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A Slap on the Wrist

7f*HE FOUR American fliers have been reléased from their Hungarian prison, and the Communist blackmailers have pocketed the $120,000 ransom money which our government paid as alleged. “fines.” Cr In reprisal, our namby-pamby State Department has closed the Hungarian consulates in Cleveland and New York, and banned American travel in Hungary. And in an

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WASHINGHON, * Dec. 20—Harold Stassen ' has started

“the Republi¢gn presidential nomination.

implied threat of real indignation to come if we are pushed

around any more, the department added, “our patience is not inexhaustible.” 4 ~The travel ban is an empty gesture, because an ~American who would visit Hungary under present circumstances would have to be a. fool, a Communist, or both. But the State Department hasn't closed the Hungarian legation in Washington or recalled the American minister from Budapest. It hasn't invoked any economic measures against the Hungarian Reds. Since the Hungarian Reds have gotten off so easily, where will the.next bite come from? Romania, Bulgaria or Albania? Now that we are in the business of paying blackmail, the rest of the satellites aren't likely to pass up this method of making some quick dollars. . =. This shakedown racket probably is the Moscow substi“tute for the Marshall Plan, which the Reds weren't allowed to join.

Good Going POLICY makers of the CIO United Steelworkers have decided to call off the strike previously authorized for. New Year's Day. That was a stroke of union statesmanship. It can be hailed with relief and appreciation. Union President Philip Murray and the steelworkers’ executive and wage policy committees apparently want the union to go along with ‘President Truman's appeal to let the government's Wage Stabilization Board try working out a satisfactory ‘settlement.

* ' There is every indication that the union membership

will follow its leaders’ wishes. Union delegates are expected to approve the President's request Thursday at Atlantic City. The steel industry already has accepted it. The steel dispute is a tough one to crack. The union wants a wage increase and other benefits. Steel companies say they can’t meet these demands without raising prices— thus. setting off another inflationary spiral. There's no question but that the Wage Stabilization Board will be facing up to its toughest assignment when it tries to work out a solution satisfactory to everybody. But the big thing now is that an immediate strike has been averted. The country can't afford to have its steel mills shut down just as the defense effort is beginning to make headway. That's why the leadership demonstrated Thursday by Mr. Murray and his associates was particularly welcome.

It's Still Too Many MERICAN RAILROADS will wind-up 1951 with fewer passenger deaths and injuries than in 1950, provided no major accident occurs in the days remaining. U. 8. airlines didn't do so well, although Civil Aeronautics Administrator Charles F. Horne points out that the low fatality rate on U. 8. international lines made the combined death rate for all U. S. scheduled airlines the “same as the 1850 figure: 1.2 per 100 million passenger _ miles. : : On the trains, 153 passengers have been killed. In planes, 142 were killed on scheduled lines, and 53 in the recent non-sked crash in New Jersey. Since railroad passenger mileage is more than two and a half times that of all airlines, the railroad death rate was much lower. But while few people survive plane crashes, nearly 3000 passengers were injured in railway accidents this year. And it is clear that failure to install modern safety equipment has been a factor in railroad accidents. These accident rates are still too high in a country that is supposed to have the best equipment in the world. Neither the railroads, nor the airlines, nor Mr. Horne's agency can be proud of them.

Isn't He Our Giglio? ICHAEL GIGLIC, 49, is under arrest in Chicago, and

threatened with deportation to his native Italy because he was caught putting slugs in vending machines. ! This is a practice which cannot be condoned. And it seems to be a, practice with Giglio, who was convicted of a similar offense in 1941. - But if the penalty is presumed to fit the crime, deportation is pretty stiff punishment for this offense. Giglio was brought to this country as a child of 3. He served this country in uniform in World War I, and says he always believed himself to be an American citizen. In these circumstances, the Italiant government could not be blamed for 1. ng to accept him, if our government attempts to send him “back where he came from.” We slipped up in his raising, and he. seems to belong to us, for better or for worse.

College Youth for Oatis

EN COLLEGE newspapers have begun a concerted campaign to- free William Oatis, American newspaper-

Four years older than at his 1948 candidacy,

a little more sparse of hair and shinier of dome —a pitcher who has been often to the political wells instedd of a fresh, young challenger out

of the West—he announced his candidacy *

Thursday night in a speech at Philadelphia.

