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GOP Accounts Fail to Jibe | On $100 Gift’

Donor. Explains Disputed Check

The man who contributed that $100 check to the GOP out of State Park funds told The Times the Conservation Department's assertion that the check was “disallowed” looked like juggling of the books to him. He is A. LaMarr Bittinger of Richmond. He said he wrote the check when he operated the Abe Martin Lodge in Brown County Parl: after Conservation officials insisted he make some kind of campaign contribution.’ No matter how the department or the State Board of Accounts kicked around the figures, he said, the money came out of the Lodge funds and was not taken out of his salary and commission. Stung by Democratic disclosure of the contribution, State House Republicans produced photostatic “records” to prove the contribution was disallowed as a State Park expense and later taken out of Mr.

Bittinger's. personal accounts, Records Don't Match . Mr. Bittinger told ‘The Times

the purported State Board of Ac counts records didn’t match the records he kept. and produced his own records to prove it. He saiff he wrote the check to GOP Treasurer James Costin in October, 1947 out of lodge funds on the okdy of Conservation officials. Not long after, Mr. Bittinger lost his job as. lodge concessionaire in _.argumeht with Cpnservation---offictais LrOnARA, gE 1 “Whew Demovrats groduced. the. theck last week.-the State House answered -the charge a few days. later that the whole matter was an error. in Mr. Bittiigems book keeping and had been reetified.... Adds Up to $100 Explanation by Conservation Auditor Cecil P, McDonough was that the $100 contribution was not allowed as a legitimate expense. He said it was charged back to Mr. Bittinger's personal account in the final settlement before he lost his contract. Mr. Bittinger agreed that he'd had to pay $352.50 to the state in the final settlement. But it was for other things, he said, and did not include the $100 contribution That? he added, was passed both—by- the State Board of Accounts and Conservation Department auditors. a Auditor McDonough pointed out. however, that the department had discovered it owed Mr. Bittinger some money, too, on two other accounts. By a rather remarkable coincidence, these two figures added up to exactly $100. This sum, instead of being paid to Mr. Bittinger, was charged off against the $100 he had “wrong-| fully” contributed out of the lodge, account to the GOP, Conservation Pirector John Nigh said. Mr. Bittinger replied that he was charmed to find the department owed him something in the final settlement. He said this was the first he'd heard about it. ~Kaows af No Reason co The check of accounts, according to the department explanation, revealed that Mr. Bittinger had $81.11 coming for some paper matches he'd bought. It was part of a $116 bill and the explanation didn’t point out how the auditors figured Mr. Bit-| tinger was entitled to “credit” for $81.11 of it. The auditors also arrived somehow at the conclusion that Mr. Rittinger’ was due credit for $18.89 of a $47.84 bill for truck

‘repair. . Hitch in all this higher arithmetic is this Mr. Rittinger's

books show he paid both bills in full, not out of personal funds, but right out of the lodge's operating funds. He, himself, could think of no reason why he should have been entitled to get part of the money back.

Political Talks Today ’ NATIONAL WFBM—86:15 to 6:30. Philip Murray, President of the CIO; 9:00 to 9:30, President Truman. WIBC—9:00 to 9:30, President Truman. LOCAL WIBC—9:55 to 10:00, Indiana State Democratic Committee, Harry Latham’

WFBM—4:00 to *4:05, Indiana State Republican. Committee; 500 to 5:05 Indiana State Democratic Party, Labor Burea. ) WISH—440 to 445 Marion

County Republican Committee; 8:00 to 8:05, Marion County Democratic Party

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CAMPUS SLICKERS—DePauw University freshman Kenneth Collins, of 1419 E. -77th St., Indianapolis, finds the old adage, ‘Never play the other man's game," still holds good, as he tries to douse four candles with a water pistol during the annual Street Fair Friday on DePauw campus. His Kappa Alpha Theta coed nemeses are (left to right] Patricia Opie, Chicago Heights: Sara Lou Custer, La Grange, lll; Sally Lehman, Kansas City, Mo., and Diane Forst, Milwaukee, Wis.

Shaky Chiang Grip in China Blamed on US; ECA Accused of Trying to Back War Lords

Would Deal Directly With Province Chiefs |

By PARKER LA MOORE Seripps-Howard St Writer { WASHINGTON, Oct, 25-- What ..; may be the final chapter in. the|

story ‘of our betrayal of a war- |

Economic, - istration. ry It is being urged here that the | .:’ J 2 extension of Marshall Plan aid] [Oo , av

Co-Operatign -ARTR ;

