Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1950 — Page 10

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How to Ruin a Good Police Force THE two Indianapolis

day are still on duty. They have not been suspended. They have not been fired. ’ No charges have been filed against them. No hearing is scheduled. Chief Rouls has done nothing. Mayor Feeney has done nothing. The Baard of Batety has dane nothing. - r CHIEF Rul is supposed to be “investigating.” So far the net of his “investigation” appears to be a convietion that the victim of this brutal assault is a kind of a low character, anyway. : It doesn't matter whether he is, or isn't. It doesn’t matter if he's the worst criminal in town ... or innocent of anything. It is not the job of patrolmen to pass judgment and administer punishment. It t's not the job of the police chief, either. “. Nw . = » THERE have been reports before . . . too many of them to ignore . . . of brutal treatment of prisoners “behind the curtain” at police headquarters. Hard to pin down, hard to prove, especially when the attitude of those in responsible authority has been to.wink at it and cover it up There's no question about it this time. It happened right out in the open, on a downtown street corner, in broad daylight, in the presence of disinterested and unimpeachable witnesses. You can't laugh this one off, Chief. These two men have publicly shamed the whole police department and all the decent, courageous hard-working po“licemen in it. We'll grant that wasn't your fault . . , last Tuesaay. But every hour these men stay on in uniform IS your fault. These two men should go . . . NOW.

WEL aa His Neck's Safe BEFORE Korea, a bill authorizing $1,225,000,000 for military aid to nations resisting c communism was having hard sledding in Congress. Since Korea, that bill has been passed by a total vote, in Senate.and House, of 427.to 1. The one “no” vote was cast by Rep. Vito Marcantonio, American Labor Party, New York. Three days after Korea, Mr. Marcantonio cast one of the only four votes in Congress against extension of the draft. History is repeating. Let's look back: May 28, 1940: Two bills to strehgthen America’s own defense are before the House. Stalin is still Hitler's silent war-partner, under the Nazi-Communist pact. German armies have just swept through Belgium and Holland. British forces are retreating to Dunkerque. The House passes the two bills, 401 to 1 and 402 to 1. The-single vote against each of them is Marcantonio’s. Sept. 5, 1940: A bill to draft men for America’s own defense is pending. Nazi armies have just swept through Belgium and Holland. France has fallen. Invasion threatens Britain. The bill passes, 263 to 149. Marcantonio is one of the 149.

~ " rr - = 5 THEREAFTER, Marcantonio consistently opposed measures for American defense and aid to beleaguered. Britain—until June 22, 1941. That day Hitler doublecrossed Stalin and attacked Russia. And Marcantonio began to scream for anything that might help Stalin. One day after Pearl Harbor, he voted for war with Japan; three days later, for war with Germany and Italy. And he was echoing the Kremlin's cries for American . troops to invade Western Europe long before success for that hazardous venture could have been possible. But now, despite Korea and all it may presage, Marcantonio is back in his old groove, casting votes that the Kremlin can hail with delight. Other members of Congress are risking their necks. If war should come, if America should be invaded and conquered, they would be branded “war criminals” by the Kremlin. Their votes for defense of their country would be cited as proof. They could expect no mercy, But not Marcantonio. Stalin's first act of gratitude, if he ever takes Washington, should be to order a medal

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Problem of Perishable Foods Goes On in War or Peace WASHINGTON, July 22—In war or peace,

Chairman culture Committee said the only possible step he thought might be taken would be to authorize the Agriculture Department to pay transportation costs to deliver the products to various welfare agencies. The cost of transportation is said to have stopped many welfare agencies from getting the dried eggs, butter and cheese. One Senator, who asked that his name not be used, sald Mr. Brannan was “just stewing in his own juice” as far as the dried egg® were concerned because the law doesn't compel him to support egg prices. He aieo po pointed out' that the Agriculture is supporting butter prices at 79 per cent of hod when the law permits support at 75 per cent.

Situation on Perishables

HERE'S the situation on the perishable commodities:

EGGS-—The government now owns 107 million pounds, of which 26 million pounds are left over from last year and six million pounds from two years ago. Total investment in these eggs is about $112 million, The government so far in 1950 has purchased 75 million pounds of dried eggs, seven million pounds more than it bought to hold up egg prices in all of 1949,

BUTTER ~The government now owns 193 million pounds of butter bought at 60 cents a pound and is buying at the rate of about nine million pounds a week. Eighty million pounds is left over from last year.

CHEESE AND DRIED SKIM MILK-The government owns 82.5 million pounds of cheddar cheese and 371 millon pounds of dried skim milk—for which it has paid out about $65 million. Officials in the agriculture poultry branch are hopeful that the Korea War will enable them to get rid of their dried eggs. They point out that Britain in 1946 took 100 million pounds of dried eggs, just about what we now have on hand. They are trying to find out whether Koreans will eat dried eggs.

