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0 o o 0 O C-D O CD 00 O OO oo CD GDO O n p.. 0 r-i rs o o Co Cops Numerous in Communist Countries, Some 'Part Time' K 1 By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor It is estimated that one So viet citizen in every hundred is a pai'tiiiiie puiicemciu. In compar able terms. mat means that the So viet Union needs about 15 times as many police men to insure law and order AXJ in its people's I'hil N'ewsom para dise as does the United States. These and other revealing statistics dealing with events behind the carefully guarded Iron Curtain have been gath ered by Radio Free Europe whose transmitters beam news of the Western world to the captive nations and whose staff also spends con siderable time culling through Communist publications and monitoring Communist broad casts. The idea of part-time police men was introduced in the Soviet Union in 1958, and since has been taken up with enthusiasm by the satellite slates. In the Soviet Union alone, it is estimated that these people's militia, as they art called, total about 2',j million persons. May Invade Homes In the heavy jargon of Com munism, their job is to fight against immoral manifesta tions" among the people and they have the right to invade private homes in pursuit of their duties. "Immoral manifestations' run the gamut from the sin of too-free criticism of the regime to absenteeism and lar ceny on the job. Working hand in hand with these part - time policemen are the "Comradely Courts which are informal affairs in which the delinquent worker'; fellows undertake to brain wash him. These courts, too, are wide spread throughout the satet lites. The figures revealing the extent to which a police state must go to enforce its discip line also disclose a somewhat less than ideal attitude among many of the workers. One comradely court dealt with a worker who threw an : unfriendly iron bar at his foreman. Absenteeism Widespread Many of the cases cited '. dealt with drunkenness on the job. Others disclosed wide spread absenteeism, a reluc tance to "volunteer" for over . time work, and a most non Communist desire to .turn a fast ruble on the black mar- ket with goods pilfered from the local factory. In Czechoslovakia, a Com radely Court recently dealt harshly with youths who "un der the influence of alcohol partly demolished the public lighting system in the village, smashed the windows of the collective building and over turned three gravestones in the cemetery, among them that of a Soviet soldier." A Moscow broadcast which dealt with the building of nurrian character spoke Diner ly of shortcomings at a metal lurgical plant in Kazakhstan. It told of "loafers" who in the midst of a bitter winter, allowed the heating system to freeze in the woi'Keis' settle ment. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF Daisy Mountain War In Tennessee Hills Believed Renewed -TWO HUNTERS met at the bank of a swirling stream In J- darkest Africa. Suddenly one started running, and yelling, "Hip! hip!" "Hooray!" amended the other, anxious to get into the spirit of. the thing. "No, no," cor- 5-' rected the first. "Hip, nip, hippopotamus. In her book of memoirs; "Here Lie the Heart," so eialite Mercedes de Acosta, telle about the time Isadora, Duncan led the great Rus sian ballet star Nijiniki, in a mad waits at a Paris bait She came back to her party exuberant. "What a shame he wasn't my pupil when he was two," she sighed. "Then I could have taught nun to really dance!" Miss de Acosta once wrote a letter to her friend, Poet Amy Lowe", and realized after she had mailed it that she had mis spelled a key word. So she sent a wire to Miss Lowell reading', "Please excuse me for misspelling a word in my letter." Next day Miss Lowell wired back, "which one?" O I860, fey Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate Daisy. Teun. -XT&- Rifle shots are being heard again on Daisy Mountain, and some of ficers fear the bloody Harris Parker feud that claimed four lives a decade ago is being revived. Cosriev Brnpn, 46. and h wife were driving near the railroad depot here Sunday night when a barrage of bul lets ripped into their car. Harden was wounded in the Ipfi arm. Mrs. Harden, whose first husband, Raymond Bell, was