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- Wait for the Facts Fy 3 RACEY JORDAN, a former Air Force officer, has G charged that the late Harry Hopkins helped Russia to obtain American atomic bomb material and secret govern‘ment documents during the war. fo } © The charge was fade on a nation-wide radio broadcast. Mr. Jordan said he had seen shipments of uranium and documents sent to Moscow on lend-lease planes while he was an Army “expediter” at Great Falls, Mont., in 1943. He said that Mr. Hopkins told_him by long distance telephone to speed them on their way and say nothing about them, even to his superior officers. .

Com x0 k OBVIOUSLY, this sensational charge demands searching investigation. The American people are entitled to have the facts. But it concerns-a man who no longer can speak for hifnself, and until the facts are developed——or until there is clear evidence of any official disposition not to bring out the facts—it seems to us that, in common fairness, the public and the press should withhold judgment,

The Trouble's Root | © & HOUSE-SENATE economic subcommittee, headed by Sen. O'Mahoney of Wyoming, is about to investigate

wiys in which Congress might encourage investment of “savings in “little and local business.”

over an apparent shortage of private investment capital. The private capitalistic system, he adds, can't exist unless private capital flows steadily into the economy, in ‘{éfms -of ownership as well as terms of debt.” But, he observes, there is a lack of venture capital. The majority . of people with savings seem “more

| Hires, or even from old ventures.” Such people, the Senator concludes, are putting most of their savings in government bonds, life insurance policies and savings bénks. Their money “appears to be going into loans instead of into ' ownership” of business enterprises. FA ha Fa : . be interesting to see what measures Sen. ’ oney and his associates advocate as a remedy for this 001 Some observers have predicted that they will ‘propose authority for life insurance companies and savings ‘banks to buy stock ini little and local business concerns. Lea But how could insurance companies and savings banks be justified in putting such money into ventures which the

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t? SAR gig. x Cm om wm * SEN. OMAHONEY and his subcommit root of the trouble in the government's present system “o income taxation. That system, as Director Gunderson of

_ sional group last week, makes it “unattractive for a person ‘with money to invest in small business, because it is unre- ~ munerative to him in proportion to the risk.”

the-A-Child, an Institution

YEARS ago The Times undertook, in a humble ~ way, to brighten Christmas time for Indianapolis’ needy “children by helping them get new, warm clothing. | The idea grew out of observations that thousands of .: needy children were being provided with toys and food but ! little or no clothes to keep them warm enough to enjoy thei gifts. : : The program grew steadily each year as more and more donors became attracted by the idea that warm clothes for ' children was as important as Santa Claus’ annual delivery ' oftoys. ; y . . " THE opening of the 20th year of the campaign for ' funds to keep needy children warm this winter has found :.Clothe-A-Child a major institution in the community, af- _ fecting directly the lives of many hundreds of children who otherwise would have bleak prospects for a comfortable Christmas. : It is bringing cheer each year to more than the recipients themselves. It is providing hundreds of donors who do © the shopping for these children personally, a new kind of cheer in the spirit of giving to those in need. +" More than 2500 needy children are expected to be on the Clothe-A-Child list this year for clothing they must : have to keep warm during the cold, winter months ahead.

: Stockings SEVEN thousand employees of the Navy shipyard at Long Beach, Cal, have sent empty stockings to President Truman, with this message attached to each: “We, hope that you will rescind the order closing Long . Beach naval shipyard. If you do not rescind the order, sur + Christmas stockings will be as empty as this one.” = What these government workers have done is under- © standable. _ = They face loss of their jobs if the shipyard is closed next June, But Defense Secretary Johnson says thét continued operation of this shipyard, and of certain other naval and military establishments elsewhere, is not essential to

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“national defense. . . i - + He has ordered those establishments close as an econ- : ‘ rn a . np Ga ee .. BURELY it is not the President's duty to keep a ship- © yard open as a make-work project; or as a benefit to local (business interests, when it is not needed for its original

© &, Sympathy for the stocking senders at Long Beach can’t justify what they want Mr. Truman to do—namely, to act . in accordance with an unsound principle which would make, possible ever to. reduce the federal payroll or enforce

