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Stent Well Kept
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^•NNE OF THE most carefully
guarded secrets of the war
was the fact that Japan was float
ing balloons across the Pacific
ocean to Oregon. Washington and
even as far east as Illinois and
Texas.
U. S. Censors gave strict orders
to suppress all news of these bal
loons; and even when an Oregon
family climbed into a tree to ex
amine a balloon and was blown to
bits, censors suppressed the infor
mation.
Reason for the strict censorship
A was that American commanders
£* didn’t want the Japs to know how
& successful their balloon campaign
p was. If the Japs realized their bal-
i loons were getting across, it was
believed they would launch many
more thousands.
After the war ended, cross-
examination of the Jap mili
tary revealed that 60,000 of
these balloons had been
launched from the Kurile is
lands and Formosa. They
crossed the Pacific at an alti
tude of about 17,000 feet at a
speed of over 100 miles an
hour and were equipped with
gadgets which made them des
cend after a certain distance.
The prevailing winds across
the Pacific made the flight rel
atively simple—despite the fact
(hat the Pacific is the widest
of all oceans.
The balloons were equipped as
incendiary carriers to set fire to
northwest forests, and later they
were to be equipped as carriers of
bacteriological warfare.
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Balloons to Russia
Use of these same type balloons
to carry propaganda into Russia
was proposed in this column two
years |igo. The wind currents from
Germany, France, Austria, Turkey
or even England make it easy to
float balloons into Russia. In fact,
they could be inflated so as tc
come down in certain planned
ureas, carrying not only propa
ganda, but bars of soap, candy,
uhortwave radio sets, etc.
The weather bureau, with whom
I conferred at the time, confirmed
the fact that floating the balloons
into Russia would be fairly easy.
Secretary of Air Symington and
Chief of Staff Omar Bradlrfy gave
their enthusiastic approval. But al
that time the state departmenl
said no.
However, with increasing Soviel
jamming of the Voice of America,
and with the increasing urgency oJ
getting American ideas across tc
the Russian people, the state de
partment under live-wire assistanl
Secretary Ed Barrett is re-exami
ning the matter. A sincere efforl
is being made to put across the
Acheson idea of “Total Diploma
cy.”
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A Candidate Forgets
I .Willis Smith, one of North Caro
lina’s candidates for the senate,
has been stumping the state telling
folks that he is the great friend
of the working man. One of his
full-page advertisements reads:
*T believe in high wage scales
for the American working man.’’
What Lawyer Smith has for
gotten, however — or at least
what he wants .the people of
North Carolina to forget—is
(hat he actually opposed a 40-
cent minimum wage for the
working man as late as 1947.
Despite the fact that the fed
eral minimum wage now is
fixed at 75 cents. Smith in- ■
formed the North Carolina gen
eral assembly that the 40-cent
wmlnlwinm was “harsh, unreas
onable and unnecessary.”
NOTE — In contrast, candidate
Smith last year received a fee ol
$23. 137.77 for liquidating the Madix
Asphalt Roofing Co. of Raleigh.
Since the job took him only 98
days, he was paid at the rate ol
$219.28 a day in contrast to the $16
a week which he told the general
assembly was too high for North
Carolina workmen. While liquidat
ing the firm, incidentally. Smith
lived at the beach resort of More-
head City aud charged his client
[10 cents a mile expense for riding
back and forth to the beach.
Soviat Eyes Okinawa
A Soviet plot to force the United
'.States off its Pacific island bases
Is revealed in recent reports to the
| joint chiefs of staff.
The clue to Soviet plans is the
massing of thousands of Chinese
forced laborers to build giant air
ports within bpmbing range of
China’s, Fukien province.
Uuey and Harry
Secretary of Defense Louis John
son’s report penchant for talking
[ off the cuff is getting him in
trouble with President Truman—
who also talks off the cuff.
The President complained to an
old friend the other day, “Louey
talks to Bernie Baruch and tells
him things he doesn’t tell me. I
have to learn about them third
hand.”
