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Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, June 5, 1947 You Should K now Your G overnm ent Red School of Sabotage Exposed Soviet Trains Foreigners To Wreck Own Countries ByBAVKHAGE X’e u j A n a h it and C om iitn lU iir. W N l Service, 1816 Eye Street. Washington. D. C. N. W., WASHINGTON—It was one ot those strange, foggy nights that sometimes descend over the east ern part of America—not like a London smoky fog, nor the clean white stuff that rolls in like giant breakers so artistically against Yer ba Buena in San Francisco bay. nor yet like the mists on the rice- fields, nor the clammy North Atlan tic “weather" that drips over crow's-nest and quarterdeck, turn ing ship and sky into cold, wet drizzling steel. The point is that I was stranded in York, Pa., (mentioned recently _____in these columns for its hospitality to veterans). It was simply hope less to try to inch along through the condensed milk that enveloped us. I knew there was a genial hos telry there, so we edged up to it, were decanted and, sure enough, m et no le ss a person than Jun ius Wood, lolling Baukhage in the lounge. Of course, you are likely to meet Junius Wood anywhere, on an atoll In the Pacific, tapping his pipe into the crater of Mount Vesuvius ford ing a fjord in a borrowed car. lost in Grand Central or sipping vodka in the Kremlin. So it wasn't strange to find him in York, Pa. As I write these lines, I have just left Mr. Wood (at the National Press club this time). He informed me that some of the former “students" about whom he writes in the article quoted below testified recently be fore a congressional committee. Rep. Karl Mundt of South Dakota read Wood’s article into the Con gressional Record, thus making it a “public document.” (Today a lady who signs herself “Just Mary” writes me saying that I should pretend I’m a “nice ole Beaglb hound" and “keep that beezer" of mine “pointed down the middle of the road." She claims I have the “darndest habit of “ schroochin over to the right." I hope the following won't hurt her feelings.) Here are the quotes from the Wood story, which originally ap peared in the April issue of ’’Jia- tion's Business” under the title of “Trained to Raise Hell in America.” Background I know was gathered by Wood while he was reporting from Russia and I was bending over a copy desk in the old Cnicago Daily News office whither Junius directed his daily dispatches: "Attention, ambitious young men and women,” says Wood. “A well-established and liberal- ally endowed university offers you free courses in factory sab otage, bomb making, kidnaping, train wrecking, bank robbery, fomenting armed mutiny—and other techniques of violence and treason. Scholarships cover all expenses, including recreation and annual vacations at summer resorts. This university is the West Point of world revolution— the International Lenin school in Moscow. This university teaches the youth of other lands to go back home and wreck their countries. Over the years It has trained and returned to the I'nited States an estimated 800 disloyal Americans. They are the leaven of some 50,000 Com munists and IJg.GOO pinkos In our land; they are the high of ficers of a secret army now be ing drilled to overthrow our gov ernment and social order.** Wood describes the super-secret surroundings of the school, and what happens to Russians who get curious about it (Siberia or the firing squad) and goes on to describe the hush- hush atmosphere into which a stu dent is inducted: “With matriculation, each student takes a revolutionary or party name by which he will be known in Com munist circles and outside activities. Mark Aldanov in 'The Fifth Seal’ tells of a party worker who had so many aliases he forgot his bap tismal name." According to Wood, the school has a three-year course devoted pri marily to intensive indoctrination. But there are also courses in labor activities, party organization and propaganda, as well as military tac tics and weapons. When the student returns to his own country, says Wood, ‘’he must join trade unions or liberal societies —attend all meetings, pay dues promptly, be eager for work, unite others by party discipline until the organization is blindly following the party line in wftich he (the student) is so well grounded.” Wood points out that Moscow does not consider revolution imminent in this country. But he claims they are preparing for the psychological moment . . . “and these peaceful preparations go on for years through capable party