Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1949 — Page 22
'Diny Busine”
THIS country needs to do some hard thinking about what Justice Holmes called the “dirty business” of wiretapping. Under present laws and court decisions, the absurd ~“ pituation seems to be that Federal law-enforcement officers can tap wires, if they first get authority from the Attorney General, but can't use information thus obtaiped as evidence in federal court trials; New York police can tap wires, if they get authority from state judges, and information thus obtained..can be used as evidence in staté courts: : But private individuals can tap wires, without authority from anyone, and unless they get caught di¥ulging information thus obtained to/other persons'it apparently is impossible for federal law to punish them. . sw » , "nn {THE Senate Judiciary Committee has just struck from the administration’s bill to tighten the anti-spy laws a section which would have made information obtained by wiretapping admissible as evidence in federal courts. This was done, with Atty. Gen. Clark's approval, in the hope of speed- : ig congromonal action on other, less controversial parts _ of the bill “5 But Mr. Clark, like his recent predecessors, believes that wiretapping and use of evidence thus obtained in federal trials is essential to national Speuriey. So the wiretapping section of the administration bill probably will be revived later, as separate legislation. If it is it should have careful and critical study. Meanwhile, the U. 8. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of two New York men who contend that their conviction in state courts on a charge of attempted bribery case will determine whether New York police can continue 180 ub In Stats ousts evidetigo of 2.1908 Now barrad from
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2" » oe WIRETAPPING favolves such obvious dangers to the ge ae wi anybody should be permitted to engage in the “dirty business.” If its use as a means of ca! spies, saboteurs and other public enemies can be justified at all, strict rules - safeguard for innocent persons should be provided. Wiretapping by the FBI, for instance, should be heb
And wiretapping by private individuals for any purpose ; Shotld be absolutely prohibited by, an amendment closing
CHINAS Communi: and homage have go proclaimed that the North Atlantic Pact is aimed at 2 provoking 4 new world war, and they warn that in such event they'll fight beside “China's ally, the Soviet Union.” : That is nothing uprising in that its the Tumilias
“with it.”
In U. s. Waters |
- Russion Craft Reported ~ Operating All Over World
WASHINGTON, Apr. 7-— Russian sub’ marines are operating all over the world, it was
learned today. They are larly active in the Pacific.
particu ’ At the moment, the bulk of their Pacific under
sea fleet seems to be concentrated in the South China Sea, between the Philippines and French Indo-China.
Last Mar. 26, Secretary John L. Sullivan
told a Senate committe that foreign subma~
rines belonging “to no country ‘west of the Iron Curtain” had been found snooping in American waters. The Navy later said they had been seen in the Aleutians, near Hawalt and off the U. 8. West coast, Mr. Sullivan's statement was widely . chitttized. As a result, he issued orders against any further discussion, even though, it was learned on good authority, there is more evidence today than there was a year ago. Competent sources reveal that Navy dispatches “are full of Russian submaring reports every day. n
Delivering Arms
RUSSIAN undersea activity in support of Indo-Chinese Communists is no longer doubted, one well-informed military source said. Red navy submarines, apparently operating out of Manchuria and Vladivostok, where the Soviets reportedly have 200 based, are believed to have delivered arms and ammunition, This source said the French navy knows where most of the sipplies are landed. However, the area is in rebel hands. News dispatches from the’ Philippines tor the last two months have xeported the presence of one or more alien submarines, presumably Russian, operating off the coast of eastern Luzon. These reports say they are landing guns, ammunition and supplies for the Hultabulahaps, a group of revolutionists and andits.
The Philippines navy apparently takes the.l:
reports seriously enough to strengthen its patrols off Luzon. The Manila bulletin last week quoted a woman who had escaped from the Huks as saying she had seen guns, medicine and clothing supplies which she was told had come from a Russian submarine.
