Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1951 — Page 10

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IRR HENRY W. MANZ Business Manager

Monday, June 4, 1951

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. Closed Case? E HARRY CHAMBERLIN was quite lenient, we felt, with Prosecutor Fairchild and Sheriff Smith when he had them on the carpet the other day in the case of the missing murderer. ~ He didn’t punish them. He just made them promise not to do it again. “i We think that’s nice. We feel that everybody ought to obey the laws, ining those sworn to uphold them, and it is especially g to have this assurance that the two highest law preement officers in this county are going to obey them, ‘at least this one, from now on. i On the other hand, we find nowhere any indication, as claimed elsewhere, that the.judge “upheld” action. Quite the contrary.

g If, as the two contended, it wasn’t illegal, why pledge ves not to do it again? + And how, we wonder, could a prosecuting attorney ve something was legal after the Supreme Court of state had just positively ruled that it was not?

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y loaned out to the sheriff of Monroe County one rll Grubbs, a prisoner committed to their custody by the court under indictment for two killings. iii! There was no charge pending against him in Monroe anty. There was no order committing him to jail there, = no legal grounds of any kind for holding him there at all. =" A week ago Sheriff Fred Davis of Monroe County, shot Grubbs and killed him in a cell in the jail there. Sheriff Davis said Grubbs tried to kill Mrs. Grubbs by

“He did not say how this dangerous prisoner happened ¢ have a deadly weapon in his cell. . : "He did not say how Mrs. Grubbs, whom Grubbs had to kill once before, happened to be visiting him alone his cell. © The prosecuting attorney of Monroe County showed no osity about any of this. He promptly exonerated eriff Davis, and said no investigation was necessary.

© THAT appears to close the case in Monroe County. # Judge Chamberlin says it is closed here. = So, as soon as the smell blows away, everything will be ick in what you might call status quo ante . , , Well , ., be everything. . . . = As far as we find out, Grubbs is still dead.

A Policy of Deception Jas now a matter of official record that the State Department carried on a propaganda campaign through its information service to mislead the public, “at home and * abroad,” as to the strategic value of Formosa and the conditions existing there in December, 1949, ' Most of the facts in this case were revealed by the United Press in January, 1950, a few days after the Department’s secret instructions were received in Toyko. But the story is now confirmed with release of the complete document by the Senate committee investigating the MaeArthur ouster iy This document is of particular interest because it points wp ‘one of the dangers inherent in governmental propaganda of f any kind. CIt shows how such a medium, backed by millions of ers’ dollars, can be used to support the position of ia Sayors in power or, as in this case, to support the viewpoint of a minority element within the government itself. In this instance, the left-wing group in the State Department sought the extinction of the Chinese Nationalist govermment in Formosa. . 5 hd ® & = . x =» . THEY instructed American diplomats abroad to use all available material “to counter false impressions” that retention of Formosa would save the Chinese government, and that its loss would seriously damage the interests of the United States or other countries opposing communism. . | The determination to create false impressions, however, was the very purpose of this campaign.” Since the fall of Formosa to the Reds would have left the Nationalists nowhere to go, its retention has in fact saved that friendly government from destruction. The Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as Gen. MacArthur, have testified that it is in the interest of American security that Formosa remain in

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en in this document. e State Department's own wishful thinking is revealed by its assertion that “the loss of the island is widely anticipated and the manner in which civil and military conditions there have deteriorated under the Nationalists adds weight to the expectation.” * But Formosa did not fall, and conditions there were improving, rather than deteriorating, at the time this memorandum was being prepared —and this government had information to that effect. The State Department’s arm-chair strategists also held that “supplying arms, dispatching naval units or taking “gny action” regarding Formosa would accomplish “no material good for China or its Nationalist regime,” but would “involve the United States in a long-term venture re at best a new area of bristling stalemate and at possible involvement in open warfare.”