members burrowed into trade un ions, public offices, the police force, liberal clubs and other sources of information.” When the time comes to attack a city, "the needed knowl edge of where to attack to paralyze it will be at hand—even such facts as the knowledge that a watchman has a dog will have been recorded." “According to the time schedule of the Communists." says Wood, "a city like Chicago could be captured in less than 48 hours.” Despite these frightening words. Wood says this in con clusion: “The Soviet schools for foreigners are not too alarming when they are stripped of mys tery. It would be well to know their 800-odd American alumni, also tbeir instructors and what secret plotting is behind the for mal handshakes over a confer ence table or the clink of cock tail glasses at a banquet board. It also will help when they know that we know—an interesting long-range job for our state de partment and FBI." End of quotation. These words are the author’s and the views ex pressed not necessarily those of your columnist. But Junius Wood is a source “hitherto reliable" and I of fer him for what his report is worth. He assured me today that his sources are “old grads,” not nec essarily Leningrad and Stalingrad, but real alumni of this somewhat- too-progressive school. ★ TYRO THESPIANS . . . Roanoke Island youngsters, some of whom have never seen a stage play In their young lives, try out for parts In Paul Green’s "The Lost Colony,” an outdoor spectacle staged annually in a waterside amphitheater on the North Carolina Island. More than 52,000 persons saw the symphonic drama last year In Its postwar revival. AAIFS REVIEW Postal Boost Foreseen; Economists Decry Slump POSTAL RATES: fits through forcing higher wage levels. Twice that many unorgan A measure embodying the first ized workers have not shared to an general revision of postal rates equal extent in the wage increases. since 1879 which would add about A number of industries, able to 110 million dollars a year to post control prices, have driven them office revenues has been introduced upward. Others, at the same time, in the house of representatives. have been held down by govern The bill provides for a 30 per cent ment controls. increase in parcel post rates and The main reason that farm and would revise the air mail rate from food product prices soared after the five to six cents an ounce. In war was that there was little else addition, the new plan would add the consumer could purchase Now, about 30 per cent a year to present with production making a come scales for second-class mailing of back, the previously scarce radios, newspapers and periodicals sent out refrigerators, automobiles and so side the county in which they are on are competing for the consum published. er’s money. Another provision would maintain Federal reserve board economists the current three-cent local and non say that farm prices are expected local rate for first class mail beyond to stabilize about 25 per cent under the July 1 deadline when those rates the 1946 peaks. They also express were slated to revert to the former confidence that they can put the two-cent level. brakes on any further inflation if The new rates wouia go into ef congress provides the necessary fect 60 days after the bill is passed assistance. and signed by the President. May Go Up READJUSTMENT: A o Depression Not a depression but a price "re adjustment" is in store for the United States, the federal reserve board has predicted. Reserve board economists ex- plained that heartening news by pointing out that a downtrend in prices is “necessary, healthy and inevitable.” The inconsistencies in the national economy, which have arisen out of the'fact that our econ omy is part rigged and part free, will have to be eliminated. For instance: About 14 million or ganized workers have derived bene- ★ A new package, same price, de livered, contains 17 yards of cotton goods, needles, thread, thimble, scis sors and thread. And how they want cotton goods! Clothes are still not available. Here are the countries to which you can send the cotton package: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Hun gary, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania and Germany (all zones except Russian). The food packages can be sent to all the above, plus England. Wales, Scotland and northern Ireland. You'll help Uncle Sam’s food problem, too, if you send a package to someone whose address you know in these countries—if you CARE. 1 End of an Era? The battleship Oklahoma, first of the so-called “super-dreadnaughts," i might well be recorded in history i as an accurate symbol of the era during which it ploughed the seas i for the U. S. navy—heroic but futile. In her 31 years of steel-clad exist ence she never fired a shot at an enemy. Based at Berehaven, Ireland, dur ing World War I, she saw no action; and on December 7, 1941, five Japa nese torpedoes sent the sturdy old ship lunging to the bottom of Pearl Harbor before*her crew could man the guns. Raised to the surface and then abandoned as not worth salvaging, the Oklahoma was consigned to the scrap heap and taken in tow for the last long voyage across the Pacific. Suddenly, 540 miles northeast of Pearl Harbor, the tragic battleship listed heavily, as if tired of war and its aftermath, and slipped into the sea, three miles deep at that point, tor her final escape from the era of violence that had been her lifespan. END THE WAR: War-ravagedNationsNeedFood A few weeks ago a physician said that the British people were starv ing to death on their present rations. We know what has been happen ing these past weeks in Germany. Other European countries are in no better position, some worse. I have seen what being too hun gry does. I have seen it in the Unit ed States army, on shipboard and among foreign peoples. It does something to your brain that just can’t be explained in terms of every day, easy American language. The American people will do their part, collectively, to help the rest of the world over this ugly gulch, partly because we are decent peo ple, partly because we don’t want that “something strange" to hap pen to their brains which will make them the prey of any evil political influence which exists. The American people, individually, can help in another way. They can send some food to the people whose addresses they know and they can do it efficiently, cheaply, quickly, through an institution called CARE. C-A-R-E stands for Cooperative for American Remittances to Eu rope. It is a non-partisan, non-profit in stitution which has the blessing of the United States government. Through CARE you can send packages, well packed, containing carefully chosen food of the kind most needed and other materials of which there is a tragic lack. A $10 food package delivers 40,963 calories. (The minimum ration in Germany is 1,500 calories a day. They aren’t getting that.) A blanket package at the same price provides two all-wool army blankets, scissors, needles, thread and two sets of heels and soles for shoes. GIANTS DEATH: ' Students Riot ‘JOE COLLEGE* . . . This is the Japanese version of "Joe Col lege." In the Nippon capital, the smart college lads like to look like something out of the poorhouse. This student wears a tattered suit and sloppy cap and lets his hair grow long. Demonstrating violently in open defiance of Chiang Kai-shek's order to quiet down, thousands of univer sity students in several Chinese cit ies fortified their demand that the civil war be ended immediately by calling for a general strike. Declaring sternly that the student riots were instigated by Commu nists, Chiang said they would be quelled forcibly if necessary. The students reacted with further pa rade and violence in Shanghai, Nan king and Peiping. About 25,000 students were on strike from 16 universities, with their demands including everything from a better system of grading pa pers to higher government living al lowances and an end to the war. EXPORTS MUST CONTINUE World Food Outlook Is Critical WASHINGTON —Because of for eign agricultural relations said. The gloomy picture was pre eign crop losses, the world food sit uation will remain critical for the sented as the administration was in 1947-48 crop year, according to a the midst of an all-out effort to send warning issued by the department additional supplies to both Germany of agriculture. Although an in and France to avoid a crisis that creased output among the principal could force reduced rations through producing nations is foreseen, this out most of northern Europe. Officials abroad railed at failure gain will be offset by declines in grain production in nations which of the German government to push normally import part of their food 1 properly Internal food collection, and charged German producers requirements. This shift in the supply picture with hoarding their output. The department sounded one will mean a "somewhat greater movement of grains in international cheerful note in predicting some in trade during the coming year if crease in sugar, potato, and fats supplies in importing