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Wheat Certificate Plan
Congressman Lowell Stockman has introduced
bill to establish a Wheat Certificate plan for
marketing of wheat. This is the plan endorsed
by the farm bureau and' among the methods
recommended by the national grange. The, lat
ter organization discussed this as follows in the
statement of policy adopted at its recent conven
tion in Sacramento: -
. . . the use of any practical two- or multl-
?le-prico devices such as the Export Debenture
lan, Equalization Fee, or a Parity Support Cer- 4
tiflcate Plan for assuring American farmers a
fair share of the world markets, and a full pari
ty for the domestically consumed portion of
crops, and the adoption- of safeguards which
would nrotect domestic nroducers from im
ports." - : !
The Certificate plan avoids any subsidy from
E public' treasury, something these farm
organizations want to get away from. Under it
surplus wheat would be exported at the world
price but millers and domestic buyers would
have to pay the domestic price for grain. The
tariff would protect this price. The loss on the
portion of the crop exported would be absorbed
by the growers, instead of by the treasury as at
present.' t
This plan, first called the Export Debenture
plan, is described as an adaptation of the pro
tective tariff principle for the! defense of farm
ers who produce an export surplus. The manu
facturer operating behind a protective tariff can
control his production so the ' tariff Is effective
.in keeping up prices. Farmers, however, produce
surplus of wheat, corn and cotton, so the tariff
is of no real benefit to them., Because industry
operates under a protective system which raises
the prices the farmer has to pay he asserts his
right to similar protection for a domestic price
above the world leveL '
The fact is that our government is facing two
ways. Through ECA it is telling western Europe
to reduce tariffs, stop the double standard of
pricing and encourage world trade. Through its
price support policy it is doing just what it scolds
other nations for doing, subsidizing exports.
2s inconsistency is apparent and is embarrass
ing. :. " s :. .. . r" i
Stockman's bill revives an old approach to
the farm problem for surpJes crops. Whether it"
will receive much consideration seems doubt
ful. Virtuous as farmers are and sincere as many
are in wanting no subsidies from the treasury
other farmers and the politicians' will be loathe
to surrender parity under government guaran
tee. Then the Brannan plan is being advocated
by the administration which would keep up price
support for storable crops and offer low prices,
to consumers and income guarantees for pro
ducers of other agricultural commodities. -
The Certificate plan does offer something to
farmers as well as the government It would not
require acreage reduction which growers are
lint tv hartnv. oKrhitt
In the floundering aWit for a solution of the
farm' problem congress should give attention to
this old idea of the two-price system unless it is
ready to cut tariffs sharply and subject AmerN
ean industry to foreign competition.
Fishing in Troubled Waters
We're a little uneasy about those four Rus
sian "fishing" vessels which have showed up in
the Caribbean and in the Pacific off Hawaii.
"Maybe it's just a coincidence that the U. S.
navy is getting ready to stage maneuvers ;in the
Caribbean, and that the Soviet schooners near
Honolulu are of the same type that arrived in
those parts just before the 1048 atomic bomb
GOP Avoids Forthright Stand
By Joseph and Stewart Alsop
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 The
. attempt to write a "republican
statement of principles has now
run 11a cxpecxea
course. A rath
er vacuous doc
ument has been :
unveiled. And it :
contains Just
enough bows in y
the direction of .
the big contrib- r-1
iwas designed to I I
placate, to drive
sucn progressive 1 y", ju.
; Senators Henry Cabot Lodge and
-.: Irving Ives into open rebellion.
The background of the Lodge
r Ives rebellion tells a great deal
bout the present state of the
ty. The sticking
point for Lodge,
Ives, and the
other republi
cans who have
in effect; -disown
e d , t h e
statement was
the clause deal
ing with civil
rights.
