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STATE POLITICS . . . By Robert Bloem
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% : : : : $ HIS IDEA is to send party increases 9 Y . : Ponder 1950 Crusade Against regular organization job of pro-- and public meeting places to speech makers out once the Said the ’ has been the other way—that want, say. about 8 that Joe Doakes INDIANA REPUBLICANS are toying with a new approach When there are two groups with- gy the Scouts report 30d his wife talk about at the _ oo, to the 1950 campaign. - in the party they will fall out pack, Mr. believes the table. oe is he mal, It the ‘ : over something eventually. state GOP could use the voters’ all he has to do fo get tend to the people won't come to politics, bring politics to the Sen. Homer E. Capehart’s own ideas as building blocks this thing working is to the Now people. That's the idea behind the talk at Fremch Lick this Strategists Qiready have recog. for a party program. “creeping blight of s ate week-end of a statewide GOP Citizens’ Advisory Comimittes. nized this. plan to avoid My Holder doesn’t say so, byt D0Ys down out of the clouds, . Past experience with Indiana politics indicates it takes more organizing separate “Capehart he seis that the scouts S% the peironags Jevs] shingles of the : admits, help as far as than an idea to win,an elec: for Senator Clubs” over the geeyt to find tavern P $he. trough, They might as well. They're Admits, didn't help as far as That's tion, The question really is partic. State. They plan to work right customers and barber shop de- er rip, Tt Isn't going to. be eAsy. oy with it anyway: - money was concerned.” do when what will the GOP do with this larly close to the “people.” They NU fs seguiar GOP aiganin. bating teams talking about - un The office of Public Counsel- So the PSC is over a barrel thing to one now that they have it. believe that if the ides is just much chance of a split some “the creeping blight of social- politicians are or also seems to be stuck with because it can hardly be called back. rs Organization of a “GOP De. IO Cram a lot of idealism down oC the line; ism.” He knows they are more beginning to see Mayor it When the newest rate boost an Impartial judge at this Under the present policy of a the voters’ throats, there isn't along likely to find talk about stor- s point in keeping the hearing comes up Tuesday Stage. The members didn’t in- upping the rate each time the partment of Americanism” to much new in it. ; *« = = x age for crops, price of hogs, city out of the so-called Assistant Counselor Walter tend it that way, but they're number of customers falls off, carry the “crusade against the Tne GOP has been doing that DEEPER DOWN in the advi- price of eggs at the corner cr Jones will have = unique situ- Practically in a position of rates could go to $1000 a ride. creeping blight of soctalism™ for years. Meanwhile, voters ap- sory plan Republican State store, the length of the squir- study.” ation to cope with. having to support the rate plea Of course that couldn't nappen right into the kitchen sounds pear to have been using the Chairman Cale Holder has an- rel season, basketball. When the Public Service Com- * a = because their own experts . until the number of riders was. - pretty good. Some of the less Republicans as a place to go other idea. He feels that the Mr, Holder dreams of a plat- mission and the utility tried to THE PSC sits as judge of the haven't been able to find any down to about a day. Ob= publicized details sound even when they're dissatisfied with risk of a separate group within form, built long in advance out -get the city into it, the Mayor case. One of its own engineers reason to deny it. servers agree talk fan better. The whole thing has something the. Democrats are the party would be offset if the of the little things that are just said “sorry, no.” Maybe he has been studying Railways Obviously that is what tastic because “Railways would dra doing. . . advisory committee could be- close .to the individual voter, didn't even say he was sorry, “efficiency.” Obviously Rail- Mayor Feeney anticipated. Po- go broke long before that.” s = = Next, the idea involves for- come a direct link between He hopes to avoid the last min. Anyway, he said “no.” ‘ways isn’t afraid he might have litically he’s still in a position Which appears to leave only FIRST, some of the observers mation of a separate organiza- party headquarters and the ute planks used by both parties Privately he figured the city found anything wrong with its to put up at least a show of one more question in the case at French Lick feel that the tion within the GOP. Supposedly voters. He sees the advisory in the past, built out of the would wind up having to sup- methods because if he had, the the riders’ battle of Indianapq is originators of the advisory the advisory outfit on Ameri- committee as a band of scouts, whims of pressure groups, port new bus and trolley fare utility wouldn't be in a very against the utility, i ? : r Washington Calling— World Report— Our Fair City—
Denfeld Ouster Aligns Navy Solidly Against Matthews, Johnson
Punishment Felt by 550,000 Servicemen; Expect Admiral to Refuse UN Post Offer
Howard Newspapers 29—There's no solution to Navy
By The WASHINGTON, Oct. trouble in sight.
