Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1949 — Page 25

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—— regarded as success; Barkiey-and- vs : XPOFE “several Cabinet officers Will at-| os-8-million, Kentucky $i4 mil~toririsnt Hive Ted many Britons for British exports.

/ Indiana Democratic Editorial Association outing at French Lick next week-end with some vigorous discussion of federal patronage. : . for somebody to steal the editorial

aroused signs of passion could have vital on the state 39 4 Rong the chances of Public Counselor whether the wishes of members istrict judge nod.. from . “a = = | CArry. selection of a MR. McHALE and Mr, Hayjudge who will serve only the maker currently are recognized of the as holding the whip hand on state. ' ‘ federal pattonage appotntments "There may also be so of this kind. Should a candi Lior Bop By Wr * date for appointment get the apcommittee, made up of chairmen Proval of a majority of the state

committee, would that tie Mr. Haymaker's and Mr. McHale's hands? Presumably it would, since the state committee elects them both. It would seem natural that these two gentlemen would discourage this sort of thing. Yet,

cts, get involved at all. If a policy - is worked out, it might make quite a difference In two ways. First, it could make a difference in the effectiveness of National Committeeman Frank

in the case of Mr. Steckler they appear to have encouraged it. the go sigh from a majority of the Congressional districts represented on the state committee as well as from the top brass, © It is well known in Democrat circles that Mr. McHale at least

ler so it's too jate for him to. Then the question arises about whether all members of the state committee should have their beaks in the district court. appointmént. The first, second, third and fourth Congressional districts and most. of the fifth lie outside the jurisdiction of

Indiana Federal They have a federal court and judge of their own, = ll THAT LEAVES only six Congressional districts directly concerned with the southern judge appointment.. Of these at least three have judge candidates of their own other than Mr. Steck.

state committee support. is a good deal less impressive than it ‘would be if you count in his

support from both northern and p

southern Indiana members of the state committee.

It Mr, McHale and Mr. Hay-

“maker &re calléd upon to arbitrate the dispute over the relative importance of various district indorsements, their. position will not be enviable, Since no special state committee meeting is likely to be. called to discuss federal patronage, the customary one at

like a natural place for it to break out. » . . - BEFORE doing much worrying about French Lick, Democrat chiefs will ‘be watching de-

velopments at next week's meeting of the party's national

way for active Indiana’ participation in the national committee session, called to elect a successor to Chairman Howard McGrath, Mr. McHale has the assignment at this meeting of seeing

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order, that only honest-to-Democrats and no . Dixlecrats slip into’ the affair. Unfortunately it, was discovered. that Mr. McHale's own credentials and those of Mrs. Ralston were somewhat out of order. yy, W nonexistent. The : national committee files failed to show that either of ths Hoosiers ever had been accredited to the national committee by The error, obviously, was at national headquarters, Mr. McHale and Mrs. Ralston cer-

- tainly had their credentials in

order at the time of the national convention last year or they couldn't have taken part. State committee officials quickly produced duplicate credentials. . "It epuld have been awkward for Mr, McHale had the situation remained undiscovered until he undertook to keep all “Democrats” whose.credentials were not in order out of the national meeting.

the French Lick outing seems that all credentials are in GOV. SCHRICKER this week

f efficiency step laying down the law on state employees’ breakfasts, He told

department heads the help has

to cut out eating breakfast on state time, ‘If they don't eat be fore they get to work, the Governor said, let 'em wait until their lunch hour, : He also pointed out that he took a dim view of state employees using using state cars for anything but state business. While that seems natural enough, he failed to mention whether any of them had been accused of using state cars for personal purposes. . Z All this appears to have left an impression that statehouse employees spend much of their time at the lunch counter in the basement or buzzing about in state owned automobiles.

Every state department has a few powder room jobs. Many so-called business organizations have them too, in which persons are hired for something other

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up for the few minutes lost in , such pursuits. Gov. Schricker probably didn’t intend to leave the impression that most of the statehouse help is a bunch of loafers. But of his

besides serving

Although cracking the . looks mighty efficient at -first blush, it just doesn’t look like good politics, somehow,

Washington Calling— .

