Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1950 — Page 15
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- Seen; Expect Draft Act Doomed | By The Scripps-Howard Newspapers “WASHINGTON, Jan 28-Here's what you can expot from Congress in next few months: FEPC bill » will pass House, will die in conventional
Senate buster. " Nothing will come of
constitutional reforms now
being debated in Senate. House won't touch equal-rights amendment. If Senate approves electoral college reform (doubtful), House will kill that, too. "Fact is that Senate is killing time, waiting till middle-
income housing bill is ready.
Housing will come up in 10
days or two weeks, will be pushed through. “If social security bill is ready it may be up next. Administration wants to get its program through by Easter, so
last
part of session can be devoted to appropriations.
FEPG
filibuster will be fitted in whenever convenient,
Draft act will not be renewed.
Most administration can
hope for is “standby” law, keeping registration machinery. Congress will retain right to say, by special resolution, when drafting
can be started again.
* Administration won't even try for legislation to authprize
general mobilization. Administration leaders count on wheat and cotton-area Congressmen to keep ECA appropriations from being slashed too much. Major cuts would reduce ECA-financed cotton and wheat exports and force further acreage cutbacks. Senate Majority Leader Lucas argues that what ECA doesn’t send overseas will have to be paid for by government
anyway, through support prices. Democrats’ Hopes Soar
POLITICS DEPARTMENT: Pennsylvania Democrats have best chance since 1930's of capturing state government, will
nominate Philadelphia City Treasurer Richardson Dil- . worth.
State leadership knows it may have a maverick on its hands, but will surely have intra-party revolt if it doesn’t take him. Dilworth helped expose GOP City Hall scandals in Philadelphia, won with 110,000 majority there, in last election. . Look for William B. Widnall, Republican, to get New Jersey House seat left vacant when J. Parnell Thomas resigned. That congressional district was gerrymandered long ago in GOP favor, Gov. Alfred Driscoll, sure to be considered for 1952 GOP ticket, stayed out of primary fight between Windnall and Harry Harper, though Harper was member of Driscoll cabinet. However, powerful Bergen County local leaders took’ shellacking.
Put Blame on Truman BLAME for delay in launching House lobby investigation belongs to President Truman. He's quoted as favoring inquiry, no- matter who's involved, but wants Chairman Frank Buchanan of House Investigating Committee to hold off till he's absolutely sure of his ground. President's said to hope Buchanan will develop investigating body like one old Truman committee had during War. Buchanan agrees on need for sound organization before he starts. Committee motto: “Lobbying in itself is not a crime. But there are abuses in lobbying practices.” A)
Tackle Tax Problem HOUSE Ways and Means’ Committee will concentrate first on tax loopholes when it starts work next week. Purpose is to get firm estimate of how increased revenue might come from stopping leaks, before repeal of excise taxes is considered. Democrats on committee are saying Mr. Truman Wants whole excise tax system studfed, not just items he named in his message. Chairman Emanuel Celler of House Judiciary Committee is on sitdown strike against proposed Justice Department compromise on basing point legislation. Mr. Celler refuses to move for appointment of House conferees to meet with Senators and consider the proposal. Some other member of Judiciary Committee may act, possibly Rep. Francis E. Walter of Pennsylvania. . -
» ‘Fails to Get Pitch’ CHIEF OCOUNSEL FRANK 8. TAVENNER of House UnAmerican Activities Committee
is on skids. Growing number of committee members say he won't do; that he “doesn’t get the pitch,” that his mind is not adaptable to kind of “curves” tossed in subversive investigations. He's missed boat on many interrogations, they say. Chances are he'll be kicked upstairs to soft job in Justice Department. Wartime Commission has stepped into situation sure to give it many a headache. It has just foreclosed om 21 ships owned by Chinese Nationalists, on which commission holds mortgages totaling more than $20 million. Foreclosure was decided on when three ships at Hong Kong hoisted red flag. Others are scattered. Some are loaded with cargo.
Fight Hospital Merger
CONGRESS will not adopt Hoover commission recommendation that federal hospitals be consolidated under single head. Pressure from American Legion and other veterans’ organizations has killed ‘it, Gen. McNarney, Defense Department co-ordinator, has found way to cure part of manpower shortage services complain of.. He's ordered 1000 officers and enlisted men off recruiting duty, put them back at soldiering and sailoring. Another 2000 were freed by cutting down military's station wagons and sedans. Too many soldiers and sailors were detailed as chauffeurs.
