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Washington Calling—
Suggest Hints On Outcome of
May Primaries
“Expect Pepper to Lose by Neck;
Democrat Win Due in Alabama By THE SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPERS
WASHIN GTON,
Apr. 29 — Seven important pri-
maries take place in May. Here's how we see them:
Florida: It's
close, but we think it's Rep- George
Smathers, by a neck, for Senatorial nomination. Primary is next Tuesday. Winner is sure of election in November. Fight seems to be turning on civil rights rather than
pro-Red charges.
Sen. Claude Pepper's against Truman Fair Employment Practices Commission, but voters seem to doubt’ this since he hasn't joined recent filibusters” voted for wartime FEPC appropriation. He won only by 9600 in 1944 when opposition was weaker.
Alabama:
-Democrats will take party machinery from
Dixiecrats.’ Rep. Laurie Battle, friendly to Dixiecrats, is in trouble. Sen. Lester Hill, on the other side, seems sure of Senatorial nomination. Vote's Tuesday.
Ohio:
Looks as if Democratic Senatorial nomination will go to State Auditor Joseph Ferguson.
Vote Tuesday will be
split among six candidates, interest seems mild.
Democratic Party and labor leaders failed to put strong
support behind any one candiSen. Robert Taft will oppose Ferguson in November, Indiana: Ten men and one woman member of Congress seek renomination Tuesday and only the woman's in
trouble. Rep, Cecil Harden, Re- -
publican “National Committeewoman, may lose to Russell I. Richardson, state legislator, Senatorial candidates will be
chosen in conventions next month, Oregon: Sen. Wayne Morse
should win easily May 19 over two weak opponents. Pennsylvania: Excitement’s all in the Republican Party. Gov. James H. Dubb is heavyodds favorite to take senatorial nomination. His running mate for governor, John 8S. Fine, has only even chance to win over Jay Cooke. North Carolina: When May 27 votes are counted it will be Sen. Frank Graham, best sources say. He has two opponents, has strong backing from governor who named him to Senate, from university, and from women voters. Sen. Cylde R. Hoey, also running, is unopposed. Note: Alaska Republicans polled big vote in primaries
this week—as they did ‘in 1946
“when landslide gave Congress
to GOP. Interpret with caution, however, since Delegate Bartlett, a Democrat, got just about as many Republican as Democratic votes this week.
Annoyed at Russ . “SWEDEN, hold-out against the North Atlantic Pact, may reconsider. Reason for not joining was fear abandoning her traditional neutrality might provoke Russian aggression. Now it looks as if Russia is provoked anyhow. Red Writer Ehrenberg speaking at Stockholm recently, said not for us is
of territorial waters in Baltic area from three to 20 miles.
Labor. Offers Bargain Labor union lobbyists line up votes in Congress for Truman plan to abolish National Labor Relations Board general counsel by offering election-year bargain, They promise to remove from “unfair” list, members who voted for Taft-Hart-ley if they vote now to reorganize Robert N. Denham out of office. Offer’'s. getting more takers in House than in Senate, so Sen. Taft—who's for Denham —plans first test vote in Senate May 10. Biggest question mark there is getting necessary 49 votes despite many absentees. If administration loses on abolishing Denham’s job, it
«probably--will -try removing
him “from office. “Relations bétween general counsel and _board are strained to breaking point.
Truman Plans Trip WATCH FOR Harry Truman to make at least one fulldress defense of administration foreign policy on western trip.
. Original plan was to concen-
trate on criticism of Congress for failing to whip through Fair Deal program. Program still includes. .a farm speech, one on reclamation. Speech scheduled for Madison, May 14, is likely setting for home-state attack on Sen. Joseph McCarthy, leader of fight on State Department. GOP plans to demand equal radio time, answer every Truman speech. Navy scuttlebutt says Capt. William D. Brown, former skipper of the Mighty Mo, will lose 50 numbers when court-martial verdict is announced. That would make further promotion impossible.
