Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1950 — Page 51
by election day, but back in April when Marion County hisrong “protest”. vote
ing circulated here rid of has of ontaneous pétitions, z from politicians or y groups.” Our’ two are getting heavy pack home . . . all on resign. Analysis means not only Mr, the Department who ar China. policy. which has been consever to have been em to be the State tention fo liquidate jonalist China com-
t has happened in y has only confirmed -on that score. cation that opinion g with the plea Mr. . that Europe should of the cost to Asia. ht have a different has fewer close ties ge cities, /Ancestors sre from Europe . . . rsonal contacts with smories of another There is a good deal ht to be doing some=
*
least, President True fleet in front of Fors t dggression in Asia bly more help and iiang would be, too, diplomatic ventures, elves would strike a
around Indianapolis eek of Pearl Harbor, words is gone, now, t from here in, that
us unless we do it
rord that Jou.say, bul your right to-say it."
} Markey’s letter in Indianapolis Times,
ments that are not ducation as yet boys 19 years old and as 1946 my husband is raising a family and rder to make up for World War II. You * lieve in sending men
but don't worry Mr,
cially declared, we'll 1 know that they are and national guard. tried to enlist? I'm national guard will can sweat out your
to go back into the n't he go down and else in with him. ere in World War II ldren feel that we
“to” spend” with our _have had at home.
precious to me and ntry before and will feel there are a lot 10uld go before I do, rk my en but after [, I don’t feel that I ing home as long as
violations fell from
L year to 47,270 this decrease can be at-
1 safe driving. affic Department is ing approval of its r next year. If it's ‘an try to buy six
the market for the . of vehiclés,
® =» . partment is lagging
ously behind city lbvious solution?
Everman, but ap oving lon appro vital new. atomic
As
Coming Fast on Prices, Wages
Quick-Growing Inflationary
Pressures Won't Permit Wait
By The Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Dec. 9—Price-wage
coming fast. Despite what hE chiefs say.
seliiugs are
First controls may be in selected industries only. But inflationary pressures are building too fast; won't
~_permit government to wait till adequate control plans and staff are ready.
: Chinese Reds have blown sky-high those plans for glow military build-up—and soaring prices and wages will do same to ides of slow approach to home-front
controls.
Voluntary controls won't work. Price Administrator Di Salle found that out in his first week in office, when General Myers and Ford brushed off his report to cancel new car
price increases.
Look for William Boyle ta leave as chairman © of Democratic
{National Committee because of ill health soon after first of year
and for Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin to succeed him. New Secretary of Labor will be Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, defeated in Utah this fall. He's now chairman of Senate Labor Committee.
Unions will approve. Note to New York City radio Yisteners: Don’t get upset if interference spoils some of your favorite programs next Tuesday. Federal Communications Commission and Continental Air Command plan test in that area—of secret plans to thwart enemy bombers if they try to use New York broadcasts to help them locate the city.
Top Senate Democrats have discussed—and rejected—suggestion for full-scale Senate investigation of Gen. MacArthur's Korean campaign. Idea was to offset GOP attacks on Secretary Acheson by putting MacArthur on griddle. It mever got beyond talk stage because Democratic leaders decided
this was no time for inves-
tigation. But search is on here for “a goat” for whole Korean situation. Republicans hope to make ft Mr. Acheson or Mr. Truman Democrats may direct attention to Gen. MacArthur later, _or his intelligence chief, Maj. Gen, C. A. Willoughby. Congressional investigation of the Korean affair ia almost certain some time in future. Pearl Harbor hearings took place four years after the attack. Meanwhile, Republicans can't ‘agree what to do on Ives reso~ lution calling for ouster of Secretary Acheson. Some favor making it a bill _of censure. This procedure was used successfully against
President Cleveland's attorney
general. It requires Senate ac-’
tion. n » »
