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Washington Calling—

U. S. Alters

Concentrates on Steel In Plan to End Strikes

Seizure Believed Likely if Truman Plea Fails; Wage Losses Reach $100 Million

By The Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, Oct.

strikes. Government's plan now is to concentrate first on

steel.

If appeal by President Truman doesn’t work, steel plant seizure seems likely. But even if it comes soon, steel short-

ages won't end quickly.

Plants can't operate until coal supply is assured. Most steel empty in a week or 10 days. orders placed this month, can’t be delivered before January. he items getting scarce is galvanized sheet steel, needed for vernment's big grain storage program. 9° Atomic Energy Commission, with biggest construction program

jobbers’ warehouses will be

in the country, -hasn’t felt the pinch yet, but will before long. So far, $100 million in wages has been lost in basic steel. Strike situation has retailers badly worried. They're the ones whose business feels a downturn first. Drop in buying is felt in cities not dependent on steel and coal business. Retailers meeting here this week say wives of working men a thousand miles from strikes are buying lees. Stores had been looking for a good Christmas season, had ordered early—and heavily. Now they're worried. dered reserve figures show department store sales oft 50 per cent in Gary, where 75 per cent of the workers were in steel, are n strike. "P t sales are off 26 per cent from same week in 1948, In

; space buyers their credit is still good. It hasn't made much difference. s » .

Reads Riot Act IT ISN'T generally known, but Chairman Vinson of House Armed Services Committee called all defense leaders to his office Thursday morning and read the riot act to them. Secretary Johnson and Undersecretary Early, and members of the joint chiefs of staff were there. Vinson sald name-calling had gone too far and he wanted it stopped. Adm. Denfeld argued his honor had been attacked and he'd never forget or forgive what Gen. Bradley had said. Bradley didn’t back down. But significantly, the next two witnesses, Gen. Collins and Gen. Eisenhower, talked sweetness and light. Admirals Denfeld and Radford are sure to go. So, too, as soon as it can be arranged, will most of Denfeld’s staff, plus a large percentage of Navy flag officers. Johmson’s determined to get rid of them. They're the men who, in the opinion of Gen. Mark Clark, “will never accept unification.” Some House Committee members thought Gen. Bradley ought to go, too; that he’d ended his usefulness as head of joint chiefs with bitter castigation of Navy

officers... However, that doesn't

seem to be in the cards.

Red Reporters Alert WASHINGTON

hearings. Length ently go to Soviet officials only. ” .

Debate Color TV

LOOKS AS IF the Federal Communications Commission

reporters for Tass, Russian news agency have snatched every statement at B-36 and Navy-Air Force feud hearings, have scribbled hard when our war strategy was discussed. But State Department Bl neither radio Moscow nor et press is carrying anything on the soon about United Mine Workers y reports appar-

signed to further the cause of some other candidate for the judgeship, it was a two-edged

Strategy,

trategy’s shifted on’ the big

And

white, and a. change-over to color might mean cutting down number of stations. This would be hard — perhaps impossible. Also, license thaw would mean raore black anil white sets in homes, greater outcry when conversion to color comes. Best guess is that commission will order big companies to start field tests of present color equipment and keep them at it until it is ready to approve some color system.

» - - ! Court Docket ' Crowded CHIEF JUSTICE Vinson has put U. 8. Supreme Court on a six-day week, and on a 10 or 12hour day. Docket’s crowded, court has two new members, only one of whom has had experience on a federal bench, and one of court's hardest workers, Justice William 0. Douglas, is laid up in Yakima Hospital. Look for announcement that a combination of U, 8. and Canadian interests have agreed on plans and financing for a new 350 mile railroad link needed to get iron ore from Labrador. It's important because of diminishing high grade U. 8. ore sources.

- ” = GOP Chiefs Disturbed BITTER MUNICIPAL campaign in Cincinnati is disturbing some Ohio Republicans. They think it may leave scars that will hamper projected all-out campaign for re-election of Sen. Robt. A. Taft netx year. Tafts’ brother Charles, long a leader of the independent “charterite” group in city politics, has been trading harsh words with local GOP leaders. In Cincinnati, the Republican organization is generally opposed by a coalition of Democrats and charterites, including Charles Taft and other liberal Republicans. Ohio GOP leaders consider Charles Taft little short of a New Dealer, wish he’d pursue his career outside the state. Pennsylvania’s Grundy faction is sending up trial baloons for Rep. Hugh D. Scott Jr. recently deposed chairman of the Republican National Committee as a possible primary opponent to anti-Grundy Gov. James H. Duff, in next year’s GOP run-off. Idea

‘the U. 8. Senate against Democratic Francis J. Myers.

