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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-
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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
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SOMETHING
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"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."
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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.
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compact to the joint drafting
committee meeting here April
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ing of the two state commissions,
according to Nelson Reed, chair
man of the Oregon Klamath Riv
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distribution of waters from the j
Klamath river. ;
Following consideration by
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public meetings in Klamath Falls j
and three Northern California ;
cities. ;
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slated for Klamath Falls, May
14. Meetings will follow at Yre
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be submitted to interested fed
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