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Show THE BEAVER PRESS, BEAVER, UTAH chool of abotage Exposed O mfik v mhth Soviet Trains Foreigners To Wreck Own Countries - By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WSV s rviee, 1616 Eye Street, N. W., Washington, I). C. WASHINGTON.- -It was one ol those strange, foggy nights that sometimes descend over the east ern pan or America not like a London smoky fog, nor the clean while stuff that rolls in like giant breakers so artistically against Yer ba Bucna in San Francisco bay, nor yet like the mists on the rice- flelds, nor the clammy North Atlan nc weather" that drips over crow's-nes- t and quarterdeck, turn ing ship and sky into cold, wet drizzling steel. The point is that I was stranded In York, Pa., (mentioned recently in these columns for its hospitality to veterans). It was simply hope less to try to inch along through the milk condensed that enveloped us. I knew there was a genial hostelry there, so we edf?eH un to it. ttr f 7J j '' 'V 1 an(j g." sure enough. met no less t person than Jun ius Wood, lolling Ha..kh In the lounge. Of course, vou are likelv to meet Junius Wood anywhere, on an atoll in the Pacific, tapping his pipe Into the crater of Mount Vesuvius, fording a fjord in a borrowed car, lost In Grand Central or sipping vodka in the Kremlin. So it wasn't strange to find him in York, Pa. As I write these lines, I have Just left Mr. Wood (at the National Press club this time). He informed me that some of the former "students" about whom he writes in the article quoted below testified recently before a congressional committee. Rep. Karl Mundt of South Dakota read Wood's article into the Congressional Record, thus making it a "public document." (Today a lady who signs herself "Just Mary" writes me saying that I should pretend I'm a "nice ole Beagle hound" and "keeD that beezer" of mine "pointed down the middle of the road." She claims I have the "darndest habit of "schroochin over to the right." I hope the following won't hurt her feelings.) Here are the quotes from the Wood story, which originally appeared in the April issue of "Nation's Business" under the title of "Trained to Raise Hell in America." Background I know was gathered by Wood while he was reporting from Russia and I was bending over a copy desk in the old Chicago Daily News office whither Junius directed his daily dispatches: "Attention, ambitious young men and women," says Wood, "A and liberal-all- y endowed university offers you free courses In factory sabotage, bomb making, kidnaping, train wrecking, bank robbery, fomenting armed mutiny and other techniques of violence and treason. Scholarships cover all expenses, including recreation and annual vacations at summer resorts. This university Is the West Point of world revolution the International Lenin school In mmmtttm War-ravagedNalionsNeedF- mMmmimi Moscow. This university teaches the youth of oiher lands to go !5fU7 r !V-5r- 1 baek home and wreck their countries. Over the years It has trained and returned to the United States an estimated 800 disloyal Americans. They are the leaven of some 50,000 Communists and 100,000 pinkos in our land; they are the high officers of a secret army now being drilled to overthrow our government and social order." wood describes the super-secre- t surroundings of the school, and what TYRO THESPIANS . . . Roanoke Island youngsters, some of whom happens to Russians who get curious have never seen a stage play in their young lives, try oat for parts about it (Siberia or the firing squad) in Paul Green's "The Lost Colony," an outdoor spectacle staged and goes on to describe the hush-hus- h in a waterside amphitheater on the North Carolina island. annually atmosphere ir.to which a stu More than 52,000 persons saw the symphonic drama last year in dent is inducted: Its postwar revivaL "With matriculation, each student takes a revolutionary or party name by which he will be known in Com- munist circles and outside activities Mark Aldanov in 'The Fifth Seal' tells of a party worker who had so many aliases he forgot his baD- tismal name." According to Wood, the school has a three-yea- r course devotprf rri. marily to intensive indoctrinatinn But there are also courses in labor activities, party organization and propaganda, as well as militarv tar. OSTAL RATES: tics and weapons. fits through forcing higher wage When the student returns to his May Go Up levels. Twice that many unorganA measure embodying the first own country, savs Wood, "he must ized workers have not shared to an Join trade unions or liberal societies general revision of postal rates equal extent in the wage increases. A number of Industries since 1879 which would add about attend all meetincs. dsv due nhlo tn promptly, be eager for work, units 110 million dollars a year to post control prices, have driven them others by party discipline until the office revenues has been introduced upward. Others, at the same time, have been held down by governorganization is blindly following the in the house of representatives The bill provides for a 30 per cent ment controls. party line in which he (the student) is so well grounded." increase In parcel post rates and The main reason that farm and Wood points out that Moscow does would revise the air mail rate from