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Everything for Love’

(CONGRESSMAN FRANK W: BOYKIN of Alabama has a favorite slogan—"everything is made for love.” He has used it so much it has become a Boykin trademark. Just before Congress adjourned in October, the Congressman adapted this sentiment to a long oration—long enough to cost the taxpayers about $290 just to print it in the Congressional Record. The object of Mr. Boykin's affections was T. Lamar

Caudle, then head of the tax division in the Justice Depart- r

ment. : “There is no man in America,” Mr. Boykin told the House of Representatives, “more beloved, more respected by those who know him than Theron Lamar Caudle, assistant attorney-general of these United States . . . the bulldog, determined prosecutor, who never has been known to swerve from the strict line of impartial prosecution . .'. before the bar of justice Lamar Caudle has neither friend nor foe. His duty there is to his God and country.” fF» EE g SOME of the reasons for Mr. Boykin's speech of Oct. 19 became apparent yesterday, ~~ rm A witness before the House committee investigating the scandals in the Internal Revenue Bureau was John H. Mitchell, a Justice Department lawyer who prosecuted tax fraud cases against four persons described as Alabama friends of Congressman Boykin. The testimony of Mr. Mitchell was called “almost incredible” by the committee chairman, Congressman Cecil R. King, who said he believed it the “absolute truth.” Mr. Mitchell testified his immediate superior, Mr. Caudle, had instructed him to confer with Mr. Boykin about the case, that the Congressman invited him to stay at the Boykin home in Mobile while the case was in progress, and that he refused although Mr. Caudle had “accepted the invitation for me.” He testified that after he discussed the case with Mr. Caudle, Mr. Boykin phoned him and asked questions ‘which indicated he knew just what I intended to explore before the grand jury.” And that after he obtained indictments against the tax évaders, he was unable to see Mr. Caudle and “never had any more work” in the Caudle-run tax division. td ~ » » LESS THAN a month after Congressman Boykin delivered his oration in Congress, Mr. Caudle was fired by President Truman for outside activities “incompatible” with his public office. ; “Mr. Speaker,” said Congressman Boykin in October, “I want to establish the fact that there is no man in these United States who, to my knowledge, has ever done a finer or bettér job in what he was charged to do than has Lamar Caudle.” ! & Everything is made for love, including, it would appear, the tax fraud division of the Justice Department.

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Deliveries in Dollars

OP MILITARY and defense officials are trying hard - to knock down the obvious evidence of a perilous lag “in defense production. ;

They don’t deny the lag. But they try to shout down the evidence by talking about what we are going to do.

Chief Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson says we are “about” to see another “production miracle.” He says we have tripled production in a year. Tripled it from what? He says $2 billion in military supplies are being delivered every month. And that in 1953 this will be boosted to $4 billion a month. In deliveries, that is. But dollar statistics don't answer the Senate preparedness. subcommittee, which says we are running “dangerously” behind schedule. They 'don’t answer Gen. Eisenhower's emergency visit to Washington to plead for faster production. They don't answer Gen..Vandenberg's guarded hint that we are losing air ‘superiority in Korea— which ig only one phase of our problem.

: They don't answer the round-up on production tardiness by Ctharles T. Lucey, Scripps-Haward reporter who

checked with ‘the best-informed officials in Washington...

~ ” » Ed » » WE MAY be gaining in dollar volume. But there is a serious lag in the production of hard goods which are the “backbone of our defenses,” as the Senate committee says. Some planes are six months behind schedule. Tank deliveries are far off So are deliveries of guided missiles, electronics, ships®and some important guns.

Mr, Wilson says that “from now on" there will be more emphasis on guns and less on butter. But it's getting pretty late. The Korean War is at a stalemate after 17 months of fighting. The danger elsewhere grows daily. : « While we have been wasting precious months trying to produce both guns and butter in maximum volumeand falling down on the guns—the Russians have been racing ahead, ever and ever faster. : As the Senate committee puts it, “mobilization cannot await the overt act of war.”

The turtle beat the rabbit, but only because the rabbit fell asleep on the job.