Jenner Plans Blast SEN. William E. Jenner (R. Ind.), who's long urged GOP to ditch bipartisan foreign policy, plans Senate speech denouncing John Foster Dulles, just appointed adviser to Secretary of State Acheson. Jenner's irate because Dulles called isolationists “de facto accomplices” of communism. Jenner will recall that Dulles was character witness for Alger Hiss, appointed Hiss to his $20,000-a-year job with Carnegle Peace Foundation. -
And ‘Swedes are annoyed at Russia's extension .
“ward - leader,
~—Domestic distillers will tight it hard. But Scotch importers say cut will only let them hold their own in competing with cheaper domestic whisky. We're porting same amount of Scotch as before war, despite increase in population and income,
Urged for Key Post LYNN STAMBAUGH, director of Export-Import Bank, is Defense Secretary Johnson's first choice for one of three $17,500 a year judgeships set up by new military justice bill. Stambaugh, a Republican, once ran for U. 8, Senator in North Dakota. Like Johnson, he’s a past national commander of American Legion.
Gets Free Ride MORE POLITICS: Sen. William J. Fulbright gets a sixyear free ride. Deadline for Arkansas Democratic primary passes with no one filing against him. That guarantees election. However, Dixiecrat leader Ben Laney filed for governor against President Truman's friend, Gov. Sid McMath, Tru-
organization in Arkansas, but -
permit Dixiecrats to run in primaries. In South Dakota Republican primary, June 6, seniority’s the issue. Supporters of Sen. Chan Gurney, who is ranking Republican on Armed Services Committee, second Republican on appropriations, say it would be
_ foolish to replace him with
Rep. Francis Case, who would start at foot of committee
table.
Sen. Elmer Thomas, now in hot Democratic primary fight with Rep. Mike Monroney, has turned “columnist.” He's writing weekly newsletter, mails it
free under senatorial frank; to
Oklahoma papers.
May Draft Dewey THAT “DRAFT” of Tom Dewey for another turn at New York governorship seems real this time. The Governor's telling associates he doesn't want to run, that there’s noth-
_ing in it for him.
Attorneys for E, F. Prichard, New Dealer convicted in Kentucky of conspiring to forge ballots in 1948 election, say they will appeal to Supreme Court next week. Prichard was associated in government with or was social friend of five members of court. If all five decline to sit on appeal, it would take special act of Congress, appointing temporary members from appellate court, to make appeal possible.
GOP "Plans “School”
REPUBLICANS open “school of politics” here Monday, with
“eight men, 47 women enrolled.
Recruits will get three-day course in how to be successful “how “to argue against Brannan Plan, how to analyze, sell “their product.” If response is good, school will run all summer, Graduates are expected to hold similar classes, at home, Mrs. Joseph R. Farrington, wife of Hawai-
ian dglegate, and president ¢f
National Federation of Republican Clubs, heads the project.
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Rival Demonstrations on Monday Open Month of Tension in Germany
By GORDON CUMMING, Compiled from the Wire Service : A mixture of sunshine, high winds and’ freak hail
ago.
either side of the little Iron Curtain which splits the city, will serve as a preview, in a sense, of an attempt to stage a march on Berlin by an announced 500,000 youths from the Soviet-occu-pled zone four weeks hence, ~ In Eastern Germany there will be a parade of some 200,000 or so Communists like
‘ those on May Day under Hit-
ler and in Red Square in Moscow, : Just outside Eastern sector boundary, in the huge square between the burned-out Reichstag building and the Kroll Opera House, an estimated 300,000 Western Berliners will stage a counter-demonstration, Their symbol is the jaunty Berlin bear carrying a shield with “F” _for freedom. Sightseers were expected to swell the throng in mid-Berlin to- fully one million persons. - In Western Berlin 12,000 German police will be on duty. Patrolling the border on the East Berlin side will be thousands of Russian-trained police, West Searches Soul Permission to hold the Western Berlin rally was given by the Allies only after considerable soul-searching. But it was also recognized that the courage and determination .of Berliners themselves were among the West's major asse#s in retaining its position here. Just how far will the Soviets prod their Eastern German followers into provoking serious civil disturbances during May? The Soviet line for the moment seems to be that both demonstrations, now and on Whitsun Week-end, will be ore derly and confined to their own sectors, - But there is reason to suspect that the Soviets are prepared to take instant advantage of any aggressiveness
that may. .be shown. by the.