-Note—Mr. Truman has no lovs
for the elderly Baruch since Bap
uch didn’t aid re-election.
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS 1
Nation Displays Might on First
Armed Forces Day; Atlantic Pact
Nations Announce Defense Plans
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these eolamas, they are those ef
Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily or this newspaper.)
ARMED FORCES:
A Workable Team
Any doubts that observers might
have entertained about the success
of armed forces unification in the
United States was dispelled with
the observance of the first national
Armed Forces Day.
For the observance, America s
fighting forces across the world
paraded in the mightiest show of
power since World War II. The
biggest show of all went on in Ger
many where more than 85,000
Yanks demonstrated their readi
ness.
The day’s message to the world
was plain: The United States is
awake to the menace of Commu
nist aggression and is icadying its
defenses.
President Truman took the occa
sion to tell the public that if con
gress had passed his universal mil
itary training program five years
ago “there would have been no
cold war.”
He also invited all Americans “to
take stock of the state of our readi
ness to defend ourselves against
aggression.”
And, in general, Americans were
pleased and impressed with what
they saw on parade. Although the
forces were less in number, they
seemed well trained, power-packed
units that would form the backbone
of new armies should the situation
arise.
Army, navy and air force put on
a united front that was pleasing to
observers who remember recent
unification squabbles between the
services.
BOSTON:
Taste of Tradition
Climaxing its jubilee celebration,
staid old Boston let down its hair
by serving dinner to 10,000 on the
Common and holding a barn dance
at the Garden.
Believed to be the largest meal
ever served to a seated group, the
guests got a taste of tradition by
consuming five tons of baked beans,
three tons of potato salad, and
3,500 pounds of ham.
Earlier events of the jubilee were
designed to call attention to the
cultural, business, industrial, and
recreational advantages of Boston
and New England.
Serving the “baked-bean supper”
and all the trimmings took less
than an hour, some kind of a rec
ord. The trimmings included 2,000
loaves of brown bread, 12,000 in
dividual apple pies, 12,000 servings
of cheese, and 12,000 Parker house
rolls.
One thousand volunteer wait
resses, supervised by 40 home econ
omists and dieticians, served the
food.
UNEMPLOYMENT:
Worker's Output Up
According to the federal reserve
board the individual worker’s in
creased output has been one of the
big factogp in the unemployment
picture since last summer.
The board analysis of “labor
market developments” point to
two influences at work on the part
of business management:
1. “Large profits and strong fi
nancial' position in recent years
have encouraged business to spend
record amounts for new machinery
and equipment of highly efficient
design.
2. “Intensified competitive pres
sure on management to reduce
costs, partly by curtailing employ
ment and by utilizing those em
ployee! more efficiently than earlier
in the postwar period.”
In addition the board reports
there is an increased “tendency
for married women to work out
side the home,” and a similar
trend among teen-agers.
FARM INCOME:
Likely to Dip
The agriculture department pre
dicts that the cash income of the
nation’s farmers will be well under
1949 totals.
The department explained:
“prices farmers receive for
their products have generally been
below those of a year ago, while
their costs have declined only
slightly. This situation is expected
to continue for the rest of the year.”
Cash receipts from marketings
in 1949 totaled 27.5 billion dollars.
Forecasters expect the 1950 total
to be approximately 25 billion dol
lars.
NATIONALISTS:
Ready for Last Stand
Observers believe the long ex
pected last stand of Chinese Na
tionalists is now underway. They
base their opinion on the fact the
Nationalists have withdrawn from
all except one of their blockading
bases along the China coast.
Apart from Formosa and the
neighboring Pescadores islands,
the only territory remaining to the
Nationalists appears to be Quemoy
Island, of: Amoy.
Assails Truman
Sen. Robert Taft is shown
above speaking over a nation
wide radio network. He
charged in his speech that the
administration has shaken the
confidence of the people and
seeks to elect a “subservient”
congress to vote into law poli
cies that would wreck the conn*
try.
