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How Overt Can They Get?

ARWAR over Korea reached new heights of fury coincident with Gen. Vandenberg's disclosure that Kussian, or Russian-speaking pilots are now piloting Red jet planes. The Communists threw 150 jets into the fight Tuesday and the U. S. Air Force says enemy air strength has steadily increased despite Red losses. More than 1200 Communist planes, more than half of them jets, are now known to be based north of the Yalu River where our planes can't

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off” enemy fliers; but we're aiming no guns or bombs at the fields they fly from in protected Manchuria. Why? Because, under the Truman-Acheson policy, we're afraid of bringing Russia into the war. Yet Russia is furnishing jets equal to ours, the men to fly them, besides tanks, guns, vehicles, military advice and anti-air-craft crews. : : ” . a ’ u " HOW MUCH more need Russia do to prove she's in the war? But still we keep up the pretense that we're facing ohly “irregulars” in North Korea and we hit them only in areas carefully marked off by our State Department. Only a few months ago Gen. Vandenberg was saying that the proper way to use airpower against any enemy was “to stop the flow of supplies and ammunition, guns and equipment at its source.” The next most efficient way, he said, was to knock it out on the way to the fighting front. : : Gen. Vandenberg was testifying then as one of the “administration witnesses” at the MacArthur hearings. Even so, as an Air Force leader, it must have galled him to admit in effect that we were using the second best way in Korea. Naturally, in such circumstances Russia can keep on adding to the buildup of Red strength in Korea while we fight, at the most, for a stalemate. ” s ” ” » » MEANWHILE, we've been standing hat in hand, waiting to see whether the Communists would be kind enough to resume truce talks—at a place of their own choosing and on hairsplitting terms. . : We've been timorously nursing along this yo-yo armistice deal since last June—for four wavering months _ during which 14,000 more Americans names were added to the heartbreaking casualty rolls. How much longer can the American public close its eyes to the tragedy of all that has gone on in Korea—of the ceaseless ground and air battles without victory, of an endless draining of our life blood?

We Should Think He Would « SEN. LESTER HUNT, who conducted the Biloxi hearings © on Mississippi “Gold Coast” gambling, says he plans to file a “very critical” report with the Senate preparedness subcommittee which he represented. . + Well, we should think he would. - ‘The gist of the testimony was: : ONE—That the main industry of the so-called “Gold Coast” is gambling. . TWO-—That the main source of revenue for this main industry is the $4-million-a-month payroll at Keesler Field, ane of the Air Force's biggest bases. Here is a Whole community, then, gaining its principal livelihood by shamelessly syphoning off the pay of uniformed men. And if Sen. Hunt goes through with his threat to censure the Air Force itself for taking only “limited” action to stop this racket, he will be doing no more than his duty. ; On the same day Sen. Hunt held his hearings, Biloxi was host to a conference on crime prevention. No more appropriate place could have been found.

While the War Fought On [LAST WINTER, when CIO and AFL leaders were working together as the United Labor Policy Committee, they were hotly demanding more representation in the government’s defense mobilization setup. One of their main demands was a labor man as a top assistant to Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson. After months of wrangling, they chose George H. Harrison, an AFL vice president, for this post. In June, Mr, Harrison was sworn in. But Mr. Harrison didn't actually report on the job until Tuesday. Said he'd been tied up on union affairs. Meanwhile—in the several months it took to get Mr. Harrison nominated for the job and the nearly five months more it took him to get to his new office—the mobilization program rolled on, the war in Korea grew tougher, and— The United Labor Policy Committee foundered on the rocks of its own dissension. —— ee — SPARTA, Ga., police let Gen. Mark Clark off on a speed-

ing charge after he assured them he wasn't heading for Vatican City. .

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. IT MAY be the world is just cockeyed enough in this age of jet planes and A-bombs to start fighting over a canal. .

~ o » ; JUST WHEN we were rejoicing over the success of our smaller A-bomb, the White House announced that Rus- ’ sia had fired a third practice round in the world incineration race.

" » ” n ” » . ‘ONE OUTSIDE job that might be approved for tax collectors would be checking doctors’ cash boxes to protect them from baby-sitters.

