Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1949 — Page 14

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. single market of 150 million consumers, unhampered by

gether and promote free trade by knocking down tariff bar- - “riers so-these 270 million consumers. could. be. more easily . _reached, he suggested, the benefits would be obvious. ~~~

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Reds Move to |

Take Hainan

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the world is ready to strike in Hainan the moment China's mainland Reds launch an assault on this strategically placed island. . me

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‘Vagrancy Law Invalid®

Ce ~ PAGE 14 Wednesday, Nov. 2, 1049. Sm vm - rE ih | oY or: i : sree In World Ready to Strike ™ he ere of two_persons recently o's md pee ar ol £™Qesber’si | ~ HAIKOW, Halnan Island, China, Nov. 2— charge of “city vagra SXpOien E : eo eg Co RRC HC Mhon. Wha Suv: 1 One ‘of the oldest Communist fifth columns in the need for judges to rule the city nance

on vagrancy unconstitutional. ; _ For a long time the Indianapolis police have used this ordinance to arrest at will peaceful citizens, guilty of no disorder, guilty of no crime,

dally $1.10 ». nant bc & copy, n : ‘i ance t hundreds Tele It's strength, at most 10,000 men under arms, It was under. thia ean i into the et : phone RI ley 5551 y : {innocent persons have been herded inte U y : | ‘isn’t great even by comparison with the rem- [ jail, in direct violation of the Constituware) Ove Tiki and Tha Pewee Wer pon : ARTE ST he CRmess NATIOTATIRt KrmeN deralied on. which _profects the individual From Rivest

EcA ADMINISTRATOR PAUL HOFFMAN did not “get tough"—as had been forécast—with the Marshall Plan facts of life which he left to be pondered. BETTI He said the fact that we have in the United States a trade barriers between states, has proved “indispensable to the strength and efficiency of our economy.” . - By comparison, Western Europe has 270 .million consumers. Jf the Marshall Plan countries could only get to-

n . > » HOW an, economic federation of. Europe could be achieved—in the light of rigidly maintained sovereignties, ‘centiiries-old jealousies, different systems of currencies and retaliatory tariffs—Mr. Hoffman did not say. Some countries already have made a stab at this, but without much SUCCESS. : ‘But it was not Mr. Hoffman's prerogative to tell them how; his point was simply that they had better get on with

That's plain enough talk, and we hope Mr. Hoffman con-

hard-bitten beneficiaries of the American taxpayer. If there

to Hainan's external and internal defense. _ But it has strong allies in the shape of Hainan's forested mountains, jungled valleys, malarial mosquitoes and the attitude of the two million inhabitants of an island almost forgotten by the Chinese government and its former allies. “The Communists’ best gun is the mosquito,”

olic missionary who probably. knows better than any other foreigner.

Hopeless Campaign “ALTHOUGH this is the beginning of Hainan's : coolest weather it is also the start of the malaria season when thousands of Hainanese die from the disease. : Mainlanders, including troops from Shantung Province in North China how garrison the

Hainan

b-- Nationalists’ narrow. holdings. here. and are in. |. .. . “part engaged in an“ almost hopeless antt-=Coms={

munist campaign on one limited front. } That is in the mountains at the Nata copper tin mining center about 70 miles southwest of Halkow. . - Elements of two Nationalist armies and part cor all of one division are now in Hainan under command of the island's governor of the past six months, Gen. Chen Chi-tang of Kwantung Province, a member of the standing committee of the Kuomintang. , * Gen. Chen, who is in hig 60s, came here with a lot of good ideas about reform'and rejuvenation of the Nationalist cause and has put some

will be next to impossible. : The neck of the South China Sea that sep“arates Hainan from Luichow Peninsula is little more than 10 miles wide at the narrowest point.

will be less than one night's easy sailing by the slowest boats for a Communist invasion from

YES SIR, the world is bound to feel a little more springy of step and roguish of eye today, as it muses over Vice President Barkley's successful wooing. of .the St. Louis |

~ widow. : |

~ Forall the world loves a lover, and our Veep now stands

“revealed as having taken on that new and glamorous role.