Indianapolis Times

Monday, Dec. 5, 1049

The inquiry, Sen. O'Mahoney says, arises from alarm

ke. desirous of security for those savings than they are for large profits from new ven-

might find

the Reconstruction Finance Corp. told another congres-

pap ron Dy Diane Numa The Grapes of Wra Appeal to Reds -~

DIPLOMACY... By Oland Russell

Seen Useless ~~ -

Americans Held in Chine May Be Used as Hostages

WASHINGTON, Dec, 5— Secretary of State Dean Acheson's appeal to the Chinese Commus« nists to free two Americans because their wives

~ needed them has been criticized in diplomatic . eircles as useless and naive,

“Good for home eonsumption; but not very likely to soften the hearts of the Commies,” sald one observer who has had experience in dealing with the Reds, “If It weren't sa serious, it wduld be laugh- ~ able,” sald another authority. “You might as well appeal to a tiger grounds.” : The latest U, 8, appeal went forward--by mail--in behalf of Sgt. Elmer C. Bender of Cincinnati, a Magine flier, and William C. Smith of Long Beach, Cal, a Navy enlisted man, who have been held for more than a year by the Chinese Communists. The note called attention to hardships being suffered. by the families of the two men. . In Cincinnati the mother of Sgt. Bender, Mrs. Edna Bender, was unimpressed.

Held as Hostages _

SHE SAID: “It's going to take more than that to bring my boy home. I believe they are holding him and other Americans as hostages to try to force the American government to recognize Communist China.” - It was pointed out by one observer: that hundreds of American businessmen were being de-

tained in China for much the same reason.

_owners pt money consider to provide less security. than... aay adr Co

“At first.” ne said, “they may have wanted to stay on in China in the hope of doing business with the fteds and looking to early recognition. But now they're disillusioned and want to come home “Their firms. want them to come home, but the Commies are throwing every obstacle in their way. The reason is, they want to use them, but for the time being they're virtual hostages. “Actually, the U. 8, government is up against it. It's like trying to stop a snowball that's going downhill fast, It appeared five years ago when the State Department began its policies of appeasement with the Chinese Reds,

Still in Mukden

“AND one result is that Angus Ward and his staff are still sitting in Mukden while the State Department lets the Communists take their time about getting them out. “This country sent a plane for the Shah of Iran and for Pandit Nehru of India. but it hesitates to send a plane for Angus Ward for fear of affronting the Réds. The State Department says It would be difficult and might complicate things. Of course it would be difficult, but what are all those people doing in the Far East. They're there to do the difficult. Let them get. busy and arrange clear or a plane to go in for Ward or a cruiser to meét him at Tientsin. “I'd hate to make a train trip now from Mukden to Tientsin, -It used to be an overnight trip, but now I understand the trains are in poor condition, with broken windows in the coaches and often no heat.

Effect on Morale” “THEN think of the effect all this must have on the morale of the rest of the foreign service. Those still detained in Red China, or purposely left there by the State Department, are pains fully aware of the outrageous treatment of Ward and Stokes, as well as our government's soft approach ir getting them out.” Pointing up the isolation of Americans in Red-controlled cities, an informant who gets an occasional letter from Tsingtao said organized mail service with the outside world has been cut off by the Communists. The only way to get a lettér ott of Tsingtao is to smuggle it through the Chinese to Hong Kong from where

it can be mailed to this country.

‘TIS SAID To find happiness you must give it. This yuletide season provides a grand opportunity te be happy by giving all you can possibly give to every Christmas cheer movement. B. C.—Indianapolis

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

("AVONMOUTH, England—-A crane hook caught in his wedding ring hoisted Gilbert Brit. ton 15 feet into the air.”)

Nobody heard this fellow sin, Though he was riding high. A crane had snagged his wedding ring And bore him toward the sky.

