Veterans Are On Both Sides
Of Hoover Commission Fight
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON, Gn-Wir vet
' erani are on both tide in the
fight over the Hoover commission's
recommendations.
That commission suggested that
all the government's big hospital
programs including that of the
veterans administration (VA be
placed in a brand new, independent
agency.
This would take VA'S hospital
away from that agency which was
created to look out for veterans
needs. '
Four big veterans organizations
oppose the plan: the American
Legion, the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, the American Veterans of
World War 11. and the Disabled
American Veterans.
For the idea are the U. S. Cham
ber of Commerce, the U. S. Junior
Chamber of Commerce, the Citi
zens Committee for the Hoover
Report (made up of private citi
zens), and the American Veter
ans committee, which claims a
membership of 25,000 veterans.
But some members of the var
ious veterans organizations fighting
the plans are also members of the
organization fighting for it.
For instance, Herman W. Stein
kraus. president of the U. S. Cham
ber of Commerce, is a member of
the American Legion, the Veteran
of Foreign Wars, and the Disabled
American Veterans.
Steinkraui hai put out a 48-page
booklet explaining the plan as he
sees it and calling on veterans to
support it.
The American Legion has turned
out yards of publicity opposing it
And the American Veterans com
mittee (AVC) has been busy grind-1
ing out publicity and speeches in .
favor of the Hoover plpn
(The AVC, with its 25.000 mem
bers and a staff of about eight in
its Washington headauarters, is a
pee-wee compared with the Legion
which claims 3.000.000 member
and has a staff of around 100
here.)
But there has been bitterness in
this fight between veterans. Mich
ael Straight, national chairman of
AVC, has charged the Legion has
clamped down on free discussion
of the Hoover plan in its posts
around the country. (The Legion
denies this and says it welcomes
full discussion.)
And a month ago Straight char
ged that "the Legions top brass is
not really concerned in providing
better services for the veterans.
Its concern is for the members of
the Legion machine who are en
trenched in cushy veterans admin
istration jobs."
The Legion, of course, denies
this, too. George N. Craig, national
commander of the Legion, was re
cently asked about that in a con-
ressional committee hearing o y
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ORANGE, J., April
A crippled boy, and the crippled
girl to whom he donated a leg
bone a year ago, took a walk to
gether yesterday.
. Smiling Joe Lipani, 13, of Pas
saic, and Carole Ann Wenzel, 9,
of West New York, walked hand
in hand down the corridors of the
New Jersey orthopedic hospital.
Joe wore hie artificial leg and
Carole Ann wore an iron, ft was
the first time she had walked in
a year.
A piece of bone from Joe's am
putated leg is a patch in the little
girl's spine.
Her left leg was paralyzed three
years ago by poliomyelitis. But
no sooner had she learned to walk
with a brace than a fall injured
her spine, paralyzing both her legs.
Fate brought her to the hosnital
a year ago just as Joe came here
for amputation of a left leg that
had been crippled since birth.
The leg was amputated just be
low the knee, and three days later
the bone from it was used to
patch Carol Ann's injured spine.
Joe returned to the hospital to
day to watch the girl walk again.
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Hooevelt, a member both of the
Legion and the AVC, said: "Out of
the total number of employes of
the Veterans administration what
percent are members of the Amer
ican Legion?"
Craig said he did not know and
explained the Legion's membership
files do not show what a member'!
employment is.
The Legion apparently b a a n't
been spending much time bother
ing to argue with the midget AVC
but it has devoted a lot of attention
to the citizens committee for the
Hoover report.
That committee, with branches
in 42 states and financed by volun
tary contributions from people,
some of them big businessmen who
want to see the Hoover recommend
ations carried out, has banged
away at the Legion's predictions
and charges of what damage the
Hoover plan would do to veterans.
The head of the citizens' comm
ittee research staff, Robert L. L.
McCormirk, is a World War 11
veteran himself.
The citizens' committee has
painstakingly analyzed the state
menu of the legion. The legion
has painstakingly analyzed the
statements of the committee. Both
have issued b i ( mimeographed
studies.
All of this must add to the be
wilderment of any veteran who
gets bis hands on what the fighting
groups have to say.
U.S. Leads World
In Waste, Says
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By JANE EADS
WASHINGTON Dr. Hugh Ham
mond Bennett, internationally-famed
conservationist, says the United
States "undoubtedly holds the
world's record for 'Waste." Chief
of the department of agriculture's
joil conservation service, he says
we have a Howe erosion to ruin
around 100,000,000 acres of for
merly good cropland for any im
mediate practical cultivation. We
have followed this up with mod
erate to serious damage on a sec
ond 100,000,000 acres, be adds.
But what plagues him per
sonally is that most of us have
"gotten into the habit of burning
or throwing away everything for
which we find no immediate use."
Many odd items of wood which so
commonly find their way to the
sciap heap can be used, he says.
He showed how recently in a small
display of his collection of wood
products. Here such common and
plentiful woods as sumac, box
elder, willow and even the de
tested mesquite of Texas had been
used for distinctive pieces of furni
ture and other articles.
Dr. Bennett got interested In
making things out of woods that
are thrown away about three years
ago. He got soma of bis boys to
pick up the various kinds of woods
and -send them in to him. Some
with workshops made the pieces
he now has. He hopes the idea
will catch on, but he says "we
are probably going to have to do
a lot of educating in order to get
anywhere with the development
of any national habits of thrift"
in the sense he means.
