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CYNICAL BOSSISM DEFEATED offered by the Bradford-Ostrom machine of the Republican party for key county offices have been’ rejected by an aroused electorate at the primary election, despite the machine-controlled “long count” of “votes.

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Judge Judson L. Stark, spearhead within the party in opposition to bossism, has been nominated for prosecutor. This is a post in which Judge Stark previously had served with distinction. The Times supported Judge Stark’s hard-hitting campaign to clean up his party. We congratulate the voters as well as the victor on this nomination. It should do much for better government and, perhaps, for a party less subject to cynical abuse of its responsibility than it is under present leadership. , And we wish, too, to congratulate The Indianapolis Star for joining The Times in this fight to nominate Mr. Stark over what at times appeared to be unbeatable opposition. Apathy of the voters was the greatest obstacle to overcome.

ALONG with Judge Stark, the voters nominated Albert C. Magenheimer for sheriff over machine opposition. They also chose Judge Hezzie B. Pike, scheduled by the machine to be purged, as theirtcandidate to succeed himself in superior court, room 2. Judge John L. Niblack of munici-

nomination for the bench in room 1 and apparently would have been successful even without being slated by the organization in some precincts. Of the several hotly contested key nominations, the

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machine was able to win only the county clerk and juvenile court races. The incumbent in juvenile court, Mark Rhoads, won over opposition of the non-partisan juvenile court committee. Other organization candidates were nominated, of

Hoosier Forum

"| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire.

course. But the machine was defeated in its ambition to seize the two major law enforcement agencies, which it needs to continue control of the party. It also failed in its drive to put its own men on the bench in rooms 1 and 2

"This G. I. Bill of Rights Just

of superior court. . : : By Mrs. Opal Hynes, 1318 W. Washington st. § » The other “victories it won are but hollow ones at best. I want everyone to know what I think about the G. I. bill of rights. 8 =» ss = =» Rights my eye. If you ask me it's a rotten deal. My husband went

{into the service in 1943.

J EADING the hotter contests was Louis W. Fletcher, | broke up housekeeping.

itary service. Mr. Fletcher, nominee for county treasurer, was indorsed by The Times because it believes he has the : courage and the integrity to protect the publics interest. tated his leg. He was discharged Dec. 5, 1945. cated the distaste in which they hold Bradford-Ostrom |a leg =. Ho deeded to go Smo business for himself. bossism, it is hoped the precinct committeemen will take |" ¥ Srlend. also a vereran party government back into their own hands. They should SOE lr RE Sa = once more assume the responsibility that is theirs as the

After they had worked for about elected representatives of the voters who chose them | I te rt

Tuesday. . in to get it appraised By DAN : via Lib ) NIEL M. KIDNEY The majority of those voters has taken a stand | In about two weeks we were noti-| president Truman says the coal against bossism. fled that the house was appraised strike is a national disaster. So is)

for that price. So we forgot about

CONGRESS AND THE DRAFT

SOME members of congress ar¢ indignant over Gen. Devers’ sharp criticism of draft legislation delays. The general denies that he used the word “cowards,” but he confirms the criticism. So the house military affairs committee is going to investigate him. suggests a court-martial.

pass. I called the loan agency and house debate on thought it might pass. They said Its swallow anything.

man to put in writing that he would One congressman even |not sell the house until we found out if we could get it or not. I called the real estate man and asked

papers,

Isn't Helping Veterans as It Should"

Not. long before that we lost our baby. I : : i My 2-year-old boy and I went to live withd an organization candidate recently returned from mil | my mother. My husband went overseas in December of 1944. He was

| missing in action for four months; during that time he was a prisoner |of war. When he was captured he was shot and the Germans ampu-

VIEWS ON a month we found a house we want- TH Lk N EWS

for $2800 and the owner was asking | congress in an election year. $4000. You can't find any better #82 8

would have to get the real estate FB After dressing down U. 8S. newsa Pravda radio commen-|

about its suppress? |

there still is not one veteran's family living at Stout Field. I understood that the barracks were |

to be converted for the

with in-laws, or

My. husband,

use of

veterans of this war—not the next. Talking is a poor substitute for action when veterans’ families are living crammed into one room, living | separated altogether due to lack of housing. two-year-old son and I are living in a sleeping room, sleeping three in the bed and eat-| ling all our meals in restaurants at He tried several places to obtain work, but it was always the|a cost of $5 or more a day. Our

Now that Republican voters of the county have indi- | same thing. He couldnt do the kind of work they wanted done with savings are disappearing faster and My husband faster. There is nothing to look for-

_ (ward to in the home construction

and materials.