He ‘said he would “present to the people the °

policies ‘and program which I fervently believe America should adopt in 1952, and I will give my approval, on that platform, for the presen-

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NATIONAL POLITICS . . . By. Charles Lucey ~~. * = Stassen Begins Uphill Fight For Republican

my name as a candidate” for: President.” . i »~ Mr. Stassen called his program “humani~ tarian and liberal” and “different from the Re- _

- publican programs of recent years.” He said he

would strive to meet these four chief threats to

America; : : ONE-—Corruption in government.

TWO-—The menace of inflation and loss of .confidence in the dollar, .

THREE—Class sttife, with particular atten-* tion to labor-management war.

MR. EDITOR: - I wish .to call your attention to recent publicity regarding Indianapolis Railways plan to petition the Public Service Commission for, feeder charges or “premium fares” on all Mars Hill lines in addition to their already excessively

high fares. I have written Mr,” Walter F. Jones Jr. public counselor, Indiana Public Service Commission, Room 401 State House, Indianapolis, asking-to be kept informed of any developments or hearing dates pertaining to the Mars Hill lines and feel that you or your employees or others might also be interested. Any possible action that you or any meme ber of your firm would take in strengthening our opposition to increased bus fares, either - before or dyring a hearing, would be appreciated. b About three-fourths of our employees are in the common labor classification and any ‘increase above the 15 cents or two tokens for 25 cents plus 2 cents transfer charge, will work a very real hardship on them. Our company and employees wish to co-operate in any suggested plan or community undertaking or any night hearing that a member or members of ths commission might conduct in a neighborhood public building. George W. Smith, Employment Mgr., Maywood Plant, Reilly Tar and Chemical Corp.

‘Save Human Lives’

MR. EDITOR:

If we weren't such money-loving morons, these million traffic deaths wouldn't have happened. The fools that we are, we throw up our hands and say there is no way of stopping it. Well, thore is a very safe way of stopping all this killing. For existing automobiles, enact an emergency law making it a $500 fine or a year in jail if caught driving an autoriobile without a 35-mile-limit governor. Said governor to be installed, locked and sealed by a law officer. For cars yet to be manufactured, discontinue the manufacturing of cars with gears capable of making over 35 miles an hour. iI realize automobile makers will ery loud protests against this drastie-legislation, but they will eventually have to make these adjustments by public demand, so why not give up their greed for money and save human lives.

—1Ira D. Fields, 1327 Broadway.

HOOSIER FORUM—‘More Cash’

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

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by Galbraith

‘Clean Up Our Town’ MR. EDITOR: It is time this nation woke up to know that it is on the way down hill, Unless the Christian people start doing something about the situation of this country, we as a nation, are now at a crisis and we should see that the government is put in someone's hands that is really interested in the welfare of the nation, to clean up things that are going on. : > Such as the paper that we get. It needs a good cleaning. And as far as publishing a person's daily life in the papers without their permission, that is going too far. Because people believe in the Bible ‘and can see and know the things that are going on, do people want to clean this town up or wait until it is too late, then wish they had done something before it happened. Give us freedom of our press, for our hometown paper and liberty of religion. It is a shame when people are so greedy that they are seeking a way to steal from a person their way of praying to God. So if there ever was a town that needs to be cleaned up this is it. —Mrs. Loretta Garvey, City.

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY

THAT RANSOM racket should help speed up Hungary's return to the dark ages. > oS WELFARE DIRECTORS are investigating the number of relief checks cashed at liquor stores. Want to see how quick they got relief, aS Bh SEN. TOBEY wants to revive, the whipping post for. public officials who betray their trust. He thinks TV is much too good for them. oe < oo HEADLINE — Living standards seen staying high. But we'll reach them if we have to charge it.

Sen. Toby TV too good

Ea 1952 PREVIEW -The B€C~ so retary of the Mausoleum Builders Corp. is out to win as an Ohio Republican Congressman.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 — The traffic-in and out of the cellar of the Senate office building these days is heavy; mostly youngish-looking gents in topcoats and battered hats, carrying briefcases. Sh-h-h-h, investigators. There are so many of these mleuths working for so many individual Senators and senatorial committees, that sometimes there's a traffic jam of hawkshaws at the revolving Jdoor. Some are even investi. gating themselves, or almost, All are living for that memorable day when they'll be called under the floodlights to put the finger on whatever highbinders they've been trailing. So let's sneak behind a small mountain of old Congressional

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_ FOUR-—Thé peril of communism from with“iff and without. . ~ Before Mr, Stassen's Philadelphia speech, he “held a press conference here which, by paradox, was centered more on the plans of another pos--8ible candidate—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower— than on Mr. Stassen himself, :

