Story of American Negroes in
Soviet Magazine Brings Sparks
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BY LOUIS CASSELS
UPI Correspondent
Washington - (UPD - Propa
ganda sparks are flying in
Russia because of the latest is
sue of "Amer
ica Illustrat
ed," the Russian-
language
magazine dis-
1 1 r i b u ted in
the Soviet
Union by the
U.S. Informa
tion Service.
The article
Louis Cassels which touched
off the sparks is a two-page
spread of text and pictures de
picting the "generally im
proving status" of America's
18 million Negroes.
The text tells of the dra
matic progress U.S. Negroes
have made in recent years in
income, education and hous
ing. Sample J statistic: The
average dollar income of Ne
gro workers has gone up 415
per cent since 1940, while the
average income of white
workers has risen 277 per
cent.
Accompanying pictures
show mixed Negro and white
groups at work in offices and
scientific laboratories, wor
shipping in church, playing
basketball, attending school,
and participating as equals in
civic meetings.
Under Heavy Fire
The article directly contra
dieted the stereotyped picture
of Negro life in America
which the Soviet press has as
siduously created. It prompt
ly came under heavy propa
ganda fire from the widely-
circulated Soviet youth news
paper "Komsomolets."
"Komsomolets" published a
full page spread purporting to
show "what the magazine
America was silent about." It
featured pictures of a white
robed Ku Klux Klansman car
rying a hangman's noose', and
the body of a lynched Negro
hanging from a tree
The Soviet newspaper also
charged "America Illustrat
ed" with "juggling figures"
and "hiding facts" in an at
tempt to "prove that a para
dise for Negroes has been cre
ated in the United States."
But, it said, "reality tells
us quite the contrary."
Gives Lurid Description
It then went on to give a
lurid description of "Negro
ghettos" in New York, Wash
ington and Chicago, laced
with accounts of attacks by
"racialist hooligans" on any
Negro family which seeks to
move into "the prohibited
areas reserved for whites
only."
U.S. propaganda analyists
are intrigued by the vehe
mence of the Soviet reaction
to the "America Illustrated"
article.
"It indicates," said one of
ficial, "that we drew blood.
They wouldn't have been so
upset unless a good many
Russians were reading and
taking seriously - the articles
in America Illustrated." .
He said this is the first
time the Soviet press has at
tacked the monthly U.S. mag
azine sinpe it went on sale in
Russia in October, 1956.
Under an agreement nego
tiated in 1955, Russia per
mits the U.S. Information
agency to sell 50,000 copies of
"America" Illustrated" in Rus
sia each month. In return,
Russia is allowed to circulate
in this country an equal num
ber of copies of its English
language magazine "USSR."
America illustrated is
sold at news stands in 80 Rus
sian cities at a price of five
rubles per copy-$1.25 at the
official rate of exchange. A
British newspaper, the Econ
omist, reported in a dispatch
from Moscow last month that
the U.S. magazine is so popu
lar with Soviet readers that
"it is snapped up the moment
it appears on the' bookstalls
and thereafter changes hands
briskly at three times the
published price."
The avowed purpose of
"America Illustrated is to
"promote better understand
ing of the United States in the
Soviet Union. To tell the story
of America today: What the
American people are doing
and saying . . . how they live,
work and play."
About half of each month's
60 pages of pictures and text
consists of articles reprinted
from leading U.S. magazines
The remainder is produced by
the USLA staff. The article
on Negroes was in the latter
category.
Uses of Skin-Diving
Explained Monday
During Roundtable
Skin-diving as a sport and
as a commercial pursuit was
discussed by Richard Smith
of Ashland at the Jackson
County Chamber of Com
merce roundtable yesterday.
Joe Walsh, county sheriff,
discussed its role in law en
forcement.
, Smith, whose past, diving
experience includes demoli
tion and salvage work, re
lated incidents from recover
ing a dental plate in Shasta
lake to releasing logs from
the hold of a sunken lumber
vessel.
He said that while diving
is a fascinating sport it is
dangerous too and should not
me undertaken without prop
er education. He cited the
case of a youth in California
who suffered ruptured ear
drums by diving deep with
plugs in his ears.
