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 >
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fo r " K n o w Y o u r U o v e ii» m rn t" to W eekly
won many well-
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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
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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
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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/
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