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. SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World THE NEWBERRY SUN, N^EWBERRY. S. C. "Cease-Fire" Talks Should Follow Unusual Pattern of Korean Events PEACE—LIKE THE WAR—PUZZLING— With the confusing Korean conflict little more than a year old, the prospects for peace suddenly be came brighter than ever. For the average citizen on the Main streets of America, however, the promise and the possibilities of an end to hostilities seemed just about as puzzling as ever. American government and military leaders at first took a dim view of the “feelers’* for cease-fire negotiations. With understandable caution, they mistrusted the sincerity and purpose of Red China and those pulling the strings of the puppet from behind. But UN and American leaders would not miss a chance for a just peace. Truman sounded the keynote: "We are ready (to negotiate), as we have always been.” As America, and then the world, watched with abated breath, the peace campaign followed the pattern of war—aggressiveness and then reticence on both sides. Appropriately enough, thin-lipped Jacob Malik made the first overture—suggesting a cease-fire and withdrawal behind the famed 38th parallel as the “first step.” After some half-silent political parrying, negotiations began through normal diplomatic channels in Washington and Moscow. Then wires hummed between Tokyo, Peiping and Pyongyang. Anxious to save lives, Ridgway declared himself ready to talk to the Reds as early as July 5th. They, however, wanted a preliminary meeting on the 8th and a meeting of the top brass later. Ridgway concurred, and the first meeting was held in a once-rich home in the “no-man’s-land” of Xaesong. The UN sent three colonels, one a South Korean. The Reds dis patched a like number, but included “receptive personnel.” The first meeting, murely a preparing for the real negotiations, was tense, and held in utmost secrecy. American officers returned tight-lipped to their stations, but said the meeting had been “harmonious.” Tuesday the top brass began to get at the core of things. As they did, American officials pointed out to the folks at home that a cease-fire order would not be an assurance of peace, and that the approach to this one seemed fraught with trickery. The statement, intended, no doubt, to ward off optimism, was not necessary. Generally, the American belief was that the Communists wanted to quieten the Korean scene in advance of a new outbreak somewhere else. The only optimists were those who thought the quest for a case-fire meant the Russians were desirous of shifting main efforts to the diplomatic fronts in view of the disastrous failures in Korea. Some so-called “reliable” sources also said that Stalin was ailing, that there was a general internal struggle in Moscow to get in line for his job, and so the Reds needed more time to devote to the home front. One of the most logical ideas was that Red China wanted out while it still could “save face” and say it had not lost the war. Factually there was less truth than speculation everywhere. Only the Reds knew why the peace movement originated. Keener U.S. observers marked the week the beginning of peace in Korea. Yet, they were quick to point out that, if peace comes, the hypo chondriac world would be rid of one headache, and then could turn atten tion to many other ailments. A peace in Korea might be fuel for a colder war. Joy That Is Real, If Premature Pst*0Mts at a hospital in Korea let their spirits rise after word of the possible "cease-fire” negotiations reached them, hoist nurse upon their shoulders. For most of them, the war is already over—their joy is for comrades on the front lines. SHIFT INTO REVERSE—As the anxious world watched the move for peace in Korea, the business world reluctantly checked reverse gears to see if it was in working order. Business analysts knew that cessation of hostilities would lessen the feeling of urgency and military spending would fall short of projected plans. Once the last shot had echoed in Korea, business could expect two -things. First, the government would drastically cut down on quantities ordered. World War II stockpiles taught Washington a lesson. Second, delivery dates would be strung out over longer periods, with a few “rush” orders. Future policy of business: to cease producing all-out and still remain ready* for all-out production. INFLATION PROFILE—During the year of Korean war, wholesale prices increased 20 per cent; retail prices about 10 per cent. Although re strictive measures had curbed the rise, and even dropped a few items down, defense spending and cutbacks in civilian production point to a strong in flationary trend, unless strong controls are applied. Price director Michael Di Salle faced newsmen with these words, “We will need every