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A HENRY W. MANZ Business Manager

Tuesday, May 29, 1951

The Pentagon Witnesses

SENATE Democratic Leader McFarland has challenged Sen. Taft's assertion that the military leaders who have testified in the MacArthur hearings are “administration witnesses.” But what else could they be considered?

These witnesses—Defense Secretary Marshall, Chairman Bradley of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Chiefs of _ Staff Collins of the Army and Vandenberg of the Air Force -—are all presidential appointees. They are the President's military advisers. They must be presumed to reflect administration policies on most issues pertinent to the current inquiry. If members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff find themselves out of sympathy with the administration’s position they are expected to resign, as Adm. Denfeld did recently. :

Sen. McFarland’s statement that these particular witnesses ‘know more about the subject than anybody else,” also is open to challenge. Of the group in question, only Secretary Marshall's military record is at all comparable to Gen. MacArthur's. And the same differences of opinion between those two old soldiers are found throughout the fArmed Services. » ” ” » » LJ GEN. SPAATZ, now retired, commanded the U. 8S. strategic Air Force both in Europe and in the last months of war against Japan. His reputation among airmen is at

- least equal to Gen. Vandenberg's. Yet he and Gen. Vanden-

berg disagree as to the bombing of enemy Bhses in Manchuria, just as Secretary Marshall and Gen. MacArthur do.

The “administration witnesses” havs agreed on a policy and are defending their position, as they have every right to do. One purpose.of the present inquiry is to determine whether their position is correct, and that still is an open question. The Joint Chiefs’ tendency to exaggerate the differences between their position and Gen. MacArthur's tends to make some of their testimony suspect.

Gen. Vandenberg testified yesterday that “while today we can lay the industrial potential of Russia to waste, in my opinion, or we can lay the Manchurian countryside to waste, as well as the principal cities of China, we cannot do both.” But the enemy's armament industry—not his countryside or his principal cities—is the logical target. The Chinese soldiers who have surrendered in large numbers these last few days were equipped, for the most part, with made-in-China weapons. Red China's principal armament industry is in the vicinity of the Manchurian city of Mukden. . - » » - » THE “proper way’ to use airpower against any enemy, Gen. Vandenberg said, “is initially to stop the flow of supplies and ammunition, guns and equipment of all types at its source.” The next most efficient way, he added, is to knock it out on the way to the fighting front. So, by Gen. Vandenberg’s own testimony, our airpower now is being used the second best way, to strike at the enemy's supply lines half way to the front, not at their source. We suspect that Gen. Vandenberg, told to knock out Red China's war potential and given a free hand, would use airpower ‘‘the proper way’ by bombing the concentration of armament industries in and around Mukden.

Hell for ‘Le’ Leather

You can't blame the French for trying. As a come-on for the 300,000 American tourists expected this year, Paris night life has taken on a distinctly wild west flavor, One new bar, according to a Baltimore Sun dispatch, has faithfully copied Hollywood horse-opera settings. Except that the signs read: ““Tirez pas le pianiste. Il fait ce qu'il peut,” and “Laissez vos pistolets au vestaire.” Which are French approximations for “Don’t shoot the piano player. He's doing the best be can.” and “Park your guns outside.” Also there's an attempt at square dancing to the call: “Faites turnover votre partenaire,” which means ‘Swing your partner.” To a tourist from Texas, Wyoming or Arizona-—even if he understands French—we should think such barbarous

