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Show - s MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH DEPARTMENT OF STATE Study of Department Procedure Leads to Recent Reorganization X ' j This la the second of a series of six articles on the department of Btate and Its personnel by Walter A. Shead, Western Newspaper Union's Washington correspondent. By WALTER A. SHEAD Washington, D. C. Considerable fun has been poked at the depart-ment of state in by-go- years when even the secretary of state did not have full executive author-ity, when appointments to the de-partment were considered plums for some deserving or undeserving politician or the ambitious and so-cially climbing rich. Conditions and traditions had grown up in the department where-in the foreign or career service was almost a law unto itself and this tightly knitted clique could by-pass or defy the orders of the sec-retary of state. Intensive studies as to reorgani-zation of the department have been going on for the past dozen years and in 1944 the results of these studies began to take form and culminated in new legislation in 1947, giving the secretary of state "full authority" over the direction of the department and the foreign service. The provisions of law which had vested authority In subordinate of-ficials were amended and such au-thority now is vested solely in the secretary. In addition, a complete reorganization of the entire set-u- p of the department has been com-pleted which insures a direct chain of command from the top down to the operational units of the depart-ment. When Dean Acheson was named secretary, he had been of the Hoover commission for reorganization of the executive branch of the government. He lost no time in putting into effect the recommendations of the Hoover JAMES EDWIN WEBB UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE James Edwin Webb, born Green-ville county. N. C, October 7, 1906, son of John Frederick and Sarah Gorham Webb. A.B. from University of North Carolina, 1028; student at George Washington University law school, 1933-3- Married Patsy Aiken Doublas, May 14, 1938. Two children, Sarah Gorham and James Edwin Webb, Jr. Appointed executive as-sistant to undersecretary of treas-ury, 1946; direotor of bureau of bud-get, appointed undersec-retary of state, January, 1919. nation. During these post-wa- r years, however, the spread of the fanati-cal, atheistic communism, the professional spy is competing with the amateur Communist. One way to solve the problem of amateur Communist espionage was set up in 1947 under Gen. George C. Marshall, as secretary of state, under a directive of the President inaugurating a loyalty program. Under the leadership of Jack Puerifoy of South Carolina, a long-time state department official and former West Point cadet, a security staff was set up consisting of 74 investigators. In addition, the FBI, under the direction of J. Edgar .Hoover, cooperates wholly and all persons in the department have commission. Direct appointments to the de-partment proper are made after full investigation and screening. The personnel of the foreign serv-ice are selected even more care-fully and only after their graduation from the foreign service institute, a graduate school of high scholas-tic standing operated by the state department itself and about which more will be said later. REORGANIZATION of the de-partment had two purposes in mind: one, to set up a machine to carry out U.S. responsibilities in the formulation and execution of foreign policy; and, two, to em-phasize the department's work with congress and the public-at-larg- Immediately after the war the department of state absorbed sev-eral war agencies, among them the Office of War Information. In these agencies there were beyond doubt some friends of Russia, then our ally. There may have been some Communists or fellow travel-ers. Through the history of this na-tion efforts have been made by other nations to penetrate the se-crets of the state department. In the past, however, these spies have been largely professional spies and the department of state had counter - espionage and security methods to protect itself and the gone through a thorough screening. When Secretary Acheson came into power, he continued Puerifoy in the job. This screening process is . not based on the idea that all the peo-ple it investigates are crooks or spies. It is a process based first on protecting the United States and, at the same time, protecting the in-dividual's rights, protecting their reputations, urging and permitting them to continue to serve the United States with loyalty and enthusiasm. If anything doubtful is found it goes before the loyalty board of the de-partment of which Gen. Conrad Snow, a New Hampshire Republi-can, is chairman. Whatever recommendation this board makes, whether it is to clear the individual or not, he then goes before the President's loyalty board headed by Seth Richardson, a for-rrt-assistant attorney general un-der President Hoover, and if the individual is not cleared he is giv-en an opportunity to resign. If there is direct evidence of disloyal-ty, the evidence goes to the de-partment of justice. Whatever the merits of the sys-tem, Secretary Acheson believes it is the correct way. "The wrong way is to smear everybody's char-acter and reputation, to make charges which you hope will stick and in doing destroy confidence of the people in their government and its institutions." Middle of the Road Is Place to Marry VIENNA, ILL. For happiness, try a "middle of the road" mar-riage. This is the advice of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Carlton. Learning that funeral services were being held in the church where their marriage was sched-uled 50 years ago, the couple waited for the minister to come outside. 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Wilkinson ANDREW RANDALL'S death was, suicide. Capt. Van Ness of the homicide squad went down to investigate, though he ad-mitted the investigation was merely in the line of routine duty. I went with him. "You can't make a murder out of this one," I grumbled. "Come on ---- home. We're wast- - ing each others 3.i- - time. "Keep your shirt I on, scribe. Let's look around the joint. I've always wanted to see what a millionaire's home looked like." "You're still wasting time. Ran-dall was just $999,999 short of being a millionaire." ' This was true. Once a prominent member of the upper brackets, An-drew Randall's fortune had depleted steadily for the past dozen years. Even the house was mortgaged. "Who's going to inherit this bunch of debts?" I asked Van. "As far as I can figure there's only one living relative. A youngster named Barry Rois-ter. A nephew by marriage. He lives in Michigan." The drawing room of the old house contained three fairly good oil paintings. There