Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1951 — Page 21

etary George agéinst deep illion foreign Gen. Dwight timetable for ‘army would full amount lable.

FORT, vice \ssociation of ads, opposed ase—from 47 n corporation : told the Fiy such a tax roved by the vent purchase ew equipment defense pro-

urity VANDERvealthy Comizer, testified rnal security he had been for an Air sion during He said the blocked after jeld admitted yrked without imunist China e said he quit the Chinese in the Korean

{T TRUMAN yd ahead” on gram despite ace in Korea. an increase in rmed Forces ry. The pres= ,000 men. ent made his ubmitting the of his Council dvisers. The ense expendich an annual lion by June,

GOP

lum

Hale, Demo= , declined to xt year, but position.

eing talked up Sherwood, Ine city man. . Rep. Ralph astle is in a rer the Senate, a is being disich leaves him eaves out Mr.

plan the GOP inee would be ean of all Hoos—Rep. Charles snsselaer. Tak2's Second Disnal seat would cretary of State ,ogansport. Sen. ake the guberation, which he ays has wants ny other politi-

e plan point out 1 has the most ie in building an The Secretary ls all the autobureaus, which heen fat plums rmen. pooh-poohed the here that the | be as unpopus they were in 1 be difficult to ticket. u 2 plenty of candi- ' he said, withe em. to take credit n last week of Lebanon, as the of the Young it he was quite the blue sheets it broadcast to the election of

initiated “MH" heading “Attenung Democrats” Democrats 1a do believe in for . which our inded this great irs. We believe mocrat Party vefore any indionality. elieve in these » the election of rats that do not to our senior di

n ” * elected Indiana ocrat president wned lock, stock Frank McHale, committeeman ver in President have been sold r in past recent on't let it happen n is backed by 3 beat him and

esident Truman me didn’t hurt a fale laughed. “I a copies and sent esident and also

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It'll Be Yours Before We Have 95 Air Groups

By Secripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, July 28 Facts about the ne in aircraft production would shock the country. It will be years—not months-—before we have 95 Air Force groups. Two years is lowest guess for getting plants enough to replace our losses in a major war, There is no estimate on time required to give us sure air superiority. There is no program yet approved by Congress

for getting it.

This much can be told:

Machine tool industry and electric power ‘shortages

are main bottlenecks.

New tools have to be built to make new planes. The ratio of unfilled machine tool orders to monthly shipments is now 21—meaning the producers are 21 to 1 behind

deliveries:

It will be late next year before shipments catch up at the present rate.

The defense Production Administration has classified figures on power production as top secret, but one

Senator discloses the shortage there is ¢ritical. Lack of power holds up production of aluminum for planes. ” 2 OFFICIALS admit, after emergency conference this week, that combat airplane production can’t make this year's goals—even though a special new board has just been set up to try to get things moving. Machine tool makers blame refusal of the National Production Authority, last winter, to give them priorities and allocations they asked. Shortages of steel, iron castings and labor are acute. Mobilizer Charles Wilson has set up an expediting unit to help with raw materials for tool makers, has gotten price ceilings retaxed for them, promises cash loans if necessary. But planes to be made from these tools are far, far off, Note that all official reports give “rates of increases,” no figures. Where date is given, it’s usually 1953. The production picture is major factor in grim effort of Defense Secretary George Marghall to convince Congress the countmy-is in serious danger, that defense program must not oe relaxed. Note: Gen. Eisenhower has gent back word that he'll get the troops for defense of Europe before he gets the

arms; has asked greater speed.

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Plan for Double-Cross

IF CEASE-FIRE talks turn aut.to be a trap and Chinese strike again, we'll hit back with the only bludgeon Wwe have—air power. Secret plans are ready for all-out air offensive against most phases of enemy's war effort. But the Air Force, working around the clock, has been unable to stop the enemy buildup. Weather has been bad. Men on the ground think chances for cease-fire agreement are good; predict we'll avoid bloody new fighting. Ed » n

What Comes After?

