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Coffee Crop Improves

Although Brazil's chances for
a bumper coffee crop in 1850
were spoiled by a 1949 drought,
prospects are for a crop slightly
larger than harvested last year,
Rio de Janeiro reports.
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Odd-Lot DEALINGS

The Securities and Exchange Commits
sion reported today these transactions by
customers with odd-lot dealers or special
ists on the New York Stock Exchange for
February s: 4,753 purchases involving
142, DOL shares; sales involving 163,460
shares involving $500 orders, including
2,OlO shares sold Short on 80 nrders
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Louisville Gas g. Electric Co,
registered with the SEC 101 ,297
common shares. A group of in
vestment houses will underwrite
the offering. Proceeds will be
used for expansion.
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HOURLY SAFES on the ExchanEe To-day:
11:00 am. 800 600 I2:O0 noon oeo ooC
100 p.m.- o3o 600 200 pm, 600 ooc
tUnlt OF trading 10 shares. sIn bank
ruptcy or receivership or being reorganized
under the Bankruptcy Act or securities
assumed by such companies Rates OF diyi-
dends in the foregoing table are annual
or semiannual declaration. Unless other
wise noted. special or extra dividends are
not included cid Called xEx dividend.
stock dividend. Cash or stock. De-
clared or paid so far this year payable
in stock, estimated cash value on ex-divi-
dend date, Paid last year. b Declared
or paid after stock dividend or split up.
4 Declared or paid this year. an accumula-
tive issue with dividends in arrears . Paid
action taken at last dividend meeting
Declared l94g payable in 1910. y Liaui-
cash value undetermined on declaration
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Metal Quotations

NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (P).-Spot non
ferrous metal prices today: Copper, 1874
cents a pound, Connecticut Valley; lead
l2 cents a pound, New York; zinc, 934
cents q pound. East St Louis.
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Washington Exchunqe

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capital Transit-50 at 1854, 10 at 2694
Capital aoo Transit LIST refundings As
washington Gas common-1oO at 25, q
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Television's Audience now ex

VhSHVa nuUfCiHCC HUW EA-
ceeds 100000 persons and will
treble that by the end of this
year. said President J. r. Poppele
OF the Television Broadcasters
Association in his annual, report.
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Dividends Announced

NEW YORK. Feb. 9 GP.-Dividends de-
clared:
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NJ. Y. Bond Market

LIST INCLUDES ONLY SELECTED ISSUES
FURNISHED bv the Associated Pressl
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Bufter and Eggs

Eggs-Market steady, demand mod
crate. receipts moderate; A large, 35-39;
A Mediums. 35-35; A small. 27-30; B
large, 34-36; current receipts, unsraded,
Receipts-Butter. 2e,443 pounds; esss,
1867 cases.
Evening star., 1950-08-20
By jones J. Strebiq

cred in the first phase are the
industrial Northeast and Great
Lakes region and the West
Coast from the Canadian border
to Southern California.
The job is being done through
State governors, with co-ordina-
ton through an Air Force liai-
son Office. The chain of re-
sponsibility runs up through the
Defense Department to the Ma
tional Security Resources Board,
which is charged with civil de-
fense planning.
The civilian volunteer organ
ization of ground observers sup
plements the Air Force radar
screen in two important ways.
First. 1t fills in gaps radar
does not reach. These gaps
include low attitudes where
radar is lost because it sees
only in a straight line. The
farther away an object is. the
higher it must be to be picked
up by radar.
Second. visual observation
gives details which radar, re-
porting only as a blip of light
on the glass screen, cannot give.
Radar can tell distance, speed
and direction. A ground OBJ
server can count the number
of~planes "a detail radar might
miss If the planes were in close
Evening star., 1950-08-20

formation) and describe them
as large or small. He also
might be able to report whether
men or equipment had been
parachuted to earth.
Even in overcast, when the
sky is blanked out, ground OBJ
servers can tell by sound
whether planes are single or
multi-engine and whether there
might be more than one.
About two-thirds of the $500
observation post supervisors. the
men who will be responsible for
organizing and operating the
posts, have been signed up.
Each is told the general area
in which a post should be To-
Gated He is responsible for
making certain that it meets
a few basic needs-be a good
vantage point, have a private
telephone line and be generally
satisfactory as far as comfort
is concerned to the people who
will man 1t.
The system for reporting
suspicious aircraft has been
worked out In extensive exer-
cises. such as Operation Look
out" in 10 Northeast States last
year, in which 1000 civilians
took part. 1t works in general
like this:
The telephone exchange
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By Paul Gholi

