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Monday, May 14, 1061
The harden af the yean, the weakness of the body, the evsrwhetakw
Mad of anxieties and labors make as anxious to have freedom. The
ooul never grows old but the body needs complete replacement. My soul
Is weary of my life.—Job. 10:1.
CUvn,
Mr. Brefer
Monday, May 14,1961
By Dare Brefer
Red Trap Set in Japan
JjV)RTUNATELY there is little likelihood that anything
will come of the Soviet Union’s latest proposals for a
Japanese peace parley. They are honeycombed with traps.
To begin with, the Russians complain that current Ameri-
can efforts to achieve a treaty without them are "illegal.”
Since the Kremlin broke up the peace conferences which
included Soviet representatives, this protest has an empty
sound.
The Russians want a meeting now to include the foreign
ministers of the U. S„ Britain, Russia and Red China. But
this leaves out such countries as the Philippines, New Zea-
land and Australia, which contributed a great deal more to
the defeat of Japan than did the Soviet Union.
Lest it be forgotten, the Russians fought the Japanese
for exactly one week—the final week of the war when the
Japs were already licked and looking for a way to surrender.
For Moscow to attempt to dictate who shall sit at the peace
table is sheer gall.
* * *
tPHE Russian note to the American government say it is
"perfectly obvious" that a treaty drawn without Red
China’s participation is impossible. Actually, it’s the other
way around. Enough has been seen of Communist negoti-
ations to make it abundantly clear that there would never
be a satisfactory treaty so Jong as the Reds were allowed to
have a say in its drafting.
Further proof of that may be found in the terms the Rus-
sians suggest for the Jap treaty. High on the list is a ban
on any foreign state maintaining troops or military bases
in Japan. In preliminary negotiations with John Foster
Dulles, the Japanese already have indicated a desire to have
the United States maintain buses in their home islands as
a safegaurd against possible Communist attack.
TTie Russians also propose that Japan “not enter any
coalition against one of the states taking part with its armed
forces in the war against militaristic Japan.”
This means the Japs would be barred from siding with
the free nations in any broad conflict with either China or
Russia or both.
* * *
JN fact, the Soviet note declares that the U. S. has already
illegally compelled Japan, as an occupied nation, to sup-
port “armed intervention in Korea.”
, j'8 couJ'try would be the first to admit, of course, that
it had no thought when it signed the Japanese surrender
document of using Japan as a base for military operations
in Korea or anywhere else. But just exactly who is to blame
for the fact that this became necessary?
If we’re going to discuss what is illegal, let’s start with
the Russian-inspired Communist invasion of South Korea.
Eliminate that and the U. S. would undoubtedly still be
managing a relatively uneventful occupation of Japan.
The newest Soviet proposals probably are not meant to be
taken seriously by us. But perhaps Moscow is entertaining
the idea that Britain might be tempted. All recent evidence
suggests however, that this won’t happen. As a patent
attempt to cause delay and sow new discord among the free
nations, the Russian scheme is destined to fall flat.
Help do the dishes with a hum, sweet hum, and you’ll
help to make a home, sweet home.
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KILLER'S PACE
BY JULIUS LONG
COPYRIOHT I93I 3YWA SERVICE, WC.
XXVIII
OTUNNED, poor Smiley Wetlauf-
^ fer looked at Clara Mavhew as
The real feminine touch—that’s what’s going to pav for
all those new springtime garments.
The month of June will have five Fridays—making the
fisnerman more anxious than ever to throw out the old line.
Sh'^s.rr^rht A nice
’rptM^„te10r”,C\i^hr: *" ** '“d,or
Swatting flies Boon will again be a national pest-time.
Down Memory Lane
M. „ r May 14, 1931
l Su1I!cay. ev«m»K I>y her cousin, Miss Evelyn
Tucker, who will visit there for a few days.
KryGir?S\*i"pi:,i(,rp^„riM and
&Sn7«nd1liXl5Svfs“bye V“ W“°"'r’ M,ry J*"'
_ . . May 14, 1941
bv highschoolpiay. "Double Door.” were taken
by Margaret Ann Rice, Eleanor Davis, Bob Kelly Harold
E^wtttugh, Bonnie Baker. Charles Malone, Marilyn Hoff-
^OTe* Harrison, Floyd Martin Bob
Feiatel, Charles Faubion and Ernest Long
hasJb2n e^T °f Mr “d Mrs J- W. Dulin, El Reno.
J treasurer of Theta Kappa Phi
• aecial fraternity at the University of Oklahoma, Norman.
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fer looked at Clara Mayhew as
if he had never seen her before.