countries are and oils production, but reminded to be maintained at the relative low that "the supply of all these com levels of 1946-47,” the office of for modities will continue below pre- war." The same situation was reported for rice, with the surplus producing areas of southeastern Asia still not in full production. Finance will be a major problem in agricultural trade in 1947-48, the department said. With the tempo rary wartime expedients of lend- lease and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation administration out of the picture, the volume of foreign imports will depend on the amount of United States funds appropriated for foreign relief, the buying power that importing countries can muster out of the receipts from their own exports, out of gold and dollar re serves, and out of loans. I F THERE are any upsets, any I reversals of form, in baseball this season, the same will come W hite House Marriages from the pitching side. For example. If anything happens L I AS a President ever been mar- to tlie Boston Red Sox. the trouble * * ried in the White House? Yes, Grover Cleveland m arried won't come from his ward, Frances Folsom, in the their Infield or White House on June 4, 1880. outfield. It will I>s» you know w h ich tw o P re fild rn ts died c o m e fro m a tn tin* w h it.- House? Why the secretarli of uh t ic u ltu i c. la b o r and c o m m e rc e cun* pitching stuff that not succeed to the P residency > w h ile other is still uncertain. ca b in e t m e m b e rs can? • • • L a s t seaso n O ur R eader S e rvice B o o kle t No 202 an* D ave F e r r is s , •were hundreds of Interesting questions Tex Hughson and about out g o v e rn m e n t: hlxtory« tra d itio n , i Send 25 cents I c o in > M ickey H u rris fo r " K n o w Y o u r U o v e ii» m rn t" to W eekly won many well- MdB. Newwp4|»er Service. 213 West I7 lh Ml., New Y o rk I I . N. V. P rin t nam e, address, p itc h e d games. II. Newhouser booklet tttle und No. 202 But they also won a (lock of games that only savage hitting and run • making saved, games in which they were ham mered into pulps. Tex llughson, before the war, was luted as one of baseball's best. Lust s *ason, Tex needed the help of Red Sox bats to save him. game after game—and so did Dave Eerrlss. In the season’s opener, the Red Sox “ I keep house, scrub, scour, gave Hughson a 6-0 lead, and yet he huke, wuslt dishes, cook, do the couldn't finish. laundry, iron, sew ." It is more than probable that Joe And ttic census ta k e r listed here: Cronin will need some extra help “ Housew ife—no occupation.” from some of his younger pitchers, if he is to win again, even if he has Al or N ickel more good ballplayers on his team The telephone ofirrjliir jn u tr r J an than any other rival by a two to jgiljIrJ summon! from a tall box. "Oh, min," tame a tearful feminine one ratio. "tan I have my nickel bath, 4/- Red Sox pitching hardly belongs In roite, bert won't tali to me!" the same class with Cardinal or Tiger pitching. These are the two Kept Ills Eye on It strong staffs In baseball, well be The teacher had w ritten 92.7 on yond any other collection of right 1 the blackboard, und, to show the and left arms. ’ effect of multiplying by ten, had Newhouser Is the best pitcher in ' rubbl'd out the decim al jxiint. baseball today. Bob Feller Is sure “ Now, Alfred,” she said, "w here to have a good year. But he isn’t 1 is the decim al point?” sure to have a great year, as great “ On tiie d u ster," replied Alfred. a pitcher as he has been in the past. H ill ill \tistralia Inhales, The Tigers have at least four high- Exhales, and Even Snores grade pitchers who also have strong supporting aides. So have the Car Ju st outside of Castlem nine in dinals. , Australia there is a hill that Durable llu rlers breathes und snores. About 50 When Red Munger opened his new y ears ngo u tunnel was driven into season, with a well-pitched game, i this hili and after a tim e it was you could almost hear Eddie Dyer's ' abandoned. The mouth of the tun- sigh of relief drift in from the Mid I nel collapsed, leaving only n sm all west. For Munger, over 8 feet, opening—and this is now known as weighing 200 pounds, is the type that J the hill's nostril. The ground under the hill is por can work in 35 or 40 games. He is also the type that might win 25. ous and the top of the hill is thick This means that such slender and basalt. In sum m er, heat expands somewhat fragile workmen as Pol- the cap so it rises and sucks in let, Brecheen and Dickson can get air. The cap cools in w