flee explaining why he would dis
continue the weekly conferences
he had been holding with officers
of his regiment about the use OF
new material coming from the
United States and strategic dis
posal of troops. He reported that
at least two of his officers were
Communist agents and sent every
thing he told them direct to Mos
COW.
Army Endangered
In one of the late issues of
Gathers du Communisme, a French
party policy publication. Gen.
Joinville. a member of Parliament
and Communist leader of re-
sistance during the occupation. let
the cat out Of the bag. In giving
new instructions to party mill
tants for use In case Of general
conflict he wrote:
An army formed by capitalism.
composed of the workers, directed
against their brothers and against
the Soviet Union. will simply
explode The people are learning
how to use weapons. They will
destroy the army of the princes
and establish their own forces. /"
With the mobilization of new
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Icontingents In the offing, the
danger of Red inf1ltration into the
army is greater than it has ever
been.
Moreover, militant Communists
are displaying intense activity in
seeking information about the
strength of their political foes.
Under pretext Of getting sigma
lures for the Stockholm peace ap-
peal. many Communist youths have
managed to get inside middle
class apartments in Paris to inter-
view their owners.
Active members Of De Gaulle's S
right-wing party have been secret
ly photographed by unknown
persons" while walking in the
streets. Their apartments have
sometimes been raided by noctur-
nal visitors, obviously interested in
political documents.
There is also a current wave of
applications for jobs in French
or foreign insurance companies,
private banks and international
organizations In Paris. The appli-
cant usually has a large sheaf OF
recommendations from we'll
known Socialists or business peo-
pie. He is invariably young. and
has had the leftist fever but is
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An army of 100000 volunteer
civilian observers is being re-
cruited to man a defense net
work against surprise air attack
on the United States.
This is but one element Of a
four-phase bulwark to guard
America in the air ocean. 1t
is a visual-observer program sup
porting the Air Force complex of
radar surveillance stations, the
direct control of all aircraft NOV
ing within certain areas under
certain conditions and a sys-
tenn Of fighter airbases from
which interception offensives
would be launched.
The civilian ground observer
program is only in it's first
phase. This step calls for $500
observation posts manned by an
average of 20 persons distributed
at approximately eight-mile in
tervals over all or parts of Is
States and the District of Co.
lumbia.
The core of this vast grid is
a network of 26 filter centers
through which information from
observation posts will be eval-
uated and channeled when nee
essary to interceptor bases. All
posts and centers will be linked
by local and g-distance tele-
phone under q priority call
system.
The two general areas cov-
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now decidedly repentant. This cor
respondent knows of several such
cases and one out of two of these
applicants have been taken on by
credulous employers.
Mass Meeting Banned
Under pretext of a Franco
Italian youth peace demonstration
in Nice, the French Communist
Party had carefully planned a
mass meeting of the combined
forces of communism in Southern
France and Northern Italy. The
police banned the demonstration
which might have assumed vast
proportions.
All these Communist tricks and
maneuvers are known by the
police and are very carefully
watched. This explains why three
weeks ago the Government de-
bated the question of arresting
Communist leaders and outlaw
ing the party if 1t continued its
harmful action.
The answer of part Of the cab
met and a large number of kind
and convinced Democrats in this
country was the same. Don't
touch the Communists. In a free
country like France, opinion is no
crime.
(Chicago Daily News Foreign service.)
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Reds Trying to Sabotage Morale of French Army

PARIS.-Everywhere in France
there are signs that Moscow has
been increasing its fifth column
activities. particularly since Wash
ington called on Western Europe
to rearm.
In fact, the 1850 version of
Soviet action in France can be
summarized in two words-ef-
ficiency and secrecy.
Since the Korean war began
the French Communist Party has
been instructed to:
/. Campaign for peace and
condemn use of the atom bomb
with redoubled energy.
2. Concentrate on creating new
Communist cells among soldiers
and officers.
Today Moscow's main interest
in France is obvious: To infiltrate
into the ranks Of new troops
sabotage their morale and render
them powerless when Moscow's
hour strikes.
Several officers in command of
regiments stationed in Alsace and
Northern France have told me
that they have had direct proof
of the creation of cells among
their troops during recent weeks.
One officer wrote the war Of
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switchboard light connected to
an observation post telephone
line has an Identification mark.
When that light flashes on, the
operator gives it top priority.
The aircraft observer responds
with code word and the tele-
phone operator instantly con-
meets him by long-distance with
a filter center. The call is
charged to the Government
without any formalities.
The observer makes his report
according to an established Sc
quence from a standard report
ing card. The filter center
checks this report with other in
formation. such as known air
craft movements and reports
from other posts.
If it appears to mean danger,
he passes 1t along to the fighter
aircraft base for action. The
warning would go also to civil
ian defense centers and to the
general public If that seemed
necessary.
The theoretical time for max
ing such an observation, report
ing and analyzing it and deliver
ing 1t to the fighter base Is 62la
seconds. In Operation Lookout
the actual time ran almost two
minutes. Air Force officials
(See sTREBIG, Page C-5.)
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Emphasis on Contempt

