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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World Americans Disappointed by Red's List of 3,198 Prisoners-of-War LAUGHTER AND TEARS—rears and laughter echoed in the home towns of America. The Communists handed over their list of American prisoners, containing 3,198 names. For mothers and fathers, sweethearts and wives, of these 3,198 there was laughter and one of the happiest holiday seasons on record. But for other thousands there were tears and despair. The nation as a whole, however, was shocked and disappointed by the list. What had happened to the remaining 11,559 American sol diers known missing in Korea? A civilian employee of the De fense departments public informa tion office bands reporters the first list of names of 3,198 American prisoners-of-uar as reported by the Communists. There was no answer to this question. But all too well the peo ple of America remember the stories of atrocities made public recently in Korea. And even as thousands were rejoicing at word that their fight ing men are still alive, the De partment of Defense and President Truman warned that the Commu nist prisoner-of-war reports are completely unverified. The enemy has refused to permit Red Cross inspection of its camps. White House Secretary Joseph Short told newsmen: “The Presi dent has asked me to urge every news medium to stress as often as possible that the prisoner-of- war list is entirely unverified. “He appreciates the efforts al ready made along this line but be lieves it important to continue them—to do even more than al* QUESTIONED . . . Charles Oli- phant, ex-counsel of revenue bu reau, admits he gave Henry Grune- wald data on Teitelbaum tax case, but denies he was member of al leged clique of officials who tried to shake Teitelbaum for $500,000 in crooked money. ready has been done. "This country has no way of verifying whether the list is accurate or inaccurate, true or false, complete or incomplete. "Fur the sake of the families whose sons are missing in action, everyone should treat this list with skepticism.” But for the mothers of America there was one reaction: “Thank God for such wonderful news. It answers tens of thousands of prayers.* Shortly after the names of Americans on the Communist list was made public, the UN handed the Reds a stiffly-worded note demanding that the enemy account for more than 1,000 prisoners not named. The UN contends these prisoners had been named in earlier Communist propa ganda broadcasts, but were not on the prisoner-of-war list. What has become of them, the UN wants to know? EUROPE'S UNITY— There has been a growing feeling in the rural sections of America that the countries of western Europe are making little progress toward unity in spirit or force. Secretary of State Acheson, however, believes otherwise. Acheson said recently that Europeans have made more progress in the last four years toward bringing about this unity than they did in the previous five centuries. As - examples, he pointed out the six-nation Europe-army program and the Schuman plan for pooling coal and steel resources. One of the main blocks in the formation of the Europe-army is the British unwillingness to contribute troops to such an organizaion. Before the plan can succeed as planned by General Eisenhower, the British will have to change their policy which dates from the time of Queen Elizabeth. COST-OF-LIVING— As 1951 came to a close, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released figures on the cost-of-living for the American family. The bureau’s index hit a new peak of 10.8 per cent above the level of June, 1950, when the Korean war broke out. The bureau said the rising costs of miscellaneous goods and services, and higher prices for fresh fruits and vegetables, were largely responsible fat the increase. ' u *> NEW BLACKMAIL— Hungary, with a record of holding American citizens to gain concessions from the United States, has embarked again upon the blackmail trail. This time she is holding four U. S. airmen whose plane was forced down by Soviet fighter planes after it strayed across the Hungarian border. The Soviet puppet says she will bring to trial the four airmen who violated the Hungarian border “with the criminal intentions of dropping spies and diversionists in the territory of the Hungarian Republic.” Last year Hungary jailed American businessman Robert A. Vogeler on charges of espionage and later released him after the U. S. agreed to a number of concessions. It is now but a matter of time before the Hungarians ask for more concessions. And if the blackmail works as before, the airmen will be released after much propaganda and the concessions granted. , THE BIG TRAGEDY—Among other things, the year 1951 will be remembered for the big tragedy—the millionth traffic fatality. The nation’s tragic parade of motor vehicle accident deaths began September 13, 1899. H. H. Bliss, victim No. 1, was killed by a horseless carriage in New York City. Heavy snow and ice-crusted highways and the fact that thousands of Americans made holiday trips, contributed to the traffic death rate late in the year. j U.S. BALKS—For the first time in the history of the United Nations, the United States balked at the levy it must pay to help maintain that organization. The U. S. cited its huge expenditures in the Korean war and the billions spent to uphold the charter principles which the United Nations was not in a position to implement. The assembly, however, approved a 1952 budget of $48,096,780, of which the U. S. will pay 36.9 per cent. Although less than last year’s levy, the