Show the o oM M OR W EA w-r w r Trouble in Red Army DEPORTS REPORTS SPORTS have leaked ou out through the iron curtain that an ar anti Communist anti Communist movement ma mahave may maj have sprung up inside the Red army According to uncensored reports antigovernment government tracts have been beer circulated among Russian soldier and have even cven shown up on the streets of Leningrad Pamphlets published by Communist anti organization organization or in hi the Red army also have been picked up in Vienna which is partly occupied by Soviet troops Meanwhile Lt Gen Kuzma Ro- Ro manovich went so far as to complain complain com com- plain in an article in the Soviet Soviel Army Journal recently that discipline discipline pline has hns sunk to a n new low He demanded a up tightening-up against laxity in the army Uncensored diplomatic advices also indicate that the Russians are arc reaping political repercussions in eastern Germany One bloc of ot German German German Ger Ger- man Communists has appealed boldly to the thc Soviet military administration ad ministration to abandon the Berlin blockade As a result of this unrest in the Soviet zone Russia has ordered a 1 purge of the Russian sponsored Russian sponsored Soc Socialist Socialist So So- c Unity party and one of the party leaders in Saxony Herr bitterly castigated some of his workers co-workers at a recent conference conference con can ference in Bautzen One reason for the unrest in the Soviet zone has been a n general economic breakdown After three years ears of systematic exploitation a report from Saxony Saxony Saxony Sax Sax- ony says con conditions in the eastern eastern east east- ern zone have rea reached their lowest standard yet The Hobo Basket Rough Rough and and tumble railroad men have been passing passin a collection collection tion basket from freight train to freight train across the country to raise money for Cor crippled kids Dubbed the Hobo Basket it was vas started on its journey six months ago by three southern railway yard clerks in Birmingham ham Ala Other trainmen transferred transferred transferred trans trans- the basket from caboose to caboose until it had traveled travel cd through most of the 48 states Now it is heading back to Birmingham Birmingham Birmingham Bir Bir- mingham In a basket pasted with messages from Crom hardened railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road workers and with more than inside Potential Air Lift The Thc vitriolic battle over the 70 group air force has been pretty well forgotten However biggest proof that Secretary for Air Symington Symington Sym- Sym I ington was right and Secretary of ot Defense Forrestal wrong about the importance of ot air power is being demonstrated around the clock in Berlin today However without detracting from the magnificent job being done by bythe bythe bythe the air forces over Berlin now might be a good time to demonstrate demonstrate demonstrate demon demon- strate navy army coordination It Xi it happens that the navy has the biggest air freight carriers of oC either branch of oC the service the the Mars flying boats Now operating to Hawaii they carry 5 tons each about ten times the cargo of oC the DC mainstay mainstay mainstay main main- stay of oC the phenomenal air lift into Berlin Flying the short mile hop from Hamburg to Berlin the Mars boats oats would need little gasoline therefore could carry more than 35 tons of ot freight They also would have the following advantages Grea Greater ter lift lUt per gallon of gas fewer few few- er or planes in the air corridor with less ess traffic congestion the trip from Hamburg to Berlin miles is less than the present flight from Frankfort to Berlin So the navy might get a little practice at unIfication by augmenting augment augment- ing the army over Berlin South North Football Champ Pickens of Montgomery Ala the man who is trying to to build buildup up North South understanding through sports once had to solve solven a n complicated problem involving President Truman's home state Pickens stages a football game every December between an allstar allstar all all- star team from the North and an star all team of the South One year the question arose as to whether the University of Missouri was in the North or the South A hot debate debato followed partly because the star Missouri player play play- er was named Jefferson Davis and the South wanted him on Its team However when Pickens consulted the thc map he found Cound that Columbia Mo l home town of the Uie university was north of oC the Mason-Dixon Mason line so Jefferson Davis navis came to Montgomery Ala cradle of oC the lie COl Confederacy and aud played for Cor the North Pickens has organized the Blue and Gray association to which ho charges 1 membership and which anyone can join in to order to promote promote promote pro pro- mote North South understanding With the proceeds he plans to build a football stadium as a shrine to those who wore both the Blue and md the Gray |