Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1950 — Page 25
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ity kes issue with e Taft-Hartley the editorial I jeration in his strike’ on ace Rh satisfactory
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Navy Makes Gas Substitute Out of
Experts Develop Hydrozine From
Formula Captured in Germany By The Scripps-Howard Newspapers
_ WASHINGTON, Mar. 1
11—Navy now knows how to
make a sustitute for gasoline out of air and water. New product is called hydrozine. Navy has. been . operating heavy trucks and other ‘vehicles with the new motor fuel, developed from formula
eaptured in Germany.
Oil industry needn't worry, about competition for a
while. Hydrozine costs 100 tim
nt price of’gasoline.
- Naval research says it can’t Wet make hydrozine on mass production basis, can’t yet make it cheaper. But it’s working on both problems, says it will lick them even-
tually
Navy thinks there's a. large “potential commercial market”
for its product.
One naval contractor, Matheson Chemical Co.
of Baltimore, aiready has" enough “on hand to ‘sell ‘commercially. Statehood for Alaska dnd Hawalil has less than even chance
in Senate this year,
Biggest obstacle is getting it to floor for a vote.
Interior
~ Committee Chdirman O'Mahoney is dragging his feet on it, though he’s from Wyoming, one of least- -populated states, and
usually © supports administration policy. Leaders have agreed both bills will pass: if either does, since. Alaska is Democratic, Hawaii Republican.
OK of DP Bill Due
LIBERAL SUBSTITUE for McCarran displaced persons bill will pass eventually, according to present signs. Even Senators who conducted recent filibuster against it admit this privately. Roll call’s now scheduled for first week in April. Liberal substitute, backed by Sens. Kilgore and Ferguson, is similar to bill ‘House has already passed.
be less after 1952, regardless of party victories. Reason is reapportionment, which will
“will reflect frend from farm.
to -eity, within states; New York, and Illinois will have to be redistricted because they'll lose House seats. “will redistrict too, but most new districts will be urban. Democrats, traditionally strong in cities, think they can't lose in shake-up, may gain substantially.
Test Farm Sentiment
IOWA'S BEEN selected by Brannan Plan strategists for test of strength of farm sentiment at the polis this fall. Undersecretary of Agricul. _ture Albert Loveland is resigning to seek Democratic U. S. Senate nomination, is expected to win it. He'll make all-out campaign in favor of Brannan Plan. Opposing him will be Sen. B. B. Hickenlooper (R.) who is against plan. Strategy is devised to beard President Allan B. Kline of American Farm Bureau Fedhome state. Kline's opposition has stopped Brannan Plan in its tracks so far. Supporters think if they can elect Loveland in Iowa, other men influenced by farm bureau will take notice, change their tunes.
Cigaret Price Cut Seen
CHEAP CIGARETS soon may be still cheaper. Manufacturers are urging House Ways and Means Committee to figure their federal tax on a percentage basis in-
stead of straight 7-cents-per-
pack. . They complain that 7 cents
package of cigarets and 59 per cent tax on a 14-cent pack. They ask straight 41 per cent taxon alli If they get it, ‘off - brand cigarets will sell for 12 cents instead of 14 cents, except where state sales taxes up the price. They're after a 5-cent
- spread between their brands
and big five. Ways and Means Committee “members listen closely, seem friendly to idea. Lewis Dream Fades — AFL AND -CIO-are drifting