The gallant and versatile gentleman from Kentucky has been’

many things to the Truman administration he adorns—trav- |

romance. It is, we may reflect beamishly, as if we had a | veritable Prince of Wales and he was going to get married. | We hasten to congratulate the Veep and extend best | wishes for Mrs. Carleton Hadley; the comely bride-to-be. We hope they baVe a splendiferous wedding, with President Trus |

the mainland. On Hainan, the Communists are biding their time. They have more men than arms—but enough to have sent occasional detachments of armed guerrillas to the mainland to help the Kwangtung irregulars harass the Nationalists behind the lines.

Fighters Organize...

HAINAN'S homegrown Red troops are commonly called guerrillas here but they're uniformed and organized along army lines in five

Each regiment has two trench mortars: but

but” do- have. enofigh radio equipment to coordinate guerrilla activities and “government of the liberated areas.” : Without visible evigence of outside aid, for that so far would have been virtually impos-

_says Bishop Domingue Desperben, French Cath- |

1° vive. no heavier artillery, The Reds have no vehicles |

Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, is a short-lived virtue. He sits in 1s sparsely furnished office in what was once Bonr’'s museum and talks in dry, undemonstrative fashion about the future

‘western sectors from going Communistic. But very great again. That, in effect, sums up the German situation today. West and East bid for strength in _~this strategic center. - cellor says pointedly, do not seem to, realize ; that this is not 1939 but 1949 and the age of the atomic weapon and the guided missiles His inference is plain: The control of Ger-

_.|._many_means the control of all Western Europe

and Great Britain. : ; 7 Chancellor Adenauer stressed in his talk with me what I'm sure he Sr with all

And he gives a clear intimation that the government that sycceeds his will almost certainly be a worse one, ‘

3 , - 7 Join: Ownership IN return for the end of dismantling, Dr. Adenauer is willing to grant the French and

if it 4s not continued then the danger will be -

Some people, the Chan- /

British stock Ownership in firms marked to

unless he is charged with a criminal act According to the “city vagrancy” ordihance,. any policeman may, at will, stop any individual on the street and demand that he give “accounting” of himself, The police have béen using this ordinance to accost persons on the. street, demand their name, address and occupation. If, presumably, the person is not carrying {dentification with him, the police can throw him

1 into the city jail 5 - EIy-the case -of -one- woman -who- had . $21.

dollars in her purse and was obviously not a vagrant, it is interesting to note that she was arrested and heldincommunicado for five hours, ‘The police did not permit her to make a phone "call to her attorney or to a friend, as is required by law. ‘When her husband appeared at the city jail to-ask for her reléase, he was told she would

have to stay in prison until Monday because - -

Judge Clark would not be in his chambers until then, and he would have to sign the ‘release OPAOR. tm ’ sd CTHé arrest of this woman was & Sase of _ poMtical persecution. Although the city prose. ¢utor pretended she was arrested because she refused. to give the officer her name and address, the 4 himself stated that he had accosted her” because she was passing out Communist leaflets. ’ RT It seems to me that every patriotic person in Indianapolis, everyone who wishes to see the Constitution and the Bill of Rights enforced, must be interested in seeing that this infamous ordinance is wiped off the Satute books. : * rn

a force to balance that in the East. This happens to coincide with the thinking of some American military men, If trouble occurred in ths Ruhr, according to Dr. Adenauer, there

into thé Soviet bloc. There are-forces in Western (Germany working .directly and indirectly to that end, he said. etl

Peace Conference : SHORTLY there will be held, at Neuwied in the Western Zone, a peace conference to bs” attended by at least three ministers of the néw East German government, including Foreign Minister Georg Dertinger. A ....This_will be a_ powerful propaganda move, in the, Chancetior's-view, to put-6ver thé main Communist theme song for Western Germany. This theme is that all of Germany must be

themselves is cofistantly the repeated motif.