4 1a SINCE OUR government is doing all of these things i this memorandum ruled out, it is fatuous for the Department still to insist that “there has been no 8 in our Formosa policy.” 1s it any wonder that foreign governments find themconfused by the vagaries of American policy when r State Department and defense establishment opposite positions on a military question? has been accused of attempting to ¥, but here we nave an authenticated i 's iSpagana agency attemptit Sta an matters of mili-

“i If he upheld it, why insist on a promise not to repeat it?

her throat while she was visiting him in his cell.’

WASHINGTON, June 4—Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval operations, says it would be an act of war against Russia itself if we started a naval blockade against Dairen and Port Arthur in Manchuria. Why should Russia resent any action against these two ports in particular, as against other coastal cities of Red China? Answer to this question was not detailed in the Admiral's

testimony before the Senate Far East inquiry,

but it lies in the stranglehold Russia has clamped on these two ports since 1945,

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GIFT of Dairen and Port Arthur—they are only 20 miles apart—to Soviet Russia was part of our sellout of Nationalist ‘China at Yalta. At this meeting, With Alger Hiss prominent -among-the conferees, Stalin proposed the conditions for Russia's entry into the fast-ending Pacific war. Stalin's terms were accepted and the resulting agreement with President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill was kept secret from China,

SNOB? By Andrew Tully

‘Who Is This-

Dean Acheson?

WASHINGTON, June 4—The name of the man now in the witness stand in the MacArthur hearing is Dean Gooderham Acheson. Probably every adult American will recognize his name as the nation's Secretary of State and one of the most controversial Cabinet officers in the Republic's history. But who is Dean Gooderham Acheson? ‘What kind of man is he? To start with, Dean Acheson is a tall man— six feet, one—and of robust build, He's 58 years old, but could claim to be under 50. He looks like Hollywood's conception of an Englishman., He has a bushy mustache with just the hint of a twist at each end, and his clothes hang on him in that certain way that marks the well-tailored Englishman. Dean Acheson is a well-mannered man who would never think of being rude. But there also is an earthiness to him. He knows plenty of rough words and uses them when the occasion demands. You get the impression that he wants bystanders to be sure to notice that he Has this rough side.

He's Impatient HE HAS a good voice, not too deep, but rich and clear and dolled up by the years he spent at Groton and Yale. And by his association with his father, an Episcopal Bishop from Connecticut, Some people insist he talks like an Englishman, too. But the experts say his . voice is merely that of the well-educated East- * erner. As a boss, Mr. Acheson's outstanding characteristic is his impatience. He's impatient if somebody has done something stupid. He's impatient if somebody has done a bad job of preparing something. He’s impatient if an employee is inarticulate—if he doesn’t know how to tell the boss what he means, and quickly. It follows that Dean Acheson is quick and articulate himself. He always has been. His worst enemies call it glibness. His admirers call it brilliance. Because he is the intellectual type, Mr. Acheson iz apt to look down on others of less brainy proportions. Try as he will—and he’s been working on it for years now—he can’t help injecting a certain air of patronage into his conversations with members of Congress. Too often he's apt to take the attitude that they're asking him foolish questions and should know better.

Just Folks YET, Dean Acheson also is the kind of a man who makes a great point of insisting that he’sajust folks. “Don’t forget,” he told this reporter once, “that I came from a small town where my family knew practically everybody.” Either it didn’t dawn on him: or he chose to ignore the fact that his parents were wealthy and that as a kid in Middletown, Conn., he had

© & pony of his own.

That is the most unusual quality in Dean Acheson—a kind of wistfulness, a wanting to belong t6 the crowd. In a way, it's his most attractive quality because it's the only time

Dean Acheson ever seems to be appealing to

you for anything. But the quality Senate Investigators probably will be most aware of in Dean Acheson is his thoroughness. He is a lawyer who has rked in the mazes of civil courts and he has n in politics since the early days of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He knows his way around this town. And he seems determined not to be tripped up by. his inquisitors. Nightly ce the hearings began, Dean Acheson has been taking the transcript home with him to read and study. He's read most of its more than one million words himself, He's had several aids combing through other copies to éatch significant items he may have missed. Dean Acheson's friends say he’s confident. That's easy to believe. For men like Dean Acheson are never insecure in their own company.

