Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1947 — Page 8

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are critical times, - You follow your on national affairs. You've heard the talk

con; ' own iron curtain, is making 1t almost impossible “for you to get this information. Most | ‘congres- ? sional business is +. date in committees. That's .where:90 per cent

“takes form. THe La FolletteMonroney con gressionael reorganization act of 1946 provided § : hewcings be DU ar. Laer | lic. - cept when bills were being drafted in final form or where top-secret testimony, if published, would . ine the U. 8. : ye nearly half the committee hearings being held are secret. ‘Behind Closed Doers

t first 20 days of March, rE hearings on the public's business were behind closed doors. In the same period 137 hearings were public. A fairly complete. list of senate committee hearings in the same period showed 47 closed and 56 open. ia bably the most impo —— oY ob in the house in that period concerned multi-billion-dol-lar appropriations hearings, and, hearings relating to $350 million of overseas relief outlay. | Ye, house appropriations subcommittees were holding 55 closeddoor hearings as against none open. | The house foreign affairs commit-

"tee; studying overseas relief, ran

a private show for 11 days. Matter of Concern

The house ways and means com"mittee has been considering a tax cut—matter of concern to all taxpayers. ‘Yet it has had just two or three public hearings and a half- | - dozen closed-door sessions. Numer. | ous other committees have bolted! . the door. ’ Whatever justification there may be for closed hearings in foreign affair matters, in the opinion of Rep. Mike Monroney (D. Okla), co- + author of the reorganization act, there is no reason why such domestic questions as taxes ‘and government spending should not be in full public view. ~ Even some foreign affairs committee members say there is little reason for long closed sessions. In the recent foreign relief hearings, committee members read a state department document stamped “secret” on every page.

No Real Secrets

Yet members said it contained no real secrets, and that except for a half-dozen conclusive paragraphs, nothing in it should have been kept from press or public. Day after day, state department people march up Capitol. Hill ‘to testify in congressional hearings. They march down again without the public being let in on what happened. : In one public hearing, when Herbert Hoover was testifying on overseas rellef needs, Rep. John Vorys (R. 0.) asked him if there were any reason why relative relief needs of foreign countries should be made a “secret document.” Mr. Hoover said «there was not.

Give Little Information

about congress economizing and you want to find out where the money is to be saved. You want to know also about the hundreds of millions going for overseas relief.

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Strike-Boon To Farmers

Usgently Need Tools

By ALFRED LEECH United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, March 25.—The farm machinery industry for the first time in more than a year approached full production today of the tools urgently needed by farmers to feed the nation and supply the starving peoples of other coun-

committee members say there Is, more possibility for political dyna-

overseas relief bill on which hear-

of Tomorrow Nears Completiol

4 Floor Cars, Added Safety Are Features

By PAUL F. ELLIS United Press Science Writer NEW YORK, March 25.—The finishing touches are being put on a new, super-deluxe luxury train that will contain cars with four floors, train-to-land telephones, greater safety devices—and no more upper berths. . Thi§ new traveling vehicle, called the “train of tomorrow,” is being built by the Pullman Standard Car| Manufacturing Co. for General] Motors. It fs expected to make its! debut in June. The first train, composed of a Diesel locomotive, a er, 4 chair car,

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improvement of railway travel.” Jerks Are Eliminated The power unit for the train is a 2000 horsepower Diesel locomotive that will not jerk the train a stops and starts. This new Technique is possible, the makers because the entire train will be tight-lock coupled. The usual six to eight inches of slack between cars has been eliminated. From the locomotive, we go to the coach in a pre-exhibit descrip-

tries. With settlement of the 327-day Allis-Chalmers strike at Milwaukee, the industry looked forward to) a period’ of uninterrupted production

to fill the huge backlog of orders for | { tractor, plows and other imple-|

ments. } The break in the Allis-Chalmers strike followed, by two. weeks the} settlement of : the Y4-month J.” Case farm. equipment walkout ab Racine, Wis, Both strikes were settled as farmefs prepared to put 1947's crops into the ground.

