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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-04-15
u. S. FLEET:
Aton,icalty

There was a sharp difference OF
opinion as to whether us. warships
were sailing around in the Mediter-
ranean-focal point Of the current
international crisis-with a load Of
atomic bombs.
Rep. A. I. Miller (Rep., Neb.)
made the affirmative contention and
the navy took the negative stand.
Miller told a group of Republicans
in Lincoln, Neb., that ''most of our
ships are in the Mediterranean
and it was common knowledge in
Washington that they were equipped
with atom bombs.
In an official statement the navy
replied that only Is U. S. combat
ships were in Mediterranean waters
and that mot one of them is carry
ing an atom bomb" Furthermore,
it added. the Mediterranean flotilla
IL only small part Of the total
fleet Of 276 warships.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-04-15
BUNDLE FROM HEAVEN

U. S. astronomers have revealed
the discovery of a bundle from
heaven-a strange new minor planet
which moves around the sun at high
speed.
The planetoid is only about two
miles in diameter. Although there
are about 1000 of these minor
chunks of matter. all circling around
the earth like the sun, most of them
travel in orbits far larger than that
of the earth and do not come any,
where near it.
1t is the fact that the newly dis
covered planet cuts through the
earth's orbit that makes 1t unusual
Only four other minor planets have
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-04-15
SPIES:
In Germany

Conditions were getting back to
the cloak and dagger state.
With dramatic flare, radio Mos
cow charged that Russia had un-
covered an American-directed spy
ring of former German army Off.
GERS operating out of western Ger
many. Austria and Sweden to learn
Soviet zone secrets.
Leader of the group functioning in
the Soviet zone had been captured
and had confessed, Moscow re-
ported. The broadcast claimed. in
part:
''He confessed he was member
of an illegal Fascist organization ex-
listing in the western occupation zone
of Germany, consisting of officers
of the former German army who
are being used by the American IN
telligence service for espionage in
the Soviet zone.''
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-04-15
New Minor Planet 'Swims Into Ken

been found which do this. and they
have since been lost to astronomers
telescopes.
Observations indicate it is travel
ing around the sun in an orbit a
little more oval than the inside of
mans hat. 1t operates in an orbit
which cuts about 10 million miles
inside the earth's orbit. and which
Is inclined at an angle Of about IS
degrees to that Of the earth.
Facts show, according to astron-
omers, that it cannot get closer than
about 16 million miles to the earth.
The four previous minor planets
which cut into the earth's orbit were
only about so million miles from the
sun.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-04-15
HOMEBODY:
No Meeting

With the arrival Of spring and the
yearly rebirth of hope eternal, a
secondhand rurnor suddenly was re-
vived across the Atlantic. 1t had
to do with the rebuilding of the
stripped gears Of East-West rela-
tons.
The rumor, which was being cir
culated widely in Europe. said that
President Truman was planning a
trip to the continent for Big Three
conference with Attlee and Stain.
Another version, as given cur
rency by newspapers in Turkey, re-
ported that the President might go
to Europe sometime in April and
possibly visit Turkey and Greece.
1.-The position taken by the Presi-
dent heretofore in support Of free
nations and his decision in his last
speech to protect them makes it
possible for Mr.. Truman to under
take such a journey editorialized
the Istanbul San Posta.
AL tn1S was good LOT hurry OF
excitement. but in the end it turned
out to be nothing more than
clutching at straws.
MIR. Truman, the White House an
nounced, had no plans for leaving
the country. and there was no pros
pect of Big Three meeting.
The President, seldom addicted to
changing his mind. had not altered
his opinion that if and when another
Big Three conference Is held it
should be held in Washington. He
previously has stated that he would
be glad to see Stalin--in Washing
ton.
Stain had not changed his mind,
either. and there the matter rested
with the tension unrelieved.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-04-15
Mobiles:
Controls?

