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Bitter Debate Opening Tomorrow May Continue for Six Months -
| -By The Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Jan. 7—Battle of budget starts tomorrow. It will be bitter; will last six months at least, It may sound dull; but don’t forget it’s all- -important to you.
we manohTy bloc is organizing. Sen. Harry Byrd thinks,
$614 billion can be saved. Sam: Walter George Bosses
$1 billion.
ing ‘estimated revenues.
Mr. Cannon wants to cut Armed Services even more than
President's budget does.
Rep. Taber, ranking Republican on Appropriations Com-
mittee, thinks federal payroll,
be cut drastically. He'd make “huge” cuts in
‘State Department personnel,
civilian employees of Armed Servces. And Taber would cut rivers and harbors, flood control funds. Sen. Byrd “also wants to “cut personnel, and veterans’ rehabilitation program. Sen. Rep. Taber ft will concentrate on foreign spending. There's little sentiment for
10 per cent across-the-boards
cut, tried last year. On other side is group determined to make administration spend more than it wants for Armed Services. Defense Secretary Johnson
trimmed $2 billion off his $15. .
billion - appropriation for- this’ year. He faces bitter fight —from- Congressmen
Who THsIst
on 70-group Alr Force,
strength, Appropr i ation bill last
economies, He hasn't done so but
"Sen. Taft
~will submit
report when President's budget is unveiled. His criticg are primed, They'll shout he hasn't made economies, has only caused reductions in force. Powerful Alreraft Industries Association is particularly anover freeze of funds for 70-group Air Force.
Other factors. that ‘may swell budget, despite attempts at cutting:
Drive for intreases in social almost certain to
Drive for. more veterans’ hospital beds, veterans’ pengions, veterans’ bonus. Demand for increased acreage allotments for cotton and peanuts, which means fncreased government buying to support prices, Election-year drive from all members to get federal construction projects for their districts. J ® = 8 A ‘Face Saver’ ACHESON'S NEW. Asiatic program—which doesn't include Formosa—leaves military cold. Top men say he’s never discussed it with them. They figure it's face-saver, that real attempt to put it into effect is unlikely. Acheson would Increase our military strength in the Pacific. give military assistance to Philippines, give economic aid and small arms to Indonesia, strengthen French In Indo-China, arm Koreans. Actually, members of Johnson's war council say, we're shifting as much miltary wer as we can to the — Pacific. Navy's sent another car-
That's unlikely. Philippindg have been helped all along. fo has Korea. Military assistance monéy sets up $27.8 million for Korea, Philippines and Iran.
-firing, fore he acts. If Denham
now totaling $7! billion, can
against Sen. Taft in Ohio is Feb. 1, and party and labor bigwigs still haven't produced candidate that satisfies them. Strongest man in field so far is State Auditor Joe Ferguson who got inte it on his own, says he's staying. National Democratic Chairman Boyle goes to Ohio next week to look situation over, may urge Mayor Thomas - Burke of Cleveland to run. There's growing suspicion that Truman and Boyle don’t want to see Taft beaten for Senate; that they hope he’ll be built up as presidential candidate in 1952. They. figure Truman could beat Taft, would have more trouble if GOP drafts’ Eisenhower. =
Coal Showdown ‘Due
LOOK FOR decision on using Taft-Hartley against John L. Lewis by middle of next week.
chance
goes into court with unfair labor prac: tices charge, it will take
Mr. Denham
heat —off —President Truman who's being urged to invoke national emergency provisions
of law against Lewis. It's rumored Truman hopes for labor board action, but is letting Denham decide.
» . Oleo Tax Outlook PUZZLE IN margarine taxrepeal. picture: -Both sides agree thit repeal of federal taxes will. mean in-
. creased margarine cénsump-
“tion. Demand for butter likely will drop. That probably means government will have to take more’
butter off market to hold up”
prices, and it already has 105 million pounds it bought 1a¥t year—doesn’'t know what to do
~ with it.
