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“Not Peace; _ State Secretary?
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ot Cease-fire agreement will be worked out, substantally on our terms. Political settlement is not in sight. «+; If Presidential Adviser W. Avrell Harriman settles
Iranian oil dispute he probably will be named Secretary of State at opportune moment—after Congress has left ., town, And it looks as if he will get oil agreement. © $8.5 Billion foreign aid bill will be trimmed to about $6 billion before Congress passes it. : i» + Stock market rise will continue, as more business-
_ ment to controls law.
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power, assignment of mis‘sions among Air Force, Navy and Army, will flare up again.
1 ‘ws passed as recommended #3by Monroney subcommittee investigating Maryland election; “po legislation on ethical prac“tices. 2 x » » ” Tke's Successor? GENERAL EISENHOWER Is said to be determined his chief officer, Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, succeeds him as head of Atlantic pact forces _ When he leaves. (No prediction on when Eisenhower will leave.) “Ike,” according to reports from Europe, can’t see Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collings as head man at SHAPE. (Collins has been mentioned here.) . Gruenther has just been given fourth star on Eisen_hower's recommendation, He's in ‘géopolitics, as wel military matters, ’ 2
” Whisky Price War PRICE WAR'S likely in the whisky industry. Most retailers and wholesalers are stocked to the rafters, as result of post-Korea spurt in distilling. Warehouses now hold 740 million gallons, nearly 50 per cent more than we had stored before Pearl
as in
." Harbor.
“And dealers complain whisky sales are slow.
f ¥ = J No Slaughter Quotas . THERE'S ALMOST no chance Congress will reverse Itself and authorize slaughterIng quotas on beef, though it will'go through the motions of taking testimony. For one thing, Senate Democratic Leader Ernest McFarland of Arizona is against quotas. Other Truman proposals to .-ptrengthen weakened controls laws are completely out the window. No hearings will he : held. La kers, tired of the subject afte? weeks of fighting over controls renewal, want to wait and see what happens under new law,
» n » » Red Trade Winds " THERE'S ALREADY much hehind-the-scenes maneuvering to lift {rade embargo against Communist China. Unemployment rolls are growing at Hong Kong and considerable pressure is being exerted from there. Japanese apparently don't intend even to wait till cease-fire Is signed. Nippon Times reported Japanese ministry of international trae and industry is “unofficially studying -possibility of reopening trade with Communist China with a view to soliciting (Gen. Ridgway's) permission pending outcome of peace negotiations.” Japan is particularly anxious to get coking coal from China. Before Korean War it bought ©oal there for $11 a ton. Now . it's getting coal from Canada, U. 8. and paying $30 a ton. As a result, price of steel tripled. Trade with Communist China represented 20 per cent of
Japan's pre<Korea business, There’s still considerable smuggling.
On_the other hand: Greece is latest country to take action against ships trading with Red China. © Greek consulate at Hong Kong has just canceled registrations of two steamers ¥unning nationalist blockade. »
» » Gl Morale Worry . TOP DEFENSE DEPARTMENT official say morale of U, 8. troops in Korea will be serious problem after fighting stops. We'll have to keep our strength there up to present .Jevels for some time, and Army shudders at the griping that's ahead, even though rotation will be operated ‘at full speed. Korea's desolate, has no attraction for. soldiers.
