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THE EVENING INDEPENDENT MASSILLON, OHIO POUNDED Published daily, except Sunday by Earl J. Enterprises, Inc. FRED J. BECKER, Editor JOHN E. HOWE, Publisher aad General Up.

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Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Massillon, Ohio, undtr the act of March 3, 1879. Telephone 3161 4 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1951 HITTING HIM WHERE IT HURTS One Minute Pulpit Not with thy sword nor with thj' 24:12. Hero Wants Money There's a smile though a wry one in the action begun by Ernest Nemeth, varsity guard, against the University of Denver. Nemeth is demanding $26 in "back salary" owed him, he says, for a week he spent on the sidelines last year because of an injury. Neither the university nor its insurance company, Nemeth has told the state industrial commission, would pay him that $26.

The amusing thing about this, affair is the blinding light it throws on football at the University of Denver. Subsidized athletes are common these days, but most colleges make some pretense of caring about their amateur standing. Nemeth has publicly declared Denver was paying him to play football and he wants the institution to live up to its end of the bargain. It's not quite so amusing that he had to go before the state industrial commission to compel payment, if his story is true. He says he was hurt in spring practice and was on the bench for a week because of his injury.

He says he wants his pay lor that week. The picture he paints of his alma mater seems to belie the school's right to that endearing term at least as far as he is concerned. And of course it's shocking, not funny, to have any college portrayed as the possessor of a professional football team. Just last year John Baker, Denver university coach, told Denver fans to give him "the use of $50,000 for three years and he'd real team. The next day he reported several offers of help from Denver business men.

That is the background for the Nemeth charge and for the university's denials that the injury ever occurred or that it ever paid Nemeth to play football. But the outcome will be. interesting. If Nemeth is held to be a university em- ploye, and entitled to compensation, he may also be able to collect damages. The specter of football players bringing suit for thousands of dollars to cover gridiron injuries may some college administrations cause to review their athletic programs.

Social Medicine Woes By fighting to halt the infliction of socialized medicine on the United States, the doctors of this country may escape the necessity of engaging in a subsequent struggle such as British doctors have on their hands. The British medicos are talking of a mass withdrawal from the national health service. These 20,000 doctors are doing more work for less pay than ever. At the inception of socialized medicine they were granted provisional fees awaiting a later settlement. The government has never made such a settlement and the doctors are about in the mood for an ultimatum calling for more pay or a return to private practice.

The Socialist government complains that socialized medicine is more expensive than had been anticipated. It proposed that doctors reduce the large flow of free medicines so that out of these savings they could be paid more. But the doctors don't know how to reduce prescriptions since there is nothing in the law permitting them to identify and boycott the hypochondriacs. Parliament has already said a small charge for prescriptions could be collected, but the Socialist government demands that everything be given away, even though Britain hasn't enough left to pay its bills and looks to Washington to make up the difference. New Life In Canada A new life in Canada awaits the Czech engineer and 31 passengers of the novel "Freedom Train" that escaped through the Iron Curtain from Communist Czechoslovakia to the United States zone of Germany.

So brave and dashing an exploit deserved such a happy ending. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, chairman of the Iron Curtain Refugee Committee, has announced that the gallant group is being processed for emigration "in record-breaking time." Among them is the former station-master who covered the train's Communist fireman with his pistol while the engineer, Jaroslav Konvalinka, roared full throttle through the Czech border station of Asch. The four-car train carried passengers, mostaof them unaware of the plot in which armed anti-Communist conspirators were to guard the hand brakes against the Communist conductor, two soldier escorts and a policeman.

Except for the 32, who formally requested asylum, the others were returned to Czechoslovakia when they gave ideological or family reasons for wishing to do so. All too often there have been reports that individuals who have risked death to escape communism are shabbily treated by West German and, in some American authorities. Here is a happy contrast, one which should show others behind the Iron Curtain that the effort to achieve freedom is well made. From Independent Files 79 YEARS AGO The work of constructing a floral hall on the grounds of the driving park is rapidly going on. It will be 50 by 100 feet Mr.

