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JA-5 THE HUNTSVILLE TIMES-Sunday, Sept. 10, 1961 Right In There Pitching All The Time McCarthy ism Rears Its Head Shoes For Needy Come Tied Now As Requested The public has responded almost 100 per cent to a request from Christmas Charities Service that shoes given for needy persons be tied together before placing in Little Red School-houses. Workers in the sorting room at he agencys new location on Pu-aski Pike, said practically all shoes given in the last several Jays have been put together and tied into bags or pairs tied together. The request was made to save time in sorting and assembling items for use in the School Clothing Room which has been put into operation the past week in the midst of the moving of the agency from its former location on Eustis Street. Items still short in supply are boys underwear for all ages, and socks and underwear for small girls.

Items with worn-out elastic can be repaired and elastic will be replaced. Thurmond Pushes To Prove Army Rightists Are Muzzled People's Forum IN MR. CHASES MEMORY Editor Huntsville Times: But for my physical condition I should have written earlier to expressmy deep regreat and genuine sorrow at the passing of Mr. Henry B. Chase.

I know The Times has carried full details about his long life, his achievements as head of the Chase Nursery Company and as an active public citizen. For almost thirty years I knew him well and during that period I also loved and admired his younger brother, Robert C. Chase, whom Mr. Henry adored. They made a great team and although they were of different dispositions, no two brothers could have been closer.

The Chase Brothers were a rertiarkable quartet: all born in Maine they came first to North Carolina and then migrated to Alabama to establish the Chase Nursery Company. In more than sixty years it has had the highest reputation, both national and local. Now Henry H. Chase, son of Robert Chase is carrying on the nursery tradition and his son Henry has joined him. Mr.

Henry, as everyone called him, was a thrifty soul. He liked to make money but never threw any away foolishly. He was more than generous to public causes and he and his company were always among the top contributors to public needs. He also gave his time and vigor to the success of all good causes. There are many other things that could be told about this remarkable man.

He was beloved by the citizens of Huntsville as few men ever were. Peace to his memory. REESE T. AMIS Editor Emeritus The Times Tired feet? EDITH HERMIT ROOSEVELT Who Is Backing Accusers Of Gen. Edwin Walker? which military officials participated in cold-war seminars designed to increase public awareness of the nature of the Communist menace.

The central theme running through these seminars, the memo observed, was that the primary danger to America is internal Communist infiltration. Social legislation is equated with socialism and socialism with communism. Much of the administrations domestic legislative program would be characterized under this philosophy as steps toward communism, the memo said. In addition to a conflict of philosophy, however, between Thurmond and Fulbright, there may be some cut-throat politicking in the works as well. There is widescread speculation here that Thurmond may have joined a Southern clique intent on defeating Fulbright when he runs for re-election next year.

Thurmonds quarrel with McNamara includes not only the Walker case, but the choice of anti-Communist films used to indoctrinate the troops, and the fact that parts of speeches have been deleted before the admirals and generals were allowed to give them. Thurmond throws the soft on communism charge around in a manner reminiscent of the late Joe McCarthy but Robert McNamara does not wilt the way Army Secretary Robert Stevens used to do. He not only stuck to his guns on the Walker case but indicated, after reading the record and discovering some new information, that further action may be taken against General Walker. This would please Rep. Frank Kowalski, D-Conn.

Like Thurmond, Kowalski is a former Army officer. He was graduated from West Point and retired as a colonel. He, however, does not agree with Thurmond that the Army can do no wrong. He has been trying for weeks to get the Army to release the information which McNamara disclosed to the Senate hearing this week. He says he can only infer that the Army was suppressing the report in an attempt not only to protect Walker but the whole system.

If Walker were to be court-martialed, he continues, it might turn out that he was not acting against the wishes of his own commander. Kowalski says he thinks that Gen. Bruce C. Clark, commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, was aware of what was going on and is partly responsible.

Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-Ga, chairman of the committee McNamara appeared before, put off until Monday a decision as to whether Thurmond is going to get the investigation he has demanded. Most observers, however, would be surprised if the investigation were voted. For one thing, the cooler heads on Capitol Hill do not wish to contribute to the heat that has been generated by the wild charges of extremists.

Secondly, another factor in the Walker case is now disclosed. He himself was a member of the John Birch Society. This came to light when the Armys official investigation report was made public following McNamaras session on Capitol Hill. Senate Armed Services Committee will deny Sen. Thurmond the investigation he craves: By WILLIAM McGAFFIN Chicago Daily News Service WASHINGTON The charge that the military are being muzzled was made on Capitol Hill in this week just ended.

