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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C History Made U S. marines in Korea recently added another chapter to their long record of firsts when, in "operation summit," they landed on a mountain by helicopter. SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World Kaesong Out As Conference Site; 934 OPS Violations Are Reported HOUR OF DECISION— For weeks the people in the home towns of the country have held to the hope of peace in Korea through negotiations. This hope all but died last week as Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, following a conference in Tokyo with Gen. Mat thew Ridgway, gave an irrevocable “no” to Communist demands that the United Nations send negotiators back to Kaesong to resume the peace talks. As an alternative, the UN command offered to meet the Reds at Songhyon in no-man's-land. At the same time, Gen. James Van Fleet, commander of the eighth army, issued a warning that has been interpreted as a thinly veiled threat. He implied, in a statement announcing the opening of an Allied fall of fensive, that his forces are capable of driving the Reds completely out of North Ko rea. Should the Reds refuse to meet the Allies at Songhyon and do not suggest another meeting place, which is con sidered possible in many quarters, the newspapers of America will be filled with news of all-out war in Ko rea during the next few months. Some observers believe the Chinese do not want to fight another winter cam paign. ^ In this hour of de cision, in which Communist and Allied forces face each other across a bloody and war-torn Korea, the hope of peace rests squarely on the Chinese. In his announcement that his forces are capable of driving the Reds from North Korea, Van Fleet said that the Allies inflicted 188,237 casual ties on the enemy during the past four months. This is equal to approxi mately 10 Red divisions. Since the war began the United Nations forces have inflicted an esti mated 1,200,000 casualties on the North Korean and Chinese. United States army officials estimate the Reds now have 400,000 men on the fighting front with another 200,000 in immediate reserve. NEW DRAFT CALL— More men from the home towns of the nation face a draft call during November and December with the announcement last week that 55,900 men will be called for duty in the army and marine corps. The latest call will bring to 734,680 the men called since the draft was resumed in 1950. The marines have taken 41,680 of the total. The 39,000 needed in November is 5,300 more than previously an nounced. Present strength of the corps is about 211,000 officers and men. Of the total, the marines will take 19,900 men. TAX BILL By the time this appears in print the house and senate committee may have finished its work on the new tax increase measure and reported it in final form. The senate version calls for a $5.4 billion boost in taxes; the house $7.2 billion. Whatever the final figure, the total tax bill will be one of the largest in the nation’s history. Last week’s tax news, however, was not confined to the new tax bill. Of interest was the announcement by Senator George that the new bill “is the last tax-increase bill I will support short of all-out war or a war crisis.” The senator’s announcement was of special significance in that he is chairman of the senate finance committee and it is his job to guide tax measures through the senate. He pointed out that the new tax measure will increase revenues to $67 or $68 billion a year in a full year’s operation, an all-time high. “That is enough to spend in a year,” he said. “It is about $15 billion more than we should spend even with a stepped-up defense program.” Then he added, “There must be a cut. I know there can be cuts if there is any strong will in the executive department.” Without Senator George’s support any future tax measure would have little, if any, chance of getting through the senate. MEAT-RULE VIOLATIONS—The office of price stabilization made the startling announcement that its agents have found 934 violations of meat regulations, involving 435 slaughterhouses, in raids in every section of the country. Two out of every five of the 1,145 slaughtering plants check were found violating beef regulations. Michael V. DiSalle, price stabilizer, made a bitter attack on the meat industry when the violations were announced. He said, "The price of beef is a vital element in the housewife’s table budget and it must be held within reason. Surely if the members of the meat industry, who have been putting selfish interest against the nation’s economic health, will stop to think of this, they will join with the great mass of people and help us keep the American economy on an even keel.” If found guilty of breaking OPS regulations, violators