The incident is not unique, Though this one wasn't planned He's merely joined that age-old clique— Hooked by a wedding band!

on humanitarian

PRICE SUPPORTS . . . By Earl Richert

More Potato Trouble |

WASHINGTON, Dec’ 5—It looks now as if the U. 8. may have to repeat. its performance of last year and ask Canada to please hold down potato exports to this country. This is a touchy subject in official quarters because the U. 8. is doing so much talking about increasing the flow of trade

between countries, But facts are facts. And, our

or lower prices than potatoes

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DEFENSE POLICY . . . By Bruce Biossat :

New U. S. Atomic Plan Expected

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5-Jan. 1, 1950, will mark the opening of a new phase in America's atomic energy affairs, On that date, presumably, the Atomic Energy Commission will have a new chairman in place of David E. Lilienthal, whose resignation is set for Dec. 31. Washington observers believe that the need {or a new turn in atomic matters may well have béen the most important unspoken reason for Lillenthal's decision to quit. © : Their point is that Russia's gaining of the atom bomb alter critically the world picture. It is now considered virtually certain that there will never be agreement on international atomic energy control between the United States and Russia on the basis of any existing proposals. But Lilienthal is very closely identified with the basic American control plan, which calls for a rigid inspection system and world ownership of dangerous atomic facilities. Lilienthal and Secretary of State Acheson wrote the report that was the first seed of the Baruch plan since

adopted by the United Nations over Russian -

protest, «

Backing Baruch Plan AMERICAN authorities have declared their insistence on the essentials of the Baruch plan 20 often and so long that it is hard to imagire their accepting any proposal that ignores these features. Yet it is clear we must give ground somewhere if there is ever to be a world pact embracing the Soviet Union. Lilienthal knows he is too heavily committed to the Baruch plan to play a key role in devising some substitute. But as chairman of the AEC he would necessarily have to figure closely in control plans. By resigning he leaves the nation free to take a fresh tack in negotiations without compromising his vigorous support of earlier proposals.

Certiinly Lilienthal must have been aware,

tog, that his departure will ‘make it easier to achieve understanding between the AEC and Congress. Whatever one may think of his talents and his stewardship of the commission, it is an unfortunate fact that Lillienthal had. bitter enemies on Capitol Hill, ¥

Opposed in 1947

HIS original appointment as chairman was heavily opposed in the Senate in 1947. Last spring. sparked by charge of “incredible mismanagement” from Sen. Hickenlooper, his one-time supporter, a long and stormy inquiry into

SIDE GLANCES

Lilienthal's Congress. Had he stayed on and won reappointment from President Truman, Lilienthal would have had to face a third stiff battle this coming year. The chances are that opposition to him would have been stronger than in 1947. Though he still might have triumphed in the end, Lilienthal realized that the controversy likely would handicap the proper handling of atomic affairs. And as a scarred teran of many Congressional wars, he proba had little taste for another treneous fight. These reasons, which were-not listed by Lilienthal when he ‘resigned, are believed by close observers of his public career to be the 'basic factors in his decision. Official}y, he cited low pay, long public duty and a dgsire for greater freedom in voicing his views/as the chief elements in his resignation move. But these are rated as secondary by those who know him well.

Didn't Quit Under Fire

HAVING won general praise from the Senate-House Committee which investigated him earlier this year, Lilienthal did not retire under fire. That fact undoubtedly was important to him. * What is important to the nation is that it now seeks to gain the advtange provided by his resignation for new efforts at world atomic control and for smoother relations between the

administration was conducted in

AEC and Congress,

Barbs—

: A BUTCHERS in a Michigan town plan a promotion campaign. Maybe a decline in meat sales has them in a stew. THE Ohio cafe that offered “all yoii can drink for two dollars” certainly wasn't appeal-

ing-to people's Scotch instincts. o> *

> < A TEXAS town staged a mother-in-law festival. Anything for a holiday. YOU never can depend on the weather—except as a topic of conversation.

> > A GYPSY who took $100 while telling a man’s fortune with the aid of a rooster was sent to jail. For fowl play? IE ES - A FASHION writer says the clothes of the

well-dressed man should be unpressed. That's a new wrinkle,

By Galbraith

“still alive. t : «to the fact that I never go out after dark, ==

"I do not agree with a word that you sey, bub | will defend to the death your right fo say it" oo -—

‘Afraid AfterDarle x ® By Mrs. Alfred E. Kemper : 5

One of the things for which T was thankful this past Thanksgiving was the fact that I am I attribute this good fortune partly

Three months after we movéd to Indianapolis—about a year and a half ago-—our neighbor was molested on her way home from the neighborhood drugstore in the early evening. This was #nough to keep me at home. .. . ~1 am wondering how many other housewives do not feel safe to venture out even in their own neighborhoods—though-.this may be the only free time they have. The working women have my sympathy, be.

