Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World Malik's Korean Peace Proposal Causing World-Wide Speculation THE TIMING WAS PERFECT— Whether or not Russia’s Jacob A. Malik was sincere in his proposed cease-fire in Korea is a question that c»ly time will answer, but of one thing the people in the home towns of America were sure—the timing was perfect. The average man in the small towns of the country has a sincere de- aire for peace. He is sure of a number of things: (1) U.S. casualties now number 73,600 and he wants his sons and brothers home; (2) The war has strained the nation’s bipartisan foreign policy and threatens to cause an •ven more serious internal split; (3) and the war has increased the dan gers of inflation throughout the western world. Perhaps the Russians realized these facts and picked the first an niversary of the start of the Korean war for their peace move. But the move was unusual in that Malik made no reference to any of the Korean l*ace conditions previously set by the Soviet bloc: a deal on Formosa, admission of Communist China to the United Nations, and withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea. It could be that the Soviet is sincere.. But it could also be that the Soviet recognized the great propaganda potential ities of a peace move at this time. The home towners of the nation would do well to re member, however, that Rus sia is not officially in the war. The next step is up to the Chinese Communists. If the Chinese, who have made no comment on Malik’s prop osition, indicate what he said actually reflects a change in their Korean policy and a de sire to end the fighting, then the man on Main Street can allow himself^ to hope for peace. However, if the Chinese ig nore the whole business, or restate their earlier demands for U.N. membership and control of For mosa, as the price for a Korean settlement, then the suspicion thsr Malik was more interested in making propaganda than in making peace will be confirmed. The U.S. state department has indicated a willingness to play its part in bringing an end to the hostilities in Korea if Malik’s offer “is more than propaganda.” But until there is some concrete evidence of sincerity in the proposal the U.S. will act with caution. At the moment that seems the only sensible attitude to adopt. It is one the home towners may find best to follow. THE BALANCE SHEET—As the first year of conflict ended in Korea, the fighting was as bloody and dirty as the day it began. But the balance sheet would indicate the Communists have lost the first round in their planned aggression. On the credit side of the ledger: (1) The first U.N. battle force was raised and integrated in the initial bloody weeks; (2) the U.S. and her allies were dynamited into world-wide alertness and rearmament; (3) American military forces have learned valuable military lessons, developed new techniques, and tested much of the enemy’s strategy; (4) the west has proved it will not abandon the small nations of Asia and Europe; and (5) the North Korean army has been mangled and the Chinese have had star tling losses, estimated in all at 1,162,500 casualties. On the other side of the ledger: (1) Allied casualties have been heavy for peaceful nations (approximately 352,500); (2) most of the west’s mili tary strength has been hobbled to a peninsula of secondary world-wide im portance; (3) the Russians have lost only one known combat man in bat tle; (4) conflict has hastened the financial drain and made inflation more dangerous in the west; (5) Communists still retain the initiative, in Korea and throughout the world. THE YEAR OF INFLATION —Since the Korean war began on June 25, 1950, livestock prices in this country have increased $3 to $10 a hundred pounds. At the same time, livestock production was much greater during die past 12 months than the preceding twelve. A year ago hogs were no higher than $20.50. Today they are selling at $23.50, and last summer went to $25.50 a hundred pounds. Tfte cattle trade is about $6 a hundred pounds higher than a year ago although production ran 20 per cent above the 12 months preceding the start of the war. When the war broke out, steers were selling downward from $31.50. Currently they are topping at $38.50. Sheep and lamb production has changed slightly, but prices have de veloped much Mgher. Best lambs are about $34.50 now, down from $42.50 In March, but compared with $28.50 a year ago. Ewes are topping at $17.50 now, down from 25 in February, compared with $10.50 a year ago. The Silent Enemy Rain and mud have taken over the bat tlefields of Korea as the silent enemy of the foot soldiers. And while peace rumors circulate throughout the world, the fight ing and dying goes on. -s' s \ ^ >„ ■* & m ••••••• A mm lili mm The Home Front Battle On the home front the battle to keep down prices was the issue of special groups. The CIO entered the fray by launching a drive for tighter anti-inflation controls. RECORD-BREAKING TAX—By a vote of 233 to 160, the house ap proved a record-breaking $7,200,000,000 tax increase, including a 12tt per cent boost in individual income taxes. The measure is now before the senate where the finance committee is holding hearings. The senate is expected to approve the bill, possibly with • few minor changes. Here is where the government would collect the additional money; Individuals, $2,847,000,000; corporate income and excess profits taxes’, $2,855,000,000; excise taxes, $1,252,000,000; and miscellaneous changes in the revenue laws, $245,000,000. PARIS TALKS END—After 18 weeks of futile talks, the deputy foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and Russia broke off their efforts to write a program of a big four conference to ease world tension. But they left the door open for their governments to make one last at tempt to arrange a meeting of the big four foreign ministers, which has been suggested for July 23 in Washington. No one in the diplomatic world believed that the