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Seripps-H ewspapers : WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—If the Chinese Communists don’t intervene—and it's a big if—Korean picture “should start to improve soon, Joint Chiefs of Staff say.
Pentagon officials think Korean War will be over —_ The battle of bullets Is going by December—if Chinese stay out.
Keep in mind that
Pentagon has been over-optimistic since trouble started; ~ has to be for morale. But this time they give reasons: ONE: Air Force is now free of chore of acting as artillery for ground troops; can devote its missions to strategic bombing, hitting industrial targets, supply lines, reserve troop concentrations. Plan is to obliterate any-
TWO... for real counter-offensive. it will make big difference.
thing North Koreans could use for war,
s for MacArthur's tro reached major proportions, soon will be strong ‘enough
We can't tell you what has gone in—or will go in next week—but ‘Pentagon thinks
There'll be more National Guard mobilization, but
not of divisions, Pentagon says. And Gen. MacArthur still wants thibse troops
from other United Nations.
skins hn rR
“Face "New Costs EVEN ‘AFTER we win in Korea -< and even if international “situation cools—top defense chiefs says we'll still have to sperfd $25 billion a year for Armed Forces, for many years. ‘Before Korea, Defense Secretary Johnson had hoped to cut spending to $10 billion a year. Look for administration to ask Congress for big- new appropriations ($5 billion to $12 billion) within next two months. And look for funds for big, flush-deck carrier — successor to one that was never bujlt— to be “hidden” in request.
No Showdown SO FAR, there's been no showdown between best Rus-
~ pian-madeé tanks and ours. =
Army says there's no record
that 60-ton Stalin tanks have *
early reports. Koreans have used mediums, roughly equivalent to our mediums. We've started delivering General Pershing tanks, modi-
fied to resemble new General
Pattons, but have no reports yet on their effectiveness. New General Pattons, said to be able to destroy Stalin tanks,
“won't be ready for year or “They're: now. undergo-
more, Ing tests.
Shake-Up Seen SHAKE-UP of central intel~ ligence agency is almost cer-
“tain.
Despite defense of its preKorean estimates, White House and Pentagon feel they were let down. President Truman wouldn't have been in Missouri if he'd had any inkling war was to start. And
Mr. Johnson blames bad intel- ° ligence reports for some of the °
optimistic statements now being jammed back down his throat. CIA’S alibi, that it wasn't supposed to interpret its reports or draw conclusions, leaves joint chiefs, and others, cold. J 3 ” ” : od Relations Cordial RELATIONS between Presi-
+ dent Truman and Secretary
Johnson are still cordial and informal (Mr.
ia Tp: , & luncheon chat nt Blair House. y But Mr. Johnson's less sure: of his standing with Chairman
-Cgrl Vinson of House Arm
Services Committee, who ops erates as an extra defense secretary. In a fence-mending effort, Mr. Johnson's been letting Mr. Vinson make all im-
portant announcements, Since igniting started.” -
Note: Mr. Vinson's commit-
‘tee has just asked Military
Bea Transport Service to explain why it has chartered some foreign vessels for. sending supplies to Korea when “American bottoms could be fitted out in short order for
§ this type of duty.” TEV DOPE is that mew He
bomb piant, to be b Du Pont at cost phis to be located in Ozarks. Meanwhile, President Truman is being urged to increase facilities for produ‘eing U-284 (necessary in - eomstruction of atomie Weapons). Argument is that it will take two years to complete projects, and that by then we may have more uranium ore,
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Store -Sales Drop Yo
THOUGH CONGRESS will vote the power, administration i= making no preparations to impose wage and price controls. White House still sticks by original idea that economy can take Korean War effort without all-out controls. White House advisers point out that ‘department stores sales have dropped from postKorea peak, hope this means
people are returning to normal
buying: They say meat prices drop some in coming a as slaughtering inthough demand will
8ti keep Prices high. .
