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No Hiding Place Around Here N spite of their vicious prohibition-days record as outlaws and gangsters some of us may have felt a little i stirring of sympathy for the Shelton family, of Fairfield, d IIL, lately. seas Tspeeiaily when the killers-who- ‘have been ag them down, one by-one, carried their vindictive feud on to second generation Sheltons who could hardly have been travelling with the mob back in the lush twenties. We're a tolerant community, and “Little Carl” Shelton, no doubt could have had permanent sanctuary in Indianapolis. . . . . a job, a home, safety and a decent life . , , . . if he could just have behaved himself. We suggest to him . . ., and to the retired gangster _unele for whose help he started squealing as soon as he got himself in trouble , . . . that whatever welcome he may have had in Indianapolis-is- already pretty well worn out. While he denies part of the unspeakable crime with which he is charged he has admitted enough of it to convince us that we don't want him or any of his kind in Indianapolis. The police and sheriffs office have done excellent work in landing this Illinois punk in jail, and the courts have — properly backed them up with bond high enough to keep him there. When, and if, he gets out we trust he won't linger with us.

Some Progress—But ‘Not Enough

et Toes . ago with the first of hia sensational articles. Most advance is that practically everybody eg had I the case is now W saying there shoul be a

fiat i £e HH ihe il SE

: found no legal evidence that the Justice = heen remiss in its duty. The jury added, however, that it had not had time to make an exhaustive inquiry, and therefore recommended that a new jury be impaneled to complete “The fury also reported that the FBI and OSS, which Sutiened the evidence, had acted properly—a statement confradieting the alibi of sume Justice Depastment

] FBI and OSS “illegal entries” had

The jury urged the Justice Department to make a complete statement of its handling of the case, together with a list and description of the 1700 stolen documents involved. . » » » » ~ ATTY. GEN, McGRATH has said he will discuss the jury’s recommendation with other Justice officials. If fa- ~ vorable action is taken, that will be progress indeed. - For five years the department has been trying to keep the public from finding out what is in those documents— surely a strange attitude in view of the fact that department attorneys apparently considered the information so - unimportant that the people who stole the secret papers in wartime were let off with a coupl ple of slaps on the wrist.

~es=JOVEN Sei. Tydings, Whose subcon 8 been Play: N ing hide-and-seek with the Amerasia affair, promises full disclosure. : It is some gain that the Senator talks of the investigation in terms of hard work. : Yet it is not easy to be patient with the Tydings Commitee, nor to have much confidence in whatever findings it may produce. The case was smelly when the committee started, and it's smellier now for the committee's procedure has been such as to compound suspicion. 5 2 . 8.» . "= on IT HAS heard “witnesses behind closed doors, leaking out to the press only testimony designed to belittle the charges. It released a smear of the FBI, but the next day when FBI officials told their side of the story, that was sup- . pressed. ; “A resolution sponsored by 21 Republican Senators asking a separate investigation by the judiciary committee is now pending. That couldn't be worse than the Tydings investigation. But that’s not the way to handle it, either. The investigation should be taken out of politics, and turned over to a commission of nonpartisan citizens of unimpeachable integrity, whose findings would command public respect. Only a few persons were guilty of “those serious mistakes of five years ago, yet the efforts to, shield them is undermining public confidence in whole departments of government and is clouding the reputation of hundreds of loyal government officials who had Bothing to do with the Amerasia case. There's been some progress toward disclosure. But it can be called real progress only when the whole truth is laid bare,

City 5 Expanding Economy

LTURTHER “evidence ‘of an expanding economy in tive Indianapolis area is indicated by employment reports “for the last two months. During May employment in the Indianapolis area reached the highest levels of any month since November, 1948, with forecasts. from 120 local firms that they may . need 2000 additional workers by mid-July. 2 The 272,150 workers employed here during May comprised an increase of 2.8 per cent over the previous month with a drop of 39 per cent in the number of unemployed. > ~ » » » . ® ; ALL this means that the general economic picture of the Indianapolis industrial area is moving into a period of stabilized growth on a healthy basis after several months of fluctuating readjustments. This area's pattern of diversified commerce sot with | Joeation as the hub of cross-country trade sound business developments he here for some

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- in. the | Ruhr, :

These mostly are now crowded into Bavaria

"Indiana Dirt Farmer Lists 20 ¢ ¥

FABSIL SCHENCK is resident of the Indl. _ ana Farm Bureau Federation. He owns and operates a

