Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1950 — Page 17

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1950 Hig

Begins to Roll § At Rapid Pace

New Mobilization Boss Swings Into Action Without Fanfare

The Scripps-Howard Newspapers

: By WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—Production

beginning to roll, at last.

of weapons is

“You may not have noticed, during holiday week. But

Charles BE. Wilson,

new boss of mobilization, has been

swinging into action fast. There's been no fanfare, no press conferences. There has been a big spurt in war ~ orders, . And companies have been announcing cutbacks

on pr

tion of consumer goods.

Wilson's concentrating on getting military orders placed, on speeding up day when weapons will roll off assembly lines. He'll pay more attention to price-wage

side of mobilization later.

By April, factory shift-over to war production will be felt through whole economy—though it still will not approach all-out

war basis,

Consumer hard goods will become scarce.

unemployment,

There'll be some

Pattern is already being set in automobile in-

dustry. For instance, Studebaker announced 20 per cent cut in passenger car production néxt month because of government restrictions on use of vital materials for civilian goods. Also

20 per cent reduction in workers, Pe

New Taxes Due HERE'S WHAT you can expect on taxes, in 1951: Administration will ask for about $7 billion in new revenues. Some of it will come from larger individual income taxes, = Corporations will be tapped again, Larger excise taxes ‘are almost certain. (Autos are likely spot for this last.. They now carry only 5 per tent manufacturers’ tax.) President Truman will ask again that tax loopholes be closed, especially that 27 per cent depletion allowance for oil ‘be reduced. Committees are packed to protect depletion allowance; he won't succeed; 80 money will have to be raised elsewhere. ot can figure government take ‘about 121; per cent more from you next year than you're now paying in taxes. Part directly, part indirectly v But evén if administration gets 2h Jt asks in new taxes, total” won't equal federal budget, with big new expenditures for rearming. Deficit of at least $13 billion seems likely.

Farm Plan Unchanged DESPITE DEFICIT, Congress will make no change in present farm price support law. Brannan Plan is dead, and booming prices have nullified drive to supplant present socalled flexible support system with rigid mandatory high supports. :

But economy advocates who

want to junk the support system as non-essential will get no place. Farm bloc is too strong, and will insist on keeping support program for a future rainy day. — At least there's been a drop In its cost. Farm price support spending is now running at rate only one-third of that a year ago. It will go lower.

Hold Price Line

ECONOMIC stabilization administration (ESA) officials generally are pleased at industry reaction ‘o effort to hold Dee. 1 price line. For ex- . ample; i. International Harvester has cancelled farm machinery price boosts; Crosley has done the same on refrigerators; auto companies have accepted the rollback; Eastman Kodak rescinded [some price increases; Sun Oil Co. has promised to try to hold the line; Schenley Industries has frozen its prices. ESA is also pleased at re ceiving B50 favorable responses to request it be given at least seven days’ notice of Increases to be put into effect under “fair - pricing” formula. It sent request to 230 manufacturers, did not ask for replies.

Food Prices Up NEWS is not so good in family kitchens, Food prices are still going up. Butter price has risen 10 -cents a pound:in past few weeks, will go’ higher. Government’s huge stocks are practically gone and butter production is down because ‘more fluid milk is being consumed, Butter prices cannot be controlled under present law until they reach 85 cents a pound retail. ; No shortage of margarine in. sight, and price controls may announced soon. There's plenty of oil in the country, margarine manufacturers say.

Note: Administrator Michael ain has picked Nelson M. Eddy, fats and oils economist for Best A". Foods Ine, to head his new fats and oils price division.

New Job for FBI FBI HAS been given a new Job—keeping tabs on laboratory equipment which might

be used to produce disease

germs for biological warfare against civilian population of this country. : . FBI will keep in touch with . manufacturers of . laboratory e

Ek i aah a

"line.

Congress will be committee chairmen, mostly old-time Southern Democrats. New House of Representatives will be asked, Wednesday, to give old dictatorial power over legislation back to rules committee, Present Congress has allowed chairmen of legislative committees to take measures direct to floor when rules committee smothered them for more than 21 days.

May Shelve Bill NEW CONGRESS is likely to drop “one-package"” appropriation bill. Rep. Clarence Cannon (D., Mo.), chairman of House Appropriations, will fight for it, but other Democratic leaders didn’t like results of trial they gave it this year. It didn’t speed up appropriations and didn't save any money, they say. Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.), having put off his foreign policy speech until after other GOP spokesmen had their say, can attempt to pull loose ends together, strike a middle course, if he chooses. EX - President Hoover and Gov. Thomas Dewey voiced extreme opposite views on foreign policy. Dulles’ speech was moderate approach to Dewey If Taft can hit an acceptable compromise, it will strengthen his position in the Republican Party. Best guess is his views will be closer to Hoover than to Dewey.

