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Washington. Calling— Truman-Labor Break Poses

Grave Problem

Chances of No-Strike Pledge

Believed Doomed for Present

By The Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Feb.—Labor crisis ° facing the

country is serious. There's been nothing like it in recent

history.

Organized labor's break with Truman administration is complete except for withdrawal of a few spokesmen

still in federal posts.

George M. Harrison of Railway Clerks probably will step out as special assistant to Economic Stabilizer Eric

Johnston.

All chance of a no-strike pledge is out the window for present. Textile strike, called by Emil Rieve as he withdrew from Wage Stabilization Board, may set the pattern for a series of walk-outs which could cripple defense

mobilization.

Walter Reuther makes it plain adoption of proposed new wage formula—invalidating his cost-of-living contract provision—would leave United Auto Workers free to go out. Rail strike settlement seerfis as far away as ever with labor still bitter at Presidential Adviser John Steelman. : Grim warning in United Labor Policy Committee's statement

was carefully prepared after long discussion — and by top men in labor movement,

Among authors were Reuther and Rieve; CIO Secretary William Green, George Meany and Daniel W, Tracey of AFL; Al Hayes and Elnier Walker of powerful International Assn. of Machinists; and George E. Leighty, chairman of Railway Labor executes’ Assn. John L. Lewis indorsed it. Statement did not denounce President Truman—supported by labor in last two elections. But labor leaders confirmed between-the-1in es implication that there will be no further co-operation — unless Charles E. Wilson and other big business heads in charge of mobilization are removed or required by President to reverse current policies. Truman can't do either one, most observers feel. Labor disaffection came to a head when wage formula ‘was adopted over protests of labor men on Wage Stabilization Board, but is based on other things too. Unions are unhappy over faltering price control, what they call inequitable tax policies, manpower and housing programs, and general management of defense program. Big-city Democrats on Capitol Hill are as upset as union leaders. If they have to choose between Truman administration and organized labor, some will go with labor. They say it does more to elect them. Note: Labor protest avoided reference to Truman's crack

about rail labor behaving like

Russians. But labor men aren't going to forget it. Meanwhile, they took pains to state case to the country in dignified terms.

Chinese Hopeful .

CHINESE Nationalists on

Formosa are outwardly hope-

ful, inwardly gloomy while waiting to find out what United States will do about ag-gressor-branded Chinese Communists. Nationalists fear: ONE:. United Nations ap-

peasement settlement with Peiping. TWO: In event: of World

War III, United States decision to fight only in Europe, let Far East fend for itself. In worried haste, Formosa Fonrnt has informed United States that re-grouped, re-armed North Korean force of 300,000 men is being sandwiched into Communist Korean line; that Peiping may soon withdraw its “volunteers” into Manchuria. One theory is that Peiping {ntervention was intended only to stabilize ‘situation while North Koreans recovered in Manchuria; that highest aim of Communist planning is continued diver sion of American military strength to hopeless contest. They argue that unless Communist challenge can be met on China ‘mainland through support of Nationalist counteroffensive, and whipping-up of guerrilla resistance, United Nations Korean effort will prove meaningless.

‘Bid’ for Votes?

TROOPS-TO-EUROPE. resotution, when it reaches Senate floor, may include a provision asking President Truman to “consult” with House and Senate Armed Services Committees before acting. It probably will get more votes, if provision

stays in.

Office of Price Stabilization

is getting about 2000 letters a day—most of them complaints about price controls; most of them from housewives, Letters complain because there was no price rollback. Price boss DiSalle’'s answer: An overall price rollback would have squeezed thousands of small merchants, with higher priced goods on their shelves, out of business. He promises some rollbacks when specific ceiling orders are issued, but says that's all. "Note: DiSalle’'s statement

_ predicting. further- price rise

of 5 or 68 per cent was actually optimistic, In . first year after 1942 freeze order, prices went up 9 per cent over all. ‘ -

Too ‘Road-Bound’

ARMY'S AS badly split on how to fight the next war as Congress.

