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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD, DUCHESNE, UTAH SPY HUNT: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS to Keep Reins; Labor Attempts British Regime Shaky Could Wreck VJorld Four Top Scientists Warn H-Bo- mb ore expressed In these columns, they are those British Prime Minister Clement (EDITORS NOTE: When opinions news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Unions Western were Newspaper Attlee and his Labor party still holding the reins of British government but it had been a a mighty close call. There was the how long serious question of , ' Labor government could stand as in a result of its meager majority parliament. Added to that was the peril of an intra-part- y strife in which it i was reported left-winge- rs in the party were planning a test of strength with more moderate leaders of Attlee's government. THE PROBLEM was an easily obvious one: Should the Labor party walk easily in the face of its hairbreadth escape from defeat in the elections, or should it strike out boldly for continuation and expansion of socialism? The primary interest In the election for Americans was, of course, whether or not the British people were committed to more socialism and resultant nationalism of industry and their way of life, or had they grown apprehensive enough concerning the direction of govern- ment to change it? The answer was clear to the extent that a bare majority of the people are satisfied with conditions enough at least to return the Labor government to power. But, significantly enough, the balance of that power had waned so much in the past five years that it was almost nonexistent. WHAT DID IT MEAN? It was much too early to gauge the elections effect on the American econ omy or on Europes overall recovery program, but disappointment in the U.S. was widespread and there was some concern les the uncertainty of the Labor gov ernments position interfere serious ly with American recovery plans abroad. One American newspaper wom- an was able to put into cisely and graphically gent British viewpoints reported a Conservative print conthe diverwhen she as saying that England would never recover until the Laborites were completely thrown cut, and a poorer-clas- s workwoman declaring that she didnt care how much she had to do without, just as long as the rich didnt have any more. H-BOM- B: More Warnings More and more came the warnings from experts of the dread potentialities of the hydrogen bomb. True, there was some disagreement, but a poll would show at this stage that a majority of scientists who should know what they are talking about believe the bomb could kill everyone in the world. Four top scientists have Issued that warning. They have declared that the bomb, if it works, could be a suicide bomb. Why? How? Heres what they say: IF THE BOMB is ever made and used, it would kill slowly by poisoning everything and everyone with radioactive dusts. The dusts would be carried around the world by the winds. The dust would be in the air people breathed. It would settle on and poison plants and trees, everything humans eat or use. THE they add, could be intentionally rigged to do just that and it would be relatively simple to do it. Makers of the bomb would have only to put harmless chemical elements around the The bomb itself would turn these chemicals into the fantastic killing dust. Dust of that sort could be made so that it would remain active a few days, a few months or as long as 5,000 years. But there is a ray of hope. These same scientists say it will be another three years before ansone will know if the bomb can be b. WEAPONS . . . Sen. REPORT ON Brien McMahon (left) chairman of the joint congressional atomio energy committee, confers with Gen. Omar N. Bradley shortly be fore Bradley, who is chairman of the U. S. joint chiefs of staff, group on possible types of reported to the senate-hous- e weapons an enemy might use against the U.S. MASS-DESTRUCTI- mass-destructi- on EDUCATION Military Effort at School Rule Charged According to scores of educators and other prominent people in the United States, there is a systemd effort by atic and the national military establishment to penetrate and influence the civilian educational life of America. This charge was contained in e booklet of 80 pages of fine print, put out through the national council against conscription.- Among the signers were famed scientist Albert Einstein, author Louis Brom-fiel- d and a number of prominent church leaders. The report centered on the activities of the reserve officers training units, military science teaching, research contracts with universities, and what it sees as a trend toward putting military men in high educational places. Citing the desperate need for world peace, the group contended education can provide the needed leadership in that direction only through "the spirit of free inquiry unhampered by narrow military considerations. It added that: Whenever military secrecy becomes important to a college, the political opinions of students and professors, and their associations become important. The report said that in some colleges the situation is such that these institutions must depend upon military funds. SPUD TALK: No 'Witches' There was to be no witches in the senate forno whitewash subcommittees eign infiltration of of alleged probe Communists into the U.S. state de- relations partment. Thats what Sen. Millard Tydings (D., Md.) said of the investigation when he was named chairman of the committee which was to conduct it. THE NAMING of the committee stemmed from charges by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R., Wis.) that an group of Communists hold or have held high state department posts. But, McCarthy rather put the committee on the spot at the start when he said that if President Truman persists in his refusal to make state department employee loyalty an investigation files available, Mr. Truman would be useless. so and declared he has persisted would ignore the senates action in granting subpoena rights to the committee. Indications were that a court test of the Presidents position was in the making if the committee chose to use its subpoena rights and called upon, the President to deliver the wanted records. TYDINGS DECLINED to pass on this issue at the outset, and said, instead, that he expected a full, fair and complete investigation of McCarthys charges. We will let the chips fall where they may, he said, and this will be neither a witch-hun- t nor a whitewash. The senators intentions no doubt were good but there might be little to worry about where the chips would fall, so long as Mr. Truman declined to pass the committee the axe they needed. un-nam- Ethics vs. Dollars It was ethics versus American taxpayers dollars as the senate argued whether it would be honest for congress to remove the price supports