Davenport while visiting the Lisbon fair a few da3's ago secured a contract for a new bridge at that place. 56 YEARS AGO Edward Pflug and Miss Flora Schworm were married in Mill of the bride by the Rev. J. E. Digel, of St.

John's Evangelical church. Mrs. A. J. Richeimer and Miss EstelJa Herring have left on an extended trip to the east.

25 YEARS AGO Charles Ringley, of Columbus street and Charles Baldauf of Duncan street, spent the weekend in Columbus where' they attended the Ohio State-Wittenburg football game Elwood Kammer and Paul Storrie, students at Kiski school, at Saltsburg, Pa. spent the weekend with their parents in the city. Miss E. Johnston, of Massillon, sailed from Baltimore on the S. S.

"Allegheny" of the Merchants and Miners Line en route to Jacksonville, Fla. Inside Labor The World Today WASHINGTON, (AP) this newspaper business you're supposed to figure what the most interesting news to the most neo- Srt it aybe thC PC ple Wh can fi Power Of Minority The Soviet government will soon launch the greatest purge in history when it deports or liquidates all citizens of satellite countries who have opposed the Russian regime. What Moscow terms unreliable elements in Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Bulgaria are to be driven irom their homes, as the Communists take over their land. Having been fooled and double- crossed for 20 years, our own government is being forced to admit the truth about Russia. Communism is rule by gangsterism, where a small minority, kept so because it is easier to handle, enforces its will upon the people through terror and death.

Now the satellite nations are to feel the lash. a hS ice here Washington we have 24 hnnrf lc ma which 24 hours a day pumps in news from all over and pumps out news from here to everywhere alked into the office yesterday knew something big was happen- thC iUtIe of editors oTth" mam desk were beating out stuff on a writer and rushing it over to one of the machines. A TELETYPE operator was send- the worw I skipped over to nd 't was big news, indeed It said And rig -l hind the tag came the news which said: ttC House had just an explosion of a second Russian atom bomb in two.yearsThen followed in dignified fash- Jrl Vh A se slale made by Joseph Short, President Truman's press sec I looked up to digest the meaning of it Only a few feet away another group of and operators, too, was huddled around waXing leanin for ward, tense, .11 ff ab0ut lhc 0 ha them aUoB their feet," I satd to myself, thinking ttey were watching a duplicate machine carry- James Irlarlow ing news of the bomb. A number of our machines make duplicate copies of stories being sent or received. ONE OF THE LITTLE GROUP of editors at the main desk shouted lo the operator sending the atomic bulletin, "Here's more on the explosion." The group around the other machine, not assigned to help handle the atomic story, looked up.

Some of them moved over to read the atomic bulletin. They read the bulletin stuff quickly, critically and Ihoughtfully. Then they went back lo join the group watching the other machine. Suddenly a scream came. Then they all shouted and broke up, pounding one another on the back.

One of them did a fast jig. They were all laughing. THAT WAS A STRANGE reaction to the Russian bomb. After all, it was the Russians "what exploded the bomb. I said the eratoi "id.

"The Giants en with a homer in the So thai was it. They had been watching Play-by-play description of the game coming in on one of the wires York. Maybe in the end that alomic explosion Russia will prove to have been the most important news that moved all day yesterday. But yesterday to the most people it was a ball game, not a bomb. HOLLYWOOD At "Prince" Mike Romanoff's (he other night, at a table just south of Spencer Tracy and north of Georgie Jesse! and Eddie Cantor, sat one of Hollywood's bright young producers, -slightly subdued Less than four months ago, he had threatened he meant kill a newspaper col- unmnist for linking him with a Hollywood undercover Communist who became a prominent and successful movie agent.

