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Show THE LEJU SUN. T.EHI. UTAH Soviet Trains Foreigners To Wreck Own Countries By BAUKHAGE tituis Analyst snd Commentator, WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. It was one of those strange, foggy nights that sometimes descend over the east ern part of America not like a London smoky fog, nor the clean white stuff that rolls In like giant breakers so artistically against Yer- ba Buena in San Francisco bay, nor yet like the mists on the rice fields, nor the clammy North Atlan- tic "weather that drips over crow's-nest 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 hopeless hope-less to try to inch along through the condensed milk that enveloped us. I knew there was a genial hostelry hos-telry there, so we edged up to it, were decanted and, sure enough, met no less a person than Junius Jun-ius Wood, lolling in the lounge. Baukhage Of course, you are likely to meet Junius Wood anywhere, on an atoll in the Pacific, tapping his pipe into the crater of Mount Vesuvius, fording ford-ing 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 tinie). He informed me that some of the former "students" about whom he writes in the article quoted below testified recently before be-fore a congressional committee. Rep. Karl Mundt of South Dakota read Wood's article into the Congressional Con-gressional Record, thus making it a "public document." (Today a lady who signs herself "Just Mary" writes ,me saying that should pretend I'm a "nice ole Beagle hound" and "keep 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 ap-peared in the April issue of "Nation's "Na-tion'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 bis daily dispatches: "Attention, ambitious young men and women,"' cays Wood. "A well-established and liberal-ally liberal-ally endowed university offers" , you free courses In factory sabotage, sab-otage, bomb making, kidnaping, train wrecking1, bank robbery, - fomenting armed mutiny and ether 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 If'". i i 'V- 1 War-ravagedNationsNeedFood A few weeks ago a physician said tiat the British people were starving starv-ing to death on their present rations. We know what has been happening happen-ing these past weeks in Germany. Other European countries are In no better position, some worse. I have seen what being too hungry hun-gry does. I have seen it in the United Unit-ed States army, on shipboard and among foreign peoples. It does something to your brain that just can't be explained In terms of everyday, every-day, 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, peo-ple, partly because we don't want that "something strange" to happen hap-pen to their brains which win make them the prey of any evil political Influence which exists. The American people, Individually, can help in another way. They can send some food to the people whose addresses they know and they can do it efficiently, cheaply, quickly, through an Institution called CARE. C-A-R-E stands for Cooperative tor American Remittances to Europe. Eu-rope. It is a non-partisan, non-profit institution in-stitution which has the blessing of the United States government Through CARE you can send packages, well packed, containing carefully chosen food of the kind tnost needed and other materials of khich there is a tragic lack. A $10 food package delivers 40,963 calories. (The minimum ration in Germany is 1,500 calories a day. They aren't getting that) A blanket package at the same price provides two all-wool army blankets, scissors, needles, thread and two sets of heels and soles for ihoes. School of Sabotage Exposed Moscow. This university teaches the youth of other lands to go back 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 Com-munists and 100,000 pinkos In our land; they are the high officers of-ficers of a secret army now being be-ing drilled to overthrow our gov-eminent gov-eminent and social order." Wood describes the super-secret surroundings of the school, and what happens to Russians who get curious about it (Siberia or the firing squad) and goes on to describe the hush-hush hush-hush atmosphere into which a student stu-dent is inducted: "With matriculation, each student takes a revolutionary or party name by which he will be known In Communist 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 baptismal bap-tismal name." According to Wood, the school has a three-year course devoted primarily pri-marily to Intensive indoctrination. But there are also courses In labor activities, party organization and propaganda, as well as military tactics tac-tics and weapons. When the student returns to his own country, says Wood, "he must Join trade unions or liberal societies attend all meetings, pay dues promptly, be eager for work, unite others by party discipline until the organization is blindly following the party line in which he (the student) Is so well grounded." Wood points out that Moscow does not consider revolution imminent In this country. But he claims they are preparing for the psychological moment . . . and these peaceful preparations go on for years through capable party members burrowed Into trade un ions, public offices, the police force. liberal clubs and other sources of information." When the time comes to attack a city, "the needed knowledge knowl-edge of where to attack to paralyze it will be at hand even such facts as the knowledge that a watchman has a dog will have been recorded." "According to the time schedule of the Communists," says Wood, "a city like Chicago could be captured In less than 48 