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Y F. GRADY, our retiring ambassador to Iran, left that country this week, a bitter and frustrated

man. A couple of months ago it was reported from Tehran that Mr. Grady was being forced out by British pressure on our State Department. "At the time, Mr. Grady—a former ‘Assistant Secretary ‘of State and a specialist in forelgn trade relations—disgiaimed any intention of resigning. i ‘But it was known that British government ahd oil offidlals were critical of his efforts to mediate the oil controversy. They thought the American ambassador had hurt * their bargaining power by publicly urging them to make sacessions to lra.

+ THE WHITE HOUSE subsequently announced that Grady had asked permission to resign, and that PresiTruman would grant the request “at the appropriate ‘W. Averell Harriman, more sympathetic to the British side, was to try his hand at mediation.

—Mr. Grady appears to have unburdened himself to newsmen. He was described as “somewhat bitter” toward the State Department and Mr. Truman for sending him into petirement at this stage. In Mr. Grady's view, the State Department failed to back him up. He had urged the department to do all it gould to induce the British to grant the Iranians a bigger = ofl profits before the Rationalization law was

BUT THE Btish policy all has been to try to .#ide out the storm, hoping that it could force out the stubborn Premier Mossadegh by putting a tight economic # on Iran. So naturally, the British wanted no part d $ Sosalsmendations, And our Sue Departmay be sure, wouldn't think of pressing them. Ths departing Mr. Grady had one other grievance. He c es rs tu 0 8. Ambassador

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formation ox the development of stems energy ecessarily is so secret and so scientifically weighty that lay opinion on the subject easily could come a cropper. Nonetheless, the issue raised in Congress by Sen. Brien n of Connecticut carries such possibilities it could re. Become the foremost military question of our tire, Sen. McMahon is chairman of the Joint (Senate and use) Committee on Atomic Energy. In that capacity, Should be-as wel] informed on this subject as any non-

THE GIST of the Senator's address was that the United Dow is in. position to produce atomic bombs in overpiming volume. That, instead of spending $1 billion a on. atomic development, we should: be spending ‘$6 n. And that, by so doing, we could dispense with $30 jon to $40 billion a year in other military spending. “I propose an atomic Army and an atomic Navy and An atomic Air Force,” Sen. McMahon said, “in place of the Bonventional defenses we now maintain to the tune of $50 Billion or $60 billion a year . . . for every dollar spent on defense we can save $5 on conventional defense.”

rhe. « & =» \ & 8 = . & MR. McMAHON pictured this as the way to avoid a it military spending program which eventually might gad to “a broken economy and a bankrupt people.” Be “ Moreover, he said, it “can stay the execution of war's : * because it would serve to deter even the masters i the Kremlin. © Senate reaction to the McMahon address was mixed. ~ But the Senator's proposition is bulwarked by indicaHon 8 that tactical atomic weapons are at the testing stage, ~~ $d that the hydrogen bomb is now assured. EE One thing is certain: Orthodox military thinking will not meet the challenge which faces us. The Russians

eady are deep in the production of atomic bombs. Our ka main hope for survival lies in our ability to out-produce

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: DEAR BOSS . i By Dan Kidney

Cong ress GOP SP Welfare

" WASHINGTON, Sept. 21—Dear Boss—Hoo_sler Republicans in Congress are following the Indiana GOP party line today and letting the state legislators decide what to do about wels fare ‘without any help from Washington. © They hdd been invited to attend the leadership rally at Republican state headquarters in the Claypool Hotel. The invitation came in telegrams to the two Senators and nine Republican Congressmen from State Chairman Cale Holder. A meeting. was. called by Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer, dean of the delegation.

And it, was decided that they were all too busy to be there. Their attitude was summed up by pointing to the fact that they were not consulted when the publicity law was passed and can contribute nothing to whatever the Republican legislature does about repeal. The special session of ‘the legislature, called’ by Democratic Gov. Henry F. Behricker gets under way Monday,

Not Consulted

MR. HOLDER called today's meeting to decide what to do about that and the upcoming mayoralty elections next month. But the Re-

_publicans here pleaded press of congressional

business and decided not to attend. Although the 1951 regular legislative session passed the welfare publicity law, which cut the state out of $20 million grants-in-aid by order of FSA Administrator Oscar R. Ewing, without asking for advice from Republicans here, it was learnéd that they did get some,

