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Show TOE JOURNAL Page 2 SATURDAY,, SJRACHEY: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Just to Mayors Say Government Tumbling Defense; Truman Signs Compromise Measure for Crop Increases Big-To- wn In any manner likely to affect the farm vote with the congres-aton- al elections not so many months away President Truman showed an unwonted disposition to compromise, rather than come out lighting against anything he didn't like, as he has done so frequently In the past. THE PRESIDENT compromised on an agricultural bill raising acreage limitations on cotton and peanuts for 950 and modifying price supports for Irish potatoes next year. In signing the measure after long study, the President noted, according to the presidential press secretary, Charles G. Ross, that Nstsi When splnlons to these eelemns. they ef Western Newspaper (Editors srs expressed re theee Unions news analysts and net essarily of this newspaper.) nec- 'Hot' Shirt ", 4 -iiV'm N m r :;A M good features outweighed the undesirable features." And with that profound utterance, the bill was signed into law. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson (right) talks "cold war" In a "hot" shirt as he and President Truman discuss defense strategy and activities at the "little White House" in Hey West, Fla. Secretary Johnsons shirt recalls the "Solomon-ln-all-h- is glory" quotation, but even it was topped by one the President frequently donned for pictures. anti-Com-mun- lst HOGS: cash-and-car- ry tions. H President Truman directed Gordon Gray, retiring secretary of the army, .to formulate a plan to help foreign countries find the hard currency necessary to pay for U. S. imports. The trade balance, it was said, now is being maintained by annual U. S. grants totaling five billion dollars. During the 35 years of the I U. S. import-exposituation, it has cost the United States some 70 billion dollars to attempt to maintain a balance. the Presidents SIMPLIFIED, proposal highlighted a situation wherein the United States, by some such plan, will have to help the foreign nations find a way to pay for the goods they buy from us, or continue to take care of them by grants to the tune of the five biloff-balanc- .. tx 'f " i 2 ? i h f t i ed rt lion dollars a year. The import was clear. Despite reported improvement in Europes economic situation, despite the Marshall plan expiration date, almost at hand, the government, through the President, was serving notice on the American people that the battle against communism would be continued to be fought with money, so long as that could be done and that the government is fully and irrevocably committed to such a policy. If a shooting war came, the delay bought with money could easier be justified. big-cit- asserting that federal authorities have "fumbled the ball" of civilian defense. He urged that a policy of total defense be inaugurated immediately by the federal government. Federal planners have said that local officials will have to assume primary responsibility for civilian defense against atomic warfare, the governments role being that of coordinator. THAT MUST have seemed an odd stand to take to officials who have no knowledge of atomic bomb effects or of the first steps to take toward protection if such bombings occur. Surely public leaders were within the bonds of reason and logic when they demanded that the government channel to them more information on how to provide protection against atomic warfare-informa- tion which only the federal government possesses, if anyone or any group does possess it. The governments attitude seemed a callous one and hard to reconcile with all the scare techniques prevalent in connection with the possibility of another war in which the would be or the the most frightful weapons. . A-bo- No Props For the first time within the past eight years, hogs were being bought and sold at major U.S. markets without any price supports and dealers admitted it was difficult to note any difference. PRICES were steady, to 25 cents higher. What did that mean? Was it an indication that federal agriEXPORTS: cultural planners could have been Josh, Please wrong all these years? If that were President Truman had set in mo- the case, there probably would be tion a special survey by which it no admission of it. . was hoped a system could be In fact, one U.S. department of worked out to make U. S. imports agriculture spokesman hailed the match the nation's exports so that event as a "normal market." It nations hard pressed for dollar was "just a matter of supply and credits could find some relief. demand," he said, as if the deThe President's plan also was partment had been aware of and designed to put U.S. foreign trade had considered that venerable law on a basis by 1952. ever since