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Charles E. Wilson Required to

Report Only to President By The Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—Charles E. Wilson will

has. ever seen.

{ be the most powerful war production boss United States

He's coming to Washington on his own terms. He's been through it before, knows the dangers of divided authority. One of his requirements: That he report directly to the President. That's to head off something like office of war mobilization, created in last war as an over-all agency between war production board and other boards, and the President. — Ja complete overturn of September set-up, Stuart Symington, ‘boss of the National Security Resources Board who was called home-front czar under that plan, will retain important advisory functions. He’s an old crony of Mr. Truman's, will continue ‘to give counsel. But Wilson of GE—and no one else— will give production mobilization orders. To overhaul system of allocating scarce materials to manufacturers now taking munitions orders. Complaints” are piling up that present system is failing to get critical materials to spots where they're

most needed. Manufacturers urge government to use Light controlled-materials plan of last war.

Aviation manufacturers warn of serious delays ahead unless machine tools come through faster than at present.

Tough Speech

GOV. DEWEY'S New York speech urging total mobilization was made after friendly consultation with President Truman, by telephone. Dewey believes strongly in importance of national unity, wanted to be gure he was not saying anything that might suggest serfous division. White House, apparently, was glad to have his speech made. It was tough, called for faster mobilization than anyone else had urged. It made it easier for Mr. Truman to lay down his own demands for

& mobilization last night.

Urged for Key Post JAMES D, MOONEY, of Technical Managers, Inc., former head of Willys Overland, figures in latest crop of rumors about Navy Secretaryship, but denies he's been asked. Story still persists that Secretary Francis P. Matthews is leaving

Odds still favor Arizona's ‘Sen. Ernest W. McFarland ‘for Senate majority leadership. But supporters of Wyoming’s Sen. Joseph O’Mahoney claim. they have a good chance of electing him; say they have more strength than reports indicate.

Bill Blocked “SUBSIDIZED airlines seem to have blocked Hoover Commission bill to separate appropriations for airline subsidies from appropriations for carrying mail. x House passed the bill onday. It was slated for quick Senate action. But when Senate commerce committee met, members began demanding hearings, refused to vote it out. Result is, bill will have to start over again in new 82d Congress. Sen. Owen Brewster (R. Me. )y Pan - American's long - time friend, held Republican proxies to stop action on the bill but found most Democrats had also adopted viewpoint of Air Transport Association, which speaks for subsidized lines. Biggest argument against the bill was directed at rethat hot of U. 8. lines operating internationally. They tried for exemption in House, failed. : W. Rentzel, new Civil Aeronautics Board chairman, had been counted on to support the bill but instead told Senate committee it was not necessary. Board has its own plan for separating subsidies from mail pay, Rentzel said. It does not include publicity on costs of international lines and amounts they receive as subsidy.

Stationed Below 38th

ABOUT THOSE reports from British troops casting doubt on presence of any large Chinese Red forces in Korea. The Brit troops involved are - I below 38th Parallel, haven't seen any recent fight-

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mation Service here, only Brit- .

ish troops now in action are a few hundred Marine commandos, caught in the northeast trap, ~+General Electric's announcement that it will lay off 2500 of ita Erie works refrigerator employees temporarily because | shortages

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Capehart would like to have his support for national office. There's been no publicity about them but President Truman has sent at least four other bitter letters to newspPapermen, condemning editorials, news stories or columns, One recipient sent his letter back by hand, implying such a missive, signed by a’ President, should not be kept where it might be seen and given publeity. In one other case, a special delivery from Mr. Truman followed close on the original letter, apologizing and asking... that it be returned. Quote of the week comes from Michael DiSalle, new price control chief, who's just finding out what official life here is like. “The thing that surprises me most,” he said, “is that half the people I'm introduced to are identified as people who the thinking for someone else.”

