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Fulton Lewis, Jr, But Is That Second Bodyguard Necessary? Page 4 Lebanon Daily News, Lebanon, Friday, January 17, 1953 gtbmrn Pailu Politics Counsel Kennedy Insists On Whitewashing Reuther AND THE LEIANON DAtlT TIMES Published Every Weekday Evening LEBANON NEWS, PUBLISHING COMPANY In News Building, 24-26 South Eighth Street Lebanon, Penna. Phone 2-5611 HENRY L. WILDER, Publisher Lebanon Semi-Weekly News Established 1894 Lebanon Daily New Established. 1872 A. S.

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Kennedy is becoming anathema to the Republican members of the Labor Rackets Investigating Committee, of which he is chief counsel. For months, he refused to take them into his confidence, whereupon they finally forced the appointment of John McGovern as their own special counsel to keep them informed of what Kennedy was doing. The young men refused to give McGovern any information, however, which left them no better off than they were before. Information that McGovern turned in, in his own investigations into the Kohler of Kohler, strike by Walter Reuthers United Auto Workers, mysteriously found its way back to Reuther. Also, if found its way into the columns of one of Kennedys favorite newspaper cronies, the publication of which tipped off an important witness, who forthwith disappeared.

Republican members are baffled by the blind defense that Chairman John McClellan puts up whenever Kennedy is criticized either within the committee or by outside sources. He takes it as criticism of himself, and theres plenty of it. Kennedys stubborn resistance to pursuing any aggressive inquiry into Reuther and his union has elicited a deluge of unfavorable mail, and seems to intensify the young mans defiance. For example, I noted in these columns recently that while McGovern was assigned one assistant investigator and a borrowed accountant from the Genera! Accounting Office for the Kohler investigation, Kennedy had a staff of 55 still burrowing for dirt in the already discredited Teamsters Union. A reader wrote to Mr.

Kennedy, asking how come, and she received over his signature on official committee stationery the following: In reply to your recent card and for -your personal information, the committee has approximately 25 staff members assigned to it. Therefore, the figures you have received from some source would be, like many other statements, completely inaccurate. Sincerely yours, Robert Kennedy, Chief Counsel. I have rechecked my original information with the chief clerk of the committee, Mrs. Ruth Young Watt a careful and conscientious woman who keeps the committee records, handles the payroll, and is generally in, charge of committee housekeeping.

She informs me that as of the date Mr. Kennedy wrote his letter there were 52 staff members. Of these, 33 were full-fledged investigators and the remainder were researchers, clerks and other similar workers. However, this dees not tell the whole story. The committee makes a practice of borrowing auditors from the General Accounting Office, and Mrs.

Watt informs me that on the date in question, there ware approximately 20 such accounting experts attached to the committee staff, bringing the real total to about 72. One of the Republican members, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, informs me that presently the total is nearer 100. All of this seems strangely at variance with the figures of 25, which Mr. Kennedy specified In his letter. What happens to the Reuther-UAW investigation from here on out, under his direction? Reuther's Fantasy Latest proposals of Walter Reuther, head of the United Auto Workers, are sheer economic nonsense.

Reuther! job is to bargain for the members of his own union. But he is not content with this. His new proposal amounts to an effort to negotiate not only the wages paid to union labor but the dividends paid to stockholders, the compensation paid to management, and prices paid by the customer for the industrys product. Powerful as he now is, with these added powers he would truly be the auto industrys czar. Reuther obviously has little use for the American system of free enterprise and is determined to twist it into something more to his liking.

He wants one-quarter of the profits which the industry makes before taxes, after a 10 per cent return on a companys net capital, to go to the industrys wage earners and another quarter to go back to ear buyers in the form of rebates. He ignores the fact that the industry! like all other business; already has to pay more than half its profits to the federal government in taxes and he glosses over the fact that he intends to demand wage boosts for UAW members of unspecified size on top of his profit-sharing demands. Reuther is off his rocker if he expects the auto industry to yield to these demands. Westbrook Pegier New York Times Pulled Another Fast One On Its Readers In Review Of Ashmore Book lost For Today That on good ground are they, tbhich in any honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. Luke 8:15 George E.

Sokolsky Intra-Parly Fight Caused Daily Workers Suspension In County, State ond Nation Earl Acker being elected president of the Yeung Democratic Club of Lebanon is an honor to 8 well-deserved Democratic political worker. Acker long has been so-live within the party and hos held some top posts in the past with the organization. Acker is considered one the' lop Democratic leaders in the community. Political crystal ball gazers for the coming elections were given their first opportunity to offer explanations and predictions in an election held early this week. In New York State three state legislators and a U.

