The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 116, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 16, 1951 Page: 3 of 8
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)NESDAY, MAY 16, 1951.
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THE DAILY NEl
IN THE BACKGROUND
Rep. Richards
(Bt Auoeimttd Prtm)
These day, the chairmanship of
the House Foreign Affair* Com-
mittee is among the moat influen-
tie! posts in Congress—and one
of the choicest plums. There was
a time, years ago, when a man
could do more for his own poli-
tical career with a spot on rivers
and harbors. But now, Foreign Af-
fairs leads in both prestige and in-
fluence. The change is expressed
by the new Foreign Affairs Com-
mittee Chairman himself—Repre-
sentive James Richards of South
Carolina. He says:
“I reckon you’d call me a fellow
who’d like to stay out of world
responsibilities, but realize the
United States can’t stay out if
it wants to.”
So it is that James Richards and
his committee both find themsel-
ves very important people. The
chairmanship fell to Richards by
seniority, upon the death of Rep-
resentative John Kee, of West Vir-
ginia.
RiAards may be reluctant in
the matter of dabbling in world
affairs. But he it determined. He
says he’s not an interventionist,
whatever that is. But he adds firm-
ly “I’m certainly not an isolation-
ist.”
James Prioleau Richards is a
farm boy from the South Carolina
Piedmont. He was born and raised
in Lancaster County, which bord-
ers on North Carolina, about mid-
way along the line from east to
west. He went to the local public
schools, attended Clemson College
and took a law degree at South
Carolina University. There was
no time to put this to use then—
Crew Members
Face Hazards
In Je! Planes
(By A *«onated Praia)
Denver — New American Jet
Bomlyg| are conquering the phys-
ical thirds which crew members
have faced. A bomber builder,
Well wood Beall, has described
some of the problems encountered.
Beall is an engineering vice-pres-
ident of the Boeing Aircraft Com-
pany in Seattle.
He explained that the wind
roars through the jet bomber with
removal of the cover through
which the men have to escape. He
said the wind has such force that
men sometimes are unable to move
against it. Beall said the crewmen
may become dizay and even lose
the power temporarily to think
rationally.
He said that some hazards have
been met, but that work must still | tee—not
continue on others.
Richards was 23—and it waa 1917.
And so he hustled over to Camp
Styx, 8outh Carolina, and enlisted
in the Anny as a private. He serv-
ed throughout the war in France
in a trench mortar battery of the
118th Infantry Regiment (30th
Division). And he climbed through
the ranks, emerging a Second
Lieutenant in 1919.
That done, Richards resumed
his career by hanging out a shingle
in Lancaster—J. Richards, Attor-
ney at Law. He prospered—but
he also longed for politics. He be-
gan by running successfully for a
County Judgeship, and remained
in that job, being re-elected reg-
ularly, until 1930. That year he
decided to branch out—and ran
for Congress instead of the old
county court-house. He won—and
he has been winning at every elec-
tion since then.
He was married in 1925 to a
Lancaster County girl—and they
have two sons and a daughter.
As a politician, Richards is care-
fully provincial and without pre-
tensions. He chews tobacco. He
speaks with a strong local accent.
He loves the seven Carolina coun-
ties he represents—and he be-
lieves that is the best way to rep-
resent them. There will be no
striped pants in the chair of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee
while James Richards occupies it.
The death of John Kee and the
ascension of Richards coincided,
of conrse, with perhaps the- most
violent foreign affairs uproar we
have ever had—the MacArthur
affair. The hearings are being
dealt with entirely in the Senate
—but Richards’ position has been
thoroughly sounded out, as might
be expected.
Richards is pretty solidly on the
side of the administration on this
one, although- he tries to give
General MacArthur his due. Rich-
ards said in an interview:
“The firing of MacArthur was
inevitable, but I hated to see him
go. He was a great General and a
successful administrator.”
Richards admit* that plenty of
mistakes have been made in the
Pacific. But his view* of Amer-
ican policy in the Far East coin-
cide precisely with those stated by
General Marshall on the witness
stand. Here is Richards' own com-
ment:
“The Pacific is not the principal
area of conflict w-ith Communism.
The center of Communism is Mos-
cow, not Peiping. If conflicts
come.. .we’ve got to defeat them
at the source of power—that’s
Europe."
There you have the view* of the
man who presides over the House
Foreign Affairs Committee. But
he says that even after 18 years
in Congress, he’s not prepared to
stir up any roita in the Commit-
yet, anyway. “I’ll go
slow,” he says.
Friends Provide
i Rep. Keating's
'Inside' Data
BROADWAY
By MARK BARRON
Associated Proas Writor
(Bf AttocimUd F-ess)
Washington, May 19 — New
York Representative Kenneth
Keating has told inquisitive news-
“ULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS
—H>---
much
rAW! T„owa
fact that as stage director for
New York—Herbert Graf came
into hi* Broadway offices the
other day in a gloomy mood and
it was a day when he should have rounding the island, Graf will have
like the intime
of early Roman dramas.
To give ah idea about Graf, the
Viennese who came by way of
Italy to discover television on
Broadway, we should look at his
varied experience and ideas.
He has directed operas in Italy
before and now he got* back there
to stage Verdi’s “I Vespri Sici-
lani” in an open-air production
on an island. In the water sur-
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Train Schedule
friends in government. That’s the
GOP Congressman's reply to in-
quiries about the source of two
bits of information he has produc-
ed to embarrass the White House.
The Rochester attorney first
predicted the discharge of White
House secretary Mrs. Merl Young
of mink coat fame. Two weeks
later, Mrs. Young left her job—
taking her 89,500 mink coat with
her.