Eastern Germans. Troops Alerted
Basically, of course, the Sovjets would like nothing better than to have some Germans, preferably youths, shot by Western Allied occupation forces trying to keep order, An incident of this sort inevitably would give a boost to their campaign to force the
Western Allies out of the city.
The West's 8000 troops will not immediately be in evidence during Monday’s demonstrations. “By coincidence,” however, they will be alerted for training “exercises.”
~Public safety officials bes lieve Western Berlin police ad-
equate to deal with any but the most abnormal disturbances.
Soviet Union
FOREIGN delegations were arriving today to take part
Monday in the annual May ~Day “parade which will have more of an
international character than in any other post-war year. Delegations from France, China, Italy, Denmark, England, Austria, Germany and Czechoslovakia have arrived, and others were expected. A Soviet youth delegation has departed from China to attend the first May Day
ceremony in Peking since the
Communist took power, Moscow has taken on holiday garb.
“France
IF ANY PROOF were needed of official French spunk in today’s global crisis, dismissal of . Dr, Frederic Joliot-Curie provides it. When the government yanked the Communist Nobel Prize winner out as high commissioner for atomic energy Friday, it gave the world proof of two things: —It is prepared to go a long way to fight Communist and intellectual resistance to life-and-death defense preparations.
Time Marches On
“BERRI RIBAS
today bowed in the May Day week-end which may be“come one of the most important for Berliners since their city was first overrun by Soviet troops exactly five years
Twe rival demonstrations on Monday morning, on
-It has rémoved a psychological and political roadblock to atomic research. French Communists screamed meanwhile that the United States had engineered the dismissal of Mr. JoliotCurie, then called for a coun-try-wide campaign of protest. “The American warmakers ordered and (Premier Georges) Bidault obeyed,” the party newspaper L'Humanite charged in denouncing the government “for its action yesterday. “The dismissal of JoliotCurie is one step more toward war, toward the use of atomic arms by the imperialist bandits,” L'Humanite asserted.
Czechoslovakia
THE youth newspaper Mlada Fronta, applauding government demands for the recall of two-thirds of the U. 8. diplomats in this country, today warned the United States to keep its “hands off Czechoslovakia.” In an editorial on the Czech note demanding recall of the diplomats, the newspaper reminded America’s “rulers” that Czechoslovakia is an ally of Russia, and that “provocations against the Soviet. Union do not pay.”
. Belgium PRINCE REGENT Charles dissolved the Belgian parliament yesterday and ordered a general election—June 4, —This will be the third attempt in less than a year to decide whether King Leopold III shall return to his throne after five years of exile. Belgium is almost hopelessly split on the royal question. Caretaker Social Christian (Catholic) Gaston Eyeskens said the election will be held June 4 and parliament will meet June 20. The June 26, 1949, general election was fought largely over. the. Leopold issue. The
Catholics _won_a majority in...
the Senate, but fell two seats short in the House. They cannot govern alone and must have help of another party. The Catholics favor Leopold's return,
Italy
COMMUNISTS clashed with police at several points in this port city yesterday, following the arrival of an American freighter carrying 200 tons of U. S. military aid weapons for Italy. The disturbances were suppressed quickly by riot police and militia. A number of arrests were made but no injuries were reported. - The American President Lines Freighter Pioneer stole into Naples harbor before dawn end berthed at the Duchess Aosta docks on the eastern side of the port. Unloading began almost immediately.