AFTER the cease-fire? We'll begin reconstruction work in South Korea. The job will be costly. And even though we start soon, there'll not be time to avoid wholesale suffering next winter. Koreans themselves won't be able to help much. The Japanese gave them little chance to develop initiative and the past year has left them stunned. The 7th Fleet will continue patrol in Formosa area unless military men on the spot are overruled by Washington. The fight between Air Force officers who believe strategic bombing’s our main defense and those who feel tactical air power is neglected will flare up. Already both sides are trying. to arrange facts, figures on the. Korean War to

bolster their arguments. = n s

Checks Shipments THE NAVY'S set up a new patrol flight out of Philippines, pouth and return. Real reason though you'll never get anyone to admit it—is to check strategic shipments to Red China, particularly Malayan

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Japs Serving Reds

A JAPANESE woman repatriated recently from Korea told Tokyo newsmen . she'd seen and talked to Japanese officers serving with Chinese Reds. She quoted four of them as saying they'd served with the Kwantung army in Manchuria. The Japanese are still asking Russia to return hundreds of thousands of missing ex-soldiers.

Taft, lke Contest?

THE FIGHT over the $85 billion foreign aid bill could develop into an EisenhowerTaft contest, Republican congressional leaders say. Mr. Taft favors spreading money over two years instead Gen. Eisenhower told visiting Senators he was against any sharp-cut, and his deputy, Gen. Alfred Gruenther,

- 1s out against the Taft plan,

saying it would force & 25 per cent cut in Atlantic Pact di-

3 Visions planned for 1952.

“Deiocrals’ Cheered

DEMOCRATS are cheered “by elections; of Mrs. Foun Ree ‘Kee

Funny:

and” both women ran as Truman supporters. Thei. majorities were better than usual for special elections. One other. House campaign since the start of the MacArthur controversy (in Kentucky) ended in Democratic victory, 5 0» »

Czechs Hint Oatis Deal

A SUGGESTION that U. S restrict activities of Radio Free Europe has been made tentatively by the Czech government in discussing release of William Oatis, jailed news reporter. Suggestion has been made in round-about fashion, and devious language, apparently leaving the way open for the Czechs to withdraw it. Meanwhile, Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs, on instructions from the State Department, is talking tough in private to the Czechs. He's warned them of steps this country might take in retaliation. Steps he discusses do not include severing

diplomatic relations. ”

Probe Steel Trade

THE O'CONOR subcommittee of Senate, organized to stop trade with the enemy, is looking into suspicious shipments of silicon steel from England, Germany and France to Red China. The steel may be of a type used in making heavy electrical equipment. And the volume was large enough to suggest an atomic bomb plant, radar screen, or some other large project. The .une 25 order issued at Hong Kong tightening trade restrictions is supposed to have stopped the steel shipments. But Senators want to know more about them. Ed ‘Bn

Disputes Are Tougher

LABOR DISPUTES are becoming harder to- settle, federal mediators find. It's the uncertain economic picture. Employers aren't sure they can raise prices to cover any wage increases they grant. Unions aren't sure new controls Jaw will hold down living costs, so they try for all they can get while there's a chance, The first dispute referred to the Wage Stabilization Board —a copper smelter tie-up in Utah—will set a pattern for handling the tougher ones. The board already has told the smelter union to send members back, to work and keep ‘them there while case is heard. That will be standard practice. ~ If labor likes results from this first case, the board is apt to find a flood of disputes on its hands.

campaigns,

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Ducked Acheson Fight

TWO T.OP Republicans dodged the GOP effort in House this week to “get” Secretary of State Acheson by cutting off his pay check. Rep.