the government went ACCORDING to many economic into the farming business. observers, the Presidents plan FARMERS arid traders, however, contained logic and practicality. held varying opinions as to what They pointed out that the survey might happen when the markets was some 35 years late, inasmuch opened for the first time since hog as it has been that long since U. S. price supports were allowed to die. imports had matched exports a Some felt growers would become situation continually contributing and flood the market with to dollat gaps among certain na- panicky hogs. But, as was reported, nothing is. A-bo- MAYOR Elmer E. Robinson of San Francisco minced no words in "the The President acted after undergoing heavy pressure from groups urging approval or veto of the joint resolution. The section affecting potatoes knocks out price supports for potatoes , in 1951 unless marketing quotas are then in effect Additional legislation would be needed, however, to put such quotas into operation in 1951. THE MEASURE as approved authorized an increase of 1.5 million acres in cotton acreage this year and a 50 per cent increase in acreage of peanuts planted for oil production. The previous cotton allowance was 27 million acres. It would permit peanut growers principally in Texas and Alabama 100,000 more acres and would permit excess peanuts to be grown for oil without penalties on ' certain conditions. Charges that the government has been "ragging its feet" in organizing civil defense against an attack and in teUing Americans how to protect themselves y have been hurled by four officials. H-bo- FOREIGN AID: Some Progreh As the economic cooperation ad- ministration started its third year of operations, Marshall plan countries were being urged to take two steps of paramount importance to make themselves independent of extraordinary outside aid by the time ECA ends in June of 1952. COUNTRIES participating in the Marshall plan were to be told that they should intensify efforts to sell more products to the United States y and other areas. ECA pointed to. thaf as one means of closing the dollar gap. Iii that connection, the agency continued, the U.S. could assist by following increasingly liberal import policies ahd commercial pol-cigenerally so that trade barriers do not prevent European countries from increasing dollar earnings in this country. AS. to European economic unification, ECA stated its belief that the establishment of an effective happened. European payments union is of neveradherents, great importance. Elimination of theless, could draw little consola- public and private trade restriction from the evident, for ' farm tions also were said to be a conleaders had made it clear vigorous tributing factor to economic unifiefforts would be made to restore cation. As a result of increased produchog price props. tion and financial and political stabilization, ECA said, commuSUBMARINES: nism has been placed on the deBut Whose? fensive in all participating Cloaked with all the color and trappings of mystery and suspense was the report that a naval officer GERMANY: had made instrument contact with "one or more" unidentified sub- Crisis Impends marines about 17 miles off the CaliAccording to U.S. German High fornia coast Commissioner John J. McCloy, a OFFICIALLY, the western sea "real crisis" appears inevitable In frontier, which ordered the hunt, Germany. McCloy uttered the reported "results and comment warning in a talk before a connegative." It added the search had gress subcommittee. He told a been discontinued. house group that Soviet pressure a result of confidence, rather than is But Captain J. A. Holbrook, a former submarine officer who com- any "sense of inferiority or fear of manded the U.S.S. Colahan on the attack" by western forces. "The Russians feel their strength," he search, had a different story. "It is my opinion as a submarine said. officer," he said, "that we probably McCloy pulled no punches in his had contact with one or more sub- description of conditions in Germarines in the area." The captain many. "Their points of attack are and his crew put to sea after a Germany and the Far East," he y report by a navy patrol-plan- e pilot said of the Russians. "But is still their main goal. With that he had seen a submarine 40 it, they feel they would most rapmiles off Cape Mendocino. THE NAVY said no U.S. subs idly and effectively shake the hold were in that area. Whose subs, of democracy in the west. "The struggle is immediate and then, were they, if there were any Were subs? they Russian vessels? intensive," McCloy continued. hard-currenc- es Anti-suppo-rt . Did Adam have a daughter, no mention of whom Is in the Bible? Dr. Guido Kisch, noted scholar, has declared that a 900-year-o- ld Latin manuscript claims that Adam had a daughter whose name was never