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PAGE SIX ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK, ALEXANDRIA-PINEVILLE, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1954 Present'Day Houdini Talk of the Town ByAdras LaBorde knot? Ji 7Vyrn IJLa JSt Grtat Futurt For Poultry Industry Louisiana imported twice as many poultry products as it produced last year. That's a statement which should provoke some serious thinking on the part of all those who recognize the dependency of this area upon the success of rural residents. It was made before a civic club in Alexandria Wednesday by an official of one of the nation's largest packinghouses. This official said he foresees a great poultry industry for Louisiana. There is no reason for him to be wrong.

We have all the ingredients necessary to slash the import of poultry products by producing at home all we need. The Louisiana Market Poultry Show and Chicken of Tomorrow Contest held in Alexandria this week as it is every year about this time shows what can be done here. We can raise poultry second to none, just as economically as the other fellow, and we have the market for all we can produce. Why, then, should Louisiana have to import twice as much as it produces? Mark To Shoot At Congressional investigating committees, such as the one dealing with the McCarthy-Army controversy, have it in their power to perform a public service. One of the greatest in our time was that of the Senate committee headed in 1923 by Senator Thomas J.

Walsh of Montana. This looked into charges of fraud when the oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, were transferred from the Navy to private hands. Under Walsh's relentless questioning it became only too plain that Secretary of the Interior A. B. Fall had been bribed to make the transfer.

He went to jail, and the Supreme Court, canceled the lease on the ground that it had been obtained by fraud. To equal Walsh's record a Senate in-vestigator would have to be as able a lawyer, which would be hard, and as indif Communist Mamea At Our Back Door From Alexandria to Seattle, It Is about 2,000 miles, airline. Alexandria is 1,600 miles from New York, as the crow flies, and about 1,200 miles from New York. It is less than 1,500 miles by air from Alexandria to Puerto Barrios, Republic of Guatemala. Puerto Barrios is where weapons of war from the Soviet state of Poland were unloaded this week.

It has been known for several years that the communists were taking over In Guatemala. The first warning was Issued by United Fruit which had trouble with the government over ownership of its properties in the Central American country. Not much attention was paid to the warning. This week a United Fruit Co. spokesman reported that the communists were using a strike in an effort to wreck the banana industry in Honduras.

Honduras is Guatemala's neighbor. Both of these small countries are within the shadow of Mexico's southern border. The labor ministry has taken over operation of the national railways from United Fruit in Honduras. An official of Standard Fruit another large property owner in Honduras, also said the strike was communist-Inspired. Little, if anything, is being done by the government of Honduras to check the campaign of a few Red leaders to destroy the large fruit companies as a first step toward repeating communist achievements in Guatemala.

From Washington there are admissions that developments in Guatemala and Honduras are serious. President Eisenhower said Wednesday it would be a terrible thing If a communist dictatorship were established on this continent. When are we going to get action instead of words? A communist dictatorship is in the process of estbalishing itself in Guatemala, if Indeed it is not already established. There is danger of the same thing In Honduras, in the immediate future. Are we going to dismiss the threat with a few sombre phrases emitted from well-guarded chambers in Washington? Are we going to let the communist octopus wrap its tenacles firmly around countries at our own back door before we act? Events in Guatemala and Honduras call for firm and Immediate action.

They make mandatory a clear-cut enunciation of policy from Washington on how the admin- istratim nlanc tn -Ul -HAPfltEy ACT WTfiotiM Scrkkh on ml These Days WANTED: ARMOR PLATE In a democracy, it becomes increasingly apparent, it is advisable that those charged with the duty of making and changing laws should arm themselves with protective armor, literally, as well as with boundless knowledge. As the temperature rises at Baton Rouge there is in-Creasing proof of the foregoing; there is, moreover, further proof if any were needed that laws are made by men with no more emotional inhibitions than those who break the laws. To maintain proper perspective we need only review, with brevity, two or three incidents from Wednesday's log in the legislature being assured that the ultra-human comport of the legislators was by no means restricted to those incidents on that day. SENATORIAL DECORUM We should peep first at the behavior of certain senators, if only because the Senate is the upper chamber of th legislature and therefore its members are surrounded in tht public eye with an aura of dignity exceeding that of representatives if only in theory. We come, then, to a meeting of the Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions, wherein a proposal to investigate the penitentiary at Angola is under consideration.

