Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1951 — Page 22

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much purpose or much sense of timing. He just hauled off and started calling names. And do you how What he was complaining about? People calling names. ‘Presidents ot called a lot of things. Mr. Truman has been called his share. He also has done his share of dishing it out, In this latest speech, the President dredged up some not very new catchwords. He said ‘“scandalmongers” and “hatemongers” and “scaremongers” are trying to stir up hysteria. He said these unidentified “scurrilous” who-ever-they-are’s are frightening the daylights out of most of us to the point where we are afraid to say anything. “T dare say,” he said, “there are people here today who are afraid to explore a new i , Everybody, the way Mr. Truman makes it out, is afraid to “stand up” to these unmentionables for fear of being called a Communist.

THERE has Peer a lot of loose talk, Indeed, around Washington, not only recently but always. There doesn’t seem to be-any way to stop it. Mr. Truman has provoked some of it, and he has tossed some of it into the confusion bowl. : ; In the present war on communism, if that is what the President is talking about, some persons doubtless have been unjustly accused. But there is no evidence that there exists in this country 'a widespread, organized conspiracy to assassinate character. _Mr. Truman didn’t say so, and we wouldn't like to put words in his mouth, but-some of his interpreters say he was talking about “McCarthyism.” Sen. McCarthy, for his part, keeps talking about “Trumanism,” which is equally vague. But there is only one real “ism” in this country which is dangerous to all our freedoms—including the freedom to call names. And that is communism. Until we rid ourselves of this deceitful, traitorous ism, we haven't the time to be coining other pseudo isms.

Ridgway’s Firm Stand N HIS extraordinary session with news correspondents in Tokyo this week, Gen. Ridgway cogently summed up in gne sentence the reasons for the United Nations’ adamant stand on a demarcation line in Korea. He said: “We propose we shall have a line—-if and when we are attacked again—we can defend.” The United Nations commander insisted he was not charging bad faith to the Reds, but in all truth he was taking a literal and most sensible view of the issue which

has deadlocked the two delegations at Kaesong since

July 27. - : It is a crucial issue which could bring complete collapse to the truce talks overnight. And Gen. Ridgway is well within his rights in breaking them off if the Reds persist in their demands. For him, it is purely a military question, involving the only guarantee with any degree of security for our troops against a new and overwhelming surprise in Korea. The question is essentially this: The Communists want a demilitarized buffer zone along the 38th Parallel. The Allied forces are now firmly entrenched on a line that runs from just below the Parallel to the west to a point roughly 35 miles above the Parallel on the east. If Gen. Ridgway should accede to Red demands, the Allies would have to withdraw, giving up ground won at the cost of many

casualties. » » » » ~ »

MORE importantly, it would mean the Allies would have to take up a virtually indefensible line twice before overrun by the Reds with comparative ease. There never has been any certainty that the Reds want to reach an agreement in good faith, even on the cease-fire proposals. It is known that since the Kaesong talks began six weeks ago the the Chinese Communists and North Koreans have built up their forces for a potentially massive drive southward. In the light of our bitter experience with the Communists, who respect neither agreements nor the ordinary patterns of decency, how can anyone expect the United Nations commander to pull back to a precarious military positiof to satisfy Red demands as a price for continuing the truce talks? The only agreement the Reds will respect, we know from experience, is one that can be enforced with arms. Gen. Ridgway is playing his cards exactly right. “I-aacéPt nothing on faith,” he told his press conference. “My primary consideration is the seenriey of my troops.” Hope may be dimming for the eventual success of the long, exhaustive negotiations at Kaesong, but it is reassuring to know our military commander has not deviated from his objective; that he is not interested in an armistice at

any price.

Warning in Advance HE other day a truck and car collided on a four-lane highway leading northwest from New York City into the Catskill mountain resort area. The truck overturned aud: bloched all ines. © — What followed is an eye-opener. For six and a half hours, traffic was stalled for a distance of 16 miles. Altogether, an estimated 15,000 automobiles were tied up.

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LITTLE INNOCENCE

. By Frederick C. Othman

Hard to Say What Irving's Got— But He Sure Made Some ‘Pals’

WASHINGTON, sAug. 17—There's nothing pretty about Irving Sherman, except maybe his

necktie, which is chocolate satin. His English --

is not so hot at best and downright awful when he gets excited. His fingernails could be a good

deal cleaner and yet they glisten from a manicurist’s buffer. I guess what he’s got = is personality. Else how would his pals include Frank Costello, the No. 1 hoodlum; Louie B. Mayer, who used to earn more money than anybody else as boss of Metro-Gold-wyn - Mayer; Dandy Phil Kastel, the slotmachine king of Louisiana Louie - the - Hip, who 1s otherwise unidentified; and William O'Dwyer, the ambassador to Mexico? Maybe I'd better correct that.