4 a» |““THE OUTLAW’ MOVIE

why..cant we?

| field because of the endless strikes {and continually rising costs of labor

It's a pretty gloomy picture and {a very poor return for my husband's | | five vears of army service, two vears | {in battle and the Purple Heart.

{SHOULD BE PROHIBITED”

A Republican congressman -ate a | By Donald Pfau, Indianapolis. that one and found another one||ot of canned food the navy had | under $4000. That we thought might | discarded. After listening to the|as “The Outlaw” in Indiana? True] the draft and Hoosiers do not want it. fold them about the house. They|OpA, a congressman should be able | York and San Francisco banned it , And also -if we do not ban it others will come that we do not want and very soon no | movies will be decent enough to tator said Soviet Russia is proud |see here in Indianapolis. Our honorable mayor will not ban it and

Why must we have a movie such |

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WORLD AFFAIRS

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WASHINGTON, May 13.—Next January or before, ‘according to present plans, the twice postponed interAmerican conference will take place at Rio de Janeiro. In many ways it will be the most important meeting of its kind. \ ? : The security of the western hemisphere, including 4hat of the United States, is jeopardized by Argentina. The coterie of totalitarian-minded Nationalists whose dream long has been to promote a bloc against the hated “Yanquis,” is now in the saddle and is using every means—political, diplomatic and economic —to cause a schism: .

United States Ready to Lead : THEIR LATEST EFFORT is a campaign against President Truman's hemispheric defense plan contained ‘in his recent message to congress. He proposed a bill to be entitled “the inter-American military co-operation act." It would standardize defense equipment all the way from Alaska to Cape Horn— including Canada. Everything from guns and ammunition to methods of training would conform to standard. In event of war, the hemisphere thus would be vastly strengthened. The United States would bear pi of the expense, exchanging new equipment for old. There. are indications that Argentina will have none of it. La Epoca, organ of President-elect Juan D. Peron, has assailed it bitterly, Its purpose, said La Epoca, is to put all American nations under the F United States. It denounced the plan as “aggressive” in character and called on the government “to state clearly that Argentina will not be a party to it.” _ Argentina is traditionally against almost anything the United States is for. It began long before world war II—or world war I, for that matter—and led her, during the late conflict, to root openly for the axis.

The Bulwinkle Bill

y WASHINGTON, May 13~—Railroad rates are com- | plicated matters, almost impossible for the general | public to understand. They are worked out by rate bureaus or confer- | €énces, all dominated from the top by the American | Association of Railroads, a sort of closed corporation tied up with big banking and industrial interests, It is all done at secret conferences and through confidential letters. After these secret agreements, rates go through interminable procedure before the interstate commerce commission which also is abacadabra to the public.

Some Maneuvers Already Revealed NOW, FOR THE FIRST time in some years, it has been possible to peek behind this curtain and see how it is done, thanks to suits brought by the government and Governor Arnall of Georgia charging pricefixing and other anti-trust law violations by railroads. There also is the evidence submitted to the senate interstate commerce committee, But this wjll be the last peek the public gets if the Bulwinkle bill, passed by the house and pending in the senate interstate commerce committee, should become law. For this secret procedure of agreements among railroads would be legalized and exempt. from prying eyes or prosecution by the justice department, representing the public. A reading of files and files of confidential correspondence and proceedings of secret meetings fails to show any ardent concern for the public and consumer interest. They are all about pressures brought by the dominant group against any railroad.or truck line or barge or ship line so brash as to want to reduce rates; about “equalizing” and bringing into line

WASHINGTON, May 13—Fifty million dollars’ worth of air navigation and traffic control services which private: and commercial airplanes get for free from "the federal government are now under examination to see if they couldn't be charged for. Uncle Sam is at last interested in getting out of the wide red yonder in this one respect, at least. When the department of commerce appropriation bill for next year was up before the house, Congressman Louis C. Rabaut of Michigan suggested that maybe it was about tiie some of this flying expense be taken off the taxpayers. Just to show it wasn't fooling on this economy talk, the appropriations committee did slice 11 million dollars off the civil aeronautics administration funds, cutting them from 74 to 63 million dollars.