S. Congressman were elected a special election. The Republicans upset the Democrats for the congressional seat but the Democrats! took three seats from the Republicans in the slate assembly. This -election hps both (lie party bigwigs of both- Republicans and Democrats along with the political experts a bit confused. It could be that tilings will be quite confusing throughout the country during this election year.

Pennsylvania political experts will be watching the special election in Westmoreland County next Tuesday. The Republicans claim a good chance of upsetting Senator John Dent fur the congressional seat but Democratic Chairman Joe Barr says the election is in the bag. The entire state will be watching the outcome. The Democrats hold ttie edge In Westmoreland, Pennsylvania will be represented a brief filed with Connecticuts Supreme Court stating the American Bar Associations opposition to the practice of some Hartford banks in employing staff attorneys instead of Independent lawyers for the administration rf estates and trusts. Andrew Houri-' gan, Wilkes-Barre attorney, will watch the case for the State Bar Association.

The brief to be incorporated into the court record states that staff lawyers named under such conditions could have divided allegiance first to their banks and second to the estates. Governor Leaders appointment of Philadelphia attorney Vincent G. Panati to the state revenue secretarys post is viewed as another move to keep Rep. William J. Green fixm putting his powerful Philadelphia organization into tho gubernatorial race being staged by Lt.

Gov. Roy E. Furman. Panati was Greens hand-picked candidate for the job. Green was miffed a year or so ago when the "good government forces in Leaders administration persuaded him to dump two of Green's men from important state powls.

But as 1958 approached, there was an inclination to be more practical about such matters. next nwve probably will be to break down Greens opposition to Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dil worth as the Democratic gubernatorial candidate tins year. Labor Highway Men Will Also Face Probers Victor Riesei The McClellan racket busting committee has the quixotic notion that Americas new roads should not be paved with gold especially the publics gold. All of which appears to disturb a band of bulldozers, known as the International Union of Operating Engineers. which has been waiting eagerly for the U.

S. to launch its $32,000,000,000 turnpike program. Thus it was inevitable that the Senate probers would turn to those cloistered highway men the president, national executive council members and some regional chiefs of the union with which every government contractor must deal after the surveyors put away their squint glasses. Before a contractor can tear up an inch of turf, he must first talk to and deal with some local official of the Operating Engineers. It is then decided how many men and how many huge machines will be needed, how fast the project will go through who will handle the concrete, the sheetings for the side trenches and the asphalt.

From the line of questioning of reform elements in this powerful unions, the Senate investigators, under counselor Robert Kennedy, seem to believe that in the past the government has lost millions of dollars through collision between contractors and local union officials. There is one actual instance on record where an Operating Engineers local cost the Atomic Energy Commission hundreds of thousands of dollars in heavy extra costs and incalculable losses in delays. NEW YORK, Jan. 16 1 present a flagrant example of leering impudence by the New York Time toward readers wjio may Jiave innocent faith. On Sunday, Jan.

12, the Times ran an exaggerated laudation of a political tract by Harry S. Ashmore, executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette, of Little Rock, published under the title of An Epitaph For Dixie. For Reviewer, the Times chose Hoddmg Carter, who runs a small paper in Greenville, called the Democrat-Times. It is distinguished from a thousand other Small-city papers only by Carters impudence in nn eking the sentiments, the social customs and the precious moral souvenirs of the Old South, lie is exceptional only when he presumes to abuse his professional betters, as in this essay where he speaks Jaimes Kilpatrick of the Richmond News-Leader and Tom Waring of the Charleston News and Courier as axstles of neo-socessionism. These are two of the best journalists in the country.

Both are gentlemen ond neither Ashmore nor Carter is fit to run their copy. Both have defended the Constitution against the wanton litics of the Supreme Court and neither has ever proposed secession. Arthur Hays Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times, came to journalism from the textile trade. His success was rapid after he married the boss daughter, Miss Iphigene Obis, in 1917. Sulzberger has collected many empty degrees, awards and citations and his yearning for recognition is a footnote phenomenon a O'mmunist institution.

Ashmore is no better writer than Carter. If the New York Times Sunday book section had intended to give an honest, impartial appraisal of a book it could have found a hundred better writers within a mile if tho office. For that matter, Carter is not literary at all except by debatable courtesy. His sole distinction was a Pulitzer Award for editorial writing ten years ago. This is the lowest category of the Pulitzer Aw'ards in daily urnalism and it always goes to hacks whose attitude agrees with the bigotries of the Pulitzer jurors.