-——————eloser—together;, but the John
L. Lewis dream of heading all organized labor is out the window.
CIO President Murray made cool. and negative reply to mine worker kead’s proposal for an’ alliance; why Walter Reuther of United Autome-
a —bite—
nce of such tion of Comould result in iblic running pillars annualsting law the y is limited to
. l-pointed out } could be asr the Trade der had bee 1 defendants pportunity to through the
lect the fines, vould have to ainst the al-
1so sald the ss a fine of 000 since that Aximum. -
DER WILEY
of the dairy
Lewis’ offer of $1 ‘million loan to his union. AFL and CIO heads distrust Lewis, say he tries to break any organization he can’t dominate. On the other hand, co-opera-tion between two major groups, which used to be confined to lower echelons, has reached top levels,
Faces Congress Battle ONE-BIG-BILL experiment being tried this year by House Appropriations Committee, is running into trouble. Some ‘ Congressmen- predict that _ when roll is called on it in April, bill will be sent back to committee; will be broken up into normal 10 or 12 separate bills. Hurt feelings are caused by “central committee” named by Appropriations Chairman Clarence Cannon to study work of ‘subcommittees, see if they cut as much money as they - could: out of individual appro- . priations. _ "Subcommittee chairmen, an men with much senority, “have spent months giving detailed study to. department cuts, don’t like being overruled: dea of ome big bill was to
Pennayivania Gs
States that gain
15741 per cent tax ona 17-cent
CEewts ambition “is ‘reason
Southern Breeze
who -
for over- : in
. feat if too many members * lose out ‘on pet appropriations,
Hails Webster Selection DEFENSE SECRETARY Johnson is pleased with selection of William Webster to head Research and Development Board. First two chairmen, Vannevar Bush and Karl Compton, were top flight scientists; did not like administrative work. Webster's a businessman, will concentrate on, administrative duties, give scientists free rein on their studies. Privately, junior members of
~ House Arme Com-
mittee credit Indiana's Rep.
Walsh with getting them bet-".
ter deal from Chairman Carl
-—Vinson;-who--long “ruled the committee with an iron hand.
Walsh almost broke up last year's probe into Air ForceNavy feud by rebelling when Vinson cut short his question- ~ ing. Since then, Vinson’s been careful not to give other junfor members a chance to join the Walsh revolt. Committee aids have instructions to tell “Vinson if he’s offended other members. When aids spot hurt feelings, Vinson apologizes.
Called Easy Target
DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL experts here think Sen, Homer Capehart is their easiest tarBet among Republicans up for re-election. And they're now high on own ability to re-elect Sen, Francis Myers of Pennsylvania. Myers had been in _trouble, . but... Republican fae--tional struggle in Keystone state is helping him. Major exodus from House is taking place this. year, regardless of November voting. Seven House members are out for Senate seats—Kunkel (R. Pa.), Monroney (D. Okla.), Smathers (D. Fla.), Douglas (D. Cal.), Nixon (R. Cal.), Carroll (D. Colo.) and Case (R. S. D.). Two others, Engel (R. Mich.) and Miles (D. N. M.), will run for governor. ~~ And- these old-timers are quitting: Reps, Mary T. Norton, Stephen Pace, Sam Hobbs, Alfred Bulwinkle "and Frederick C. Smith. All but Smith are Democrats.
Seek GM Contract
CHRYSLER STRIKE is six
© weeks old, and now United
Auto Workers is preparing to
demands may be made Apr. 1. They'll-include pensions-of $123 a month, severance allowanees;
} “wage increases adding up to 31. .
cents an hour. Auto workers will also try for union shop and will seek to ditch arrangement linking wages with cost of ving: Electoral college amendment has caused first break between House Republicans and Dixiecrats on the rules committee, Republicans voted almost solidly with Northern Democrats to kill the Lodge-Gos-sett amendment, By 1960, 99.9 per cent of all farms in U, 8S, will have elec-.. tricity, Claude Wickard of ‘Rural Electricification Administration predicts. Reason; “All farmers want television.”
A a er ae Fg
move-against-General Motors. Contract expires May 29; new--
Britain;
THE ee = "STATE POLITICS | oh 5 Robert Bloem
GOP jl to Floor Demberofs. if Lotier-
Permit Campaign to Take Its Natural Courts.
Incumbents Likely to Experience Even More Difficulty Than They Did In 1948
MOST OF THE BURDEN in ‘the coming state election is on
"the Democrats. _ -
=,
If they just let Indiana's political nature take its course the
Republicans are going to knock them flat. Democrats were -buck=. TV
ing nature in the last election and they'll have to do it again, under more difficult circumstances, if they want to win this one.