Furthermore, according to the
committee, the current contempt
cases turn on many circumstances
besides a simple rebuff to the ques-
ton: "Are you now or have you
ever been a member of the Com
munist Party?"
The emphasis is on contempt"
for the committee and for Con-
gress, the committee feels. Occa-
sionally reluctant witnesses po-
litely declined to respond. But
more often the witnesses were any,
thing but quiet and respectful in
demanding that they be allowed
to stay silent, the record shows.
Reluctance to reply was gener-
ally parrotlike and illogically per-
sistent, the committee complains.
In one instance, a witness SHE'D
away from 70 questions. They in
cluded some that merely asked If
he knew several widely known
personages whom neither the COM
mittee nor any one else had ever
called subversWe or left-wing.
Privately, some committee mem
bers limited they were rather
pleased by that recourse to the
self-incrinination theme. Such a
position put q witness In q poor
public light, they observed.
But committee members and
lawyers for the witness agree at
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Judge Hands Opinion

Those cases are on the way to
the Supreme Court because the
Court of Appeals, In a unani-
nous opinion written by Judge
Learned Hand, this month af-
f1rmed them and upheld constitu-
tionality of the act.
The Smith Act did not outlaw
the Communist Party. Judge
Hands opinion went no further
than to say that Communist Party
documents introduced in evidence
by the II American Communist
leaders fatty contradicted their
story that they did not intend to
use force and violence to overturn
the United States Government.
But the congressional commit
tee witnesses who pleaded possible
self determination are certain to
rely on that decision in an attempt
to bolster their claim that they
might have leaped from the frying
pan into the fire if they had an
swered questions about Commu-
mist doingS or friends.
Before the Sc cases come to
trial here and in Hawaii, con-
siderably more can happen to af-
feet the situation. Congress may
pass some sort of legislation
greatly restricting Communist
Party activities.
The Supreme Court may rule on
the appeal of the IL Communist
Party leaders and on the constitu-
tionality of the Smith Act.
Whatever happens in the courts,
the House has had it's say. The
self determination argument first
took shape many months ago at
Committee on Un-American Ac-
tivities sessions. II the committee
had asked for Sc contempt cita-
tions, even two months ago, 1t
might have had trouble getting
them.
The big basic question is yet to
be answered but the committee
this month really struck while the
iron was hot-red hot.
Evening star., 1950-08-20
Free Nations Slow to Act
After Agreeing on Plans
Anti-Communist Allies Make Impressive
Heudwoy, but 1t Is Mostly Paper Work
By Wallace R. Deuel.

The nations of the free world drew
week in the face of the Soviet
Countries threatened by the Russians and their Communist
satellites adopted wide variety of
to strengthen and ntegate their military
and political programs for self-defense and survival
The SO members of the
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Congress Asks Court Test
On RecoIcitront Witnesses
Wants Judiciary to Decide Whether Red
Suspects Can Lean on Fifth Amendment
By Robert X. Walsh

wants the question raised
mittee witnesses who refuse to answer questions
quered about Communist tie-ups decline reply
constitutional of possible ncriminaon?
with its Committee UnAmercan Activities
conduct of that
opinion citing and
Evening star., 1950-08-20