In the con-
mPAaaiAn1 MSm
JSSitelM mittee which
drafted the statement. Lodge re-'
,peatedly ana futilely pointed out
that the civil rights clause, which
carefully avoided specific men
tion of the FEPC, had a distinct
ly weasel-worded smell. He
warned that it would be taken
ai a repudiation of the 1943 re
publican platform, and that if it
were not altered, he would dis
own the statement
Nevertheless, Senator Robert
A. Taft stood firm against Lodge;
and such other members of the
. congressional drafting committee
as Senators Kenneth Wherry and
Owen Brewster and Representa
tive! Joseph Martin and Charles
: Halleck backed Taft Lodge was
ihut beaten in his pleas for a
forthright stand on civil rights.
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vNo favor Sway 17. No Fear Shall Awf
first SUtesnoa, March Zt, USt
tests at Eniwetok. But it does seem odd that the
so-called fishing boats are fairly bristling with
radio and radar equipment and appear to lack
any signs of fishing gear.
Of course, you can't draw out leviathan or
information on the latest U. S. submarines
with a hook. The Russians may have their lines
out for neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herr
ing but for whatever appears on their radar
screens.
We can't object to that, we suppose. That great
fishpond, the sea, is open to every compleat
angler undertaking the apostolic occupation of
trafficking in fish. And today, as ever, all is
fish that gets caught in the net even if it's an
espionage network.
Nevertheless, we are sure the U. S. navy
won't swallow the statement by one Russian
captain that they are not spies. After all, you
know, a fishing rod could be a stick with a hook
at one end and a spy at the other, and we doubt
that for the Russian sailors fishing is what it
was for Izaak Walton: "An employment for my
idle time, which is then not idly spent; a rest to (
my soul, a cheerer of my spirit, a diverter of
sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a modera
tor of passions, a procurer of contentedness." At
least, not in the troubled waters of the Carib
bean and the Pacific.
Dr. Henry Roe Cloud
The sudden death of Dr. Henry Roe Cloud re
moves one of Oregon's splendid citizens and one
of the Indian bureau's ablest staff members.
Just a few weeks ago he spoke at the Salem
Rotary club discussing frankly the future role
of the Indian. He believed firmly that the In
dian should be integrated with the white civi
lization bringing to an end the wardship and
the segregation. His lifework, ended too soon,
did much to prepare the Indian for emandpa- '
tion into full citizenship and economic inde
pendence. Football Too Costly
The University of Portland is giving up foot
ball because keeping up a football establishment
is too costly. The university has a big expansion
program on and concludes it cannot carry it and
football too. Father Mehling, university presi
dent, says that eventually the sport will be re
stored, but gives no date.
Portland has been handicapped by holding an
intermediate status. The school is much larger
than the northwest' colleges and much smaller
than the schools in the Pacific Coast conference.
Despite great efforts its teams haven't come
through with any degree of consistency. So
dropping the sport for a time will not mean a
great! sacrifice.
As far as education goes football is just side
show one of the kind that Woodrow Wilson
complained of when he was president of Prince
ton, the kind that overtops the main circus.
Bonneville Power administration uses a hell
copter for patrolling its transmission lines. Also
it is going to install an elaborate micro-wave
radio transmission net to speed up intra-system
communication. With its vast network of power
lines over the northwest and with the whole
area dependent on BPA for half of its electric
energy it is necessary to use the most advanced
scientific means of preventing, detecting and
curing breaks in the power lines. But it still will
take tough men bucking snow and ice and rain
and storm to mend the breaks and keep the
current flowing.
In the senatorial conference
which was convoked to consider
the statement, Ives and a number
of others Joined Lodge in revolt.
Ives again proposed that the 1948
civil rights plank bo reaffirmed.
In a show of hands he was
backed, significantly, not only by
such of the twelve Senatorial
"young Turks' as were present,
but by Martin of Pennsylvania,
Ferguson of Michigan and others
- who usually support Taft. Never
theless, Taft again won the day.
The meaning of all this Is clear.
