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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1948
Page
2
The Chronicle Telegram notes B F Goodrich Company at Avon Lake appoints a replacement for Aldrich Syversen who leaves to study at Syracuse. It mentions a calculation that the annual U S milk supply could fill a river 3000 miles long, 40 feet wide and 2.5 feet deep.
Norris E. Dodd head of FAO warns the coming U S grain surplus will not end world hunger. He cites a global calorie goal of 2550 to 2650 daily and outlines needed increases in cereals fats meat and other foods to reach 1960 targets. He notes US farmers may be asked to grow less wheat next year due to surplus.
Mrs Cecil Bartow, a World War I WAC sergeant and veteran wife in Noble County, is the sole woman in a general farm course attended by about 130 male veterans. Her instructor Kenneth Hicks praises her as a good student.
Elizabeth Bentley tells Congress how a Soviet agent gave her $2000 in New York in October 1945 after she admitted to FBI duties as courier for two wartime spy rings. J Parnell Thomas leads HUAC inquiry and identifies the agent as a high representative of the Soviet government. The money was impounded by the FBI. Bentley was said to have received a medal, possibly the Order of the Red Star.
U S Senate committee plans secret questioning of Soviet schoolmaster Mikhail Samarin and his wife this week as part of disclosures on Soviet espionage. Samarin, wounded in war, is under two subpoenas and has been hiding in New York. Ambassador Panyushkin claims the teacher may lack accountability for his statements. Henry Collins, linked to an underground Communist cell in Washington before 1937, faces testimony after Miss Bentley.
The source recalls an early 1930s network that split into cells and a distinct elite band of men described as “going places in the government,” suggesting internal divisions and power players within the period.
Maine remains a major timber region with over 16 million acres of forest and 226 million board feet of annual lumber output. Pulpwood yields around 1.2 million cords yearly while recreation in the Maine woods dominates the scene and last year’s fires damaged resort towns such as Bar Harbor. New Zealand bought 128000 tons of American coal recently.
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