Hoosiers, despite all the talk about ' issues and candidates, vote pretty much the same year in and year out. An analysis of the last presidenttal election in ‘the state indicated only about 20,000 voters, about one in a hundred, actually shifted from one party to the other. The rest of the election story as far as the President was concerned was told by 38,000 Republicans who stayed home and by the push that union or-
ganizations made to get Voters
out.
IN A NUTSHELL, the vot«ing nature of the Hoosiers ‘is this—if he’s a Republican he’s a lot more likely to come to the polls in an off year than if he’s a Democrat. Experience in past years indicates a closely predictable drop in an off year from the preceding presidential year. What happened below the presidential level in Indiana seems pretty clear. Gov. Schricker romped right on past President Truman and while the President was losing the state by a few thousand votes, the Governor was winning it by 140,000. The rest of the candidates on the ticket just sort of split the difference. . So we started with 1948 and an analysis of it provided by the State Chamber of Commerce. Working back, we could see the picture and it didn't
~yary much: The reguiar Repub-
lican and Democrat voters are
World Report—
there. The party that does the
best job of making its. own partisans want to vote will win, . - - ’ THE BETTING ODDS right now must give a slight edge to the GOP. Let's_suppose ‘the Democrats do as ‘good a ,Job, proportionately, as they did in 1948. Then Sen. Capehart would go: back
to the Senate.-not.exactly by
an overwhelming margin, but one vote's as good as a million. Going on from there, Democrat Rep. Thurman Crook
... would. be retired in the Third.
District and a Republican would take his place. Democrat Congressman John Walsh of the Fifth District, too, will lose his seat,
That probably would be the end of .the Congress shifting unless the Republicans hustled enough to pull some of their Ft. Wayne stay-homes out of their rocking chairs. In that event Rep. Ed Kruse of the Fourth District might have to bow to political nature, too. This; of course, doesn't mean the state GOP can sit around
and twiddle its thumbs waiting
for the returns to roll in. Even nature could be balked by .a la-de-da campaign, mainly because that kind of campaign doesn’t give folks any reason to go out and vote. Nor will a lot of yackety-
-~yak-about patriotic duty bring
in 1948
them out. Hoosiers
“
demonstrated a strong distaste
~—for being booted out-of their ~
chairs, A factor in 1948 that seems to have been largely overlooked was the fact that a
-+lot of Democrats joined their
Republican ‘ fellow-citizens and stayed home; too. i ® ow
WHAT OFFSET this was the
fact that- union groups, de-
termined to repeal the Taft-
Hartley Law or bust, got out an equal number: of “citizens ‘Who were not in the habit of voting. What all this means; mainty, is that Hoosier Democrats will have to lean even more heavily this year on their labor union supporters to bring out the vote, Job in an off year if the mass “of “natural-born” Republicans who have been sitting them out lateln suddenly gets aroused. Obviously the entry of Gov, Schricker into the Senate race “would be “a big "help. Gov. Schricker isn't going to be in the race. Many realistic Democrats now are resigned to that. —It-narrows down to a battle of organization. Issues can arouse interest to .some extent. But for turning out a vote in a dull off-year election there is no substitute for workers who will yank voters to their feet and drag them off to the polls. Feudin’, fightin’ and fussin’ cut.down on organization efficiency, Since the GOP has nothing to fuss about they may stick together - fairly well Democrats, with all the gripes that being in power brings to either party in Indiana, aren't quite so well off Reserving the right to have another look from time to time as the campaign develops, here's our summary: The
“Democrats can win, but it's going to take some doing, espe-
Even that won't do the
. witnesses were
cially by ‘the “Beat Capehart” union forces, Republicans might lose, but how bad. can you get? MN. : ONE of the state's worst scandals drew to a quiet close this week.
