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McCarran as Advisor
S EN. fcAT McCARRAN of Ne
vada, No. 1 enemy of Europe’s
homeless refugees, now has set
himself up as chief volunteer pub
lic relations counsel to Europe’s
No. 1 Fascist dictator.
On his latest junket abroad, sup
posedly to “investigate the current
refugee situation,” McCarran gave
Spain’s Francisco Franco some
shrewdly cynical advice on how to
make friends and influence people.
In the course of two lengthly inter
views, the senator from Nevada
assured his attentive host that
“with a little smart handling at
this end, Spain can be right back
In the front parlor by this time
next year.”
McCarran happens to represent
a state containing less than one-
tenth of 1 per cent of the U. S.
population, and most Nevadans are
not the slightest bit interested in
Franco. Nevertheless, McCarran
did not hesitate to speak for all the
American people.
“The overwhelming majority
of the American people,” he
said, "are convinced that your
country has been given a raw
deal. It’s Just a question now of
pounding the point home and
getting enough pressure put
on enough congressmen to whip
the state department pinks.”
A “healthy bloc of senators,”
McCarran added, are prepared to
advocate, early in the next con
gressional session, that the United
States sponsor Spain’s admission
to specialized agencies of the
United Nations. "They are also
prepared to put the heat on a few
of our European charity patients
so that you can get invited into
that western union club of theirs,”
McCarran said.
"However,” McCarran warned
Franco, “don’t let your pride keep
you from blowing your own horn,
good and loud. You’ve got to keep
telling everybody that Spain de
serves a place on the anti-Com-
munist team. Don’t bother about
anything else, or answer any other
criticism; just keep hitting that
one line, and you’ll make the
grade.”
Franco, whose background hasn’t
given him much experience in
molding public opinion, must have
been grateful for these tips. For
less than a week later. Franco
followed McCarran’s suggestions
closely in an exclusive interview
with a U. S. correspondent.
Radio Madrid, on its short-wave
broadcasts to the Americas, has
also begun to bear down heavily
on “Spain’s contributions to the
struggle of western civilization
against Russian Communist barb
arism.” High point of these propa
ganda blurbs is the cryptic dec
laration: “If it hadn’t been for
Spain, England would now prob
ably be the only free nation in
western Europe.”
• • •
Unsung Bureaucrats
Thousands of words have been
rained upon the reading public
about the inequities of bureau
crats. However, there are bureau
crats and bureaucrats and without
some of them, the government
couldn’t function today.
For instance, a hapdful of medi
cal bureaucrats are risking death
and disease every day to safe
guard the health of others. The
door outside their bureau at Be-
thesda, Md., might be covered with
quarantine signs, but pne sign
alone teUs the story; “Infectious
diseases.”
Inside, doctors and assistants
are exploring with microscopes
and test tubes, seeking cures
for everything—from polio to
the common cold. At one time
or other, nearly everyone on
the staff has been bedridden
with some disease; at least
three have died during the past
decade—victims of their own
research.
For such risks, these doctors are
paid a modest government salary,
ranging from $4,500 to $10,000,
though they could earn far more
in private practice. They don’t
work for the glory either, since
their discoveries are kept anony
mous by the public health service.
Yet their selfless research goes on.
The doctor in charge of polio re
search, for example, is Dr. Charles
Armstrong who spent eight months
in bed and nearly died from tular
emia, or rabbit fever, and also
came down with dengue fever, par
rot fever, “Q” fever and encepha
litis on other assignments. He is
now searching desperately for a
serum that will prevent polio.
• • •
No Cure for Colds
Another important research task
force, under Dr. Leon Atlas, is
exploring the common cold. He has
already isolated the elusive virus
which causes colds, has proven
this by dropping the virus into the
nostrils of volunteers from the dis
trict of Columbia jail. However,
Dr. Atlas has also discovered
there are many types of colds—
caused by other viruses, allergies
and mild diseases that do not ga
past the preliminary stage.
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Atomic Energy Commission Tells
Plan to ‘Breed’ A-Bomb Material;
Building Trades Ask T-H Waiver
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of
Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
A-BOMB ITEMS:
'Breeder' Planned
Those duly impressed by the
wonders of science through the
years more or less expected the
announcement—but, no doubt, it
came as a surprise to many that
the U.S. atomic energy commis
sion was preparing to “breed” the
scarce atomic materials that make
the A-bomb explode.
