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~The Gentleman From Indiana ~ FOr almost half-a-century Ludlow Washington to Hoosiers . .'.

Louis interpreted ton. When he went there as a young newspaperman in 1901 he found a city of quiet, if somnolent, charm . . . capital of a nation he was to see changed almost beyond recognition. The business of the world, in those days, was mostly done in London, or Berlin, or Paris. There was nowhere on earth a radio set, nor an airplane, nor an income tax nor an atom bomb. The Government of the United States was remote from the people of Indiana, and of little moment in their personal lives. : u " uw u " = AS A newspaperman, and as a member of Congress, he helped to shape the events the 20th Century brought . .. and through them all to remain, himself, a part of Indiana. The volume of work that passed across his desk astounded his colleagues in the House of Representatives ... yet he never got too busy to give his personal attention and his personal help to any Hoosier who asked for it. . . no matter what district he came from, nor what ticket he had voted on election day. If Louis Ludiow had an enemy in Marion County, never met him. But he had so many friends that this district elected “rim 10 times to represent us in Congress... usually without even the formality of a “campaign’ in the ordinary sense of the word. He had earned the respect of the men who worked beside him in the press galleries and in the halls of Congress. He held, as long as he lived, the real affection of the people of Marion County he had so long represented there.

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Losing a War

E ARE in one hell of a mess. The United States is at war with world- wile communism, headed up in the Kremlin. Our troops are fighting under the banner of the United Nations. But most other members of that world organization have given them only moral and token support, much of it given grudgingly and then neutralized by back-seat driving: And even that support may be withdrawn at any time. American intervention against Red aggression in Ko- . rea was widely applauded as a brave stroke for world order. But when Red China moved to the support of the Korean Communists, the ardor of some of our fair-weather friends “began to cool. Now we are-threatened by a new form of isolationism— one which may leave us standing alone against the Russian tide.

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It's even worse to be at war under leadership which refuses "to see in that ‘war anything but a “police action.” Five thousand Americans have beep killed in this war. How many more must die before our government can be forced to face up to the ugly and dangerous realities of the situation? Secretary of State Acheson told the Senate Foreign | Re- _ lations Comite Ysterdsy hin : one knew “damned well” that ¥N 0SCOW Was Chinese Communist intervention. Which everybody does. The Russian tanks and jet planes used SgRinst our troops left no doubt of that. But, after admitting that Russia was be sehind the war her puppets are waging against us in Korea, what did Mr. Acheson propose to do about it. Nothing?’ For the time being, at least, he said, the United’ States would not hold Russia accountable, That attitude is one of the reasons why we are in this mess. The Chinese Communists invaded Korea on Oct. 20, The State Department first ignored the attack. Then Mr. Acheson joined the British forgign office in trying to buy them off. Failing in that, President Truman personally held ou the olive branch. nn. # s ; WHEN that. gesture was rebuffed, the United Nations rolled out the red carpet and virtually suspended busines go that the Chimese Reds could send a delegation to L a Sticoess to attack the United States for “the invasion of Formosa.” Even with 200,000 Chinese Communist troops attacking * our forces on the Korean front, our government, although charging the Chinese Reds with aggression, was not prepared to ask the United Nations to support that charge It asked only for a United Nations resolution calling on the Chinese Reds to withdraw to their own side of the “Yalu River- the very thing Mr. Acheson has bee n begging them to do since Oct. 20. ‘ This nation cannot win a war under pussyfooting leadership. Red China iz guilty should be so branded by the United Nations. This is a MADE-IN-MOSCOW war and Russia be told by the United Natiéns to stop it, under of expulsion if she fails. The timid souls in the State Department will contend” | that we could not win support for such a demand. ” r ” - v ” "VERY WELL. We can put, ourselves on od and we can find out what other nations we can depend on’ as this war continues. We are losing the war now because our vacillation has encouraged 'a drift toward appeasement that is rapidly becoming a rout. : in If the United Nations cannot deal with Russia as determinedly as it dealt with North Korea, then the Sigatization should be abandoned. until the one-world idea nste of mere lip service. LE : the United Nations will not support the. s fighting’ under ‘its banner in Korea, our being theng. They should be for the real showdown with

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HALF-WAY MARK .

