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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C
Taxes Pay for Honeymoon
T HE TAXPAYERS don’t know it,
but they are paying for the
honeymoon of a congressman’s
daughter. She is Mrs. Jules de
Porre, daughter of Democrat con
gressman Louis Rabaut of Grosse
Pointe Park, Mich.
Carolyn was the last in a line of
daughters who worked as Congress
man Rabaut’s secretary. But she
quit to get married shortly after
Easter, and became Mrs. Jules de
I^orre on July 8. Despite this, she
has continued to draw $643.33 a
month.
While the congressman’s daughter
draws her salary, her job is taken
by Marion B. Lacey, who is paid
$331.71 per month by the house ap
propriations committee. Very con
veniently, the committee “loaned”
her to Rabaut to handle ‘‘committee
business.” She is not on his regular
pay roll.
When queried by this column,
Kabaut explained that his daughter
never quit working for him, but just
shifted to his Detroit office. Actual
ly, this explanation doesn’t hold up.
For the congressman didn’t open an
office in Detroit until congress re
cessed the last week of September.
Furthermore, when the congress
man takes a trip to Detroit, his of
fice help in Washington complain
that he scribbles letters in long
hand and sends them back to Wash
ington to be typed, thus making a
mystery as to what his newly mar
ried daughter is supposed to be do
ing for him in his Detroit office. A
further check by this column in De
troit indicates that Mrs. de Porre
hasn’t been working for her father
as his congressional secretary at
all.
Mrs. de Porre also told this
column that she returned to work
here between Easter and her July
8 wedding day, but a check at the
house office building revealed this
was not true.
The real truth is that Congress
man Rabaut gave his daughter a
$643.33-per-month wedding gift—at
the taxpayers’ expense.
John L. Lewis’s Friend
It’s no secret that New Hamp
shire’s Sen. Styles Bridges, the
No. 2 Republican of the senate, was
paid $35,000 a year as trustee for
John L. Lewis’ miners’ welfare
fund. In addition, it also looks as if
the shaggy-browed Lewis has been
giving cues to Bridges regarding
foreign policy.
For several months, Bridges has
been working closely with the state
department and moving into Senator
Vandenberg’s shoes as the GOP
spokesman on foreign affairs—sec
ond only to Senator Taft in Repub
lican influence. But, suddenly,
Bridges lashed out with a vitriolic
attack against the state depart
ment.
This attack, it now develops, was
not prepared in Bridges’ office at
all, but by John L. Lewis’ “public
relations” form, the Allied Syndi
cate.
Tip-off came when the Bridges
statements were delivered by
mistake to the wrong part of the
Capitol. A press attendant called
Bridges’ office to straighten out
the error, but no one in the sen
ator’s office seemed to know
about it. They didn’t even know
that he was making a statement
on foreign policy.
Later, Arthur Reilly, a former
John L. Lewis press-relations man,
straightened out the matter of the
misplaced Bridges press releases.
Reilly, after serving in United
Mine Workers headquarters, trans
ferred to the Washington office of
the Allied Syndicate, which works
for Lewis. The Bridges statement,
incidentally, was prepared while
the senator was out of the city.
So it looks as if the $35,000 salary
paid by John L. was producing more
from Senator Bridges than his serv
ices as trustee on the miners’ pen
sion fund.
Admirals’ Propaganda
The Admirals* propaganda outfit,
“Operation 23,” was supposed to
have been abolished after the B-36
feud of last fall. It was the cause
of a bitter battle between the air
force and the navy, with the result
that forthright Secretary of the
Navy Matthews dispersed the naval
officers in charge.
However, it now develops that the
ghost of “Operation 23” is still
haunting the air force. The same old
anti-air force stories are being
leaked to the press. In fact, navy
propagandists, believe it or not,
are spreading the same identical
stories as the Communists about the
air force; namely, that U.S. air
planes have been killing North Ko
rean women and children.
Actually, B-29 raids in Korea
have been so accurate that they
demolished the Woosang arma
ment plants without even touch
ing the rows of workers’ houses
alongside.
Some admirals are also coming
out into the open with the same
views that got them into trouble
over unification. Rear Adm. Stuart
Ingersoll, for instance, harangued a
recent conference of American
mayors on the navy’s success in
Korea, as if the air force did not
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS-
Truman Tells U. N. This Country
Committed to Armament Program;
Costs of Living Near Record High
TRUMAN:
Armament for Peace
President Truman, speaking be
fore the United Nations general as
sembly on United Nations* Day,
told members of the world organi
zation that the United States would
prefer universal disarmament, but
that this nation is committed to re
arming because it is the only way
to stop aggression.