Influence Probe May

Involve 4th. General; Not Linked With Hunt

Army, Which Pays His Salary, Is Aching To Retire Vaughan but Fears Truman By the Washington Stal of The Scripps-Howard Newspapers | WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—A fourth general may be involved before influence probe ends. His name hasn't been mentioned so far. He had no dealings with James V. Hunt and doesn’t appear in famous diary. Case, if it breaks, may be more like Benny Meyers affair. Defense Department sources say they have no conclusive proof _on this suspect so far, Hope Senate Committee will turn up some.

~ » » ~ - i VAUGHAN department: Army, which pays his salary, is aching | to retire him. 3 Secretary Gray and Defense Secretary Johnson haven't dared ap-| proach President in present Truman mood. He said at one press

conference they had no authority] a te er a i to move against Vaughan. formafion is he’ll have nothing

yy y to do with Chiang Kai-shek. In lower ranks, there's a lot of a muttering. Reaction among young, Pact talks among Chiang an

officers is it's “hell of a note” leaders in Philippines and Korea

they have to be represented at White House by Vaughan. : Feeling is equally strong among party men not connected with the military. Insiders say that more than year ago efforts,

aren't regarded seriously here— the three countries are too weak. We're convinced Chinese Communist leaders are deep -dyed Stalinists, not just agrarian reformers, but hope they won't be able to run China successfully.

: o *. 4 BIG FOUR foreign ministers’

‘were made to convince Truman he should dismiss Vaughan because of his blundering. Tru-/constantly. Some top people here man’s thin-lipped mouth tight-/charge Chiang is hoping to ride ened. He said nothing, showed back to power on crest of World| resentment. War III between U. Sand Russia. | will say daily

Republicans x = = Vaughan should be fired; but : secretly hope Truman will keep Seeks Signatures T him. They'll hammer him all REP. JOHN C. DAVIES, freshthrough next year’s campaign man New Yorker who is trying if he's still around. to get the $613,800,000 military * = =» construction bill onto the floot

Farm Plan Made Issue for vote by discharge petition,

“1G NS INDICATE Brannan [ich Flerss noves pargh in ’ lan will be Democrats’ big gna + farm pi to- get the other 93 names he

. Secretary Bran-|, gq pes talking about defense-

We'd like to see South China war lords harass Red government

regional conferences... £05. ‘San Services Committee, this bill has!

Alaska. Davies is circulating to his colleagues a breakdown “of funds for states. It includes for Ala-

ject will be “land, water and| 3} jobs.” Meeting will be modeled) after Midwest farm conference at Des Moines, which Democrats

tend. {lion, New Mexico $20.7 million,

wa |New York $5.2 million, Ohio $4.6 . million, Pennsylvania $5.8 million, Rayburn Can't Win MEANWHILE, Speaker Sam) "a a

Rayburn seems to be setting rec Ewing Explains Defeat

ord for leading from behind. ~ This weéek, after he spoke for, FEDERAL SECURITY - ADthe full’$1,450,000,000 mifitary as- MINISTRATOR Oscar R.. Ewing sistance program, House cut it admits that American Medical in half. - | Assn.’s dislike of Few weeks ago, he spoke for ‘him for indorstrial run for Brannan plan, and ing President's House turned him down. { Last spring he made belated effort to compromise Taft-Hart-ley. fight ~and best he ‘got -was: .vote to send whole thing back to committee, where it’s been ‘ever since, Fact is that although Rayburn is still Truman's titular leader in House, he has lost | control to his old and close friends among conservative southern Democrats and Dixieerats, who now .vote with Re..publicans. Some Truman supporters blame, . , ~Rayburn's -plight--on--his -faflure re to mit mises. Hed to discipline Dixiecrats after last ji. Yea ay 3 at Sampaign year's election. a y ere, ”

southerners’ dis-

gro rights, contributed to defeat of Reorganization Plan No. 1, which would

Mr. Ewing |thinks some of those who voted {against welfare department ac-| - Pressure for® devaluation ap-| private companies to raise capital lend its support to the United]

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rank. . But

» {Republican national. committeemeeting in U, 8. this fall. may de-| : pend on Austrian treaty. If it | man from - Missouri and mere ‘can be whipped into shape ‘to assure progress, meeting may be held, : (son.

