Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1951 — Page 30

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McHale and Empire Ordnance

| AN EDITORIAL in these columns Wednesday we said that Frank McHale, Democratic National Committee-

man’ for Indiana had: &

“Induced the Bovernment to pay $935,000 to a company

in which he owned an interest for war materials that were never ordered and never produced.” Mr. McHale objects that this is incorrect and unfair to Him. : We have no wish to be unfair to Mr. McHale, and cerainly no intention of publishing statements that are incorrect. In the interest of scrupulous fairness and accuracy we are happy to present the full details of this case. The facts, all from official records, are these: The company mentioned, Empire Ordnance Corp., actually did produce during World War II, five sets of struts

for B-17 bombers, priced: by the War Department at $2125--each, or a tatal of $10,625. On the evidence of this produc.

tion it was tifen offered a contract to make them in quantities at $2125 per set, but refused to accept it at that price No more were made. After the war it filed a claim for some $3,200,000, which the War Department refused to pay. It appealed its claim to the Appeals Board for Contract Settlements, which is a part of the U. 8S. Treasury Department,

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MR. McHALE, who lists himself as a member of the Board of Directors of Empire Ordnance Corp, and hence owner of an interest in it, presented this appeal as chief legal counsel for the corporation. He did it successfully. Maybe “induced” wasn't a good word to describe the result. He won. The Appeals Board, after hearing his presentation ruled

: that Empire did not have a formal contract or order for this

work, but “had proceeded without formal contract” to get ready to make bomber struts after War Department perspnnel “persuaded” it to do so and “encouraged” it to expect a contract:to make some 2000 sets.

For this, the Board decided, it should be compensated, and by agreement the amount was fixed at $935,000. # Empire has not, as yet, actually got the money, although the War Department officially has paid it. Income collectors seized the award to meet claims of back taxes r which it has judgments in federal courts against Empire afd four other corporations which the Bureau of Internal Revenue calls “associates” of Empire. One of these is the Wilkes-Barre Carriage Co. of which Mr. McHale also lists himself as a Director. Mr. McHale is now trying, in federal court, to collect $93;500 of it for his legal services in obtaining the $935,000 award for Empire Corp.

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THERE CAN BE NO valid criticism of a lawyer who does his legal best to win, ethically, for his client, on the merits of his case. : We do not see how that includes the man who presses a case, however sound, before a court or quasi-court over which he holds real or implied power. We suspect that there is no member of a governments) agency appointed by, or responsible to, the President of the United States, who does not know when Frank McHale appears before it that he is a National Committeeman, that he is an intimate and powerful adviser of the President, that his favor or disfavor is of utmost importance to any man who holds, or seeks, appointment to such an agency. By the record, Mr. McHale, while a member of the Democratic National Committee has made personal profits from companies dealing with the government which his party controls, and has claimed professional fees for presenting casessbefore federal agencies appointed by that government. We believe he has disqualified himself for further membership on his party's most important ruling board. We believe he should resign.

Nobody Knows Nothin’

NDIANAPOLIS has a law against jaywalking but for some vague reason it isn't being enforced by the Police Department. Seems as though nobody knows nothin’ about nothin’ concerning this latest, venture into legal protection for the citizen. Chief O'Neal has an idea we ought to wait until Christmas to enforce the law but he doesn't seem to know why.

Traffic Chiéf Capt. Audry Jacobs gave an order on- Nov. 21 to policemen to- start” giving out real tickets to jaywalkers, but for some reason, nobody knows why, that hasn't been done yet. « Some. Indianapolis alleys in the ancient days were officially classified as streets. It isn’t illegal for a citizen to cross from one official street corner to another, even though in reality he is crossing in the middle of the block, not at accepted pedestrian crosswalks. Nobody seems to ow what to do about that. = = o 2 ” 8 i: AFTER THE Jacobs’ order was given out some policemn tried to get official jaywalker tickets but nobody seemed know where or what they were. Seems as though somebody forgot to tell somebody else the tickets for jaywalking would be the same ones used in parking violations. In fact, Chief O'Neal, by his own admission, doesn’t know what the jaywalking ordinance means. We believe we do. It means jaywilking is illegal. It means jaywalkers “should be arrested.

