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SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World Quick Agreement' " " Control Fight Confused Main Street A LONG WAY FROM PEACE As much as the people in the home towns of the nation desire peace, the majority approved the United Na tion’s flat refusal to talk about withdrawal of allied troops from Korea. The UN pointed out, and rightly so, that the question was purely political and could not be discussed at the prelimiary talks. Most observers are inclined to believe the Reds will withdraw their demand that the issue be put on the agenda. If they don’t withdraw, it is almost a certainty that truce talks will collapse. Even if the troop-withdrawal is sue is solved, however, home towners should realize it will not necessarily mean a cease-fire in Korea. It will be merely an agreement on what sub jects to discuss in seeking a cease fire. The issue of withdrawing all for eign troops from Korea will come up again in the main talks. As a result, there is only one logical conclusion the home towner can draw; the world is a long way f*om peace. SHADOWS OF 1952— The long shadows of 1952—the presidential election year—again fell across the national scene with a speech by Sen. Robert A. Taft. In an address described as the jump-off for his bid for the 1952 GOP presidential nomination, Taft de scribed the Korean conflict as “a useless and expensive war brought about by the Truman administra tion.” Despite the fact he approved intervention In Korea, Taft charged that the United States is involved in a ‘‘useless and expensive war.” Besides attacking the administration’s foreign policy, Taft promised that the GOP would restore ‘‘honesty and integrity to government” after the 1952 election and end ‘‘the low moral tone, the dishonesty and the in efficiency” of the Democratic administration. CONTROL FIGHT CONFUSING— To most home towners the battle over the price control bill, which 'should by this time be the law of the land, has been a fight of confusion. The house and senate versions of the bill differed in many details. And even one representative, when asked how his amendment to the bill would work, replied he didn’t know. For the average American, it has been much the same. He has been unable to understand the many details of the bill and the conflicting viewpoints of the proponents and opponents of price legislation. Only one thing he understood: the administration wanted a stiffer price control law, but seemed doomed to defeat. Red General General Nam ll, head of Com munist delegation to peace talks in Kaesong, issued demand of withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea. Western Fliers Guests of Iowa Town CLARION, Iowa—Clarion was host at a flight breakfast recent ly attended by 400 persons, 300 of which were out of town visi tors. The chamber of commerce reported fliers registered from Hudson, S. D., and Galena, Dl. Other visitors were from Albert Lea, Fairmont, Ceylon, Roches ter, Owatonna, Minneapolis, Blue Earth, and Pennook, Minn. Iowa fliers came from Clinton, Cedar Rapids, Jefferson, Sac City, Parkersburg, Apamo«a, Waterloo, Des Moines, Manson, Adel, Perry Laurens, Mason City, Leighton, Ames, Missouri Valley, Troy Mills, Oelwein, Tripoli and Osage. The registration list showed 150 planes in the breakfast flight. Iowa Village Finds Hoover's Birth Place Is Great Attraction WEST BRANCH, Iowa — The small town of West Branch has one great asset and is making the most of it. It is the birthplace of Herbert Clarke Hoover, only former presi dent of the United States born west of the Mississippi river. By telling the fact to the nation in attracts about 25,000 visitors annually. Now one of our nation’s elder statesmen, Hoover was born in a humble cottage just one block south of the main business district of West Branch, a friendly town of 764 population. Located on approx imately 25 acres of gently rolling Iowa prairie, the Hoover birthplace has been landscaped and beautified since it was restored in 1938. The cottage itself stands in a wooded corner of the tract, and is main tained by a full-time caretaker. In the park area, a small stream flows by the birthplace site, and the Egyptian goddess Isis, a gift of Belgian school children to Mr. Hoover, sits in a s*iall grove of evergreens. The administration contended that old controls should be extended and strengthened. That the old law was inadequate, particularly in controls of food prices, rents and credit. A stronger law was needed in the face of government defense spending during the coming month*. These arguments, however, did not impress congress. Opponent* of the administration argued that the President just urged stronger controls as a ‘‘power grab”. Skillful lobbyists for business interests also battled to