Charles A. Halleck of Indianagh

assistant to Minority Leader Joseph Martin of Massachusetts, as a lawyer wanted no part of a maneuver repeatedly frowned on by the Supreme Court, . Nor did House whip Leslie C. Arends of Illinois. The two took off for week-long festivities at Bohemian Grove in California and didn't return fill their party had been thoroughly trounced in the House,

And What Would YOU Do If You Wore Their Shoes?—

R. & R. Also Stands for Rip and

By FRED SPARKS TOKYO, July 28 (CDN) -- The easiest man with a dollar in this world is the rifleman on five-day leave in Japan from Korea's Bullet Boulevard. I have figured out that the average doughfoot go * doughfoot § goes through $500 — one hundred dollars per day! —before he is flown back to _ war. 1

Untortunately, most of this green Mr. Sparks stuff goes to painted. ladies and boisterous bars. . You see, these are gettheir firs y om,

FRE SRE POTENTIAL BASES Natural harbors and landing fields, three of which can handle

our B-36, need improvement, but have great military potential.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

u. 3. Revises Policy Toward Franco Spain ;

INI S ASSETS

lorth Atlantic Treaty nations

oT WIT be

in need of new equipment and thorough overhauling.

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?-—Some American Allies in the Atlantic Pact were thocked when Washington revealed that it is dickering with Spain for air and sea bases. Franco, whose regime was fathered by Hitler and Mussolini, has long been the bad o

boy of Western Europe. But the U, S., none-the less, says the hard-boiled thing to do is get sea and air bases if possib

bolster Europe against Russian aggression. Timesmap shows the pros and cons of the issue.

World Report—

so that it will

Spain Looks Good on Paper As a Fighting Power But U. S. Would Have to Furnish It Plenty of Arms

Compiled from the Wire Services Spain has much to offer the United States as a military partner, including the largest army in western Europe, but it

‘needs a great deal of help in

return, reports from Madrid said today. Spain’s chief assets are its strategic position and its topography. Its Navy could command the approaches to the Megiterranean and safeguard North Africa and southern Europe by sea -— if it were strong enough. The towering Pyrenees are as formidable an obstacle to any invading army from Europe today as they were to the Romans 2000 years ago. On paper, the Spanish army and navy look too, They have the manpower men whom American officers have commended for “fine disci pline’—men who were hardened in the Spanish civil war.

Lack Equipment

But they lack proper equipment and the transportation system in Spain is so poor, the hazards of moving the armed forces would almost be as great as facing an enemy. If the United States and Spain successfully conclude the negotiations started by the late Forrest P. Sherman, American money would have to go into modernizing Spain's military forces and her rundown tramsport system as well. Spain could mobilize 2 million top-conditioned fighters in two months. It has a standing army of 400,000 or 22 divisions, largest in western Europe.

One Armored Division

But only one of these divisions is armored. The Spanish army has only 25 tanks, all built before 1940. It lacks artillery and other heavy equipment, The navy is even worse off. It has about 24,000 well-trained men. U. 8. admirals recently commended it for its “excellent personnel.” But it has no aircraft carriers, no battleships and no fleet air arm.

The fighting ships it has seriously lack modern equipment. There are four heavy cruisers, one anti-aireraft cruiser,. one light cruiser, 27 destroyers, five submarines, 12 sloops rated as gunboats, six mine layers, seven minesweepers and six motor torpedo boats.

Weakest In Air

Probably the weakest-—yet potentially , the strongest department is the air force, with 35,000 “select” men, including 4000 officer pilots, navigators and engineers. It has only 500

Under the well-oiled Army plan hundreds are flown every week from the very front lines in Korea for five daysof R & R (rest and rehabilitation.) Under such conditions (unless a guy is married or helps support mom) what does money mean?

A CORPORAL, winding ui his R & R, explained: “I picked up $900 in back pay. In nine months in Korea I'd-only spent $25 . .. and I lest $15 of that in a crap game. I'm glad I didn’t pick up all my back pay! I've got exactly $20 left. “I thought I'd hold myself to spending $200 but every time 1 tightened up I figured, hell, I may be dead next week this time, “I was in a bar first night

to 800 planes, rated as antiques, But Spain has three airfields, at Seville, Madrid, and

Barcelona, capable of handling the biggest of planes. It has four aircraft factories capable of building new-type

planes. Today these factories, at Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona and few

Seville, put out a fighters and bombers of obsolete German design.