} oy. 8th Army's Ready 4+ NOTES FROM KAESONG: . When telks seemed deaddocked, U. 8, started placing new and heavy orders with
Japanese industry for tactical
for day-to-day contact with: enemy. Eighth Army is ready jo. Team full-scale fighting if n held ws x
There’ll be no new election,
reputation sgregeriss To PORISEE
4quipment—the kind needed
‘men, industrialists, grasp meaning of Capehart amend-
24 Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle probably will be Rucceeded by John L. Sullivan, former Secretary of Navy, unless threats to investigate Boyle postpone his re-
_ Battle in armed services over proper use of air
passing outside 5-mile neutral circle which surrounds KaeSong, on way to bomb North Korean cities, = » ”
GOP Back-Slapper
SEN. ALEXANDER WILEY of Wisconsin, ranking Republican on Foreign Relations Committee (and chairman if GOP takes over) kept his colleagues on pins and needles during recemt senatorial tour of Europe. First he slapped Generalissimo Franco on the back and said, in effect, general, we're with you all the way, old boy. He threw his arm around the King of Greece, saying he’s never put his arm around a king before. After this’ performance, Wiley’'s colleagues were nervous when they visited the Pope. But, to their great relief, Wiley did not use Wiscon-
head ¥ the cat Sic Church. Shot in the Arm
Appointment of Ohio's Gov. Frank J. Lausche as baseball czar would be shot in the arm needed by Ohio GOP for 1952 gubernatorial race. If F.ausche stays in Ohio, runs again, ‘politicians agree he could beat either of two Republican hopefuls, Charies Taft of Cincinnati and Dr. Arthur Flemming of Ohio Wesleyan University. Lausche’s going would also leave the way open to Price Chief Mike DiSalle to run for governor on Democratic ticket. Otherwise he’s likely to run against Sen. John Bricker,
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5 ” n Strong for Chiang MAJ. GEN. WILLIAM (. CHASE, head of our military mission to Formosa, made glowing report to Gen. Mat-
. thew Ridgway on fighting po-
tential of Chinese Nationalists when he arrived in Japan recéntly. This was first direct estimate received by Ridgway, though he's been inclined to go along with MacArthur on this, Chase said Nationalist forces could be a major bulwark against Asiatic communism with a little more training and equipment, praised aptitudes, competency of average officer and enlisted man. However, Chase wants major reorganization, reducing power of Chiang’'s sons. He's par-
ticularly anxious to curb Chiang’s secret. police, which frequently hamstring com-
petent military men.
” ” » Not ‘Wage Freeze’ NEW NATIONAL WAGE policy, just adopted unanimously by the Wage Stabilization Board, is not a “wage freeze.” Instead it aims at gearing ‘wages to’ changes in cost of living as long as emergency lasts. Unions’ and employers who have not negotiated “escalator” contracts will be encouraged to do so. Failing that, they'll be urged to reopen contracts every six months for adjustments, Economic Stabilizer Johnston has to approve the plan but is expected to do so. He's been in touch with its
development. Possible objections he'll ‘have to pass on before doing so:
If cost of commodities goes up, will certainty of wage increases produce an automatic inflationary spiral? If automatic wage plan hn mains in force for years, 1 management and labor abandon wage bargaining? What about organized labor’s traditional opposition to freezing living standards’ of their members?
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Tax Experts Predict Cut
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (UP) -—-Two top tax experts predicted today that the $7.2 billion yield from the House-ap-proved tax bill will be pared “considerably” by the Senate Finance Committee. . . Sen. Eugenes D. Millikin (R., Colo.)y ranking GOP member, told reporters he thought the
. amount finally approved by
the Senate tax-framing gromp will be “somewhere between $5 billion and $7.2 billion.”
But he would not speculate on ere ill be:
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World Report—
Occupation Gives Its OK
Compiled from the Wires Services A definite reaction against six years of American ‘“reforms” is now being felt in Japan, Keyes Beech, special writer on the Indianapolis Times, writes from Tokyo. Now that the occupation is in its dying days and the peace conference is only a month distant, the Japanese government is abolishing some reforms and remodeling others to the Japanese taste, he says. This is being done with the guarded consent of American occupation authorities, he declares. They and the Japanese agree it is better that the job be done now while the occupation is still here. For the Japanese to begin throwing out some reforms and revising others immediately after the peace treaty would, it is felt, invite an unfavorable world reaction. Since the Japanese government loves to “screen” things and people, Prime Minister Yoshida, an old-school conservative, has set up a committee to review the scores of occupation-sponsored reforms passed over a five-year period. In the eyes of some foreign observers this isn’t as bad as it might first appear, Mr. Beech reports. Some Too Costly Some reform measures have cut directly across Japanese economic and social lines. Some were too expensive. Some went even farther than the New Deal or Fair Deal in their palmiest days. Government restrictions on Japanese business will be drastically revised or thrown out altogether, more likely the latter. These include anti-monopoly laws aimed at the Zaibatsn and other measures designed +o prevent the formation of doJgestic cartels which controll
prices. Jap Farms Tiny
The redistribution of 5 mil- .