Bureau business—at his Indianapolis offices, around the state, testifying in Washington or at AFBF headquarters In Chicago. _ Indiana doesn’t have the system of Farm Bureau control over county ASaIY and

states want to operate that way, it's up to them, On other major Farm Bureau programs, Mr, | Schenck goes long. He has opposed a Bron, Bran-

trot Ih. public Cpe a ihe OL wa hold the same view. Mr. Schenck says, however, that he believes there has been too much emphasis on this discussion of price supports. His contention is that price supports alone do not make a farm program,

.He reaches in his cont pocket and pulls out

OPTIMISTIC . . . By Ludwell Dennv

Ruhr Election

‘No Barometer

Economic Conditions, Stalin's Policy Guide Red Vote

WASHINGTON, June 22-—Most of the opti-

mism about the state election in the Ruhr ares “of Germany is far-fetched,

Aside from the Communist decline, which was somewhat deceptive, this North RhineWestphalia election had little if any significance as a barometer for West Germany as a whole, Its meaning was local, and mixed at that. Certainly the poor showing of the cruder “rChauvintstic parties does 1 fot indicate a decline in German nationalist spirit, as the wishful thinkers like io believe. The extreme right wing or so-called neoNazi parties received only about 2 per cent of the total vote. But they never have been strong Their Chief su] ort. is from the

and other farm regions, They are not dominant in the Rubr industrial area. . a

Anti-Aliied Action

BUT there is plenty of Chauvinistic sentiment in the Ruhr, though its vote goes to the larger established parties. This has been clear from the anti-allied demonstrations; and from the campaign speeches and press of the (Con_servative) Christian Democratic and Free

" Democratic parties, and also of the (Socialist) Social

Democratic party. The German splinter parties, whatever they may become in the future, have Hiitle Importance oe except as a threat which the m spectable parties hold over the ed oy the allies. The present danger is rather the revival of nationalism among the Ruhr industrialists, who insist on trading with Russia, and among the Christian Democratic and other party leaders who load the government services, police forces and school faculties with ex-Nazis and ban employment of anti-Nazis.

Some of the old line party leaders personally are not as anti-Démocratic as this sounds. But, as cynical politicians who know their German public, they pander to the popular prejudices. t is hard to be a Democrat in Germany today, pede not quite so difficult in the Ruhr valley as some other places, The Communist decline In West Germany as whole. .and_in the Ruhr Ad ERB dec Aalto the perfnanent Red loss probably is less than the drop from 14 to 5 per cent in the North Rhine-Westphalia election seems to indicate,

Conditions Improved

THE Red vote goes up and down according to economic conditions, party organization, and Stalin’s German policy. All three factors are unfavorable for the Communists at the moment,

Economic conditions in the Ruhr have improved, thanks in part to the American taxpayers’ money. The party has been weakened by feuds and purges. And Stalin has just given them ‘two doses, bitter for even Ruhr Reds to swallow. He has annqunced that all German prisoners of war in Russta have been returned--leaving at least a million unaccounted for. And he has just made “permanent” the German loss of her dismembered eastern provinces, which Stalin gave to Poland when he annexed Eastern Poland. Even the local significance of the Ruhr election was blurred, because the constitution voted on mixed the issues of nationalizing industry and church control of schools. So the Socialists voted against nationalization, while the Conservatives voted for it—and came out on top.

~ Jona of fats and oils : al EXPE ~30,

or vegetable oils, cottonseed ofl,

But Mr. Schenck did furnish a copy of the card. And the mere listing of his 20 points was something of a major feat in itself.

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GOVERNMENT INCONSISTENCY

If memory

DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR SAYS HE MAY VOTE

By Earl Richert

Fiddle, Faddle in Foreign Trade

WASHINGTON, June 22—The wheel of government inconsistency is being given another

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While the State Department prepares for another round of tariff cutting to let more foreign goods come into the U. S., Congress is voting fo continue a law which keeps out many commodities. The Senate unanimously has passed a bill which would let the Agriculture Department continue its virtually flat embargo against imports of many commodities, Speedy House approval is expected. What's involved is a law which gives the Agriculture Department power to control imcluding. -butiery—and

a Products Listed

UNDER IT, the Agriculture Department refuses to let the following products come into this country: Butter, combinations and mixtures of animal fatty acids, flaxseed, flaxseed screenings, lard, lard compounds or substitutes, linseed oil, oleo oil, oleostearine, peanuts, peanut butter, peanut oil, rice, soap (except perfumed and luxury soaps), soap powders, soybeans, soybean oil, sunflower oil and seed, tallow. y

Memo to Congress:

Since 1913 the population of the United States has increased 50 per cent: ‘but the number of federal employees has increased 400 per cent. > 4 yo The Hoover Commission's recommendations

on government reform suggest ways to reduce the federal payroll.