Landings Reported
THE GOVERNOR of .Quezon province has made a formal report to Manila, quoting fishermen and coastal residents who claim to have seen several landings. Informed sources here say there ‘is ng the United States Navy can do about s submarine activity “except try to keep Both countries have
~ However, it was pointed oil our r submarines
make an effort at concealment. The Russian craft are said to remain except at night. If a U. 8. Navy ship encounter
a Russian subm bmarine on the open iseas it prob-
ably would extend a military salute and continue on ita course, It alse a
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‘Barton Rees Pogue PROBLEMS OF A POET
The married woman must be careful how she writes of love or her acquaintances will eye her
. Queerly, wondering if she is unhappy. But even
& happy woman clin be & dreamer. She may ‘want to write about theslove she once yearned for, back in painful youth. She may want te write about a love she sees some one else enjoying—or sighing and pining for. A poet writing in the first person is not necessarily referring to herself. I know a woman who had a poem published, which caused half the town to stare at her. Nobody said anything, but actions
- spoke! However, actions do not always speak 80 clearly as words, and shé has never Been
with Chissig Kai-shek in 1047 and lived unobtrusively ‘Hong Kong until a mystery ship—some ou Jed for him last New Year's and smuggled him off hol Nor Ci wie he wa arly med by
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Nobody’ s Safe in Russia i
have led Anna Louise Strong, born in a ‘small Nebraska ; "town and educated in America, to become a zealous friend _ and defender of communist as. practiced in the Soviet Union.
in Russia, writing glowing terms about the glories of the workers’ paradise and seeking to refute criticism of the Red regime. Her recent book, "I saw New Poland, 44 was an apology for Soviet imperialism. Recently the Daily Worker, the Communist Party's New ‘York organ, edncluded serial publication of her story, “To-
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1S mental quirk beyond sotmal understanding must
Most of the time since 1021 Miss Strong has lived
_ morrow’s China,” an enthusiastic appraisal of the Chinese |
able to figure out just what it was that her friends saw, or thought they saw, in that poem.
“Lots of people won't believe this, but some times
& woman can admire another woman with sufficient intensity to cause her to pen a true love lyric to this cherished member of her own sex. | «=MILDRED M. SHARTLE, Danville.
HISTORY IN MAKING
WASHINGTON, Apr. 7--The impression is
expe : say that they have never before been involved
Molotov arrived in Paris for the first Marb shall Plan talk with a staff of 122 assistants. This in itself “seemed to indicate that the Boviets had decided for a time at least to play ball, If he were there merely to repeat the fami Russian “no,” he would hardly have bothered to bring so many helpers. At the first. closed session the foreign ministers of western Europe sat around the table eagerly waiting to learn the Soviet viewpoint. Molotov was one of the first speakers. V'hile — he spoke with the he indicated clearly that his government would participate in the Marshall Plan. Then came time for a brief recess. At this point a Soviet courier handed Molotov a sealed envelope. © He quickly glanced at the contents and, before the conferees could leave the table, requested that the recess be not one hour but
three hotirs.
By Marquis Childs | Pact Seen as ‘Bridge to Future’
caution,
At the next session following the recess, Molotov made a speech in which he took a line almost exactly the opposite the one he hadtaken before. His government, he said, would oppose the Marshall Plan. Bevin believes that the note brought by the courier contained an order from Moscow to reverse the position previously taken.
Feared Marshall Plan WHY? From then on the answers are speculative, The best guess is that the Kremlin feared that if the satellites were once drawn into the western orbit with the benefits of Marshall Plan aid, they could never be kept in subjection to Moscow. : But if the Russians had come in, It 1s most unlikely that Congress would have approved Marshall Plan aid. From within, the Soviet could have carried out continuous sabotage that would have guaranteed a breakdown of the whole plan. ‘That is the error which Soviet hostility has compounded over and over again. The Com-munist-led strikes in France last fall made clear to the French people that the Communist leadership would go te any lengths to undermine western rehabilitation. They would even
flood the coal mines and destroy .one. of |
France's chief assets. - Phe trial of Cardinal Mindssenty in Hungary had far-reaching repercussions that helped to cement opinion. Take Canada as an example: There the government had feared opposition from the French Canadians.