Great Britain

W. AVERELL HARRIMAN, President Truman’s special envoy, urged Prime Minister Clement Attlee and his top ministers to accept an Iranian offer to re-open negotiations on the Iranian oil dispute. Mr. Harriman, reported impatient with British delay, made a sudden dramatic overnight flight from Tehran with British Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd. Mr, Harriman was believed to have urged that Britain send a government mission back with him when he flies back to Tehran in a day or two to confer with Iranian officials. »

The urgency of his mission

was underlined by news from Abadan, site: of the paralyzed refinery of the oil company, that the plant would close down Tuesday because ite storage tanks are full, and there are no British tankers to carry the oil away. Some 12,000 Iranians will be idled. . ” o 5

Iran TO MEND its broken national fences Iran is considering sending two battalions, that is, about 1600 men of its American-equipped army, to Korea. Iran’s dilemma is whether to risk Russian disapproval as Turkey did by sending to Korea one per cent of its Americanarmed forces numbering about 130,000. The nation is split from Shah to peasant as to the Soviet reaction.

inter-

Lawrence Brabant, 23, of Toronto, Ont., was charged today with giving liquor to minors. Police said he served beer to his 18-year-old wife and three of her 18-year-old girl friends.

Jordan JORDAN'S premier Tewfik Abd El Huda said that six unidentified “high personalities” have been arrested in connection with the assassination of King Abdullah.

He said two of the six “definitely had a hand in the crime.” They and others found

guilty will be dealt with summarily.

buying round after round for everybody in the place. I went through a yard and three quarters ($175), - “And don’t think they dont know when a fellow is here on R&R, I'll clue you: They can smell it! They know you haven't got the time or interest to argue about being cheated. " = ~

“EVERYBODY hikes the

prices. I paid $5 for a cab ride

. Mom

" makes in a week. I got a brand -

last night and later a buddy, stationed in Tokyo, says it should have only cost 50 cends. “I also spent $30 phoning . . . that was worth it, And I sent home a set of China for $67. That's about what Pop

new watch for $48 and lost it the second night here in some joint. ;

“You know, it kind of drives

. you crazy, suddenly being ahle ‘to. spend money again and so

Yugoslavia PREMIER MARSHAL TITO, declaring that the West will never abandon his country to the Soviets, has warned Russia that an attack on Yugoslavia would mean a general War. He charged that Russian mass slaughters have caused “whole nations to disappear,” and challenged Soviet Vice Premier V, to call the inals.” At Warsaw, Poland, Molotov attacked Tito's anti-Rus-sian regime as ‘‘eriminal’ and warned that it would not last long. “The Western countries know that our resistance (to the Nazis) helped them, too,” Tito said. “They know that the defeat of our country would mean the defeat of Europe. “The Western countries are today giving us aid without regard to the fact that we are a Communist country, and without demanding any polit-

Yugoslavs ‘‘erim-

ical concessions. We need .ot be frightened by these (Russian) threats.” FJ » ” Balkans TO DISCOURAGE any resistance among the popula-

tions, the Balkan countries are exchanging troops. Romanian regiments are being sent to Bulgaria and Bulgarian troops to Romania. The Romanians, who are of Latin origin and speak a Latin language, have little sympathy with their Slav = Bulgarian neighbors, and vice versa, The governments in power can count more fully on troops from outside to quell any underground movements. » o 5

United Nations

THE United Nations has devised a medal for award to United Nations soldiers, sailors and airmen fighting the Communists in Korea, it was announced. The bronze medal with a blue-an-white striped ribbon will be accompanied by a rectangular ribbon with same number of vertical stripes— nine blue, eight white—for use without medal.

East Germqny

WESTERN GERMANS are working three shifts under Soviet orders on a new canal which will carry barge traffic

from the Elbe to the Oder rivers ‘without going through western Berlin. It will be completed next vear. Railroad bypasses already have been built. Any new blockade of Berlin will be immensely more ef-

Roaring

five days on the circuit, But most of the R & R-ers want lots of ‘beer, music and girls.

tourist-type

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SINCE there is something less than enough U, 8. girls to go around, and because there isn’t time enough to go through the social necessities, they wind up anywhere else but the sawdust trail. Everybody looks the. other way. The military policemen go feather-easy on any R & R-er who moves all the [furniture in a bistro out through the window. The MP's do everything they can to avoid jailing a doughfoot with just a few precious hours left before he's ‘back in a foxhole. . Results: One of the wildest mass binges in history, with

war.’