Government Aid Not New BIG ITEMS IN this appropriation are $32 million

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We would respectfully point out that there is a better |i And Tm telling you I really “way for congress to protect its reputation than by trying |got told. He said he would not. It to make scapegoats out of critics. That is by its legislative record. As long as congress evades the draft issue in an |eran.

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didn't make any difference to him if my husband was a disabled vet- »

Prenchmen rejected the left-wing constitution. They didn't want democracy on a one-way ticket.

neither will the governor. If he does not ban it he will not have my vote or any one of my family, and I also have many friends who will not vote for Tyndall or Gates.

tor maintenance of existing aids to air navigation along 40,000 miles of established U. S. airlanes, $18 million for building new navigation aids, $6 million for enforcing air safety regulations, and $4 million for administration.

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than 3000 calories a day.

election year, its sense of responsibility will be questioned by the public—even though it succeeds in gagging military officers.

We were getting pretty disgusted by then. We are living in one little room, my husband and I and two children ages 5 years and 10 months. So we had to do something. We

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ERTAINLY the house showed neither courage nor |looked for something to rent that Joe S. forthrigh . 2 . . just couldn't be done. We found ghtness in nominally extending the selective |another house to buy: we put in for | children. Is that too much to ask

service law while actually suspending inductions for five [it. This one passed the first apmonths. That was sheer political trickery, too raw to |Pr*isal deceive even the most naive. The senate was more ardoit; gg A he it simply maneuvered the administration bill into a posi- |you that it did not pass. So we |By D. K. Indianapolis.

tion where action was impossible before the May 15 dead- |¥e'® minus $15 and no home. | ‘Will you please line. If this is what my husband fought ! graphical bomb

Now that it is too late to consider an adequate-bill, the |he lost his leg for, and almost lost| Stout Field deal? senate has passed without debate a stopgap resolution ex- in ar tending the law to July 1. A

—— just something to call home? We had our hearts set on | 2.8 Bn We paid $15 for | “HOW ABOUT SOME ACTION Do I have to tell] ON STOUT FIELD HOUSING?”

put a under

fight starvation.

| style,

many people have to typo- | those countries. the

| seen real hunger.

against.

the same today. Opponents of genuine draft extension will find it easier to block action the closer congress gets to adjournment. 1f

Side Glances—By Galbraith

and the Japs.

that is to be prevented, the proponents will have to be much more vigorous during the next six weeks than in the past. ” ” » . n n WE agree with those who think a volunteer system is superior to selective service in peacetime, particularly for armies of occupation. But, until an adequate volunteer army is in being, continuation of the draft is the only way to replace the veterans who have a right to come

home. Congress must face up to that fact, even th this is an election year. Svea thong

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LET YOURSELF GLOW

ENT TRUMAN makes an impromptu su i . that Americans experiment two — on . hunger until the threat of world-wide famine lifts. : You'd be “hungry” on 800 to 1500 calories a day, the maximum for millions of Europeans. Most of us eat more

: One expert estimates there are 800 calories in the bination of one pint of skim milk, one egg, one orange, | | banana, one large serving of tomatoes, one large serving green vegetable, three ounces of lean meat and two

eans could hope for that variety. The eat get and they get precious little. ong an is not urging us to make ourselves ‘opor te sacrifices at the table, | | overstuffed. There are

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the lowest minimum possible. I am talking of the people who are nothing but helpless victims of the war which ruined their lives.

ye younger, yourselves unto the elder. all of you be subject to one ariother, and .be clothed with huresisteth proud, and giveth grace to th

| “WHY MAKE SUCH A FUSS | OVER HELPING STARVING?”

I've seen starvation, and I can’t understand why so many people speak with such deep bitterness about sending food overseas to help

Nobody is asking us to cramp our { Why, we throw away more {food in the average family than live on in : When you've seen | city | : Y | people digging grains of ¢orn from for it isn't worth it. Is this what fathers and wake them up on the the droppings of horses, then you've 3 Al i : : I don’t think e aren't asking for | Since the first of February they|for one minute we realize what We just want a chance to have been talking, talking, talking. !

n le in other countries are u Presumably the house will do be able to buy a home for our! This is the middle of May and Di : y

If we don't send them food, they'll starve and be worse off than they were under the Nazis

It won't hurt us to help, and it I'm not talking about Jap or German lives, I'd let them get along on But