inter, contracts and forces the air out all the rest they need It is quite possible that, with the again. It takes one full year for the hill addition of Allie Reynolds and the to com plete u whole breath, inhal showing of young Johnson, (he ing and exhaling and m aking a Yankees’ pitching staff will be the snoring sound all the while. strongest section of the squad. If they are to get anywhere It will have to come through with better than average pitc hing. As far back as 1908. the White To hold your I oom uppers and low- era comfortably arcure all day and Sox. known as the Hitless Wonders, every day, try dentist's amaxing dis proved what good pitching could covery called 8TA ZE . Not a ''meaty” powderl STAZE la pleaaant-lo-UM do. Their team batting average was iaate. O et 33c tube a t druggist .228. Yet, Ed Walsh, Nick Altrock I odayl Accept uo substitute! «II day a. and Doc White carried the team to STAZE Haiti »en Bane» B k » I a pennant, and then to a world series victory over the powerful Cubs. The White Sox, starting from last or near last place, won 19 straight in their flag drive. Pitch ing did it. In 1914, Rudolph, Tyler and James pitched the Braves from last place BLACK LEAF 4 0 tap along r o o m and to the pennant, and then a four- — sm ear—>body heat o f fo w l« release« n ico tin e fume« game sweep In the big series. w It k ill t h it ken In f and In each rase you’ll notice that feath er * m ite«. C ap - Bru«h three pitchers did most of the work. A p p lic a to r «ave« nico tine. In ti« t on o rig in a l factory* Few pitchers todav get half enough veiled package« to insure work. A good pitcher should be fu ll «trensth. worked every fourth day, to keep TOBACCO BY MODOC TS & his condition and build up his con CHEMICAL C O IF ORATION INCORPORATED trol. LOUISVILLE ?. KENTUCKY Credit for Connie Mack’s star teams of some 40 years ago was always given to his brilliant infield. I’d give even greater credit to Bend er, Plank and Coombs, three of baseball’s best. His infield wasn’t great enough to protect an only average pitching staff. Women In your •'40'a” l Does thia FALSE TEETH DELOUSE CHICKENS 7 ^ W ay h it flASHES?^\ W orked 4 5 Games functional 'middle-age* period pecul ia r to women cause jou to suffer hot flashes, nervour, hlghstrung. weak, tired feelings? Then do try Lydia B. Pln kham ’s Vegetable Compound to relieve such symptoms It's /amasie for this purpose! Taken regularly—Plnkham 's Com pound helps build up resistane« against such distress. Thousands hay« reported benefltl Also a very effective stomachlo tonic. W orth trying! All you need, to discover what the power of good pitching means, is to look through past world series records, and see what happened to Ty Cobb, Hans Wagner and many other stars up through Ted Williams and Stan Musial. Giant pitchers cim V oun ! held even the mighty Babe to a mark of .118 in one world series. 23-47 Most of the great pitchers of base- WNU—13 bail, those with the stronger arms, could work through 45 or 50 games a year. This list includes Cy Young, Matty, Johnson, Alexander, Walsh, Chesbro, Feller, Newhouser and Dizzy Dean. M a y W a rn o f D iso rd ered The tendency today is to lift a K id n e y A c tio n pitcher the moment he begins to Modern life with Its hurry and worry. Irregular habits, Improper eating and wobble a tr'fle. This Is often a nec drinking— Its risk of eaposura and Infeo- essary move. Rut it doesn’t help tlon— throws heavy strath on tha work of tha kidneys. Th ey ero apt to become the pitcher’s confidence nor bring over-taxed and fall to filter exeeea acid him the work he needs. and othar Impurities from tbs life-giving blood. In past seasons, looking well back, You may suffer nagging backache^ good pitchers were allowed to stick. headache, dlsxlneea, getting up nights, leg paint, swelling— (eel constantly This accounts for the fact that many tired, nervous, all worn out. Othar algna of them were able to win from 30 of kidney or bladder disorder are som«* times burning, scanty or too (request to 40 games a season. Matty, Al urination. exander and Johnson turned this T ry Doan’i P ills. Doan'i help the Mi That Nagins? Backache trick at least twice. Feller insists that the heavy pres sure he put on his arm last year from January to December had no harmful effect. Everyone hopes Bob is right. But there Is also such a thing as overwork. kidneys to peas off harmful excess body w aits. T J ay have had mors than half • century of public approval. Are recom mended by grateful ueera everywhere. A ik your neighbor/ DOAN SPILLS
