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Clark Should Talk

HEN the House committee investigating the scandal in the Internal Revenue Bureau and the Justice Department recessed for the holidays, there were some wide open gaps in the story. They are gaps which could be filled by testimony from some conspicuous public officials the committee seems reluctant to call. _a At the head of the list is Supreiie Court Justice Tom C. Clark. Mr. Clark was atterney general when T. Lamar Caudle was made chief of the criminal division of the Justice Department, and when Caudle was shifted to the tax fraud division from which President Truman fired him. There has been testimony that Mr. Clark knew, when he took Caudle on, of an FBI report which linked Caudle with a man in tax trouble. Two weeks ago, Chairman Cecil R. King of the House committee said Mr. Clark would be invited to testify. Later, Mr. King said the committee didn't want to “set a precedent” by calling a justice of the Supreme Court. Justice Clark, apparently, does not intend to volunteer. But he has a moral obligation to tell the committee what he knows. His testimony is pertinent to the investigation. And no one, not even a Supreme Court justice, should be above the cause of good government.

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THE NAMES of three members of Congress have figured in the investigation to date. Charles Oliphant, the former legal chief of the Internal Revenue Bureau, testified a $181,000 tax evasion case ‘was not prosecuted because Rep. James H. Morrison of Louisiana, who was “obligated” to one of the defendants, asked him not to prosecute. Mr. Oliphant also testified that Sen. H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire was interested in a tax case. And a Justice Department lawyer testified that Rep. Frank A. Boykin of Alabama was active in behalf of defendants in a major tax fraud case. This is no place for the ‘‘congressional courtesy’ rule. These members of Congress should be asked to testify under - oath. And if Justice Clark doesn't volunteer, the dommittee ought to summon him, even if it does set a precedent.

Give Him a Medal UNSAVORY little men and their scrambles to get their

fingers in the government's strawberry jam pot have been catchigy the headlines lately.

In cofitrast, the news made by a small tool-making firm

. in Nofth Wales, Pa., practically was overlooked.

The firm, Greene, Tweed & Co., last February submit‘ed the best bid and got a contract to. make 1200 wrenches for the Army. But after it finished the job the company found that its profit was bigger than it had figured. So 't has offered to refund $6216—the extra profit—to the sovernment. Some bureaucrat along the line said the manufacturer was under no obligation to return the money. But the company didn’t see it that way. Said Walter Josephson, the firm's general manager: “We had the moral obligation to refund the money. We have no desire to make more than a fair profit. Honesty is still the sane policy in business.” We hopé€ Army red tape won't keep this offer from being snapped up. It's as refreshing as the little men with the big deals are repugnant.

Short-Term Heroes

"FHE Hungarian Comniunists have erected a huge bronze statue of Joseph Stalin in Budapest, as part of a tribute to the Soviet dictator on his 72d birthday Friday. ’ Announcing the unveiling of the statue, a Communist ewspaper has called Stalin “the greatest figure of Hunarian history.” Only a few years ago the Nazi newspapers were saying a2uch the same thing about Adolf Hitler, but any statues rected in his honor at that time long since must have een melted down and turned into something useful. That All probably happen to Uncle Joe's bronze, too, when nother chapter is added to. Hungarian history. ! Meanwhile we imagine many Hungarians will still refer the music of Franz Liszt to Stalin's interpretation of Leninism.

Dangerous Lies

HE RED CROSS most certainly is not making any money out of the blood it is collecting for our troops n Korea. Nevertheless, two Midwestern newspapers report that some people are saying the Red Cross is making profits on the blood you give, and “they won't give a soldier a trans‘sion unless he can pay for it.” These are lies. Dangerous lies, because if enough people helieye such malicious gossip the supply of blood for our troops might be reduced gt this crucial time. The facts are that the Red Cross is spending about $1.5 million of its own funds this year to collect blood for ‘he Armed Forces. The rest of the cost, about $12 million, i3 being paid by the federal government. © No soldier is ever asked to pay for a transfusion. It is free, just as all his medical care is free. These rumors are just the sort of story that spies and other subversives always try to spread in wartime. And they always seem to find gullible blabbermouths to help them in their work.

WHEN CIO Steelworkers President Phil Murray says “ve will not work without a contract, ” he even tries to look

like John L. Lewis.

» A “people's democtacy—Soviet style” is a = where 4 od have to bootleg Ciyggstmas. :

Chairman Cecil R. King (D. Cal.)

