Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1949 — Page 27

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Washington Calling—

Manufacturers Study ; GM Auto Price Slash As ‘Straw in Wind’

Low Material Costs Due to Cut Scales in Other - Lines; Ford Readjustment ‘Set for Spring’

oward Newspapers

By the Scripps-H WASHINGTON, Feb. may be long-awaited straw in

-It comes from biggest producer of consumer goods in

the country.

It may mean lower material costs are beginning to make price cuts possible on manufactured goods.

Significantly, price cut is bigger than GM's current wage cut. | All manufacturers, big and little, are studying GM’s action.

Many likely will follow suit.

— GM will -build- 2,360,000 vehicles “this year; Drop of" $10 per vehicle means drop .in company revenues of $23 million. The 2-cents-an-hour saving in wages—due

amounts to $13,640,000 on annual basis.

But since GM workers get 3-cents-an-hour automatic wage in-

80 up again—more than offsetting current cut." : Ford will “readjust” prices in the spring; will cut some models, raise others, one of its officials

says. But Chrysler just this week

lative Senate rules

filibus

26-—General Motors price cut

s| their drive is losing momentum

wind.

to drop in cost of living— papers printed bulletins from his off-the-record chat before he got back to his office. . =»

Nip-and-Tuck Fight MARGARINE FORCES will have nip-and-tuck battle to get their tax repeal bill out of House

margarine Harold Cooley of North Carolina is now chairman, committee seems to be slightly

“Also margarine forces fear

because of drop in farm and food prices. who

ducers of so-called country milk, which goes into butter. Strategy of dairy forces is to repeal taxes on margarine but ban sale of yellow margarine altogether. This would leave federal government minus ‘$14 million In taxes, leave housewives with nothing but white mar-

e. House Committee hearings start

» . Consumers Buying Less | SOME GOVERNMENT economists—though favoring expanded social security—fear economic effects.

voting support of one-third of] this divided nation, is a man to

ic studying possible action under the constitution which forbids individual -change national si and the assembly has voted-—386 to 182—to condemn Mr, Thorez. > In Italy, meanwhile, Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti: told the Italian people that they are duty-bound to aid the Soviet

pursuit of an “aggressor.” The statement shocked government circles and aroused immediate speculation whether the anti - Communist coalition cabinet would take steps against

Pro-imogliatti and his party as a

whole. The French national assembly already has condemned French Communist leader Maurice Thorez for urging Frenchmen to side with Soviet troops should they ever invade France! - The French government is considering prosecuting Mr. Thorez. Mr. Togliatti, who like Mr.

pro- |Thorez spent the war years in

Moscow, made his statement in an interview published in the newspaper Giornale Della Sera. “If the Soviet army were to pursue on Italian territory an aggressor,” he said, the people of Italy would have the duty to help in the largest manner the Soviet army inflict upon the aggressor the lesson

| After Mr. Thorez stated that

{the French would welcome a

Soviet force of tion as [liberator granted a United Press corre-

|spondent an exclusive interview, his first since he took office.

ponents of civil rights program will bills to curb busters. Watch for signs that Democratic leader-

down as a phony stand, on their

Watch Republican votes on all-night sessions, too, and on other motions. What they say

they want

to h could ns simi. majority if they'd support

If change in rules should go sou

Democrats can

They don’t like to see $8 billion taken away from consumer

that only enough should be collected in social security taxes to pay current retirement pensions. Government figures show conpublic now is smaller percentage of the nation’s total production than in 1929, business and government taking larger proportion. » .

Charge Wood : Stalling

that Rep. John 8. Wood, new chairman of House Un-American Activities Committee, is stalling.

to elect committee counsel. Wood says he's been too busy. Others think this is thin excuse. Friends of ‘Director Condon of | Bureau of Standards don’t like

through, thern fight all rest of|ings at which he can testify. be expected to fight all rest of) TRC. @ Spy hurters-believe

CHARGE 13 being made here

Bo far, no meetings been called

Invasion of Franee and West-

./ern Europe by Russia must be wo»

power capable of forestalling such a catastrophe, the French premier declared. ‘The World Knows’ “As the world knows” Mr. a combination of her efforts in political sabotage to take over the control of both France and Italy. In that Russia failed. But that does not mean that she has dropped her plans to gain control of “That is the reason why the

the world in its hands, and why

for the destiny of the world.

sald. “If, as M. Thores.