DEFENSE:
West United
At one point in their policy mak
ing in recent years, the Russians
reasoned, and not without basis,
that the western powers would
never really be united. That rea
soning, however, has received a
terrific jolt.
The 12 v/estem nations, mem
bers of the Atlantic pact, have
agreed to pool their economic and
military might into one vast armed
force, centrally directed to resist
Soviet aggression.
The plan, in reality a unification
move, is American inspired. It
will “create a balanced collective
force,” which means each of the
12 nations will contribute specific
units to the central western armed
force and not try to maintain ex
pensive over-all military estab
lishments, each self-contained in
all arms.
The move was seen by military
men as the one means of giving
the west a balanced defense force,
working in harmony, and with
maximum efficiency.
The United Spates is expected to
bear the greatest part of the cost,
although each nation will share in
proportion to its resources. The
U. S. share is expected to cost
more than a billion dollars this
year.
That the West is deadly serious
and intends to have the plan in op
eration as soon as possible was evi
dent by the creation of an over-all
council of deputy foreign ministers,
meeting all year round, to put the
plan into force. This council will
have a permanent powerful chair
man who, it is understood, will be
an American.
Some sources predicted the U. S.
may require a larger air force and
navy under the plan, since this
country will be entirely responsi
ble for atomic and other strategic
bombing in case of enemy aggres
sion.
DEMOCRATS:
Harmony Disturbed
Surface harmony prevailing
among Democrats at the Jefferson
jubilee celebration in Chicago was
shattered by the controversial civil
rights issue, which split the party
in 1948.
The Democrats were startled be
cause of the unexpected source of
the dissention.
Most southerners who attended
the Chicago meeting chose to ignore
the civil rights panel. Jonathan
Daniels, North Carolina national
committeeman and former White
house aide under both Presidents
Roosevelt and Truman, did not so
choose. N
He sat through the meeting, list
ening to 16 speakers demand en
actment of the Truman program,
and then insisted upon speaking at
the conclusion.
He told them flatly he could not
go along with them in favor of a
compulsory fair employment prac
tice act, and added: “You cannot
have a prohibition law against dis
crimination in tfie south.”
He asserted the propaganda for
the creation of a fair employment
practice commission “gives a
weapon to our enemies, the Dixie-
crats” and makes it possible for
them “to hide behind the civil
rights issue while they fight every
progressive measure.”
* Moscow Tool
The independent United Electri
cal Workers union has been de
nounced again as “Communist
dominated.”
Maurice J. Tobin, secretary of
labor, and Phillip Murray, presi
dent of the CIO, made the charges
in speeches at a rally of General
Electric workers. The UE was ex
pelled from the CIO last year on
charges of having left-wing ten
dencies.
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POLITICS:
Are Both Parties Split?
Observers are wondering if the
Republican and Democratic partief
both are going into the Novembex
election with split political fronts
The Republican trend came tc
light in the Oregan senatorial pri
mary which was won by indepen
dent voting Sen. Wayne Morse. Hia
campaign is not likely to resemble
^y other Republican drives this
fall.
In Pennsylvania, Governor James
H. Duff defeated the old guard Re
publicans in the senatorial pri
mary.
In many quarters the Duff and
Morse victories were seen as signs
that many Republican voters think
the party needs to offer more than
mere opposition to President Tru
man’s Fair Deal.
On the Democratic front, a few
more cracks have been added to
the split caused by the civil-rights
conflict started in 1948.
Southerners are still battling the
program, and recently, have gen
erally opposed Truman’s plans for
more gqyerament spending. The
Brannan plan has added fuel to the
fire of discontent among some of
the President’s best western
friends.
With these points in mind, the
September and October political
speeches of both parties may prove
the most interesting in years.
Meanwhile, a high-ranking Re
publican took another swing at the
President, charging that he seeks
a “rubber-stamp” congress elected
in November.
Said GOP national chairman _
Guy Gabrielson: “The 1950 issues
now are clear. President Truman
has 4 asked the voters to give him m
rubber-stamp congress that will
approve his program of social
ism.”
