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Folly of National Conceit—
Mistaken Belief U. S. Always Ahead Blamed For Military Lethargy
By CHARLES LUCEY
Seripps-Howard Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—A national conceit that the U.S. is almost ‘automatically ahead of the world in every-
thing figures into today’s military lag. It isn't true. We learned in World War II the Germans were far ahead of us in some — " respects. They opened our eyes j,4,<try which was in rough shape with 30 mm. cannon aboard jr. World War II. The Air fighter plane sy, # Force itself had a sizable machine
while we still tool reserve, but these machines fooled with 50-3 will be used up by the first of the Saliber stuff, for year. Air Force and aircraft inexample. dustry people say there has not The Germans been sharp enough action to get gutdistaneed Ph machine tools for war industry baie a utdod and prevent them from going to missiles civilian industry that even with We had the in- stern action, it will be six menths dustrial capacity or a year before new machine to build the tool production will pay off. atomic - bomb - Shortages of certain critical after leaning Mr. Lucey, materials may play an increas-
ingly important part as the arms savvy of British, Italian and other program builds up. Under the acscientists and then we badly un- cepted concept of slow approach derestimated Russia's ability - to te civilian cutbacks, war industry build a bomb. sometimes must compete disad-
heavily - on the
It was in that period the vantageously with ordinary con- : present administration decided to sumer goods industries. A single slow down on air development. example: Now we're paying for it. Only the latest and best F-86 Sabre-jets Aluminum Deal can match Russia's MIGs. And BOEING, making jet bombers,
# *h they outnumber us in Korea three generates a vast amount of alu-
or four to one. minum scrap which ordinarily goes to the “pots-and-pans’” small Urges 70 Groups articles industry. It sought to
IN 1847, an air policy commis- make a deal with the Aluminum sion headed by Thomas K. Fin- Company of America to swap 360.letter, present Secretary of Air, 000 pounds of scrap for finished recommended a 70-group air force, aluminum. Alcoa. on that basis, plus reserves, as the minimum could give six-eight week delivery needed for peacetime security, In oR the returned aluminum. 1948, Congress’ joint air policy The National Production Administration said no-—and pointed .. ’ : out small aluminum foundries are Editor's note: This is Se Bee: closing for lack of scrap. It will Sad ut Be nee take eight or nine months for r 0 ranch : nh vd Lucey on our lagging Boeing to get equivalent alu minum. preparedness program. Today
It depends on where you wish Mr. Lucey discusses deficiencies to place the emphasis. Men fightin our alr power,
ing in Korea wouldn't have much ae. trouble with that decision.
board accepted that goal and oy e reater resarve urged rs rE BOEING is scrounging all over r tad : BE administration. despite the country to get additional elecNinistls : Rr . : : tbe insistence of Secretary of Air|l¥i€ power equipment needed in roar Symington wouldn't go Diants where present facilities are Stuart Sym ne ert waz told heavily overloaded. It has been Along, Mr. Symingion : almost desperately pressed to get
he had lots of planes—all those B-29s from World War IL When to air-seal he suggested they were obsoles- _ It's cent. he was told the Russians, ary plane certainly weren't coming up with business anvthing better for a long time “In World War II when vou In 1948, Congress Republican- capa up against an obstacle to controlled, incidentally-—appropri- nraduction; you just shot it down.” ated money for a start on a 70- gn aircraft Industry man said. group Air Force program. It “Now you are supposed to try to granted $822 million more than readjust to it.” President Truman asked for air The U. 8. isn't But, by presidential discretion. planes today—it is. by the Air Force got only $1.3 billion policy. building planes of £1.9 hillion approved pacity to build" more planes The next vear Congress again will mean 15.000-18,000 planes insisted on full” attention to air yearly by 1953—but capacity to power, But Mr, Truman im- build 50.000. It's a calculated risk pounded $615 ‘million of Air Force we took when Korea began If funds voted global war can be averted until
Hindsight is always a bargain- then. or if this kind of industrial counter commodity. of course muscle averts war altogether, we
a certain sealing compound needed pressure-cabin bombsame with about company in the
the
just building deliberate plus caThat
hut because of such grave mis- win the gamble. But for today Eo v iv it leaves the country's top air the U. 8. pays heavily ealculation pa, ~ leaders worried about the Rusnow, sjans’ vastly greater strength in Estimate Boosted Korea.
