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By PETER EDSON,
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tion he was right.
Before his agents, supplemented by Immigration Service men and local law enforcement officers, had finished, between 6000 and 10,000! ‘persons had been arrested, some 750 deported and dossiers on 600,000 suspects compiled. . Today there are those who point to these impressive and suggest a return to the tactics of 1919. The consensus here is that U. 8. anti-Communist policy is too soft (as witness the Job-like
A. Medina). But cooler users of history's hindsight disagree. In running roughshod over the radicals, the men of the old Bureau of Investigation (now the FBI) istered a medicine as bad as the
10 | disease itself.
The Bill of Rights all but went by the board. arrests; {search and seizure without warrant; neither grand jury nor jury laction in. many cases; excessive bail; deportation proceedings | without defense counsel; evidence most flimsy; all these were condoned and ordered. ;
Arouse Indignation - These excesses aroused immediate public indignation. The outcry was effective, But it held no candle, in its demand that the Constitution be respected, to the adroit use by Red propagandists of what had happened. As recently as 1948 one Robert W. Dunn published a pamphlet in which he charged a recreation of the 1919-1920 raids by the investigations of the FBI and the House Un-American Affairs Com-
the Taft-Hartley Law. Like all
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times. “Bolsheviki” was a gag to many an American, a cartoon of
a round black bomb in one hand.
t Wilson was abroad. Communist Party established,
utterly preoccupied by the Ver sallles Treaty and the League of Nations. ’ Untended Corrgl Here at home many Congressmen, with the White House {check-rein off, were feeling their wis a great deal of {war-left inflation, which was to [ledd to the recession in mid-1920. | Politically, socially and eco-
[nomically, the nation was an un-/
tended corral, filled with bawling and milling about. The Communist Party, only a few weeks old, was divided into {two factions. Powerful radical {leaders still held the loyalty of |thousands: Eugene V. Debs, the {Socialist, was one who had lost {little by his conviction of espion|age. Another was Big Bill Haywood, boss. of the LW.W.—the “Wobblies” who considered themselves one big anarchistic union. Haywood had been convicted of sabotage in 1918, and was to jump bail to flee the country in 1921, as did Gerhart Eisler in 1949, but he yet could order widespread strikes and have the order respected. - 50 Were Deported In February, 50 of Haywood's lieutenants were + deported. In April, New York postal inspectors found bombs in the mails, addressed to prominent persons; in June Attorney Gen. Palmer's {Washington home was damaged
mitteé and by the enforcement oriby ,a bomb. Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo: Vanzetti were in a Massachusetts jail, awaiting trial (tor the murder of a Braintree paymaster, Sacco and Vanzetti were destined to lose a seven-year fight for freedom, to be executed and to be seized up forthwith by the Commies as the (first
grabbed the act,
Flynn, the famed detective then heading the Bureau of Investiga tion. Coincidentally, the New York
tom R. Lusk to turn his committee loose on radicals in the state. Raids Were Experiments The November raids were little {more than experiments. On the |seventh, Palmer's men seized 250 officers of the Union of Russian Workers, in 12 cities.
meeting places and hauled in as many members as they used police—T00. Eighteen days later the
230 aliens, but could not be sure
how many of them were actual|thal declined to answer on the
advocates of revolution. (Two were: Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, avowed leaders of anarchism.)
communism |
Palmer staged the first of a! \ radical-anarchist in-| | He was fortified by a million-dollar
of truth, If the raids are to be understood, so must the;
a dirty, wildly-bearded man with
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1316 biggest of the latter-month raids. ‘ | The public clamor, to which
ieriticism of Attorney General) | Palmer, put an end to the raids {in April. For three years, then, {two separate committees of Con{gress investigated, at the end ordering a number of reforms to {make sure the future would not {see the un-Constitutional acts | repeated. - | When they had done, the “treat-‘em-rough” technique was a firecracker. y And for 20 years the Communists were to walk virtually unmolested on what had been a great battleground, pointing to its scars as living proof that capitalism is wrong and Red revolution right, : Tomorrow: war in the party.
Charges Senator Endangers Secrets
Lilienthal Won't
Discuss Disclosures
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UP) David E. Lilienthal said today that atomic disclos.res by Sen. Edwin C. Johnson (D, Colo.) conhcern questions which cannot be discussed publicly “without serious involvment of national se-
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Cincinnati; Veterans CINCINNATI, O., Nov. 28 gang of boys i
America.”
He and his mother, Mis. Sylvia Goldstein left by plane here last means. Here's night after spending two days as guests of Hebrew Union College.
“Why did my Daddy die?" the Laurence had asked after he had been roughed up by a group of teen-agers in his home town Nov. 9, was tha center of
Granted Month More For Filing of Briefs
By DAN KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 That opposed to giving Panhandle franchus® for furnishing Citizens| Gas & Coke Utility with natural gas was indicated today. The Federal Power Commission announced that attorneys for the city had obtained a month-long extension to file briefs in the case and it has been granted. The
briefs. were due which! alread: obtained at the request of FPC) attorneys.