Slow Start
GOP “PRICL. TAG” committee is slow getting started in House. Chairman Taber still has not named subcommittees, though plan for informing public ‘om-cost of all bills moving through Congress was announced two weeks ago. Taber says delay has been caused by FEPC maneuvering. He vows his group will even count cost of GOP bigwigs’ pet bills—such as minority Leader Joseph Martin's nill to give his Massachusetts district a new veterans’ hospital.
Pork Prices Hold Own
GOVERNMENT still hasn't had to buy pork to hold up prices to hog growers. Agriculture officials keep fingers crossed, but think they may be past danger point. Orderly marketing by farmers, und big purchases by consumers have done trick.
‘Big Steel's announcement of iron ore deposits in Venezuela may have ended hope for St. Lawrence seaway. Advocates were arguing seaway was needed to. bring iron ore from Labrador.
You'll hear more about anti-
usury bill sponsored by Rep. Walter (D. Pa.). It's aimed
at interstate loan sharks who -
operate in many regions with poorest families as victims. Bill would fix 3 per cent a month limit on interest rates for all interstate loans. Hearings will be scheduled soon.
Crack at Truman
EITHER PRESIDENT Truman is becoming more unpopular, or crackpots are increasing. Secret Service says threats against President, crackpot letters, numbered 262 a month for first five months of this fiscal year. Last year rate was only 171 a month.
Japan Quits Dope Trade,
Once Tool of
Corruption
By KEYES BEECH, Times Foreign Writer TOKYO, Jan, 28—Japan today no longer floods the world with contraband narcotics, thanks to stern measures taken by
American occupation authorities,
Smugglers still take their risks but their trade has been
dried up to a trickle.
* Illegal drugs have become so hard to get, in fact, that they
command higher prices here than they do In Re United States. Before the war opium pro--diction was a government monopoly that yielded rich profits. And the Japanese used nar-
“to corrupt subject Chi-
Biles in Manchuria systemati. nese.
Although opium smoking was banned in pre-war Japan, practically no control was exereised over the sale of heroin,
Health and Welfare Section, banned the growing of
coast guard.
Occupation forces confiscated huge stocks of narcotics found in caves, medical depots and army and navy hospitals in Japan. These drugs have since been turned over to occupation-ap-proved wholesale houses for repackaging and distribution under strict control. Heroin and opium are smuggled into Japan from Korea, Hong Kong and Formosa, despite efforts of the Japanese
About: 175 ' smugglers are picked up every month by Japanese narcotics agents trained under American supervision.
Coprright, 1950. by The Indianapolis Times and Citicago Daily News, Ine,
to have been a signal for a‘
group of party members to get set for a grab at party control. Number one target of this group, it is safe “to presume, is National Committeeman Frank McHale. ~ ~ ~ ODDLY enough, Mr. McHale is not one of those reportedly slated for the skids, Even the Republicans have a sort of half-baked stake in judge appointment. If Mr. Steckler doesn’t get the appointment the GOP will be deprived of a long cherished issue for the coming campaign. Opposition to Mr. Steckler is based, politically at least, on opposition to Mr. McHale. The national committeeman’s opponents consider him a political dictator. They feel that he should not be permitted to
“dictate” Mr. Steckler's appointment, although that World Report—
own party severely burned at the polls by charges of political
«Jossion. They have dreamed . pefully of making Mr. Mc- ~_ Hale one of . their campaign
issues, painting him as a dic-
tator. But If Mr. Steckler doesn't win the , his alleged promoter, McHale, will
turn out to be a very low grade dictator indeed. It would be his second failure in about as
many months. His last unsue- |
cessful effort, also opposed within the party as well as from the outside, was to get party Secretary John Hurt made U. 8. District Attorney. In all of it, of course, the ordinary citizen Is just a spectator. Only way we can suggest for mere voters to figure out what's going to happen js just to wait and see. ~ » »
THERE would be one major drawback to setting up a “little Hoover Commission” for Indiana government. This state needs & 197th commission like it needs a case of hives. The books are filled with commissions of all kinds, many of which have finished their jobs and passed into history, without results. It would be comparatively easy matter to get the legislature to set up such a commission to weed out and simplify state government. It would be
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Just love to make pressure groups happy by set-
ting up almost any kind of a - commission
or board want, Past performance would indicate that a “little Hoover Commission” would have a better chance if it could issue licenses of some kind-—any kind. . The real hub would come when the study commission fin ed its recommendations and tried to get a legislature to put them into effect. That's when the groups with pet boards and commissions would come screaming in. Each group would regard simplicity, efficiency and economy as excellent things provided only they be applied to somebody else, In fact, getting a legislature to enact a down-to-earth government reform proposal would rate as one of the best tricks of the century.