THE ESTIMATE now is we'll have a 95-wing air force by Sep tember, 1952, as against 87 groups in being last summer, But by that time based on present obso and production rates about half the aircraft in 5 wings will-be truly modern or more hefdre
Double-Take
By BOB BARNES
only the ¢ It will be a year this can be remedied. - But that's only a [fair start on the alr force the top air power pleaders say the U. 8. must have It Is estimated that a talked-of 163 wing Air Force couldn't be in being until 1955 unless there's an upward overhaul on the whole mobilization program. Exact production tigures aren't available now, ‘but fairly close monthly figures are as follows: June, 1850, about 215 aircraft; June 1951, about 350, and July, 1952, an estimated 1080. Aircraft industry employment, at 256,000 when the Korean War began, is heading toward 600,000 now. There just {sn't any Sommparisen
“No more stallin s_either he comes
this month— through with h EE ”
with that (of World war II air<| craft. Some big bombers now cost § about $5 million. In World War ag II the big bombsight cost $4000; eg today the electronic bomb-aiming! system costs about $250,000. Inevitably a greater percentage. of aircraft employees must be men with engineerifig background: inevitably it requires more time to build such planes. ¢
TO BUILD planes "of such complexity demanded machine tools: : which never had existed. They had to come from a machine tool
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Ridgway Bars Halt In Fighting
Times Special TOKYO, Nov. 20—The Chinese Communist radio indicated tonight that Red negotiators will accept the United Nations “truce by Christmas” challenge in Korea. The Communists are scheduled to give their answer to the United Nations proposal at an armistice subcommittee meeting in Penmunjon, Korea, at 8 p. m., Indianapolis time. Even if the Reds accept the pro-
posal, however, United Nations Troops will continue fighting in Korea until a full armistice is signed, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway warned in a formal staterhent.
30 Days to Settle Under the United Nations plan
the Allies would vield to the Communist demand that the present hattieline become the ceasefire line—provided the rest of- the armistice terms are settled within 30 days. The subcommittee took a day
off at Communist request today to permit the Red negotiators to consult Pyongyang, Peiping and probably Moscow. Peiping radio broadcast a dispatch by Alan Winnington, correspondent for the London Daily Worker and frequently the sounding board for the Communist truce delegations. Mr. Winnington said the Allied plan comprised “roughly the same policy” proposed earlier by the Communists, The Supreme United Nations Commander issued the statement with the obvious aim of discouraging over-optimism that a ceasefire either i= imminent or necessarily will come at the end of 30 days X Still to be settled are such knotty problems as an exchange of war prisoners and supervision of the carrying out of the armistice terms. .
UN Slashes Atrocity Toll
TOKYO, Nov. 20 (UP) Gen Matthew B. Ridgway announced
tonight that the United Nations has conclusive evidence of only 356 American deaths from Communist atrocities in Korea, but
he conceded the actual total be 6000 or more.
His "headquarters released =a statement which heavily qualified the sensational charges of Red atrocities released Jast week by Col. James M. Hanley, chief war crimes investigator for the Sth Army.
Allies Capture Hill
Taken Earlier by Reds
EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Korea, Nov. 20 (UP) Hundreds of shouting Chinese Reds threw United Nations forces off a hill on the western front today. but the Allies retook it The Reds struck west of Yonchon in battalion strength-—some 800 to 1000 men-—after suffering heavy casualties in an attempt to dent the Allied line. This time, the Chinese reached the top of the hill. The Allies stormed back and seized it. An Sth Army communique reported only patrol activity along the rest of the 135-mile Korean ground front
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Walkout Averted at Blond Unit
i y AGNES OSTROM | Times Club Editor
A strike which would have
today, and Red Cross officials here said the local Blood Center will return to normal operation tomorrow. CIO Chemical Workers, who had threatened a strike at midnight tonight, reached agreement in Washington on a contract with
Sharpe & Dohme. Inc., the Philadelphia firm which processes about one-third of the Army's
blood plasma. A spokesman for the Federal Mediation Service said he expected quick approval in Philadelphia tonight by the 2000 workers affected. The contract talks had been deadlocked over the workers’ demand for a union shop. Indianapolis citizens reacted with amazement, anger and accusation to vesterday's news that a strike threatened the Sharpe & Dohme plants which process the blood donated here. The Defense Department had stopped today’s blood collections 11 Eastern military installations. the Red Cross had ordered todav's appointments canceled at the Cenier here and at Putnamville State Farm where the mobile unit had been scheduled. Virgil Sheppard. executive director of the Indianapolis Red Cross Chapter, said mobile units will operate as originally scheduted tomorrow at Marion and Atterbury Air Base, and Friday at Williamsport. They were alerted for possible cancellation when news of a strike threat, at the Philadelphia plant reached here vesterday.