Someone took the producer's gun away and brought him together with the newsman, who showed him how he had been duped. At Romanoffs, they met the roving reporter was able to point to testimony at congressional hearings here to prove that this agent, George Willner, had deceived an entire community. Willner, whom 1 exposed not so long ago as a one-time Communist propaganda chief, was revealed here as a man who tried to starve anti-Communists. He was shown as living evidence that it was the Communist apparatus which persecuted and attempted to destroy the rights and liberties of non-Communists. Willner would tell his non-Communist clients, who trusted him, that there were no studio bids for them, IN ONE CASE jn the investigating congressmen's records, it was shown that Willner, once head of the Communists' theoretical magazine, the New Masses, rejected jobs for work totaling $100,000 offered by the studios to one of his clients, writer Martin Berkely So subtly did Willner operate that he man-' aged to obtain even the most ardent con- Hollywood By HARRISON CARROLL HOLLYWOOD Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra checked in from Palm Springs.

Ava, incidentally, has moved. She is not advertising the address but I can teil you it is down toward the beach. I hear the M-G-M star would rather not do a picture, even with Clark Gable, until her marriage to Frankie is accomplished. He has four TV shows to do in the east, then, presumably, he will make his headquarters here. Nancy Sinatra's California lawyers have selected Paul RalH to watch the proceedings in Las Vegas.

I hear Nancy won't step in and file a counter-suit there, as originally planned. She'll just make a legal appearance. FOR BEING so mean and biting everybody, including Lex Barker, on the last Tarzan movie. Cheta, the chimp, faces retirement Trainer Al Antonucci has a two-year-old chimp ready to step into the role. Cheta isn't to be blamed too much.

It seems that all of his kind, after a while, get too ornery to work with. SORRY TO HEAR that James Cagney is selling his Coldwater canyon home. Jimmy is one of Hollywood's solid citizens. However, he wants to have the east as home base now. Mrs.

Cagney is in town making an inventory of their belongings here. At the moment, I don't think Jimmy has any film definitely set to follow "Come Fill the Cup." ANDREA KING may owe her life to "the alarmed barking of newspaperman Jonah Ruddy's miniature poodle, Sascha. Andrea was leaning over to pick some chrysanthemums when the little dog started yapping furiously. Coiled in the flower bed was a rattlesnake. Andrea's husband, Nat Willis, killed it with a rock.

It was 53 inches long and had eight 19 YEARS AGO Plans for a big defense program to be held Oct. 29 in Tiger stadium which will replace previous parade plans, were announced today by Mayor Harry W. Lash, honorary chairman of the event, following a meeting of general committeemen. The outdoor spectacle which primarily will boost, the sale of defense bonds will bring army planes tanks and scout cars to Massillon as well is official motion pictures of the army, navy and air corps in action which will be shown on a giant screen. Several new records were established at the Massillon city hospital during September.

E. J. Lincke, superintendent of the institution, announced today. A record in the number of births at the hospital in a single month which was set only two months previously was broken last when 76 babies were born at the hospital. That total was six more than were born during July.

The average daily census at the hospital for September was 98.37 patients which exceeded previous high of 95.20 set last April. By Victor Riesel servatives as his clients. How much he cost them, no one will know. Yet there are those who say that men such as WiHner, who deprived others of their basic economic rights, should be treated as political personalities, entitled to civil liberties, instead of as men whose social crimes put them beyond the pale of the garden variety kind of decency. Next investigating stop for the probing congressmen will be Detroit.

There they'll look deep into Communist infiltration into the Ford Motor Co. They're now looking for witnesses in the auto city, as in Cleveland and Chicago. Hearings should begin the last week in October. THERE'S NO LABOR relations business like the Hollywood relations business Just when the screen actors guild and the Studio Mage Hands and Technicians unions relax in the feeling they've met every conceivable problem, along comes peppery little Sammy Fuller, a director over at 20th Century-Fox. The bantam genuis strapped a 45 Colt to his thigh shot off live ammo to sUrt action on each scene of his latest war picture.

