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Marshall Works Hard T HE WASHINGTON rumor factory is probably the most active and the most irresponsible in the world. Tales cooked up in capitol hill lob bies, the drawing rooms of high •ociety or in a taxicab conversation are spread as fact within a matter of hours. The story that the late Franklin Roosevelt was insane and had to be chained to his bed at night was a good example. One confidential news agency believed it to the ex tent of relaying it to its many thou sand customers. Latest Washington canard is that Secretary of Defense George Mar shall is in his dotage and unable to come to his office more than a half a week. On the contrary. I can state that Marshall, though 70, Is probably In better health than before his kidney operation, gets to the office before 8 a.m., has the papers read and sent out of his office by around 8:20 a.m., and puts in a full six-day week, working even on Saturday. Marshall is alert, his memory is amazing, and he seems completely on the ball. Furthermore, Marshall has put the old uniform aside and is trying to run the defense depart ment as a civilian. This writer had some skepticism about this phase of Marshall’s new job when first ap pointed secretary of defense, but the skepticism appears not to have been justified. Cattle-Feed Shortage Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan had been at daggers’ points over government farm policies for some time with the man he fired last week, Ralph Trigg, chief of production and marketing. Main reason the ax fell was that the production of certain vital farm crops—chiefly cattle feed—is des perately behind our defense goals. About 127,000,000 tons of grain will be needed to feed our greatly expanded population of beef cattle and hogs this year. However, farm ers have planted or scheduled for planting only enough acres to pro duce 117,000,000 tons of feed grain. Com will be about 5,000,000 acres short of the 90,000,000-acre produc tion goal fixed by Brannan—which Trigg was supposed to deliver. At the same time we have 4,000,000 more beef cattle and over 5,000,000 more hogs to feed this year than In 1950. The pinch may not be Crtt t£is year be cause of feedvraln' reserves. However, with these reserves exhausted, we will face a seri ous cutback in cattle production for defense needs—and there fore a meat shortage—in 1952. Manpower shortage on the farms is one reason—perhaps the chief one—for the failure to divert more grasslands to planting feed grain. Presidential Pique President Truman’s pique and an economist's desire to throw off his new deal label are back of the ad ministration’s tragic failure to clamp on price controls six months < ago. This never-told story starts last year when the elder statesman, Bernard Baruch, publicly came out for price controls. Real truth was that the White House and national security re sources board were at that very time toying with the same idea. But when Mr. Truman heard that the white-haired New York financier was for price controls, he reversed himself. The President had put Baruch on his “S.O.B. list” when Bernie refused to serve on a Demo cratic committee in the 1948 elec tions, and Truman didn’t want to be in the position of coming out for price controls just after Baruch did. Another factor was the strong opposition to controls by Leon Keyserling, then acting chair man of the council of economic advisers. Keyserling, a former department of agriculture economist and assistant to Sen. Bob Wagner, was being attacked by Bight Winters on capitol hill as a wild-eyed radical. Keyserling, an able economist but subject to human ambitions, wanted to be named chairman of the council and gain acceptance as a middle-of-the-road adviser. And at that time he told both the Presi dent and Stuart Symington, chair man of the resources board, that controls were “unworkable.” In one consultation with Symington, Key- serling argued that high prices would, in fact, be helpful by drain ing off excess purchasing power and its competition for goods, serv ices and materials needed for re armament. Washington Pipolino Illustrating the Washington ca nard factory here is another I heard recently: “Drew Pearson has now sold out to Pan American airways. He got a free trip to Europe with Pan American and is now in their pocket.” . . . Real fact is that I paid my way to Europe on Pan American as I have on every other airline. However, I do not hesitate to pay tribute to Pan American’s it operation across the At- SHOPPER'S CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY Your butcher has to anticipate your needs, while meeting his own obligations for overhead, help, rent, insurance and taxes. So it’s not his fault that meat tops your budget— why take it out on him? He prac tically bends over backwards to help you whenever he can, with weekend specials like the one in our town, which advertised three items —a dozen eggs, a pound of butter and a pound of bacon,—all three for the price of any two of ’em! ’Twas a busy and prosperous weekend for that store, and a well-fed commu nity! While you keep an eye out for those specials day by day, there’s still another way to shop and save. Why not call a meatless day once a week? NOT BY MEAT ALONE Not by bread alone, nor by meat alone does man livek M you’re •looking for protein- cofttdpt, ‘there are many other foods as good as meat for protein purposes. And most of these foods are plentiful these early spring days—plentiful and therefore cheap! The time is now for the egg peak —no wonder our market could throw in a dozen with his bacon and butter! Dried beans, peanut butter, sauerkraut, and cheeses of all descriptions are chuck full, not only of proteins, minerals and vita mins, but of possibilities for variety of treatment and combination. Have you tried the cellophane-packed sliced cheese your grocer has occa sionally? You can stock up on it when he has the supply, and have it on demand for the school lunch- box, the quick snack, for adding to your egg casserole dishes, or your macaroni dinners for meatless night! Just watch those ads in your lo cal paper, and the “Special for To day” and weekend specials signs on your store windows, and you’ll have your family looking forward to that meatless day! Small Community Is Frightened by Five Fires in One Night GREENVILLE, Mich.