The goal of this propaganda is obvious. 1

It is prepafing the way for the announced with-

drawal of Russian troops from the Eastern |

~Zone, ‘But .the Russians will leave behind a rce they have trained and indoctrinated and “which they will ¢ontrol. War between France and Germany is abso--

it. For if they don't—and Bess. came his Juncn fue x of then. Joto eet But he was dealt in pretty i - : ht 5 ‘Withdraw That Slur’ | thought—Congress might sharply cut the Mars n ; ” : : > » Burkett 1428 as funds next year. So, they had better come up with some Military Miracle i ; FOREIGN P OLITICS ow. By Marquis Childs £4 Ye (with hisses) to Henry Butler, Times ~ concrete results such as “a record of accomplishment and a | IF HE can vepel attack by Ted regulars nt : Ze ale SHE; WHO Nay wt at addy re " “ . . i J or -m I ” a oe wa Agi program by early. 1650, a face “name for mations snd | so out Lies mer aie? | Key to Europe Seen in Germany | matic. m= = poverty for people.” | : fend the rear from the Hainanese Communists > - rh Pi Withdraw that slur. Dare not s lightly ; who have been vegetating here since the 1920s | - - BONN; Germany, Nov. 2—-Gratitude, says It is‘necessary, the’ Chancellor said, to have of the song I love. Mushrooms, ed! Vari

cose ears may dismiss it with a culinary allusion but to the listening h Debussy’s “La Plus que lente” is a little 1, exquisite, polished 5 A :

‘is no other way, maybe they can be scared into action. When, and if, Red Gen. Chen Keng's regulars | of Germany and the government he heads. would be no way to check it. + Edwii Biltclitfe plivs Del th In ~ § . occupy the peninsula—which appears to be their. American help has been very large. Dr. The theme he invariably came back to was delicacy and fin f : i dilute pearls in the : present ective — Hainan’s northern beaches Adenduer says Germans-know it has kept the .the danger of absorption of Western Germany vinegar of faint’praise, like a midwestern Cleo-

patra? Our tic caution, lest we betray our«’ selves in matters cultural, defeats itself. It's no secrét that we don't like music. However, we right learn to like it better if we learned to’ like more wholeheartedly, to respond less

“self-consciously. So, Henry, we wish you would

step on that superb 16-cylinder typewriter you . drive so cautiously. We like “big tome” ~~ * oo

‘We Need Another Lincoln’ By M. 8:°T., City _— Lincoln made the following statement at New

a " : : i ; ; Western visitors. That is; that a continuation i f large-size | H M ov list. varn-spinner and solemn m | skeletal divisions. : na neutralized and become a kind © ge- aven Mar. 6, 1860 eling salesman, vangelist, y Pp ; ng . They are poorly armed, mostly with old Japa- of the dismantling o German industry will guitzerland. Let the occupation troops be “I am glad to see that a system of labor trate of the Senate—but now he adds a much-needed filip of |... vines, a Y : {make it impossible féFi¥is’ government to sur- withdrawn and Jeive the German people to | prevails in New England under which-labor can

strike when they want to. One of the reasons I am opposed to slavery is“yast here.” While we have Lincoln memorials all over the country and call him the immortal and the great emancipator and hold his birthday as a legal Jiotiday. Ts | hard to believe that a man t eas, s and scrupl yt qa ruples could not be