Then yesterday, Keating told
the House that a government-
owned limousine bearing President
Truman’s sister was stopped for
speeding at 70-miles-an-hour thro-
ugh Hopewell, New York, last
Saturday. The driver of the auto
-—identified by Keating as White
House family guard Grady Stowe
—was fined $20 after pleading
“The President will be distressed
if his sister is detained.”
Keating’s criticism of President
Truman and his administration
was all the more puzzling because
Mr. Truman bad boosted Keating
to the rank of brigadier general
from that of colonel just a few
years ago.
Queried as to the reason for his
criticism, the Congressman re-
plied: “I’m very much concerned
over the deterioration of the moral
and ethical standards all through
the administration.
“I feel that the President, and
equally the members of Congress,
should set an example for the rest
of the country and bend over
backwards and be scrupulously
careful in the execution of the
public trust the people have com-
mitted to them.”
As to his story of the President’s
sister traveling in a government-
owned limousine, Keating said:
"The President has been taking
everybody else in the country for
a ride for six years. Why not his
own sister?”
He added that Miss Truman—
whose name he did not use—was
in no way to blame.
White House aides said word
of the Incident had been received,
but no details.
Metropolitan Opera Television
Shows he had Just been signed
for another season. Also that he
is to direct Weber’s “Oberon”
when it is performed in the Boboti
Gardens of the June music festi-
val in Florence, Italy.
On the bad news side was the
fact that his house in Bedford
Village, N. Y., had just burned
down.
Graf is Viennese and therefore
changes like sparks of fire from
gay happiness to depths of depres-
sion. As a stage director for the
Met for 16 seasons and as advisor
on many Broadway musicals in the
operatic calibre and as a telivision
director, Graf has been through
every phase of the entertainment
business.
Graf has a modern, or futuris-
tic, viewpoint for an opera direc-
tor who has directed 11 out of
the current 21 Met productions
including “The Flying Dutchman”
and “The Ring.”
Now he is all enthusiasm for
television and the changes it will
bring in show business. At the
same time he is going to Italy to
•tage operas in natural, out-door
a swimming chorus. But he ia a
sensible man and says he will not
have the chorus attempt to sing
while swimming.
Graf, despite his enthusiasm for
modern television and for such
innovations a* introducing swim-
ming girls in his Florence produc-
tion of Verdi’s opera, is still an
orthodox opera enthuaiast. His
great hope is to return from Italy
and present lesser known operas
which are now rarely included in
the standard repertoires of the
Met and recognized municipal
operas across country.
Square Dance
Set Tonight
The Circle 8 Square Dance club
will meet this evening at eight
o’clock in the American Legion
Hall on Church street.
Jack Grant will call and live
music is promised for the evening.
All members are urged to attend.
—Reported.
Judy Canova in “Sleepytime
Gal”, showing at the Broadway
Wednesday and Thursday.
(Bw AmcimUi Fr*m)
Houston, May 16 — A tiny
baby girl, Sandra Pauline Reed,
is doing fine and not a bit con-
cerned about her debut disrupting
Southern 'Pacific railroad ache*
dules.
Sandra Pauline’s mother, Mrs.
Billy Jack Reed, waa traveling to
Houston from Oregon to join her
husband, a shipyard worker. Rid-
ing in the day coach, she sud
denly suspected an impending visit
from the stork. Hurriedly the
conductor recruited from among
the passengers a navy doctor and
an air force doctor.
They rushed Mrs. Reed into
the chair lounge. Sandra Pauline
was bom as the train passed
through the little town of Cline,
in Uvalde County. Women pas-
sengers and train porters rushed
around and quickly improvise
some baby clothing from the
train’s linen supply.
The conductor instructed the
engineer to skip a couple of small
towns along the line and wired
ahead to Uvalde asking for an
ambulance to meet the train.
Sandra Pauline arrived about a
month ahead of Mrs. Reed’s ex-
pectations. She weighs 6 1-2
pounds. Her initials — S. P. R.
are in honor of the Southern Pa-
cific Railroad, which so ably as-
sisted the stork.
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By
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sailor whose ship
You for anything in 16 years and
if You’ll just save me now, 1 won’t
bother You again for another 16
yeara.”
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prayer i
*
A roomer was kept awake for
two nights by the man overhead
who waa running back and forth
across the room. The third night
the noise wss worse than ever so
he went up, knocked on the door
snd asked, “What’s ail the com-
motion?”
The other raid, “I'm carrying
out the doctor’s orders. He gave
me this medicine snd said take it
two nights running, then skip the
third night.”
Firs! Baptist
Church Meeting
Teachers and Officer* meeting
will begin tonight at the First Bap-
tist Church at 7:00 o’clock. D. R.
Bonner, Sunday 8ehool Superin-
tendent, urges alt workers to be
present. Prayer service will begin
at 8:00. Pastor Joe Weldon Bailey
In 2-Car
'B* AmcMtd Pr,
Wichita Fall*. May
airman was killed and two
injured in a head-on auton..
collision south of Randleti, C
homa, early today.
The fatality wax
Staff Sergeant Edward
t-f Tulsa, Oklahoma. Injured
18-year-oJd. Corporal Francis
West of Woodlyn, Penns
and 87-year-old Staff S
James M, Murphy of La: ______
Oklahoma.
Brumley wax in a car driven
by West. Murphy was riding
alone. Both cars caught fire af-
ter the collision.
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When laying cables under the
ocesn, 108 mile* of cable are laid
for every 100 mile* of distance to
lie covered to give the necessary
slack.
Charles R. Lewis
To Get Degree
Charles Robert Lewis of Cumby
is scheduled to receive s Bschelor
of Journalism degree from the
University of Texas at Commence-
ment Exercises June 2, according
to Dean C. Paul Boner.
Lewis currently is employed by
the Associated Press at Austin.
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