The President used Korea as an
example of what united effort by
U.N. members can accomplish in
stopping aggression. He termed the
invasion of South Korea by Com
munist forces a direct challenge to
the world organization.
As for disarmament and the solu
tion to world problems, Mr. Tru
man said the U. S. was willing to
enter negotiation, but only if all na
tions proved their good intentions
Such negotiation could only be car
ried on if there was concrete evi
dence of good intention and the open
and free exchange of ideas between
nations.
The chief executive said few acts
in our time have met with such
universal approval as the inter
vention of the United Nations in the
Korea conflict.
It was significant that the Presi
dent did not mention Russia at all
during his speech as the chief threat
to world peace. It was clear, how
ever, to what world power he re
ferred when he said the freedom
loving nations of the world will con
tinue to build up their armed
strength, because they have no
other choice.
LIVING COSTS:
Nears Record High
The latest government consumer
price index reported the cost of liv
ing continued to move upward. The
gain was % per cent from the pre
vious month. The index stood 173.9,
meaning 73.8 per cent above the
1935-39 average.
The government, however, was
only putting into figures what that
American housewife has known for
some time. Low and fixed income
families felt the pinch shortly after
the Korean war began. The latest
index figure^ was only .4 of a per
cent short of the 174.5 high reached
in August and September, 1948.
Even with the publication of these
figures there* seemed little possibil
ity that the government planned any
immediate action to stop the rising
cost of living. In the average Ameri
can city the housewife now pays
$21.70 for a food basket costing $10
at the outbreak of World War II.
During August and September of
this year housewives were paying
3.5 per cent more for meats, poultry,
and fish, including 10.6 per cent
for pork chops, 7.5 per cent for
fish, and 4.4 per cent for eggs, 1.4
per cent for canned fruits and vege
tables, and 2.6 per cent for bever
ages.
The government’s price index is
taking on increasing importance in
American business economics as
more and more contracts between
unions and employers allow for
wage changes as the index rises
or drops.
However, this does not help old
people or white collar workers liv
ing on fixed incomes.
Headliners
PRAGUE:
Scene of New Plot
Ike Says 'No'
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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
president of Colombia univer
sity, Is shown with Dean Philip
Young of Columbia, as they an
nounced the establishment of
the “American Assembly” at
the university, a convocation of
representatives of business, la
bor, the professions, govern
ment and the university, to
work out answer to critical
problems facing the country.
Ike repeated his “no” about
running for President.
The foreign minister of Russia
and the representatives of seven
satellite states met in Prague to
plot the next Communist move since
the gamble in Korea must be writ
ten off as a complete loss.
From that meeting came four de
mands to the western powers, but
the free nations were more Inter
ested in what the Communists did
not say than in the new demands.
This is what the Communist
asked:
(1) That the governments of the
United States, Britain, France and
Russia should publish a declaration
saying they will not allow the re
militarization of Germany, they
will not allow Germany to become
“involved in any plans of aggres
sion,” and will try to carry out the
Potsdam agreement to “build a
democratic, peace-loving Germany.”
(2) That all restrictions hinder
ing the development of Germany's
“peace economy” be removed while
a revival of German war potential
should not be allowed.
(3) That there should be con
cluded “without delay” a treaty
of peace with Germany which would
renew the unity of the German
state in harmony with the Potsdam
agreement; that all occupation
forces of the great powers be with
drawn from Germany within one
year after a peace treaty is con
cluded.
(4) That on a basis of parity,
representatives from east and west
Germany should form a “Constitu
ent Council” for all of Germany to
prepare “the formation of a demo
cratic sovereign government” for
all Germany.
The West was not naive enough to
believe that any agreement could be
reached on Germany. Plans for re
building a strong western Germany
and an European army continued in
full force.
Western diplomats were asking
themselves what new acts of ag
gression did Russia and her satel*
lites cook up?
STASSEN:
Pravda Calls Him Silly
Harold E. Stassen, former gov
ernor of Minnesota, created a lot of
interest with his letter to Joseph
Stalin asking for a face to face
meeting of Americans and Rus
sians in an effort to “stop the drift
toward war.”
Stassen did not receive a reply
from Stalin, but the official voice
of Communist propaganda, Pravda,
published an article caUing hlrp
silly, crude, and ridiculous, among
other things.
pie article was, in fact, a flat
rejection of the Stassen proposal.