On Capitol Hill, debate rages over ground troops versus naval and air power. Within the Army, debate’'s over whether we're putting too much emphasis on power weapons — ones that move on wheels, can't be used by individual soldier.

Gen. Lawton Collins, Chief of Staff, admits we're too “road-bound,” still favors technological power. But some of his staff members fear we're fooling ourselves by trying to find a shortcut. They argue there's no substitute for individual soldiers, and they're alarmed at high cost of some of our new weapons; think the money could be better spent elsewhere. This group points to Korea—where masses of troops, without air, sea or artillery support, have been able to push us about.

Wary of Peddlers

BUSINESSMEN are getting wary of influence peddlers. One of them shared a cab to hotel with a stranger, remarked he was. in Washington to find out how his loan application to RFC was coming along. Stranger advised him to get help, recommended a local attorney. New arrival had been in his hotel room only a few minutes when the local attorney’s office called to suggest a luncheon date. The business man refused, gave a signed statement on the incident to RFC.

Acts to Aid Gis

PENTAGON'S trying to work out a rotation policy for men fighting in Korea. It's high on the problem-priority list, but so far no answer has been found because we're so short of men.

Many of our soldiers have been in Korea since last June, More than half of them are entitled to come home and be discharged, but their enlistments have been

extended because of lack of replacements. In last war, each division knew how long it probably would stay in the line, how long it could have off to rest and recuperate,

Georgia Lines Up

PROPOSED 22d amendment to Constitution, limiting Presidents to two consecutive terms, seems sure of ratification this year. Georgia has just become 31st state to ratify. Only 36 are necessary. No other amendment got this far and then didn't go over the top. Red China's embargo on exports to U. 8. is beginning to hit our paint brush industry— which always has used Chinese hog bristles for best brushes, The industry would like a government OK to resume buying, probably through a third country.

War Scarcities

MAYBE YOU haven't noticed, but war and its scarcities are beginning to affect new automobiles. “Shortages of aluminum, copper, zinc, nickel and other metals are forcing Detroit engineers to find substitutes, in order to keep production lines going. Headlight bowls once made of aluminum are now steel, in some plants.

Aluminum in engine distributor bases and covers has been replaced with malleable castings. And aluminum scuff plates under doors are being replaced by reclaimed rubber, plastic or fiber glass, Radiator copper is being saved by reduced number of fins to square inch. Zine is replacing some metals, metallic paint, others.

Three GOP members of Fulbright committee investiating RFC may insist that new hearings on favoritism and political. influence be wide open. They can see political hay to be made, since charges involve Donald Dawson, President Truman’s personnel adviser, and E. Merl Young, husband of a White House secretary, whose $7193-a-year job with RFC was parlayed into a $28,000-a-year income from Lustron Corp. and the IX L. Jacobs Co., both RFC Towers.

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THE INOTANAPOLIS TIMES

ut at Russ as Foe of West

After Stalin Hurls Charge of Lie at Attlee

Sows Trouble, Britain Says

By GORDON CUMMING Compiled from the Wire Services Great Britain formally charged the Russians last night with building an armed coalition of Communist states which threaten the independence of Western Europe, ) The charge was comtained in a long note handed Soviet Ambasador Georgi Zarubin in which Britain flatly rejected Russia's charge thdt it had violated their mutual friendship treaty. >

The Soviet Union has accused Britain and France of violating their mutual aid pacts by their membership In the Atlantic Pact and preparations to rearm Western Germany, The note was the second time in little more than 12 hours that the British government had lashed out angrily at the Kremlin, Poland, Speaks Up Other developments include: ONE: A British Foreign Office spokesman declared that Soviet Premier = Josef Stalin was trying to sow dissension through the free world by exploiting the human desire for peace while maintaining, at home, an armed force greater than those the Western Allies combined. iE

TWO: Communist Poland rallied behind Stalin's “personal peace campaign” with

the disclosure that notes had been sent to four small European countries formerly overrun by the Nazis, asking them to urge Britain, the United States and France to “speed up” the Big Four conference on Germany. > THREE: Some Western observers, noting Stalin’s assertion that the United Nations was “burying its moral prestige and dooming itself to disintegration,” believed Russia may be preparing to quit the organization, Informed London sources said Britain rushed delivery of the note to Russia so it would also serve as a reply to Stalin's attack, published in the Moscow newspaper Pravda, on Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee.