," » Tito to Get Help © ono. "TITO IS in. Granting of ‘Fertile Crescent’

mittee, may be. first tosgo in shakeup of party headquarters

» by new chairman, Guy Gabriel-

license for Pittsburgh firm fo ex-f gryyvAy of so-called “fertile|

port $3 million steel ‘plant to| 0500" believed to be original

Yugoslavia is only first step. inihome of civilization—may result)

program to bolster a buffer state s,m assassinations of President against Russians. . . State Department insiders long have referred to Tito's break © with Ceminform as “bright, pivotal development” In: cold war. So Secretary. Acheson has launched U. 8. on bold venture which may give ' Tito $100 million In loans from U. 8.-and world bank in next two years. Tito asked . for |” - $250 million. - Some Congre#smen still suspect clever come-on game, engineered by Moscow. But Truman, who personally = ordered first step! (steel plant), is satisfied break!

El-Barazi of Syria. : Their liquidation was engineered by Hashimite dynasty which now ruies Trans-Jordan and Iraq, dnd which hopes to add Syria to its domain. . King Farouk of Egypt and King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia are op-

posed. Zayim had French support. King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan, head of Hashimites, is British protege. He was on his way to London to confer with Bevin when assassinations took place.

between Tito and Stalin is designs on the rich lands of the, genuine, fertile crescent, and have pro-|. "8" | claimed themselves ‘protectors Situation in Orient fof “Islam.” So. the Palestine war | HERE'S STATE Department May break out again. view on Orient in nutshell: ". 8

It's not a China problem now, UNIFICATION -NOTE: Air but a Far East problem, Force has found use at last for Nationalism is the one force| ome of the Navy's carriers. It's fin the Far East -countfes using flight deck of 27,000-ton which holds promise of turning Boxer as field for its back communism. Nehru of] West Coast football team, the India is big wheel, and U. 8. in-| Zoomles, : :

$130:000,000>< for-ondefenses. Ae

land Texas, $19.6 million. |

health plan, plus,

” ” ” | BARAK MATTINGLY, former |

recently coungel to GOP com-|

Husni Zayim and Premier Mohsen |

Hashimites believe Israel has

World Report—

British Gloomy W

Sterling Collapse Held World Fuse

"(Compiled From the Wire Services)

Sept. 6-13, to_find any quick way,

{out of Britain's economic crisis in| *

was being freely . predicted Washington today. And the fact that

limprovements may stem from the 22

talks is doing little to ease British gloom. British officials at Washington cited as appropriate the famous wisecrack of the late Lord Keynes, their distinguished

economist: “In the long run, we .

will all be dead.”

At the current rate of spending, ;

they sald, Britain's dollar re-

(He's reserve officer, op. active duty.) - But Army | ources will .be exhausted within §

“The problem is, our dollars are %

running out. - The simplest solu-

| tion would be to put more in, But| 4

Congress would turn. thumbs

|down.” That is the way one Eng-

lishman here summed it up. , Hopes Dashed Britain's hope depends upon

American willingness to. treat the dollar crisis as an outgrowth of| the post-war world political situ-| ation and hence calling for a po- f

litical solution rather than an

“long run”:

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ANEAN. SFA.

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ith Snyder at Helm of Money Parley Since He Appears Committed to Devaluing Pound

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Failure of the British-Ameri:| can-Canadian talks, scheduled on:

An iron ring was being cast by the Russians to safeguard the

economic one, according to diplo-| fron Curtaiii against Western Europe, Allied sources heard this | week. V-2 rocket bases, covering possible beachheads, were being built at Wolgast (1), Guben @. Erfurt (3) Pilsen (4), Stettin (5) an

matic sources. But these hopes were dashed with the announcement tnat Treasury Secretary John Snyder would be chairman of the talks.

| Hradec Kralove (6). The beac

heads covered were the islands of | Sylt and Ruegen, Sweden, Rhine crossings near Dusseldorf and

British observers, who feel that| Cologne, Brenner Pass and the Balkans.