Various Views OTHER PREFER just to put party on record against Mr. Acheson. Some, such as Sen. Ralph Flanders (R. Vt), say no action should be taken during crisis, At least one midwesterner suspects maneuvering to replace Mr. Acheson with John Foster Dulles. Mr, Dulles, though a Republican, fs even more unpopular with many midwesterners ‘than Mr. Acheson. Some Congressmen question wisdom of putting more atomic facilities within reach of TVA power network. Administration >
roations -: within easy bomber ay of each other. - Oak Ridge Atomic Plant re--gystemy
~Hes—on TVA power ‘Which could be critically dam-
or four years, they say. Elder Statesman Role
~ ACTUAL RUNNING of For mosa establishment is In hands
a A
talking
aT a
now starting. Prices are expected to drop very fast. They've stayed high, despite dropping of supports, because of normal low production in fall, high demand, Army buying, weather, and lowest cold storage stocks since 1940. Capitol Hill rumor: Senate Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska is chuckling because he’s being cut in on White House crisis conferences, while GOP. policy chief Robert A. Taft of Ohio is left out. Sen. Wherry’s long been irritated because Sen. Taft is widely regarded as actual party leader in Senate, while Sen. Wherry holds title. Drive for amendment to ' Constitution to limit peacetime federal income taxes to 25 per cent of income is due to start again when state legislatures meet in January. - Western Tax Council hopes to invoke section of Constitution never yet used, which appears to say that if two-thirds of states ask Congress to propose an amendment it must do 80. Legislatures of 20 states have asked Congress for the
amendment. That makes 16
more 10 go. ”
Tip to Lewis
EDGY GOVERNMENT economists wonder if John L. ~ Lewis will find a way to get “into upward wage-price spiral. He’s only top labor leader not heard from as yet on fifth round wage increases. Coal miners still lead in wage parade, but steel, automobiles,
‘are getting close with latest boosts.
Miners’ union is working under contract supposed to last till June 30, 1952, but it's subject to cancellation next April 1, with 30 days’ notice. Meanwhile, coal stocks are larger than since July 1, 1949
~—enough for about 60 days.
Note: New safety record, even better than last year's may be set in coal mining. No major mine disaster so far this year, with three weeks to go. Treasury Secretary Snyder was reading his prepared testimony for excess profits tax before Senate Finance Committee when he came to the word
_Sen. Kerr asked Mr. Snyder what the word meant.
- let my assistant anthe
oolied, His amistent Wad
started a long, scholastic explanation, when Sen. Taft cut in. “It means widely spread, does it not?” he said. other, Senators nodded approval, and Mr. Snyder went back to his statement, leaving many in doubt whether
he’d ever seen the word be-
fore.
Come and Get It
ae stumbled over
“Wed Repot—
THE INDIANAPOLIS es.
British Ee Hard to ‘Convince That: Asia ©
Problem Is Different Than During 19th Century
Persist in Theory China Will Continue to Be China Despite Communism, Russ Grabs
Compiled From thé Wire Setvices “You can’t teach a an old dog new tricks.” That is why it is so difficult to convince the British that the. communism they are facing in Asia is the same menace confronting them in Europe and the rest of the world. The old British colonials and mercantile interests think that they know Asia better than that. They cannot bring themselves
to believe that the problem in Asia is much different from what’ it was in the 19th Century. So they persist in the theory that China will’ continue to be China, regardless of com-
- munism and Russian imperi-
alism. That attitude, a legacy from the British Foreign Office, has dominated the thinking of a large section of our State Department. This has made it easier for the Communist to influence American policy in the Far East, because the Communists and the ” China Hands” are going in the same direction, up to a point. Britain Reaps Profit During the war when it was American policy to develop a strong, China, British policy operated against that objective. Britain had profited commercially by dealing with a weak, divided China, through political as well as economic concessions there. A strong, united China, particularly such a China closely aligned with the United States, was one. of the -lpst things Britain wanted to see ‘emerge from the war period.