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man as best man, with Margaret singing ‘Love Is Swee 4. sible, ‘the Reds have. been functioning as the | be dismantled. This, he says, would meah the Cou "and with full photo y hic v f ne government in much of Hainan. They've divided | joint ownership of vital German industry not - lutely unthinkable, ~Chancellor Adenauer says. Firstly; we have too many people that believe tpi the Country,” and wi photographic coverage of What | gy, and in some places. They publish their own | only in the Ruhr but elsewhere. If dismantling This. is, therefore, an all-important time to | In segregation that produces inferiority Each d may be a final public rendition of the Veép's famous hair- | newspapers and coliect taxes wherever they ¢ah.——is not soon ended; accordin tothe Chaneshior, Dring the two nations together within a federa- | complexes and secondly, a man who champions ay, 300 rdirg ; > finc trigger Kiss. : i When thie Nationalists drive them from val- | then’ will become a rallying cry for national- tion of Western Europe, the cause of labor is considered a radical. What persons. —— ' ley villages into the-hills they take the whole | istic ‘extremists just as Versajlfes was a rally- I +a this country needs today is.another Lincoln. the fear of a sper | population and all foodstuffs with them, de ing’ cry after 1920. I. Deep y Religious reliable, cio this nea iether mio = ene}... Yet, Chancellor. Adenafier, is“gloomy. at pres- THE: 73-year-old Chanceilor has a - thin, — Thomas tre Is Nothing Sacred? STER'S FOLLIES {/ent. He can see no chance of the French ascetic face. He is a deeply religious Roman | What Others Say en “yen and we ’ : : FO “ { changing their position, which is adamant for Catholic who is determined in the face of IF n mi od OMETIMES it seems as though nobody wants anybod “ < oe Ito install | the continuation 6f the dismantling program as strong opposition to make Bonn the permanent we build this carrier and find that we , S to haw fu F : . th y C yh ¥ pam) CTY Shaka ohana ig already specified. The British, as the Chan- ~ capital because it is near his beloved cathedral don’t need.it, the cost ‘to’ the nation will be and. prom ; e any n, or_ instance, lhe y Council o In Old Oklahoma. City / cellor sees”“the situation, are even more in- - at Cologne and .in the heart of the Catholic $189,000,000. If we don’t build this carrier and gro ‘Waukesha, Wis, has just passed a resolution prohibiting Loving. Windnews. 3 ne Ghbe 2 Betis 46 their stand. Rhineland. find tat we do need it, the cost to the nation You, 160, « : BE Loving kindness is the creed. I.fsked Dr, Adenauer about the move of It sometimes seems. that Bonn is almost too} may be the. nation itself.—Capt. Arleigh A, i Waukesha saloons from serving drinks on the house. There's no rationing on pity Seviet Russia in creating through the new sheltered from forces at work again, like yeast, | Burke, assistant chief of Naval O a 1 Come in to perations in examinatic rs Waukesha, of course, is not the first—nor, we fear, the When a fellowman’'s in ‘need. | subservient East German government an East beneath the surface of a reviving Germany. | ‘charge of research, on the “super-carrier.” self Ti fast—community to take such action. The _ ve - - + | Zone police force trained in ‘the use of light _ Chancellor Adenauer has great strength of. * " why : : y to take n The rule makers ha re «To our fire-fighters lonely,” pd artillery aud tanks. This, he said, created a character as well as great resourcefulness. He THE new Social Security bill, if passed b so effectiv been busy ever since Repeal gave Americans back their “Let's bring video” /aald he, serious situation for Western Germany where will need it all if he is to come through this | the Senate and made into law, should oT Serves § inalienable right to an occasional snifter. The free lunch ' g v ou there is no effective police force today, except ~ perilous transition interval when Germany once | the need for the big pension campaigns in ime Thomas © = disappeared long ago. In some States, including Indiana Which is true compassion. —~Only for ineffectual and badly trained police in local more is stirring like a glant slowly rousing , portant industrial fields.—AFL President Wil skill and t * : . y y po! . : v - you are not allowed to stand up to a bar like a man’ but oo He Stile ™ so you wee! | smmucies, CC iin oo Ta.d irom a Joug. qrugged Ble, lam Gres, - 27y of st through the gloom of a cocktail | NEW ~ 1 | Wi | No 2 0 A . . ’ . : : must grope your way through the gloom of a cocktail | NEWS NOTEBOOK. .. By Douglas Larsen LANCES =. By Galbraith | WEAPONS . . . By Jim G: Lucas it

lounge tg a table.

. » » . - . x » a. - THE ban against drinks on the house is by far the most sinister. - There is something delightfully wholesome about the practice of the bartender buying an océasional round. It places the relationship between the drinker and the publican on a personal basis. Keep it up, little men in Waukesha and elsewhere. Keep

it up and perhaps the day will come when that honest fellow |

behind the bar will be replaced by a slot machifie, which

will dispense drinks silently in-exchange-for a“coin dropped |-

‘Behind the Scenes

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—Extreme rickety “condition of the White House has everybody worried. Especially President TruIt's just a shell, with crude supports inside holding up the. walls. The-special comission tharged with its remodeling has |

man.

been slow in getting repair work started. i It has been admitted that the slightest eart FD. C. area would bring it crashing down.

become a hig worry.

