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'Plane to Tower Plane to Tower Report From Washington: Narcotics Chief Tells of Need For Heavy Penalties for Guilty (Editors Note: This is another in a series of articles by federal government officials written especially for the Redwood City Tribuile at the request of Congressman J. Arthur Younger. Todays story deals with the illegal narcotics traffic.) Page 16 Redwood City (Cal.) Tribune, Aug. 27, 1954 JJg PpowICT Tribune's Opinion Page Reds Must Enjoy Our EDC Failure Failure of the European Defense Community plan appears to have cleared the way for another step in the Russian Communist expansionist program. Without EDC it may be only a matter of time before all of Europe is gobbled up by the big Red machine unless some new effective program is devised by the West.

No such program has emerged from the leaders of the West. So far there has been gloom only. EDC was a plan to combine the military might of six west European nations as insurance against Russian attack. France, looking back to three invasions by the Germans, has scuttled the plan for fear that the proposed German units would dominate EDC. What can be done in Western Europe now? Without EDC, the western powers, including the United States, have few options.

They can abandon plans for unified military action in Western Europe and let each arm itself as it pleases. This obviously would be fought by France if it meant a rebirth of the German army. They can arm separately forbidding that privilege to Germany. That failed to help after World War I for very long. Or they can simply resign themselves to occupying Germany for centuries or to assimilating her.

That obviously is both impossible and contrary to democratic ideas of self-determination. Russia must be laughing itself sick at the dilemma of the West. For Russia, Western Europe would be no problem. It would take her little time to assimilate the western nations of Europe. We still would have datelines of Paris, Brussels, The Hague, but the stories following them would parrot Moscow.

The Iron Curtain would have reached the shores of the Pacific. Check Those Licenses. Cards Are They Obsolete? When, was the last time you looked at the expiration date on your library card or drivers license? The odds are that it has been months, or even years. Library cards expire every three years, and the Redwood City Public Library reports that thousands of cards are voided annually while they are hidden away in someones desk drawer or wallet. By the same token, drivers licenses expire every four years, and the holder must be able to pass a written examination and eye test in order to obtain a new card.

Yet many well-meaning motorists are nabbed each year for driving with expired licenses, even though they did not realize they were violating the law. Check those expiration dates immediately. If you are holding a library card or driver's license which is no longer valid, hurry to the proper agency to meet the requirements. This safety first procedure will cost you nothing if it is done in time. It could be both costly and embarrassing if left undone.

Maybe Sweden Needs Its Own Version of Dodgers And we thought all along that the Swedes were a quiet, circumspect people! But look whats been happening in Stockholm and of a Sunday, too. It seems the warm weather each summer works on the peoples blood and then wham! Riots break out in the streets of the staid capital; noggins get bashed, and police have to round up a variety of troublemakers. That happened again last Sunday. Perhaps what Stockholm needs is a safety valve such as Brooklyn has in the Dodgers. Many Americans can work off their excess steam by chewing out the umpire and the opposing team, without bothering the police at least, not very often.

s' A vw.5. Side Glances By Galbraith -r Ms Taxes Look By DALLAS E. THINGS places If you object youd WOOD a somewhat A 65 per cent also on the fags, you pay the tobacco. Candy and you make your home, theres a Gasoline is There is a imported on a $3,000 into the country. have to pay an 3 per cent for 6 per cent for the next $430, $130, and so Five tires are The tax on per cent on on light wines.

a restaurant 75 per cent. The theater a foreign artist ticket tax is 8 are 40 per cent. As' for income you pay not also on whatever above $25,000 have capital of 2i per cent of saved for the 2 1 per cent. heavy tax on during the Nazi THE LAST horse and buggy recently on the curbing SALES OF Beverly Hills went to have grass cuttings MINNESOTA their own book all the for fits in with the I leave to you GEORGIA, of having system in the in the of honorable for the first when a convict from the Fulton given a certificate under the new eligible for them the rehabilitation to assist the to the job and taking tion and the facilities, require compulsory treatment of resident addicts looking toward cure of their addiction, and rehabilitation. The Federal Bureau of Narcotics has less than 300 agents to police the whole of the United States for the sources of illegal narcotics.

