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ATEST MOVE by
the city to avoid a threatened $600,000
budget deficit and an increased civil city tax was re-
vealed by The Times yesterday to be tapping the till of the -
| Citizens Gas & Coke Utility for a million dollars.
) Gas utility officials comment privately that it looks like 5
a raid. It certainly does. And a wholly
unjustified raid.
The utility now pays $160,000 to the city in lieu of
| taxes, and has informed the city that it pay. more.
is not prepared to
When Indianapolis approved municipal ownership of its
gas works, the theory was that profits
should go to the
. public in the form of lower rates, not to other city activi-
ties.
Since that time the gas utility has accrued a substan-
tial cash surplus through its gas and coke business, the
latter on a nation-wide scale. reductions were in 1936.
The last—and only—rate
It is highly improper that the users of gas service be
penalized through diversion of income
from their city-
| owned utility to other municipal activities, even to prevent
a deficit.
THE NEW SHERIFF
LBERT C. MAGENHEIMER, Republican nominee for
county sheriff in the November election, has been ap- |
pointed by the board of county commissioners to succeed Sheriff Otto W. Petit, who died last Friday. He will serve until Jan. 1 of next year, when the
winner in the general election will assume office.
appointment gives Capt. Magenheimer a
distinct ‘edge over
his Democratic opponent, Lewis Johnson, who also is a
former police captain. The new job likewise is a challenge
to Mr. Magenhei-
mer to operate this key law enforcement office without regard to outside interference, political or otherwise. His
record in the next five months obviously ad do with his success or failure in the fall. . E . 2 :
HERIFF Magenheimer seems to be
will have much to
going into office,
however, with some strings attached to his appointment. First, he agreed to dismiss Democratic deputies
* who had been retained by Sheriff Petit. . commit himself to “co-operating” fully
He also had to with the regular
. Republican organization which opposed his nomination. There is one bright spot—and one commitment which ‘ he made which will be watched by all interested in decent
government. The new sheriff said he
would “clean up”
the county, presumably from a gambling standpoint.
Well, Sheriff, it's up to you now.
. PHILIP MURRAY, AS USUAL . His familiar line: That the bill is favored only by a * ~ minority” intent on “shackling” labor. T
ILIP MURRAY, C. 1. O. president, is out with a terrific blast demanding veto of the Case labor bill.
‘small, vindicative hat its supporters
Fin congress (where the combined senate-house vote for it
was 279 to 135) were obeying “powerf ployers.” That it is “insulting” to a movement. This is the movement that pledged n and in 1944 broke all records with 4956 year. The movement that has just pn
ul, anti-labor emresponsible labor
o wartime strikes, strikes in a single oduced disastrous
coal and railroad strikes. The movement that, through
unions in Mr. Murray's own faction, is world-wide shipping strike on June 15:
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now fomenting a
The arrogant leaders of the coal and railroad strikes
were willing to injure thig country terribly to get their
way. But the shipping strike goes furth parcel of a conspiracy never abandoned
er. It is part and since 1929, when
Josef Stalin told American delegates to a Moscow con-
ference of the Comintern: -
, crisis will develop in America beginning of the end of world capitalism
“I think the moment is not far off when a revolu-
that will be the as a whole. It is
essential that the American Communist party should be capable of meeting that historical moment fully prepared.”
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Six C. I. O. maritime unions have combined to conduct
strike, Its chief leaders are Harry Bridges of the West coast longshoremen and Joseph Curran of the sea-
both constant followers of the Com
munist party line..
or many weeks the party's organ, The Daily Worker, has
whooping for the strike.
! THE union's members have legitimate needs and griev-
~~ ances, but Bridges and Curran are
not looking after
| them. They have made exorbitant demands, knowing them
! impossible to grant. They want no reas
onable settlement.
i They want.a long, bitter conflict with the government that
{will add to the damage done by the
coal and railroad
strikes and bring near the crisis envisioned by Stalin long
Joseph P. Ryan, president of the rival A. F. of L. long-
shorémen, is correct, we think, in callin strike to turn the shipping industry ove
g this “a political r to Russia.” But
don’t conclude that Mr. Ryan's union is free from fault. It staged the nine-day tugboat strike that threatened to starve and freeze New York City in February, during which union members refused to operate government-seized tugs. President Truman plainly understands the sinister
of the impending C. 1. 0. shippin he will use the army, navy, else is necessary to break it if i
jes and Curran ink he is if he let
g strike. He says, coast guard and t starts, He knows
10 hates Communism, is by silence
plan, Mr, Truman 8 blustering words
. Murray persuade him that the labor
responsible that its po sonable safeguards,
voluntary reforms
wer does not need
and always
on unionism. If he were less less blinded by misguided
ue)
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agree with a word that you will defend to the death t to say it." — Voltaire.