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World Report—

Russ Expecied. to Try to Soften Up Europe

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Before Reds Unleash Their 175 Divisions

Scores on U. S. By Chinese War

Compiled From the Wire Services - Despite’ 175 Soviet divisions which could strike without warning against a ‘defenseless Western Europe, satellite dip-

lomatic circles in France see

little «likelihood of open aggression by Moscow before next spring. They base their reasoning on these major points: “ONE: A growing belief that the United States is determined to save its atomic weapons for use only if Soviet Russia launches an invasion of the West. TWO: An fncreased suspicion that the Russians--de-spite their own and President Traman’s reports—have not yet succeeded in producing an effective atomic bomb.

____By having skillfully maneuvered the United States into a ’ full-scale conflict with Com-’

munist China, informants feel that the Kremlin has won the first diplomatic round in a “hot war” it has not yet exploited fully. The process of softening up and dividing Europe has not. yet been completed. ‘Asiatic Munich’ Stalin would welcome an “Asiatic Munich,” of course. He would welcome even more America's use of the atomic bomb against China, This might temporarily reverse the .course of military events in the Far East. But it would give the Russians an enormous propaganda advantage in Europe. It might also broaden the wedge now dividing the badlyfrightened Atlantic community. And it is in Europe—rather than-in the Far East or elsewhere—that the battle against Soviet imperialism will either be won or lost. The concensus in Paris is that Washington has decided against the use of the atomic bomb in China. While war-jittery Europeans are thus facing a dismal holiday season, the potential battlefields remain ominously calm. But Communist politfcal activity is again at full blast. Recall 200 Agents The Cominform has recently «been subjected to another purge and has now emerged as a beétter-organized and betterdisciplined military qrganization. Particularly severe was the purge in Western Germany, where 200 agents are said to have been recalled to the Eastern zone. Most of those recalled have either been imprisoned, deported to Russia or

Iran Puts the Bee on U.S. But Oil is Still Slicker

By ANDREW TULLY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

Once more, in Iran, we're in the position of having to get up a bribe to keep the good will of a country. And, in this case, there's doubt whether Iran actually needs ‘the dough it's holding us up for. The situation to date is this: Iran has two loans pending— $25 million from the ExportImport bank, which is U. S.operated, and $10 million from the World Bank, in which we have great influence. But proceedings have moved slowly, and this has irritated the Iranians. So, a few weeks ago they cut

off our privilege of relaying the

Voice of America broadcasts over their domestic network.

the British, Indian and Pakistan broadcasts were being banned and we were being included merely to show that

they were playing no favorites. .

Where Question Arises ‘ The British broadcasters had

been charged with doing a propaganda job for the. pending new agreement between Iran and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. That's where the question arises over whether Iran is going to need the money it's asking from the U. 8. For the Iranian government will collect around $120 million in Increased retroactive oil royalties once the new An-glo-Iranian Oil Co. agreement is signed. This dough will be

in pounds, but Iran has per- ;

Official reason given was that

still basically friendly toward

mission to convert as much as is needed into dollars. Thus Iran will be pretty well fixed without tapping us for more money. We haven't much choice except to go along, however. For Iran is part of the Middle East area where 46 per cent of the world’s known oil reserves are concentrated. Russia, with only 10 per cent of the world's reserves among itself and its satellites, still is pushing for the right to exploit sources in northern Iran. Still U. S. Friends And the Iranian government, which has just signed a trade treaty with Russia, is acting as if it might like to do--more business with Stalin and Co.. The Iranians, of course, are

the U. 8., but they're great people for wanting to be on any bandwagon. Thus, - last summer, when we wers hav-

ing. initial Korea, = *

there was a great upsurge of Russian sentiment, which died down as we high-balled it up the peninsula. A similar reaction has set in now that the Chinese Reds have pushed us down again. The silver lining is that as far as internal politics is concerned, communism is not much of a menace in Iran. Most Iranians are Mohammedans and they oppose communism because of its atheistic dogma.

