following the attack
every leading newspaper in the
United States carried editorials on 1
the subject. It seemed a spontan-;
ecus and combined effort of the
editors to focus public attention on
the seriousness of the Korean sit
uation and its possible repercus-'
sions.
In general the editors seem to
agree that the United States and
the United Nations must act on
Korea. A few of the opinions:
New York Times: War in Korea
will, in the immediate future, force
upon the United States the neces
sity for a decisive and unequivo
cal policy in respect to Asia.
Portland, Ore, Journal: America
has no other choice than to move
necessary force to save South
Korea from the rape of the Com
munists.
Denver Post: If this aggression
is not stopped, the U.N. has but one
choice. It must authorize its mem
ber nations to supply a strong
force of men and arms, add must
step In to stop the Korean war. If
it does not do this, if it fails to
respond to this desperate situation,
then the U.N. is doomed to go the
way of the League of Nations. If
the Russians are not made to back
down in this instance, we must arm
to the teeth.
RELIGION:
Once in 2,000 Years
In a ceremony without precedent
in the nearly 2,000 years of Catho
lic history, a mother witnessed the
canonization of her child.
Maria Goretti, who died at 11
defending her virtue, was raised to
sainthood before half a million Ro
man Catholic faithful.
The ceremony was unusual in
many respects. Never before had
there been an open-air sanctifica
tion ceremony in Rome. In a
place of special honor near the
Pope’s throne sat the saint's 86-
year-old mother. With her were
two sons and two daughters. One of
the sons, Angelo, lives in New Vil
lage, N. J.
The country youth who stabbed
the child to death in 1902 when she
would not submit to him, npw 68
years old, lives in a monastery,
haunted by visions of his victim.
He was not at the ceremony, but
was reported "in prayer more in
tense than ever.”
The ceremony was one of the
highlights of holy year. Thousands
have flocked to Rome in recent
months in observance of the relig
ious celebration.
STOCK MARKET:
War Jitters
Evidently suffering a case of war
jitters, the New York stock ex
change experienced one of its worst
slumps in a number of years short
ly after the opening of the present
Korean conflict.
Trading involved 3,910,000 shares,
the largest volume in 10 years.
Some $4,000,000,000 was cut from
the market value of all stocks list
ed on the exchange.
The trading was a clear indica
tion of Wall street thinking. Tin
and rubber, the principle Far East
commodities, advanced in the spot
market. The buyers also flocked
to the commodity pits, sending
most grains, foodstuffs and raw
materials soaring.
Bonds followed stock in the
plunge, rails taking the sharpest
fall in more than 2& years in one
of the largest volumes traded this
year.
The last big break in the market
was the day after Labor Day, 1946.
when approximately $4,700,000,000
was whittled from the listed mar
ket value of stocks on the ex
change.
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BATON TWIRLER . . . Selected
over more than 600 entries,
Rachel Heard, 17, Casper, Wyo..
was named America’s .most
beautiful baton twirier. Besides
twirling a mean baton and strut
ting high as dram major of the
band, she plays the dram.
ARMY SERGEANT TURNED SPY . David Greenglass, 28, (center)
In enstody of FBI agents at New York, is charged with turning ever
documents, sketches and notes to the confessed spy courier Harry
Gold in 1945, apparently giving Russia the inside tip that the U. S. had
achieved an atom explosion. Explaining his action Greenglass said:
"1 felt it was gross negligence on the part of the United States not to
give Russia the information about the atom bomb because she was an
afly.”
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WOE IS ME ... Al first tt was
funny, bat now Patrick EUinger,
3, of Los Angeles, finds he dan't
sit down—thus the tears. A play
mate stack a two-inch firecrack
er Inside his right hip pocket.
Patrick can’t sit down and it
looks like he’ll have to have a
pair of pants.
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Secretary of Defense Louis
Johnson (left) and Mrs. Dong-
las MacArthur converse daring
a break In the review staged
by American occupation forces
in Tokyo recently. Johnson and
other high military leaders
conferred on Far East policy.
LIVING COSTS:
Take Big Jump
The cost of living is still below
s year ago, but led by meat prices,
the consumer’s price index took an
increase of eight-tenths of 1 per
cent between April 15 and May 15.
It was the highest jump of any
month in almost two years.
Food prices went up 1.9 per cent
between April and May, and were
responsible for the sudden rise in
the cost of living index throughout
the nation.
HORSESHOES AND WORLD EVENTS . . . Fleet Admiral Chester W.
Nimits (left) instructs Dr. Ralph J. Bnnche on the fine points sf a
game of horseshoes. Dr. Bnnche, United Nations official and Palestine
mediator, was house guest of the admiral at Berkeley where he was
scheduled to address the University of California.
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“POWDER PUFF” WINNER . . .
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CITIZENSHIP REVOKED . . . Harry Bridges, (right) controversial
west coast labor leader, has had his U. S. citizenship revoked by San
Francisco federal judge George B. Harris. The order was based on
the perjury conviction of the Australian born CIO longshoreman anion
leader. Bridges is being interviewed by a reporter upon his arrival in
Chicago. The man in the background is unidentified.
GRADUATES AT 58 . . . Francis
L. Lee, 58, was the oldest mem
ber of the graduating class of Los
Angeles City college this year.
Ho is the father of four and
grandfather of 13. His major was
music.
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WILL DO
CORNERSTONE OF PROGRESS . . . Governor Thomas E. Dewey is
shown guiding blind Nancy Jackson, 6, in the laying of the cornerstones of
an addition to the Lighthonse for the Blind, New York’s facility of the
Association for the Blind. EU Whitney (left) is president of the Light
honse. Governor Dewey recently announced he was retiring from pub
lic life after 20 years of service. His retirement leaves the New York
amt national GOP picture open to speculation.
CAPTAIN TRUMAN . . . Presi
dent Truman, once a captain of
artillery, inspects the rifle of Ma
rine Sergeant Arthur Rlpke
(right) upon arrival at the Qnan-
tico, Va., base. With him in
Brig. Gen. Robert B. Landry
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