Grotewohl Is Seen As Red Captive By RICHARD K. O'MALLEY (AP Newsfeatures) Berlin, Feb. 21 -Otto of Communist East Germany, is his old friends. They can't reconcile the kindly, crat they knew with the deep ally of the Russians and? the Communists at the expense of his own party. For his history was one of Socialism, not Communism.
The two are violenty opposed, yet Grotewohl was highly instrumental in the forced Socialist-Communist merger in 1946. Actually it was not a merger, but a swallowing up of the Socialists by the Communists. Otto Grotewohl Grotewohl's personal background shows nothing outwardly which would have led him to forsake the party he suffered for under the Nazis. He was the son of middle class parents, and was born March 11, 1894, in Braunschweig in what is now the British zone. He studied at Leibniz academy and at a Berlin political college.
Later he was a student guest at Berlin university. He became a printer by trade, but apparently never followed it closely. After World war he got a job as an insurance company clerk. His interest in politics waxed. and he successfully sought a place on the Braunschweig city council.
Later he became a member of the state parliament, and finally was sent to the German Reichstag as a Social Democrat member. He became Braunschweig minister of interior and education in the Weimar republic, later minister of justice. In 1933 the lanky, serious Grotewohl was elected chairman of the Braunschweig Social Democrats. Then the Nazis came into power, jailed him for seven months, but a people's court acquitted him of a charge of illegal political activity. Grotwohl seems to have kept his political connections, for after the abortive Hitler bomb Grotewohl, owl-eyed prime minister a man no longer understood by straightforward social demoGrotewohl who suddenly became a plot at Munich in 1939, Gestapo men grabbed him.
Once again he went free, but after the second bomb plot, in 1944, Grotewohl went into hiding to avoid arrest again. After World War II Grotewohl took up his political career again. He helped revive the Social Democrat party and was made chairman of its central committee chairman of its central committee in June, 1945. Then, without any warning to his friends, he suddenly collaborated with veteran Communist Wilhelm Pieck, now east German president, for the merger of the cast zone Socialists with the Communists. The Communists showed they trusted him and named him to the powerful politburo of the Socialist Unity Communist party.
Then came the political payoff and Grotewohl was named prime minister in a show-ofhands election in east Berlin when the Communists took over. Last November it was reported that Grotewohl had been taken to a hospital for treatment of i influenza, which later developed into pneumonia. West Berlin newspapers insisted it was the beginning of the end for Grotewohl, and that his illness was purely political. The east government denied this, and after treatment, Grotewohl was shown in a news photo as taking part in a public ceremony. President Pieck then Announced Grotewohl would take a rest cure in a Soviet Union health resort.
Ulbricht, chief deputy, took his job. The west put its finger to the side of its nose and nodded. "Exit Otto," they said. "Once he gets to Russia he'll get the Dimitrov treatment." (George Dimitrov, Communist premier of Bulgaria, went to Russia for medical care and died there.) A former secretary of Grotewohl recalls one conversation with him, "He told me once he would never go to Russia, no matter how many times they asked him. And now look." The latest word from him in the east press was that Berlin Communists had sent a good health message to him at Moscow.
One west Berlin Social Democrat commented: "I don't ever remember Moscow as being designated as a Soviet health resort." Dodd Suggests Low-Cost Farm Aid for Backward Nations backward lands, or enough dollars in taxpayers' pockets pay the bill." In Shanghai he santo 3000 UNRRA tractors rusting in tield because the Chinese farmers didn't know how to use them. But Dodd reports yields of crops substantially Increased by such a simple expedient as leveling fields before planting. He introduced into India a simple rice-threshing device which extracts the grain four times as fast as the hand flail customarily used on many Indian farms. In India also, he showed farmers the advantages of the land-handled hoe and the wheel cultivator over the ancient shorthoe, and the superiority of the scythe over the sickle. We can help the undernourished half of the worlds' people without wrecking our own economy, declares Norris E.