II. L. Mencken, the greatest editorialist of his time, but an independent thinker, never got honorable mention from the Pulitzer board. A few years age, Look Magazine assigned Carter to interview me. He telephoned that he was in town, stating his mission, but though I made myself convenient I have never seen him yet.

Nevertheless, Carter did his piece, probably a distillation of accumulated laudations fix the Daily Worker and other Rooseveltian organs. One gets used to that. In this case, the New York Times slipped over a plug for its own editorial policy on the pretext of reviewing a book in the literature department. It was the lead-off essay with' a whole front page and a jump of two additional columns on page 30. There was a big square picture of Ashmore, looking homespun, in the middle of the cover.

It is a perfect example of Sulzbergers ideal of interpretive journalism. in the pell-mell career of the American press of his time. Ashmore is a subsidized protege of the Ford Foundations mischievous venture against state rights in the segregation trouble. But, before getting into that deal, by Paul Hoffmans approval, when Hoffman was leveling out the Foundations millions, Ashmore campaigned for Governor Orval Fau-bus notwithstanding the fact that Faubus had been a student leader in a Communist college at Mena, Ark. John Wells, publisher of a new, and, thus far, smaller Little Rock paper.

The Recorder, clouted Faubus and Ashmore with the truth of this matter' for years. Ashmore belittled Faubus implication in this notorious exploit and fougt for him in politics until Faubus ipposed association, the Southern term for integration. On that they fell out. But Faubus is more anti-Negro than pro-Constitu-tion, while Ashmore is pro-Negro and pre-Supreme Court. The Constitution figures little in their debate.

To Wells, the issue was not one of race but strictly a Constitutional matter. And he still harps on the fact that Faubus was a student leader in a sbiool condemned and closed by public authority as The closing of the Daily Worker and the resignation of John Gates from the Ccmmunist Party may give the impression that that party is dead. John Gates, editor of the Daily Worker and once the commissar of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade which foug. in the Spanish Civil War, has been an important figure in the Communist Party. He had served a term in prison under the Smith Act.

Since the death of Stalin, there has been a split in the American Communist Party between those w.io accept Moscows word absolutely and those who are critical of the Kremlin. Among the many who have resigned from the party under these circumstances has been Howard Fast, the writer, who in Soviet Russia has been acclaimed as the foremost American author of this generation. The Daily Worker had been in existence 34 years. The reason given for the suspension the publication is lack of financial support. This is only true to the extent that Soviet Russia would not support a newspaper edited by the Right Deviationist, John Gates.

The American Communist Party has never been short of funds, such being provided either by rich Americans wt wish to remake the world or by the Kremlin. In February, 1937, at the Sixteenth National Convention of the American Communist Party, a potent quarrel place between the Kremlin crowd and the Right Wing who were attempting to follow Earl Browders concept of American exceptionalism, that is, that economic and social in the United States are different from other countries and that therefore the rules set up by the Kremlin cannot be applied to this country. Soviet Russia requires each Communist Party in every country to be a branch of the Russian party and subservient to it. During W.rld War II because communica tions were difficult, Browder was able to establish a nationalistic Communist Party in the United States. Immediately after the war, Browder was expelled from the American party.

However, American Communists had experienced a measure of freedom from Soviet dicta and sme preferred it. Furthermore, as the cold war progressed, Russia tended to ignore the party and to depend more and more upon spies and agents whose job was not so much agitatko and propaganda as it was, and is, corruption and sabotage. Those who favor being subservient to Moscow, under any circumstances, are led by William Z. Foster and Eugene Dennis who have long been party functionaries. Opp sed to them is a group led by John Gates, editor of the Daily Worker, who employed this party newspaper to advocate his point of view.

Gates has held that Russian communism, inconsistent, racist in the sense that it has become overtly anti-Semitic, violently anti-American, in fact, is forcing upon every member of Ine party an attitude of treason. The Gates faction sought to sell the medication, Marxism, in a more beautiful package, even one wrapped in the American flag. This sentence may sound as though I question the sincerity of Gates motives; I do not. Many Communists have faced the preposition that they cannot submit to the Kremlin demand that they be robots, without thought or emotion. In the August 1937 issue of the Soviet periodical Kommunist, John Gates was identified by B.