Furthermore, in his drive for realism Fuller racked up 19 casualties among the union people. There were wrenched legs, dislocated knees, hands burned when shells were exploded, wounded legs in a bayonet scene, a broken one AFL cameraman collapsed when the director pulled his revolver trigger just a few inches from the lensman's head. Had the picture been just a little longer in the making, the AFL stage hands would have hit him with a pile of in effect, the boss can't use a loaded revolver to drive his union people. SOVIET PROPAGANDA across the world attempts to crucify us as immoral and points to such shcnnanigans as the Tom Neal slugging of Franchot Tone over a woman as.an example of our beastliness. In the devout millions abroad, this takes hold.

As a counter offensive, a handful of union people, here have done some searching of their own into Communist morals when the party- takes over a nation's movie industry. Here's what they found in Sovietized China. After leaving Yenan, former Red Chinese capital, the Communist chiefs not only took over the movie industry and banned our films, but also appropriated the more comely women there. One movie actress, Lan Ping, was reserved for the Soviet's moral number one Tse-tung. Once in Peiping, Liu Shao-hi, second in command to Mao, simply selected a Miss Wang, former beauty at Yenching university.

Peng Chen Peking Mayor, picked the daughter of a former war lime collaborator of the Japanese. So it went. No mere peasant lads, these pious proletarians who would smear us. On the lower floors of the sailors union of the Pacific's magnificent modern new building is an up-to-the-moment gym. There, any morning, in the ring, or at the punching bags, can be found men keeping in shape for a showdown soon with Harry Bridges' lough flying squads.

When they meet, the waterfront will be bloody. The AFL decision is not to retreat from Harry Bridges' Longshoremen's union ever again. Even if it means lying up all Pacific shipping. Should such a showdown strike break out, the sailors' leader, the slim Swede, Harry Lundeberg, tells me he can put up 2,000 men in his building, and feed them even' under siege. One look into the union headquarters big ice boxes, in which frozen steers can hang, and into the bif soup tureens, convinced me swiftlr he was right, Merry-Go-Round WASHINGTON-Sen.

Owtn Brewster of Maine Is leading an undercover drive to depose GOP National Chairman Guy Gabrielson because Gabrielson won't join the eovert anti-Eisenhower campaign. This is what was back of the slam-bang attack on Gabrielson by isolationist Republican Senators Dirksen of Illinois, Welker of Idaho and Jenner of Indiai.a, all faithful friends of Brewster. For some time there has been bad blood between the amiable, conservative Gabrielson who feels he must be neutral as to all GOP candidates and Brewster, who is both the strategist for extreme rightwing forces in the senate and likewise Taft's campaign adviser. Gabrielson is privately pro-Taft, but he refused to go along on the anti-Eisenhower smear campaign recently distribultd in Maine. In fact, Gabrielson told a senate elections subcommittee he was "surprised and shocked" at the circulation of the "Partisan Republicans" pamphlet linking Eisenhower with the Communists.

Therefore when conscientious Republican Senator Williams of Delaware criticized Gab- nelson's connection with RFC loans to Carthage Hydrocol, Brewster saw his chance. He called in other Republican asked them to join Williams "for the good of the party." SAM RAYBURN RAGES Speaker Sam Rayburn, usually an easygoing soul, gave Congressman Clarence Cannon of Missouri, chairman of the house appropriations committee, a private dressing-down last week. Cannon, who has had a tough time getting appropriations okayed in his committee, dropped into Rayburn's office to ask for a fourth 30-day extension to permit the government to operate another month while waiting for its appropriation bills to pass congress. The bills were supposed to pass by the end of the fiscal year, June 30, and ever since that date, the government has been operating on a month-to-month piece-meal basis. The speaker listened to Cannon's request and then hit the ceiling.

He told the startled Missourian that this is the first time in history that congress has had to give four extensions on appropriations bills. Then he ordered Cannon bluntly to hurry up and finish the appropriations bills so congress could go home. TOO LATE IN IRAN Sorest people against the British in the Iranian oil dispute are other oil men in the Middle East. They point out that the British oil concession in Iran was obtained by corruption, that Britain kept certain members of the Iranian parliament on its payroll for years, and that everyone in Tehran knows this. They also point out tint the royalties paid by the British are so niggardly that the Iranians were bound to kick over the traces.

