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A “SCRIPPS-MOWARD NEWSPAPER

ROY Ww. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY. W. MANZ Editor _ © Business Manager

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Moscow's ‘Pearl Harbor’

Wm American attention has been diverted by Comse mrnist-problems in Europe, the Reds have béén mak--ing hay in the Pacific. ; They have opened a front which extends all the ‘Way from Korea south to Australia and east to Hawaii, ~ From Red China they are sending supplies: to rebet-+ —— forces Burimar-sm-Trdo-Ching, wd agitator-agents into |- - Siam and Malaya. Communists hold strategic positions in the Indonesian “Republican” movement. : They are backing. |

in Japan. “In Australia, the Reds are attacking the ‘economy of “that country through a crippling coal strike. : Harry Bridges, the West Coast union leader, is direct-

in San Francisco.

using a-new technique. If it works, it will be extended to "the Philippines and Japan, it is understood.

= re EDWIN-€ HEINKE, assistant managing editor of The i Indianapolis Times, has made an on-the-spot investigation of the Hawaiian situation; and the first of four stories on - his findings is published today in The Times. He found that all of the islands’ workers are being “organized under one big union—the old IWW idea. This is the so-called “International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union,” “which has organized the ° shipping, sugar and pineapple workers, in order to eontrol Hawaii's

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"Under he direetion” of Mr. Bridges, this union has blockaded incoming and outgoing ocean commerce. A ship cannot load or ‘unload af at an ‘Hawaiian port without this =~ man‘soonsent, oo Communists dominate this union, > and ‘through the union they have worked their way into control of the Demo‘cratic Party organization in the islands. That's the new " Moscow pattern for conquest by infiltration — control of economy and politics by dominating unions and politics! organizations, : FURTHER T TO. Weaken American infiuenicé” in the islands, they are fomenting racial unrest. in the islands, "This is the dynamite they expect to transport to the Philippines and Japan—the “Asia for Asiatics” agitation used with such effect by the Japanese imperialists. “Just as the State Department #0 long regarded the Chinese Communists as “honest, agrarian reformers,” President Truman has treated the Hawaiian situation as —But he would know better, if he would review evidence which reflects ihe true situation, in the government's own official files, A congressional investigation, 8 th the powes of sub: pena, is urgently needed in Hawaii to bring this underground di “BYRACK Into Proper focus! NE Tait LE SAA An ANNAN HRT "

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“own back door, the problem can't be ignored: any longer. The facts Mr. Heinke presents, in the series beginning today, . show why such an inquiry is needed. -

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Police Progress

NE of the more important phases of developing a bet: ter police system in Indiana is the preliminary, basic training. of young men before they are put to work with a _ gun to enforce the laws. Graduation of 33 recruits from the State Police School at Indiana University this week after seven weeks of in-. "tensive training is a big step toward more efficiency in law enforcement. - It is a progressive move away from the old, hap-hazard procedure of building a police force from. the ranks of political patronage applicants. These 33 men will go to work equipped with pr actical “knowledge of the laws and modern methods of crime detection which police departments must have to cope with criminals. For too many years much of the police work in Indiana has been handled by men with little or no basic ~ training in “This highly specialized field. > When-police of the state's cities—and sheriff's offices | are selected from the special schools on sciéntific law enorcement’ instead of from the precinct registry of political |

control of the rising rate of crime.

~ The Left- Handers in Britain

MANUEL SHINWELL, Britain's secretary of war, told a-labor rally in Derbyshire that apart from a “few war mongers” among the American people no one wanted war. Our first reaction to that was that Emanuel must have been listening. to- Henry Wallace.

we know of who see war mongers under beds where no one else ‘can see them, All of the Americans we know want peace and plenty ' fe Mr, Shinwell “clakified his position: when. he went on to say that he wanted Britain on terms of friendliness with all countries “including that great country and people, the | Soviet Union.” We concluded from that that Emanuel didn't have to talk to Henny Wallace because he must be one of the British Wallae#@"™ 1f' hie were hot, he could have said kind words about the Soviets without kicking us in the" pants. | ~ = Such “cans have t the. seas to the 'British—Se¢ialists.

ople as Shinwell explain why so’ many Amerieir fingers crossed with extending hands across They can't help but

ano | Contracts Act of 1936, which gives the Secretary

the peasant revolt in the. Philippines, and labor disturbances |

ing a similar attack against Hawaii from. his headquarters

In Moscow's “Operation Hawaii!" the C ommuists dre |

Now that the ( Communists are digging | in right at our |

aim parties; indians will have made. tremendous strides. toward 3

‘Wallace and his Communist friends are the only people’

‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 — Spokesmen for

some big industries are complaining to Cob- |

gresd that the Truman administration is raising the wages of their workers: “by the backdoor route.” The mechanism. is the. Walsh. Healey Publie

“of Labor authority fo prescribe minimum wages’

to ‘be paid on. all government contracts of more °

than $10,000,

oo A week ago Secretary Maurice J. Tobin, over

industry, protests, set the minimum pay on government’ contrécts in steel manufacturing at $1.23 an hour in. the principal northern and midwestern producing areas. ' The new pate is $1.085 an hour in Alabama and other southern | states, and $1.19 in other areas.