lion acres of land among 5.5 million farm families is an accomplished fact. To try to restore the land to its former owners—in many cases absentee landlords—would d@mount to a counter-revolution. But experience has brought to light certain flaws in the land reform program. The average farm in Japan today is only two acres. As Japan’s farm ‘population increases these tiny holdings are being split into even smaller ones, with the result that farming such garden plots becomes economically unsound. = = ~
Iran A BRITISH MISSION arrived at Tehran, Iran, to try to settle the Anglo-Iranian oil crisis as Premier (Mohamed Mossadegh warned he would resign rather than back down on his country’s nationalization of the British-owned oil fields. The mission, headed by Lord Privy Seal Richard Stokes, arrived by plane from London. The airport was guarded. Mr. Stokes, met by President Averell Harriman, and high Iranian officials, said smilingly he was “full of proposals.” He said he would stay in Tehran “‘imtil my Iranian friends don’t want me anymore.” Talks to settle the crisis will begin Tuesday after the British mission meets Mr: Mossadegh. (The United States will do all it can to keep oil flowing to the free world despite the Iran shutdown, Interior -Secretary Oscar L. Chapman said. (The government announced a plan under which 19 U. 8. companies operating abroad will try to see that America's allies get the oil they need. (The British-Iranian oil dispute has taken out of free world trade about 460,000 barrels a day of refined products and 150,000 barrels a day of crude petroleum,
(Mr. Chapman said the United States will provide about 475,000 barrels of oil , & day to help offset this loss. (Some 30 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, as well as Australia and New Zealand, are affected by the Iranian stoppage.) : or. »
East Germany
FEAST GERMAN COMMU NISTS threatened a new blockade of Berlin as bands of
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may drive the Israelis into the sea.
ARABS' MAN OF WAR REAPPEARS—Hardly had the smoke lifted from the gun that assassinated King Abullah of Jordan than there emerged the spectre of Jew-hating, British-baiting, sweet-faced, crafty and ruthless Haj Amin el Husseini, former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He fanatically hates the idea of an Israel. So did Abdullah. But he was conciliatory. Not the Grand Mufti. If his stooges take over in Jordan, watch out. The uneasy Arab-Israeli truce could explode into a war that would rip open the Middle East. :
blue-shirted Communist youths paraded through the Soviet sector, boasting they would “storm” West Berlin. The blockade was threatened in retaliation for the West's stoppage of shipments from West Germany to the Soviet zone because of Soviet restrictions on west-bound exports. It was made as hundreds of
‘thousand of young Commu-
nists. gathered in East Berlin for .a 15-day ‘peace rally” to open. Western riot squads were alerted and most streets leading to the Soviet sector blocked off. - Western officials, however, minimized the danger of trouble. They predicted that Soviet zone youths asking for political asylum in the West would pose greater problems than the agitators. Hundreds who attended preliminary rally entered West Berlin for a peek at the Western World. They were warmly réceived and encouraged to look around. John Peet, the ex-Reuthers’ correspondent who joined the Soviet team in Berlin a year ago, has calculated that Eastern Germans waste more than 100 years each day shaking hands an d saying “good morning.” Writing in an East Berlin periodical, Peet estimates that every person over six years of age in the Soviet zone goes through this ritual 20 times a day, spending 10 seconds each time he does. For the 16 million inhabitants of the area, he says, this amounts to “888,888 hours, or more than 87,000 working
days.”
United Nations
THE United States is going to. insist that a number of couniries, particularly Russia, bear a larger share of the costs of supporting the United Nations. For 1951, the United States is paying 38.92 per cent of the
‘Go Get It. . . We'll Help You'— Soviet Plays Its Game Seven Days a Week - In Trying to Woo Arab World From the West
By GEORGE WELLER Times Special Writer
TEHRAN, Iran, Aug. 4— The Soviet Union, th a bright new policy in the Middle East, is ing hard at the door to oil and Islam. Unless bold and far-reaching
There is nothing secret or “insidious about the Russian
_ policy. It consists simply of listening to what the Islamje
i adi } and "is a tool of U, 8. policy, ad by An loans.” To
Persian today the chief enemy is Britain, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co,, and the Hague Court. To an Arab the chief enemy is Israel, . the world Zionist movement, and the pro-Israeli elements in the United States and the United Nations. Spends Not a Cent © The Soviets, without spending a penny on loans or handouts, ‘are winning friends by thousands in the Islamic
world simply by saying, “Your
enemies. are ours.” EE : the Arabs they say, by newspaper, “Israel
y:. “The Britre only as
of
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United Nations budget against 11.37 for Britain, 6.98 for Russia, 6 for China and France and as little as .04 per cent for Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Liberia, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Yemen. The budget donations are supposed to be based on each
country’s annual productive wealth. Russia pays les than one-fifth-- of ‘that paid by Washington. © ” » ~ Spain
IF SPAIN grants the United States air and sea base rights it will get in return a big chunk of American cash to strengthen its {ll - equipped armed forces, it was disclosed In Washington. The money would come from a special $500 million fund in President Truman’s $8.5 billion foreign aid program on which the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees are holding joint hearings. The amount the Madrid government gets must await outcome of negotiations for the bases. It would be a big share of the $500 million if the base deal goes through. A militarydiplomatic mission will soon be sent to the Spanish capital.
