Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1950 — Page 23

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he price of a 5- . must be an inhe East, many or 9 cents and ts are-used.

"We had 2-cent

kel 3-cent coins e of the trouble them were half

th the odd 714 e many foolish

but it will be |

ts and bankers as this will get

| on the decimal 1d stand as it is.

le Centre, N. Y. spent the night om Los Angeles ng for four days gh dirty towns, storms. When we encountered beautiful coun-

ve liked the city as cemented by ur citizens gave e travelers. 1g E Space on on one yo Ir EE and aid he saw our it we ‘might be e was anything

imagine what

much bétter it far away from

t an Indianapple calling your tement is true, owns. I think

E- Michigan St.——

has never been

“beautiful pore

aster,” now apes. ave this SPpore

will for them,

‘honored Scot B

arshall.

ye partment soon ‘ utter a week to

welfare insite

for

y Shift to House

of Committee Calls Barnes, Named ums;

~ By McCarthy in Senate Speech

By The Serippe-Howard Newspapers =

or We

for spotlight in

ASHINGTON, 1—Laook rT |

investigated and cleared.

House: committee 1 anxious, also, to official who has

to- proceed against a been charged with disloyalty,

New evidence indicates this individual is now working for

a Soviet espionage ring,

members say. FBI and other govern: ment agencies want to head off action now; want to see what of if enlightened citizenship, self-

more they can learn if individual is let alone for awhile. «One reason for increased concern among military men is

from intelligence that is grow-

as alr 8 ing fast. Air Force concedes

Russia now has more planes. than, we have, but insists ours

‘SOME STATE Department

at-large Philip Jessup in line Acheson should resign.

. Taft-Hartley supporters

aren't sure they can defeat t Truman's plan to "abolish general counsel of National —Labor-—Relations

Board. : It takes a constitutional majority of House or Senate to veto the plan. That means 49 Senators voting no or 218 House members. Trouble is ~ that many members ares absent, campaigning for early primaries. 4

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Resent Marshall Plan

RESENTMENT AMONG western Congressmen from mining areas against Marshall Plan spending is at tha boilint. ing Doin recently voted down a bill providing $80 million to keep marginal mines open, en‘courage search for more min. eral reserves. Now members point out that Marshall Plan program for Eelung strategic materials abroad gets $28 million, much of it for foreign mine owners. Marshall Plan strategie 10a terials program covers And. copper and in, his can be mined in uv. 8. » ‘Saucer’ “Report

NAVY PILOTS say flying saucer reported over Wasi: ton last ‘week-end was ‘dn

like a pancake. Navy manuals describe it as “an experimental

___girplane with roughly circular

n pounds repre

nent-outlay of === on, Its cost to-

is $20 million otal federal in-

d by the eiti -

Xico in a

wisi ti pk RAR Am ars

ent is ordered rt the price of cents a pound he government ut 78 per cent tter producers. officials say production is for the butter 8. last year ate of butter more the year preargaririe cone ed at the 1048

ption last year ounds per per

e butter mark. WAT consumpe mounted to 17 on yearly and three pounds,

«-eraty a record for heroic-budget—

when -Aley-try-to- make thelr--=

wings.” Tests of the craft are ‘being made at Patuxent,” Md; near Wassingion.

mrt een

ence Cannon of House Appropriations, to use strategy in he: , Ee bl gt ih

on Cannon: Tell the House, at start of debate on big appropriation — bill; "that the comm

agreed to restore $100 million

to rivers and harbors _ and

“flood control tems

Then offer an amendment to

cut the whole bill by 2.5 per cent or 3 per tent, reducing expenditures (except those for

—rivers-and harbors) by: about

3900 million, If Marshall Plan-appropria-tion is cut as much as $500 million this would give Demo-

slashes (plus some election year pork). Idea 1s that this strategy. would keep Republicans from getting many Democratic votes

over-all 10 Jer sent, cut. #

GOP Scents Victory

REPUBLICANS, particularly those from the Midwest, are more cheerful over fall election prospects. They say Midwest farmers are back in the fold. Some : even fear a Republican landslide will give them control of Congress again in an off . year. They don’t want this. "They think it would give | President Truman a chance | to repeat his 1948 perform- : ance in 1952. ‘They'd like to get control of one House. Republicans think their No. 1 victory this year will come in Illinois where they expect to defeat Senate Majority Leader

Scott Lucas with former Con-

+-gressman Everett Dirksen. Sen. Lucas has been in Ilinois for two weeks, campaigning for Apr. 11 primary, though he has no opposition In that race. Lucas ducked voting on Kerr natural gas bill this week,

hough his Democratic col-

~ New Job for Sop? or

“of_State if Dean

rubber=-not produced here cd

Cuyahoga County (Cleve land) set new off-year record of 500,000 enrolled in spring