language would be a compelling invitation to take the first boat home,

The War Against Rabies

AYOR BAYT has asked City Council to provide funds for next year's fight against rabies. He proposes they be used to hire a veterinarian and buy vaccine for mass inoculation of dogs. In the light of the city's past record this is heartening news. City councilmen have indicated they will go along with the plan which has worked so well for other cities . . . which has helped stamp out a disease that need not exist St. Louis, with a similar plan, inoculated 6000 dogs Friday: This is the first step in a drive to inoculate a total of 80,000 at. a cost of $1 or less per head. The plan works something like this: The city sets a time and place where dog owners may take their pets for shots. If they are able, they pay $1, which is approximately the wholesale price of the vaccine. If they are not, they pay nothing. n » » ~ ~ ~ THE PLAN is very simple and effective. We should put it into operation here. But it must not be looked on as a solution of the problem of rabies. It is only one weapon in the fight. Inoculation will decrease the rate of the disease spread, but it is not 100 per cent protection. It will save the lives of more dogs and will save a number of persons the pain of treatment and possible death . . . but not all of them. Without strict enforcement of the quarantine and license laws the plan will lose effectiveness. Chamber of Commerce, city and county officials hope soon to agree on a plan to meet the rabies threat. : We hope that will include some teeth for the present ineffective system of law enforcement.

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INFLATICN . . . By Charles Lucey

What Effect Will Price Of

WASHINGTON, May 29-—After weeks of turbulent Senate-House hearings on continuing government authority to batten down the hatches on inflation, prospects for action 'ine up about as follows: ONE: There is fairly certain to be some extension of the law as it stands now. TWO: There is increasing talk in Congress that instead of a 30-day extension from June 30 to July 30, which would provide time to complete current hearings and get a law through both houses before Aug. 1, an extension of 90 or even 120 days might be voted. The idea here would be that this would postpone precise rewriting of the contro's law until fall, and that between now and then, in latesummer recess, members would have an opportunity to get out among the. folks and on their return here vote on the basis of what they learned. ~ ‘ 7, This would enable taking account of the full impact of the defense program on the nation's economy, which is expected to be felt this fall. THREF: A negotiated Korean peace this summer would make it immensely difficult for the administration to get controls authority continued. : FOUR: Whatever action i= taken, the biggest battle will center on the cattle industry's

IRAN . .. By Andrew Tully

World Court A Good Idea?

WASHINGTON, May 29—Great Britain can hale Iran into the World Court all it wants on that ofl ruckus, but even the court can't force the Iranians to behave. Theoretically, of course, any verdict handed down by the court is final and binding. But the court hasn't any way of enforcing its decisions. If an offending nation fails to abide by a verdict, all the plaintiff can do is bring the matter up in the Security Council of the United Nations. England would have a fat chance getting anywhere there. Russia would veto any pro-British action faster than you could say Shamus O’Stalin. Britain was the benefactor of the only important verdict the court has handed down since it opened for business at The Hague in 1946. Britain had sued Albania for the loss of two destroyers, which went down after bumping into some mines in the Straits of Corfu back

in 1946.

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THE COURT ordered Albania to pay Britain $2.363,051. John Bull still is trying to figure out some way to collect. The court—officially known as the International Court of Justice—hasn't had much luck even in a couple of opinions it's handed down. One of them said Russia should stop using the veto on nations Jrying to get into the United Nations, and the other said the United Nations had a right to sue a country for damages if an agent of the United Nations got hurt in that country during United Nations office hours. Russia said hah! catch us paying any attention to either of those opinions. Like its League of Nations predecessor, the court operates out of Andrew Carnegie’s swank peace palace in the capital city of The Netherlands. It's empowered to hear “all cases which the parties refer to it and all matters specially provided for In the Charter of the United Nations or in treaties and conventions in force.” © & 5

How Long Will Bahrein Stay Out of Oil Dispute?

By CLYDE FARNSWORTH MUHARRAQ, Bahrein, May 29 —Bahrein is one of the face cards in the present table stakes game which have been contrived by geology, geography, nationalism and, above all, by the sharpers and dupes of international communism. This 25-mile-long island in the Persian Gulf, almost enclosed by Arabia, is shelved above the same subterranean wealth that has caused the crisis in Iran. Bahrein is an oil producer in its own right. It's also the focal point of a separate and long standing sovereignty dispute between Iran and Britain. But Bahrein was quiet today. It still was pumping Arabia's pipelined oil. There's been no trouble here—only the distant trumpeting of the Teheran preas on Bahrein's status, If the Iranians could lay hands on Bahrein they would nationalize another segment of the Middle East petroleum industry. Iran long has had a claim to Bahrein which Britain will not honor. The British themselves don't claim the island. but exercise a virtual protectorate through the British resident and the elderly Shiek of Bahrein.