+ Fair Deal “Hit
TRUMAN FAIR DEAL backing In Senate has already been weakened Dbadiy by Democratic primaries. Even if . ‘Democrats hold all present seats — which is doubtful new Senators arriving in Janwary for 824 Congress will be less friendly to President's
"on in administration over who
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Jommsoh got tin. and chrome.
“new fall models. adaptation “of European de
. and. ‘White House
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Cewboy Glen Taylor is latest
loss to administration. Recent_ly Taylor has voted with it .
nine times out of ten. In North stim, Willih Smith's.
: victory over Frank Graham cost Tru--man forces a vote—Mr, Smith is a ‘Harry Byrd-type Democrat. Rep. George Smathers of Florida says he’s a Fair Dealer, but is unlikely to be as close as Claude Pepper. Rep. Mike Monroney, who defeated Sen. Elmer Thomas in Oklahoma, has been friendly to most of Truman. program but is no slave to White House line (but Thomas wasn’t either). Even the one Republican Senator defeated in primary,
Lies Deliberate By GORDON CUMMING Compiled by the Wire Services Seven weeks of fighting in Korea plus two weeks of controversy at Lake Success make it clear today that Russia is out to discredit the United States first and fight Aa war “later.
slightly in our favor but the battle of words, so far, has been a Russian victory. Using invective such as Hitler loved, the Soviet representative at Lake Success has smeared the United States gnd the United Nations.
Over Asiamnd Europe today
‘hangs a heavy cloud ‘of misrepresentation that cannot be dissipated so long as Jacob
MALE 8a his diatribe.
fore the multitudes of Asia a picture of American activities as those of a barbarian nation intent upon aggression. Only a clear-cut attack upon Mr. Malik and his directors in the Kremlin can offset the damage already done to Ameri-
--ean prestige. T= ~ Vague references to Russia’ 8. REE THE Cte Korean Wir obs
viously are- not enough. The counter-attack must. be definite. The Blame for Korea’ 8 woes and the frightful damage being done that little nation now has to be placed squarely on Russia. Through the forum of. the
allowed. Le xprelong. i. “He has successfully put be-
‘United Nations, a demonstra-
tion is pending of an old adage, ~~
.one that has no counterpart in _ Soviet lore or Communist dia-
lectics. It is this: truth in open
conflict with falsehood, invarjably emerges triumphant. Seldom in the history of
modern parliaments has truth .
“been so grievously mangled as during the past fortnight. Like Quisling of Norway, Jacob Malik has lent name to perfidy that will become a part of history. Inverted: facts, misrepresentations, deliberate lies will be known as “Maliks."” Task of the Moment Once the record has been put straight, as it will be shortly, the United Nations can progoed to a demonstration of its orth in maintaining peace. For the first time, it has the strength to. label the. aggresCROPS aS: Buel
It now has the arms lo pun-
“ish the aggressors. This is the task of the moment. The aggressors must be named and punished. This must be done whether Russia remains in the United Nations or walks out again. It must be done even if Russia goes.to war in support of
China.
Beyond the task of thm. -
mediate present looms another of equal importance. It consists of a fresh statement of aims and intentions in Asia + that will win the Asiatics to the free world and to a new _ alliance under the United Na-
Stop the Music
Chan Gurney of South Da-
kota, was more friendly to Democratic program than ‘ Rep. Francis I. Case, who beat wm. . » ” Row Over Electricity SHARP SQUABBLE'S going
try, and essential for defense
- production.
Interior Secretary Chapman wants to; so does Commerce Secretary Sawyer. National Security "Resources Board (NSRB) may take a hand. It's 4 good bet Charles Van retired West Virginia railroad executive, will head
— transportation office, soon to ~ ‘be created within Defense De-
partment.