Labor Outlook

OUTLOOK for labor in 1951:

‘Little or no unemployment ex-

cept-during periods of conversion to war production; high wages. Unions will resist wage regulation until foods and rents are controlled effectively. Drive for repeal of TaftHartley will continue despite unfavorable Congress, Effort will be made to secure influential posts in a]l defense programs. Groundwork for more political activity two years from now will be laid. International Association of Machinists will re-affiliate with

, AFL,

Seek Ore Supply VENEZUELAN iron ore may revolutionize steel industry in this country. U. S. Steel believes it can produce steel at its proposed Morristown, Pa. plant as cheaply as in Pittsburgh and Chicago districts by bringing “iron ore from its Venezuelan properties all the way by water, Bethlehem, which is also developing Venezuelan iron ore, expects to use it at Sparrows Point plant, near Baltimore. Birmingham steel-making facilities may be expanded, also. Hike in Salaries SALARY NOTES: American Farm Bureau has raised salary of its president, Allan B. Kline, from $15,000 to $20,000 a year—a 3315 per cent boost. Michael DiSalle’s new job as federal price boss brought him a/280 per cent raise. He had been getting $4200 as mayor of Toledo. Now he gets $16,000. (Toledo City Council had voted to raise

him to $8000 if he had stayed there.) “I

New Russ Boasts . U. 8. RADIO monitors report that Russia's now claiming to have invented television. Soviet: home service radio Dec. 16 featured a program claiming ‘USSR is most advanced country in the world in technology. Claims started with invention of first airplane propeller in the 18th century, continued through every other invention of 19th and 20th centuries. y : After adding television, speaker staked out a claim on

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World Report—

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Call to Arms

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Before Mapping Defenses for Atlantic Bloc

Expects to Leave

Between Jan. 5-7 By GORDON CUMMING Compiled From the Wire Services Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had strategy talks on his schedule for next week with President Truman and other government leaders before flying to Europe to get North Atlantic defense planing under way. the United Press reported today. The conferences will be only the prelude to a series of swift moves which will take Gen, Eisenhower to every country in Western Europe allied with the United States in building a steel barrier against Communist aggression. Officials said he plans to leave between Jan. 5 and 7. One job will be selection of a permanent European headquarters to replace the temporary Paris GHO of his supreme European command. But foremost is a review of tentative plans with western Europe's defense chiefs. During his trip Gen. Eisen~ hower is expected to visit Norway, Denmark, Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy and Portugal--the European North Atlantic Pact members. May Visit Germany He may visit Western Germany - before returning to Washington by the end of January for a second review of defense plans. ~ Out of the conferences here and in Europe, Gen. FEisen-

hower will be able to make der

cisions on the command strjivture of his unified defense force and to recommend what he believes America’s manpower and materiel tion should be. The United States plans to offer about five divisions of ground troops during 1951, if possible. However, officials said the total contribution will be determined primarily by European efforts. Gen. Eisenhower will carry broad authority from this government to assess previous defense planning and chart new plans to meet new dangers of a Communist strike from the east. The Supreme Commander will meet during the week with the President, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Gen. George C. Marshall and Secretary of State Dean Ache-

son. 4 Planning for Gen. KEisenhower’s conferences has been started by his top aide, Lt, Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, former Army Deputy Chief of Staff, who will accompany ‘him to Europe. : Gen. Eisenhower is expected to place his permanent headquarters at Versailles or in Eastern France. He must ap-

point chiefs of administration, -

supply, intelligence and operations. He also must co-ordinate the military sections with

civilian production agencies, ’:

While no decisions have been mate -on command structure,

Milky Way

the future, in case anyone flies

to the moon. He said a comrade named Tsiolkovsky “laid the foundations of the! science of flight in space.” Re ; Seeks Jacobs’ Aid ° LAME-D Congressman Andrew Jacobs, here to close

up his office, got a long letter Burley, Idaho, Junior Chamber of Commerce, urging

from the him to help fire Secretary of

State Dean Acheson, give Gen. MacArthur more power, stop ha trend to a socialist state,

terplanetary

contribu-

of its five active are split among Korea, Hong Kong, Ma« and North Africa.

