The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-17
Fair Enough
Bv WEsTBROOK PEGLER
rht. 1915. By King Features Syn

ago. the new House Committee on un-Ameri.
can Activities, formerly known as the Dies
Committee, became interested in the affairs
Of one Sam Carp, Of Bridgeport, Conn.,, and
invited him to Washington to discuss them,
At the request OF the State Department. how
ever, and for reasons not explained to the
public, the committee examined Mr.. Carp in
private.
One point Of the inquiry was to his interest.
If any, in Connecticut weekly largely de-
voted to personal scandal, which, we are re-
along the progress of journalism, certainly is
a persuasive weapon for the intimidation of
business men and politicians. This publics ton.
in politics. sounds note harmonious with the
Daily worker, the Political Action Committee
and Marshall Fields thing and, Of course
it was very aggressive during the communist
campaign for the fourth term along the in
dustrial strip from Stamford to Bridgeport
In that contest, the communists, in concert
with Henry Wallace and numerous cells of
summertime rustices from the politico-liter-
cry stews of Park Avenue and the book-busi-
ness and finally, Franklin D. Roosevelt him.
SELF in person, exerted themselves to defeat
Mrs. Claire Booth Luce for Congress. The
combination did put Mrs. Luce at disadvan-
tage in the war industrial area down around
sea-level but she turned down an offer of
help from the Republican National Committee
even to personal appearance of Tom Dewey
the head Of the ticket, and said that if she
licked this nasty cabal the victory was to
be personal single-handed triumph. They
ran up a big score in the CIO areas, but
going back into the old Yankee country, in
shore, Claire outnumbered them and won
comfortably.
If you call this g. depression, will have to
mn 1,,v%n -
comforts of this job is that if you come to the
end of the piece with your story not fully told
you can resume tomorrow.
Well, it may be stated that Mr.. Carp denied
any connection with the paper but, in this
connection, it may be stated further that in
previous engagement with the Dies Comit-
tee, by way of explaining some obscurities
in his testimony, Sam said: Ito tell you the
truth, an subject 10 forgettings. didn't
come here to lie to you but sometimes I can
forget thing, you know"
Reading the record, there are many mo-
ments when, If you didn't know better, YOU
would swear that Montague Glass had writ
ten the script for Mr.. Carp.
AS I said, the State Department didn't cav
why it desired that his examine ton be private
but the reason might have been the fact that
Sam is brother-in-law Of Viascheslav Molo-
TOW, VINO married his sister, although, to Ameri-
cans, this relationship may not explain the
delicacy.
In that previous appears nee, in September.
1889, Mr. Carp presented sn enlightening story.
He disclosed that in the ideal socialist state.
even as in the White House under the new
DEAL family connections can be turned to
profit. Sam appeared not to be a communist.
himself, but capits list with a money-rnaking
way and sure eye for profit. He went to
tn cit ~ic %4r f
poses, and came back with $50, 900 in Ameri-
can currency and, unless he erred in his
figures, being subject to forgetting, authority
to spend $1O0, 900 as purchasing agent, on
commission, in the United States From an.
other trip He came be ok with $50, 900 more
IN American currency. The first $4,000 he
put In the safe in his house in Bridgeport, the
next $4,000 he put in safe deposit box in the
Chase bank. His disbursements were made in
cash.
Among the trinkets which he was commits.
stoned to pick up in the United States were one
new battleship and plans for another. There
was considerable difficulty in the negotiations
for the battleships, neither of which was ever
built, and, for slap-stick, you could spot Bill
Fields and Joe E. Lewis their rowdiest mo-
ments md top them both with Sans recoun-
tai OF the difficult problem of building into one
ship all the stuff that various departmental
OF the Russian Navy demanded.
You would have thought he was trying tol
buy couple of gross OF atomic bombs, judg-
ing by the way Sam passed out the grease to
American politicians just by way of getting
e. loot in the door at the Navy and State
Departments and making contact with the firm
OF Cox and Gibbs, naval architects. That will
hold for another day, but anyway he finally
ala get some sketches, but not plans. for $685.
oO0 and, from the general tenor of the testi-
mony. didn't bother to pay balance of $780,
O0Q or so. You have to draw conclusions and
be content with estimates of his meaning be-
equal to his habit OF forgetting
We do come to the fact, however, that Mr..
Gibbs, of Cox and Gibbs, finally told him
that It might be possible to build battleship
containing all the gear and guns that his
orders cslled for but that it might have one
fault that would cancel all its virtues. I'll
probably wouldn't float.
BY the time the rough estimates were made
sam was shopping for battleship of $4,000
or $4,000 tons, not the 200 tons that his
instructions called for but he was still game,
figuring. in an offhand way, that maybe til
would be equal to ten ordinary battleships OF
any potential enemy
Russian Naval Commission had come
over to consult on the project by now and Mr..
Carp said Mr.. Gibbs told these officers that
it wouldn't be possible to put all they wanted.
among them, into a $4,000 ton vessel.
The gunner wanted the whole battleship
to be guns" Sam said s'The Decentralization