bit of price control we have had” to combat inflation. He pledged to keep up the fight for more and stronger controls, said the public was beginning to get on the controls bandwagon. IN THIS CORNER—While Di Salle spoke to the newsmen, congress men on the hill were getting squared away for their own battle royal over prices and controls. The administration was fighting gamely uphill, with two major sore spots: (1) An amendment sponsored by the agriculture committee to pro hibit all price rollbacks on farm products, rescinding even the live beef cut of 10 per cent already in effect. (2) A proposal by the labor committee to revise the makeup of the wage stabilization board so as to give public members control and to take away WSB’s authority to handle labor dis putes. UNDAUNTED DEFENSE—The President’s t r o u b 1 e-shooter, W. Averell Harriman, spoke in support of the President’s 8.5 billion doHar foreign aid program, warned congress that any relaxation now in the de fense program “can lead only to disaster.” THE OTHER WAR—As the world watched for peace in Korea, Pres ident Truman called on congress to end the state of war with Germany, now nine-and-one-half years old. As he made the request, Britain, Aus tralia and New Zealand ended their state of war with the Germans, and Canada and France ware expected to follow suit shortly. India had done so on the first day of the year. The moves were a definite attempt to bring the German people back into membership among the nations of the free world. Coming at such a time, however, the action seemed part of the jig saw puzzle that is our world of today. Wars, peace, and rumors of both. LEST WE FORGET—And still another sign of the times came from Washington with the announcement that the U.S., Australia, and New Zea land have worked out a defense treaty. Uncle Sam is not forgetting the Pacific area. The treaty, which will go unsigned until the Japanese peace treaty in San Francisco two months hence, is expected to state that the United Sates will consider an attack on Australia and New Zealand from any quarter dangerous to the peace and security of this country. The treaty might well be the nucleus of a future pact embracing all of the Pacific area. DOWN ON THE FARM Belief That Truce Not a Cure-All Speaking at Louisville, Allan B. Kline, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, said that truce in Korea would not be an immediate cure lor all problems. Kline told a general session of the Southern Farm Bureau Training School that the country had two main objectives—to avoid a third world war and preserve the Amer ican way of life. The farm chief said that the Amer ican way is based on “individual initiative with appropriate re wards.” “Inflation has yet to be con trolled,” he said, “if our way is to be preserved. Even if there it a third world war, we might lose it if we devise a program we can’t pay for.” He said the bureau favors pay-as-go taxation. COMMAND APPEARANCE . . . Anthony Brancato, 35, Los Angeles and Kansas City, surrendered vol untarily in San Francisco after learning he had been promoted to the FBI’s “10 most wanted” list. He gave up to the FBI in the office of an attorney. PHILIPPINES TO PHILHARMON IC .. . Nena del Rosario, a Fili pino studying in New York, has been engaged as soloist for next season’s young people’s concerts of the Philharmonic symphony of New York. She recently won a radio station musical talent con test. FIRED FIRST SHOT . . . Lt. Col. James Little, Rock Springs, Wyo., 5th A.F., fired the first aerial shot of the Korean war for U.N., de stroying enemy plane over Kimpo June 27, 1950. The colonel is still flying his F-82. KNOWS LUCIANO . . . Gaetano Martino tells crime probers that he spent some time in Italy with Charles (Lucky) Luciano, but de nies reports that he took automo biles and medical supplies to re puted kingpin of drug traffic in U.S. and Italy. OUT OF A JOB? . . . Eric Drake who was manager of the Anglo Iranian Oil Co., arrives at London airport from the middle east. He was scheduled to confer with for- ' “ eign office officials on latest de velopments in Iranian oil crisis. PROMOTES BEEF STRIKE . . . Mrs. Louis Wright, Washington, D.C., whose indignation over high beef prices sounded an Independence Day battlecry—“Let the steers grow old”—serves chicken to her son, Louis, as her telephone chain letter consumers’ strike against beef gains mo mentum. She called 10 women and pledged them not to buy any beef during July. Each in turn pledged to obtain 10 similar pledges from 10 others. The Wrights haven’t eaten beef in a month. GENERAL’S LADY HAS A VISITOR . . . Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway, wife of the supreme commander of allied personnel in the far east, is host to Mrs. Saki Miyamoto, picturesque visitor from northern Hok kaido, Japan. Mrs. Miyamoto is wife of the chief of the Ainu tribe and a kind of lesser royalty. She visited the United States embassy in Tokyo, where she was received by Mrs- Ridgway, on a goodwill mission from her people to the forces of occupation in Japan. REWARDED . . . M/Sgt. Stanley Adams, Olathe, Kans., hero of Korea who received the congressional medal of honor for leading a bayonet charge in Korea while Communist hand grenades bounced off his body, receives a hug and kiss from his 3 H-year-old son, Gary, following pres entation of the nation’s highest decoration for bravery by President Truman at White House ceremony. Four heroes of the Korean war received the medal at the ceremony. LONDON GUEST FACES INDICTMENT . . . The lord mayor of London, Sir Denys Lowson (robed), greets Mayor David Lawrence of Pittsburgh (left) in London. Mayor Lawrence was one of the many mayors from various U.S. cities who were entertained at London’s Mansion House. Back home, a special grand Jury recommended indictment of Mayor Lawrence, charging him with misdemeanor in office. The lord mayor's wife stands beside her husband. Sir Denys. SHOPPER'S CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY TOMATOES TOPS ALL ’EM fruit, or call ’em veg etable; grow ’em yourself, or buy 'em at your store—tomatoes are tops in popularity! Food au thorities figure that the average American citizen every year eats about 70 whole tomatoes, fresh or home-canned; drinks at least 9 large cups of commercially canned tomatoes; 13 cups of soup and juice; and consumes 9 cups of pulp, puree, paste, sauce, catsup or chili sauce. Did you ever stop tc figure how many ways this national fa vorite is part of your daily life? So here’s good news to you to mato-lovers. Commercial produc tion in the United States from late spring into September is expected to be about 1,641,000 bushels more than in 1950, though in some states both the truck and the home gar dens have suffered. This generally-increased crop is heralded by the luscious Texas type, but coming closer to home and the home-market every warm day, in your own or the commer cial gardens! The glamorous, but comparative ly tasteless hot-house variety is now retiring in favor of the fruit picked green in Texas and the south, and ripened and packaged by northern buyers. As the summer marches along, however, the green import will ripen naturally on the way to market. So you won’t find so many of those intriguing transparent car tons, but you’ll be able to pick them in bulk at your grocers. With each succeeding day, more ripened tomatoes will find the way to your grocer from the truck gar dens. And that’s the time that to matoes are tops—midsummer into early fall. That’s the time they’ll be most abundant, most econom ical, and most rich in vitamin con tent. That’s the time to brighten your summer salads with the gay red of fresh tomatoes. And it won’t be long before your own will ma ture. When you go to your store to buy these beauties, be wise to qual ity. Good tomatoes are well-shaped, plump, smooth, firm, ( of good red color, and blemish-free. For cook ing or canning, the shape is less important, and if the fruit is solid with the exception of a little bruise, it needn’t be wasted. Remember there are infinite varieties of uses. MODERATION EVEN HERE If the fruit needs some ripening, don’t force it, by exposing it to excessive sunlight, but in a cor ner not warmer than 60 to 70 de grees. If you take the ripening in stride like this, so will the toma toes. Also, don’t chance putting un derripe tomatoes in the refrigera tor, for the chill halts the ripening process, and makes the tomatoes watery. Moderation in all things covers even the treatment of to matoes! Annual Muskie Race Is Won by Wisconsin Town HAYWARD, Wis.—The town of Hayward (population 1500), striving to prove its assumed title of muskie city of the world, took a big gamble recently, but won out. Striving to get the jump on other communities, the town sent its mayor and muskie queen to Madi son to present the governor with the first muskie caught when the sea son opened. The delegation ar rived in Madison before the season opened. Back at home an* airplane stood by to transport the first fish to the state capital as soon as it was caught. The season opened but the mayor and muskie queen received no word that a fish had been caught. They waited. They paced the floor. Then came a telegram from Hay ward that a fish had been caught. It was flown to Madison. The mayor and muskie queen rushed to the airport to greet the fish and then to the governor. The presented the first fish of the season to the governor and Hay ward takes the title of muskie city of the world. Town Studies Ownership Building, School, Grange SALISBURY, N.H.