Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1949 — Page 29

of defense, sombat the red soul of nse uncon= nt Truman.

pities. The er will be 7é out into ney (D) of ontrols.

mame _ STATE POLITICS . Toy Rober Boom

ome Rule Wanted, |

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At long last, Congress this week gave heed to the politicians’ ~ ery for more “home rule, * They turned over the final decision on

rent control to local govern-

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Washington Calling—

Breadth of Piice Cuts

In Raw Goods Called ‘Healthy’ by Economists

Slashes in Finished Products May Move More Slowly; Refiners Increase se Sugar Quotations

. ‘By Seripps-Howard WASHINGTON, Apr. 2 Breadth ¢ of price cuts inter- | ests economists here. They ay | it's healthy, . Cuts are showing up in products, and in complex manufactured goods. They are

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waated home rule on” “But

motive was a state issues from the voters in the election of city

under influence of the late Fy D. Roosevelt. - The rent control bill this week

proved that was just another idea that looked good at the time, but not so good in the light of later developments. It now is. apparent that rent con-

w materials, semi-finished

coming only half as fast as they did after World War I.| And reductions in finished goods—when they come—will

mode more slowly, also.

trol, once a “na issue.” Nobody’ really be- Democrats seemed. to have a election 1a the statement . may turn out to be a purely this point that mayors “lot of success in the last elec- that “the GOP .afled to evalu it. g Righwaf Dope at local matter on which- many are going «© make a lot of tion using that method. Demo- ate the temper of the people.” midnight Thursday night, says city administrations may ‘have renters mad just to reap & few ~crats, looking back, aren't so 's Just another way, of the commission. Another, hefty oF a ational 1esues ry EN Fring been integpreted Tag The. has. bes A more onal : it still y jand- but they're more a 2 as favo : like that, serit home to roost by a Rt 1] 1a Yue that Jang. boy who aiready had smoked wanted. ~~ local un =TE, . Congress, could make politi- ing their weight Telt in politics. = One cigar. The second one never It will be Interesting to see It's a question which will go in clans long for the day when And the mayors are going to comes until the memory of the what the GOP works out as the to the courts for final decision national and state problems make a lot closer and there- first has faded. ; next election comes closer but And neither party will get the overshadowed those which were fore a lot easier target. An interesting feature of this this seems like a good time to dough until the courts decide. purely local. ae Indianapolis’ Mayor Feeney Republican solution to their warn them that sometimes But what it points up is the s au» “. is about the only mayor who predicament of being the mi- = look better than they really are. fact that cities get road money. 3 THE RENT control “home gets any kind of a break in nority {a that others think "os ® : in the proportion that the state, the rule” looks even worse when =the deal from a personal stand- it would be better to, blast GETTING BACK to thy home which collects all of it, wants they've got A point. He can’t run for a second Democrats for promises they rule theory, the recent develop- to dish out. in the ren you stop to think that the {..mg anyway. didn’t carry out. Obviously the ment over who gets the $8.5 In other respects, too, the they can problem will be no nearer a ® =» are going to have to get million highway funds seems to = ? 7 satisfactory solution. It just MEANWHILE, in together, Jt would be embar- point up our old contention that

As mayors and city councils, and the governor who has to approve all local de-control decisions, look at the #ituation they will see just what the congressmen saw. No matter.

how you figure it, renters out-

number landlords. That means they have more votes than

World Report—

First Year of Marshall Plan In a Europe That Tottered Wearily Toward Chaos

Cripps Hails Marshall Plan |

Factories, Mines Boost Their Output

scratched “Harry 8. Truman” at the bottom of an act of Congress

{known as “The Foreigh Assists

ance Act.” but better known as the Marshall Plan. Millions saw hope in the plan as a brave step toward the restoration of war-torn Europe. Other 'millions, chiefly behind the Iron

{Curtain of Bastern Europe,

{cursed it as a ruthless American

Cuts came, first in grains—which hit peak more than a year project” made in Wall Street,”

ago. Then they spread to othér raw materials, jumped over to to such goods as shirts selling at retail, then moved back to semi-| | world,

finished products.

Raw materials dropping most have been lead and inc, cocoa,

and cocoanut ofl,

Not everything has

"cut, even now, “ Decline tn men's shirts has been followed by cuts in men’s cloth- | It was

—and its started dropping at end, then cuts reached line! and heating oils. But it's partly seasonal, TS sn =» “Mike Sugar Prices

WHILE OTHER prices drop,|

refiners try to force sugar

prices 1». They've just increased price one-fourth cent per ; — They could do it because! * gavernment fixed 1949 sugar quota at’ 7,250,000 tons — about 300,000 tons less than we conyear. Government keeps but surplus foreign sugar

sumed last

.by import bans.