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Sweden SWEDISH officials questioned 16 Polish fugitives: who pleaded for permission to rémain here as political exiles after escaping by air and sea from their Soviet-dominated homeland. Behind closed doors officials listened to the sensational stories of the flight of 12 Polish sailors who staged a mutiny and four other Poles who flew here in a makeshift airplane, Authorities said it probably would take a week or more to decide their fate. ” ” ”
Australia A COMMUNIST conspiracy in Australia’s Red-controlled
of a powerful hard voice from
the north telling them what
they already believe. It is simple for the Soviets to “prove” that the United States is linked with the enemies "of Islam. The heavy American financial support to Israel, several times the aid to the seven Arab states, can-
‘not be denied, though it is
now in slow process of being balanced * The strong American leaning to the British side in Iran is" too obvious to stand con-
tradietion.
Russ Ignore Religion Islam is naturally suspicious as a
But the
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seamen's union has almost paralyzed the country’s coastal shipping, Parliament has been told by Transport and Shipping Minister George McLeavy. He produced some startling statistics.
During the year ending June 30, Communist - inspired disputes tied up 139 of 193 coastal ships for periods up to two months, he said. Princess Margaret has invited 24-year-old Billy Wallace, mentioned as a favorite suitor for her hand, to her 21st birthday party, Aug. 21 in Balmoral Castle, it was revealed, Mr. Wallace, American-edu-cated son of Capt. Euan Wallace and his former wife, Mrs. Herbert Agar, has been the Princess’ most frequent escort recently. At a ball this week, she danced the first and last dances with him.
It has been reported that Margaret plans to announce her marriage plans soon after she comes of age.
Japan
AUTHORITATIVE Washginton sources said today the United States has set Saturday, Sept. 8, as the date for signing its bi-lateral security pact with Japan at San Francisco. This will be one day after - the planned signing of the general Japanese peace treaty, assuming the conference goes off on schedule. The bi-lateral security pact, which some countries such as India have ohjected to having mentioned in the general treaty, is designed to provide American rights to station miljtary forces in and about Japan after the peace pact becomes effective, The United States contends that such an arrangement is necessary because the Japanese have no military forces other than a national gendarmerie.
The Russians work strictly on these economic motives, dis counting .and ignoring reli« ‘gion. Religion alone is a Sunday weapon for mass influence, but bread and butter arguments work seven days.
This week the senior pre- -
late of Persia’s national front, the bearded Ayatollah Kashani, announced proudly that he had signed the Stockholm peace pledge and sald further: “I am responsible for most other Persians signing it.” Since he is the highest clefgyman of the Persian nation,
his willingness to admit that °
he has led some. 1.2 million of the. faithful to sign a Russian
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Our Fair City—
Jenner Faction
Takes Beating In Legion Tussle
By The Times Staff DEFEAT for large bloc of State GOP regular organization workers linked with U. S. Sen. William Jenner was seen last week in bitterly fought American Legion
election.
Heated balloting in which Gilford Bates, Milford, was elected Indiana Legion commander by close margin over Roy M. Amos, Goshen, actually was more of a GOP factional tussle than a Legion affair.
Since both candidates were Republicans, contest
boiled down to intra-party struggle .