HAILED as the biggest step yet
taken in the attempt to harness the
atom for use in industry, an en
gineering plant for “experimental
breeding” of atomic materials
actually was on paper.
According to Dr. Lawrence Haf-
stad, top AEC scientist, atomic ma
terials. no matter how produced,
can be used for either bombs or
peacetime purposes. This would
include the hoped-for generation
of useful industrial power. He de
clared that the designers of the
“breeder” device are confident it
would work.
Commissioners and aids also told
newsmen that by 1952 the AEC
should be building the first model
of an atomic engine designed to
propel ships.
It will also start work next year
on a reactor—an atomic furance—
expected to yield “significant
amounts” of electronic power and
to “breed” or manufacture more
atomic materials as it goes along.
V THIS, AEC AIDS SAID, is dis
tinguished from the experimental
“breeder” whose primary purpose
would be to produce new atomic
materials, with power production
only a sideline.
Dr. Hafstad said the "breeder”
reactor would be built at Arco,
Idaho. He added that if it works,
it will ease greatly the difficulty
of getting more fissionable ma
terial. In "breeding,” the scientists
put some fissionable material in
the furnace with a larger amount
of non-fissionable. They hope, in
the process, to make some of the
latter into fissionable material and
thus have a net gain.
CHINESE:
Trigger-Happy
The muddled China picture was
getting no clearer, and the U.S.
again had been put in the middle.
INSULTED by China Commu
nists who had imprisoned (but
later released) the U.S. consular
attache, Angus Ward, Americans
fumed anew as Chinese National
ists, supposed friends of the U.S.,
were charged with firing upon a
U.S. vessel, the Sir John Franklin.
The incident occurred off Shang
hai.
The ship’s owners released a
radio message from the skipper of
the ship who charged that two
Nationalist warships had ignored
his order to halt for a boarding
party and had, instead, raked the
vessel with a “constant barrage”
of shells, almost at point blank
range. The ship’s owners demanded
that the U.S. act to curb the “trig
ger-happy” Nationalists.
The state department said it
would protest “energetically” to
the Nationalists government. The
U.S. agency entered the picture
after receiving reports of the in
cident from Walter P. McCon-
aughy, U.S. consul-general at
Shanghai, who said no one aboard
the vessel was injured.
THE INCIDENT was the latest
in a series of attacks or other mis
adventures suffered by the com
pany’s vessels at the hands of the
Nationalists.
An unexplained angle of the sit
uation was the question of what a
merchant vessel was doing—or its
rights—in ordering a man-of-war
of the Chinese Nationalists to halt
for a boarding party.
POPULATION:
U. S. Climbing
According to a U.S. department
of agriculture report, the popula
tion of the United States will in
crease by leaps and bounds in the
next 26 years.
THE REPORT predicts that the
current U.S. population of approxi
mately 150 million will rise to a
thumping 188.5 million by 1975—
an increase of 26.4 per cent.
The “high level” assumptions on
which the report is based are a
combination of factors including
high fertility, low mortality, an
nual net immigration to the U.S.,
and a high degree of internal mi
gration—that is, moving back and
forth within the United States.
In Contempt
Attorney Vincent Hallinan,
defending labor leader Harry
Bridges in the latter’s trial on
perjury - conspiracy charges,
was cited for contempt of court
during the trial which was pre
sided over by Federal Judge
George B. Harris, in San Fran
cisco.
LABOR:
T-H Waiver Asked
A psychological swipe at the
Taft-Hartley labor law was taken
by employer associations and labor
unions in the vast U. S. construc
tion industry. Both joined in ask
ing the national labor relations
board for exemptions from Taft-
Hartley labor law election require
ments.
WHATEVER EFFECT the move
might have on congressional action
on Taft-Hartley when members
convene in January, there was no
denying the action was well timed.
With employer associations throw
ing in with labor in requesting the
blanket exemption, opponents of
Taft-Hartley would find added
strength.
The construction industry’s ma
jor management and labor groups
contend that strict application of
the T-H law to them will wreck
long-standing collective-bargaining
practices and hamper building ac
tivities.