. " United Nations ADVOCATES of the United Nations in Washington today were making a cautious. rebuttal to Herbert Hoover's bold proposal for a new kind of world organization excluding all Communist states. : Nations should stand up and be counted in their opposition to communism, he said, in effect, in a New York speech. Washington officials admit the Hoover proposal has put
President Truman's speech, winding up Chicago's threeday Democratic shindig May 15, will be the major foreign
-poticy report that he had in-
tended giving to the American Society of Newspaper Editors last week in Washington. The situation will be riper next month. Also, majority leader Lucas (Dem. Ill.) asked the president to postpone it for his campaign benefit.
» » ” JAMES BRUCE, Baltimore democrat - businessman - diplomat, will become American ambassador to Britain when Lewis Douglas has been eased out. Mr. Bruce, who has resigned as director of the Foreign Arms Aid program, was a big contributor to Mr. Truman’s "48 campaign. Mr. Douglas wasn’t. g \ ” - . ISRAEL may one day rival Paris and Hollywood as a fashion design center. Wom--en's appesrel concerns in the new state have that as one of their foreign trade aims,
Look for Secretary of State Dean Acheson to be as much of a Republican congressional campaign issue as President Truman.
MILAN gossip says the most important man behind the scenes in Rome today is the Jesuit father who confesses Premier Alcide de Gasperi. - » ” THE Communist Roumanian government has decided to expropriate all town buildings of* upper middle-class owners. This will be the first time town have been expropri-
buildings i ated in any satellite country. va believe that
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Berlin nerves were taut today, the eve of May Day. Was this fo be IT? IT is a Red Putsch from Eastern Berlin into the West. *
ern Zone. The Communists have set May 28 to ta day. Soviet Zone Reds will mass at Lustgarten (upper right) and march to the Brandenburg Ga Germans in the West will stage a counter-demonstration i in the Tiergarten (upper center). The so “X'" designates possible trouble-spots.
march,
the shaded lines alternate routes.
East Germany Packs a Punch
es Foreign Service
BERLIN; Apr.’ "29 Fastern Germany's illegal “police army” is being organized initially to include
six divisions.
The well-informed British-licensed weekly, Welt Am Sonntag, estimates the planned strength of the organization at 150,000. This is 50 per cent above the army allowed for all Germany by treaty after
World War IL.
Neither does the figure include the Soviet zones administrative police, estimated at another 30,000; the normal road, water, and criminal police, estimated at 70,000; and the newly-organized secret police under the ministry of state security, modeled on the
MVD and the Gestapo.
Welt Am Sonntag says” thé “police army” appears to be less that of an aggressive force than an instrument for revolutionary action whenever it is felt that Western Germany is ripe for a putsch.
the administration in an awk-~ ward position. ONE: Administration leaders, from President Truman down, have repeatedly called
the United Nations -the -corner-—
stone of American foreign policy. TWO: The administration is at the moment striving desperately to repair the breach in bipartisanship. Republicans are
being courted like mad to
achieve united action on for-
eign policy.
. * Great Britain PREMIER LIAQUAT ALI KHAN of Pakistan and his wife. arrived in London by plane yesterday en route to the United States. Mr. Liaquat told reporters he would discuss matters of mu-
tual interest with Prime Min-_ “ister Clement Attlee in London
and with President Truman in Washington. “The flight from London. to the U. 8. will be made Tuesday in Mr. Truman's plane.
u. S. Arms Aid
JAMES BRUCE, resigning head of the military assistance program, said last night that thousands of tons of supplies and equipment already have been shipped to America’s Atlantic Pact partners, and thousands more are on their way to ports for loading. All of the eight nations getting free American arms will have received their first shipments within a few days, Mr, Bruce said.
