Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1950 — Page 12

Alaska and Hawaii

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Notice to Gamblers . .

AYOR BAYT served unmistakable notice on the town's more arrogant gamblers yesterday that he doesn’t wink at their flagrant law-breaking. We hope he can make it stick.

can order po icemen out to raid these places, but can rarely get convigdigns when they do bring them in. . +. Police, of course, know where all gambling joints are located. No such enterprise can stay hidden and stay in business. But campaigns against them have generally been disappointifg—policemen who realy try soon get discourzged, some apparently don't try very hard. In commenting on the release of the two ‘cut-rate” operators the other day, for instance, we find we unintentionally inferred that Deputy Prosecutor Patrick Fisher was at fault for the collapse of the case against them, The facts ; are the policemen who arrested them had no wat rrant,

We've believed for a tong time that any sincere, genuine and even moderately intelligent effort by law enforcement agencies could rid the town of these racketeers. If the Mayor means business on this drive, as he’s indi- . cated he does, he ought to have the support of every decent citizen of the town in making it succeed.

Parole That Failed

Yyalever feeling of sympathy there may be for a man who has spent 25 years in prison has been pretty well dissipated by the words and actions of D.C. Stephenson since he got out. : It is true that the wild charges of this fellow, caught in perhaps the most stupid parole break in Hoosier history, * are only hallucinations of a disordered mind. But they do clearly reveal that neither imprisonment nor parole have done anything whatever to restore this man to capacity Lor normal citizenship. : ” = = : » ” » JUST to keep the record straight, D. C. Stephenson is one of the most vicious criminals ever to operate in Indiana.

_ He contemptuously violated any law that stood in his way.

He corrupted and bribed public officials. Many of them went to prison . . . even an Indiana governor escaped only by pleading the statute of limitations. Stephenson was convicted, finally, of a particularly revolting and repulsive sex murder. There was no question as to the fairness of his trial . . . nor of his guilt. Twenty times in 20 years the courts reviewed various phases of that conviction, as he tried to challenge it on one or another feghnicaliy. ; Se ._R... : LTE, . ON. HIS own representation. that he had learned at last to conform to the rules of decent society, the State of Indiana a few months ago gave this man the limited freeJom of a parole. To win it he promised to abide by the easy conditions of that parole. . . to live quietly, to keep out of {urther crime, to report: fegularly to constituted officials on his’own actions. :

Stephenson hadn't ‘changed -& bit.

‘hat he is caught he snaps and snarls and charges “political )ersecution” and plots against him and corruption of justice. ‘ : That's just his own delusion of grandeur. -This murlerer can be thankful the justice he got in Indiana courts was tempered with mercy . . . that kept him out of the elecric chair. : = He has had more chances than most criminals get. He

has flouted them all. -

There is just one place for D. C. Stephenson . + prison.

ROTH Democratic and Republican pkitforms in 1948 _ favored statehood for Alaska and Hawaii ~Bills to

3 Fant statehood To these two territories passed: thet House

of Representatives by ld7ge Bis josities last March. -- Months ago, the bills were approved a Senate ‘-ommittee and made ready for final Senate "action: N ~ However, that action had not been taken when Congress quit work and went home for the election -ampaign.

When Congress reassembles next ‘Monday, the Ate

ind Hawaii statehood bills most assuredly should be put

sgh on the list of business for the Senate to clean up before 1950 ends . We need the two new states.in the union to strengthen America's defenses in the Pacific. We need them as evidence to the world that America’s faith in democracy yovernment is practiced as i: as preached.

.and self-

Tampering With History

RUSSIA is using elaborate documentary films to rewrite the history of World War II. The films are to be widely circulated among the 700 million, mostly illiterate

inhabitants of the Soviet. Union and the Iron Curtain .

countries. : J They are represented as ig based on official Soviet . -records. They depict President Roosevelt as a weak progressive and Winston Churchill as an imperialist plotting enslavement of Russia. There is no mention of American * lsndrigase. Russia, so far as these films show, fought and won the war single-handed and bore all the sacrifices. In Tost. countries such distortions would Je laughed of the theaters, and even in East Germany it is reported fo few treasonable Stickers, Mavis in free

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.OLD STORY .

