Detroit evening times., 1945-12-18
FAIR
ENOUGH
BY Westbrook 4
PeqIer

4 BOUT two months ago, the
"a new II oJse Commltte on
un-American activities. formerly
known as the Dies committee,
became interested in the affairs
of one Sam Carp, Of Bridgeport.
Conn, and invited him 10 Wash
ington to discuss them Al the
request Of the state department,
however, and for reasons nor OK
planned 10 the public, the com
mittee examined Mr.. Carp in
private,
One point OF The inquiry was
10 he his interest, If any. IN a
Connecticut we X " paper,
largely devoted 10 personal scan
dial, which, we are reminded ny
number of ~ nstrouS eye
sores along the progress of jcur-
nalSm. certainly IS a persuasive
weapon for the intimidation Of
businessmen and politicians.
This publication. in politics.
sounds a note harmonious with
the Daily Worker, the Political
Action Committee and Marshall
Fields thing. and. o: course, II
was very aggressive during the
Communist campaign for the
fourth term along the industrial
strip from STANFORD to Bridge
port.
IN THAT contest, the Commu-
Il nists. IN concert with Henry
Wallace and numerous cells of
summertime rllStlcS from the
pOlltiCo-llterary stews Of Park
avenue and the book business
and. finally. Franklin .. r. oSe-
Welt, himself, in person. exerted
themselves 10 defeat Mrs. Claire
Booth Luce for Congress.
The combination did put Mrs
Luce a. a disadvantage in the
war industrial draa down around
Sca-level, but she turned down
an offer of help lJm tHe Repub-
hcan' national Committee, even
- 4 personal app,drance Of Tom
Dewey the head OF the tCkct.
and SAID that 4 she licked his
nasty cahal, nc victory was 70
be persona J, sing e-handed
triumph
They ran up 4 BIG score
the Go areas, e.' gong hack
into the old NAnAn. LG-!E1-A-,
lnShore Claire o4tputrbercd
them and won comfortably.
IN A previous Dos hearing.
Il IN September. 1899 Mr. Carp
presented an cnllghtcnlng story.
He disclosed that n The ifrI
Socialist state. even as m fre
White House under tho No'v
Deal. family connections can be
turned 10 profit
Sam appeared MOI n he a
Communist. himself but a COPE
tsiISt with money mak.ng
way and sure eNe for prot'
He vent 20 Russia. TO VISIT
his sister. and for other pH-
poses. and ca n back with
$50 900 IN American currency
and. unless ne erred IN RS
figures being subject 10 forgot
ing. authority 10 spend SiUN-
600 600 as purchasing agent. On
con m. .SSIOn, IN the United
States
- From another trip he came
back with $50 900 more n
American currency.
The first $1,000 ne put IN ne
safe n ms house n Bridgeport.
The next $4,000 he put IN A
safe deposit box IN tho Chase
Bank His disbursements we're
made in cash
Among tho trinkc's which he
was commissioned 10 puck up N
tho United States We're one new
hattleShlp and plans for another.
TIERE Was considerable G.f.
i hculty IN the negotiations for
the ha'tlcshipS neither of which
ever was built. and for slap
stuck, yPu could spot Bill Fields
and Jod r Louis their rOwdleSt
moments and Top them both
with Sam 6 rpcounial Of the dlf-
fcui problem OF huLldLnE -lnio
one ship All the STUFF that NarI-
Gus departments OF the Russian
navy demanded
You would have thought ne
was trying ~ buy couple o.
gross Of atomic bombs. Judging
by The way Sam passed out
grease 10 American politicians
Just by way Of getting A foot in
the door AZ the navy and state
departments and making con-
tact with the firm Of Cox and
Gibbs naval architects.
That Will hold for another
day, but anyway he finally did
get some sketches. but not
plans for S25 900 and. from the
general tenor Of the testimony.
dttfft : f'r't7rT 70 pay balance
Of 100000 or so.
A RUSSIAN naval commission
came over 10 consult on
the project by now d Nr.
Carp said Mr. Gibbs told those
officers that II wouldn't be pos
slble 10 put all they wanted.
among them, into A 35,OOO-ton
vessel
THE gunnerS wanted the
whole battleship to he guns"
Sam said The disqualification
wanted half for its hospitaliza-
tion. The fire control wants all
the bsttleShip for fire control.
1T seems that there Is dis
agreement between all the spe-