hours." , Despite these frightening words, Wood says this in conclusion: con-clusion: "The Soviet schools for foreigners are not too alarming when they are stripped of mystery. mys-tery. It would be well to know their 800-odd American alumni, also their instructors and what secret plotting is behind the formal for-mal handshakes over a conference confer-ence table or the clink of cock-tall cock-tall glasses at a banquet board. It also will help when they know that we know an Interesting long-range job for our state department de-partment and FBI." End of quotation. These words are the author's and the views expressed ex-pressed not necessarily those of your columnist. But Junius Wood is a source "hitherto reliable" and I offer of-fer him for what his report is worth. He assured me today that his sources are "old grads," not necessarily nec-essarily Leningrad and Stalingrad, but real alumni of this somewhat-too-progressive school. A new package, same price, delivered, de-livered, contains 17 yards of cotton goods, needles, thread, thimble, scissors scis-sors 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, Hungary, Hun-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. EXPORTS MUST CONTINUE World Food Outlook WASHINGTON. Because of foreign for-eign crop losses, the world food situation sit-uation will remain critical for the 1947-48 crop year, according to a warning Issued by the department of agriculture. Although an Increased In-creased output among the principal producing nations is foreseen, this gain will be offset by declines in grain production in nations which normally Import part of their food requirements. This shift in the supply picture will mean a "somewhat greater movement of grains in international trade during the coming year if supplies in importing countries are to be maintained at the relative low levels of 1948-47," the office of for A"S 'V' ?i' '.,.'',- -! hm t Vfl Tl V;h V5; - ' i , & S , 3 ,., aLA TYRO' THESPIANS . . . Roanoke island youngsters, some of whom have never seen a stage play in their young lives, try out for parts In Paul Green's "The Lost Colony," an outdoor spectacle staged annually in a waterside amphitheater on the North Carolina island. More than 52,000 persons saw the symphonio drama last year in its postwar revival. NEWS REVIEW Postal Boost Foreseen; Economists Decry Slump POSTAL RATES: May Go Up A measure embodying the first general revision of postal rates since 1879 which would add about 110 million dollars a year to post office revenues has been introduced in the house of representatives. The bill provides for a 30 per cent increase in parcel post rates and would revise the air mail rate from five to six cents an ounce. In addition, the new plan would add about 30 per cent a year to present scales for second-class mailing of newspapers and periodicals sent outside out-side the county in which they are published. Another provision would maintain the current three-cent local and nonlocal non-local rate for first class mail beyond the July 1 deadline when those rates were slated to revert to the former two-cent level. The new rates wouia go into effect ef-fect 60 days after the bill is passed and signed by the President. READJUSTMENT: No Depression ; Not a depression but a price readjustment" re-adjustment" is in store for the United States, the federal reserve board has predicted. Reserve board economists explained ex-plained that heartening news by pointing out that a downtrend in prices is "necessary, healthy and inevitable." The inconsistencies in the national economy, which have arisen out of the fact that our economy econ-omy is part rigged and part free, will have to be eliminated. For instance: About 14 million organized or-ganized workers have derived bene- JOE COLLEGE' . . . This is the Japanese version of "Joe Col-.lege." Col-.lege." 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. eign agricultural relations said. The gloomy picture was presented pre-sented as the administration was in the midst of an all-out effort to send additional supplies to both Germany and France to avoid a crisis that could force reduced rations throughout through-out most of northern Europe. Officials abroad railed at failure of the German government to push properly Internal food collection, and charged German producers with hoarding their output The department sounded one cheerful note In predicting some increase in-crease In sugar, potato, and fats and oils production, but reminded that "the supply of all these com-mclUewill com-mclUewill continue below pre I 1 -V :. ': r" If '1 J ... V- - , i fits through forcing higher wage levels. Twice that many unorgan ized workers have not shared to an equal extent in the wage increases A number of industries, able te control prices, have driven them upward. Others, at the same time, have been held down by government govern-ment controls. The main reason that farm and food product prices soared after tin war was that there was little els the consumer could purchase. Now with production making a comeback, come-back, the previously scarce radios, remgeraiors, automobiles and so on are competing for the consumer's consum-er's money. Federal reserve board economists say that farm prices are expected to stabilize about 25 per cent undei the 1948 peaks. They also express confidence that they can put the brakes on any further Inflation il congress provides the necessary assistance. GIANT'S DEATH: End of an Era? The pattleship Oklahoma, flrst ol the so-called "super-dreadnaughts," might well be recorded In historj as an accurate symbol of