Mr. Bruce's report on the
MAP program came as he dis--
Marshail Tito’s diplomats make this clear in off-the-record statements,
” - ” PRESIDENT GABRIEL GONZALEZ VIDELA of Chile and his party may get some benefits from his United States tour, but Chite‘s problems remain unsolved. They are remarkably similar to those of Italy—land division, tax reforms and curtailment of power of wealthy families who refuse to help their own people. = ” ” ® THERE are. 350,000 undeclared foreigners living today in Italy with forged papers or no papers at all, according to the head of the foreign section of the Rome police. = ” » SWITZERLAND is organizing. a national store of food and gasoline for war emergency as it did in 1939. n s » . HELPED by ECA dollars, Greece ig increasing. its electric power output from 485 million kilowatts to 1.1 billion kflowatts, ” THE official British view is that the Big Three conferences starting in London in May among American, British and French diplomats will be the most important since the war. Aim of the conferences—to coordinate the West's over-all foreign policy. = . - ” ” IF the Kremlin doesn't urge
Trygve Lie to come to Moscow in May, it will mean that the
cold war will continue inate’, nitely,
ARGENTINE news-
‘papers are not permitted to
write about President Peron
wanting a loan: from Wash. | of . ington. They are \ pel te the
to ‘the world's ag Be
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closed that his resignation will become effective May 1. He will be succeeded by John H. Ohly, who has been deputy di-
—rector-of -the-arms— program.
Under the plan, the United
States during the current fiscal year is sending $1 billion worth of arms to Atlantic Pact partners in Europe, with smaller amounts going to Iran, Korea and the Philippines.
Hong Kong
EVACUEES from Red China said at Hong Kong yesterday that the officers of the American ship, California Bear, are being held for trial before a Communist court in Tientsin on charges arising from a collision with a Chinese vessel. The Communist news-agency has said that 70 Chinese crew members of the 1600-ton Hsinan lost their lives when the ship was rammed by the California Bear near Tientsin. The report accused the American ship of being slow in making rescue attempts.
(The State Department an-
nounced today that 154 Americans and 546 other persons have boarded the American President Liner General Gordon off Tientsin in the last big evacuation of Westerners from Communist China.
(Today's evacuation will leave more than 2000 Americans in China, all of them have elected to remain-—with the exception of eight or 10 businessmen who have so far been unable to get exit permits from the Communists.)
‘On the Inside of World Affairs
FRENCH Communists have received instructions to sabotage from now on all public meetings where Gen, Charles e Gaulle will make an appearance,’
» ” ” . AS A FIRST STEP toward gettin military assistance from the United States, Israel asked to train its officers here. The move rebounded when the Department of Defense replied affirmatively — after sending similar offers to all Arab states except Yemen.
2 = ” SABOTAGE of transport and factory equipment is me creasing in Romania.
8 8 ” SINCE some British exporters have already reached saturation point in the American market, the British Board of Trade would like to restrict British exhibits at the Chicago Trade Fair in August to firms with a chance of increasing the American sales of their products.
” » ” TURKEY has plans to link Istanbul to London by bus if Yugoslavia will grant transit rights.
INTENSIFIED ‘training in, anti-submarine warfare will be on the agenda of naval talks
. to be held in Norway in May
betweep British and gian officials. +
s » » THE mystery at St. Peter's about the purported bones of the founder of the Catholic Church continues to deepen. One report at the. sileénceshrouded Vatican is that the “workmen doing the digging ac‘cidentally dispersed some
Norwe-
~ments open from
. presentation to 500-Mile win-
which may of the
Our Fair City—
e over West Berlin. But there is reason to believe it a ruse. May | may be te, where the British zone begins. lid black lines mark the lines of :
New Apartments : Going Up—Rents Will Be High, Too
Keys Will Cost $75 Per Month And More in New Buildings
By The Times City Staff
NEW APARTMENTS are mushrooming here after government's spring tonic—release of new funds to in-
sure loans on big projects.
But they're all higher-priced. You'll still stand in line
for medium-priced rentals.
That's because most $60 and below units are under the rent freeze. Renters in them are “saving” money by
staying put.
