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WASHINGTON, Nov. 19—Nearly a vear and a half after the onset of the Korean War, a deep troubled Washington faces these melancholy facts: ONE—Buildup of Communist jet air strength over

Korea, shown in recent battles where United Nations forces have been outnumbered three or four to one, threatens our long-

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held rir dominance, We're still top dog but we, could lose that

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bined growing numerical superfority with more aggressive § tactics.

TWO--The United Nations still i= using outmoded World War 11

B-29 bombers. They must face Russian jets which fly rings, around them, It will be six months to a vear before new

B-47 jet bomber forces can replace today's B-29 groups. THREE There is growing uneasiness about lagging war production. There's hardly more than token output of many new weapons. First planes ordered after Koreas won't be ready until well inte 1952. Some planes are six months behind schedule. FOUR 8ome high officials are extremely critical of today's guns-and-butter approach to rearming. Diversion of machine tools and scarce materials to civilian pro-

duction means inevitable delay in war goods. FIVE The 1'.8, is paving

heavily ndw for administration decisions in 1948-1949 to check alr force expansion and to impound hundreds of millions of dollars Congress had voted for aircraft. This means fewer jets in Korea today. SIX The question is raised increasingly though privately by airmen as to how long—if the Communist air buildup continues we can hobble ourselves by not striking at Manchurian enemy bases. Air battles: are won by knocking out enemy airfields and destroying planes on the ground “but policy prevents this today,

Not All Gloomy

AN af thiz is not to portray utter gioom in Washington. American airmen still control the skies over Korea and have been immensely effective up to now in throttling the flow of supplies to the mmunist armies in North Koref. Some top airmen doubt the capacity of the Reds to continue the air buildup. But there is a sénse of gravity here about the need .tn speed output of war goods, and a eritical view of production progress is under way. Tougher action to cut civilian production is ahead. The government soon may take over certain needed machine tool capacity in auto plants. In the third quarter of this year auto manufacturers still made 72 per cent of the 1950 quarterly average; it's 66 per cent in this quarter. Estimated output for the first quarter of 1952 is about one mrillion cars, $0) per cent of the 1.668,000-car output of the average 1950 quarter. Major model changes are pro hibited after February but critics of slow rearmamient say this was done much too late and only after aute makers had heen able fo get many machine tools which could have gone. to war output. Refrigerator and washing machine makers still get 50 per cent of the steel and 35 per cent of copper and aluminum they drew hefore Korea. Radio-television makers get 50 per cent of the steel, 30-40 per cent of the copper and brass and 35 per cent of the aluminum of pre-Korea. The consumer goods industry over-all gets nearly 80 per cent of its pre-Korea steel.

Part of Basic Policy

But this is basic rearmament policy-—to keep the civilian economy going at a good clip and to build capacity to produce arms, in terms of brick and mortar and machine tools, rather than to turn to 2 quick “vertical” rush to mass arms output,

This policy was esiablished as’

a caleulated risk after the Korean War hegan. It was hased on the gamble that If major war cold be averted until 1953-54,

the U. 8. by that time would have capacity to produce arms in flood

ANTIQUATED—The once heralded

DEFENSE MOBILIZER CHARLES WILSON — Admits production is lagging.

proportions. It was recognized this course would not produce weapons in the first year or two as would immediate total mobilization. Defense Mobilization Boss Charles E. Wilton supports this view, He believes the civilian economy, on which rests the tax structure which must. pay for vast arms ontlay, must ‘be kept strong. He believes allout production would have bronght inflation. an immense new hurden of

national debt, a threat of the kind of economic collapse the Communists have forecast for America. Admits Lag Mr. Wilson acknowledges today's production lag. His asaociates cite numerous reasons - strikes in war industries, too-

wide dispersal of military orders ~hich set too many manufaeturers scrambling for a limited sup-

ply of machine tools, last-minute design changes by the military

ser¥ices which have slowed weapns ready to roll. There have been 21 important war-producing plants since June, 1950, They've hit such concerns as Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. Westinghouse General Electric, Bendix Aviation, Reynolds Metals, B. F. Goodrich. Pratt & Whitney, Brown and fharpe. Douglas Aircraft, Wright Aeronautical. Some strikes were brief, some lasted manv weeks. Defense officials say they've been costly in delaying the arms flown

strikes in

It's an old complaint of production men that the Air Force wants to make too many lastminute engineering changes which Jam production lines. The Air Force has stopped all but major

changes, but says aircraft development never stops and that some revisions must be made,