ocialls leadership, have voted against rearming. If Russia attacked, Allies could pit only 15 to 20 divisions against Reds’ 100 divisions,

natural keystone of defense, is militarily weak, its will to fight suspect. Communism is rife in its economy, government and army. Nearly half regular army, including 90 per cent of its professional officers is pinned down in Indo-China.

would if attacked.

hopes to maintain

historie neutrality, Denmark militarily weak. Norway, with fine army, would fight.

treaty, is miliCommu-

_| nism still has great hold on people. Fascists are teaming up

Reds and neo-

harass democratic government.

is ‘a big question where anything can happen. Titd, the Communist, might fight for Allies or suddenly make deal with Russia. Current drought crisis provoke internal revoit Russia has worked for ever since Tito broke with Stalin.

will fight, couldnt be much in Euro pean war. Greek Compunists have been forced underground, : but are still strong.

TURKEY

will fight—is $0 in Korea.

Army recently * reorganized and trained under U. S. miliadvisers.

tary

Timesmap shows some of the problems which Gen. Eisenhower will have to weigh when he

leaves for Euro

for his defense survey, The map seeems to bear out the belief that if the

Kremlin should decide to strike soon the burden of the defenses would rest mainly on the United States. The defense of Western Europe, regarded by many strategists as the frontier of the Unit. ed States, is largely a paper project, as of today.

strategists think it likely that Gen, Eisenhower will base it on the natural division of the area into Western Europe, Scandinavian and Mediterranean sections whose operations could be co-ordinated under his top headquarters. There has been some discussion of placing a French general in top command of ground forces, a Britisher in command of naval forces and an American 3s chief of air forces, all r Gen. Eisenhower. * . ritain A TOP LEVEL meeting of European Communists h a s been held in the Kremlin re- . cently at which a new party line was decreed to meet the western plan for an Atlantic army under Gen. Eisenhower, London observers believed last night. - A check of Europe's capitals showed that Communist chiefs from France, Italy, Denmark, Finland and East Germany now are in or have just returned from Moscow. France's Maurice Thorez and Italy’s Palmiro Togliatti went to Moscow, it was announced, for medical treatment. But they were joined later by

healthy colleagues from other

west European nations. Red leaders from the. Iron

Ba SA TE PT SRE REN FERNS NRE RRR I SO

Curtain countries also may be sitting in on the conferences, although delegates from the Balkan satellites met in Prague late in October with Deputy Premier V. M. Molotov. The first result of the gathering in Moscow came from Berlin last night. The German Communist party there announced in a New Year's message that its goal for 1951 is to block the rearmament of West Germany. “In Germany the main task is to prevent the remilitarization of Western Germany so that German militarism can never rise again,” the message said. It declared that all war propaganda and the drafting of youths into West German military units must be prevented. The second result came out of Turin where Italy's No. 2 Communist, Luigi Longo, hinted that Russia will sponsor Italy’s admission to the United {Nations if Italy will support big power talks to settle the German -and Asian questions. There was little doubt in Rome that Mr. Togliatti—in Moscow—had authorized the Longo statement.

Germany

CHANCELLOR. KONRAD:

ADENAUER declared yester-

day that freedom for the peo-

ple of East Germany must be an essential condition for uniting divided Germany. In a signed New Year's

“article in the Bonner General-

Anzeiger, Mr. Adenauer made his second public comment on

fidence on three questions of taxation and another on the bill as a whole. Mr. Pleven's four confidence votes forced the issues, leaving the deputies, many of whom feared to vote for higher taxes before general elections, with the choice of supporting the government or hurling the country into political crisis. The bill will have to be approved by the Council of the Republic, France's upper house, sometime next month.

» 2 . United Nations A MEETING of the AsianArab bloc at the United Nations scheduled for last night was called off after delegates asked for more time to consider a “new plan for solving

. the Far East crisis.

It was understood that the delegates, representing 12 Asian and Arab nations, would meet Sunday. or Monday at the Fifth Ave. resiflence of India's Sir ‘Benegal Rau, author of the mediation efforts. Early reports said the bloc would press for adoption of its

= previously sidetracked proposal

for a peace conference on Korea and a broad range of other Far East issues. These include the problem of Formosa, the Soviet charge of American aggression a ga inst China, and the six nation resolution’ co - sponsored by the United States which calls on the Peking government to withdraw its forces from Korea.

