Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1945 — Page 14

WHEN VOLUNTARY methods failed to settle a controversy of that type, the President would appoint three or more outstanding citizens as an impartial fact-finding board. For five days while the board was being appointed, "for 20 days while it was investigating and preparing a public report, and for five days thereafter, a strike or lockout would be unlawful. That would mean

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Pending action by congress, Mr. Truman intends to name fact-finding boards for the current General Motors strike and the threatened U. S. Steel strike. First reactions by unions and managements to his announcement of this intention are discouraging. His appeal to all General Motors | workers to “return to work at once,” and to the corporation to “proceed energetically with full production,” seems to be meeting the reverse of an enthusiastic response. But disregarding so sensible an appeal, backed by the legal authority ‘which ‘the President requests, would be a quite different matter. His plan is worth a try, and if it works it will be a great thing for the country.

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: WE HAD advance information of the Jap’s plan the day V before :Pearl Harbor was’ attacked. But we didn’t] know it-because their intercepted message was coded and ‘translated until the day after the attack. We muffed that one for lack of adequate trained personnel to . do the decoding and translating. other Jap messages of the utmost importance were not ~ translated until weeks after we intercepted them. Two months before the attack—we learned that the Japs were seeking detailed information about our fleet anchorages at Pearl Harbor. Maj. Gen. Sherman Miles, then head of military intelligence in Washington, tells the congressional investigating committee that this information “taken alone,” would have carried great military significance. J ~ ” ” » . » WHY shouldn't it have beén taken alone, as well as studied along with any other information in.out hands? Failure to evaluate that tip properly may also have reflected the personnel shortage, but it also seems to indicate an absence of acuteness. The army seems to have been more interested ing guarding the information that we knew the Jap code than in using the information we gained by knowing the code. . The investigation, we think, is strengthening the case for unifying command of the armed forces. Certainly it is pointing the need, now and for all future time, of an alert, adequate, centralized intelligence system. But that system defenses must be manned by men who will respond to warnings when they get them.

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MR. TRUMAN'S STRIKE MESSAGE

(CONGRESS should act speedily to put legal authority behind the fact-finding procedure which President Truman hopes can stop or prevent disastrous strikes. Mr. Truman's message is a landmark. For the first time since the New Deal began helping organized labor to attain its present unprecedented power, a President has ‘asked for legislation to protect the country against unrestrained industrial warfare. We believe a great majority of the American people ‘are grateful to Mr. Truman, no matter how many labor leaders and employers. may denounce his proposal. As he says, industrial strife means loss to everyone and endangers future prosperity after rapid reconversion. And failure of the recent labor-management conference to agree on a voluntary plan for maintaining peace where bargaining and conciliation break down has made it the government's duty to act through law. The action he wants is mild. He has borrowed the fact-finding technique of the successful railway labor act, and would apply it when threatened work stoppages in certain other great industries would have serious national

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Li ly a temporary suspension of the right to strike. Neither party would be legally bound to| 1 of the fact-finding board. But, Mr. Truman argues, the public would have the facts, and he believés that in most cases both sides would yield to the influence of informed public opinion.

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pray. Harry E. Wood of Trenton, N. J, divisien'’s chaplain who helped Gus say

Gus, Chaplain Wood said, belon but he always claimed he was a man 1 Joe, his best friend, was a boy who knew and prayed often. Gus thought Joe guy he'd ever known, but he couldn't go him on religion. Joe kept trying to tell Gus was more to it than met the eye. Gus and Joe hit the beach together a They'd gone less than a dozen feet before shot in the shoulder. He tumbled into a as Gus knew he would, Joe came to him in a minutes, got out his first aid pouch, and stopped

Never Saw Joe Again “IF YOU knew how to pray, Gus,” Joe said, “you'd feel & lot better. Look at me. I'm not scared. Now just sit tight, and I'll get some help. And, fellow, try to pray a little while I am gone.” Gus, of course, didn't try to pray. He and Joe had been all over that before. last time he ever saw Joe. An hour later someone else picked him up and took him out to a hospital trans-

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No one noticed Gus at first, but when they started to put him on the table, he kicked up a fuss. He said he wanted to see the chaplain, When Cmdr. Wood came in, he told him about Joe. The chaplain said Joe probably was O. K. but Gus said no, he knew he wasn't. If Joe was still alive, he'd have