killed in the feud in 1950, is a member of the Parker fam ily. The Harden home was destroyed weeks ago, by fire several The bitter feud of Daisy Mountain, IS miles north of Chattanooga, may have started with the murder in 1948 of 81-year-old John Land graf who had retired to his cabin on the mountain with a mail carrier's pension. I T-- v rtt Ketchikan, Alaska-HPO-Fire I gutted nearly an entire busi-l Next ca'" the ambush ness block here Tuesday and wounding of Tehdore (Pap) caused an estimated $300.01)0 Parker and wounding of his Ketchikan Business )!. firs 2 Hit by Fire Half-Size Success i 1,1' v ; v. soft TO BE TRIED - American flier Francis Powers, pilot of the U2 jet plane which Russia says it shot down May 1, is shown in Moscow. The State Department announced that Russia had notified the U.S. that Powers will be "brought to account" for his flight. Officials have interpreted this to mean that Powers will be tried on espionage charges. (UPI Radiotelephoto) Probers Study FPC Contract Washington -UPD- House in fluence investigators today dug deeper into an "improp er" contact made with the federal power commission chairman by utility lawyer Thomas G. (Tommy the Cork) Corcoran, one-time New Deal brain truster." The investigatine subcom mittee recalled to the witness stand FPC Chairman Jerome K. Kuykendall. Kuykendall told the law makers Tuesday that he re ceived what he considered an "improper" phone call last October from Corcoran, $60,' 000-a-year lawyer for a pipe line firm involved in a gas rate case. Indications were that Cor coran would be questioned Thursday at the earliest. Kuykendall and two FPC members who also were con tacted by Corcoran, Arthur Kline and William R. Connole, have said their talks with the attorney did not influence their decision in the case. damage to a hotel building. The blaze, which broke out shortly after midnight, des troyed the Marine Holel and forced guests to flee in their nightclolhes. In addition to the hotel, the fire destroyed a flower shop and badly damaged six other businesses. Hie building which housed the hotel and flower shop was owned by Lawrence Kubley, Seattle. wife, Ethel. These events touched off at least three other killings. But the exact cause of the . good-looking battle between the Parker and Harris clans is not known. The rode of the hills - a dead silence - has cloaked the mys tery. An underlying cause of the trouble is a tendency on the part of the mountain people to make their own laws and settle differences with guns rather than words In an effort to explain the feuding concept some cite the ambush of Pap Parker. More than 10 years ago the critical ly wounded man told officers this story: I hraiu a twin MiHp in tuei woods and I looked up. There was a shotgun discharge. It gut me in tile stuuidi-ii. Sure I know who did it. I saw him." Decline To Prosecute But Willie Lee Harris, a mountain 1 a d AUTHORS WANTED BY N.Y. PUBLISHER Lftcting book publisher seeks manu scripts of all tpcM lictlon, nou-fic-tion, poetry, scholarly and religious works, etc. New authors welcomed. Send for free booklet 0-47. Vantane Press. K233 Hollywood Blvd., LA. 28. Calif. (Main Office: New York.. who led the opposing dan, wasn't fingered by Parker. And later, when Harris was charged in the shooting Parker declined to prosecute. Failure to prosecute has been pattern m the feud throughout tiie years, and only a few convictions were obtained in the MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Ct Wednesday, Mar 1 1, I960 A ' shootings. The unwritten law almost as old as these hills which calls for an eye foj' an eye cuulu be invoked again. If it is, fresh blood may be spilled on numerous Daisy Mountain. pri'iiiiii i ii b PAINT WITH urnrnnn BS!S!T mturunu rAINI and Wallpaper Store trh t Holly Diagonally Across from Post Office PHONE SP 2-9321 We Give S1H GREEN STAMPS Huge selection of top quality, newest styles... at Newberrys low prices SHARP IN OKINAWA Naha, Okinawa - (UPB - U.S. Air Force Secretary Dudley C. Sharp arrived here Tues day night for conferences with ranking U.S. military leaders. Three hours before his arrival, the Ryukyu legis lature adopted a resolution denouncing the station of mis sile bases here. 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