O'Dwyer is an ex-friend of Irving, who takes a good deal

of credit for getting him elected in 1945 as mayor of New York. So there was the bulky Sherman in a $200 suit of palest fawn, scratching his craggy Brow and squirming in the hot seat of the Senate Crime Committee. What hair he had left was slicked back with bear grease. What voice he had, except whién the Senators exasperated him, was weak. Irving said he was not, either, a gangster, Nor was he an intimate of the exiled dope peddler, Lucky Luciano, I got the idgl, in fact, that Irving considered himself a kin in long pants, who spent his time doing nice things for his old pals. Maybe that’s why they loved him. Even the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Mexico loved him once, Irving said.

Very Nice Man IRVING got his start in the cloak ald suit

business, trying to settle the beefs of the hired hands in the "20s. He spent a good deal of time

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ington to peddle 300 talkie machines to the Army. He did, too, and in the process became a pal—you’ll excuse me for repeating that word so much, but it's Irving’s—with O'Dwyer, who was in the Army, himself. Irving thought he was a very nice man. Introduced him to his other old pal, Rep. Arthur Klein of New York, and generally decided that the thing to do was get O'Dwyer elected mayor of New York. This involved one drinking party at the home of a local restaurant ,owner, where the gents removed their shirts and indulged in song. Back in New York Irving said he collected about $6000 for O'Dwyer’s campaign. Irving also rode around in a police limousine and twice, he said, was with O'Dwyer in Costello's apartment. Just before the election in 1945, he said, he beat it out of town at O’'Dwyer’s request. He said his hon feared there'd be a

blast in the papers abotit him being supported °

by such hoodlums as Costello, Sherman and Louie-the-Hip. The blast came, but O'Dwyer was elected, anyhow. Thereafter, he gave. the old heav-ho to Irving. The latter isn’t sore exactly. Just hurt.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—Some American

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jump in the Volga, he is not free to do so. The Voice of America an-

nounced Wednesday that a high Stalin agent in Peiping M20 Tse-tung had sent Moscow a secret re- ,., charged

port charging Mao with sabotaging Russian interests in Korea. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway's Headquarters in Tokyo recently said that Soviet strategy in the Korean War is “to slash the strength of China, and this would be good because a strong China on Russia’s southern frontier is the Kremlin's nightmare.” And a few days ago the world’s experts on Titoism, the Yugoslav Reds, discovered in the Cominform journal what seemed to them unanswerable evidence of a wide ideological rift between Mao and Stalin. Assuming that ‘the Voice of Anierica, Gen. Ridgway’s headquarters, and Tito’s experts are all accurate in their facts, it does not follow that Mao in the foreseeable future will break with Stalin as Tito did. The record of Tito

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: een ; China, Russias. f Wishful Thinking?

himself, and of Communist officials in other countries, shows that conflicts within the Soviet satellite system are common but breaks are rare. Stalin's method of exploiting his slave countries, of taking out the maximum and putting in the minimum, causes hostile reaction in all of them. Always in the test, Stalin puts the nationalistic interests of Russia above the interest of his Communist satellite. Tito fumed under this for several years, just as the dictators of Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland resented such a system. But, with the exception of Tito, none of them has been able to do 'anything effective about it. Several have been purged by Stalin on suspicion that they might want to do something about it.

Decreasing Advantage TITO was not able to move for a long time, and then only because of two special advantages enjoyed by him. His country was lib erated from Germany with Allied rather than Russian help, and therefore the Soviet army and secret police, never got as tight a hold on Yugoslavia as on other East European satellites, Second, Yugeslavia is not on the Russian frontier and is therefore less subject to surprise attack. Mao also has one of these advantages. While China has a long common frontier with Russia,

Stalin did not help liberate China from Jap-

anese aggression and has no direct military control there today. But this advantage is decreasing. Mao—by becoming an aggressor in Korea and a conspirator in Indo-China and the rest of Asia—has increased his dependence on his much stronger partner in crime.