”
“Can't Get Out
RESERVISTS are writing
in by the score to see if they
can get out. (They can't). When they're turned down they're appealing to their Congressmen. Few letters arrive
here asking help in getting
commissions. One Midwest Senator, just back from his home state, told colleagues = “old-time patriot ism” is hard to find where Korean War is Only enthusiasts, he said, were homefolks wanting help in landing fat war contracts, ”
Auto Curbs Seen BIG STOCKPILE buying by U. 8. in coming months may curtail auto production long before government asks for conversion. Pinch likely will come first and copper, then
* Industry doesn't look for important ‘price changes for Watch for:
signs in some new models, notably Packard’ s. n ”
Ties Wobbly RELATIONS are wobbly between White House and iis
soe NOT GOP “RUPPOTLer. Wayne =
Morse of Oregon. White House asked Morse to suggest a Re-.
- publican for RFC, when plan-
ning its big shakeup, of that body.. Mr, “Morse complied but his man was not named, has been unable to explain, to his satisfaction, why not.
“NOPE In- “announcing —
RFC appointees, no mention -
was made of fact that W. Elmer Harber of Shawnee, Okla., is Democratic national committeeman from - Oklahoma, as well as a bank president.
Roy or Gene? REP. and his Republ ~an “opponent in Oklahoma senatorial election, the Rev. Bill/ Alexander, may be forgotten men before votes are counted. Cowboy Roy Rogers, plans to campaign for Alexander, who
- officiated at his marriage. So
cowboy star Gene Autry—who has little use for rival Rogers is. . begging Mr. Monroney to let him come to Oklahoma and Monrongy fears in end voters may forget candidates and be deciding whom they like best, Roy or Gene.
Hard af Work
NSRB is working overtime op its national scientific reg+ ister, now has inventory of 70,000 research engineers. It will start soon on roster of. physicists and chemists, figures
‘it can complete assignment in
60 days. Congress passed National ? Science Foundation bill, but ~“Pruman hasn't yet named members. © Meanwhile NSRB Chairman Symington decided job couldn't wait. He's farmed it out to Federal Security Agency, “sent his manpower chief, Jim O’Brien, manage project.
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concerned.
Substitutes.
MIKE MONRONEY"
along to
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Russia's long-term aim is to
involve the United States in an exhausting war with” Commu=— “hAlst China's” millions Tf Stes
cessful, the Soviets could continue to build while we spend manpower and equipment. ‘
THE Brazilians - are apoplectic over the $100 million loan
to Spain. Since Brazil has been
friendly with Franco for the past two years, the resentment ‘is mercenary, not ideological.
“Coming on top of the $125 mil-
lion loan to Argentina, they
claim that enmity toward the
. United States pays better dividends than Iriengship, ” ao - PRESIDENT Juan Domingo - Peron, with a big American loan on the books, has gone back to Yankee-baiting, In his latest speech, he says that capitalism and communism are equal enemies of Argentina, He states his country is opposed to both. » ” ~ WARREN AUSTIN, ex-Sen-ator from Vermont and United States chief delegate to the United Nations, may get some help. from the State Department in the Security Council. Russia's Jacob Malik has made the entire group of Western delegates look bad unneces-
“sarily. Someone quick on the
uptake is needed to whittle him down. Sen. Austin is considered a grand old man but obviously he needs help.
Ld » » 2 PRIME MINISTER Nehru's New. Delhi statements on continued backing for the war in Korea come as a great relief to the Western world. India’s importance in Asia and the Pa-
« cific is-growing and expanding
month by month. A friendly India is essential to stop com-
munism from blacking avt the .