Jahier ras

M. Molotov’'s right

As my eles the cdrporal, a front noi their support ! own

fective, and oportunities for western countermeasures much Tedue ed. All the Australian government department chief wanted was a roll of toilet paper. He ordered it — through proper channels, of course. But when the paper hadn't shown up three days later, he started checking. The trail led from office to office, from “in” basket to “out” basket, ending finally at the desk of a procurement clerk. Confessed the clerk: He had run out of paper on which to order the Paper,

Philippines

A DEFENSE MENT spokesman said the military intelligence service has discovered a Communist plot to assassinate President Elpidio Quirino. Maj. Emilio Borromeo, Army information chief, said 150 suspects were rounded up by 700 government agents after the military intelligence service received reports that Com-munist-led Huxbalahap rebels planned to ambush the president on his return to Manila from his Novaliches farm, ~ = a

Burma

ABOUT 2000 Chinese Nationalist troops were reported to be fighting Chinese Communists in Yunnan province in another of a series of forays they have been conducting sporadically over the past two years. The Nationalist troops under Kuomintang Gen. Lee Mee are part of a force which entered Burma in 1949. Some 400 of these were immediately disarmed and interned but the rest refused to give up their arms and were driven into the mountains near the Siamese border.

” » » Pakistan THE Pakistani and Indian premiers appeared far apart

on any meeting which could restore peace to the Indian subcontinent. Pakistani officials described Premier Liaquat Al Khan's five-point peace plan as a sincere desire for a ‘fresh start.” But they admitted privately there seemed little chance Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru would come to Karachi for talks Liaquat suggested last Thursday, The British Royal Air Force at Singapore solemnly an-

nounced it had completed negotiations with an Oriental deity to move from his shrine in the middle of an air field.

The deal was handled through a poojari, or medium.

The poojari first appeased the diety with flowers, coconuts, saffron and camphor. Then ne cut off the heads of several cockerels, sprinkled the blood around the shrine and sat down on the sharp edge of A knife for his trance. Finally, the poojari reported that the diety said it was 0. K. He would vamoosé but he wanted a new shrine,

The British said, 0. K. And they fixed the new shrine,

Korea

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH units in Korea were brought together under a single command with formation of the First Commonwealth Division. - Commonwealth forces will now fight under a single com‘mand for the first time, The ‘new division is made up of British, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian troops and includes an Indian ambulance ait robe other United Korea, the

ations

DEPART-

Our Fair City

Cities Will Fight = For Share of Taxes They Pay

By THE TIMES STAFF POLITICAL: AMMUNITION is piling up all overt Indiana for a fight-to-finish showdown in the smoldering i feud between city government and rural areas. "

Cities have been facing serious financial handicaps for several years and they are blaming most of there 12 troubles on the lopsided membership in the legislature

. .. it's dominated by rural membership.

Silk glove attempts to get reapportionment on fair basis of doubled city population have been made for 10

years without results.

The gloves are coming off. Look for the Indiana Municipal League to swing

some heavy timber soon for a ‘better break for the

cities.”

Indianapolis will be out -in front.

Mayor Bayt al-

ready is sounding the battle cry ... . cities are no longer" going to sit idly by and pay millions of dollars into the state treasury through half a dozen revenue sources and get only a pittance back.

Rural-dominated legislature has been voting down reapportionment on population basis as required by Constitrition . , . ignores bills to help cities get out of red, Latest straw-in-wind is "Indianapolis Sanitation District's victory in forcing State Fair Board to pay for using City's sewage disposal plant. State's multi-million-dollar ' properties here have been using City facilities free. Fair Board paid City $2500 for use of sewers in 1951. It's first step on City's part to get State to pay for all municipal services . , , and to get a bigger share of taxes paid to State. » = ~

All Sauce for Goose HERE'S A TIP to husbands who still cling to the thought that they rule supreme in the marriage state . . . at least in

property and financial matters. Check of some old court decisions reveals hubby isn't as free for.action as the “little woman” in some matters. Accepted legal precedent is: Man can be prosecuted for

stealing from his wife but she can’t be prosecuted for %tealing from him so long as they are living together. One Supreme Court decision

reads: “Under enabling statutes husband's interest in wife's property is abolished.