In Indonesia, American companies pay 80 per cent royalty to the Indonesian government, keep 40 per cent. In Arabia the split is fifty-fifty. But in Iran, Britain officially pays only 25 per cent to Iran, though unofficially tiy Drew and through secret bookkeeping the split is reported nearer 12 per cent for Iran; 88 per cent for Brilain. The Anglo-Iranian Oil company, of course, is governmenl-owned. Worst tragedy is that the state department failed to move in with our British friends long ago to head off obvious disaster.

JUSTICE DOUGLAS WARNED In recent months the stale department has been on the ball, this was far too late. In 1949, for instance, Justice William 0. Douglas came back from Iran to warn the slate department what was bound to happen. On Jan. 30, this column also warned: "Moscow is waging an extremely effective campaign to lake over Iran by friendly infiltration.

Simultaneously, the United States has so bungled its diplomacy that Iran is on the verge of tossing aside its traditional friendship with the U. S. A. Iran has cut the Voice of America, given free play to the Moscow radio, has negotiated a new trade treaty with Russia. For months, however, U.

S. ambassadors in Tehran had instructions not to discuss the British oil problem. This was Britain's baby, they were advised, and we should keep hands off. Premier AH Razmara, our great friend, was assassinated partly because he made no progress solving the British oil problem. We refused to discuss it with him.

Now, however, the entire Middle East is on the verge of a crisis and possible war because of this bungling. NOTE British doctors were wise enough to operate on the king of England before it was too late. Diplomacy is much like medicine. If there is too much delay the patient never recovers. And in the case of Iran, the sore has been allowed to fester so long that almost no diplomacy can save it.

A-BOMB Atomic Energy Commission has senl Presidenl Truman an extremely encouraging report on the atomic race with Russia. This is the inside reason behind the enthusiastic statements recently about our fantastic A-bomb progress. The report to the president says flatly that the United States has now regained the tremendous atomic superiority it had over Russia in August of 1949 when the first Soviet atomic bomb was exploded. Furthermore a round-the- clock watch by Allied seismographs and Geiger counters indicates lhat the Russians have not tested or exploded another bomb since then. This probably means lhat the only atomic bomb the Russians have been able to produce and stockpile is the old-model Hiroshima-type bomb they set off in 1949.

The Hiroshima-type bomb is now about as old-fashioned as a model Ford. It's reported that the Russians have perhaps a minimum of 50 of these on hand, with a possible maximum of 200. In contrast, it's no secret that the United States has many, many times that number, an unlimited supply of uranium, and at least half a dozen new-type atomic weapons that Russia hasn't even got on the drafting board yet. Washington Today WASHINGTON Not long ago a slight discrepancy in the testimony of former Communist Louis something that will be cleared up in a future hearing on an artificially developed furor. Demands were made by administration senators that the whole thing be subject to a new investigation and 'that perjury might be involved.

Now, however, something far more serious has occurred which led Rep. Timothy P. Sheehan of Illinois, Republican, to demand in the house of representatives that there be an investigation of "possible perjury" by Secretary of State Acheson in connection with contradictions in testimony that he gave on American policy toward China. The administration'is strangely silent and shows no such interest in conflicting testimony as it did in the Budenz incident. Sheehan made it clear that the testimony of Harold Stassen, former governor of Minnesota and now president of the University of Pennsylvania, "completely contradicts" Acheson's statements before the senate armed services committee when it was investigating the ouster of MacArthur last spring.

ACHESON TESTIFIED THEN: "I said that throughout and up to the present time we have always recognized and supported this government (the Nationalists), and we have not aided, abetted, made plans to recognize or anything in that field this other (Communist) government." But former Governor Stassen has just testified before the senate internal security committee that he learned from tor Vandenberg of Michigan that Ambassador Jessup and Secretary Acheson once President Truman in 1949 or early 1950 to dramatize a plan to give no more aid to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek by unloading ships of supplies meant for the Chinese Nationalists. Stassen also uncovered another contradiction far more sensational. He revealed that Owen Lattimore had far more to do with the shaping of Department of State policy than Acheson, by his testimony, has heretofore led the public to believe. TESTIFYING UNDER oath, Stassen swore that, until the Korean war broke out, the state department followed nine out of 10 of the recommendations made by Lattimore at an informal round-table conference held under the auspices of the Department of State in October 1949. The 10th recommendation was that the Communist regime be recognized.

