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wm;- 2. THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. -WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ml Accused ‘Spy’ Ridicules Charges; Johnson Says U.S. Defense Okay; Britain to Cut Purchases in U.S. (EDITOR'S NOTE: When epinlona are expressed In these eolnmns they are those of Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) LATTIMORE: "Pure Moonshine" Owen Lattimore, mustachioed, mild-mannered United Nations em ployee, was the big news ot the Communist expose which Senator Joseph McCarthy had instigated and of which the highlight was Ma Carthy's charge that Lattimore was Russia’s top spy in the United States and that he was in the em ploy of the U.S. state department. IN AFGHANISTAN on a U. N. mission, Lattimore when informed of the charge, cabled a press asso ciation that McCarthy’s “rantings” were “pure moonshine.” It appeared that McCarthy was out on the shakiest limb of his po litical life. Loudly asserting that he would base his entire case against the state department, which he charges was infiltrated with Com munists, on the truth or falsity of the Lattimore case, the senator appeared to be off on the wrong foot at the start Lattimore was working for the TT.N., not the state department. He had not been connected with them for five years, the state de partment said. His lawyers hung a libel suit threat on McCarthy, con tending that when McCarthy named Lattimore as the “top Red spy” in a private session with newsmen, he was outside senatorial immunity. LATTIMORE expressed pleasure that McCarthy was basing his whole case upon him for, he said, when he returned to Washington and testified, McCarthy would “fall flat on his face.” Meanwhile, there was much con troversy over whether FBI files should be opened to the committee studying McCarthy’s charges. Mc Carthy contended the proof he needed were in these files and in other confidential files. FBI Chief * J. Edgar Hoover argued that the files should not be open because .of the bad effect it might have on “many innocent people” and the fact that it would destroy FBI use fulness in many ways. BRITAIN: Less Buying Great Britain, stipulating many **ifs,” planned to cut purchases from the United States and other dollar countries by as much as 25 per cent in the period from July 1, 1850 to June 30, 1951. By this ac tion, the government hoped to cut Its annual gold-dollar deficit in half by mid-1951. THE DESIRED GOAL could be reached only under the following conditions, the government said: L Continued good business in file United States. 2. Hie lid is kept on wages, prices and dividends in Britain. 8. British productivity goes on Improving with no sharp increases X In costs. 4. Exports to dollar markets In crease sufficiently to offset the cut In the value of the pound last Sep tember from $4.03 to $2.80. 5. Gold-earning exports to South Africa can be stepped up. fl. THE DOLLAR NATIONS dem- cnstrate readiness to accept im parts and to invest capital in non dollar areas. IAPAN: Treaty Urged With Gen. Douglas MacArthur and U.S. roving Ambassador Phil ip Jessup agreed on the desirabili ty of the move, strong pressure was building up inside the Truman administration for an early peace treaty with Japan. THERE is conflict on the issue. It is a group principally within the state department which seeks an early treaty, while many others believe that the treaty project should be shelved in order to pro long indefinitely the present Amer ican control. Added strength was given the ty proponents when Great urged months ago that a treaty should be completed. AS might be expected, the Rus sians had to put their oar in. Mos cow insists that there be a big- power veto over all treaty terms, but the trend in Washington seems to be for the western powers to by themselves if Russia refuse to join in under ac- ble conditions. Japanese treaty is seen by proponents as one line of action the United States could take to strengthen its position in that quar ter of the globe. Named to AEG Thomas E. Murray, mechan ical engineer who holds more than 200 patents and is an im portant figure in the auto and banking worlds, has been named by President Truman to succeed David E. Lilienthal on the U.S. atomic energy com mission. DEFENSE: How Adequate? The people, themselves, would have to decide who was right in the controversy on how adequate are our national defenses in the event of another war. Two highly important gentlemen in the defense setup had disagreed on the status of American defense strength. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of Allied for ces in World War II, had declared publicly that he feared United States defenses had “fallen below the danger point.” THE GENERAL’S REMARK stirred a wave of apprehension in many quarters and set some con gressmen on a road which may lead to another look at military budget paring. But, Louis Johnson, U.S. defense secretary, didn’t agree with Gen eral Eisenhower. After a long con ference with President Truman, he emerged to assert that our nation al defenses are “sufficient . . . unto the needs of the moment.” Just what Mr. Johnson meant by that was not clear, but it was quickly apparent that there could be read into the statement a con clusion that we are safe “at the moment” because no war has been declared. But those jumping to con clusion would immediately query: “How sufficient are these defenses at some other moment—say in the next six months, or next year—if war should come?” JOHNSON SAID he had not dis cussed the situation with Eisen hower since the general’s state ment concerning defense and de clined to discuss specific quotations from the Eisenhower speech. As serting that he was in no “contro versy with Ike,” he pointed out that the present defense budget was put together by the joint chiefs of staff, of which Eisenhower is chair man. General Eisenhower has been asked to tell congress what he thinks of the current defense setup, and Johnson said: “When he ap pears before congress I don’t want it to appear that I talked with him and tried to influence him in any way.” NEW 'BRAIN': Great Things Factory workers may become ob solete in the future if a new me chanical brain—resembling a pin- ball machine on a jackpot ram page—will do what its inventor claims it will. THE DEVICE, described as cap able of operating an entire factory without human aid, is designated officially as the magnetic-drum- digital-differential analyzer. The inventor, 31-year-old Floyd Steele, calls it Maddida for short. What Maddida can do was demonstrated at the opening of a three-day con ference on computing machinery at Rutgers university college of engineering. Steele, who is also an aeronauti cal engineer at Manhattan Beach, Cal., said the machine was the forerunner of the completely auto matic factory—where goods will be produced without help form the hu man hand or the human brain. SQUIEZE PLAY Reds Knock U.S. Dollar Down to 4 Rubles The Russians had come up with on economic squeeze play, and the U.S. was vigorous in its protests. Moscow had set a new 4-to-l ruble exchange for the American dollar. Hie United States charged the new exchange rate was “completely un ified.” * note delivered in Moscow de- that the former exchange of 8 rubles for $1 granted to the American embassy be restored. Moscow served notice last in Feb ruary that, effective July 1, the U.S. embassy would have to pay $1 for four rubles. The effect ol this, U.S. officials said, would be to • increase the cost of operating the embassy by nearly a millioa dollars a year. While not a too* important development, the actios was another aggravation. BIG THREE: GOP Advisor John Sherman Cooper, Kentucky Republican, former U.S. senator and now U.S. representative to the United Nations general assembly, was signally honored by the na tional Democratic administration. He was chosen by U.S. State Sec retary Dean Acheson as one of his principal advisors during a series of major meetings in London in which the western nations will chart strategy in the cold war. THE MEETINGS will consist of a session of the 12-nation North At lantic council and separate confer ences of the “Big Three,” Acheson, British Foreign Minister Bevin and French Foreign Minister Schu- man. All the meetings will deal with various aspects of the strug gle of the western powers to build up their strength against Soviet communism in Europe and Asia. Selected, too, as an advisor was U.S. Ambassador-at-Large, Philip Jessup, who was accused by U. S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of having an “affinity” for Communistic causes, a charge Jessup hotly de nied. The Cooper appointment obvious ly was designed to improve rela tions between the state department and congress and to build a back fire against Republicans who have been assailing Acheson and his policies. WHAT THE APPOINTMENT would do to Cooper’s standing in his own GOP ranks was something which only the future would de- vulge. It was logical to assume there would be some GOP stal warts who would feel that Cooper had “sold them out” by accepting the assignment from Acheson, when they were trying their best to get Acheson out of the govern ment. And with Cooper a potential gub ernatorial candidate in Kentucky (n 1951, it would be interesting to see whether his connection with Acheson and the Democrats