These men work to their limit days, nights, Sundays and holidays. They make about 5,000 arrests annually. The big narcotics gangster Is probably the most ingenious and ruthless type of criminal in the underworld. No fiction writer could Invent the details of the complex grapevines, the intricate systems of communication and transportation, the checks and counter-checks which these crimlnils use. To catch and convict them requires months of patient, painstaking work.

Frequently, after we have learned of the existence of a new gang, one of our undercover men must be introduced into it. That may take weeks. One slip, one hasty move on his part, may not only send the gang into hiding but may cost the agent his life as it has. And almost as soon as one such gang Is behind bars, another springs up to take its place. The bureau has no agents to spare for patrol duty on city streets to deal with small distributors, lqcal pushers and the addicts themselves.

It Is our opinion that heavier penalties for narcotic traffickers complsory hospitalization of narcotic addicts are the essentials for more effective control. Drastic action by the courts brings immediate results. Where heavy penalties are being Imposed the traffic is diminishing. The narcotic traffic is a vicious, commercial racket which lives on the slow murder of its victims. Certainly a five-year minimum sentence is none too much for this offense.

Flying Saucers: Eyewitness Tells His Own Version By RAY SPANGLER Truman Bethurum must wonder how far away from home you have to be to qualify as an expert. Two women from Oslo, Norway, made newspapers around the world when they claimed not only to have seen a flying saucer but to have talked to the skinned, long-haired pilot. ft ft Bethurum, who lives in Redondo Beach, claims hot only to have seen a saucer and to have talked to its crew, but to have been aboard the craft. ft ft Did his story make the newspapers? Only one that Santa Cruz Sentinel-News, which published it July 22. Mr.

Bethurum was visiting friends in nearby Scotts Valley at the time. it it a The Norway saucer was 15 feet across. Beth-uriftns saucer was 300 feet In The Norway saucer spun as it rose from the ground. Bethurums didnt. Apparently the only similarity was the complexion of the pilot.

ft ft Mr. Bethurum told his story and lost his job. He is making a living by giving lectures on his experiences and is publishing a book: Aboard a Flying Saucer. He says he made more money in construction work. People who have talked with him are convinced that he Is no high priced press-agent with a fancy yarn.

If he has illusions, he certainly has himself convinced. Incidentally, he drew a packed house for his lecture in Santa Cruz. ft ft Here, in brief, is his story: In June, 1952, he was working for Wells Fargo Construction Company near Glendale Junction, about 70 miles out of Las Vegas. He was night mechanic on a fleet of water trucks. ft ft His wife collects fossilized seashells.

On the evening of June 28 after preparing his trucks for the next days run, he drove a mile into the desert, looked for fossilized seashells an hour and went to sleep in his truck. At 4 a. m. a mumbling outside the cab awoke him. He saw eight or ten men outside, each about 4 feet 8 inches tall, with black hair, olive skin and uniformed like Greyhound bus drivers.

He could not understand their conversation. ft ft ft Bethurum got out. Then he saw the saucer, 300 feet in diameter, six yards deep at the center, and hovering several feet off the ground. When he made it known to the visitors that he could not understand them, one of them offered: You name it, we have no trouble with any language. ft ft He was taken aboard to meet the captain, a woman.

Bethurum saw nothing beyond the captains lounge. The captain introduced herself: Aura Rhanes of the planet Clarion on the far side of the moon and invisible from the earth, even with progressive magnification. it ft The visit aboard lasted 30 minutes and left Bethurum in a daze. The scow came back Aug. 3 in the same vicinity, and again he was invited aboard.

Bethurum asked many questions, got many answers: ft ft ft Mars is an industrial planet with beautiful estates and plenty of atmosphere; interplanetary travel is possible by solving the problem of magnetical force; the Clarion people defend themselves by disappearing. it it They demonstrated their power to Bethurum by asking him to hold a flashlight In his hand. He did. Seconds later it vanished. ft ft ft The saucer had a crew of 32, and he has been invited for a weeks visit to Clarion.