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By Frederick C. Othman

Pity the Poor Boys Who Process The Pile of Claims Against Tito

WASHINGTON. Nov. 22--The fellows for us to pity today are the three members of the new International Claims Commission, whose first job is to divvy up $17 million 1500 people who'll claim they're being cheated unless they get twice that much. Seems that when Marshal ito was being #WEh on foreigners in Yugoslavia, he decided .one day to confistheir property. That was when he was a pal of the Russian Reds. Our folks claimed | that with the stroke of a pen he took away $40 million worth of fitttng sta

tions, drygoods stores irofi mines, vodka distilleries, and a second- hand Jeep. ‘That used to belong to our Army. When

Tito swiped it, the military put in a claim. It turned out that before the war Yugoslavia had sent $47 million in: safekeeping; after all, we were: pals then with the Slavs. When the shooting was over ‘we $30 million, settle-thes§0 million—in cl enough, Congress decided, because the. babies who lost the property behind the Iron Curtain. probably were pretty generous in their estimates So the lawgivers passed a law, calling for a commission. to distribute the $17 million. President Truman appointed the Messrs. Josiah, Marvel Jr, Raymond 8. McDeough and Roy G. Baker ag commissioners at $15,000 a year each. These gentlemen now are at work. 1 attended their first session with a couple of. dozen lawyers representing the 1500 claimants and all [ can say is that they'll: earn every cent they make, Chairman Marvel was hopeful Now that we're shipping food to the hungry in Yugoslavia the political atmosphere is different. and the

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WASHINGTON, Nov. being ushered in just like, World War II.

for all defense needs., Instead of whieh,

shortage. Her#, it is again. : : U. 8, government agencies are now trying desperately to have y . | aluminum production stepped :

up by 50 per cent or more. This is one aspect of the

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but kept $17 million to’ 8. —That was fair —

. By Peter Edson

u.s. Hopes to Step Up 1:

22— World Wir Mf this is It—1s Before the last war, there were big assurances that there Would be enough aluminum °* there: was an initial

antee is the private bank loans ° to finance the expansion. = =

business of deciding who gets how mtich may be easier. The lawyers weren't so sure.

What's a Dinar Worth?

ATTORNEY Seymour J. Rubin said the trouble was that to make a settlement here on a piece of property! in Belgrade you've got to hire a lawyer there to look after the legal end. And to d: ate no Yugoslav attorney has consented to do any work for the Yankee capitalists. They're afraid of that political atmosphere ‘changing again and maybe putting them in jail for the rest of their-lives for taking fees from Americans. So the commission has got to send a delegation of experts over 'to Yugoslavia to look over the confiscated property. The biggest piece of it belongs to the Socony Vacuum Oil Co, but hundreds of other American firms and in-* dividuals also have property there. Or did, until Tito decided they didn’t. "And what are you going to do, demanded one of the lawyers, for an American stockholder in a Swiss corporation, which owns a stock interest in a Dutch firm that had its Yugoslav property confiscated? How is the commission to decide what a dinar is worth?

-. The commissioners rubbed. their. ati RE nce

artificial light of the State Department's bluedraped conference room. They were weary, already. They've got four years to distribute the $17 million and that brings us to the only really pleasant part of this dispatch. From the taxpayers’ viewpoint, that is. Tito has to foot the bill of the commission out of that $17 million. The tougher the job ahd

“the longer it takes, the more it will .cost him.

When all’ the ‘settiements what change is left. If any.