—The small town of Greenville was so fright ened recently by a series of fires that at every home one member remained on guard during the night. The Michigan national guard was also called to the town to patroL Before the night was over one church was destroyed and one was considerably damaged. Acting on a tip from Mrs. Harold Godfrey who said she saw a slender young man standing on the edge of crowds laughing hysterically, po lice arrested Vernon Mevis, 22-year- old factory worker. Mevis admitted setting the fires. The youth said he was on his way to work at a refrigerator plant when he decided to “have some fun”. He started looking for “places for good fires.” “I don’t know why I do this,” Mevis cried. “But it just comes on me and I can't help myself.” Police officials said the newly redecorated Congregational Church was gutted, while the blaze in the nearby Methodist Church was con fined to the basement. Fires in a barbershop, a Western Union office, and a parked truck caused consid erable damage also. In all, the dam age was estimated at $175,000. During the past year the town had several serious fires with dam age amounting to thousands of dol lars. Police said they would ques tion Mevis to learn if ha was con nected with them. THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. m Lv:>?': ; y HOW ABOUT A MEATLESS DAY? M EAT PRICES still on the up- and-up climb? How are we shoppers to win this “Battle of the Budget”, with our favorite food stretching the battle-line so thin? Protest, sure—but how? We could go on a buyers’ strike—refuse to buy meat until the price goes down. That has worked in some communities. But isn’t that a little rough on that good butcher of yours, who does everything he can for you, in the face of even tougher problems of his own? It’s not his fault that meat’s so high, any more than it’s the cattle and poultry producer, or the meat packer’s. The controlling factor in meat prices is, as it always has been, the bal ance between supply and demand! . ■ mi am •si.**; wm mm T HP ItssMsiisfR iStSii NEW AMBASSADOR . . . Dr. Yang Too Chang, newly-appoint ed Korean ambassador to the United States, piakes a stopover at the Yaesu hotel in Tokyo, Japan, before proceeding to his new post in Washington, D.C. KILLED BY HUKS ... A member of the Philippine constabulary corps views bodies of two Americans and an Australian who were shot by Huk rebels recently at Antipolo, 30 miles south of Manilla. Victims are Mrs. Alice Irene Wilkin Hardie (foreground), 42, formerly of Hil- mar, Calif.; Donald Capuana, 25, Australia; and (background) John Hardie, 53, formerly of Condon, Ore., husband of Mrs. Hardie. * m mmm il EX-HERO . • • Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, 38, ace marine fighter pilot in last war, was charged in Los Angeles court with “being drunk In public and unable to care for himself.” He was arrested in front of a cafe. ■ : y ■ lilSIil REDS FIRE ON U.S. BUS . . . Corporal Everett W. Goldsmith, an American MP in Berlin, Germany, points to bullet-riddled window of one of the four U.S. passenger buses fired on recently by Communist police at the Soviet-western sector border. The buses carried Amer ican soldiers, dependents, boy scout cubs and civilian personnel. They were on a regular weekly tour of the Soviet sector. Mi .‘v • y v. W: ragjgPj : • . ... SPY TRIAL JUDGE . . . Federal Judge Irving Kaufman who im posed death sentences on atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg said, “I would violate the trust of the people of this country if I were to show mercy.” vM:. mm ■■m mm . s . V. JSSS m m ■■■ I, ' illiiiP • J mm . Y ill mpzffysy.y: mm® GAVE GOERING POISON • • . Eric Von Dem Bach-Zelewski receives sacrament at Catholic convent after stating he gave Herman Goering the poison with which the latter committed suicide. He claims that he whispered the word “zyankali” (cyanide of potassium) to Goering through the flap of his cell, and later slipped the Nasi leader a cake of soap containing an ampule of the poison. He was classified as “major offender” and sentenced to 10 years labor. NAVY’S FIRST WINNER . . . Lt. (JG) Thomas Hndner, Fall River, Mass., is the navy’s first winner of the medal of honor for action in Korea. He risked his life in an attempt to rescue a fellow airman. Ensign Jesse Brown, first negro naval officer to lose life in any U.S. war. Brown lost his life despite Hudner’s attempt. ATTACK DEFENSE SETUP . • • Phillip Murray (left), president of the CIO, terms the national production act the most iniquitous and dis criminatory piece of legislation ever enacted. He says labor is not fight ing to run the defense mobilisation board, but is seeking fair represen tation. With Murray is United Ante Workers president, Walter Reuther. Murray spoke at a convention of the UAW in Cleveland, Ohio. Us words were approved by the members. DESERTEL SENTENCED . . • CpL John Waller (right) is taken to a military prison after being sentenced for desertion from Brit ish army. He fled to the Soviet sene of Berlin, bat gave himself Grim-Faced MacArthur For him the war ends. SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World Truman Relieves Gen. MacArthur From All Commands in the Far East MACARTHUR RELIEVED—To millions of small-towners across the nation to whom Gen. Douglas MacArthur has become something of a