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NGHAI NAZI AGENTS THAT American authorities in Shanghai have be#N gun tb round up Nazi agents there, a joint American- , Chi tribunal should be established to try the cases. Otherwise some of these arrests may be in vain. Chinese officials in Shanghai do not have a good record in this matter. Several of these Nazis were in their hands in the past but were released on one ruse or another. One of the culprits has even been employed by the Chinese ent. Justification for a joint tribunal to conduct the trial is not limited to past Chinese negligence. The United States should rate representation on the bench because of our : major contribution to Pacific victory, and because American | «troops and ships were the victims of these axis agents. This group under Lt. Col. Ludwig Ehrhardt, chief of Nazi military and naval intelligence in Asia, operated after Germany's defeat and in violation of the surrender terms. The Ehrhardt bureau, according to Shanghai reports, is believed responsible for thé loss of a large allied warship in addition to several smaller vessels. Also it is believed to have had an indirect hand in American losses at the beginning of the Okinawa campaign and in other Pacific battles. Apparently the American week-end raids in Shanghai bagged only 20 axis agents, including Italians and Japs. This should be only the beginning of a much larger cleanup. At least 1500 “dangerous and undesirable” Germans are - said to be known to United States officials there. China is one place in the world where a revived Nasi movement—such as planned by Hitler before Germany’s defeat—could do most harm with least effort. The United States has a heavy stake in the outcome, because the stability and peace of the Far East are involved. We hope the state department, which deserves most of the credit for the week-end arrests, will insist on a joint tribunal and on finishing the job it has started.

SHERIFF OF MARION COUNTY ~ "FHERE ARE more candidates for the Republican and Democratic nominations for sheriff than for any other: major county office to be voted on at the May 7 primary elections. That is because it is a well-paid office, and because it is an unusually important office for the politicians to capture. Because the sheriff is in a position to wreck law en- ~ forcement if he is lax in his duties. From the standpoint of the citizen and the taxpayer, it's mighty important, too, because a sheriff who is weak through inefficiency or political operation means more crime and higher taxes. The numerous candidates in each race might make it easy for the choices of the county organizations to win nom~ ination.’ Each voter should scan the records of these choices and of the other candidates before making up his mind for whom to vote. And then, after making up his mind, he ~ should go to the polls and cast his vote for the man begtqualified in his opinion, and for candidates for other offices, similarly selected for support on the basis of their qualificage First requisite for a competent sheriff is integrity. Experience comes next. But even an inexperienced sheriff who surrounds himself with capable and competent deputies is preferable to a man of experience who has political commitments—commitments which might affect the manner in — which he carries out his duty as the county's chief law enforcement officer.

WANTED: CHANCE TO GET AHEAD Es oo MUCH of the talk about our military caste system has missed the point. It remained for Senator Ed Johnson of Colorado, an enlisted man in world war I, to get down to fundamentals. The senator believes the army is making a mistake by offering enlisted men job security; officers an opportunity to advance. The average American, he insists, is more interested in getting ahead than in sitting out 30 years for a $158 monthly pension. There is ample evidence to support Senator Johnson. The army has several times more officer-applicants than it has jobs, but its most “sanguine hopes” for voluntary enlistments in the ranks are short of its needs. The senator’s point is well taken. There is no reason why a competent soldier should not advance from master sergeant, the top enlisted .rank, to second lieutenant, first job in the commissioned field, with" as little difficulty as - from corporal to sergeant. There is no reason to surrender his benefits because he puts on bars. Elimination of the artificial barrier between officers and enlisted men is essential. It is not, as Senator Johnson - points out, a matter of abolishing officers’ privileges, but one of putting them within reach of every competent man who chooses the army as a career. The average G. 1's resentment of sotial distinctions is not because the other fellow has them, but that he feels permanently barred from attaining them. The argument that some geterals began as enlisted men is not valid. ‘They succeeded in spite of the system, not because of it. - Such cases are exceptions to the general rule. The mechanics of the army’s promotion system do mot encourage the average soldier to hope he can ever be funore than a master sergeant; and too frequently proscribe ~~ This nation will not countenance the indefinite extension of the draft. Selective service must be extended— _ because at the moment we have no other choice—but only as a temporary expedient. It is something to be abandoned as soon ax we find the formula for a volunteer army. America cannot, with any degree of confidence, police occupied territory with an army of conscripts. Too much is ~ at stake. If anyone secretly hopes to force conscription as a part of our permanent military policy, as Senator Johnson fears some do, he badly misjudges American psychology. ‘There must be a way out, and Senator Johnson has ted one way to make the army more attractive. It is to. offer young men the assurance they ean start