-whale Asiatic Jone
RED CHINA'S admission to the United Nations will be a
“daily issue so Jong™as Russia
continuek attending Eecurity Council
meetings. Seven votes
are needed to seat Mao Tsetung's Reds. The last vote showed Russia, India, Britain, Norway and Yogostavia in tavor. The Soviets must pick up two votes from Egypt, France, Ecuador-or Cuba. “ United States and Chinese Nationalist votes won't budge. - a | GEN. MacARTHUR was seriously considering coming home for the first time since ‘the late thirties before the Ko-
son, born in the Philippines, . never has set foot on Amerfcan soil. delayed until further notice, ” » » THERE'S a bit of revolt going on among the rank and file Congressmen because of an old Washington habit of putting thinas off the record. Leaders
White House or Pentagon, are told top secret stuff about war ‘preparations, but” are not &llowed to pass it on the open floor. - » ” ” THE Romanian. army will hold military maneuvers between Aug. 1 and Aug. 15 in the Dobrudja region. The maneuvers are held in conjunction with the Soviet fleet which has already started in the . Black Sea and also with the ‘maneuvers: of the Bulgarian army in the coastal zone of Bulgaria.
A GERMAN publication has = “pointed out that the 38th Par-
allel, where the fighting started & in Korea, also touches almost
~every other dangér spot in the
world. It runs through Tibet, Iran; Turkey, and Greece. It didn’t point out, but it is also true, that it runs very close to Washington.
EASTERN GERMANY'S
new “navy” which made its first appearance in a police par rade at the end of the Ger Communist Party conven in Benim Teseuy, ‘18 bring
his
The
rean war broke because his
The trip has been
To Twist Ni s Picture ve. u. S. oh y Hier Facts Distorted,
ime Has Come t To Counterattack
‘tions. Mr. Malik's lies will hasten the alliance. an #8
West's Assembly
PAUL-HENRI SPAAK, pres-
ident of the European assem-
bly, appealed to member gov-
ernments at Strasbourg yess terday for speedy indorsement :
of Winston Churchill's call for a European army. The former Socialist premier of Belgium warned against relighce by the 15 member states on “yet another miracle” to save Europe in event of war. The assembly ‘last night labeled Mr. Churchill's resolution calling for the army ‘‘for immediate action” and handed it over to representatives of the
scheduled to take place in Rome in October. : ¥ 8s =
Germany THE Allied High Commission at Frankfurt has slapped 90-day bans on two-thirds of
“North Korea or forces Red — West Germany's '15Commu- - China into an attack on For- . “mesa -or-an-tivasion of Indo-=
nist newspapers this month,
3 “nine of them-in-the past three
days. The five remaining papers are. expected to be shut down soon.
~ » » France FRANCE - will spend more
than $10.7 billion during the next three years to rebuild her
By Talburt
gn_ministers, ; ournal, » “pected ‘to come up for APProval cor ~—at their: next ‘meeting, now
ERE
armed forces, ‘a foreign office spokesman said last night. By 1054, the spokesman said, the French will have 21 fullyequipped modern divisions in Europe in .addition to the 150,000-man army already fighting Communists in IndoChina. He said it is not yet possible to estimate ‘how much of the overall defense program would have to be covered by foreign
” - u
‘Romania
THE Communist Party chief in Austria yesterday described
_ U. 8. Ambassador George. Al-
len as the “American gauleiter”“in Yugoslavia who is trying fo create an Athens-Bel-grade-Vienna axis. John Koplenig, in the ComAnform Journal, asserted that transformed:
tary base” with ammunition depots, air fields, mined bridges and communications lines.
~ - ~ Denmark UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL TRYGVE
; western Austria. into-a-“mil-—
Victory 0 Hoarding
Price Reductions Curb Buying Spree After Appeals Fail
By Times City Staft
- PSYCHOLOGY has -
ys least one hoarding offensive here. \ Soon after the Korean War broke out, women remems« ¥ ‘bered from World War II how they had to sacrifice eve’
erything short of virtue to
Diseret part of 3
Or, SAY. WAY Methodists. They had planned to build a new church. The site was near Allison's Plane engine factories are prime atom homb targets. The Methodists won't build, at least not there,’
LTH sad yesterday He Saw He
possibility © of mediation a CHET ROMER Wa He sald also that he did not believe the Korean conflict will touch off war in Europe.
Lie and his wife stopped at
Copenhagen on their way to Oslo for a visit.