Removal of Denfeld has lined up Navy solidly against Matthews, Johnson and their policies. . Surface men and submariners are now as upset as Navy air men were when row started. Trouble goes deep,
because Denfeld spoke for the entire service. Therefore entire service — 550,000 men— feels it's been punished. Can you reprimand, or dismiss a service, they ask? Immediate problem is whether competent officers can be recruited to keep Navy's part of defense set-up functioning. . Admirals Blandy and Connally have both written Denfeld they will not consent to succeed him as chief of naval operations. (They haven't been asked, but have been mentioned). Blandy, slated to become com-mander-in-chief of naval forces of signatory powers of the North| Atlantic Pact, may have forfeited that by lining up so strongly with Denfeld. Every theater commander and every member of Denfeld’s staff have said they are on his side. Altogether, Denfeld’s had between two and three thousand telegrams from Navy personnel, saying they're with him. Emotions are running so high that top Navy men admit they cannot “think objectively.” Some of them cried when removal of Denfeld was announced. Privately some of them say, “it's our chance to break Louis Johnson politically” And, in discussing retirement, they weight chances of being around when a new national administration takes over. Some say they're sure they'll “Win” in the end. “Winning” may mean ending unification, as it's conceived now. Denfeld will be offered post of U. 8. representative to United Nations, but his friends think he will refuse. Matthews may offer post as chief of naval operations to Adm. Thomas Kincaid, with Adm.
Forrest Sherman for vice chief. m
It’s not certain either would accept. Present vice chief, Adm. John Dale Price, is certain to go. Matthews has accused him of en-
gineering the Crommelin-Bogan le
episode. Actually, Matthews would like to staff naval operations with civilians, he’s told friends, Matthews; incidentally, had cleared firing of Denfeld with Sen. Millard Tydings — so you'll hear no protest from the chairman of Senate Armed Services Committee.
® » 8 War Targets Listed . IF WAR COMES, top military men expect Russian planes to strike first at about 100 of our 25,000 industrial plants. They've listed them, but the list is top secret. However, most vulnerable areas are no secret. Planners say the bomb run from north of Boston to Alexandira, Va., is “the most attractive in the world.” Runners up are in the Great Lakes area, Texas and Seattle industrial regions. 2 They say, too, that it’s not realistic to talk about decentralization, though letters are pouring in to National Security Resources Board from industrialists who want advice. Planners take the position that wholesale shifting to less vulnerable areas would disrupt our ecomomy, bankrupt the nation. Final decision on this and other security measures awaits selection of a per manent NSRB chairman.
Presidential Assistant John,
Steelman, acting chairman, all his attention to strikes recently.
blow. They concede some plants] may have to go underground, and talk. of reinforced shelters, with-jout anti-Truman votes.
buliding ii Dots Lot inside , they say. y wekers would survive a fires
Alex Campbell Nolan fof abandoning Wash- "U.S. Senate, 1f Indiana Demo. :
has a bomb shelter, built in 1942, and commission on the renovation of the ‘executive mansion says it would withstand atomic blast. So far, there's none in sight for Con-
gress ” ” .
Steel Strike Studied
BEST GUESS on President Truman's first move to end strikes: A White House summons to steel workers’ boss Philip Murray and U. S. Steel President Ben Fairless or Board Chairman Olds, plain talks across a desk about nation’s welfare. When pressure of public opinfon rises—as it will when more industries close — such a plea would be hard to resist. Truman won't use Taft-Hartley Act if he can help it, and there's considerable question, even among government lawyers, about government’s power to seize industry in peacetime. o
Angered at Gray
AMVETS IS sore at Veterans Administrator Carl Gray, who recently warned that veterans’ education under the GI Bill of Rights may cost taxpayers $60 billion. This, says the national AMVET, “raises the question of just who the general thinks he is representing.” » 8 . A SENATOR'S haste to get to Europe for a six weeks’ junket is holding up study of How exports of surplus farm commodities can be financed. Congress, just’ before adjournment, authorized Senate agriculture subcommittee to make the
mittee members before flying overseas to join junketing col-
Mexico, who sponsored the investigation, will be chairman, and is in Washington ready to start work, but lacks authority until Thomas returns early in December.