Diver's Flag
Smith showed the group an
official diver's flag red with
a white diagonal stripe and
stated that when a boat dis
plays it others should keep
a safe distance away.
He said that while there is
not enough underwater work
locally to keep him busy all
the time he has found some
of it very interesting espe
cially lake poisoning for the
state fish and game commis
sion.
Other work in this area,
Smith said, includes recover
ing sinker logs and inspect
ing sunken boats for insur
ance purposes.
He discussed the hazards of
releasing dry, lumber from
the holds of sunken ships.
When the hatch is opened, he
said, the buoyant logs burst
out with terrific momentum.
Recovering Bodies
Walsh "said diving has
proved useful and economical
in .recovering bodies of
drowning victims, and miss
ing weapons and safes. He
said a diver can retrieve a
sunken safe without the dam
age caused by other methods.
He said two sets of equip
ment are now available in
the sheriff's office for inves
tigations. Tfte county . court,
he said, authorized their pur
chase a few months ago.
Walsh said that Lon Skin
ner, who introduced Smith to
the roundtable audience, had
helped interest the court in
the value of having this
equipment. He said it has just
about paid for itself already.
He cited as one example
of its use the search for the
body of 81-year-old Andrew
Kolstad in the Pleasant creek
area, during which Deputy
Veryl Canoose descended in
to mining test -holes 30 to 40
feet deep.
Smith described the equip
ment necessary for skin div
ing work. He said a complete
outfit including mask, fins,
breathing apparatus, depth
guage and compass, a decom
pression table costs about
$300.
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Court To Study
Overtime Pay in
Foods Industry
Washington - (DPD - The' Su
preme Court agreed Monday
to examine a government
claim that the frozen food in
dustry in many cases is vio
lating the federal wage hour
law.
The court will schedule ar
guments on the issue some
time next fall and will hand
down a written opinion later.
The Labor Department took
the issue to the high court
after losing in two lower
courts. The department sued
Oregon Frozen Foods com
pany of, Ontario, Ore., in an
effort, to compel the firm to
pay time-and-a-half for over
time beyond 40 hours a week.
Entitled lo Exemption
Processors are entitled to
an exemption from the law
when they are handling freshly-harvested
produce. But the
department asserted that Ore
gon was improperly applying
the exemption to subsequent
re-packaging of items frozen
and stored in bulk.
The department said by the
bulk storage procedure "pre
mium labor can be avoided
and packaging can be done by
the regular crew after the
rush season has passed."
The lower court, it added,
"will affect many' thousands
of workers throughout the
frozen foods industry."
insects Coming
Into Limelight
As Crops Planted
Washington-(Science Services-Insects
are coming into
the limelight as the days
grow warmer and farmers as
well as home gardeners begin
to pay attention to .their
crops.
One "outstanding grain in
sect," the khapra beetle, has
even made a first this year,
the U.S. Department of Agri
culture's plant pest control
division reported her. It has
been found for the first time
in Texas in a feed mill in El
Paso. Researchers had be
lieved the beetle was pretty
well confined to California,
where it was first detected in
1953, and neighboring states
Eradication Underway
A large-scale, Federal-state
eradication program is now
underway to get rid of the
khaDra beetle. Joseph w
Gentry of the pest control di
vision said. Fumigation of
infested buildings with
methyl bromide will probab
ly be the eradication gener
ally used, he explained.
1 While plant pests receive
increased attention as crops
begin to come up, the USDA
researchers study insect de
tection and control through
out the year. It is particular
ly important, Gentry pointed
out, to keep track of insect
survival populations after the
winter. On the basis of these
studies it is often possible to
predict infestations of a spe
cies such as the boll weevil
or alfalfa weevil.
Hopper Infestation High
So far, studies of grasshop
per egg survival indicate the
infested acreage is high while
the numbers of grasshoppers
are down.
This may be a bad year for
the European corn borer, pest
surveys indicate. Spring re
ports showed a high survival
rate.
The gypsy moth infestation
is the lightest in six years-
since 1952 in Connecticut,
USDA researchers reported
However; some 9,000 acres
have been certified as in dan
ger of epidemic infestations
Trees in about 700 acres are
in danger of losing more than
50 of their leaves. .