N. Ponomarev, member of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party, as a re-visknist. Such a mention is equivalent as a warning of early excommunication. In November 1957, representatives of the Soviet Communist Party and 11 other Communist controlled countries signed a joint (Continued From Ff Eight! Another Red Invader The fire ant is a subversive little character that has been invading the United States from the South. Yes, it is Red.

Apparently the first infiltration occurred more than 30 years ago, when a few cadres of underground workers smuggled themselves ashore from a fruit ship docked at Mobile, Ala. By now it ha3 infested eight Southern states 10 if the claim of two others to have wiped out the invader proves over-optimistic. If nothing were done to check the advance, the invading hordes might spread to most of the nation in a few years. But something is being done. The U.

S. Department of Agriculture is starting a major offensive against the fire ant, using the hydro-carbon dieldrin, a chemical described as 40 times as toxic on skin as DDT. The fire ant is more than a petty annoyance. Its fiery bite, to which it owes its can cause death to persons allergic to its poison. Otherwise the area bitten may merely burn like fire, then fester, and finally leave a tiny white scar.

But sometimes the whole body may itch and burn. There may be a clogging the windpipe and choking feelings in throat and chest. Between 20 and 30 million acres are infested with their 18-inch-high 'mounds, and there are sometimes as many as 200 mounds, each an entire colony of fire ants, to a single acre. The ants attack and kill chickens, calves and pigs, overlay the topsoil with hardpan, cause farm machinery to break or jam on their mounds. But the department is not taking it for granted that its efforts will be welcomed.

Its smaller DDT campaign against the gypsy moth brought storms of protest against poisoning the soil and the populace. This time the department is conducting an educational program in the South before the counter-offensive starts, and organizing strong local support. But insects, because a single generation is so short that mutations are many and evolution is rapid, often develop resistance to insecticides. Has the Department of Agriculture considered the feasibility of importing a few battalions of hungry anteaters? Henry McLemore Henry Cancels Journey To Spanish Utopia have to leave Majorca and return lo tine cruel world of grasping landlords, cagey butchers, hungry dry cleaners, and scores of merchants eager to separate us from our money. A week, or two weeks, or even six months of Majorca would slip by quickly, and that would be the end of living on a romantic isle for practically nothing.

Living like a millionaire is great if you can keep it up, but this business of pheasant one day and sparrow the next is too much of a shock. We decided that both of us had BARCELONA Remember the isle of Majorca I wrote about the other day where everything is so beautiful and so cheap, and how I said we could hardly wait to get packed and be off for this enchanting spot? Well, we're not going. At the last moment, sitting atop our packed portmanteaus, Mary and I held a "Summit Cbn-ference and decided that we didn't dare risk a visit to such a perfect-sounding place. A trip to Majorca if it is anything like what everyone who has been there says it is would spoil us. Eventually we would worried too long to find ourselves suddenly in a land where worry has no part in the daily schedule, lt would be upsetting.

And it would take some of the zest from life, too. One doesnt search under the sofa cushions for grocery money for years without developing a liking for that exciting form of the hunt. What can match the thrill of finding a half-dollar in an overstuffed chair when you need exactly 45 cents to go get the laundry? In Majorca ones laundry bill is nothing, and one's grocery bill is lithe more. First thing wed know, wed wind up the week with money to spare, and that might well lead us into mischief. After years of no money, extra money might be too severe a strain on our character.

There's no telling what we might do. I might buy a tie without first looking on the underside to see the price tag, or Mary might go wild and give up shampooing her owm hair. Whats Right--Whats Wrong some contractors on a viaduct project. The McClellan Committee believes that the same forces which ran this pivotal union then, still run it with terror, violence, shakedowns, looting and dictatorship from New York to San Francisco. but heres the question we failed to answer: Who are the three non-presidents pictured on the bills? On the $10 bill is Alexander Hamilton, an early secretary of the treasury.

On the $100 bill is Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of this great Republic. And on the $10,000 bill is Salmon P. Chase, a secretary of treasury and member of the U.S. Supreme Court. No laughs today, just good solid information.

And if anyone has an extra $10,000 bill kicking around, bring it up to the office, wed like to admire Mr. Chases face. Maybe you are not aware of it, but this is the start of National Thrift Week. So if you have a few extra bucks rattling around in your pockets give serious thought to socking them away in a savings account. Youll not regret it, come a rainy day.

And while we on the subject of currency wed like to ask you a question which was tossed at us yesterday by one of our photographers on his return from an assignment. Do you know that of the famous men pictured on our American paper money all but three were presidents of the United States. Yes, thats right. Young Chess Champ Chess may be a game for graybeards, but its the young fellows who excel at it. The new United States champion is a 14-year-old Brooklyn schoolboy named Bobby Fischer.