U. S. Stock

‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 — As America approaches the half-way mark in the first year of its expanded defense program, it is doing only a fair job of building up its hoard of the critical materials needed for defense. This phase of the program comes under two headings: ONE: Stockpiling materials we either can’ 't produce in sufficient quantity or for which we are dependent on foreign sources that might be. cut off by war. TWO: Boosting production of materials in which we are self-sufficient. The stockpiling program still has a long, hard: way to go. Elsewhere, we are making good progress in rubber and petroleum production, while lsgging in our steps to produce more aluminum, magnesium and power. Our supply of manganese is still short, but we've taken some encouraging strides in developing methods of producing the metal from our own low-grade ores. This all adds up to the fact that now—today —we haven't anywhere near the stockpile of materials or production capacity that would be needed if war came. Our stockpile objective 18 to acquire enough nf the long list of materials to see us through a five-year war. Right now we have on hand onehalf of those stockpile needs. and another 12 per cent under contract to be delivered.

Knows Where They Are

BUT IN only 11 out of 64 materials do we have a five-year supply or more. We have a four-to-five-year supply of six materials; a three= to-four-year supply of seven materials; a two-to-three-year supply of nine materials; a one-to-two-year supply of 16 materials, and from a few months to a one-year supply of 2( or so other " materials. In manufactured goods; by the end of December we'll have only about one-half the dollar value lined up of 1500 of the most important items on the list. Lined up does not mean these items have been acquired or even that they have

LAME DUCK ... By Earl Richert

Predict Fight Over Tito Aid

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20-The administra-

tion is getting its aid-te-Yugoslavia program off to a fast start in the ‘lame duck” Congress. But all signs point to a slow finish, with Congress taking plenty of time to scrutinize

this first program since the end of UNRRA for aiding a Communist-controlled country. Majority seritiment in Congress now seems to favor voting aid to Marshal Tito as a matter of practical polities. But there will be plenty of opposition and strong efforts to tie strings to the aid. The State Department got . the program rolling Monday by sending representatives to discuss {t in closed session with the House Foreign Affairs

Sen. Connally

. . no delay Committee. T h e. committee likely will begin open hearings today. : Chairman Tom Connally (D. Tex.), of the

Senate Foreign Relations Committee said that President Truman was ‘particulary anxious” that Congress act without delay on aid to Tito, He said his. committee would decide today when ’ to start consideration. The State Department argues that Yugolavia has .been weakened by drought and resulting food shortages and that aid is necessary to ‘enable that country to maintain its combat effectiveness. It is believed desirable

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. By Andrew Tully aE hanes PloaE it iling Of Vital Deforce Maierils Alarmingly Slow of

heen contracted for, but ‘merely that we know. where the items are or where they can be pro-

duced. And there are one million tems on the needed list. There is some defense for, this laggardly pace. It is that when materials were in good supply, the Munitions Board didn't have the money to buy them. For of the $2.6 billion appropriated for stockpiling since 1946, only $1.5 billion was available during the first three vears of the program—the remaining $1.1 bil-

" lion was appropriated after Korea.

General Services Administration (GSA) re-

cently has started moving to get more alumi-

num, but it’s still not even- on schedule. That schedule calls for increasing current production of 725,000 tons a year by 500,000 tons in the next two years. So far, GSA has made

agreements with Kaiser Aluminum, Reynolds Aluminum, and Aluminum Corp. of America aIZ0A) whereby 278,000 tons will be added

roduction—but that boost wom't be a re-

to p ality for about a year. ALCOA, which produces half of U. 8. aluminum, now iis sending only eight per cent of its production into defense, exactly double the amount the services were getting before Korea.

