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*>■ r ? i THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. -WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS I. Edgar Hoover Says Potential Fifth Column of 540,91(1 in U.S.; Wheat Crop to Miss Billion Mark (EDITOR'S NOTE: When •plntona are expressed In these eelnmne, they are those *f Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and net necessarily e( this newspaper.) ' FIFTH COLUMN: 540,000 in U. S. Of all the men In high govern ment security • posts, J. Edgar Hoover, director of the pos sibly commands more respect than any other. For that reason, his statement that the Communists have a potential fifth column of 540,000 people in the United States, made public some four months after he testified before a senate committee, gave Red conscious Americans a shock. He was explicit on two points: (1) Communists are seeking Amer ican atomic, military and indus trial secrets with every trick and means at their disposal; (2) Sub versive Communists are more ac tive now than the Nazis and Fas cists ever were during World War n. The “orbit of Communist con trol,** he said, has increased from one seventh of the world’s popula tion in 1917 to one third of the world’s population today. “The intensification of commu nism and underground activtity in the United States has increased proportionately. If we are to pre serve our internal security in times of emergency, it is incum bent that the identities of those who work against the peace and se curity of America be established.” The F.B.I. chief revealed that native-born Communists and sym pathizers are after information on atomic research, radar, jet propul sion, coastal maps, military air ports, biological warfare, and in dustrial resources. His agency is handicapped in dealing with them because present espionage laws are intended main ly for aliens. Hoover also reported, ‘To coun teract the F.B.I.’s penetration of the Communist party, its leaders have established a far-reaching and vigorous loyalty program of its own, calling for establishment of investigating committees in each state and a thorough investi gation of each member of the part as to personal history, activities, associations, contacts, and length of membership.” ATOR TAFT: f if Necessary Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the Republican policy chieftain who has as good a chance as any for the GOP presidential nomination in 1952, has issued a frank and complete, if somewhat startling, one-package statement on U. S. foreign policy. The main points: (1) The United States should go to war if Russia moves into western Europe; (2) He doubts there ever can be a complete bipartisan foreign poli- Si cy to cover all areas of the world. The senator, however, did not entirely abandon the music of iso lationism with which he has often been associated. He added that he red the U. S. can contribute most to meeting the challenge (of lia) if it maintains “a free I” and avoids any committ ments, such as arms aid, now or | “land-mass fighting in Europe” if fighting breaks out. On the bipartisan foreign policy problem, Taft was not jumping completely to either side of the fence. He wanted it understood he believed a bipartisan policy could be achieved on “specific projects” when there is advance consulta tion with “elected Republicans in congress.” • He was critical of two recent de velopments, particularly the “bal anced collective forces” concept agreed upon by the Atlantic pact foreign minister in London, and the $1,222,500,000 second-install ment arms-aid program. He said the building up of European forces might incite Russia to attack on grounds that it constituted “ag gressive action.” NEW CAMERA: 76 Miles in Picture The Air Force has announced the development of a camera that will take 26 miles of picture from 10,000 feet. The picture can be taken in two seconds. The air force said the camera tests to determine its value in re connaissance. Whether it will be installed in new aircraft was not disclosed. The distance can be increased by • corresponding elevation of the plane, the air force reported. INVASION: Red Youths Threaten Ever since the gigantic Red youth rally in Soviet Germany it has been apparent to observers that the Communists were not sat isfied at all with the results of that rally. Now East Germany threatened to rffend its blueshirted Communist youths marching into West Ger many. And western leaders warned they would “shoot if necessary** to keep them out Jailed John Howard Lawson (left) and Dalton Tnunbo (right) are shown on the way to jail to start a year’s imprisonment for contempt of congress. Hol lywood writers, they refused to tell the house committee on un-American activities wheth er they were Communists. WHEAT CROP: Miss Billion Mark For the first time in seven years, the nation’s farmers will fail to harvest a billion-bushel wheat crop this year, the agriculture depart ment has predicted. This means, the government forecasters said, the income of wheat farmers will be down some $400,000,000. Thi government predicts a har vest of 944,514,000 bushels as the result of voluntary reductions in plantings under the government’s acreage allotment program/ and from bad weather and insects. The record crop was harvested in 1947 and amounted to 1,367,186,- 000 bushels. Last year 1,146,000,000 bushels were harvested. The fore cast, incidentally, is well under the 10 year average of 1,032,000,000 bushels. Observers pointed out it means the government may have to dip into its big price support wheat surplus to meet the combined do mestic and export needs in the year ahead. The government now has approximately $4,000,000,000 in vested in farm surpluses. The agriculture department said prospects for the corn crop now generally are favorable. Plantings are expected to be smaller than a year ago because of the acreage allotment program. The report forecast an oat crop of 1,380,000,000 bushels, four per cent more than last year. Rye pro duction, forecast at 22,400,000 bu shels, would be 20 percent larger than last year but still smaller than average. DISARMAMENT: U. S. Just Talking Sixteen outstanding scientists, educators, and clergymen have is sued a five-point program calling for total disarmament and accus ing the United States of just paying lip service to disarmament while actually discouraging such a step. The five points: 1. An immediate halt to atomic bomb production, with stockpiles to be taken over by the U. N. pend ing further negotiations. 