. . between large
bloc of Jenner forces lining up for Mr. Amos and antiJenner GOPers backing Mr. Bates. Although Sen. Jenner came to town from Washington to attend Legion session, his associates said he took no part personally in the contest, But many of his key organization men were swinging some heavy sticks behind scenes for Mr, Amos. Inside dope is some of Jenner forces saw in contest
a chance to slap back at Hobart <Creighton, former GOP Governor nominee, who defeated Jenner forces back in 1948. Mr. Bates is from Mr. Creighton’s home district near Warsaw, GOP big-wigs of regular organization, including State Chairman Cale Holder, are denying that they took any part in ruckus ... it was test of strength under surface.
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! Sign Game
THEY'RE PLAYING some games of private privilege with street detour signs out in the Northeastern section. On Keystone Ave. an official sign reads: “Closed for construction work.” Right beside this is smaller sign reading: “Open as far as the ice cream stand . . . 85 cents half gallon.”
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Closing Keystone diverted most traffic over to Primrose Ave. Residents of narrow street
didn’t like heavy traffic in front of homes... put up their own sign:
“Dead end street.” It was very effective . , . reduced stream ‘to trickle—until City officials spied it and re-
_ moved it. Traffic as usual now
"on Primrose. » » »
Judicial Overload
MOVE IN CONGRESS for a third U. 8. District Court for Indiana, and possibly a fourth, revealed both existing Federal Courts overloaded far beyond capacities, Question has been asked why such long delay in seeking ad-
ditional judge, singe courts have been overloaded many years.
Answer is late Judge Robert Baltzell resisted previous moves to split up his jurisdiction.
U. 8. Judge Luther Swygert said additional judge would be kept busy far two years catchIng up on backlog of cases without handling any new ones. ‘ » o Ed
Who Should Pay?
LOOK FOR RUCKUS to break out soon over methods of financing new sewers, expansion of sewage disposal plant.
Present plans call for issuing general obligation bonds which would be paid by all property owners on the basis of valuations on regular tax levy, : Mayor Bayt's'administration wants $15 miflion to $25 million financed by revenue bonds which would be paid only by properties using new sewers.
Obligation bonds would raise taxes of all properties whether they used new sewers or not.
Mayor prefers (for political reasons) revenue bonds that would not show so big on tax bills. But property® owners who paid in past for sewers benefiting others are protesting
against saddling them with all -
the cost of their own drains this trip.
SOLDIERS of the military police have many unpleasant tasks, keeping their buddies out of trouble. : i - One found himself ae in a new
cupid here
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Escape Clause
OWNERS of office building which leased space to Tenants Housing Service, exposed as a “racket” by the Better Business Bureaugand The Times, will put new clause in future lease contracts. Building owners considered. attempt to break lease after series of Time stories about tenant but could find nothing In contract on which to base eviction. Future leases will carry clause to cover “unfavorable publicity” as basis for cancelIng leases, owners said.
= ” s POSTAL workers here ars scanning news reports from Washington with unusual interest. ~ .. Bill in House, if not changed, | would give Indianapolis Post Office $813,000 a year more to pay wage JAncreases. «x LENE cm ESET © Chief Confesses POLICE CHIEF JOHN O'NEAL has sympathetic understanding (with reservations) of the motivating impulses that led woman to take swim in Monument Circle fountain pool last week in nude. When officers arrested wom-
A , UV . CU U " clothes and dived in before goggled-eyed crowds, Chief O’Neal recalled fond memories when he himself was involved in a similar stunt. “It was a hot day. There were four of us boys. Temptation was too strong. So, we dived in and swam around . .. but with our clothes on,” the chief explained.
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For Dad and Mom
A YOUNG COUPLE was seen collecting a neat pile of cash while sitting in the shade in University Park last Monday. : : They merely sent their son, aged about 3, around the park, asking prosperous-looki loi= terers for a “couple of nickels to buy some ice cream.”
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“victim” forked
After each over change to the tot he went, . back to his parents (past the ~ ice cream stand) gave them the money, went back for new
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Soldier at Camp Atterbury who was just completing his enlistment period was asked if he were planning to join the reserves when he got back “home: “No,” he said. “I'm not even going to join church , , . It might be activated.”
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Under Scrutiny
Inside dope is that Prosecu‘tor Fairchild has started undercover investigation of two key gambling figures here. If probe turns up enough evidence, he said, he will take cases before Grand Jury this fall. It has been reported that Prosecutor's office has put a “shadow” on the trail of one 24 hours a day. =
Closer sheervation disclosed prospective bridegroom was handcuffed to GI wearing MP