“Chaplain,” he said miserably, “I don't know how to pray. But, by God, I'm not going to let these medics cut on me until I say a prayer-for Joe.” So Chaplain Wood sat down beside Gus and said

GUS LOOKED up when he finished. “Chaplain,” he said slowly, “how about saying one

* Chapliiins have a heart-breaking job. * One day, when Lt. Boh Croyle, a Methodist preacher from Altoona, Pa., had the cemetery duty, he wrote the fol-

“On Saipan’s beach the hot sands sweep, Round boards that mark the head and feet Of brave marines who yesterday Had worked and loved and found life gay. Now they are dead, for what? they cry, And we who live must ‘echo: Why? If Godless treachery and greed, Become for aye an evil dream,

“I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.” “NEVER GET TIRED OF MILKING THE PUBLIC” By Birdie Sumner, Indianapolis According to the newspapers and radio, there are millions of starving people in Europe and Asia. No one

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An ugly past, a cast-off scheme, Then truthfully, it can be said, These brave marines cannot be dead, gL hough hot sands sweep on Saipan’s beach.”

mm WORLD AFFAIRS— . China Mess By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—If the United States fails to act promptly to clarify its muddled foreign policy, in the opinion of some of the most sastute diplomats, it will soon be made the goat for whatever goes wrong in any

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The immediate need is for a showdown on China. Former Ambassador Hurley charges that our national policy out there is being frustrated by a coterie of underlings: in the state department, and the senate foreign relations committee will begin hearings on Wednesday. Those hearings should be wide open, from" start to finish, as Gen. Hurley himself desires. If they are not, the American people will be

Already Moscow gnd her stooges are tal out of the situation. “Hurley,” says cial volce of the Kremlin, “is the mouthpiece of United States imperialistic elements, striving for unlimited domination of Asia.”

Open Hearings Vital THAT statement should be called immediately. And the place to call it is in congress. United States ‘policy in the Far East is sufficiently clean to withstand the spotlight-—especially if compared with that of the other great powers. But if the hearings are conducted behind closed doors it will play straight into the hands of the Communists, fellow travelers and others who seek to distort America’s every act

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k Wool and rs tory of Mrs. Hela Wyolijoki. She is now a woman with a smart * | of 50 or 60 and is one of the most outstanding of all a double br Finnish ties. rg ‘i Black only. | Born in Estonia and later married to a Swedish | sawmill proprietor, she quickly assumed i * of the sawmills. Subsequently she became aS¥play- | wright, and her works had considerable success all Belted trench over Europe; Currently one of them is being screened white cottor in Hollywood. J : processed for I met Mrs: Wuolijoki first some 10 years ago having lency. White supper with my friend H. R. Knickerbocker after the 9 to 18

reported to the Russian legation and had a long talk with Mrs, Kollantay, the able and resourceful Soviet minister to Sweden. These conversations, . though abortive, were the first contacts established between Russia and Finland and they ultimately led to the armistice concluded between the two countries. Mrs. Wuolijoki returned the next day to Helsinki, where she was at once arrested and brought to trial as a traitor and war criminal. She was sentenced to death, but the seritence was not put into effect. Meanwhile, to add the perfect musical-comedy touch to the situation, the Finnish security officer charged with the duty of interrogating the blond * parachutist fell in love with his prisoner and proposed marriage .to her. This greatly complicated the situation, and in the upshot the life of the parachutist, like that of Mrs. Wuolijoki, was spared. When the Russians arrived, they “liberated” their beautiful

director of the Finnish Broadcasting Corp. in which capacity she does her utmost for good relations between Finland and Russia and also urges on the Finnish people to clamor for the condemnation of socalled “war criminals,” such as the leader of the | Social Democrats, Mr. Tanner. :

Shocked by Her Attitude 2) I HAD a long talk with her when I was in Helsinki recently, and I must confess that I was shocked by her attitude. She talked more like a Russian than a Finn, and did not seem to wish to extepd the same forbearance to her political enemies as had: been shown to herself. I also met her daughter, who, paradoxically enough, is the wife of the president of the Bank of Finland. He, af the moment, is in the United States trying to secure a loan of fifty million dollars for Finland, to enable them to get their industries going so

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