The charge, and a demand that the Defense Department be investigated as a result, were made by a senator and a representative. Involved was the question of what the proper role of the military should be in alerting the civilian public to the dangers of communism. And of what type of material should be used in troop information programs. Sen. Strom Thurmond, stuck stubbornly to his position despite testimony that appeared to satisfy the other members of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The testimony was given by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. He disclosed, for the first time, one of the additional reasons why Maj. Gen. Edwin A.

Walker was given an official admonition and relieved of his command of the U.S. 24th Division in Germany in April. The reasons given in June, when the results of an Army investigation were announced, wTas that he had made derogatory remarks about some prominent Americans he described former President Truman, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as definitely pink and he participated in controversial activities that went beyond his prerogatives. It was not until McNamara appeared at the hearing this week, however, that the public learned Walker had also tried to influence (in an ultra-conservative direction) the way his men and their families voted in the 1960 congressional elections.

Thurmonds call for an investigation was echoed from the other side of Capitol Hill by Rep. John H. Rousselot, R-Calif, who is an acknowledged member of the John Birch Society. (Robert Welch the founder of this extreme right-wing organization, has charged that former President Eisenhower is a Communist, and he is seeking the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren on the same charge.) Thurmond is not a Birchite but he is an arch-conservative and a major general in the U.S. Army Reserve who holds that the Army can do no wrong.

It is his allegation that Gen, Walker was crucified because he was a zealous anti-Communist. The far-right forces of America are striving now to make a martyr out of Walker, as evidenced by the flood of propaganda being turned out by Kent Courtney, national chairman of the Conservative Society of America, whose headquarters are in New Orleans. Thurmond has been fuming ever since a fellow Southern Democrat, Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, sent a private memorandum to the secretary of defense and the President.

Fulbright was concerned about the possibility that military officers with extremist views may be using the cold war as a pretext to arouse unwarranted fears about the dangers of Communist subversion in the United States. His memo cited a dozen occasions in However, the Associated Press in a Saturday dispatch from Washington is not agreed on the chances that the The case of Gen. Edwin A. Walker has revealed odd circumstances involving the political influence wielded by the Overseas Weekly, a scandal sheet circulating among some 50,000 servicemen in Europe. Most Americans in this coun psychiatrist as saying that the Too many steps? Lawrence Continued From Page 4 with, however, it is being suggested that the Moscow government may be willing to enter into an agreement to ban further testa indefinitely or at least until Soviet scientists again produce something on the drawing boards that absolutely requires testing in order to determine its effectiveness.

But, assuming that there soon will be a moratorium again on nuclear tests, what assurance has the world that one man in the Kremlin may not take some military step that will compel the use first of smaller nuclear weapons and then later on of the bigger ones? For, once a battle starts, it might be difficult to secure any sudden stoppage, and the final result could be a terrible loss of human lives. Theoretically, the United Nations was supposed to be a forum in which such a vital subject might be debated. But there are no signs as yet that world opinion has been mobilized to bring about action at the U.N. to require a binding agreement covering not just the tests but the actual use of nuclear weapons in the future. One would think that the conscience of mankind would be troubled not oniy that nuclear war is seriously contemplated as a possibility but that no method of restraint has been devised by the peoples of the world to avoid what Prime Minister Lloyd George of Britain in 1919 called organized murder.

For war today with nuclear weapons would be far more a fulfillment of that term than it has ever been in human history. Been standing in line? PAY BILLS BY check Pearson Continued From Page 4 new life into his Commerce Department. One proposal he made to Cabinet colleagues recently was that all visiting foreign dignitaries pay a visit to the Commerce Department. The past routine for foreign visitors was to lay a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier, go to Mount Vernon and, sometimes, the Lincoln Memorial. In addition, Hodges wants them to realize that commerce is the blood stream of international understanding.

Secretary of State Rusk quickly adopted the idea and has now ruled that all foreign ministers and economic ministers shall include the Commerce Department in their itineraries. Secretary Hodges feels that many foreign economic ministers have no idea of the use they could make of the Commerce Department to spread information regarding their countries in the U. S. A. and to receive information on American business.

Diplomatic Chaff Vice President Johnson didn't go to Berlin for the purpose of getting into German politics, but his visit, nonetheless, has strengthened the chances that Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin might become the new chancellor of West Germany. Brandt is now given a fighting chance to unseat Chancellor Adenauer. Director Allen Dulles of Central Intelligence this time gave advance warning that President Quadros of Brazil would resign. CIA agents picked up the news ten days before Quadros suddenly bowed out. One reason for the resumption of Soviet nuclear testing was the fact that they are considerably behind the United States in atomic artillery and small weapons.