* eause in most cases they have no choice but

to be on the streets after dark. Perhaps the return of the beat-walking policeman in each neighborhood will alleviate some of this fear.

‘Reverse the Trend’ By A\J. Schneider )

i oe «Re, ing the ‘letter recently by. Wm. W, Hawkins on “Pension Systemi Needed,” I chal. lenge that statement and I believe all science would disprove it. ’ * A great philosopher once said “Ignorance is bliss.” IT ask how blissful must it be when millions will. sit idly by and take the words of deceivers as gospel truth without any effort to" test the soundness or look ahead to the conclusion? “Ye of little faith.” do you” not have sufficient faith in your Creatpr to believe that if he had intended for you ve security from cradle to grave, social medicine, pensions, and high wages with low costs, these things would already be yours without the insincere promises of Harry Truman and his gang who have failed at everything else except politics? * If you still have faith in your God, you had better pray to have the current trend reversed. -

‘Not Much Choice’ By Hilda Irene Mehrlich

While we ridicule other nations one-candidate elections, we here at home don't have too many to choose from.

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When you Sum it up we come out with about ..

two. That's not much of a choice, Who nominates these candidates” The Demsocratic and Republican machines. As long as we have parties we will have machine rute. I would like to have party names eliminated. I would like to have candidates nominated by . the public. Then and only then will we have free elec tions. The best men in the country never got near the White House. Why? ~ Because the machine wouldn't get too much out of them. They are civic-minded and would work for thé best interest of the country and not especially for the party. If we eliminate party names we will vote for the man, not the party. or

What Others Say—

THERE is enough room in the CIO movement to differ about many subjects . . plenty of room, plenty of room. But there is no room for communism.—CIO President Philip Murray, * > WE don’t want something for nothing but) we need help on terms we can meet. India is only temporarily poor.—Prime Minister Pandit Nehru. ~ - LE EE 3

TIF peace fails, civilization itself will fail because mankind cannot endure an atom war. - Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, D., Wyoming.

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IN AMERICA all races and creeds live and work peacefully side by side—why should not ideas do likewise? Writer Irving Kristol.

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PERHAPS the most tragic error of management has been to thoughtlessly assume that the workingman is a different sort of person.—Denton K. Swarthout, president of Swarthout Company.

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THE mine workers are not quarry slaves to be scourged back to their dungeons like slaves, —John L. Lewis. - * & 9»

I HAVE no ill will toward anyone in the Navy, and I am not going to entertain any guch thoughts.—Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews, LE PERHAPS we shall some day give Christis anity a tryout.—Federal Judge Harold Medina,

NEWS NOTEBOOK ... By Peter Edson

Behind the Scenes

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5--Connecticut'’s Gov. Chester Bowles recently wrote a magazine article saying that the voters should affiliate with one or the other of the If they don’t, writes Bowles, handicapped in their efforts to dates or aggressive, responsible, effective political

“independent” ma jor parties, ‘I believe they will be seriously offer consistently top-level candiclearly defined programs, or to produce

officials say, it doesn’t make sense for our government to buy millions of bushels of pota-toes-to hold up domestic prices and then sit idly by and see huge quantities of foreign potatoes come in at a cheaper price ~_free trade or no free trades

For every bushel of Cana- . dian potatoes that comes in, our government will just have to buy an extra bushel of homegrowns to hold up prices

since we have more now than we will eat.

~ ~ ~ UNDER a trade agreement with Canada, our government will let Canadian exporters ship us one million bushels of table potatoes and 2'3; million bushels of certified seed potatoes annually at a tariff rate of 37\, cents per 100 pounds, half of the standard tariff of 75 cents per hundred pounds. The tariff year for potatoes begins on Sept, 15. Within six weeks, Canada filled its entire quota of table potatoes at the reduced tariff rate. And so this week, the customs bureau reimposed full duties on Canadian seed potatoes since the low-rate seed potato quota of 214 million bushels had been filled. Canadian exporters rushed to take advantage of the low tariff rate because price differential existing between the two countries with the U, 8. maintaining a floor of $1.70 per 100 pounds under Maine potatoes —- they could

sack, ship and pay the 374% -

cent tariff and still sell in the big epstern markets at equal

under the.

shipped from Maine. ~ - »

CANADA maintains ne farm price support for potatoes. Its growers get what they can on

the market and Canada has a

big potato crop. Under this situation. it is likely that Canadian growers will be willing to take much smaller prices themselves and pay the full 75-cent tariff to be able to market their product in this country. And helping will be the fact that our. price support for domestic potatoes will be moving up during the months ahead. In December, thé government will support Maine potatoes at $1.90 a 100 pounds, in January at $2.10 and in February at $2.15, “I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if we had to ‘enter into discussions with Canada again.” said one official. Last year, our goverment Ifduced Canada to bar shipments of table potatoes into this country after the quota. had

been filled and to limit seed

potato shipments only to those ordered by certified seed dealers.