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CHECK-REIN ON MOSCOW . . . America's atomic bomb, hewn ore’ in the midst of its awesome underwater test at Bikini, is what's keeping Russia's 175 division from an invasion of _ Western Europe, according to diplomats from Iron Curtain nations.

sent to the special school in Neu-Ruppin which trains agents for sabotage activities. Moscow apparently does not trust its German agents, even though when they are sent for sabotage work in the Western zones they must leave their families behind as security. The new Cominform agents now operating in Western Germany, according to U. 8. intelligence sources, are Russians who speak German fluently and have a thorough knowledge of the country. Winter of Strikes They come to the Western zones either as members of various satellite missions or as respectable representatives of Italian and Austrian commercial firms, liberally supplied with funds and false passports. It is estimated there are now about 3000 such Russian agents operating in the Bonn Republic, According to Henri’ Lafond one of the best-informed antiCommunist French trade union leaders, the Cominform is also mobilizing its followers for a winter of strikes and sabotage activties in France.

A new wave of Communist. =

sponsored political strikes is expected soon in the steel, coal, railroad and shipping industries. The Communists are especially active in the ports where they hope to prevent the discharge of U. 8. military equipment for France. The Russiank, in Lafond's view, which also coincides with the views of other close students of Soviet strategy, will

“not strike in Western Europe

until they have succeeded in completely breaking the spirit of the middle-of-the-road man and woman. He was particularly critical of the growing group of French newspaper - editors, politicians and “parliamentarians” ' who advocate French neutrality in the coming war “between the United States and Soviet Russia.’ “These are the people who betrayed Europe in 1939,” he said., “They will. betray it

“again in 1951.”

United Nations

COMMUNIST CHINA yesterday announced its willingness to withdraw its troops from Korea, but made it clear the withdrawal would be on its own terms and not in compliance with a proposed United Nations “cease-fire.” In a press conference in the Security council chamber at Lake Success, N. Y., Gen. Wu Hsiu-chuan, Peking's chief envoy, described the United Nations cease-fire mechanism as “a trap,” and denounced American “aggression” in Korea; China itself. He wound up with an announcement that his government was ‘willing to try to advise” the Chinese Communist “volunteers” to quit fight-

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Russia has maintained that the huge Chinese forces in, Korea were made up entirely of volunteers. Gen. Wu made it plain that the cease-fire proposal approved two days ago by the general assembly was not acceptable as a means for ending the Korean conflict.

Great Britain PRIME MINISTER CLEMENT ATTLEE announced last night that he had pledged the British . people to fight alongside the United States to preserve the authority of the United Nations. But he held out hope of “honorable” negotiations with the Chinese Communists “before long” in view of the “improving” United Nations military position in Korea. Addressing an anxious nation by radio just as President Truman had done the "night before, Mr. Attlee also said: ONE. The war in Korea must not spread and attempts must be made to reach a live-and-let-live settlement with the

Communists; TWO. He hopes for a meeting with Russia soon; The atom bomb is

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Formosa and against

gency as an outright step toward world war. It came as a grave Europe realized the chips are déwn in conflict—hot or cold —with Russia. .

Soviet Union

RUSSIA charged Britain and France last night with violating their mutual treaties of friendship in notes apparently designed to split the west on the eve of the crucial North Atlantic pact talk in Brussels. A British foreign office spokesman said the Soviet note was delivered late Friday night to the embassy in Moscow, Its full text had not been received in London. But it accused . Britain of contenancing west German rearmament «contrary to the Potsdam agreement and articles two and seven of the Anglo-Soviet treaty of alliance. : The RBritish spokesman declined further comment, but, significantly, he made no reference to any Soviet attempt to denounce the British-Rus-sian treaty. In Paris, informed diplomatic quarters said the note was

! membership in the anti-Com-

munist North Atlantic Alliance, but they said it contained no immediate threat of denouncing the 1944 FrenchSoviet treaty.

Atlantic Pact

PRESIDENT TRUMAN and Secretary of State Dean Acheson both will ignore Republican demands-that Mr. Acheson be fired, administration officials reported yesterday. On the eve of Mr, Acheson's departure for crisis talks with western European leaders, these officials said the President has no intention of ousting the secretary. And, they added, definitely, Mr. Acheson has no thought of resigning. Mr. Acheson was to leave for Brussels .at 11:30 a. m., Sunday aboard the President's plane, take final action on plans to build an integrated AmericanCanadian - European defense force with west German troop support.