WINNIPEG:
Wet but Undefeated
Flood battered Winnipeg sloWly
returns to normal. With nearlj ^
fifth of the city at one time under
water, the citizens raised a banner
proclaiming they were, “wet but
undefeated” on the court house and
waited *for the Red river to show
its first drop.
Before it came flood waters had
reached a record high for the cen
tury. Some 100,000 of Winnipeg’s
350,000 population were forced to
evacuate and many of southern
Manitoba’s towns were deserted.
When the river showed its first
drop, flood waters were about two
feet below the absolute peak at
which engineers figured nearly all
of Winnipeg would be waterlogged
and the whole population would
have to be evacuated. t
Even with the river back in its
banks, however, observers said it
would be near the last of June be
fore the city would be back to nor
mal.
MRS. ROOSEVELT:
Comforted Distressed
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was
awarded the seventh annual Wil
liamsburg Settlement gold-medal
award for typifying the American
way of life and aiding the under
privileged.
At the presentation dinner, for
mer congresswoman Clare Boothe
Luce called her long-time political
foe the “best-loved woman in the
world” and said that no woman
ever had “so comforted the dis
tressed—or distressed the comfort
able.”
“When her justly notable toler
ance and patience with the Com-
munists finally gave out, that day
tolerance of communism in Amer
ica ended officially. It is safe to say
that her resistance to Soviet com
munism is a more potent factor in
winning the cold war than an extra
billion dollars of Marshall plan
aid,” she added.
• Something New
With all the investigations
that have been under way in
Washington, Rep. Usher ^ L.
Burdick of North Dakota has
;ome up with a new one. He
asked the house rules com
mittee to approve a resolution
to investigate—of all things—
congress. The committees post
poned action on the resolution
indefinitely.
EXPLOSION;
Second in Generation
The stunned and battered com
munity of South Amboy, N. J., 30
miles south of New York City, tied
up its wounds and, for the second
time in a generation, went about
the business of rebuilding.
On May 19 four explosive-laden
barges blew up with such force
debris was splattered over a 10 to
12 block area. Twenty-six persons
were dead or missing and nearly
*00 were injured.
NEW SARONG GIRL ... It used to be Dorothy Lamour who appeared
in all the South Sea pictures wearing the sarong, but along came a
script that called for aquatic adeptness, which in turn called for Esther
Williams. She’s posing in Kauai, T.H., in a Tahitian-type sarong known
as the “paren.”
HERO TO THE KIDS . . . Bronx Patrolman William Carr gets a hand
shake from Joan Cohen as x other youngsters look on. Carr, who has six
previous citations for bravery, rushed into a public school yard to stop
a snarling dog menacing the kids. Afraid to shoot because of the mUling
crowd. Carr jumped on the animal, twisting a leather collar around the
dag’s Kieek until it was subdued. The dog was removed to be tested fof
rabies, and Carr received the thanks of the kids.
SIX FEET HIGH—AND OVER! , . . “Farmer’s Glory” and his rider.
Miss M. Edgar, take a jump in England’s royal Windsor horse show in
London with six feet flying and plenty of room to spare—between the
horse and rider at least. The spectacular equine event was a major at
traction to horsemen and horse women from all over the country, with
its thrills and spills on the turf. Miss E£gar was entered in the class six
ladies open jumping event, which contained many spine tingling leaps.
SENATOR INSTRUCTS SENATOR . . . Rae Scarborough, one of the
Washington Senator’s ace hnrlers, gives U. S. Sen. Harry P. Cain
(right), Washington, a lesson in the rudiments of mound work. Senator
Cain is toning np for the Democratic-Republican charity baseball <gaane
which was played recently at Griffith Stadium in Washington. Pitcher
Cain is m Republican, hoping to learn a few choice curves to toss si
Democratic batters. He’ll be used to rhubarbs
SOMBRERO, SOME MAYOR! . . .
