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French Lick
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Hotel Control
Sells One in Syracuse protest against excessive spending in all departments of
For $2 Million
In Financial Coup By HAROLD H. HARTLEY
Times Business Editor
John Cabot, who had bought and the way local officers are y stood in line, it was detected
% : ti i he lis the French Lick Spring Ho- |", onng was high on the lst ent voters—voters who would:
tel, and had almost seen it the people who registered was ob- Yoie 10 the man and the issues— slip through his fingers, was tained from the registration tiles than at any other time in local
back in the saddle yesterday.
In a dramatic 11th hour re- party designation on the cards. stated:
coup of his fortunes, he sold his Centers of Attack Onondaga - Hotel privately
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Top ‘50 Issues
| raw Wrath of Voters in Poll
By EDWIN C. HEINKE
‘new voters disclosed last night.
Coupled with general resentment against high taxes,
the new registrants in 1950 were just as emphatic in their
! tional administration or in local land local. {offices at the City Hall or Court-
Dissatisfaction - with the house. {present national administration! From these people who patient-
t. that there would be more inde-
z . litical history. at the Courthouse and postcards P° ; were sent to them. There was no Ihe Times postcards simply
The voters, all of them dissatis- oa Cards Are Unsigned’
about $2. million in Syracuse, fied with one thing or another, “The card instructed the voter
N. Y., Friday, hours before the aimed their attack on: sheriff was to have sold it at
public auction.
C. Severin Buschmann, Indian-| Against P resident Truman's, The protest against - taxes ‘ed,
(not to sign the card —just write in Condition of city and county and tell what they thought the chuck-hole filled streets. principal issues were.
-apolis attorney, who made “the handling of foreign policy, spend- the list. Second Was a protest sale, had succeeded in pulling ing, handling of the coal strike. -against ‘so much spending.” Third
Mr. Cabot out of the acute phase .of. tHe. legal. bramble.which had nism grown around the French Lick ‘ In other words, the people said purchase...
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Here is the step-by-step story of the financial chaos which was descending on the Cabot hold-
ings.
Mr. Cabet had purchased the
ory
: with the national administration.
scientious effort made to see that/ghjections. the most good comes from the dol-| Here are the other “issues” (lars they pay in taxes. |written in on the cards.
Results of the postcard poll Bad condition of streets, “just among the new registered voters want a change,” socialized medi-
coincided with the opinion €X- cine, socialism and communism,
French Lick Hotel from the heirs|P eoscd bY the voters who regis- qumping surplus foods, foreign|
of the late Tom Taggart. In doing 80 he had obtained a loan for more than $1,500,000 from the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insur-|
ance Co.
tered in Marion County's record- policy and the Brannan Plan. breaking registration a few weeks Farm subsidies, better trans- . [portation facilities in IndianapIndependents Out in Force {olis, reduction of government emOpinions of the voters, taken as| ployees, against handling of coal
Once id control he had the | they stood in line at the Court- strike, balance budget, for the separate. Pluto. Corp. horrow house, were published in . The Hoover. Plan, against.-repeal -of slightly less than $200,000 from Times the day after the heaviest the Taft-Hartley law. the General Phoenix Corp. put- eégistration in history was closed.. Cost of living too high, too
ting up both the controlling stock
Following publication of this much unemployment, against
of the French Lick Hotel and the article, it was the opinion of po-/graft, against New Deal, repeal
Pluto Corp. as collateral.
{litical observers that the people luxury taxes, against ‘“‘dictator-
It was the judgment against Were dissatisfied, that they had ship,” stricter crime laws and this loan, obtained “y the General Warmed to the Courthouse to en- enforcement, against FEPC, Phoenix Corp., which was forcing ter protest votes against people against administration of sher-
the sale of his Syracuse hotel.
who were “in,” whether they were iff's office, for lower prices of]
Through-the sale of the Onon- Republicans or Democrats, wheth- building material, against “all
nent Syracuse attorney, and pres-/ ident of the Mercrtants National Bank there, he came out with. a little under $1 million with which/ to try to straighten out the current receivership suit in fedegal
court here. “Elected Own Officers
Candidates for Legislature
Stress Economy, Efficiency
By ROBERT BLOEM {
Marion County legislative candidates rate government economy
After getting judgment against dnd efficiency above all other state issues for the coming election
the Onondaga, General Phoenix
The Times asked all legislative candidates to give their views
had elected its own officers who On important state problems so county voters would have some were in‘for a little more than a inkling of where they stood. -
“week.