Increase in refined price is ndt expected to force retail price up right away. But retail price will rise if refiners can hold the line

—as they plan, : Ed

‘Iron Hand’ Rule

steel scrap. First cuts in steel products were informal—disappearance of gray markets. Such finished products as storage batteries and galvan-| -1zed steel have dropped in price, plus few other finished steel * products,

Elizabeth. It will be completed in 18 months, will operate across Atlantic, making run in four days; Queens take four and a half,

U. 8. vessel will be 940 feet | long-—60 feet less than Queens— but will have speed of fast cruiser. It will have mechanical refinements making it safer; less susceptible to rough weather. And it will be built so it edn be converted for troop transport, almost overnight. Administration is about to lose

its trouble shooter on House Ways {and Means Committee. Rep. Herman P. Eberharter, Pittsburgh Democrat, will be named to federal judgeship. CIO and AFL

labor groups put up stiff fight for him dozen

state Sen. Eimer Holland as a rePlacement in |

Census “Jobs Open IF YOU want job taking the census next year, see your Democratic Senator or Representative. Senators will name - district supervisors; Representatives name enumerators. Enumerator jobs will last two weeks in cities, month in equntry dis—tricts; Salaries haven't been fixed, but enumerators will get more than $5 a day they got in 1940.

become “the mapter: of the

What are the facts?

Haynes Thompson, United Press | Staff Correspondent, has seen the! Marshall Plan at work from the | arctic shores of Scandinavia to

the Mediterranean, Here are his

findings, reported from Paris.

For France Alone For France alone, that could mean a year's supply of bread for every Frenchman French men are the biggest bread con-

|sumers in the world.

* But that doesn’t ‘mean that a year's supply of bread was delivered te his door. Instead, he received the benefits of the money indirectly, through a program intended to help France help herself.

food, feed and fertilizer. : $2.57 went for fuel.

ished products to feed France's

ment.

on “non-commodity items.” 80 Per Cent a Gift

long-term loans,

Census Bureau fixes qualifications, It will ask each Congress

bilan ito each. If none qualifies, it willl

so far . join with Bulgarian ot aa.Soviet Union | ONE. The total output of fac- six other original pact members— 1 ois in an attempt to seize

‘rassing to say the jlexst to ‘adopt a Democratic method while at the same time complaining about the Democrats

cusing : to them and convince them you all things to all people. At the can deliver,

They point to the fact that:

same. time, their diagnosis of whether the cities, towns and what went wrong in the last counties get it or whether the

Finds Eeonomy Revived

French planners, supervised by gether American administrators, allotted $6.18 of the Frenchman's $18 for Another

Four dollars and 67 cents went for raw materials and semi-fin-

factories and provide employ-

Another $2.28 went for machinery and vehicles; 68 cents was spent on other products, and $1.62

It all added up, in France and United Nations the other nations, to $4,566,700,000 which the State Department reworth of goods and services. The United States put up the money-—| 80 per cent of it in outright will have little effect other. than grants, the other 20 per cent into strengthen Président Truman’ § TU

Marshall Plan headquarters in by the U. 8, Senate. man to submit three names for Paris today can boast of this rec-| each job in his district or state, jord of achievement with the! ‘with then send contributed:

LONDON, Apr. 2 (UP)—Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps said tonight that the Marshall Plan has enabled Western Europe to win a victory in the “cold war” against Commu“nism. The austere pilot ‘of Britain's belt-tightening economic program spoke over a world wide radio network arranged by the “Voice of America” on the eve of the European Recovery Program's first anniversary. He praised the Marshall Plan as a “tremendous act of international faith” on the part of America.

{Communists coday

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home rule, if they haven't already had enough of it. The $6.5 million. question is

20 Per Cent Loans, Remainder a Gift

are driving

{hard to make religion a puppet lof the state by financial means! Vienria dispatches said today. |

Josef Reval, one of Hungary's

‘triumvirate of “dominant :Com-| ‘munists, has prepared a plan for

|shrinking the church

gradually

and ‘making it dependent on the

Hleve it may De a year or more before that project shows results. Hoffman Warns Recovery Chief Paul G. Hoffman said in a statement that the 19 Marshall Plan nations are

10 per cent greater than in 1947. Europe was tottering toward chaos in June, 1947, when former Secretary of State -George Marshall proposed the plan which has given the continent a new lease on life, Now the outlook 1s good—the trend is upward, and economic warned blood is beginning to flow again through arteries nearly severed Defense ‘Sscretary Louis by war. The Marshall Plan has has! Johnson tried to refute charges given western Europe a chance to by critics of the recovery pro-