Supported Pact
YET in the House of Commons at Ottawa almost every French Canadian supported the pact and in speeches referred to the Catholic persecution. On the final ballot only two votes
-were cast in opposition-to 149 for the pact. It is against this background the angry protest out of Moscow must be taken. Behind that howl of rage there must be the realization that it could have been otherwise. Soviet policy since the war has brought on the very thing the Kremlin professes to fear most. That is one of those ironies that make history- so
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that many of ‘the AVC. i school under the G. I. Bill of Righ them in the gimme class you mention. A small percentage of these men are cripples and be helped. However, many healthy men who should be able to Jet by on . their own. A few of these men will derfve benefit from this schooling . furnished them while attending school. Mr. Bennett says that the government is not
servation and tables of life insurance companies that few of these men will ever live to be 65 and a very few will live 10 years after reaching
age. As Ns sand of more pay tor wd Gog gressmen, he serves up the same ol dish cold hash that more pay means better men. think it can be truly stated that there has been; no change for the better since received the increase in salary and pension. I agree that the AVC is a representative group in that it represents a small group of veterans of the second World War and their interésta, 1 fail to Ses Where It goes much further To the lady who wrote the article a few ago which stated that Social Security and Age Survivors’ Insurance provided for aged veterans: T would like to inform-her that .. the a amount received under curity is about $18 per month and the maximum amount that a man and wife can receive under . Social Security is $85 per month. Can you live on this amount? ia
‘Opposes Marshall Plan’ By Charles A. Hubbard, Martinsville, Ind.’
America is asked to pay a tax to restore competition with the pauper labor of bankrupt Great Britain and the bankrupt labor of the nations in Western Europe. This is exactly what the Marshall Plan proposes. Does it make sense? The proposed tax of $5.5 billion will coms out of your pocket, reduce your purchasing power and your standard of living. Xr pauper labor competition is restored as proposed in “World Markets,” American worke ers will Tose their jobs, factories will close, living standards will be reduced, a depression with all the trimmings will surely follow, Such legislation will do America more harm ten all the un-American activities of the Com. munist Party. If you oppose such un-American activities, write to your Co! to vote against more money for the Marshal] Pies Plan,
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- By Nina Kramer, 971 Woodruff Place Eo
Yanvso gind that Sally Someshs Brought up the matter of those coin boxes on the city buses, They certainly are a nuisance with their tiny slots. I suppose it was a few cents cheaper per box to get’ the slots made as small as possible and as inconvenient as possible for ih pas sengers; but the passengers go hang do us any good to complain about them-—we're pro stuck with them. .
What Others Say— 1
ting a cetime adjustment. “The thing a peas ‘scaring us is that we haven't had the n that we have been waiting Yor. We ‘feel it is long overdue.—A. D. H. Kaplan, Brookings Institution Seohsmist, .
IT IS not only the fate of China that quivers in suspense; the future of all Asis hangs on the “drive for
quest and utter stubjugation.—George Creel, head of Committee on Public Information, World War 1. ® ¢ 9
A COMPOSER'S work must be like a baby to him. / Giving it to a singer must be like leaving
“it with & sitter; —Lisa Kirk, Broadway singing
star.
UNION CONTRACTS ..... By Fred W. Perkins Workers’ Security
WASHINGTON, Apr. 7—June and July will be the important months this year in contract negotiations between labor unions, and big industries. They are négotiations that usually affect the national trend, and as they get underway union demands for pension or insurance plans are expected to overshadow wage
The probability that pay rises will play second fiddle to pension-insurance demands’ is based on two facts: unions in general, and particularly in ‘the CIO, are showing more enthusiasm for what they call social security for workers, to be financed by employers; (2) The slow but steady fall in | , the official cost-of-living figures raises a psychological as well | as practical bgrrier against demands for higher wages.