In Pravda, Stalin declared

“that Attlee had lied to his own

people about Soviet post-war demobilization, military strength and intentions. Reviewing Soviet post-war actions, the British note said they showed the Russians had “no real intention , . . of peaceful collaboration in the spirit of the Anglo-Soviet treaty.” “Slowly and unwillingly, his majesty’s government were forced to the conclusion not only that the Soviet government had no intention of fullfilling its treaty obligations to collaborate with them, -but also that it was the aim of the Soviet Union to undermine the independence of the free nations of western Europe,” the note said. :

Soviet Union

DIPLOMATIC missions in Moscow wondered last night

ment of Pravda foreshadows Soviet abandonment of the United Nations. Observers in Moscow were divided on the question, with a slight edge favoring the belief that Russia will retain its United Nations membership, at least for the present. Foreign observers also drew these unofficial conclusions ONE: Application of sanections or limited war against China would doubtless bring into play the Soviet-Chinese Mutual Assistance Pact and a third world war would become a reality. TWO: The possibility of a Soviet-Chinese alliance should not be underestimated. THREE: Stalin is not given to making reckless predictions; 80 he may have reasons for his belief that American and British forces in Korea will be defeated unless they ‘come to terms.

United Nations

PREMIER JOSEF STALIN'S

denunciation of the United Nations’ stand in the Korean War was interpreted at Lake Suc-

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Anti-Russian Turkey applied for admission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Nato said, no. And Turkey wonders why. Red Russia, as did Czaristic Russia, covets the Dardanelles, controlled by Turkey, because they are the only outlet from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. Turkey, too, is an outpost defending the rich oil fields in the Middle East, which Russia also needs Some observers fear that NATO'S unwillingness to admit Turkey may invite aggression as the dis-

inclination to defend Korea was acc

epted by the Reds as a bid to strike. Black areas show Soviet

bloc, the shaded denotes those countries opposed to Russia which do not belong to NATO. Figures cite the number of men under arms,

cess, N. Y, today as a twoedged stroke in a Russian peace offensive, Actually, Stalin said little new, All of it had been said here before by his foreign minister, Andrei Y. Vichinsky, or the permanent representatives of Russia and its satellites. The importance, in the view of qualified United Nations’ observers, lay in the fact that this time the words came from Stalin himself. The most pessimistic interpretation was that he put the

" weight of the Soviet Union un-

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equivocally behind the Chinese _ Communists and the North Koreans. Wishful Thinking He appeared to have killed wishful thinking that there might be a rift between the Kremlin and Chinese Red Boss Mao Tze-tung, for he placed the Soviet Union on record, at the topmost level of its hierarchy, in complete support of Mao's terms to the United Nations. The United Nations delegates consider Stalin’s statement as an unprecedented appeal to the left wing of Britain's Labor party and critics of Gen. Dopglas MacArthur to turn against the United States. Stalin’s frequent allusions to Mr. Atlee's decisions regarding Korea and the Chinese Communists are believed aimed at anti-American factions in Britain, largely the extreme left of the governing party. The attack also is viewed as an effort to sabotage the North Atlantic treaty organization just as it might get rolling under the leadership of Dwight D. Eisenhower,

France

PREMIER STALIN'S interview in Pravda proclaiming Russia's lamblike character gave new punch to Russia's

drive for a Big Four conference on its own terms, Paris observers believed today.

This means the French government must go through the motions of pressing for fourpower talks and actually participating in them even though it is known in advance that they are simply designed to divide and confuse the West, The fact that Stalin chose Mr. Attlee as the principal target of his insulting and sccurrilous remarks was seen as being in line with the old truism that Stalin hates nobody as much as he hates a really good Socialist. : Responsible French officials said, however, the Stalin interview indicated a Soviet fear that its vaunted peace propaganda campaign was falling flat. “It seems to prove that the Soviet government is extreme-

Ty sensitive to any Western

charges of Soviet rearmament and that it fears the Soviet peace campaign may be damaged by them.”