Mr. Snyder's approach is purely that of a banker, would have pre-

Acheson,

The British argument that the able cut in the walue of sterling| Also many large investors have crisis is political runs something will remedy the basic ills of the been selling government securities and buying commodity shares Mr. Snyder and those who agree which would be bound to rise in

like this, in its simplest form:

A British collapse will “lead in-|

People closely associated with by selling large amounts of govferred Secretary of State Deah him were understood to have ernment securities, which started

'sold him on the idea that a siz- a general slump.

British economic situation.

evitably to collapses in India, with him do not appear to have case of devaluation.

el has. started heavy speaking jo. condition of Alaska, Cita a and Burma, which are . - Schedules Aga. Approved by the House Armed ted-to the s id -- Democrats plan second of their | To this

ficials add the question:

India, Pakistan and Burma as it has written off China?” Boost Sale of Scotch

Indications that the United

bama, $4.2 million; California, gee will not consider this ar- only serve as a shot in the’

gia

to conclude that the’ talks will produce no solution. , Some officials expect that ex-

been unduly influenced by the| sterling economy, opinion of European economists France premise, British of-/and officials and "many a 3 “Is the American experts who, almost to Hited States withing to-write off -4- Mal. regard devaluation of the }

pound as a quack remedy.”

. Their objections may be summed | {up as follows: . ONE: At best devaluation can ™° arm

Le Ewe a ———

TWO: Britain has to buy more | from the dollar area than it sells Most of its

to the dollar area.

paring to Jet the value.of its pound falls—until it can

|pound to a new dollar parity.

commentaries on election results |

franc Britain's be .re|adjusted at the same time as the

Economists Call It Quack Remedy

By establishing the basis for a federal republic in the three Western zones the elections have brought those zones one step nearer the Atlantic Pact defense system, Ever since the Atlantic Pact was conceived, it has been a cornerstone of Soviet ‘policy to pre-

Our Fair City

CONGRESSMAN Andy

vent its growth, - How deeply the Soviets feel this is apparent -in the official They insist the vote was illegal, | that it was “ordered” by’ the| American authorities, that it con-|

néw government. » >

Austria

AUSTRIA was caught today In a rapidly developing case of economic jitters. : Despite apparent success of the Marshall Plan, ohservers report that the all-important capital investment from profits and from wages, is not being plowed back into the Austrian economy to keep it going. Working estimates indicate that less than 5 per cent of Austria's total annual earnings are being used for this purpose. In view of present conditions

further unemploymen sequent further nationalization.

fidence and are investing instead in dollars, gold, Swiss francs, or things quickly convertible, and hiding them. Austrian businessmen, as in other countries, defend their posi-

their ‘operations are already heavily hamstrung by

his

ain’s dollar imports will follow by cutting the value of the pound, . © yiicizing adroitly the rather Finland . |

|naturally. This in turn, will lead —Which means increasing the [to longer hours and less pay for Price of the dollar—it would be t lincreasing its disbursements far| ‘Orie British official ‘commented more. .than it. increased its ae d-business. As: 8000.28. it hecame known here that British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin

| British workers, in their view,

{lugubriously, “oh, well — these {big ° conferences increase 'consumption of Scotch, and that's a big dollar earner for us.” “Trouble is,” Scotch which brings $6 a bottle in ‘Washington, brings us only 98 feents and a bottle ™ - ” ” »

Great Britain

THERE was growing belief In London today that

cial talks. *

(tually. want to repeal the whole/ pears to have. come principally for expansion.

