xrS ' m m trot
JtSff W Bfefc-3viarine Sgt. D. L. Pruitt (left) of Minneapolis
t warn but tearful embrace from his sweetheart, Mar
yMt If rtin fter he was rescued from the Dismal Swamp
Sutfolt, Va. Pruitt and another Marine were lost
c5i warching for two lost hunters. The hunters were
(lXcuef.
Japan's Top Military Man
E-Hp-gcting Complicated War
(uyu u.r.j ijdpda s tup mn-
itgrj ifn, Gen. Keizo Hayashi,
(ftij'D ft is "expecting the most
complicated war in history" but
Sbts there will be any major
fhSnf) for at least three years.
Kg charged that the Japanese
p&lic' "jumping logic" is hin
dering the build-up of the new
180.000 g)m air, ground and sea
seJEdefense forces and blamed
part of the trouble on "Com
munist (Subversives."
Iivfi exclusive interview, the
chSirmtji of tb Japanese joint
(gjiH council predicted three pos
ib)typii of r: o
1 "Th rf xt world wr could
h ,S) war -ithojat saying it's a
war Wfr of infiltration and
ubvrsion."
(S-"Or f$migfrt bt war with
out (ijomic weapons. It could
happen . . . something like Korea
r Indo-China.
3 "And then it may be a war
of the size and scale and meth
ods now undreamed of. . ."
Rfxrenint Attitude
The 48-wear-old general dis-
eusifafl th defeated and dis
armed nation's new military
povr (gtid stressed that it i a
defense rc
"Becau: we were defeated,
thJ) basic sentiment here is still
hate wr . . . and so hate jvar,
(fcate rearmament. That's the way
th peopif) think. It's jumping
"The nation XS not conscious
enough of the self-defense force
... and they don't understand
it."
The general said flatly that
this "lack of understanding" has
been "aggravated by groups of
Communist subversives." He re
fused to elaborate.
"To maintain peace," he said,
"we need a defense force to pro
tect our country. I hope public
opinion is heading in that gen
eral directic"
Haifway MBrk
O The general glanced at two
side-by-side models of the latest
Russian and American super
Paz Takes Formal
Title lo Properties
Buenos Aires U.R) Dr. Al
berto Gainza Paz tages formal ti
tie today to the principal proper
ties of the newspaper La Pren
sa, confiscated from him more
than four years ago by deposed
dictator Juan D. Peron.
The La Prensa building and
the printing plant, six blocks
away, were handed over Mon
day to Manuel Ordonez, chief
counsel oOthe Paz family, but
today's ceremony formally
marks restitution of the proper
ties. Peron converted La Prensa
into a propaganda organ for his
CGT labor federation, which
continued to run the paper until
the present revolutionary gov
ernment decided to return it to
Gainza Paz. She newspaper is
scheduled to reappear under his
direction as soon as an inventory
is completed.
sonic jet fighters in his office
and commented:
"No one can predict beyond
three years. "But personally I'm
expecting the most complicated
war in history.
"It won't be as simple as past
wars . . . and there may be many
small wars inside the big war."
Asking about the possibility
that Japan's dislike for was is so
intense that its forces would do
little fighting, Hayashi replied: '
"Our troops hate aggressive
war, but they are willing to
sacrifice . . . and fight to the last
man to keep any invading force
away."
He said Japan's new American-equipped
and trained armed
forces are "preparing for any
situation we might have to face."
Asked how soon Japanese
forces would be capable of facing
an enemy, the one-time lawyer
answered, "you might say we
are climbing Mt. Fuji at the
halfway mark."
Japan is aiming next year for
a 160,000-man ground force,
about a 15,000-man air force
with U.S. F-86 Sabrejets and a
422-vessel navy of around 23,000
men.
Indepenednt
Unions May Merge
St. Louis (U.R) A commit
tee representing two groups of
independent labor unions yester
day urged unification of all the
independents into a single or
ganization to "protect" them
from the AFL-CIO.
The committee, representing
the National Independent Union
Council and the Confederated
Unions of America, called for a
national convention next May to
effect the organization and elect
national officers.
Don Mahon, executive secre
tary of the NIUA, said all inde
pendent unions, representing
"between 6 and 7,000,000 work
ers," would be invited to send
delegates to the convention and
join the organization.
Mahon said the new organiza
tion would unify more than
2500 independent unions in the
nation.
Virgin Islanders Ask
New Political Status
Charlotte Amalie, Virgin
Islands U.P.) A committee of
citizens adopted a resolution
Tuesday asking the U.S. Con
gress to grant the Virgin Islands
the same political status Puerto
Rico received in 1948.
Such status would give the
Virgin Islands the right to elect
a governor, now appointed by
the American president, and to
appoint a resident in Congress.
