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Show convictions of Moscow agent's and American traitors, the emissaries emis-saries of the Kremlin are busier than ever under cover, of course," in these United States. She commended the Cleveland Press for its journalistic enterprise enter-prise in ferreting out the story of Red recruitment of America youths. Crusade for Freedom a campaign cam-paign to which some 25,000,000 Americans to date have contributed contrib-uted $3,500,000 for operation of Kadio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia, is costing the Kremlin Krem-lin an estimated $70,000,000 a year, said Adm. Miller. Asking continued support of al Committee for a Free Europe, Inc. The NCFE is parent or-ganization or-ganization of the Crusade for Freedom. Implying that guarding against recruitment by Reds should play a major role in the Legion's drive to curb the swiftly mounting degeneracy de-generacy in juvenile delinquency and its attendant costs, Mrs-Ashton Mrs-Ashton charged that Moscow is responsible for the fifth column work among America's young people. "It requires no mastermind to know that the orders for this intensified in-tensified recruitment of American Ameri-can youths came straight from Moscow," she asserted. "Despite all the hullabaloo over ov-er Communism in our land, despite des-pite all the congressional investigations, investi-gations, despite the grand jury probes, despite all the trials and the trusaae, now in its tnira campaign, Adm. Miller told the Legion conference and various groups of Utahns whom he addressed ad-dressed during his visit here that Russia could not carry on its Iron Curtain program of totalitarion-ism totalitarion-ism if the people now denied the truth were to learn the facts and conditions existing in the Western West-ern world." Crusade for Freedom, he said, is making it possible for more and more people in captive countries coun-tries to know the truth. Meanwhile, Birney K. Farns-worth, Farns-worth, Utah chairman of the 1952 Crusade, said the campaign is moving ahead throughout the state. The drive is to be completed complet-ed by December 31 when, it is anticipated some 150,000 Utahns will have joined in supporting the appeal. SUPPORT THE CRUSADE FOR JFREEDOM C. A. Morley, local area chairman chair-man of the Crusade for Freedom reported that containers have been placed in different places throughout Bingham Canyon for contributions and signing of frec-domgrams frec-domgrams which at the conclusion conclus-ion of the drive will be sent to peoples behind the iron curtain. A good response to this worthwhile worth-while cause is sought. Taking cognizance of a startling start-ling Ohio expose, Mrs. Eve Ashton, Ash-ton, Vernal, National President of the American Legion Auxiliary, Auxil-iary, jumped into the national news picture last week with a etern warning that veterans' groups, officials and parents generally gen-erally should be on guard against Communist recruitment of fifth column agents among American youths. She said recruiting activities 6uch as were exposed by the Cleveland Press in ibanner headlines head-lines were "Soviet Russia's answer an-swer to the Crusade for Freedom. In her key address to closing sessions of the eleven western states regional Child Welfare Conference of the American Legion Le-gion and its auxiliaries, Mrs. Ashton declared it does not "take too much imagination to realize that this feverish activity of recruitment re-cruitment is the Kremlin striking back at the Crusade for Freedom." Free-dom." She displayed tear sheets from the Cleveland Press, an afternoon after-noon daily, and cited a series of articles authored by a girl reporter, re-porter, Rusty Brown, who was "recruited" by the Reds. Her address followed one by Rear Adm. Harold B. Miller, of New York City, on leave of cogence co-gence from his industrial post as director of information for the American Petroleum Institute to serve as president of the Nation- |