Sen. Dayton McCann of Avoyelles-Evangeline, author of the proposal, charges prisoners at Angola have been coddled unnecessarily; he warns that if something isn't done soon "all hell is going to break loose." He wants the investigators, to look into the use of obscene language in the presence of women visitors, among other things. Sen. Cove Davis of Olla, for his two-bits, says if the present farm manager at Angola is a farmer, "I'm a Negro Sen. John Hunter of Alexandria, among others, thinks McCann's resolution is too strongly worded, casts a reflection on the man in charge.

(Certainly a justifiable appraisal, in view of the language used by McCann, Davis, et al). When the heat of argument has yielded to senatorial dignity, the committee approves McCann's proposal 7 to 2. HASSLE IN THE HOUSE In the House, meanwhile, we behold the spectacle of young member who has been angered by State Supt. of Education Shelby M. Jackson.

Red-faced, Rep. Marshall Brown of New Orleans tells his colleagues that Jackson has threatened him because he sponsored a bill giving the Board of Education power to pass upon education budgets authority now in the hands of the superintendent, it would seem. Brown punctuates his assertion that Jackson has a right to fight him with a revealing "Frankly, I don't give a damn." After all, the House is the lower chamber, and its members are not supposed to be either as calm or as cosmopolitan as the senators. THERE'S A MORAL HERE There's a moral to this story, but before we expose it perhaps we should look again on the Senate, peeking when the air is less loaded. We find the gentlemen in executive session to confirm appointments submitted by Gov.

Kennon. All appointments are confirmed in executive session, so there is no basis to criticize the Senate for closing the door in our face. Except that you sort of expected a scene somewhat like that Health and Welfare Committee melee on McCann's resolution because one of the appointments was that of Ken-non's former law partner, Craydon Kitchens of Minden, to be chairman of the Louisiana Tax Commission. The appointment is confirmed, without too much racket, although it had run into a roadblock at a closed-door session last week. Moral: The people who represent us in the legislature and in Congress are just plain human beings.

They blow up Just like anybody else; and they make mistakes and at times qualify for reflectorized dunce caps. We should always bear that in mind when we settle down to an appraisal of what they do good, bad or indifferent. SO THEY SAY You ain't learnin' nothin' when act. you're talkin'. Wisconsin State Sen.

Harry Sid Richardson, wealthy Texas Franke joins "Joe Must Go" oil man. movement. Having said this, the assumption would be that men belonging to the same party and holding identical views and aiming at the same goal would join forces to achieve a By Caorg E. Sokolsky Herbert Brownell, Attorney General of the United States, speaks the same language as the Chairmen of the three Congressional committees that are ehartrert agricultural program by demanding 100 percent parity, which pleases some farmers, particularly some dairymen and cheese producers in his dairy state. No matter what a Senator does in Washington, his fundamental responsibility is to his state and to those elements in his state which common purpose.

This has not hap- pujyuac, a ma iias iiui nay with investigating Communists and pened because of a theory of gov 1L ernment, alien to the American We know that one of the major spirit, which accepts two hy-objectlves of the Communist Par- potheses: ferent to political considerations. Unfor- can influence his election or his defeat. Most men are elected to Con- feat. Most men are elected to Con tunately many of the investigations since m-nt w. fTS the Executive branch vcv IMW WiUlUUl 1IHC I menace.

When lunflrT TZZZ lth.r ably conducted nor sincere. The 5 Tkf la 1 rc erence bv congress-, of an TiSt ln Central America and Prent one must await its conclusion, and Why then is there so much conflict 2- tt Executive branc! Mexico echoes through the port of New a period of settling down In people's minds, fmon tt Republicans? Why is it fHvfnTwi perat 1 rlaanS Wl" 00 late. before fair ud can impossible for them to cooperate Admb. r.Uon bu also assert 2. That the Executive branch asserts leadership over all persons of a its 25 Years Ago in the 0 a common oDjecuver Tne an- ii iwer seems to be that the Mail VlQWPOint Uon of Republicans who have I come into office since 1932 have of the com little understanding political party who should accept that leadership as part of teamwork.

This doctrine has never before been asserted, not even by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was undoubtedly the most effective political leader in the Presidency. Such a doctrine cannot hold in the United States because the coun- (CdDstfellll promises, the give-and-take characteristic of free institutions. The peculiarities of the American government with three balanced Former Texas woman, Mrs. branches can be foreign to those Katherine King Fogarty, will sue for breach tangled for comprehension.