Yesterday, through the
change of events, Mr. Cabot was back as president of both
French Lick Hotel and the once candidates for nomination in the 80vernment waste.
very profitable Pluto Corp.
Under the Indiana statutes he will have ahout 10 months more in which to work out his receiver-
ship suit.
The sale of the Onondaga g
which saved the Cabot fortune. Andwas far how close the sheriff was to making the sale publicly|¢ —reports had him standing. just! outside the hotel .door in Syra-|
cuse awaiting the hour.
ment. A number of the candi- Hoyt Moore, Anthony Montani,
he most important state issues. Omar Layton, Alembert W. Bray-
to list issues as they, themselves, S. Diener, George B. Jeffrey,
Mr. Cabot also owns the com- considered them important. James Ray, Mrs. Florence Medli-
mon stock of the Hamilton Hotel
In the breakdown that follows, cott. Jean C. Kimmel, Holsey C. make 4: better President Wan a in Utica. N. Y., and the Herald “pet” schemes of individuals have Owsley, Ethel Krueger, C. Titus man,
Building in Syracuse. Mrs. Ca- been eliminated. There also ap- Everett, Thomas C. Hasbrook, bot owns control of the common'peared no need to include such-John D. Reed, Della F. Hoss and stock of the Floridian Hotel in stands as favoring. honesty, fair- Harry R. Ray.
Miami.
Mr. Buschmann is senior part- Constitution. No opposition to gpeq T. Kilgore, Frank Bridges, ner in the firm of Buschmann these views was e :
ness, good government and the pamocrats: House candidates
Fox, Willtam F. Noelle;
Krieg DeVault & Alexander in 1SSues appeared to be involved. 'gpgward C. Burkert, Forrest Lit.
the Circle Tower.
Mr. Cabot is expected to visit
French Lick this week.
stands _in favor of them.
Here are the principal issues tlejohn. Earl J. Murphy. Charles ;and the candidates who took ejonn, Ear] J. pay. © ;
(Continued on Page 8—Col. 7)
The hotel has one of its best
seasons on record booked under
sins on reer ves vei: Wounded Miss Sought = After Gas Station Burglary
bach, receiver.
C-54 Wreckage
Fouhd in Japan
| Dodging Staggering Man on Highway
Another Held for Questioning; Motorist Hurt
TOKYO, Sunday, Apr. 23 up)! Within minutes after a burglary- and shooting early today at —The wreckage of a C:-54 plane. Reeves Service Station, 6301 Rockville Rd... sheriff's deputies arthat carrfed 35 Americans was rested one-man on suspicion,
found on a mountain slope south-
Meanwhile, other deputies and state police fanned out over fields
west of Tokyo today by a B-17 in the area in search of a second man ‘believed involved in two
search plane.
The B-17 crew reported that
burglaries at High School and Rockville Rds. The fleeing man is believed to
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; i ’ be wounded. He fell in the high- getting in their automobile. He there was no sign of survivors : : . ; and that the rags was strewn Way after being fired upon by fired again, he said. One man
over a wide area. a
Walter Woodson, who lives in the Staggered into the road and fell.
The headquarters for the search Tear of the gas station and heard The other apparently abandoned for the C-54, which crashed Fri- burglars in the station. his buddy in flight.
day as it was returning from .
As the fugitive collapsed. a car A second squad of deputies dis-
Manila, announced officially that bearing down on him swerved. Patched to the scene stopped at the wreckage had been spotted left the highway and crashed into the Highway Grill in Mickleyville
on the south side of Mount Hiru- a utility pole, snapping it off. The
gatake at 12:20 p. m. today (To- driver of the car, Merrill M. Judd. tails. As Deputy Elbert Rackley
kyo time).
64, of 2813 Lockburd St., suffered tarned from the phone, a man, Cantwell
Ground rescue squads trudging chest injuries and face cuts. He disheveled and bleeding, lunged through rugged terrain reached was sent to General Hospital. into the restaurant.
the scene soon afterward. radio report picked up by military man disappeared. police said there were no survivors.