least that the performance has
laid the groundwork for a clear
cut court determination of a
highly important constitutional
and legislative question.
Most of them. including Repre-
sentative Marcantonio, American
Labor Party, of New York, seem
to agree that in the final analysis
the courts will have to decide on
the relevancy of questions asked
of each individual defendant.
IMarcantonio Dissents
I Mr.. Marcantonio cast the sole
nay vote on the 56 contempt reso-
lutions in the House this month.
congressman and others who dis
agree with him on many matters
nevertheless concede he demon
strated that this is no open-and-
shut case.
Decrying what he termed "a
rule of hysteria rather than the
rule of the Constitution" he con-
tended that Congress cannot in
veStigate in fields where it can
not legislate." Congress he be-
lieves, cannot legislate in the field
prohibited by the first amend
ment. nor interfere with the fifth
amendments guarantee of pro-
lection against possible self-in-
elimination.
He listed Fifth Circuit Court
of Appeals decision, as recently as
August 5. upholding a deporta-
ton hearing witness who refused
on grounds Of possible self-in-
elimination to tell whether he
knew the aliens involved.
"The answers to these ques-
tions," the appellate court stated,
"in themselves may not have
tended toward determination but
they may have been links in
chain of circumstantial evidence
strong enough to convict him of
number of crimes, or such an
swers might well provide the
means whereby such evidence
could be discovered"
At least two other major cases
dealing with the self lf-incrimina-
tion dispute were on their way to
1 the Supreme Court.
Appellate Ruling
One Of them was q United
States Court of Appeals decision
last February upholding the re-
fusal of witnesses to tell Federal
grand jury whether they belonged
to the Communist Party, .sI
Here is notomerely the remote
and naked possibility (of possible
self -incrimination) )" the appellate
court wrote in reversing a District
Court judgment of contempt.
Here is exactly the prosecution
that a reasonable man would ex-
pect If actually guilty of conspir-
acy or association with conspir-
acy to violate the Smith Act ..
or one innocently associating with
such conspirators and ceasing the
association on discovery of its un-
lawful character"
Other attorneys declare that a
congressional committee differs
essentially from grand jury or de-
portation hearings. And, they add.
the judges in the California case
split 4-3.
The appellate courts reference
to the Smith Act put a judicial
finger on a point that has become
increasingly material to any dis
cussion of these contempt cita-
tions at this particular moment
in the troubled course of events.
That statute of 1910, intro
duced by Representative Smith,
Democrat, of Virginia, makes it
a crime to advocate violent over
throw of the Government. 1t was
the basis for the conviction of
the II American Communist Par
ty leaders in Federal Court in
New York.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-10-28
DYING STORM.
LEAVES WAKE
OF SIX DEATHS

PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct. 2o-tR
Pacific coast gales tapered off to-
day but storm warning flags were
whipped by stiff winds from Cali
fornia to Canada.
1t was the fourth consecutive day
of winds as one storm followed close
on the heels of another Last nights
blow reached 66 miles an hour. Fore
casters said more weather was brew
ing over the ocean but it appeared
to lack the punch of earlier storms
that toppled trees, unroofed build
ings, ripped down wires and halted
shipping.
One death in each of the coastal
states was directly due to the storm:
duck hunter drowned in Cali
fornia; a motorist was killed by a
falling tree in Oregon; railroad
brakeman was killed by falling
tree in Washington. Each state also
had an indirect storm death: man
believed drowned near San Jose,
Calf; a highway accident near
Portland, heart attack while re-
moving debris at Spokane. Wash.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-10-28
DRAFT FOR
YOUNG men
PREDICTED
May Spend Two or Three
Years in Military Serv-
ice View Of Experts

WASHINGTON, Oct % R =
Government manpower experts said
today that most young men from
Is through % during the next five
to ten years probably will have to
spend two or three years in mill
tary training.
This, they consider the most ac-
ceptable way of meeting President
Truman's request for 100000
man armed force on permanent
basis.
Requested legislation carrying
some details of the plan is expect
ed to reach Congress either at the
post-election session next month or
the new session early next year.
Congressional committee staffs al
ready are studying the problem.
without trying to forecast what
the lawmakers will do, top man
power experts, who ask to remain
anonymous, told a reporter That
these moves must take place:
/. The present draft or selec-
tive service act must be overhauled
on a long range basis with mini
mum terms of service for inductees
extended from the present II
months to at least "a months.
g. Some power or authority must
be established to assure a flow Of
slightly more than 100000 young
men year into the regular armed
forces.
3. A universal military training
CUMTD program also must be set
up.
Top military leaders have advised
civilian and congressional PLAN
ners that the various steps could
be enacted separately. But they
have suggested an overall approach
as the best solution.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1950-10-28
Nationwide
PHONE TIEUp
THREATENED

NEW YORK, Oct % TIA
long acknowledging wage dispute in
the huge Bell Telephone System
broke out anew last night with the
threat of a coast forecast telephone
strike Nov. 9.
Only 16,685 equipment workers
were involved directly, but they
have the full backing of their I'M
ion, the CLIO Communications
Workers of America, which pledged
itself to honor the strikers picket
lines.
The CWA represents most of
Bells 100000 employees.
The main clash is between the
big unions division 6, with 10000
workers, and the Western Electric
Co., the manufacturing and INSTALL
ing subsidiary of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Co., par
ent Bell corporation.
The union has demanded a Sub
stantial" increase without naming a
figure, and has turned down every
offer made SO far by the company.