Bernard M. Baruch approves Of
selective service and universal mill
tary training for the present quasi
crisis, but he does not think that is
enough to meet all the implications
the world situation holds.
The financier and presidential ad-
wiser called also for an economic
mobilization plan" and said that
Americas failure to muster all its
resources now for peace would leave
mo alternative but to mobilize for
war" in the future.
Baruch told the senate armed serv-
ices committee that he was afraid
that If the nation suddenly and with
out preparation were called upon TO
mobilize and prepare for big war,
such forces of domestic initiation
would be set in motion as could
blow the country wide open and
leave it defenseless.
He suggested the appointment OF
someone to watch the impact upon
our economy Of the partial mobiliza.
ton we are entering upon and to
maintain a constant inventory, bal
ancing all our growing commitments
against our resources"
1t had not been a hidden threat.
but Baruch's statement had focused
attention on the possible danger that
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-04-15
Driving Hazard

Here's a tip: 1t isn't safe to drive
car right after you have lost an
argument with the wife. You might
have an accident.
DR.. Amos E.. Neyhart, head Of the
institute Of public safety at Penn
sylvania State college, says an
assertive reaction that takes place
after losing a domestic squabble
often causes a driver to disregard
safety considerations and bear
down angrily on the accelerator.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-04-15
REPEAT:
Ike's NO

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, fair
haired boy Of both political parties,
said it once more: He would not be
a presidential candidate on any
body's ticket.
There had been a lull following
his unequivocal refusal Of Republi-
can overtures, and then the pro-
Eisenhower sentiment was resur-
rected in the hearts Of no fewer
than four widely divergent groups.
Probably the most unique ap-
proach was being made by Torrey
Stearns, a New York public rela-
tons man, who harbors the opinion
that Eisenhower is . Republican.
He conceived People for Eisen-
hover" movement. The method is
nationwide solicitation of voting
citizens to send In postcards bear
ing this signed testimony:
II want to vote for General Eisen-
hover for president in November. l
am a citizen Of voting age"
ION June 81" Stearns announced,
''au of the statements will be pre-
sented to the Republican national
convention as indisputable evidence
that the people of the United States
demand the nomination of Dwight
D. Eisenhower for president.
But Eisenhower was having none
of it. Speaking through statement
by Maj. Gen. Floyd L. Parks. army
press chief, he indicated that ''his
no politics statement of some weeks
ago. should apply to all parties and
groups of voters"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-04-15
LABOR:
Lewis Fight

John L. Lewis and the Taft-Hart-
ley law were locked in a mortal
struggle.
His United Mine Workers were
still out of the pits in a ''volun-
tary" objection to the companies
alleged refusal to provide them with
a $100-a- month pension plan. Most
Of the 100000 miners were out fish
ing. Lewis himself was out cunning
for the Taft-Hartley law, enactment
of which was largely the result of
his activities in the first place.
After the miners had gone out,
President Truman, acting under the
Taft-Hartley law, had appointed a
fact-finding board to investigate the
difficulties. But when the board
asked John L. Lewis to testify. he
refused.
Then the board issued a subpoena
requesting that he appear. Again
Lewis refused, stating that the board
had no right to demand his presence
before it.
He said he based his disinclina-
ton to testify on the facts that:
Neither he nor the UNIV had
10 done anything covered by the
Taft-Hartley law, thereby multiplying
the Presidents invocation of the
law, and
- Two Of the three board mem
As bers were CHASED and preju-
diced and in honor should not serve.'
Finally, minutes before the dead
line, the burly. bushy-eyebrowed
chief appeared.
It was obvious, of course, that the
UNIV chief was out to break the
Taft-Hartley enactment. Apparent
ly he was determined to drag the
pension dispute all the way through
the courts-preferably as high as the
supreme court to get final verdict.
And any way it turned out, the
process would react for the miners
immediate benefit. While the courts
would be mulling over the matter
the date for the annual renewal of
the mine workers contract in June
would be approa ching. The longer
the present dispute remained unset
tied, the worse the nations coal
situation would grow, thus putting
Lewis in a good bargaining position
to extract a favorable contract for
next year.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-04-15
LUCIUS GLOBE
On War Nerves

