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Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-30
BY Dorothy Thompson

There is an attempt to attri-
butte the mysterious death of
Laurence Duggan to the House
Committee on Un-American Ac-
tivities. Archibald MacLeish, in
an eloquent tribute to Mr.. Dug
gan, excoriated "informers
and "slanderers" who DETAINED
the reputation of a guileless
man. Several radio commenta =
tors have, by inference, attribut-
ed Mr.. Duggan's death to a
smear.
We find this curious because
Mr.. Duggan's loyalty never was
placed in serious question. H e
was mentioned by Isaac Don Le-
vine as man whom Whitaker
Chambers had in some way
connected with the spy appara-
tus in Washington.
Mr.. Duggan's family insist
that his death was accidental
which would rule out any polit-
ical cause. The implication that
it was come ted with a
smear" implies suicide.
1t seems to US that by this
implication Mr.. Dugga gan's
friends are doing his memory
disservice. A man with a clear
conscience, as we are convinced
Mr.. Duggan had, is hardly driv-
en- to suicide by an inconclu =
sive smear" If he were, near
ly everyone in public life would
be jumping out of windows.
An intimate friend of Mr.. Dug
gan rejected, as this columnist
rejects, that his death was ac-
cident or suicide. No one knows
how Mr.. Duggan died.
But Sumner Wells wanted an
investigation. Now Mr.. Welles
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-30
Eisenhower's Memoirs Give Some Proof
On War Conduct And Blast Some Ideas

Just few hours before the invasion of Europe
in the late war; General Dwight D. Eisenhower
told by of his top advisers that the ar-borne op
Grafton, which preceded t he beachhead landings
would not work.
The incident is recounted in the Generals book
Crusade in Europe, which has just been published
General Eisenhower reasoned that if he cancelled the
air borne operation it would be impossible to pro-
ceed with the invasion plans. He decided to go
with the attack and when it succeeded, the top ad-
wiser mediatey extended congratulations.
Other incidents included in the Generals account
of his operations (a) Twice during the
campaign, Field Marshal Montgomery tried to be-
Supreme Ground Commander; (b) that Mont
gomerys estimate of the strategy of the invasion
fulfilled to the letter; and (c) that while Prime Min
decision made, he threw his weight behind the
proposal.
1t is noted that General Eisenhower disposes of
the argument that the American Armies were held
back for political reasons while the Russians went
Russians were only thirty miles away from the Ger
man capital and there grave military doubt that
the much distant Allied troops could reach Ber
lin first In addition, General Ike says that the Amer
lean supply position not sufficient to support
such thrust
The American General finds that Give and
let live" arrangement does not work with the Rus
slams and he expresses realization of the deep gulf
between Western concepts and those in vogue in the
East This is illustrated in the Russian recipe for
crossing mine fields Marshal Zhukov told General
Eisenhower that the Russians simply attacked if
the mines were not there and considered the losses
to be no greater than from concentrated machine
gun fire
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-30
Thompson Says Attempt Being Made To
Blame Duggan Death On House Group

himself is in serious condition,
apparently having wandered far
from home after midnight and
nearly frozen to death under cir.
cumstances which, in his pre- =
sent condition, though con-
scious and RATIONAL" he cannot
recall.
The tragedy of Mr.. Duggan is,
it seems to me, tending to di-
vert public attention from the
main point. II his death was in
any way connected with the es
pionage case, the guilt falls on
that criminal conspiracy against
American security, operating
through persons in the State De-
partment. That conspiracy ex-
lists is certain. That the State
Department files were rifled 10
unquestionable. And that the
key members of that conspiracy
will commit any crime to pre-
vent the full facts from coming
to light is demonstrated by the
record of the Communist Party
throughout the world.
Americans have little under
standing of how such conspira-
cies operate. Invariably the con-
spiracies involve perfectly inno-
cent persons - in fact, the inno-
cent, loyal and trusting person.
ality is essential to them.
Operators in a Communist
conspiracy do not present them
selves as Communists, but often
as anti-C Communists.
They find myriad ways of ex-
ercising pressures. One of these
is blackmail. Let there have
been single slip in a mans
life, of however private a ma :
ture, and they viii use i to COM
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-30
BY Westbrook Pegler
Copyright. ls4s. King Fea-
tures Syndicate. Inc.)

