Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C 3 lllianct Plot R IGHT - WING Republicans and Dbdecrats are secretly plotting a'political alliance to capture con trol of congress by 1952, then to take over the electoral college— key to the presidency. We have doc umentary proof of this daring plan, which already has the secret back ing of nationally known conserva tives. In brief, the plan calls for Re publicans and southern Democrat* to Join forces without changing party affiliations. However, they would merge their seniority and run congress jointly. Then the nexl step would be to organize a sim ilar coalition to dominate the elec toral college and name a conserva. tive president. The ringleader of this amazing plot is a stocky, ruddy-faced. North Carolinian, named J. Harvie Wil liams. Though comparatively un known, he claims to have the sup port of such GOP leaders as Sen ators Karl Mundt of South Dakoti and John Bricker of Ohio, Congress man Charlie Halleck of Indiana and Frederic Coudert of New York; also such southern stalwarts ai Senators Harry Byrd of Virginia and Dick Russell of Georgia, Con gressman Gene Cox of Georgia, and Dhdecrat governor-elect James F, Byrnes of South Carolina. Painstaking Plan Williams has set forth his so- called “political realignment” plan In painstaking detail in a series oi “strictly confidential” memos, which are also marked: “Please do net discuss outside sympathetic, circles.” "Our plan for political re alignment is a simple one,” he writes. “It Involves nothing more than a formal alliance between Republicans and south ern Democrats In the senate, in the house and in the elec toral college.” Of the 64 senators in the Repub lican-southern bloc, Williams cal culates that three southerners and seven Republican senators would refuse to Join the alliance. This would still leave a majority of 54 seats to 42. In the house, he expects to lose 21 Republicans and 13 south giving the coalition control of tiie house by a 240-to-195 margin. Williams explains: "In effect, this realignment would create a new party, but without the neces sity of any change of party names. This realignment is legally possible now. The rules of the senate and the rules of the house speak of the majority and of the minority rath er than of Democrats and Repub licans; and members of congress are elected under the election laws of the 48 states. •‘Similarly,” he continues, “pres idential electors are elected under the laws of the several states. The 1948 ‘secession’ of the Democratic parties in four southern states in dicates the method and the possi bilities of extending realignment in to the election of the president.” ‘Frtnt’ Organization Williams has already formed a “front” / organization to carry out his plan. He calls it the Citizens Political Committee, though he ad mits frankly “Its title does not dis close its purpose.” Williams uses the Remington Rand Company, room 1200, 314 Fourth Avenue, New York city a* a headquarters— though he is not now on Reming ton Rand’s payroll In a private letter, dated May 13, Williams names ex-Senator Albert Hawkes of New Jersey as the lead ing money raiser. "Senator Hawkes has agreed to handle that (money raising) for ns,” Williams writes. “I am to initiate any and have toned over Hawkes the names of the n he knows whom I*ve seen corresponded with on the In another letter, dated May 1, also writes: "Two things to bo done to put the realign- proposal in shape for presen- to a group for substantial financial support (about $200,000 | for a one-year budget). Harold E. has agreed to arrange that meeting. The two things are by southern senate lead ers. They are: (1) A rather de tailed plan for the joint-nomination in 1952, and (2) a merging on pa per of committee seniorities of Re publicans and southern Demo crats.” Cengrtsstanal Rdaetion As a sample of private congres sional reaction, Williams received a letter from Senator Mundt, dated I May 16, and addressed "Dear Har vie.” "I am still inclined to believe that the merger at the congression al level has too many practical to make it feasible at this and that the most realistic is one which would handla to the electoral cot the senator from South Da WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Korea Military Picture Improved; Senate Passes Mobilization Bill; Nation’s Farmers in Tine Shape’ (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinion* are expressed In these eolamBS, they are these ef Western Newspaper Union’a news analysts and not neeessarUy ef this newspaper.) KOREA: Picture Changes As the Korean war went into the third month military observers were inclined to comment “the picture has changed.” And from available information it seemed the Commu nists had lost the power to mount great offensives involving thousands of men. North Koreans launched one at tack in force, its objective the city of Taegu, temporary capital of the South Korean republic and supply terminal for U. N. forces. It failed. In some of the bloodiest fighting of the war, U. S. and South Korean troops smashed the offensive, held Taegu, and then proceeded to smash bulges all along their lines. One of the most spectacular oper ations of the Korean battle was the concentrated air attack on an as sembly area at Waegwan, involving 98 B-29’s each loaded with 40 500- pound all purpose bombs. The load was dropped in a rectangle 7% miles long and 3% miles wide. General MacArthur, commander of United Nations forces, in a re port to the security council said: “Thv ground fighting continues to be of a most savage character.” Our outnumbered forces face an enemy with “almost fanatical de termination. The whole operation has assumed the character of a major campaign.” He went on to ask for troops from other members of the United Nations. To date the number accepted for action in Korea included Thailand 4,000, the Philippines 5,000, Turkey 4,500, and the United Kingdom 7.