Red army leaders have been pestering Khrushchev for some time to give them a chance to catch up with the U. S. A. State Department has reported to President Kennedy that the election in British Guiana of the left-wing regime headed by Cheddi Jagan is a disaster for democracy in Latin America. Secretary Rusk regards Jagan as a full-fledged Communist.

He recommended that Guiana be disqualified from any Amen-can aid under the Alliance for Progress. Movie-Go-Hound German censors are cracking down on feminine "charm. Theyve banned the Hollywood picture Kiss Me As If Theres No Tomorrow' because starlet Regina Seiffert has a bosom dimension of 42 inches. This is abou right for a Hollywood starlet who wants to make good, but German' censors claim its too big for the German screen. East German TV sets can pick up TV shows from all over West Germany.

When U. S. Information officers fed a series of Westerns into the TV stations in West Germany, they got top ratings in East Germany. Everyone tuned in. But the East German press came out with editorials recalling that Americans had taken the country away from the poor Indians, had treated the Indians like dirt, was now preparing to do the same elsewhere around the world.

more you train a boy to trust and believe implicitly in any political system including our own the more vulnerable you leave him to that type of coercion (brainwashing). The Overseas Weekly has also worried our West German allies not only because of its content but because of the activities of some of its personnel. As the Berlin crisis reaches a crescendo a book has just been published by the editor of the Weekly, John Dornberg, a 1 led Schizophrenic Germany. The message contained in the book is that Germans have a split soul and have not recovered from their Nazi and anti-Semitic past. The Bonn government has a suit pending against the Overseas Weeklys ace reporter, Siegfried Naujocks.

Among other charges brought against Naujocks is that he tried to injure the morale of North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops by spreading false information on Gen. Walker. Several months before the paper denounced Gen. Walkers information program for his troops, Naujocks is accused of telling the generals troops false information that Gen. Walker was mentally ill.

Thurmond Probing Sen. Strom Thurmond is interested in investigating the activities of the Overseas Weekly but the newspaper seems to have powerful friends. A clue as to whom they might be is furnished by an item in the Tarrytown, N.Y., Daily News of May 1. The article identifies Gene Bernald. 126 Millard Philipse Manor, Tarrytown, N.

Y. as a director of International Media the company which publishes Overseas Weekly. The article identifies Bernald as participating operator and part owner of Radio Swan. Radio Swan, the Caribbean radio station linked to the Central Intelligence Agency, was to alert the Cuban underground so that an uprising in Cuba could support the invasion attempt. The signal was never broadcast.

On April 22. The New York Times said that Radio Swan, a CIA operated propaganda station on Swan Island compounded the uncertainty and confusion of the anti-Communist Cubans by claiming victories and uprisings that were not actually happening. All this may seem a long way from Gen. Walker. But it would be interesting to learn more about the character and activities of the first accusers of this American war hero.

obtain the release of the RB47 fliers captured in the Soviet Union. McNamara told the committee that Pentagon policy did restrict Four Huntsvillians returned to the public utterances of military; St. Andrews School in St. An- try first heard of the Overseas Weekly when Gen. Walker was relieved of his command of the 24th Infantry Division in Germany after the weekly accused the general of endorsing the philosophy of the ultra-conservative John Birch Society for his troops.

The Army cleared the general of the papers charge but admonished him after a hearing which still has not been made public. This was not the first time that the 0 as Weekly has bested a top ranking military officer. rooSEVELT On July 28, 1953, Lt. Gen. Charles Bolte, commanding general of the Army in Europe, banned the newspaper from the stands of the Armys newspaper, Stars and Stripes.

According to a Pentagon spokesman, the newspaper was considered injurious to the morale and welfare of the command. Action Overruled But Boltes action was overruled on Aug. 13, 1953 when the weeklys publisher, Mrs. Marion von Rospach, promised Pentagon officials that she would clean it up. In 1957 criteria for use by local commanders in screening publications were set fortn in an enclosure accompanying a memorandum sent to all chaplains in military commands.