can be fined damages of three times the amount of price overcharges, and sentenced to a year in jail and a $10,000 fine, or both. POPULATION SHIFT—Sifice 1790 the center of population in the United States has continued to move westward. The new center, estab lished by the 1950 census, is located eight miles northwest of OLney, HL It is 42 miles west and 7H miles south of the 1940 cen ter near Carlisle, Ind. The new shift reflects the westward and southward migrations that took place during World War II when new industries moved into these areas, census bureau officials reported. The trend is expected to continue as more and more industries move west and south. On the 18th of this month a marker will be erected in the cornfield on the farm of Mr and Mrs. Carl Snider where the center is located. Once a farm home stood 200 The population center’s in the last 160 years. In 1790 Nobody lives within half a mile of the point, feet from the point. westward movement has totaled 664 miles the center was 23 miles west of Baltimore. UNITED DEFENSE FUND—The united defense fund has joined with the national community chest campaign this year in an effort to raise $18,624,854 to carry on its work. Of the total, $16,511,854 is being sought through chests and the remainder will be raised in New York city and other non-chest areas. Bulk of the funds—$13,658,207—will go to USO. The united defense fund was formed in November, 1940, to raise funds for services to the armed forces through USO and other organi zations; to aid defense-impacted communities through united community defense services; and to help process clothing collected by American re lief for Korea. The annual community chest drive was opened September 30 with | nation-wide radio address by President Truman. Community chest officials said their best estimate of the combined total to be raised bj individual chests this year is $250,000,000. REDS IN U. S. U.S. Communist Party Falling Apart According to the latest survey of the Communist party in the United States, the Reds are in a bad way. Authorities on the subject report the party is broke, its leadership done for or demoralized, its “brains” tied up trying to defend court cases, and its rank and file so confused the members are pulling out J. Edgar Hoover, F.B.I. chief, reports tha party membership has declined to 37,000 compared with a claim of 74,000 in 1947. As for fi nances, it has been unable to raise funds like it used to and those it gets go to the defense of 67 leaders convicted or facing trial. A drive in April to get $374,895 realized only $200,000. The financial picture is unlikely to improve since member ship continues to decline rapidly in all parts of the country. BRUISED ... Mrs. Anna Went worth, Staten Island, says she was bruised by two detectives after she testified she saw Richmond District Attorney Herman Meth- fessel at a gambling house. Gover nor Dewey has dismissed Meth- fessel. PREDICTS RED H-BOMB . . . Kenneth DeCourcy (above), British science editor who predicted Rus sian explosion of A-bomb, says Russians will explode an H-bomb next summer. He said Red H-bomb production is under British A-scien- tlst, Bruno Pontecorvo. PLEASE, GENERAL! ... No, the troops don’t stink. General Ike is. lust pinching his nose as a friend ly gesture. He is inspecting de fense maneuvers near Hanover, Germany, in which a defense army is “attacked” by a supposedly ene my force. QUITE A FAMILY • • • Colleen Kay Hutchins, this year’s Miss America, is back home again in Salt Lake City. The young man is her brother, Mel, named all-Ameri can in his last year as a basketball star at Brigham Young University, now a pro. RED BARLEY FOR BRITAIN . . . Russian barley is pouring into the holds of a lighter from the Russian freighter Staneleve at Surrey docks, London. The grain is transhipped by vacuum power. Last year Britain took 800,000 tons of Russian grain for which she paid in machinery and material needed by the Russians. Recently the British contracted for one million tons of Red grain from this year’s harvest. Britain defends this as vital to her economy. FIREWORKS FOR BRAZILIAN GOVERNOR . . . Governor Eugenio de Barros, his wife, two daughters and a son take refuge in a huddle on the floor of the “Lion’s Palace” in San Luis, Maranhao, Brazil, when a rebel force of thousands greeted him with guns, knives and clubs on his return after a federal tribunal had confirmed his election. Four persons were killed In the demonstration and about 20 others were wounded. The opposition contends too many ballots were thrown out. ENGLISH TRAIN DISASTER . . • This is an air view of the wreckage of the express passenger train that was wrecked recently near Rugby, England. The train was derailed outside of a tunnel. Thirty persons were reported killed and at least 35 