This resulted from the fact Mr. Stassen re- »

cently conferred with Gen, Eisenhower .in Paris and that in his speech (advance copies of which had been given to the press) he had named the General as one of those with whom he could consult on major policy, if elected President, a : This last was taken by many to mean that Gen. Eisenhower might not be a candidate— that maybe, after all these months, he- had whispered to Mr. Stassen what everyone else has been trying to find out—a yes or no on his candidacy. > Nearly a score of questions were asked on this point. Had Ike told? Had Mr. Stassen made his own decision to run on the basis of his meeting with the General? Why did he see Gen, Eisenhower if there was no connection? Did he ask the General flatly if he would leave Europe and come home to run? And many more, But Mr. Stassen wouldn't give—or anyway, gave only a little, He said he did not authorize any assumption, from his words, ‘as to what Ike's plans may be, : “I've stated the conclusion I -reached and do not authorize any conclusion on Gen. Eisenhower,” he said. - is He would not discuss his personal conversation with the General. The Stassen decision, said the University of Pennsylvania president, was made “on the basis of the situation in the Republican, Party .in 1952.” About as far as he went was to acknowledge it was a “correct assumption” that he did not make his decision until after he had talked to the General.

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GEN. EISENHOWER was only one of sev.e ational leaders’ with whom he said he

"would consult on policy, if elected. Others in

cluded Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Bernard Bas ruch, Herbert Hoover, Harry F. Byrd and James: A. Farley. : . \ * Mr, Stassen said these men would not be active in his campaign—that “some of them may in fact take a part in the campaign of some other candidate.” Regardless of that, He said, he would seek their advice. They did not know’ in advance, he said, that their names would be mentioned by him, a The ex-governor of Minnesota said he would be entered in “many” state presidentidl primaries but declined to name them now.

Mr. Stassen in the past has indicated sup-.

port for Gen. Eisenhower in varying degree, and’ there has been some speculation -he would win

haps, toss them to Gen. Eisenhower in the Chicago convention. Asked what would happen if Gen, Eisenhower became a candidate he said:

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® ‘WIHAT'S for the future. There will be no commitments to any other person . ..” Mr. Stassen said chief activity for him has been in Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermbént, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida and Texas. He said he planned major addresses in all parts of the country in coming months. One Stassen aim is to revise the United Nations charter. Another is to put the country back on a “modern gold standard.” He estimates 200,000 loafers can be separated from the fedetal payroll. And he favors development of employer-employee profit-sharing plans. Mr, Stassen is headed for the January . meeting of the Republica National Committee in San Francisco to start drumming up conven. tion delegates. ?

TWO CATCHES . . . By Ludwell Denny

Still Hope for European Army?

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—American officials still are hopeful that a modified European army can be salvaged from the wreck of the original

Pleven Plan. That is the purpose of the conference of six West European nations now meeting in Paris. But there are two catches. It may be necessary to make such extensive compromises to get agreement that the resulting system will not be worth much. And, even if this conference gets together on a modified plan, it sfill must be accepted by the February meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Council in Lisbon and then ratified by six hesitant parliaments. These difficulties, however, have not diminished the determination either of the Washington government or of Gen. Eisenhower. Although late converts to the French plan— which they once considered visionary, if not deliberate obstruction— American officials and the NATO commander in chief now think {it is essential. . The main reason for this switch in American and Eisenhower policy is the German problem. For a year and a half they have known that effective defense of Western Europe against Russian aggression was impossible without German participation—particularly if American

Chancellor Adenauer + + « just one chance

~ ground forces are ever to be withdrawn, Later

they decided that the difficult task of rearming Western Germany, without at the same time reviving the old German menace to the Allies, was almost impossible i through the European army plan. > x Under this plan Germany would not have

a separate national military force. Instead, she would contribute her troops to a pooled European force under an international superstate authority and single command. The latest tentative figures call for 14 German divisions, 12 French, 12 Italian and 5 Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg). The Bonn government—or Chancellor Konrad Adenauer at least—favors the plan. But the West German public is cool toward it. There is strong opposition from the Protestant Church “neutralist” lobby and from the large Socialist Party. Chancellor Adenauer’s only chance of obtaining parliamentary ratification in Bonn is on the basis of German “equality” with the Allied nations. While the Germans for the moment are loath to rearm and toy with the illusion of “safety through neutrality” as between Russia and the Allies, their pride and self-interest call for return of sovereignty and acceptance as an equal by the Allies.

