| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS U. S. Defense Setup Progress Reported in ECA Truman Signs Crop Increase Act opinion arc In then IM or Western Newspaper analysts and not of Charges Hurled Charges that the government has been Its In organizing civil defense against an A-bomb attack and In telling Americans how to protect themselves have been hurled by four big-city MAYOR Elmer E. Robinson of San Francisco minced no words In asserting that federal authorities have the of civilian He urged that a policy of total defense be inaugurated immediately by the federal Federal planners have said that local officials will have to assume primary responsibility for civilian defense against atomic the government's role being that of 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 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 information which only the federal government If anyone or any group does possess The government's 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 A-bomb or the H-bomb would be the most frightful FOREIGN Some Progress As the economic cooperation administration started its third year of 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 COUNTRIES participating in the Marshall plan were to be told that they should intensify efforts to sell more products to the United States and other hard-currency ECA pointed to that as one means of closing the dollar In that the agency the U.S. could assist by following increasingly liberal import policies and commercial pol-cies generally so that trade barriers do not prevent European countries from increasing dollar earnings in this AS to European economic ECA stated its belief that the establishment of an effective European payments union is of great Elimination of public and private trade restrictions also were said to be a contributing factor to economic As a result of increased production and financial and political ECA communism has been placed on the defensive In all participating No Props Fur the first time within the past eight hogs were being bought and sold at major U.S. markets without any price supports and dealers admitted it was difficult to note any PRICES were steady to 25 cents What did that Was It an indication that agricultural planners have been wrong all these If that were the there probably would be ao admission of In one U.S. department of agriculture spokesman hailed the even as a It was a matter of supply and he as If the department had been aware of and had considered that venerable law over since the government went Into the farming FARMERS and held varying opinions as to what might happen when the opened for the first time since hog price supports were allowed to Some felt growers become panicky and flood the with as was Anti-support could draw little consolation from the for farm leaders had made it clear vigorous efforts would be made to restore hog price But Cloaked with all the color and trappings of mystery and suspense was the report that a officer had made instrument contact with or unidentified about 17 miles off the California the western sea which ordered the reported and comment It added the search had been m I Shirt Defense Secretary Lords John-aon talks In a shirt as he and President Truman discus defense and Communist activities at the White In Key Secretary Johnson's shirt recalls the but even It was topped by one the President frequently donned for CROP A Compromise In any manner likely to affect the farm vote with the congressional elections not so many months away President Truman showed an unwonted disposition to rather than come out fighting against anything he didn't as he has done so frequently in the THE PRESIDENT compromised on an agricultural bill raising acreage limitations on cotton and peanuts for 1950 and modifying price supports for Irish potatoes next In signing the measure after long the President according to the presidential press Charles G. that good features outweighed the undesirable And with that profound the bill was signed into The President acted after undergoing heavy pressure from groups urging approval or veto of the joint The section affecting potatoes knocks out price supports for potatoes in 1951 unless marketing quotas are then in Additional legislation would be to put such quotas into operation in THE MEASURE as approved authorized an increase of million acres in cotton acreage this year and a 50 per cent Increase in acreage of peanuts planted for oil The previous cotton allowance was 27 million It would permit peanut growers principally in Texas and Alabama more acres and would permit excess peanuts to be grown for oil without penalties on certain Bible Marx Believing that Christianity and the Bible are the dykes that are holding up the flood of communism in the American Bible Society is beginning a campaign to send Bibles to Japan Bibles printed in the Japanese Already the society hs distributed a total of Bibles among the but it is felt and this sentiment is shared by Douglas that isn't GENERAL MacARTHUR isn't alone in that He has asked for millions And Shiro an officer of the Japan Bible eyes of Japan are fixed on two One is Das by Karl The other is the Holy Japan is at the To usher in its program of Bibles for the the American Bible Society this month is sponsoring a huge signature bonk of donors for the purpose of raising funds with which to purchase and send the Every person who contributes one dollar or more to the project will be asked to sign the donor WHEN the campaign comes to an probably this the huge bearing the signature of every will be forwarded to Japan where it will be displayed in the offices of the Japan Bible Society as a token of friendship from the of America to the people of Adam's Did Adam have a no mention of whom is in the Guido noted scholar has declared that a 1 Latin manuscript claims that Adam had a daughter whose name was never mentioned in any version of the Old Kisch said the oldest and most accurate version known as mentioned a daughter named A Denial U. S. State Secretary Dean son branded as falsehoods statements by Joseph McCarthy that Owen whom McCarthy has called a Soviet agent was the actual director of American policy in the Far Answering questions at a press Acheson added never was employed by the state He Isn't sure he ever met contacts with the state department have been limited to a few According to his Lattimore never had a desk at the state a Far Eastern expert and a professor at John Hopkins had reached London from from whence he was returning to answer McCarthy's In branded the McCarthy charges as was in a hospital after a four-hour senate speech in which he said he would produce a witness who would swear Lattimore was a member of the Communist He told the senate he has documents to prove that Lattimore was a Soviet agent who was getting Instructions from Moscow as long ago as Lattimore was most important to for the senator declared he would rest his entire case of Communist leanings in the state department on the outcome of his charges against unless the senator could produce his witness and his the case boiled down to one of the senator's word against that of Acheson and with the public deciding as it pleased about who was FLYING Navy Says If there or any flying saucers whirring through the United States navy has nothing to do with them and knows nothing about The air force said the same THE SERVICES also denied that they are developing secret guided missiles or anything else that could be mistaken for flying These denials were Issued after two published reports traced the saucers to navy and air force An air force spokesman declared that armed forces are not doing anything that could be traced to being the basis of reports of flying He said the air force position was the same as it was last December when it announced after investigating reports of flying saucers that they were of various conventional a mild form of mass hysteria or In other words no such as a flying A NAVY SPOKESMAN denied with equal vigor that the navy Is developing super-speed planes that have been spotted as Said navy is not experimenting or doing research any type of plane or guided missile that resembles in any way a flying that should be it would be difficult to convince many Americans that there are no flying and if a troubled subconsciously or a momentary relief from his woes and thinks an object in the sky is a flying no particular harm has been In fact it may do him some Boy of The Year David who was selected of The of the Boys Clubs of holds the plaque him and gets a kiss from his mother after arriving lo Hollywood for a three-day tour of film and radio Crisis Impends According to U. German High Commissioner John J. a appears inevitable in McCloy uttered the warning in a talk before a congress He told a houfe group Soviet pressure is a result of rather than any of Inferiority or fear of by western Russians feel their he |