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HOOSIER Oscar Ewing wins the title of "Mr. Welfare State
Himself" in the current jssue of Collier's, The big question about the Federal! Security Administra tor, according to the maga-
zine's lead article, is whether Mr. Ewing is a crusader or a dictator. As number one bureaucrat in the federal government's vast give-away establishment, the article says, he lost nothing when the Senate refused to elevated his job tc Cabinet rank. He is described as “more powerful than ever,” a man who has opposition. Senators: wondering what's going to happen to them in the coming election.
This Hoosier bureaucrat sits n the heart of what probably will decide the coming election, in Indiana as well as elsewhere, The New Deal gave the voters a taste of what government could do for them. The Fair Deal, with Mr, Ewing as one of its brain-parents, has staked its future on the belief that the taste has developed an insatiable appetite. Some Republicans in Indiana still feel glumly that the Democrats have got a corner on the give-away business and the GOP. hasen't got a chance. Others like to pliy at the same game-—just a little, of course. For example, Congresswoman Cecil Harden of the Indiana sixth district this week urged a full study of the government pension and old age assistance program. She doesn’t think the payments are big enough and comments that she is receiving an increasing flow of complaints from pensioners who can’t make ends meet. Looking at Mr. Ewing ‘and at Mrs, Harden, it would seem there's something a lot of poli-
ticlans are overlooking. You can't argue with what the peo ple want. There's still plenty of room for discussion as to how to get it and how much of it should come from government, Mr. Ewing and Mrs. Harden Democrat and Republican, both seem to know what voters want, 1f trey are to take issue with one another at the polls Mrs. Harden and other Republicans will have to think of
some better way to provide it than Mr. Ewing's way. ‘The Ewing article shows how clearly the Fair Deal sees what it must do. When Republicans are equally clear, maybe the voters will be able to figure out which way to vote
French No Longer Cowed by Reds’ Rage, Hail U. S. Aid; Marshall Plan Countries Act to Hurdle Trade Barriers
Officials Candid
In Their Gratitude
By GORDON CUMMING Compiled From the Wire Services Once shy of any overt expression of gratitude, French officials today pull all stops in candid acknowledgements of America’s part in France's economic recovery comeback. Unofficially, French appreciation has been profuse enough. But French authorities have been fearful of Communist propaganda. Any show of thanks is invariably apt to be blatantly described by the Communist press—in a country where one out of every citizen votes Red —as proof of “French subservience to dollar imperialism.” But that era is all over now. “Thank you, America” is being heard more distinctly and more frequently in official circles. . Three reasons explain their unabashed appreciation. ONE: French officials have come to accept the truth that Communists will talk and squawk anyway, so why be terrified by their propaganda. TWO: It is difficult to hide America’s share in France's magnificent recovery. THREE: ECA officials here have made it clear that American taxpayers demand some concrete signs of appreciation. Foreign Minister Schuman shot the first counter-propa-ganda gun of gratitude when he recently inaugurated the triple-plant steel strip mills at Sollac in Lorraine, largest of their kind in all Europe. “This peaceful task,” Mr. Schuman trumpeted, ‘would not have been possible without the generous and independent help which came from the United States.” Marker Unveiled And, in the Vernier Marshes between the towns Quille-Boeuf and Pont Audemer, in Normandy, an even more conspicuous testimonial was recorded in stone. It is a marker which was unveiled by Yves Ihuel, undersecretary for agriculture. Imbedded at a suitable spot to last for generations, it bears the words: “Fifty-four thousand acres of Marais Vernier were reclaimed with the generous help of ERP, provided by the United States of America.” Local farmers expect their land to be France's best for the cultivation of vegetables, wheat and last but not least, mint, which France imports in great quantity.