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"Talk of Competitive Spirit Is

The Bunk; Companies Fix Prices”

By William M. Taylor, Morgantown In the article appearing in Saturday's Forum, the writer signing Ex-Union Member attempts to talk out of both sides of his mouth, but winds up self-convicted as & union hating corporation stooge. No person can be on both sides of a contested issue. The reason management wishes to deal with company dominated and independent unions is because such unions are weak. No sane worker wants a strike, but when management refuses to settle on a fair basis a strike remains the only weapon labor possesses. - 1 lost four months’ pay in the General Motors strike (never regained) ht thousands in Ford, Chrysler, Studebaker and others profited by the struggle. We were the guinea pig for the industry. Increases in prices is definite proof that big business is going to reap a golden harvest either by withholding thelr

“INDORSEMENT OF FIELDS NOT NON-POLITICAL ONE" By P. A. B., Indianapolis. ¢ Having been a life-long resident of Indianapolis, a daily reader of

article wherein the juvenile aid ty is supposed to be backing Harold Fields as a Republican for judge of juvenile court. The juvenile aid society is supposed to be a bi-partisan organization, yet everyone is familiar with the fact that the heads of this organization are Democrats. I am wondering if the juvenile ald society may not be using this strategy as a blind to confuse the issue; first, in backing a Republi-

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a few days of each other and all carrying the same body lines and comparable prices. You may call it American competition but the real name is standard price fixing. . The writer implies that strikes are called by union leaders for political power and no thought of the welfare of the worker in mind. That C. I. O. official does not have the power to call a strike. The membership voted the strikes and these

can ‘when they are primarily a Democratic organization; and second, indorsing a man who is practically unknown, unqualified, and certainly not the logical person to be judge of our juvenile court, and hasn't a chance of being elected. Could it be they are deliberately indorsing Fields in order to split the party and cause confusion and then later swing their entire support to Judge Rhoads, or the Democratic candidate, as they did several years

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votes were cast under the auspices of government representatives and not in a union hall, Therefore when the member voted he had his own welfare in mind. The writer's statement about each man fighting for himself is silly. Could the war have been won by each man fighting for himself? It takes team-work of all the people. The same is true in the shop.

can for judge of juvenile court and then at election time swung their support to Judge Bradshaw, a Democrat, who was defeated. It is no secret that the juvenile ald society is definitely against Judge Rhoads, but their indorsement of a man who is not qualifled for the job and who has not had sufficient experience for this

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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job proves to me there must be some ulterior motive behind this move, We all know the deplorable conditions in the juvenile court, and about the increase in juvenile delinquency. We read about it in the newspapers practically every day. We certainly need a change, but we certainly need a man who is qualified and who has had sufficient experience along this line to capably handle the job, and help to ,curb the increasing juvenile delinquency, and see that the juvenile delinquents are given a square deal— punishing those who need punishment, and helping those who are deserving, to rehabilitate themselves and help develop them into useful citizens. tr The job of judge of juvenile court should be put in the hands of a man who is not afraid to take a firm grip on the wheel—a firm man, but also a capable, sympathetic and understanding man.

Editor's Note: We We agree with P. A. R. on the type of man who should be selected as juvenile court judge. The city’s bi-partisan juvenile court committee, to which he refers, is ‘composed of members of both political parties. Their avowed purpose is to obtain the man best qualified for the job. * » » “MOTHERS SHOULD DEMAND CONGRESS FACE THE FACTS”