The who have built their careers in Gene Tunney for $500 nun nthpp nniu marii. t.an vs. ators have an obligation to their 11 Gene Tunney for $500,000 terlcal and thoroughly dishon- eral Government. constituencies which are state- of promise to marry. est brochure in defense of Brownell said in his speech of ld'j Representatives are agents Bridges during the time that April 9: of the prevailing opinion in their The steamer Mary Lou and barge Bridges during the time that Lee Pressman, a Communist.

Brewn.ll'. Sp.tch districts. If Senator Jackson, for 0f the Red River Line arrived here "The history of how the Commu- Mt morain with miscellaneous nist underground infiltrated our SSZSunS car 01 151 ton' nd National Government, with the dis- Sg1 from agricultural state docked Jckon street whari- tXS'f "formation South Dakota, is a very different and other defense data, is now wrson than he have tf Martin H. Bariey. junior, who was his counsel.

Later Murray turned against Bridges and fired him from his job as director of the CIO for the West Coast merely because Bridges had exercised his right to sup- port the candidate of his "mmaf lot Americans. Earlier he camei let us saV( rom tte jarge. has been at home on a visit to his choice in the 1948 election. That t0 prVCnt I faed' industrialized state of Michigan, parents, Mr. and H.

Bag-candidate was Bubblehead Wal- 1they weIe based The pressures would be different, ley in Madeline street, returned to lace, the candidate of the Com- the belief that our Government The organized life of the communi- New Orleans last night. munists in the absence of an could the loss of Government Ues wouid be different official Communist ticket. In "crets to foreign agents merely McCarthy Demands Mrs Wacconer of Znori MUmZ, ap- (beV remViKg 1,1086 For instance" SIS? McCar- had a. her Wednesday SS uiv mis oui bl aecreiarv nenmni iwiih Ainrittnn Tin disloyal to the United States WMtbreek PHr NEW YORK The next step in the case of Frank Costello, who has an artificial reputation as an underworld hoodlum, unsupported by proof, will be deportation. There appears to be aome legal excuse to send him out of the country.

However, the enforcement of the deportation law is so dishonest that we may reasonably conclude that both the prosecution of Costello for tax evasion and the deportation case are mere tributes to a trashy political exploit by Sen- ator Estes Kefauver, of Tennessee. I call to mind the contrasting case of Serge Rubinstein, a disreputable character and artful dodger of the draft. This more or less stateless Roumanian adventurer has influential friends in the old Roosevelt-New Deal cult, but we now have a more or less Republican attorney-general who certainly should be unreachable by any such influence. But we still have Serge Rubinstein, too. Brewdtr Cat The Rubinstein case is no worse than that of Irene Brow-der.

This woman was born in Russia. Her husband was the Communist leader down to the end of the war and the official interpreter of the Russian pretense of an intention to "coexist" with our country on friendly terms. Once we had destroyed Soviet Russia's two deadly enemies, Germany and Japan, that pretense was repudiated. Accordingly, Browdcr HERE and THERE by Clayton Rand chusetts jailbird with a criminal record, including several prison terms. Hundreds ef Books If it takes a hundred printed books of testimony, mililons of dollars and hundreds of thou sands of man-hours to prove that This again Is precisely what Senators McCarthy, McCarran, Jen-ner and other anti-Communists have been saying for many years.

Coming from the Attorney General of the United States, it is a WOMEN LOSE INTEREST activities have been suspended. Tr Usva Wincraid nr etiH nf a Tti ualu aI i confirmation, of their This (Communist aggression) should not prevent us from seeking patiently a security system as valid for others as for us, and in which we could all participate together. Georges Bidault, French Foreige Minister. 1 If we lose Indochina the Pacific Ocean will become a Red Sea washing our western shore. Sen.

Joseph McCarthy. When we in this country are afraid of the consequences of expressing our views, it is time to to Canada with Irene and got permission for her to return in good standing. A counsular official of the State Department who took part In this proceeding gave sworn testimony that he received state department orders to violate the law and that he did violate the law but only under protest. In future protest, he resigned. Nobody in the State Department was dismissed or even criticized for this.

One of the most bumptious, garrulous and sinister females of our time, a woman who was often in and out of the White House in Roosevelt's reign but more often away than present, was sympathetic toward Irene Browder. ratably Will Stay Now we have new and more effective laws which would permit us to get rid of Mrs. Browder, but she probably will stay here unmolested to the natural end of her days. Harry Bridges has been under an order of deportation for years and is still among us and still running a union which has power to blockade our western ports by refusing to handle cargo in any situation adversely affecting Russia. The one man who kept Bridges out of the Atlantic and Gulf ports is Joe Ryan, president Emeritus of the old International Longshoremen's Association, who recently got a hung jury in a criminal case involving graft from his union's treasury.

