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0 Q 0 Former Roosevelt Aide Loses Citizenship; Affiliation in Communist Party Recapped Thursday, March 29, 1958 MEDFORD (OBEGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R; It was strange chance that news of Lauchlin E. Currie's lost citizen- 4 I V fa ship and a re cap of Com munist charges against him be- V m the same day. If Currie was a Communist spy, as charged, he was the most fortunate- Lyie c. wukon ly piaceo. trai tor on record in the United States. He was an admin istrative assistant to President Roosevelt. Currie had a White House office and the kind of in side knowledge for free which few spies could hope to have. Currie did not lose his citizen ship, however, because of charges that he leaked top secrets to the Russians. He ceased to be a fellow American by rou tine operation of the Immigra tion and Nationality Act. He was a naturalized American citizen; a native oi in ova bcoua. Went To Colombia The act provides that a natu ralized citizen shall lose his citi zenship if he remains outside the United States for five years. Cur rie now lives in Colombia. He went there a bit more than five years ago as head of a commis sion to examine Colombia's eco nomic situation. The charges against Currie are summed up in a new publication oby the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, titled: Interlock ing Subversion in Government departments. The subject of the 500-page volume is the late Harry Dexter White, a top man in the New Deal Treasury De partment until shortly before he was charged in 1948 with espion age. Currie is merely incidental to the astonishing story of how Comntnnist agents or their friends and associates were able to penetrate the federal govern-- ment of the 1930s-40s and get away with it, rising to high posi tion. Alger Hiss was one of them. He went to jail. Currie, like Hiss, denied all charges, and went to Colombia. Named by Benlley Elizabeth Bentley put the finger on Currie, White and others about the time Whittaker Chambers was accusing Hiss. An FBI security memo circulated among high government officials related that Miss Bentley had worked with espionage groups, most of whose members were government employees in Wash ington. "The head of the most im portant group . . . was N. Greg ory Silvermaster," the report said, "... now connected with the United States Treasury. Other members of this group in cluded Harry Dexter White, as sistant secretary of the Treasury; William Taylor, also an em ployee of the Treasury Depart ment; Lauchlin Currie, adminis trative assistant to the presi dent." A footnote says: "Miss Bentley testified fhat Currie was a full fledged member of the Silver master group who was used not only to bail out other members when they were in trouble, but also to steal White House secrets for the Soviets. Most of these secrets she said related to Far Eastern affairs." Gloria Swanson To Attend Kelly -Rainier Wedding in Monaco in Role of Writer By GLORIA SWANSON Written for United Press Rome (U.R) "April in Mona co" is just where I shall be. How many times I have been there! And under how many different circumstances. . . The first exciting time was as the Marquise le Dailey de la Falaise de la Coudray (aren't I a wonder to remember how to spell it all!). Then again I visited Monte Carlo to inaugurate the "new" casino about 1931 with my husband Michael Farmer, a name especially well known in the casinos along the Riviera. This formal occasion to "bring Monte Carlo back alive" was one to remember because everybody from the capitals of Europe was there who had not lost their tails and. I must add, white ties, in the 1929 American stock market wholesale suicide crash. Returned Last Year Last year, after many years of absence, I went back as "that character," the movie actress. For a week I enjoyed its beauty and climate while awaiting glam orous Marlene Dietrich's "sing ing" premiere at the "new" casino (which is now old). Unhappily I never saw Monte Carlo at its zenith about the turn of the century and in the 'teens, but only when it was either struggling for a "comeback" (sounds like a movie star) or at ; X? ' SOMETHING LB LICE IS GOING TO HAPPEN AT SIXTH AND BARRETT API WATCH FOU IT! is- 1 11 V 7 SIXTH STREET "off season" months, when it is truly a wee paradise but more than ever struggling with the problem of supporting itself. It is hard to imagine what Monte Carlo is going to be like this time. I do hope someone has the foresight to take newsreel movies from the air now and any day from April 10 to 20 when the entourage of "the wed ding" will be there. For the world will then see how much like ants the human race can look. If you see a tiny "Grandma Ant" waving a frantic pencil TIS I! Not Enough Room Seriouslly, what will this tiny postage stamp of a place (pardon me, Grace) do with all the peo ple. There are no vacant lots on which to pitch tents nor any sand on which to park a body. The rocks aren't very comfort able and I am sure every bed is more than taken. Next month I shall not be in Monte Carlo as a titled person age, the wife of a famous play boy, or a movie star but as a newspaper writer. I have gather ed from recent reports that "publicity" is to be kept at a min imum. I wonder if I'm going to get shoved around as news writers are sometimes. I've probably shoved a few times myself. If it happens this time I can always turn my hat around, go out and come in again as a celebrity. I'll keep you in formed of my bruises, as well as my losses, for the "wheel of chance" will certainly be twirling. Deetz Says People Fed Up With Political Bickering ith Tells Favors For Labor by GOP Portland (U.R) Labor should take a look at other states where labor leaders and the Democrat ic party are strongly in control and then consider how well off it is in Oregon, Gov. Elmo Smith said here yesterday in an address before members of the Republi can Women's Federation of Ore gon. Gov. Smith added that it was his belief the Republican party in Oregon has not done a good job of telling the working man the story of Oregon advances under a Republican administra tion. "The 1955 Legislature passed legislation as beneficial to labor as that of any other state," the governor said, "and more so than most of them." "We have done a miserable job of letting the working man know what the Republican dominated state government is doing for him," Smith said. Quotes From the lews Canby, Ore. (Special) Elmer Deetz, -Oregon's "gallon I jug" farmer and state represent- j ative who is running for the Re-1 publican nomination for U. S. senator, in a statement about his I candidacy this week, said he be-1 lieves the people of Oregon "are j fed up with the kind of politi-1 cal bickering and whipsawing j which seems to be the main stock in trade of the incumbent and of the other two Republican candidates for the nomination as well." Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), is the incumbent. Others seeking the GOP nomination are Inter ior Secretary Douglas McKay; ex-State Sen., Phil Hitchcock, and George Altvater, a Port land engineer. Nationwide Notoriety i Deetz gained nationwide no toriety two .years ago in his campaign against Oregon's milk control law. He was elected to the legislature in the same cam paign. His statement added: "I am running for the United j States Senate because the farm I economy is skidding at an alarming rate and nothing but patchwork, pauperizing steps are being taken to stop the slide. Farm income dropped an other billion dollars in 1955 1 while income and profits of oth er industries were hitting all time highs. The average per capital farm income last year was less than ' S900 compared with more than $1900 for non farm activities. "I am running for the Sen ate because I believe the people of Oregon are fed up with the kind of political bickering and whipsawing which seems to be the main stock in trade of the incumbent and of the other two Republican candidates for the nomination as well. ' Cold Facts "The cold 'facts about the nose-dive of agriculture ought to scare the dayjights out of any body with an intelligent concern By UNITED PRESS United Nations. N. Y. U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. on the proposed U. N. investigative mission to Palestine by Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold: "There are no hidden meanings in this, and if you search from now until doomsday with a magnifying glass the only purpose you will find is to prevent war." Memphis, Tenn President J. Millard Smith of Memphis State College on Negro registration: "There will be no trouble if Negroes enter for educational purposes but I can't predict what will occur if they enter just to break the color line." Washington Sen. Robert S. Kerr (D-Okla.) on possibility of a veto of the farm bill by President Eisenhower: "If he doesn't (sign the farm bill), he had better get ready to go back to making his own living at Gettysburg 'under existing farm law." New Orleans Police Secretary Albert Elancher on the city stationing shotgun squads of policemen at likely holdup spots: "We will place our shotgun squadsmen at strategic locations and holdup men can expect Jo be greeted by hot lead in the future." Phoenix, Ariz. Sen. Esies Kefauver to a lady sitting on a bus stop bench: "I'm a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination and I want you to help me." London Earl Winterion on the coming visit of Soviet leaders Khrushchev and Bulganin to Great Britain in a letter to London's Daily Telegraph: "No doubt if these Russians had treated animals, especially dogs or horses, as they have treated human beings, the numerous welfare societies would have organized a national protest against their visit." (ft la FANCY SUPPLY LIMITED-DRIVE IN NOW! Per PAIR VALUE FORl3(C WITH ANY GASOLINE PURCHASE FREE FORD TICKETS, TOO! Why don't YOU try No purchase necessary ITS FUN TO BUY GAS AT FORTUNE "On the Point" So. Centra! at So. Riverside FORD TICKETS from Fortune of So. Ore. Central Mkt., Crater Lake Mtrs.r Market Basket for the welfare of the country as a whole. If the basic agri culture industry cracks up it can carry the whole American system onto the rocks. Yet the only steps taken or proposed have been to dole out pap from the public purse to keep the yokels happy through another election year. It isn't fair to the taxpayers and it is humiliation and degrading to the independ ent farmers, who are still the bulwarks of our society. "It is high time a fresh view point was introduced into the Senate. I realize that one Sen ator cannot bring about drastic changes in the economic mach inery singlehanded. iBut one stubborn farmer .can : do more than all of the professional poli ticians have done heretofore and I believe Oregon voters will welcome a chance for a change. "We must establish -a nation al farm policy secure "from the petty assaults of partisan polit ics as well as from gfeedy en croachments of big business a policy which will not depend for its sustenance upon public handouts. Such a policy will as sure survival of independent agriculture and will have a stab ilizing effect on the entire na tional economy." MASS TONSILLECTOMY Brawley, Calif. (U.R) Pio neers Memorial Hospital today reported a "mass tonsillectomy." The 6 children of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest H. Tucker of El Centro, Calif, all had their tonsils re moved Wednesday. Specials S Easter Lilies Cut Flowers Roses Corsages Hydrangeas Mixed Pots ROGUE VALLEY GREENHOUSE 625 Franquette Phone 2-9384 Klamath Compact Draft Scheduled Klamath Falls (U.R) Legal , representatives of the Oregon and California Klamath River Commissions will submit a re vised draft of the Klamath River compact to the joint drafting committee meeting here April 30. The following day the draft will be submitted to a joint meet ing of the two state commissions, according to Nelson Reed, chair man of the Oregon Klamath Riv er commission. 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