» = » Face Financial Ills REPUBLICAN national committee is still in financial trouble, despite help from one of President Truman’s recent subcabinet appointees. August contribution list shows Undersecretary of Defense Paul| H. Griffith gave $25 to the GOP committee. Griffith was nomi-| nated for the defense post over vigorous protests of Pennsylvania Democratic Congressmen. They said he was a Republican.

Await Fund Date LOOK FOR new disclosures

welfare and retirement fund. Annual audit of the fund was finished 10 days ago but board of trustees refuses to make it public so far. John L. Lewis

Indications are that report is being held vp on objection of

sald he spent most ‘of the money for technical advice and similar expense items. ;

from Tom Clark's administration, McGrath the wrong way.

is to Interest Duff in running for!

LJ - Peyton Ford, assistant to theup the attorney general, is said to be on the way out. He's a holdover the expulsion of ont : ,|diplomat and the arrest of an em{is reported to have rubbed Atty. clerk.

Smashing Defeats In Western Europe

By GORDON CUMMING Complied From the Wire Services Away from .the protection of the Iron Curtain, with no Red Army or strong-arm squads to help them, the Communist parties of Western Europe are being eaten for breakfast by their political opponents. The plastering they received in Norway on Oct. 10 when they lost all théir 11 seats in the Storting was the climax to a long series of misadventures. . In Italy and France the Communists still number mililons and they are well-financed, smartly led and full of fight. Once the Marshall plan has ceased to function they will be out there pitching again. It would be the most dangerous thing on earth to laugh at them. In western Germany also they bear watching. But in seven of the 10 principal countries of Western Europe the Commies ‘have practically been run out of business by smashing defeats. Since their first big splurge in 1945, when Russia was still in high favor, the Communist parties west of the Curtain have taken a trimming every time they have gone to the polls in a fair election. / Another Black-Eye ‘Not only in Norway, but they have failed to rise and shine in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Another blackeye appears to be awaiting them whenever the Danes hold their next election. Communists hold 38 seats out of the 1727 seats in the combined lower chambers of Norway and these six other countries. In France they are the largest single party in the National Assembly having won 168 seats and captured 5,475,955 votes — more than 28.2 per cent of all votes cast —in November 19486. In Italy the Popular Front, which is Communist, is in the!

pared to 307 for the dominant| Christian Democrats. But it got 8,025,990 votes—30.7 per cent of] the total cast—in the elections in April 1948. : i In Western Germany they only, rank sixth in strength in the Bundestad, With 15 seats out of} 242 but they got 1,360,443 votes in the elections of Aug. 14, 1949, which was the fourth largest number ‘of ballots obtained by any party. » ” » East Germany THE Soviet zone Communistdominated German Republic accused the Western Powers today of violating the Potsdam Agreement and said the new state had been established to achieve a peace treaty and the unity of | Germany. ! This was the first time that]

sovereign state, made an accusa-| tion against America, Britain! and France.

ment, came as Soviet zone Com-| munists told Generalissimo Josef| which Communists seized power in Eastern Europe, would be fol- | lowed in the Soviet zone republic. | The announcement said the new state was legitimate because) in secret and direct elections for the Peoples Congress in May of] this year, 66 per cent of the bal-| lots approved delegates to the Peoples Congress which formed the Peoples Council. i The council, after its transfor-| mation into the Peoples Chamber, elected the government. i # # »

Czechoslovakia Ta CZECHOSLOVAKIA expelled

11 Yugoslav diplomats today, 48 hours after Yugoslavia Sefusted) !

it for a seat .on the United Nations Security Council. It also announced the start of an espionage trial involving a “foreign intel-

wants it turned loose so payments jjgence service” (American).

, There was no indication whether

that have piled up since fund “ » fizat ran into A cial difficulties. the trial of “terrorists and spies

was connected with the expulsion of the Yugoslavs or with the expulsion and arrest of American embassy personnel accused of creating an elaborate espionage network and plotting to spirit antiCommunists to safety. An official government announcement said the foreign ministry gave the Yugoslav diplomats 24 hours to leave. * The news agency charged

All appears to be quiet for the moment along the frontier between Red China and the "new k of Hong Kong (see dashes labeled "Frontier"). But the British have set up a defense in depth in the "new territories," a 300 square mile area defenses are manned by 45,000 troops. The Chinese Reds, quartered at the key town of Shumchun, have been friendly enough, but the British stand ready just in case. Consular services between Red China and the Crown Colony are clicking as though nothing had happened. A British

territories

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Troi Have Taken a Shellacking Every Time Candidates Face Opposition in Fair Elections

fleet was at anchor in Repulse Bay.