Margarine forces say solution is for dairy interests to increase milk consumption by wiping out barriers that keep. milk from moving from one part of country to another. Another worry: Plans are under way to make more margarine from cocoanut ofl imported from Philippines, less from cottonseed oil grown in South, » . ”
Seek Senate Candidate
COLORADO Republicans may run “glamor” candidate for Senate this year if Eugene Millikin, GOP stalwart, decides not to make race. Talk centers about Frank H. Ricketson Jr, wealthy movie distributor, who made his millions when he invented and copyrighted bank night. He's now mountain states manager for Twentieth Century Fox. Question about . Millikin's candidacy concerns his health. He's long suffered from arthritis, spent several weeks in hospital recently.
But his Senate alds think
he'll run. Choice of a Democratic candidate still waits decision from
President Truman on naming
Gov. Lee Knous to a federal judgeship. Knous wants it, but
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THERE 1s at least a chance
~ that one member of the Public
Commission - will dissent when it comes time to
utility,
has bylit up one of a weightiest cases ever made against a rate hike. This, in turn, means that if one or two or even all three commissioners should feel no increase is justified, they have
and present, have been reluctant to deny rate boosts is that they have to have a good case to stand on. Too frequently,
UTILITIES have a way
: sometimes, of appealing to the
courts if the PSC denies their rate demands. The courts, confronted with a pofwerhouse of expensive evidence from the .
- utility and a weak case for the
public, usually can be expected to reverse the PSC in such instances, Whichever way is goes, the Bell case seems to have proved something. Only if he has the facilities, the technical nelp necessary to match the utility's case, can the Public Coun-
selor's office ever be expected “to be fully effective. "
. Bo long as ft has to be a David-and-Goliath battle between an almost helpless defender and a powerful utility,
Formosa's Nerves on Edge as End of U.S. Aid Nears: Chiang's War Machine Overstrains Island's Economy
Forced to Feed 500,000 Troops By GORDON CUMMING Compiled From the Wire Services The Nationalists on Formosa today were becoming more jittery for the Feb, 15 deadline for the expiration of the China Aid Act has only a few weeks to run. President, Truman's announcement that the United States is unwilling to intérvens militarily on Formosa disappointed some Nationalist hopefuls. But the presidential statement left unanswered the
equally important question of
tary ‘machine, which ‘is a back-~ breaking burden. The ablest foreign Chinese military men are convinced that 150,000 able troops would be ample to defend Formosa. But at present the island Is forced to support and feed an estimated 500000 personnel scattered on Formosa and numerous islands along the China coast from the Yangtze River south. Make Two Requests It is also supporting topheavy duplicate mititary estab lishments with the Formosa Command, the Southeast China Command and the Ministry of Defense all overlaping The Chinese Nationalists on Formosa were understood to have made £wo separate requests for future U. 8. financial assistance. "The first was for roughly $7'% million of immediate “stopgap aid” to be allocated before Feb. 15 from the re-’ maining approximately $90 million appropriated under the China Aid Act. The second request was “in. ormal unofficial suggestions”
“to the Economic Co-Opération
Administration in Washington for expenditure of roughly $50 millions on Formosa after Feb. 15. ‘ Fights Inflation ECA expenditures in Formosa so far have totaled nearly $14 million. These funds have financed the purchase of fertilizer, cotton and crude oil, plus the activities of the J. G. White Engineering Firm advising the Nationalists on reconstruction. Proceeds from the sale of ECA commodities provided the money for the |island-wide work of the Sino-American Joint Compnission on Rural Reconstruction. The Nationalists want to use the requested. $7.5 million: aid
“to step up the importation of
commodities. Commodity sales proceeds would be uséd to counter government deficit imposed by heavy military expenditures. The second suggested $50 million assistance. the Nationalists want to. use to finance continuation of this program after Feb, 15, Money Presses Run They also would use the funds to purchase vegetable oils and other ‘essentials lost with the mainland, .and to finance the importation of spare parts and machinery for Formosan railways and factories. Since last June the Formosa currency issued has jumped from 13 million to 197 million Formosan dollars as the Nationalists financed the military by printing money. The Nationalists hold a gold reserve to back 200 milljon Formosan
dollars at the official rate of _
five Formosan dollars to one greenback, But the black market today gives nine to one. Unless additional U. 8. aid is forthcoming and the military burden drastically reduced the Natlonali here face prospects of b ruptcy—informed guesses suggest that “at the present rate they could hold together for-from four to eight months before collapsing.