food product prices soared after the not consider revolution imminent in five to six cents an ounce. In war was that there was little else this country. addition, the new plan would add the consumer could purchase. Now, But he claims they are Drenarins about 30 per cent a year to present with production making a comefor the psychological moment . . . scales for second-clas- s mailing of back, the previously scarce radios, and these peaceful preparations co newspapers and periodicals sent out. refrigerators, automobiles and so on for -years through capable Dartv side the county in which they are on are competing for the consummembers burrowed into trade un published er's money. Another provision would maintain ions, public offices, the Dolice force. Federal reserve board economists liberal clubs and other sources of the current three-celocal and non say that farm prices are expected information." When the time comes local rate for first class mail beyond to stabilize about 25 per cent under to attack a city, "the needed knowl- - the July 1 deadline when those rnt the 1948 peaks. They also exDresa edge of where to attack to paralyze were slated to revert to the former confidence that they can put the It wm be at hand even such facts two-celevel brakes on any further inflation if as the knowledce that a watehman The new rates wouia go into congress provides the necessary has a dog will have been recorded." 60 days after the bill is passed assistance. "According to the time schedule and signed by the President. of the Communists," says Wood, "a GIANT'S DEATH: city like Chicago could be captured READJUSTMENT: End of an Era? in less than 48 hours." No Depression The battleshiD Oklahoma these Despite frightening Not a depression but a price "re the words, Wood says this In conis in store for the adjustment" clusion: "The Soviet schools for United States, the federal reserve mignt well be recorded in history as an accurate symbol of the era foreigners are not too alarming board has predicted. when they are stripped of mysReserve board economists ex- during which it ploughed the seas for the U. S. navy heroic but futile. tery. It would be well to know plained that heartening news by d their American alumni, In her 31 years of steel-rlaevict. out a downtrend that in pointing also their instructors and what ence she never fired a shot at an is prices and "necessary, healthy secret plotting is behind the forinevitable." The inconsistencies in enemy. mal handshakes over a conferBased at Berehaven. Ireland dnr. the national economy, which have ence table or the clink of cockout of the fact that our econ- ing World War I, she saw no action; arisen tail glasses at a banquet board. omy is part rigged and part free, and on December 7. 1941. fiv .Tana. It also will help when they know nese torpedoes sent the sturdy old will have to be eliminated. that we know an interesting For instance: About 14 million or- ship lunging to the bottom of PParl e job for our state deganized workers have derived bene- - Harbor before her crew could man partment and FBI." the guns. End of quotation. These words Raised to the surface nnH than are the author's and the views exabandoned as not worth salvaging, the Oklahoma was consigned to the pressed not necessarily those of your columnist. But Junius Wood is a scrap heap and taken in tow for tho source "hitherto reliable" and I of last long voyage across the Pacific. fer him for what his report is worth. Suddenly, 540 miles northeast f He assured me today that his Pearl Harbor, the traeie hattlpchin sources are "old grads," not nec listed heavily, as if tired of war and essarily Leningrad and Stalingrad, us aitermath. and slinned intn tho but real alumni of this somewhat- sea, three miles deeD at that int school. for her final escape from the era of violence that had been her lifespan. ! NEWS REVIEW j ! i ... ,. - r ""vfftum FW l I ! 111 5 m. V yiWi'WIllllWi)Mtw.Ji! - mi " i' )r I i I 1 ' A nt t nt w It NO BALLPLAYIXG FOR GLENNY Gienwood (Glenny) Brim n, whose legs were amputated after he was branded by playmata during a game of cowboys and Indians, shows Ma parents, Mr, vA Mrs. Gienwood Brann, Maiden, Mass., the autographed baseball iti bat presented to him by Joe Dobson and Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, who visited him in the hospital. It m u tb m "super-dreadnaughts- ," lb' ll 800-od- d f 8- long-rang- A new package, same price, delivered, contains 17 yards of tton goods, needles, thread, thimble, scissors and thread. And how they want cotton goods! Clothes are still not available. Here are the countries to which you can send the cotton package: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Hun-- I gary, Netherlands, Norway, Poland. Romania and Germany (all zones except Russian). The food packages can be sent to all the above, plus England, Wales, Scotland and northern Ireland. You'll help Uncle Sam's food problem, too, if you send a package to someone whose address you know in these countries if you CARE. : Ire t:e es IK(j ftl A Ik Students Riot Demonstrating violently in open defiance of Chiang order to quiet down, thousands of university students in several Chinese cities fortified their demand that the civil war be ended Immediately by calling for a general strike. L J& Kai-shek- 's 'JOE COLLEGE . . . This Is the Japanese version of "Joe College." In the Nippon capital, the smart college lads like to look like something out of the poorhouse. This student wears a tattered suit and sloppy cap and lets his hair grow long. Declaring sternly that the student riots were instigated by Communists, Chiang said they would be quelled forcibly if necessary. The students reacted with further e and violence in Shanghai, Nanking and Peiping. About 25,000 students were on strike from 16 universities, with their demands including from a better system of everything grading pa. pers to higher government living allowances and an end to the u.nr t r S si r -- Because of sit- food the world losses, eign crop ""'J0" wl" rem'jin !rJh! for-fo- "P "'"'J all-wo- 1946-47.