Theoretically, state police de-
tectives have continued to investigate reports of parole bribes ever since they swarmed around the ears of hard pressed
~ Republicans in the closing days
of the 1948 campaign. Carl Todd, the man who had his parole revoked because of the
storm of rumor, is etigible for
parole again. The Clemency Commission recommended - it. The recommendation said ‘considerable
investigation” had failed to re-.
veal any ‘reason why he
_ shouldn’t be granted clemency. wound up
That, presumably, the case. The investigation,
start. About the only possible men who, if they had ‘been quite reliable, probably wouldn't have. been worrying about paroles in the first place. Most of these characters obviously had nothing to lose hy whooping up a good story for the investigators. It was almost as confusing as the multi ple murder confessions in Ft, Wayne where police face the problem of figuring out who did
not commit the crime
The Todd case maVv even have cleared up enough to open the gates for Ott Workman, who now ranks as the state's number one ‘political prisoner.” He becomes eligible for clemency again latet this year.
In any event the trails are
now coid, the political heat has lost its glow and another red hot issue has been laid to Test,
Acheson Warns U. S. Must Forego ‘Business as Usual" To Halt Soviet's 'Total Diplomacy’ in World Cold War
Public Still Believed Unprepared
To Meet Economic Sacrifices in Full. By GORDON CUMMING
Compiled From the Wire Services
Americans must
as usual” signs to meet the call for “total diplomacy”
war with the Russians.
e_ prepared to haul down their “business
in the cold
That is seen in Washington today as the nub of Secretary of State Dean Acheson’s recent secret speech to an advertising group. The text was released this past week,
Top U. 8. policymakers. are known to regard the war
- against Soviet communism as total. in . concept, requiring an
all-out effort of shooting war proportions. : Their big job is to sell it to
a public believed unprepared,
as of now, for the economic sacrifices continued, if mot greater, tax burdens—involved. Meantime, Washington officials point to several ‘diplomatic” weapons already in the “battlefield.” -~ These _ Marshall Plan aid, Export-Im-port Bank loans, the Atlantic Pact Council, the Mutual defense aid programs. They aiso include a inate of regional conferences around the world, where U. S. diplomats are reconnoitering to find out what can be done in the economic and political areas. Point Four Waits In the past month such conferences have been held in Bangkok, Rio De Janeiro, Cairo and Lourenco Marques in Portuguese East Africa.
More are being planned, thé
State Department says.
cil and the foreign ministers of the United States, France and projected for --some time this. spring. Point’ Four— providing technical assistance to underdeveloped countries and guarantees for private American investments in those areas—is, another administration recruit waiting for marching orders from Congress. - But one of the most important diplomatic weapons
_being forged, in the view. of
many, is a proposed new inter: departmental committee to coordinate. foreign economic policy with domestic policy,
«This. comimitiee would; -in ess.
“sence, eliminate conflicts in
‘policy among several govern-
ment departments, An example cited is that of
Me 5 a a
ts PR
“Adan < ERR ew co PR )
4%
include -
Inthe hopper ig another meeting of -the Atlantic Coun-
to win the cold war.
" noxich.. Stressed.
the Agriculture Department putting a quota on Danish butter at the same time that the State” Department has succeeded in cutting the tariff.on that commodity to encourage its sale here. Need Self-Discipline This proposal will mean a review of the U. 8, tariff and customs structure with the view of permitting other countries to. sell here for precious dollars. Mr. Acheson and ECA Head
Paul’ G. Hoffman have repeat--
edly referred to this as an urgent ‘requirement of United States policy if European recovery is to be assured. “We are going to negd selfdiscipline in what we say and do.” Mr. Acheson told the ads vertisers. “Today we are engaged in a struggle-—-that ‘is the word to describe it-—-that is just as crucial from the point of view of continued existence of our way of life, but we clearly are not focusing our total resources on the winning of- that struggle.” In short, the same kind of hitch required in total diplomacy as in total war, according to the official view of what is needed
* * Soviet Union MOSCOW donned festive garb today for the elections to choose: a “supreme Soviet” (parliament) to serve for the next four vears, Moscow newspapers devoted most of their space yesterday to speeches made by three Politbureau members — former Foreign Minister V. M, Molo-
tov,” Vice Premier Tazar M,
Kaganovich-and former Trade Commissar Anastas Mikoyan: Mr. Molotov and Mr. Kaga-
“peace” theme of the campaign, but warned that the existence of capitalism made war virtu-
ally inevitable,
Mr. Mikoyan devoted his speech primarily to jo ‘affairs. He denounced the Marshall’ Plan and declared that the West is facing an economic crisis. Really Means U. 8,
Mr. Molotov declared his
faith in the “Leninist and Stalinist principles of the peaceful co-existence of the two systems (capitalism and communism) . . ., but we are well aware of the truism that as long as imperialism exists
... Wars. are inevitable.”