No.1 Reds Rock

By GORDON

army if it should entef Italy In o i eign Relations Committee on Mon-|§

United States holds the destiny of ity.

the Atlantic Pact about to be signed is such a vital instrument

“The question is that France

nay aero vant har 204 Oe To of Wooten Burs

day that Great Britain needs the full $940 million earmarked for

Thomas K. Finletter, chief of the ECA mission in London, will appear at a spécial public committee hearing.) Labor in Conference Meanwhile, at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, fifty British foreign and domestic policy-makers met secretly to hammer out a labor party platform for the 1950 general electiohs. They met amid reports that Prime Minister Clement Attlee had his hands full trying to mend

“I believe/® Split between party moderates

and leftists over the government's nationalization program. It was reported that Mr. Attlee and his deputy, Herbert Morrison, were pressing for a “goslow” policy in na industries, while Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan was leading left-

occupa Tatars. the Premier of France ists in a strong fight. for further

immediate government ownership in industry and agriculture. The Attlee-led moderates are expected ito win.

‘Belgium

terday accused Russia of reducing the United Nations to a “brawling cockpit” where only insults are flung back and forth. ~ Britain's war-time prime min-

Queuille said, “Russia planned by|ister, speaking on behalf of the

European movement council, told a mass meeting in the Palais Des Beaux Arts at Brussels that the three-year-old United Nations already is a greater failure than the old League of Nations, He said the world must look to regional organizations for secur-

“Unless and until this is done, the United Nations organization will be a failure and even a mockery,” he said. .

ll envisaged ! If they win on cloture and civil can show tie-up between Polish (In his declaration, the Russians schemark reached a record value

rights, they may go along oh other Truman measures, Behind whole fight presidential threat to take to the road again. Tt may affect both sides. Republicans say they wel-

cothe another Truman trip—that

he'd have to criticize a Demo-

cratic Congress. But Democrats think Republicans would be first target, “Wednesday Democrats” (those

for Truman on Nov. 3) next, and that right now any member op-

posing Truman Pp! danger if President goes after him,

‘Like School Teacher’

{diplomatic spies in this country |and the Polish ting said to have

stands operated against U. 8. in Ger-|

many.

+ - » » Rep. Walsh Balks REP. JOHN R. WALSH, fresh{man- -Democrat from Indiana, {Alled out Zorm sent’ him for. in|sertion: in “Who's Who in the | Democratic Party,” and sent it |off to Pubiishers Withoyt sending | $15 to a copy.

| He got a letter back pointing| mili action to stop an aggres-| Is iniout he'd neglected to send cash ary along. Walsh says they can leave his name out, if that's the price. John M. Redding, publicity director for Demoeratic National SECRETARY OF STATE Ache- Committee, is listed as editor-in-

son got off to poor start with | chief of the volume.

House Repub-

A Wrong Slant COMMERCE

pression. 3 by military shipments of vitally Batons {ontemplating._an, atdot tasty >| Senate informants sald the

tion started Jan, 1. January fig-

treaty will pledge U. 8. force ures, 940 10 10 days, Will All the pnat armed aggression in Ny —_ this country 3 free y eave coun ‘Games For Two ; a Sis ountry Si res MON COC. WALLGREN, who's guch force will be applied. having hard time getting Sena- . ce

{Should cross the Rhine, the catas-|of 16 cents on the black market! Yuglosiavia might be willing to|attacked. >. today, but economic experts dis-|abandon about half its original | “France as the advance sentinel counted reports that intersial eco-| territorial claims against Austria posed press reports, attributed to

trophe would be all but complete.

|of Europe cannot stand ‘alone.

{Europe must be able to count on {the ald of the United States:

AThat-is. the- reason why. Western rho Last Waltz

» ~ » The Atlantic Pact * | | SENATE sources said last |night * in ‘Washington that the! | North Atlantic Security Pact defi-| | nitely will commit this country to| sor. : But Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) | while indorsing the pact, argued! against a proposed corollary arms| lend - lease program on the) grounds it might precipitate war | with Russia “now.” i Mr. Taft called the pact, now| in its final stages of negotiation, a deterrent to war. But he told reporters that shipment of U. 8.

France and Italy by Proposals to Hail

Russian Invaders as ‘Liberators’ in

French Assembly Censures Thorez;

Premie: Calls U. S. Key to Defenses | CUMMING ! Fromi the Wire Services In “Mein Kampf,” Adolf Hitler told ha democratic world that| some day he would beat the woppings out : . i ; In France today everybody is talking about what Maurice Thorez

“Unfortunately,” Mr. Cripps said, “our recovery nothing’

her in next year's Marshall Plan}

proving attained more than nomic recovery was Be

an-made

responsible. The deutschemark, introduced

export trade 18 30 cents.