the era during which it ploughed the seal for the U. S. navy heroic but futile. In her 31 years of steel-clad exist ence she never fired a shot at ar enemy. Based at Berehaven, Ireland, dur ing World War I, she saw no action; and on December 7, 1941, five Japa nese torpedoes sent the sturdy old ship lunging to the bottom .of Pearl Harbor before her crew could mar the guns. Raised to the surface and ther abandoned as not worth salvaging, the Oklahoma was consigned to the scrap heap and taken In tow for the last long voyage across the Pacific Suddenly, 540 miles northeast oi Pearl Harbor, the tragic battleshir listed heavily, as if tired of war and its aftermath, and slipped Into the sea, three miles deep at that point for her final escape from the era oi violence that had been her lifespan END THE WAR: Students Riot Demonstrating violently in open defiance of Chiang Kai-shek's ordei to quiet down, thousands of university univer-sity students in several Chinese cities cit-ies fortified their demand that the civil war be ended immediately by calling for a general strike. Declaring sternly that the studenl riots were instigated by Communists, Commu-nists, Chiang said they would be quelled forcibly if necessary. The students reacted with further pa rade and violence in Shanghai. Nan king and Peiping. About 25,000 students were or Strike from 16 universities, with their demands including everything from a better system of grading papers pa-pers to higher government living allowances al-lowances and an end to the war. Is Critical war." The same situation was reported for rice, with the surplus producin areas of southeastern Asia still no' In full production. Finance will be a major problem in agricultural trada in 1947-48. the department said. With the temporary tempo-rary wartime expedients of lend lease and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation administration out a the picture, the volume of foreigi imports will depend on the amoun of United States funds appropriated for foreign relief, the buying powei that importing countries can mustei out of the receipts from their owl exports, out of gold and dollar re serves, and out of loans. BRAVO, BUCCANEER Corpus Christi Felc To Revive Spirit of Colorful Pirate Days WNV Features. CORPUS CHRISTI, TEX.-Spirit of swashbuckling Pi-rate Pi-rate Jean Lafitte, often termed the most romantic and color, ful figure in modern history, will again cross the ArneriLa scene with the revival of Buccaneer Days at Corpus Christi June 12, 13 and 14. Discontinued during the war, Buccaneer Days will be revived this year, with nationally famous enter-tainers, enter-tainers, leading dance bands, colorful pageants, star-studded Mher events added to emphasize the iun ana entertainment" theme of the ceie-' brat ion. Although Jean Lafltte's crew was the scourge of the gulf during the early 1800s, their contribution to Gen. Andrew Jackson's defense of New Orleans in the War of 1812 won them a full pardon from Pres. James Madison. Later Lafitte moved his pirate band to Texas, and historians agree that in 1821 he established his headquarters on the present site of Corpus Christi. From time to time old Spanish coins have been found along the beaches sur rounding the city, lending credence to the numerous stories of his buried treasure here. Pirate Jean Lafitte and his crew, portrayed by leading citizens of South Texas, will be the central characters In the celebration. Festivities Fes-tivities start as the pirate brig sails MISS BUCCANEER' Modern Version Into Corpus Christi's harbor to "lay siege" to the city. As they storm the harbor, the "Pirate Chief will publicly proclaim that the city has been taken over In the name of all good pirates. From that moment on, during the next three days, a series of events will be staged along the city's bay-front. bay-front. At least two events will be staged simultaneously to Insure diversity di-versity of entertainment. One of the features of the '47 Buccaneer Days will be the Miss Texas bathing beauty finals, with the winner going to Atlantic City's Miss America contest to represent the Lone Star state. , Sail boat races, annual Galveston-Corpus Galveston-Corpus Christi open sea race, a professional pro-fessional aquatic show, a night-time water parade with floats and boats colorfully decorated with flowers, hidden treasure hunts, several national na-tional radio network programs originating origi-nating from the huge floating stage, motor boat races, gigantic Street parades, pa-rades, barber shop quartet contest, swimming and diving contests, fireworks fire-works displays, old fiddler's contest, square dancing exhibitions and dancing to three name bands will complete the celebration program. This year's Court of the Queen of the Seas will be one of the most lavish pageants ever presented. Ioipa Centenarian Sounds Challenge As Garden Champ OELWEIN, IOWA. - Belying his 106 years. Peter Duffy once again has issued his perennial challenge that he can pull weeds faster and out-hoe any gardener in Oelwein. Despite his age, Duffy has the vigor of a man in his twenties and doesn't even need glasses to read the evening paper. His only physical physi-cal handicap is deafness. Of his original family of nine children, chil-dren, seven still are living and from here on out the Duffy progeny are numerous. "I sure started something," commented com-mented Duffy, as he counted his 24 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Duffy came to-Iowa with one of his 12 brothers and his three sisters to work on the farm of relatives. But his wanderlust wasn't