(In the Russian lexicon “im=" perialism” is a synonym for the :
leading non-Communist nations — especially the United States and Great Britain.) (Radio Moscow, heard in London, said that open air entertainments would be held today in 30 Moscow squares. (“In the Stalin constituency, where Stalin himself has agreed to stand as candidate,” there will be gay festivities in Semenovski Square,” the broadcast said. “The ¢oncert there will begin with a cantata about Stalin by the composer .Alexandrov.’ (The official radio. said that voting hooths would be set up
.on long haul trains to make it
possible for travelers to vote while they ride.)
~ Belgium =
_in_ the national. .belt..is...
theo. ofticisd 5]
__in exile. The issue has aroused the biggest storm in a Euro“pean nation since the abdication of Britain's popular King Edward VIII 5 _An__ estimated 200 social Christian (for) .and Socialist (against) students clashed in the heart of Brussels yesterday. Hurling smoke bombs, they engaged in a wild melee of fist fights until truncheonswinging police broke it up. Twelve students were arrested. Before that Socialist dents lobbed smoke bombs into a pro-Leopold rally with raucous cries of ‘Heil, Leopold” and “Abdicate, you dirty Fascist." The four weeks pre-refer-endum campaign has been marked by violence in almost every big city and many small towns in Belgium. Clubs, truncheons, smoke bombs, whips and fists have been used. Police estimated that 199 persons. had been injured in pre-election incidents,
Passes the Buck Almost the entire adult popu-
‘~lation of Belgium, more than
35.5 million. ‘men and women, will go to the polls. There is a $3 fine -for failure to vote in the referendum, which is ‘intended to give Parliament an indication of how the nation feels. The 49-year - old monarch, who has been on the French Riviera, left Nice yesterday by car for Pregny, Switzerland,
$B with-his-wife-and their son“to—
.await the outcome. The law of the land now is that Legpold cannot return unAil. Parliament. approves... liament has passed the question to the people, and Leopold has declared he will not consider returning unless. he gets a 55 per cent favorable vote.
France
BACK-TO-WORK movement spread throughout France today as the harried government appeared to have weathered the nation’ 8 worst strike crisis
“since 1947.
The Communist-led transport union, in an. abrupt backdown, led the five
bus and subway strike after non-( ‘ommunist workers had restored operations to. about
00 per cent of normal.
Steadily growing numbers of
workers returned to their jobs in the strike-bound automobile, » metal and building. trades industries. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce announced that 85
= The significant Yorks of this toga " .#hat is was received in New York 2
Sp rouss some Cl
To Hob
Stu=
Pa priantie;
day-old Paris. =
hinese. Red source.