Too Much on the Recordi"

ESSE LARSON, bos§ of the General Services Adminis. - tration—which is the buyer and office manager for. the government-—says Uncle Sam keeps too many records. There are enough records to fill 200,000 file cabinets and Mr. Larson is telling the bureaucrats to clean out. “We're retiring them where we can,” says one of Mr, Larson's aids, "but at the rate the government generates records It appears to be a losing game.” : = “This ‘has nothing to do with the -record of scandals ‘piled up by this administration. Ee Lee

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> ¥ \ » iy WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—The United States is now negotiating with Stalin on two tricky fronts; and in both cases is trying .to apply a time fest to his sincerity.

In.the Korean truce conference 30 days are . ‘allowed for the tentative demarcation line fixed

in advance of an armistice. In. Paris at the United Nationst*the Big Four gubcommittee is limited to 10 days. This time limit technique is an American compromise with the Allies, They want a Korean truce at almost any price. And they are willing to go further than the United States in play-

ing with 8talin’s phony disarmament proposals, °

hb THOUGH the Washington government is more distrustful of fhe Korean and Big Four negotiations, it" cannot act alone without danger of losing its Allies. Therefore it ig doing what the Allies want done, but for a definite trial period only and with specific terminal facilities.

PRODUCTION .. . By James Daniel Tire Picture Is Brighter

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—The picture is logking brighter for buyers of tires and other rubber products. : \ The government's monopoly buying of natural rubber-—undertaken late in 1950 when the’ Singapore price had soared to nearly 90 cents a pound-—has driven the price down to 48 cents by eliminating competitive bidding. This is about 10 cents below the price just before the Korean War began. Here at home synthetic rubber production. now accounts for.more than half of our consumption. General purpose synthetic, the most important: kind, is now being produced at the rate of 760.000 tons a year. Expansion under way should push that to 860.000 tons by next May or June.

Longer Wearing Tire

BY NEXT September it also is expected that 75 per cent of general purpose synthetic rubber will--he. of the cold rubbér type. This kind makes ‘longer wearing tires. The changeover would he 100 per eent, except that some manufacturers prefer or can use only the “hot” type, "The curbing of price gouging in natural rubber and the improvement in the volume and quality of synthetic have reduced some. of the necessity for government controls. Rubber men expect the government to start removing curbs on the use of synthetic rubber early next year, with a six-month lag before consumption curbs on natural rubber can also start coming off. Some also hope the government will ease its. monopoly on natural rubber buying. The Senate Preparedness Subcommittee could, and might still, spike such optimism. In September, the subcommittee criticized defense production authorities for letting rubber consumption run wild, to the neglect of the military stockpile. Although the rate of stockpiling waa well ahead of previous years. it wag still toa slow to satisfy the subcommittee,

Improved Position

THERE ate some indications. that the stockpile position has been improved considerably, but the subcommittee Js not yet encouraging decontrol. : .. For American consumers, the obvious improvement in the rubber situation can benefit in three possible ways-greater availability of rubber products, no more price increases, possible decreases. . ' Price decreases will come slowly. Manufacturers are now buying natural rubber (which is “rotated out” af the stockpile to avoid deterioration through age at 14 cents less per pound than formerly. But they contend increases in

the cost of other ingredients prevent price cuts at retail.

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY

IF PRESIDENT TRUMAN keeps on conducting those journalism classes, he may not have a hat to tosa in the ring for 1952. It will be worn out from talking through it. ; Be) <° 3 HOUSE Republican Leader Martin's Istanbul - interview predicting Gen. Eisenhower will win for the GOP ia causing Taft forces to list him as a young Turk. GOVERNMENT is the only business where a failure can select his successor. a da a DEMOCRATS are sorry now that the pai mink didn’t miss Noah's boat. Par of TAFT CHALLENGING delegation in Minnesota will Gophers in the hole.

Stassen for GOP put any undecided

THE BUREAU of Labor Statistica iz going to revise its cost of living index. But it stil will not include the big casino--taxeas.

