Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1952 — Page 20

A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER

ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE President

HENRY W. MANZ Business Manager

Stinday, Feb. 17, 1952

Editor

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Bargains in Taxes . . . For Some -

WITHIN the next four weeks everybody in Indiana who took in as much as $500 last year will pay his federal income tax... or else. Well . . . almost everybody. The average Hoosier will fork over about one-fourth of all he earned, including what has been held out of his pay all through the year. Business and corporations, of course, will pay at a much higher rate. Most corporations, that is. The Indianapolis Brewing Co., a dubious local concern with high political “connections” appears to have done somewhat better.than that. It managed to settle for $4500 a U. S. income tax claim of $812,000—and then, believe it or not, to get a $35,000 - “refund.” wi ow

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IN ONE WAY and another a lot of pretty important men were connected with the Indianapolis Brewing Co. . . . men high in government and in politics. Its former officers say some of them owned part of it, would show whether this is true are mysteriously not in the . . files in the Indiana Statehouse. Some prominent figures appear in other records, though.

- Frank McHale, Democratic National Committeeman for Indiana, was its lawyer. The law firm from which Tom C. Clark went to become U. S. Attorney-General and later Supreme Court Justice still represented it while he was Attorney General. Frank McKinney, now Democratic National Chairman, had once loaned it $125,000, though that was paid back before the tax case got hot.

None of them appeared, though, in the tax case. For that it hired Joseph D. Nunan Jr., who had been an Internal Revenue commissioner while this very tax claim piled up uncollected—one of the highest government officials charged with collecting taxes, and, of course, a political appointee of the administration in which Mr, McHale, Mr. M¢Kinney and ~ Mr, Clark are major figures.

Mr. Nunan’s memory of all that had faded when the facts came out last week, but his own notarized signature remained to refresh it. Having just left the U. S. Treasury Department he was forbidden by its rules to take such a case. He had to get special permission from the department to do it. He got it. The record of that is still there.

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THE FEDERAL officials who made this settlement say It wax all perfectly propér and legal, and that the connection of all these administration big-shots with the company had nothing to do with it. Could be. Lots of us little people will still wonder why we pay 100 cents on the dollar on what the government says we owe, come Mar. 15—while this shady brewery outfit Settles for half-a-cent.

Penalties of Lawlessness

N AND EGYPT are discovering—too late for it to be of much benefit to them—that lawless nationalism and bad foreign relations are heavy handicaps to carry in a competitive world.

Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have stepped up their oil production until they are supplying most of Iran's former customers with crude petroleum. Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, is taking over Cairo's traditional position as the travel and commercial center of the Middle East. 3 These gains at the expense of Iran and Egypt may be permanent.

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Middle East, not because it had more potential production than rival areas, but because the monster refinery of the

refining center for that part of the world.

Now the market for crude petroleum has been captured by competing areas. Probably that market can be ® Tegained only in part. Meanwhile new refineries are under construction which will offer stiff competition.

THE U. S. GOVERNMENT is moving its regional offices in the Middle East from Cairo to Beirut and Athens, because the buildings which had been used were damaged or destroyed. Largely financed by foreign capital, these buildings, as well as the Cairo hotels which were burned, may not be replaced. ‘The Egyptian government has sent regrets to 15 nations because of losses suffered by foreign property owners in the riots Jan. 26. In lieu of that, other fields for foreign investment are likely to be more inviting. The antiforeign agitation openly encouraged by the Nahas Pasha government is being curbed, now that Nahas Pasha is out of office. But the anti-Western sentiment it fostered cannot be readily erased, and future disorders cannot be ruled out. . Beirut has much in its favor in bidding, for the tourist - trade, even though it does not have Cairo’s sphinx and pyramids. As the seat of the famous American University, it is the recognized center for Western culture in that part of the world. Last year it completed the first air-condi-tioned hotel in the Middle East. Its modern airport is linked by direct flights with the principal cities of Western Kuarope and North and South America. If it can avoid the destructive aspects of the rampant nationalism which has become ~ the dominate mood of the Middle Fast, it" may well become the commercial capital of tha} 8 area. Sis,

s That Word ‘Saving’ es

District of Columbia vote to ask Congress for permission to put ithe District on‘ daylight time in April, along with the rest of the country. And every year Congress : pe ga haws before finally, at the eleventh hour, grant:

remembered a8 3 tows Wiiere it was - litgle

The Indianapolis Times

United Press, Beripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance. NEA Serv- .

but the records that

Iran held its position as the No. 1 oil producer in the

British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. at Abadan made it the

po YEAR ‘about this time the commissioners of { the

‘more enlightened aivilization, Wash x:

Another Squeeze

FOSTER’S FOLLIES

WASHINGTON-—The Office of Price Stabilization has re-

moved controls from ‘nonedible food,” clay pigeons, dinosaur skeletons, sundials,

bowling pins and cigaret rolling machines,

The time has come, said OPS, When things need decontrolling. * Take bowling ‘pins—it's our best guess, They should keep from rolling.

