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Show Merry-Go-Round B-36 Smear Still Continues in Navy Sub Rosa By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON WhiW'thk.navy la aup-- aup-- .posed to b investigating who atarted tha B-3S smear, that smear atlU oontinuea ana rose. Latest outbreak ahowed up in "Shipmate," "Ship-mate," the magazine published by Annapolis graduates. 'Thi iaaue of economy has been largely directed at the navy," complained ShipmaU bitterly. "The new carrier program haa been topped. What else doea Becretary of De-fenae De-fenae Louis Johnson intend to do? Cut naval aviation etiU further Emasculate the marine ma-rine corpa?" Then the magazine made tha frank admission ad-mission that It had no buaineae criticising defense policy. "We can't discuss the matter tha way we'd like to in these pagee," it continued. "Shipmate ia a semiofficial publication." Then, disregarding Ita own warning, Shipmate bluntly continued: "Personally ... we would hate to depend on air fore cover. It might not materialise In time, and if It should, there would be little assurance the air force guya could differentiate between be-tween us and the enemy." . " TeUvnumlc Report Id the While1 Hoosa - The president's economic advisers now report re-port that the economic outlook for the next three to aix months la good considerably mora favorable than the outlook two months ago. However, they have warned the president presi-dent that America'! long-range problem of creating more jobs atill remaina his No. 1 headache. (The population la increasing too fast) Formosa May Fall American military men who once defeated Japan now want to give the lslsnd of Formosa back to Japan. The Chiang Kai-shek government la so weak that Chineae Communists are expected to Invade Formosa soon and Chiang troops will not be able to atop them. To prevent this, tha Joint chiefa of staff are urging the state department to put Formosa under a United I Nations trusteeship or else give It back to Japan. The Senate's Worst Member Friends of Senator Claude Pepper, the able Florid fire-bail, fire-bail, are burned up over an item published In Newsweek magaslne that Pepper waa picked by newsmen aa the "worst senator" ' In a poll conducted by Pageant magazine. , , . Sines then the Pageant poll has been made public, and shows that Newaweek waa all wet For Senator John Bricker of Ohio waa newsmen's first choice for "worst senator." sena-tor." Pepper was rated 11th on the list of best senators. Like Newsweek, this column also re ported the results of the Pageant poll several sev-eral weeka ago. But unlike Newaweek, the Merry-Go-Round reported that tha two senators sen-ators from Ohio walked away with both honors Senator Taft aa "best senator" and Senator Bricker aa "worst senator." That's exactly how the poll turned out. Guarding Tito The Yugoslav secret police po-lice have doubled the number of bodyguards assigned to protect Marshal Tito. Thia action was taken after American Ambassador Cannon Can-non warned that Russian secret agenta may try to assassinate him. There are no fewer that 30 heavily armed Yugoalava guarding Tito day and night wherever ha goes. Some are sharpshooter! secretly stationed with rifles on the buildings opposite Tito's government gov-ernment palace. Copyright, 1949, Bell Syndicate |