Plate Glass Window, Laundry Wall Collapse
A After the accident, the fleeing “I reached right out and
Crashes Through Glass said.
"A 15-foot plate glass wincow the rear of the station and the 1egs.
and part of the supporting wall shadowy figure of another within. of the Mechanic's Laundry & Sup-
in last night.
Clement Sullivan, night watch- front.
the rear of thé station ran to the through the rear door. The cash
in the back of the building when burglar apparently lunged through taken from the market. was found he heard the smash of falling the door, ripping it from the in the filing station.
glass. He said he heard no explo- casing. sion and observed no one leaving
the scene.
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«Class Matter at Postoffice Daily
SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1950
U.S. ‘Ready to Use’ rce In Berlin Zon
“Joni Criss ‘Gets in Race For President
| Steep Levies, Heavy Spending |
The. InAs. oty ok Pitz aoe Chamber ‘Seeds Of Treason'— ‘And How They Grow
Phone Call Sent Whittaker Into Red Underground in 1932
This is the first of 14 installments of a condensation of the book, “SEEDS OF TREASON,” just published by Funk & Wagnalls, New York. It is the first orderly, factual account of the events that brought Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss face to face in one of the most sensational trials of our time.
Dollar-conscious Hoosiers regard high taxes as the | |foremost issue in coming election, a Times postcard poll of
“You registered to vote in 1950. °
CHAPTER ONE By RALPH DE TOLEDANO and VICTOR LASKY ONE SPRING day in 1932, the phone rang in the New Masses office-in New York. Whittaker Chambers, the editor, picked up the receiver. Twenty-four hours later, he was in the Communist underground, a “Soviét agent, a “faceless” man. _.It was as simple and. as quick-as-all that: The phone rang. Max Bedacht, a high-level party functionary, said, “I must see you at once on important business, Comrade Chambers’ hurried out to meet him. “You are going into the underground,” he was told. “If you wish to remain a Communist, you have no choice. you will be expelled from the party.” Standing in the middle of the journey-between hell and purga-
, Whittaker Chambers chose hell. choice; perhaps by
Against socialism and commu- on the list was dissatisfaction |
: President Truman was mentioned | .|they wanted a .change-and a con= hy nave in the majority of these
Joni Criss . . . has a high
NEW YORK, Apr. 22 (UP)— Beautiful Joni Criss, whose six tory feet five inches gives her billing 1 “The World's Tallest
Perhaps for a Bolshevik, there was really no what he himself would have
$ Show- called the “dialectics of the situagirl,” said today she intends to tion” it had to be hell.
run for the presidency United States by 1970. . ‘She said she’s been preparing for the job for some time and should be ready to
the Columbia College quadrangle, In 1924, Whittaker Chambers trying to convince himself that believed. his life was -at an end, Suicide was the logical course. the world he lived in on the verge of barbarism. He was only 22 and impossible solution. Nor could d per- he accept rhe authority of religion. depres- Sitting there, sion could not be discounted as noisy activity of the undergraduates who surged out of the HartHe had tried and rejected many ley and Livingston dormitories, he and 1 know I'm going to make formulas and ideologies. He had decided to accept the Communist worked as a day laborer and as promise of moral order in a world Miss Criss was fairly accurate a” bank clerk. He had seen post- of chaos, to join the Party if he } (in the appraisal of herself, par- war E ste hrough could, and t6 save the world from daga to Myron 8. Melvin, promi-'ér they onatltutea Offices in na-{labor trouble and strikes.” . ticularly PE ntering her Dersty. the Hp Ee eT what he saw as the imminent {Although she is very tall, she is 'lectualism. But nowhere had he collapse of Western civilization. |effectively proportioned (bust 38, found a place for himself or a
But for him, this was a silly
launch her years old, a sensitive an political career within ‘the next ceptive young man, but his four or five years.’ “I have the basic requirements purely glandular, —beauty, brains and ambition—
the grade,” she said.
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Whittaker Chambers
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waist 28, hips 38). And her face, purpose to his existence.
contemplation, or topped by curly, silver-blond hair,
So Whittaker Chambers sat one prophecy to more direct and viohas adorned the covers of several evening on a cold stone bench in lent means.