Mayor BUI O’Dwyer borrows s
sombrero from s Texas council
man to wear as he receives the U.
S. conference of mayors at Grade
Mansion, his official residence as
mayor of New York City.
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BEGINS NEW LIFE . . . Klara
de Corba hopes to begin new life
in America as she arrives in New
York from Budapest. She is s
countess whose father was a close
friend of Cardinal Mindszenty.
She hopes to gain fame and a
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WNU—7
23—50
Danish Professor Thinks
Vikings Vannod Columbus
NEW YORK. — Norsemen prob
ably established settlements in
America at least one to two hun
dred years before the arrival of
Christopher Columbua in the new
world, in the opinion of .Prof.
Johannes Broensted, director of the
National Museum at Copenhagen,
Denmark, and one of the workTs
foremost scholars In Viking and
medieval archeology.
Dr. Broensted has completed a
three-month study tour and exami
nation of important historical and
cheological flnds—the first such
PROUD LITTLE MAN . . . Larry
Slivka was just abont the proud
est little guy in Madison, Wise.,
when the President of the United
States pansed in his tour to ex
tend Larry a very farm and per
sonal greeting.
PLEA . . . Mrs. Robert Vogeler,
wife of the American bnsinesf
man sentenced to 15 yearn by a
Budapest court, pleads her has*
band’s cause at a press confer
ence in London. She flew from
Vienna to London in order to seo
Secretary of State Dean Acheson.
NEEDS WORK . . William S.
Hart, Jr., who lost long court
battle to break the will of hia
father, movie cowboy actor, Wil
liam S. Hart, says he needs a job
to get back on his feet after mort
gaging his home to pay trial costa.
dence by a recognized
under auspices of the American-
Scandinavian foundation.
His study tour, the professor said.
Included an examination of the
relics, visits to the sites of discov
ery, and conversations with lead
ing Scientists and archeological au
thorities in this country and Can
ada, as well as an examination of
available pertinent recorded data
here and on fixe continent.
Dr. Broensted explained there
are three principal Amer
ican archeological evidences rela
tive to Norse colonization before
the arrival of Columbus. He said
these are the Viking Find from
Lake Nipigon, near Port Arthur in
Capada, the Newport Tower in
Touro Park. Newport, R. L, and
the Kensington Stone, which was
found in Minnesota in 1898, and
which now is on exhibitidh in the
Smithsonian Institution. ^
The Canadian find, consisting of
a sword, an axe, and a supposed
shield handle, all of iron, he said,
“in' without doubt a genuine one.”
‘ “The axe and the sword are cer
tainly real Viking weapons of Nor
wegian (or Danish) origin,” Pro
fessor Broensted continued, “dat
ing from about the year 1000.” He
added that all the other evidence
was equally reliable.
Girl Player Lands Spot
On Boys’ Hockey Team
COLORADO SPRINGS. — When
fans see a blue-eyed strawberry
blonde scoring goals or bashing the
opposition to the ice with vicious
body checks on the Broadmoor Ice
Palace rink this winter, they won’t
be “seeing things.” The sight will
be real, for it will be a blue-eyed
strawberry blonde named Andra
McLaughlin.
Andra has given local hockey a
new twist this year by being the
first member of the fair sex to play
on an organized boys’ team in the
Colorado Springs junior hockey
league.
Ever since practice started for
the Cheyenne Mountain School ice
sextet late in October, the 15-year-
old sophomore has not missed a
workout. She’s been banged and
shoved and bruised and bumped, but
she was ready to take over at right
wing for the Indians. Andra is one
of the nation’s top hands in fancy
skating, so the roughest, toughest,
fastest sport of them all comes nat
urally to her.
Twenty-Year-old Canine
Survives as Vegetarian
FORT WAYNE, IND.—Mr. and
Mrs. Edwin H. Schmidt own a 20-
year-old dog named Neddo. Twenty
years in a dog’s life is the equiva
lent of 140 in human life. The
Schmidts credit a vegetable diet
yrith Neddo’s longevity. ~