—The town of Salisbury has a problem. Salisbury Academy, founded more than 200 years ago, drifted out of existence. The local grade school took over one floor of the academy building and the local grange the top floor. A recent wind storm blew off the roof. Now neither the grange -or the school district will pay the bill on the grounds they don’t own the building. Aiken Attacks Byrd EN. George Aiken was once gov ernor of the rock-ribbed Repub lican state of Vermont, one of only two states voting for Alf Landon in 1936. Aiken is a frugal gentleman as are most Vermonters, but he writhed as he sat listening to Sen ator Byrd of Virginia lead a drive to cut appropriations for school lunches, juvenile delinquency. The Women’s Bureau and The Children’s Bureau. Finally Aiken could stand it no more. “An $80,000,000 ship is being built at Newport News, Virginia,” he told Senator Byrd, who used to be governor of Virginia. “It will be turned over to one of the shipping lines for $28,000,000 or a gift by Uncle Sam of $50,000,000. That gift is 50 per cent more money than we plan to appropriate for maternal and child welfare work in this coun try under the budget cuts. “Does a five-year-old child have any cash value?” continued the usually mild-mannered Vermont senator. “What is it worth to re store a crippled person to a place where he is self supporting? What is the cash value of a healthy mother, as compared to a sick one? Are we to determine this in terms of dollars and cents, and decide the fewer the cents the better off the country will be?” “To hear the talk this afternoon,” Aiken added bitterly, “one might assume that we ought to drown all our children and mothers and get them out of the way. Then they wouldn’t cost us anything.” A Reason for Peace Unquestionably one reason for Moscow’s peace feelers is the ef fectiveness of a little-known U.S. weapon in Korea. For some reason, never explained at the MacArthur hearings, General MacArthur failed to use this weapon in the early stages of the Korean war. More re cently, however, it has caused ter rific Chinese casaulties. The weapon Is the radar-con- \ trolled proximity fuse, now no Unger secret. This amazing de vice explodes artillery shells just as they hit the target, giving them a devastating ef fect. Previously shells exploded as they buried themselves in the ground, which detracted from their effect. The proximity fuse was used dur ing the end of World War H, but it has been a major mystery why MacArthur failed to use it in the early stages of the Korean war. If he had done so, the back of the Communist offensive might have been broken early with countless saving of American Uves. To solve the mystery of Mac Arthur’s failure to use the proximity fuse, the Pentagon finally sent ord nance expert Col. C. H. Roberts to Korea. He came back with the explanation that MacArthur had failed to train artillery crews in the use of the fuse. Under Gen. Ridgeway, however, the proximity fuse has become the key to American firepower, and the chief reason the Chinese have suf fered such devastating casualties. Undoubtedly also it is one reason why Malik has thrown out over tures for peace. Note.—Illustrative of the Army’s present policy of admitting and cor recting mistakes, Maj. Gen. Floyd Parks’ press branch in Washington was willing to make public the facts regarding the proximity fuse error. However, the F^f Eastern Command overruled Parks. Peace Overtures It is no longer a secret that U.S. delegates to the United Nations have been working with other U.N. members for some time on a Ko rean truce proposal and that Com rade Malik jumped the gun on them. The most important issue in these discussions, however, has not leaked out—namely, the differences of opinion regarding two highly con troversial points: 1. Disposition of Formosa; and 2. Seating the Chi nese Reds in the United Nations. The U.S. proposal, discussed with 15 other U.N. nations by U.S. Am bassador Ernest Gross, was to post pone any consideration of Formosa or seating the Reds until after all other conditions had been ironed out. The State Department was completely adamant on this, and maintained that we would not dis cuss these two points even until: 1. The whole Korean question had been settled, and 2. All troops had been withdrawn. This was the 1 chief stumbling block between ourselves and some other U.N. members. The above terms were somewhat similar to those which President Truman sent to General MacArthur for his perusal just before Easter and which MacArthur subsequently issued as his own. MacArthur’s jumping the gun was one fact which contributed to his ouster. The Pres ident, however, is in no position to oust Comrade Malik for likewise jumping the gun when he heard that the U.N. and the UJS.A. were working on a truce. He’s Dead What became of the hired hand you got from the city? 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