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# \|FA y LVYN RATHBORNE, © | party and of the Communist party's secret policy board in | member ber of ‘the Communist ‘ the national executive commit : te of the CIO, spent two weeks ’ a the te House as the guest | of Eeseocsre in the sum- , mer of 140. ; He bad gost resigned the ‘ presidency ef the American ! Communications association, s Communist anion within the f CIO, because bis health had failed. He was starting a drive from New York to California in his small sedan with his wife and baby, who was sccomme dated in « sling or hammock in the aftersection of the car. Arriving in Washington, Rath- mre drove into White House grounds with vid casual nee of a southern cousin . IR ENOUGH ~ »~ By Westbrook Pegler Ni “elo Rosen fee peg that cooperation an | erican Navy plane on a Jong flight in the Pacific sighted an American merchant- Tan and by radio asked the union radio operator aboard her for information so that the Navy men cowd varlfy their position, The commander of the plane later re rted to the naval dis- ers Higence effice in Ban . ee that, before eonplying, \ the ship's radio map tagured, “Are you a ember of the : ae ~ American Communications as ae) aoclation?* This incidental information is intended to indicate the atti- - tude of the Communists in this union whose Communist presi: dent and his family had bee entertained for two Weeks in, the White House as the guest’ INDAXED - 60 ~ x of ime wife of President Prank. calling on kin-folks and settled \ ott. own for a fortnight’s sojourn, , Princess Martha, of Norway | was another guest at the rat- | infested Hationa! palace at the | e. ATHBORNE has quit the party since then and ap- ' pears to have suffered privation in common with three other former Communists who testi- Tied 14 the istest Harry Bridges trial. Their reward for their repudiation of the enemy long before Korea and for the or deal of the trie! has been un employment and poverty. _. When Eathborne announced that he would have te - quit the presidency ef the Amer- fean Communications sssocla- tion, the Communists would not take his word or the word of any sonCommunist physician 2 but insisted on go concurring opinion from a doctor who was | @ inember of the They , of course, that he was about te. them. This he aid net do unt 1844. - Although the A.C.A. was gen: erally frally pooperative in the Amer- after Hitler at packed Russia in 1941, neverthe- INDEXED: 8/00. - [409m ~ a RICORDEL ye a 5 1950 { ° Ki ene ae ED Page 2 Times-Herald —-. Sec I Wash. Post —— gah Wash. Kone __ Wash. Star —— + — LéE 3 1950 ne EE pate: SEP?