legend, his removal from all of his commands by President Truman was a shock not easily understood. The action pointed up the serious ness of the break between the general, the White House, and UN states men which had raged for weeks over the conduct of the Korean war. According to grim, stubborn MacArthur, he was fighting Europe’s war with arms in Asia while Europe’s diplomats continued to fight com- * munism with words. In his blunt, barbed way, he wrote Joseph W. Martin, Jr., house majority leader: “It seems strangely dif ficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global con quest.” That statement struck at the admini stration’s very basis of how to defeat com munism. It threw European diplomats into a tizzy. It brought demands in congress that a special bipartisan committee' be sent to Tokyo to hear the general’s foreign policy views. It brought rumors of the crackdown on MacArthur which the peo ple on Main Street could not believe would ever happen. The action has produced a shock that may have serious conse quences. In the next few weeks congress may possibly be involved,in bitter debate as the general’s cause is championed by the Republican party. But above all, it has caused confusion and uneasiness in the mind of the average Main Street citizen whose common sense tells him there is no end in sight for the Korean conflict It does not answer the question in the minds of millions of people in the home towns: How are we going to get our sons and brothers and husbands free of the blood and filth of Korea? GRAPES OF WRATH— The people in the big cities of the nation know little about the “Okies” so vividly described in John Steinbeck’s * novel of the depression, “The Grapes of Wrath.” But to the people in the small towns and rural sections of the nation, they have long been a problem—and a necessity. There are millions of them in the United States, working from the south toward the north as the crops ripen for harvest. And as the harvest nears they are welcomed and just as anxiously the community awaits their leaving. They are poor, often underfed and inadequately housed. They present a problem on the home town level that the individual com munity is unable to solve. At last, much to the relief of millions of home towners, the federal government has stepped in and made a survey of their problems. The committee that made the survey has recommended legislation on migra tory farm labor that may solve wage problems, establish labor camps, extend social security, public health and education programs with the aid of states and local communities. Of all the problems that faced the home towns of the nation, that of the migratory worker was one of the most serious. Its solution will be welcomed. ATOMIC SPIES—In what was proba bly one of the most dramatic and moving scenes in a federal court in the history of this country. Judge Irving Kaufman sen tenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, hus band and wife atomic spy team, to die for treason. , v* . Said handsome, 41-year-old Kaufman, one of the youngest judges on the federal bench: “I have searched my conscience to find some reason for mercy. It is not * in my power to forgive you. Only the Lord can find mercy for what you have done.” Never before in a civil court of the United States had native-born spies been sentenced to death. Morton Sobell, 34, fellow conspirator, was sentenced to 30 years in prison. The fourth member of the conspiracy, Mrs. Rosenberg’s brother, David Greenglass, 29, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Thus ended another episode in the constant battle to keep the home towns of America free. Ethel Rosenberg CLASSIFI AUTOS, TRUCKS A ACCESS. FOB SALE—1940 CMC 3-ton truck 5-inch insulated closed body* JBUec freezing unit. A-l condition. See S outhern Poultry Distributors, Xus,, !. Tuylur 0t., Griffin, qeorglu. 701 BUSINESS *. INVEST. OPPOR. 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(3) Rural people taking jobs In nearby city industries and dropping production of food. THE LEVELING OFF-— Michael V. DiSalle, price director, said in his latest statement that his ceilings have brought “some stability’* into view, but that higher taxes and tightening of money and credit supply are needed. The question in the minds of home town housewives was whether or not the line will hold, or whether there will be another upward spiral in late summer as predicted by many economists. In defense of controls, DiSalle said: “We had to start price con trols. It was a psychological move to combat the factors that weroi driving us toward a serious inflation.** SEEDS, PLANTS, ETC. received. NANCY HALL—Porto Rico tato plant*. Pay when •hipping April 15. Book May 3000 bushel* bed - guaranteed. 300, SO.90; 500—#1 L.00. 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Legislators who approved of U.M.T. said they believed universal military training will be enacted within a year. _ .‘SRKSft You Too Can Dopond oa NO C0NS1 THE HIGH SCHOOL PROBLEM Large Numbers of Students Quit Classes According to a national survey of home town high schools, boys and girls are dropping out of their class es at an increased rate. The study revealed clear Ranger that the trend may reach proportions com parable to the exodus of students during World War H. Educators in the high schools of the country are being urged to con duct a “stay-in-school” drive to persuade students to remain until the completion of their courses. Major reasons for school-leaving were said to be increased employ ment opportunities, expectation of the draft, economical need, lack of interest in academic work, and restlessness, insecurity or social maladjustment. In the case of those awaiting draft summonses, their grades often suffer. kinds of 1 ALL-BRAN. It not only regular ... 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