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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
-WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
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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*
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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.”
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NEW SKIPPER OF MIGHTY
MO . . . The navy has announced
that Captain Irving P. Duke will
become skipper of toe recently
grounded battleship Missouri.
THEY NEED BLOOD . . . Jeanne Schapiro (left), student at Long Is
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Long Island, N. Y., college hospital. The Plcconl children stfe members
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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.
NOTE—What also burned up
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