It would also allow the legisla
ture full powers to legislate on
internal matters, although re
serving Congress the right to
annul any legislation deemed
inconvenient.
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Is That So?
Modern scientific research not
withstanding, we are surrounded
today by many popular beliefs
which simply are not so. To help
dispel them, here's another
round for fact vs. myth.
MYTH: A cold and wet nose
marks a healthy dog.
FACT. Dogs with cold noses
sometimes run a high tempera
ture. Dogs with hot noses some
times are perfectly normal.
MYTH: White eggs are more
nutritious than brown eggs.
FACT: Eggs are eggs. Food
value of eggs however may vary
slightly regardless of whether
they are brown or white. It's
strictly dependant upon what
the hen's been eating.
MYTH: The bite of our North
American tarantula is highly
poisonous enough to kill a
grown man within hours; min
utes even, if he's unlucky
enough to be bitten near an
artery or on his head.
FACT: Not one of our North
American tarantulas is danger
ous to man. Furthermore they
bite only under extreme provo
cation (such as prolonged teas
ing), if at all.
The effect of the tarantula
bite, wherever it occurs, is less
than that of an ordinary bee
sting, little more than the mere
mechanical hurt or burn of
the incision. For that matter, a
pin prick is more injurious po
tentially since the pin might be
a carrier of infection whereas
the tarantula's tiny fangs are
exceptionally hygienic. What
minor local swelling may ap
pear is normally gone within 30
minutes or at most an hour.
Exceedingly Rare
Even the poison of the largest
spider in the world, the giant
Brazilian tarantula, measuring
eight or nine inches in length,
is really toxic only to cold-blooded
animals and has no effect on
mammals, including man. There
is one South American tarantula,
much smaller than those in
North America, which carries a
poison said to be toxic to man.
But even in its native habitat it
is exceedingly rare.
MYTH: Our ancestors, the
cave men, were bigger than we
are.
FACT: Despite the popular
illustrations of the cave man,
man's average height today is
greater. Judging from skeletons,
almost two inches greater since
the Stone Age. Environment
has a great influence on the size
of the body. Where living condi
tions are comparatively easy and
food plentiful, men and women
grow taller.
MYTH: The blacker the cof
fee, the stronger it is.
FACT: The color of a cup of
coffee is not an indication of its
strength. A dark roast of the
coffee bean produces a darker
brew. In this regard, local preju
dices are curious: on the West
Coast coffee drinkers demand a
light roast, but as one travels
eastward, it becomes darker
and darker. In Louisiana, by the
way, they like coffee which con
tains half chicory. And of this
you may be sure: in every part
of the world, coffee drinkers are
dead sure that their own local
coffee is the best in the world.
By EUGENE BURNS'
Ranger-Nituralist
Street Pigeons
MYTH: Present-day pigeons
are a comparatively recent de
velopment. FACT: Pigeons similar to
those found on our city streets
have been associated with man
since earliest times. Crude
dwellings of such birds have
been found on the walls of caves
once inhabited by some of our
remotest ancestors.
" MYTH: Some animals' eyes
give off light in the dark.
FACT: They don't. At least,
they do not give off light of their
own. They reflect light. For
example, if we were to go into
the woods at night with a flash
light and throw its beam into a
bush we might see some little
glitters of topaz, say, from a
spider; or even glints of green
witchfire from a stealthy fox.
These eyes shine in the same
way as the roadside reflector
button. Behind the retinas of
these nocturnal animals is what
amounts to a cluster of mirrors.
The faint moonlight or starlight
in which they have to do their
seeing is reflected by these mir
rors and thereby multiplied.
But, to reiterate, they do not
shine of themselves.
(Released by
McCIure Newspaper Syndicate)
(Copyright, 1955,
by Eugene Burns)
Wednesday, December 21, 1955
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UEW Controlled
By Reds, Is Claim
Washington U.P.) Attorney
General Herbert Brownel Jr.
charged yesterday that the 100,
000 - member United Electrical
Workers Union is controlled by
a clique of Communists work
ing to accomplish the aims of the
Kremlin.
Brownell asked the Subver
sive Activities Control Board to
declare the independent union
a Communist infiltrated organi
zation. A union so described by
the SACB loses its rights before
the National Labor - Relations
Board. Its members lose all other
benefits under the Taft-Hartley
act.
Brownell said his petition
was designed to aid members
of the union to "clean their or
ganization of Communist dicta
tors even as the CIO cleaned its
organization in 1949 and 1950."
UEW was one of five unions
expelled by the CIO in those
years on charges that they were
dominated by Communists.
WCTU SUED FOR TAXES
Chicago (U.R) Cook county
officials filed a tax delinquency
suit of $56,139 against the Wom
en's Christian Temperance Un
ion. It charged that the training
of anti-liquor missionaries at
the society's Evanston headquar
ters does not make it tax exempt.
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