She was wralthllke now tn her
pallor. She looked Star straight
In the eye and said evenly:
“You concoct a swell yarn, Mac.
but you can't prove a line of it!”
Star's brows lifted. "Can't I
though?” He turned to Paul
Walts. “Olve the Inspector the
number, Paul.”
Paul got out his notebook again.
"The number Is 73591,” he read.
“That's the number of the safety
deposit box Clara Mayhew rented
at Bank Y the morning after Bar-
ner Bldault's murder."
8tar looked expressively at Mer-
ica and turned over the palms of
his hands.
"There you are. Inspector! What
do you want to bet that you won’t
find Carl Prater's confession about
Frannle Marlin's death in that
box?”
Quietly but with a wealth of
variety, Miss Clara Mayhew be-
gan to tell Star Williams exactly
what she thought of him. She was
•till getting him told when a ma-
tron came and took her out.
'There's one thing more," Star
told Inspector Merlca, nodding
toward Werthelm. "Tonight this
man would have repeated his per-
formance of faking the drowning
by auto accident to my two friends,
Sonya Sareeta and Jim Marshall.”
Merlca nodded woodenly. "I’ll
take care of Werthelm—and Pra-
ter, too.” He shifted his gaze to
Andy Tanner, who thus far had
been without a word to say. "You
had several other charges. Against
Mr. Williams and Mr. Marshall.
What are your wishes with respect
to those charges?"
Tanner looked as If the words
would choke him, but he managed
to get them out. "Under the cir-
cumstances, I believe that public
policy requires the withdrawal of
the charges."
He turned on his heel and
walked out with an eye to neither
Star nor mystelf. Tanner had
scarcely departed when McNa-
mara burst In, fat and puffing.
"What's going on here? What
are you doing to my client?''
Prater mopped his face. “So
you finally got here! A lot of good
you can do me now!"
McNamara looked around In
alarm, and his eyes grew suspi-
cious as he beheld Star. He turned
to his client.
"You didn't talk, did you?”
Prater laughed almost hysteric-
ally. “No. I didn't talk! Werthelm
didn’t talk! Clara didn’t talk! No-
body but Star Williams talked!
That's all—nobody but Star Wil-
liams.”
He continued to laugh on the
hysteria borderline as McNamara
tried to get some sense out of
him. I figured there was no rea-
son for McNamara to be In such
a hurry. There would be plenty
of Ume.
Sonya, star and I were out in
the corridor when Nick Ricardo
bowed up, complete with candid
unera.
"Say. what’s going on around
here?"
Ju* worked another piece
of magic Too bad you weren’t
here with your cute little camera!”
Ricardo brushed by us and In to
see Merlca. I chuckled. Merlca
would not be easy to deal with
this night, and I wouldn't have
wanted my worse enemy to have
to get a story out of Andy Tan-
ner.
* * *
OTAR set up steaks later, and I
^ felt like eating two. Even with
the benzedrine I’d absorbed, I was
hungry as a bear. 8mtley and Paul
Waltz joined us. and the steak did
Smiley some good. too. Only Son-
ya didn't partake. She sat quietly;
I knew she was having a bad tlihe.
She had wanted to see Frannie’s
"I told Kitty where I could be
located. She had instructions to
send them to me."
"Well, It was close timing. I'll
grant that I couldn't have pro-
duced Frannie’s killer by the dead-
line I was foolish enough to set,
even if I had guessed all the an-
swers.”
Star cackled. “That's your
trouble. Jim. You guess all the
answers, but a theory Isn't worth
a hoot till you can back it up with,
proof. Olve Paul here credit for
getting the proof."
Paul shrugged. "And without
your directions as to what Infor-
mation I was to get, I’d have been
killer delivered up. but It had I powerless to get It. Jim and I
been a painful process to her.
"You weren't so far ahead of
me," I told Star. “I finally tum-
bled to the fact that Frannle had
been drowned In that tank. I fig-
ured Werthelm and Prater In on
that, and even guessed why you
sent me up to Valleyvllle to ask
a single question of l&plin and
Bray ton. When you broke Into the
Prater offices last night you got
their names off the caller list and
figured a special demonstration
had been put on for them. You
knew that If I asked whether
they'd known Frannle Martin,
they'd realize you knew the truth.
Naturally they'd try to hire you to
defend them. After that It was
easy for you to sell them the idea
they should sign an affidavit tell-
ing the truth. They were Innocent
bystanders, and a little scandal
was better than being made ac-
complices. But how did they find
you tonight? You didn't dare go
near the office."
both have good legs, but you've got
the brains.”