"Strikers Will Be G For Three Big Meal
get out and hunt me a farmer girl
But there is one thing a farmer
remember the last war. One can not come out ahead feeding stock on this high priced feed, and can’t raise chicks on it and break even; and I have a fine range for hogs
I have not got rich yet OPA prices, strikers will be glad to work for three big meals a day before many years as the OPA has got the price 50 low on what we have to sell, and wages are so high, now I can not hire a man and make anything. I worked for a dollar a day after the first world war and was glad to get it as I was about broke.
that will think these things. over. » uw s “RETROACTIVE EQUALITY LAWS SHOULD BE PASSED” By J. BR. Chandler, 113 Sherman dr. I wholly agree, with what you say, H. K, in your article of May 27, and wish to add too, you are right about equal rights, uniform laws with equal methods and rulings on all cases. But we do not have any judge in office, state representative, senator, congressman, whose name will be up for election in November to come out in the open with support for such a law. Neither will any attorney or gttorney. association back such laws. They all favor such unconstitutional, unequal, ununiform rulings on anything where women are involved as is now going on in our courts.
their ideas on uniform equal rights, uniform divarces, uniform
—relation where children are involved, or should it not be uniform rulings and laws on equal basis, fifty-fifty. : When the U. 8. supreme court
gress to make amendments to our
and chicks and have lots of fruit in summer to give them, tomatoes, and raise some to have the seed. on I am thinking the
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s a Day Soon"
By M. E. Willard, Paoli It is time to wake up some of the strikers and big shots and OPA. I am a lone bachelor farmer, past 40, trying to farm, raise hogs, sheep and chickens and garden. I have big farm here with big house. If the strikers had the hours to put in I do in a day—do not have time to even
to help me. I do my own cooking,
fruit canning—as far as the little bit of sugar just one has te use will go. And I have not been able to get any farm tools for years, I put my corn into hogs last fall and now can’t get any for hogs, chickens and horses.
can do. Raise his eats, cut down on
stock and chickens—and the less we feed Europe, the better they will
Constitution on equal rights and uniform divorce methods laws, they knew all part rulings were differently, on equal likeness cases were unconstitutional. With all uniform laws being posted be on retroactive basis. I wholly favor equal rights, uniform laws, uniform divorces, where children involved uniform support, uniform time between parents—relation, That's who one calls equal rights, and our Constitution gives us such rights. But our judges and
{lawmakers don’t have nerve to ex-|
{press their views, as well as our newspapers’ leading writers. = os » “WHY HIT LEWIS AND NOT OTHER LABOR HEADS?” By Mrs. J. H. A, Indianapolis
There have been many letters to the Hoosier Forum accusing Mr. John L. Lewis of being a dictator, a czar, and even having the power of the President. Many New Deal, pro C. I. O
mentators have also been quite disturbed about Mr. Lewis. Now let's go back just a few weeks {ago when the steel strike was called. It seems to me that I hardly heard a peep from these radio commentators and those other radical groups. This does seem strange since Philip Murray broke his contract while Lewis did not. But why do these {groups pounce on Lewis and why | did they not on Mr. Murray? Don't | forget that steel is just as important {as coal. The only answer that I
Therefore I challenge them all for [can find is the fact that Mr. Lewis| income if they do not agitate higher
{publicly denounced the late Mr.
support | Roosevelt by voting for Mr. Willkie| fees, uniform time between parents and Mr. Dewey which seemed to|
have aggravated these pro-Roose- | velt, New Deal groups. I'm not defending Mr, Lewis or any of the labor leaders as far as that goes, but I do feel that he is not more wrong
judges sometime ago asked our con- {than the other leaders; in fact, he| Page of commodities.
is less wrong, in my way of thinking.