Security Demands |
WALTER REUTHER, president of the CIO United Automobile Workers, has announced that demands on Ford-—its contract expires July 15, talks start about May 15-—will Place
social security ahead of wages.
The same is expected with Chrysler, which has a coBtract running to July 31 of next year, but is subject to reopening after June 15 this year on economic matters, including pensions
as well as wages.
General Motors, the other member of thé three”
July 10 in Milwaukee,
Pensions and insurance are expected to be taken up also with U, 8. Steel Corp. and other big concerns of that industry by the United Steel Workers, which is headed by Pap Murray,
president of the CIO.
Most of the steel contracts run to Apr. 30, 1950, but may
‘be reo for wages on July 16 this year
notice, Wages are generally regarded as including economie - matters such as pensions or company-furnished insurance. A strong demand by the steel union for these items is forecast. - In neither the steel nor automobile industry is there much | ® apprehension of strikes in the immediate future. The companies have big demands for their products and are making money, and the men are drawing record wages which they don't want
interrupted.
More Welfare Funds
JOHN L. LEWIS’ negotiations with bituminous coal operators also are expected to place in the forefront a demand for. an increase in or perhaps a doubling of the 20-cents-a-ton tax which the United Mine Workers union collects from the com‘panies for its welfare fund. This fund is now reported running receipts am Sependitum wry
3 the 704, %.far as current contracts, in both of his
has a two-year contract running to May 29, 1850, but “if Ford agrees to install a pension plan that fact is likely to “ be called to GM's attention without waiting for "subject may be aired in the Auto Workers’ convention opening
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WORK FOR PEACE . . . By William Philip Simms '
World's Eyes on U. S.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 7—Now that the signing of the epochal North Atlantic Defense Pact has become history, the next job of statesmen, diplomats and soldiers will be to get together on how to implement it and so make it effective. More than ever before, therefore, the eyes of the world will. be on Washington. Not until it has been ratified by its seven original sponsors—the United States, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg-~will it enter into force. And though six of these nations are expected te act without much delay, some of the foreign ministers gathered here. are known to be nervous over the pact's passage through 8. Senate. Some of them remember what happened to President Wile son's proposal, along with Britain, to stand by France in case of aggression after World War I, to the treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations—all milder, by far, than the present
Canada, Britain,
No one believes the pact will fail of final ratification but undue delay on the part of vital signatories might play heavily fiito the hands of the Soviet Union.
World's Largest Army
the Russian politburo now have, ready and
waiting, more t \an five million heavily armed troops. It is the world's largest army. Save perhaps for the atomic bomb, it is probably also the best armed. Few military experts; believe it could be ‘stopped short of the Rhine, if there, if this Red force received. a sudden order to march this spring or summer, Most of them believe it might quickly overrun all Western E incl poorly equipped Spain. What ding discourage Moscow, in the opinion of these: same experts, is the conviction that the Atlantic Pact is more than a bluff; that it means business; that its “signatories are really united in their determination to fight, one for all and all for one, to the last ditch in the event of aggression. And to convic
be prompt and complete.
cannot : It laéks the money with which to buy equipment—even if thaf were available elsewhere than in the United States, which it
fen't. And it lacks the industries and raw materials to manus . needed weapons. er Cause for Attack a
China's con~
General Electric, Westinghouse, International Harv s i ‘What all of them apparently do want, however, is prompt -pillar Tractor, several big aircraft compapies and numerous | and sufficient aid from the United States to enable them to concerns in. glass, textile and other manufacturing. © 4-well every foot of their terrain, if they mubt, as dearly as poss " ~/ William Green, AFL, president, in an interview with United | sible. Some of the countries have barely enough equipment, if States News & World Report, was asked if it is “the policy | that, to cops with Moscow-directed firth columns already of AFL unions to sak for increases ” He replied, i : . “Well, the cost of living is ” : : profits there could be reductions in the wages down.”