Dodd, Oregon farmer, former Undersecretary of Agriculture and now Director General of UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, writing in the March Reader's Digest. Dodd's theories of agricul-1 tural aid to backward nations, Shovels and cheap pumps, "with just a little money and a brought to farmers in the Nile little are told by Edwin delta, irrigated fields 20 times Muller in an article condensed more efficiently than old bucket brains," from the Minneapolis Tribune. methods. from American techniques of fertRecently returned a trip ilizing, seed to nearly every underdeveloped lection rotating crops, sethe globe, Dodd is con- and vaccinating poultry area on vinced that extravagent schemes can be adopted at little expense, Dodd holds. to provide tractors, dams and In facilities these Italy, for instance, corn power to regions yields have already been doubare impractical.
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518 State Ph. 2-2464 Objection by NLRB Dropped The NLRB has dropped its objection to the Salem Labor council's placing of the Valley Concrete company of Independence on its unfair list. Robert J. Wiener, national labor relations board officer in Portland, said yesterday a February 28 hearing on the NLRB's complaint against the AFL council had been cancelled. Withdrawal of the complaint followed two previous victories for the labor unions involved in the case.
The company's demand for a bargaining election to determine if AFL teamsters should represent the employes was rejected by the NLRB for lack of jurisdiction. The NLRB ruled the company was not engaged in interstate commerce. A lack of jurisdiction was also cited in the NLRB's request for dismissal of a court action which sought an injunction against the labor council. League of Cities Regional Meeting Here February 28 City budgeting, local improvement posed state legislation, and many to city officials and civic leaders of a regional League of Oregon has been scheduled for February room of the Marion hotel in? Salem. Mayor Elfstrom has issued invitations to the mayors, councilmen, and other city officials of the area, and delegations are expected from Aumsville, Aurora, Donald, Falls City, Gervais, Hubbard, Independence, Monmouth, Mt.
Angel, Scotts Mills, Silverton, Stayton, Sublimity, Turner, Woodburn, Dallas, Jefferson, St. Paul, Mill City and Idanha. The Salem meeting is the third of a series of 22 such regional meetings being conducted throughout the state this spring which are expected to draw a total attendance of over 1,000 town and city officials. In announcing the Salem dinner meeting, League President Hollis S. Smith, mayor of Dallas, stated that the 1950 meetings have been timed to coincide with the preliminary planning of city Hungry Child Five old Virginia Enangst wistfully tastes the first bread she has eaten in three days.
She didn't eat for one day and the day before that, beans. Her mother has food for her now, thanks to neighbors at Gambrills, Md. who read in a newspaper that her father has been out of work for weeks and the family was desperate for food. (AP Wirephoto) planning and financing, proother items of current interest of this area will be on the agenda Cities dinner meeting which 28, 6:30 p.m., at the Marine for the new fiscal year and that he felt that a great deal of value could be derived by the city officials through an opportunity of exchanging ideas, experiences, and comments on the many mutual financing problems presently faced by these officials. He stressed the fact that the meeting will be devoted largely to informal round-table discussions with full opportunity for the several city delegations to present their particular problems.
Accorpanying President Smith to Salem will be Herman Kehrli, league executive secretary; Dean Seeger, league consultant, and Arnold M. Westling, planning and public works consultant for the bureau of municipal research and service, together with representatives of the executive committee of the league. Reveal Guided Atomic Missile With Range of 500 Miles Washington, Feb. 21 (U.P)-A be launched 500 miles from the be just around the corner. Defense officials revealed in eral" -propelled, surface-to-surface ranges of more than 500 had been developed.
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First firings at the full distance of 500 miles must wait until the new Banana River, long-range proving ground is ready about a year hence. Brig. Gen. William L. Richardson, who will command the Banana River testing ground, said the air force is "vigorously missiles both as to propulsion and guidance.
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