Modify F-84s

Today. for example, the latest F-84 Thunderjets are being delaved in delivery. to Korea for

addition of devices to permit inflight’ refueling. It i= a move demanding tricky engineering and painstaking handwork. But the gain in operations against the enemy in Korea, once the changeover is made, will be terrific. The planes will remain in the air long periods because they will be fed from flving tankers, From war industry, there ‘= complaint that the controlled materials plan, designed to channel scarce materials where they're most needed, was delayed far tno

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| Burned were a 56-year-old In|dianapolis woman and her 35-month-old grandson who with four other persons escaped or ‘were rescued from a blazing frame home at 2302 Thornberry St.

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l.ost were the homes and belongings of the fire victims and a 64-year-old Indianapolis church. Today. Hoosier temperatures generally were to climb above freezing. But before relief comes, fire combined with winter to take this toll: At Ft. Wayne, 35-year-old Emma Crowell’'s screams of “fire, fire” awakened her mother. Mrs. Paul Crowell phoned the fire department, but smoke and flames barred her from the child's bedroom.

She climbed to the roof of a porch and firemen helped her down. Then they found Emma's body, under the bed, in the gutted

upstairs apartment. Oniy Child

The father, a Railroad engineer. was working at the time of the tragedy. Emma was their only child. At 2302 Thornberry St. Orval Dean. 62. fired a coal stove in the four-room house early vesterday. Suddenly, he said. the “whole inside burst into flame.” He awakened his family and helped and carried his wife, Velma, 56. and grandson, John Sherman Russell, 5 months, to safety through sa window,

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HMMM, FRONT PAGE—Six-month-old twins Candace (left) and Cheryl Cole pore over the local papers in Minneapolis. The Gole sisters are among three sets of twins who made the news Pennavivania in Acme Telephote showing them getting together for a chat with “milk cocktails.”

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Las Vegas Misses Din In New A-Bomb Blast

Br United Press ILAR VEGAS, Nev. Now. 1% Special troops participated in the first “shot” of a new series of atomic tests on equipment and animals today and observers said

her shoulder was injured. Their 1-4: “was very effective.”

were reported fair today. Mr. Dean's dsughter. Mrs. Elmer Russell. 20. saved her other child, 2-vear-old Vicki Lynn. Mr. Russell. 24, alsc fled. All escaped through windows. Firemen said the home wars a total loss Fire damage exceeding $20.000 was reported at Berean Gospel

Temple, 721 E. 13th &t.. built in 1887 bv the Third Christian Chureh,

The Rev. Ford Porter said $15.N00) of the Joss was coveted hy insurance, Saw Smoke

He saw smoke seeping from the temple as he worked in the parish house on a radio sermon and called the fire department at 7:13 a. m. yesterday. Firemen turned in a second alarm four minutes later. ‘Stained glass windows cracked in the heat. Damaged were a new Hammond organ which was to have been dedicated yesterday afternoon, a piano, public address svatem and furniture. The blaze started in a wooden joist near a flue pipe under the choir loft, firemen said. Fire of undetermined cause also destroyed an Indianapolis Times sub-station at 429 N. Davidison St, yesterday. The mercury was to climb to 33 here today, after dropping to 14 at the airport shortly before sunrise. It was expected to dip to 20 tonight, then climb to 40 tomorrow

Cold Month Ahead For Hoosierland

Cold. snowy weather for Hoo-

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itary technique and the. training of the personnel of the armed forces." Brig. Gen. Burdette M.

Fitch, exercise director, said after the explosion, The blast,

3 Face Trials In Shakedowns

Av United Press ROCKPORT, Nov. 18 -Three| Republican township trustees faced trial today on charges of allegedly forcing teachers to contribute to political campaign funds to keep their jobs.

which was not felt

A Spencer County grand jury returned indictments against Frank Ayer of Hammond Twp. F. M. Yeaghy of Grass Twp. and C. A. Fuller of Carter Twp. The case was first brought to wide public attention by The Indianapolis Times in a copy: righted story last summer. Conviction, would carry-a sentence of one-to-10 years in prison. Prosecutor Vollmer Franz said the trial probably will be in January. All three bond each. The teachers charged their jobs were threatened unless thev contributed to the trustees’ political campaigns. Aver and Yearby sald they fired teacherz to eliminate frieition within their schools. Fuller