He and his wife were to return this month to Mormon Flats where he made 11 contacts with the saucer in1952. For all I know they may be on Clarion ttiis very minute. ft ft He has no one to substantiate his story. But at 3:30 a.m. one day he and his boss went into a restaurant in Glendale, when the boss suddenly jabbed Bethurum and asked if two of the Clarion people he had been talking about hadnt just entered the cafe? Bethurum looked up, and sure enough, there were the captain and one of the crew.

ft ft ft The boss was frightened, so Bethurum told him to stand outside the door and watch the saucer people come out. Meanwhile Bethurum approached them to start conversation, but they would have noe of him. ft ft ft He sat down for a cup of coffee, the Clarions got up and started for the door. Then they disappeared, and the boss, standing outside, swears no one came out. ft ft ft This is all true and if you dont believe me you can find it printed, just as I said, in the July 22, 1954 issue of the Santa Cruz Sentinel News.

So They Say I havent the slightest interest in the personal life of the senator from Wisconsin (Sen. Joseph McCarthy). Senator Fulbrlght Ark.) ft ft A farm program is not realistic nor genuinely helpful to farmers when it depends upon the building of huge surpluses for which there are neither foreseeable markets nor storage space. Senator Smathers Fla.) ft ft ft Today In the world we have two great striv ing ideologies. One of free men freely doing their daily work The other is a regime of master and slave labor.

Secy, of Treasury Humphrey. ft ft ft All men, all masses, do truly long for peace. It is only governments that are stupid. President Eisenhower. High? at Norway WOOD LEARNED ABOUT other to paying taxes (and who better not take up' your residence in Norway.

A recent visitor there brings back woeful news about the levies imposed by the government over there. Examples: If you own dogs you pay a $14 tax annually for each of the first two dogs, and $28 each for all additional ones. (This would make canine maternity expensive luxury). tax is slapped on cigarets, matches. If you roll your own a tax on both the paper and ice cream are taxed.

And if own chocojate candy at tax on your cooking bar. taxed 62 cents a gallon. whole group of taxes on an automobile, totaling about $1,117 car, just to have it brought In addition you would annual tax on the car of the first $570 of its value, the next $430, 9 per cent of 15 per cent for the next on. taxed about $19 a year. liquor is 175 per cent, 125 strong wines, and 75 per cent If the drink is ordered in there is a yet extra tax of ticket tax is 40 per cent.

If appears in a concert, the per cent. Dance ticket taxes and capital gains taxes, only on what you make, but is left. The tax on incomes is about 65 per cent. If you $3,000, you are assessed that sum. If any of it is next year, you pay another There is also an extra special any capital increase made occupation.

VISIBLE REMINDER of days in Anaheim was removed when the hitching rings on Center Street were uprooted. TRASH BINS speeded up in the other day when an ordinance into effect requiring householders separate containers for and other garden trash. NEGROES ARE preparing state directory, listing in a churches, clubs and other organizations colored persons. (How this antisegregation movement, to decide) WHICH LONG had the reputation the most inhumane prison nation, is now making progress reverse direction. A new type discharge made its appearance time in the United States was released a few days ago County prison.

He was of honorable discharge system making prisoners after having undergone program. The purpose is former convict in getting readjusted civilian world, finding a his place in respectability. AN ANNIHILATION DRIVE on mountain lions in Arizona has resulted in the killing of 111 of the predatory beasts. Top honors went to the hunter who bagged 16 of the animals. MAYBE YOUDIDNT KNOW that there is such an organization as the Hay Fever Club of America, which has been in existence for more than 40 years.

It maintains headquarters in Duluth, (labeled the air-conditioned city), to which hundreds of members migrate every year to escape the pollen that troubles them in other areas. AN OLD GRIST MILL near the Old Mission Santa Inez in Solvang, that had been previously declared a state historical monument, will be made more accessible to sightseers upon completion of a new road between Buellton and Santa Inez. FAMOUS LAST WORDS: Anyone with an ounce of brains ought to be able to see that." By HARRY J. ANSLINGER V. S.