This is no doubt that Taft and
others are sincerely convinced
that compulsory fair employment
legislation is bad legislation.
But the basic reason for the
weasel-word edness of the civil
rights statement Is simply that
many big Northern, industrialists
are just as bitterly opposed to
FEPC as any Southerner. Men
of the Wherry-Martin - Brewster
Halleck stripe are peculiarly re
sponsive to the opinions of big
. industrialists. And thus a mag
nificent opportunity to put the
democrats on the spot by all-out
republican support for civil rights
was lost
- Much the same pattern held
throughout the effort to draft the
statement This effort consisted
largely of a running battle be
tween Lodge and most of the
other members of the drafting
committee. The anti-Lodge maj
ority found a valuable ally in the
novelist Clarence Budington Kel
land, who was selected by the
republican national committee to
. give literary polish to the con
gressional draft
Kelland is adept at translating
Into purple prose all those pre
judices and policies which have
been chiefly responsible far the
long record of republican defeat.
His efforts were, naturally, well
received by the Wherry-Brew-ster
- Halleck-Martln contingent
But Lodge at least succeeded in
toning down some of Kelland's
more extreme effusions, particu
larly as concerned labor and the
tariff, where too flourishing a
nostalgia for the dead pasT was
ia evidence.
on Civil Rights
But on the whole Lodge fought
a losing battle. One losing bat
tle, which he fought with Taft, is
worth describing. Taft produced
the slogan, "Liberty Against So
cialism,'' now to become the re
publican war-cry. Wherry, Mar
tin & Co. enthusiastically con
gratulated Taft on his brainchild.
Lodge entered a lone dissent
Taft, with something of the
pride of authorship, pointed out
that he had been campaigning
intensively in Ohio for several
months, that he had rased this line
with marked success, and that
ho knew what he was talking
about. Lodge replied that he did
not doubt .that the slogan would
appeal to voters who were re
publicans already, but that to get
the marginal vote which the re
publicans must have to win, some
more convincing and less shop
worn appeal was essential.
This is, in fact what the con
test in the republican party is
all about. Most of the republi
can leaders are apparently deter
mined to limit republican efforts
to soothing the big contributors
and to persuading the already
persuaded among the voters. The
"young Turks' in the senate and
elsewhere, led by Lodge and Ives,
are convinced that if the republi
can party is ever to win, the per
suadable margin of the unper
suaded, who have been voting
democratic for the last sixteen
years, must also be brought over.
Whether the "statement of
principles" will succeed in its
principal object filling republi
can coffers remains to be seen.
But it may serve a more useful
purpose In the end.. Senator Ives
is seriously considering ' issuing a
sort of declaration of independ
ence, with special emphasis on
civil rights and amendment of the
Taft-Hartley act, in which he
may be joined by upward of a
dozen senators. Thus the central
issue within the republican party,
between acceptance of the pres
ent and a hankering for the past,
may be at last clearly defined.
(Copriicht, ie.
Mew York Herald Tribune lac.)
Half-Ounce
Tarpon Caught
In Florida'
By Henry McLemore
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb.
12 After reading Dave New
ell's story in the February 4th
issue of Satur
day Evening
Post entitled, "I
Make a Living
Doing What I
Like," I drove
over to Homo-
sassa Springs,
Fla to ask
Brother Newell
if he could use
an assistant
I hadn't seen
the former edi
tor of Field and
Stream for quite ia few years but
I well recall that last meeting.
We were at a fishing lodge in
the Florida Keys and Dave used
to entertain us at night by sit
ting on the front porch and cal
ling owls in from the trees. I
wrote a story about his ability
to make owls stop what they
were doing to come in and visit
him, and I must, have gotten a
hundred letters calling me a liar.
But It was the truth, so help
me, and what I found him doing
a few days ago undoubtedly will
get me another 100 letters of the
same sort, but it's also the truth.
Dave was preparing to do a
taxidermy job on a tarpon that
weighed exactly one-half ounce.