No Formal Treaty THEY cannot

Japan, because Russia occupies, Eastern Ger-

many. The Allies are ready to end Allied occu-

pation of Western Germany with a semi-treaty (“‘contractural agreement”), but the terms will depend on the Germans’ co-operation in defense and other matters. That is where the European army comes in, Cutting across this Allies-versus-Germany alignment is another division, Should the European army be a genuine integrated unit under su-per-state control or merely a tight alliance? Ger-

. many stands with France and Italy for the real

thing, while the Benelux governments want a looser organization with national right of veto. Benelux is winning so far. i Nobody has proposed that the United States join. And Britain never intended to, though Benelux has used her abstention as an excuse. The European army would be a separate unit, as the American and British are separate units, in the NATO alliance under the supréme Eisenhower command.

LABOR -. . . By Fred W. Perkins .

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—A special convention of the CIO United Steelworkers will meet Thursday in Atlantic City to make the final decision on calling off the threatened steel strike. Meanwhile, the government's efforts to close the controversy are stymied. The Wage Stabilization Board, to which President Truman referred the dispute after mediation efforts failed, can do nothing until the final union action is taken. The technique of calling a special convention of more than 2000 union delegates to give the final word in a wage dispute is something new in labor union operations. Government officials point out that the union's officers and governing bodies—not a convention—made the wage demands and the strike threat. They ask why the union leaders can’t carry through on an action they started.

Will Convention Agree?

IT IS generally assumed here that the convention will agree to President Truman’s request that the controversy be submitted to the Wage Board. After that convention action, the Wage Board will call a meeting of union and management to decide on procedure. The schedule then would be for the board to name a panel to hear the arguments,of both sides and make recommendations. This panel probably will have six members — two for the public, two for labor, and two for

CONGRESS «uo BY Frederick C. Othman Traffic Jam of Hawkshaws in Capitol—

the RFC, the Veep's motherly looking secretary, and an exoperatiye (he resigned) of the Senate Small Business Committee, Tracking down black mar-

Blair Moody (D. Mich.), who's

ery tha suddenly became priced like gold wedding rings, The private gendarmes of ®en. Alexander Wiley (R, Wis.) are looking into who made what profits in connection with alien property deals,

o o n THIS alien business, mostly involving . big business outfits which used to be operated in America by Germans, brings. in our local mystery man, Henry Grunewald, who's been in the toils of the House tax

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investigators. Turns out that Henry used to work for the alien property custodian and - also (for what it’s worth) that he once was a prohibition agent. He was tracking down illicit guzzlers, apparently, be- | AE fore he ever got around to taking out American citizenship papers. So far, he's not talking. Sen. Edwin C. Johnson (D. Colo.) and boys are peering deep into the surplus ship eals of Joe Rosenbaum and others, some of whom were fe \_keep up the price of ‘same. other charges of telling. lies about their business with the Reconstruction Finance Corpora-

There are rumors, which I haven't yet been able to track

ClO to Talk Over Strike Threat

management. Under such a set-up the labor and management members usually disagree and the public members make the decision. The panel report will be submitted to the full wage

* board of 18 members, which is organized on the

same three-sided principle. To date, the Wage Board's history shows an unvarying policy of thé public members supporting the labor members, Neither the board's nor the panel's recommendations would be, binding. In the dispute the panel and the board will be on dangerous ground. Most authorities admit that the steel union's demands for a wage boost averaging 1812 cents an hour would break the present policy of restricting pay increases to about 13 per cent of the levels prevailing in January, 1950. :

‘Dope Stories’ WHEN President Truman appealed to Mr, Murray to call off the strike originally threat-

"ened for Jan. 1, he characterized ‘such. ceiling-

plercing reports as “dope stories” in the press. The panel and the board will have to decide how much basis there is for them. . The Wage Board has developed allowances for a number of ‘fringe issues” to make wage raises come within its limitations. The steel case is believed to present a supreme test in that particular, and the board's action may set up new standards for labor and management

in general, Prices are involved as much as » wages. .

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looking into sharp practices of certain federal housing officials, And tHat brings us to the Agriculture Committee and the wholesale case of the missing breakfast food.

THE Commodity Credit Cor- + poration, you know, is in the business of buying up corn, wheat, cotton, linseed and no telling what all elise by the thousands of tons in order to

‘This stuff has got tobe stored. So the CCC has rented space in grain elevators and storage depots across the country. Now it turns out that some of the storage fellows casually have been selling the taxpayers’

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