» Unconforming’
+» THE MAN Whittaker Chambers was born J. Vivian Chambers, in 1901 of mixed Dutch, German, French and English—or briefly, family moved from
- 4 . . Wins Scholastic Honors Brilliant As for her mentality, she boasts a lofig list of scholastic honors, Including a Phi Beta Kappa key from Indiana University, eneanm Where she was graduated last. Sixty-seven responded, 40 of them Republicans and the rest year, swift Democrats. ‘ Third among the problems ECONOMY, including lower Island, Il, and is remembered as the listed by the loecal- legislative taxes, cutting costs, eliminating a leader of the independent fac. tion in campus politics. Her name May 2 primary was reapportion- Republicans: Senate candidates Den was Shirley Vioedman. Like many other Hoosiers dates felt that the county must Harry Bason and Frank Borns Manhattan. she ¥elliey lo the 2a have more votes in the General House candidates Kenneth Black- of Jerry Dunawals Liana is /Aggembly and that this alune well, Herbert E. Hill, Earl Bu. leukemia victim. She gave blood would be a long step forward in chanan, Alva Baxter, Kenneth H. YhoU the 31-year , o needed olving the problems of taxes, Cox. William D. Mackey, John G. transfusions in a New York hosprivately was the master stroke economy and efficiency. Tinder, Nelle B. Downey, Harold Pital before he received ACTH The results in no way reflect J. Bell, Addison M. Dowling, Lew- {reatments which prolonged his
" y 2re is L. idt, h s N ife. . - he Times’ views on what -are:is Heidt, Thomas ugent, She said she wants to become
American—stock. Philadelphia to Lynbrook, a rural Long Island community. TS ud en Fay Chambers, his father, was a moderately successful, if ~~ JODS™ UlLUUIUTN ses slightly eccentric, commercial artist. His mother, Laha Whittaker Chambers, had been a stock com- his pany actress for several years before her marriage. In an amorphous atmosphere of gentle culs ture and high, undefined think- wing” ing,-young Vivian grew up. At the age of eleven, he found ers. and read Dostoievsky's “Crime and Punishment.” He understood think Vivian ev this grim book well enough to marbles.” confound -his teachers at L brook ‘High School. Freedom of chbice in ‘reading students. matter was typical of the elder “tat Chambers’. intellectual -tolerance .when-he -was-17.-bored - him: His’ He was mother’s insistence that he go to dogmatic only in one respect, and college irritated him There was that was his refusal to discuss an explosion and he ran
schoo! teachers and friends as brilliant but uncon- | “His hair was com one of his classmates re- : as 3 “He usually wore sneak- Summer Living . . . tips He was a bhutterball.” Another friend recalled “I don't en learned to play But everyone agreed yn- that intellectually he was head and shoulders above the other
A job in the Lynbrook bank,
No suggestions were made; "The ton, Fern E. Norris. Robert IT. i to rm of - [candidates were given a free hand Johnson, Clark W. Day, George fice—or any high office—as they
He was neither agnostic but was
con-' Adams—he admired John Quincy vinced that religion
was some-'Adams—he registered thing nice people just never dis- employment agency where he was hired from a group of common Only under pressure from Mrs. laborers to répair the street railChambers had he permitted .the way on New rbaptismof his children as Epis- ington. copalians, his own nominal faith
Home Show Due
Opening Day Mark Already Shattered
By LARRY STILLERMAN SrTimesT Real Esvite “Editor © The "Siiver - Anniversary Home Show swirled into its third day
York Ave. in Wash.
For months, he swung a pickax, that operated a pneumatic drill, and Vivian was given the name of laid track, till his blee
. toughened as he himself hardWhittaker is remembered by
_Furor_on_the Campus... ‘WHEN THE Washington job was finished, he hité¢h down to New Orleans, working on farms to pay for food. Arriving dead broke in the fabulous Crescent City, he was able to earn enough And the biggest crowd ever is to pay for a. room in a miserable dive in the French Quarter. Living under the same roof in this rooming house were the Day at the. state's greatest pano- dregs of the city, including a beaten old pr ing. name of One-Eyed Annie. From New ‘Orleans, he worked 15.000 his way west, taking jobs ‘as an itinerant farm laborer. never realized what
to mark. .Indianapolis ostitute with the terrifyrama of shélter.- , ; . I "Attendance records already are Lord's third day in the sepulcher and His resurrection, it was no a manifestation of what Chambers later called his “adolesce atheism’' — but it caused a furor on the campus. Two weeks before it appeared, it had been haile1 as “brilliant” by. Professor Van Doren, a work
Photo, Page 3; other Home Show stories and pictures, real estate.