It means it’ S better to be a live pedestrian than a dead jaywalker.

IF PRESIDENT TRUMAN really means to clean house, - the best thing he can get for Christmas is a patrol’ wagon.

® 8 =u J bh 8 8.» 4 PREDICTION—There will be less ‘take-home pay for federal tax collectors in 1952.

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CONGRESSIONAL QUESTION

‘How Can lke Trey Run? His Job In Europe

‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—Congressmen. returning from Western European army studies are posing what could become a hard question for Eisenhower-for-President leaders to answer in coming months. ‘It is. this: x _ How ‘can Gen. Ike, rated abdve all others as the man to knit together an Allied defense force, ‘leave his job when it is so far from finished and come home to seek political office? The original thinking of pro - Eisenhower politicians was that the General, early in 1052 after. he had been in Europe a year, could say the Atlantic Pact army. was well

~~ Gen. lke , advanced and that someone ...Job to de. else could take over, But that isn’t the situation today and those just back from Europe say it isn’t likely to be

DEFENSE . . . By Douglas Larsen

Will New UMT Sell Itself?

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—Proponents of the new universal military training program, which will become a hot issue soon after Congress reconvenes, believe they've got a plan this time the country will buy. . They think that most of the people are sold on the need for UMT. And they believe that the program just proposed by the National Security Training Commission reduces to an absolute minimum the complaints that the traditional opponents of UMT have always offered. It calls for six months of training, which, they believe, isn't long enough to wreck any boy's civilian career. Training starts when a boy reaches 18. It's just about as unmilitary a program as it can be made. The boys will not operate under the Articles of War They cannot be sent into combat. There will be rigorous moral supervision of them while they are in the training corps. At the end of training they will have to serve in one of the civilian reserve components of the services for seven and one-half years.

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THE BOY$ will get $30 per month, a free $10,000 life insurance policy which will continue

. four months after they are out, allotments to de-

pendents and disability benefits equal to those given veterans. A great deal of the traditional opposition to universal training has come from educators, the labor unions and the churches. The six months reduces the antagonism of the educators. A boy determined to keep on going to school will not be vitally deterred in his plans by that relatively short interruption. A summer vacation and one semester is all that need be lost. Relative shortness of the training also spikes the main objection of the unions which was that it would interfere with a boy's job career. Also boys would be guaranteed re-employment rights. And the emphasis on strict moral guidance in the program should pacify to some extent the church opposition.

dW TOP POLICY on the character of the train-

ing program will be made by the National Se-.

curity Training Commission, composed mostly of prominent civilians. Among a long list of pronosed regulations is the following: “No beer should be sold in a UMT training area. All taverns and bars within a reasonable distance from UMT camps or stations should be off-limits to trainees, and a penalty would be attached to the keeper of such-a place, wherever located, if he knowingly permits a trainee to enter and purchase an intoxicating drink.” The questipbn of who can be deferred from training, and ‘who might be drafted for regular military service and who might be put into the UMT program, the commission recommends, should be decided locally by draft boards. Deferments for universal training would’ be the same as they are for the present draft. A boy will be allowed to finish high school and to finish an academic year if he has started college. Se DB IF THE services are drafting men for regular military duty at the same time men are being selected for training, the local draft boards will have a very difficult problem on their hands. . They will have to decide what boys will go for six months and what boys for 21 months of regular duty. It will be a tough decision. Army will get about half the boys, the Navy including the Marine Corps 28 per cent and the Air Force 22 pe ' cent. Training will be strictly military. The Army plans to give the first 17 weeks over to basic training. Next six weeks will be training with units and some leadership instructions. The balance will be schooling in special Army sub-

jects. STICK TO IT

THE WORDS “I can't” do not exist . . . as . because nothing’s impossible . . , or so at least I've learned . , .