No Dairy ‘Cheer’ BUT there is no such “war cheer” in the dairy branch, Dairy prices are about the only

ones that haven't gone up since the outbreak.

and while the Agriculture Department is maintaining butter prices at 60 cents a pound

“to farmers the world butter price is about 32

cents. They can see no foreign outlet. The _plan to dispose of the surplus butter in a two-for-one sale to U, 8. housewives is still under discussion, but meeting stiff opposition. It was discussed this week with a group of industry officials but most of them were opposed. “It would break the Rep. Cooley. Sen. Allen Ellender, the Senate Agriculture Committee, said he favored a plan to make these surpluses available to old-age pensioners but that nothing couid ‘be done this session of Congress.

YEARNING FOR PEACE

Under the stars and stripes I feel Security in a war torn world, Peace in a land of liberty Love for my home and flag unfurled While Europe cries beneath the tread Of a conqueror’s might, I face tomorrow, Holding high hopes that another year God will protect us from war and sorrow,

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1 saw the flag of my country fly When as a child, the war lord cried, And I've heard the tales of my father since Who fought in France with those that died; I've heard the talk of my aged grandsire And every story has brought this prayer God, hold our hands to the reins of peace. Lead us oh God, from the tyrant's snare.

Opal McGuire, 814 Broadway.

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WITH U. 8. FORCES IN KOREA, July 22 I met 13-year-old Johnny Pakhama on his way to war—a Korean waif from Pusan with an American helmet wobbling on his head and his pockets full of GI candy. Last night I met him again, his tin hat and candy gone, with an American carbine ir his hand and a long cartridge belt double-draped around his thin waist. The carbine was arty and smelled of heavy firing. Johnny had picked it up from one of his fallen American comrades beside whom he fought at the front. He had come out as an “ambulance guard” which was a fatherly American colonel’s way of getting this kid out of the hell that had broken loose on his sector. Johnny (“no papa, no mama, no whisky soda”) had been adopted by the colonel and his men as a combination mascot and interpreter, for somewhere in the mists of Johnny's past on the waterfront of Pusan he had learned to ish.

Eng! Not really to speak it but rattle it off so

fast that it sounded at first like a new kind of However, Johnny made sense when you slowed him down and the colonel needed any kind of an interpreter he could get.

Was MP Mascot

JOHNNY'S first contact with English seems to have been his peacetime service as mascot with am American MP outfit that came to Pusan after the defeat of Japan. When the Americans came back to Korea, he gravitated once more to them. He was floating in a 13-year-old’s Heaven when I first met him on a troop train moving up to the front. I had been talking with the colonel of the outfit when Korean women wearing armbands came through the train bearing little pots of drinking water for the Americans. The armbands were in Chinese ideographs and \when I wondered whom the women represented the colonel said “wait a minute, I'll call my interpreter.” That's where Johnny came in. “No have armband, no can come railway station,” Johnny explained. “Women he come from nice peoples. He want to make nice things for American soldiers fight Communists.” The last I saw of Johnny that time he was nestied between the seats of a jeep, almost hidden by his helmet while the colonel! with a map was telling his officers which position the outfit was taking and what they were going to do. “We've got to knock out those tanks and I don't want you to go losing men,” the colonel told them while Johnny chomped his gum.

Starts Begging for Gun

IN A little while they were off.nto the hills to bivouac for the night and then move up, into line. During the first two or three days in line Johnny dug himself a hole and faced the rim of it with rocks like other men, did a little interpreting for the interrogation of an occasional prisoner and started begging the colonel and other officers for a gun. There were occasional unimportant exchanges of small arms fire and the distant thump of artillery to make Johnny's life interesting and to fuel his burning desire for a

By Galbraith BEDLAM IN THE BUREAUS . Defense Program Confusing to Washington

WASHINGTON, July 22—Everyone in Washington is today running around somewhat frantically trying to figure out in specific terms just what President Truman's new defense program

means to him or his business.

told who is to do what, except & most general way. Clarification apparently awaits testimony by top policy officials before congressional commitx Congress may, of course, \ drastically amend the pro- \ posed “defense production act of 1950," sent to Capitol Hill . by the. White House, so the effect of new defense curbs and controls on business and consumers can’t be measured until Congress completes action. A few general deductions are possible. A $10 billion increase “in defense spending means

By Clyde Farnsworth

13-Year-Old Gels Taste of Battie

weapon. Then suddenly an infiltration attack swirled upon their hilltop like daybreak mists caught by a sudden wind. Johnny looked through his dirty fingers to fllustrate the fog out of which the attack came —he didn't know the word for it.