weaken controls. Just before the final version was due out of the house-senate com mittee, observers believed the administration would be thankful for any kind of bill and that it would be signed immediately upon receipt by the White House. TRAINING PROGRAM OVER —Thousands of World War II veterans in the small towns and big towns of the nation received educational bene fits under the GI bill that expired last week. And despite the abuses of the program, educators, congress and the veterans administration agree that it has produced benefits the nation wHl feel for a long time to come. Thousands of veterans reaped educational benefits that they could not have otherwise afforded. Approximately 7,600,000 veterans received training for an average of 15 months each. They drew $8,700 billion in subsistence. The rest of the $12,400 billion cost went for tuition, fees, equipment, books and counseling. Veterans college enrollment hit its peak in December, 1947, when 1,158,000 dischargees crowded back to the campus. To date, a total of 2,200,000 veterans have studied in institutions of higher learning. But even more—-3,300,000—have taken courses below college level in nearly 38,000 grade schools, high schools, vocational, trade, business and correspondence schools. SPECIAL FLOOD APPEAL- For the first time since 1938, the Amer ican Red Cross launched a general disaster fund appeal in an effort to raise $5,000,000 to help 45,880 families affected by the midwest floods. Flood waters of the Missouri river caused millions of dollars of dam age in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Illinois. It was possibly the most costly flood in the history of the nation. In the four-state area, the Red Cross was reported housing 17.500 flood victims in 80 shelters and feeding 42, «K). King Is Assassinated Prince Naif (left), was appointed regent of Jordan after the assassination of his father, King Aboullak (right). The king was shot as be entered a mosque in his capital of Amman. In center is King Faisal of Iraq. PRICE WARS END- According to a senate report the price war* that started in New York after the Supreme Court’s “fair trade” decision have all but died out. The report said cutting of fair-trade merchandise occurred in 43 of 12B leading trade centers throughout the country. In the 43 cities, only 526 of 77,241 stores set prices on one or more items of merchandise below the resale price recommended or set by the manufacturers.” The report showed Denver leading the list with price cuts in 300 stores, Detroit second with 175, and New York third with 100. JAPANESE TREATY NEAR—The possibility, of a quick Japanese peace treaty became evident last week when the United States invited M nations, including Russia, to join in signing the agreement at a con- ference opening September 4 in San Francisco. Missing from the invitation list were the Communist and Nationalist governments of China, South Korea, and Italy. Although the Russians were invited, they are expected to refuse to aign the treaty, which the Soviet has denounced. In all liklihood, however, fee Russian* will send delegates to the conference to attack the treaty. APPROPRIATION Senate Group Approves Farm Work Fund A bill calling for $751,000,000 in new cash and authorizing $262,000,- 000 in loans for various farm pro grams was approved by the Senate appropriations committee. The group, however, ordered a depart ment of agriculture payroll reduc- tional of 10 per cent below President Truman’s budget. Besides the cash and loan money, the bill authorizes the spending of some $172,177,264 automatically set aside by law for use by the depart ment farm programs. The $751,000,000 in cash is some $34,400,000 more than the amount voted by the house, but is $69,000,- 000 below the amount the President requested. The boost in cash came chiefly in a $24,000,000 increase in fund# for soil consexvatiook. There are tables and a fireplace for picnickers, and fresh water is available. Maintained by the Her bert Hoover birthplace society, the park is free to the public. No com mercial concessions are allowed to operate. West Branch is located in the heart of an area richly endowed with American historical and re ligious tradition. John Brown, on his way to his final tragedy at Harper’s Ferry, paused near West Branch to recruit men in the winter of 1857-58. His headquarters, on a farm northeast of town, is marked. Twe miles east of West Branch is Scattergood school, a Friends boarding school that served as a refugee hostel during World War IL West Branch citizens tell visi tors not to miss the Cedar Valley quarries—a thriving business at the turn of the century, but now aban doned and filled with water. Highly scenic, the limestone quarries are a favorite picnic spot. They are nine miles northeast of West Branch. The small community is on state highway 1, which is hard-surfaced east to a connection with highway 30, and west to highway 6 at Iowa City, home of the University of Iowa. The town is served by the Rock Island railroad, and offers excel lent restaurants and cafes. Fire Destroys Business District of Little Town PALMYRA, 111.