Nobody knows how much higher this will go

when the new civilian restri~tions on aluminum begin to take effect. The magnesium picture is similar. The government owns facilities with a total capacity of 206,000,000 pounds and industry can produce 10,000,000 pounds more—but this is only about half our wartime requirements. The Munitions Board says plants with a total capacity of

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Lame Ducks Aren't Spouting

tn Kee BN Marshal Tito has broken away from the ‘Soviet Union:

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196,000,000 pounds are being reactivated, none has gone into production yet. A plant a 10,000,000 pound capacity at Luckey, 0, which is producing berilium for the Atomig Energy Commission won't be touched. Yop Like so much other information, total p#e troleum needs for military purposes is But after thé Korean War started, ‘the M

_ tions Board raised its aviation gasoline goal

by 25000 gallons and acknowledged that. a. shortage existed. The Petroleum Administrations for- Defense, which is co-ordinating the effol " says the goal has been all-but reached. gr ‘Twenty-five gasoline plants were built re the government during-World War IL All were sold when peace came and went back to pros. fucing ordinary gas. The Munitions Board naw" is talking about switching two of those planfs pack to aviation gas, but that's as far as it's + one, 3 Meanwhile, the oi] producers have an ftem - of good news to offer. It is that oil drillers * brought in a new well every 22 minutes during . the first six months of 1950. In rubber, we've just about matched the - point of peak synthetic production in World® War II. We're producing around 840,000 tons. a vear, compared to the wartime peak of one* million tons. To do this, virtually all of the government's 26 synthetic rubber plants have been put back into production, compared to last July when only 16 of these plants were operating. The synthetic program will require 140 mils. lion gallons of alcohol during 1951, and we're: finally getting some help from out Allies in thi¥ department. France has contracted to delivet ‘112 million of those gallons.

Increased Imports i SINCE Russia cut off our supplies

of. manganese in 1948, Uncle Sam has increased, imports from’ other countries, notably Sout Africa. Meanwhile, the: Bureau of Mines has” completed an inventory of manganese ore in. this country and in September it got $600,000 to build a pilot plant in Arizona to develop: commercial extraction processes. Haste is important here; we've only got about an eight-months’ supply on hand of this metal vital to the manufacture of steel. The shortage of power, curiously enough; is centered in the Pacific Northwest and Southeast sections of the country, where the govern» ment has built most of its dams. The reason, of course, is that low-cost power generates its own market; everybody wants to build industrial plants in those sections. To meet this shortage, the government is building dozens of dams, most of them in the, Northwest, and the Budget Bureau has asked-; the Interior Department to let it knew how much money is needed to bring in the dams ahead of , schedule.

“| do not agree with a ord that ou say, bt I will defend to the death your right to say it."

A Few Brickbats By a New Resident, City AN OPEN letter to the Chamber of Come merce: As a newcomer and stranger to vour fair city, may I offer some useful suggestions? Indianapolis, at best, is a hard city to learn, and a city with so few dim and worn out street markers is impossible to learn. “ There are many things I like about Indi-"

_anapolis, but I don’t like your rough streets to-

drive on, and your too numerous railroad eross--

~ings-all-over—town;-your-same—as— Tome “street 3

marking system, and your awful water. A trip

“less than 200 miles east to Columbus, Ohiowand *

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Already, the administration has scraped up $331 mil 2 A slavia. trom other. funds: $16 million from the North Atlantic

million from the Ecoand a $6 Bank. lard,

military aid funds; $11 nomic Co-operation Administration million credit from the Export-Import This money has gone for food--flour, beans, dried eggs and canned meat.

Strings Attached

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WASHINGTON. Nov. 29-1t isn't fair to say that the U. 8. Senate one day after returning to work, already is involved in a filibuster over whether to turn Alaska into a state. The boys haven't got that far vet. What they're arguing about, at length and ‘with gestures, a is a motion to take up the Alaska Bill,

THE administration now is asking Congress to authorize the spending of $38 million more. “Ren. Connally said the ald program probably would rin only until June 30 when the new

crops begin to come in.

Most supporters of the aid program say it is reaifgtic to support .a Communist leader who has broken away from Moscow control. “I don't know much about the program.” said Rep. John Taber iR. N. Y.), ranking mi-

member of the House Appropriations Committee. -“But 1 imagine good tactics would require doing something for them. We should hold the aid to a minimum though. and none of it should be squandered.”