By a Mother, Noblesville. The 18, 19 and 20-year-olds who are determined to volunteer for the army are probably the type that army: discipline would improve. Otherwise, they're too young to have such grave responsibility thrust on them. A nation that has to depend upon its extreme youth for its defense is weak indeed in matured intellect, taking advantége of our. youth be-

ago when they backed a Republi-jcause there is no organized group

or political power to defend them. These youngsters are justified in feeling that their parents and soclety in general are not deserving of any high degree of respect when we haven't enough intestinal fortitude to violently remonstrate against such inhuman, cowardly practices, forcing children into jobs that mature men refuse, If our service is so desperately depleted, what is the matter with those occupational deferment individuals? Why. can not they take their turn now? There isn't war now, that certainly .cahnot be an excuse for them. And also, quite a few 4-Fs that I know could easily stand guard duty as the abuse they give their bodjes in the pursuit of self-entertainment. And also, whose sons are being drafted at present? Those whose parents are not able to send them to college. Mathers, do come foward and demand that congress do something other than follow the lines of least resistance. It's your sons they are demanding, regardless of your or their welfare becaues they haven't the courage to impose taxation on the corporations who made the war profits to maintain an army of men who would prefer an army career if the ocompensation were ade-

. {quate for respectable living condi-

tions. But they would ask our sons to protect their precious necks and property for a mi pittance. The richest country in the world accepts its protection from its defenseless youth. What a loathsome disgrace, I, too, lost my noble teen-aged son in this war, and I will fight with my last stroke for mothers and their young sons.

DAILY THOUGHT _ He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse. ~—Proverbs 28:27.

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hi TOWN Vie. By ron Eclierrar’ w ; Phaetons, Broughams Sd Vidiorias

IT8 HIGH TIME you youngsters know a- little about the old-style carriages that used to grace the streets of Indianapolis.

~ %yp until 1890 most of the family rigs seen around

here were either of the surrey or phaeton type. To be sure, a two-seated Kellogg could be seen occasionally, but outside of that there weren't any stylish carriages to speak of. Two years later, however, a sudden and decided change took place. It amounted to something of a& cultural revolution and brought with it a line of carriages as handsome as anywhere in the country. By 1894 Indianapolis (a town approaching a population of 100,000) had more than its share of victorias, broughams, rockaways and fraps. It even had a landau-brougham, the one John C. New brought pack from England when he had completed his. job as consul-general to London, an office to which his friend President Benjamin Harrison had appointed him,

Gay Days of Riding MRS. DANIEL STEWART and Mrs. Jay G. Voss, I remember, had victorias to haul them around. The victoria was a light two-seated four-wheeled carriage hung on C springs, so called because of their resemblance to the letter of the alphabet. The rear seat was roomy enough for two persons; the driver sat up in front, of course, The victoria looked best with two

| horses hitched to it and its cover down. A uniformed | driver enhanced the effect considerably, too. With

its cover down, it permitted the ladies on the rear. seat to open their prettiest parasols. A decent victoria cost $800. Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks and Joe Rink rode around in rockaways (each in his own carriage, of course). The rockaway ($500) was also a two-seated affair, but with a fixed top. It wasn’t sealed tight, however. For those who knew their way around, there was a window, the manipulation of which would let in a little air, The brougham, a subtle variation of the rockaway,

| was used by Henry Talbott and Clarence Wulsin. The | trap, a colloquialism for a light two-wheeled cart, was

the choice of Dr. Short and Frank Dell and it seems

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to me that Mrs. Courtland Van Camp occasionally rode around in one, too. A modest trap cost $300, However, the “Harvard” trap in Mr. Wulsin's stable cost. considerably more. And while I'm at it, I might as well spill the news that the sulky, another kind of trap, got its name because of the driver's preference to ride alone, Sulky—see? Whatever.you do, however, don't get the idea that because I lugged the sulky into today's piece that Indianapolis people went in for riding alone. Quite the contrary. One of the curious manifestations of the revolution of 1892 was the fact that people demanded roomy carriages. The bigger the better. The roomiest carriages, I remembers, were those belonging to Dr. H. R. Allen, F. I. Mayer and E. C. Atkins. Equipped as they were with two spacious seats under cover and one on the outside, they were big enough (with a little squeezing in some cases) to carry the whole family,