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Fight Cigaret Law’
SIGNS INDICATE mail-order cigaret firms will challenge new federal law aimed at them. Law requires them to file, by Nov. 10 and each month thereafter, list of shipments to all in-
impose cigaret taxes. Mail order firms, located in the eight states which have no such tax, sell to customers who want to escape levies ranging from one cent to eight cents in other 40 states
Congressional committee estimates this device causes states to lose $40 million a year in revenue. Trade Association of the mail order houses has retained law firm of Arnold, Fortas, and Porter, headed by former solicitor General Thurman Arnold, which may mean a fight in the courts,
Chiang to Take Over
out -of his semi-retirement soon and resume the presidency of Na-
Act dent again, or be forced out.
At one GOP women’s mi
precinct workers. ® =z =» Look for ‘Assistant Att. Gen,
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CHIANG KAI-SHEK is coming
tionalist China. He had resigned that post several months ago. ing President 1i Tsung-Jen will either step down to, vice presi-
Republican precinct organiza. tions many 'areas are “North. given new life by doctors wives | est in the N {furious about Truman health plan, {i who say they want a chance to ring doorbells—anything—to get
Now That Eco
Fails to Break Its Bottlenecks
ee TE are om) Europe six months hence will have to worry about how to get rid of what it makes. It will have to make itself its best market, That is the view today of American experts with the Economic Co-Operation Administration at Geneva, Switzerland. And for the past three years these experts have won a reputation of calling their shots. Scarcity, they say, is on the way out. Surpluses are on the way in, Belgium, for instance, is already overloaded with coke. The Low Countries, in general, have more than enough coal. And a report soon to be released by the Economic Council for Europe, will shock steel industrialists the world over. So, the first great stage of European recovery is on the wane, the ECA experts say. Headache Hangs On They do not mean that the ordinary European is better off. They think he is worse off in many ways. And why? Europe's big headache hangs on. Produc-| tion, in other words, is not getting its goods to the people. The bottlenecks have not been broken. Distribution, which Americans take for granted, is a pain-in-the-neck on the continent. ECA officiais have called it the key problem of the Marshall Plan. The 20 countries that make up the European mosaic must either tear down their towering economic| barriers or be ground up politically and socially in the cold war between the U. 8. A. and the U. 8. 8. R. This is the opinion of chief of ECA’s steel division, Tony Rollman, Fearful of Failure * But other officials go far beyond him. They frankly fear that Europe's refusal to face the facts, already spells failure in its struggle for self-respecting and decent survival, Reasons behind their thinking
selfish industrialists, vast corrupition in civil service systems, and the refusal to give any more than lip service to competitive trade. Competition means mass production with lower prices. “Only a more toughened and realistic attitude on the part of Uncle Sam,” one official insists, “can force European leaders to think in terms of Europe's masses, Any jeconomic adaptation ‘which refuses to face this prime factor is going to end up hurting Furope, not helping it.” * v ”
The Cold War
SECRECY today still censored the London, England, meeting this week of American diplomats serving in Russia, Czechslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia. But the Communists, barring perhaps that of Yugoslavia, made no bones about viewing the conference with deep suspicion. The “Fascist - Imperialist powers of darkness,” they said, were brewing some nefarious plot. What the Americans said to each other at London, of course, has not been reported. But no doubts remain about the desire of the West to persuade or cajole or drive Russia out of Eastern Germany and Austria and to loosen their hold on the satellites. That is the ultimate aim of Western diplamacy. + Fortunately, no one, East or West, wants to provoke open war. But up to that point, no holds are barred. And if the West has its way, Russia will not only lose its influence over Yugoslavia but also over Albania. The line which the Kremlin confidently expected to erect from the Baltic to the Adriatic even pow ends on the Austrian side of the Alps. Nor will Russia be allowed to
Truman and Greece will be implemented in every way. So, no-war-and-no-peace is the future.
Yugos Amtorg officials in New York, the new moves in China whatever
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matic weapons and threw grenades toward Yugoslavia for eight hours Thursday night, an interior ministry communiqué said. The Hungarians, it stated, laid down a heavy barrage along a front 220 yards wide, but made no attempt to cross the border. It said Yugoslav forces did not return the fire. There were no casualties on the Yugoslav side, the official announcement said. “The incident occurred near ji Miholjac, about 160 miles a of Belgrade. (In U. 8. military parlance, automatic weapons may mean any. thing from submachine guns 40-millimeter anti-aircraft artillery. The Yugoslav announcement did not specify the size of the ungarian weapons.)