Latin America

The United States announced yesterday it will ask for an urgent conference of the foreign ministers of the 21 American republics to plan common defenses against international

"communism.

The meeting probably will be

held in Washington in mid-

the Independence, to

February. Secretary of State Dean Acheson said he is seeking the talks with sister American nations upon ‘instructions from President Truman. A formal request will be delivered Wednesday to the Council of the Organization of American States.

. Singapore THE Malayan federal government put a price of 60,000 straits dollars ($20,000 U. 8.) on the head of Malaya's No. 1 Communist today and offered hundreds of thousands more in rewards for the capture of other members of the c¢ommunist movement's “inner circle.” { The announcemént came a few hours after British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney said the Malayan jungle war must end next year,

‘Romania

TOTAL liquidation of “Capitalist elements” and industrialization of Romania by 1955 are the basic tasks of that Soviet satellite’s new five-year plan, the text showed today.

*The plan was adopted by the

broadcast by Romania's news agency Agerpres. It called for: ONE: Wedding out of all capitalist elements. TWO: Elimination of all private farms, THREE: Extension of trade. FOUR: Increase in productivity. FIVE: Development of underdeveloped regions. SIX: Large scale industrialization.

Iran

TEN Communist. leaders who were imprisoned in April, 1949, after an attempt to assassinate the Shah of Iran escaped Friday night, police sources reported yesterday. . The 10, with 34 other active members of the outlawed Tudeh (Communist) party, were jailed April 2, 1949, when Iranian secret police found they were in close contact with the Soviet Embassy here. Their arrests followed an attempt on the young 8S 's life. The police sources said there is no trace of the missing men. Iran recently has established

. friendlier relations with the

Soviet Union. Early in November the two countries signed a $31 million trade and barter agreement and two weeks later radio Tehran discontinued relaying Voice of America and British . Broadcasting = Corp. broadcasts.

On the Inside Of World Affairs

The Soviets are suspicious’

of the armies. of their Euro-

PERT SETETITEES “TH Spite or res peated purges and loyalty checks. As a counterbalance, the Communists are organizing “Red militias” Communist-led trade unions.

among

They already have been used

against rioting farmers in rural Gistriets of Roman, .

QUESTIONS have been raised as to whether Red China

-would demand reparations

from ‘the United States for Korean Communists in the event United Nations forces evacuate. The answer is similar to Gen. MacAulliffe’s at Bastogne: “Nuts.” Anybody wanting reparations has to be able to collect them. 4

» » = IF A TRUCE can be arranged in Korea, United Nations delegates hope that President Truman will bring Gen. MacArthur back to the United

‘States to report. Some have been

‘urging the American Sslegation to suggest this with the that the visit will I h current thinking.

. ” » BRITONS in‘discussing President Truman's letter to a music critic point out that had Winston Churchill berated

in closer touch with

his actress he

The “big lie” is at least creating interest.

ITALY is irked because the United States turned down a compromise with Russia which would have admitted 13 new member countries to the United Nations. There would have heen five Russian satellites admitted and eight non-satellites, including Italy, Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Portugal, Jordan and Nepal. The United. States said the satellites did not measure up to United Nations standards so Russia will continue to veto those we want in.

" = THAILAND reports in-

ereased Communist disturbances influenced by the upris-ndo-China,

ing in

THE Union of South Athica has’ served notice that it will disregard the United Nations

directivé 8 Stop the process of ‘annexing Southwest

ann Africa, former German colony. The United Nations wants the vast territory to remain in trusteeship until its status can be worked ut.

BARI EEL SI EAA

. of lack of funds, press

Our Fair City—

‘State

Metropolitan Area Sch e : | For Another Back Seat Rit

By THE TIMES CITY STAFF INDIANAPOLIS metropolitan area faces another

back- seat ride in 1951 legislature.

As in past, out-state lawmakers appear to be ganging #

up on rural-city issues.

Indianapolis assemblymen seeking floor leadership posts in pre-legislative caucuses this month were cares fully voted down by both parties.