"show unions are really getting their people out. Bame is true in Akron. In rest of s regis

However, ~ Taft stil the, edge, because Ohio has ‘abolished straight ticket voting, and because Democrats are badly split, with half a dozen candidates in May primary. Only one who has held state office is Auditor Joseph Ferguson, whose grammar, provincial views, have made him a legend. Latest Ferguson story: During - Formosa crisis, a party leader asked Fergu son: “What do you think of. Taft’s stand on Formosa?” Ferguson answered: “Won't do him a bit of good. I carried Formosa by 3000

vote in 1948 and I'll ‘do it

again this year.”

Hires Clark Clifford CLARK CLIFFORD, former counsel to President Truman, has been hired by Standard Oil of California to represent it in negotiations with the Navy over oil from Elk Hills.

He'll also work on “some anti-trust problems” for Standard.

labor

holds

ms indicate Partisan;

fi : x . 5 §

enough so the voters Midnight last night : : make a fair choice. . deadline for seeing light. INOS Wilk Df outys, be the Te, seins Tu erence on both sides with withdraw in favor of

an oreo

i i i i

I :

“ber of the stats House of Reps. he 1940: primary, former

E x £ Eg 7

_ points,

OUTCOME of al primary

. elections seems to be a mixture of getting out of the ,why.

Politicians refer to such little understandings as “deals.” Some politicians have been known to enter primary election races for the sole purpose of getting somebody to offer a “deal.” This does not make it any easier for the voter to e out Mi

ish interest and dumb luck. The more evenly balanced these three factors are, the tougher it is to figure out what's going on. That's what we mean when.

do TNs HR the A. likely the parties are to get winner-type candidates. It will play its part this year, as usual. Every now and then capable candidates get to battiing for votes and split them £0. many ways that some. cluck.-

In 1948, Congressman: Cecil Harden of Covington squeaked by the election with a margin of less than 500 votes. She never has been nominated by her own party in a primary election—this is hep first time

‘who just sits around with his to bat. hands folded over his vest wins Her principal opponent, at the somination. least before the fillings and

withdrawals got lost in the Jam, was Russell Richardson, a Lebanon attorney and mem-

BY THE ! TIME the smoke clears from the filing Picture,

~ World Report— China's Senior Reds Ifitls

Suggest Friendly Terms With Kremlin With a Working Agreement With West

RDON CUMMING Comptled From the Wire Services CHINA'S massive famine and growing economic difficulties are forcing some senior Chinese Communists to reconsider the soundness of their present foreign policy of violently attacking the Western Powers while “leaning to the side of Russia.” 3 THIS 2 dhe Fist of numerous but incomplets reports from .Communist areas Hong Kong today.

reaching It would be a mistake.to d de-

Apparently the trip impressed Mao, who has lived $ “most of his adult life in moun-

munists devise workable ‘seen_the industries of =

y making the “friendly gesture”

move will be an effort to get

XF5U, an experimental tighter — top “industry — = they're developing, which looks board’s five es divisions.

“Fight ‘Money B Bill Cut ee

ono-el-Workable civil defense-plan: LOOK FOR Chairman Clar-

y bill. to become a state, couldnt at-—-Friends-are urging this Vind or

} $70 million a year and if island

“sion program. New planes need

personnel Television offers them fancy

h k Chinese ty to enormous = Europe, Britain and America. il problems. 7 Was Impressed NSRB Sha ng Looms ut these ‘more scientific Since his return to China

Symington takes charge. First 5° widespread conviction

dm the party's hierarchy it “Improved relations with the United States are impossi-

mento head"

Symington, already recruiting, ble as lo w ng as the “American » aking industrialists to work puppet Chiang Kai-shek” con-

tinues to fight. Late last gutumn, reports indicate several Communist elders - suggested that “Chinese party should consider adopting .a. more neu-. drafted > “tral foreign policy which would oe * ) lessen military expenditures and permit concentrating resources Upon reconstru tion,

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each. Board has 7000 industry mobilization plans but has not coordinated them into master

Symington “also. 1s a1 anxious to

ford -it, says Gov. Luiz Munoz. “€luded Vice-Premier Marin who's here seeking lim- Wu, who was Chinese Commu-

ited self-government for -the nist delegate tothe United. Na-

fsland.-

~ tions conference and San Fran-—Puerto-Rico— budget -ts—onty—

time Communist negotiator in

became a state, its people would — Chungking. _ -glso-have to pay: “$60 milion Ini “That they" ‘suggested the