Here, too, was a scintillating
strategic maneuver, for with hous
ing still short and the problem
still far from solved, anything
which might be considered as an
aid to increased building could ex
pect to get some consideration
from congress.
UNDER PRESENT T-H LAW,
elections such as those mentioned,
a vote must be taken before a
union can be certified as the proper
bargaining agent, and before a
union can get a union-shop agree
ment—one that requires workers
after they are hired to become
members of the union.
It is a complete waiver of both
these provisions that management
and labor in the construction agen
cy are asking.
'KICKBACK':
Solon Accused
The long-postponed trial of Rep-
J. Parnell Thomas (R., N.J.)
opened with charges that he forced
a former secretary and codefend
ant to aid him in a salary “kick-
back” scheme.
THE CHARGE against Thomas
was made by John R. Fitzpatrick,
attorney for Miss Helen Campbell,
one-time secretary to the former
chairman of the house un-Ameri
can activities committee.
Both Thomas and Miss Campbell
were charged with fraud and con
spiracy by which the congressman
allegedly padded his office payroll
and took salary "kickbacks” from
two employees.
If convicted, the representative
would face up to 32 years in prison
and fines up to $40,000. The house
of representatives would have to
decide whether he could remain In
congress. Miss Campbell would
face a somewhat lesser penalty.
MISS CAMPBELL’S attorney con
ceded that she aided in the "kick-
back” scheme, but only under
Thomas’ orders, and denied she
was guilty of conspiracy. Actually,
he said, she went to the justice
department and voluntarily told
"everything the government knows
about the case.”
The government claims the al
leged plan netted Thomas a total
of $812. While he is accused of fil
ing false payroll claims totaling
nearly $1,700, it is not alleged that
he got all the money.
NEW SOVIET CLAIM
Reds Report Vegetation on Planet Mars
The Russians, whose claims to
pre-eminence in discoveries and
inventions of things the western
world had known and invented
years before, were "out of this
world” in their most recent as
sertion of scientific discovery.
This time, Soviet scientists were
fairly sure of no contradiction, by
means of visible proof at any rate.
The Kremlin's telescope crews had
come up with the statement that
there was actually vegetation on
the planet Mars.
An astronomer at an observatory
in south central Russia, so the re
port went, reported that: “Plant
life on high mountains and in the
arctic (of the earth) resembles
Martian vegetation in lumines
cence. It appears that all wild
plants radiate waves.
CENSUS:
Tell It All
Mr. and Mrs. America will be
asked practically to “tell it all”
when the federal census takers
start by next April 1. About every
fifth person contacted by the enum
erators wil be asked to give even
additional information to that
asked in the routine process.
Here’s what each person will be
expected to tell the census taker:
Age, relationship to the head of
the household, race, sex, marital
status, birthplace, citizenship stat
us, employment status and occupa
tion.
EVERY FIFTH PERSON, in ad
dition, will be asked:
Where he or she lived a year
ago. Country of birth of parents,
length of schooling and school at
tendance. For adults in the one-
in-ifve category, the enumerator
will press for data regarding in
come, employment, and status as a
veteran.
And, if you happen to be No. SO
or any multiple of that number on
the list, you will be asked to di
vulge still additional information
regarding unemployment, details
of your marital status and the
number of your children.
When the census is completed,
the bureau expects to be able to
give authoritative information re
garding housing, mortgages, utili
ty bills, rentals and household con
veniences.
CONGRESSMEN, as per tradi
tion, will have a big hand in nam
ing district supervisors for the cen
sus-taking. In March, these district
supervisors will undertake the job
of choosing their crew leaders and
enumerators. Those chosen will
have to go to training schools and
be ready by April 1 to start their
search for personal facts.
GOVERNMENT:
'Poorhouse' State?
The GOP was kicking around a
new label for the type of govern
ment it contends the Truman ad
ministration is gradually bringing
about in the U. S. This time it
was the “poorhouse” state, as
compared wth “welfare” state as
had been charged previously.
PRESIDENT TRUMAN had
grabbed up the tag “welfare” state
and took the line that if that was a
proper tag for all the progress and
improvements his administration
was bringing about, then the Amer
ican people ought to go all out for
the “wel'are” state. In that he
had the support of many of the na
tion’s newspapers.
GOP National Chairman Guy G.