Real Estate Board statistics dwell on 2300 vacancies compared to 2000 “wanted-to-rent” ads in the first four - months this year. That presumably leaves 300 pate
month.
om-$30-and below-to $50 and above per
Gimmick here, say people who are looking for these medium-priced apartments, is that these are vacant because they're the less desirable share-the-bath or below-street
level units.
» - n THE HOME HUNTERS in this $60 and under category won't find much relief in newer units going up. Almost 1000 will be on the market the last half of the year. But the keys will cost $78 a month and up. That's about the same deal as on 1000 Just opened units with “For Rent” signs out in the fresh spring turf. Rent's high because it costs dough to pay off the on new Projects, together with higher material aM labor costs.
Both Can't Be Right
Speaking of rent control 9 such, city fathers have a couple of contradictory housing measures in the legislative mill. If the council votes yes tomorrow night on appropriation for the city public housing authority it will be at odds with another piece of pending legislation.
The
publie- housing authority appropriation bill which
issuance of bonds to finance a housing program is based on_ resolution creating the authority “because the city has a sh
of safe and sanitary dwellings.”
However, that long kicked-around rent decontrol resolution
which is still before the council is also
on a resolution. That
one says there is “no housing shortage” How about it fellows? Is there is or is ae ain't? —
o Ld . ” J = — a UPCOMING is the annual time of confusion , .. that long pull to readjustment to daylight saving time. There'll be the usual tardy workers with the story that they misunderstood and set their clocks an hour the wrong way. Bigs gest headache, however, is the city police problem of enforcing parking and traffic signs based on central standard time,
= » » Because the city administration by state law has to operate on standard time, those ‘no parking 4 to 6 p. m.” signs can't be switched to daylight savings time. But thes traffic
problem goes on daylight sav-_ .
ing time, like the rest of the city.
What the .ecity would like
“motorists-to-do isto subtract
one hour from the times on’ turn and parking restrictions. In other words if it says no parking from 4 to. 6 p. m. or 7 to 9 a. m,, they'd have you stay away from 3 to 5 p.m. and 6 to 8 a. m. central standard time. os -
n & I Choose to Pay’ Despite his feud with ball club owner Frank McKinney, Mayor Feeney got his annual free season pass for the Indianapolis Indians’ home games at Victory Field in the mail the other day. The Mayor said,
. however, he wouldn't use the
pass. “I'll pay my dollar ten,” said he. That should take care of rumors that the feud’s been patched up. . ,. »
THE VIP'S (very important people) will have to fight 500Mile Race traffic Just like the peasants. wal tu That's the word from the Speedway Committee, a group of law enforcement groups which take care of Memorial Day traffic problem. It decided that this year, as last, there'll be no escorts for the visiting firemen. One exception will be
w
the movie queen chosen to °
present the Borg-Warner Trophy and she'll be assigned one officer “for reasons of
-security.”
s 8 = Speaking of that automotive
has almost lost its entity by by its much - publicized trophy
rn al al MI sex which has little comprehension. ot Sanumissiony and
Burj-Warner, ;
“supposed to be Dem “Thurston was heavy -jowle
“Oh, you know,” the other, “trophies and things like that.” o
STATE POLICE Supt, thur Thurston did a doubles take the other day when somes one handed him a safety are. ticle he had written for a loe cal paper. The inset
5
Republican Senator Hom er Capehart. : “Looks like I'm getting a ttle heavy,” laughed long and
lean Supt. Thurston. LY
ART WRIGHT, Times Spans ing Bee editor things, isn’t such a o-light
speller himself, especially op those jawbreakers he complies to flip ‘at contestants in the spelldowns. But he has to make up the list with no errors. Hence his desk is stacked with diction= aries. Mr. Spelling Bee puts a . finger on the word and spells it out loud, letter by letter, to a secretary,
It gets pretty involved oh words
like “le ” or “isosceles.” But the camé when a Spelling story studded with these hard-
- to-spells, all right by Wi "had “representatives” titives.”