GETTING BY WITH MURDER UNCHECKED” By A Small Wage Earner, Indianapolis This truce business announced by John L. Lewis as a contribution to the nation's welfare is noth ing but bunk. The strike still isn’t settled, I'm strong for labor unions and collective bargaining, but not for open deflance of the governwelfare of the people. The coal strike is crippling everything, and its affect is probthroughout the world. Where is the teamwork we had during-the war. I'm afraid I haven't a good word for the miners or their leaders, the coal operators, or the President. The way this crisis has

DAILY THOUGHT

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The idea of trying to get some of this money back from the people who benefit from the services most is merely an indication that air transport has grown up and that the airplane is here to stay. When railroads were an infant industry, the | government encouraged the’ building of transcontinental lines by grants of land along rights-of-way, 50 as to promote traffic to keep the roads going. Aids to ocean commerce—harbor improvement and the lighthouse service—are still maintained by public money. On inland waterways, the federal government has spent over three billion dollars to keep the channels clear and to mark them. The advent of the automobile has seen tremendous expenditures by federal, state, and local governments for public roads, a part of which comes back in the form of gasoline and auto taxes. Similarly, when aviation was an infant industry | the federal government rightly assumed responsibility

PARIS, May 13.—The report of the Anglo-Amer-ican committee on Palestine merits most caretul consideration, not only by investigating powers but in Palestine itself. The report has already been rejected by both Jews and Arabs. But that is not conclusive evidence that the proposals are impracticable. Jewish and Arab aspirations have long been irreconcilable in the “Twice Promised Land,” and any solution which aims at a compromise between conflicting claims is bound to incur the hostiilty of both races and particularly Jewish and Arab extremists.

U.S. Support Needed SUCH WAS the fate before the war of proposal to partition Palesstine as fairly as possible, This proposal was put forward in a report of the Peel com-

equitable but they were rejected by both Jew and Arab. It is fortunate that these plans have not been revived by the Anglo-American cominittee. In addi-

it unworkable in the modern world. Great merit of new. proposals is that they are put forward by the joint Anglo-American committee. With al] her other commitments, Britain could not possibly undertake any radical solution of the Palestian problem without the sympathy and support of the United States. 1f the United Nations can also be

| Prime Minister Attlee of Britain already has made plain, help of the United Sta'es is essential, especially

can accept the responsibility of trusteeship.

t 1f an Anglo-American agreement to implement this new plan can be obtained and the resultant policy

would ultimately come to accept it. It is essential

mission. The partition proposals were undoubtedly

tion to pleasing neither party, the partition of so small a country has economic objections which make

persuaded ‘to assume the ultimate responsibility—as a new report proposes—so much the better. “But .a3” Palestine which will be keenly resented by the Arab majority, we must, at least first establish our own

in the transitional stage before the United Nations

patiently and steadfastly applied, there seems little doubt that the vast majority of beth Jews and Arabs

horse, she made a belated show of joining the allied camp but, to date, has paid lip service only and little of that. Admittedly, however, Washington diploin has not exactly improved matters. It has gd blow first hot, then cold, then tepid. It openly attacked Peron’s leadership. It caused the first postponement of the Rio conference last October, and again last month, rather than sit with Peron's representatives. Thitugh 2 Sloe | book charging Peron and his crowd ax ration, it inte B iwaitin sells rvened in the presi , Yet Peron won in a landslide. His normal term is for six years. He is a young man and apparently in good health. Therefore the chances are that we shall have to deal with him during one of the most critical “ periods in the history of this hemisphere. The peace of the world has to be formulated, yet the great powers are split wide open. The outcome will depend a great deal on national strength and prestige of the Big Three. At the peace table, we will not command much attention if we are weak internally

and, in addition, lack the b nd a. acking of the other

Argentina Key to Future AGAINST THIS BACKGROUND, Geo - sersmith, former ambassador to Mexico, a new post at Buenos Aires. He is an able and experienced diplomat but he will have use now for every ounce of his skill. Nor has he much time. For the inter-American conference, twice called to meet at Rio, must not be postponed a third time, When it meets, Argentina must be there. Either that, or the other 20 American republics must be able to agree on a course without her—a tragedy which every one of them sincerely wishes to avoid.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes

Keeps Secrecy Veil

—that is, raising—rates of-eompeting agenci levels. They are about more profits y agecies bo sal too—in short, about protecting a monopoly so everybody can get his cut. The consumer pays. There was, for example, request. of major oil companies in 1934 to reduce rates up to 250 miles from point of shipment. They threatened to use trucks unless this were done. That was a horrendous prospect to A. F. Cleveland, vice president of the American Association of Railroads, so he complained in a letter to John J. Pelley, association president, that this would cost southern lines over $7 million, as a

layman reads it, this would mean that the public

might be saved some money, that is, if oil companies then reduced their prices. 4 So Mr. Cleveland went around to all the oil companies and worked out an agreement whereby there would be some adjustment of rates if the oil companies would agree: to truck no more than 40 or 50 miles from water terminals; to stop deliveries to dealers 01 buyers at terminals; to jack up fentals of filling stations on railroad property and to discourage such future leases.