Sean
_per_ cent of the workers were
back at their posts in France's biggest auto plant——the nationalized Renault works. Almost 200 cars were turned out vesterday for the first time since the strike began a month ago. Some 450,000 workers still are idle. But new strike calls, for the most part, fell on deaf ears. The attempt of Communistled unions to extend the strike wave to French ports made no headway. - voted overwhelmingly against joining a strike of dockers at the Mediterranean port of Marseille. “ e . . Great Britain DR. PHILIP JESSUP is expected to report that he found southeast Asia “so fraught with menace” that he recommends extension-of -the -Atlantic Pact to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, British official sources said today. ‘Dr. "Jessup, U. 8. Ambassa-dor-at-Large, was at the Foreign Office yesterday for consultation with Minister ~ of State. Kenneth Younger and Maberly Dening, head of the Far Eastern Division. He is on his way home to Washington after an on-the-spot survey of the far east. Dr. Jessup is scheduled to fly to Paris and then to Washington after conferring with U, 8. and French officials.
_Since his arrival in London,
Dr. Jessup has refused to discuss his findings publicly. But it is understood that he is convinced the security of tHe the Pacifie and the Indian Ocean is indivisible, ‘Official sources said the United States, Britain and France have been studying the Communist threat in southeast Asia ‘and. the Pacific for monthé, But when Dr. Jessup returns to Washington the problem will move into the “active consideration’ stage. These - official sources said
spheres of ‘responsibility may
‘be assigned in the Pacific and Southeast Asia. thus simply extending the Atlantic treaty instead of _going through the
“Intricate steps of setting up a
new paet; “Indo- China will be the test case,” British officials. said. “France has already made it known. that if Communist China sends armed troops to
aid Ho Chi-minh it will be
taken as a casus belli (a cause of war or a justification for war.”)
hom China is oscow instead of The Russien caption on
looking “back, seemed doomed from the
Cherbourg. .dockers....
“Our Fair City— x
Did You Show Tax | ReceiptsWhen You 5 Got Auto Plates?
Fleming to Probe License
Branches for Violations
Lid
By The Times City Staff DID YOU show personal property tax receipls before buying 1950 duto tags? If not, license branch that sold
plates to-you may be in jam.
Secretary of State Charles Fleming is going to ask
county treasurers for report on how branches co-oper-
ated. ‘He learned one branch alone in Lake County routed
out $50,000 more in delinquent taxes this year than last. ; . Now Fleming wants to know if others did as well—hence request fo county treasurers. LLaw says if motorist hasn't
paid. personal and poll taxes, .
no license. Fleming hopes bureaus enforced it, feels proper enforcement might lower tax rates in some counties.. If treasurers’ report is good, Secretary Fleming has’ nice boast for coming campaign. If bad, branch managers who took care of “friends without tax receipts are due for black looks,
SL oT MACHINES may. be under ‘cover in backrooms, basements for long time. Chief Rouls, who plainclothesmen to “get ’'em out,” openly admits he “hates slots.” | Rouls reasons slot machines
bring nothing but trouble and
that everybody-+police and citizens alike—is better off with slot machineless clubs,
Private clubs were visited by
plaimclothesmen last week, told to Immediately plied with, Small clubs that have four, five machines to pay overhead,
are worried. Without slot ma-
order was com-
chine revenue, they'll find themselves against wall financially. : ) # ” = SPLIT GOP factions in county are soon due for big surprise, political observers say. Lawyer Frank Fairchild,
who. was Republican nominee last time for county prosecutor, again has eye on the post,
Since regular organization “has its man,” and newly formed American. Way Com-
mittee shows no interest in him, Fairchild may jump into race as an independent.
Too Much Speed
-
“CITY HALL, police officials =
are worried over noted increase
of --speed--by- motorists; espe~
cially those homeward bound at end of day. Frankly they don’t know what to do with it,
—....Records. show traffic. men are... handing out speeding tickefs
In Congress—
— didate for any office
house Thursday,
issued order to
‘get ‘em out or else.”
right and left but that doesn’t seem to cure situation. “It's hysterical driving, it
seems,” sald one police oficial.