I know the tarpon weighed that
because I weighed it myself on
postal scales. The little cuss was
about the size of my little finger
and Dave, who has caught just
about every kind of fish in his
time, and hunted everything
from grizzly bears in Alaska to
jaguars in Brazil, Is prouder of
that tiny tarpon, I think, than
of any other fish or animal he
ever caught or shot.
He caught the tarpon, which
he believes to bo the smallest
ever hauled in, on a No. 14 trout
fly and 3-X leader.
I asked Dave what sort of
board he was going to mount his
battler on and he said he
thought he'd use either an air
mail stamp or a special delivery.
Asked how long he had ,to
fight the tarpon before bringing
him to gaff, Dave said almost
three seconds of fierce fighting
took place before his savage
eaten was in the boat
As he explained In his Post
article, Dave now is .part owner
and operator of Nature's Giant
Fish Bowl in Homosassa Snrines.
a fantastic place if there ever
was one. The Springs are 55
feet deep, and flow better than
9,000,000 gallons of crystal clear
water per hour. It Is the source
of the Homosassa River, which
runs nine miles into the Gulf of
Mexico.
For a reason no one has been
able to explain, thousands of fish
of every variety swim up the
salt water Gulf to the fresh
water pool and stay there the
' year round. The pool is jam-
pacxea witn ash all the time,
The Homosassa River affords
magnificent im and It Is nob
sible to anchor your boat near
wnere the Gulf and the fresh
water meet and catch a salt
water fish on one side of the boat
and a fresh water fish on the
otner.
That sounds like a fish story,
but it is a true one. f
If you ever come down the
west coast of Florida don't miss
Nature's Giant Fish BowL For
sheer, unspoiled natural beauty
xwnaa nas nouung to match it.
And for your information, just
a mile away from Newell's place
is the Homosassa Sorines hotel-
run by Vicki and Oscar Johnson.
For comfort and out-of-this-world
eating, it can't be beaten
anywhere. After the first meal
Jean always took a notebook in
to the dining room with her to
copy down recipes.
The fish, the turtle steaks and
soup, the ducks and auail the
Johnsons serve make you want
to pitcn a tent in the dinine room
and never leave the place. The
hotel has the charm and easy
aunospnere 01 a private anglers'
ciud rawer than that of a hotel
If the government ever gives
me another bonus I'm going
right back to Homosassa Springs
ana eat up every penny of it
(Distributed by McNaught Syndicate,
inc.)
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warrants forged by a school dist
rict .clerk, on the ground that a
warrant is not a negotiable in
strument and when the bank
cashed one it did so at its own
risk. That stirred up the banks
to the point where they demand
ed a change so they would not
be expected to cash non-negoti
able paper like school warrants.
Accounts, lawyers, bankers and
the state department of educa
tion have been in a huddle and
have figured out a solution. Un
der the plan which Is now get
ting its final review a warrant
will be drawn in favor of the
clerk who will then write checks
(which are negotiable instru
ments) on the bank where the
account is kept The checks then
will be sent to the teacher, jan
Jor or supplier with a claim
gainst ine uismci.
When a district is short
of
funds, interest-bearing warrants
will nave to be drawn and ar
rangements made to have them
cashed by the bank and" held un
til they are called.
This system will doubtless bo
adopted very soon. It would
work even better with the cen
tral accounting agency where
the disbursing officer could bo
under -substantial bond to pro
tect the public funds.
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"As I understand It a eouple of Hydrogen bombs could flatten
the world however, r r committee favors less drastlo
measurta, first! . .
A-ControIPlan
Rumors Heard
In Moscow
By Eddy Gilmore
MOSCOW. Feb. 12 -4JP)- Talk
of the possibilities of achieving
world-wide atomic control has
been revived in Moscow's diplo
matic circles:
Within the last two days it has
become the main topic of conver
sation among many foreign en
voys in the Soviet capital. They
feel there is something in the air
and perhaps a new chance of
achieving some kind of agreement
Most of them are convinced that
new efforts are being made or are
about to be made in that direc
tion.