Hong Kong
ADDITIONAL British warships were reported en route to Hong Kong today, strengthening the belief the Royal Navy may begin convoying merchant ships through the Nationalist blockade to Communist-held Shanghal. A British naval spokesman at Hong Kong said such action would depend on “high level dereached In London. However, three warships recently were added to the fleet at Hong Kong and three more there from
inflation due to the .
- recognized the Vichy government. were carried on through the
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What U. §. Can Do About Red China
Times Specia
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Jan. 7 —Months or even years
might elapse before the United States recognizes Red
China.
Before recognition, de jure or de facto, is granted, there must be the fullest debate in Congress and out. Meantime, British recognition of the Chinese Reds might well serve the United States and other nations. When Germany overran France, the United States
British affairs with France
“trade with China in setting up ‘trade missions.
Britain did not.
Sov iet
Russia dealt with the United States in that way 17 years. Diplomatic affairs could be arranged through the British. Commercial affairs already are being handled .
by unofficial traders.
The naval spokesman said
any decision to convoy merchantmen would be complicated by the fact the Nationalist gunboats have been operating within Chinése territorial waters, which British- warships are not permitted to enter without specific permission. Some observers advanced the possibility that British recognition of the Communist government might place the Nationalist gunboats in the position of “pirates.” But others said British recognition did not give the Navy permission to seek out Nationalist warships inside the three mile limit. . ' A dpokesman for Butterfield & Swire, leading coastal traders, said all British lipes were notified “some time ago” that the Nationalists want British ships to trade at Vationaist “~PpOrts matic status of the two nations.
France
BRITAIN'S recognition of the Chinese... Communist regime,—announced Friday, was granted only after the United States and France had been notified, it was reported today. At the same time, it was not approved by either the United States or France. Washington had wanted Britain to act in concert with the United States and France, For the United States it is essential to have the situation on Formosa cleared up. And it 1s" also difficult. tp recognize the Reds when the administration already is being lambasted by the Republicans for the failure of its entire China policy.
France wants to wait at
least until it can give a slightly
military-political basis to the government of Bao Dai, antiCommunist Emperor of Indo-~ China. The French National Assem-
bly has been so busy with the °
budget it has not yet ap-
Come an’ Get It
proved the agreement signed by France last Mar. 8 giving Bao Dai's regimé a modicum of independence within the French empire, French recognition of the Chinese Reds at this moment would pull the stuffing right out of Bao Dali's set-up and play into the hands of Ho Chi Minh, Communist leader of the Nationalist forces who have been fighting the French since December, 1946. Britain, on the other hand, has been insisting for many months that nothing is to be gained by further delay in rec-
ognizing the horrible fact that _
China has gone Red, and that Britain at least quickly to save as much as possible from the fire. Britain hopes by a policy of accommodation and appeasement to cement its ‘osition at Hong Kong
and-to-save—its—extensive-com-———
mercial shipping interests along
, the China coast.
Japan
TEN Japanese Diet members today awaited a trip to the United States to study legislative procefses at the expense of the American taxpayers. Accompanied by four Japanese government officials, making a party of 14, the Diet men will leave Tokyo by air on Jan. 14 for a 45-day tour of America. They will study the state legislatures at Columbia, 8.C,, Boston and Albany. They will algo look in on the United Nations and observe Congress in action. Each member of the group will be advanced $210 ‘‘incidentals,” plus $240 against a salary of $16 a day while in the United States. . . The program is part of the Army's reorienting project to acquaint both the Germans and Japanese with American practices. A mad scramble developed among Diet men when the
must act:
150,000 Ample To Defend Refuge
trip was made known, The prestige of a trip to America is such that Japanese politiclans say ft's worth a 2-mil-tion-yen campaign fund.
Australia
THE 3 - week - old Conservative government bluntly warned today that it was prepared to break a Communistled dock strike without ‘mercy or respect.” The new government has Rledged to'outlaw the Commu‘fist Pj
hil ii, Sydney, w acre
to other Australian ports, was called by the Communist-domi-nated Federal Executive Committee of the Waterside Workers Federation over the employment of two nonunion first ald officers.