Rep. Earl Wilson, Bedford, who is serving his sixth term from what used to be a normally Democratic district (Sixth), made a special trip to the Statehouse last winter to tell the Re-

publican legislative leaders to ‘‘cease-fire” on

the welfare publicity business. He told them

* that poor people would be put out about it. He

has plenty of poor in his district, where the situation has now been further augmented by continued drought. But Mr. Wilson found that his views had as few takers in Indiana as they have here, He had tried before to get Republicans not to pass the lien law for old-age pensions and when hey did so he afked then Gov. Ralph Gates to veto it. . His view was that the GOP had long been labeled as “the rich man's party” and that if they ever wanted to retain popular power they would have to make more of a rank-and-file appeal. It didn’t work. Gov. Gates signed the bill. He will attend the meeting today as Republican National Committeeman.

Lost by One Vote’

MEANWHILE Mr. Halleck, Rep. Charles B. Brownson, Indianapolis and other Republicans bave been trying to get the House Ways and Means Committee to modify the federal law so that the $20 million would be restored. They lost by a single vote at a meeting yesterday, with only one Democrat joining the Republicans

on the committee in the effort to get fast action.

Mr, Halleck admitted that if any action is taken, and he thinks that it will be in time because other states are demanding the same thing Indiana voted for, it will follow the regular process of hearings and may not be come

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rejected the Jenner amendments, once through its conferees and again by pigeonholing one of the bills, : As the matter stands, Republicans here are

still blaming Mr. Ewing for his ruling, urging continuation of the court fight (first round of

Security Law. As for the legislature, however, are letting them act on the state level any Washington advice. Saitoh biodata dtl debi el bedded ts attest

Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY RFC HEARINGS may cause the Ethics Committee to recommend that Senate investigators be equipped with butcher scales > weigh gine hams.

FRESHMAN Sen. Blair Moody has 3. sounded off so much that a former | press gallery colleague has Suggested spelling his Best Baise ae AN OLD-TIMER attending his Wash. ington convention remarked that he could remember way back when post- - masters were Republicans, ® © » CHINESE . NATIONALISTS = are establishing a new laundry policy here —washing that ainy Suen in public. « IF THE Mundt-Brewster GOP-Dixie-crat merger plan is successful, those big Lincoln pictures at the 1952 Republican national convention may be araped with Confefierate 213 flags. i!

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POPULARITY DECLINING

British Labor Party Risking Defeat for Comeback Later

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21—The British Labor Party is risking defeat now in the hope of coming back to power stfonger next year. This is the explanation given here of Prime Minister Clement Attlee’s announcement of an

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ly and resulting in failure after a few months. Another close election, similar to that of February, 1950, would be bad for the nation but good for the losing Labor Party. From Mz. Attlee's standpoint there are four reasons for an October ‘showdown:

ONE:

At the Oct. 1 Labor Party annual

conference the rebel leftwing leader, ‘Nye Bevan, cannot unseat the Attlee-Morrison bosses, but he is strong enough to divide and seriously “weaken the party. The only way to prevent this

{s to call a national election, which should

Bevanites into the loyalty line and turn an otherwise mutinous convention into a campaign

TWO: Serious problems are coming to a head this winter—problems for which Mr. Attlee has no easy solution and which almost certainly will cripple any government dealing with them. With austerity and inflation, they are: The adverse trade balance and dollar shortage, the raw materials pinch, the limping nationalized industries, and conflicting requirements of the welfare state versus rearmament; In the foreign field Iran is out of hand,

Egypt defiant, German rearmament unpopular. There are disputes with W.

over Spain,

Red China and the North Atlantic and Mediterranean commands.

THREE: Attlee, Morrison and company are

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TOURING EUROPE .

PARIS, Sept. 21—Here's where a fellow can get a nasty scratch fumbling in his wallet to pay for his lunch,

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coalition government, and have carried the full load since 1945. Some, like Ernie Bevin, have died of the strain. Others, like Cripps, has col-

patriotic duty to give the electorate a chance to break the deadlock. Mr. Attlee is a patriot as well as a party leader.