TAX SCANDALS . . . By Andrew Tilly

How Come 3 Congressmen Don’t Have To. Explain

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19--You can call it congressional courtesy if you like. What it means is that nobody plans to ask for explanations from those three members of Congress whose names have been mentioned uncharitably.

in the King committee’ 8 hearings on income tax; scandals. - This privileged trio includes Sen. Styles Bridges (R. N. H.), Rep. Frank W. Boykin (D. Ala.) and Rep. James H. Morrison (D. La.), all linked with cases of influence peddling before the committee. : dd OFFICIALLY, it is not put quite so bluntly. says he doesn’t “think” the trio will be called. Chief Counsel Adrian W. Dewind says “there are no pJans” to call them. What jt all adds up to is that Congressmen seldom ask embarrassing questions of each other. Mr. Boykin—whose motto is “Everything is

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made for love"—was the first member of Congress to be Brought into: the spotlight-— on Dec, 3. At that time, the committee heard both Theron Lamar Caudle, ousted assistant attorney -general, and John Mitchell, one of his former assistants, testify about “dozens” of phone calls Mr. Boykin made in ‘behalf of four Alabamans involved in a $400,000 tax fraud case. > o> MR. CAUDLE minimized Mr. Boykin's interference, but Mr. Mitchell saw it in a more sinister light. He testified that “in some way” there had been a leak whereby Mr. Boykin learned the details of the government's case. Mr. Mitchell said Mr. Boykin also: . Wrote several letters to the Justicé Department saying that prosecution of the defendants —two of whom later were convicted and sent to jail—would be ‘a’ grave miscarriage of Justice.” ! Invited Mr. Mitchell and his wife to stay

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MR. EDITOR: The newspapers tell us that Frank E. MKinney, head barker for the Fair Deal honkey tonk, made a nice little profit of around $68,000 in a deal in which the American taxpayers eventually footed the bill. This did not seem to deter Mr. McKinney in trying to give his own party a buildup by accusing Col. Robert E. McCormick and Sen, McCarthy of fear and smear tactics and citing the sanctity of ExSen. Millard Tydings who was beaten for

re-election. However, the same newspapers carry another headline telling us John 8. Service has been fired because there is reasonable doubt as to his loyalty. Now, as it happens, Service was one of the persons under fire by both McCormick and McCarthy and he was one of the men given a nice, clean whitewash by Millard Tydings. The same newspaper, incidentally, tells us Harry Truman, who received his political education from Tom Pendergast, is not going to dismiss McKinney. He also said not long ago he was going to keep Dean Acheson, who would not turn his back on Alger, Hiss. It would seem that after 20 years, ‘the American people would have enough of such things as war, confusion, communism and corruption in government. However, only time will tell. Meantime the war goes on. Our boys fight, freeze and die The Fair Dealers tell us we must save Democracy and make a. free world in which to live and one wonders if this is the kind of a free ‘world our boys are fighting and dying for.

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-—C. D. C.,, Terre Haute.

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‘Smear Campaign’ MR. EDITOR: The “smear” campaign that The Times has been waging against Frank McKinney burns me up. Here is “local boy” who hits the big time, and what do you do but try to smoke him out before he can even prove himself. The charge that he made a 68 to 1 profit on that stock deal with the Empire Tractor firm is so much hog-wash. The fact is the profit was more like 3 to 1, when you consider the $25,000 he had to buy in preferred stock to get the common shares. Since when is it a crime for a man to risk some capital in a legitimate stock market transaction? I don’t think Frank McKinney will be easy to ‘smoke out.” Contrary to a lot of the Washington brass these days (Republicans included), Frank's record is unassailable. If it wasn't, I'm sure he would never have taken

~ {he job as Democratic National chairman.

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TROUBLE .

ALDIE, Va., Dec. 19—1T never thought that when I drove out here, 40 miles from Washington, to attend a pre-Christmas buffet supper at the home of may old friends, Hank and Kitty Weaver, that I'd be writing about it. Talk about trouble: The temperature at dusk was 5 above; the sun setting over the snow-covered ‘hills made _the Virginia countryside look like a Christmas card. And there was the Weaver house,

on a knoll above Hank's private, bass-filled lake. So far, so good. » » » INSIDE, the house smelled spicy. It was warm. The fireplaces glowed. The cook in the kitchen was humming, the dining room table was set with Kitty's best silver, and through the house wandered an accordfon player Hank had hired especially for the occasion. Just as the sun went down, there was a flash down by the road. Blooie. : The transformer on a pole ad burned out. The lights

are for went out. The oil furnace went

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With him when Mr. Mitchell went to Alabama on the case, be A few days later—on Dec. 8—up popped the name of Rep. Morrison. Rufus D. McLean, a Justice Department attorney, described Mr. Morrison as having performed many of the functions of a defense attorney in a $181,000 Washington case. This case never was prosecuted despite the fact the Internal Revenue Bureau was “convinced of the defendants’ guilt.” In one instance, Mr. McLean testified, the part of the case involving the year 1942 was lost because Mr. Morrison insisted on conferring about it with Charles Oliphant, resigned Internal Revenue Bureau chief counsel. The statute of limitations expired in August, but Mr. Oliphant couldn't give the go-ahead sign because Mr. Morrison was in Louisiana and wouldn't be back until Sept. 10. ® > oP