injured. One of the cars in the foreground of the picture was smashed into matchwood. The locomotive •f the train, after derailing, rolled down the embankment at right. JUSTICE CLOSES IN . . . MaJ. Walter Reder, ex-German officer, stares straight ahead in court in Bologna, Italy, where he is being tried by an Italian tribunal for be ing responsible for massacre of 1,750 Italians during 1944. DIDN’T CHOOSE BREEDOM . . . A Czech private and staff sergeant who were among the passengers aboard the “freedom train” which crashed the iron curtain into west Germany are shown with U.S. M.P.’s and border guards shortly before they were turned over to Czech authorities. Before they Were returned to their homeland, the private was found with his nose glued to a show window looking at the first bananas he had seen in six years. No War This Year *pHE month of September and early * October when the harvest is in is the time when the chanceries and general staffs of Europe watch closest for signs of war. If Europe can get by this period of dry, mild weather before winter bogs down an attacking army, they figure there will be no danger of war at least until June. Top U. S. officials, likewise, have made all-important surveys of the war possibility, and it is possible for this column to report what their general conclusions are: 1. Russia will not launch World War III this year. However, Russia is expected to continue pressing war by satellites. 2. China, not Russia, has been more eager for a truce. The U.S. war study indicates that Russia came out with the truce proposal chiefly for propaganda purposes; perhaps to stall for time in order to get new arms to Korea. 3. Next step in Communist aggression is likely to be Burma, Thailand, and Indo- China. This area is all-important to the Kremlin if the millions of China are to have rice. Moscow would probably gambl^ on start ing World War HI in' these countries, though she doesn’t ac tually want it. 4. In Iran the Russians will prob ably march into the northern prov ince of Azerbaijan and take it by force—if the British go into south ern Iran to protect their oil refinery. Here again the Russians are will ing to gamble that the west will not go to war over Iran. 5. In Germany, the U. S. analysis does not anticipate a Russian mili tary move, but does foresee a con tinual army build-up. Behind Iren Curtain Increasing evidence is coming back from inside the iron curtain to show that the freedom-friendship balloons and other activities of the crusade for freedom have really got under the Kremlin’s skin. In east Bohemia, for instance, fields where the balloon messages fell were declared “off-limits” to farm workers by security sections of the national Communist commit tee. In another section of Bohemia, Communist officials offered rewards to the teams of youth brigades who collected the largest number of friendship leaflets. Near the Czech-Austrian border, a patrol of border po lice reported “voluminous fly ing objects” which might be dnemy paratroopers. When Prague got the report, it dis patched tank units amid great excitement. The flying objects, however, turned out to be pillow balloons with the Word “Svoboda”—“free dom”—written on them in large let ters. They were bouncing along the ground in the early morning twi light like miniature flying saucers. Inside of them, of course, were friendship messages from the Amer ican people to the people of Czecho slovakia. Weeding Out Bureaucrats It hasn’t received any publicity, but President Truman has ordered a drastic housecleaning to sweep the drones from federal government. An ultimatum has already gone out to all agencies to clean house or face budgetary and personnel cuts. “The present emergency has caused great demands on the. man* power resources of our country with shortages of manpower in cer tain special areas already being felt . . . The federal government, as the largest single employer in the country, should set the example. Therefore, I expect the head of each executive department and agency to bring about maximum effectiveness and economy in the utilization of personnel,” the President wrote in identical letters to civil service chairman Robert Ramspeck and budget director Frederick Lawton. Truman ordered them to “re quest reports from all depart ments and agencies and conduct regular inspections and surveys so that reports can be made to me on progress in conserving manpower. “This manpower conservation pro gram should be given top priority throughout the executive branch,” the President added. As a result, Ramspeck and Law- ton sent a joint ultimatum to all agencies to “take steps to assure the most effective and economical use” of manpower. Washington Plpolino Though she stands aces with new Secretary of Defense Lovett, dy namic Assistant Secretary Anna Rosenberg