TERA ta feet. gram that Great Britain was undercutting it by exporting goods Atlantic Alliarice —including jet airplane engines THE 12 North Atlantic powers Rus. Pa

at Washington yesterday approved the final draft of a treaty that ‘will bind all to stand to- ! against Russian aggres- gay ‘that the amount of illegal arms- and ammunition rounded

The

document committing the yp by police increased sharply United States to its first peacetime during March—the Atlantic pact military - alliances with

will be signed here tomorrow he. ‘ solemn ceremonies to be broad: An otfsal tn 3 hat tongues. | On Tuesday the United Nations General Assembly reconvenes at! Lake Success, N. Y. Russia and}

her satellites are expected to Rous th pac (hes 3 4 mr. Marshal To nc

like act and a violation of the} border; charter—charges| Tito and the “Monarcho-Fas-

{thelr sym

at Yugoslavia THE Cominform drive against

iy INE toward toward each others J n| voice. of so-called Free y the Communist rebels on a soll, has At the same time Greece's Min-

The Kremlin's fury “probably

‘hand in getting the treaty ratified

by this country and the Cominform Greeks are about to!

NEW Defense Secre Louis ask Co en to {tories and mines in the member Canada, Britain, Fran tary nEressIn send In more| untries during 1948 was 14 per Luxembourg - and the Nether. Macedonia.

"Johnson leaves little doubt hell names. run Pentagon show with no ifs|

or buts

Reshuffiing ot Pentagon space, planned under Forrestal to take

accepting Pres2% years, will be finished under] Johnson in 60 days. What's more iden t Truman's edict that there'll

reshuffie will Johnson

put

shoice offices; which Army — tary Royall has occupied. Forrestal shifted to Pentagon after] others wers Semburtably settled, dn’t ask anyone to move ow} mm a Pho patience—" “condi: p atone Energy Co i - tioning of minds and attitudes” 2 Lior developments, but they'll] be checked with military before

is over.

Strict Bomb Soares

{be no information given on bomb!

| Nn stockpile. {turned loose

{Job. Bombs will never roll off as-|

{sembly lines like cars.

Johnson has served notice he'll] being made Public,

firs some Pentagon people. And) Bist admiral or Several 10 to a out|

a a almost

‘one a chance to argue me

}

bombers on West Coast. Oppose Buchanan PO UTILITY

! squaring away to fight Sen: are y nate confirmation of Thomas C. of Pennsylvania to Power

pub- re-election,

, thinks it may concession it gained. Adm. Louis Denfeld is in doghouse for talking too much Navy's new carrier-based

ve ROW" On Patronage

PATRONAGE PROBLEMS are ~ More important, Johnson causing administration trouble in| “pretty firm con {Congress. on. Air Force-Navy [crats are hot under collar over _fued, though he’ll “give some- \appointment of Paul Griffith, Re-/ out publican whe opposed Truman's! to. Defense Department. White House says he’s personal selection of Louis Johnson,!

Wil be his top. assistant.

of Rep. Francis E. Walter (D. Pa.) chairman of majority caus cus in House, to $10,000-a-year job In Information office of Army Department. Pennsylvanians say defeated GOP candidate, Roy James, also lit ‘Into Truman. during campaign

GOVERNMENT ATOMIC en-|

reparing reports on certain!

Pennsylvania Demo-|

stinger, ur of Republican opponent |.

Administratior must name Republicans to upcoming vacancies {on Federal Trade Commission and |

Jcent higher than the previous lands. |vear, and about equal to prewar The Ameriean delegates to th

i levels. A

THREE. The total output of toapprovea $1.5 billion arms pro-

This plot, if successful, woald o Bive the Soviet Union an unbroRomania

[United Nations Assembly were ken corridor

TWO. Steel output in the Mar- (briefed by Secretary of State/and Bulgaria to Albania on the shall Plan countries—except west-/ Dean Acheson yesterday on the Adriatic, ern Germany—has surpassed the stand they will take against the {Greece {pre-war highs of 1037, and is 24 expected Russian onslaught.

But this much was this week Bonn dr pr La pher Wal In 1947.

