| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS J. Edgar Hoover Says Potential Fifth Column of in Wheat Crop to Miss Billion Mark Whit are in Ihrie r f nw nd not at this FIFTH in U. S. Of all the men In high government security J. Edgar director of the possibly commands more respect than any For that his statement that the Communists have a potential fifth column of people in the United made public some four months after he testified before a senate gave Red conscious Americans a He was explicit on two Communists are seeking American military and industrial secrets with every trick and means at their Subversive Communists are more active now than the Nazis and Fascists ever were during World War The of Communist he has Increased from one seventh of the world's population in 1917 to one third of the world's population intensification of and underground In the United States has increased If we are to preserve our internal security In limes of It is incumbent that the identities of those who work against the peace and security of America be The chief revealed that native-born Communists and sympathizers are after information on atomic jet coastal military biological and industrial His agency is handicapped in dealing with them because present espionage laws are intended mainly for Hoover also counteract the penetration of the Communist its leaders have established a far-reaching and vigorous loyalty program of its calling for establishment of investigating committees in each state and a thorough investigation of each member of the part s to personal and length of SENATOR War if Necessary Senator Robert Taft of the Republican policy chieftain who has as good a chance as any for the GOP presidential nomination in has Issued a frank and if somewhat one-package statement on U. S. foreign The main The United States should go to war if Russia moves into western He doubts there ever can be a complete bipartisan foreign policy to cover all areas of the The did not entirely abandon the music of isolationism with which he has often been He added that he believed the U.S. can contribute most to meeting the challenge if it maintains free and avoids any such as arms now or fighting in if fighting breaks On the bipartisan foreign policy Taft was not jumping completely to either side of the He wanted it understood he believed a bipartisan policy could be achieved on when there is advance consultation with Republicans in He was critical of two recent particularly the collective concept agreed upon by the Atlantic pact foreign minister in and the second-Installment arms-aid He said the building up of European forces might Incite Russia to attack on grounds that It constituted NEW 26 Miles in Picture The Air Force has announced the development of a camera that will take 26 miles of picture from feet The picture can be taken in two The air force said the camera tests to determine its value in Whether it will be installed in new aircraft was not The distance can be by a corresponding elevation of the the air force Red Youths Threaten Ever since the gigantic Red youth rally in Soviet Germany it has been rent to observers that the mists were not satisfied at all with the results of that Now East Germai y threatened to send its Communist youths Into West And western leaden warned they would if to keep them Jailed John Howard Lawson and Dalton are shown on the way to jail to start a year's imprisonment for contempt of Hollywood they refused to tell the house committee on un-American activities whether they were WHEAT Miss Billion Mark For the first in seven the nation's farmers will fail to harvest a billion-bushel wheat crop this the agriculture department has This the government forecasters the income of wheat farmers will be down some The government predicts a harvest of bushels as the result of voluntary reductions in plantings under the government's acreage allotment and from bad weather and The record crop was harvested In 1017 and amounted to Last year bushels were harvested The Is well under the 10 year average of Observers pointed out it means the government may nave to dip into its big price support wheat surplus to meet the combined domestic and export needs In the year The government now has approximately invested in farm The agriculture said prospects for the corn crop now generally are Plantings are expected to be smaller than a year ago because of the acreage allotment The report forecast an oat crop of four percent more than last Rye forecast at would be 20 percent larger than last year but still smaller than U. S. Just Talking Sixteen outstanding and clergymen have issued a five-point program calling for total disarmament and accusing the United States of Just paying lip service to disarmament while actually discouraging such a The five An immediate halt to atomic bomb with stockpiles to be taken over by the U. N. pending further Acceptance of the Soviet proposal for national rather than under an agreement blocking large-scale Acceptance of the American proposal for international Inspection of atomic resources and A compromise in the U. disagreement over whether atomic stockpiles should be destroyed before or after international controls go into Abolition of all armies and conventional armaments at the same time atomic weapons are The report was signed by Albert Einstein and novelist Louis among and said in appointed representatives to the UN tell the world that the U.S. wants disarmament and only Russia stands In the Yet other American officials do what they can to discourage Most observers agreed the program proposed was but hardly practical in the light of world 10 Million to I While much of the nation was reading about methods to curb a story from Las reported a gambler made 28 passes at the dice something that happens once in The gambling casino said it lost and the who won only could have taken had he let his bets Buy More Heavily The commerce department has announced consumer the mainspring of retail rolled up to million a year rate during The April showing constituted a million annual-rate gain over March and was the second consecutive monthly The gain an expansion In payrolls that was largely offset by declines in proprietors' income and transfer the department The decline in proprietor's income occurred chiefly in farm Income as livestock marketing receipts declined in a season when they mally net Income of farm operations for the first four months of 1950 was about one-fifth less than in the same period last the department rise stemmed primarily from increased activity In the durable goods and manufacturing Higher employment and a longer work week in factories producing transportation and other fabricated metal products were mainly responsible for the advance of total wages in durable-goods Bug Dust Now It can be A hundred million pounds of surplus American potatoes have been sent Into Soviet Germany to feed victims of the potato Recently the Soviet controlled radio and press went into a song and dance about American planes dropping potato bugs in the Soviet The Communist propaganda said the United States sewed insects to blight the east German to lest out germ and sell capitalistic bug American officials called the charges ridiculous and said the Communists apparently were trying to condition the for crop The continued broadcast by the Communists on the potato bug theme and the silence maintained over the shipment of un-branded American potatoes were looked on as evidence of a campaign to cover up production The potatoes were shipped by a New York broker to a Swiss firm in Another deal was reported underway to ship tons to Frankfurt in Western In both state department officials suspected that the potatoes were going to the RENT Senate Extends With what observers called an eye for the November the senate 36 to a month extension of rent The law is due to expire June Many of the Democrats who voted for extension did so frankly in response to an appeal made in party caucus by majority leader Scott He told his colleagues his chances to defeat his Republican opponent In Everett hung on Democratic support for rent The following day the house voted to to extend the rent control The house would extend rent control seven Now the two chambers must appoint a committee to iron out the length of extension before the bill can be sent to President Like the senate the house measure provides that when extended federal law again runs out on December or January depending on which version is adopted the governing bodies of municipalities can vote an additional extension until June Primary Winner James Roosevelt gives out with the famed Roosevelt mile after winning the Democratic nomination for governor of He will meet Governor Earl Republican in Resigns Post William W. commerce department who with Michaei another a year man In the were handed a or be order last has resigned his Remington Is under indictment for He is accused of lying when he denied ever being a Communist Lee has refused to resign until the loyalty board bas ruled on his |