~ - Indo-China FRENCH military sources said today the Chinese Communist government and Viet Minh guerrillas. were ‘“collaborating fully” in a campalgh designed te communize IndoChina. & The sources said Increased Communist activity along the Indo-Chinese border In the 1ast few days indicated Red China and Viet Minh, have made a new military _agree-
Rosie the Riveter is trying her helmet on for size again. Indiana Employment Security Division reports “goodly number” of women have made inquiries recently about war Jobs. Most of them are in the
On the Inside of World AHairs Today
watched closely by the Western allies. So far there is no
sels which ‘are building for. it are customs’ cutters, armed with two small guns.
” » » i - FOR SOME TIME now the
~ Soviet air force has been fe-
placing its conventional fight--ers in Germany with jets. The
buildup’ led some experts to
speculate that the jets are on
“hand less as support for Soviet
ground forces in Germany than as interceptors against American and British bombers in the event that Soviet tactics elsewhere provoke a general war, ” " -.n SOVIET barracks in eastern Germany have been plastered
recently with placards warning the soldiers against of the two Houses go to the ~
careless
talk in the presence of “enemy The placards. show a -
ears,” smartly-uniformed Soviet fighter pointing at an ugly spider whose body 18 a carica-
ture of Winston Churchill's
face, and whose sprawling legs are labelled variously “diversionist,” “spy,” “saboteur,” and so forth. The posters were printed ‘in Moscow a year ago. ” Eo ” KING FAROUK has Egypt and is holidaying cognito” on his yacht" Mahroussia.” He is expected to cruise along the Italian and Greek coasts and will possibly meet Narriman Sadek in Switz-
left “in=-
_erland.
Narriman is being taught court etiquette which could be entitled queen.” ‘Cairo political circles are very doubtful that in the end
the king will marry Narriman.
. ss. =n ” THE NEW LAW passed by the Egyptian parliament
‘whereby anyone publishing in-
formation on the Egyptian {oral family . without permisfon from the royal palace will
. be fined 1000 pounds and spend
six months in In prison, Js obvi.
—-ment-has hee:
tinue
“critical.” Col.
gossip on Farouk’ ' behavior, Indication that it will do more “than coastal patrols’ The ves.
“The -
“how to become a
ment. The newspaper Echo Du Vietnam said flatly An agree- + A 00TT was no official confirmation of this report. French sources, however, said Communist China training and 4 arming Bverrillas, i
Marshall Plan
TUE Marshall Plan will conts job of rebuilding Western. Europe: because only a strong economy can support ~ increased “Power, a top economic tion Administration official said in Washington yesterday,
‘He acknowledged that a step up in European military production is bound to slow down the continent's economic recovery by using resources which other- * wise could 80 into civilian goods,
He agreed with a high diplo- :
matic source that Atlantic - Pact nations should not force their rearmament effort to the point where it lowers living standards sufficiently to encourage new Communist political ach, .
» on . . United Nations "COL. ALFRED :G. KATZIN, personal representative in, Ko-’ rea of United Nations Secre-tary-General Trygve Lie, said ‘yesterday that the military situation is “serious but not Katzin also said’
i RH . and South Korean soldiers” in the. Korean fighting.
0
ously meant to prevent further
wit SEVERAL yOung-Romuntan: engineers just graduated from engineering schools have been called to the colors by the
Communist government during -
the last three weeks.
un td 8 MARSHAL ROKOSSOWSKI “inaugurated recently in Poland a new organization called “The League’ of Soldiers’ Friends.”
=Heé-stressed that the first-tasi— of the new organization was
propaganda. for the Soviet army among Polish soldiers.
Fooling Hoarders
was
“older” age women who labored during iast war and Temember fat nay $y "Their tnterest by news about new factories,
. boosts in production and pros-
pects of war orders. Thus far, however, Rosle is getting the wallflower treat-
a
started the mad scramble early.