Narcotics Commissioner The policy of the Bureau of Narcotics in relation to the whole narcotic problem has been to concentrate its efforts as far as possible on: (1) Co-operating with foreign governments to eliminate sources of illicit supply, and with the Bureau of Customs in the prevention of smuggling; (2) the detection and prevention of illicit interstate traffic in contraband narcotic drugs; (3) the detection and elimination of the wholesale traffic in illicit drugs within the States; and (4) co-operation with state and local officials in efforts to eliminate retail peddling and to incarcerate addicts for cures. This policy contemplates the direction of the efforts of the specially trained federal force of narcotic agents against the major sources of illicit supply. Practically all of the states have in effect a uniform state narcotic drug act designed to control the intrastate traffic in narcotic drugs. The bureau feels that the state and local authorities under their respective state laws should detect and eliminate the retail type of peddler; that is, the petty peddler, often himself an addict, who makes sales of contraband narcotics to a number of addicts. The state and local authorities should likewise deal with the so-called unlawful possession cases respecting retail peddlers and addicts and, with the provision of appropriate legisla Washington Today: New Anti-Communist Law Is Aimed At Certain.

Red-Infiltrated Unions tack onto the Butler bill an earlier bill introduced by Sen. Mike Mansfield Mont.) to outlaw the Communist Party. It sought to do this by making membership in the party punishable by $10,000 fine and five years imprisonment. There is considerable doubt among lawyers as to whether this provision was constitutional. It was feared that this might even make the Internal Security and the Subversive Activities Control Acts unconstitutional.

Senator Humphrey has been accused of having this as his purpose. He had voted for the Internal Security Act in 1950. But then he had voted to sustain President Trumans veto of the act. If the act could have been made unconstitutional now, it would certainly have removed the fear of union labor leaders that it would ever be used against their organizations. This, point is now somewhat academic, since the House amended the bill as originally passed by the Senate.

This saved the Internal Security and Subversive Activities Control Acts. The Senate then accepted the House amendments, and that's the way the bill went to the President. But the Butler bill to ferret out Communist activities in labor unions is still there. It would do this by creating a new class of Communist-infiltrated organizations. This classification will be in addition to the Communist-action and Communist-front organizations with which the Subversive Activities Control Board has to deal.

The way this thing will work is something as follows: Whenever the attorney general believes that a union is infiltrated by Communists who can dominate and control its policies, or have done so within the past three years, he may file a petition with the SACB. This petition will ask that the union be declared Communist-dominated. The SACB then holds a hearing on the petition. If it Is found that the union is Communist-dominated, a declaration to this effect is issued. Thereafter this Communist-dominated union will not be able to use National Labor Relations Board proceedings in any collective bargaining disputes, or serve as a bargaining agent.

By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON The labor union angle is perhaps the most Important part of the new Communist Control Act of 1954 which Congress slapped through in its final whirlwind week of lawmaking. A bit of background is necessary to get what this Is all about. When Nevada Sen. Pat McCarrans Internal Security Act of 1950 was before Congress, practically every top labor official testified against it. They were afraid this McCarran act would be used as a union-busting device.

President Truman used this argument in vetoing the paid no attention and passed it over his veto. It is a matter of record that this act and the companion Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 have not been used against labor unions so far. Under the Democrats, only one case was brought before the Subversive Activities Control Board, created by the law. This is the key against the Communist Party itself. SACB has found the party a subversive organization and ordered it to register.

This finding has been appealed and the case is headed for a Supreme Court decision. started against 12 Communist fronts none of them labor unions. The International Workers Order has been found to be a Communist front. Cases against four others are still pending Jefferson School of Social Science, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship and Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. When congressmen who wanted something done.

about Communist domination of labor unions saw that the Subversive Activities -Control and Internal. Security Acts were not being used for this purpose, they drew up new legislation to deal specifically with this situation. The result was a bill introduced last year by Republican Sen. John M. Butler of Maryland.

This was the business before the Senate when Sen. Hubert Humphrey Minn.) proposed to That's a splendid job you did on the garage you're going to be my right-hand man for fall A.