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Show Trouble in Red Army DEPORTS have leaked oul v through the iron curtain that an anti - Communist movement may have sprung up mside the Red army. According to uncensored reports, anti-government tracts have been circulated among Russian soldiers and have even shown up on the streets of Leningrad. Pamphlets published by "anti-Communist organization or-ganization in the Red army" also have been picked up in Vienna which is partly occupied by Soviet troops. Meanwhile, Lt. Gen. Kuzma Ro-manovich Ro-manovich went so far as to complain com-plain in an article in the Soviet Army Journal recently that discipline disci-pline has sunk to a new low. He demanded a tightening-up against laxity in the army. Uncensored diplomatic advices also indicate that the Russians are reaping political repercussions in eastern Germany. One bloc of German Ger-man Communists has appealed boldly to the Soviet military administration ad-ministration to abandon the Berlin blockade. As a result of this unrest in the Soviet zone, Russia has ordered a purge of the Russian-sponsored Socialist So-cialist Unity party and one of the party leaders in Saxony, Herr Schliebs, bitterly castigated some of his co-workers at a recent conference con-ference in Bautzen. One reason for the unrest in the Soviet zone has been a general economic breakdown. "After three years of systematic exploitation," a report from Saxony Sax-ony says, "conditions in the eastern east-ern zone have reached their lowest standard yet." The Hobo Basket Rough - and - tumble railroad men have been passing a collection collec-tion basket from freight train to freight train across the country to raise money for crippled kids. Dubbed the "Hobo Basket," it was started on its journey six months ago by three southern railway yard clerks in Birmingham, Birming-ham, Ala. Other trainmen transferred trans-ferred the basket from caboose to caboose until it had traveled through most of the 48 states. Now it is heading back to Birmingham Bir-mingham in a basket pasted with messages from hardened railroad rail-road workers and with more than $8,000 inside. Potential Air Litt The vitriolic battle over the 70-group 70-group air force has been pretty well forgotten. However, biggest proof that Secretary for Air Symington Sym-ington was right and Secretary of Defense Forrestal wrong about the importance of air power is being demonstrated around the clock in Berlin today. However, without detracting from the magnificent job being done by the air forces over Berlin, now might be a good time to demonstrate demon-strate army-navy coordination. It happens that the navy has the biggest air freight carriers of either branch of the service the Mars flying boats. Now operating to Uawaii, they carry o5 tons each, about ten times the cargo of the DC-3s, mainstay main-stay of the phenomenal air lift into Berlin. Flying the short 200-mile hop from Hamburg to Berlin, the Mars boats would need little gasoline, therefore could carry more th 35 tons of freight. They also would have the following advantages: Greater lift per gallon of gas; fewer few-er planes in the air corridor with less traffic congestion; the trip from Hamburg to Berlin (200 miles) is less than the present flight from Frankfort to Berlin (300). So the navy might get a little practice at unification by augmenting augment-ing the army over Berlin. North-South Football Champ Pickens, of Montgomery, Ala the man who is trying to build up 'North - South understanding through sports, once had to solve a complicated problem involving President Truman's home state. Pickens stages a football game every December between an all-star all-star team from the North and an all-star 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 followed, partly because the star Missouri player play-er was named Jefferson Davis and the South wanted him on its team. However, when Pickens consulted the map, he found that Columbia, Mo., home town of the university, was north of the Mason-Dixon line; so Jefferson Davis came to Montgomery, Ala., cradle of the Confederacy, and 'played for the North. Pickens has organized the Blue and Gray association to which , ho charges $1 membership and which anyone can join, in order to pro-mote pro-mote North -South understanding With the proceeds he plans to bin d a football stadium as a shrine to those who wore both the Blue and the Gray. |