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“As a practical matter,” said Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.), “1 suppose we'll have to support. Tito as long as he's standing firm against the Kremlin.” : Opponents say the proposed program would ‘be just another giveaway without getting anything in return ; TR “I'd like %o see just what we're ‘going to get out of it,” sald Rep. John Vorys (R. O.), of the Foreign Affairs Commitfee We. haven't any promises. out of them that they would do anything in case of a global wal Rep. Vorys said he expected a strong fight to attach strings to

the program and possibly change it from a Rift Jo a loan. At first Lawrence Smith ¢R, the

I'm apposed to it," said Rep Wisi, another me Foreign Affairs Committee I'd certainly

like to see strings attached to it.” .: . ® =

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decide that, they'll consider state-’ hood for the Far Northernfy ers. This could?” go on indefinitely., hat probably won't. The g entlemen have to give this same treatment to Hawaii. Then they must

cess profits taxes, and no telling what all else this lame-duck Congress having done anything much. But that also is an unfair statement, With watched the stat en adopt a

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my own eves | law. It provides for the-spending of £10000 or less for the sending of {our Senators yet to be named) to Australia for a parliamentary cere mony in the land of the kangaroo, It's summer in the antipodes now and this ought to be a nice job-of work. Only other thing the Senators accomplished at their opening. session was the shaking of

By Galbraith "CALIFORNIA . Yi House Pigssts Internal Revenue Probe

about the California situation “If we can ever get the excess profits tax out of the way, is something we ought-to go

WASHINGTON Nov. House Way: tigation of want to find out whether there

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Warren, has accused the Internal Revenue Bureau of failing to prosecute a single bigtime i world character in California on tax evasion charges. The com- - mission claims fo have evi- ! _ dence’ that a mining caompany staffed’ with present ‘and. former internal reve- Mr, Kefauver..." nue employees

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"very smelly" sold stock to y y gamblers and, others who wished to avold ‘prosecution for tax fraud.

The Kefauver Committee of the Senate has spent a week invesfigating .the California - ? charges. Chairman Estes Ke-- ¢ fauyer ‘n, Tenn.) says the sit« : “uation is “very smelly,” but he Ti favors letting ‘a Grand Jury “earry the ball. :

wiimiblicany on the House .

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29-—-Republicans on the tax-writing and Means Committee are pressing for a full inves-. the internal revenue. scandals in California. They also

and underworld elements in other states The California Crime Commission, reporting to Gov.

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_reau officials.

Tort. W. Kean (R.N. J) to meet ~~

each mao hands.” Every hand in the place, left as well as right, got shook at least four dozen times. This was because the gentlemen were so efficient that most of them shook hands with both hands simultaneously. Like explorers newly rescued from years in the sub-arctic they ‘greeted each other. Yet they'd been parted for only two months. This enthusiasm proved a nufsance -to the’ Veep, who kept banging his handless gavel. Then maybe

head and as soon as he got the Senators started on their course, he returned to his bed of pain at the: Naval Hospital. I Kept a close eve on the lame due ks on the theory that they'd be spouting tears. This -was a mistake; they wore bigger grins even than the ones with steady jobs. Sen. Millard Tvdings (D. Md.) said he felt five years vounger since he lost out with the voters. Sen. Scott Lucas (D. 11.) never looked so chipper, nor so well tailored. )

A Good Idea?

I'M NO expert on the business of PINE Alaska and Hawaii into states, but everybody agrees that this is a good idea —except certain manufacturers of flags and a few Senators. The flagmakers have nothing against sourdoughs, or hula dancers you understand; their problem is how. to line up 50 stars neatly where now thev have only 4K. The Senators who are against statehood for those possessions aren't talking much about their real reasons, but the consensus seems to be that they don’t want any extra Senators in their club. They've got 96 members got four more. who's to say how would vote? The general eeling seems to he , that nobody from Alaska ar Hawali, either, would go along with the Dixiécrs its. Hence the filibus ter, in full swing even as you read this

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By James Daniel

are tie-ins between federal tax

after.” Earl Mr. Lynch talked with

Committee content to

Ways and Means say they are not leave it at that. The committee has a subcommittee appointed last July | to watch the administration of federal tax laws. Rep. Walter N. J) A. Lynch (D. N. Y.);1defeated candidate for governor ofs New York, was named subcommittee chairman, 5 » ” ABOUT two weeks ago, Mr. Lynch turned over the leadership to Rep. Cecil R. King (D. Cal). Mr. King said he Would ask the California commission.