(The fact that the Moscow dip
lomatic colony is interestedly dis
cussing possible agreement on
atomic controls may simply be a
backwash from several recent pro
posals in Washington congression
al quarters that, a new approach
be made to Moscow.
(The fact that this dispatch
passed Soviet censorship might be
significant in either of two days.
It could indicate official Soviet
receptiveness to new proposals.
though not necessarily. It also
could indicate simply that the
Soviet Union is willing to keep
the question agitated.)
When VS. Ambassador Alan G.
Kirk appears at a diplomatic func
tion, which is fairly often, it is
never long before he Is the cen
ter of a huddle.
"What's new on the atomic con
trol question?" he Is asked.
Kirk usually suggests that his
colleagues continue to read the
papers, listen to the radio and di
gest the UJS. information bulletin
for the American side of the ques
tion. He then begins talking about
plans for his vacation that starts
Feb. 25.
His colleagues look disappoint
ed. When he moves away to an
other group a "buzz-buzz" rises
in his wake. Every envoy seems
to have a theory, and rumors are
as thick as Moscow snow.
fHelP Bomb
Said Miniature
Replica of Sun
BALTIMORE, Feb. 12 -(iP-Pulitzer
Prize winner William L.
Laurence today described the
hydrogen bomb as "something
several million times more pow
erful than the atomic bomb ... a
physical monstrosity."
Laurence, New York Times
science writer, spoke -at a Sunday
series on atomic energy sponsored
by the Enoch Pratt library.
"The greatest and probably the
most ominous, terrifying, and
frightening aspect is the radio
activity this type of missile can
give off," he said.
"Some radio active substances
will last hundreds or thousands
of years. Bombed cities will be
uninhabitable for possibly thou
sands of years.'
The United States and Russia,
he said, could annihilate each
other in H-bomb warfare.
Laurence compared the H-bomb
as the sun in miniature.
The sun is actually an enor
mous hydrogen bomb in space,
and we yrUl create on earth a min
iature replica of the sun, ho ex
plained. Better English
By D. C. Williams
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "Don't feel badly about
the matter."
2. What is, the correct pro
nunciation of "intermezzo"!
3. Which one of these words
is misspelled? Embezzlement,
crescent pageant fricassee.
4. What does the word "in
culcate" mean?
S. What is a word beginning
with fe that means "capable of
being done T
ANSWERS
1. Say, "Don't feel bad about
the matter. 2. Pronounce in
ter-med-zo, second e as in medal.
as in no, accent third syllable.
3. Pageant 4. To teach and im
press by frequent repetitions or
admonitions; to urge on the mind.
"Christ inculcates on his follow
ers humility.' 5. Feasible.
by Llchty
Colombia Seizes
Radio Stations
BOGOTA, Colombia, Feb. 12-(JP)-
The government said today it
had seized three Clandestine radio
stations it said were broadcasting
"subversive propaganda.
At the same time the govern
ment ordered provincial author
ities to locate any other Clande
stine radio stations.
Two of the seized stations were
said to bo located in Bogota and
one in Sevilla, a provincial town.
Buzzing Bag
Stirs Furore
In Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES. Feb. 12 -GT)
A huzzine suitcase, which had
keDt police and employes in a
furore all day at Los Angeles
International airport, was found
to contain nothing but an elec
trical vibrator. Saturday.
The suspicious suitcase, discov
ered this morning at 1 a.m., had
been guarded and placed at a
remote location on the airport
until two police officers finally
opened it late today.
Sgt. Russell Camp and Inspect
or Jack Donahoe went to the piece
of luggage and pried it open with
a file. They found the battery-
operated vibrator. It was turned on
and still buzzing when they open
ed the suitcase.