Austria
LAUNCHING bases for guided missiles aimed at Yugoslavia will be completed by the end of this month in the Matra Mountains in Hungary, the jnonthly publication “Hungarian. Communist” reported today. “Hungarian Communist” said construction of the bases was announced by Hungarian Defense Minister Mihaly Farkas "at a secret Cominform military conference which took place in Hungary Nov. 15. Western sources here agreed that their informants also have told them the Cominform. is building a wall of guidéd mis‘sile bases around most of Yugoslavia. They said the magazine’'s report ‘ ‘concurs with our own ‘information.’ “Hungarian Communist’ (Magyar Kommunista) is a “Titoist organ which -is-believed to be mimeographed in Eastern Europe, but which usually carries French postmarks.
Czechoslovakia
A BUTCHER, a factory owner and two other men convicted of espionage for an unnamed foreign power were hanged yesterday after the Brno supreme court rejected their appeals for merey. The official news agency said the four were ‘leaders of a group which had assassinated one public official and had tried to carry out other slayings, all unsuccessful. Neither the name of the dead official nor the place of the assassination was revealed.
Hungary
THE Hungarian government “informed the United States last night that ‘no threat or
menace with reprisals” could make it tolerate ‘foreign interference with its —internal affairs.”
The note, delivered to U. 8B. Minister to Budapest Nathaniel P. Davis, indicated that Hungary had no intention of releasing Robert Vogeler, as- . sistant vice. president. of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., as demanded by the United States. Mr. Vogeler has been held in‘eommunicado by Hungarian police since he was arrested Nov. 18 when about to leave Hungary for Austria. The note said he was being held on “well-founded suspicion” of espionage and sabotage.
Hoffman Sees ECA Windup - At Added Cost of $5 Billion
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UP) day that another $5 billion of American aid would wind up the Marshall Plan and set Europe well on the road to recovery by
mid-1952,
The economic aid chief made that forecast to 15 American editors who are leaving New York tomorrow, at their own ex-
pense, to see the Marshall Plan in action in Britain, France, Italy and Western Germany. Mr. Hoffman said $10 billion already has been appropriated for the European Recovery Program and that the job could be finished by June 30, 1952, for a total outlay of $15 billion. That would be $2 biilion less than was expected when the project began in the summer Of 1948. : He indicated during a 2%hour talk with the editors that the aid program will require
slightly more than $3 billion In
"the 1951 fiscal year =
tarting July 1 and about $2 billion for fiscal
"He said that if Westérn Bu---3e fell under Russian domi... rade and 1
© up to the General Assembly. It
TOIL even though’ they seem to
ee iyestrtice An effect -here-for--four days and slowly spreading
The answer probably will be
lies in the creation of a Counselor’'s office entirely separate from the PSC, with its own staff and its own funds. This would help the commissioners just as much as it would the public—they could feel reasonably sure they had all the story on both sides,
‘nour or more, and many smale ler exchanges are expected 10 . be forced into following. i IN YHEIR anxiety to. go -8o_the rural folk can thank along with certain Fair Deal the Fair Deal, and the Repubs" measures the GOP may have licans who went Mog Jost missed a bet. they offend somebody fos Certainly ‘the 75-cent hourly newest increase in their cost rofl minimum wagé law is classfied as a Fair Deal measure. A lot of Republicans, including Sen, Homer E. Capehart, voted for
‘because they felt the mintmum 4 - ‘wage law had merit. At nest, that would be a new reason for ~ a politician’ to support somes thing. ? .
feel it’s part and parcel of a vast push toward socialism. Now the new minimum wage law is bringing a flurry of tele-
Our Fair City— Every Time lt Rains
It Ain't Pennies We Get-It's Floods
Main Sewer System Designed for Population 50% Smaller Than Present One EVERY time it rains in Indianapolis it floods. Since there's no stopping rain, only bigger, better sewage system can halt floods. Main sewer system was designed for needs of popus lation of 25 to 50 per cent less than present census totals. Business and industrial sections are retarded by lack of sewer ‘hookups in outlying districts. -
~Enginsers, I CKIng me ruining roads, causing discomfort. But they say trash and debris thrown in streets by citizens helps seal drains, adding to flocd conditions. ) City officials are at loss to cope with problem until legal jam is cleared. “All we can do is try to fix clogged sewers and wait for water to recede,” they say.