“I've learned that though life's road is rough ..:

and very often swerves . . . that with the help of God I can . . , drive round the sharpest curves . . . I've learned to stick to things 1 start . . . until I see them through . . , and with the will to persevere . there's nothing I can’t do . .. and when the chips are really down . .. and all my skies are dark . .. that is Just the time I stick . . . because I'm near the mark . . . so when my luck is failing . . . and raindrops start to fall . . . I'll conquer ali my troubles if . . . I stick and give my all. ~By Ben Burroughs.

SIDE GLANCES

"You had a big red ark on your nose last year, Sintal Did you it operated on?"

“a complete rupture.

By Galbraith

- for" a long time, There has been an unquestioned lag in getting the Allied army organized and Gen. Eisenhower is heset by vast difficuities. Grave doubts have been expressed as to . Whether the pact plan will work and there has been Speculation about alteinatives,

CHAIRMAN RICHARD B. RUSSELL (D. Ga.) of the Senate Armed Bervices Committee, who returned from France this week, put the problem in focus: He said it will be a major miracle if all the difficulties facing Ike can be worked out in less than 10 or 12 months. He added that he knew “no man in the free world who can hold the thing together as well as Gen. Eisenhower,” Other : written reports from Europe have made the same point—that Gen. Eisenhower holds a place in the European mind equalled by no other man. Bernard M. Baruch returned from Europe some time ago to say that people trying to get Gen. Eisenhower away from his

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fob and into politics were doing a disservice to the country. The idea that Gen. Eisenhower is the indispensable man in Europe has been fostered by Republican supporters of Sen. Robert A. Taft because they would like to keep the General out of the confest for the Republican presidential nomination. But the comment of the Rus~ sells and Baruchs I Qiferent. &

EISENHOWER leaders say Gen. Eisenhower's becoming President would not jeopardize the Western European defense effort—that he could lend it greater support and direction from the

" White House than from Paris.

They say at present he is a subordinate, that Washington's failure to keep all its promises to .the General is one of his troubles, that his Republican ‘opponents have been glad to see obstacles put in his way. And they say it would give Europe's people a tremendous morale lift to know their friend was in the powerful role of United States President.

. By Ludwell Denny

‘U. S. May Get the Big Squeeze—

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—The United States is in danger of getting caught in the middle in the Egyptian-British conflict if it tries to be

neutral. American Ambassador Jefferson Caffery in Cairo has saved the Egyptian government from a near-break in diplomatic := Ss relations. It had decided to recall its ambassador from London, and was considering : Mr. Catf- ; fery’s go-slow warning has been successful temporarily. Both London and Cairo : want Washington to act as a conciliator. But each side expects the United States to .. favor it. Since pleasing both a sides in such a dispute is impossible, a fuzzy American _% oo i policy can result in worse relations with either Britain or Mr. Caffery Egypt. ... Go slow, Or with both. That was the net -result of American efforts to mediate the Iranian- British oil dispute.

The Iranian government expected Washington to let American companies” move in, on Iranian terms, to run the oil fields and refinery after the British were kicked out. When Washington refused to do that the Iranians imagined they weré victims of a double-cross. Likewise the British accused Washington of letting them down. Under American pressure London reversed its original policy to defend its Abadan refinery. But when Iran seized Abadan in defiance of the World Court's temporary injunction, Washington did nothing. Many Ariton’'s now blame the United States for British humiliation and loss of oil revenues. American effort as a mediator in Egypt could be more costly than in Iran. For the issues are more complicated and the stakes are higher. Any idea that the U. 8. government could

- FRIENDSHIP

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—If I were a federal bureaucrat, I

swear, I do believe I'd go around snarling at people and - stomping on their corns,r That'd keep me from making friends. The trouble with the latter, insofar as a government big shot is concerned, is that they're inclined to let you down. A sk Charlie Oliphant, o ‘He used to be the happy « °* ) citizen who was chieg Mr Oliphant counsel for the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He worked hard, nursed an ulcer, landed untold finagling.taxpayers in jail, and probably still would be on the job if.it weren't for his friends. One of these was T. Lamar Caudle, the tax prosecutor at the Justice Department, whom President Truman fired, largely because of his phony friends. Another was our local mystery man, Henry Grunewald. - Now Mr. Oliphant has re-