4uXGs SIA0ASoASs AASJ
The questionable part that the
two foremost radio propagan-
dists played in the Hiss-Cham-
bers Stripping plot is little ess
important than the great betray-
al itself.
These two are Walter Winchell
and Drew Pearson.
These are powerful men. The
press has covered up their ac-
tivity but the news belongs to
the public and should be told.
Winchell suppressed the sub
stance of the Hiss-Chambers
case for about ten years. Any
newspaper reporter who did that
would be shamed forever. Win
chell's informant did not pledge
him to secrecy but, on the con-
trary, wanted an expose.
Pearson does not appear to
have had the story although he
has set himself forth as an au-
thority on inside" information
from the State Department and
one witness testified that he en-
joyed S ate Department
leaks.
On top of these facts Pearson
belabored Robert Stripping as a
draft dodger when the commit
tee on Un-American Activi-
ties really needed him and the
Army had no use for him. And
we recall that Winchell joined
Pearson in Sunday night sneers
which finally eliminated from
the Washington scene the great
est authority Congress had on
the treacherous works n d
fronts of the Communists.
We know that Stripping had
committed lese majeste in re-
fusing to submit to Eleanor Ro-
sevelt's scheme to get a COM
mission in Naval intelligence for
her protege. Joe Lash, whose
questionable political connec-
tions had been exposed by the
house committee. Winchell's at
titude toward Franklin and
Eleanor Roosevelt was almost
idolatrous. Pearson was un-
friendly to Roosevelt at times
and his political character is ell
usive. Yet Pearson led the drive
to make STRIPPING harmless to
the plotters in the State Depart
ment and Winchell's outcries
were only occasional.
Stripping was an American
Major Dreyfus, prosecuted for
political reasons. The climax oc-
cured one day in November,
1945, when he had to sweep out
tn officers club at Camp Hola-
bird. Md, with a German pri-
soner Of war sneering orders to
sweep the corners clean.
The officers and their ladies
were going to have a dance that
night.
Holabird is only a few miles
from the national capitol where
Stripping had exposed Commu-
nists all over Roosevelt's admin
istration. Stripping, loyal
young American, had made
modest home in Washington.
Now his young wife and their
daughter were up against it.
Mrs. Stripping had a part time
job and was barely getting by.
Bob wasn't even a firstclass pri-
vate, while many of the conspir-
ators among the Communist
fronts were strutting as majors
and colonels in Washington, New
York, London and Paris. T h
Hollywood Fellow travellers
were riding high as captains,
majors and colonels.
Stripping swung his broom,
sweeping out the officers club
at Holabird. Pvt. Stripping /.
Yard bird Stripping.
H lectures to the war college
now. He has a very retentive
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-30

pei him to their service or drive
him out of the picture.
The lie is their conscious in
strument and they lie without
bad conscience. In their theory,
it is not they who are on trial
but the whole of existing society
against which they are waging
a dangerous war, for the pur-
pose of establishing a worldly u
topia. In this war neigher loyal
ty, friendship, nor bourgeois "
ethics are binding.
They lie to their closest
friends and exploit the most in
innate relationships and conf =
dences.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-30
BY Ray Tucker