U. S. objected that no state should pay more than one third of the budget. _ . * • The British are to pay 10.56 per cent of the fiscal year 1952 and the Soviet Union, the Ukraine, and White Russia 11.49 per cent. FREED . . . Vance Erin Hardy was freed in Detroit court after spending 27 years for crime he did not commit—murder. He was freed through the efforts of his sister, Gladys Barrett, Detroit, after in vestigation by a national magazine of his case. BLIND GI HOME . . . P.F.C. Charles Hunziger, New York, al most totally blinded by a grenade explosion In battle of Heartbreak Ridge, was flown home by the mili tary air transport service. He spent the recent holiday with his mother. - K V . m m m I llli ' -x&xx-x-;: m II * mmsm £*v:* ; *s Meeting for the first time since World War II, two old friends, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (left) and Prime Minister Winston Churchill (right) met in Paris recently for d series of conferences on the European army plan. Eisenhower was understood to have made a fervent appeal to Churchill to give more encouragement to the plan. There were also reports circulated after Churchill returned to England that Eisenhower expressed his willingness to "stay on the job" for a longer period if Britain would give greater support to the plan. MEAT FORECAST Smaller Spring Pig Crop in Prospect Hopes for a larger supply of meats in butcher shops next yepr [ lower prices received a jolt the government’s forecast of a 9 per cent reduction in next ’s pig crop. It may mean higher meat prices, the snt of Agriculture believed, lent survey indicated pig crop would number , compared with .61,- 957,000 last spring, and 55,407,000 for the 10-year (1940-49) average. Responsibility of the reduction in production rests largely with a dwindling supply of corn and other livestock feeds. For the past two years the nation has been using grains at a faster rate than it has produced them. The deficit has been taken from reserves accumu lated in 1T48 and 1949. - BLEAK FUTURE . . Korea vet John Palma, Brooklyn, smiles with fiancee Terry Marchiano. Wounded in Korea, taken prisoner and re leased, he still has 12 pieces of shrapnel in his head and G. L bin of rights offers him no aid in sup porting himself. SNUG ... A white-gloved North Korean Communist corporal-of- the-guard buttons up the rain pon cho of a Communist sentry who is standing guard at the site of the Panmunjom, Korea, armistice talks now in progress. U.N. ADMITS RED CHARGES ... At Panmunjom, Korea, Colonel Andrew J. Kinney squints in the sun as he and a Chinese Communist officer hold a part of a napalm bomb casing found by the Reds at Kae- son. The United Nations admitted a charge made by the Communists that an allied aircraft strafed and bombed Kaesong. The city is the headquarters for the Communist delegation to the armistice talks. JET HELICOPTER . . . Former navy pilot William Murray, Wilton, Conn., flies the experimental helicopter K-225 during its first successful flight, just announced by the navy. Instead of using velocity of exhaust gases for forward thrust, the craft uses this power to turn shaft of rotor blades. Engine can operate on low grade fuels or on high octane gasoline. Unlike piston engine, the turbine requires neither a cooling fan or a centrifugal clutch. Engine Is 175 h.p. ’ " CROSSING ACCIDENT KILLS DRIVER . . . This panel truck, in which Its driver died, rests atop a railroad trestle in Pittsburgh near the train with which it collided. The freight train struck at the crossing, and the force of the collision carried the truck several hundred feet on to the trestle. The driver, Jacob Ambrozic, who was an operator of a cleaning shop, was delivering clothing to his customers when his truck was hit by the train and shoved on the trestle. Hmm I WATER TANK FALLS UPON TOWN ... An entire city block in the town of Tucumcari, New Mexico, was devastated recently when a huge water tank suddenly collapsed and crushed and flooded the whole area. Four persons in the vicinity of the tank ware killed. No explanation for the sudden fall of the large tank, which co«t one million dollars, was given, but authorities were investigating to determine if there was deliberate destruction of the tank by persons unknown. The Clean-Up W HITE HOUSE advisers report that while the President was at Key West he did not seem too anx ious to move boldly toward a cor ruption clean-up. When he got back to Washington, however, he got much more in a mood to house- clean. Some of the young men around him felt pretty strongly about the housecleaning and did their best to influence the President. So did Sen. Clinton Anderson of New Mexico, a former cabinet member, while new Democratic Chairman Frank Mc Kinney also threw his weight behind a purge. It was Senator Anderson who first phoned the President at Key West more than three weeks ago urging drastic action. At first. Chief Justice Fred Vin son, though anxious for a clean-up, seemed- to think things could be patched up without firing Howard McGrath as attorney general. Sen ator Anderson, however, disagreed. He told the chief justice that the President would lean on him heavSy for advice and that he should rec ommend drastic measures. Without a drastic purge, the senator from New Mexico argued, the administration would lose all control ever con gress. Vinson seemed to agree. Broken Mink Market -'*■ A ' / •• The other day a high official of the munitions board wanted to buy a small fur piece as a 25th wedding anniversary present for his wife. Momentarily forgetting the cur rent congressional investigations, ha entered Washington’s