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qualify as a mediator in the sense of being a disinterested party is obviously false. American interests prevent neutrality in the dispute. International defense of the Suez area is essential to Middle East security and American interests. It has ceased to beé Britain's sole responsibility, and Egypt alone cannot possibly guarantee that security. So the United States, together with Britain, France and Turkey, proposed that Egypt and others join them in a Mideast defense system which would take over responsibility for Suez.

Can't Guarantee Security

UNDER THESE circumstances, Egypt's lawless tearing up of the British Suez treaty and refusal to permit an international command to share authority there endanger world peace and American security no less than British interests. Therefore any show of American neutrality would be not only stupidly deceptive but a failure to defend American interests, which is the chief duty of this government. Anything less than frank insistence on Allied defense bases in the Middle.East will invite more trouble in that area, where the United States already is distrusted by the Arab states for alleged double-dealing against them in .the Israeli conflict. The Egyptian mobs American as anti-British. They are now beginning to turn on the Cairo government, which promised to kick out the British army and cannot deliver. In that situation it is not as easy to get the Cairo government off the hook as for the United States to get itself on the hook.

What Others Say—

THE winning of freedom is not to be compared to the winning of a ball game—with victory recorded forever... . Freedom ... must be daily earned and refreshed-—else . . . it will wither and die. —Gen. Eisenhower.

By Frederick C. Othman

Phones His Pal and Trouble Begins

are almost as anti-

Isn't Finished

President Truman in August said Gen. Eisenhower was doing a wonderful job in Europe and that he hoped and thought he would stay on the job as long as necessary, He also said, .answering ‘a. press conference question, that he did not think the general's assignment might interfere with things that might happen in 1952 if Gen. Eisenhower happened to be in a political mood. : > + 4 HE SAID he thought Gen. Eisenhower under any conditions would put duty to country first. Since then, by most reckoning, the dificulties confronting the Atlantic Pact undertaking have not decreased. Gen, Eisenhower himself came to Washington last month to discuss the help he needs from the U: 8. And it has been necessary in recent weeks to lower some of the sights set originally for the pact project. Gen. Eisenhower's own yes-or-no answer may come when his name is entered next month in the New Hampshire presidential primary.

Hoosier Forum

"| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." —Voltaire.

BROAN RIERA RRR NRA TNR RRRRRRRANRRY

‘Mere Money Here’

MR. EDITOR: More money for the state of Indiana and the city of Indianapolis. The other day I was ridifig on one of the trackless trolleys of Indianapolis when a truck came across the street at New York and Alabama. The truck was going east on New York and the trolley was going north. The trolley didn’t give this truck” a chance to get clear across the street before pulling away from the curb, The trolley hit the truck about two feet on the back end. The driver of the truck parked, and came back to make a report out. He asked the operator for his driver’s license and the operator told him they didn't have to have any. Well, what I don’t understand is, why do cabs have to have public passenger licenses and everybody else have to have a license to drive? oi dhe THE CITY busses are the only ones that have a plate. - Why not make Indianapolis’ Railways buy for all that they run on streets or highways? This would give the state more money. Now for the city. I think if the police would start giving the drivers of the railways a ticket for such reckless driving they would make a lot more money to keep up the city. You are going to come back and tell me that the Railways gets permits from the PSC instead of- buying licenses. Well, for as much as they hike fares I think they can afford both. Think I'll take to walking. It will be a lot safer than riding with somebody like the employees of the Railways. Your paper is great and your Forum is greater. It still shows that we have a little freedom. If people would” say more outside and stick together, this would be a fine world to live in.

sEssessessRRRERERRISRY, Sresesssnsnsnessrsnnee?