his helpmate as he arranged quiS-
zical 1UrinEle in his broaO, "d'you
think we're thumderin' TOWARD an
other War?"
"Soon as you open your mouth l
figure we're in for at least a skir-
mish," retorted Pharomie. IF you
spent half as much time cultivGtin'
my peace of mind as you do your
soybeans we Uouldn't haze near the
arguments s0e do" She impaled the
elder statesman of PGaohooley cour,-
ty on a spearlike glance.
"Dang it, Pharonie, vhy do you
haze to drag your rockin' chair Mill
tarism into everything I set out to
do little talkin' on? One of the
reasons you married me in the first
place tUas to get security. NoaO you
got security but you still vaast to
fight"
The light of creative achievement
cleaned briskly In LMcius Clobb's
eye.
"Soy, by gosh, that there gives me
right smart idea for an aphorisms.
Nothing I like better than an Gphor-
ism. What d'you think of this Pta-
ronie: Betweem 1941 and 1916 Ue
svere united svith Russia in the bonds
of holy avarlock, bat now the honey
moons over, the lock Is busted and
there amt nothim' left of the orig
inal idea Except war;"
mister Cobb, you can put that
out in the corn CRIB Nth the rest
of yoatr aphorism,s," commented the
critical Pharomie.
"Mebbe so," sighed the elder
statesman, "but 1t a0orries me-rsot
kmoUin' hoau to feel about this here
svorld situation. I'm gettin' on
toUard 50, so I could afford to think
that IN order to haze peace and a
secure foreign policy aOe first got to
rig up a strong backbone at home.
And strong backbone right mow
means a strong army and sGVy and
air force.
"Mebbe I think right aaoaO that Ue
need the droft and universal train
ing in order to enforce the idea of
democracy in the world. Mebbe /
think that's the only course for as
to follow right moaU. Mebbe I do.
"Bast still its mighty deeply dis
ta4rbia' to realize that, in history,
every society that had to turn to
milstarism and force of arms to
solve its problems 1vas ,oritte, right
off the books before gerry long"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-04-15

Few people can appear more hui
man than this quizzicaI simian an
he bestows a suspicious glare ON
photographer Arthur Sasse and
obviously is thinking he wants his
picture taken about as much as he
wants q hole, in the head. Sasse,
staunchly unafraid In his belief
that no animal would attack o
photographer, has been taking pic
lures at New York's Bronx ZOO
for 2S years.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-04-15
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Lewis Battles Hartley Law Baruch Sees Mobilizing
For Peace as Top Necessity Eisenhower Refuses Again

EDITORS NOTE - When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those of Western Newspaper Union
news analysts, and not necessarily of
this newspaper.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-04-15

Glenn l.. Martin, pioneer air.
craft builder, revealed that the
u. S. has developed an offensive
weapon superior to the atomic
bomb. He called it q radioactive
cloud-the greatest killer of hui
man beings ever devised" Martin
said also, ''I'd be in favor Of using
it before I'd become q slave to
another nation"
Evening star., 1948-03-29

end Of o ub these
Of owoo boodoom that good and that the
mpeecons won't So and
ow-hese luxurious beauties that will enrich setting
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Rv Doris Fees0n

Mrs. Roosevelt Is not available
for elective Office.
Those close to her know that she
will not run for Vice President with
Evening star., 1948-07-02


fell heir to the duck on the day
arrived in Brisbane, which was
July 3. I won it at a rattle on
Adelaide street. I paid a shilling
for a chance, my number was drawn,
and the rattle operators handed me
this mighty mess of muscle and
feathers. It was hate at first sight
between us, but as a man who had
been eating Bougainville fare I was
determined to keep that duck until
I could get it cooked.
Stacked Like Cordwood.
Unfortunately, I wasn't staying at
place where ducks were welcome.
My home was the Red Cross Club,
and was sharing a less than COM
modious room with a platoon of
soldiers and sailors. We slept like
stacked cordwood in hunks which
seemed to reach to the sky, and my
bunk was a top one. To reach it
had to climb. monkey like, up the
hunks Of my comrades in arms.
I am positive that my bunk. so
high was it, some day will swim
into view of the man who runs the
Palomar telescope and be hailed as
a new planet.
Some of you may not know it, but
the average soldier or sailor does
not like to have his face stepped on
at in the morning, first by a
man and then by duck on leash.
That is what happened to the men
in my tier. What the sailor in the
bottom bunk said when the duck and
I stepped on him is unprintable.
Evening star., 1948-07-02
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D c. AIS