Star made no argument on this
point. I suggested: “We ought to
phone the story to Max Feldsteln
for his final.”
Star yawned. “Oh. I phoned
him the story before I went over
to Mertca's. I suppose he will
have to check some minor details
with Merlca. though It did turn
out as I gave It to him.”
Paul looked at me. grinned and
shook his head. I looked at Son-
ya. She smiled. “Hello, Jim.”
"Hello. Sonya. How's tricks?"
THE END
BOOK HELPS OUT
CHICAGO— (U.R)—When the Rev.
Vernon C. Lyons. 23, learned his
wife was expecting a baby he
bought a handbook on obstetrics.
It came In handy. The baby didn’t
wait on doctors and Lyons presided
at the birth in his home.
Ant wf to Pravtout Puizta
WHERE did all this Idea of
“Blue Monday" come from
anyway?
Here It Is Monday morning.
$ a. m„ the sky Is that wonderful
shade of blue known only to Ok-
lahomans; the breeae Is soft and
carresHng; the temeprabj* Is a
degrees; and the birds are sing-
ing In Uw tree tope.
A* I stand In the back yard
trying to drink all of this peace
and quiet In big gulps, CUsie the
cat rolls In the clover, stretches,
and leisurely comes to me as It
she knows it to be a little early
for breakfast but she would eat
If It were set before her.
I think of the battle-weary men
on the fighting fronts, and what
they'd give to be where I am. i
think of the administrators of na-
tions, especially our own, and the
bitter, brainless accusations being
Indiscriminately tossed about as
In a back-alley beer bar, where In-
telligence Is drowned and big talk
and strutting about coven inferi-
ority; and I wonder If the same
blue sky Is over all, and if malice
and greed aren't made by folka
who never look up and realise
the Insignificance of persons In
nature's immensity.
By 5 o'clock this afternoon I
may be a frustrated human and
reduced by circumstances to a
sidewalk view, but right now I'm
sure "God's In his heaven and all's
right with the world.”
Let's examine ourselves to see If
we haven’t traded our backbones
for wishbones, and our brains for
bounty; our peace of mind for
pieces of silver and our love of
Qod for a poor substitute.
I do not think we’ll be pleased
with the result of such examina-
tion but It would be a step In the
right direction to find we have
the intestinal fortitude to make it.
Hollywood
Film Shop
By Ben Cook
United Press Staff Correspondent
YYOLLYWOOD, May 14 -(U.R)—
*1 it takes more than actors to
make a movie. Sometimes It takes
Fred Furlow Ellis, age 61. a ship's
captain by trade, known around
the movie sets as "admiral.”
Ellis's Job is to see that the hero
In a movie about ships and sail-
ors doesn't order the crew to “furl
the mains’l—we're headin' for a
• blow,” when he should say to man
the capstans and hoist the flying
Jib.
“I help with the ‘nautical treat-
ment'," is the way Ellis explains
It. “I correct the dialogue to make
It authentic and ‘salty’."
Currently he is lending his tal-
ents to 20th Century-Fox’s "Anne
of the Indies." a swashbuckling
drama that stars Jean Peters as
a pirate captain, with Louis Jour-
dan and Debra Paget sharing the
top billing.
Ellis admits he was a bit dubi-
ous about this one.
"I couldn’t concieve how Jean
Peters could be believable on the
screen as 'a ruthless female pirate
captain," he said. He was con-
vinced after three weeks. He gives
a good share of the credit to the
director, Jacques Tourneur.
He owns a yacht and keeps
everything strictly realistic," Ellis
said.
Ellis is a native of London but
became an American citizen 10
years ago. He did a hitch in the
British navy in the first World war
and served with the American
merchant marine during World war
II. In all, he has spent 30 years as
a seafarer.
“I don’t care if ottysr boutsMUke to be called by their
★ WASHINGTON COLUMN *
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Look and Learn
1. Which six letters of the English
alphabet are most used?
2. Who ran against Calvin Cool-
Idge In 1924 for the U. 8. presi-
dency? i
3. What percentage of the world's
land area does the United States
occupy?
4. What Is meant by specific grav-
ity?
5. Which Is moat powerful animal
In North America?
ANSWERS
1. The letters E, T, I. A. 8, and O.
2. John W. Davis.
3. About 58 percent.
4. The ratio of the weight of _
body to the weight of an equal vol-
ume of water.