would imperil his chances in that state, should he elect to make the race for governor. TRUMAN: Won't Open Files President Truman has refused flatly to surrender federal loyalty files to congress in the current spy Investigations, but he was estab lishing no precedents. Neither was Qe in any hazardous position in in dicating he would ignore congres sional subpoenas commanding him to surrender the files. In fact, so far as could be ascer tained officially, no President of the United States ever has honored a similar congressional subpoena. SO, it would seem that congress could fume and stew all it pleased, but it wouldn’t get the files it want ed until President Truman changed ais mind. Nevertheless, following the President’s announcement that ae would not surrender the files, the senate group investigating charges of communism in the state department promptly issued sub poenas for the records. The President’s action, in a way, would provide sort of an “out” for Sen. Joseph McCarthy who touched off the state department spy hunt with charges that Russia’s “top spy” was connected with the de partment and that it was infiltrat ed with persons with Communist sympathies. CHALLENGED to produce proof, McCarthy countered that evidence to support his charges was locked In federal loyalty files and in the files of the FBI. With both files closed to him and the investiga tors, McCarthy might still be in a technical position to continue his charges and claiming that official action in high echelons was pre venting him from proving them. Off-Season Santa Herman F. Luhrs, Detroit, chairman of the American Le gion public relations commit tee, presents a toy to a French boy who manages a smile de spite the unwieldy brace he most wear as a result of a brok en neck. The toys being distrib uted are some of 42 tons do- . nated by American children and collected by the American Le gion for European children. SUBMARINES: May Be Scourged According to a top U.S. navy ex pert, the feared submarine meance in the event of another war may not be so fearful after all. Rear Admiral C. B. Momsen has de clared that he has reason to be lieve that a development is “just ahead” that would enable the United .States “to drive submarines off the seas.” Admiral Momsen is the inventor of the Momsen lung, used in escaping from submarines. She Admiral declared, toe aub* bv -m > A II LOSES FIGHT, WINS BRIDE . . . Carmine Vingo, prizefighter wbo was critically injured recently in Madison Square Garden, leads bis bride, the former Kitty Rea. down the aisle of Our Lady of Pity church in the Bronx. The ceremony was postponed by Vingo’s injury. LENSMAN’S LAPSE . . . The news photographer took a vacation from world-shaking events to visit these three gun-women on movie location near Las Vegas, Nevada. They are well-armed, and that’s not all. Left to right, the three hombre-esses are Corinne Calvet, Marie Wilson and Diana Lynn. They may be shy, but they're certainly not gun-shy. Let's steal a “boss” and try to date this lovely mob np for a necktie party. It would be a pleasure to ‘Tiang” around with this pretty posse. THE “BULL” AT BAT . . . En route to Hawaii for a vacation. Fleet Admiral William F. (Bull) Halsey stops off for a vacation at a Holly wood movie studio to witness the shooting of a new technicolor film. He was besieged by cute June Haver (left) and Gloria de Haven as soon as he set foot on the set, and was welcomed by the other stars. Here, June and Gloria are adjusting toe admiral’s bow tie. ACCUSED ENTERS COURT . . . Alice Richard, 14-year-old high school girl charged with toe “hate” slaying of her twin, Sally, enters Fresno, CaUf., juvenile court accompanied by probation officers. After a brief hearing behind dosed doors, juvenile Judge Arthur Shepard decided toe case would be handled by juvenile court. The girl, who says she killed her sister because she hated her, was to be examined by psychiatrists, toe judge ruled. GOODBYE, AMERICA . . . Mrs. Valentin Gubitchev, wife of the Russian employee of the U. N., tried with Judith Coplon for espionage conspiracy, boarded the Polish liner Batory in New York to return to Russia with her spouse. His sentence was sus pended on condition he go home. STUNNED BY SENTENCE . . . Mrs. Yvette Madsen closes eyes as she leaves Frankfurt, Germany, courtroom after being sentenced to 15 years in prison for the murder of her husband. Air Force Lt. Andrew Madsen, 32. She is the mother of two children. Now He Knows O NE DAY last December, an American newsman walked up to a stocky, pipe-smoking diplomat in the delegates’ lounge at the United Nations—Vladimir demen tis, foreign minister of Czechoslo vakia. “Mr. Minister,” said the