Russia at that time was not. threat
luctant to accept the fact that Japan's speedy conquests after Pearl Harbor had completely undermined European colonialism in that section of the world. Even when Britain was Ioresa to grant independence Burma and Pakistan, ho civil war in China encouraged the hope that a divided China would continue to be a rich field for commercial exploitation. Of course, Britain did not expect to see the Communists control the whole Chinese mainland. Nor did the British anticipate that a Red China would prove to be an enthusiastic tool of Soviet aggression. or Asia Outlook Changed Even the Communist invasion of Korea has not persuaded them that Russia's new position in the world has changed the whole outlook in Asia, They are willing to trade Korea and Pormosa for immunity for Hong Kong and Malaya inthe hope that given time, Communist solidarity
will come apart because of in-
ternal pressures. But the timetable of that hope is not well defined and rests largely upon the conviction that Asia will absorb the dynamic challenge of Soviet aggression as it has absorbed similar challenges in the past. In any case, if communism swallows up the rest of the world before the Red cult
"softens up and disintegrates in
a matter of decades, or even centuries, Britain's long-range gamble won't pay off soon enough to benefit anyone now living. Human Lives Cheap Britain's wait-and-see policy
-also-—-overlooks- the -immediate -problem confronting Red
China's new masters, who have a hungry population of 450 million on their hands. The loss of a few of those millions in wars of aggression
"which carry the promise of material gains is’ probably viewed ‘MM Moscow and Peking as
an everything to-gain-nothing» to-lose proposition... Human lives are a cheap commodity in the Red market. The British attitude that an
open war with Red China must
be avoided at all costs also overlooks the prospect that Britons may stand to lose as
much or ‘more through a suc-
cession of localized wars which
would have the same objective as a general war of conquest.
Indeéd, that is the present pattern of Red fon. Korea and Indo-China are the major battlefields of the
independent, united .
. service in
moment. But similar situations are shaping up in Malaya and the Philippines and may be in
prospect throughout the Far East. -
Russia and Red China are
‘giving moral support to the
Communist movements in all of the Asian countries and may be prepared to contribute physical support as well at the proper time, just as they are doing In Korea.
Washington
EVER SINCE he became commander of the United Nations forces in Korea, Gen. Douglas MacArthur has been under general instructions to use his own judgment in carrying out his mission. Nevertheless hé has been denounced for exceeding his authority whenever his decisions
“have been subject to second-
guessing. Usually these were instances in which he was compelled to act because the politicians in the United Nations had passed the buck to him by withholding specific instructions. Typical of this was the issue of the 38th Parallel. Under the initial United Nations resolution under which
‘he was acting, Gen. MacArthur
was to “furnish such assistance to the Republic of Korea as may be necessary to repel
the armed attack and to re-
store international peace and security in the area.”
When the question of crossing the 38th Parallel was raised, President Truman took the position that this should be decided by the United Nations. Duck United Nations Query
However, a majority of the delegations to the United Nations ducked the question by contending -— always off the record—that they had been operating on the theory that Gen. MacArthur had had the right all along to send his forces across the Parallel.
Even when India's opposition to this assumption forced a more formal treatment of the issue, the Unifed Nations balked at using the words 38th. Parallel.”
Instead, it adopted a resolution that “all appropriate steps be taken to insure conditions of stability throughout Korea . . . including the holdIng of elections . . . for the establishment of a united, independent and democratic government” in which “all sections and representative bodies of the population of Korea, South and North, would be invited to co-operate. Then a special representative of United Nations was sent to Tokyo to confer with Gen. MacArthur concerning the government of newly won areas in North Korea.
Face Tough Decision A similar situation developed when the intervention of the Chinese Communists confronted the diplomats at Lake Success with another tough decision.
As early as Sept. 2 Gen.
~MaecArthur- reported the -pos-
sible recruitment of Manchurlan Koreans to reinforce the Red Forces. Sixteen days later he estimated that between 40,000 and 60,000 troops trained in Red China had been released for the Korean. cam-
paign. : Finally, on Nov. 8, Gen, Mac-
Congress Roundup—
House OK'd
At $3 Billion
WASHINGTON, Dec, 9—In Congress this week:
Taxes
The House passed an excess profits tax bill designed to raise at least $3 billion for defense and to help stem infla-
tion. Vote was 378 to 20.
The bill levies a 75 per cent tax on all corporation earnings above 83 per cent of the aver. age of the most profitable
‘three: years from 1046 through 1949, The tax is retroactive to 2
July 1. A Republican-sponsored substitute was rejected, 252 to 142. It would have eased the ex-
bill, the n sald it would have yielded more revenue the bill,
ill “Treasury y donn Snyder warned that much
Yosu
ships or
* is South Korea's best ond one that tokes ships. tis only
This Times' newsmap locates Korean ports from which retreating United Nations forces might be evacuated to save being overwhelmed by Chinese Communist armies.