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hold an investigation. He has sald nothing since Monday he could not be reached. He was reported by his office to be in consultation with Revenue Bu-

Mr. Lynch disclosed that he had: been asked hy. Rep. -Rob-

with the Nemoérats tnday to decide “what should he done.” M Parlier, Kean had said

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” ” n REP. CARL T. CURTIS (R. said he didn’t leaving the California matter to a Grand Jury was enpugh. “Our subcommittee savas set up for thig kind of a job.” “and we should investigate the Internal Revenue Bureau from

John W. Wisi) said he felt a full-scale investigation was necessary to

There are two other Demo: | crats on the subcommittee besides Mr. King and Mr. Lvnch, Rep, Thomas J. O'Brien of 1i-" nofs would make no comment. Rep. Stephen M’ Young (0. said the California sifuation .. Inoked “yerv bad” and he was hopeful there would he con‘gressional action. while, the Bureau ‘ot . Inter al Revo oterated

of the Columbus waterworks should help to: solve your problem of making your water more” suitable for human consumption and much, ‘nicer to use for baths, laundry, ote, without always having to be sure you have a water softener on hand. o » ” AS YOU may haves guessed, .I hail from Columbus, Ohio, and while it isa much smaller’ city, it is years ahead in many ways. Thepurest “wafer “In the “land: a second street marking system: every alley included: no railroad crossings in the city, viaducts being used; nice smoth streets to drive on and a safe

driving limit of 25 miles an hour in thé city. which is rigidly enforced. I have a car and would love to drive around’

and see as much of your city as possible but I.

am terrified at the reckless and wild driving.» * East’ Michigan, New York, 10th Street and: ‘Washington are all speedways, just to name: .a few, “

I think.I have thrown enough brickbats for’ now, and I hope to be able real soon to toss some orchids” your way. 2

THE CORNER

* THE world is full of places . , would like to go .

+ Where x the seashore with its rolling waves the mountains with their. snaw . but all these trips seem to require - . a thing that folks call money . . . that. [- have very little of i...» ‘but still my skies are” . so: 1 ‘must be contented . 5 . with dreaming of these things . .. for only in the land of dreams . . . , . I guess that's why you'll miss me . where the crawds walk spry ©. on the corner

ont, . just standing - +» to watch the world go by.

By Ben Burroughs

its position. Last week, Coma . missioner "George J. Schoene« man. angrily declared there was a great difference between loose charges and a case that

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said he had would stand up in court. Over Mr. King and the week-end the bureau, pendthat “these ing investigation, suspended

three ' California gplayees. our Fd = »

TODAY, a high bureau official sald the buredu did have’ “some personnel situations’ in. California but that none of tha. * men involved .were in a posi» tion to protect tax evaders. Sen, Walter George (Dr Ga.) said the Senate Finance’ Committee was not set up to. investigate such,charges. He: said the proper place: for the. investigation was the Kefauver. Committee. 'Sen.-elect Richard:,

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and the Revenue Bureau for disclose whether the California Nixon (R. Cal.), also said he: any information ‘they have: «situation was “an lsolated in- thought the Kefauver Com-* ,and, if the facts warranted. stance” or tvnicak- mittee should hold the inves.’

tigation. Mr. Nixon said the week the « Kefauver Cpmmittee spent in‘ California was not enough tolearn the full facts and that he" favored ‘‘broadening’. the ine’ quiry to include other agencies, Specifically, he said he was: Sutin to know. the truth of. yon charges of “deals” made bythe Justice Department to’ avoid proseeution. :

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