Birge of St. Louis, former second|tell him where Mr. Meryn was

bassy, as the organizer of the ring. It gave the alleged roles played! by Miss Louise Schaffner of Lancaster, Pa., former third secretary; Isaac Patch of Gloucester, Mass.. the expelled diplomat; Spencer Taggart of Utah, former embassy staff member, and Samuel Meryn of New York, the embassy clerk who is held. Mr. Patch bundled his wife, three baby daughters and a pet cat into his red Jeepster after an all-night packing session and headed for Nuernberg, Germany, a few hours before his 24-hour time limit expired. The official Czech news agency later hinted that Mr. Meryn may be tried for espionage with a group of alleged Czech conspirators. ‘ The agency said Mr. Meryn, held incommunicado, has been

Eastern Germany, acting as a|jailed with four Czechs impli-{into Moscow’s orbit.

cated in the alleged plot. Efforts by U. 8. Charge d’Af-

minority with only 182 votes com-|secretary of the American em-!held.

Mr. Meryn is a naturalized American citizen of Czech origin. . " » Yugoslavia THE United States is sending

mats to Yugoslavia to watch out for American interests in the struggle between the Kremlin and Marshal Tito. Informed Washington quarters said that Assistant Secretary of State George Allen, director of America’s world propaganda campaign against communism, has been tapped as the next ambassador to Yugloslavia. He will succeed Ambassador Cavendish W. Cannon, who is returning to the United States because of {ll health. . Mr. Allen was ambassador to Iran in 1946, when the Soviet Union tried to force that country Mr, Allen {has been declared largely respon{sible for the Soviets’ failure to do

|faires James C. Penfield to see|just that. The Communist charge, released the 39-year-old war veteran failed.| His.selection shows the govern-| = J No by the new information depart-|Czech authorities refused even to!ment believes the Tito-Stalin row| ceived the Nobel prize. !

leased from China in 1898 for 99 years. The

one of its toughest cold war diplo-|

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isnot a temporary falling out, but

if not entirely halt, what Secre-| “Soviet imperialism.”

is able to stand up to Russia, other satellite nations may follow | suit, sist that “Titoism is incipient” in almost all the Iron Curtain coun-

LORD BOYD mimeographed the 1949 Nobel in or ot conviction of red leaders in New

today for a world conference of {scientists. He said Russia would | |co-operate toward peace “if we] {leave out politics and talk down-{to-earth realities with them.” | “The great advance of science

{has pushed us into a new age, and

[can get all nations to apply | science to peaceful ends,” he told] |the English speaking union in his, | first public address since he re-|

“It is time now to move out of|

Stalin the bloc party system, vv National Smoke Abatement Week

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the field of abstractions and get| down to realities. | “If the scientists of 60 nations could be brought to talk about measures of mutual benefit, we| would stand a chance for world|

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China

with real patronage for machine building, he would be in a position to be the nominee for governor in 1952. Possible

Odds-On Favorite

CURRENT prediction among local politicians has Maj. Robert O'Neal, Indiana State Police executive officer, as odds-on favcr- 8 Marion County sheriff nomination on Democrat ticket. O'Neal has blessing and backing of Mayor Feeney's forces, and will quit police] post to run—if nominated.

ite for

they say,

tary of State Dean Acheson calls!charles L.

» - D| “iniplomatic informants in Red Worms COMMUNISTS are trying to

\Our Fair City— $3.5 Million Road May Become State's Smiling Killer’

Old Highway Had

Hills, Bridges to Keep Drivers Awake

LOOK OUT for traffic crackups on state's new $3.3 million “safe” road from Martinsville to Bloomington. Publicly, experts joined politicians in hailing new link {as contribution to motoring safety. Privately, top traffic lauthorities think it may become “smiling killer.” - Old 37's steep hills, tight curves, narrow bridges, kept drivers jon toes. Experts fear feeling of safety on new link will encourage | speeding, driver inattention. | If drivers live up to their screwball reputations with safety

| authorities, here’s forecast: More people will die on new 37 in the | next decade than in the last decade on the old road.