mentioned in any version of the Old Testament. Dr. Kisch said the manuscript, oldest and most accurate version known as "Biblical Antiquities," mentioned a daughter named Noaba. The Bible lists Cain, Abel and Seth, but not Noaba. Kisch brought this new information to light in a book containing the complete Latin text of the document and a study and analysis of it. The ancient document was written by a man now referred to as "Pseudo-Philo,- " because, in the middle ages, he was thought to be the Jewish philospher Philo of Alexandria. The history, rooted in ancient Jewish tradition and legend, was written by a Jew in Palestine about 70 A.D. 8 BHU tary of war. was and abroad for underr sympathies. i fact.4 pass secret taferLS anti-Str- a the JS chey element quieted down but not a bit T KS UJ S Waldron Smith? right-win- g Conservative 15 S parUament. announced copies of a petition would"!) ated throughout EngUjJll tag that Strachey be also calling for the office- of Emanuel - minister. ShiaA 3U!!,!.a.pp!ared were not the United States alone W situation in the U.S.' alleged Communists in JIl department, the British J were on the pan because SECURITY: charged, "they have Infc A Denial expressed their sympathia U.S. State Secretary Dean Ache-so- n Communistic aims." BUT, as was also the cases branded as falsehoods stateUnited States, the outlook m ments by Sen. Joseph McCarthy little would come of the petfe that Owen Lattimore whom Mca Whitehall official who k) Carthy has called a Soviet agent in British politics m versed was the actual director of Ameri"It is not the British chant can policy in the Far East. Ana man when he li abandon swering questions at a press conder attack. They have pt ference, Acheson added that: 1. Lattimore never was emprime minister and the goven: in a position from which thij ployed by the state department. 2. He (Acheson) isn't sure he not conceivably recedeever met Lattimore. 3. Lattixiiores contacts with the JAPAN: state department have been limit- Bible vs. Marx ed to a few occasions. ' 4. According to his information, Believing that Chrlsti Lattimore never had a desk at the the Bible are the dykes t holding up the flood of cost: state department Lattimore, a Far Eastern expert in Japan, the American K and a professor at John Hopkins ciety is beginning a mt -- I university, had reached London send Bibles to Japan from Afghanistan, from whence he printed in the Japanese K Already the society hr was returning to answer Mc2,789,951 Carthys charges. In London, Lat- tributed a total of but fit timore branded the McCarthy among the Japanese, and this sentiment is shci charges as "unmitigated lies." that McCarthy, meanwhile, was in a Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur, .senate enough. hospital after a four-hoGENERAL MacARTHUl, speech in which he said he would produce a witness who would alone in that opinion. He hail swear Lattimore was a member of for millions more. And Dr.( the Communist party. He told the Murata, an officer of the I senate he has documents to prove Bible Society, said: "The that Lattimore was a Soviet agent Japan are fixed on two bod: who was getting instructions from is Das Kapital by Karl MC Moscow as long ago as 1936. other is the Holy Bible. Jsp 1 Lattimore was most important the crossroads." to McCarthy, for the senator had To usher in its program cu declared he would rest his entire for the Japanese, the Ak case of Communist leanings in the Bible Society this month M state department on the outcome soring a huge signature K of his .charges against Lattimore. donors for the purpose a And, unless the senator could funds with which to purcbis, produce his witness and his docu- send the Bibles. Every f ments, the case boiled down to one who contributes one dollar of the senators word against that to the project will be asked j j of Acheson and Lattimore. the donor book. WHEN the campaign an end, probably this fall Boy book, bearing the signature ery donor, will be b J.W Japan where it V s? in "the offices of thePjj om token-frSociety as a Amen of - 1 ur r of The Year i v nan., f W W W ''PS' S jWUWWQWi the people people of Japan COLD WAR: . Baruch's Plan wont W) Us . As has been elder j years, American offer V Bernard Baruch solve an international had to do with the . Ger-'man- Be Sure Declaring that "staggering fromthe he called for for "general staff He the cold war. ' V- Russo, j f J i ere eral staff should "man of the stature secretary of state r David P who was se- lected "Boy of The Year" of the Boys Clubs of America, holds the plaque awarded him and gets a kiss from his mother after arriving in Hollywood for a three-da- y tour of film and radio studios. Bluntly warning war was Initiative the enemy." eral staff would total peace" think, K.l.u.d r. p' W P w Cold W tWO work. breathe the ,, p. |