Bobby is the youngest person ever to win the national title, and no other country has ever had a champion that young. Most of the outstanding players of the past were impressive while they were still in short pants, but didnt win any really big championships until they were older. The new champ replaces Samuel Reshev-sky, who had beeq winning American championships so regularly that he seemed to have a permanent lease on the title. Sammy is a former child prodigy himself. Coming here from his native Poland as a small boy, he toured the country giving simultaneous exhibitions against scores of adults in various cities.

Grown up, he became perennial national champion and an international grand master, who finished third in a tournament held to select a new world champion after the death of Alexander Alekline a decade ago. Now he is pushing 50, and tournament chess is a young mans game. Surprisingly, it takes a lot or physical stamina. Young Fischer, who deposed Reshevsky, has been playing in tournaments for several years. Last year he won the U.

S. Open title, but the Open is a less exalted event and Reshevsky was not entered. grand in bets, never even bothering to turn a card. For appropriating these funds without due process he got three to five years in the state prison. At the trial, the prosecuting attorney said, They (Annunziato and his pais) considered themselves a law unto themselves and felt secure Business Agent Annunziato found his two-fisted background no handicap to advancement in the Operating Engineer.

It appears to have been a recommendation, in fact. He is still the man the contractors in Connecticut must see and the rest of the labor movement there must deal with, though, in the days since the card-game, he also has smashed up, two restaurants and punched' an opponent across the face while two men held the victim's arms. In this notorious national union there has been terror, which included the near acid-blinding of one vice-president. There has been the arbitrary expulsion of reform elements. There.

have been the crudest shakedowns of many of the 270.000 decent rank-and-filers who must pay tribute to some local officials for the right to earn their living. The Senate probers want to take a look at the mulcting of money, but they are also concerned with the theft of human dignity. Ago There are at least 15 local unions which have been run by the unions wraith-iike president, William Maloney, who seldom is seen and accounts to no one on salaries. expenses, or union rules. This is the original school for scandal where they don't even bother to rig elections.

They just declare themselves elected without any voting. The Committees plan is first to put the entire national leadership on the witness stand. Then the oi-ficers of local after local wilt lie asked to explain and there probably will be more Fifths taken than you can shake the Bill of Rights at. Typical, and the word is used advisedly, is the power in Connecticut Local 473. It is controlled -by a pug with a whim of iron, one Salvatore Annunziato, known in his professional boxing days as Midge Renault.

Just to show you what a sense of humor this fellow has. he some companions walked into a card game of some friends back in 1945, watched a few hands, then put a shot through the floor and walked off with five Oh, theres go doubt that ed return from Majorca spoiled swells, completely unable to pick up the threads of our old life. Id probably refuse to have my shoes half-soled, or used a razor blade more than once, and Mary might balk at using leftover meat in green peppers. Hotel prices and apartment rents would appall us, and people would think we were crazy when we tried to engage a cook or a maid for. a buck a week, which I understand is a fair price for help on Majorca.

No, were staying away from that tempting spot Our character? are reasonably strong, but a spot like that might very well break them down, and make us over into a pair of whining malcontents. Its too much of a risk. Besides the fare from here is a bit more than we thought! 7938-7958 Twenty Years JANUARY 18, 1938 Congressman Guy Swope told local Chamber of Commerce members that business and industry should be more deeply concerned with the basic even flow of industry rather than with government levies on the profits therefrom. Earl Horst and Harry E. tig, of the Schaefferstown schools, and Wilmer Brandt, of the Derry Township school at Hershey, were among 59 boys who displayed outstanding lead- With billions of dollars at stake in the new road-building program, the McClellan Committee is taking no chances on new collusive deals between contractors and local union officials.

Such deals could cover up the use. for example. of one inch of asphalt on a highway whore government specifications call for two inches. Not only millions of dollars are involved but, in the final analysis, perhaps, the safety of millions of drivers. How big this kind of "take can be was seen when extortionist Joe Fay and his crowd were taken into court a decade ago and the government proved that almost was shaken down from ership in three years of vocational agricultural courses.

They were given degrees of Keystone Farmers at the State Farm Show. A handwriting expert was called to give testimony on whether the signature on the will of the late Elmer Haak is genuine. Betty Jane Fink, daughter of Mr. and Ed Trainor, of 36 Hoke and a seventh grader at St. Marys School, is celebrating her 12th birthday..