» ” ” STATE REVENUE chiefs are becoming alarmed over a new aspect of the big strikes. Snowball unemployment, widespread plant shutdowns will take heavy toll of gross income tax returns. Schricker administration already is in a finan-

cial pinch, can’t afford sharp.

gross tax drop. - »

nation probably is the one to

Republican State Convention. It will give a clue to who is going to be running the party show in 1851 and 1952. It may even give a clue to the real GOP attitude toward their party chances in

Republicans will say they're going to win: If they really think so, watch the biggest, toughest candidates the GOP has jump for the secretary of state nomination. If victory talk is just talk, the big boys will let the small fry fight it out for secretary of state.

. - = ES: . - 5 Se z ~ ox - - x >» - » -* “SUNDAY, OCT. 23, 1949 TIMES 2 4 + Ea g 59 4 hide democrats All Up In The A ici "%s Ey ot 1g Il sword: Hs will be ovis mbt os | POSSIBLE solution to for » long time ; ors fo Judge wetthan Mr. Stcier ning to take shape. appointment, was Dist. Atty. Caughran Still Unchosen Tru of the situation 1s that 0", party in the of them decisively in the big pa- : Mr. Steckler up to this week . of giving he was backed Caughran. °~ tronage grab fight of 1941. SNAVU 35th wand Tor the Democtate federal evtt nd wie Shin 3 Mu win ett eg en ph th TEE AED Se. MSc, judgeship and U. 8S. attorney situations. edge 1a the Judgeatiip ace. It reappointment as D. A. in the Chairman Ira Haymaker. ited. Mr. Haymaker, Mr. Mc- et od aud : to Federal J a lifetime appointment at $15, oT 06 because he wanted This combination was op- Hale sng presumably Gov. state's office, held RepubSelection of a Democratic successor udge 000 a year. None of the aspir- a chance at being a judge. posed by Supreme Court Justice Schricker — Democratic aia bY Ber Robert C. Baltzell is farther away than ever. ants was going to give up eas- a? Jar indications are thai Sherman Minton-betors Judge BATFE ree ™ Indiama of Motor Vehicles. James TuckAppointment of a district attorney to Succeed B. I: I® an important appownt _L PC% oproval ‘of lawyers, tice Minton backed Mr. Hanley. a a Te ity Howard Caughran is nowhere in sight. Best informed many sy, Dost Democrats, many Repub- The result of all this was a WITH THE Senate nomina- himself a fine little GOP organiother than political, too. Mr. jeans Mr, Caughran hasn't political standoff in ‘which tion “in the bag” for Sen. Ho- zation and might have used it watch in the next sources in the Democrat state organization say there is no longer gSteckler had powerful opposi- been in the kind of politics President Truman mer Capehart, Republicans are to control his party if World any use beating around the bush. Party Secretary John Hurt is tion outside his party’s organi- where mud gets slung around. Was reluctant to cast the decid- taking some long looks at the War II hadn't come along. out of the D. A. race altogether. So is his principal opponent, Zation and it had to be reck- The Hatch Act forbids political ing vote. Secretary of State ndmination. 2 + City Attorney Marshall or Mupeis. oned with. activity by federal appoinices. Other candidates . withdrew Although it is a relatively REPUBLICANS think Gov The whole Yh & false from Washington , NOW the business of work- . Second step to such a solu- long ago. The void offers & minor state office, a number of Schricker might leave the BMV thing blew up with a report ing out appointments to the tion would be to offer Mr. tempting spot for friends of Mr. GOP prospects find it tempt- patronage in the office even if & that Public Counselor William E. Steckler had been recommended two top posts in the local fed- Steckler the D. A. appointment. Steckler who don’t want to see ing. It is the one state office Republican were elected to it. 1950. officially by the state organiza- : eral court picture begins all He has had a lot of good pub- him get hurt but who feel his up for election in 1950 that If that should happen, the Retion for the district judge ap- duck target. Unfortunately ,... Best bet is the powers licity as Public Counselor where position in the judgeship race ofrers a chance for building a publican-elected secretary of for Mr. Steckler, the strategy y.¢ pe in the state organiza- his job is to fight the public's Now is pretty weak. : he to have worked. patronage organization. state would be a big wheel in He had not. Top Democrats appears tion are to go at it this fight against rate gobbling z = Key to this growing interest the GOP. say the rumor was a “plant.” 88-8 utilities. The office of U. 8. At- THERE ARE is Democratic Gov. Schricker As the only party member

Tight Curves,

headlines and speechmaking, but Robert Benjamin, his press agent, d boss knew nothing of “club” plans. Reassessment workers fear they may be “assessed” for campaign contributions, = ” ® Horace Coats will be home in Indiana for fortnight while his boss, Senator Jenner, is flying around world. As junior senator's secretary, Mr. Coats, who used to be newspaperman himself, tries to shield senator from “wrong kind” of publicity. It's reached point, says Dan Kidney, Indianapolis Times Washington staffer, where some of press gallery refer to Horace as “Jen ner’s Suppress Agent.” . »n »