The deutschemark has no © Norway

backing, but is backed by the

occupying powers. » »

| Denmaik

THE Danish government will be given a go-ahead signal to join Atlantic pact discussions when the executive committee of the governing Social Democratic Party meets tomorrow, well-in-formed sources said today. These sources said there was little doubt that the party will ask the government to look toward the west for protection in view of the breakdown of Scandinavian defense mnegotiations. Norway's governing Labor Party recently advised the Nbr. wegian government to seek “binding co-operation” with the | western democracies. {

« 8 = [lins, Deputy U. 8. Army Chief of 3 Staff, put America “on the recYugoslavia ord” in clear and definite terms

THE Yugoslav embassy ‘at Lon

| pamphlet today that . indicated |

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vent of War

LS anna. Sbiach.she Army reported. wh

in the western zones last June Monday when the Big Four to replace the hopelessly inflated deputy foreign ministers will hear reichsmark, also climbed to 14.85| Austrian Foreign Minister Karl cents on the Zurich currency ex-| Gruber. He has indicated privately change from a December low ofthat a Yugoslav proposal for an four cents. autonomous Slovene minority in The nominal value in controlled Carinthia ‘was not . .

a |demonstrated in - snow-covered streets outside parliament today against alleged American pressure on Norway to join the Atlantic Pact. There was no violence.

Japan

policy toward Japan had been considered weak because of dif-

Washington and Allied personnel

. |would be

rad eo

a an hour.

in the . Austrian peace talks. } The talks are in recess until

AN estimated ‘1500 persons

DIPLOMATIC observers be-

lieved today that the United| Those States now is pledged to a stronger stand in Asia than it was before the “Royall controversy” and that Gen. Douglas MacArthur's position has been strengthened.

One diplomatic source said U. 8,

ferences; between officials in

in Tokyo. But he sald Gen. J. Lawton Col-

yesterday when he stated In Washington—t-h-a-t-— American troops would fight if Japan were

Gen, Colling’ statéments opU. 8. Army Secretary Kenneth C. Royall; that American trobps were ‘prepared to pull out of Japan in event of war with Russia.

‘Folksy’ Cot 9. With Taboo on Wigs, Intrigues an Outsider

Baseball Association Head Sits In on Case Here and Finds Formality Put on Shelf

- MAURICE PODOLOFF, president of Basketball Associgtion of: America and American Hockey League, was = =

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is unworkable, would give local Democrat party heavy responsibility if it failed. Those in favor feel town needs! cleaning up, believes Indianapolis must control fuel if it is to progress

Bafe bet is ordinance will not reach vote. until Spring comes, bringing natural reduction in air pollution.

CI New ‘500° Tonight’ SPEEDWAY RACE In skirts may sound beyond the pale of the track, but it's lowed near the cars when the 500Mile classic is on may take over the track July 22. On that date Alpha Zeta Beta, national sorority, is having convention in town.

trying to promote women's race

Mr. Royall later issued a denial.

» » rr Mexico | GOVERNMENT ownership of

|Mexico’s oll wells has produced | erans Affairs has been informed

some curiously mixed results. It| is 11 years since the American oil companies, ‘except Gulf Oil, were kicked out of .this country. Their

|properties were bought up at a| . fraction of their worth, on

state officials

ow, . Mexican

25 same ofl companies come back on

Feb. 26 (UP)—Col. Robert R. Mc-

story a competitive basis. In fact, an| —The Rankin bill to pension war|pieas

attempt is being made to interest American concerns, Nationalization hasn't been a flop. As a matter of fact, there was more oil produced in Mexico last year thain in any year since 1027. The fault in nationalization lies in the failure of government to

.' |carry on expensive and risky ex- | ploration for mew fields and the

fearfully slow distribution under bureaucratic control. No exploration work has been done in the tidewater lands off the coast of Mexico. It would require millions of pesos to drill even one hole. The government doesn’t take such risks.

ARRIVES IN ARGENTINA BUENOS AIRES, Argentina,

glad to see some of the!

at track as entertainment feature of meeting, v ». r

Scramble for Bonus STATE DEP” MENT of Vet-

$100 Billion Seen

| WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UP)

veterans wolild add more than $100 billion to federal spending over the next 50 years, new government éstimates showed to night. . | These figures put the cost of the pension scheme almost seven

drawn up. by the Veterans Administration and entered into the record of the House Veterans | Committee, which Rankin heads. Over the bitter opposition of administration Jeaders in Congress, Mr. Rankin has pushed | through the committee his {to pay $90 a month to all lerans of World War I

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