. By Clyde Farnsworth

British-Iran Oil Bargaining Runs Into Rough Weather Again

TEHRAN, Aug. 17—The British-Iranian oll bargaining, once broken off but restored through W. Averell Harriman’s intervention, seems to be splitting up again. The cracks that have appeared may prove to be just a part of one of the world’s hardest

driven bargains, or possibly they may lead to a new crisis for this crisis-rich, oil-rich, money-poor nation. Three days ago a British cabinet . mission, headed by Lord Privy Seal Richard Stokes, delivered proposals which he said conformed to Harriman’s broad formula, as approved by the Iran government, as well as to Iran's oil nationalization law. Wednesday, Mr. Stokes outlined them publicly for the first time. The actual text had been kept secret by both ,. sides at Britain's request. Meanwhile, the Iranian negotiators, members of the parliamentary oil committee, oil experts, the cabinet and especially ailing Premier Mohammed Mossadegh had been mulling them over. As outlined publicly by Mr. Stokes, Britain proposed, among other things:

ONE—Transfer of all assets in Iran of the “former Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.” to a new National Iranian Oil Co. TWO—Establishment of a British purchasing organization which would renew the old

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company’s distribution and sale of Iranian production abroad, and THREE—Organization of British knowledge under the new company’s authority for administration and operation of the southern oilfields and the Abadan refinery. The old company would fade from the Iranfan scene, Mr. Stokes proposed. Non-inters ference with Iramian internal affairs would be insured and steps would be taken to increase the number of trained Iranians in the oil industry. ’ Mr. Stokes went into no great detail, This was done later by Iran’s Deputy Prime Minister, Hossein Fatemi, at a press conference

‘evidently approved by bedridden Mossadegh,

Fatemi delivered what purported to be a come plete translation of the British proposals. He noted that Iran had agreed to secrecy “through respect for protocol for a short time.”

Almost the Same

THE Fatemi version included all of Stokes' public outline’ but went beyond to clarify, among other points, the half-and-half division of the profits which the British proposed as a basis for a reduction in prices to be paid to the new company for crude and refined oil. Fatemi said the offer was almost the same as that which had been submitted by the old company to the late Premier Ali Razmara. The talks are not broken off. But they are at a delicate stage. The central fact seems to be Britain is trying to hold Iran to a 50-50 cut of the profits and the Iranians are naturally trying to improve on that.

HOOSIER FORUM—'Danger in Crime Headlines’

MR. EDITOR: “Sex gangs.” That's a strange expression, but it's a very indicative one. Not because it describes aptly but because it is a sample of a particular material—the material now in the newspapers. For several years I have read The Indianapolis Times and I'll probably read it for several years to come. The Times is no doubt the best of the Indianapolis papers and one of the reasons I have regarded it so is not for what the paper says but what it does not say. 1 refer especially to omitting the names of persons and the color of persons involved in unpleasant police proceedings. But now you are

showing evidence of being “suckered” into a compromising situation or else of being a little,

at the hoss races. In 1936 he peddled tickets for let us say, unhealthy on the inside. The point the Grand National Treasure Hunt, a legalized in question is the headlining of crime, any crime.

lottery organized by Mrs. J. Borden Harriman. Then he went to Hollywood and not be-

cause he thought the demon prosecutor, Tom Dewey, would get him, either, he said. In the movie town he cut a swath. He rode in his own Cadillac, conferred with Bugsy Siegel, the late gangster; got chummy with Frank Orsatti, the actors’ agent, and eventually struck up a friendship with the fabulous Mayer. Maybe you remember the soundies which turned up in saloons just before the war. You dropped a dime. in the slot and saw a threeminute talking movie. Well, sir, Orsatti, Sherman and Co, organized a firm to make these super juke boxes. It went blooie with the war. So our hero hopped down here to Wash-

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

»> 4 2 I KNOW you are a commercial enterprise and you are committed primarily to making a business success of your paper.” The welfare of the people is secondary but you have made the welfare of the people a little less secondary than thé other papers. The point is, your exposes . .. gambling, sex, dope . . . are prompted by salable copy. When you have made all the salable copy out of it vou will look for anether victim to feed your system, All these things were here before you started reporting them. They are here while you are reporting them. They will be here after you quit reporting them.

DEAR BOSS

But while you are reporting them you will hurt many people who would -otherwise not

have been hurt and you will not have accom: & fetter to M : ) en pen fetter to Mayor Bayt: *

plished an-jota of good. Arresting teen-agers for visiting does not stop a single teen-ager from visiting

a tavern. Exposing the existence of a sex gang will never break up a single sex party or stop a couple from visiting lovers lane for immoral purposes.

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EXPOSING the existence of a hotel catering to couples seeking a room for privacy simply forces the man to spend more money for a hotel room downtown. Exposing a bingo game or a lottery moves the bingo game and the lottery under cover. All of this exposure accomplishes three things:

ONE-—Makes people vicious who otherwise would be peaceable people.

TWO—Makes for more of the same conditions for it is human nature to want to do what is forbidden.