Owner Couldn't be Found
The Innocent little suitcase
caused a full fledged "bomb"
scare because for hours the own
er could not be found and it kept
right on with its faint humming
sound.
Finally this afteiaoon came
word from the east that the bag
belonged to H. S. Harrison, who
left on a plane last night Rela
tives said it contained only per
sonal effects of Harrison's late
father. The bag was accidentally
left behind.
Doublecheeked Report
But police were still dubious
and did not open the suitcase un
til they had doublecheeked this
report.
Sgt. Camp, after an earner ex
amination of the bag with an
X-ray device, reported that he
believed it contained a detonator.
This increased the jitters of in-.
vMatrtr rennrtera and nhotoff'"
graphers. When opened the bag
contained a little square plastic
box with wires, a device that
goes with the vibrator, which had
been mistaken for a detonator.
The tube-shaped vibrator device
with a roller on the end was still
hooked up to batteries.
When Officers Camp and Dona
hoe decided to open it they ap
proached it by themselves and
others in the vicinity were held
at a distance.
Drop in Milk
Consumption
Predicted
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -(AV
The government has forecast
that Americans' consumption of
milk and cream will drop in 1950
for the fifth straight year, posing
a double problem for federal food
experts.
It estimated each person's share
this year at 369 pounds, as com
pared with 382 pounds last year
and the record intake of 432
pounds at the end of the war.
Officials said this means:
1. Folks will get a smaller
amount of calcium which nutri
tionists say is needed for teeth.
bones and other body equipment.
2. The government probably
will have to put out more of the
taxpayers money to buy the dairy
products under its price support
operations.
The agriculture department in
making the forecast, did not offer
a solution to uus auai aiiemma
which is only a part of the mount'
ing problems raised under the cur
rent farm program. '
In some tribes it is believed
that a man is not likely to beget
children until he- has killed an
other man in combat
War Games
In Sub-Arctic
Ready to Start
By Clark Beach
WHITEHORSE, Y.T Feb. 12 -(AV;
The icy tundra around this
little town is teeming with arm
ed men. The town Is seething with
excitement
American and Canadian troops
assembled here are ready to com
mence the biggest war games ever
played in the sub-Arctic regions
of the American continent In mid
winter. The maneuvers, with the
code name Sweetbrier," will be
the first joint troop training ex
ercises of their kind ever under
taken by the United States and
Canada.
More than 5,200 men have pour
ed in by air and over the frozen
Alaskan highway. Whitehorse,
population 3,500, nas seldom seen
so much excitement or so many
people since the gold rush of the
1890's.
This was a frontier metropolis
in those days. Robert W. Service
wrote a lot of his poems here
about Dan McGrew and the men
from the creeks. He worked In a
bank here at the time, and the
bank is still funning. To the north
is the Dawson trail he wrote about
and Lake Lederge, where Sam Mc
Gee was cremated.
Last night the Canadian boys in
their berets and colorful uniforms
palled around with their American
allies in the restaurants and mov
ies. There are no bars here these
days, but the men can buy beer.
12 Below Zero
It was 12 below zero yesterday
when eight newspaper correspon
dents landed here in an air force
plane. That's warm for Whitehorse.
It was 55' below zero here a few
days ago. '
The Canadian forces are in bar
racks and tents just outside of
town. Most of the Americans are
at Camp McCrea, about ten miles
away. Some are in renovated war
time barracks. Most are in James-
way shelters, a new kind of tent
for the Arctic, which is remark
ably comfortable. They are well
heated with oil stoves, made of
two layers of quilted fabric, with
fiber glass for insulation stuffed
between the layers. The material
is stretched over semicircular
frames, looking like a quonset hut
Long Assembly
Preparations for these maneu
vers have been going on for a
year. Last summer a lot of the ma
terial was stored here. The men
have been assembling for months.
A battalion of 750 men was flown
in from Camp Carson, Col, The
men were flown in fully armed
and equipped, ready for battle.