} » » - Czechoslovakia A U. 8S. Embassy representative was permitted to call yesterday on Samuel Meryn, American embassy clerk held by the Czechs as a spy but discussion of the charges against him was strictly forbidden. The embassy representative was allowed to remain only 15 minutes with the 39-year-old clerk who had been held incommunicado since last Friday. Only personal topics could be —and in front of Czich officials who demanded that every word be translated. Carroll Parry, chief of the U. S.
blanket. Gottwald freed 127 priests fro
agency announced.
naw on a goose come a Christmas. But a bird costs 40 rT $9.00 to you. And that's a triflle steep for a German wage-earner to plunk down at one time. So,
ing. Up. went a sign on his window. The result:
Embassy Consular Section spoke to Mr. Meryn in old Pankrac prison, huge reddish stone building on the southern outskirts of Prague, where numerous political prisoners are reported held. - "Mr. Parry told the press later that Mr. Meryn looked fit and well and showed no signs of ill treatment. He asked for food and clothing, especially a clean shirt, and a
Meanwhile, President Klement prison after they pledged loyalty to the Communist state and retquested pardons, the official news
It was the first official confirma-
Getting Goods to John Q. Public Europe's Big Headache nomy Swings
From Scarcity to Surpluses
an ‘enterprising Berlin butcher grabbed hold of an American idea —instaliment %
He was i with business.
' The Eastern Zone continues to
Vast Corruption Also a Barrier
dents, meanwhile, withdrew from the National Election Court.
planning to turn the Nov. 27 presidential election into ~Ay ‘complete arce.”
Germany UGLY signs of appeasement were noted again today in Berlin. Where the West once quaked
tions fo rule the world, it now appears to tem when the Kremlin reveal similar plans, chapter and verse. 2 Soviet policy for 32 years has been to ‘obtain control of Germany, Lenin argued that Germany was the key to Europe and to ensuing “world revolution.”
forgotten. Germany for them means all of Germany. There has never been the slightest suggestion that they would be content with the stripped and hungry one-third of the country they now occupy.
be a mere springboard for extending Soviet influence. The presence of the Western Allies in Berlin, by the same token, con-
have been arrested. Church esti{mates put the number of priests in jail at between 300 and 500. - # n Colombia THIRTY-FIVE additional persons were reported today to have been killed and 200 wounded in Colombia's political disorders. The unofficial toll for the past 36 hours stood at 234 dead. Sen. Plino Mendoza Neyra, liberal leader, announced the latest political clash, in Caldas, Boyaca. He said all those killed and {wounded were liberals. The latest casualty figures for the fighting around Ceilan and Villanueva, Valle Department, was placed at 199 in that area alone. Liberal leaders announced an appeal will be sent to the human rights committee of the organization of American states.
tinues to be the biggest bar to Soviet advance.
says about liberty then Berlin must be kept free. The Communists already have
of Germany
test loudly that they haven't abandoned the city. - But the weight of Allied interest has shifted to Bonn and Frankfurt and Western Germany in general. \ What Soviet planners couldn’t get by their blockade on Berlin they are now being served up on a platter. : Eighteen months ago the Allies were prepared to keep the airlanes to Berlin open with fighters if necessary. Now they are afraid to arrest a trespassing Soviet railroad cop for fear of
Four former Colombian presi-
upsetting the Kremlin.
Global Notes— Truman's Plan Iran's Shah to
His imperial majesty, the Shah of ITan, comes to Washington Nov. 16 on President Truman's plane, the Independence, which will go to Teheran to pick him up. It will take him home after a month’s tour of the country. Main purpose of the Shah’ visit will be to tighten relations against Russia, and obtain Ex-port-Import Bank credits for oil and industrial expansion. » s » WE are handling our relations with Russia on a very grave basis. The cold war is creating a web in every part of the world. In some ways, it is more difficult for American correspondents to operate in remote parts of the earth than in wartime.
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ship fund. Revival of building plans for the super-carrier United States, which Defense Secretary Louis Johnson canceled last May, is not on the books. ” ” " Navy-minded Congressmen are getting ready, however, to plump for at least one new carrier designed for lightning-fast interceptor jet planes instead of bomb-| ers the Navy wanted to put on the United States.
Ld » un BRITISH-MADE shirts, shoes and coats are being displayed in New York and Washington men’s shops with price mark-downs of 30 per cent, or more. Shoes that sold for $20 are now priced at $14. Shirts are down from $6.50 to $3.
» ” ” THE American policy is to keep ‘Tito going as long as he is a thorn in the side of Russian imperialism, “until we can find something better.” The British don’t quite go all the way with us, feeling there is a moral issue involved. They feel that Yugoslavia is a wicked dictatorial state and that if you “walk across the bridge with the devil as an expedient way to get on the other side, the devil will still be with you when you get there.”