THREE—Increases the sale of your paper. You are not interested in clearing up these situations, which I do not necessarily consider bad in themselves, but in making a headline regardless of who gets hurt. Of course you are reporting onfy the truth and if someone happens to get hurt by the truth that is no situation you can remedy. Why don’t you keep your nose clean and stick to business facts or is it better business to spice up the paper a bit with immorality?

—Earl Boggs, 5234 W. Naomi St,

By Dan Kidney

‘A Shocking Thing’

MR. EDITOR:

I just finished reading an article about the Thompson boy. It started me: ‘thinking very seriously. Is’ this the kind of police force that we, the people, vote for on election day? I agree that we should abide by the law. If we would all stop to think that maybe none of us is perfect, there might be less shooting and more thinking. I am a mother, putting myself in Mrs. Thompson’s place. How do you suppose she feels having her son killed by an Indianapolis policeman. Sure he should have paid his fine for ‘Speeding, but not with his life, There are a lot of real criminals running loose if the trigger happy cops want to shoot. I don’t know the boy. .I'm just one of tha thousands that feel this way about it, I know. Just what are you going to do about it? —An Indianapolis Mother, City,

SO HELPFUL

YOU ARE my inspiration dear . ., when all else seems to fail . .. you brighten my dark outlook and ... you lift my sorrow’s veil . , . you elevate my spirit when . . . 1 feel so very low .- and with your smile you dry the eyes . where teardrops once did flow . . , Your warm caress brings consolation . . . and strength to my heart . . . so that I may arise again and make a better start . .. your love instills within my soul . . . a feeling that's divine . . .

and I am equal to all things , , . because your love is mine.

~—By Ben Burroughs.

McHale Starts Beating Truman Drums

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 — When Hoosier Democrats are host to the 15-state Midwestern party conference at French Lick next week-end, there will be only one man talked up for the 1952 presidential nomination—Harry 8S. Truman. That is the considered opinfon of Indiana Democratic National Committeeman Frank M. McHale, M. D. (Master of Democrats). This durable political boss from Indianapolis, most successful of all the old McNutt men, told White House correspondents that he sees in his state “A great ground swell of enthusiasm for the renomination of President Truman." » ~ » HE HAD just emerged from an inner sanctum session with the Dissidents dlhore he had presented Justice Paul. G. Jasper of the Indiana Supreme Court as the organization nominee for the new roving federal judgeship which has not yet been created by Congress. “We need this new judge and that bill will pass shortly,” Mr. McHale told the reporters,

“All the Democrats, as well a.

of Judge Jasper here. I just wanted the President to meet the man." » » = A LAWYER of long-stand-ing from Ft, Wayne, Judge Jasper has served two and onehalf years on the State’s highest court. Both Indiana Democratic Congressmen and the Republican Congressman from his district, Rep. E. Ross Adair, approve of his selection, The judgeship bill has passed the Housé and awaits Senate action.

Judge Jasper said he was highly pleased with thre White House reception, Mr. McHale “expressed no doubts about the Judge's appointment.

With such‘ cozy setup, MeHale men can be counted on to lead in the almost-a-third-term for Truman talk at French Lick. The boldness of the McHale approach to the judgeship and the completeness with which he dominated the 1950 Democratic convention caused him to be labeled “The great-

E. Capehart (R. Ind.) many ‘months before the 1950 convention was held. The Campbell candidacy helped give Sen. Capehart a second term by an overwhelming majority. But that didn’t hurt Mr. McHale any. With five freshmen Democrats in Congress going down to defeat with Mr. Campbell, that gave the big boss the strongest voice in all federal appointments in the state. Both Senators being Republican, as well as all but two of the Congressmen, makes Mr. McHale “the man to see” in all. but the first and eighth districts, where Democratic Congressmen were re-elected. They are Reps. Ray Madden, Gary, and Winfield K. Denton.

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” a - THE DAY after he presented Judge Jasper at the White House, Mr. McHale had both

of them come down for break- .. fast at his Mayflower Hotel

suite. Mr. Denton, who has twice piloted the Indiana judgeship bill through the House, said they didn’t talk about that. It ‘may have been just as well.

Mr. Denton has hankered for a judgeship himself.

A close friend of Gov, Henry F. Schricker, Mr. Denton hasn't been too close to Mr, McHale, Despite .the reported coolness between the Governor and Mr, McHale, the latter was janis to state that if the Gover will consent to toss his w pr hat into the senatorial bi next’ year, he will get the Democratic nomination withe out a dissenting. vote, “We certainiy wouldn't turn down the best vote getter in Indiana,” Mr. McHale chortled,

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