Unrevised for Decade

IN 1039 the rates were set from 42 to 62% cents’ an hour, "were allowed to go unrevised during the decade of“The -C10-United for wage “floors.”

age workers recently asked {n announcing his action, |. Setgetary Tobin said it had no relation to ‘the } steel union's negotiations . with - big steel companies in New York for a general wage rise, insurance benefits and pensions. The Walsh-Healey mechanism was not much used during and right after the war, but now unions in more than a score of industries have filed requests for minimum rates for fio on government contracts, Both the National Association of Manufac- | turers and the U. 8. Chambér of Commerce are reported gefting set to ask Congress to amend the Walsh-Healey Act... One drastic suggestion would be to substitute for-the labor secretary's discretion the nationwide minimum wage established by Congress under the. Fair Labor Standards Aet. That's now 40 cents an hour, with efforts underway 30 Taise- this to- 65-or-75: cents.

Questionable ‘Side-Show’

ONE of. the critics of the Walsh-Healey Act is L..R. Boulware, vice president for employee relations of the General Electric Co. He calls Mr. Tobin’s activities “a. quiet and questionable sideshow” to thé “main tent” of current wage negotiations between unions and employers. Industry spokesmen argue that government work cannot be segregated. Once-a government. minimum goes into effect in a plant, they say if’ tends to become the standard for all the workers in that. plant, and then spreads through entire industries. In aircraft . industry hearings last week, industry spokesmen said 90-per cent of théir business comes from the government, and that: “While ofie part of the government; the ~national military-establishment, is attempting to reduce prices of alrcraft for-more economical’. national defense, another part is considering a new minimuri wage which may increase costs

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and prices of aircraft-—costs that will necessarily be passed on to the Spam, in this case case the government. 4

UPWARD

I wafched vou come to the hill today, Where the path is steep and dim, And your lifted eye¥ sought the mountain crags, And the blue sky's ancient rim.

Ah... I heard your heart as it murmured Tow, With & doubt that hurt and burned; I held ‘my breath as you stood so still—

So still—and you almost turned.

I heard your mind with its dreams of youth, Your mind, and I heard it say: . “Is the pathway always so steep and sheer? — "Is Tt upward , , . all the way?” Aw My soul then shouted in thunderous tones, With a truth life must defend: “Ah, yes, my son, always so steep— “And upward to the end!”

you hear my soul? - Did you feel my love? Jatever It Was, tOaRy, _ 1'saw you pause, and continue then, -. : 1 OR XOUE SRR oir "PAU L XK. MeAFEE, Ex Michigantown, ind. .

FOSTER S FOLLIES

drinks, leaves—a hick of a note.)

The shades of night were falling fast, His thoughts-—and funds—ran low But from that house he almost passed, There came a warming glow.

He stepped within; found food sublime; And drank a little beer; : Then left this note, “Had one grand ti

“Thank gosh you were not here!” * 0

~MY DESIRE"

Friend of man . “1 want To be, With understanding —aympathy If 1 thought that I-equid do psp - A bit of good . .. or help renew _ A friendship lost or ald some safl «To gain a height or treasured goal, I'd feel that I had gained <". . untold Wealth of treasure” .. hidden gold! : XE] 8 ab Sh N. DéeQuiney St.

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for military posts and Veterans Administration loans. ” LI J Weird Rulings UNCLE, SAM'S efforts to pay his employees

“letter of- the law sometimes: turns up weird rulings from the | For instance, daylight savings adds a payroll procedure because of

Genera! Accounting Office « horrible complication to federal rigid interpretation of reguiations, on when night of pay apply:

As a result, several hundred night employees of the Depart. ment of (Agriculture who check airplanes arriving from foreign ports to see that no harmful insects are imported, lose five hours

pay per ‘week because of the gobbledygook in Yihe subject summer or winter they have to take a pay cut. their full salary.