He may be convicted of larceny of her money,” Law's clear, men: mine is yours . . is yours.”

“What's . what's yours

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Blow to Bows

DOWNTOWN restaurant, practicing racial diserimination in customers, for years had sign on wall: “We re-

serve the right to refuse to serve anyone.” Warned of possible legal repercussions such as damage suits, firm changed sign to read: “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone objectionable to our customers.” This, ostensibly puts respon-

sibility on customers instead of management. Restaurant might have to

suspend service for men wearing bow ties . . . if women customers object to them,

n = ” A Man's Worth FRECKLE-FACED lad of 8 boarded N. Meridian St. bus, dropped fare and looked at driver—a woman. “This is a man-type job,” he said, “This ain't no job for a lady.”

“Well, sonny, you get me

Driver smiled: I'll tell you what a husband and T'll quit my job.” “What's it worth to you?” countered the enterprising youngstar alert for, business.

“ . .. About .a quarter,” she replied on second thought and heaved the bus into traffic with renewed interest in her work,

Load Dumped STATE'S FIRST effort to drive chronic truck overloaders off the highways became farce at state Public Service Commission hearing. Only one commissioner was present, Republican Crawford Parker of New Castle, Other

Doggy long Legs

NORTH = SIDE woman aroused interest oe “whole

with

two were absent, Hugh Abbett and Lawrence Cannon. Case was handled by Wendell Tennis, an attorney examiner for PSC, Hearing he-

ier

A of my

Democrats #

came so tangled at one point:..

some spectators even erossexamined witnesses. Chairman Abbett was sup= posed to preside. He remained in his office, however.

41%

PSC's.. »'

annual pienic was held night

before at Indiana Lake. » » »

Opposed

Indiana Legionnaires in town +

this week for their annual con-

vention and fun might find *

some opposition to their pranks on downtown crowds. Molesting pedestrians (most=""

ly female victims) drew some -

sharp criticism last year, Some bolder residents this year are vowing to oppose some of the tactics if they're tried again. Further, City's new police chief, John O’Neal, is known;

€T

to oppose pranks especially ig het

they involve of the ladies. un ” ”

Passenger Pigeon AMONG PASSENGERS : boarding Beech Grove hus downtown recently was a flighty one . . . a pigeon, Driver of crowded stopped and began trying te. shoo it, 3

bug’ 4

“4

the public dignity

Impatient’ passenger pro=tested: “Forget the pigeon, = let's get going.” Replied driver: “I have to = collect the fare.” But pigeon didn't pay, just ., left deposit. ! u n ” Dirty Dirt HOME-BUILDERS, looking

for dirt to fill in low lots be~

fore building, find donors are

taking them too literally .. «®

bringing garbage and trash. When i# dirt too dirty? : seeking new

Builders are definitinn for needed material such as “clean dirt,” . . . On better . . . “good earth” , . “soil.” ¥

Bath Matter

LIFE of a water meter reads

er is interesting if not hazard« ous at times,

Indianapolis Water Co. em~ =

ployee knocked on door and yelled, “Water man” and was invited in.

He want to basement to read: :

meter but heard water runs . ning. Turning he found water: gushing out of shower ... onto u lady. ; Scream .,. scream ,.. meter man left in two, long kangas:® roo jumps .. . waited for all clear signal , .. read meter

listening to lecture about mane

i ners. ¥ 4

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Wayward Bus

THERE MAY BE a lot of} street repairing going on but

passengers of the Meadows"

brook-Millersville bus line don't}

know (it. Chuckholes in the block, Guilford Ave, deep and numerous that busses

2500”

are soe

have to slow down to 5 miles 0

an hour. Also patrons are compiainds

ing that busses have to make .

30 sharp, right angle turns be= tween the Circle and Meadows "

brook, slowing trip to a snail's.

pace.