Jealousy arises from out-state: residents’ fear of political power large Indianapolis area might wield over rest of Indiana, *

if not held in check.

So rural areas take no chances that Indianapolis may rum

the show, in legislature or elsewhere in state government.

That's reason for failure of any bill for Feapportionment of

General Assembly on basis of population. Reapportionment has been blocked for almost 30 years, During this time Indianapolis population has almost doubled, But Marion County hasn't had a single additional seat in the

Assembly.

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POLICE parking crackdown has brought out bargain

hunters.

After police began issuing summonses to drivers parked in. ' restricted zones, traffic bureau began getting calls. “How much will my fine be if I get a ticket on the naughty--naught block of XYZ Ave.?” callers ask. Answer is easy. Police have no price list on law violations.

PHILIP PRATT, R. R. 3 won ‘an apology last week from Municipal Judge Joseph M. Howard. He proved there had been a mix-up‘ when a traffic officer

took his license number. AnTHOtOYISt 8 :

“OTHEr been ticketed. “We're sorry to have caused you this inconvenience, Mr. Pratt,” said Judge Howard.

Said Mr. Pratt, magnamim- -

ously:

“That's all right, Judge. We

all make Tiistakes. ”

"Taint Safe

“LITTLE CARL” Shelton

had better luck than most prisoners while he was in jail here. Awaiting trial in Criminal Court. Little Carl got word

they'd struck oil on his farm back in Fairfield, Ill. He finally got out on bond and went home to his bonanza. “Little Carl's” imprisonment brought his uncle, “Big Earl” Shelton, to Indianapolis to help him. One day Big Earl was leav\ng jail, ran into law officer he knew, stopped to chat.

Officer shifted nervously, finally said “Hey, look. If I'm gonna

talk to you let's get inside somewhere. I'm not sure it's safe standing close to you.” Couple of days later same officer picked up newspaper. He read that bomb had been thrown at Big Earl, back in Ulinois, Officer breathed sigh of relief that Sheltons are out of Indianapolis. ~ Signs of ur times: School defense director, asked ‘if young pupils were curious ‘about atomic bomb, replied: “Why, that’s obsolete. They're discussing the Me bomb now.”

RESTRAINT Is rare in an Indiana political campaign. So when it occurs, it's news. Both Marion County candidates for sheriff in last month's

“election had ammunition they

didn’t use. It was the preliminary - er Institute at Purdue University. Dan W. Smith, successful Republican candidate, could have used report to charge his opponent with laxity. Survey showed Sheriff Cunningham's deputies made only 46 arrests for moving traffic viblations during 1949. In same period police made 2245 such arrests in Marion County. : State police also issued more than 3000 warnings. None were recorded by sheriff’s department, : Mr. Cunningham could have answered with report's finding of other duties, which Interfere with traffic work. Candidates kept issue out of

Orient. As a consequence, they argue, it would. be futile to use the atom bomb on China, re~

(gardless of how you feel shout

it morally, » .

- THE British. are quietly op-

erating a mail and overseas

® censorship as a :

politics as help to Marion

County Traffic Advisory Committee, which wants problem handled on non-political basis, : Pe Eo

PLUMP young woman raptly

read magazine while she ate large dish of ice cream with her lunch last week in Ayres’ basement. Article was on reducing and calorie counting. : ” » » Candidates who ran in last election apparently don’t know the law. Many list assessments hy county and state political committees as part of campaign expenses. Assess ments are outlawed by statute, But if they're called “contribu~ tions” to committees they're perfectly legal.

Whe Was Wiongess? :

“WE WERE wrong, but they were wronger.” That was a state excise official's explanation for last week's snafu of prosecution on a Showboat raid. Excise Department says

. sheriff's deputy arrested two.

women for drinking in the unlicensed night club, turned them over to excise agent, Sheriff's Depa: denies it, When court convened, no deputy showed up to testify

against the women, Lot. Bels... ting name of the deputy who" made the arrest,” excise officer said. “But the deputy is more wrong for not coming forward to clinch the arrest with his testimony.”