DESPAIR NOT

I WRITE this with the deepest wish , . . that's followed by a prayer . . . that all you shut-ins in our land . . . keep faith and don’t despair . . . and that no \natter what may come + « « You'll try at least to smile . , . for after all a stream of tears ... will never be in style... I know it's hard when all your skies . . . are dark and you are blue . . . but I can only say that faith . , . will bring you smiling through « + « 50 place your trust in God above . .. and you may wake to find . . . that all your wishes’ and your hopes . .. were not just in your mind. By Ben Burroughs.

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nan Times COASTAL BLOCKADE? ‘va By Oland D. Russell - | po wm <— Russia Made Dairen And Port Arthur Manchurian Hot Spots

. Port Arthur was rebuilt as & Red naval base

which had no representative present, until four

months later, Then under pressure from the

United States and Britain, China ratified the -

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It provided, among other things, that Dairen should be internationalized, with Russia's “preeminent interests” in the port safeguarded, and that Port Arthur be wholly restored to Russia to be used as naval base. Czarist Russia had held Port Arthur as a naval base until she lost it in the Russian-Japanese War of 1005. Under a subsequent treaty between Russia and Nationalist China in 1945—which Russia never kept—it was agreed that Dairen should be open to world commerce and be under Chinese administration. But it was stipulated that the Soviet. military could garrison Dairen jointly with Chinese troops, oo o ow RUSSIA promptly asserted virtual sovereignty over the whole Dairen-Port Arthur area, backed it up with three army divisions and barred entry of Chinese troops.

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A phony “Chinese administration” was set up for Dairen with a figurehead mayor, and Chinese Communists installed in high places. Even though Russia permitted re-establish-ment of American consular representation, the United States was as effectively shut out of

Dairen as any other government, including the

Chinese, > SR FIRST signs of Russia's intentions to keep out all comers showed up in 1946 when the late William H. Newton, Scripps-Howard staff writer, went into the port on a U, 8. Navy landing craft. The ship was barred from landing and was given 20 minutes to leave the harbor. Mr. Newton was not permitted to see the American Consul there and was laughed at when he sought an Interview with the Russian military commander, Mr. Newton's stories, which received wide attention in this country, pressured the State Department into polite reminders to Moscow that Dairen was supposed to be an open port, But as usual, nothing came of the protests.

. By Frederick C. Othman

Sir, We Need a New Rhino—

WASHINGTON, June 4—Sometimes I wonder whether we ought to be paying Congressmen good salaries for pondering problems presented by deceased’ rhinoceroses and busted-down potato peelers. The statesmen also are worrying at the moment about dogecatch- : ers, street sweeping and imitation gold keys: to the city for visiting dignitaries. Up for consideration is the budget for the | District of Columbia. The lawgivers, who § thought their job concerned global affairs and other big stug, find themselevs functioning as the local bbard of aldermen. This makes funny pieces in the paper for people like me. There'll be no change until the Congressmen decide to let the locals vote. There seems to be little hope of this. It may be that our-statesmen like to play at being municipal councilmen. So let's consider rhinos. The big black one at our zoo is dead and Doc William Mann, the head zoo keeper, told the House Appropriations Committee that he needed $5000 to buy a new one. This incensed Mrs. Branson Gilbert McIiwee, who identified herself as an interested citizen. Five thousand dollars for an animal. Humpf. She told those Congressmen they were treating animals better than the gaffers in the old folks’ home. Furthermore, she added, if the gentlemen insist on keeping a national zoo here, they'd better charge it up to the national government and quit sticking the local taxpayers. “Thank you very much for coming down,” said Rep. Foster Furcolo (D. Miss.) The beaten-up potato peeler presented another interesting question in economics.

WASHINGTON, June 4— Watch for a change in Russia’s policy on the atomic bomb.. It is not considered an immediate prospect. But Wash- _ ington authorities who study and follow. "this situation closely believe that as the Russians accumulate a stockpile of A-bombs, they will use this power as a threat to help them gain political ends. Informed opinion here is still pretty sure that the ~Russians will not make an open attack any place this yeif. A world war would be just as destructive of Russia as it would on other parts of the world, The

even if they don't, It Is the big deterrent to the start of open hostilities at any time in the future. This will not hold the Russians back from using other means to obtain their imperiafisti ambitions. And once the Russians get a stockpile of atomic bombs, their bargaining pesition would be greatly increased. They could

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NEWS NOTEBOOK .