Arthur announced that though the armies of North Korea had been decisively destroyed, he was confronted by a new enemy, which had invaded Korea from “the privfleged sanctuary of the adjacent Manchurian border.” Pointing out the limits of his present mission, he obviously expected new instructions. This crisis introduced the period of appeasement.
. Urges Korea Withdrawal President Truman, in.a public statement, assured the Chinese Reds that the United States would respect China's territorial integrity and urged their forces to Withdraw from Korea.
Britain made a similar plea, in a formal note to the Peking government. Both powers made unofficial overtures to the Reds through the Indian ambassador at Peking the details of which have not been revealed. The United Nations invited the Chinese Reds to send a delegation to Lake Success to present their charges of aggression in Formosa against the United States. Throughout this period the Chinese Communist troops were at war with the United Nations forces. By late November Gen. MacArthur's intelligence reported a concentration of 500.000 troops on the Manchurian border. But the diplomats at Lake Success still refused to believe that Red China wanted “open war,”
Problem for Doug Under standing orders to establish peace throughout Korea, Gen. MacArthur faced the
dilemma of digging in for the winter in the bleak Korean hills, or pushing on toward the border and trying to complete
his task. He chose to march
and met a disastrous defeat at the hands of an enemy which outnumbered his forces by two or three to one. When, at the beginning of his “end - the - Gen. MacArthur told one of ‘his field commanders that he
hoped to get the boys home for:
Christmas, he was indulging in
Tax Bill Aims for Defense
Truman to dismiss Mr. Acheson. Several House Democrats, including Majority Leader John McCormack of Massachusetts immediately sprang to the Hac. retary’s defense, :
Rent Control
- Both ‘Houses voted 90-day extensions of federal rent con-
i ie
war offensive,” -
7 chill’s “and” Mr,
optimism which events did not sustain. But who can say that the’ Reds would not have moved against him if he had chosen
to sit down and wait?
Moscow
THE LITERARY GAZETTE today dismissed the announced resuits of the Truman-Attlee conference as a “lacquered communigue” which failed to conceal the discord in the Western ‘world. The publication, in the first Russian reaction, listed only three results of the conference in Washington between the British Prime Minister and the American President: ONE: Europe was assured it would remain the center of the East-West conflict. - TWO: American diplomats and military men used the Korean “catastrophe” to increase pressure on Western Europe to hasten its rearming.
Lose Confidence THREE: . “Countries alled into the Atlantic trap” and others have begun to lose confidence in the international leadership of the United States, “No lacquered communique on the ‘identity of views’ , . . can conceal the fact of the inevitable, increased discord in the warmongers camp,” the Literary Gazette said. The publication said Mr. Attlee went to Washington as (former Conservative Prime
Minister Winston) Sharehills
messenger, carrying plan drawn up In the Teles Mr. Churchill's Fulton, Mo. speech, Expect a ‘Warning’ On behalf of Mr. Churchill, Mr. Attlee was expected “to warn the possessed adventurers of the Pentagon and State Department as follows: *““No~matter how crushing the bolws you're now taking in Korea and Asia generally, don’t commit the fatally reckless act for all of us and don't forget for one minute that the basic site and epicenter of the
future world war must be + JUNrope. only.’ 2. a ; However, according * the
Literary Gazette, Mr. Chur-
were unfounded because Mr. Truman assured Mr. Attlee “that for the U. S., Europe will
continue to Femain: ‘the center
of conflict between the American imperialists and.all peace loving nations.”
cor-
Attlee’s fears
Rex Hotel
3 Continuances ‘Alreac 9’ As Investigation Drags Along
By The Times Staff vo THREE continturony Rave bamm graniadl 40 far 1
notorious Rex Hotel case, all due to
of investigation by city officials. When hotel operators failed to meet deadline on needed corrections, time extension was granted. After some building alterations were made, Fire Prevention
authorities said more were needed, necessitating another continuance. Case was continued for third time last week. Now, city health department says it also has recommendations for changes. Attorney for operators makes no bones about saying there has been difficulty in discovering exactly and om
pletely want is yan by city.
WILL Indianapolis collect unlooked-for revenue from parking
meters?
Works Board officials are examining three-way advertising sign designed to be coupled to meter post. No action taken yet but, under agency proposal, city would collect peruentage of fee
paid by advertisers, . ”
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In succeeding divorce cases in Superior Court 2 this week,
events went thus:
ONE: Pretty blonde took stand, testified husband never spoke
to her.