already promised on the 1950 potato crop. AS ALMOST every schoolboy knew, the governments potato program was one of the most jumbled, g profantastic, PROGRESSIVES: cedures ever evolved in the U. S. Farmers were being paid a sub- Support for Henry Too much attention to namesidy on potatoes to compensate them for market price differencalling and too little attention to tials, each year the potato surplus issues. Thats the way O. John was growing, and farmers were Rogge, former assistant attorney permitted to buy back the subsi- general of the United States, dized potatoes as low as one cent summed up the trouble with the per hundred pounds for use as fer- new Progressive party of which tilizer. And all this in the face of Henry Wallace e world food shortages and a real of the United States is the need for the surplus potatoes by chief figure. local relief agencies and school ROGGES STATEMENT was lunch programs over the nation. made in support of Wallace, who ODDLY ENOUGH, many Repubhad made a virtual demand that licans were stringing along with the party stop trying to save the thinkface for the Communists in decing, with Sen. Scott Lucas, Illinois, larations of policy. Democratic floor leader, sponsorThe party held a convention in ing a move to cancel price supChicago to develop aims and obports for all 1950 potatoes not al- jectives during which Rogge deready planted. Republicans favor- clared of the partys being called ing retention of the 1950 subsidy Red baiters: plan included Senators Brewster, We should be as unafraid of Maine, Aiken, Vermont, and Milli-kin- , that label as we are of the labels Colorado. SCIENCE: or Communist Lucas was on firm ground as far Communist front. U.S. May Help as economy and mathematics There were delegates who found went. Already the record showed, The federal government may go signs of new attitudes among into the business of scientific re- the U.S. is in the red 100 million p groups as an outsearch if a bill before the house Is dollars for price support operations of the growth The on 1949 the crop alone. finally enacted into law. resolutions recommittee was The measure is one that would to have LOOTER: shelved ported quietly an set up a dollar a year anti Tito statement. Rogge touched Force of Habit national science foundation. on this schism briefly when he THUS FAR, little opposition has C. Leslie said: Potter, the been voiced, although the senate, Detroit factory WE SHALL NOT BEND reason personnel expert in action on the subject matter, who turned burglar by night was backward in order to attempt to adopted a different bill. Most op- a victim of habit, he told the Comin-forpolice. conduct justify of the position stemmed from Republi- Admitting some thousand or more countries toward Yugoslavia. cans, who attacked the proposal on burglaries in the Detroit area over But when the Soviet Union offers the economy level wherein they the seven years, he said loot- a plan in the field of. atomic enstated they objected to new gov- ing past homes was his avocation. ergy which, with all its faults, at ernment spending. there was Incidentally, least offers a better basis for openquite The bill, as considered by the some in Potters hobby profit and ing continuing negotiations house, would create a as much as $80,000, au- than the Baruch board to foster and correlate re- possibly plan, we are gothorities said. to ing that. say in just search pure science the thePotter also told police, they reoretical fields from which came that he had operated in 22 ARMS AID: ported, the knowledge that led to the atom- states before coming to Michigan. ic bomb and medical discoveries He said he had spent the money as Best to Europe like penicillin. The program would he got it mostly on presents for James Bruce, operating head of not touch on applied science. some 500 friends. this nations foreign military aid THE FACT that the United It was one of these friends, all program, dropped a hint that the States does not approach scientific of whom were who was males, the United States weapons going to research as a federal project may cause of Potters He arrest. was Europe to help head off Communist be surprising to many. named as William Whitehead, 22, aggression, will include the latest Sponsors of the proposed meas- who shared an apartment with Pot- and best. ure pointed out that its primary ter, and who admitted a Atom bombs, having been ruled burglary job would be to replenish the d at an electric appliance store. out previously, Bruces comments pool of young scientists There was a touching conneccould refer only to such convenby subsidizing their training tion. It seems he had robbed the tional arms and armaments now through federal scholarships. place to Impress Potter. available for output. well-finance- - reason-assaultin- vice-preside- one-tim- nt Soviet-friendshi- Tito-resistanc- m war-deplete- rymore, whose profile international classic. 1 composite photograph, compare Barrymorei with Curtis and mafa choice. GERMANY: Some Oppose Reds The problem of eventual tion of Germany her stats community of nations-i- ij the chief headaches of vs lied leaders. This probta gravated by Germany's gence toward a belligerent ism on the one hand, ax parent disposition to Idj the Soviet orbit on the HOWEVER, Robert 1L mission chief in threw a ray of hope ECA planning with a recent he believes a great m western Germans don't part of Russia. j If Hanes evaluation of tion is a correct one, 1 troublesome phase of thrj might be eliminated and f unification of Germany i proper governmental Mtr be pushed ahead. Hanes statement was fore the senate foreign committee which was an administration most three billion third-yea- leem ind the the dollan of would ire s the Representative (D., N. Y.) proposed an K tion of the denazification ( in Germany, saying: j Recent events in Germ cate that dangerous tren6 riously at work, which ii to continue, would undeflj whole import of the deni: program. EX-AIRLIFTE- RS: Gl's, Anywhere Although the arduoirt Berlin airlift raised the Americans everywp relatic strained soe er, it must be said that came out of the operation.of For now, members force who flew the Ber airways and obtained experience in transports P051-- ) go, experience that U.S.-Sovi- et not have been obtained Wp way, are putting that good use. THEY ARE EMPLOY they train day after J American Gls and equip vehicles anywhere in In the past few weeks. transport planes werein over German cities The air force ePJ J whose airlift Octobe really end until t were training again m a tion; but they wer loading and unloading army vehicles. fliers, Released by t iedin plan aid. AT THE OTHER END capitol, the picture of didnt hold such pleas Instead, I try request installment r A e. -- er According to a group lywood photographer Curtis, a new star on the horizon, is the possetai profile worthy of coi with that of the late JiP J ) . . , |