There's not much chance 6¢ physical injury

\ Even some of the | heavy winds this fail have had engineers scared. Now, the | tncreasing possibility of .a heavy snow falling on the roof has |

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dQ Gen. McAuliffe says the Russians are will use “anything they can get hold of,” includin erm ; 5. We won't, he says, until they start it. Then, we'll rap i germs

Germ Warfare Issue WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—Maj. Gen. new chief of the Army Chemical Corps,

pared to defend ourselves from germ warfare if we ever fight with

Anthony C. McAuliffe, says we must be pre-

The general's statement, brief as 1 od i Nght oy Seerary t was, shed a few rays of

public knows little. The atomic bomb-—-which Gen. McAuliffe

‘of military planning about which the general

ruthless and probably

o } anti It the walls of the old fesidence collapse. The First Family “says is still our “greatest weapon"-<has ‘been wideély discussed. Smesvin into its coldly scientific maw. pa lives in the Blair House across the street and the President But germ warfare—if it is mentigned at allt brn ie Music And on that day, O little men, we switch to sarsaparilla. | works in a new wing of the White House, apart from the old we talk &bout in whispers.-The-average citizen abh6rs the thought . 2 structure. But if it did come down, it would be extremely diffi- of it. The bomb; at~least, can be seen. Germ warfare, on the nl a cult to reproduce the old building exactly, as it is now planned: other hand, represents the unseen and the sinister. ~~ {Ross py And cost would be much more, — de i : pr. : ¥ ’ Remembering Disabled Veterans Every chance the President gets, he needles members of Ideal Weapon i ) go ID . » A 2 the commission to speed up the contract-letting so that work | . A CONSIDERABLE number of military planners think this HL net MEMORY of war's ravages fades rapidly and the public, | can begin. At the latest, it is now estimated work should start | ol Tien ynate. In a detached sort of way, they argue that-germs 8 It was us in-a period of fast-moving developments, is inclined fo | Defor® the firét of the year. present the ideal weapon. In the pure science of-military. ancient — Pi : * strategy, they insist, there is no better offensive weapon, includ- 13 Prai forget the sacrifices made by the thousands of disabled Ls PA ing the bomb, : 14 Musical veterans. Sticking With the West war hs Sroup. believes it is/more than possible-that any future instrumer : : vi 3 : [ IN THE first national election held by an Atlantic Pact Vill “be se eventually by germs, rather than by , 15 Golf mo A notable reminder that it is the duty of alk to 8how | pation since the signing, the Norwegians expressed overwheim- tanks, planes and bombs. For that reason, they feel the public 16 Rent some preference to crippled men of the battlefields was the { ing support of their government's decision to align itself with Stow be educated and know its hazards as well as its limita- 18 Knock’ : i . : . the West. ar - w 19 Rodent : Ruariean Legion Win here, jJeaergey; JOSS uti | * 4 wi Fucee who belidee that germ warfare may decide any future 20 Compoun rlines for record in employment of disa I's. ; " nme 3 something like this: + ether ’ Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, president of the airlines, in Putting on Wings : : a ary the rt hate the Diego .iy lores: the 3 Sean of AE MILITARY personnel are expected to be doing a lot more p : : A ie WOPL] t will it t accepting the award, gave an accurate characterization of | gying on commercial airplanes from now on. A agreement has Mater have thousands of the biggest and best atom bombs? 