Brownell and McCarthy
Disagree Over Number Of
Reds Still In Government
FORT WORTH, Tex., UR—A>tty.
Gen. Brownell says he thinks all
suspected Reds have been clean
ed out of the government. But
Sen. McCarthy disagrees.
Brownell said in a transcribed
Texas radio speech last night he
believes all federal employes sus
pected of Communist tendencies
have been dismissed.
“But the President has pro
mised that within the coming year
we will have completed the em
ploye security program so that
the people can be sure that none
of them are left in government.
“And those that are outside, we
are going to go after them sep
arately,” the attorney general de
clared.
McCarthy, Communist-hunting
chairman of the Senate Investiga
tions subcommittee, said on the
“Meet the Press” television pro
gram last night more employes
are being fired on loyalty grounds
every day.
The administration “is heading
in the right direction” in eliminat
ing subversives from government,
> but “I don’t think the job is end
ed,” McCarthy said.
Ring-necked pheasants, import
ed from China are now one of
America’s best known game birds.
Muskox Herd On Nunivak
Is. Shows Firm Increase
Of-75 to 90 In Past Year
WASHINGTON, UP> —The gov
ernment reported Sunday that a
recent count showed its wild
muskox herd on Nunivak Island
national wildlife refuge in Alas
ka has increased from 75 to 90
animals during the past year.
A herd of 31 of the unusual
animals, resembling small buf
faloes and related to cattle, was
placed on the refuge in 1936 and
there has been a gradual climb
in numbers despite occasional
setbacks.
The animal was once common
in the territory but virtually dis
appeared 100 years ago because
of indiscrimnate killing by ex
plorers, traders and natives. Con
gress in 1930 instructed the Bio
logical Survey — predecessor to
the Fish and Wildlife Service—to
re-establish the species in its an
cient habitat.
A herd of 31 muskox imported
from Greenland was put on the
College Experimental Farm at
Fairbanks. But attempts to dom
esticate the animals failed. The
herd then was released on the
Nunivak refuge where the musk
ox are free to roam over more
than a million acres of land.
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Schedule Big Christmas
Eve General Strike
LONDON, UP)—Santa Claus found
himself a key issue today in Brit
ain’s biggest strike threat since
the general strike of 1926.
The immediate issue is whether
the railwaymen are entitled to a
pay raise of $.56 a day or $3.60 a
week.
But an important factor is the
old man with the whiskers.
The National Union of Railway
men (NUR) has called on its 400,
000 members to strike next Sun
day at midnight on the eve of the
Christmas holiday.
A strike on the state-owned
railways would paralyze this na
tion of close to 50 million people
looking forward to .their gayest
Christmas holiday since before
the war—with plenty of food and
drink and unrationed things to
buy.
“Railway Scrooges,” shouted The
People, labor party mouthpiece, in
a front page headline denouncing
union leaders for calling the strike
on the holiday week.
“You’d think the leaders of the
NUR had no children of their own
and never believed in Santa
Claus,” said the Sunday news
paper, which claims a circulation
of almost five million.
“At any rate they are going the
right way to stop youngsters from
having a happy Christmas by tak
ing a train trip to meet the old
man in white whiskers at the big
store . . . shame on them.”
The giant squid, a carnivorous
sea animal may weigh up to 30
sea animal may weigh up to 30
octopus, although it has ten arms
instead of eight.
Agent X Keeps Sparrows
Away From Govt. Cars
TULSA, Okla., W)—Among the
unsung heroes in federal service
is Agent X, a stout officer who
has stood at his post for three
years, 24 hours a day, without
pay, food or water.
Doing a job few others would
attempt, Agent X guards thou
sands of dollars worth of govern
ment vehicles.
Agent X, before he joined the
services, was just plain Joe, a
stuffed hoot owl.
He enlisted, or was drafted,
three years ago to stand among
the rafters of Bruce Elliott’s gar
age and scare the wits out of
sparrows roosting there.
Elliott has a government con
tract to house the vehicles. His
contract also calls for him to keep
them clean and polished. The
sparrows almost put him out of
business.
A patient man, Elliott endured
the Sparrows for 15 years, until
his arm grew weak from scrub
bing the autos. Three years ago
he decided things had come to
an impasse.
He got Joe from a friend in
Kansas, commissioned him Agent
X, and wired him to a rafter when
the sparrows had gone to forage
for food. Then they returned, the
birds knew the jig was up.
Elliott, whose job is 10 times
easier with Joe on guard, com
mented happily:
“There hasn’t been a sparrow in
here since Joe came. I’m thinking
of giving him a medal.”
It is estimated that Americans
get about 12Vfe billion matchbooks
a year that are distributed free.
Hard-of-Hearing Father
Fails Hear Train, Whole
Family Killed In Crash
ROYSE CITY, Texas, UP) — A
whistling diesel streamliner last
night slammed a station wagon off
its tracks, killing a hard-of-hear
ing father, his wife, three children
and maid.
The hurtling automobile tripped
a switch that derailed the twin
engines and 10 cars of the sparkl
ing red-and-silver train. Five
rear cars held to the rails.
Five train passengers were sent
to hospitals. An estimated 30 more
were bruised or shaken up.
The crash stopped the M-K-T
Texas Special's fast trip from
Dallas to St. Louis as it pounded
through .town at 60 miles an hour.
The six dead, all those in the
station wagon, were identified as
Victor Saufley, 47, Dallas real
estate agent and former Southern
Methodist University and New
York Giants football player; his
wife, Harriett, 39, their sons, Bill,
5, and twins John and Jim, 2, and
Irna Davis, the Negro maid.
Saufley wore a hearing aid.
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