BELIEVE

If there were no beliefs in life .. . no guiding tfghts above . . . I'm sure life would be dreary and . . . there'd be no peace or love . . . for when folks don’t have any faith . .. in anything at all . .. their hearts are always aching . .. ind their dreams will always fall . . . but people who are gifted with . . . the power to believe . . . in spirits such as. Christmas time their hearts will ere perceive . . . the good in mankind ind the hope . . . for brighter things to see... and life for them will be . . . a thing of joy and réal beauty. By: Ben Burroughs.

SIDE GLANCES

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reopen discussions.

Keep Roads Clear : By A. J. Schneider, City ‘ A +t tis ails ot this moment, there is a matter that has reg[istered with me during the past few winters— and it would seem that time has come to correct this matter. : Years back, when a snowstorm or icestorm came, whether it was during the day or during the night, the highway crews were out on short notice and at work spreading sand and ashes on hazardous spots-—and snowplows out, if the snow was deep enough.

I have noticed in recent years that it is al--

most noon; and many traffic accidents involved,

HAPPY NOTE .

WASHINGTON. Nov. 22 — As with most

other farm surpluses, the war boom is pulling

the Agriculture Department out of the hole on butter. . The department now is returning about 100 carloads of surplus butter ($5,000 pounds to a carload) to the commercial Fade each week at no loss to the taxpayer. This amount is comparatively small considering the department’s huge remaining holdings of 138 million pounds—the equivalent of more than 5500 boxcar loads. But the situation is so much brighter than a year ago, or just before Korea, that department officials now think they may be able to dispose of the surplus without having to process it into grease. High Hopes for '52 SOME think they will be able to dispose of all of it next year; without, in the meantime, having. to buy any more to hold up prices to farmers as required by law. Others aren’t so optimistic. But even they think the government’s butter stocks. will. be down to a comparatively small amount by this time next year. Just how the situation has improved is shown by the fact that a year ago the government was buying butter to hold up farmers’ prices even in the slack production month of November. This year the government hasn't bought any surplus butter since mid-September. Also, the government this year has been selling surplus butter back to the commercial trade since late August and has disposed of 26 million pounds by that method. Last year the trade didn’t need to tap the government stocks until December and then only to the extent of

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way crews can make this effort futile. Every man who accepts a job with the highway department -is aware before he takes the job, that it might involve such extra-hours, and if he is unwilling to perform accordingly he should not accept the job. Likewise, if there is a union which prevents men from attending to a necessary job when necessary, the fact should be publicized and that union brought to public disgrace. When people pay confiscatory taxes to hawe a job done, the job should be done.

. By Earl Richert

Butter Slides Out of U.S. Storage

nine million pounds in December and January. “It looks like it takes a war to get us out of these surplus problems,” said one official who

"before the Korean War could see no prospect of

disposing of the huge hoard of butter, “It's a hell of a note, but it seems to be true.” Department officials believe U. S. butter consumption won’t increase much next year. But they think a lot more milk and ice cream will be consumed, leaving less for production of butter and thus less butter. Recent history has shown that the public doesn’t eat more butter with increased incomes. The US. public now is eating less butter and margarine per capita than before World War II, despite the sharp increase in individual incomes. Department officials also see little likelihood of a dollar a pound, as it did after World War II, They say that the huge stocks which the depart=ment will be channeling to the commercial market will keep prices somewhere near their present levels for a long time.

‘Carrying Charges

THEY claim too, that present stocks have kept butter prices from skyrocketing since the Korean outbreak. The government has paid an average of 60 cents a pound for its 1950 butter and is selling it back to the trade for 63 cents. The difference is for carrying charges. The goverment is taking bids on the remaining 37 million pounds of 1949 butter and has sold none for less than 58 cents a pound. Department officials say the latest inspection shows that only 3 per” cent of the government's butter stocks has deteriorated to where it is no longer usable as a table spread. What the government has learned about storing butter, it is said, may revolutionize commercial storage.