and business news on Page 49. oi 11ies the Industrial Workers
viewed the “miracle of 38th St.” of the World—a brawling revoluFriday and yesterday. This is several thousand above cline. the opening day marks set at the 1946 Home - Show. year the all-time high of 105,000 inched through the 10-day housing exposition in the Manufacturers to call their office for more de- Building at the State Fairgrounds. Director J. Frank predicted the 1946 rec-
and dedicated to the anti-Christ.” Other faculty member were not to share Van Doren's enthusiastic appraisal. John Kelly was ordered to appear before the! student committee on. publica-
Eventually, he came to the conclusion that he had seen enough of the working world. He decided to return to Lynbrook. Now, by his own choice, he was ready for college. When his mother suggested Williams, he agreed. But three days of its sleek, upperclass attitudes and ‘those young collegiate faces” was enough for
Chambers tore off the disguise and admitted that he was Kelly. But he refused to apologize for
Home Show Focts
WHERE — Manufacturers ding, State Fairgrounds. WHEN — Daily through Apr Mr. Woodson was awakened by Held for questioning is George 30; 11 a. m. to 10 his wife when she heard sounds in C. Spalding. 29. of 623 E. Michigan — the filling station. He grabbed a St. He had cuts on his hands. ord will b shotgun when he saw one man in blood on his head and skinned show ends, next Sunday. . Of course the main attraction Also burglarized was the Rock- of the Home Show is Hugh BreShouting “stop,” he fired a tille Food Market, 6313 Rockville Terman housing gem, the “Midy “N. N S y st into: the. mir. e man in Rd. Entry had been ained wes ouse. PL Cn 55 N: Revie St. caves bide] I A s But visitors today also will see Simultaneously he heard register’ and soft drin\ machine more than 200 exhibits of home mart for the laundry, said he was a: crash of glass. The inside had been rifled. A hammer, building materials and appliances. And for the first day in the exposition, visitors will view win... <n. the station the cigaret, coke ning entries in the Indianapolis Mr. Wpodson ran to the front and pinball machines had been Real Estate Board's miniature lof the station and saw the men broken into. 4 imodel home contest.
“Th see: grabbed him,” Deputy Rackley Buil the first train back e author sees
and matriculated at But his quick rejection . of Williams wds-no sign that he had achieved any degree of social or political sophistication. In his own words. he was still a country bumpkin then, still a stanch admirer of Calvin Coolidge, neutral on the status quo.
Joining the staff of Morning-
side, the campus literary mag- Herbert E. Hawkes, azine, Chambers quickly became :
arrogantly to a New York Tribune reporter. “Hehas no apologies to make. The mistake was made in supposing the time ripe for: the publication of such a play.” And with that haughty blast, he
e snapped hefore. the
. TOMORROW: Chambers But this honor was short-lived. “Converted” by Lenin's Book. The fall of 1922 issue carried a playlet by one John Kelly —"A Play for Puppets.” Describing Our
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Other Features ‘Inside The Times
Section 1
Page 3000 Candidates seek 600
(630 Bronx cheers . . . a column about people, Page 12; general news and features, Pages 2-16.)
Section 2
for home-makers in nine special pages . . . beginning on ......%.... (Katy Atkins, Page 17; Louise Fletcher's . Counter-
Spy. Page 17; society, °
clubs, weddings, fashions,
teen-talk; gardening; Pages
17-32.)
Section. 3
Indians win first AA shut-
out over Toledo, 10 to 0 (The Wright Angle, a new racing column by Art Wright, Page 33; Eddie Ash writes about Indianapolis opener 61 years ago,
Page 33; Press Box, Page
34; other ‘sports, Pages 33 to 37.)
ding hands Times photographers pre-
sent favorite pictures.
(Editorials; world report,
politics, Henry Butler's,
“theater: report, Earl’ Wil-
son, Erskine Johnson, Pages 43-48.)