Concerns America IF THE Iranian oil dispute should spread to the Bahrein it would concern the United States not only In the over-all strategic sense, as in the Anglo-Iranian case, but also because of American concessions in nearby Saudi Arabia for whose production Bahrein is an outlet. Two days ago in India newspapers were displaying reports of a British naval concentration at the head of the Persian Gulf, but the best information available in Bahrein indicated that these were not true. It was said here that there have been no extraordinary British naval or air movements into the Persian Gulf region. But up at the head of the gulf, at Kuwait, the oil nationalization bug was said to have bitten the ruling shiek. He's been doing business with the Ba on Kuwait's petroleum—and now perhaps rik ain looks good for another touch.

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efforts to kill meat price rollbacks. The next biggest fight will come on what is to be done about rent controls. HEARINGS before the Senate and House Banking and Currency Committees on extension of the Defense Production Act, which embraces the controls program, have gone on well info a month and seem likely to go another two or three weeks. After hearings are completed, the committees must decide what goes in‘o the new bills, After that the action would shift to the Senate and House floors, and the temper of opposition to controls is not enough to make a long battle certain. Finally time would be needed to reconcile House and Senate bill differences,

America Proud

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This means it would take some kind of legislative miracle to get new legislation passed before the present act expires June 30.

Some able members of Congress say that although the odds favor extension, total defeat of the controls program is not impossible. They think the big test will hang on whether the cattlemen are successful in getting Price Administrator Michael V. DiSalle to compromise his meat price rollback order, The cattiemen say they want the whole meat order wiped out. But some of their friends in Congress strike a compromise position—they say many cattlegrowers would accept the first 10 per cent rollback, which is supposed to put prices back to last January, but that they are

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By Frederick C. Othman

These Guys Are Patient—They’ve Been Revolting for 1500 Years

WASHINGTON, May 29-—-This day I have spent in a dimly lit Spanish restaurant operated by an Armenian named Mihran Makkashian, plotting with some patient revolutionists. They've been revolting now for 1500 years against one tyrant or another, without much luck, but they have not given up. I mean the Armenians. May 28 is their big day. It marks the date of their first successful revolution, when they chased out the Turks in 1918. So they set up a republic with a congress, which lasted for two vears, Then came the Bolsheviks. In 1921 the Armenians got rid of them, too, and set up \_~ : another democracy, igi which lasted for two whole months. The Russians returned with more troops and that was the end of Armenia as an independent nation. So the Armenians haven't much to celebrate on this anniversary. 1 was doing my plotting with Mark Keshishian, who is president of the Armenian -Revolutionary Federation in this district. He is also a dealer in Oriental rugs. The Armenian revolutionists have been in business for hundreds of years, but they never got around to starting an official lodge until 1890. The members in Armenia long since have gone underground. They're waiting for the proper moment to hold another revolution. Keshishian is sure that moment is on the way. My own part In the revolution was simple, Keshighian said all he wanted from me was a little help in reminding the 250.000 other Armenians in the United States that some day they're going to have a homeland of their own again.

By Galbraith MEAT PRICES . . .

Millionaire

OMAHA, May 29-On almost any day, striding through the world's second largest stockyards here, can be seen one of the country's most unusual multi-miliionaires. He calculates that the government's beef price rollback orders will cost. him at least $380,000 £300,000 in profits he otherwise would have made and an actual cash loss of $80,000. Yet, but for one minor objection on timing of the orders, he thinks the beef price rollback and lower prices are a god thing for all eoncerned. He paid an average of $1000 a day in federal income taxes last vear and would have paid much more if he hadn't made

several large gifts. Yet he doesn’t complain about high taxes. His books are in such

shape, he says, that the internal revenue agents can. get through with him in less than three hours. ” ” ” NOW 58, he has never voted for a Democrat for President, nor for Benator or Representative. He voted against President Truman in 1948 and most

against him again. Yet when the people elected Mr, Truman he, became this man's President and no one, he says, has heard him say, one thing agajnst the government,