> . » ¢ # . 8 ~ AFTER THE Senate recess bell rings, Dr. Philip Jessup be named ambassador-at-leisure. 1 s = » on - THAT TRANIAN oil grab is ‘causing Premier Mossa‘to take it smooth. The premier took the sleeper for: iree-hour ride from Philadelphia to Washington, where | a short rest at the Iranian embassy before going ‘Blair House for lunch with President Truman. Then ed to Walter Reed Hospital for another

TEST OF STRENGTH .

Gen. Vandenberg says “our boys are knocking the socks

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It'll Be A Long, Long:Time Before

CAIRO, Oct. 25—The British and. the Egyptians have started twisting each other's arms

. in a test of strength and strategic position,

Britain on the guarNianghip of the Suez Canal Zone and partnersh n the Sudan, they are engaged in a struggle which lies considerably . beyond diplogpacy and somewhat short of war. « p Don’t expect either side to yell uncle soon. This is’ only the.beginning. Each has a reserve of strength yet to be applied—short of shooting but offhand estimates seem to favor the British in any event. vith

On the ground that Egyptian railways were refusing to allocate stock to the Canal Zone for the use of British forces, British General

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One week after Egypt's,ong-sided abrogation of a treaty..of nn and alliance with

Headquarters Tuesday put a clamp on railway traffic to and from the zone except for trains carrying supplies for the Egyptian Army and food for the civilian population. The embargo ordered “until further notice,” which presumably meant until the Egyptian Railway Administration decides to allocate rolling stock as'it used to in response to military rgquests and against future compensation, By a late hour last night the Egyptians had not responded to this urging so far as the British in Cairo knew, and possibly didn't intend. to except to enter another diplomatic protest. The British communique announced stopping of Suez-Cairo road and railway traffic, including the movement to Cairo of gasbline and oil trucks, until contract labor pulled off British

By Talburt

HOMEWORK . . . By Frederick C. Othman | How Not to Paint a Fence—

McLEAN, Va, Oct. 25—I hate to maxe

any cfacks about my oratorical pals, but it's °

kind of a relief to have Congress long gone. A fellow can find a parking place now at the Capitol in Washington; he also can stay home in the country and take care of important stuff like fences, and leaves, and dogs. My fence crisis is getting no better. I}, -mentioned a while back my 1500 feet of board fence, onf® which I have two laborious coats of widely advertised white creosote. Almost at once’ it turned dark gray. ‘with black streaks. This made me sore and I began slapping on some ‘top - quality white house paint, which cost me $5.10 a gallon. Since then I have been deluged with mail from painters, both amateur

"and professional. Most of these letters have

begun: “Dear Sir: You fool . . .” and have gone on from there. The general idea seems to be that I was stupid for using white creosote in the first place and that I am compounding my witlessness by putting paint on top. The theory is that the creosote will bleed through the paint and my fence will look worse than ever. Some of my correspondents claim I should have shellacked my fence. Others say i should have given it a coat of aluminum paint before applying the white. So that situation js a mess and (until I take a bath in turpentine) so am I. My dog problem is something else. You remember about Emma, our big French poodle, giving birth to eight pups. These are handsome little beasts and full of béans. By bride now is feeding them a baby formula, consisting of

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warm water, condensed milk, corn syrup and vitamins A to E. Two of these hounds are brown like their mother, four are black like their pop and two are gray. : Well, sir, our new pups have pedigrees that run back to canine dukedom, with assorted princesses and duchesses in. their bloodlines. Mrs. O. claims they are valuable dogs. She says when they are big enough and have had all the proper inoculations, she intends to sell them for a pretty penny. : And here I am, clawing out from under my fence-painting mail to confront another batch of letters from folks who want these pups as gifts. I'm like Mad Man Muntz, the Los Angeles auto dealer; I'd like to give ‘em away; but Mrs. O. says, nothing doing. She adds that nobody is going to buy one of her dogs. not

even for a whole hat full of money, until he:

can prove that he is a fit with a poodle. :

person to associate

Acres of Leaves

SHE ALSO says to forget my worries, get out there with my rake and attack those leaves