Section 4
10.000. Expected at Home
Show today .......... (Harold Hartley's “The Week- in Business,” Larry Stillerman’s real estate news, Outlook in the Nation, market news, classified advertising, including Your Market for Homes, radio, Pages 49-64.)
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Truman Hotly Denies U. S. Rattles Saber"
ade crisis last summer. Mr. Truman headed home hotly Is denying a report that-his presence, the future'” “-|at the Georgia-Florida war games clared. {might well be interpreted as! saber-rattling for Russia's fit,
isaid.
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Stern ActionIf Necessary- | fficial Says
Shooting Foreseen Should Russia Try to Take Over
| WASHINGTON, Apr. 23 |(UP) — A top government ‘official said tonight that the United States will use force if necessary to protect the Allied zone of Berlin against |Communist demonstrations. | © The official, who declined to be {quoted by name, forces in the eastern sector of the former German capital are eager to “drive us out of the western |section of the city.” ® “Tt will be a very serious situa _ (tion® if they try to do so,” he |added. “This will be resisted by: © peaceful means, but if necessary the very stern resistance of ma{chine gun fire and other measures will be resorted to.” Apparently he referred to a pro posed May Day demonstration in ‘Berlin to be staged by Russian forces and the Germans under their control. It was the first time {that a high U. 8. official had indicated that shooting would be employed if the Russians {tempted to move in on the Allied sector,
At the Crossroads
The official is of such importance in the government that his {word cannot be questioned. “This. is the crossroads,” the government dignitary said. may face the issue here but » one has the idea of yielding a . |single inch on the issue.” 3 What happens in Berlin, added, will provide the Unitcd States with an idea of what is |going to happen in the cold war elsewhere, Discussing the ¢old war ‘communism, the government offi'cial said: ONE: Recent purges in Eastern Europe by the Communists were |to get rid of the weaklings in the | party. TWO: We have regained the of|fensive in Germany. ~PHRER: Reverses in the Far" East may have. to be re-assessed. {He did not elaborate. The official said that the shooting down of an unarmed U. 8. {Navy plane in the Baltic was symptomatic of Russia's efforts to needle this country. = Meanwhile, Secretary of State Dean Acheson warned tonight that Soviet communism is a “challenge and a threat to tha very basis of our ciwilization and ito the wv world.” | Grimly, the Secretary of State pictured a world struggle between “ithe “United States and Russia which, he said, cannot end until the Soviet Union gives up its | policy of aggression. | “We do not propose to subvert 33 the Soviet Union,” Mr, Acheson “We shall not attempt to [undermine Soviet independence. “And we are just as determined [that communism shall not by | hook or crook or trickery under-
efy safety of the free
[mine our country- or any other free country that desires to main< tain its freedom.” : | To meet the Soviet challenge, 48 Mr. Acheson called on the Ameri« |can people to unite behind the ef[fort which he calls “total diplo“rE imddy and otitlined six “fines of {action” to be pursued. | Mr. Acheson spoke at a dinner . {meeting of the American Society {of Newspaper Editors. His speech, billed in advance as a “major 9 foreign policy” declaration, was carried to a nation-wide radio au- - dience by the Mutual Broadcast|ing System. | Mr. Acheson said the “threat of Soviet communism” than “just the -old idea of tyranny.”
U. 8. No. 1 Target
“This fanatical doctrine domi {nates one of the greatest states in this world, a state which controls the lives of hundreds of millions of people, and which today possesses the largest military establishment in existence,” he said. He said Communists picked the {United States for their “principal {target’ “because only the United | States’ stands between the Kreme lin and dominion over the entire world.” | The Soviet rulers, “would use, and zladly use, any ! means at their command to weak« “len and to harm us.” While “they have not thought WASHINGTON, Apr. 22 (UP) it wise to use military force,” he ~President Truman returned said “they are trying other methfrom a two-day military: inspec- ods.” One method is to “try to resigned his editorship. He was tion trip in the South today to confuse and divide the American not expelled from Columbia, but come to grips with a cold war henceforward he was definitely Suddenly turned hotter than at persona non grata With Dean any time since the Berlin block-| the free nations one by one to “build up the idea that commue |nism is inevitable—the ‘wave of
ple.” The Kremlin seeks to pick off
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