Czechoslovakia

THE United States admitted

yesterday that two American jet fighter planes inadvertently flew over Prague on Feb. 7, and expressed its regrets to the Czech government. An American note delivered to the Czech government said the planes “inadvertently crossed the border” of the U. 8. zone of Germany “when they became lost on a training mission.”

Italy

COMMUNIST sources reported that party vice secretary Pietro Secchia has returned quietly from his second trip to Russia within a month and Party Chief Palmiro Togliatti will return in March. Mr. Secchia, tousle-haired “tough-man,” slipped into

Rome with Communist Sen. Arturo Colombi, 51-year-old party leader from Bologna, heart of the “industrial Red belt” where the “Titoist” split developed three weeks ago. Mr, Secchia and Luigi Longo, the other vice secretary, went to Moscow to report to Mr. Togliatti in mid-Janu-ary, returning with the word that “Comrade Togliatti looks wonderful.” Then Mr. Secchia and Mr. Colombi left Italy suddenly Feb. 9, apparently for an urgent conference with Togliatti in Moscow on defections in the Italian Communist party, numerically the strongest outside the Soviet Union. Last night Communists sources said Mr, Secchia and Mr. Colombi had “intensive” talks with Mr, Togliatti and Soviet officials on the split, but they professed to have no other details. Mr. Secchia told colleagues that the long-postponed 1951 party congress definitely will be held in March and that Togliatti will preside,

Marshall Aid

WILIAAM C. FOSTER, economic co-operation administrator, said yesterday that Europe must make sacrifices by giving up some production on civilian goods just as the United States is doing. Réturning to New York by plane from a 10-day inspection in Europe Mr. Foster said civilian sacrifice in Europe conforms to a ‘new concept” of the Marshall Plan's goal, which he said was to rebuild western European military forces on a strong economic basis. Mr. Foster conferred for two days in Paris with chiefs of ECA missions in the 19 Marshall Plan countries, He planned to go to Washington Monday.

On the Inside of World Affairs

If a Big Four foreign ministers meeting comes off, United States officials are going to insist it be held in Washington, in accordance with the scheme of rotating the meetings.

on ” 2 ARGENTINE propagandists are oiling up their big guns to defend the Peron regime when the foreign ministers of all American states gather for their powwow in Washington in March.

” 2 ” THE fiercely nationalistic Indonesians objected to the fact that a Dutch military mission training native ground troops was doing its instruc--tion in the Dutch language. The Indonesian government explained that the changeover would have to be gradual.

» » ~ THE Chinese Communist government is propagandizing its Asiatic neighbors with new films showing the efforts of the Peiping government in the industry, education, national defense. All very flattering to the Reds, of course,

THE Balkan satellites appear worried about. the lack of efficiency in the repair work on agricultural implements and tractors. Their propaganda organs increasingly threaten laggards.

= ” » GRAVES gnore than seven years old will be suppressed officially in Romania according to a recent decree of the Bucharest ministry for culture and art. All the bones will be cremated. - Many cemeteries have already been turned into parks,

» ” ” ROMANIAN authorities, by order from the Soviets, have finished construction of a pipe line between Ploesti, center of the gasoline industry, and Odessa. The gasoline which is being pumped night and day is sent direct to the Korean front. (This information has been confirmed by radio Belgrade in its broadcast in Romanian.)

THE cost of printing paper has multiplied by five in France since 1945.

2 ” y FUNDS of the Catholie church in America have been’ used recently to buy a comfortable villa near Lugano, in the Swiss Tessin, to house bishops and priests who have had to flee antichur¢h persecutions In countries behind the Iron Curtain,

” » ” POPULAR restaurants, as they are called, which are quickly - taking the place of private restaurants all over Poland, are anything but popular among the users. The food is poor, badly cooked, and badly served by the state-em-ployed staffs.