~ before they smother the grass. I never did see

So many leaves; acres of em, a foot deep. IA the farm magazines to which I subscribe are automatic leaf chopper-uppers advertised; these work like gasoline lawn mowers and are supposed to turn the jcaves into powder and leave it to fertilize the grass. This is an elegant idea, but the cheapest leaf pulverizer I could find cost nearly $300. Mrs. O. says a rake is better; she claims it not only beautifies the lawn, but exercises me. She insisted that I apply no torch to my moun-

‘tains of leaves. I've got to haul ’em to the

compost pit, where they gradually turn black and gooey and make fertilizer for next year. She doubtless is right, but you get the idea. If Congress hadn't run out on me, I'd have been downtown today in fresh-pressed pants, enjoying the gentlemen beggting each other. When Congress was here, F never had it so good. I just didn’t realize it.

PARIS, Oct. 25—-SHAPE— Gen. Eisenhower's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe—-has to be seen to be believed. “The building itself ‘is a one-story rambler and strictly temporary, with a long central corridor behind a plain reception center, and a dozen wings leading off at either side. Ike and his personal staff of braintrusters occupy fourth wing left,

There are carpets on the ’ floor, curtain and drapes at the windows of the top offices and principal conference rooms. There is a dining room for top officers and a cafeteria for “all ranks.” There are, in fact, several cafteria lines to accommodate the differences in pay of American and European military personnel. It is a real international headquarters. Of the 255 staff officers, 110 are Americans, - headed by Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, chief of staff, Fortyfive are British, 40 French. Ten of the 12 North Atlantic Treaty countries are represented, Ice-

10.25 \ land and Portugal being the # : : exceptions. Tiny Luxembourg con” vont oY eu Bln. wa. ; has one officer assigned, A new "Why should she scowl at me because | said the baby looked train offosrs assigned here.

like its father? She married the man!"

~ Eventually the will grow

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RE-EXAMINATION

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Britain Or Egypt

military docks at Adabeya should resume

- handling cargoes.

Without any known official call to a boycott of British forces, general headquarters reported a zone-wide average of 25 per cent of Egyptian labor absent from their jobs. This, it was said, had been the case since Hgypt broke off the treaty. > There had been newspaper emphasis on non-co-operation as a means of opposing the British, but no real call for a walkout except Tuesday’s nationwide afternoon shutdown ordered by WAFD, Egypt's dominant political party. That was in mourning for the Egyptians killed last week at Ismailia when British troops put down a riot. The Royal Air Force reported no appreciable

. effect of the work stoppage in its zone estab-

lishment with the exception of airmen at Adabeya who may have to do their own washing. Their laundry staff walked out Monday. The British in the zone seemed to hold something of an ace card in their domination of vital segments of the Egyptian railway system as well as the highways reaching out to Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt's two greatest cities. Alexandria is an important port for civilian shipments through the Mediterranean to Egypt but all shipping from the Orient enters by way of Canal Zone ahd the Canal ports of Suez and

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Port Said. Among the most strategic imports there is crude oil tanked from, the Persian Gulf, there's trafic from Bahrein. The Canal Zone is a storage center for crude oil and the site of two refineries which supply the Nile Valley with motor fuel by way of truck, tankers and a pipeline. . Suspension of highway shipments of fuel was an implicit reminder that the British, if pressed, might turn off the pipeline, too. Permission for passage of supply trains to the Egyptian armed forces in the Sinai Peninsula east of the Canal Zone likewise is a tacit suggestion that they might find themselves cut off in the desert if they should make a pass at the British in the zone. It was clear from Canal Zone reports that the British were ready for tit-for-tat reprisals. Tuesday night the zone was reported quiet after an uneventful day. That was more could be said for Cairo and Alexandria where there were violent demonstrations even though there were no British forces present to provoke them. ' WAFD's call for a shutdown Tuesday afternoon put a lot of youngsters on the streets with nothing much to do but wave sticks. And shout themselves hoarse with anti- British slogans, .