Other Cities Affected Activities of blood centers in
Crash Here several other cities were also sus-
Mrs. Ella Frank Sikes, social pended or curtailed. service supervisor for Central! In Indianapolis. donors whose State Hospital. was badly injured appointments for today were can-
Alma Walton Helfrich, 27, leaves the Federal Building in East St. Louis, lll., after Treasury officials ques- 5;
QUIZZED—Mrs.
tioned her, Her husband, Carl, 51, has been missing since shortly before tax liens of $401 - 900 were filed against the Helfrich property on Aug. 30. Internal revenue agents seized the personal property of Mrs. Helfrich and sealed her room in St. Louis' Park Plaza Hotel last week.
Hospital Aid Hurt in Car
today when a station wagon hit celed, said: her car. “I can’t believe it. No, not at a Police said the driver of the time like this.” station wagon fled on foot, “American people just won't Mrs. Sikes, 51. of 47 8. John- take this.” son Ave. was sent to Surgery in “Who's responsible? I have a
brother in Korea.” “Labor's worst mistake
St. Vincent's Hospital. Police reported she had compound frac-
tures of both legs. One worried clubwoman said: Witnesses said the station wag- «1 hope they get it settled by on. which bore Ohio plates. pec. 30. I'll be 60 then.” (Donors smashed into the rear of Mrs. must be 18 through 59.) against a tree. booked today at the Center were Mrs. Sikes was pinned in her canceled in addition to three outcar about seven minutes until of-town mobile unit operations police arrived and freed her, 1his week, 2 However. Mr. Sheppard today
: : said donors will be booked at Speeds Defense Setup Lincoln 1441 for this Friday and
_ WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 ‘UP next Tuesday's Center operation. Chairman Ivan D. Carson of the They als will be booked for Nov
Critical Areas Defense Housing 29 and 30 at a mobile operation on Committee said yesterday Nis the Technical High School agency is working as rapidly as
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Too Many Strings—
Bray Takes Dim View Of Korean ‘Cease-Fire’
By DAN KIDNEY’
Times Stal Writer
One of the plane passengers with whom he flew from Tokyo
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 A tn Pusan was Col. James M. Han-“cease-fire” in Korea cannot be Jey, Mr Bray said. It was Col. permanent unless we leave the Hanley's announcement that 6270
peninsula, give Formosa to Red American war prisoners had heen China and recognize them in the murdered that startjed the world
United Nations. last week. That was the viewpoint ex- Like Gen. Mathew B. Ridgway, pressed today by Rep. Willlam who relieved Gen. Douglas Mac-
G. Bray. Martinsville Republican, Arthur, Mr. Bray feels the figjust returned from several weeks ures are exaggerated.
spent in Japan and Korea. “Certainly there have been The freshman Congressman murders by front-line soldiers, visited many “old friends" in the Particularly North Koreans, of
the captured,” Mr. Bray asserted. latter country, where he was a military governor after serving "But 1 know how fallible Col. in the tank corps in World Hanley's statistics are and do not War II believe the Chinese Red command He made an “own expense” trip has ever ordered such atrocities.” back to aid in his pet project Mr. Bray was high in his praise self-help factories for the. South °f Gen. Ridgway. He thinks he is an able successor to Gen. Mac-
Koreans to make artificial limbs for soldiers. These are coming Arthur and things in Japan are in along fine he reported fine shape. During his travels he met Jim
“My own opinion is that ‘cease- k fire' is just an old Oriental cus- Lucas. Times and Scripps-Howard
tom whereby the Reds hope for a WAT correspondent. and was high respite to reinforce their position,” if his praise of the job of report-
Mr. Bray declared. ing that Mr. Lucas has done and “They are unlikely to be in- is doing. terested in any permanent peace “I believe that Jim Lucas under-
unless we leave Korea, admit stands and reports the facts of {them to United Nations and give the Korean situation better than | them Formosa. That we never any man I know.” Mr. Bray con- : (cluded, '
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WESTERN TRADITION— Cpl. Thomas Radtke carries his Japanese wife, Mitsuke, across the threshold of his. Chicago home. Mitsuke, a nurse, and Cpl. Radke, a medical corpsman, met in the Kobe Hospital, where he was stationed in 1949
and were married last December. He turned down a chance for rotation to stay overseas with the woman he loved until it was possible to bring her home with him.
Clark Bars Big Shakeup In City Jobs
By JOSEPH ALLISON Hundreds of city employees today could take a deep breath of assurance they would have a job next year. Mayor-elect Alex M. Clark an-
nounced there will be no wholes
sale firings sible
and wherever pos-
personnel in city depart-
ments will be kept on their jobs.