» 2 ” UNCLE SAM'S defense department and top officers of Army, Navy and Air Force are $trongly for military assistance to Spain on the same pattern provided for
charged the government withje
And the Soviet leaders have never by Gov. Schricker within matter
If the West means what it|’
British officials continue to pro-|
Hoosier Factories Keep Going Full Tilt Despite Steel Strike
Supplies Predicted to
turn another wheel,
” - Drastic Action Near LOOK FOR DRASTIC action;
of hours on coal crisis. Governor lacks legal power to deal with acute shortage, but feels public sentiment so strong for positive action that high deof co-operation can be had avert a serious breakdown of public services and widespread suffering if an early cold snap
Ready fo Fire PUBLIC COUNSELOR William Steckler has ammunition ready for Indiana Béll Telephone officials when rate-increase hearing resumes tomorrow. Digging into Bell System pension plan, Mr. Steckler expects to show phone officials use $1 billion fund as “private bank” for company. He contends profits of fastgrowing fund could be turned back into company, boosting income and holding rates down. Or else, he says, phone company should cut down yearly payments into fund which Public Service Commission experts contend has enough now to take care of normal pensioners. , » » = Community Fund workers don’t know this (and won't like it), but one firm here was reported last week using highpressure tactics on employees to get them signed up on Fund contributions of six hours pay each, When they gat workers 100 per cent pledged, company officials discovered total was more than quota assigned it— went back and got employees to: change pledges to five hours each. ;
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Silence is Golden STORY GOING rounds is that Certain northwest side tavern owner lost $1100 in holdup that somehow never was reported to police. The heist was out in country. . and Mr. X was accompanied by someone other than Mrs. X. It's all unconfirmed by reported victim, who at this point figures silence is more golden than $1100.
North Atlantic countries.
(helping France, and other countries against Communists without bolstering the most important military and political bastion of all, back of the ees.
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for ft, too, but has kept mum
cause of leftwing political opposition.
. . » IGNORE rumors that Defense
secretary of Defense Stephen Early hopes to leave
It’s silly, they say, to talk of|much cash for hotel expansion
The State Department is really|with radiant heat, is going up in
ernments are afraid to allow
to get more dollars by encouraging American tourism because of slowness in promised home building. - " ~
NORWAY and the Dominican Republic are going after tourists. A 700-room super-modern hotel,
Oslo, Puerto, the “fourth link in a na-
tional chain of 14 fancy hostelries for tourists.”
And Then—the Industrial Curtain Falls
DUSK OF unemployment in hundreds of Indiana plants will deepen into near-total blackout in three weeks — if President Truman does not break strike deadlocks. Steel industrial curtain is due to clank down sharply on Hoosier plants about Nov. 15. That's when big auto-
mobile companies reach end of their steels supplies, halt whenever Hitler noised his inten production lines, and send “hold Indiana suppliers, Gambling on end of tieup, Indiana factories are still going full blast, not rationing steel. One supplier last week said, “Pm go=
ing down with my boots on,” meaning he'll operate until he can't
old WAC murder case.
The Dominicans recently. opened the Hotel Montant in Eljwant
Last Until Nov. 15
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New Tips : LOOK FOR new development in
thing bu carted it all off to Washington. Now city detectives have some new tips, and they'd like records grabbed by military. If Army doesn’t come through, there's a. chance Rep. Andrew Jacobs may be asked to step in, help Indians apolis police get WAC-data.
ss = 8 Winter freeze-out is approaching for local drive-in theaters.
Somé are beginning to shut down operations, ramp by ramp. Most are operating on day-to-day basis. Kentucky theatermen are offering free gallon of gas to keep. car heaters going while show is on, but such salesman. ship hasn’t been attempted here. Ta #" -
Mr. Airport FOUR YEARS after name of Indianapolis Municipal Airport’ was changed to Weir Cook, citl-
zeys still call up and ask for “Mr, Cgok, owner of the field.”
indicates lack of familiarity with city operated field and important part it plays in nation-wide transportation. They suggest combina- : “Indianapolis Munici~ pal Airport-Weir Cook Field,” to end confusion, “plug” field as cityowned project.
» # 4 Censure Develops Judge Alex Clark still has under advisement case of two persons arrested while last
Communist lterature week, Lawyers and feel result in
charge of vagrancy no conviction. However, public censure of the two developed. One of the defend.
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