—A Veteran, City. ‘A Lot of Hogwash’

MR. EDITOR: The open letter addressed to all the boys in the Armed Forces, written by Mrs. Arthur Lantz, is in my opinion a lot of hogwash and makes one wonder when, if ever, the American people are going to come to their senses. Of courge, we all think the boys in the service are fine, much too fine to be sent to be slaughtered in Korea in fighting a futile war in which we would be the loser if we won a military victory. Neither do I think any one Fair Dealer, either of the garden variety or one who is a political henchman of old Tom Pendergast, has any moral or Constitutional right to send them there to be slaughtered. It is my own opinion that the boys of this generation are the victims of a cancerous political monstrosity known as the New Deal and Fair Deal which cannot make their philosophy of government work as a peace time économy. It is totalitarian combination of communism and fascism that reeks with militarism and corruption. Little wonder we cringe before Joe Stalin and his Chinese hosts. However, suppose it must be what the people want because they are getting just what they voted for. —C. D. C., Herre Haute

Views on the News

ATTORNEY GENERAL McGRATH'S testimony before the King committee indicates he was playing the game with both eyes on the bench. . SS 9% SIMILE—Routine as the monthly report that food prices have reached a new all-time high. : A AMERICAN FARM BUREAU PRESIDENT Allan B. Kline has some statistics on the decrease in farmers’ incomes which seem to indicate some of the members may have to sell their airplanes. . oe SD NEW BROOM Democratic National Chairman McKinney expects the party to be as spic and span in 1952 as the unused planks in the 1948 platform. SS Hb THE SENATE Preparedness Committee hearings about procurement irregularities in the Armed Services show that soldiers can compete with politicians. —D. K., .

government's -

signed in protest over testi-

mony that he somehow was involved in an alleged shake-

down of the late Al Capone's

mouthpiece, Abraham Teitelbaum. ~ = s THIS, THE slim Mr. Oli-

phant with the deeply lined face, the ready smile and the receding hairline, has denied vigorously. What he did not deny was his friendship for the portly Grunewald, a character with a Germanic accent who apparently has grown wealthy in his private operations on the fringes of government,

George Schoeneman, the commissioner of Internal Revenue who resigned himself not long ago because of poor health, introduced his chief attorney to Dutch Grunewald about five years ago. They became fast friends. Visited in each other's houses; had lunch together frequently. Mr. Oliphant spent time, he testified, in Mr. Grunewald’'s suite at the Washington Hotel, in his place at the lush Westchester Apartments, in his winter establishment in Florida and his summer home in New Jersey. He even bought an automobilé from Grunewald and still owes him $1300, .

“And I never had any reason to believe that Mr. Grunewald was anything other than an honest, honorable member of the community,” Mr. Oliphant told the House tax investigat ing committee,

He didn’t, that is, until the Dutchman (Grunewald's local nickname) suggested that Mr. Oliphant refrain from mentioning his interest in the Teitelbaum case. That gave Mr. Oliphant pause. Yomi.

I SUPPOSE Mr. Oliphant was a busy man. He never did see anything in the papers, 1 guess, about: Mr. Grunewald'’s part in a Senate investigation into who hired a Capital cop to tap the telephone lines of airplane magnate Howard Hughes. - Mr. Grunewald was an important, though reluctant, witness in the case. Ah, well. Shows what a man’s friends can do. Mr. Oliphant testified that at one of

his luncheons with the Dutchs-

man, the. latter inquired casually whether Mr. Teitelbaum was to be prosecuted as a racketeer, or more gently as an ordinary tax evader. Mr. Oliphant didn’t know, but he found out and phoned

his pal. That's when his troubles with the investigators began.

“What if a newspapérman had called you,” asked .committee counsel Adrian Dewind. “Would you have told him?” “Not necessarily,” said Mr. Oliphant,

Gad. I have nothing more to say, except that I've always regarded myself as a friend of Mr. Oliphant. I trust he does not consider this dispatch as ending our relationship. If he does, it just goes to show how friendships can get all messed up,

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