. By Jim G. Lucas

Nationalists Await UN Go Sign

TAIPEH, Formosa, Nov, 22—Free China could have 33.000 well-trained fighting men aboard ship heading for Korea five days after the United Nations called. The Nationalists have never given up hope of being permitted to fight alongside the other free nations in Korea. Nationalist China was the first of} them to offer men to Gen. Douglas MacArthur. The offer was repeated when Chiang Kai-shek met the-general at Taipeh last July. k Both offers were rejected, 4 ostensibly on the ground that 3 free China needed troops to repel any invasion that might come from the mainland. ? “Biit fio one==teast-of-atl-the—=

free Chinese—was fooled. ; The offers were rejected be- Gen. Chiang . still waiting

cause the United Nations ; feared the presence.of Nationalist troops in Korea might invite Chinese Communist intervention. Twice rebuffed, are reluctant to risk a third offer. Their attitude is that the United ‘Nations knows how they feel-and-what- they are- willing to-do... Now that fhe Chinese Reds have intervened openly, free China's leaders believe there: no longer is any valid reason for refusing to‘ let them fight. : : The Nationalists are not overly ‘worried about the threat of an invasion if their offers are reconsidered and accepted. Fgglone thing, they would still have between 400,000 and 500.000 troops on Formosa. For another, the Communists have withdrawn most of the men they had planned to throw against this island fortress and have sent them to Manchuria, Tibet and Indo-China. : Cautiously the Nationalists are Government sources

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NEW TAX . Just Another Problem

-WASHINGTON,; Nev. 22 troubles now, wait till Jan. 1. . That's the.date when Uncle starts putting the bite on houses wives for that social security tax on household workers. " 3 © Have a maid? housekeeper, gardener, handyman, valet, footman, groom, chauf-

. Enjoy yourself, because + there are rough days ahead.

Gen. Ho Sai-lai, chief of the Chinese mission in Japan, has been instructed to sound out Gen. MacArthur. # Gen. Ho returned to Tokyo recently aftet two weeks of conferences with President Chiang and his top advisers. Chiang is said to have instructed the General to request reconsideration of the offer. Several tank artillery units—scheduled to go when President Chiang made his first offer—still are partially combat-loaded. Divisions have been

«selected and a commander has been named,

There might be a few changes, but not enough to upset the schedule.

Decision Up to UN AN estimate .that the first wave of free

China's troops could be on its way in five days was given to me recently by Lt. Gen. Sun Li-jen,

-ehief-of the Nationalist ground forces. Gen. Sun...

emphisized. however, that the decision was one for the United Nations, not the government here. Here are three reasons why the Nationalists would be particularly helpful in Korea now that the Chinese Reds have come into the fight: ONE: They know the Communists well and how the Reds fight. TWO: Training on Formosa, based on lessons learned in mainland fighting, madé them aware of past mistakes.’ They are determined not to repeat them. "THREE: They are bitterly anti-Communist and. are so anxious to avenge themselves that they ‘have been working night and day to counter Red tactics. Q Despite shortages, Chiang’'s men probably would go to Korea better equipped than the Turkish and Philippine contingents which brought only rifles and small arms. They would need some things—principally ammunition, spare parts, shoes and warm clothing—but it wouldn't be a serious problem or drain on our resources. : Free China hopes the United Nafions changes its mind.” When and if it does, the Nationalist troops will be ready.

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National Production Authorfty's 35 per cent cutback order on- aluminum use which is not generally understood. What the government is now trving. to

.do is get aluminum supply in

such condition that the NPA cutback order can itself be cut back. if not completely re pealed. . Present production . capacity

of the U. 8 aluminum industry i= around TH0.000 tons a vear, [t is divided (roughly) in this manner: Fifty per cent Aluminum Co. of America, 30 per ¢ent Reynolds Metals, 20% per cent Kaiser Aluminum, 2 ” n { DISCUSSIONS between this big three and U. 8. General Services Administrator Jess Larson have been aimed at increased annual production of at ‘least 325.000 tons, for the first bite. More, maybé, later. One _ important point on this proposed expansion is that the entire $450 million cost would be borne by private./industry.