Riders aboard crowded Pennsylvania St. trolley stumbled over one another to clear path for absent minded chiropractic college student one day last week. Sticking from his coat pocket was skeleton foot, used for study, which he had thrust there, forgot to remove.
old “I've been misquoted” dodge. Last week, during a press conference, a reporter sald: “Governor, you have been quoted as saying . ..” “I didn’t say it,” the Gove ernor snapped. The reporter never did get to finish what
u ” ” 4Inwieldy Project VAST Center Township reassessment program will drag out for months after Apr. 1 deadline at taxpayers’ expense, despite official reports to the contrary. __Work is progressing slowly, project is unwieldy. Errors are multiplying as deadline nears. Workers are divided into two warring camps—for and against top brass. Top complaint is appointment of new supervisors, many allegedly not qualified for higher jobs. Pep talks by boss Roy T. Combs have backfired. Now workers complain about speedup system.
quoted as as saying.
Unsung Heroines FOUR Federal building switchboard operators were un« sung heroines when rain, floods, ice, snow and record heat for season all fell on hare ried Paul A. Miller and his Weather Bureau staff last week. With Weather Bureau phones continuously swamped, operas tors on voluntary basis ans’ swered 1400 phoned inquiries daily, gave out forecasts and temperatures to worried public, took some of routine load off overworked weather staff.
- sn Sheriff Cunningham is . learning hard way what is and what isn’t inside city limits.
” ” ” Official announcement will come later, with appropriate fanfare, but you can bet your dollar that the Speedway Pace Car will be a Plymouth next Memorial Day. u » ” Political Fear HIGH ranking police officers who suspended Patrolman Jacque (Jack) Durham for “con-
duet unbecoming an officer” i ) , He spent hours at. height Yous like to forget whole deal of last week's sleet storm di recting trafic and clearing . They fear testimony in Durham's Circuit Court appeal of Ponbleion ra hriags Safety Board decision will air » Just pa eado =r apartments. Then he noticed
political moves in police de- sign ahead which said “City partment. 34m 3 " Durfiam's lawyers have com- Dis ’ sted sherilt —callod piled data they believe will City ¥ police. Cops sald make Page 1 splash, with re- “Thanks. " percussions unpleasant to several police officials. TU Law School classmates of Ingprovement? Durham, incidentally, have IZEN reports she waited chance to get close look at 45 minutes—first for Pennsyl
vania trackless trolley, then for Delaware bus—but never got ride.
legal procedure. Durham who is a college graduate and is studying law at night echool,
issued open invitation for fel- During that period three ex< low students to attend court press busses from 38th passed, hearing. not, full, and several crammed
regular busses failed to stop. “Is this one of transit firm's improvements?” would be rider wants to know. Times writer Dan Kidney In Washington notes one of chief complaints from gh ana. regarding Truman ministration is that it hy changed government trom one checks and balances to “all checks and no bale:
” ” ” Gov. Schricker has developed new technique on the
Paul G. Hoffman predicted to-
VINCENNES zoo has the ceived by plane strange a from North Africa, gift from Sultan of Morocco. Feline is & lionceau, neither lion nor tiges but hybird or cross between them, ! - Animal has both stripes and mane, is very rare, and few, are in captivity. : bo But don’t go hu to Vincennes on the
to see the critter. Lionosrg 18
nation this country would lose its best customer and the $15 "billion being spent.on national defense this year would have to be doubled. “The real battle of democracy against communism is taking place In Western Europe,” he said. “If Russia has a real plan for world conquest she has got to get Western Eu-
rope. She needs her raw mate- 4 Vincennes 200 in suburbs rials and factories.” Paris, France. Indiana's Mr. Hoffman and other re- cannes was named - covery officials emphasized that . Jor 1
even though the overall recov- _ ery program ends in 1952, some _ of patrons European countries may need | further help. And they said
Bwore still has a le th i
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