Mr. Clark pointed out many city jobs would be ‘nearly impossible” to fill in the present tight labor market. “I see no point in throwing those people out.” he said. . “The
city government is
only way we can have an efficient to establish the
routine functions without disrup-
tions every
four vears.” Short
personnel
Critically Shortages. of clerical and minor technical have plagued the city for than a vear.
for jobs more
Timothy J. Danaher, city personnel chief, pointed out- more than three months ago a critical
need for emplovees in those classifications He emphasized law city pay made it "extremely difficult” to fill vacancies In reassuring city emplovees of their jobs. Mr. Clark issued a warning “There is no assurance that
these people will be kept on for the four vears of my term. Such a guarantee might cause laxness.
There will be some exceptions to |
the blanket rule, but for the most part we will keep employees.” In previous administrations, some city emplovees have been retained for the first few months
in order to keep municipal func-
tions going. Later these persons were ‘replaced with loyal party workers,
PASSES SENTENCE-—Judge Saul S. Streit yesterday sen-
tenced "master fixer" Salvatore Sollazzo to eight to 16 years in prison for the wholesale bribing of college basketball players. Four players were sent to prison for terms ranging from six months to one year, The judge charged that at least two of the athletes got into college by "fraud and forgery." (Story, Page 20).
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BULLETIN
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—The State Department was advised today that an American
Air Force cargo plane is missing after being
fired upon by Hungarian and Romanian border
guards.
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The information was communicated to the
department by the American Embassy at Bel-
grade, Yugoslavia.
The plane is believed to be down in Yugoslavia, officials said. Searching aircraft so far have failed tp
find it.
The plane was carrying supplies for the American embassy at Belgrade on a routine flight from Munich, Germany, to the Yugoslav capital.
The incident occurred yesterday.
available here.
Details were nok
The State Department requested additional information from the American embassy. A spokesman said the department so far has only “brief report” from the embassy that the plane is missing after being fired upon by the Romanian and
Hungarian border guards.
Officials were awaiting further information before determining a course of action. The plane was a C-47, twin-engine cargo type. Dispatches from Germany said it carried a crew of two
and two 0 passengers.
~ Polio Vaccine
‘On the Way,’
Warm Springs Clinic Told
By United Press ATLANTA Nov. 20—Scientists working for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis have isolated three viruses responsible for the disease and “are on the way” to perfecting a polio vaccine, Basil O'Connor, foundation
president, said today. Mr. O'Connor came to Georgia to carve Thanksgiving turkey ioe crippled children at the Springs, Ga., polio dre Thursday. He announced at a press conference here that research workers have discovered methods of producing the viruses in quantity in test tubes. Heretofore doctors have had to rely on monkeys to produce the small amounts of virus available for their studies.
‘None on the Way’ “We are on the way producing a polio vaccine” O'Connor said. have
toward Mr. “I cannot say how soon we will it, but we expect to get it. “We are almost certain now that only three viruses are responsible for the disease and they have been isolated. And I am happy to say our scientists have just developed means of producing the viruses in test tubes after a vear and one-half of being unable to grow them outside living tissue.” The former law partner of the late President Franklin D. 'Roosewelt said the foundation is being hamstrung in its efforts to speed the development of a vaccine by a tripled incidence of polio and the declining value of the dollar. He said the foundation is “operating in the red” for its third traight vear
BULLETIN.
Sheriff's deputies were closing in on a man thought to have shot another in the vicinity of 8500 Rockville Rd. this afternoon. Three squads of deputies raced to the scene of the shooting. While en route, the police radio flashed the warning that a man believed to have done the shooting had taken refuge in a house.
Man Ruled Psychopathic In Sex Cases
A 25-year-old Indianapolis man who sérved one term for rape and confessed 58 other rapes and burglaries is a sexual psychopath, two doctors reported today. They blamed narcotics as being at least partly responsible for the activities of Robert Daniel Perry, formerly of 2827 Indianapolis Ave. Drs. Earl W. Mericle, a psychiatrist and R. A. Solomon, specialist on internal medicine, reported their findings today to Judge Saul I. Rabb, Criminal Court 2. Perry himself asked for the examination under the 1949 sex crimes act. A Grand Jury recently indicted Perry on charges he raped a voung housewife and burglarized her North Side home June 27.
Held at Reformatory Perry now is held at the State Reformatory for safekeeping because he broke away from sheriff’s deputies taking him to General Hospital several months ago. Addiction to marijuana and morphine had a strong tie to
Perry's forays, the doctors reported. Perry started using the nar cotics in 1942, they said, and
feels these drugs are responsible for getting him into trouble each time,
“He admits he is responsible for taking drugs, but denied responsibility of any action after the drugs have been taken. The drugs caused him to blank out and he does not remember what happens after. “Previous to his first sex eonviction, he had likewise smoked marijuana and was unaware of what followed,” the doctors reported.
Perry was a teen-ager when convicted of rape and burglary in 1944. He served nearly seven years of a 10- vear-term.
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The new Interstate Comwerce regulations won't ge into effect
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