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{HOOSIER FORUM—Annoyances

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CIEE BE EERE ESTAS EERO RE EEE S ERNIE RAEN SPORT R A REESE NO RANE IRRRNANY

MR. EDITOR: { As a recent home owner of this fair city of Indianapolis being acclimated to life and conditions in this city may I comment on some existing annoyances which are evident to a new resident but to which old residents may already ‘have become unnecessarily hardened. First and major annoyahce is the fact that householders have to keep their garbage seven full days before it is collected. Aside from sanitation factors, this is an annoyance which concerns a vast number of home owners. The service in this respect by our Sanitation Department, or whoever was responsible for promulgating this inadequate and backward system, certainly should be revised. Garbage should be collected at least twice or three times

a week, . *L & 9 THE city evidently has been derelict in see-

ing to it that every street have adequate street

signs. On many corners there are no street signs so that one frequently is puzzled in finding a destination. This is also annoying to motorists or people who do not live in the immediate area. Certainly this is a matter of neglect more than anything else as no one will claim that

the cost for simple street signs is prohibitive.

Which bureau is responsible for this negligence, and why isn't it being taken care of? Unlike most other cities, in Indianapolis there are many streets which come to an abrupt end, only to resume a block or so away. For a person looking for a number of a residence this is confusing and puzzling. A simple sign placed on ‘the corner where the street comes to such abrupt end indicating which direction to go to find where the street resumes would solve it.

Why leave the pedestrian or motorist confused

by not having them? ¢ & & WHY ARE there so few clean rest rooms in downtown restaurants? Are they being inspected by any city department?

wor . 2... by Fred Prk u . Taxes Part of ‘Living Costs’?

ving Sept: 21-—A House labor

subcommittee 1s about to reject demands: of many labor unions that. income taxes be included in “cost of living” figures on which wages of more than three million workers are now based. This forecast was made by Rep. Tom Steed (D. Okla.), chairman of a subcommittee which is preparing a report on testimony received

BG three months ago in an inquiry into What

anges should be made | in the *consumers’

tat es, Union spokesmen have just renewed their campaign behalf of figuring income taxes-— federal, sta d local-—-as an important item ng of low and middle income out the probability of an e taxes, and that they now reach down into the low-income brackets,

formerly exempt.

Tax of 10 Cents an Hour

THE International Association o! chinists (AFL) points out that under current tax probabilities “a single man earning $70 a will have $11.65 a week deducted for incom X That's practically 30 cents an hour. ™

Yor a married man with a wife and two children, the income-tax deduction next year on $70 a week will: come to about $430

more than 10 cents an hour. In addition, many

of us have to pay a state. income tax.” Over the past 10 years, the Machinists Union says, “the Inciensing burden of taxes has been p, on fame

the union arguments, but would probably vote

against them for two reasons: “The consumers’ price index is not strictly

Is spelling being taught in our public 7 More than in any other city one comes across such deficiency in spelling that the cause for it is a matter of wonderment, Frequently store signs, menus, notes left by people, demonstrate such a deep ignorance of even simple English words which are misspelled that one begins to wonder at the cause. While the public schools cannot be blamed, it certainly is a matter that hits the oye of a newcomer, WHILE the above deficiencies become immediately evident, a new resident is impressed favorably with the friendliness which seems to pervade the city, and the helpfulness of its people in making a newcomer feel at home, It would seem, however, that if Indianapolis is to continue on its march of progress some of the seemingly small matters are frequently big annoyances and can easily be eradicated if we recognize them as such. «New Hoosier

‘We Go Out of State’ MR. EDITOR: Why doesn’t Indiana wake up? Day by any this state is becoming a ghost state and its native sons are going into neighboring states to spend their money and find a little fun and relaxation. My wife and I do likewise so the result is that Indiana is losing that extra source of reve nue because people always willl drink and gamble. where they can play a few slot machines, a few games of binge or have a glass of beer on Sunday. We were in a small town in Illinois recently. The slot machines were going, business was and everything in order. The club was filled mostly with Indiana people. Who is the loser? We'd spend our money here but there's no place to go but a movie and the TV shows are not good, If we feel this way I'm sure there are many more like us.

~A Reader, Indianapolis.

. By Frederick C. Othwrion

room in a court. This, to Mrs. 0/s everlasting grief, we have to pay $26 a day. ss ‘ns =» ; FIRST NIGHT we were in town we strolled over to the

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was to steer clear of lunch‘rooms with orystal chandeliers.

THE following morning we tried a little place known as Alexandre's for breakfast. We each had two soft-boiled eggs, tea and a roll with butter, The check was $2.50. So we went shopping. Hilda's favorite perfume was $37 per small bottle; she decided she could smell just

amined the Venus with the missing arms. + Last night we attended the Folies Bergere, where the customers smoke during the performance, drink champagne

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