A FEW months later, after further intervention by¥*Mr. Morrison, Mr. McLean said, the 1943

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case was lost when Mr. Oliphant failed to submit needed information u til the day before the statute on that case ran out. The case never was ‘prosecuted, ¢ SEN. BRIDGES’ name was brought up by Mr. Oliphant in connection with a $7 million tax case involving a Baltimore liquor dealer. This case now is being settled out of court. Mr. Oliphant said he was approached about the case by Henry (the Dutchman) Grunewald, Washington “public relations man,” “who, he said, represented himself as speaking in behalf of Sen. Bridges. There also is still the case of Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark, Justice Clark has not chosen to testify before the committee as to why he appointed Mr, Caudle head of the Justice Department's tax division, when Mr. Caudle had no previous tax experience. And Chairman King doesn’t plan to do anything about it; he says he doesn’t want his committee to create the precedent of subpenaing a Supreme Court justice,

. By James Daniel

Justice Department Takes a Look

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19—The Justice Department has asked the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to help the U. 8. attorney in Chicago digest the evidence in the Commercial Home Equipment Corp. case. Commercial Home was organized by Paul Buckley, Lustron Corp. stockholder and director, and two Chicago truckers, James and John Gottlieb. It handled transportation of Lustron “prefab” houses into which the old RFC board sank $3712 million. Among other things, the Senate Fulbright Committee hearings developed that the company for 12 months collected rent from Lustron for 40 nonexistent truck tractors. The employee at Lu&tron who was assigned to count the truck tractors had been recommended for his job by the manager of Commergial Home. On his job application he said he had worked for the Gottlieb brothers’ other trucking business.

‘More Experience’—

ON THE witness stand in the Senate hearings, he said he really had worked for a Gottlieb nephew. He said he put the other information down to show “more experience.” His method of counting the truck tractors was to find out from the company how many vehicles they claimed to have supplied, then list that on his report. The Fulbright committee strongly censured the old RFC board for failure to protect the public investment in the Lustron venture. ‘The committee’ s report, containing references to “false statements” and “fraud” formally recommended that the Justice Department

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“ascertain whether there is probable cause to believe that an offense has been committed against the laws of the United States.” The only bouquets were directed at the old RFC’s four-man compliance staff. One Senator said the investigators ought to have received more of the RFC’s budget money for their work in this and other cases. Two of these investigators—Harvey Posner and William J. Miller—have been lent to the Chicago U. 8. attorney, Otto Kerner Jr, in organizing the evidence, The Justice Department didn’t send it to Mr. Kerner until last month. .

A Little Too Late

LAST WEEK, Mr. Kerner said that the evi- ~ dence reached him too late under the three-year statute of limitations to de anything about the first month during which Commercial Home drew money frorh Lustron. He said it was “not unusual” for him to receive cases from Washington too late to prosecute. The Justice Department had held the evidence in this case for 19 months. In the earliest phase of the Lustron-Com-mercial Home relations, RFC investigators said, the trucking company ‘overcharged Lustron $30,000 by reporting truck tractorsin service before they were delivered. In the second phase, the RFC men computed the overcharge as $500,000. At the Senate hearings, Commercial Home officials claimed oral permission from a Lustron vice president, now dead, for this overcharge. RFC investigators pointed out such a defense was not made in earlier questioning.

. By Ludwell Denny

U.S. Faces Showdown With Allies

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 — With only eight days to go before the Korean truce talk deadline, the United States faces a new showdown with its Allies. !

Whether an armistice is unexpectedly achieved or all-out fighting is resumed, there will have te be a United Na- » tions policy agreement. No such agreement is in sight. If there is a military truce, the Allies are split over negotiations for the political settlement to follow. If there is no truce, the Allies are split on the kind of war to wage. Whichever way it goes the only hope of a United Nations agreement on peace terms or on war strategy is that Prime Minister Winston Churchill will shift British policy over toward the’American position. That might swing a United Nations majority. Otherwise the United States will be virtually isolated. As to peace terms, Ambassador-at-Large John Foster Dulles has just reaffirmed to President Syngman Rhee that the United States will continue to strive for unification of a free Korea. Two members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sens. John J. Sparkman (D. Ala.) and H. Alexander Smith (R. N. J.), also in Korea, confirmed this. In theory this is United Nations policy. But in fact it is not. Besides Russia and her satellites, some non-Red. nations within the United - Nations think the Koreans should be left to decide their future tor themselves. That is merely a trick way of saying let Korea become another Red satellite. Koreans would never vote for such slavery in a free election, but Chinese and Russian “civilian volunteers” .would soon extend the puppet regime of North Korea to cdver Jouth. Korea.