So we got to talking about other things, such as why his distant cousin, Mihran, should run a Spanish restaurant here, complete with tamales, flan, enchiladas and other Latin delicacies. Keshishian said that there were so many Latins in Washington that it looked like a good idea. It must have been. This Armenian cantina has been a popular place for 31 years. I wanted to know, of course, why the “Armenians had a monopoly on the rug business. Keshishian said they used to, because the best rugs were made in Armenia, and his ancestors sold them all over Europe. Lately many others have gone into rugs and carpets, too, and the problem now is the price of wool. This has gone up 400 per cent since 1948 and a lot of people who had saved up to buy rugs find they didn’t save enough. Many synthetics now are going into carpeting. Fact is, Keshishian at the moment is carpeting the entire house of a prominent Washingtonian with cotton. This looks luxurious and it didn’t cost nearly as much as wool, but Keshishian wishes he'd been able to talk the man’s wife out of it. He's got nothing against cotton for carpets, you understand, but he figures the lady may fret when she discovers how hard it is to put a rug 30 feet long into a washing machine.

Modest Revolution

WOOL is best, says Washington's top revolutionist. Wool rugs made in Armenia are best of all. This is because they are tied with gordian knots. The harder they're pulled the tighter they become. One other thing. The Armenians in America are celebrating their 60 days of independence with picnics, featuring lamb roasted in grape leaves. “Very modestly,” said Keshishian, ‘as befits a very modest kind of revolution.” Later on, maybe, he hopes, the revolt of history's most patient revolutionists will get rid of those Communists, who have been oppressing his native land now for more than a quarter of a century. !

By Earl Richert

Cattleman OK’s

This unsual multimillionaire is a small, sturdily-built man with twinkling bright eyes

ing about the beef price rollback. Most of them have done as well lately as he has, he

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gram? dead set against additional rollbacks scheduled for this fall. . & 0 THE FALL rollbacks would add up to 9 per cent and would be reflected in lower consumer prices for meat, which isn't happening in the first 10 per cent rollback because of readjust. ments within the industry. President Truman has thrown in solidly with Mr. DiSalle in the effort to drive meat prices

"down. But the meat men are protesting loudly

and some thought they saw hope in a week-end statement by Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston that he would be willing to listen to any case they could make for tossing out the rollback order. But the No. 1 war mobilization boss, Charles E. Wilson, said in Chicago that beef was a “gymbol of the whole price control program” and that if beef prices do not yield the whole pri¢e control structure is “seriously, if not fatal-

ly, impaired.” He argued beef prices are “far

out of line” There will be determined efforts on Senate and House floors to tear away the administration's control powers, and a fight to kill the law entirely. But there's considerable guessing that, although the administration will not get the tougher law it asks, it won't get a much weaker one. he

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Hoosier Forum

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‘Traffic System’ MR. EDITOR: Well, we are still waiting for the one-way streets going north. I wonder how much longer we will have to wait before we get something that might help straightea out this city's traffic problem. The last thing I heard about one-way streets going north was that the street car company wouldn't change its system to meet the needs of the city. That's really something when a little come pany can tell a city of almost a half million people what it can and cannot do. But that's all right. Just tell city hall to keep right on with the present horse and buggy traffic system, keep right on piling up accidents and deaths. That's the only way we get our names in different publications throughout the country . . . by doing things we shouldn't do and not doing those we should do. And to think that at one time this city was looked upon as one of the most advanced cities in the Midwest. I guess the old saying applies here . . . dust to dust. Tired Motorist, City.