Red China

COMMUNIST CHINA has decided to seize all Americansubsidized cultural, educational

~ and relief organizations in its ‘terri

tory because they are being used ‘to deceive and dope” the minds of the Chinese, the New China News Agency resported last night. The agency, in a broadcast monitored in Canton, said the government administration council adopted a report calling 08; - ONE, Seizure of the Ameri- , can-subsidized charitable organizations. TWO. American-subsidized Chinese religious bodies to be under the . complete

{management of the Chinese belevers.

Charging the United States

in the form ‘of controlling re-

Ee pucttpnal, tural,

Our Fair City—

Lines of Battle Form For Spring Mayoralty Race

3-Way Contest May Shape Up

For Republican Nomination By THE TIMES STAFF SHARP maneuvering is under way as p

alignments begin to shape up for mayoralty contests

next spring.

Hottest scramble is expected in Republican camp.

Enthusiasm is. high

victory. GOP speculation is w

there because of big November -

idespread over part Roy HB,

Hickman may play. Mr, Hickman, former city controller, was main runner-up in 1947 for GOP mayor nomination, : Mr. Hickman declined to discuss his political plans, = if any. But many rank and file workers are wondering

if he'll be a candidate. If he should, it looks like three-way race. Cyril S. Ober, furniture dealer, and Municipal Judge Alex Clark are mentioned ‘as among the hopefuls. On Democratic side it looks like Acting Mayor Bayt may have - easy sailing for his party’s mayoralty nomination.

on GOV. SCHRICKER knows

~ from experience how to pilot

Ship of State with a hostile crew, He has a trick up his sleeve for coming voyage with GOP dominated legislature. Governor plans to make his special address to General Assembly when it opens Jan. 8. Then he’ll dump budget bill into laps of lawmakers. Administration usually holds budget bill back until legisla~ ture’'s last week. But this time, the White Hat plans to give Assembly “full responsibility” for “keeping off any new taxes.”

” » » Men like to make jokes about women shoppers. But worm turned day after Christmas. At least 50 men were crowded in entrance when opened for its post-holiday sale. he But women upheld tradition. In post-holiday sale confusion in Block's, one woman tried on another customer's coat. ” » o

Out With a Laugh DEPARTING Sheriff Cunningham kept his sense of humor to the last. J Sheriff was cleaning his desk of papers and letters. Suddenly he began layghing, threw a letter across to visiting reporter. “Here's one’ giving the sheriff's office a nice compliment,” he said. “Maybe I should have it framed.” “But "I have thousands more,” he added, : : “Threw them all away,” quipped sheriff, “And I'd better throw this one, -too. My . opponents would claim ‘I wrote it myself.” - , » 8 ” AIR FORCE Lt. Dave Proffit, 222 KE. 15th St, tells of couple of Air Force officers strolling at Ft. Knox in their new blue uniforms. Some rookies passed and failed to salute. They got dressing down, “Sorry,” rookies replied. “We thought you. were just bus drivers.” :

Then there was another

dressing down—full dress on this time. a & s " » Spadework FOUR state educational institutions plan to ask legislature for nearly $24 million— more than ever before, . Dr. Herman B Wells, In-

diana University; Dr. Frede

erick Hovde, Purdue Univer

Strauss’

sity, Dr. John R. Emens, Ball State Teachers College, and Dr. Ralph Tirey, Indiana State Teachers College, have been laying careful groundwork. i They conferred Wednesday with Ira Haymaker, Democratic state chairman, and Cale Holder, Republican state chair mag, Has) Schenck, Indiana arm Bureau president, “Ld heard their story. up; They hope to talk to Indfafie apolis newspaper editors Tuess day. : a Cost of living rise is partly responsible for higher budget. Another cause is the loss of revenue from GI Bill. which handed nearly $25 million to the four institutions to pay for educating war veterans. That source is dried up, but enroll ments remain high. » ” ”

MOST athletic coaches, fretting over stars' scholastic standings, wish. they could: have have Indiana Basketball’ Coach Branch McCracken's ex= perience. > Jos

Just before Hoosier Classie week ago, Branch was : to one of his prize as ’ Red haired, six-foot-five-inch Jim Schooley was * fed” about his chemistry examina tion, | : > : He asked coach's advice on aking exam to improve his standing in chemi A “How're. you doing in it?” asked Coach McCracken,

don’t take the exam I can get B-plus in the course. If I take: it I can probably get an A.” Branch sighed with relief, told Schooley to do as he liked, Mr. | stayed Lat

Mr. Schooley was straight-A school pupil in Auburn, appears headed for Phi Beta. Kap, at Iu. Sri ad ~ : - s