-U. 8. income taxes, Now they Peking “government maintain

“friendliest” relations with Russia while seeking advan-

pay no U. 8. income tax and Puerto Rico keeps internal

revenue tax on rum it exports tageous working arrangements here, western countries is indi Munoz-Marin wants bill per- “cated by skeleton reports. They mitting islanders to write a apparently wanted China: to reconstitution like those of in- main on the sidelines of the dividual states. : cold war,

igo lor lhe lon - AIR FORCE says television Tse-tung, the final arbiter, deis playing hob with its expan- parted on his “mission to Mos-

highly trained electronics men but half or more of its skilled" “refuse to: re-enlist;

indicate that the Russians went all out to sell Mao on the material: “of- Russia

-strength‘the need for a Chinese-Russian wages, specializes in picking up united front against the “westAir Force-trained men. ern imperialists.”

Penny-Wise LITTLE JACK” HORNER STOOD NEAR A CORNER, EATING HIS PENNY PIE, Pao NOIR HE PUT IN HIS THUMB Se nid AND PULLED OUT A P

They are also handicapped

the

hese’ elders apparently a Tung Pi-

01800, and Lin—Tsu-pan, War

Communist Chairman Mao cow” in mid-December. Reports

and-—troops “who esBIANEL a

Mao’s increased respect for So-

“viet power apparently has

strengthened, at least tempo-

rarily, the position of doctrinChinese Com: —

aire-

— munists;,- who argue, in effect, that all that is

good for China can only come from Russia. = : There has been a rapid increase in the influx to China of Soviet technicians, and professors as well as police and military advisers since Mao's return.

But his Russian trip failed to a

"provide Chinese: Communists with solutions to the economic

crisis they oi Bow; however. :

agp

-nounced today they had smashed a new Chinese Com-

munist—invasion-attempt--on

strategic Hainan island. “A naval communique said the Red troops—80 boatloads - came over in two waves.in a vain “attempt to gain a foothold onthe island off the South China coast. It was the sixth such invasion attempt in recent days.

~ Nationalist sources said the

Communist landing attempts, which have been occurring: with increasing regularity in recent nights, were meant to test “the defensive strength of the island’s defenders in preparation of an all-out invasion attack. The new attagk came as Hianan dispatches said Red

beachhead on the island last Monday had apparently been eliminated.

The Netherlands

ELEVEN Atlantic Pact De-

mously approved a plan for their collective self defense against attack by Russia. United States Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, who presided over the meeting, said their .goal was “to deter and lieteat® ‘any one who wanted

"ar. Johnson and his col-

communique aid not reveal any details of the plan. The defense ministers also dealt with the financing of mutual defense, with plans for standardizing arms and coordinating military production. The ministers said the plan insured the defense of Western

Europe both “economically and tHeletly As the ministers met 2000

assembled at The Hague Zoo for a demonstran against the Atlantic Pact. There was no trouble,

oi Soa hinese pon inl an-

tion campaign in he fall,

almost equally good Republican Congressional primary campaign 4s in prospect. Again, the fight is between a man and a woman, ~ ‘The woman 1s Miss Sally Butler, Fousient chib lead

ld di for Go office. Y This feeling, if exploited,

could turn into an advantage for Miss Butler. Every now and then some such matter of sex, race or religion comes into a campaign and the

=-yoters'-sense-of ‘fair play does

funny things to the outcome. Her opponent, also far fro being a political novice, Charles Brown n, 11th

_mander. Mr, Brownson won a

had do

touch-and-go -contest for the Tiptarsemnt ot a Republican

Sypeate y opponent Pros 4% Jacobs

primary ran a bad second to him in the 1948 primary. Carl G. Lutz was one of three opposing Mr. Jacobs at that time. The

3 stint remains at least a slight possibility ‘that Mr. ~ Jacobs will not-wind-up on-next--November's ballot as a candidate for Congress. Some political observers feel he is going to have a serious

crack at the Democratic sena-

torial “nomination: in the June

. \ pominaing convention. With . HERE in Yo ion County an the nomination for Congress

nder his belt, he would have some excellent trading material

N . - ~ BT will have 259 delegates, better than 10

tion a legal . opportunity to his successor for Con- _ gress without “interference? ‘from a lot of primary Jotefs.

serve him as a political tnsur-

ance policy. Mr, Jacobs would not have to resign it until after the convention, so if he failed to win the senatorial nod he still would be the candidate for Congress, ATthough’ there is considerable doubt about the Senate prospect, it seems a safe bet that after the primary Mr, Jacobs will have a turn or two around the state to see for

— himself,

Reported Begining to Wonder | Not an Error to Lean Too Heavily on Russ:

MacArthur Ignores Red Bait

Times Foreign Service TOKYO, Mar. 81—Japan’s Communists today

were hunting for trouble.