BYRD PARTY... By Marquis. Childs.

Some Political Labels Socome Meaningless

WASHINGTON, June 22--On any list of the most influen--tial men in Washington the name of Sen. Harry F. Byrd would come fairly high up. For purposes of listing, the Senator is a Actually he is the head of a party of his own, and Party of President Tru-

Democrat. any resemblance tc the Democratic man is purely. coincidental.

Sen. Byrd's power is yet an- Senator for

the

lawyer. But it does not appear likely he will exercise those abilities in a federal office. The Commerce Committee reported on the Hutchinson appointment senatorial

unfavorably, by a vote of 5 to’

_ Thomas

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other reminder of how meaningless our political labels have become today. Nor does

the Dixiecrat tag fit the Byrd .

party.

FS origins ‘go-a-fong “WEY

back of that. They go back to Jefferson and the kind of squirearchy that some of his adulators believe Jeffer-

Harry Byrd is a Virginia

squire on a 20th Century scale. . in part, In.

His power rests, the prestige that tradition still has, in the era of mass production and atomic war. It Sen. Byrd's power is largely negative, it is never-

theless real. He has just dem--

onstrated it by vetoing the President's appointment of Martin A. Hutchinsén, to be a . member of the Federal Trade Commission at a salary of "$15,000 a year. - ” - TET THERE are special aspects of this use of the Byrd veto power, since Hutehisson ‘not

only © in 146 he ran against the

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for this nation.

nomination. If he cares to, a Senator may declare a nominee from his home state to be personally obnoxious to him, and under the rules of the club, that is almost sufficient

“to block his confirmation.

-. But Byrd did not do that in this instance. In a letter to the Senate’ Commerce Committee, considering Hutchinson's nomination, he said that the nominee lacked training, experience and competence for the position, » » - CONTRARY to the legend of the tight control exercised by. the Byrd machine in Virginia, there are frankly ex-

pressed differences. on this

point. Virginia's attorney general, J. Lindsay Almond Jr. one of the ranking members .of the Byrd organization, indorsed Hutchinson, praising -. him for-his “sincerity, honesty, manifest courage of conviction and devotion to duty.”

Others in the

’ Virginia hier- : ~archy praised the abilities of

the President's nominee as a

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3. Unless something unforseen occurs, the Senate, as a whole, is expected to follow this lead if there is a vote on Hutohtnson, i

SEN. BYRDS lieve that in naming Hutchin-son,-the President intended a

direct slap at their hero. There

is no-doubt of the President's

intense dislike and resentment

of the vetoing Virginian. But if the testimonials to Hutchinson are even partly true, then Sen. Byrd's action must also be put down to political spleen. year Mr. Byrd succeeded in

_blocking a Truman nominee—

Mon C. Walgren, former governor of the State of Washington, and the President's close

friend, named to be chairman

of the National - Security Resources Board. But, in that instance, many shared a doubt ax to Walgren’s abil to hold such a vitally import-

‘ant. post.

lites gp ferme SEN. BYRD'S specialty, and .. _ the source of his great popu-

friends be

Earlier this

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Reason for the law is that the U. 8. has a surplus of fats and oils products, with the government having huge and costly holdings of such items as butter, linseed oil and flaxseed. The law is a remnant of an old War Powers Act. Foreign Imports, according to George L. Pritchard of Agriculture’s fats and oils branch, would not only mean greater losses to the government on its holdings but would depress domestic prices and cause losses to domestic producers and processors.

Mr. Pritchard said he believed imports of

the commodities involved would be large because the foreign demand for dollars is so great.