“We can't blame people for wanting to get home in a hurry but some of them aren't getting
home—they're cracking up on :
“the way:* Renewed vigor by inotorevels men may be only solution and it may start before many more days. Foy 4 = = x : HOT RENT CONTROL issue appears doomed to die of suf. focation in City Council files. Both pro and con leaders in Council have now assumed & Let-George-Do-It. attitudg.= "Neither Democrat J. Porter Seidensticker, who's for cone tinued ¢ontrol, nor Republican Donald Jameson indicates great desire to bring measure to vote.' And neither leader will give reason for reluctance,
A Question Mark CITY CONTROLLER PHIL~ LIP. BAYT stands out as big question mark in. political pie~ ture. Phil insists he isn't a “cane
littcal forecasters last week had him pegged as candidate
for three. different. posts,
During visit to ‘the courts Bayt was asked by three different poli= ticians when he was going to announce for (a) Sheriff (db) — County Clerk (¢) Recorder. - Controller answered all three by insisting he was ‘not ambitious for “any job now,
or in the immediate future.” He wants to finish his term under Mayor Feeney and ree tire’ to private law practice, ” » .
If Columbus, Ind. Elk whose hat disappeared while he was at lunch last week were to call Indiana State Police Headquarters Post, Indianapolis,
minions of law wouldn't have
to look far for the culprit.
Hat might be found in office
-of-Capt.-John-J.-Barton. Capt. Barton, in Columbus to attend Watts trial, lunched with’ Elks and left hurriedly,
Hat's absence was noted .ale . .
most immediately.
Coal Action Comes Fast After Court Clears UMW
Truman Promises Senate fo Co-operate | “On Investigation of State Department Reds
By Secripps- -Howard Newspapers : _ WASHINGTON, Mar. 4 — In Congress this week: PRESIDENT
charges.
COAt=Aetion-came-fast-after Federal Judge Richmond 8B: Kee h cleared the United Mine Workers of contempt of court The President, within 30 hours,ssent Congress a special
message asking for authority to take over the coal mines and"
operate {hem temporarily as a public service. He also -asked that Congress set up a commission to study the sick coal industry and make recommendations, EDUCATION—Mr. Truman sent Chairman John Lesinski (D. Mich.) of the House Labor Committee a sharp letter saying the federal government had no intention of trying to gain control of the country’s schools, This came after the committee had voted not to ap-
unless the President gave assurances that Oscar R. Ewing,
Federal Security Administra tor, would not dominate the program.
INVESTIGATION — The President promised to co-oper-ate on the forthcoming Senate investigation of alleged Communists in the State De-— partment. Although continuing to refuse to .turn- over .State Department loyalty files to the committee, the President indi‘cated that committee members
. could go to the State Depart-
ment to inspect individual files. Sen. Millard Tydings (D. Md.) was named chairman of the investigating group. > = SENATE : FPARM-—Farmers got. generous treatment. Approved over whelmingly was a bill ‘which would increase cotton plantings
“by 800,000 acres this. year and
| wheat by Stout 4 5 4. million acres’ ‘Senate /
prove an alid-to-education- bill
‘ amendment . quiring FBI clearance of any= - =
slap by voting to impose mare
Keting-quotas-on-the-1951 cro =
—not this year as Majority
Leader Scott Lucas proposed. DISPLACED PERSONS Most of the week was spent in debating a bill to increase the number of displaced pers sons to be admitted to this country and defining conditions of admission. No final action was taken, GOVERNMENT EM. PLOYEES-—Sen. Paul Douglas (D. Il.) offered a rider to a pending appropriation bill to cut annual leave of federal employees from 28 to 20 days. OUSE ALASKAN STATEHOOD—A bill to grant statehood to Alaska was approved by a vote of 186 to 146. The bill now goes to the Senate, Pending is a similar bill for Hae
(D: IIL)
Jwail.
SCIEN CE FOUN DATION—
Approved, by .a vote of 247-to
125, a bill to create a National
- Science Foundation to provide
science scholarships here and abroad and spur research in varied scientific fields, An. was adopted re-
one associated with the founs dation. - Eageuditures 3 are to be. _ limited to 3300000 for e first
“year and es a thereafter. "hil Bow | back to t
4
hut pes —