Reds Eye A-Bomb for Political Advantage

This device used to function at Gallinger Municipal Hospital. Dr. Phillip A. E, Stebbing said he needed money to buy a new one. The Congressmen wondered, why? “This potato peeler right now is out of service,” said Dr. Stebbing. “It has been out of service many times. It has been out of service for the last four days. The steward tells me it takes 800 pounds to serve a meal (hand peeled) instead of a normal 600 or 700 pounds because the potato peeler (electric) does & much more efficient job of just cutting the skin off the potato.” This made sense to the statesmen. Since mere men slice the skins too thick, they went along with Dr. Stebbing and he’ll get his new mechanical peeler. Unless, that is, the Senate in its wisdom decides after hearings yet to come that all the doctor needs to peel potatoes is a sharp knife.

Too Many Bigwigs THE district commissioners were worried about their fund for honoring celebrities running low, on account of too many bigwigs coming to town. The bunting and the brass bands run into money when, say, the President of France drops in on the President of the U.S. A. About the only thing that doesn’t cost much (38 cents) is the gold key to the city that the boss commissioner hangs on a ribbon around the monsieur’s neck. Larton Reformatory workmen cast these keys wholesale in zinc and color them gold with

steam radiator paint.

The guide books say that Washington is a city. of trees. The Congressmen learned about this the expensive way. The trouble with” a tree is that it grows. THe more it grows, the more leaves it sheds. That's why the street cleaning department needs more money. Dog catching is something else. The city’s dozen dogcatchers are going a good job. They also sell a good many dogs. “Some of the very best customers are members of Congress,” sald W. G. Wilding, the local budget officer,

. By Peter Edson

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and submarine nest. Out of Manchuria, Red Chinese armies, newly equipped and reconditioned, poured into North China by sea and by land. By early 1849 North China was lost to the Reds and Russia enjoyed full possession of the two ports. Dairen, once a principal seaport of the Far Kast from which $200 million a year in exports flowed out of Manchuria, remained hermetically sealed in violation of al Soviny agreements. « H. MERRELL BENNINGHOFF, U. 8, Consul General in Dairen, came out in late 1947 and in an exclusive interview with the Scripps Howard papers described the port as a ghost city. Little has been heard of the two ports since. But the Russians have stayed on in force and it can hardly be doubted that they would construe it an act of war if we sought to blockade Port Arthur and Dairen now, They are Russia's special prizes of war—bestowed, in large part, by the United States.

Hoosier Forum

“I do not agree with a word that you <a but | will defend to the death your right to say it."—VYoltaire.

‘A Cheap Thrill’ MR. EDITOR:

I was never so disgusted in all my life as when I read the story of the race car that crashed into the. stands and hurt seven people.

Why don't they outlaw these races? Nothing is proven by them, even in the much talked about “500.” The only thing they accomplish is to give the crowds a thrill and sometimes kill men or send them to the hospital.

Let's get down to facts and quit this double talk about the “500.” You still hear a lot about what an opportunity it.is for automobile manufacturers to test new equipment etc, Nuts, For many years now the auto companies have had their own testing grounds, much’ tougher than the “500” track, much more apt to expose poor equipment. In addition to this most companies run their cars from coast to coast in all kinds of weather and over all kinds of roads to test them. Major tire companies do the same thing. What can the “500” add to that? Nothing. This classic, this magnificent display of speed and sportsmanship is nothing more than a cheap thriller-diller and a national billboard used by advertisers from coast to coast. We have men dying in Korea. We slayghter them in our streets every day. Why kill"them so some jerk can get a thrill for a buck and a half?