23 Comparat most disabled veterans when he said: | been signed with all the air companies giving’ servicemen travel- Hed we won't be able pe irs of our men, turn in at hospitals, 2 Bux ¢ “They do not ask for ol . Ing on orders a flat 10 per cent discount. And the seryices have I * “., ar 1 S . ersian fz E. t0 give.” y 2 much but they have much |, Vifea all transportation officers that most of the special pro- ? OOM. 440 BY teh SHAVE. U0. RW. NEO. 8. §. aT. OFF. Can Be Controlled : "33 Yeuicles . Yi / hibitions against commercial flying have been canceled. It is of tend. ' his § MANY MILITARY m “ ne : predicted that this will result In military travel becoming 12 |. ve been Py ending I'm crazy about ‘his, food. so he would offensive weapon BcAus they ah De ht germs he ea x “30 Sans 3 kin |. per cent of all airline trade. oi) pe eat it—therthird helping got me!” celves of germ warfare as the killing of millions of people with | 8 Mi - oe . es CI ; X ‘ some virulent, fatal disease. But i ixed ty ! i ; gg ' e. ts proponents say that is not Hor ncning a Hoosier Feminine Touch plan aiech has been cooking) for some time would be made to Syays * Hed instance, it may not be i y . - Sa : , tad cy ; : pl ET - loo ea further relaxation of all trade barriers, » ; . : ly. no necessary to ki - : 1 IAN 1 traditional pride in the success of its native | ° MAINE'S Sen. Margaret Chase Smith has carried her fem) | jeans think desirable. Actually it tude Sarrie i, Amer one. The power launching germ warfare may merely Want to. 38 Toward . sons will be symbolized at Brazil-tomorrow. ninity right to the front-door of her suite. in the Senate Office | channels. = Jnke Systyioay Sie for a while. Sick men don’t fight. It may 39 Coneerait Thousands will gather there from : building. Every other door to a Senator's office has the simple Its details are too complicated for all b ec kill in one section and merely make people I 5 - tribute to Geo nN ; ere f many. states to pay words “walk in" printed on the outside beneath their name. Sen. understand. But its rg. rpg ol rE Bot ir 3 and nauseated in another. : y people istless . 40 Malt bev: is : aeorge NN. Craig, recently elected National Com- | Smith's door, however, has a ‘very pretty picture of the rock- | Italy and Belgiurh through France, with the two countries paying ‘Wars are fought with the idea of occupying the defeated a Military ¢ ~~ mander of the American Legion, a post of high influence | Pound cdast of Maine fastened to It. a less. than if they had bought the goods direct Trom ._|..country with as little postwar strain ais possible. Our biggest oS i : in the nation. aie g Only precedent for such a decoration on a Sepate door was And England would have to give up its searce gold to get essen- headaches in Germany and Japan have come from restoring ‘their —- RR ox / SAE foo... | set by the late Sen. Overton from Louisiana. When daylight | tial items from Italy and Belgium. : | War blasted economies. The idea of taking over a country intact 43 rovind +. Gov, Schricker gave thie celebration official status with | *aving time was started in the District of Columbia each year, © & #& © + 7 5 _(/hasa real appeal to military planners who look beyond the final ov. SO Employ ag calling : wpvors | he would hang out a sign which said that his office was con- |: ain “battle. No aggressor relish marching: “plague ridden 81 Oak Fruit aF at alling for statewide observance of “Craig | tinuing to be run by LIED whieh, aa, 8 ™ {'Break for Veterans : country and exposing his own troops to the ie, ad 53 Wakener y" in In be # . . : ’ Tp * v Po I" . : : : GE ” Lg more to his liking to have the ? It w 85 Aeccommo XT 8 ; : ie / ps oi : ' i z : : enemy get well and go back to work. % It . : 4 ‘ ; iw ie T 5 VETERANS’ administration is pfeparing for a great increase | Germs and were not $6 Hold dow hn makes Indiana the focal point of interest for war | Stumbling Block © , ; in the volume of straight, four per cent GI loans on homes, as | sides were Yad It is no ved in Worl. War IL, although both RTI, veterans ha . i ow SHOR mi le . 00D. Af Al: DOWIY--DaRSsl: ; nger a secret, however, that we VERTICA ° 8 the ‘distinction of ‘embracing | : e newly passed law. which provides a more flexible | .planned at one time apan’ a Da both the Lagion's National ‘Headquarters ne, its’ Com-*| ta B MONETARY experts fear a i a trade | secondary market for such loans becomes effective. ‘Up until tion Shs ab, I a, t : ~1 Persian v TO Ee he Te i | Sma no Rt Vien | Stag BS RE, TE a,