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TO CAPTURE in a web of words . , . just what I want to say ... I delve into and analyze ++ + the things I must convey .. I try to give it feeling and ..". I try to instill glow . . . in each and every syllable . . , so that my readers know . of what I try to tell . .. so that it has a human side. . . appeal that makes it sell , .. I then commence to write it down . .. and soon. my words explain . ., just h and I have made a gain . . . for out of heart and soul and mind . . . God let there flow a fountain... a shower of real sentiment . . . because I'd foun the mountain.

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The theory is that, if Stalin again proves he is acting in bad faith, the Allie§ then will support ‘a firmer American policy.

It is .far from certain, however, that this -

will be the practical result. There is an even chance we shallsnot lose in the Paris negotjations, because “there it is essentially a propaganda battle in the cold war. But in Korea, higher, that innocent looking 30-day test can operate heavily against us. Significantly, in both cases the basic dispute with Stalin is the same. It is whether any agreement shall provisions, The United States asserts necessity, Stalin denies it, This, of course, has been the crux issue from the beginning wherever Russia/ and the Reds were -involved. It never has been too

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dificult to make deals with Stalin—at least many sgreements have been made for a price. But the agreements never have. been worth anything. Stalin always breaks them when he thinks it is to his ‘advantage to do so. The United States first recognized Soviet Russia on the basis of a Stalin pledge not to interfere in our internal affairs—instead he tries to operate a fifth, column here. Similarly he violated the Moscow, Tehran and Yalta wartime and Potsdam post-war agreéments, ® 4 & : ALifor HIS aggression and subversive con ~ 8piracies are in violation of the United Nations ‘charter, And all" of these violations have been “ possible because he never has permitted enforcement facilities which might be used against his lawlessness, The barrier to international arms reduction and the futility at Paris—is that Stalin will not

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"HONEST MAN . . . By Frederick C. Othman A Nemesis for Tax Cheaters

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—If Mr. Truman's still looking for an honest man as Assistant Attorney. General to prosecute tax cheaters, I've got a candidate: A modest, little, gray-haired, pink-cheeked fellow named John H. Mitchell _ He's been an underling attorney. in the. tax fraud division - of the Justice Department all along; to catch one pair of scalawags in Mobile, Ala., only had

lawyers, but his own boss, Lamar Caudle. He likewise had to take on that expert on love, Rep. Frank Boykin (D. Ala.), but when finally he was finished the proprietors of the Gulf Coast Tobacco Co. ‘ha pleaded guilty to¢ finagling the rest of us out of $100,000 in taxes and gone

to jail. You think anybody thanked T. Lamar Caudle him? «Denies special breaks. Mr. Mitchell

toid the House Investigating Committee that he almost got the old heave-ho. When he got back to the Justice Department, Mr. Caudle wouldn't give him any work to do. Wouldn't even talk to him. Since then. of course, Mr. Caudle has pecn fired by the President and part Of the tale of his mink coats, airplane rides, ofl deals and other extra-curricular activities have become public. § » He denies vigorously that he gave any special break to the ‘tobacco dealers, who actually

WASHINGTON, Dee. 4-1t the King subcommittee decides to ask Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark about those two trips he took while , Attorney-general in a plane with won't be the Justice's first experience with investigating commitiees.

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Justica Clark has said yes, he took #he trips, but added that at the time he didn't

know that the plane's ownem Troy Whitéhead of Charlotte, N. C., was under investigation in a tax case. Nevertheless, Republican members of the subcommittee want to get Justice Clark one the witness stand. Besides the plane trips, they'd like to ask him why the then Attorney General Clark appointed the now discharged Theron Lamar Caudle as head of the Justice’ Department’s tax division in ‘1947 when Mr. Caudle had had no experience in tax matfers,

' on ” on a THIS MIGHT seem to Justice Clark like where he cama *. in because he's been investi-" tated twice in the course of a 15-year career in government service, during which he ross . | from an obscure Texas lawyer

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peddied jewelry wholesale to Army PX's during the war and neglected to note the profits on their tax returns. : When Mr. Mitchell first was assigned to the case of the Mobile wholesalers, he was aghast at a phone call from Rep. Boykin, who is best known perhaps for his regularly repeated slogan: “Everything is made for ove."