Gets a Carbine

“NO CAN see anything. Communists see us but we no see them. Bullets come like rain, bzzz, bzzz, bzzz. Colonel he go way. I ask major for carbine. Have one nobody use. Major tell me no can shoot until GI also shoot.” “Then plenty big shells come,” Johnny said. “Whoom, whoom, I shoot half a clip but I scared. I cry. I want to go home. I want to get hell out of there. “Major send me back down to motor pool but all vehicles gone. I cry some more then go

‘back. Later major tell me go with ambulance

and guard it on way back.” A medical detachment behind the front now has a new mascot.

on the Atlantic Council. ‘Senate Republicans have been critical of European delays in carrying out pact obligations. The administration here is not unsympathe« tic toward efforts of the Allied governments. It stands ready to help them. That increased aid will take various forms:

Can Facilitate Rearming

THERE WILL be larger direct military aid grants and supplies from the United States, The Korean war instead of slowing down the flow of American munitions to Europe, as some of the Allied governments feared, will speed it, Marshall Plan economic aid can facili. tate the European Tearmament programs indi. rectly. : American munitions orders can be placed in Allied countries when practicable. Large increases in American buying of strategic raw materials and minerals from Allied dependencies will improve Western Europe’s dollar shortage and strengthen its gen eral financial position. But these American measures cannot be onesided. Washington will insist that a maximum of these benefits received by Europe be turned into lagger and better armed defense forces.

Pleased With Reaction

FOR this reason Washington is pleased with

‘ the initial reaction of British and French ofs

ficials and press to America’s partial mobilization. Prime Minister Attlee told the British Parliament yesterday he is considering “what can be done to match the high purpose and resolution” of the Truman program. But it is recognized here that the test of good intentions in London and Paris will be their ability to lower somewhat the already low living standards of their citizens to divert more national income and production to defense, This would be hard at any time. It will be especially difficult for the new and unstable French cabinet, which has promised higher minimum wages and has tax collec tion troubles. It will not be easy for the British Labor Government, which has already about exhausted taxation possibilities to maintain welfare state benefits,

“| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

‘A Show of Force’ By Earl D. Hoskins, 1266 W. 26th St., City MR. AVERAGE MAN WANTS to know: “How Come Korea?” We will always have a Korea as long as we let politicians run our military needs. The Army and Navy knows what is needed in regards to arms, not Senators and Congressmen. I say that to say this: When the war was over we started scrapping our material instead of storing it and allowing a few of our war plants to continue. We had the same thing before Pearl Harbor. Don’t fortify Guam. If we do we'll hurt Japan's feelings. The result, we have many vaeant homes. ’ We all want peace, but the world doesn't understand our Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount. I wonder if we do? so

in this world we must be prepared for any

eventuality while we work for peace. In 1913, we who were stationed in the Philippine Island knew we were expendable for the heavy guns we needed were not at hand. It is so today and also tomorrow if we don't let the men who have to use the things look after their needs. > > * BUT then when we get started we roll While we are getting started we lose lives and receive setbacks. If we would just stay prepared and then talk peace’ we would have it. Bullies only understand a show of force. It's a good thing we did not send any more material to the Koreans for it takes a will to

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fight to save it. Now a large part is being used against our gallant 24th Division. Things like the slanderous attack on Gen. Carlson and deceased members of our official family doesn’t help. Let the dead rest in peace and look for the present and future. Lef us hope we will not make the same mistake. Let's keep two cannons to their one instead of a cap pistol. I loved the 24th Division and wish I were with them over there, but I am too old now, We can help back here by trying to keep the military out of politics. My son is there. God bless all the boys there. They will win. We must win back here,

Knife in Back

By Fred D. Vacha

THE battle is on. Scouting parties have probed with great success and now the full-scale assault is being waged on all fronts. “Sugar snipers” and “coffee crusaders” are carrying on a withering attack that is rapidly thinning the ranks of the opposition. Large forces of “soap sergeants” and “short. ening sappers” are rallying to assist in the mopping up operations. it >» WAR is a messy business and this war on items that will quickly be in short supply if the foolish rush continues, is certainly a knife in the back of every person with an ounce of decency and fair play in their character. Selfish hoarding will only boest prices that are already getting out of hand and add fuel to the inflationary fire. Stupid people will eventually outsmart themselves with senseless buying. The unfortunate part of the domestic battle, as is the case in all wars, all must suffer—the innocent as well as

the guilty.

. By Peter Edson

Just what a “production loan guarantee” will be, as called for by the President, remains

Operating heads of government agencies supposed to have a part in the job are still vague on the details. They haven't been

government agency -— like the War Production Board of the last war -- is to be created to handle mobilization. For the time being at least,

terials is apparently out. The Taft Act, which set up voluntary allocations over steel, was in August,

Department of Commerce now runs the export control program and determines synthetic rubber production rates. Its import controls have all

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