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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
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Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and net necessarily e( this newspaper.)
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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:
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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.
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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. Busy home
makers can save time and work
in the kitchen by depending on
their neighborhood baker to fur
nish one of his delicious cakes for
the party. A personal touch may
then be added by decorating the
top of the bakers’ cake with a
clock face, making the numbers
out of contrasting frosting, and
placing the hour hand of the clock
so that it points at his age. Can
dles are unnecessary with this
clock face, although most children
enjoy making a wish and blowing
out the flame$.
Glassmaking an An Ancient Art
The history of fine glassware
goes back more than 5,000 years
but the processes used today are
practically the same as those used
that many years ago.
Silver Cream Pitcher
Your silver cream pitcher is
handy for holding sirup or light
dessert sauces. It is also charming
for small informal flower arrange
ments.
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“Clarence,” she called. He
stopped the car and looked
around.
“I am not accustomed to call
my chauffeurs by their first name,
Clarence. What is your sur
name?”
“Darling, mum.”
“Drive on, Clarence.”
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“Did anybody drop a roll of
bills with a rubber band around
them?**
“Yes, I did,” , said several
voices in the bank lobby.'
“Well, I just picked up the rub
ber band,’* said the old gentle
man calmly.
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