were some silver and a few antique pieces and a car in the garage. Otherwise, young Mr. Barry Roister of Michigan was going to find it hardly worth his while to make the trip to New York I stared blankly. "That wasn't a murder. It was a suicide. What do you mean you've got the killer?" to collect his inheritance. Outside, Van sighed ' deeply. ''What a pity! There was a chance for a swell murder case and it turns out to be nothing but an ordinary suicide." "Lord, it's getting so a man can't honestly kill himself these days without some inquisitive copper try-ing to dramatize it. I was sent up to Provincetown and then down to Miami to cover the air races. So it was more than two weeks before I returned to New York. The day after my arrival I dropped in on Van. He looked brighter and satisfied. "About the Randall murder," he said. "We've got the killer!" I stared blankly. Then suddenly I remembered. "That wasn't a mur-der. It was a suicide. What do you mean you've got the killer?" "Barry Roister from Michi-gan. Remember? The nephew by marriage. He did it." "Now look, Van," I said. "Stop talking In bunches. Why would Barry Roister want to kill penniless old Andy Randall? "Because of the paintings. You re. member those three paintings we saw in the drawing room?" "I remember that they weren't anything to kill an old man over." "Ha!" said Van. "You newspaper men! Never get behind the news. Too superficial. I suppose you never heard of Caleb Trask?" "No, ' I never heard of Caleb Trask." "Well, he's an artist. Pretty good too. He painted those oils. They sold for about $50 each. Then Caleb died. So what always happens when a fairly good artist dies? The price of his paintings hits the sky. So Caleb Trask lived in Michigan and Roister, being an art connoisseur and knowing that his distant uncle owned the paintings, began to think. "Ah! is right. To Roister it looked like a set-u- Uncle Andy had every reason to commit suicide and who would ever suspect a distant neph-ew living in Michigan who would only inherit a bunch of debts? "So Roister made a quick and murderous trip to Uncle Andy's and then returned to Michigan. And when he was advised he had in-herited a lot of debts he came back and gave his uncle a decent burial and took the paintings and left everything else for the debts. And a week and a half later I read in the papers where the Trask oils had sold for $50,000 each." Van sighed and grinned. "What a pity you newspaper men don't try to get be-hind the news." "What a pity," I snapped, "that you had to read in the newspaper, about tha paintings being sold." BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET White Horsemen of World War I Still Unexplained By BILLY ROSE As I've mentioned before, whenever I come down with a case of brain-blan- k I smash the crystal on a cheap wrist watch and mos-ey down to see an old watchmaker on West 11th Street. While he s tinkering with the timepiece, I gab with him about this and that, and by the time I leave my watch has a new crystal and I generally have the material for a column. The other afternoon I noticed an unusual looking clock on his repair bench one with symbols on the dial instead of numerals. "It's a Bavrrian miracle clock," : said the watchmaker, "and each symbol stands for a different miracle. For instance, the little fish repre-sents the miracle of the loaves and fishes." "Do you believe in that sort of thing?" I asked. W hither vou jumme gan blasting a patch of ground sev-eral hundred yards to the right of the machine-gunner- s an area that was completely deserted. And then half an hour later, for no discern-ible reason, the Germans turned tail and began to run. "At first, the British couldn't be-lieve their eyes; then they figured it was some sort of trick although under the circumstances it didn't make military sense to bother with a trick. Finally the English sent out a reconnaissance squad, and it brought back fifty prisoners from various parts of the line. "Each prisoner was examined separately and, according to Cap-tain C. W. Haywood of British In-telligence, each one told exactly the same story. "When the Portuguese regi-ment retreated, the Germans be-gan to chase after it and only stopped when they saw a detach-ment of cavalry riding forward from the Allied line to outflank them. This confused them be-cause, for one thing, cavalry had long been obsolete on the West-ern front and, for another, every member of the detachment was dressed in white and riding a white horse. "The artillery was immediately ordered to bombard the horsemen, but when the men in white contin-ued charging across the open field despite the curtain of shells, the Germans got panicky and fled." "How about the English gun-ners?" I said. "That's the strangest part bf it," said the watchmaker. "Captain Haywood made careful inquiry among his men but he couldn't find a single British soldier who had seen anything in the empty space to the right except space." hole in the Allied line at Mons. One night when it looked as if there was no stopping them, the sky sud-denly turned yellow and across straight for the Jerries-ro- de three white figures mounted on white horses, the center rider waving a gold-tippe- d sword. The enemy took one look, and that was the end of the advance." "Sounds like somebody was teeing things," 1 said. "Thousands of people were seeing things and they ranged from privates to generals. And later that night when several hun-dred of the Germans were cap-tured, to a man they reported hav-ing seen the figures, too. "The white horsemen didn't show up again until four years later," the watchmaker went on, "and this time they brought along a lot of friends. It was during the last Ger-man push along the Bethune line, and when a Portugese regiment cracked up under the artillery fire a handful of British machine-gunner- s were rushed in to plug the hole. The gunners knew they didn't have a chance of getting out alive all they could hope for was to keep the enemy busy until reinforce-ments arrived. e THEN CAME THE miracle. Sud-denly the German guns switched their range and direction, and be- - - think so or not, smiled the old man, BMf Kose "miracles happen all the time. For instance, take the fire in Canada a couple of months ago the one that wiped out al-most the entire town but didn't touch the church." "It could have been air currents," I said. "Maybe," said the watchmaker, "but how would you explain away the cross in the sky that two thou-sand Englishmen swore they saw during an air raid in 1944? Or would you rationalize the white horsemen who are accredited with winning two battles in the first World War?" e "TAKE YOUR TIME with the watch and details," I said "Well," said the old gent, "the first time the horsemen appeared was in August, 1914, when the Ger-mans were advancing through a big |