‘Couple of Hams’ MR. EDITOR: Harry Truman got a Missouri ham and a piece of advice. The advice sounds like pretty good stuff and the ham was probably excellent, But I think if I had been sending Harry a ham I would have given him a different kind of advice. Harry's got a lot of good advice for a long time now and turned his nose up at it. The advice I would give Harry would be this: As one ham to another, Harry, you'd better get out of Washington before you get boiled by public opinion. Think he'd take it? I doubt it. He'd throw the note away, stick up his nose and put the ham in the ice box. —Ham Lover, City,

‘Public Relations’ MR. EDITOR: When are you guys going to wise up and stop being a public relations sheet for every star in Hollywood, especially on page one. That business about Elizabeth Taylor on page one yesterday is not news, It's just a bunch of stuff some good public relations man gave Viginia MacPherson. And MacPherson didn't have anything to write about so she used that, It’s the same old guff over and over again, Any time a star gets into a little bit of trouble and is in disfavor with the public her BR man starts hitting for page one. This time he made it. Is your face red? —Bored, City

‘Hike Dependents’ Pay’ MR. EDITOR: Everything is going up in price. The government should hike the monthly checks of soldiers’ dependents so they can meet the high cost of living. The parents of dependents should be considered also. It is the consumers who feel the pinch and many of these dependents have no other income. I don't expect to see this in print, but it will let you know what the middle class is thinking. - —A Taxpayer, City

INTERLUDE

I LOVE to take a long, long ride . .. out on a Texas ranch ... and make a twilight fire of + + « the willows sturdy branch . . . then look up at the silver stars . . . that dot the heavens blue . . . and think about this world of ours . and things we people do . . . that's where my soul . . . can talk with God . . . and bid Him show the way . . . that I can find true happiness . . . and brighten up each day . . . and always He will answer . . , as the shifting clouds depart , , . no matter how near . . . or far you go . , . you'll find it in your heart, —By Ben Burroughs.

Rollback

have just entered the cattlefeeding business and can’t stand losses, even

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named Bob C. Cooper. He's the way he is, he gays, because he appreciates what this country has done and made possible tor him. And he's no immigrant. Nor ig he newly rich. He's been in the chips for years. He's one of the biggest cattlemen and allaround farmers. He fattens about 15000 head of cattle a year in his feed lots around Omaha, owns T7200 acres of nearby farm land (worth over $2 million) and two ranches in the West.

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” . » HE STARTED out as a tenant farmer on a small

South Dakota farm in 1911. He went broke shortly after the end: of Werld War I and again in the early ’20s. But since 1927, he's been on the upgrade financially with no red ink even in the depression years. For the last 10 years he's made “killings” in the cattle feeding business because of rising prices. And he's made practically a fortune since Korea, That, he says, is the reason he has 20 little sympathy for his fellow commercial cattle breeders who now are oller-

says, and can stand some losses while beef prices are readjusted and stabilized at a more sensible level for the benefit of t h e consuming publie. ~ ” o BEFORE Korea, he said, he bought feeder cattle for about 22 cents a pound, hoping to be able to sell them for 25 or 26 cents a pound for a nice profit. Instead, he sold these cattle for 36 cents a pound, making a fantastic profit of between $110 and $140 a head. And last winter, at a time when he normally doesn’t feed many cattle, he was forced by the drought in the Southwest to take early delivery on a large number of cattle for which he had contracted. He made a “killing” on that lot too, by accident. “The commercial feeder, or the man that was feeding long enough to stay on and reap the benefits of these advancing prices, needs no consideration in the matter of a price rollback,” he said. "I, myself, received excessive profits that I had never anticipated.” - ” » HIS worry is that the coming Aug. 1 and Oct. 1 rollbacks will fuin a lot of GIs who

though small. He thinks the Government should move the scheduled rollback dates back to Oct. 1 and Dec. 1 respectively to give these small feeders a chance to get out without fi. nancial losses, Of the cattle country's criticism that the beef price rollback—right or wrong—simply can't be made to work, Mr, Cooper has this to say: “If we are good Americans we would see that it would work. If we do a good job trying to make it work, it will help a lot.”

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