news man, “What’s this I hear about a purge in the foreign office in Prague?” “Ridiculous!” “A purge which, they say, might even eliminate you.” “Absolutely ridiculous. Look here, why don’t you fellows print something true abont my country? Why don’t you tell the story of our great advances in agriculture and industry, under the Communist regime, instead of printing silly rumors about purges! ” Clementis wouldn’t call them silly rumors today. He has now been purged. NOTE — Reason for the lafert Czech purge probably was to pave the way for a complete taking over of Czechoslovakia by Russia. Hith erto the country has been run by Czech Communists. But Poland is now under the dictatorship of a Russian general and this will prob ably follow in other satellite coun tries as a crackdown on growing unrest. Taxation Humor High taxes have brought a fusil lade of forensics from congression al Republicans. • . “Suppose a young man decides to propose,” opined Congressman Bob Rich of Pennsylvania. “He has to p4y a 20 per cent tax on the engagement ring. Then another tax on the wedding ring. And suppose in due time they acquire ah off spring. “Then the taxes really start—20 per cent %n baby oil, baby powder, baby lotion and baby creams.” Mom and Sis also had a defender in Rep. Les Arends of Illinois. “And when the tax gougers made up their ‘sucker’ list,” Arends said, “you ladies were placed at the top and you have been there ever since. “These are not luxuries,” con tinued Arends, referring to toilet articles and cosmetics. “The Amer ican way of life has made these articles as essential to you women as shaving to menfolks. The truth is that toe Washington tax-masters regard you women as a ’soft touch.” Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, not to be out done, got in a ping for toe men folks. “From the time they get np in the morning men pay a tax on everything,” she said, “their pajamas . . . their bath soap and shaving lotion . . . their razor and hair tonic ... . everything they eat for break fast . . . and that all-important smoke.” Democrats seemed to enjoy the show as much as republicans until GOP Rep. Hugh Scott of Pennsyl vania tearfully recited: “No baby oil for you, young man. Bareback babe, with cheeks of tan. By the rule of Uncle Sam. , You’re a luxury, little lamb. The skin we loved to touch with powder We sadly pat while you yell loud er; So now you know, my little man. Why Mama votes republican.” CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS A INVEST. OPPOR. SMALL dry cleaning plant doing good businnsa. Must aell. will teach new own er the business. Inq. William Straw, Bes 7t, ZephyrhlUs, Florida. 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Jeanne Schapiro (left), student at Long Is land nniversity, chats with Grace Plcconl and brother, Anthony, at Long Island, N. Y., college hospital. The Plcconl children stfe members of a group of 15 suffering aa anemia condition that necessitates trans- foaiens every two to six weeks. Grace’s birthday will be April To It n Mg event, students of Long Island U. are staging a big blood campaign to insure the children at least another year of life. RED TAPE HOLDS UP ADOP TION . . . Mrs. Charles Gage, St. Joseph, Mo., holds Shirley Ann, whom Mrs. Gage and her soldier* husband are trying to adopt. Ho is returning to Germany where Shirley The Senate hasn’t seen the end of the feud between Minnesota’s breezy, young Sen. Hubert Hum phrey and Virginia’s apple-cheeked Sen. Harry Byrd. Humphrey is still trying to sprinkle salt on Byrd’s tail. The brash Minnesotan raided Byrd’s favorite nest, the senate economy, committee, with a charge that instead of saving money it was wasting money. He pointed out that the committee hadn’t ev m met for two years. This brought toe Byrd forces to the senate floor in full array. Mdre Republicans and Dixiecrats turned out to defend Byrd toan listened to the debate on the Marshall plan and Atlantic pact One by one they lambasted Humphrey, who couldn't get a word in edgewise. When he finally gained the floor, the Byrd forces drifted out left him to talk to a near-empty chamber. Bouncing Sen. Ken' Wherry of Nebraska, the republican leader, actually hustled among the Repub licans, urging them to leave Hum phrey stranded. “This guy has giv- •n us a rough tone.” he said. Republicans joined southern Dem ocrats in trailing out of the senate chamber. Stung by this insult, Hum phrey lashed back at Byrd with facts instead of oratory. He also offered to meet Byrd any time in open debate, even sent several radio interview ers to try to arrange it. So far* Byrd has not accepted the challenge. 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