The writer made it plain that the
Soviet government does not con
sider Stassen’s letter worth a formal
answer.
The article said in part: “Stassen
demands no more, no less thnp g
change by the Soviet Union of its
policy. It is not difficult to see that
Stassen is not only crude but also
ridiculous in advancing this wild
demand which excludes all possibil
ity of a serious view of any degree
of ‘document’ worked out by the
president of Pennsylvania univer
sity in cooperation with veteran
warmongers Eisenhower and
Dulles.”
The former aspirant for the Re
publican presidential t nomination
had little to say about the article.
He indicated he would wait for a
direct reply from Stalin.
FREEDOM BELL
Symbol of Freedom Rings in Berlin
The 20,000-pound freedom bell,
symbol of the hopes of free men,
arrived safely in Berlin after a night
run through Communist dominated
territory where Red agents report
edly had orders to delay it. The
following day it was raised to the
belfry of Berlin city hall.
Two days later millions of radio
listeners throughout the world heard
Gen. Luoius D. Clay, former mili
tary governor in Germany, dedicate
the bell as a symbol of freedom and
listened to it proclaim freedom to all
mankind.
The broadcast touched off the
most widespread and dramatic bell
ringing in history. Church and
school bells throughout the western
world picked up the freedom chimes
and followed with danffng of their
own bells.
KOREA:
Now Rehabilitation
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are thoao of
Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily or this newspaper.)
Leon H. Keyserling, chairman of
President Truman’s council of eco
nomic advisers, speaking on the
country economic problems, said:
“We do not need as mahy or as
tough controls as in 1944 because
the transition of military activity
is not nearly so rapid or so great.”
Stuart Symington, economic-mobi
lization coordinator, also had some
thing to say on the same question:
“It begins to look as if everybody
wants controls so long as the con
trols don’t affect them.”
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
speaking on the Founder’s Day pro
gram at Carnegie Institute said:
“Possibly my hatred of war blinds
me so that I cannot comprehend
the arguments they advance. But in
my opinion there is no such thing
as a preventive war.”
Except for isolated guerrilla ac
tion, the war in Korea was over,
The end was hastened by spectrfSu-
lar parachute drops of U. S. troops
between Pyongyang and the Man
churian border to block escape of
North Korea troops.
As the end came, however, the
world was horrified by reports of
new atrocities against U. N. troops
in Communist hands. Red leaders
bad long since escaped into Man
churia, most of them fleeing when
U. N. troops crossed the 38th paral
lel.
Now the United Nations is faced
with the rehabilitation of Korea,
estimated by a U. S. survey at
$200,000,000. The figure was de
scribed as a rough estimate and
many observers believed compara
ble sums would have to be furnished
annually for at least two or three
years to put Korea back on its feet.
The rehabilitation of Korea was
one of the big issues discussed by
President Truman and General Mae-
Arthur during their recent meeting
at Wake island.
An indication of the job ahead
was given when Reginald H. R.
Parminter, special adviser to the
U. N. on Korean affairs, told the
assembly committee working on re
habilitation that over $36 million in
relief supplies already had been re
ceived.
Members of the U. N. have offered
supplies and cash totaling from $12,-
000,600 to $13,000,000. Another $5.-
000,000 was expected.
Politicians
Vice President Alben Barkley
(center) chats with Gov. Thom
as Dewey (left) and Rep. Wal
ter A. Lynch (right) of New
York. The three posed at the
Alfred E. Smith Memorial
Foundation dinner at which
Canada’s famed Dionne quints
sang.
U.S. EMPLOYEES
Total at New High
Salaries of government employees
will cost the average U. 8. family
about $402 for the year 1950, com
pared to $155 in 1929, the family
economics bureau erf Northwestern
National Life reports.
Because the grand total of fed
eral, state and local government
civilian employees has approximate
ly doubled in the 21 years since
1929, while the U. S. population has
increased by only about a fourth,
each average American family must
now pay one government worker’s
salary for eight weeks out of each
year, compared with five and a half
weeks’ salary borne by each family
In 1929.
Salaries of federal, state and local
civilian employees totalled $4,650,-
000,000 for 1929, were approximate
ly $16,000,000,000 for 1949, and are
estimated at about $16,500,000,000 for
1950.
The number of persons on public
payrolls fluctuates from month to
month, but the roster of civilian
government workers will average in
the neighborhood of 6,050,000 for
the 12 months of 1950. .