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PHILADELPHIA IIP) An Ore
gon State college chemist. Prof.
George A. Richardson, was one of
a group of scientists receiving
awards at the 117th national meet
ing of the American Chemical
society.
He received the 1950 Borden
award in the chemistry of milk
based on contributions to the
knowledge of the physiochemical
properties of milk and the first
scientific explanation of the rennin
coagulation of milk.
The award is $1000 in cash and
a gold medal.
The awards were announced by
the society's president. Dr. Ernest
H. Volwiler, Chicago.
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BERLIN REDS CET READY FOR "MAYTIME"-Membera of Berlin's Frel Deutsche Jugend.
Communist youth organization, work on a stadium slated to seat 70,000 persona for a giant May
parade and demonstration in the Soviet sector of the German capital. Hundred! of. members of
the Soviet youth group have been brought to Berlin to help get ready for the May demonstrations,
during which Reda have threatened to "take over" Berlin's western sectors. ,
Astoria Obtains
State Aide In
Slide Problem .
ASTORIA, April 1J. -OPt The
advice of a state expert was awited
here today on what, if anything,
can be done to stop the Coxcomb
hill slide that has wrecked or dam
aged 21 homea.
The exoert. Lewis Scott, highway
department geologist, was ordered
here by governor Douglas sicnay,
after the city council appealed to
him for help.
The council expressed confidence
in the city engineer and the local
public works superintendent, but
said residents were expressing
doubt on the city's ability to han
dle the situation.
The hill began slipping in late
January. Heavy winter rains drew
the immediate blame, but the city
engineer, G. T. McClean, said an
earthquake a year ago may have
started it all. .
The hill moved seemingly with
out warning. Overnight one house
was twisted three feet from its
fireplace chimney. Gradually others
began buckling.
Since, it has gathered momentum.
Over the weekend, the hillside
slipped 29 feet. In a 24-hour period
ended yesterday it crept another
nine feet. .
Ten houses were yanked to
safety, movers slipping big beams
under their frames and towing
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The Lawrence Jackson home is
now 150 feet downhill from its
original site. It left its foundation
behind, but oddly is riding the slide
like a wave. If it continues to hold
together until it reaches the bottom
of the hill, it can be saved, salvage
men say.
No end yet is in sight. In fact, the
slide threatens to spread farther
eastward. In the cliff north of Irv
ing avenue, a crack 100 feet long
has developed,
more homes.
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13, 1950
400 'Coneealed'
Communists In
U. S., Budenz Says
. MIDLAND, Mich., April 1J.-P)
Ex-Communist Louis Budenz,
who may have an answer to the
Sen. McCarthy-Owen Lattimore dis
pute, sava that he could name 400
"concealed" Communists in the
United Statea. '
"But I won't do it," he declared
here Tuesday, " I can't afford
libel suits."
The former managing editor of
the Communist Daily Worker was
in Midland for a lecture. While
here, he was notified of a subpoena
to appear before a Senate sub
committee investigating McCar
thy's charge that Lattimore is a
Soviet agent.
Budenz, named as McCarthy's
"mystery witness," would offer no
comment on the dispute. But he
did say that he had never met,
talked with, or given documents
to McCarthy.
"In justice to the investigating
committee," he said, "1 cannot say
anything further."
McCarthy haa indicated that he
hopes Budenz's aworn testimony
will ahow the committee that Lat
timore is a Communist. Testimony
given before such a group cannot
be used aa a basis for libel charges.
Budenz, now a professor of eco
nomics at Fordham university in
New York, told a press confer
ence that the whole policy of the
Communist party in the United
States is to place its adherents in
positions of importance;
"One Alger Hiss in the State de
partment, he declared, "is worth
several hundred thousand other
Americans." He quoted EarU
Browder, former Communist chief,
aa saying that the party is "very
small!, but big in its influence."
The 400 "concealed Commu
nists," he said, are in various or-
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ion-ana policy, oucn persons, ne
said, are given exemptions from
Communist party membership.
Budens, who renounced Commu
nism in 1948 and reioined the Cath
olic church, added that anyone who
namea too many of these "Iront
members at once, "gets the repu
tation of being wild.
GUIRRILLAS MOPPED UP
SEOUL. AnrU 12 The de
fense ministry said today 304 Communist-trained
guerrillas from
North Korea have been wiped out
and another band the same size
surrounded.
The army lost It dead and 22
wounded in the mop-up, the minis
try said.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
In Traffic Crash
HYDE PARK, N. Y., April U.
(At Mrs. Franklin D. Roose
velt, driving to Hyde Park to ob
serve the fifth anniversary of her
husband's death Wednesday, was
shaken laat .night in a three-car
accident.
- Mrs. Roosevelt waa being driven
home from a session at the United
Nations at Lake Success, where she
is i U.S. delegate. She was riding
in the front seat of her sedan
with her chauffeur, Russell W.
Linaka.
"We saw car coming toward
us swerve out of Its path," she
aaid later.
Linaka shouted a w a r a i f ,
"brace yourself . . . we'ra going
to be hit" and Mrs. Roosevelt
jammed her feet against the floor
boards. The oncoming machine struck
another car immediately ahead el
the sedan, and then aideawiped
the rear of the Roosevelt auto.
The driver of the oncoming car,
George B. Greavea, 28, of Salt
Point, N.Y., was given a sum
mons for reckless driving.
in 1950.
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