This guidance sheet says: Materials which are morally acceptable for sale and circulation are those which generally create a favorable climate, encourage a realization of moral, spiritual and religious values: tend generally toward favorable treatment of marriage, a strong home life, patriotism, decency, honesty, integrity, and other virtues essential to the well being of individuals and the nation. Whether or not the Overseas Weekly meets such criteria can be seen by its feature of July 28, 1960, describing publication of a Ladies Directory which lists play for pay gals by name and address in London's Soho district. 45 GIs Entertained Its issue of Oct. 9, 1960, tells readers about Marthe Watts, who was convicted 400 times for soliciting and whose busiest day came in 1945 when she entertained 45 GIs. But there is a more serious side to the Overseas Weekly sometimes referred to as the "Oversexed Weekly by its soldier readers.

This side is to be found mainly in its editorials which have been viewed with concern by commanders responsible for training troops. For instance, an issue of Aug. 28, 1960, carries an editorial on brainwashing titled Fixed Beliefs Vulnerable. It quotes a drews, for the 1961-62 School term. Attending the Episcopal school are George Apos- Save TIME and ENERGY on bill-paying days! Write your checks in the comfort of home at your convenience! tolos, 2306 California Tom Its the modern, businesslike WASHINGTON (AP) Backed by a flood of protest mail, Sen.

Strom Thurmond, appears likely to win a fight for a further investigation of Pentagon censorship of military officers speeches. Unless signals are changed, the Senate Armed Services Committee is expected to decide next week that its Preparedness subcommittee should inquire into Thurmond's charges that some officers have been muzzled in expressing anti-Communist sentiments. Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss heads the subcommittee. Presum- Democratic leaders hope the inquiry can be held to a low key.

The understanding is that the investigation would be carried out largely behind closed doors. Public sessions would be held only after the committee had looked at all the evidence. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara obviously convinced a majority of the armed services group in testimony earlier in the week that the Pentagon is not trying to soften the policy line against communism. McNamara conceded that some phrases regarded as provocative had been deleted from military men but kept them from involvement in politics thus preventing confusion over national policy.

But senators said they were getting heavy mail protesting that the policy was denying service leaders the opportunity to speak out on the menace of communism. Some of them said they felt the controversy raised over the matter would only be increased by denying an inquiry and that the only way to quiet it ably Thurmond would be added men's speeches at times, such as way to manage finances better! OPEN an account NOWI MAIN OFFICE West Side Square, Downtown PARKWAY BRANCH 2511 Memorial Parkway, SW BRANCH OFFICE 500 Madison Street BUILDING 3631 Facility At Redstone Arsenal to the membership. 'when efforts were being made to lay through further investigation. U. S.

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Members of the annual staff are: Carolyn Moon, editor; Douglas Nayman, assistant editor; Sylvia Moon, business manager; Diane Shockley, circulation manager; Nancy Bryant, sports edi tor; Jean Towry, photographer; Sarah Odell, Jeannie Sheely, Le-veda Landman and Georgia Hyatt, typists. Move To Block Merger Of Banks Is Rejected FIRST NATIONAL Member F.D.i.C. The Times News Service ATHENS, Ala. Athens Police Chief John Sandlin is convinced it pays to trust some people. When a Ft.

Campbell, Ky soldier, E. W. Poole, 24, was stop ped for speeding here the night of Aug. 26 as he was enroute from his base to Birmingham, officers found some beer in his car. In addition to the $28 speeding fine, Poole was assessed $18 for possession of the beer.

But, he told Sandlin, he only had enough money to pay the smaller fine, and asked to be allowed to sign a bond on the other count. He told Sandlin he was due to go leaving the combined bank without authority to issue checks or make loans. The merged bank would be the fourth largest in the world and the third largest in the city. The Department of Justice held that the merger would lessen competition substantially and create a monopoly in violation of antitrust laws. Atty.

Gen. Robert F. Kennedy said in Washington, We believe the merger of these banks would result in increased concentration of financial power in a city where such concentration already is heavy. NEW YORK (AP) A government move to block a merger of the Manufacturers Trust Co. and the Hanover Bank was rejected Saturday by U.S.

Dist. Court Judge John M. Cashin. Cashin, however, granted a government request that they show cause Tuesday why a temporary injunction should not be granted. Cashins action in rejecting the governments bid for a temporary restraining order will permit the banks to open Monday in merged form.

The state banking department argued that a restraining order would have caused chaos Monday, WASHINGTON The average city dweller in the United States makes about two trips a day by car or transit vehicle. home on leave Sept. 1 and would remit the $28 from there. Yesterday Sandlin received $28 money order from Poole at bama Open golf tournament sched-ly mailed him a receipt READ THE WANT ADS.