Since Mr. Mitchell was heading south to°

investigate the case, suggested the Congressman, why didn’t he and his wife sojourn at_the Boykin estate on Mobile Bay? The Congressman went on to say that Mitchell's boss, Mr. Caudle, thought this was a good idea.

Fails to Agree

MR. MITCHELL didn't agree. He'd heard stories of the jewelers contributing to Mr. .Boykin's campaign funds and he wanted none of the latter’s hospitality. : All hands in the Justice Department thought he could work up no case against the crooked jewelers, who we'll identify for the recofd as Samuel Ripps and Joseph (no relation) Mitchell. The other, Mitchell, our hero, insisted. When he got to Mr. Caudle to tell him about: the new evidence, the Congressman phoned him a day later, repeating all the in-

formation he thought he'd told his boss in confidence, : Then Mr. :Caudle’s assistant, one Turner

Smith, informed Mr. Mitchell that the Assistant “Attorney General didn't want him to prosecute the case, He finally got the: characters to admit their guilt, returned to Washington in triumph, and found that he couldn't get any work to do. Nor could he get past Mr, Caudle's secretary. ‘Finally he appealed to Peyton Ford, former Deputy. Attorney General who gave him a job in another department, where he since has been going after a-different variety of thieves. His story amazed the investigators. ? Mr, Mitchell said any other honest bureaucrat would have done the same thing. I believe him,

A FEW QUESTIONS... By Andrew Tully Tom Clark Is No Stranger to Probes

to a post on the nation’s high‘est court. The ease more easily recalled by most citizens i= the 1947 lnok-3ee by a Senate commit-

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Court in 1949, the Senate confirmed the appointmeént, 73-8, But Tom Campbell young Texas attorney and upcoming politico, did get his

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‘allow international inspection behind the Iron

Curtain. The barrier to a genuine Korean truce

—and the proof of Stalin's bad faith—Iis that the Red negotiators refuse to agree to joint ar. smistice inspection and enforcement teams operating behind the Communist lines, 3 > Sp as IN ORDER to reprove Stalin's trickery, which has been proven so many times, the United States in effect has called off its ground offensive for a month and given the enemy precious time to rest, reorganize and reinforce, The effect on American troop morale, ‘if and when the offensive is belatedly resumed, can he bad. And there is no assurance whatever that our Allies, as a result of this delaying teat, will give to the Korean defense the all-out support hitherto lacking. : :

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SEEN INAININNN REALS

‘Poor Campaign’ MR. EDITOR: If ever there was a man who was sold down the river, by his own political party, that man was Bayt. Phil had it coming to him, however, and he deserves just what he got. Prior to the spring primary, Bayt was asked by the powers to be, not to run. The professional politicians wanted another man, a man more personable, more liberal and more popular with the members of the Democratic Party, Bayt however defied the advice

- of the more experienced members of his party

and ran for the nomination. Since he had the support of the City Hall workers, he was nominated fairly easily. The professional politicians in the Demoeratic Party bided their time, waiting for the tlection. And it must be said that Bayt fell right into “their plans. He became a reformer, which is not according to Hoyle in local Demseratic circles, He made a statement that he would not accept money from gamblers, that 2¢ would run them out of town, io oe oh

HE served notice on Jim Cunningham and other professional politicians that he did not want their help. In facet everybody that was not for him in the primary were shoved around by Mr. Bayt in the most amazing manner, In a desperate attempt to obtain the votes of the “better” people, he installed one-way stréets, resurfaced a great many streets, and ntherwise tried to win on a record of better traffic regulations. He overshot the mark, however, when he installed parking meters in front nf private homes and incurred the wrath of a great many voters. In fact Mr. Bayt, spurning the advice of practical and experienced politicians, made one of the most stupid campaigns in local history. » ah

COMES election day, the Democrats stayed home in droves, and thousands of those who voted, cast their vote for Judge Clark. The professional Democrats were little interested in the election, and those who were interested workéd and voted for Clark. r Mr. Bayt deserved ‘just what he got. It goes to show that amateurs cannot compete against professionals. The acting mayor has never been elected to any public office. He never will be. The Demodlratic Party in Indianapolis and Marion County will have to be reorganized from top to bottom. Now is the time for all good Democrats to come to the aid of their party.