Senator McCarthy has charged that Lattimore was the "architect" of American policy SO STASSEN supplied the senate committee with his own remarks and then a Summary of the notes he took at the conference. It seems strange that the state department would attempt to suppress what was said by 31 persons outside the federal service but such is the behavior of bureaucracy that a secret classification was given to the conference record. When Stassen was given the copy of what he himself had said, it had on it a label warning him that the document contained "information affecting the national interest of the United States within the meaning of the espionage act." Neither Stassen nor the senators could see any "security" reasons for suppressing this. Certainly it wasn't in a class with that famous stenographic record of the Wake island conference which the administration surreptitiously supplied to a newspaper. It was.

subsequently learned that the record by the stenographer at Wake island was done on a "keyhole" basis without any of the principal participants knowing it was being transcribed. This is an excellent example of the abuses which the new executive order by President Truman, requiring suppression of news at the source, makes possible. It helps the administration cover up any inaccurate statements any government official may make and enables the administration to prevent the disclosure of facts that contradict testimony before congressional committees by administration witnesses. These are strange goings- on for a "left wing" administration which boasts of its interest in "freedom of information." Diet And Health Severe and unremitting pain is the lot of many who suffer from incurable diseases. This is a distressing situation which physicians have sometimes gone to great lengths to relieve.

AH too often, their efforts have been in vain or have succeeded only for relatively short periods of time. Greatest reliance has been on certain narcotic drugs, but this has two ever-increasing doses are required to combat the pain and, consequently, there is great danger of drug addiction. MORE RECENTLY, surgeons who specialize in operations on the brain and nervous tissues have tried to find ways of "cutting" away unbearable pain. The one most commonly used consists in opening the skull and cutting certain nerve tracts. Many times, however, there may be mental deterioration following such an operation, but in certain cases of confirmed morphine addicts and in patients having severe, inoperable, painful cancer, its use may be justified.

There may be much apathy, untidiness and unpredictable behavior in those having the operation. Also, epileptic attacks may A newer and less severe operation, known as cordotomy, is one in which the seven a part of tht spinal cord Halloween originated in 837, when Pope Gregory IV instituted the day on Nov. 1, in place of the earlier festival Peace of the Martyrs. By David Lawrence in China and that only the exposure of the whole trend of policy prevented recognition of the Communist regime in Peiping by the United States. The slate department has sought up lo now to give the impression that the October -1949 conference was just an informal ing of 31 outside scholars and experts in Far Eastern and that Lattimore's part was quite insignificant It seems that a stenographic record of the conference was kept but the Department of State a few days ago declined lo furnish a copy of it to the senate internal security committee when it requested the document.

So Stassen revealed what he knew of the conference. It developed that, when he was lold in October 1949 that a stenographic record would be taken, he asked for a copy of the complete transcript but was refused, and he declined to participate unless he was to be given afterward at least a copy of the stenographer's record of what he himself said at the conference. By H. M. Bundesen, M.

D. which conducts the pain sensation to the brain. THIS OPERATION is very difficult and delicate, since the pathway is very minute in size. Any slip may cause permanent paralysis of different parts of the body. It is carried out only after a careful study by the physician.

It is usually performed high in the chest and is unquestionably the best way to relieve pain in the abdomen and legs. However, it should not be used if the patient is a narcotic addict. It has been found that after this operation, many people are able lo return to their occupations and carry on, free of pain. It would seem that in certain cases where the relief of pain due to incurable illnesses is necessary, cordotomy would be the operation of choice. Literary punctuation has developed out of a system of Aldus Manulius.

an Italian scholar and printer, who died in the sixteenth century..

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