Russians would accept the invitation. STARTLING EXPERIMENT Spray Keeps Vegetables Fresh a Year ABANDONED BABE . . . Nurse Marilyn Hague is shown caring for a Week-old baby boy in the New York foundling hospital. The infant was found abandoned in the ladies’ washroom of a west side subway. Results of experiments with a new spray — meleic hydrazide — which keeps potatoes, onions and several other vegetables fresh for a year or more, was reported by The Country Gentleman. * The spray arrests growth. Growth is so slow after spraying that the vegetables fail even to die at the rapid rate normal during storage. Every living process seems slowed down. Flavor and firmness are re tained for a long time, apparently for about a year. Scientists reported experiments were so successful they “could hard ly believe them possible.” Crops are sprayed before gathering. The spray does not affect the yield. It has been used successfully on potatoes, on ions, carrots, beets, parsnips and turnips. HITS BACK ... Dr. William J. Fordrung, suspended 57-year-old professor at Hunter college, is shown speaking at the college where he struck back against his ouster on charges of a “sensation al and unwholesome approach” to teaching sex hygiene. THIS’LL HOLD YOU . . . Louis Morales, 13, licks an ice cream cone held by an emergency police man as another policeman uses hacksaw to cut away bars im prisoning the youngster. Louis stuck in his head, and couldn’t get it out. HONEYMOON ANGLE . . . Symbolic of thousands of honeymooning June brides and grooms are Tony and Ann Baker of Berwyn, 111. The young couple spent their honeymoon time at Wisconsin Dells, “Play ground of the Middlewest.” Photo shows them in the gravity-defying “wonder spot.” They feel like they are standing straight and erect, but here is the way they appear. Leaning slightly to port, we would say. WHATIZZIT WHETS CURIOSITY . , . When the museum of modern art opened its young sculptors’ salon in Paris it gave the youngsters some thing to wonder about. One young Parisian is doing his wondering here, holding his head and trying to figure out just what was in the mind of the creator of sculpture in front of him. If you use your imagination a little, you may be able to see a squatting figure playing a clarinet or a saxophone. Sez Who? HE’S HAPPY NOW . . . Richard Wyzkowski, 4, of Cleveland’s east side, has a broken nose, two black eyes, cauliflower left ear, a head covered with fresh wounds, and old scars and bruises all over his body. He was taken from mother and father and put In detention home. Father reportedly beat hifo. ANALOGY: PEACE AND WAR . . . The sharp contrast between tiipes of peace and the years of war can still be found in the city of London. With bomb ruins as an unspectacular backdrop, the annual London soap-box derby is shown as it got under way. The “derby” was organ ised by the boy scout organisation and has created a great deal of enthusiasm with the English youngsters. No. 26 should have a periscope. SOMETHING SMELLS . . . Once dapper Mickey Cohen holds his nose in manner of discontent at conviction on four counts of Income tax evasion. Embroidery on shirt forms contrast with blue denims. Cohen said, “it ain’t the end.** DISCUSS INDICTMENT . . . FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and U.S. Attorney General Howard McGrath are shown as they met at the de partment of justice to discuss indictment of 21 top-ranking Communists. Netted in the swift FBI raids in New York and Pittsburgh, 17 of the 21 are now In custody. A nation-wide dragnet had been spread for the missing four at the time this picture was taken. Swift prosecution is expected by observers. Attack on Marshall S ENATE Democratic leaders called an emergency off-the- record huddle the other day to de cide how to meet Senator Mc Carthy’s 60,000-word attack on Sec retary of Defense Marshall. Minnesota’s fiery Sen. Hubert Humphrey suggested a mass walk out when McCarthy got up to speak. Pointing out how Hitler started his rise to power by tearing down the heroes of the German republic, Humphrey snorted his disgust at McCarthy’s tactics. “There are many ways to de stroy people—sometimes by out right murder, sometimes through the process of attrition,” declared Humphrey. “I mean character as sassination, misrepresentation and quoting out of context. This is the most inhumane way.” The senator from Minnesota sug gested that the Democrats had only two alternatives—“either stand up and fight back which is almost im possible to do when McCarthy con trols the floor, or remove ourselves from the scene of the unsavory con duct.” However, Sen. Lyndon John son of Texas favored sending in a 'conservative sonthern Demo crat to hit back at McCarthy. Anyone else who tried it would be branded as a Communist by McCarthy, Johnson observed. He suggested George of Georgia or Byrd of Virginia, since Mar shall lives in Virginia and Byrd made the original motion in fa vor of Marshall’s nomination. However, McMahon of Connecticut warned that it was an “impossibility trying to debate with McCarthy, because you never can pin him to the facts of the issue.” He added that Marshall had stature enough to withstand the Mc Carthy blast and suggested that the McCarthyites had lost the Mac- Arthur fight, and McCarthy’s attack on^Marshall was “a deliberate at tempt to gain the offensive again. Serving Two Masters The next government agency to get in hot water with congress may be the securities and exchange com mission, which polices Wall Street and the big corporations. The SEC is the only agency which has failed to answer a questionnaire, sent out "by alert Pennsylvania Con gressman Francis Walter, asking for the names of employees who had given up their government jobs to work for the same companies which they once regulated when they were government officials. The manner in which some offi cials have used their government pc/ sitions to do favors for private com panies, then have gone to work for the same companies