” » ” DURING 1950 France has been the biggest exporter of automobiles to Switzerland. Italy comes next. The United States comes at the tail-end of the list.

Does Films' Razzle-Dazzle Dazzle British Pupils?

By WILLIAM McGAFFIN LONDON, Feb. 17 (CDN)

— What do British school children think of America?

As near as I can make out, they think of it as a nevernever land, where everybody is rich, fat and dripping with luxuries, where everybody is in a hurry and where, thanks to gun-toting cowboys and gangsters, there's never a dull moment.

I got this opinion after visiting a “secondary” school and a grammar school in the London area to talk with the pupils and their teachers. Pupils at the secondary come from the poorer families. Those in the grammar school are children of lawyers, doctors, civil servants, newspapermen and even cabinet nfinisters.

And what gives them this cockeyed view of us? Russian propaganda? Not at all American movies? That's right.

In the secondary they. asked a lot of questions which sound naive to an American, 3 “Why do you have skyscrapers? Why do you drive on the right? Do babies of a year old swim? Do you have cowboys? Do you have gangsters?” ? But when you asked whether any of them would like to go to live in America, a number of

them sighed and said, “Oh, yes." In the grammar school, however, no one wanted to live in America. A few wouldn't mind a visit but other than England, they would prefer Australia or New Zealand, And why not America? “We get the impression that there's too much hustle and bustle there,” said one lad. “Too much made out of money. There is a worship of the almighty dollar. If you don't have it, you aren't anybody.” At the grammar school they are studying American history. They have read American authors. But already they are beginning to show a socialist trend. “Are Sinclair Lewis's books an accurate reflection of life in America?” asked one boy. “Is the treatment of colored people as bad fh the South as we've been told?” ” “Why does America want to stop communism from spreading?” 1 asked one girl who has been corresponding with™ an American friend for years what she thought of America.

“It's a glamorous place,” she

said. “Everyone who goes to the pictures knows that.” Hollywood glorifies America and overglamorizes it. On the other hand, it exaggerates the seamy. side.

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Our Fair City—

Hush - Hush Lunch For Solons Proves Wasted Effort

County Officials Fail to Pick Up Tab After Lobbying ‘Session’

By The Times Staff MARION COUNTY office holders had a plan. They invited Marion County legislative delegation to hush-hush luncheon at Columbia Club Wednesday. Object: To woo legislators and win votes for program fostered by said office holders. County Clerk Dale Brown and Prosecutor Frank Fairchild, as prime movers of program, did most of

talking.

Speakers tried to get legislators to oppose Julietta reform bill, city-county consolidation and all bills on

merit system of employment, Legislators reported not sold.

And they were

further miffed when, having gone there with impression of being guests, they had to pay for own lunches. POWER of U. 8. Sen. William Jenner in Hoosier politics is

building up like snowball rolling down Swiss mountain, may grow into-avalanche: There's little doubt left that “Senator Isolationist,” as

predicted herein several weeks

ago, will run for governor of Indiana. That would consolidate his position as chief power of GOP in Indiana, permit him to expand. . He already controls key men in state legislature. Insiders report one of his expected opponents in GOP gubernatorial race, State Auditor Frank Millis, has switched plans and will back Sen. Jenner. Another opponent, Indiana Secretary of State Leland Smith, is growing. hesi-tant-about forming anti-Jenner faction in run for governor. Opposition ranks, both open and hidden, have scattered. And there's scarcely any guerrilla shiping expected. Plan to abolish Indiana Public Service Commission and replace it with new one, modeled after good commissions in Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey, is dead. Legislative leaders say it won't pass either house, and, in faét, probably will never move out of committee.

LJ o ” CAMP ATTERBURY MP's who started street patrol practice downtown here last week are generally reported doing well, but some of them don't quite enter into full spirit of the thing. For example, two of them, off duty, were seen the other day on downtown street —jaywalking.