{from or through Mr.

ceipts. | THREE:

|cost of living. This in turn would he added, “the either mean an increase in wages

or a lot of labor trouble. FOUR:

. Devaluation would!

| certainly mean an increase in the ersonally would go to Washing-

ton for the September monetary |discussions his French opposite

If the pound were de- number, Robert Schuman decided

(valued. the franc, lira. and. all.of; 0, BO 100. .

ithe other currencies. of Western]

{Europe and the {would also be devalued. Meanwhile, the “professiona

American bears were making a killing out have elevated pressure for devaluation of the of the uncertainty about the him to Cabinet pound sterling will be toa strong pound sterling, he to resist at the Washington finan-

Behind their activity lies an un-| Canada successful effort by several large]

{remarkable recovery of French production in the last six months. On the whole this has proved

“Phe Fiench are most anxious’

and idled 150,000 workers

| The party executive committee notified President Juho K. Paasi-| kivi. that thé im, antiatiike, want to see any , measures ordered by Interior Minsterling area that Mr. Bevin shall not give the ister Aare Simonen “openly vio{American State Department Brit-/|ate the provisions of the peace

1/ish views on European organiza- treaty.”

at the same time. ” . »

Following that/States at the Washington conSnyder. failure they supplied their needs/ ference, ’

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marketed. in the dollar area.

:/ The Canadians will also be pre{pared to back Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder to the {limit if he takes the line that {more financial aid to Britain is {useless unless Britain takes drastic internal measures to cut production costs. At the same. time, |: it is fully realized here that such |a course would be going against}. Socialist theory and the promises the British government has made

{to its people. ¥ ~

Germany

fall, . . A. resolution by the centr committee of the Soviet-sponso rects

scheduled

A | for 10 days next month,

the United Nations. that Soviet forces ing neuvers. Meanwhile, tions of last Sunday touched let policy makers to the quick,

tion without getting theirs aired

CANADA prepared today to

An out and out split between the sterling and dollar areas would have serious consequences for Canada. Sterling. area countries take surpluses of Canadian primary products—timber, wheat land metals-—which couldn't: be

. BERLIN'S Communists today ‘ were trying to provoke a demofi-} stration against troop maneuvers| by the Western Allies here this

youth organization in Berlin diits criticism particularly against the Americans, who have “Operation Harvest”

It asks the “World Youth Congress” which is now meeting in Budapest, Hungary, to protest to

The resolution ignores the fact estimated at around 300,000 have made East-|: ern Germany into a major trainground with year-round ma-

the German -elecBov-| .

(The peace treaty which ended |World War II for Finland pro‘disputes concerning "the intefpretation or execution of the treaty” shall be Settled by {Britain and Russia, with the as-| sistance of some third nation if we going to do‘about C.? Second Democrat: Too-bad he's sald, Coroner declined, Bodies He always. picks up. the were so badly burned ordinary.

vides that

the two. cannot agree.)

life and

stitutes no genuine expression by,

here, at least 12 per:cent capital investment is required to prevent and con-

People with money laék eon-

anee tion by calling the whole thing rance today seemed to Be preia vicious circle: They see no mo- has tive for investing further, because

buregucrstic: going control, endless red tape, and aragainst him for sheriff. tax burden that leaves them withDuring the last three weeks the out incentive to run risks. franc_has slipped from 330 to : lhe. dollar fo 390. “fhe “French the same DOAL. have maintained the price of their|ly salary of 1000 shillings (about| mpird Democrat: What about {currency somewhat artificially by($100 in American buying power) [this guy, 8.7 .He wants in.

|sélling dollar shares of their na-|

he must pay 300 shillings in taxes. tremely drastic cutting of Brit-|food imports come from there. 80 4ionals in the United States and y y. . =

THE Communist party today called for nation-wide anti-gov-ernment rallies, and hinted that Russia and Britain might fntérivene if the cabinet continues to {ight the Red-led strike wave which has crippled key industries

Riots during the week took one not here. injured “14. persons. check. As the week ended quiet prevatled.!

selling war materiel to Soviets, no information.