Back Stairs: Visitors at White House
CARELESS ELEPHANTS
Tokyo - (UPD - A worker re
ported, to an employment
agency that he had quit his
S1.30-a-day job feeding and
leading around the elephants
at the Tokyo Zoo. "They don't
seem to care where they step,
he complained. "I'd rather be
flat broke instead of just flat,
PLAN LAUNCHING PADS
. Vandenberg AFB, Calif-flJPD
-Nine launching pads for At
las intercontinental ballistic
missiles capable of hurling
thermonuclear warheads into
Russia will be constructed
here, it was announced Mon
day. ,
Wall $t
reel Chatter
New York-fiJPD-Edmund W.
Tabell of Walston & Co. sees
a similarity to the ,1953-56
market pattern. Applying it
to the present situation, he
notes, would project a top
around 770 to be reached in
a year or so, followed by a
distributional, period similar
to 1956-1957 and, as a sequel,
a decline greater than any
witnessed since 1937, although
probably no lower than the
525 level
Recent anti - speculation
warnings by stock exchanges
and brokerage firms may have
had something to do with
decreasing volume according
to Hemphill Noyes & Co., and,
if interpreted as signs of a
coming change of long range
importance, may have influ
enced some of those respon
sible for the investment of
large sums.
Failure to penetrate the
mid-March highs, according to
Joseph E. Granville of E. F.
Hutton & Co., would leave
the market in a vulnerable
position' and he feels it too
early to be conclusive about
the ability of the market to
sustain the advance long
enough to make such an im
portant break-through on this
swing.
Four Still Missing
From Maryland Jail
Jessups, Md. (UPD All but
four of the 34 inmates who
escaped from the unwalled
Patuxent Institution for De
fective Delinquents were back
in custody today.
State police continued
heavy road patrols in the area
after the biggest prison break
in Maryland history.
A 300-member manhunt by
Monday night had rounded
up 30 of the inmates who es
caped Sunday night by over
powering two guards and un
locking steel doors.
Some of those who es
caped were regarded as high
ly dangerous but the four still
at large were not considered
in this category.
Standard & Poor s men
tions Ryan Aeronautical as a
good candidate for a substan
tial stock dividend or stock
split . . ! says Vanraalte earn
ings are estimated at $3.50-
$3.75 per share, compared
with $2.72 in 1958, with a hike
in $2 dividend rate likely be
fore year end . . . lists Lock
heed Aircraft as week's "stock
for action."
Oak Ridge Wells
Not Contaminated
Boston (UPD Wells and
crops near the Oak Ridge,
Tenn, national laboratory
have remained uncontaminat
ed even though three million
gallons of radioactive waste
is dumped into pits each year,
it was reported today.
Donald G. Jacobs of Oak
Ridge, the government labo
ratory operated by the Union
Carbide Nuclear Co., and Wil
liam J. Lacey of the office of
Civil and Defense mobiliza
tion, Battle Creek, Mich.,
spoke at the 135th national
meeting of the American
Chemical society.
Lacy, senior chemist at Oak
Ridge at the time of the stud
ies, said tests showed no leak
age of radioactive waste to
surrounding test wells and
plant life.
Results of the work were
expected to help other atomic
installations which dispose of
their waste by dumping in se
lected geologic formations.
CHINESE CHANGE NAMES
Taipei, Formosa - (UPD - The
China News reported today
that ' the Nationalist Chinese
government had approved ap
plications for new names from
more than 100 persons whose
parents had christened them
with "sin" names. Among the
names tney were permitted
to drop: Mistress, Horse Ma
nure, Pig Thief, Chicken
Claws and Colored Hog. One
woman was permitted to drop
a name which means "good in
the night.'
Washington-(UPD-Back stairs
at the White House:
With the coming of spring,
there's also the coming of
children to the White House
They arrive during the spring
holidays by the thousands,
traveling in school buses and
checking in for one or two
nights at downtown hotels,
six and eight to a room.
Naturally one of their first
ports of sight-seeing call is the
White House. This week, with
the peak still to come, the
kids were lining up on East
Executive ave. more than an
hour ahead of opening time
for their brief tour of the pub
lic rooms of the executive
mansion.