In an apparently deliberate attempt to sastyr themselves, they have stepped up anti-American, anti-occupation propaganda to an unprecedented

pitch.

So far Gen. MacArthur's headquartess has re-

“card, and that

( nvention, Mr.

CU ously Enough—In a Good Hleoion To Run an Extra ak £ ‘500’ Classic He Assert Two Annual Motor Rae: Would Pack Town With

2 By The Times City Staff oO THERE'S an outside possibility two races well bo— run this year at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Shrine officials are hoping to interest was a man President Wilbur Shaw in race in September, when Great

Sosa

Lakes Shrine Association holds first annual convention,

They feel Speedway is possibly. city’ s main dnwing

here.

‘race on world-famous oval would =~

send 6000 Sonvention goers ‘home with happy memories

of ]

_ Looks. like additional race might even be necessary. to ‘accommodate everybody who wants to see a big car

race this year,

Speedway officials report sellout of seats for the 500 will be = early this year, estimating 90,000 to 100,000 seats and parking io

places already sold,

Plant can” accommodate 180,000 to 200,000, but seats are . “selling fast. Speedway had 50,000 seats sold within 2 days: afee #

1049 race. Interest seems to mount yearly. Chuckholes may adorn Indianapolis streets, but never, never the big 500-mile track. Workmen have been track recently,

= tom! : » Tallow” them to grow _ chuckholes, will get its private

paving crew out any warm day now, 3

. Combs’ “closed office re! on deadling;. but work isnot finished:— He will-re-—-hire many workers this.week to. corfplete the job. A

Wrong Meeting

JACK RYAN; State -House

worker and candidate for “Democratic Secretary of State’

nomination in 1948, spent several days polishing speech for delivery before a township group in Hamilton County. Came the big day and he breezéd into .the meeting place well ahead. of time. During pre-speech backslapping, he inquired about a party official who was not present. No one knew the individual. Several puzzling minutes passed before Ryan learnéd he was in midst of a home economics meeting. He beat hasty retreat, Bnally or found gm pew In mi of time.

agus

o-bait:— The question is how far Gen. Mae.

ATF can let them go before he is forced to crack down. Occupation officials Eeneiglly minimize the

drive,

“The Communists” bold 7 new program is a direct result of the recent whipping administered to the Japanese_party by Moscow-for-dafing to take the - stand that a people's regime could be set up under

the occupation.

The Communist newspaper Red Flag—circulation 275,000—is using every propaganda device from - stirring up ‘racial hatred to demanding that American

~Sroops be withdrawn. —

~Sounding-an-appeal to Japanese nationalism: =" - once a favorite instrument. of Tojo and. Co.—the Communists are tolitos the Japanese that America

Ba GERMAN _ police,

with knives, to force their way

“into West Berlin today. - One policeman - was- stabbed

in the arm in a five-minute melee on the border between the French and Russian sectors. No Communists were ar-

rested. There were no reports

ot serious injuries suffered by

He hundred police were on hand, expecting trouble, when

a crowd. of .300.t0 400 Reds-as-

sembled in Soviet-held territory and the knife attack was quickly repelled. It was the first time the Communists had used . This “invasion,” along

with: other-stmilar-Red forays

into Western Berlin, was regarded as a test of Western determination—and possibly as

“a "dress rehearsal” for the pro-

posed Communist “Youth March” on oe city’s Western sectors May 28.

Turkey

Yrkey today approached a hotly-contested general ejection with tempers running short. It will be the first really multi-party, nationwide election in Turkey's 500 - year

history. The vote is scheduled -

unoficially for May 14. Four hundred and seventyfive deputies will be chosen to form Turkey's next Grand: National Assembly, the supreme legislative, From its members will be elected the Turkish President and cabinet. The term of office is four years. Three major political parties will enter the contest the Republican People’s Party, the Democrat. Party, and the Nation's Party. The real struggle, however, will be between the first two.

Great Britain “THE peversal in Congress

of the anti-British Marshall

Plan amendment did not surprise either the:Irish or the

swinging... clubs, broke. up an attempt by

50 Communist youths, armed

_ British today. But it dissolved _

the tension surrounding - the American. visit..of North. Ire land's Prime Minister, Sir -Basil- Brooke. ——— Political circles in Belfast expect Sir Basil to leave by air

~-Monday. They believe he wiil

make a quick transfer at the New: York airport and go to Washington.