What the soldier in the second bunk
said also is not for publication.
Soon the place was In an uproar.
The sailors said throw the solder
and his duck out. The soldiers. ac-
cepting the challenge, said throw the
sailors out and let the soldier and
his duck stay. A few Marines said
throw both the soldiers and the sail
ors out and keep the duck-he' s
probably a better fighting man than
any Of them.
Battle Royal On.
In a few seconds the room was a
sort of Cecil DeMille battle royal.
Sailors, soldiers, and Marines were
locked in what had 1t not been for
the sedative effect of Australian
beer would have been mortal combat.
Above the sound Of fists striking
jaws, jaws striking floors, and grunts
and groans of guys swinging fists,
rose the honk-honk of the duck.
Safely perched on the top bunk. his
size u feet firmly latched to a mat
tress cover, he applauded the pro-
ceedings.
The battle came to a close with
the arrival of the MP's and the SP's.
Through a lip that was thicker
than that of a Ubangi, I managed
to announce that 1t was the Fourth
Of July-it now being near daylight
of the Fourth-and that instead Of
Evening star., 1948-07-02

British diplo- Constantine Brown.
mats, that reconciliation between
Tito and the Moscow leaders is i'm.
possible. just as there could never
have been a reconciliation between
Prime Minister Stain and Trotsky
Tito cannot return to the Krem-
Inns folG. He is an experienced
Comintern man who learned all the
tricks of the Communist trade in
his earlier years in Moscow.
Knows He Is Marked.
Because he knows that he is a
marked man, Tito keeps. himself
closely guarded. This explains why
the Belgrade Foreign Office told
foreign diplomats that the marshal
was resting at the former royal
summer resort at Bled, when ac-
tually he was under strong Ozna
(secret police protection on one OF
the small islands of the Adriatic.
1t was for the same reason that
Tito refused the Cominform meet
ing. He was aware that once out
side his own country he would never
return.
Before Tito's break with the
Cominforrn became known to the
outside world the Yugoslav dictator
ordered a purge of nearly 100 per-
sons-both Yugoslavs and Rus
sians-who were in a position to
cause him harm. The sealing-off
of the border between Yugoslavia
and her MISUNDERSTANDING, Bull
garla, Romania and Hungary-also
is explained as a measure for Tito's
self-protection.
Moscow's reaction to all this Is
the $64 question in American and
Western European diplomatic cir
cles. Russia might be able, for a
while, to distract world attention
from the break with Tito by spec
tacular activities in areas which
are of immediate Importance. to
the western poWers-Berlin and
Eastern Germany. But in order to
oUojd ma ior crisis behind the Iron
Evening star., 1948-07-02
On the Record
Titos Break With Soviet Gives u. S.
Opportunity to Benefit by Crisis

Communist alliance-and by Mr.
Wallace himself.
Marshall Tito is-or thought he
was-outside Russian jurisdiction
The question then is: How far car
the arm OF the party prosecution
reach? To the head of "sover.
eign" state, represented in the
U. NJ? If so, where is the United
Nations?
Not that I am sympathetic with
Tito. He himself has performed
the same sort of Justice" now
modified against him. The pre-
vailing goddess of history is irony
But for ourselves: Seize the mo-
ment! Mobilize more planes to
feed Berlin-all we can send
Eastern Europe is, however momen'
tarily, rocking. This is no time fol-
the Soviets to make war. We
should take advantage of thei,
crisis, be calm, brave, decisive, ano
perform our duty.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, 1nc)
Evening star., 1948-07-02
This Changing World *
Tito Now Seen Likely to Turn to West
To Save Himself From Red Terrorists

Curtain, where Moscow's satellites
are kept in line by militant Com
munist minerities backed by Soviet
prestige, Russia will have to bring
Tito and his followers to book.
According to our military and
diplomatic observers this is must
for Russia. not only for the sake
of re-establishing its badly mauled
prestige at a critical time in Soviet
history, but also to prevent the
desertion Of Yugoslavia and possibly
other nations behind the curtain to
the western powers.
According to reports which are
still not officially confirmed, there
is a high state of tension among
the people of Bulgaria and Hungary
Both countries were brought into
the Russian orbit by force. The
masses in those two satellite states
are overwhelmingly opposed to the
serfdom imposed on them by their
Moscow-appointed leaders.
Revolts Are Common.
They were resigned to Communist
minority domination because they
saw no hope of anything else. The
western powers were too far away
and showed-on the surface, at least
almost complete lack OF interest
in their fate.
The domination of puppets from
the Adriatic to the Soviet frontier,
backed by the Moscow-trained secret
police and in some cases by Red
divisions, appeared complete. Sud-
denly the Kremlin's principal lieu
ant-Tito-raised the standard
of revolt, demanding equality with
Moscow in place of the subservience
called for Revolutions spread very
rapidly in that part of Europe,
where they have been as common an
occurrence as the harvesting of
crops in summer.
broke away from Moscow he could
not long survive Soviet extermi-
nation methods. He is aware that
his armies, well-organized as they
now are, could not resist for long
a Soviet punitive expedition. His
potential associates across the east
ern frontier could not help him
actively so long as Russia main
tains military forces on their terri
tories. His proposed Balkan feder-
alton is still a pipe dream. Hence,
it would seem logical for him-for
his elf-preservation-to turn to the
West, which he once despised and
treated so brusquely.
Neither Washington nor London
have made any direct or indirect
approaches to Tito. But the foreign
Offices Of both governments are
keenly aware of the tremendous
strategic Importance Of Yugoslavia
in the present cold war. They are
awaiting Tito's first advance for
possible consideration.
Evening star., 1948-07-02