Most Old Hands
The nearest thing to an ad
ministration executive en
countered by these youngsters
is a White House policeman,
Most of the officers are old
hands at shepherding the chat
tering youngsters through the
house.
One morning last week, a
policeman beheld a swarm of
young boys in the eight-to-
ten age group, all wearing
the string ties usually associ
ated with fancier dressers
south of the Potomac.
"And what part of the
South are you from?" inquir-
Estacada Youth
Found Innocent
Of Killing Dad
Oregon City - (UPD - Duane
Marvin Anders, 17, said to
day he planned to return to
school and hoped to graduate
with his Estacada high school
senior class this spring.
A jury of six men and six
women deliberated less than
an hour Monday evening and
found young Anders innocent
of the murder of his father
District Attorney Winston
Bradshaw then moved for dis
missal of an arson charge and
Circuit Judge P. K. Ham
mond agreed.
The father, Hector Anders,
56, was found dead in the
charred ruins of the family
barn early in February. In
vestigation disclosed that he
had died of a bullet wound
in the head.
Shot Said Accidental.
Young Anders was arrested
and charged with first de
gree murder. He toid author
ities he accidentally shot his
father and then panicked, set
ting fire to the barn. His
trial began March 30.
The jury got the case at
5:23 p.m. Monday and finish
ed its deliberations at 6:18
p.m.
When the innocent verdict
was read, Duane's mother,
Mrs. Bertha Anders, who had
testified for her son, fainted.
The boy broke into a smile
and was hugged by his at
torneys, Bruce Williams and
Otto Skopil. The spectators in
the courtroom cheered, bring
ing a warning from the judge.
Anders was fourth-ranked
in his class at Estacada high
school and also president of
the senior class.
ed the White House police
man with his best grandfa
ther smile.
"New Jersey," piped up the
kids.
Juvenile Experts
Sam Levenson or Art Link
letter who have emerged of
late as juvenile experts on
the. Doctor Spock magnitude,
would do well to check with
the White House police this
time of year on child behav
ior. For example, kids from the
South sometimes will, .on a
group impulse, all dress up in
Union Army hats just to con
found their bus driver from
Umatilla, Ga. Also, a bunch
of youngsters wearing carni
val-type hats with their names
embroidered on the visors can
be counted on to be more
fractious than their non-em
broidered colleagues.
Facilities Available
There are bathroom facili
ties available for the visitors.
but the White House doesn't
advertise the fact. They took
the signs off the doors a year
or so ago because too many
tourists were using the facili
ties as an excuse to prolong
their presence within the his
toric walls.
The police have found over
the years that requests to go
to the bathroom in the White
House come much more from
adults than from the kids.
Mostly School Children
During the spring, the daily
load of sightseers through the
White House between 10 a.m
and noon runs between 6,000
and 12,000 persons a day,
This time of year and until
mid-June, the crowds contain
a heavy percentage of school
children.
The tour of the White
House takes about 20 min
utes, but on extra - crowded
days, the police encourage
faster movement of the lines
Klamath Water
Storage Helpful
Klamath Falls -(UPD- Stored
water is saving the day for
Klamath Basin farmers in
contrast to surrounding areas
facing water shortages in late
summer, it was reported here
Monday night at the annual
water forecast meetmg.
Water content of the moun
tain snow pack is only 65 per
cent normal and low eleva
tion snow usually found . in
April is completely gone, ac
cording to W. T. Frost, Or
egon snow survey supervisor
for the Soil Conservation
Service.
Water content of the snow
pack on the Klamath Basin
water shed averages less than
40 per cent than last year
and March inflow m the
Klamath lake reservoir went
below normal for the first
time in many years, it was
reported.
Walter Jendrzejewski,
Klamath county extension
agent and chairman of the
meeting, urged careful water
management this summer to
conserve stored water as in
surance against another short
snow year.
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of tourists, some of whom find
themselves back out on East
Executive ave. in seven or
eight minutes.
Crowds Heavier
The crowds, according to
the kindly cops who man the
velvet rope barriers that pre
vent the tourists from trying
out the President's chairs, are
getting heavier each year. Im
proved highways is believed
to be one reason, but the po
lice perceptively spot anoth
er: There seems to be a grow
ing trend all over the country
to have school children study
current events at first hand
if at all possible.
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