ECA. to megotiaté loans or grantd| with provincial governors inde-|

Sp , or Gis * COMPACT This

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who would de-

China as it would be today. i chowin +h inroads pendently of the Chinese central! “ lor an a resment made Y ogay, showi 9 ol e o government where such gover-| “087 @r 3 © y made by the Chinese Communors exercise lo- airo in December, 1943 ! ‘ bY p nists including the conquest of cal autonomy. .%| among President Rooseveit, ; °c The principal | | Prime Minister Churchill and almost all Manchuria, China's provincial gover- Chiang Kai-shek. richest storehouse, nors in Nation- . ee eee pte

alist China are self-perpetuating war lords, who deeply resent Chiang Kaishek's political reforms, and

sert him overnight if they were promised American money, observers gay. The idea of going over | head of a recognized government, to deal directly with its subdi-| visions would be a revolutionary| departure from accepted interna-| tional procedure. So the proposal is dismissed as too fantastic for serious consideration in most in-| formed political and diplomatic| circles. i __ Pulling the Rug | Congress, it is maintained] would recognize the proposal for| what it is—an underhanded at-| tempt to pull the rug from under Lhiang. Kai-shek. Buf the, mere] fact ECA officials are known to be considering such a program might accomplish that result anyway. | The Chinese Republic is in such desperate straits that Chi-| ang Kai-shek’s position could become hopeless if his people got|

Mr. La Moore

\meaning. [succeeded Gen. [President's r China, conditioned further Amer|ican assistance upon the forma-

theition of a fusion government in

which the Communists would be represented. This put the Communists in a position to stop our financial assistance to Chiang simply by breaking off the negotiations—which they promptly did. Backed by Truman

The Marshall policy had the

{public support of President Tru-

man. On Déc. 18; "1946, he said the U. 8S. Stood ready to help China when she moved “toward peace and genuine democratic government.” This meant through the . proposed coalition government. At that late date we were still treating the Chinese Communists as “democrats.”

When the Communists broke off

discussions with the Nationalist | |government, ipended a $500 million Export-Im-

we not only sus-

port Bank loan earmarked for

the idea that he was standing China, but also placed an embarbetween them and American re-|go against the shipment of arms

lief.

one may be trying to sell ECA

very thought in mind. Monkey-wrenches have thrown into the machinery on

Indeed, it is suspected some- to Chiang’s hard-pressed forces. In this situation, the initiative stored to China. But the Russian such a bill of goods with that!in the civil war passed to the|army turned the liberated areas| armies /over to the Communist troops. been Were receiving abundant supplies|

Communists, for their

|from the Japanese

itionalist and Communist armies|situation. On his return, his ren China for an all-out effort/port was suppressed by President (against Japan. President Truman|Truman, and it never has been [continued this as a basic Amer-/made public. [ican policy after the war, when that it was a devastating indict-| ' {the project had lost its original/ment of State Department policy. |

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Indianapolis Men Serve U. S. Fleet

Draw Duty in Pacific And Mediterranean

Arthur J. Duncan, seaman, of 742 Union St, is serving with the Pacific Fleet aboard the destroyer escort USS March, Aboard the light cruiser USS| Little Rock of the Rixth Task Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea) are Jesse M. Adair, apprentice seaman, son of Mrs, Prudence Adair, 2331 Arsenal Ave, and Henry I. Krumholz, seaman, son

Ave, Three Indianapolis men, {lyde Pruitt Jr., seaman, 3430 Garden| Ave; Delmarr IL. Woerner, sea;| man, son of Mrs, Ruth F. Woer-| ner, 1715 Park Ave, and Richard| F. McGray, apprentice seaman] son of Frederick McGray, 737 N.| Sheffield St., are aboard the de-| stroyer USS Hyman. The Hy-| man is also with the 8ixth Task! Fleet. At the Great Lakes Naval] Training ~ Cénter are Donald L.| Carpenter, Joseph Aaron Taylor!

STRAUSS SAYS:

But it i= understood

When Congress reversed Amer-

| Gen. George C. Marshall, who/ican policy. and voted $420 miln. Hurley as the lion for-economic-and military as-| epresentative injsistance Yo the Chinese Nation-|

alists, the outlook assumed a more hopeful aspect. But not for long. The money was voted in April, But as of today, not a rifle or a bullet has arrived in China, and Chiang’'s forces are in retreat all along the line for want of weapons and ammunition. Admittedly, only Chiang Kalishek’'s personal courage and tenacity are keeping his sick and wounded country in _the war against the Communists. Observlers..say he. has. only. . a 50-50 chance of surviving the winter. He will almost certainly fall, it is predicted, if the Chinese are led to believe American assistance is to be divided between the government wnt the -war-Jdorde: For that would “Balkanize” what

{remains of free China.

Chiang Chief. Anti-Red The Cairo agreement of 1943 signed by President. Roosevelt,

Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek provided that all of Manchuria, which had been

seized by Japan, should be re-

Since that time the Communist

equipment forces have captured the Shan-

every previous attempt to include Which the Russians. had seized tung peninsula, and are menacing

China in an aid program. Even When they moved into Manchuria. the

if the war lord proposal is ad:

major cities of - Peiping,

Meanwhile, too, Chiang had|Tientsin and Nanking, the capital vanced only as a psychological|been exhausing his own feeble re-|of Nationalist China.

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The ad-

weapon. it could be decisive in|sources in attempting to carry vancing rebels are almost within! out his part of the Japanese sur-istriking distance of Shanghai, The deterioration of China's|render agreement. This included China's principal port and composition as a wartime partner, co-|{the surrender and evacuation of|mercial center.

the present circumstances.

equal with the Soviet Union, Britain and the U. 8. dates from February, 1945, at Yalta. behind Chiang Kai-shek's back,

President Roosevelt and Winston |ing Chiang’s forces into liperated!