at higher sal aries, is a national scandal. , .Probable reason why the SEC is keeping silent is that the an swers would be embarrassing. For example, SEC would have to tell how it reversed a rec ommendation to dissolve the United Corporation, after sev eral former SEC employees were hired by United. Organized by J. P. Morgan, United Corporation is a giant holding com pany which gives Wall Street bank ers control over several power and electric companies. In 1942 the SEC staff recommended dissolving this parent corporation under the hold ing company act and on the grounds that it served no useful purpose ex cept to perpetuate banker control. However, the bankers turned round and hired several SEC offi cials, including some who had worked on the very recommenda tion to dissolve the United Corpora tion. First to move over to United was William M. Hickey, who had been assistant director of SEC’s public utilities division. Suddenly in April, 1943, he became president of United Corporation. In addition, John J. Burns, SEC counsel in the early days, became United’s senior coun sel; E. Carey Kennedy, ex-SEC analyst, became vice president of the company; and Edward Roll, formerly a minor SEC official beeame assistant to United’s president. Following this, the SEC strangely had a change of heart and did not dissolve the United Corporation. Last year, a new proceeding wa* initiated, but again the bankers resorted to the same tactics, and SEC’s counsel in charge of the public utilities division legal staff, Harry Slater, overnight became as sistant counsel of United’s chief sub sidiary. Washington Pipelino The White House has received a report from Maury Maverick, ex mayor of San Antonio, on the diffi culty San Antonio's present mayor. Jack White, had in getting a recep tion eommittee to welcome General MacArthur. Gen Walter Krueger, the top general serving under Mac Arthur in the Pacific, was too busy to serve . . . The time to watch for John L. Lewis’s rumored coal strike is after the miners go off on the midsummer vacation. SHOPPER'S CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY CRUSH PROOF AVE YOU seen all the new ma terials on your store-shelves? Materials with new finishes that just dare wrinkles and creases to come and stay? Materials for dresses, for shirts, for combination spott and street wear, for dress-up or dress-down use? Don’t they just call out to you at your sewing ma chine, and make you long for a rainy day, to sew for those sunny days a’coming? You’ll find denims, not only the good old “faded blue” of the over all and the jeans—but in new col ors, even stripes, that will make up into crisp little dresses, and the most practical suits you ever wore. Coming soon, though not as yet widely distributed, is a new mate rial known as dac ron. This new mira cle stuff is absolute ly crease - proof when wet, won’t shrink or stretch in any kind of weath er, and will make up into even men’s suits that will hold their press and shape in rain, or a 90 degree tem perature with 97 per cent humidity. What a find for blouses, slacks, shirts, skirts, dresses! Slacks that will hold a sharp crease through laundering. Even your menfolk’s suits will keep that band-box look through days of wear. And for that sudden business trip,' or vacation, you can pack his overnight bag with three suits, and he can unpack them as creaseless as when you put ’em in! The future of dacron is beyond imagination. It will be teamed up with wool to make suitings much less wrinkleable than all wool; and with rayon to give lower cost suits. So ask your clothier about this miracle material, and he the first to buy it when it comes in! OLD LACE COMEBACK Old-fashioned cotton lace is back again in modern guise! You know how wrinkle-proof it always was— heirloom stuff rolled up in an old trunk, and fresh and creaseless aft er years of hoarding! What a bless ing for summer clothes! You can find it in white and cream, of course, but also 'in sharper colors —reds, aquas, greens, blues, yel lows, maybe even persimmon! For street dress, or sports, or as a dec orative touch for that basic black, for collar and cuffs, or jabot, or puff sleeves—or little apronl STOLE STEALS SHOW Those new cottons stacked up on your store shelves lend themselves perfectly to the versatile stole that is this season’s big news! Buy sheer cotton, fishnet, or a colorful print, and make up a stole. Wear it over your sundress. Wear it as a sash to glamorize a solid-color costume you’re beginning to tire of. Wear it as a ruffle, a bustle, or an apron —a different costume with each use! For without a stole, your sum mer could be a fashion flop! \ Cotton separates are another so lution for variety and economy. Start with a sheath dress, for in stance, and add to it to taste. Add a duster of sheer material, or a smart jacket in contrasting or har monizing color. Combine a. T blouse of one shade with a skirt of another. Combine cotton with cotton, or dye uncreasable voile for a skirt, the same color as the broad cloth blouse—or vice versa! There’s a limitless number of possibilities of combinations of cot tons at your finger tips for the choosing from your store shelves. For cotton is still the prime nation al favorite textile fiber, being used more than wool, silk, fla-r rayon and all other fibers combined. For durability, it can’t be beat! They even have proved that cotton bales stored for more than 80 years have been found in excellent condition. /re Cream Prices Melt In Tennessee Price War McMINNVILLE, Tenn.—Much to the joy of young and old, three drugstores in McMinnville got into a price war on ice cream. One store’s newspaper ad re ducing ice cream prices up to 50 per cent was matched within hours by circulars distributed throughout the town by two other stores. Sample prices were 28 cents for a regular 55 cent quart of ice cream. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT AUTOS, TRUCKS & ACCESS. 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