Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 7 February 1957 — Page 2

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By KOBERT E. JACKSON United Press Start Correspondent NBW YORK <UP>—ls the Communist Party in’ the United States still e menace? Many people ask that question in seriousness today. The subject of Communists in America, once in bannerlines every hour, has ceased to be a big story, election issue or source of fear. The ••scare" is over. I • ’ There are those who say that the pulverizing blows taken by the party on de-Stalinization and Hungary and the effective counteraction of the FBI have erased any threat to security. But others, including FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, fear the danger is still there in a new form. 'to the late 1940 s and early ’sos, spurred by the sensational trials of Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs and top Communists, a “crash" pro-

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gram turned up Reds in the government, in unions, in Hollywood, in the armed forces and in some places where there were none. A few men seized on the cold-war-time rush to “clean out the Reds” to frighten the daylights out of the American public. Some innocent victims were caught up. The entire country now is taking a sober second glance at the con-science-wrenching problem of providing liberty yet security, of guaranteeing constitutional rights without risking the safety of the republic. Still Not Registered While it did not make membership in the party a crime, the Communist Control Act of August, 1854, in effect outlawed the Communist Party. The Subversive Activities Control Board ruled in 1953 that the Communists are “puppets” of the Soviet Union. The *> •« i u

control law required the Reds, as “agents of a foreign power," to register their membership and sources of funds. It denied them passports and cut off government labor negotiation machinery to Red-led unions. Yet it is 1967, and the party still has “not complied with the law to register. Chiefly because of delays caused by repudiation of testimony by “turnabout" witnesses, the issue is still in their courts. 200,000. The Daily Worker has suffrom jail terms which they served for advocating a conspiracy were rearrested immediately on charges of being members of a group dedicated to the overthrow of the government. But they are free on ball and doing business as before. The administration opposed the control act, objected to outlawing the party and won’t telegraph its next punches. Deadly as Ever In this cauner atmosphere, many Americans have forgotten that there Are still Communists among them. There aren’t as many as before.

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Membership, down two-thirds in 10 not change the basic goals of years, has fallen from 80,000 to a Communist conquest." mere 20,000. Sympathizers have — diminished from 000,000 to under Ynunfl Girl Taken To 200,0. The Daily Worker has suf- °“ n 9 k3 > r ’ 1 a * en 1 ° sered a "catastrophic” loss of ads Indiana Girls School and a dip in circulation from 38,000 to 10,000. Sheriff and Mrs. Merle Affolder The party’s treasury is as red took a 17-year-old girl to the Inas its emblem. It spent $1.5 million diana Girls school at Clairmont toon bail and legal fees in the trials, day. Although court records are It says it is running at a $200,000 not available to the public or press annual loss. The government raid- 00 juvenile cases, it is understood ed its key offices last year, charg- herc that the girl had been on proing the party with owing back bation and that after several retaxes cent criminal and moral offenses The Phrty-S grip on Uhde «„• £ ™ lli n p%ng nCe The Reds”say they’ led au e ° s £2 Stood OtheF * inV ° lV ' one-fifth of the unions in the United States in 1942. Today, they say, it . L ,, 11 . .... is only 3 per cent. Driver Killed When “The Communist conspiracy is. NEW ALBANY, Ind. (W — as deadly now as it was before .. . James Watts, 30, New Albany we Yelax our vigil at our peril. . . was killed Wednesday night when The American public must not be his automobile hit a bridge abutlulled into complacency by the new ment and rolled over a 10-foot Communist propaganda line... embankment into a creek about a The current Communist tactics do mile north of New Albany on Jnd.

House Passes Bill To Help Drought Area Ignore Objections By Administration To Vote Measure WASHINGTON (UP) - Senate eupporters of the Democratic “baby soil bank” bill for aiding drought - stricken farmers hoped today to get it before the Senate in about a week. But they said action on the House-passed* bill may be delayed by objections from Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson. , Benson told the Senate Agriculture Committee Wednesday no drought legislation should be passed until the administration presents its recommendations. He has given no indication what the recommendations will be other than saying that the states should be required to participate in any drought relief program. The House brushed aside administration protests Wednesday afternoon and passed the bill by a 270108 roll call vote. The bill would authorize federal “rental payments” to ranchers who agree to keep livestock off parched grazing lands. Its purpose is to prevent permanent damage to pastures in the southwestern drought belt. Before the vote, House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. (Mass) read a letter from Benson protesting that the bill would “create more problems than' it solves.” Otherwise Martin made no attempt to prevent its passage. He said the administration would try to “correct” it before the Senate votes. National Tea Co. Reports Top Sales Highest sales on record for any first period of operation in the 58 year history of National Tea Co. were announced today by H. V. McNamara, president and chief executive officer, who reported an increase of $2,610,856 for the first four week period of 1957, as com- I pared with the same period a year ago. National Tea Co. consolidated sales for the four week period ending January 26, 1957 itotaled--546,784,724, for ah increase of 5.91% over the corresponding period of 1956, when sales were $44,173,868. ! JHr / f THE FLOWER treatment in New Delhi brings a warm smile to face of Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov. He flew to India for a 19-day visit. (International) to L" h * - jH yjb f I If ■■fwli 1 1 I I THE “BLACK SWAN" witness in the scandal - baring Montes! trial in Florence, Italy, Anna Maria Meneta Caglio, is shown strolling along a Florence sheet. (International) 1

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A BRITISH parachute regiment officer models a mask and beret which once belonged to an Eoka terrorist, at Platrea. Cyprus. On wall is a collection of arms and ammunition captured in raids on terrorist hideouts. The raids resulted In capture of about hall of the Eoka leaders. (international SoundpHoto)

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