Reduced Butter Tariff

end SSSHHE State Department in its Annecy, France,

on Yoked attack. Taking that definition. Base ve ini obvious that thinking in internation-

tained to provide a cash market for farm ucts ;

Hoosier Forum

*1 do not agree with a word that ye say, but | will defend-to the death your fo say

‘Disturbing Questions’ By Dr, Harry Nagle, 4117 E. Washington St. The forum and roundtable talks are acheduled this week at Indiana University to discuss

about the international relations of our govern-

“ment. However, it is more than a guess that

this resolves to be but one thing—our position regarding Russia or war. Such a war cannot be started by the demoeracies but must be set off by Russian aggresnen this in face of the fact that we know that

a best defense. Russia used this excuse against

Finland. : If we accept thé Russian aggression approach we must then define aggression, so easily done by FDR in his famous “quarantine the aggressors” speech at Chicago in the middle Thirties. Webster says that aggression is an unprooR

al terms the borders of some nation must be violated to constitute aggression. To date there is a disturbing question in the minds of Americans just where those con=

“stituting American safety lie. “Are they on the

Rhine or Spain in the East, and to the West, €hina (now lost); Formosa, the Philippines, Japan, Kuriles, Mariannas or where? Should we © have a “54-40 or fight” line so that there may be no misunderstanding? The forum might inform us as to just where we stand. Then again comes the subtle type of aggression (used lately so successfully) in which a nation infiltrates another, ostensibly to help dis-

“gruntled, disloyal nifnorities openly or as guer-

rillas oppose the regularly constituted government. Criticism of these actions is to a

kept " minimum by portraying it as help to “liberate”

' trade agreement last year reduced the tariff

on butter from 14 to seven cents a pound supposedly to enable foreign countries to sell more butter here and earn more dollars. Agriculture officials in charge of administration of the import ‘control law laugh about the inconsistency of what they're doing and the State Depariment’s goal of increased imports of foreign goods. The Agriculture people say they're merely doing what every other country in the world is doing—keeping out goods which are in.surplus at home,

Admit Inconsistencies

BUT they admit there are inconsistencies

even in that position. While butter and linseed oil are embargoed because of the huge government stocks, poultry branch chief W. D. Termohlen is worried about increasing imports of dried egg yolks from Communist China. The U. 8. government has caves full of surplus dried eggs. And Maine potato farmers have been contending all along that much of the potato surplus mess has been caused by. imports from Canada. “We have an import control law for the fats and oils products and not for egg and potatoes,” explained one official wryly.

larity with business audiences, is economy. He has performed a valuable service in pointing out waste, duplication and inefficiency in the huge leviathan of government. But economy can be a twoedged sword when peace or war, survival or chaos, turn so largely on the responsibility focussed in Washington. To cripple the State Department —-and-the“Voive of America With ___ an arbitrary slash woud be to risk far more than we have the right to risk at this point. . » »

-- SOME - WEEKS ago Sen: Hubert ‘Humphrey of Minnesota introduced a resolution to abolish the Byrd Committee on Nonessential Federal Expenditures because it seemed to duplicate the work of the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive De t, and therefore to constitute in itself a waste of time and money. The prestige of the Virginia

ocrat coalition descended on Humphrey like a ton of bricks. And, significantly, no one on - his own side of the aisle rose in his defense. ‘Here is a party

a government ernment,

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SIDE GLANCES

exploited, enslaved, dominated or “colonized” groups. It is, of course, no accident that the leaders of the minorities have been educated, disciplined, indoctrinated and subordinated by the nation assisting. Is it merely happen-so that Formosa is likely to follow mainland China, that the Huks (Red guerrillas in the Philippines) are mobilizing on the most northern part of the island of Luzon just 200 miles from Formosa? Of

course no advance thought was given to the idea - -

that once the Philippines were overrun by the Red scourge most, if not all, of Asia would be outflanked. Take a look at the map. Not considering our own bastion of safely there; is it any of our business if they should fall? What action, If any, are we taking, or will we take, in the South Pacific, still wet with the blood of our boys? ? We would ‘like a straight-forward answer to these questions in language that we can understand, and not in the kind that takes 15,000 words to say “we are undecided.”

What Others Say—

I KNOW the American people would welcome a realignment of the American party system.. With the liberal Republicans joining the Democratic Party, Mr. Gabrielson’s (GOP Chairman Guy G. Gabrielson) Republican Party could join in holy wedlock with the Dixfecrats, ~—Sen., Hubert H. Humphrey (D), of Minnesota,

THE nation must be strong enough to make it clear that any attempts of Russia further to expand will jeopardize the peace.—Methodiss Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam.

ONLY fools can indulge in the Insane calculation that they can terrorize the Soviet Union.—Soviet Deputy Prime Minister V. M, Molotov.

THE cost of failing to build a peaceful, prosperous world would be a third great war—with an untold cost not only in dollars but in lives. ~-President Truman.

I AM still of the opinion we can prevent was, ~Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins.

By Galbraith

find nothing wrong, with his eyes, madam. ‘Ha yi x fod : fiowly. rather listen fo the radio than read” :

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