_There is still some snarl up on

terms. Producers have wanted a guarantee that all metal-pro-duced would bé bought by the

- government. They hate wanted...

escalator clauses in the coh-

- tract, guaranteeing that higher . prices would be paid if labor or 4

other costs went up. They have

OUT of these discussions. however, has come an appre-

. ciation of the need to get a

few more companies into the production of aluminum, While the so-called “monopoly” held by Alcoa before the last war has been broken by court action, there is considerable opinion in government circles that the industry needs still more competition. This presents tremendous problems. —It may" require 100 per cent government subsidy. No small company can undertake the big investment necessary to get into primary aluminum production on its own. First, supplies of bauxite ore must be arranged. Then alumi-

na plants must be. built. Then aluminum reduction ‘plants. v " = s APPROACHES have been

made to companies like Olin

Corp., Anaconda Copper and .

American Smelting and Refining, but there have been no deals closed with them. Two companies have gone

. Into the business in a modest

way. Apex Smelting of Chicago has bought one line of rectifiers for a new plant in Arkansas, Harvey Machine Co. of Torrance, Cal. has also

. bought one liné of rectifiers for

a new plant near Hungry Horse Dam, Mont. With these installations, the

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;last of the government-owned ‘aluminum production equipment which was considered sur‘plus at the end of the war will be again in operation. Alcoa

is operating the old Messina,

N. Y., plant. Kdiser has installed. equipment from Bur-

" lington,:N. J. in a new plant near New Haven W. Va. This

plant will use gas ag power to generate electricity. = productions can t be ut nie Fai

lack of electric power. Any new plants will have to be built néar new - sources of . cheap power as well as cheap water transportation for movement of bauxite and alumina. ‘ This limits expansion to such spots. as the Gulf Coast

** area, the navigable Mississippi

Valley system, or to regions

The social security bite may be

more bothersome than Bouse :

maid's Knee. The bite itself isn't big. Just 3 per cent of the wage, with the worker and employer splitting it 50-50. But the business of figuring and paying it, that's different. “ » SOME OF. the painful détails are explained in a booklet distributed by the Federal Security Administration. First is the little braintwister of deciding whether anyone working in your home

~ passes the “24-50” test of the

new Federal Security law.

Anyone who works 24 days

and receives pay of at least $50 in a calendar quarter (that's three months) comes under the act. Generally, that means someone who works regularly for you on at least two days a week and is paid more than $2 a day. In the case of a maid or cleaning woman who divides

her work days in several

homes, only the time she works for you is Sountet

AFTER the "24-50" “test, the housewife faces the complex-

ities -of seeing that the maid has a social Security number.

The tax saws ve gaia wip out it. NE

unless ~ shown. Other penalties will be

send Uncle the 3 per cent. Half is to be deducted from the paycheck ard the remaining 114 per cent comes out of Mama's pocketbook. ~ If she or her husband ‘happen to be sole owner of a business ‘or professional practice,

,the pain may be easéd consid-

erably. Household workers may be added to the regular Form . 941 social security reports made for the other employees, = o ». BUT otherwise, a special household report, to be known as Form 942, is needed. This form now is being prepared and

will be available by Jan. 1, —

Four times each year, the housewife or whoever runs the

homestead will go into the so- |

cial security swoon. After each quarterly period, the form must be totted up, payment attached and mailed to the Collector of Internal Revenue. The little woman gets a one-month period of grace for payment. 3 Penalty for. filing late is $10 reasonable cause is

imposed for wilful failure to pay, collect or truthfully ac- - count for the ‘tax; furnish statements to- employees; keep records and make returns; or for false or fraudulent returns. An estimated one

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