Bill Protects Secret Transactions

THE PLAN NEVER went through because a couple of wary lawyers of Standard Oil of New Jersey and Kentucky said it violated federa] and state anti-trust laws and refused to go along. A few years later, in 1839, southwestern railroads wanted a reduction of rates on petroleum products from Midcontinent refineries to the southeast, so that independents in their area could get into that market. The big companies with entrenched interests in the southeast squashed that pretty quick. It would have caused them to reduce prices to the ultimate consumer.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Peter Edson Uncle Sam in Red on Air Equipment

for giving it every assistance. The weather reporting service was expanded, and air routes wert marked for night flying. : Cities built airports to invite air traffic. But as transport aircraft have become bigger, runways have had to be lengthened. The old Ford tri-motor took a 2500-foot runway, but today’s four-engined transports require over a mile of concrete up to three feet thick to take the impact of 50-ton planes and loads. Charges are made for landings, but because of these additional expenses ther is need for standardization of charges. And the U. S. government has just stepped in with a 500-million-dollar appropriation to build more airports. ; An argument can be made that the governmen owes the traveling and shipping public all this service as a contribution to increased air commerce and national prosperity. Also, the airlines can argue that they pay taxes and therefore contribute to maintain of airports and air navigation facilities. But 20 U. 8S. commercial airlines last year showed a gross operating revenue of 214 million dollars and Net profits of 34 million dollars. They're in business.

New Fee Schedule Might Help THE JOB OP STUDYING what services: the federal government could charge for and what ‘the charges might be has, been turned over to a group headed by Al Hand, tor of plans and performances for the civil aeronautics authority, His preliminary investigation has shown that charges might be assessed for air traffiic control on routes and at airports, radio communication to fields, and control of instrument landings in bad weather. \ A second service for which the government might charge is safety regulation and licensing of planes and pilots, both of which are now free. Though people who get auto drivers’ licenses have to pay for them, aircraft pilots get their licenses without charge, and certifying new planes as safe for travel is also now done by government inspectors without charge. A new schedule of fees for all such services might Help take the government out of the red, but the airlines may be expected to fight it.

TODAY IN EUROPE . : . By Randolph Churchill Firmness Would Help -in Palestine

that a plan, once decided upon, should be adhered to regardless of opposition. Vacillation between one policy and another has been the great fault of British policy over the last 25 years. Britain always has been too prone to yield to the pressure of rival factions. One of the best features of the report is that it makes almost immediate provision for 100,000 European Jews to enter Palestine. This is, of course, only a partial solution of the tragic plight of European Jewry. There are at least another 100,000 who have urgent need of resettlement and for whom the report makes no provision, Surely the United Nations should draw up a quota and all members invited to do their share in finding homes for these miserable and -abandoned people. The world not only owes this to the few remaining survivors of 6,000,000 Jews who were foully murdered by the Germans but such a gesture, as suggested some months ago in this column, would strengthen immediately British and American authority in proposing that Palestine should absorb immediately 100,000 Jews. This situation is a world tragedy and it requires a world solution.

Can't Shirk Responsibility IT 18 NO GOOD trying to shuffle out of our responsibilities by pretending that all refugee Jews would prefer to go to Palestine. This is not true. At

least half would be glad to go to England, Canada nd the United States. If we are to take responsi-

lity for issuing 100,000 immigration permits into *

good faith in the matter by showing that we, too, will do our share, ; And if we try to shirk our part we shall have little right to complain if the Arabs prove obstructionist when asked to do theirs. If there is one field of human, reconstruction where Christian countries have an obligation to set a good example it is surely in thé case of these unhappy people. grr RA

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Purse Snal

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Mr. Owen wi pital. Verna Va

Guilford ave. was riding oi car followed grabbed her Cand Another p ported in thi ple ave. Bi 436 N. Tem man grabbec $13, and a bowling shoe A burglary Shrader, 60, investigated thief who ei dow yesterd: gum and papers. Tt were returne Grimes, 118 them in an land ave.

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