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BIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednetda?. June 14. 1950 In the Day's News Bv FRANK JENKINS I uppose that like everybody else you've been reading about this Amerasia magazine business and I rather imagine that (also like everybody else) you've been wondering what the heck it's all about. WELL, it's something like this: Amerasia was one of these slick-paper international politics sheets that those of us who don't wear striped pants seldom read. In the final months of the war it fell under the suspicion of our Office of Strategic Ser vices, which was our top-flight espionage and counter-espionage outfit. To make a long story short, the OSS boys- raided the New York office of Amerasia and found there SOME 900 SECRET DOCUMENTS THAT HAD BEEN FILCHED FROM THE FILES OF OUR STATE DE PARTMENT. Some of them were "top drawer" secrets, which is a sort of diplomatic term for super-duper hot stuff. NOT only that. The OSS men were convinced by what they found that the burglary of the state department was an IN SIDE JOB. That is, according to OSS, somebody in the state de partment had passed these secret documents out to Amerasia. OSS yelled for the scalps of the guilty secret-peddlers, but got nowhere much. 1 1 w a s claimed that the OSS Hawk shaws didn't have enough search warrants and therefore their raid wasn't kosher. Anyway, the affair was promptly hushed up. Six persons, including two slate department employees and a naval intelligence lieutenant, were arrested. Two of them were given mild fines and the others turned loose. Nothing further was heard of K until the McCarthy charges brought up by the more or less forgotten Amerasia Incident. PERSONALLY, I haven't much much use for this current communist-baiting binge. I have the feeling that at least 90 per cent of it is politics. Still, you can't laugh off the fact that this Amerasia outfit DID have in its possession hundreds of our secret documents, which nobody out side our stat department had any business to have. REMEMBER that butler in. the British embassy in Ankara who picked the ambassador's pocket while he was pressing his striped pants and found the key to the secret safe and out of this secret safe for months and months and months he filched secret documents and peddled them to the Germans? What the krauts thus learned about our inside war plans made it duck soup for them to checkmate us and the British in the tough years of 1943 and 1944. THIS Amerasia business was on the same order. I have the feeling that we ought to get to the bottom of it. This fellow Lattimore seems to have the complete confidence of our state department, and so far it does look like he is an Injured inno cent. BUT ALSO IT LOOKED FO A LONG TIME LIKE AL GER HISS WAS AN INJURED INNOCENT. Hiss certainly had the state department's confi dence. Even after he was con victed of perjury (he perjured himself by denying that he was a spy passing out secrets from our slate department) Secretary Acheson went out of his way to give Hiss a hand. s- Pre-School Clinic Gold Hill June 19 Gold Hill, June 14 A pre school clinic will be held Mon day, June 19 at the Community Methodist church basement from 1 to 4 p.m. Parents who wish to take advantage of the opportun ity to have children examined are welcome and the service is without charge. Dr. A. E. Merkel will be in charge and will be assisted by the Health nurse, Mae Kanclier. Vaccination and immunization shots will be given if parents request. Mrs. Melford Hood is chair man of the committee for the clinic, which Is sponsored by the Health Unit. The chairman and her assistants, Mrs. Delos Walker and Mrs. Melvin Burnett, will register the children and ges to their fullest possible ex tent to discredit the Democrats, whether the charges are true or not I still have the feeling that something is rotten In Denmark and that we ought to find out where the smell is coming from and who is responsible. If we're going to run the world as we seem to have been elected to do we can't have a state depart ment that leaks military and diplomatic secrets like a sieve leaks water. 19 Million Switch Residences, in Year New York, June 14. (U.R A survey of the adult population by the Metropolitan Life Insur ance company showed today that 19 million adults switched resi dence during the year ending April, 1949. The lure of the far west and economic developments in var ious regions were the biggest reasons for the migrations. The statisticians found. 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