Shed tears large as golf balls. Divorce gran
TWO: Brownette took stand, testified Then ar talked all the
time.
DURING investigation of $75,000 check-theft ring, cracked here last week by federal agents, Postal Inspector Myron F. Wood telephoned one suspect at home, learned man was out left word for him to call “Wood at MA-1561.” Suspect called, learned Wood was postal inspector, hung up abruptly, With jet-engine speed, he left Indianapolis for
great open spaces, was later
arrested at Dallas, Tex,
” n ” FAIR CITY scribes can take two bows, give one blush for last Sunday's predictions. Bow—Called turn on grand jury manslaughter indictment against Dr, Jules F. LaDuron, Muncie physician who slew two brothers in blackmall fight. Bow —- Predicted appeal of Robert A. Watts, convicted of
murder, would be denied again.
Blush—Missed completely in predicting election of Kenneth Blackwell as GOP Speaker of Indiana Assembly. Republicans went their own way, picked W. O. Hughes instead.
. o sn s Observation on female inter-.
est in “science:” At Keith's Theater, sex hygiene film is being shown twice as often for women as for men in segregated-audience plan.
» Ed » POSTMASTER George J.
Ress is within a stamp’s throw of $1000 salary boost. If Indie
anapolis Post Office receipts
hit $10 million mark for 1950, his annual salary automatically jumps from $10,270 to $11,270. This year's receipts to date are $9,195722. Last December’s take amounted to $1,128,« 000.
” o ” Bad Neighbors CHARVES M. LOBO, Pakistan delegate to United Nations, who spoke in city last week, frankly characterized as “childishness” refusal of his country and next-door India to
deal with each other. wo Pakistan raises food; needs several:
textiles, raw materials, India needs food, produces textiles,
"raw materials. Both countries’ :
export to far-away countries, import likewise, Religious, poli-
, tical differences prohibit. trade “with each other,
“If we lived as neighborly people, “side by side, we could be self-sufficient,” Mr. Lobo
Displayed Academy Award hysterics. Divorce granted.
said. “It's really a case of cut ting ‘off one’s nose to spite one's fate.” ” - . STREET SCENE: Man walking along N. Delaware St. at 1 a. m. Friday wearing overcoat ‘backwards. Woman companion clad in short-sleeved blouse over slip, no skirt, nylon hose but shoeless.
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ANOTHER Fair City-zen (male) was awakened at 1:30 a. m. last week by telephone
invitation to come-as-you-are
party. A'prominent and literalminded real-estate salesman, he appeared at party dressed in his shorts, bedroom slippers. P. 8.. He wore bathing trunks underneath. Sissy!
» " ” Thought for today: State Chamber of Commerce tax calendar for 1851 has list of possible tax bites. It includes 19 state and 18 federal fees, in addition to a score more due every mouth.
“8.8 PAVING PROJECT on E.
A
Washington St. resulted in .
bled over wooden catwalks
placed over conduit ditches to
provide walkways. There were _..ho_inclined ramps leading up
to’ some catwalks and down again, citizens declared, causing foot-traps for those who stride erect, eyes ahead,
Book
On the Inside of World Alfdirs:
SOME UNITED NATIONS delegations were assured privately by the United States that Gen. MacArthur would drive to 30 miles of the Manchurian border and stop. They are seeking an explanation for revision of this decision.
® =» - ” COMPLAINTS are heard that Washington is giving little . encouragement to Latin Americans who are anxious to create United Nations fighting
units. The South Americans
claim their offers are pigeon-
MOSCOW has made ‘known
if
to Cairo that it is in full ac-
cord with the new anti-British policy and fully understands Egypt's desire to remain neuconflict between ‘est. The Soviet
ment that it
haa ii li APA,
also ‘informed the
LACK OF coal in Romania “has brought rationing of electricity. » ” »" AN ATOM BOMB and airproof shelter to house the archives of the Cominform is being constructed by Soviet technicians under the “Tampa” peak of the Carpathian mountains near Brasov, Romania. If war breaks, the most important services of the Comminform will take refuge in this shelter.
La a MIDDLE RN Con-
from In-
LAME DUCK Sen. Lucas (D,