Let's lift the lid on rubber " buns : And frames of dinosaurs. Our closet's full of skeletons Our ceiling boners floor us.

things

TRYING to get a little round-up of opinion on all this, we first called on a couple of clay pigeons we know. But they were half shot.” Then we dropped around to the bowling alley, Most of the bowlers were awfully quiet about the whole thing. In fact, you could hear a pin drop.’ But things were different ‘with Dinny, the dinosaur, when we asked him about lifting the ceiling on his skeleton. He made no bones about it. Just raised the roof. Maybe the OPS is only trying to rib us with this one, But you can get into a lot of trouble that way. Fellow name of Adam found such methods were nothing but a lot of ap-

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AT LEAST the price controllers -are making an effort finally to climb the ladder of success, But we can't figure why they rung in a dinosaur skeleton, Doesn't make a very sturdy ladder. The old boy's been around a little too long to be very dependable. Like OPS, perhaps? Well, birds of a feather fall together, Digging into the matter a little, we find the dinosaur had many bird-like characteristics, Some of his bones were even turned+;backwards, like the birds’. Maybe that's why

~ the OPS pulls so many boners.

Always doing things in reverse, = w »

IN THE dino, the fore:limbs were less developed than the hind legs. The difference here is that all of the control boys’ ideas seem to be under-done.

Like that non-edible food they're talking about. Some dinosaurs: appéar to

have been carniverous; others vegetarians, If they lived today, they'd ;probably just be like the rest of us. Wouldn't eat at all, Buf“the worst of all this decontrol’ business ‘is the sundial deal. Which just seems to over-shadow everything.

a nn AUNTY COMMY SAYS: “See where our State Department has reported a growing coolness between Peiping and Moscow, Maybe it's jist that Ole Joe figgers it's. time to start putting the freeze on Mao.”

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HEH - HEH HEADLINES!

“Hosiery Union Takes a Pay .

Cut to Meet South’s NonUnion Rule,” It’s about time

the gals got a new kind of run

for their money.

“Chemical-Company to Greet

Lustomers road ‘Same as Those in United States.” That's A nice idea, byt the foreign trade isn't going to like it. “1, KS. Still Has Sufficient Coal for a: Few Thousand Years.” Maybe if we can just hang around long enough; we'll be able to dig up enough money to buy some. : " “Where to Put Waist Linn

Pro Paris Designers’ Chlef Fos Jiems, 3ty putting Bhibol bin

HOOSIER FORUM— Horse Race’

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

By J. Hugh O'Donnell CONGRESS ROUNDUP . “Truman Takes a Crack at ~ Capehart Amendment Again

WA ASHINGTON, Feb. 16 —This week in- Congress President Truman asked for at least two more years of price controls and said he

wanted the present law

strengthened. He specificaily denounced three existing provisions: ONE-—The Capehart Amendment under which manufacturers’ cost increases between the start of the Korean War and last July must be figured into price ceilings, TWO—The Herlong Amendment, which guarantees wholesalers and retailers the same ” percentages markups they had before the Korean War, THREE—The Butler-Hope Amendment, which prohibits slaughtering stock. The President also asked for stronger credit controls and for more government lending authority to increase industrial expansion and defense production. . He also peal of the ment restricting certain cheeses and dairy products.

recommended re“cheese”. amendimports of other

Corruption Probe THE, PRESIDENT reversed himself, asking Congress to .-give Newbold Morris the power to subpena witnesses and records in his investigation of corruption in government. Mr. Truman also recommended that Mr. Morris be given authority to guarantee immunity from prosecution to witnesses he deemed essential to the investigation.

EAE a REE EERE O EERE BE RAR R EIR R TIERRA ERIE REIN IE SOLER i ERR ER UIA RS RIN L EARNS I RIM ee

MR. EDITOR: "The numerous entries in the race for President has begun to look like a horse race. In the Republican race, Taft seems to hold the pole position, but he doesn’t appear to be a fast

+ enough breaker to hold it.