—The town of Palmyra, population 900, was prac tically without a business section after a recent fire. Eleven build ings in the business district were destroyed and two others were damaged. Reports from the community said the blaze started in a trash heap and spread to adjoining buildings. Mayor Clyde Stevenson said the community, 35 miles southwest of Springfield, was poorly equipped to fight fire. The town has no water system and firemen had to do the best they could with well water and water tanked to the town from near by communities. It took more than three hours to subdue the blaze. The mayor thought the loss “must run close to a million dollars”. 200 Youths Attend Boys' State in Small Town MILLERSBURG, Ky.—More than 200 boys from all parts of Ken tucky gathered at Millersburg re cently for the annual Bluegrass Boys State, sponsored by American Legion posts. The week-long meet ing was held at Millersburg Mili tary Institute. The purpose of Boys State is to train youth in the fundamentals of good citizenship and governmental functions. The session was a pre liminary to the annual meeting in Washington July 2-26 of Boys Na tion, which carries on the program at the national-government level. The boys conducted their own elections to select city, county and state officers, and familiarize them selves with the duties and respon sibilities of those offices by actual ly performing them. THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. DUMPING APPLES . . . Another truckload of Washington apples is dumped on growing pile of fruit being left to rot by growers in order to keep prices up near Yakima. More than 2,000 carloads have been dumped by growers in the past two weeks. The farmers claim that they cannot market the fruit at more than 50 cents a box. So they prefer to dump the crop than to sell them at lower prices, bringing to mind the plowing under of the “little pigs” several years ago. SQUALID HOME FOR G.I. . . . Angry senators revealed that service men with families are forced to live in such “hideous hovels” as a shack built of whiskey bottles and beer cans (above) and sleep with the lights on to keep their children from being bitten by rats. With no watfer supply, house above contains two shabby rooms divided by a counter and is rented to a corporal for $25 a month near Camp Breck inridge, Kentucky. GI’S AND GERMAN POLICE QUELL RIOTS . . . This scene shows Capt. William Priest, Baltimore, leading American and German police in West Berlin, the latter with coal shuttle helmets, in a smoke-bomb attack against mock demonstrators. Any Communist-inspired outbreak In the city will be met quickly by a combined team of U.S. soldiers of the occupation forces and West Berlin police who are being trained to gether to protect the city. The Germans are forming military units. REDS RIDE JEEPS . . . Outside peace conference building at Kae song, an unidentified American soldier scrapes mud off bumper of an American-made jeep to ascertain from what organization it was cap tured. Still bearing its U.S. army markings, the jeep and another like it have been used by Reds to transport their negotiators to and from the Kaesong peace meetings. At the left are two Russian-made vehic | cles which closely resemble the U.S. jeep. HAPPY KISS ; . . Actress Madge Meredith kisses horseshoe at prison for women, Tehachapi, Calif., after release. She served three years after conviction of conspir acy in kidnaping and beating of her manager, Nick Gianaclis, with aid of others. DE-MOTHED . . . Battleship Iowa nudges into new berth at the San Francisco naval shipyard to facili tate her de-mothballing prior to recommissioning in the active fleet. The mighty ship is ready for a thorough going-over before sail ing on active duty. KAISER SON DIES . • . Ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, 69, son of late Kaiser Wilhelm and direct descendent of Hohenzollern family that once ruled Germany, died re cently in Hechingen, Germany, fol lowing weeks of illness during 1 which he was alone. HORSEBURGERS . . . Virginia Greenwood, Arlington, Va., eats horsemeat, prepared by her mother in lieu of too-expensive steak. Be cause of its reluctance to enforce beef price rollbacks, the present congress is called the “Horsemeat Congress.” PAYOFF MAN . . . Atlantic city gambler Francis Smith tells senate crime committee that he made a $250 payoff to State Senator Frank S. Farley, reputed political boss. Smith testified under a threat that be would be “rubbed out.” Chinese Profiteer A MERICAN truce negotiators in Korea have noted with interest that the Chinese Communists are using American jeeps. The Ameri can public has also wondered not only how the Communists were able to obtain American equipment, but why the Nationalist govern ment was driven out of China. The sub-rosa operations of the Chiang Kai-Shek family may be one of the answers. Another of their operations has Just come to light—a move by a Chiang brother- in-law, with other wealthy Chinese to corner the soybean market at the expense of the American public. The brother-in-law is T. L. Soong, brother of foreign minister T. V. Soong, who formerly handled much of the three and a half billion dol lars worth of supplies which the United States sent to China during the war. The soybean pool netted a profit of $30,000,000 and shot up the cost to the American consumer $1 a busheL One of the strange things about the soybean manipulation was that its operators knew exactly the right time- to buy up the world’s soybean supply—a few weeks be fore the Communists invaded Ko rea. Recently this column told how Eugene Soong, son of T. L. Soong, together with L. K. Kunk, son ol Dr. H. H. Kung, another brother- in-law, sold a huge quantity ol precious tin to the Chinese Com munists. As a result Secretary ol Commerce Sawyer has now barred this group, together With three law partners of Ex-Secretary of De fense Louis Johnson, from getting export licenses to trade with any country for three years. It was the father of Eugene Soong, T. L. Soong, who bought up half a million bushels of soybeans before the Korean war in May, 1950. GOP Targets for *52 A frank outline of GOP cam paign strategy for 1952 was pre sented to key Republican senators' assistants by A. B. Hermann, the energetic national committee execu tive director, in a private meeting the other night. The tall, banjo-eyed Hermann, one-time big-league ballplayer, con fided; “We won senate seats Iasi year wherever we took our glovei off. There were only two states we should have taken and didn’t and that was because our nominees re fused to punch hard—Missouri and Connecticut. “Why,” complained Hermann, “we had to bootleg speakers like McCarthy into Connecticut.” The “prime targets” in 1950, he said, were Scott Lucas in Illinois; Francis Myers in Pennsylvania; Elbert Thomas of Utah, and Millard Tydings of Maryland. Turning to Frank Smith, assistant to Sen. John M. Butler, who defeat ed Tydings, Hermann continued: “We did a beautiful job in Maryland and Utah, Frank. I don’t see why the Democrats yelled so much about the composite picture in your cam paign, when, by comparison with the anti-Thomas newspaper in Utah, your publicity was like a country gentleman’s.” He referred to the fact that in Utah, a supposed “congressional record” with statements attacking Thomas as a pro-Communist was circulated to all mailboxes in ths last hours of the campaign—so lat* that Thomas had no opportunity to reply. “We all know Senator Thomas was not a Communist,” Hermann explained, “but these tactics wen necessary to balance the pseudo liberal newspapers which were foi him.” ; Pointing to Dick Cardall, admin istrative aide to Sen. Arthur Wat kins of Utah, Hermann continued: 'There’s the fellow who gets a lol of credit for that victory. Senatoi Bennett (the Republican who beai Thomas) is very much indebted to him.” The 1952 target areas, Hermann indicated, were to retain all Repub lican seats in the New England and Atlantic states, and pick up nev senators in Arizona, New Mexicc and Wyoming. “We have Republican governors and some patronage strength tc put on real scraps,” he explained. “Also, we have a fighting chance of picking up seats in Maryland, Kentucky, West Virginia and strengthen our position in the south. “On the other hand,” he said, pointing to a map behind him, “we could lose four or five senators.” Oil and Gold Ex-Sen. Sheridan Downey of Cali fornia recently met radio corres pondent Rudy Block in a capitol corridor. Downey, who rose tc political fame on an old-age pension scheme known as “ham and eggs,” a number of years ago, is now lobbying at $3,000 a month for tide- lands oiL “Well, Senator,” said correspond- ent Block, as they shook hands. “I aea it’s from ham and eggs to oil and gold.” CLASSIFIED nrpgRTMENT AUTOS, TRUCKS & ACCESS. I HAVE four practically GMC Diesel Tractors and Refrigerated s ® m /r^ ra jT*£5l with Thermoking for sale at the rlgnv price and can give good terms ranee for a lease job for them with l® r S® firms. Call or come to see Bill Beese a* CMC Track & Coach Div.. 060 South Third St.. Memphis, Tenn., Ph. 8-3131 or 4-0789. BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. FOR SALE—Water works consisting of pumps, filtering equipment, fittings, etc. Also one slightly used Ford tractor, culti vator. harrow. ROY P. OTWELL. MAYOR City of Camming, Ga. DOGS, CATS, PETS, ETC. REGISTERED Collie BaP*. . . Bea ^! 