Gabrielson, in answering Mr. Tru
man, accused the President’s ad
ministration of leading the U. S.
to a “poorhouse” state and to ag
gravation of a serious unemploy
ment problem in this country.
Gabrielson charged that recent
tariff cuts ordered by the President
under the reciprocal trade agree
ments act, renewed by the 81st
congress, have resulted in the “ex
porting of jobs of American work
ers in hope of providing jobs for
workers abroad.”
Asserting that Democrats not
only are spending money that will
have to be repaid in taxes col
lected a hundred years from now,
Gabrielson declared:
“IF WE CONTINUE under the
present administration we are
headed for a poorhouse state, and
while the inmates of a poorhouse
may have a certain amount of
security, their lot is not particular
ly enviable.”
The GOP chairman added that
the policies of the present adminis
tration are directed toward "de
stroying the American system of
free enterprise.”
That’s a familiar cry from the
GOP, but on the basis of past bal
lot records, it has little weight with
the majority of U.S. voters.
New Contract
Joan Evans, juvenile screen
star, has just signed a new con
tract with an agent. Joan is
shown shortly after she had
her waist - length tresses
trimmed short.
PHILIPPINES:
Credit Endangered
In Manila, four United States
senators warned the Philippines
that disorders such as the post
election Batangas revolt might
hurt the islands’ credit.
Senator Ellender (D., la.) de
clared he had “been hopeful of
seeing a little more development,
a little more law and order.” The
senator’s utterance was made at a
press conference. Three other
members of the group agreed.
FRISKING AN CELL WITH DIRTY FACE . . . Patrolman John Verdi
holds his persuader in one band while he searches Robert Angell after
he found Angell hiding under a coal pile in a cellar of an East 26th
street New York City house. Police grabbed three men In the act of
robbing a luggage company In the rear of the building. Angell, 17,
was one of the three. Angell was unarmed at the time of his capture.
HER MAJESTY MEETS REEL HERO. . . Queen Eliz-'-eth nf
shakes hands with film star Errol Flynn, swashbuckling hero of the
movies, as the royal family attends command performance of I ■*.... s
starring film, “That Forsyte Woman,” pi London. At right is film star
Greer Garson who plays in the picture with Flynn. Other screen lumi
naries of British and American fame are in the receiving line.
CHARLEY IS AFFABLE . . . Prince Charles, son of Princess Elizabeth
and the Duke of Edinburgh, beams from his pram during an outing in
Green park, London. The little boy studying the baby is Prince
Richard, son nf the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and cousin to
Prince Charles. The baby who may one day rule England celebrated
his first birthday recently. His birthday cake had one orange candle,
weighed 40 pounds and was decorated with teddy bears.
VEECK SELLS INDIANS . . . Control of the Cleveland Indians baseball
team passed from Bill Veeck recently to a syndicate of Cleveland
business men. Ellis Ryan (left), insurance executive and president of
i the syndicate, looks on as Veeck signs transfer of stock certificate. The
fabulous Veeck was at the helm 3K years which saw the Tribe «et new
attendance records and win their first pennant in 28 years. Cleveland
expects to be very much in the race in 1950.
DEMANDS INVESTIGATION . . .
Once a prisoner of war himself,
David Rousset, French writer, is
staging a one-man crusade for the
investigation of Soviet prison and
work camps where thousands of
prisoners of war are still held,
many at forced labor, Rousset
contends.
BUS DRIVER MAYOR... Mayor-
Elect Joseph L. Willett of Haver
hill, Mass., has decided to keep
his regular job as bus driver
since, “I can’t live on the mayor’s
salary of $2,500.
PRESIDING JUDGE . . . Judge
Henry W. Goddard presided at
sessions of the second trial of
Alger Hiss at the federal court
house. New York City. Hiss, form
er state department aide, was
charged with perjury. A first trial
resulted in a hung jury.
PENSIONS FOR ALL . . . AboU-
tion of old age assistance in favor
of a universal pension insurance
plan, handled by the government.
Is recommended by Sumner H.
Sllchter, economics professor at
Harvard university.
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track for loading of grain and cattle.
Not a terrace on the farm, nor does it
need one. Land is chocolate pebbly type,
with a clay basfe. One mile from a good-
town. Loan on place now for $15,000»
payable $700 per year at 4%%.
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