«no» SO FAR this year, the U. 8, Government has spent less than formerly on its potatoe

- price support program at the

reduced support of 60 per cent of parity... As of Nov, 21,:it had bought only: 11;600,000 bushels of potatoes at a cost of $12,900,000 as compared with purchases on the same date in 1048 of 86 million bushels at a cost to the government of $104 million, ¢ At this rate, Whitney Tharin of the National Potato Coun-

prise support will

OPW, 199 JY MIA QEAVIOR, WG. T. M. REO. U. ABAT. OFF,

“We'll cut the firsd-treatment short—we don't want to startle your friends too much!”

ell, a growers’ organization, predicts the total cost of the 1940 price support program at $27 million, or, less than oneeighth of the 1948 cost of $225

“ million when prices were Sup-

ported at 90 per cent of parity. Agricllture Department of-

‘ficals think Mr. Tharin is too optimistic and estimate that

the total cost of the 1949 potato be between

- $55 and $60 million. They say that a lot. more Canadian potatoes may come in, foréing in« creased purchases of homegrowns before . any action is taken, yn

*... ‘Most. of - the potatoes "pur-. chased by the government this

year have been sold for livestock feed at prices ranging

from 10 cents per 100 pounds in.

bulk to 50 cqats per 100 pounds

‘this trend . ,

shutoff’

A few days after this came out, rumors spread that Gov. Bowles would appoint William Benton as Connecticut Senator

to succeed the resigning Ray-

mond E. Baldwin. And a few days after that, Mr. Benton issued a statement that though he had supported the Truman

foreign policy while he hadbeen assistant secretary. of state, he was not afiliated

with. either political party and classified himself as an independent voter. ~ ~ o PAST words of Federal Recurity Administrator Oscar Ewing are also being cited to

smite him. Ewing now says

flatly that the Budget Bureau's recommended cut in medical care for the families of armed forces personnel is strictly a matter between Bureau and the Department of Defense. But opponents of Ewing's health insurance plan now point out that he js on record against such direct - public

“medical services. This fs the " quote attributed to him: “Let

no one underrate the danger of . real socialized medicine, in the form of public medical service, has already got more of a foothold here than‘ most people realize. We don't. want further.”

. 8» } THE recent Joint Economie

Committee report that 33 per

cent of the American families had Incomes of léss than $2000 A year has created quite an impression in Washington. It was only a short Uthe after this report came out t¥at presi-

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the Budget.

it -to go any

dential counsel Clark Clifford announced his resignation. The reason given is that he couldn't raise his family on a government salary of $20,000 a year, » ” ~ CENSUS BUREAU may use television to instruct its 1950 nose-counters. The Bureau has to train. 14,000 enumerators for this census, and getting in- : structors into every part of the country is something of a job in” itself. But with nearly 3,000,« 000 television sets now in operation, it is believed that the enumerators can be assembled in regional groups and given Instructions direct from Washington, through theater-size TV projections. This may epen up an entire new field of TV education for morning rs, when there is no competing audience-for ‘regular programs, THREE Navy captains— the “bad boys” of the B-368 fnquiry- -may have - lost their chance to become rear admirals this year by fighting the Air force und: nationml defense unification. They are Capts. John G. Crommelin Jr. who gave secret Navy corre-. spondence to the press;-A. A. Burge, who headed the Navy's “Operation 23" that scuttled many ‘unification orders; and F. M. Trapnell, who had a

prominent part in preséntstion ° of the Navy's case to Congress, ..

+ All three had seniority, brillant war records and ability which put them on a list of officers. eligible for promotion to flag rank. A Navy selection board has gone over the réce ords oe Moin 1 but its recom menda ve not yet been

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