WASHINGTON: Dec. 3O-The
debate over reorganization of
the Republican Party is grad
ually shaping into a struggle be-
tween partlsans of Governor
Thomas E. Dewey and Senator
Robert A. Taft. with University
President Harold f. Stassen eX-
pecting to benefit from any poll
tical profits they squander in
their clash.
The New Yorker believes pri-
vately that it was the record of
the 80th Congress, which Presi-
dent Truman blasted so effec-
lively, which defeated him rath-
er than his deliberate decision
not to deliver slashing attack
on the Administration.
He made a nominal defense of
THE Congressional achievements
during the campaign, but only
because he would have needed
Republican legislative coopera
ton if his dreams had come
true.
RESPONSIBLE: Three Sem
ate sponsored or revised mea-
sures are regarded as basically
responsible for the Dewey upset.
AS policy leader in the upper
chamber, Mr.. Taft gets the
blame from the Albany faction
for their enactment. The three
laws are:
Q The Taft Hartley Act,
which led almost every labor
union to ring doorbells and
spend money for President Tru-
man.
(2) tt Displaced Persons
Act, which Senator Revercomb
of West Virginia refused to a.
mend even at Dewey's personal
request. Mr.. Truman denounced
this legislation as anti Catho-
lie and anti Semitic" thereby
rolling up the urban vote which
gave him his small margin of
victory.
(3) The Aiken Farm Bill
which provides for sliding, 60
80 per cent government paw
ments after 1949 instead of the
present 80 per cent support
price.
FARMERS: This last propos-
al, as well as Mr.. Stassen's de-
nunciation of federal food pur-
chases as responsible for til e
high cost of living, sent normal
ly Republican farmers flocking
into the Truman camp.
Along with this blow at the
Republican nominees chances ,
OF course, was the Taft Martin
H lie ck legislation reduc-
ing from 300 million to so
million tons the amount of gov
ernment storage space for sur
pluses on which it had loaned
money.
1t is true that Mr.. Dewey
seemed to favor these mea-
sures, but his attitude on this
issue was motivitated by the
political strategy of not attack
ing Congress controlled by his
own party.
RESPONSIVE: Anyway, it is
no exaggeration to say that Gov
ernor Dewey has a mad" a.
gainst the Republican leader
ship on Capitol Hill. And III e
principal object of his anger is
Bob" Taft, his chief rival at
the Philadelphia convention. Nor
is it too far fetched, as result
OF recent signs, to suggest that
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-30
Budget Director Says Best Brains For
U. S. Must Receive Highest Salaries

Pointing out that the Federal Government "is
the largest single enterprise in the world Budget
Director James E. Webb recently told Senate SUBJ
committee that the Government only the
"best brains and ability by paying better salaries in
the future.
Mr. Webb called attention to the fact that many
competent had been compelled to resign their
governmental positions because the compensation
not comparable to that obtained in private employ
ment. He speaking in favor of bill to increase
top level salaries in the governmental establishment.
The proposed measure would raise Cabinet pay from
$4,000 to $4,000 year and make increases for
executives just under Cabinet rank which would, in
cases, almost double the present compensation.
We are thoroughly in favor of the increase in
the salaries of top officials because it should be OBJ
vious that the government of he United States
should not require heavy financial sacrifice
those who give it top direction. Many able and con-
scientous administrators have been forced to resign
their Federal positions because of lucrative offers of
private employment, which, in consideration of their
family and future security, they could not reject
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-30
Pe WncheN Had Hiss Story For Ten Years. Refused To Expose Hi
DAILY BIBLE QUOTATION

the world he his only begoen
whooever beieveh in Him should perish but have
everlasting
@
The Bible quotations for this month are sug-
gested by the Rev. Edmund Berkeley, rector of the
All Saints Episcopal Church in Roanoke Rapids
, 1948-08-12
Pobst Opens
Advertising
Campaign

The biggest news in adver-
Using circles this week is the
announcement made by Pabst
Sales Company to the effect
that they have just released
an advertising campaign to be
run from August to December
1913, featuring the universally
well known PABST BLUE
BEER. The greatest
part of this promotional effort
will be given to radio and
newspaper advertising media,
in addition to internationally
circulated magazines. Irwin
Vladimir & Co. of Illinois, Inc,
Continued on Page Al
, 1948-08-12

that U.N. has been a restrain
ing and conciliating Influence
upon the parties to the con
flict. Since the organization
does not provide a favorable
atmosphere for ultimatums or
conspiracy, Mr.. Lie declares,
its growing influence is IN
ceasingly in the direction Of
peace and away from war.
In this connection, the re
port stresses that the organs
of the United Nations are now
virtually the only places
where regular contact and dis
cussion have been maintained
between the Western Powers
and the Union Of Soviet So
cialist Republics.
The United Nations, Mr.. Lie
adds, has continued to stand
for brotherhood in the midst
of all voices that talk of ma
tional policy in terms of mill
tary stragety and tactics-as
if the building of peace were
a matter Of offensives and
counteroffensives, of break
throughs and infiltrations, of
blockades and theological Ma
ginot Lines.
The report then delves into
the political and social chang
es that the world has under
gone since the end Of the war,
asserting that it would be a
grave mistake to~believe that
, 1948-08-12