Bumper Crops Foreseen

still were plagued by material short-

duction. Not since shortly after V-J day had the industry's outlook been as bright. : However,

represent been made, and in general negotia-

Banking on Fuel Production

* International Harvester, recently cut prices on many of its

y products, apparently was banking on full production. The company|y.re members of the Communist at present is negotiating with the ty nyt that they were “members C. I. O. United Farm Equipment ,r , communist-front organization, Workers, which represents more of gq apparently continued their

the company’s employees than any other union. g Contracts between the company

pany officials said the progress in negotiations had ‘been slow, and

cific wage demands.

“No difficulty has devéloped, so far,” they said, “and there ave

tion of this new train.

This coach will seat 72 passengers, |

including 24 in’'the astradome in the roof. Here, the passengers can observe the scenery in four direc-

The lower section of the coach Is divided into three partly segregated compartments, giving accommodations for 20 passengers, two of them seating seven, and the third accommodating six. In addition, the forward and rear sections of the coach—at standard floor level—seat 12 and 12 persons, respectively. There will be no more piling of luggage in the aisles er vestibules. This new coach has spe-| cial compartments for the bags and suitcases. The sleeping car also has an astradome on the roof where seats)

The car itself contains three com‘partment ‘rooms, each with two lower berths, two drawing ' rooms; and eight rooms of the new. duplex roomette design. There are no more of the old, fashioned upper and lower berths where you climb through a curtain to’ your bed. 3 Levels in Dining Car The dining car will have service on three levels, one of them in the astradome roof compartment. There will' be dumbwaiters to connect the different floors. The din-

Actually, say congressmen, little

information is given them in closed

sessions Which isn't known anyawy. Gen. Dwight: Eisenhower may -tell congressmert “that a situation is ~ grave when everyone already knows that much. But not often do high “government pMictals spell it out in specific ferms—for instance, where a certain nation has he tréop concentrations. . The appropriations committee, headed by Rep. John Taber (R. N. Y.) goes to such lengths to maintain committee secrecy that it does

' not even allow congressmen who are | train

not committee members with it.