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“LET'S ALL STRIKE; LET THE COUNTRY GO TO HELL” By Mack McGinnis, Philadelphia Let's everybody strike! Railroaders, coal miners, newspaper truck drivers . , . let's everybody strike! Let's not have church on Sunday —all ministers go on strike. Let's not have a darn thing to -eat—all farmers go on strike. Let's not have any schools operating—all teachers go on strike. Let's not have any newspapers or magazines—all publishers go on strike. Let's not have any shows— all theater employees on strike. Let's not have any President—let Harry go on strike. Or .congress— let all the senators and representatives go on strike. Let's everybody be happy. Let's all live on 20 bucks a week, and let the country go to hell. Let's forget we're Americans, Let's just be a group of heels. Let's everybody strike. Let's not have radios or automobiles or electricity or gas or oil or anything. Let's all have fun and lie in our beds and blow smoke rings and wear holes in the mattresses and just dream and think about what wonderful country this! USED to be. | Let's everybody strike and go fishing, until the banks of the streams are full of people just fishing and | glaring into one another's eyes {afraid that their neighbor will catch | |a bigger fish. | If we get sick, we just. die. All {the hospitals and their personne], {all the doctors and the nurses, are on strike. Let's everybody strike! | Will you tell me what this country is heading for? n » | “THE PEOPLE NOT AFRAID,
| WILL SHOW LABOR LEADERS” | By James Van Zandt, 725 N. East st. Labor leaders and agitators are (afraid. The congress is afraid. Afraid of what? Labor leaders and agitators are
| afraid of losing prestige and a sweet
| wages and strikes. The congress is afraid it will lose votes. | But the people of our government | are not afraid. If given a chance, | they would show the labor leaders,
| the agitators of strikes and stopCongress can | give them a chance to do that with- | out being afraid. Capital makes jobs. People of our government make capital by buying commodities. When we come into this world, we make jobs for diaper makers, then jobs for makers of clothes, toys, school books. As we go along we make jobs for makers of things we need in matrimony, Jobs for trainmen who carry us to and from our honeymoon, jobs for builders of our - homes, jobs for miners to furnish coal for our homes. At the end we make jobs for the coffin maker and grave digger. And we have no vote as to how. much we must pay far all of these commodities. On June 30 we have a big wash day, trying to clean up that mess caused by wars and other unnecessary spending of moneys. We furnish capital by buying to make jobs for labor agitators, so why don’t “we the people” have a chance to have a general election on that day, determining whether | we can afford to pay more for our commodities by voting more pay to makers of the things we need or want. I am just one of the 140 million Americans who would like to know why.
DAILY THOUGHT
. And he sald unto her, Daugh- | ter, thy faith hath made thee | whale; go in peace, and be whole | of thy plague.—Mark 5:34.
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IT'S OUR BUSINESS . - Lichfield Trials
IT'S OUR BUSINESS to be concerned over the apparent slowness with which the war department is reviewing the cases of war veterans held in disciplinary barracks and detention camps here and abroad. ’ In many instances, prisoners. still are held for minor Offenses committed in wartime. The war department announced its intention to go into these cases some time ago, but no report has been made publie, A disciplinary barracks is located at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis, and has a population of 1777 prisoners. A riot occurred at the fort about six months ago, but so far as can be learned, no complaints have been voiced over treatment there.
Witnesses' Fear Is Disgrace
in the detention camp at Lichfield, England, is almost as great a disgrace as the conditions reported in that camp, In that court-martial 13 key witnesses risked disciplinary action and declined to testify against the officer who was charged with treating them cruelly. A feature of the’ trials yesterday afternoon was refusal of Col. James A. Killian, former Lichfield commander, to testify as a defense witness in the trial of an enlisted man charged with brutality at the camp. Col. Killian has been under fire for the manner in which his command was run. : The war department should take a hand directly in the Lichfield trials, to absolve itself of the G. IL accusation that it is projecting those at the top of the replacement depot and detention camp system in the European theater. One of these top officers, a colonel, was referred to in the United Kingdom as the “gauleiter of Lichfield.” Top-level inquiry . .. and action . . . must be taken on this type of offense against the dignity of the soldier if good faith in the war department is
NEW YORK, June 4—The formal June bride, a dewy-lashed damosel with a sharp eye on the practical, is with us once again—after a four-year hiatus. During the war, marriage became a flexible, spontaneous custom—tied to the groom’s military orders and with small emphasis on loot. The whole point was to get the rope on the guy before he shoved off for some: vague point of the globe, and the devil with the bric-a-brac. Our vice president in charge of distaff doings has been prowling the stores. The report, as a commentary on reconversion, is fairly heartening, but tempered by strikes which have taken some of the profit out of matrimony.
Gifts for the Home, if Any
THE DEPARTMENT STORES have ceased to regard the bride as a target for merchandise which is 100 per cent travel-worthy. Although the chances are our newly-made missus has no roof over her upswept, the stores have recognized her as a stable commodity and are beginning to stress the importance of stuff which doesn’t have to fit a suitcase. Carving sets are coming back. Swedish glass is plentiful, and that wasn't true last year. The town is lousy with chafing dishes, and crawling with cocktail shakers. I know where you can get a fine barbecue wagon with a motor-driven turning-spit for only $79.95, in red, blue or green, and there's a dreamy antique Rockingham chocolate set of 44 pleces for a paltry $695. The old standbys of the bride who intends to found her fresh dynasty on contributions of the wedding guests are still largely missing, however. Very little ‘bone china comes in from England, and when it does dribble in, special orders snap it up so fast It rarely reaches a counter. American china shows up spottily, too. It's hard to choose a silver pattern, still. Stemmed glass for the table is infrequently found. And the old
Sen. Barkley Has
WASHINGTON, June 4—It's about time to give a
| hand to the man Time magazine has called “Bumblin’
Barkley.”