{making is still highly specializéd’

severing Tito from:

| Congress shortly will be takes Hyn ary : | oe decapitated the Lath-

electric power last year was up 65 gram for the Western European olic church in Hungary by doo

| ser cent over prewar years, and powers, hut military experts be-| ing Cardinal Mindazenty, | AIM . $5,787,000 - EEA R a

WESTERN NYY R

$458.611,000

party a monopoly in the interna-| Sg tional field. :

Sicast around the world in 43|thrown away by Commaniets 404 pathisrs,

lelst" Greek government are drift- €ans or ~The Greece, ent memoirs widely |Paris—g1 ftages of the war, now being

Publie Security, Constan- printed) Arms Ald Asked ister of Punlis “France's man of destiny.” It goes into effect upon ratifi-| {tin Rentis, has warned Tito that;

to create a Stalinist (Church, something like the §talinist Orthodox Chureh already achieved in Romania and Bul-

many. ‘Without actually drawing the conclusion, it points that 70,-

state for its income; according to dispatches from Budapest. |

“Phe Communists’ end atm is] Catholic

‘eaving the Communist

"prime Minister Chure)

ve Gen. De Gaulle

a terrific boost

A Change

Editorial Hailing Mayor

Ahan Che a Hn ; a sd. hy

Our Fair Cire

Brings Sudden Attack: -

Of ‘Newspaperitis’

Photo Showing Faaney Saving Money for Taxpayers feved Only on AS LE, Mrs ht mi dle

‘condition as “Ne

EVEN grammar must follow ithe Communist Party line in

Russia, it was learned today in Wash. 'condition is good photo, pref-i=— ington.

Language study must be besed | dialectical materialism, ac{cording to a. party spokesman quoted in a number of the Soviet “Literary Gazette.” Russian scholars have departed | from the true Marxist doctrine i lin IS. Hnguistics. says the spokes! man, and have fallen under the The ‘mas influence of bourgeois we ern thinking. They must — their ways, he adds ominously, : oo» r »

China

THE Chinese Communists do not want help from the United |

States Economic Co-Operation pape Administration China mission in}

i Therefore, they $4 million wo

the rehabilitation of North China. | more than f BCA cotton!

land flour in Tientsin.

}

That was the conclusion today! {of ECA ‘Tientsin regional director {James T. Ivy of Bisbee, Ariz., who |

[feturned to Shanghai after two

i !

{day had

months’ experience with the new Communist gine.

Australia: OUT to smash physician Jusist. ance to socialized Austialian labor government he shaped itself a big club. | The club is a drastic amendiment to the 1947 “free medicine” law. - Just passed by- the labor|controiled parliament, the amend iment compeis doctors to co-oper-|

ss »

ate in the medical scheme or pay

$150 fines.

THE government took over all privatay owned drug,

stores today ore Teepe tear nationalizing those businesses.

papers, especially editorials. Only known antidote to this

to extradition ‘erably + showing Mayor sav- papers en

ling taxpayers money. Mayor | | Aspect of Black 1 said he recovered from shock at! lex-GT's case se trigue sm {favorable editorial without anti- Bigger biack havi {dote. First words were, “this Bird is charged rks “than

can't last” It won't, 'pating In operated in France, Actually, Mayor's gagged UP Germany, Belgium. GI's ran ‘reaction to favorable press cOm- them, made thousands, sent

ment had some significance. Piay- mon ney home via postal money ing a lone political hand at City order, Ye it to buy homes or set Hall, his rugged, sometimes un- themselves up in business. Ons |compromising attitude has cost Hoosier bought filling ~ station {him political cronies. This ‘sharp-| ith money he made selling U, lened his sensitivity to press crit- B. cigarets, razor blades, candy {jeism, has caused much of May- I soap... to French, |or's occasional hostility to news. Gertians, Russians. It's’ ‘old story, rs. {Bird case gives it new, sinister

Mayor has felt press mis- | (twist, understood his intentions, mis- | interpreted ‘them. Major mis- 'Object to Aerials understanding has bee) ia LATEST VIEW on television sumption he would » here is dim one by some property gubernatorial arena In 1062, management firms which don’t Right now, he doesn't intend to van} television aerials atop roofs run for anything in 1952. of buildings they manage. Tens Mayor's issue of mock “faint. ants are complaliing about one ling” bulletin seemed to indicate firm now. but there is little they [tension between his office and can do. Firm objects to television | papers is disappearing. It was his Aerial as unsightly. Some apart way of saying “thanks” for {kind word.

Bird Issue Raised

ARMY'S TACTICS In returning

_isubject informally, but have not

{made policy. ugs. ~3 {Russell Bird of Mishawaka to Germany by direct seizure with- Issue Special Slips a {put benefit of extfadition or.con- * " |sultation with Indians authority ported L. 8. Ayres & Co. res {has raised series of legal ques[tions. One heading into United is whether civilians

i't have requested items.

(cial slips with an accusing { , tion, “You Didn't Have It!™

| One Indiana C belled Army contracts “peoRage.” co ioe

said he hoped somedpe- custo 3 fa issue . in courts. Hoosier nets fo 81 out,

{public officials intend to matter. One theory. is Army cid Legal Fight Looms a/as arbitrarily as Gestapo did\in| kidnaping German <pationals this country before war nd) spiriting them back to Hitler,