Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1957 — Page 7

/ f WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1957

Communists Plan For Weekend Convention

By ROBCRT E. JACKSON United Pre— Staff Correspondent NEW YORK (UP)-the Commu- , I nist Party is trying to convince you . that it is not a puppet of the Soviet J Union or a menace to America. It will unveil this weekend in . New York a new "red-white-and-blue" look at the first national convention in six years, i The American people will be ! asked then to believe that the . party no longer takes orders from ' Moscow, tliat today it is an independent movement of “national” , Communists, still opposed to cap- . I italism, but dedicated to debate . and democracy. “We are American Communists— . patriots/* said the 23,000-word ; draft resolution, a self-whipping ; confession of past errors and guile- ( less statement of future tactics, prepared for approval by the Feb.* 9-12 convention. Moscow says that American Communists are out of line. In October, November and again last Sunday, Soviet Communist organs attacked "right wing” and “national" Communists in the United States. “Nobody tells me what to think," a Communist official told a United Press reporter in a cubbyhole conversation which he said was wire-tapped. Arrue With Each Other “Nobody gives us orders," said the party newspaper, The Daily Worker. “There are various roads to socialism—not just the Soviet“way—” said the party. Communists have denounced the bhitalities of the late Soviet premier and hero, Josef Stalin. They have assailed the bloody repression and shooting of workers by Soviet troops in Hungary. They have argued with each other. When aging Party Chairman William Z. Foster defended the “grim necessity” of Soviet inter- [ vehtion to prevent “fascism” in 1 Hungary, Daily Worker labor reporter Herbert Singer wrote: “If l|[iere is a ‘grim necessity’ it is that American Communists understand that they cannot take a serious step toward establishing a new basis for socialism ... if they condone or justify the Soviet actions in Hungary." For months behind the forbidden doors of floors 6 and 7 of a sandstone building on Manhattan’s lower West Side, party leaders have been painting on the new face which will make no attempt to disguise their crisis. It is just a mask to avoid further prosecution and to confuse the public? Or is it a sincere break from Kremlin domination? Is4t & change of pace or» heart? z That is one of toe few secrets the Communists still harbor from the vigilant eyes and long shadows of the FBI. The answers to those questions are a matter of interpretation. . It's in Sad Shape The FBI, toe Department of Justice, American labor leaders and many specialists on Communist affairs say that the image of “independence” is merely a carefully arranged shift in tactics —a sham. Moscow still calls toe signals. On one point there is no argument. The party is in sad shape. Eleven of toe top 12 party leaders were convicted in 1949 and jailed in 1951 under the Smith Act for conspiring to teach and advocate the overthrow of the U.S. government. Chairman Foster escaped trial due to illness. Five of toe 11 are now free. Under toe 1940 Smith Act, 145 , Communists have been tried in 18 processes, and 103 have gone to jail. The testimony of 27 undercover agents of the FBI who penetrated the party sealed toe fate of many. (

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The Smith Act convictions, jtoe exposure of 733 Communist - front publications and organizations, toe deportation of subversives, the campaign against security risks—the party itself lists these as the acts which crippled it. But American Communists, with an able assist from toe Soviet UiUon, undermined themselves by slavishly following the Kremlin line. The Communist invasion of Korea, the disclosure of Soviet spy networks, the flip-flop on Stalin, the Soviet cruelty in Hungary led successively to thousands of desertions. And no new blood is coming in. The overwhelming majority of the American public long ago discredited the party, Soil Conservation Banquet Feb. 11 Annual Banquet At Youth Center Here Final plans for the third annual soil conservation district banquet, to be held at toe Decatur Youth and Community Center Monday night at 6:30 o’clock, were made by toe district supervisors in a meeting at Ben Gerke’s Saturday night. Elmer W. Baumgartner, president of the First Bank of Berne, will be master of ceremonies. Hoosier humorist Barton Rees Pogue will be the main speaker. The Decatur Lions club will attend the, banquet as p regular meeting. The club usually meets at that time at toe Center. Ticket sales have passed the 250 mark, but tickets are still available from the supervisors, Ben Gerke, Herman Bulmahn, Richard Scheumann, Ben Mazelin, or Ivan Huser. They are also available at toe soil conservation service office or the county extension office. An important local feature of toe meeting will be toe annual report and election. The toree-year term of Herman Bulmahn expires, and nominations for the supervisor’s job will be made from toe floor, during toe business meeting. Chicago Tenement Fire Fatal To Two 32 Persons By Tenement Fife" CHICAGO W — Two persons were killed and four others were injured today when a fire swept a tenement building on Chicago's South Side. The victims were identified as Lee Pippin, 4, who was dead on arrival at Michael Reese hospital, and Phillip Span. 60, who died hours later of burns suffered in toe blaze. First reports said both victims were young boys. Critically hurt were Arthur Ashley, 58, who jumped from a third story window. Also injured were Claude Mitchell. 54. his wife, Lucy, 48, and John Ewell, 42. The early morning blaze routed 32 persons from toe three story building. Four persons jumped from windows to escape the flames. Authorities said toe two-alarm fire broke out under a back stairway and may have been touched off by an arsonist. Central Soya Buys Red Wing Elevator Central' Soya Company, Inc., of Fort Wayne, has purchased the Burdick Elevator company, of Red Wing, and will operate their newly acquired river terminal and grain storage facilities under the name of Central Grain company. This announcement was made today by Robert B. Parrott, vice president of grain merchandising for Central Soya. Parrott stated, "Although Central Soya is a large soybean processor, and a major manufacturer of livestock and poultry feeds, this is their first location in Minnesota, and the company takes great pleasure in becoming a part of the northwest grain industry.” i Trade in a good town — Decatur WANTADS WE SELL*"" r fTRO USERS For BOYS & STUDENTS "TOPS” for Quality & Fit PRICE MEN’S WEAR

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