2. Acceptance of the Soviet pro posal for national—rather than in ternational—atomic ownership, un der an agreement blocking large- scale production. 3. Acceptance of the American proposal for international inspec* tion of atomic resources and pro duction. 4. A compromise in the U. S.- Soviet disagreement over whether atomic stockpiles should be des troyed before or after international controls go into effect. 5. Abolition of all armies and conventional armaments at the same time atomic weapons are de stroyed. The report was signed by Albert Einstein and novelist Louis Brom- field, among others, and said in part: “Officially appointed representa tives to the UN tell the world that the U.S. wants disarmament and only Russia stand? in the way. Yet other American officials do what they can to discourage disarma ment. Most observers agreed the pro gram proposed was idealistic, but hardly practical in the light of world events. 10 Million to I While much of the nation was reading about methods to curb gambling, a story from Las Vegas, Nev., reported a gambler made 28 passes at the dice table, something that happens once in 10,000,000 times. The gambling casino said it lost $150,000 and the gambler, who won only $750, could have taken $268,- 435,456 had he let his bets accumu late. CONSUMERS: Buy More Heavily The commerce department has announced consumer incomes, the mainspring of retail buying, rolled up to $212,800 million a year rate during April. The April showing constituted a $600 million annual-rate gain over March and was the second consecu tive monthly increase. The gain “reflected an expansion In payrolls that was largely offset by declines in proprietors’ income and transfer payments”, the de partment said. The decline in proprietor’s income x occurred chiefly in farm income as livestock marketing receipts de clined in a season when they nor mally rise. “The net income of farm opera tions for the first four months of 1950 was about one-fifth less than in the same period last year,” the department said. “The rise stemmed primarily from increased activity in the dur able goods and manufacturing in dustries. Higher employment and a longer work week in factories producing transportation equipment, machin ery, and other fabricated metal products were mainly responsible for the advance of total wages in durable-goods manufacturing.” POTATOES: Shootin' Bug Dust Now it can be told. A hundred million pounds of surplus Ameri can potatoes have been sent into Soviet Germany to feed victims of the potato bug fantasy. Recently the Soviet controlled ra dio and press went into a song and dance about American planes drop ping potato bugs in the Soviet zone. The Communist propaganda said the United States sewed insects to blight the east German crop, to test out germ warfare, and sell capitalistic bug poison. American officials called the charges ridiculous and said the Communists apparently were trying to condition the jpepole for crop failure. The continued broadcast by the Communists on the potato bug theme and the silence main tained over the shipment of un branded American potatoes were looked on as evidence of a cam paign to cover up production fail ures. The potatoes were shipped by a New York broker to a Swiss firm in Hamburg. Another deal was re ported underway to ship 18,000 tons to Frankfurt in Western Germany. In both cases, state department officials suspected that the po tatoes were going to the Commu nists. RENT CONTROL: Senate Extends With what observers called an eye for the November elections, the senate passed, 36 to 28, a 6- month extension of rent control. The law is due to expire June 30. Many of the Democrats who voted for extension did so frankly in re sponse to an Appeal made in party caucus by majority leader Scott Lucas. He told his colleagues his chances to defeat his Republican opponent in Illinois, Everett Dirk- son, hung on Democratic support for rent control. The following day the house voted 202 to 163 to extend the rent control measure. The house meas ure, however, would extend rent control seven months. Now the two chambers must ap point a committee to iron out the length of extension before the bill can be sent to President Truman. Like the senate bill, the house measure provides that when ex tended federal law again runs out —on December 31, 1950, or Janu ary 31, 1951, depending on which version is adopted—the governing bodies of municipalities can vote an additional extension until June 30, 1951. Primary Winner \ nil - James Roosevelt gives out with the famed Roosevelt smile after winning the Demo cratic nomination for govern or of California. He win meet Governor Earl Warren, Re publican nominee, In Novem ber. REMINGTON: Resigns Post William W. Remington, com merce department employee, who with Michael Lee, another $10,000 a year man in the department, were handed a “quit or be fired” order last May, has resigned his post. Remington is under indictment for perjury. He is accused of ly ing when he denied ever being % Communist. Lee has refused to resign until the loyalty board has ruled on his patriotism. ||| iSpSL ii-V .? . ItfMl •V • Wf$ * - §§!fr , Wti ■ ■i; a 8888888888 » Sit I - i -- ■ m HEMINGWAYS AT EASE ... Author Ernest Hemingway and wife chat in Havana with Colonel Taylor Williams (left) of the Ketchum, Idaho, Rod and Gun club. The Caribbean area has been the locale of some of Hemingway’s writings. Williams was the winner of one of the trophies for the largest fish caught (100 pounds) in the first inter national sailfish tournament held in Cuba. Florida and Idaho sports men took part In the tournament. EARLY BIRDS AT POLLS . . . James Roosevelt and his wife were early birds at the polls primary election day in what was one of the heaviest primary election votes in California history. Roosevelt won file Democratio nomination to make me race for governor against Gov. Earl Warren, the Republican’s choice. HONORS BRIGHAM YOUNG . . . Utah Mormons dedicate a statue in the U.S. capitol to honor Brigham Young who took their ancestors westward more than a century ago. Carved in marble by the Mormon leader’s sculptor grandson, Mahori Young, Salt Lake City, the monu ment was placed beside that of Ethan Allen of Vermont in Statutory Hall. Left to right are Orson Young, George Albert Smith, Mrs. Mabel Young Sanborn and Mahonri Young. Orson Young is a great-grand son and Mrs. Sanborn is a granddaughter of the Mormon leader. YOUNG G.I. JOINS HUES . . . Ronald Dorsey, 20, army private. Palmer, Mass., who deserted to become a Huk guerilla colonel, is questioned in Manila by Philippine army intelligence chief Colonel Ramon Rodrigues. He deserted the 29th topographical batallion. He claimed he hoped to become a Communist ambassador after a sweeping revolution in the Philippines, allegedly planned for 1952. The Huks are revolutionist bands who fought the Japs. General Donovan’s Interview S ENATOR McCarthy and Boy Howard of the Scripps-Howard newspapers didn’t know it, but General “Wild Bill” Donovan, famed wartime chief of OSS, let them down on the Amerasia stolen documents case. General Donovan, a fellow Re publican, was ballyhooed as back ing up the McCarthy-Scripps-How- ard charges. When interviewed by a senate committee shortly be fore leaving for Europe, however, he talked much more like Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, who decries McCarthy extremism. In fact, Gen. Donovan inferenti- ally criticized his own OSS inves tigator, Frank Bielaski for illegal ly raiding the Amerasia office, and the FBI for illegally raiding Em manuel Larsen’s apartment. As a result of these illegal raids, the justice department could not pro secute. Here is exactly what the senate investigators reported to the com mittee after their interview with Donovan at his New York apart ment. “General Donovan asked If we had talked with Archbold Van Buren (his wartime deputy), and when we replied in the affirmative, he indicated that his information was no more than that which Van Buren probably gave us ... . “General Donovan discussed his belief at the time that 'John Doe* warrants should have been obtained and state ments under oath gotten from the principals,” the Investiga tors* report continues. “He In dicated that he felt that the matter was incorrectly hand led, because when any agency conducts an investigation, the matter does not remain confi dential and opportunity to cov er up arises. “General Donovan mentioned that in discussing the matter with Fred Lyon (of the state depart ment), he asked if the state de partment had any idea who might have been responsible ’for this ma terial (secret documents) emanat ing from the state department. When he pressed Mr. Lyon for some suggestions or suspicions, Mr. Ly on suggested that it might have been John Carter Vincent. Gen eral Donovan then queried us as to whether Vincent did not have a wife who was a Communist.” Throughout the interview, Dono van made it clear he had no new evidence but that his attitude was that of a Margaret Chase Smith re publican who didn’t relish unfair accusations. Continuing, the investigators’ re port declares: “Donovan suggest ed that we should see Pat Hurley (former ambassador to China). Shortly after the discovery of the Amerasia case. General Donovan went to London and met Pat Hur ley at the airport there, Hurley be ing on his way to Moscow and China. Donovan told Hurley what Fred Lyon had said about Vincent because he knew that Hurley thought Vincent was *his boy.* ” That was about all Donovan had to say. In fact, he seemed in a tyirry to get off to Europe. Trygve Lie and Truman Here is the inside story of what happened when U. N. Secretary General Trygve Lie met with Pre sident Truman and Secretary Acheson following Lie’s return from Moscow. Lie first reported on the strong desire for peace _which he found everywhere from Moscow to Wash ington; then asked the President to consider sending Acheson to a special meeting of the United Na tions security council in Geneva this summer, a meeting which he said was imperative to keep the United Nations from collapsing. Mr. Truman’s reaction was im mediate. He promptly said he could do no such thing; that it would be a cruel hoax to play «on the American people when there is absolutely no chance of agreement with Russia. The only thing Russia under stands, the President argued, is force, and the West is going to build up its own force until Russia realizes the democra cies mean business. After that, perhaps a meeting with Russia might produce some good. As it is now, Truman told the U. N. secretary general, Russia is boycotting the United Nations be cause it won’t seat Communist China—just like a little boy who says he won’t play in the game un less he can be captain of the team. Capital News Capsules. Ambassador Kirk has cabled the state department that the Russian general who was suddenly recalled from Japan with his entire 52-man staff has suffered the same fate as Marshal Zhukov. He’s being de moted and disgraced—because he was too chummy with American and British personnel in Tokyo. Kirk says General Kuzma Derev yanko committed what is the sup reme heresy—he actually believed the east and west could get along, Birthday Parties Mothers know that birthday celebrations are among the most important occasions in a child’s life. However, it takes time to plan the games, favors, and other preparations that make these occasions a success. 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