rather accurately tagged the whole
business when, after saying yes, Mrs.
Roosevelt would be acceptable to
him as his running-mate, he asked
the uuestioner what he would ex-
. pect him to say.
Others Asked Question.
That same question had immedi-
stelv occurred to Mrs. Roosevelt's
, circle. They also asked: Why
wouldn't he say that the most popu-
lar living American of either sex
in this country or the world was
, acceptable on his beleagured ticket?
Mrs Roosevelt as his Vice Presl-
dental nominee would not only
; solve his immediate political trou-
, bles but lend him the indelibly lib
eral cachet for which he has fren-
ziedly cast about, mostly in vain.
1t is probable, however, that ne
never himself thought of asking her
and if he did, realized she would not
! accept.
\ Immediately following her hus-
!, bands death, Mrs. Roosevelt re-
ceived literally thousands OF pleas
that she run for President. Senator
or any office within the gift OF the
!, American people. To this corre-
spondent she then wrote:
II am not running for anything.
Whatever I do will be done as nom
official citizen in the future"
| Has Never Deviated.
! Mrs. Roosevelt has never devlated
! from that position. Her United Ma
| tions service she correctly puts In
another category.
i Many times for many reasons
those pleas have been renewed. Ihe
1 knowledge that so many people need
her is naturally a shot in the arm
to one so public-spirited and so ma
| ternal as Mrs. Roosevelt. And what
woman, or man, does not enjoy being
| admired?
But in the past three years on her
own, Mrs. Roosevelt has shed every
vestige of the well-meaning anna
teur who can't say no. She is to-
day a solid professional in public
affairs-a transition endlessly graft
flying to those who knew she never
had a motive that was not kind
and good but realized she was often
imposed on by others OF a different
stripe.
Mrs. Roosevelt is still incapable
of not spending herself for people
and causes she loves, but her Will
she comedies is not quite her own
for she herself Is subject to the posi-
ton she has acquired.
Facts on Matter.
There are these hard facts about
the matter.
The Vice President presides over
the Senate. Even under the Dewey
proposed system, his expanded
powers would be administrative. II
is simply a job not suited to Mrs
Roosevelt,s genius.
During Henry Wallace's vice presi.
Dental tenure, Franklin Roosevelt
often used him as a kind of exalted
cheer leader at home and abroad
Mrs. Roosevelt does that kind OF
leadership just as effectively in her
present situation, perhaps more SO.
Mrs. Roosevelt Tuesday refused
urgings by Mrs. India Edwards, head
of the Democratic women's division
to make at least one appearance at
the convention. She rarely refuses
party chores, she has worked too
long and hard at them herself not
Evening star., 1948-07-02

Americans fighting Americans, We
should all be celebrating.
Patriotism soon ran hog wild.
Those who were armed fired through
the windows. Those who werent
carrying weapons borrowed weapons
from those who were and joined in
the celebration. A sailor pinned q
Navy Cross on the duck. A soldier
decorated the duck with a Silver
Star.
The duck honked its apprecia-
ton.
The next day couldn't bring my
self to have that duck cooked. The
next day gave him away on the
streets, to an elderly Australian who
promised to make pet Of him.
distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc.)
Evening star., 1948-07-02

months in Bou-
g a i n willie, I
sported a beard,
the stripes of a
sergeant (tiger,
first class, was
my rank. a few
hundred bucks
in my kick, and
a grea t, big
duck.
Yes, a great.
big duck, with
webbed feet, a
bill like a steam
shovel, and q
honk reminiS-
cent of a French