Alben W. Barkley, senate Democratic leader, has performed a yeoman job for the Truman administration in recent months, and a skilful one. The broadshouldered Kentuckian has kept the senate’s nose to the grindstone, day and night, trying to salvage as many of the major legislative proposals of the administration as possible so that it will have some sort of a record for the coming elections.
Is Loyal and Able
HE IS NO YOUNGSTER, will be 69 in November. Yet he has exhibited an unflagging attention to his duties that is astonishing. He has, as well, kept his good humor and his patience. Perhaps the majority leader's most arduous task in his long career as leader was that last week when he had to fight a strange coalition of Republicans and New Deal Democrats to try to rescue something from President Truman's emergency labor bill—-to save face for the man in the White House. When he rose in the senate to lead the. defense of that measure, it was obviously none too pleasant a task. For Senator Barkley long has been a champion of labor. He sponsored years ago in the house the railway mediation act which had failed to work in this recent crisis, after so much success, He stood at his desk in the front of the senate, holding the bill just about six inches before his eyes, as if it were a shield to protect him from the battery of penetrating questions put by the clever Senator Taft, who took leadership for the Republicans. His defense of that bill was certainly a test of loyalty. At the same time, while fighting so valiantly fo
TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By Byrnes Balking
PARIS, June 4.—Despite Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov’s unmannerly outburst last week, there are signs that the Kremlin realizes that its all-out diplomatic and political offensive has failed. And it
Molotov's attack on the policies of Britain and the United States, a considerable change in Russian tactics may be contemplated. Perhaps most significant feature of failure of Russian policy is the way in which the Kremlin has relaxed its pressure on Turkey in recent months. To see this in its true perspective, we must cast our minds back to six months ago.
Britain Believed Most Vulnerable WHEN RUSSIA STARTED in earnest her assault upon Britain and the British empire, grand objective of Soviet strategy was to force a wedge between Britain and the United States. Though British policy and influence were attacked all over the world, attack’ was concentrated in the Mediterranean and Middle East, where Britain was judged to be most vulnerable and where the Kremlin calculated that she was least likely to secure moral or physical support of the United States government and American’ public opinion. The Russian offensive took many forms, but its main features were demands for bases in the Dardanelles, the Dodecanese, Tripolitania, and even as far afleld as the Red sea. It's highly satisfactory that the last three demands have been entirely abandoned and that even the claim to bases in the Turkish straits has been put back into cold storage. At the same time, pressure on the Turks has been much reduced, though Russia is still trying to stir up.trouble for Turkey among the latter's Kurdish population. ‘Russia's “over-all 3trategic concept” was to gain
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. By Donald D. Hoover
Blot A to be maintained. There are some things . .. admine istration of military justice, the courts-martial sys tem and the replacement system among them . . . which can be corrected now while they are still fresh in mind. Unless they are corrected, they will remain features of army life which enlisted men . . . andofficers as well . . . will remember with disgust and distrust. Repeated attempts were made to suppress stories on Lichfield which found their way into the offices of the European edition of the Stars and Stripes. Two reporters from that service paper received permission to investigate “B-Bag” letters on Lichfleld, but that permission was rescinded. Men who have been at Lichfield say that many of the personnel there were borderline battle-fatigue
! + and hospital cases sent to the 10th replacem t THE CURRENT TRIAL at Bad Nauheim, where Pp 1} depo
| an officer is charged with mistreating G. I, prisoners
for re-assignment, usually after losing their units because of hospitalization. At Lichfield, they say they found bad food and bad quarters. When, as combat men, they voiced . . . perhaps too loudly . . . dissatisfaction over the way they were handled by rear echelon troops in charge of the “reppel deppel,” they frequently landed in the detention barracks, where their defiance doubled. One man claimed to have spent a week there because he was late on pass . . . another didn't show up for a detail. Admittedly these are violations of regulations, but hardly ones calling for detention.