Ever Hear of a Deos-a-Dos? FOR SOME REASON, too, the doctor in charge of the Insane hospital at the time had one of the roomlest carriages ever seen around here. As for the other doctors, they used what was called & “mail buggy,” a single-seated wagon with a projecting top which had the advantage of protecting the traveler from the sun in the summer and the snow in the winter. And if 1 remember correctly, there was only one six-passenger dos-s-dos in Indianapolis when I was a little boy. It was a carriage squipped with two seats, only one of which, howeven, ‘faced the horses. The other one looked out on the scenery in the rear. It was designed for swank picnic parties and eminently suited to that purpose. At: any rate, it had more style than the brake or the buckboard. ‘The dos-a-dos: belonged to Wood's livery stable, I believe. As a matter of fact, 60'years ago: many of the handsome carriages seen around here. ifelonged to the livery stables. Indeed, it may surprise you to learn that a lot of Indianapolis people. who always rode in the same carriages with the same horses and coachmen didn’t owh their outfits and paid from $100 to $250 a month depending on the style of the carriage and the gait of the horses. I never did learn which side had the better part of the bargain,

By William H. Newton

Marine Agents Find Hitler Statue

SHANGHAI, April 17.—Two American intelligence agents who helped smash the Nazi werewolf

organization in China—and who dug up & hidden bust _

of Adolf Hitler and a secret cache on Nazi propaganda in the process—are expected to play a leading role in the trials of Nazis seized here. The two men are both New Yorkers, Marine Capt. Frank Farrell, formerly on the staff of the WorldTelegram, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, and another marine agent, Marvin G. Gray.

Nazis Threaten Chinese

BOTH HAVE BEEN working secretly for seven months tracing the activities of key Nazis in Canton and Shanghai. The Nazis were members of the notorious “Ehrhardt Bureau,” German espionage organization charged with having provided Japs with American military and naval information after the German surrender. Key figures in the bureau—including its head, Lt. Col. Ludwig Ehrhardt—were arrested Monday in a roundup by American MPs in Shanghai. ‘Both Farrell and Gray started on the Nazi trail months ago in Canton, where the Ehrhardt bureau maintained one of its major intelligence offices, Eventually the marines got enough evidence to persuade Marshal Chang Fah-Kwei, military governor of Kwangtung province, to jail-some of the most active Nazis. Some of them boasted of their “werewolf” activities even after they had been jailed. It was from one of these boasting Nazis that the two Americans first got word of Hitler's statue that once had graced the swanky German club in

REFLECTIONS

NEW YORK, April 17.—I think I've met a happy man. His name is Beach-Comber—Ilegally, although he was born with a French Creole handle. He has had nothing but fun all his life. : This would be Don Beach-Comber, late of the army, and owner of a couple of small goldmines in Los Angeles and Chicago, the Beachcomber restaurants. He changed his real name (which he rarely refers to, because his family has always taken a poor view of his sometimes disreputable excursions) during a legal' argument with Monte Proser over whether Proser would be able to operate a Beachcomber night club in New York. A little later the war came along and Don went in as Capt. Beach-Comber, winding up as a lieutenant colonel.

Capri to Nairobi for Supplies

A SMALL, SWARTHY, balding man with a precise black mustache, and a clipped accent, Don has spent most- of his adult life following his fancy. He was kicking aimlessly around the Pacific as supercargo on ships and living off coconuts and gin on the beach when he decided to go into the import business. In 1932, he started importing tapa cloth and bamboo and grass mats ‘and assorted South Sea bric-a-brac into the west coast, for rental to the movies. Then he stuck a few bamboo posts together, and set up a smal ginmill which developed into the original Beachcomber. He ran it with the help of a couple of Chinese, | and was mildly chagrined when it developed into big business, mainly on the strength of a paralyzing concoction called a zombie, which was a lethaF¥mixture of several rums, smoothed with glycerine and shoved full of fruit salad. -

IN WASHINGTON .

WASHINGTON, April 17.—Congress is having an attack of election-year near-sightedness. It seems that we might be saved that, for once, at this critiohl stage-in our.own affairs, and of humankind in general. It shows in a number of ways affecting both foreign. and domestic policy. First, of course, is extension of the draft so that this nation can remain strong and fulfill the obligations we have accepted throughout the world. For the sake of votes in the coming primary and general elections, enough house members have taken the short-sighted course by scuttling administration proposals for a straight one-year extension of the draft. They took the easy way by limiting draft extension, to nine months, instead of a year; by voting a holiddy on. inductions for five months, from May 15 to October 15—covering the primary season—and by raising the age from 18 t0:20.