Recent run-in with Prosecutor Coal Smoke

Dailey has dimmed Sheriff Cun-

'a genuine split in the ranks of nEhat's chances of. B1UING nied problem, but city firemen are

| nomination again, political ob-! {world communism that may curb, |gervers believe. {wondering how to smother smoke

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reported more

letter

0 Signed ‘Professional

{writers seek to leave impression {they are local lawyers who fear {to sign names, but are worried be{cause defense attorneys in N. Y.

itrial drew contempt of court the question today is whether we| sentences. p

» o » Farming in Hoosierland will be depicted in national magazine soon. Robert Capa, whose graphic war photos brought Army activities to home front readers of Life and Time, was here recently shooting Indiana farmers for Holiday magazine.

Getting Set fo Grab

IS CENTER Township Asses{peace which we will not achieve/sor Roy T. Combs getting set to talking politics.”|grab GOP candidacy for county

clerk?

Day after he left for California, last week, his chief deputy, Mrs.

wide open, with Buck) Sumner; tor.| they are required to use Indiana

Foreign affairs experts in Wash jer shen, and Dilys ehisf) Sh-linvestigator, Det. Sgt. Charles G. ington are convinced that if Tito prs gt

receptive.

than!

deploring

Branch, {Communist Party, Indianapolis,”

NO ONE has confirmed or dé

{from their station furnaces when

coal only. “Someone should teach me to {fire with this stuff,” one fireman said

{ » . - Business Support VET GOP leaders are urging Roy\ Hickman to take

tries. give impression they are suc- . * = = cessfully boring from within Bicee active futelvat 1 Jota) or G Britai Marion County legal fraternity.| avoralt hr & reat Britain Attorneys last week received Mayoralty campaign,

Beaten in last Republican pris mary, Mr. Hickman would get lpusiness and liberal element support should he seek nomination, backers contend. o » . * WHEN WHITE HOUSE issued list of persons booked to call on President Truman last Friday, among them was Rep. Ray Madden, Gary Democrat, labeled as “congressman from Illinois.” Hoosiers, long accustomed to calling Calumet District “State of Lake County,” can understand mixup in billing of con« gressman from Chicagoland, ” = . = Open Tavern : CONDEMNED by State Excise Police as “filthy and crawling with cockroaches,” Sam Do» brow's South Side Inn, 403 W, Washington St., remains open. ABC suspended tavern for seven days, then approved ree

| THE beleaguered Nationalist/Ona Duncan, formed “Combs for|hearing. Now Commission Chair.

| government was reported at Hong| Clerk” club among his workers in |Kong today to be repairing the vast reassessment program now

mation of a buffer state against| the Communists. Reports from Kunming, capital of the southwest province of Yunnon, said the Burma Road, which helped supply China during the Japanese war, was being repaired as the only supply route that might be left to the Nationalists in face of continued Communist successes. The Chinese Communists have exceeded the extent of Japanese aggression and now control all river outlets from the interior of China to the coast except the Red River from Kunming to Haiphong, Indo-China. It is only partly navigable. The railway which once ran | from Kunming to Haiphong‘aiso has been rendered unusable by Communist guerrillas. Chungking reports indicated the Nationalist government might have to flee to Kunming. Three. separate Communist armies are

famed wartime Burma road as ajunderway. supply route and to be discussing! with French Indo-China the for-like candidate, with frequent

Mr. Combs has been making

man Doyle says decision made but action “must be cleared” before it is made public. While public waits, tavern doors “re open.

Global Notes—

British Due to Kick Up Fuss If Labor Barges in on Foods

The British are only now get-

of nationalization. Coal, tricity, the railways, the Bank of

for other than doctrinaire reasons tors and it might have been done by|!" the saddle. any kind of government. Even in the case of medicine, argument is confined largely to the thought that the program pit g¢ went too fast and too far. .. . But when they get into iron and steel (as they will this winter) and barge into the insurance gp business and the food business, they will be doing so largely for doctrinaire and ar reasons

Greatest weakness in the Brite ting into the controversial stage/ish set-up lies in the fact that elec-|the most effective agitators. and critics of the old system are, as England, had to be nationalizea|® Seneral rule, proving weak adnow that they are

” » ” TRAVELING in Italy through an all-Communist area from Mi« lan to Venice, one sees quite ‘a bombed-out ere read

area. £igns