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Show TIU-- ; BULLETIN, HIXfiH AM CANYON. I TA Red School .. of Sabotage yix Exposed Soviet Trains Foreigners To Wreck Own Countries By BAUKIIAGE Sewi Analyst and 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 while stuff that rolls in like giunt breakers so artistically against Yer-b- a Butna in San Francisco bay, nor yet like the mists on the rice-field-nor the clammy North Atlan-tic "weather" that drips over crow's-nes- t and qiinrtordrrk, turn-ing ship and sky into cold, wet drizzling steel. The point is that I was stranded in York, Pa., (mentioned recently in tries' columns for its hospitality to veterans) It was simply hope-less to try to inch along through the condensed milk that enveloped us. I knew there was a genial hos-telry there, so we edged up to it, were decanted and. sure enough, met no less a person than Jun- - Moscow. This university leaches 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 Com-munists and 100,000 pinko in our land; they are the high of-ficers of a secret army now be-ing drilled to overthrow our gov-ernment and social order." Wood describes the super-secre- t 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-hus- h atmosphere into which a stu-dent is inducted: "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 bap-tismal name." According to Wood, the school has a three-yea- r course devoted pri-marily to Intensive Indoctrination. Hut there are also courses in labor activities, party organization and propaganda, as well as military 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. Hut he claims they are preparing for the psychological moment . . "and these eaceful 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 knowl-edge of where to attack to paralyze it will be at hand even such facts as the knowledge that a watchman has 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, Wooil says this in con-clusion: "The Soviet schools lor foreigners are not too alarming when they are stripped of mys-tery. It would he well to know their 800-od- d American alumni, also their instructors and what secret plotting Is behind the for-mal handshakes over a confer-ence table or the clink of cock-tail glasses at a banquet board. It also will help when they know that we know an Interesting long-rang- e job for our state de-partment and HII." End of quotation. These words are the author's and the views ex-pressed not necessarily those of your columnist. But Junius Wood is a source "hitherto reliable" and I of- - fer him for what his report is worth He assured me today that his sources are "old grads," not nec- - essarily Leningrad and Stalingrad, but real alumni of this somewhat- - school. Baukhage in us lhWo?d' lollinfi 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, 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 time). He informed me that some of the former "students" about whom he writes in the article quoted below testified recently be-fore a congressional committee. Rep. Karl Mundt of South Dakota read Wood's article into the Con-gressional Record, thus making it a "public document." (Today a lady who signs hersell "Just Mary" writes me saying that should pretend I'm a "nice nle Beagle hound" and "keep that aeezer" of mine "pointed down the middle of the road" She claims I have the "darndest habit of "schroochin over to the rieht " I hope the following won't hurt her feelings. ) Here are the quotes from the Wood story, which originally ap-peared in the April issue of "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 his daily dispatches: "Attention, ambitious young men and wamcn," says Wood. "A and liberal-all- y endowed university offers you free courses in factory sab-otage, 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 I hum school in RRflVQ. BUCCANEER Corpus Chrisli Fete To Revive Spirit of Colorful Pirate Doys WNU Features. CHRISTI TEX.-)p- ini of swashbuckldingcolor, rate Jean Lafitte often hnMjJ the Americaii ful figure in modern Cq scene with the revival of Secant" , Buccanee? June 12, 13 and 14. JthmiUonsSly famous be revived J tK'ffift!"funand entertainment" theme of the cele-bration. Although Jean Lafitte' s crew was the scourge of the gulf d uring 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-- I 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 ill the celebration. 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-fron- t. At least two events will be staged simultaneously to insure 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 Galvcston-Corpu- s Christi open sea race, a pro-fessional aquatic show, a night-tim- e water parade with floats and boats colorfully decorated with flowers, hidden treasure hunts, several na-tional radio network programs origi-nating from the huge floating stage, motor boat races, gigantic street pa-rades, barber shop quartet contest, swimming and diving contests, 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. ill TWO VETI''KAN'S TuH Dwight I). ElwH army chief of stag, jJjT Edward lie.,mon 1;M er. They play S "famous pei , oiis- - golfC at Washington, n. c W H h MONETARY POND fiJ Andrew N. Overby Ins V pointed by President TiB: the U. S. executive diredW international monetary H is an authority on lnlfl' financial and monetary THREATENED WITH . . . Victor KravchcnWM Russian embassy " nounced Communism. fears assassination by agents who have WW life. He has requested guard. 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 5?, 000 persons saw the symphonic drama last year in its postwar revival. NEWS REVIEW Postal Boost Foreseen; Economists Decry Slump POSTAL RATES: May Co 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 tii 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-clas- s mailing of newspapers and periodicals sent out-side the county in which they are published. Another provision would maintain the current three-cen- t local and non-local rate for first class mail beyond the July 1 deadline when those rates were slated to revert to the former two-ce- level. The new rates wouia go into ef-fect CO days after the bill is passed and signed by the President. READJUSTMENT: No Depression Not a depression but a price "re-adjustment" Is in store for the United States, the federal reserve board has predicted. Reserve board economists 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 econ-omy is part rigged and part free, will have to be eliminated. For instance: About 14 million or-ganized workers have derived bene- - $ fits through forcing higher wage levels. Twice that many unorgan ized workers have not shared to an equal extent in the age increases A number of industries, able tc control prices, have driven therr upward. Others, at the same time, have been held down by govern-ment controls. The main reason that farm and food product prices soared after the war was that there was little elsi the consumer could purchase. Now with production making a come back, the previously scarce radios refrigerators, automobiles and sc on are competing for the consum er's money. Federal reserve board economists say that farm prices are expected to stabilize about 25 per cent undei the 1946 peaks. They also express confidence that they can put the brakes on any further Inflation ii congress provides the necessary assistance. GIANT'S DEATH: End of an Era? The battleship