Show HISS TRIAL Verdict Question The average American could not help but discern strange and disturbing disturbing dis dis- ramifications In the Alger Hiss perjury trial verdict Hiss was found guilty on two counts The jury found that he had passed secret documents to Whittaker Chambers and that he had seen Chambers after January 1 1 1937 Hiss had denied both allegations In a rambling expose of what now seems to have been juvenile intrigue with infantile overtones of dagger cloak hue the one big fact that came out of the trial is that somebody lied somebody lied somebody lied in such colossal fashion as to tobe tobe tobe be unmatched in any recent instance instance instance in in- stance in American jurisprudence CHAMBERS former Communist courier by his own admission and anda a former senior editor of Time magazine said Hiss passed the secret state department papers to him and that he turned them over overto overto overto to the Russian Hiss said he didn't do any such thing However the jury as a second trial of the case chose to believe Chambers and convict Hiss Naturally Naturally Naturally Nat Nat- Hiss will vill appeal but if the verdict is upheld he faces a possible possible pos pos- sible maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment and fines tines of The disturbing element in the case is how the Communists could so pervert the Americanism of abnormally abnormally abnormally ab ab- ab- ab normally intelligent individuals like Hiss and Chambers if il Chambers Chambers' Chambers Chambers' Chambers Chambers' Cham Cham- bers' bers story is true to the point where they would actually serve the interest of the Soviets against the interests of their own country THE STRANGENESS of the case as many see it are the intricacies of ot US U.S. law which permit an admitted admitted admitted ad ad- Communist courier to escape escape escape es es- es- es cape any sort of legal punishment and yet permits a time long-time sentence sentence sentence sen sen- tence and heavy fines for a a defendant defendant defendant de de- de- de accused of lying about what it is alleged he did Chambers admits his Ws acts and is never charged in court Hiss had to be convicted on charges against him Hiss got one break break because because of ofa a statue of limitations he could not be charged with having betrayed betrayed be be- his country as a spy BERLIN An Old Story The unpredictable Soviet mind again was indulging its tortuous workings to the discomfiture of Berlin and the western allies In a sort of junior blockade of ot the former reich capital the Russians had lad for 24 hours set up an aggravating aggravating aggra aggra- check system which stalled supply trucks to such an extent that only one was allowed to nass Dass n every 15 minutes IT WAS EXASPERATING it was puzzling and it set in motion grave fears that the Reds were about to set up another Berlin blockade which cost America so much in money and equipment when Operation Airlift was all that kept Berliners from starvation and freezing And then with no explanation or apparent reason the Russians abandoned the junior blockade as suddenly as they had imposed it American British and French commanders of ot Berlin met in emergency session and discussed the latest Soviet harr harrying ing tactics This resulted in a decision to take a wait see attitude SOME AMERICAN officers were convinced another scale full-scale blockade blockade blockade block block- ade was coming But the British commander expressed a conviction that the Russians were merely engaging engaging engaging en en- in a passing phase of ot pinpricks pin phi pinpricks pricks It was made clear however that American plans are such that in inthe inthe inthe the event a major blockade is clamped on another airlift operation operation operation opera opera- tion could be put into effect in time to stave off of any disastrous results results re re- re- re suits to the people of ot Berlin Sewing Circle 1 4 r L T Mrs l Alben W. W apparently apparently ap ap- has settled quickly and easily into the Washington activities of the wives of government government gov gov- leaders She Is shown here sewing for the Red Cross I during a Capitol Hill Dill meeting of the senate ladies luncheon club T TAX AX DODGERS Trap Proposed In connection with widespread charges that federal revenue is inadequate in adequate because of too many tax dodgers Representative Sutton D D. Tenn has proposed a trap by which he hopes to catch the often offen ders SUTTON that the secretary secretary sec see of the treasury change the color and design of ot paper money and schedule n a day on which old bills would have to be exchanged t 2 LL 1 i L J V |