swank Erie- bacher’s and asked to see some fur neckpieces. "Here is a nice Russian sablp at $600 per skin,” said the clerk. "That’s too. high for me. What else do you have?” said the officiaL Then the clerk produced a stone marten fur piece at $335 a skin. The official again shook his head, claiming it was too steep a price, and added: "Well, don’t you make these fur pieces in mink?” The startled clerk practically had a stroke. Recovering his breath, he finally stammered: “Mink! Who would buy mink in Washington? The market has been broken—broken in little pieces. There have been no mink sales in Washington for two months.” '• Abandoning Ship More and more - top government officials are deserting the Truman administration. Latest to plan their exit are Stuart Symington, Recon struction Finance administrator, and 1 Manly Fleischmann, head of Defense Mobilization. ' i Both are among Truman's top trouble-shooters, but both are afraid of getting smeared by close association with an admin istration that gets bogged down deeper daily. ^ In addition, Symington, when ) started cleaning up the RFC and firing certain “friends” got a deluge of unpleasant ribbing from certain White House ^guardsmen.” “Who do you think you are—little Lord Fauntleroy?” asked one White House secretary who had a finger in the RFC. * Coddling American Women A group of congressmen investi gating U.S. supply bases in Europe recently got a lecture on how wa coddle our womenfolk. The congressmen were quizzing a London businessman about delays in British arms production for the North Atlantic Pact program. "We in the United States are go ing all-out to defend the free world against communism,” said GOP Congressman Charles Brownson of Indiana. "But there seems to be a lag on this side of the Atlantic. Maybe if you fallows tried incentive pay for defense workers you’d get better production.” "It wouldn't work over here,” disagreed the Londoner. "You Americans believe in extra drive and overtime, but a lot of your incentive on the job is to get more money to buy beauty treatments for your wives or labor-saving gadgets to lighten their toil. Over here, we work a little less and work our wives a little harder.” Congressman Brownson suggested that the Britisher would get a dif ferent view of the working habits rf American mothers if he visited an average household, particularly around spring cleaning time. Merry-Go-Round Mink coats and 12-pound hams should be scarce around Mike Di Salle’s stabilization offices at Christ mas time—if his staff follows the dictum that they are to accept no Christmas presents which they can’t eat or drink inside 24 hours . John Sherman Cooper, ex-sen ator from Kentucky, now a delegate to the United Nations, will run for the senate again—this time against Sen. Tom Underwood, Democrat. SHOPPER'S CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY QUARTET IN F Q UARTET in F — for Fruit — is the sweet music in the home maker’s ears these days. Prunes and raisins in the dry line, and oranges and tangerines in the fresh. Take your choice, for they’re all plentiful at your market, and there fore easy on the budget. Know what the Department of Agriculture authorities estimate? That there will be 26* per cent more prunes and—wait a minute—67 per cent more raisins than last year. What little Jack Horner in his corn er pulled out of his Christmas pie and called a plum, is the prune we know today. It’s the type of plum that’s firm and sweet, and solid enough to dry whole. Today's Horner plums—or prunes, are better, plumper and tenderer than the tradiional nursery rhyme one, and because of modern pack aging, cleaner and easier to han dle. No more of that long soaking and all-day stewing for these mod em prunes. Some of them, in fact are especially treated with moist heat,' and need little or no cooking, they’re so moist and tender. - The packaged primes can be used in multiple ways, to suit the taste of every member of the family. If they’re too dry for your favorite treatment, just cover them with water and let them stand until soft enough to cut and drain. Such prunes can be pitted and stuffed for salad or a confection. A simple way to have a constant supply of prunes to draw on, is to put rome in a fruit jar, cover with water, screw on the top, and keep ip the refrigerator for k few days. jtfHIP IT UPr For whipping up, longer cooking is necessary than for the whole fruit, because the pulp will have to separate from pit and skins to go through the sieve. For fast cooking, use your pres sure cooker. The softer prunes will be cooked by the time you have 15 pounds pressure. The harder ones may need about 10 minutes, at 15 pounds. Remove the cooker from the heat, and let the pressure drop to zero to cool the fruit gradually. If you like 'em sweeter, add sugar, or still better, honey, which is plentiful right now. If you want variety, try a slice or two of lemon or orange, or a spicy cinnamon or clove. As for raisins, they're practically a drug on the market, and are sell ing 50 to 100 per cent more widely than a year ago. So there are plenty for your coffee cake, or fruit cake, or muffins or cookies—or for just eating in the raw. TANGERINE AROMA That Christmas stocking aroma of tangerine lingers on for months as an echo of the holidays. And you can preserve it with the large sup ply of tangerines still on the mar ket, as long as it lasts. For an aft er-school snack for-the children, as a fruit-cup, as marmalade, as a cocktail, there’s a tang in that tan gerine flavor which is like nothing else in the way of fruit. 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