RUSSIA:
Internal Troubles?
Perhaps it is wishful thinking upon
the part of the western powers, but
rumors persisj that Russia and cer
tain of her satellite states are hav
ing renewed trouble with discon
tented elements of their own sub
jects.
Nothing in the nature of mass up
risings had been reported. Rumored
incidents in the Ukraine, Czecho
slovakia and Romania appeared to
be on an isolated scale. Neverthe
less, the reported incidents, if true,
indicate increasing bold resistance
to Communist domination behind the
iron curtain.
One report told of widespread riots
and sabotage in Slovakia where the
Communists have experienced trou
ble since they seized control of
Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1948.
Other reports told of renewed
resistance to the Communist regime
In the Ukraine. Some 2,000 persons
were reported arrested in the Kiev
area.
Reports persist that the over
whelming majority of the people in
the satellite states remain opposed
to Soviet domination. This certain
ly WOUld Seem Wishful thinking U po n
the part of western diplomats.
U.S. DEBT:
$218,600 Million
The commerce * department re
ported that the federal government
went deeper in debt this year than
all the private firms and individu
als put together. The total net debt
was put at $218,600 million.
The total owed by private firms
and individuals was reported at
$205,500 million. State and local gov
ernments owed another $18,100
million. The government’s debt in
creased $2,100 million In 1949.
Second Best
“How do you like your new dad
dy, Johnny?” the son of the grass
widow who had recently tripped up
the altar again, was asked.
“Oh, he’s all right in some ways,”
replied the kid, “but he can’t do
my home work as good as the
other one did.”
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NUPTIAL KISS . . . Denise Darcel,
French actress, parks a kiss on her
brand new husband, Peter Crosby,
after their marriage at St. Pat
rick’s cathedral in New York City.
Marriage ceremony was performed
by the Very Rev. Monsignor Wil
liam Green.
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SYMBOLIC OF PROGRESS . . . Symbolizing the slow emergence of
the United Nations from a blueprint for peace to an organization that
has been able to enforce peace in several world trouble spots is this
erection of the United Nations* permanent home In New York City.
Rivet foreman Joseph Jocks consults a building plan at the site of the
project. The tall, wafer-like edifice is the secretariat bnilding and the
general assembly and security council building are in the background.
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RUINS HIS SMOKE . . . Father
Emil Kaptm, Marion, Aans., chap
lain with the first cavalry division
In Korea, manages to smile at-the
remains of his faithful briar pipe
after it had been shot out of his
mouth by a North Korean sniper.
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MEDICOS REGISTER FOR DOCTOR DRAFT . . . The men in white
are both resident physicians at Queens general hospital in Jamaica,
N. Y., Dr. Robert Goodman and Dr. Melvin Moore, sign np with
draft board re Istrar, Lorraine Johnson. They are two of the first
doctors to reg’ ier for the draft in the New York area.
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“NO POLITICS!” . . . Columbia
university president, Dwight Eisen
hower, answers newsmen’s ques
tions concerning his protable can
didacy for the presidency with: “I
don’t want anything to do with poli
tics!” Thus he re-affirmed his old
stand on the subject.
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HITLER DIPLOMAT RELEASED . . . Ernst von Weizsaecker, who
served one year of a five-year sentence for plotting aggressive war
and sending 6,090 French Jews to Nazi death camp, leaves Germany’s
Landsberg prison after commutation of sentence by American high
commissioner. Woman is unidentified. Clemency ruling that brought
about former Hitler diplomat’s release was based on fact that he had
given haven to some Jews in the German embassy at the Vatican and
prevented Nazi demolitions in Rome.
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA . . .
California’s Gov. Earl Warren,
daughter Nina, and Mrs. Warren
listen to President Truman’s recent
foreign policy speech at a San
Francisco opera house. Other
members of the Warren family
were also in attendance.
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JUSTICE JOINS TRIBE . . . Charley (Choo Choc) Justice (center)
signs three-year contract with Washington Redskins as team owner
Preston affarah^n (left) and Coach Herman Ball look on. The twice
all-American halfback from North Carolina finally came to terms at
an undisclosed salary after six months of negotiations. Marshall is
holding a cast of the right band of his team’s star quarterback, “Sling
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FUNNY MONEY.. . . Settle Witt,
Washington, D.C., displays photo
stat of “funny money** with which
Beds are flooding Genoa, Italy.
They are counterfeit U.S. dollar
bills on one side and anti-west
propaganda on the other.
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