may resign. She was brought in by George Marshall to cut the waste out of armed serv ices’ manpower and has nearly ac complished her mission ... In a swift week-end operation, Michi gan’s Sen. Blair Moody and Walter Reuther, of the auto workers, talked defense mobilizer Charley Wilson out of $800,000 in contracts.' SHOPPER’S CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY \ »; f:.? £ & J ^ £ -,V' ' « ■ • COTTON TO COTTON TNO you cotton to cotton? Do you think cotton, like the last rose of summer, is a thing of the happy past? Cheer, lady, cheer, for now you can do yourself a favor, give yourself a break—and dress your self and your fam ily in cotton all year round. It’s right there for you—your store is filling up with fall and winter-weight cottons. And now’s the time to buy ’em, either ready-made, or for your own home-made clothes, for your self, your children, yea even for that man in your life. Military needs at present are ap propriating only about 10 per cent of the cotton supply, nothing to the quota during World War II. With possibly increasing demands for the military, cotton for civilian use, of course, will shrink in quantity—so buy now while you can. Not only does cotton', save you money—just compare the price of a wool dress -with a corduroy for a test—but think of the cleaning ex pense you save, and the time, when you can launder your fall and win ter clothes as easily as those sum mer things. Broadcloth, velveteen and cordu roy are the leading ladies in this fall and winter cotton drama. Dark- colored broadcloth, highlighted by pique collar and cuff-treatment, makes an ever-serviceable dress for high school girl, club woman, house wife or career miss. Velvet een, either solid color, or in the new prints, is glamorous and prac tical in any combination. And corduroy—that’s what it real ly means, of the king. Used for years for casual and sports wear, this rich material lends itself ideal ly to tailored dresses, suits, jack ets, and jumpers, worn with crisp cotton blouses. You’ll find a wide variety of these new cotton fabrics on your store shelves, and many dresses, jackets, even suits, hanging temptingly on display. New weaves, colorful strip ings, checks, plaid)!, even cotton tweeds, are all in the picture for fall and winter. MOTHER’S PRAYER Cotton for the children’s clothes is the complete answer to a moth er’s prayer. A recent survey proved that a majority of mothers prefer cotton for seven out of ten items of children’s clothing. This survey qovered such items as winter baby shirts, crib blankets, girl’s winter bathrobes and one-piece dresses, boys’ knitted and woven school shirts and pants, and snowsuits for all. As a matter of record, cotton was the wily material these women had ever heard of for these basic items. » And why do most mothers prefer cotton to other fibers? Because it costs less to begin with, costs noth ing but a little time to launder, and lasts and lasts and lasts. So buy your cotton, either made up, or for your own home making! CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT- BUSINESS A INVEST. OPPOR. MACON'S leading service satien location for Immediate lease. Sinclair station at Spring and Ocmulgee Streets. Qualified person can purchase without payingany goodwill. Adequate capital and ability ro- a ulred to operate a major service «t»» on and tire service store. Discuss in person by appointment only. Trie# OU, llg? Sixth Street, Macon, Ga. Dial Z-4SSS. Railroad Gives 47 Small Towns Bells for Churches LOUISVILLE, Ky.—In the past year the L. Sc N. railroad has sup plied 47 church bells to rural and small town churches in Kentucky, Tennevee, Virginia, Alabama, Il linois, and Georgia. The bells, each of which weighed 300 pounds, were obtained from steam locomotives the road scrapped. The latest com munities to receive bells are East* Bemstadt, Ky., Morehead, Ky.* Nonaburg, Term., and Paris, Tenn. AUTO TRIM SHOP FOR SAUK Finest, and only downtown shop in the city. Good building and lease. Plenty of llgnt. Doing the higher class work. There has been a trim shop in this building for 18 years or more. I have been trimming for 30 years, and want to retire. ' Contact Me Direct Riley Mahaffey—Owner Mahaffey’s Trim Shep 107 E. MeBee Ave. Greenville. 8. C. DOG8, CATS, PETS, ETC. COLLIES—3 mos. old. Registered in pur chaser’s name. Championship lineage. Males $45, females $3d. W. A. HanUe, Edwards Lake Rd., Rt. 5. Phene 4-MS1 or Trnsavlllc, 4253. FARMS A RANCHES FOR SALE—I have several, several thou sand acres of farm land. Most of these ere fenced and well sodded in winter g -asses. 100-acre tracts to 2,000 acre ecte. J. T. Carpenter, Newmae, Georgia. HELP WANTED—MEN TOOL DESIGNERS DIEDESIGNERS CHECKERS WANTED BY AN ESTABLISHED ENGINEERING CORPORATION. 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