{ The Indiana gentleman’s queries’ forced the subcommittee to the German people and therefore check the jet engine report with the State Department. The comcannot become the basis for the mittee reported back Britain had sold the jets to Russia, but had As to other munitions, the subcommittee didn't know. | Back home in Indiana last week, Mr. Jacobs had more comment, - “They brought up the issue the arms would show good faith,”

quit.

{he said. “I fi

{good faith, a billion dollars more wouldn't prove it, either.”

| £

ONE ACT (BY)

CAST:

has an indictment hi who pressed the case.” — -Third Democrat: Let's 10.40.

| First Democrat: Say, I wonder {how I would do running against : The skilled wage-earner is in him? I was the only Democrat Take Your Choice Be bo HWE TTL BOT SHOT

First

ican beat any combination town.

right, G.

people you knocked off the

{the LVL.

faw enforcement.

First Democrat: How's that?

another.

body operates.

(CURTAIN)

Andy Jacobs Ha Reasons for Voting

Against Arms Aid

Wonders If Atlantic Pact Nations Are Selling Material to Uncle Joe

serting his party by voting. against the arms to Europe bill. Mr. Jacobs asked on the floor whether reports that Britain was selling jet engines to Russia were true. The: House subcommittee didn’t know.

- The Hoosier congressman then asked the subcommite«' tee whether it knew definitely that Atlantic Pact nations were not

if the money we've already sent didn't show

PLAY SCENE: Indianapolis Athletic Club. TIME: Last week at lunch. Three prominent Democrats. J

First Democrat: Say, George, it Tooks like the newspapers have been riding you about the Brown County fugitive. \ Second Democrat: I don’t understand it, Al

get down T about. C2. Everybody and his brother wants to rum:

)emocrat: Who doesn’t? |

Second Democrat: Together, ‘we payment, in heard every excuse in the world,

First Democrat: I think youre NeW. Just take your choice of

Third Democrat: Say, G., some have been wondering why| . Highland Under-Equipped

Country Club right after C. raided Second Democrat: I just don't discrimination in gicqctor gh 3 : Second Democrat: We can’t let equipped state is’ for emergencies,

one. place operate and close

First Democrat: In the city, no-

Second Democrat: How's that? coroner to buy deep freeze unit Third Democrat: Well, what are to keep bodies for identification...

Jacobs had reasons for de~

Again, the committee said it had

After all, the’ guy yway, it was your police officer =

PS to business. -What are we

. ey

1. FEDERAL. tax collectors .said. they heard ultimate in excuses last week from delinquent taxe payer. His letter said, in part: “Am enclosing my delinquent

I know that you have:

iso anything T said would not be

|those you have already received and apply it to my case.” . » ” .

| AUTHORITIES now say that conflicting stories on identity of two victims in Greyhound bus and hasty: ( lof, another body before it could be {claimed {llustrates how undere

Bodies had to be buried be« cause there was no way to preserve them. Greyhound repre|sentative urged Monroe County

Greyhound would pay bill, he

{chemical preservatives would

decomposition.

Traffic Menace Twins

= 77

Insult to | SEVEN-YEAR-OLD girl ‘wane

-|Bad Timing

{not prevent frie 8

Injury

dered into sporting goods shop fother day and picked up large (fishing tackle box.” She carried [it out undetected and “tried to. load it on her small bicycle. Store owner went out to help her, then’ recognized merchandise, | Instead of trying to flee or cry-

of Tg, Tittle gir complained ~she—~

couldn't manage to tie goods on’ - and insisted on a piece of rope. Juvenile Aid authorities gave her a lecture. wT .

: REASON for furore over Shereiff Jim Cunningham's, “scoop” on Brerida Edwards statemént was bad timing. Sheriff insists he

wasn’t trying to by-pass British:

who were handling case. warbride asked him to stake statement, said she didn't want to talk to detectives. Said she’ was afraid of them. Sheriff sald’ {he was embarrassed about whole episode, but didn’t want to jeos pardize Brenda's willingness to" talk RA waiting. : A) fi - » . Suspected LT. COL. BARNEY OLD. FIELD, former film critic screenwriter, sald he spent