House Refuses Record Vote

THE PERFORMANCE was even much worse than that cold record, which is bad enough. For in three ways the house dodged its responsibility. The house refused to take a record vote on any of the disturbing changes made in administration proposals. Members had recourse to the “committee of the whole” procedure. In the second place, the house left it to President Truman to decide whether the draft will be resumed after Oct. 15. Thirdly,

| many members figured that the senate—only a third

of which is up for re-election—would do what they did not have the gaurage | w eo. Thus they shifted

By Robert C. Ruark

Story of a Real-life Beachcomber

. By Thomas L. Stokes

Congress s Deki Responsibility

Canton. But it was only a hint. Farrell and Gray found out the name of the Nasi who had hidden the statue and they learned he had only 30 minutes to get rid of it before he was seized. ; So the intelligence agents calculated how far a man of average strength could carry a 75-pound bust in 30 minutes. That eliminated much ground but still left plenty to cover in the heart of the German settlement in Canton. The two Americans got some spades, pickaxes and wrecking tools and announced to the Nazi residents of the immediate area they were going to find the Hitler bust if they had to tear down every house and dig up every garden to do it. The Nazis thereupon decided they'd rather give up Hitler than their houses. They led Farrell and Gray. to the hiding place, which was in a garden adjacent to the former German consulate. The bust was buried seven feet deep. Layers of brick had been placed at six-inch intervals in the earth above so that a casual searcher would despair of excavating deeply enough.

A Real War Souvenir

THE BUST HAD BEEN covered with wax to protect it against water and then wrapped in bandages. It was stuffed with. copies of Hitler's speeches and propaganda leaflets saying the Nazi movement would never die. Marshal Chang has Herbert Glietsch—the Nasi who hid the statue—logked up. And Farrell and Gray have the Adolf bust—speeches, bandages and all

When the war came he was given the job of setting up rest camps in Europe for the airmen of the 12th and 15th air forces, a chore for which he was decorated. He established camps at Capri, Nice, Cannes, Venice, the Lido, Sorrento. He had a wonderful time. “I was a deluxe bootlegger,” he said. “I went into Torino before out troops got there, .and ran into Count Theo Rossi, the Vermouth guy. I got out of there with nine planeloads—C-47s—of assorted fine booze for our guys, five days before the troops got there. “One time I heard there was a lot of liquor in South Africa . , . Scotch and Canadian whisky. I was at Capri at the time. I swindled two C-4Ts, and flew to Nairobi and Leopoldvillee Came back with both planes full of Scotch. It was a 12,000-mile trip, but the kids who'd been plastering Ploesti had good liquor to drink for a long time.”

Back to Oahu and Samoa

DON 18 LEAVING for the Pacific again, to in-. vestigate a coconut grove he owns at Kailua, on the windward side of Oahu, and to reopen trading facilities in Samoa. He plans to fly planeloads of fresh tropical flowers direct from Hawaii to his stateside enterprises, and his drinking coconuts, with the tops lopped off and a slug of rum inside, peddle at $1.35 the nut in California, which is good business. This large business is mildly irksome to Mr. Beach-Comber, who recently has been doing his combing in a $30 suite at the Sherry-Netherlands. He says he is still a very happy man, but it wss nicer in the days when he was sleeping under a bamboo bar and going fishing for three or four months out of every five.

The housg went through one of these draft mistakes, almost; at another critical period. Only by one vote was extension of the draft saved in 1941, a few months before Pearl Harbor, when it was so essential that we prepare to protect our national existence. That escape was so narrow that it's still chilling to think about it. This period is just as critical, in its way, for now we can lose the peace in the play of small politics. This matter .s0 important to our leadership in world affairs is immediate and primary. There are others where shortsightedness reveals itself. All of this—and there is more-—discloses a strategy of psychology which is worth analysis. In an election year the congressman is looking for handy blocks of votes. The easiest way 1s to yield to grievances, or imagined grievances, of the moment. Parents are, for the moment, in this group—or so many Congressmen think. Farmers are, tog, so they think,

Avoid Facing Long-Term Results

WHAT ALL OF THIS would do to our long-time foreign and domestic policy they find it convenient to forget. Loss of our international leadership, keep~ ing the peace, inflation at home, the boom and the bust. Worry about those later—and i usually turns out to be toa late. There is something else folks back home might consider. They might take a look at all the things. congress has failed to do positively for the long-time well-being of the people at large. The young man will have to'be in the service, under the draft, gnly for a comparatively short time. ; JAY AS RE 1a 0h 40 4 ook, Loy Wh:

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