Can It Be Joe Stalin Is Behind Egypt's Defiance. of Treaties? -

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25—Pro-Russian demonstrations in Cairo force the British and American governments to re-examine their theory that Stalin is not a direct cause of Egypt's defiance of treaties. It hag been assumed here and in London that this was almost wholly a nationalist and anti-foreign movement,” sparked by hatred of Britain and Moslem religious frenzy. Although only America and France had geen included with Britain as the object of hostile demonstrations, it was believed that the anti-foreignism was too wide to permit a deal with Stalin. Now, however, leading Cairo newspapers, Senators and : diplomats are suggesting a so-called nonaggression pact with Stalin. And the marching mobs are chanting “Long live Russia.” Of course this does not prove that Moscow persuaded the Egyptian government to tear up its treaties with Britain covering the Suez and the Sudan. It is still possible that Stalin, as first supposed, is playing a waiting game_dn the knowledge that he "will profit from the Mid-East chaos anyway. So far as known, Stalin's only positive act has been to warn

Joe Stalin . . . an open trap? .

only Egyptian bluff to improve her bargaining position with Britain, and to break up the Amer-ican-Prench-Turkish agreement with Britain, Actually it would have the opposite effect, but Cairo usually guesses wrong about such things. Until Lond on and Washington know the real aim of the Cairo government, long-term Western policy will be up in the air. Merely for Britain to continue to hold the Suez pending developments—on which London and Washington are agreed—is a stop-gap rather than a positive policy. Which of the following is Cairo aiming at: ONE: Equal Egyptian status in joint Allied defense of Suez after Britain is out, as some Cairo officials have said? eo; Or, ‘Egyptian control of Suez and neutrality as between Allies and Russia, as

other nationalist leaders have said?

THREE: Or, a so-called nonaggression pact with Stalin which would be in effect an antiWestern alliance, as some nationalist politicians and editors are no proposing?

Rather Neutral

ALLIED officials still hope Egypt will join in a Mid-East defense system based on Suez, though they would not expect much Help from her. At best she probably would be rather neutral in fact, regardless of her official status. A Soviet alliance would be suicide for the Egyptian ruling class. They are nationalists,

. and Stalin is death on national freedom. They

are Moslems, and Stalin has enslaved millions of their fellow-religionists in Russia. They are feudalist dictators, and Stalin prefers Communist dictatofs.

Though Lan now {§ out of the oil business 8

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Cairo against a Western Alliance. So it would be crazy for them to walk into [r— Also it is possible that this sudden and Stalin's net. But a lot is happening in Cairo 16" blatant pro-Russian demonstration in Cairo is these days that does not make sense. CEERI TR ORENSTEIN eR eO SRE I NEES e See R ERNIE RNR EE RETIRE RRR RINE RRR ROR TRRER IRIN IRINA TOR RRR RINNE RON & Co ¢ ’ | Re HOOSIER FORUM—‘A Change’ | . oo : . " E ice “| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." i Pr B veerassnennaasse ra eesEEREINERREEEORReESIEE ERE R EEE E TERR NOTIN TEEN OREO EERE EEO RE SERRE EERE RESO R EEE RE OURO EOE IOT REISER TRIS MR. EDITOR: previous administrations and all the talk about YOU It must be true that time changes every- Improving traffic conditions. thing. He wasn’t Mayor very long until he had: 1 Back in 1948 there was an out-of-state poli- something done about it besides talk. Consider’ ticlan who came to Indiana and made a cam- the way Indianapolis stands financially, one of. > paign speech in behalf of one of our candidates the three larger cities in the United States in. Co who was running for the U. 8. Senate. the black. I hope he is re-elected as he represents. How the Hoosier press did yell. Wanted it all that is good for the city, . Reg to be understood that the good citizens of In- —John V. White, 3810 Forest Manor. diana could pick their own candidates without : : R : Goody any outside influence. . : . : | Sale F But last Saturday when McCarthy (the fight- “A Fine Story’ . ing Marine?) landed to take a part in the cam- . : ~ . gen of one of your candidates for Mayor, I ° MR. EDITOR: Lon ' YOU see the press did a-complete flip-flop and gave Donna Mikels did a beautiful story on Doe-; : him quite a writeup on the front page af all the tor Nettie Bainbridge Powell. I had known her: S— leading Hoosier papers. sinte boyhood; also knew her doctor husband., . i 1 I sometimes wonder ‘if McCarthy is for or I notice she was the first to spank Donna. a against communism. It seems that the things I am away from home but through various; T Joe Stalin doesn't want, McCarthy doesn't want letters 1 knew there were numerous persons in: ¢ either. . Marion who felt like thanking Miss Mikels even’ Stalin doesn’t want an Atlantic Pact army !hough I suppose most of them falled to do so.. Reg in Europe or the United Nations forces in Korea. The contrast between Miss Mikels story with: Goodves Neither does McCarthy. His idea of withdraw- all its warmth and with the article in the home: . ing United Nations forces from Korea and Paper was so marked that it caused comment.: Sale sending the Chinese Nationalists in would seem —Everett C. Watkins, Marion. Price to be a quick way to end the fighting and insure ’ . YOU a complete victory for the Reds. - ‘ I don't recall any victories for the Nation- THE RICHEST MAN alists when they had an army gumbering in . the millions and I certainly don't see how they THE richest man in the world is he , « + 16 could do any better now in Korea with a few who has someone to love . . . a man who has, hundred thousand men. Does any one else” been blessed with children . . . by the Lord: Co —H. T. French, Cambridge City above . .. a man who worships as he likes . . ., 3 and works for all he earns . . . a man who'll. R v practice tolerance . . . and whose love of free-* eg ’ . dom burns . . . a man who is respected for ...: - A Fine Mayor the goodness of his name . . . ie who lives ; Goodyes MR. EDITOR: an average life . . . without a quest for fame® Sale I certainly think Indianapolis has the finest - : - the man who possesses all of these . . .: Price Mayor it has had in a long time. Mr. Bayt is so With the blessing of good health . . . is richer sincere, high principled and just a fine guy all Y® by far than he . . . who possesses only‘ YOU around. wealth. 3