It did no good to announce that nylons are plentiful and would remain so, The. gals were from Missouri 2 "That's when local department stores showed a savvy of | psychology. Last week they advertised special price reductions on nylons, loading their counters with same. The stocking counter lines disappeared.
group—that is,
was whetted
n Nylon Front
‘counterattacked at
get a pair of nylons. So they .
“employers: ar ‘manpower is tigh ing, they have felt no imme.diate need for recruiting large forces of women. Presumably, manufacturers of women’s slacks are watchs . ing the situation closely.
Squawks at Chickens
sheriff's ip Bd “ “Chicken” 1s that grim game which has caught on recently with hot rods. A fellow gains membership by driving in the wrong lane until he forces an oncoming motorist off the road. All enforcement officers are fighting this new form of teenicide, but the crackdown by the sheriff's department is especially fierce. That's because driver of a black new Oldsmobile was ° forced off the road one recent = evening . by two “chicken”. drivers. They came straight at him at high speed, so he had = to evacuate, The evicted motorist: Shere iff “James Cunningham, reff es too bad that men can't hoard haircuts, because If might be a good-ides— Local barbers admis there's been “some discus sion” of clipping customers another quarter for a clips ping. hat would raise the top price shops to $1.25. :
A concession operator at the Marion County Fair is hoppin®: oi mad at two sheriff's deputies, but not because they closed the concession. In fact, operator wishes they had. Concession was one in which you throw baseballs at wooden
milk bottles, hoping to get a
who tried the game were discouraged because they couldn’t quite
get them all,
Two deputies who watched didn’t close the game because it was legitimate. So one of them-—a former baseball pitcher— walked up, bought three balls, and - hurled strikes at the bottles, They gave the prizes to the kids. Other small fry looked on-—big-eyed and expectant. So the deputies took turns at hurling, and before : “long the whole line . . of kids had prizes. =
When the deputies
EAR HE GSA MCR dic J 5 he still has eight | spare, Not so with the inquisi-
_tive spectator at a fire, who __
can be just as foolhardy. At Augusta Thursday night, firemen and volunteers risked their lives to roll drums of
highly explosive acetone out of
churning. ballding. wr One fireman remembered how a hottle of nail polish remover containing acetone turned a beauty shop into an inferno. Therefore the drums were rolled far enough from
the area so even the sparks:
couldn't reach it, And a 'policeman guarded the danger SOUS. chemical. sae But one sly spectator waited
until the policeman’s back was
turned. He sneaked in among
: resumed patrolling, happy- except, of course, ‘the concession operator,
: —eommende
prize for toppling all five. Kids:
like this, but couldn't *
everybody wae :
Le Tag PH a 4 was cooking. Fortunaiay, othing ud.
oN Soe =
Pipe Dream.
Would you like to see the unpaved streets here blossom into leveled, solid surfaces? It's certainly a
over 325 miles of unpaved * roadway in the city. That compares to about 550 miles of paved* streets. A But looking at it from ane: other angle will make you hese + itate. Street Commissioner Tony Maio estimates such a project would cost about $13 _ million. That's almost equal to what the 1950 budget will be for all municipal activities. So Fhe (0 WHI 40 41: tham bit by bit, y 8» No matter how early in the morning they started, - workers at the P. R:. Mal lory Co. found they were beaten to the parking lot by the driver of a dilapidated ‘automobile. It was always ne parked in the same space “and the same diagonal way. Finally, one alert worker realized the car wasn’t being parked, but was abandoned. It was just cheating workers out of a space or two. He reported to company offi. cials and the auto was re. moved, For his astuteness the worker received a $10 “sug. gestion box” award, and well desery. ed it was. » . . is | MERCHANTS along 38th St. agree that motorists should obey signs, but only whan the signs are there, They complain that police . have been ticketing cars for parking in the parking recess’ on the south side of 36th, just 3 west of College Ave. There are no signs forbidding same, ~ However, police point out. that there are signs forbids = ding parking in similar res
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