Evening star., 1943-06-29
Baldwin Issues Denial
To Charge by 0'Nea|
On F5A Land Buying
Informs House Group
Farm Leadership Seeks
To Diseredit Agency
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
c. B. Baldwin. farm security ad-
ministrator. today denied an asser-
ton by Edward A. O'Neal. president
Of the American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton, that the FSA was buying
land in defiance Of the express
mandate of Congress
I'VE are not now using funds
made available for rehabilitation
pu1 poses to buy lands or to make
loans for the purchase of lands" Mr.
Baldwin told the Cooley subcom-
m;ttee Of the House Agriculture
Committee in reply to statement
made June II by Mr.. ONeal
Mr.. Baldwin said Mr.. O'Neal's
criticism of the FSA was honey
combed with misstatements and
twisted testimony" adding:
The national leadership of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
has been busily and vigorously en-
gagged in trying to prove to the Con-
gress for the last two years that the
FSA believes in land Specialization
and is engaged in a whole series of
nefarious activities respecting land
tenure arrangements for lew income
families
1T has often been said that by a
careful selection of the proper chap
ter and verse one can prove any
thing from the Bible.
1T appears that the American
Farm Bureau has followed this plan
in leveling its attacks at the Farm
Security Administration. 1t has
carefully and laboriously lifted sem
tences out of their context in order
to prove points which had no rela-
ton to Farm Security Administra-
ton policy"
Mr.. Baldwin declared that with
the exception of the few co-opera :
tive farms every single land
tenure activity of the Farm Security
Administration has always been di-
rected toward aiding individual
farm families to become owner
operatives of their farms or to have
equitable fair and secure leases on
family-type farms"
with and working among men ir
waterfront restaurants and bars
and the use of invisible ink to gel
the information out of the country
From stray bits of information oh.
tanned from drunken or careles:
lips and from watching the ship:
sailing in and out of New York
Harbor, Mr.. Conroy said, Lehmiti
was able to piece together informa.
tion concerning activities at New
York, Norfolk and Newport News
| Va.
Reported Transport Sailings.
Most Of the information was writ
ten In invisible ink between type.
( written lines of rather dull-appear
ing letters to friends in neutra
countries such as Spain, Switzerland
and Portugal. From there the in.
formation went into the feeder
which supplied the Axis with Alliec
information.
Details concerning the construc-
ton and repair of ships at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, the loading OF
freighters at Norfolk and Newport
News, Va. and the type and num-
ber Of guns and tanks being car
ried in a convoy were included in
the letters. the FBI agent added.
Typical OF his activities. Mr. Con.
roy said, was one secret message
reporting that transports were leav-
ing with thousands of our troops
some destined for Australia anc
others for England and Africa. The
report included the number of ships
in certain conveys, their destination
and description of their cargoes
Mr.. Conroy said.
The same message reported that
an aircraft factory working at full
capacity, "a hours daily. produced
three planes day, he said.
Lehmitz also furnished informa.
tion gained through his work a:
! an afraid warden, Mr. Conroy
noted, in pointing out that one mes.
sage carried information concerning
air-raid precautions, shelters anc
domestic preparations against bomb.
ing.
"Indescribable confusion" was the
way LehmitZ described air-raid pre-.
cautions here, Mr. Conroy said.
Timed Invasion Landing.
Lehmitz's printed messages be.
tween the lines OF typewriting con.
tanned much information concern.
ing Allied invasion plans, Mr.. Con-
roy said, adding that in one letter
he wrote, place and time Of the
intended landing attempt not pos
sible to confirm, whether the con-
tinent Of Europe, from Great Britain
or Spanish and Portuguese islands
In the typewriter letters whose
lines hid the secret writing. Mr.
Conroy said he wrote on such Amer
lean subjects as Victory gardens
Washington's Birthday and straw
berries and cream.