Foreign affairs committee her-

: (train on a coast-to-coast exhibition they were anti i i ings ate being opened up now for tour early in June. It, and oboe lin Y an paine To Susewy oll picture, known pajama and pon ne testimony on the proposéd $400 mil- | like it, may be in service in the not ended. the rolon on pik oe "Meddling in the Middle East 1s lusivel lion Greek-Turkish aid fund. Yet|too-far distant future | weeks ago. P eq, Walkout tWolno child's play,’ Sesator Brewster | FxSuspyer: : Soi iene ore . "ah pi the Case plaiits’ ave in said. “Whether or not there-is one| ; 2 : . » kK} Tr - Indiana Stocks and Bonds operation at the.present time and one piiadle East Aol) Shere ©} ouvchemt. deowie 284, ——il Einar erties coin there 8 good reason to believe that “Beyond: rose and “Turkey les mission with opportunity*to.earn | j- ol a aahominal fuctatio oe Jurnunes ” in Tas Lp aay i "4h [3 Tero o proSpenty and high! pgjestine and 50 billion barrels of|] at least $10,000 a year is offered STOCKS Ind G & E 4.3% ofd..... 110 112% | or ‘the com-|netroleum ffi Iraq, Iran and Saudi{] for the man thoroughly experi= || Asked | StOKely-Van Camp pid ...... 20% 229, PANY and its employees,” a spokes- |, ania The major interest of Amerer Pa Corp com ........ ' Rlokely-Van Camp com ..... 20 22 man’ said. : enced and with proven ability, *American States pfd, ........ 3" | 0"'8" Machine heable........ Bla 8% | he Caterpi icans in the Middle East sus in American Bates €l A.......... Vise nied imine o0m ..,....: nl e Caterpillar Tractor Co. Pe- |, replenish American reserves sadly || who can develop this area. PreAyres 4%% pfd.........] i615 | Union Title com See ona, and a local of the United |qepieted by ‘the recent war. In bo 3 ie Sol com... 8 BONDS Farm Equipment and Metal Work- Greece, Unclé Sam's nose is being ler man Vip car, Bayly 19 bop R a pra... ’ i American Loan 41s 80... 97° ,...|ers (C. I. O.) are negotiating a new inserted ‘under the tent of power || No. 480, The Times. pid... . | Buhner Fertilizer bs 4. o1 1.1; |contrabt to take #ilect April 1. 8o 1 Central Sova com... . 38% |Ch of Com Bldg 4s 61... e6 l|far there has been no talk of a Folities for bettas oF for word, he SHAS 103" | Columbia 0 as ....203 :ioo|strike.” The union and company smell of petroleiim is overpowering. NEE———————SE— Mn Consol Pin Se reyeran 9 ....|Stlll are at variance over .several! Te : pa. Hamilton Mig Co te 86..... 97 ....|issues. , 18% n atin OT YT —— i S : 3's | IDGDIs Brass & Alum 8s 56. 97 ae] . Uni 02" (fndpls PAL ar 0 TL 106% 167% Truck Wheat Bonds of the United States Government, ay, Ind Asso Tel Co 3s 75. Ilona | A Horie d Insular Possess! Hi remem Ans 0,000 | aunagots tour mute nd grt a Ee Ei ind pn Serv A 13+: 1084 107% | No. 1 truck wheat; new” No 7 oe ¢ : : (Of Ind 3's 75..2.107 100 |corn, $166 bushel, 0:2 Togs Sor ors ta 01710. Swi 11 5, br Ogg Sn, ing, phil Municipal and Corporate Securities, 3 gdivideny Soybeans 14. per cent moisture, s9.00 °” Real Estate Bonds and Preferred Stocks i > nd * 5 o Wy i ® Nu

to sit’ station.

ing car also has a private’ dining The, designers have . built" the

will be reserved for passengers. |

been no strike threats. In general the atmosphere has been quite hartmonious.” . - The company also is negotiating with the C. I. O. United Automohile |

Oliver Corp. has individual ‘contracts with local unions in each of its seven Midwestern plants. Contracts expire at different times but four already have been negotiated for the next year. The compsny reported that negotiations at two plants were under way “on a sauisfactory basis,” and that bargaining on an agreement to cover the seventh plant would begin about May 1. : :

Alva W. Phelps, president of Oliver Corp. said there had been no “formal work stoppage in any of the company’s plants during the life of the cormtracts effective in the past year. Mr. Phelps said the company still was hampered by ishortages of material, but he noted an “upward trend in efficiency” in {the company’s productive organization. He expressed satisfaction with settlement of the last remaining | farm equipment strikes, and predicted a “record year, with all manufacturers in this important field pulling together to get badly needed implements and machinery to the farmer.” : i

: Sign Contracts

{lounge car in four levels, with 68

Deere & Co:,. Moline, T1,

seats, with more than half of them.sigued contracts. tecently. with the

movable to..permit. group forma-

dions. The donfe seating arrange-

| ment can accommodate 24 persons. three plants -for. the next year. |

| The lower lounge cofitains a cocktail room bar, seating -10 nersons.

*ll Then there is the front lounge at| YY | the same level as the rear gbserva- (mid-April and still must be ne-

| tion ,loynge. . There will be telephones thrahgh- | out the train. Calls can be made {to any part of the train for hooked ‘up to land stations /whether the is moving or standing in a

The company ‘expects to take the

\C. L-O. United Parm Equipment {Workers covering employees at

| Contracts with the 0. I. O. United Automobile. Workers at five other Deere plants, however, expire in gotiated. . % At Minneapolis, wage negotia{tions will be reopened May 1 be|tween the Minneapolis- Moline { Power Implement Co. and the C. I. {O. United Electrical, Radio and {Machine Workers.