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There's no one spot to place blame for delays up to now, Some who preach greater urgency say the basic need i= to prod both Washington and the country out of a climate of complacency. The truth Is that in November, 1951, the UU. 8 has taken on {global commitments beyond pres-

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It covers the 30 days which began Friday. Today local Weather Bureau

meteorologists said Indiana would [probably have temperatures below

normal and heavy precipitation, mostly snow, They noted that the previous

30-qayg] orecas (Oct, 18-Nov, 15) had acCurately foretold the cold-|er<than-normal temperatures and ‘heavy rain and snow which recently plagued Hoosierland.

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nor heard in Las Vegas. 735 miles southwest of the test site, was detonated at 11 a. m. Indianapolis time. Five minutes later a huge. grotesque brown dust cloud shot high above the Frenchman's Flat proving grounds and was plainly visible below rain clouds

The atomie vapor cloud whien was visible in the last series of tests was not visible today. But

many have been obscured from view in Las Vegas by the rain clouds. ‘Gen. Fiten identified the participating troops “as technical experts invelved in the layout of field fortifications. materiel and

equipment for test purposes.” The explosion. which was delayed four days by adverse weather conditions, apparently was set off at ground level or underground rather than by air drop as were the last four nuclear explosions of the first series concluded two weeks ago. The AEC refused to say how the blast was detonated.

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Red Cross to Close 8 Doors at 8 Tonight On Gifts for Korea

The blood donor. center here has been orderéd to close {tomorrow because of a threatened strike in a processing

|plant near Philadelphia. Virgil Sheppard, executive director of the local Red

{Cross chapter, said national head- = - {quarters ordered blood donor op-

{erations suspended here after the ! center closes at 8 p. m. today. | on \ | All appointments for the mobile

'units operating out of Indianapolis!

= were also ordered suspended. | Contract talks were stalled at] d n our the Sharpe & Dohme Co. in Phila-|

delphia. The Red Cross said all

other blood processing rod Bl were operating at capacity, and 00 p es national officials did not know! whether they could find other ! facilities in the emergency. Resp ig pledging Blood Bo nations, ndianapolis res : LAY to Operate were urged Hg erin the The facilities being built for threatened. 8 , & Dohme the armed services at Eli Lily} + ike in i {& Co. here are due for completion The curtailment will only injsome Jme in December. Tenta- , ..5e the need for lifegiving tive opening date is Dec. 17, ac- pio04 for the fighting men fn leording to unofficial sources. | Korea. : | In Washington, the Federal = 4,4 the 180 persons with ap{Mediation Service called repre-i nointments today at the Blood 7 |sentatives of the CIO Chemical! center, 18 W. Georgia St.. were Workers and the pharmaceutical g 1.4 ‘to keep them on time. firm to a meeting scheduled for: ,q appointments at the ecen12 noon, Indianapolis time. ter tomorrow—170—and at the Some 2000 workers have threat-| mohile units outside Indianapoened to strike at midnight tomor-ijis were canceled until further row. Contract negotiations are ,.iiee - deadlocked. Give New Appointments A mediation service spokesman The Red Cross will phone persaid a strike would “threaten the gone whose appointments at the Army's entire blood plasma pro- center have to be canceled and gram.” make new ones. : H “Meanwhile, advance appeint-

y union's Local 86, said the union ments for December and had agreed to process blood jan 1 will be made as us plasma received before the walk-/ the Blood Center, Lincoln 1 Sheppard, executive

out. He would not say whether virgijj ive By DAVID WATSON _ the workers would continue pro tor of the Indianapolis Red | New Interstate Commerce Com- cessing blood received after the chapter, said today. ies mission orders restricting truck deadline. : He instrueted * staff . leases were described today as Quick Process Needed ‘and volunteers at the a “property confiscation” by an In- The walkout would affect plants | ter to make no new int: dianapolis attorney representing in Philadelphia, at nearby Glen- for Friday, when 168 21 Midwestern truck lines. olden. Pa.. and at West Point, Pa. Were expected. nor Tuesday. The ICC orders, which become Company officials #3 id the|2l- When 43 already