satisfied! It took a trek to the West and a little silver mining to get traveling out of Duffy's system before he came back to the Tall Corn state to make his permanent home. Duffy also is a booster of air travel. One of his granddaughters took him for a plane ride eight years ago and he never forgot the event Grandfather Tops Law School CXass NEW YORK-After 25 years as a traveling salesman, Harry L. Donnelly, Don-nelly, 51-year-old grandfather, took up the study of law "just for a gag." Now he has been graduated gumma cum laude as valedictorian of his class from the law school of St John's university in Brooklyn. Donnelly led his class In jcholar-ihlp jcholar-ihlp despite the fact he was graduated gradu-ated from high school In 1812. ! If A I JU 1 if AV - K h' lij,C s ) t 7 Jiv - r . n 3 "aviation notes AIRPORT CHATTER Work has been commenced on lighting, seeding and fencing of the new $2,500,000 municipal airport at Dubuque, Iowa. There will be 116 contact lights along two runways, with 16 cone-mounted range snow lights. A 51-foot tower will be equipped with a rotary beacon light 36 inches in diameter. . . . The former for-mer naval airfield at Arlington Heights, 111., has been taken over by Illinois Aircraft Services and Sales company for civilian training purposes. It will be known as the Arlington Flying Center. . . . Colorado Colo-rado Flying Farmers and Ranchers held their second annual meeting at Christman field, the Colorado A. and M. college airport at Fort Collins. Col-lins. Program highlights included discussion of legislation affecting aviation, survey of uses of airplanes In agriculture and an outline of the purpose and program of the Flying Fly-ing Farmers organization. ... Mayors, airport managers and aircraft air-craft dealers from 10 midwestern states gathered at St. Louis for an aviation clinic sponsored by Parks College of Aeronautical Technology. The clinic was arranged in connection connec-tion with the regional air fair, held in the St. Louis arena. ... The Lenox, la., airport, operated by Al Wurster and John Kendall, is being improved to meet government requirements to permit flight Instruction In-struction for war veterans. - Participating In the first group around-the-world air tour for business survey and good will building purposes, a group of Indiana In-diana business men left New York June 1 on a globe-encir cling tour which embraces stops in 12 countries. The tour is sponsored spon-sored by the Indianapolis Cham-ber Cham-ber of Commerce. The itinerary calls for stops In England, France, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Egypt, India, Burma, China and the Philippines, in addition to Hawaii. 'DOGS IS DOGS' Ellis Parker Butler's classic, "Pigs Is Pigs," the story of the express ex-press agent who found more pigs in a shipment than he bargained for, was bound to have its modern counterpart, coun-terpart, especially with all the pets and puppies, pedigreed cats, spiny ant-eaters and such traveling in air express service these days. And so it happened one day recently on a Toledo-New York flight A valuable valu-able cocker spaniel, en route from Toledo to Mt. Desert Island, Me., gave birth to a Utter of four puppies pup-pies as the plane sped towards New York. Upon arrival at LaGuardia field, the sky-born spaniels were pronounced pro-nounced fit to continue to Bangor. FEEDER SERVICE Feeder line operations of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin Central Airlines will be commenced com-menced this summer, the service covering 43 communities in Illinois, Minnesota, Upper Michigan and Wisconsin over a 1,495-mile-route network. The airline recently was certificated by Civil Aeronautics administration to operate the service. serv-ice. Twin-engine, DC-3 -type, 21 passenger Douglas transports are planned for the service. AMONG THE PEAKS ... A ski-plane ski-plane of supplies lands on Mul-drow Mul-drow glacier at the foot of Mt McKinley, where the base camp for Operation White Tower is located. lo-cated. The expedition will ascend McKinley in the interests of science. sci-ence. FACTS AND FIGURES Approximately one out of four employees em-ployees in the aircraft industry are veterans of the army, navy, marines or merchant marine "Aeronautics "Aeronau-tics has been a basic subject of primary education' In Russian schools for many years. . . Rockets Rock-ets were used as a military weapon as early as 1792 in India. . . . FL-st use of aircraft In active military operations occurred in 1915 In connection con-nection with General Pershing's punitive pu-nitive expedition to Mexico. ... The K-30 camera weighs 573 pounds T f U ; x 'A- kY NT i I. .. ... 4i L TWO VETERANS TALK . . . Gt. Dwlght D. Elsenhower (left) army chief of staff, chats with Set Edward Beamon, armless tou er. They played in a twM "famous persons" golf tournament at Washington, D. C. ITALIAN PREMIER RESIGNS . . . Premier Alcide de Gasperl leaves the office of Italy's provi. sional president, Enrico de Nicola, after resigning his position. Strong factions want him back, however. MONETARY FUND HEAD . . . Andrew N. Overby has been appointed ap-pointed by President Truman as the U. S. executive director of the international monetary fund. Be is an authority, on international financial and monetary affairs. 4 4&w THREATENED WITH DEATH . . . Victor Kravchenko, former Russian embassy attache who renounced re-nounced Communism, says he fears assassination by Communist agents who have threatened his life. He has requested a bodyguard. body-guard. MISSION COMPLETED . . 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