Mayor William O'Dwyer, a

County -Mayo-man;-has- tod

cated Sir Basil will not be

York. Mr. O'Dwyer, however, is on a Florida vacation now,

cancelled his reservation

-aboard the Queen’ Mary to

avoid any unpleasantness at the Cunard pier in New York -should- Irish-, -Americans decide “t6 demonstrate, ~~ ° The British still looked on thé; whole affair as a’ tempest in ‘the teapot—Mr. O’Dwyer’s remark that Sir Basil would not be received at city hall, then the vote in the House of Representatives to cut off Marshall Plan funds as long as Ireland is divided,

France

WITH Moscow's unveiled

~ displeasure over the failure of

the latest “unlimited”” strikes staged by France's Communistdominated ‘unfons, the French Communist Party today was housecleaning. This purge — conducted by the Cominform-is the prelude

Jo out and out sabotage aimed

ONE: Preventing American arms shipments to France. TWO:. Military reorganization of Western Europe. THREE: Continuation of the Indo-China war, The now being instructed to abandon legal methods and start “direct action,” so those who might be worried by - moral

scruples, as well as the ineffi-

~ cient must be eliminated. Obviously, Moscow wants «France's Bi ists to adopt “Russian ways” and adopt them quick, -

“enoligh for someone to remove a little brown kitten that had “just twmbled into the baptis-

welcomed omcially fn New

“It, is" “believed Sir Basil ~

: support.

French” Commies are .

i A

CONGREGATION wondered when suggestion of smile flitted across face of ‘the Rev. - Laman Bruner Jr. as he de-

" livered sermon on St. Paul in

Advent Episcopal Church. ; de nt.

He bn sermon for a

__moment, then told congrega-

tion what he. could see fram pulpit; and-they- couldn't.

Would the congregation City Hall observers are specu—mind,—the Rev. Mr. Bruner lating =

asked; if he interrupted the journeys of St... Paul long

mal font?

Vietnam's ‘Hope Poses Problem for U. S..

diseovering -

efore Apr. 1 dead-

__- contractor lo —construction: -

: ain suspended Patrolman Jacque (Jack) Durham? =

SIGHT of éphants, not -.

ink, but real gray elephan NE along Alabama pr ES

trated only far enough to ree veal ghostly outlines of three

playing, a startled .citize as heard to ejaculate: “Didja see that? They don't. even have tail lights.”

Pen Trouble : RESIDENTS of Westerleigh

suburb, up in arms over tre-.

I Ra NR

—.mendous ruts and chuckholes —

have taken steps to get legal 20, hobiIg 10 lores Suumy Sha

commissioners refuse to’ acknowledge the. ‘COR.

tending “more than one signa~ ture is necessary.”

__ Safety Board tried Durham. : but failed to reach verdict.

that case is being held np be vests of political “heat.”

“departments nl inate associating sul nation and ‘with known felons.

vrebel” oe “the : .

Erne 53

Russ Beat the West fo the Draw

By Backing Independence Movement

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By PHILLIP TALBOT, Times Foreign Writer

SAIGON, Vietnam; Apr. 1-—Vietnam today looked ae 2 oné of -riskiest: deals: the: United: States has; yet: “beer “¢alled upon

This country of 22 million people, comprising the

of the old French Indochina, is a strategic hot spot. In An 1940 it was the first goal of Japanese aggression in southeast

stands as the probable {first gateway that Communist China will select to strike at the wealth to the south. Some Americans and many Britons, Frenchmen and Hollanders now urge that the western powers should draw the Asian line against Com- * munism along the China-Viet-nam frontier. The argument is logical, if America has determined” to save southeast Asia from communism at the risk of starting World War II here. But American policy planners should come into this area with their eyes open to the local situation. Beaten to Draw It is not enough to applaud the United States and Britain

for having delivered a blow

against communism by recognizing . Vietnam as “independent within the French union,” with ex-emperor Bao Dal of Annam as its chief. Recognition lost "its punch because — thanks to French tardiness in ratifying the Bao Dai agreements—Russia beat the western countriés to the AN by A lew dag. | oe The Soviets Viet-

recognized nam as an independent stats

Asia. Today it undet Ho Chi Minh, the antle

rnp chieftain, aa Suers’

Recognition by itself has not yet greatly heiped to clear the local cal political tangles. ch-supported Bao Dai is wit Saaeroarad Baa Dai is win his. countrymen’s i :

Tench at nis ymers Conf} :

Antl-Communism in Vietnam Is a aeeondary issue to anti-

“tt