- 500. It will be several weeks before they can be brought to battle. Military observers agreed that the picture had changed, but added that it will be “a long and hard winter in Korea.” FARMERS: In Fine Shape In a major speech at Carlisle, Indiana, Secretary of Agriculture Brannan asserted that the nation’s farmers are in “fine shape” and took the opportunity to put in anoth er plug for his farm plan. Said the secretary: “Even allow ing for increases in military food requirements we expect to have enough food so that civilians can continue consuming as much as in the past two years.” Farmers worried about possible economic controls of agriculture were reassured when the secretary said there are grounds for hope that such controls can be postponed for a considerable time or perhaps avoided entirely—“unless the emer gency becomes much worse.” Talking up the Brannan plan, the secretary said we need a program which “solidly protects farm prices in case of a sudden slackening of demand” yet “puts an abundance of milk, eggs, and other perishables in the hands of consumers at at tractive prices.” Brannan added that the present program of sliding-scale price sup ports fail to assure support on some of the most important commodities and offers no incentive for neces sary production shifts. WHEAT: Highest Level The agricultural department has fixed price supports for 1951 wheat at the same level as the 1950 crop —90 per cent of parity. The department said 72,800,000 acres of wheat may be planted. If yields are average, this acreage would produce 1,150,000,000 bushels. This year's crop Is estimated at 996,000,000 bushels. In fixing the wheat support at the highest possible level. Secretary of Agriculture Brannan said: *Tn view of the world situation, it is imperative that our supply of bread grains be maintained in strong position. Ample supplies will be a major factor in assuring rea sonable food prices to consumers and our ability to meet our interna tional food obligations. s “We believe the wheat-production and price-support programs have been developed to protect the in terests of both producers and con sumers.” The price support announcement had been expected, since Brannan is required by law to announce sup ports in advance of planting; winter wheat planting starts this month. Only farmers who keep within acreage-allotment limits can get price supports. CASUALTIES Toll Is Heavy The shattering realities of the Korean conflict reached into many American homes as the conflict went into its third month. More than 2,600 families in the cities and small towns and on the farms of the nation have been notified of servicemen killed, wounded or missing in action. At the same time, a military spokesman said that Korean Com munists had lost 50,000 killed. Victories S. KOREA U.S. troops won victories on nearly all fronts in Korea dur ing the eighth week of the con flict. The big Communist push (1) on Taegu from the north was driven back; South Korean troops recaptured Pohang and Kigy (2); another bridgehead (3) across the Naktong was beaten back; American forces flattened the bridgehead (4) in the Yongsan area. HOME-FRONT: Mobilization Bill The senate, by a vote of 85 to 3, passed a home-front mobilization bill which would give President Truman power to invoke wage- price-rationing controls and other anti-inflation curbs at any time. The bill then went to a senate- house conference for the ironing out of differences between the sen ate measure and the bill passed earlier by the house. In one point the bill was a defeat for the administration since it di rected the President to put wage and price controls into effect simul taneously and virtually across the board if he invoked them at alL The President has maintained he sees no need of wage-price curbs or rationing at this time. Further, the administration requested au thority to control commodity specu lation, but neither the house or sen ate versions contain such authority. Both bills contain an anti-hoard ing provision prohibiting the ac cumulation of excessive supplies of goods designed as scarce. The administration suffered another setback in that its plea for retention of the provision which would let the President fix controls on selected commodities—meat, for example—in advance of any general controls program, was defeated. ' AMERICA: Angry People Americans have never liked the evasive tactics and double-talk used by diplomats. That such a dislike still persists in the minds ot av erage Americans was indicated by the increasing number of letters to national leaders and members of the United Nations demanding that Soviet delegate Jacob Malik be thrown out of the security council. The letters asked why prolong the arguments in the security council? Why not expel the Soviet delegate, the people in the small towns of America wanted to know? In answer to these questions War ren Austin, U.S. chief delegate to the United Nations, made the fol lowing statement: “Our objective is peace. We do not find peace by throwing out the person with whom we must make peace. “We must be firm in our princi ples. We must be strong. But we must also be patient. “In the United Nations, we must keep trying to convince Mr. Malik and his government of their errors and of our peaceful intentions. Through the United Nations we can reach the peoples of the Soviet Union and of other countries. "It is not the people, it is the *ruling circles’ that we encounter here. That creates a force of pub lic opinion, backed by moral au thority that opposes aggression— and even the Soviet dictatorship cannot ignore such a force. "It is a strain for us to listen to the deceit that the Russian spokesman has poured out But truth will prevail. Meanwhile, it is better for diplomats to get nervous indigestion than for young men to get shot.” v That, Americans agreed, was straight talk