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——+—Iindianapolis Post Office

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00K +. By Peter Edson gp

WARHINGTON Aug 2 —When-Housing- Expediter Tighe Po “Woods announced that he ‘had invested his own money in development of a low-cost House, he got a call from the town's

“Tighe. T'm glad to see you building a “Now maybe you as a government official will get a little insight into the problems of the private

Cortright's-prophecy pas been correct in ‘mare ways than one. Woods is having a tough time ironing out the details of construc-

been in getting Federal. Housing Administration finance approval, | Woods is also having trouble getting Army okay on the design |

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OUR TOWN . . By Antor

IN A WORLD of confused emotions and a cold war raging on all fronts, the only. gay note to turn up lately is the discovery that Howard {Bill Foltz has blue blood coursing through his veins, Believe, it oF not, the family name is really Van Foltz, Seems that gregl-grand-father dropped the ariste- ~ cratic penultimate. when he came to Indianapolis. And, from the looks: of - things; his descendants, left ‘it lie —~where it fell that day never to pick it up again. - Strictly speaking - Great-

He stopped just short of that; which is to say that he abbreviated the Von to V. At any rate, back in the Fifties, the sign on the wagon shop at the southeast corner of Pennsylvania and - Market Sts. read “Frederick V. Foltz.” —ently, nobody at the ‘time had thé intellectual curiosity to ask what the V. stood for. And that's why it's up to me after all these years

Post Office Site ! GREAT-GRANDFATHER FOLTZ ran his wagon shop on that corner until some time around 1856 when the United States Government picked up his property for the site of the —Ep—untit—then; the; post office had condudted its business in leased BUITAINgs, More or 1e¥s Th the Fame cautious manner that the State of Indiana does today. And probably for the same reason- ~namely, that: nobody, not even Democrats, can be abe solutely sure of the permanency. of temporal institutions.”

dent Pierce's Postmaster General.

of a property-—nive location (even if it was a little outside the center of town); level as a bilHard table, and just the kind of solidly packe earth to accommodate the weight of a ont: mental building. b © On May 2, 1857, the Government tered a contract for the erection of a post ofice. Edwin - May was appointed superintendent of construction and inside of a OBE had his hands full. So much so that on June 20, it was announced that the work refused to proceed with the excavations. “All sorts of wild rumors - were afloat, some even to the effect that the contract might have to be abandoned.

grandfather Foltz didn't really drop the Van.

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“gpplatnded the -decistor of Prete The site of . Frederick. V.. Koltz's wagon. shop sas :a-peaoh--

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NT Tamed for i

‘ The trouble right from the start concerned a pocket of quicksand at the northwest corner of the property. the behavior of which was so. fitful that nobody around here could handle it— this in spite of the fact that no building operaation in Indianapolis ever had more Kibitzers on the sidelines. Indeed, nobody entertained l.any hope of ever seeing a post .office on the site -of Great- -grandfather Foltz’s wagon shop when, one day in the latter part of 1858, Francis Costigan showed up and-announced-he-was going to tackle the job of taming the quicksand. He said he had just “returned from Washington and, to provs it, produced a document which turned out to be a con«

tract for the erection of the Indianapolis post

office: To his friends, Mf Costigan confided that he was tickled pink to learn that his repu"tation as ‘an architect and builder had preceded him to Washington.

Knew His Business

WHAT Mr. Costigan meant, of course, was .

that he had had a hand in designing the Bates House, the School for the Blind, the Insane 'Asy-

lum_and the first Odd Fellows" Building in In=—{—

dianapolis, to say nothing of his magnificent

work in Madison including the lovely homes for

the Lanier and Shrewbury families. Well, it appears that Mr. Costigan kne businéss, That he disposed of the which had everybody bluffed aroun denced by the apparent structura _.the building ‘now. Known .as._ tional Bank. Except for

oundness of

a8 changed a generks. ust the way it did - Geiprered the keys to the

ation or se ago, the day Mr. Costi

And lest forget: Bill Foitz's great-grand-father dide’t have an. inkling of thé quicksand pocket when he Sold’ ‘his property to the Gov- | ) :

the rumors were rooted in fact” for three months later. a.new. contraet-. & entered into, this time with 4 Mr. Agnew of _ 2 Baltimore Who dssured inquisitive reporters that he was going to-do-al-he-eould-to-push-the-work Ao. completion. less than a year later, however, - the newspapers announced that the sub-contrac<

pe | tor for-stonework had washed his- -hands-of-the —

| whole affair. Fact is he chucked a legal instru- |. ment supposed to be impenetrable, leaving the

- erection of a post office abandoned for a second time:

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High Tension Life

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 We’ ve: been hearing Tok Vets t that many ‘of our top business: executives kill themselves with the strain af overwork. Perhaps most of us have felt this. situation was just an unfortunate accompaniment of modern, living about | ‘Which nothihg could be done. I But now comes a suggestion that: this tense pace is neither nor necessary; magazine. -Howard Whitman quotes. psychiatrists as declaring - it"is an abnormal, neurotic drive rather than brains, energy. or ambition that leads a man to punish himself with work and’ “succeed himaell | Business leaders can amass plenty of. evidence to support. their contention that their problems and burdens have mounted to. dizzy heights in the last twa decades, and that their own tensions have risen in proportion." The doctors, however, decline ° to ‘admit "that most executives have to work as hard as. they

Work Dominates Lives

THEY insist that the men whi ‘Tet work AOMIRATE “thel¥ | lives are out of balance In some way. They say some. havea’! distorted idea of. life that allows no place for fun and rest. Some men simply don't know how to use free time and tie themselves to work to avoid boredom. Others are ridden by tears ol failure, and competing executives, of insecurity they | often can't define. So these high vol hard on making a living that they orget. all a life. They deprive their families of badly ede companionship and’ ‘guardianshij.: They lose the matchless riches of leisure,

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tude was anything but por Be against thé police since May, 1049, when. 1 was. arrested for the first time in my - life. The case was dismissed in court. How-

ever, my resentment toward the Police Depart-

ment: had. grown. Readily and stronger from that time on. Recently T was rearrested and was-my-complaint.-

aftermath-of-to the Board of Public Safety. Mayor Feeney, Chief Rouls, Mr. Leroy Keach

face

my charges, I came out of that meeting com: pletely changed as to my attitude to the

“of a very high order, { that I was in a hostile a

the . same about. everyone present at meeting.

3 |. Police officers 'otibn are attacked fof dis. playing too much “zeal” It being erally true that human nature tends toward guestion-

able policies more so under the cloak 6f secrecy

“1 than under the light of publicity, If is a good thing that the press Is Around at/thess board

meetings. But, having attended a “closed door" session, I can assure all that their interests are being protected at all times. 7 Having been in the “lock-dp” twice, once in

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Police Department I can honestly state that . I don't believe I was ever before Sxposeg. to. or

"and Mr. Howard Fieber were assembled to hear

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1947, T noted a complete chayige the second time .

in the handling of prisoneys. 80, in passing, instead of knocking the police, why not boost the Indignapolis Police Department? It will have a better effect on the morale of both the Polley officers and the public. ® @

‘Help People Help. Themselves’ By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, City des . Many people- believe the social service system as it is conducted today is -a hindrance rather than a service. All the assistance some agencies sy. they give may be described as “too little. and t¥o late.” The kind of assistance these ‘agéncies give has- proven ineffective in

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-ing thé burden of taxpayers. Over and above “the high cost of everything and, Increasing ™ “tax . citizens are continually asked to donate =95 “ipee-will / We do not need hard-headed businessmen at the head of ‘these organizations who have. made 80 much money they say they can't pay the "income tax. We do not want men who “out of some kind of a er. who need their ego inflated ‘hearted Charley at other people's d we do not need to donate money, too easily. lost, stolen or just goes he hill or under "the bridge. Just as fig as the welfare of the people is ‘thought = a in-terms-of money rather than in terms of good deeds, we will always have the poor and - needy, We need more men. and women who have

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“people of their community, showing the way

Niving.” We need more good people in each _ community, working for the same general printiple. We néed more people who are willing to give their services or Honey directly for a i good deed ‘which can never be stolen.

“What Others Say.

SELFISH interésts are urging us to commit a great- blunder. They are now urging drastie Luts in government expenditures-—cuts which would fall hardest on those expenditures which are most important to our domestic economy. —- President Truman. : * 0 «IF ‘it is possible to apply atomic es to peacetinie purpose we shall have more vacant time. Atomic energy. therefore, confronts mankind with this dreadful choice: If we. have war we shall be blown to bits; if we have peace we | _ Shall be bored to death. —Chancellor Ri bert M.

TR . THEY (the North Fade Treaty and the ‘arms-for-Eutrope— Program) are not separate is~Sues, but-inseparable; ~The question Tow 18% “Are we tn indorse a 20- -year arms plan?’—8en. “Kenneth Wherry TRY oF a 2

hasn’t got ‘the money to pay for them. The government is no different from any individual.— [ Sen. Robert A. Taft (R.) of Ohio, advocating | a personel cut in government bureaus,

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