Lobby Backfire

LOBBYING is one business that shouldn't be worked at too hard. State legislators are kicking up fuss about too much pressure. Sen. Samuel Johnson, derson: slap

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at American Medical’ Associa-

tion for over-exertion of lobbyists. “When any of these high pressure lobbyists talks to you, turn a deaf ear and tell them you represent all the people of Indiana. and not special groups,” he urged fellow-sen-ators. Loud growl also came on. floor from Sen. Warren Martin, Clarksville Democrat, who complained about buttonhole-and-spiel pressure of lawyer lobby. Most active lobbies represent insurance, ‘railroads, truck industry, medical groups, labor unions, farmers, township trustees, lawyers and teachers. Hardly a night passes when there isn’t a booze-and<politics party somewhere that a legislator can attend, if his ulcers can stand it.

® 8 » ATHENAEUM eatery, 401 E, Michigan St; is famous for German-style cooking as well as gemutlich attitude of members. But menu for centennial banquet next’ Thursday lists such Gallic preparations as: “Hors D’'Oeuvres, Varies,” “Potatoes Parisienne,” “Broiled Choice Angus Filet Mignon, Champignon,” ‘Petit Pois,k” “Bisque Athenaeum,” “Petit Fours” and, with brandy St. Remy, “Cafe.”

” ¥ ” DENISON Parking Lot at 111 E. Ohio St. is boosting religion, As special bow to persons - attending services at nearby Christ Episcopal Church, parking lot will, upon presentation of day's church bulletin as credentials, grant reduction in parking fee,

” n n EFFORTS to blast bill for increased gasoline tax out of House road committee for passage look doomed, Talk is bills not reported out by tomorrow won't stand show of passing. Bill calls for 2-cent increase but backers, Indiana Farm Bureau and Indiana Municipal League, willing to settle for cent to move committee. No. go. Most of committee gone for week-end with no chance of session until tomorrow, ! » ” »

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” » ” YOUNG FELLOW got jolt of week at 8:50 a. m. Wednesday on Capitol Ave, above 30th St, In freezing cold, he thumbed hopefully. His biggest ride - hitching wave went to sleek, black Studebaker, in which he didn’t notice white-hatted gent next to uniformed driver. But he did see tail license plate, and face reddened. It was: Ind. 1, with star. int Bie TR

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“What's Next” D : Big, sw . house-tr ig. Swank house-trailer being

dianapoiis behind expensive car had fold-up awnings, load of chrome trim and huge TV aerial.

History Repeats DURING last ak Silent of young men W everything to don uniforms took a‘'beating in selling their cars. With tires and gas short, and with market overloaded, they had to take paltry prices for autos and then buy them back at fantastic figures after war. Situation now being repeated here. on smaller scale. Used car lot sales"are slow, partly due to higher deposit ruling, and hurrying servicemen-to-be must sell at loss. 5 Aggravated case recently skinned young Naval reservist, He owed $300 on 1947 Hudson, so turned it over to finance company with instructions to sell and give him profit-above-debt. Figuring car worth at least $800, Reservist expected to recive about $500. Instead, finance company blandly ine formed him car “didn’t sell well” and that he, not they, still owes money.

” » » SURE SIGNAL for fun in Indiana legislature is a birth« day. During past week in House, four Representatives celebrated. Otto + Reddish, Crawfordsville, had one Friday. ColJeagues - .presented miniature auto as symbol of his troubles on Roads Committee. Same day, Patrick Brennan, South Bend, received birthday gift of Alka-Seltzer. This recalled his introduction of bill to ban sale of liquor above second floor of hotels. Earlier, Jess C. Andrew of West Point celebrated nativity and heard his hometown ‘“symphony” (hillbilly band) serenade him ‘in House. His gift was pitchfork to dig bills out of ways and means committee he heads. Mrs. Fern Norris, Indianapolis, also celebrated, but, it is reported, without gift. House members, not daring to shop for female, settled for rising ovation.

Times Home Safeuy contest solicits safety suggestions actuals | ly used in homes. Entries include these gems: Ea “To keep women from injuring arms and hands in wringers, 2

let men do the washing.” In bottom of tub.”

“To keep from falling or slipping in the bath tub, put ashes