Their flight was 2,600 miles said
to be the longest airlift of fully
armed men ever accomplished.
' Two thousand more men from
Camp Carson came up in con
voys on the Alaskan highway, a
trip of 3,000 miles.
The Canadians have been troop
ing in from many parts of the
country. Canadian jet fighters
made a 3,000 mile flight in stages,
from St Hubert, Quebec.
Arctic Training
For the past week the forces
have - been engaging in Arctic
training. One stunt was a 12-mile
march on snow shoes and skis
when the temperature was more
than 50 below.
There were more frostbitten feet
on that exercise3 than the doctors
here had anticipated. Lieut. Col.
R. M. Coats, surgeon of the allied
forces, says that eighteen men were
frostbitten and will bo hospital
ized for a month or two. The rea
son, ho says, was that the men
failed to take proper precautions
to keep their feet dry and warm.
He is convinced that their uniforms
and equipment are adequate.
The exercises are under the
command of Lieut Gen. Stephen
J. Chamberlain commanding gen
eral of the U.S. Fifth army.
EX-REPRESENTATIVE DIES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12
Former Rep. Tilman Bacon Parks,
77, of Arkansas, died here today
after a short illness. Parks ser
ved eight terms in the house, from
1920 until 1936 when he retired.
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U. S. Plane Hits-
Soccer Goal Post
LONDON, Feb. 12 -(TP)- A U. S.
air force Skymaster hit the cross
bar of a soccer goal post while at
tempting to land at Northold air
port today, but those aboard
including Gen. Thomas Handy
escaped injury.
The plane was not damaged.
The pilot put it into a climb, cir
cled the airport and then landed
safely. -
Handy is chief representative in
Europe for the American military
aid program to western nations.
He came here from Germany.
Malayans to
CombatRed
Bandit Bands
SINGAPORE, Feb. 12-VTent
of thousands of Malayan civilians
were being mobilized today for an
intended knock-out blow to Chin
ese communist bands.
Officials said more than 100,000
citizens will take the offensive in
"anti-bandit month" against the
handful of jungle bands who for
more than a year and a half have
plagued the country with terrorist-like
tactics. Just when they
will go into action is known only
to British High Commissioner Sir
Henry Guerney.
The purpose of the operation Is
to make Malay's plantations,
towns, villages and jungle paths
safe from southeast Asian com
munism. Already the campaign seems to
have been largely effective in en
listing the ordinary man to take
up arms against the strife, crime,
and murder that has kept Malaya
in tension for 18 months.
The hugee volunteer civilian
army will work behind the lines,
relieving thousands of uniforznde
police and troops who will go into
the jungles to clean out the band
its. This home guard of every com
munity, every walk of life, will
man offices, telephone exchanges,
police road blocks, act as inter
preters and address the public in
outlying districts where peasants
have bee the victims of the com
munist outlaws.
The government has released
European heads of departments to
act as organizers. Some of the de
partments are stripped of workers
to the point of closing.
Prof. Griswold,
Historian, to
Head Yale U.
NEW HAVEN. Coniu Feb. 1J-
(AVAlfred Whitney Griswold, 43-
year-oia history proiessor, was
elected today as president of his
toric Yale university.
His appointment was announc
ed by President Charles Sey
mour, who like Professor Griswold
taught history at Yale before ho
was elevated to the top university
post 13 years ago.
Dr. Seymour, who has reached
the mandatory retirement ago ol
65 years, will relinquish his post
to Professor Griswold on July 1.
proiessor uriswold. tail, slen
der and with thinning sandy hair,
was elected yesterday to the pre
sidency of one of the nation's old
est universities. Announcement of
his election by the Yale corpora
tion, however, was delayed until
today because he was out of the
city when the corporation reached
Its decision.
Professor Griswold. a Yale
faculty member since 1933 and
member of an old colonial Con
necticut family, was formally pre
sented to a hastily called press
conference by President Sey
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