Stalemate Peace? THE LEADER in such United Nations think-

Mr. Dulles

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~ ing is India. She is ready to sacrifice Korean

freedom and United Nations obligations for a so-called peace dominated by Red China. Her reasons for such suicidal appeasement are not entirely clear, Apparently Mr. Nehru hopes that Red China, if granted a “sphere of influence” in Korea and Japan as well as Tibet and Indo-China, will not drive farther southward to imperil India and its own “sphere.” India, as a member of the British Commonw2alth and ‘a key to"Midlaya and Southeast Asia, has influence in London. Mr. Chiirchill does not agree with Mr. Nehru but at least

. By Frederick C. Othman Pre-Christmas Buffet Supper Goes ‘Blouie’

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may be stopped by the Indian factor from going all the way over to the American position.

A larger United Nations group, with which both Britain and France are now identified, would accept the old partition of Korea. This is despite the fact that the Reds held the north only by refusing to allow the United Nations commission to supervise free elections there, and then. attacked South Korea. The British-French argument is that a stalemate peace is better than a stalemate war, when United Nations forces are needed to protect Europe. The same attitude explains the majority: United Narions opposition to fighting the war to victory if the current truce: negotiations fail. Regardless ot the United Nations resolution of October, 1950, authorizing the military recovery of all Korea, they want no United Nations offensive. Above all they oppose Allied bombing of Red air bases in Manchuria, which is essential to victory. If the United States runs out on Korea it will encourage all Asia and Japan to bow to the Kremlin; Betrayal would destroy the collective security system in Europe as well as in the Pacific, though the Allies hate to face it. This is the most dangerous aspect of the disagreement—our Allies do not realize the consequences.

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY

IRAN is going to try prohibition. must be short of gangsters.

BUDAPEST has erected a 25-foot bronze statue of Stalin. Hungarians will appreciate this sort of “flowers for the living” tribute to their Russian master—it will make such a nice pigeon roost,

T. LAMAR CAVDLE says he still is wondering why he ° was fired, but most everybody * else is wondering why he was hired. :

REP. B. CARROLL REECE says Sen. Taft will ° have the solid South with him for the GOP presidential nomination. He'll’ only lose it on election day.

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JUST FROM looking at the pictures, you: can't tell whether Judge Thomas F. Murphy will be able to clean up administration corruption, but he sure looks like a Well-equipped man to pass the hat.

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» » » KITTY WENT looking for candles. She found four, which weren't much help in a house 100 years old with some 2 large rooms. Hank tried to introduce his guests as they came in, but soon gave this up. There, wasn't much sense in identifying a newcomer that nobody could see. Folks who wanted to shake hands had to do it by feel. Hank poured himself a stiff drink and had his friends, country dwellers all, hurry out to their cars and bring in their flashlights. Soon he had fifty of these in strategic spots and growing dimmer by the minute. Something else was happening. The ladies, in particular, no-

Hank piled wood on his fireplaces, but this didn’t do much good. Now wives were losing their husbands in the dark and going yoo-hoo, Somebody wondered if he could have a cup of coffee. I've got to hand it to Kitty, the unruffied hostess. She laughed. Coffee takes water, which she didn’t have. Even if she did, she couldn't boil it. She went out to comfort the cook, who was on the verge of tears on account of the biscuits and the pies she had popped vainly into the oven an hour before. Let us face it.

» » » THE GUESTS got hungry. They wandered back to the dining room, bringing the stub

What Others Say—

THERE 1s not likely to be any change (in Ireland’s neutrality policy in the event of a world war).—Prime Minister Eamon fe Valera, on Ireland’s role in Atlantic defense.

ALL THE United States and the Allied powers have to do Is to cease ging and there will be peace.—Alexander 8S. Panyushkin, Soviet Ambassador to U. 8. |

‘I DENY that one, in order to be a good Jew, must go to Jewish

Israel.—Rabbl Irving Miller, president of American

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melt the snow on the doorstep. ” . ” THE HOURS passed in chitchat with people who couldn't see each other. I got kissed by a strange lady; in the gloom she thought I was somebody else. She apologized. I said let

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nice talk. She had a beautiful voice. Someday I hope to see what she looks like. In the middle of the evening most of the guests went home, leaving their dead flashlights behind. Eventually the power came back on, The lamps

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