5. The Alaskan bull moose.
WASHINGTON, May 14— <NEA>-
” —Without getting too Involved
In either the Truman or the anti-
administration policies on what
should be done about supporting the
Chinese Nationalist troops on For-
mosa, someone In authority around
here should explain what It's going
to oost. This Is In line with Sen-
ator Robert A. Taft's statement that
the United States should do no
more than It can afford.
Can the United States afford to
save Chlang Kai-shek's government
and armies, or can it afford not to
support them fully, perhaps for an
Indefinite period?
First three years or Marshall Plan
aid to 17 European countries has
cost $11 billion. Military assistance
programs so far appropriated for
add $6 billion to that. The average
Is about a billion dollars per coun-
try over three years, though Brit-
ain Is getting over $) billion aid.
Prance over $2 billion, Italy, West
Germany and the Netherlands
over a billion apiece.
Now compare these outlays with
the China programs. The amount
of wartime aid to the Chlang Kai-
shek government is disputed but
has been put as high as two billion
dollars. This built up the National-
ist armies to nearly 40 divisions and
eight air groups.
T»UT leaving that out of the pic-
" ture, another billion of military
aid was furnished after V-J day.
This includes $694 million post-
lend lease aid. $l7 million more di-
rect military aid, another $125 mil-
lion military aid under the 1948
act, transfer of $141 million worth
of naval craft and $122 million In
excess military stores.
Exact amounts of 1950 military
defense assistance pact aid fur-
nished China are classified, beyond
one transfer of $10 million worth
of ammunition. Some $500 million
worth of aid have been earmarked
for the Southeast Asia area. The
Chinese on Formosa may have been
given upwards of $50 millions of
this amount.
Another $70 million worth of such
aid will be asked for next year, ac-
cording to Deputy Secretary of De-
fense Robert A. Lovett. But this
Is now generally understood to be
only a beginning.
Best informed guesses are that It
will take up to $260 million to put
the Nationalist army in shape to
defend Formosa. This will be done
under the U. S. military mission
headed by Major General W. C.
Chase.
Nationalist military manpower on
| Formosa Is put at a maximum of
80*80*. They are divided roughly
i Into 100,003 airforce, 50,000 navy,
50800 service troops and 400800
army. Of the army, less than 100,-
000 are fully equipped and ready to
fight.
Tb support these forces even la
their present state of unprepared-
ness takes the equivalent of from
130 million to 175 million U. S. dol-
lars. or over $5 percent of the Na-
tionalist government budget. There
are no accurate figures on this
budget because the Taiwan (For-
mosan ) dollar has fluctuated from
11 to 18 to the U. S. dollar.
A ROUOH equivalent of Nation-
alist budget expenses for this
year Is said to be 300 million U. 8.
dollars at present exchange rates.
The Nationalist budget deficit was
equal to 300 million U. 8. dollars
In 194*. but is now said to be only
one million U. 8. dollars a month.
The greater the military aid to
Formosa, the greater the economic
aid will have to be. When tanks are
sent to defend the Island better
roads and heavier bridges will have
to be built. More' naval and air-
craft will require bigger ports and
landing fields. More food, clothing
and medical supplies will have to
be furnished.
What all this seems to add up
to is that Formosa is as nearly
broke as a nation can be. And it
has no credit on which to borrow.
There seems to be no other out
than for the United States to fin-
ance this enterprise for the indefi-
nite future. And If by another rev-
olution, chance or military con-
quest. the Nationalists should be
returned to power on the matnland,
the cost of reconstruction will be
staggering. These facts might as
well be faced.
Problem a Day
If 8 men do a piece of work In
6 3/4 days, how soon after begin-
ning must they be Joined by 2 more
men so as to complete the work In
5 7/8 days?
ANSWER
2 3/8 days. Subtract product of
5 7/8 and 8 from product of $ 8/4
and 8; divide by 2; stubtract this re-
sult from 5 7/8.
ALWAYS ON JOB
HOPKINSVILLE. Ky.-tU.R)—Cir-
cuit Judge Ira Smith has never
missed a day In court in his 28
years on his circuit composed of
four western Kentucky counties.
Sally’s Sallies
By Scott
Expert Champions Mule
As ‘Foolproof Animal
LINCOLN, Neb., May 14—(U.R)—A
mule Isn't as stubborn as some
people think.
That’s the opinion of William J.
Loeffel. professor of animal 1
ban dry at the University of
braaka.
“A mule is not necessarily stub-
born,” Loeffel said, “he's so smart
he Just doesn't let himself _
maneuvered Into a dangerous posi-
tion.”
Loeffel said you cant
a mule into dotn
doesn't want to.
“A mule,” Loeffel said, “Is tool-
proof.”
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