Oklahoma, first o: the " might well be recorded in history as an accurate symbol of the era during which It ploughed the seas for the U. S. navy heroic but futile In her 31 years of steel-cla- 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 Pear 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 ol Pearl Harbor, the tragic battleship 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 ol violence that had been her lifespan END THE WAR: Students Riot Demonstrating violently In open defiance of Chiang s ordei to quiet down, thousands of univer-sity students in several Chinese cit- - ies fortified their demand that the elvll war be ended immediately by calling for a general strike. Declaring sternly that the student riots were instigated by 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 pa. pers to higher government living al-lowances and an end to the war. 9HB nl JBBk aHo ITALIAN PREMIERA . . . Premier Heidi :B leaves the office of LlM sional president, - H after resigning his positiHi factions want him backHo VIATIOM NOTES A.RPOKT 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 d range snow lights. A tower will be equipped with a rotary beacon light 36 inches in diameter. . . . The 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. . . . Colo-rado Flying Farmers and Ranchers held their second annual meeting at Christman field, the Colorado A. and M. college airport at Fort 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 Fly-ing Farmers organization. . . . Mayors, airport managers and 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 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 in-struction for war veterans. Participating in the first group around the WOl Id air tour for business survey and good will building purposes, a group of In-diana business men left New York June 1 on a globe-encircli-tour which embraces stops in 12 countries. The tour is spon-sored by the Indianapolis 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 ex-press agent who found more pigs in a shipment than he bargained for, was bound to have its modern coun-terpart, especially with all the pets and puppies, pedigreed cats, spiny s and such traveling in air express service these days. And so it happened one day recently on a Toledo-Ne- York flight. A valu-able cocker spaniel, en route from Toledo to Mt. Desert Island, Me., gave birth to a litter of four pup-pies as the plane sped towards New York. Upon arrival at LaGuardia field, the sky-bor- n spaniels were pro-nounced fit to continue to Bangor. FEEDER SERVICE F eeder line operations of Wiscon-sin Central Airlines will be com-menced this summer, the service covering 43 communities in Illinois, Minnesota, Upper Michigan and Wisconsin over a network. The airline recently was certificated by Civil Aeronautics administration to operate the serv-ice. Twin-engin- DC-- 3 type, 21 passenger Douglas transports are planned for the service. AMONG THE PEAKS . . . A ski-Pla- ne of supplies lands on Mul- - MreKIf V1 the f00t of Mt. ,he basc for Operation White Tower is lo- cated The expedition will ascend McKlnle, In the interests of sci. PACTS AND FIGURES Approximately one out of four em- - tics ""c- - . . Aeronau- has been a basic subject of primary education schools for many years'". .f " WC,re a military as I792 , j WJP use of aircraft in active miiuary operations occurred ,n 1915 n necion with General nltive 8 expedition to Mexico. The 0 camera weighs 575 pound. jy?MCaaaBK'aaBK. JOE COLLEGE . . . This is the Japanese version of "Joe Co-llege." 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. War-ravagedNationsNeedF-ood A new package, same price, de-livered, contains 17 yards of cotton goods, needles, thread, thimble, 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, 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. ' A few weeks ago a physician said that the British people were starv-ing to death on their present rations. We know what has been happen-ing these past weeks in Germany. Other European countries are in no better position, some worse I have seen what being too hun-gry dot s. I have seen it in the Unit-ed States army, on shipboard and among foreign peoples. It does something to your brain that just :an't be explained in terms of 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 peo-ple, partly because we don't want that "something strange" to hap-pen 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 send some food to the people whose addresses they know and they can rio it efficiently, cheaply, quickly, through an institution called CARE. stands for Cooperative for American Remittances to Eu-rope. It is a non-prof- it 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 Mat needed and other materials of Which 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-wo- army olankets, scissors, needles, thread and two sets of heels and soles for ihoes. Iowa 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-ho- e 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 physi-cal handicap is deafness. Of his original family of nine chil-dren, seven still are living and from here on out the Duffy progeny are numerous. "I sure started something." com-mented Duffy, as he counted his 24 grandchildren and 25 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 Com 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 EXPORTS MUST CONTINUE World Food Outlook Is Critical WASHINGTON Because of for-eign crop losses, the world food sit-uation will remain critical for the 1947-4- 8 crop year, according to a warning issued by the department of agriculture. Although an 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 tfade during the coming year if supplies in importing countries are to be maintained at the relative low levels of 1946-47.- " the office of for eign agricultural relations said. The gloomy picture was pre-sented as the administration was in the midst of an all-o- effort to send additional supplies to both Germany and France to avoid a crisis that could force reduced rations 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 in-crease in sugar, potato, and fats and oils production, but reminded that "the supply of all these com-modities will continue below pre war." Xhe same situation was reported for rice, with the surplus producinj areas of southeastern Asia still no' ' in full production. Finance will be a major problerr in agricultural trade in 1947-4- the department said. With the tempo-- ! rary wartime expedients of lend lease and United Nations Relief ane Rehabilitation administration out o: the picture, the volume of foreigt imports will depend on the amoun' of United States funds appropriates for foreign relief, the buying powei that importing countries can mustei out of the receipts from their owt exports, out of gold and dollar ro serves, and out of loans. MISSION COMPLETER vid Ben Gurian 1st leader, boards P 1 to his homeland a" United Nations iron out the controver-tin- e problem. Grandfather Tops Law School Class NEW YORK.-Af- ter 25 years as a traveling salesman, Harry L. Don-nelly. grandfather, took up the study of law "just for a gag." Now he has been graduated summa cum laude as valedictorian of his class from the law schnol of St. John's university in Brooklyn Donnelly led his class in jcholar ship despite the fact he was gradu ated from high school in im2 |