1 /. U - Healthy, Intelligent. Ideal Working Pets— $50.00. R. V. Connerat, 2767 Dover Ra., Atlanta, Ga COON Dogs, $75; combination dogs, $50; started dogs. $25. Louis Hudson, Purdy, Missouri. . . TOY Manchester, AKC Registered. Pup pies $25 to $50. Show winnmg stud dog* for sale or service. . ' , Mauldin Manchester Kennels . Mauldin, S. C. Phone 2-0207. FARMS AND RANCHES ranch. HOME AND RANCH 2-Bdrm. furnished home and 40-acre--— with 30 acres stumped and grubbed, it acres in Pangola and Bahia grass. Price *13,500—half cash. HORACE L. SMITH. Realtor Oeala Phone 1308 Florid* HELP WANTED—MEN Shoe MAN—to take over Family Shoe Department on a profit-sharing basis. Must be a buyer. Salesman, Window Displayer Merchandiser, and a hard worker. Wr Box No. 451, Orarfc. Alabama /rite SPIRAL Aluminum Whirlers, the most lompletel^/EWou^oo^^attenttonget- ter” on the market today. The sligh breeze sends It spinning crazily back and® forth. Ideal for Used Car Lots, Service Stations, etc. For territory write ANDER SON INDUSTRIES. Box 806, Charlotte 1, N C. W Di JOURNEYMEN LINEMEN /anted at once for Maintenance Work < istribution Lines in Detroit Area. Steady Work—Rate $2.66 per hour f" H00SIER ENGINEERING CO. 14,400 Henn Street Dearborn, Mlchlgaa If interested, call Dearborn Collect Tiffany 61322 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p Logan 25019 after 6:00 p.m. Talk with George Buckley, Supt. 1 HELP WANTED—MEN, WOMEN TEACHERS WAN TE D»-Western Alaska. Lower grades, home ec., mercial, music, girl’s P.E., art, Spanish, library. Salaries $3,000-$4,750. Teachers Exchange, Boulder, Colo. TEACHERS < white)—Use our efficie placement service. No fee unless plac« —write for details. Southern Tcacl Agency, Colnmbia-1, S. C. : LADIES—Earn $1 to S3 per hour and get your own dresses as bonus, spare n showing Maisonette Dresses for woi and children. Low Prices—fully teed. No canvassing. For catalog ant details, write MAISONETTE, Box Winter Park, Florida. INSTRUCTION POPULAR Plano Short Course. All must know condensed into only 12 pa Smooth piano style is at your finger t with this easy superior method, only $1. 224 Mays Bldg., Amarillo. Texas. IS - MACHINERY & SUPPLIES \ FOR SALE: 1-Newman “512” Planner- matcher; 0 mos. old. Good as new, $10.00* 1-100 HP G.E. Slipring motor and star er. 900 RPM, 220V. ballbearing. 1 yr. old. Good as new, $1,800. LONGLEAF LUMBER COMPANY, INC. Phone S15S Bnford, Georgia MISCELLANEOUS FOR FREE Accnrate Information Con cerning Availability of Illinois APPLES and PEACHES Write Illinois Frnit Coun cil, Dept. A, Carbondale, HI. A grower’; organization. FISHERMAN!! It’s the “Tuk-A-Buket”- collapsible plastic minnow bucket, keep* minnows alive longer—water fresher— msparent—standard size; folds to iU cket; attracts fish to boat. $2.50 ck. or O. to GULF Atlantic Supply Co., 11801 N. E. 19th Ave., Miami, Florldi lorld#g| BEE 48 STATE CAPITOLS Colored views 3”x5”—Send 41.00, y< address to KAY MCCAIN our name and Bex 62, Birmingham, Michigan ONLY $1.00 - MIRACLE—A real channel and blue cat fish bait. Sample 50c postpaid. Jobbers and dealers write. SIDES Sales Ce., Dept. P-10, Jacksonville, Texas. TAYLOR ice cream machine and harden ing cabinet. All in first-class shape. Cost ■ $2,400, sacrifice for $600. Montteelle Bas Station, Montleello, Ga. - v* REAL ESTATE—MISC. I’ll SeU OH Lease in Bed River County— Texas. $2.00 per acre. Two small pro ducers recently. More to drill. B. P. Moody, Detroit, Texas. FOR SALE!—19 acres—Mountain home lo cated 13 miles out of Hendersonville, North Carolina, 3 miles from Chimney Rock. This is a sacftflce sale and must go at once. The property consists of a five room furnished home, a three room furnished garage apartment renting for $40 a month, and three utility houses, all painted and in good repair and four acres of land set in apple orchard. One thou sand feet frontage on Route 64 Highway. Schools, electricity and water available . H also a beautiful lake site. THE price $17,900, terms $5,000 eash, bal ance In four equal yearly payments. Ad dress Jce L. Burton, F.O. Bex 1321, Hen dersonville, N. C. Pb. 8105. TRAVEL HIGHLANDS, N. C.—One day from fax. Rooms and cottages. 4100 ft. above sea level, horseback riding, fishing, golf, shuffle board and hiking^ Children wel come. American Plan. For information write: Fred L. Cordrsy, Highlands Maner, Highlands. N. C. , • WANTED TO BUY WANT One to five million Bamboo Canes of the switch or small fishing cane variety; 7 ft. long; not under V* inch small end. If you can furnish in thousands, write H. Z. Barter, 664 Freeman, Mess- phis, Tennessee. 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