most of the world has any in
tention of accepting as gospel
any single theology, whether
the Communist doctrine of
CLASHES society or the most
extreme American capitalist
version of a free enterprise
In a world where so many
forces are at work and so
many different civilizations
and cultural traditions are
stirring and intermingling.
domination by any single
theology. whether il be re-
ligious, or political or eco
nomic. is unthinkable and
and impossible. Mr.. Lie
states.
IT is equally unthinkable
that any one nation or group
of nations could establish
and maintain in such a world
a new empire resting on
either economic power or
military might"
The Secretary-Gen then
notes that although modern
technology has made the
world physically one, its peo-
pie must be given time and
freedom to search out the com
mon ground afforded to them
by the loosely knit United Ma
tons of today in order to de-
velop the stronger unity that
Nations Of tomorrow
can achieve.
In conclusion, Mr.. Lie de-
clares that generally speaking
the record of the United Ma
tons has been more encourage
ing than might have been ex-
pected in a year Of adverse
circumstances.
, 1948-08-12
u. ". Holds Together
Conflict Torn World

Despite criticism of the United Nations. the people of the
world today have a world law-the U.N. Charter. machinery
Tor constructive cooperation-the organization. and a flag
the U.N. flag. under which they have argood chance to main
tain a lasting peace and build a world that is fit for all men to
, 1948-08-12

BASKETBALL PLAYERS

We need a group of young
men to help in gathering ma
terial for improvement Of th
Basketball Courts in bot
towns. Will you volunteer |
help? Please notify the Secre
tary John Brown Of the Par
and Fairgrounds Commissioa.
, 1948-08-12

live in.
That declaration, made here
this week in a rallying mess
age to the peoples Of the world
introduces the Third Annual
Report by U,N. Secretary
General Trygve Lie on the
functioning Of the United Ma
tons.
Emphasizing that people must
think Of U.N. in other terms
than of an infant which must
be protected from the harsh
realities of world politics, Mr..
Lie declares that it is time to
stop justifying the setbacks
in the work of U.N. He urges
that the world start recognize
ing that U.N. has become the
main force that hold the ma
tons together against all the
conflicting strains and stress
es that are pulling it apart.
The United Nations, he says
has interposed law and decen-
cy and the processes Of con-
Citation between the worlds
people and the naked laWless
use Of power.
Calling attention to the fact
that friction beteween East
and Westhas been the cause
direct or indirect-of almost
every setback and disappoint-
ment in the work of the Uni
ted Nations during the past
year, the report points out
, 1948-08-12
PUBLICATION

It is hereby brought to pub
lie notice that Trademark No.
59,158 which was registered
in the United States Patent
Office, Washington D. c., on
January i, 1907 in the name
of Clark & Co. Ltd, a corpora
ton organized under the laws
Of the Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain; which was registered in
the Office Of the Government
Secretary of the Virgin Is
lands on August 10, 1918; re-
newed at the United States
Patent Office, Washington D.
G., for a period Of twenty
years from January /, 1927,
which renewal was recorded
in the Office of the Govern
ment Secretary of the Virgin
Islands on September 8, 1888
has been renewed at the Uni
ted States Patent Office, Wash
ington D. c., on May IS, 1947,
for a period of twenty years
from January /, 1947, unless
sooner terminated by law, to
The Clark Thread Company,
Of Newark, New Jersey, a cor
poration of New Jersey, which
has made a showing of owner
ship of the Trademark origin
ally registered to Clark & Co.
Ltd, and that the said renew
al has this date been recorded
in the Office Of the Govern
,ment Secretary of the Virgin
Islands of the United States
at st. Thomas, in accordance
with the provisions in the reg
ulations governing the regis
tration Of Patents and Trade
marks in the Virgin Islands,
approved April, 1916.
Government of the Virgin Is
lands of the United States
st. Thomas
March 10, 1913
Morris F. de Castro
Gouernunn+ Conro+ory
Evening star., 1948-06-25