Look at all the time that has passed during

By Galbraith EUROPE . . . By Peter Edson

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to about 500 officers. This will be about half the size of Ike's

—By Ben Burroughs

Build Defense

been that much improvement. The goal is to build a force

keeps pointing to the future.

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SHAEF staff in World War II. It is the contagious spirit that impresses the newcomer almost immediately. National prestige is subordinated. Though the United States provides the leadership, the international nature of staff problems is stressed. The specific problem facing SHAPE is a two-fold mission. First - is to develop forces to prevent .war, Second, if this is not successful, to operate the forces they have to best advantage. = » » RUSSIAN forces in Eastern Europe are now concluding fall maneuvers. So are the North Atlantic Treaty nations’ forces that would® oppose them. In blunt language, the

. making of a war is here now,

if the Soviet forces decided to keep on marching west.

There is no speculation at SHAPE on what the Soviet will do. All effort is concentrated on what the Soviet could do. Six months ago it was freely stated that if the Soviet armies marched,

that could stop a Soviet advance cold. '

” ” » TOTAL SOVIET forces are estimated at 4 niillion men, with 20,000 planes. Sixty-five of Russia's 175 divisions are mechanized. Russia could mobilize 300 divisions in 30 dys, from reserves, but some would be second class. In addition, satellite forces are estimated at 150,000 to 200,000 men, but not first-class units. Turkish, Greek and Yugoslav forces facing this satellite front are now considered superior. In Eastern Germany, Russia is believed to have 25 divisions and 8000 anes. Russian forces have hot been greatly changed in the last few years, but their equipment is better and they are better-trained. It is sufficient to say that Allied forces facing them on the western front are not so many nor so ready, now. But one year from now the Soviet capability would be deadened unless Russia masses new supplies and more troops. To build up European while

They emphasize what forces’ will be one, two and three: years from now. 2

While. Russia might overrun Europe now, it would be the * first battle of what would be : a long war. The Soviet would * be subjected to a devastating’ strategic air attack. That. would further weaken Russia's ¢ industrial potential, which even ; now is considered inferior tos the: West's, ' o 1 In 1946, Stalin stated thes Russian Industrial goal as 60-* million-tons steel capacity = - year. They now have 40 million. The goal for oil capacity was 60 million tons. They now-, have 40 million tons. The goal™ was 500 million tons of coal.

They now have 265 million: =

tons. on -» ’ “ Barbs— =

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