Others on File Opposition briefs are on file! from the Central Gas Company of Indiana and the Michigan Public Service Commission.
is Dec. 28. Objections are against the find-| Marsh which would give FPC ap-| proval to Panhandle to take over ings of FPC Examiner Edward B./ supplying Indianapolis. | The Marsh
from a Texas Gas Corp. - Texas East-
This plan was backed by the city | on the grounds that it looked more feasible as a ready source of supply than the Panhandle pro-| posals which were not décumented at the hearings held by Exam-| iner Marsh. ! The Marsh order required that
|eurity."”
great, The retiring chairman of the can supply Indianapolis requiremartyrs of the New Worid revo- U. 8. Atomic Energy Commission ments. lution. Actually neither Sacco nor had been asked at a news con-|{000 MCF July 1, 1950, and run to Vanzetti was a Communist. The ference whether a member of the 25,000 MCF by 1953. Commies simply moved in and commission staff would be violat-
ing the security provisions of the
{made by Mr. Johnson on a tele{vision broadcast. { Sen. Johnson had said on a rejeént telecast that American scientists now are working on an {A-bomb 1000 times more powerful than those used against the Japanese. Mr. Johnson also said the United States has an A-bomb six times more powerful than that {exploded at Nagasaki.
| Declines. to Answer
Next day the Lusk committee| Mr. Johnson, a member of the, ; : fagents hit 70 Communist Party|Joiot Congressional Committee onl yyy ApRIDAVIT read that,
{Atomic Energy, has denied that {he disclosed anything which was {not previously public information.
{Immigration Service had deported) Asked if Mr. Johnson was cor-
rect in what he said, Mr. Lilien-
‘grounds that national was involved. He made it clear, however, that as a member of the Congressional
security
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Onto this arena strode Palmer Atomic Energy Act if he made and his chief aide, William J.[Public statements similar to those
Noisy Engine Drags Motorist Right Into Court
THE MOTOR was noisy.
Michael M. Owens, 18, of 233 N. Holmes Ave, faced Municipal {Judge Pro Tem John A. Carson {today because his 1930 automo{bile “attracted too much atten-
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| Michael's car “had a straight ot {haust pipe which was broken . . was so out of repair as to create loud. grinding, rattling and disturbing noises.” Judgment was withheld.
The greatest raid, painstaking. Committee, Mr. Johnson is in &
ly prepared like a military maneuver, occurred Jan. 2, 1920. Hundreds of agents swooped down simultaneously on leftist halls in 60 cities. : The net was impressive: 700 in New York, 400 in Boston, 800 in
in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Chicago. Throughout the balance of the month, mop-up squads con-
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17 Survivors of B-29 Crash in Good Shape
MARCH AIR FORCE BASE,
| Detroit, 180 in Buffalo, 200 each|(al. No. 28 (UP) -- Seventeen
survivors of an Air Force B-29 that crash-landed in the Atlantic Ocean were pronounced in “good shape” today. They remained un{der observation in the base hos- | pital. 8gt. Perey C. Alford, 18th crew member saved when the plane
in Greenville, 8. C. e others, who arrived here yesterday, will begin furloughs Dec. 5 and will spend Christmas and New Year's Day at home, Two men drowned in the erash.
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Veterans the City of Indianapolis still is/formed him they would have a {tree planted in Palestine in his Easter. Pipe Line Company _the'name,
anxious to return home to her other son, Alan, 8, sald “Larry had a wonderful time. . learning there are lots of fine people in America.”
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to Honor Him
(UP)— Larry Goldstein, 11, who ting “Dirty Jew,” returned to
Lynn, Mass. 10day' assured there are “lots of od
rell, Don McClain, Nieman Paul and Paul Sutter, endmen; Larry Becker,
an inter-faith discussion at the llege yesterday, The boy's father was killed in action during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944,
Larry made “one of the boys" during his stay, . : He spent Saturday night as! guest of the local Boy Scout Council. Yesterday, he received an autographed baseball, a sou{venir of a home run hit over the {fence during a Cincinnati Reds game, and scores of letters from local school children, who promised they would fight racial in-
The Cincinnati Jewish War Organization also in-
Mrs. Goldstein, who was
He Is
Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church will -present “The Smoke Town Minstrel” at 8 p. m. tomorrow and Wednesday in the church building, Post Rd. and Troy Ave.
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Mrs, Goldstein said she had re-
ceived several invitations to at-|
tend other such discussions, but
mended date was an ‘extended date is undecided about future plans.
“We should be home,” she said.
’ “However, everyone thinks we are doing so much good. They keep)
inviting us. I don’t know what we will do.” Mrs. Goldstein said she planned
to answer all of the hundreds of
New deadline date set by FPC|letters that have poured in since/
she first wrote to a Lynn, Mass, newspaper about the incident ¢oncerning her son and his question.
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