gates made their selection and the
manner in which they later ac-
claimed their own handiwork and
their nominee.
This is written within few min
utes after the man named, the man
who seems likely now to be the next
President, appeared before the Con-
vention to accept the nomination
in a speech which reflected credit
on himself and. by the same token
on the delegates who had chosen
him. The speech may have been
over the heads Of his listeners or
beyond their understanding, 1t had
much of the spiritual appeal OF
Woodrow Wilson at his best, much
of the best of Franklin D. Roose-
welt. The delegates gave it perfume
tory applause. About one minute.
Cynical listeners remarked that
the delegates and the folks in the
galleries were impatient to get to the
nearest bar with television set,
not knowing that the prizefight had
been called of. Even greater cyni-
cism was possible Nominee Dewey
had said he would take office "un-
fettered by any promise to any liv-
ing person. The applause for which
he waited did not come. 1t could be
that some hundreds of the delegates
felt they were being let down, that
they had reason to believe there had
been some promises extended some
where along the line as their votes
were being lined up.
Then presently the candidate as
serted that beginning January 20
the date he expects to take Office
there will be teamwork" in our
Government. That naturally raised
the question In the minds of those
delegates who are part of or close
to Congress-teamwork on whose
terms?
The platform, said the candidate.
would be the cornerstone of the
lev administration. 1t is a good
platform. all things considered 1t
Evening star., 1948-06-25
This Changing World
Wedemeyer's ERP Inspection Tour
Coincidental With Red Bloc Session

ton has been known in Washington
for some time and Operation
Squeeze" has been In progress for
several months. 1t started with
the drastic curtailment of all raj
and road traffic for passengers and
goods.
The campaign was accompanied
by incidents, such as that which oc-
CURED last spring, when a Soviet
fighter plane collided with a Brit
ish transport. killing both pilots and
all passengers. 1t continued with
Soviet sabotage Of the Big -Four
administration in Berlin, provided
for in the Potsdam agreement, and
also with a violent press campaign
in the Soviet-controlled zone OF
Berlin against the capitalistic pow
ers which were occupying the city
with Russia.
Cutting off Electric Power.
The final step in this well-planned
operation is to make life in the
Western occupation sectors of Ber-
lin impossible by cutting of electric
power and eventually the sewage
system. These measures are being
applied now.
The Russian high command is
likely to resort to more drastic
measures only if the Western Allies
maintain themselves in the former
German capital in spite of all pres
ent interference. Official quarters
still doubt, however. that the Mos
COW government will resort to such
steps.
For political and psychological
reasons the Western powers have
not withdrawn their thousands OF
civilian employees and dependents
from Berlin. Life in Berlin will be
so difficult for them that the Rus
slams fail to see how they can man.
age to live under the primitive con-
ditions which will prevail.
The Warsaw conference is not ex-
pected to deal-except as a side
show-with military operations IN
Germany. 1t is believed that Mr..
Molotov will acquaint his satellite
underlings with the Kremlin's plan
to establish an Eastern German
puppet government. headed by the
former German diplomat, Rudolf
Nadolny.
Some weak opposition may be
voiced by the representatives of
Poland and Czechoslovakia, on the
ground that their peoples are still
arti-German and fear revital-
lied Reich, even under Moscow's
wing. But the views of the satel-
lites are of no Importance, particu-
larly since their representatives are
good Comintern men, handpicked by
the Politburo and more interested in
their Moscow bosses than in their
own countries.
Evening star., 1948-06-25
THE EVENING STAR, Washington D. C.. C.***A-ll


sneered at the more spectacular
features of the demonstration, the
girl who was dragged along in the
aisles in boat: the girl who
danced the rhumba on the plat
form. A radio commentator told
me that when she was talking about
the demonstration on the air and
described Mr.. StasSen as liberal
who had a great appeal for ideal
lists, she was gently rebuked by
some one in the studio.
You're not going to tell me- he
said, that the young person who
was dancing the rhumba was a con-
vinced internatonalist, are you?'
But I think she probably was. I
cannot see demonstrations, these
banner parades and these sudden
bursts of song and dance. as un-
dignified and irrelevant Human
beings have always behaved like
this when they were most excited
about ideas. Maybe you cannot
make speech and maybe the con-
ditions are not such that you can
stop. But you have an open space,
in the streets or q building, and
you have got your own self, to use
for the purpose Of demonstrating
what you feel about that man or
that idea. Well, what can you do
but shout and sing and dance and,
to use an old but good phrase,
"cut up?
That is what they used to do in
the Middle Ages when Kings and
Popes were chosen-surely we have
all read of girls throwing flowers
in front of the great men of the
past. Well, now you are choosing
a President, and the people are just
as excited and they have just the
same resources, and so they do the
same things, and it Is no use
sneering at them.