and to their liking. Suspeet No. 8 A stocky 33-year-old American electrical engineer, who fled to Mexico when the F.B.L began nab bing suspects in the Klaus Fuchs spy ring, had been arrested and charged with passing defense se crets to Russia. Identified as Morton Sobell, he was the eighth American rounded up and charged with passing de fense secrets to Russia. F.B.L of ficials said he is a radar expert PEACE: There Is Still Hope The belief that there is still hope for peace, perhaps for only a short time, but still respite from world wide war, is growing in many quar ters. The hope is not one for per manent peace, but one of time, based on the belief in high diplo matic circles that the Russians are not ready for all-out war at the moment. Diplomatic circles call it the “calculated risk” of war or peace. It is based on three major as sumptions: (1) Russia fears the effects of American atom bomb attacks. (2) Russia does not possess an adequate stock pile of atomic bombs. (3) Russia’s industrial potential is still too weak in comparison with that of the western allies to risk a major conflict. The first two of the assumptions are, of course, mere guess work. But there are statistics to back up the third. For instance, America’s steel production for 1950 Is expected to exceed 71 million tons. Great Brit ain will produce around 16 million tons and the rest of western Europe approximately 24 million tons. Thus, the allies will produce a total of 111 million tons, compared with Russia’s 22 million. Russia also lags in the production of oil, another of the top essentials for war. On these assumptions western Europe is planning a three-year rearming program. If the program is successful peace may be pro longed, but the world will be di vided into two great armed camps. RAILROADS: Strikes v Close Steel The brotherhood of railroad train men and order of railway conduc tors went on strike against three terminal railroads, disrupting sev eral of the country’s steel arteries in the midst of the Korean war. However, with the steel industry pressed to capacity to meet the needs of the stepped-up munitions program and the booming civilian economy, many sources predicted that President Truman would seize the lines. The unions singled out key termi nals in Louisville, fit. Paul and Chi cago and Republic Steel’s switching terminal at Cleveland for the first display of pressure. About 1,000 men walked out for five days. Approxi mately 30,000 workers, including steelworkers, were made idle. Negotiations between manage ment and union representatives, with presidential assistant John R. TWO SOLDIERS OUT OF COMBAT ... A wounded South Korean soldier helps his more seriously-wounded buddy as they make their way to a first aid station behind the fighting line somewhere to Korea. After initial setbacks, the South Korean army made a game comeback and is now in the conflict shoulder to shoulder with the United States GI’s. f# • . < ■ i; .- . ' ‘■**§$&>>** ? 1' ' ' | Ipjp illiTai. wlMli ' 'Wt O'DWYER NAMED AMBASSA DOR . . . New York’s Mayor Wil liam O’Dwyer will resign his post as mayor to accept the U.S. am bassadorship to Mexico. He suc ceeds Ambassador Walter Thurs ton, career diplomat, who will get new diplomatic post. 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The S.S. Liberte, French line, former ly the Enropa, leaves her home port of Le Havre on her maiden voyage. Steelman taking part, produced no J Third largest liner afloat, the Liberte has been transformed into a progress in the first 24 hours. JfWirtnafly new ship at a cost of $18,500,Oto. The big, 49,850 ton luxury liner arrived in New York recently and was accorded an official wel come to the city and the United States by Mayor O’Dwyer’s committee, which is beaded by Grover Whalen. JEWELRY WANTED! Highest prices paid for broken jewelry, ' THE PARKER CO. 546-Btk AYE. McKEEBPORT, PA. m Planning for the Future? Observers believed the govern ment would take drastic action be fore the situation deteriorated and crippled the nation’s vital steel pro duction. INTELLIGENCE: Heoded by Smith Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, former ambassador to Moscow, was named by President Truman as director of central intelligence. He will succeed Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter around the end of September. The agency's job is to gather and analyze reports from diplomatic, military and all other sources. Some members of congress were not surprised by Smith’s appoint ment. There had been demands in con gress for a shake-up of the agency since the Korean war. Some legis lators contended the United States was caught flat-footed by the in vasion of South Korea by Commu nist troops. General Smith, now 54, has had a long military career, which in cludes service as chief of staff to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in World War n. Later he became ambas sador at Moscow. Johnson Defense Secretory Louis John ses (right), confers with Sen. Tern Cemmlly, chairman ef the foreign relations committee. Johnson has been nnder in creased attack by foes of the administration and seme Dem ocrats for tiie way he handled his office during the year be fore fhe outbreak ef fighting in POLITICS: Election Crossfire The American political picture cleared somewhat with one definite trend in the spotlight: the voter faces • furious election year parti- ban crossfire. The issue will be U.S. foreign policy. The bipartisanship in foreign poli cy as existed before the Korean war is a thing at the past. From now on voters will hear charges and count er-charges on U. S. foreign policy by congressional candidates. EVEN THE OLD . . . This old man, a North Korean guerrilla. Is being brought in by United States soldiers after they had found him at the base of a mountain at Chungam-Nt with a bag of enemy grenades. 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