. . Great Britain WINSTON CHURCHILL, in ringing oratory reminiscent of his wartime speeches, last night accused the Labor government of “frittering away” billions of dollars in U. 8. aid and bringing Britain to the brink of bankruptcy in trying to socialize the nation. His first speech a week ago was mild compared to the one last night when he took off the kid gloves and ripped the Soclalists from every quarter. Speaking in the Woodford “district after local Conservatives had formally “adopted” him as their candidate for Parliament, Mr. Churchill declared that Britain should by now be out of debt, secure and independent of foreign aid. He assailed the Laborites for
" making no mention of Marshall
Plan aid in their election “manifesto,” and repeated the Conservative charge that only
the fiction of the Mongolian Soviet
is complete.
penetration is ond economic strategic domination is well
“Economic ond political |
penetration is
less ad-
vanced” than in Outer Mongolic and Manchuria but
follows the same
&. HAINAN
Pacific Ocean
4 FORMOSA
PHILIPPINES
Angry howls rolled out of the Kremlin after Secretary of State Dean Acheson charged that Russia was grabbing off four spheres in Northern China, indicated on the map by diagonal shading. Type boxes quote the American charges. In Manchuria alone, the U. S. contends, Russia runs the railroads; occupies Darien and Port Arthur, the two key ports; absorbs more than half the farm products, and rules coal and gold mines as well as
tion, strict economy and united efforts by all parties and classes” to get the country back on its feet.
Czechoslovakia THE Communist weekly Tvorba said today that a rew Prague tune called “Endless Love” is “poisoning the soul of the Worker.” The song, which is the current rage of local dance halls and coffee houses, goes: “I have been dreaming a little dream about a beautiful girl. “It was so much fun I didn't want to wake up. “But roosters in the neighbors’ yard spoiled the fun. “And I woke up. “But I got even. I went out, bought a gun, and shot the darn birds. “Now I can't go out because all my neighbors are angry at me. “80 I am waiting for my - dream to return so I can find out how it ended.” Tvorba said the author either was mad or a deliberate reactionary. “He is poisoning the soul-of the working man with his song which has no ideal and no form,” it added.
Australia
A Protestant defeated By a Catholic Laberite at the recent general elections today petitioned the high court to disqualify his opponent because he owed allegiance to a “foreign power” -—the Vatican. The Protestant, Henry William Crittenden, alleged the victorious Laborite, Gordon Anderson, had no right under the election law to become a member of parliament while he was “under any acknowledgement, allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power.” Mr. Crittenden said the Vatican was restored to sovereign status by the signing of the Lateran Treaty between Mussolini and the Pope.
United Nations
case, informed sources revealed today at Lake Success, N. Y. Soviet delegates were understood to be spreading the word that the Russian boycott is strictly temporary and not the
prelude to a final United Na-’
tions pull-out. Meanwhile, Secretary - General Trygve Lie was reported contacting Security Council members to see if anything could be done to speed return of the Russians. The issue hinged on how soon two more council members would drop recognition of the Chinese Nationalists and thereby provide the sixth and seventh votes needed to oust Chaing Kai-shek's delegates. The two members likeliest to do so are Egypt and Ecuador.
Germany
TRUCK traffic through the Helmstedt bottleneck was close to normal today as the Rus-
power and industrial plants,
sians eased their never-ex-plained “little blockade” of Berlin after a week and a half. Accustomed to rapid switches in Russian policy, Americans in Berlin adopted a patient “wait and see” policy, but they pointed hopefully to these other good omens: ONE: The Communist East German government has been authorized to issue travel permits in and out of Berlin. Up until now the Soviets reserved this power for themselves. The Germans promised the permits will be issued without delay. TWO: The East German government withdrew, without explanation, its announcement of last night that permits will be needed to go from Berlin's Western sector to the Eastern sector and back Trucks carrying milk and perishable food were moved ahead.
From a ‘Trial’ Marriage
or Theater o
Gets a Chilling Wiles
Firm Has Answer in Figures Why There Is Little Interest."
By The Times City Staff DREAMS OF new theater to replace old English ¢ on.
Circle are pure fairy fluff,
Even the civic nudge Mrs, Evadne Hayward Hibben gave Equitable Life Assurance Co., putting up new build. ing for the Penney store, didn't get a look at first base. Leo M. Rappaport, attorney, and president of Circle Theater
Co., lot of money
has cold, hard figures, Unless somebody wants to throw a to philanthropic winds, there won't be another
legitimate theater in town for years, if ever.
Circle Theater Co., had English Theater, Ine.,
thrown into its
lap. Mr. Rappaport has the figures. Long before it went to dust, the old English wasn’t beginning to break even,
another $15,000. That makes
About 20 years ago the Circle company took over. Average
earnings of English Theater . ran from $6000 to $20,000 annually. New theater would cost $750,000 td $1 million. Take £750.000 at 6 per cent, There's $45.000 in’ rent. Improvement and property tax would add
$60,000 a year,
And there's
more,
Add $22,500 depreciation, and
vou're up to $82,500. Put in-
surance on
top and fixed harges total $85,000. So . . . the old
heater is dust, dnd in
English dust
will remain.