Public Corrective Action Needed
KEEPING IN MIND that G. 1's love to gripe, there still seems ample reason for war department action ,". . publicized so that it will instill confidence in veteran and public alike. With the aid of the American Bar association, the war department is revising its courts-martial system. It should speedily review every case of those now confined . . . and may be doing so . . . with the objective of releasing those who should not now be deprived of their liberty. - :
REFLECTIONS . .. By Robert C. Ruark Ideas for Flashy Wedding Presents
heavy loot—toasters, sandwich grillers, radios, waffle irons, mixmasters—some shoddy counterparts are available, and a few pieces of real stuff. But there are waiting lists for the McCoy-lists which are rarely by-passed except in the cases of overseas-bound brides, The once popular $5 wedding gift is as dead as full quarts of Bourbon. It takes anywhere from $50 to $500 to do a bride proud today. Depending on your estimation of pride. You are operating in a league which stresses 72x108-inch pure. linen bedsheets at $34.25 a pair and pillowslips at 20 bucks. Good lamps cost nearly as much as a motorcycle. Our snooper says that the average June bride can expect the following: Five aluminum trays, one lucite punch bowl, 15 pressed glass sandwich plates, 11 sets of handpainted highball glasses with undressed ladies on them, fivp aluminum silent butlers, six silver nut dishes, a dozen rayon guest towels, and five chafing dishes. This is a sad list when compared with the three waffle irons, four toasters, two mixmasters, three radios, and four traveling clothes-irons that the June leaper used to collect from her old man’s business acquaintances, Buying a decent iron, right now, to press the wrinkles out of the nuptial lingerie, is tougher than rounding up a furnished apartment for $75.
Remember the 'Bride's Book'? BEFORE THE WAR there was something called the Bride's Book. That's still dead, too. Used to be, an incipient Mrs. strode down to the local drygoods and sundries store, and coached the management on what she fancied. When the buying began, if the young lady was already overgifted n a particular product, the clerk sneaked a quick look at the book and channeled the purchases elsewhere, Not until the book comes back can we say we've ree covered from the war,
IN WASHINGTON « « « By Thomas L. Stokes
Record for Loyalty
the administration, he frustrated a trick cooked up by some administration strategists. They tried to stave off a vote on the controversial work-or-draft provision by an overnight recess in the hope of work= ing out a compromise, despite an agreement to vote at 5 p. m. The Democratic leader wouldn't stand for that, Even though he knew how badly he and the administration were going to be licked. He said “it is more important that we keep straight the record of our rules for the future guidance than that somebody gain a point here this afternoon for or against this proposition.” For his stand he was highly commended by Sena« tor White, Republican leader. Though Senator Taft and his New Deal allies had taken the play the first day, Senator Barkley recaptured it thereafter and was in the driver's seat as compromises were worked out. He saved more than it was thought possible to save. He kept the senate in session until after midnight to finish the bill, and then pressed the senate to a Saturday session, which is unusual, to consider the atomic energy bill
Roosevelt Pique Hurt Him THE KENTUCKY SENATOR once bucked Presie dent Roosevelt, the exception in his continuous support. That's when he resigned his leadership in protest because Mr, Roosevelt vetoed a tax bill. The first tax bill veto in our history. Congress rose up then to defend its control of the purse. Had it not been for that act of insubordination— and Mr Roosevelt never forgot or forgave it—Alben Barkley might have been sitting in the White House today, instead of slaving away in the senate. He had considerable support for the vice presidential nomination in the 1944 convention, but the Roosevelt nod was toward Harry Truman,
Randolph Churchill Russian Penetration
split Britain from the United States. Instead of achieving this, she failed to enter the Mediterranean and succeeded in bringing Britain and the U. 8. much closer together. In addition, she has aroused Amer= ican opinion to importance of the Mediterranean and compelled the state department to adopt a policy bound to bring American power more and more into this great inland sea. It's difficult to imagine a more complete and utter failure than that which has resulted after months of careful diplomacy, propaganda and naked power pole itics.
tary of State James F. Byrnes deserves much eeic the part he has played in this whole busi ne: He has come to realize vital importance of British control of the Mediterranean. And Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin has made it plain that Britain is more than ready to share her responsibilities with the United States in this area. Those who have urged that Russia should be appeased by being given bases in the Mediterranean are playing with- fire, There are already enough areas where British and Russian interests clash without artificially and needlessly creating another one.
Russ Failure Is Byrnes Triumph PUBLIO COMMENT ON the foreign ministers’ successive conferences in London, Moscow and Paris - has tended to emphasize the failures and deadlocks that have occurred. Too little attention has been paid to the successes. Often, in diplomacy, an entirely negative result may represent a complete success. This would appear to be ‘particularly true in the case of the Mediterranean, Failure of Russia to penetrate this area, coupled with her failure to split Britain and America, is undoubte
edly a victory for the western powers and, in partic ular, Hoe mn or i Beare Sug
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