—Flat Tire, City

‘Off Again?’ MR. EDITOR:

Here we go again. United Nations forces in Korea have brought their drive to an almost complete halt because they hear a few murmurs of peace. I hope the murmurs are true, but it seems to me it might be another trick by the enemy to mass another force for.a drive again. Why stop while we have the enemy on the run? .Why not keep on throwing everything we have at him until he screams for peace in no uncertain terms? This is no time to start trusting the Chinese Reds and their smooth talk about peace. We've got them on the run, we're winning this war and there is no reason for us to give up the advantages we have fought .so long and hard for. It's easier<to keep a push going and keep the enemy on the run than -it- is to start a whole new offensive after one has been halted, We've come a long way now. Let's not give it all up because of remote peace talk.

—Distrustful, Clty | ‘A Big Laugh’ |

MR. EDITOR: ; Gamblers across the street from the police station. What a laugh. These sterling men in blue can raid a bingo game being held by a group of old ladies in a church but they can’t even find a gambler right under their noses. Or, can they? Come on, fellas, let's give it up. We all know gamblers are of political importance to you but why don’t you try to honestly enforce the law once in awhile, Give the public a break and do the job you are being paid for. It's not hard and you'd be surprised how much it can pay off. A little simple investigation by police and this town would be rid of lawbreakers. They can be controled, they are controled in other places . . . why not here in Indianapolis? —Big Laughter, City

What Others Say

GERMAN musicians must be prepared to ‘replace the American trash industry, filled with sentimental cliches in order to stupify the people.—Prof. E. H. Meyer; of East Germany. So ¢ & THE best place to attack a submarine is as close to its home base as we can reach.—Adm. Forrest P. Sherman. o SS IT IS going to get worse before it gets better. And those who are spreading the foolish notion’ that we can get through this period without price and wage controls are doing the country . . . harm.—President Truman,

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would be a propaganda weapon, if not an actual weapon of warfare. Accidental stumbling into a war in which A-bombs would be used would, however, always be a possibility.

&i 8 CONTRARY to general belief, Iran does not appear to have the world by the nei through its nationalization of Anglo-Iranian Oil Co, properties. The worst it could do is cause some temporary inconveniences. Iran’s production of 700,000 barrels of crude a day represents 7 per cent of total world production. Contras that with U, 8. daily production ‘of 6.5 million “barrels, Finding refinery capacity for the! 500,000 barrels a day of products now produced at Abadan, Iran, would be difficult. But the balance of 200,000 barrels of crude per day could easily be found in Saudi Arabia or at Kuwait. Half of the latio is owned by Anglo-Iranjan 0. U. 8. might have to ration products temporarily to supply United Kingdom, if Iranian production siopped. Indie

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cooking kerosene supplies shut off. Ship movements .now dependent on Iranian bunker oil might be disrupted. But the worst sufferer would probably be Iran itself, due to cut off of royalty payments by AngloIranian to the Iran treasury.

EXPANDING the planned U. 8. defense production lines from their now-limited output to an all-out program in case of war would be relatively easy, according to Maj.-Gen. Ww. O. er, in charge of G-4, the General Staff’s supply division. “All it would take,” Gen. Reeder recently told a Washington meeting of manufactur-

ers, “is a telephone and guts..

You've got the telephone and we've got the guts,” he explained. “The guts” would be required in telephoning new orders to all contractors to step up their production. ir » DEPARTMENT of State's main argument against setting up a new, independent govérnment agency to handle $8% billion fdreign military and economic ald programs is largely on economy. Here are main outlines of the argument as it will be presentto House Foreign Affairs

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can businessman, now director of International Security Affairs, and co-ordinator of all foreign aid programs: State’ Department will not administer any of the programs. except the compara-< tively small Point Four. Defense will handle military aid. ECA~the Economic Co-opera~ tion Administration—will handle economic aid. State will merely see that the two pro-

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Defense won't be giving finished tanks to some country that could very well make its own, if given a little Marshall Plan economic aid, If a new agency were set up to do this job, independently, it would have to be a big or ganization. It: would have to duplicate State and Defense setups, plus Marshall Plan administration, It would have to have military attaches and diplomatic liaison men to keep in touch with United States embassies, General Eisenhower's headquarters and the North’ Atlantic Treaty and Marshall Plan countries and their organizations in Europe.

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