Churchill agreed ‘to Premier Stalin's demands for vital con-

cessions to the Soviets at China's|

expense. These were price “for joining in against Japan.® Won Naval Base The concessions included establishment of a Russian naval base at Port Arthur and Russian management of commercial port facilities at - Dairen, Chinese Manchuria, other considerations. The United States pressed China into ratifying this agree-

af well

ment in a Chinese-Russian treaty| signed at Moscow later that vear.| In return for granting Russia| in|

extra-territorial Manchuria. the their exclusive economic support to Chiang's government. But when Russia failed to keep her part of the deal, the U. 8. did nothing about it. “THe ‘next blow Feit when Maj Gen. Patrick J. Hurley resigned as Ambassador to China, charging that American interests in the Far’ East were - being “sabotaged by Communist sympathizers in fhe Staté"Deépartinent. Thereafter, the anti-Chiang forces in the de-

privileges Saviets - pledged military and

[partment moved into full control

of American policy. the support of the Communist Party, I.ess than a month after Gen. Hurley's resignation. William Z%Z. Foster, national chairman of the Communist Party, in a statement to his national committee, said the civil war in China held the Key to “all problems of the inter-

They had American

national front.” He directed that|

500 meetings be held throughout the country to win support for the Chinese Communists, Under these various pressures: the U. 8 quickly drifted into a

position of virtual neutrality be-|ed most of America's nficial re- | {Southampton

tween Chiang's government and the Chinese Communists, During the war, and as a war measure, we had tried to bring

Tower |

both in|

three million Japanese then |China proper. . The U. 8. Army and Navy assisted in this task. But in movvu.

{areas by 8.

forces

transport, our

|State Department. { Reds Take Over

in|

backed away whenever! they were confronted by armed, Russia's Communist resistance. They were the war acting under orders from the|

; Chiang Kai-shek is the only leader of any repute that antiCommunist forces have on the mainland of Asia. If he should be overthrown by a revolt of the [war lords, a divided China would be eagy prey for the advancing |IRed armies. If the 450 million Chinese pass {under Soviet control, the Red {tide probably would sweep across

Thus. while we unloaded Na.|the continent. Then there would tionalikt troops at safe ports far be left only the American island from their assigned destinations,|[0utposts of Japan and the Phil-

{the Communist armies took over|iPpines, and. they would be iso-

{ with little or no opposition. All of

war stocks after the Japanese {surrender was demilitarized so it could not be used as weapons in the civil war.

{that

Bank loan was suspended. then cancelled. {assistance to China, {ally., has been less {Which we have given to anv of the late enemy many. Italy and Japan. Until the recent appropriation by Congress, apart from lendlease and surplus property sold to China, our direct aid“ has amounted . to .approximately 483

repayable in.two years. When President Truman announced his plan to extend military and economic assistance to Greece and Turkey to protect them from Communist aggression. the State Department was |asked if the new policy would be applied to China. The answer, by Undersecretary Dean “Acheson, was no, that the situation was “quite different.” Hush-Hush Policy In fact, the U. 8. continued to insist upon a Communist coalition in China well after we had begun to finance the war against communism in Greece.

A hush-hush policy. has attend-

lations with China since 1945.

| Last year Lt, Gen. A. C, Wede- Rotterdam. Magallanes Cadi

meyer. commander of the China theater during the war, was sent

the equipment we de-| ’ livered to China from our surplus|Sailor on Lea

The $500 million Export-Import | Since that time our| a wartime), ’ than that,o0" W

states of Ger-|

about a coalition of the Na-|to that country to investigate the

vast areas of liberated territory|lated from the Asiatic mainland

{by another Soviet iron curtain.

ve ‘Wounded by Shotgun A sailor home on leave was re covering from a gun shot wound today, received when a gun dislcharged accidentally Satuday. Deputies said Chief Yeoman ade. who is visiting in Indianapolis, was watching Duane Jovce, Bloomington, inspect a .32 automatic in a field on Acton Rd. near Rd 29. The gun discharged necidentally, - striking the. sailor in the hip He was taken to Billings Hospital at Ft. Harrison.

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million, of which $33 million was 3iX Face Charges

After Gambling Raid

Six men, arrested yesterday when police raided an alleged poker game. in the Saratoga Hotel, 33214 Massachusetts Ave.

N. Noble St., will answer charges of violating the 1935 beverage act. keeping a room .for gaming and gaming. The five others, who are to appear, are charged with visit. ing a gambling establishment and gaming. ”

Ship Movements By United Press Arrivals—~Ma ur

Marine Perch Alexandria

New York etania Naples Westerdam Yarmouth assay Talamanca, Puerts Barrios, Banta Margarita, Valparaiso New York Departures George Ww Goethals. Bremerhaven Stockholm, Goetes borg, Santa Ines, Puerto Cabello,

Marine Carp

will appear in municipal court today. { William D. Sodders. 28, of 505

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T MRIG PATS PEND COPR 1948 OW. L.A WAGNER ALL MENTS RESERVED.

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