Spokesmen for J. I. Case Co. said

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Hush-Hush blic Information You May Be a Citizen and Taxpayer

But It's Hard to Find Out What's Going On

. By CHARLES T. LUCEY Seripps-Howsrd Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, March 25.—You're & citizen and taxpayer and these

For 1947 Planting - |.

With the prospect of more ma-| This has not been cited as part of chinery, it was believed tfat farm-|the “Communist front,” but is deers again would plant bumper crops.iclared by the committee to be a Manufacturers of farm machinery [combination of two organizations

ages. But they expressed optimism |tified—th over the prospects of increased pro- fense and the National Federation

many manufacturers Oct. 25, 1939, that it had “estabmust sign contracts within the next|lished conclusively that the Amerimonth or two with the unions which [can League for Peace and Democtheir production ecm-iracy was organized and is conployees. No strike threats have trolled by the Communist party.”

tions have proceeded harmoniously. mittee pointed out this fact in connection ‘with

branch, which is largely composed which of government employees.

posed as being commuistic.”

and union expire April 15. Com-|or [League members, and among

that the union had made no spe-| progress administration.

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ing in Louisville, Ky. Consequently Irving Richter is as “national legislative representative” for the union, one of the largest in the C. I. O. Mr. Richter is listed by the house ‘committee on un-American activities as having PYeen a member of several Communist - front or- § ganizations; int cluding the American League for Peace "and Democracy, and] “thre “Washington * Committee for tion. Democratic: AcMr. Richter also is identified by the committee as an active member of the Congress on Civil Rights.

that previously had been so .idene International Labor De-

for Constitutional Liberties, U. 8S. Employees Members The house committee stated on

More than a year ago the com-

the Washington

+The committee did npt charge that. the government employees

membership long after it was ex-

So the committee published lists

them was Mr. Richtér — then a $2000-a-year employee of the works

Mr. Richter'’s biography shows that he is a member of the C. I. O.

Board Votes Down Reuther Move to Oust Lobbyist

Union Head's Action Against Left-Wing Representative Fails to Win Support

,By FRED W. PERKINS . Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, March 25.~Walter Reuther, C. I. O. United Automobile ‘Workers, -has been voted down by his executive board. The board rejected his effort to.oust the unions left-wing lobbyist in Washington, according to dispatches from a meet-

president of the

expected to continue his activities

legislative committee; that he was formerly president of a local union of the American Federation of Gov-| ermmment Employees (A. F. of L.) and later of a local of the United Public Workers of America (C. I. 0.). The U. P. W. A. repeatedly has been charged with being under Communist influence. ;

Hog Prices Up ,

$28 Top Paid; Vealers Gain

Hog prices advanced 25 to 50 cents at the Indianapolis stockyards today. Top price was $28. Steers and heifers remained steady but cows gained slightly. Vealers gained 50 cents while sheep and lambs were too scarce for a fair test. =

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Senate to Probe U.S. Oil Operations

Inquiry Pegged At Middle East

By MARSHALL McNEIL Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 25 —

While foreign relations experts in congress deal with the” diplomatic aspects of President Truman's program of aid to Greece and Turkey,

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U.. S. Statement

WASHINGTON, March 25 (U. P.) —Government expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through March a1 compared - with. a Joar ago: . a

A r Last Year Expenses $28,271,240,693 $49,304,403,217 | Receipts ..... J30,844,422733 '31,354,520,028 Surplus ...... -3,573,182,040 ; : Deficit ‘ 17,949,568,288 Cash balance 6,008,593,423 23,660,408,296 Public debt . 259,178,366,478 276,629,522,745 | Gold reserve. 20,418,467,916 20,233,918,039 | INDIANAPOLIS CLEARING HOUSE Clearings ........ rd a $ 7,425,000 Dae I am rian 20,329,000

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