This probably is tantamount to dismissal because public opinion is beginning to realize that worse crooks, turned up in the expose, have not even been indicted, still less tried. The corruption in the State Department and the Justice Department whereby Bridges was given a fantastic series of delays through appeals and complex hearings will be lost to history because it is too one alien Communist a Com- meW thVt the Government has land has also been fixed by a re- munist and we still can't de- JJ infiltrated that 225 a Pfsed of church dignitaries and so- cent court decision in London. Mrs. port him. how can Joe McCar- Mpionaw that wa! "X' announced CeU' bus com- thy be asked to hold off until nu tw faJure of society's experiment pany for disfigurement she suffer- he has absolute "proof" that Pll 5 in planned carriages.

The main ed in collision, plus an additional j. a i reauires sturiv and investigation. j. al. i a mgrini, impuaeni Kea in an "ic i uiv miu tor ui loss or.

ner nusDana army radar center is a Com- BrowneU goes further: 8cheme was that Englishmen who left her because he claimed munist? found D7 "tudying showed a reluctance to marry he couldn't stand the sight of her Allan Smiley, a cheap Holly- Communist Infiltration into free women over 28. scarred face, wood crook jail-bird and asso- governments that the Communists "From our discussions with Judge Malcolm Hilbery awarded elate of the Hank Greenspun do "ot rely solely on persons who some 10,000 to 12,000 Britsh worn- her 1,555 pounds ($4,354) for the underworld mob ln Las Vegas, disloyal and those who are en," he found that unlike American disfigurement but nothing for the has been under an order to de- avowed members of the Communist women their sex interest begins to loss of her husband. He said "The portation to Canada for four Party to steal government secrets, decline in England "as early as 40 loss of such a man is not a years. He is still here. In addition to espionage agents or 45." Dr.

Wlngate said the so- serious matter." But we are proceeding witn they cleverly use first, people who ciety's trouble was that almost all With English women in their ar ulT'cu are indoctrinated witn communist aDDlications for marr aee came fort lorinu ntrnt in nn nH Wil- was deposed in favor of 11am Z. Foster. He was Pureed. however On th not Ideology in some 'front' organiza- from women and "we simply the loss of a husband of no con-tlon and who do not realize the couldn't find eligible men for the sequence over there, you can full meaning of the Communist in- age categories of women who ap- easily see how far the British have ternational conspiracy." plied." So the marriage society's slipped under Socialism. con- trary; Stalin invited him to Rus the country a seemingly harmless fellow named Haymes who married one of our prominent Hollywood cheese-cake Jobs.

And an elderly, broken-down quiescent brother of Owney Madden, the old-time bootlegger and priie-flght racketeer, is biding his time until we dump him, friendless, forlorn, broke and a stranger, in his native Liverpool. It seems he once told a lie in an affidavit Anti-Segregation Ru sia ana communism. Irene Browder went to Canada. Then a quick coup occurred. Carol Weiss King, a Communist lawyer and former associate of Max Lowenthal, Harry Truman's King-Maker and Intimate friend to this day, went mg the Southern in system I FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1954 Alexandria Daily Town Talk COME TO US FOR CAR FINANCING Because Interest rates are usually lower No hidden "extras," You deal with local people, end make local' lota.

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S. Senator from Louisiana The decision against segregation in public schools announced by the Supreme Court Monuday is In violation of the precedents established by the court throughout its history. The decision results from the tendency on the part of the court to assume legislative powers. It may result In bitter strife and hard feeling which many of us have fought for years to pre vent. The court apparently assumed, and I believe correctly, that it will have difficulty In enforcing its de crees on this subject.

nxTry-Trtiiurw, Mnr By Carrier In Alexandrla-Plnevllle Mall and Rural Delivery states. Although I completely disagree with the decision, my oath of office requires me to accept it as the law. Every citizen is likewise bound by his oath of allegiance to his country. I urge all Southern officials to avoid any sort of rash or hasty action. We should await the decree of the court and study its full effects before finally deciding upon a course of action.

Whatever course we decide upon, our purpose should be to continue the great progress that we have been making in the public education of the children of all races. TELEPHONE ALL PEP ABTMENTS DIAL (MS ADVEBTIS1NO REPRESENTATIVES -Th John R. ddomn.n Onybar one One Three I-t 1 1 1 1 I r. M.m. Vn.k.

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