~—Thomas J. McNamara, 1926 E. New York St.

‘Information for Reds’ MR. EDITOR: Col. Hanely let the eat out of the bag when he reported the atrocities of mass murder of United Nations prisoners of war by the Reds, violating President Truman's edict, “See nothing, hear nothing and tell less.” The President's philosophy, give the public a little information

at a time, would be like the farmer who said: -

“If you are going to cut a pig's tail off, cut a little off each time to keep it from getting too sore.” He wants to restrict the’ American presg on its news items of what is going on in the U. 8. But he does nothing about the Tass outfit sitting in on all press conferences and the activities of Congress. Tass, being a Russian spy ring, and propagandist outfit, is given unlimited rights. I would say that is “straining a gnat and swallowing a camel.” Russia now knows more about our weapons of war, our preparations for

.defense than the average American citizen, How

come? Well, here is the answer, Ae

EVERY new discovery by our scientists Is published in the press, magazines, and broadcast .over the air. We make tests of the things scientists produce. The results of the tests are given the public. Tass, the Russian information center, gives that information to the Kremlin. Russian agents gather this information day by day over a long period of time, Then put. if together little by little and get the whole storv. It may be that the fMmore they knew ahou! our abiliy to make a war, he more they will fear us; But why permit Russia to get all this information, while restricting the’ press from giving it to the American people? ’ The truth and the whole truth might allay. some fears, and give the American publie. confidence in their ability to wage a defensive war. Confidence’is half the battle. The heads of our government seem to think ignorance is bliss and it's folly to be wise. a —E. Bowman, 2831 Station St,

Attorney General in June, 1045,

at the age of 45. Clark, “

still the easy-going, extrovert

TODAY, at 52, Tom Clark is

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tee into Attorney General Clark's handling of the smelly Kansas City vote frauds of 1944, At that time. it wax charged by some Republican Senators, that the Justice DepaFtment had “whitewashed' the cage to protect leading Democrats. Among these, they raid, was « President. Truman, who had campaigned for the winning candidate in a Kansas City congressional primary, > i n #

ATTORNEY GENERAL Clark was accused of having ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to make only a superficial inquiry into the case, Moreover, Sen. Homer

' Ferguson (R. Mich.) charged

that with the Attorney General’s connivance certain pa-

pers’ had been stripped from .

the files and the serial numbers changed so ae to perpetuate a “fraud” upon the Senate committee. ° ih Nothing came: ‘of that Investigation; and when Attorney General (Clark —at the age of

49 wax nominated” by Presidgnt Truman to the Supreme

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wrist slapped by an investigating committee in Texas back in 1937.

n ~ ” = THE case involved the election of young Tom Chark’s law partner, William McGraw, to the post of states general. The investigating committee reported that after Mr. McGraw took office, part-

Jer Clark’s income experienced “a tremendous and startling increase in earnings.” . = Moreover, the committee censured young Tom Clark for not being “willing and eager

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his financial affairs.” This unfavorable publicity, however, had no effect on Tom

U.-8. Attorney General Homer

Texan, a man addicted to loud bow ties, range style Statgons

and the greeting, "How va doin’. suk?" As a Supreme Court Justice, he has been

calm and cautious and his opinions—ggherally are undistinguished: he rarely indulges in Any biting dissents. .

He is a six-footer, dark and young looking, with graying hair, a long nose and a double chin that seems incongruous with his otherwise clean-cut figure. . Married .to a Texas beauty and the father of a daughter and son, Tom Clark likes to cook the family's Sun--day breakfast usually hot cakes. He also is proud of his fried chicken, 7

- Clark’s political career. With the ' sponsorship of Sen. Tom Barbs Connally of Texas, he was ‘ appointed, in 1937, a8 a $5000- MAYBE the early bird a-year special assistant to doesn’t enjoy the worm as

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