L MORE & ® | en v\ PROSPERITY | egy
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Bie ‘nial bombardment of Indianapolis voters is about to
begin,
Starting next week, scores of aspirants for nolitical offices will lay down barrage of literature and oratory, promising people
great things—if they're elected.
More prosperity, lower taxes, better public service, more jobs—everything will be better if only the voters will elect them,
they'll say.
- Candidates must register names for primary ballots by Apr,
1, or 30 days before election May 2
Lot of promises will be made in the next three months.
Gate Crasher?
SHERIFF Jim Cunningham found himself under suspicion as a gate crasher when he went Tallulah Bankhead's
to see play last week. The sheriff bought four tickets, got an envelope marked 4,” and thought there
was a quartet of pasteboards inside. But when he handed his tickets to the usher the latter took a look and said: “Huh, four people—three tickets.” But nobody was tossed oul. Either the sheriff's honest face or the number on the envelope — did the trick. The usher hunted up an extra seat. =. u an
Unimpressed WHEN Rep, James E. Noland, Bloomington Democrat, showed President Truman a newspaper story in which Sen. Homer Capehart blamed Truman for Vincennes flood, the President recalled he hadn't seen Capehart for some time, Last time was during a previous coal strike when the senior Hoosier Senator went to
White House, asked "President to meet with John L. Lewis and settle tieup “You've got to do it,” Senator
¥
said. “Why, this strike is costs ing me $10,000 a day.”
President Truman reported he was unimpressed. LJ = n Talk in GOP JUDGE SAUL [I RABB,
ardent organization man, has
caused more than mild buzz in.’
GOP ranks by recent frequent appointment of Glenn W. Funk to set in his court as judge pro tem. Mr. Funk, former deputy prosecutor, is considered one of violent, vitriolic and stalwart leaders of American Way faction, bitter anti-organization group. Coincidence? Neither judge nor Glenn wil Comment,
The Big Push CITY 9, ALL officials are pushing the $25-a-plate Jef-ferson-Jackson fete Mar. 4. All phone conversations either open or close with the question: “Have you bought your ducat yet?” If the caller has, he's given a cheery greeting. If not, the loud click of the phone re ceiver can make the negligent one regret his faux pas, It's standard operation
procedure at the Hall until the Murat affair,
Each day from 5 to 6 p. m. a thundering herd of busses, like
awkward red and yellow swoops into performing
“ring”
elephants with sealed-beamed eyes, around the Monument.
Supervisor in white slic ker with thrilling whistle is ring-
master running show. On sidewalk,
tired, bundled,
ride-eager crowds jockey for
position, trying to guess where busses will stop.
It's a study in confusion,
ground music, Special knots are mistake,
with muttering overtones as backs
tied when riders get on express bus by back out again elbowing in-bound crowd.
Performance is same nightly: Bus company gets them off, gets them on, takes their tokens, takes them home. It's city's best one-ring circus, drama-packed if you look around, nerve-wearing if you're in the grind,
Cash and Carry
REP. WINFIELD K. DEN--TON, Evansville’s Democratic Congressman whose Washington home is on a hilftop, had to borrow money for bus fare the other day, reports Dan Kidney of "The Times Wash ington Bureau. “ Arriving at the bus stop after a dash downhill, the Congressman felt in his pocket. No money. The Hoosier law-
maker hurried into a grocery, asked for loan of a dollar, and got it. “Of course I was embarrassed,” he said, “but that didn’t make me feel nearly so bad as I would have felt walkAhg back up that hill.” A colleague commented there is one place where Mr, Denton would like very much to climb: To the federal bench in Indianapolis
» ” ” Refuses All Blame CITY OFFICIALS refuse to accept all blame for chuckholes and deterioration of streets improved only with “stabilized gravel” instead of concrete — especially to resi dential areas. City Hall says boards recommend concrete; petitioners object to. cost and ask cheaper
Job. Result: 'Streets break up, residents complain to City Hall.
Works board is scheduled to
decide tomorrow whether con-:
struction of gravel streets will be okayed in future,
He only wanted 36 mine utes of parking time. y He didn't want to buy the . . meter, A Franklin motorist mopped his brow after rune ning all the way from Mar. ket and Delaware Sts., to the City Hall, He had inserted ‘three pennies” in meter No. 301, he told City Controller Phil Bayt. But then he discovered that one of the coins was a
98-year-old $2.50 gold plece; a
a gooll tek heirloom. Dutch Behrent, meter ecollections custodian,
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Meter's eoln bust. Meters up and down the block Aine only