- Tmenl AG i r, !8crl 1 4 r y ...... MONSIEL'R -IV.RPTUT T.' X . . . i UiVt I . . American football aoesn i " monopoly on roughness if this picture of a plyh squeeze typical I 9..Ct. fUgby at paris ,s "y indication, flayer in white. 10 hoId the b"" or throw it away, is Wnclh,r atle joy over the feverish embraces him W being bestowed upon of mCnAetion game I?" curred in a semi-fin- " pnT rugby Wf WHBif.w. al cup competition. Wel I; 4e ci 6e E. 0. lrv w, cl f4 v 'fW it J World Food Outlook Is Critical WAeHTVGTON it j EXPORTS MUST CONTINUE It is a in- stitution which has the blessing 1947"48 w.arnmg. ,s.Slicd by of the United States government. Through CARE you can send among the principal packages, well packed, containing creased output nations is foreseen this producing chosen food the of kind carefully most needed and other materials of cain will be offset by declines in grain production in nations which which there is a tragic lack. normally import part of their food A $10 food package delivers 40.963 calories. (The minimum ration in requirements. This shift in the supply picture Germany is 1,500 calories a day. will mean a "somewhat greater They aren't getting that.) A blanket package at the same movement of grains in international trade during the coming year if price provides two army blankets, scissors, needles, thread supplies in importing countries are and two sets of heels and soles for to be maintained at the relative low " the office of for shoes. levels of non-prof- pi,' B-2- END THE WAR: i ' ' f-',- i TARfiET., OT!W YORK TITY . . . Rrnnklvn hriHo-o. iu ,ne Domb, sights of this flight of 9 Superfortresses when, as part of an armad of 100 such planes, they flew over New York City in a simulated bomk. Ing raid. The 100 giant airships, nearly ail the strategic air com. mand could muster, according to Gen. George C. Kenney, converted on metropolitan New York from six different fields in various narh cf the country. Postal Boost Foreseen; Economists Decry Slump ood A few weeks ago a physician said that the British people were starving to death on their present rations. We know what has been happening these past weeks in Germany. Other European countries are in no better position, some worse. j I have seen what being too hungry does. I have seen it in the United States army, on shipboard and It does among foreign peoples. something to your brain that just j can i oe explained in terms of everyday, easy American language. The American people will do their part, collectively, to help the rest of the world over this ugly gulch, partly because we are decent people, portly because we don't want that "something strange" to happen to their brains which will make them the prey of any evil political influence which exists. The American people, individually. can help in another way. They can ji send some food to the people whose addresses they know and they can j do it efficiently, cheaply, quickly, through an institution called CARE, t stands for Cooperative ! American Remittances to Eu- - V kits tt ;urr eign agricultural relations said. war." The gloomy picture was preThe same situation was reported sented as the administration was In for rice, with the surplus producing t the midst of an effort to send areas of southeastern Asia still not additional supplies to both Germany in full production. and France to avoid a crisis that Finance will be a major could force reduced rations throughin agricultural trade in 1347-4-problem the out most of northern Europe. Officials abroad railed at failure department Md. With the tempo-rarwartime expedients of of the German government to push and United Nations Relief and properly internal food collection, Rehabilitation administration out of and charged German producers the picture, the vnlume 0f fort,,c with hoarding their output. dcPd on the amount The department sounded one 'T?"? States funds cheerful note in predicting some inor foreign relief, the appropriated crease in sugar, potato, and f,its that importing countriesbuying power can muster and oils production, but reminded out of the from their own that "the supply of all these com- exports, outreceipts of and dollar r. modities will continue below pre- - sreves, and out gold of loana. all-ou- y lend-leas- I e ' i Wti jU-ir- Ho, MOrilKR OF W's.. food ' i, ioiS 12 ' " Hhcn tne Schnililer family of c.t9m 'i r"S the ,aL!e' ,r-- a hin th3t fair,y " :P,,::r- - Mrs Ervln Schnltzler. just 31 Chilt,reD whose nc from . Included.'r the family group is a set of tw rnStr year, AT . d " Vf,a. 'cr 5 |