‘effective next month. were chal-ig ive also would force the closing

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lenged today gin Federal Courtice ather operations and that ) Advance 1 witl ‘here before a pabel of three La Ase Army, Navy, Red|b¢ Made for the mobile unit opfederal judges. Cross and defense blood donor eration Nov. 28 and 30 at Tech-

Howell Ellis. the attorney who senters in the Midwest East and said the orders amounted 10!gauth. i seizure of property. tried to bring: The negotiators were called of tea ar out supporting testimony. Washington after meetings with, s: Putnamville But the judges overruled him. federal Ri0n Altes here yesterday| Farm, Tomorrow: Atterbury Av They upheld objections by Ed- and Saturday failed to end the! Force Base, Wednesday. Marion, ward Riedy, ICC lawyer, dispute over union shop demands. Wednesday. The court did. however, hear The company charged that the! Indianapolis’ November goal of what the testimony would have union demanded a contract 8000 pints can’t be reached mow, been had it been admitted to the clause requiring “compulsory because of the threatened strike, record. membership in the union.” Money From Leases Referring to the local situation, He urged donors to make it up Mr. Ellis said the president of Mr. Sheppard explained there 'is' next month. Spector Motor Service, Inc, Chi- no use having people give their cago. would have testified that! blood to help relieve the armed half of the firm's revenue came services’ critical shortage unless’ from leased trucks. it can be processed in two He would have testified, Mr. Meanwhile, blood plasma must Ellis said. that Spector's 1950 be kept refrigerated. gross revenue was $11 million, was $9 million for the first nine

months of this year and that 75 Hey, Hermie, Who

per cent of the freight handled was vital to the defense effort. Does Yale Play? Hey, Herman! Who's on first? Dies of Burns

BULLETIN

NEW YORK, Nev. 18 (UP) —Salvatore Solazzo, with being the master mind behind the fixing of a dozen college basketball games, was sentenced today to eight to 16 years in prison.

The truck lines contend federal restrictions on the practice of

leasing trucks for single trips By now, Herman Hickman, pw JA1BANY. Nov. 12 (UP) would injure the defense effort, joily. rotund, 300-pound Y=zle Mrs. Blanche Foster. New Alcripple the frucking industry and football coach. has had it. banv. died vesterday in St. Bd-

n Making his weekly football pre-i word hospital of burns suffered dictions on “Celebrity Time” on i, 3 fire in a room at the Roval More Safety WFBM-TV last night. Hickman gatel. Commission officials say the predicted that Michigan State en eee - new orders provide closer super- would defeat Wisconsin next Sat-| . . : vision and higher safety stand-/urday. But the college football Madison Circuit Judge ards. They call confiscation'schedule makers can’t quite agree. Gerald H. Shine, Anderson. was charges “ridiculous.” with the Yale grid mentor. appointed Madison Circuit Court The suit challenging the Com- You see, Michigan State plays judge by Gov. Schricker today to mission's - power in general and Colorado and Wisconsin plays serve the unexpired term of the new orders in particular was Minnesota. The schedule makers Joseph A. Dickey who died refiled last August 7 also say Yale plays Harvard, if cently. The term runs through Sines then, a similar suit has anyone is interested. ~ Dec. 31. 1952. been . filed in Federal Court in rier nn Bea oo BR Alabama by other truck lines,

_ McMahon Tells PA Malik Off About Lie’

Rr United Press PARIS. Nov. 19—One deba‘e of the United Nations session which didn't get on the record occurred Saturday in a corridor when Soviet Delegate Jacob A. Malik met Sen. Brien McMahon (D. Conn.), chairman of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. r Mr. McMahon, visiting the session, was introduced to Mr. Malik. According to witnesses today, the conversation

amounts to property confiscation without “due process of law.”

French Printers Strike PARIS, Nov. 19 (UP)---Most of| France was ‘without newspapers! {today because of a Communist-| {called mation-wide 24-hour print-| ers’ strike for a 10 per cent wage increase.

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nace, storm sash amis MR. McMAHON : That's right. MR. MALIK: You're the one who wants to go and drop bombs on the Kremlin, MR. McMAHON: That's a lie. The American people have no interest in such a thing. MR. MALIK: The people may not, but the government does. : MR. McMAHON: The best test would be to allow a |broadcast of everything that is said here (at the United Nations) to the Soviet people. MR. MALIK: We tell the people what is going on here:

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