It appears to me that his “EpiTaft” has already been written, and he probably will be an also ran. A near favorite named Ike has had little training, no workouts, and with apprentice

jockey Lodge up, he might get jockeyed out at

the stretch. Warren and Stassen might come up on the outside and fight it out neck and neck to the wire. The entries in the Democratic handicap seems to be an assortment of maidens and no real favorite is in sight. If it is decided to enter Truman, he will be carrying excess weights with his riding boots filled with red herring and a huge mink coat for a saddle blanket. Jack McKinney may push him too fast to the half mile post and he may fold up in the stretch, and the three horsemen, Kefauver, Douglas and Sevenson may close fast and a dark horse win, There probably will be the want of a jockey.

= —E. Bowman, 2831 Station St.

a few scratches for

‘Harry's War’ MR. EDITOR:

I am certainly proud of our President. He has fssued a statement saying that he is willing to serve another term as President if it will further the chances for world peace. I don’t think that I am exactly alone in thinking that he has been highly ‘instrumental in producing the current conflict, and that he certainly has helped to prolong it. Certainly he has done and is doing very little to. end or shorten it, Harry goes on to state that he is willing to serve even with a great risk to his health. Personally, I'm not nearly so concerned with his health as I am with the health of the thousands of our boys fighting Harry's “police action.” I wonder, no, I don’t wonder, I know, how many of them would trade places with Harry and take a chance of remaining healthy in Washington. We have sustained more than 105.000 casualties in «Korea . « “how many men have we lost at Blair House?

4. C. H., City.

‘Let the U. S. Do It

MR. EDITOR: I note in the papers that the coal .industry is going to raise money to push the sale of their products, but they are certainly going about it rather stupidly. They would not need to raise the money themselves. Don't they know that all they have to do is form a bureau or grange (like the farmers) and exert some pressure in Washington and the

government will do all this for them. They will

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put out pamphlets, do any construction work

_they might need, appoint county agents, and

even subsidize their coal. They would then have thousands of employees, grants to colleges for research and hundreds of other things, all at the expense of the taxpayers. The coal men wouldn't. have to turn their hands or raise a dime. = —Mrs. Disgusted, City.

‘Thanks a Million’ MR. EDITOR: Open letter to Ed. Kennedy: We really want to have the pleasure and also take a little time out to thank you for the nice writeup you had in The Sunday Times about our son, Pfc. John H. Brill Jr. and also Billy Grimes. It sure made us feel very good

and also proud to know our boy was OK. He writes every day and says he is OK, but they will do that so one does not worry. But, believe me, Mr. Kennedy, his father has been a very sick man for two .years and this writeup and John’s picture did him more good than his medicine. Again, we want to thank you. A copy is on its way to him, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Brill Sr.,

R. R. 12, Box 213E.

‘Mr. Dale's Problems’

The thought struck me that one w ay to solve the problems of W. Marshall Dale would be to

permit a bus fare of 25 cents straight.

This should stop Mr. Dale for at least six months. Then he would probably want 50 cents. It is evident that his managerial ability is limited to such programs.

—Ed Williams, City,

PRACTICE THIS

THE hardest thing in the world to do. , . is fo forget yourself . .. to put aside your- own desire . . . and store it on & shelf . someone before yourself . . .

. . to place and try at least to do . . . the little commonplace things . . . that make skies of blue . . . it’s tough to place yourand another first ~ + but by Your actions you no doubt . will water souls that thirst . . . and great In the reward you'll gain , + . you'll feel a thrill divine . . . because you've helped another soul... to solve a complex rhyme . . . and you will find that in return + ++ Some other person will , ,. place’ your wishes before their own . . . to help you climb life's hill,

self a.second , . ,

~By Ben Burroughs

quotas on liye-

Sen. Homer Capehart . . . denounced again

Senate SEN. JOHN J, WILLIAMS (R. Del.) opened up again on the Bureau of Internal Revs enue, He charged that the Indianapolis Brewing Co. had obtained a $35,000 refund instead

Chairman Connally « + « in retaliation

of paying any of the $812,000 the government claimed the company owed in back taxes. The brewery was represented

By Charles Egger

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by Joseph D. Nunan Jr., for« mer head of the Revenue Bureau,

Relations With Hungar

CHAIRM AN"TOM CONNALLY (D. Tex.) of the Fors eign Relations Committee demanded that this: country break diplomatic reldtions with Hungary. The ‘action would be in retaliation against Hungary for imprisoning four . 8. fliers whose plane landed 5 the Soviet-controlled country. The United States paid $120,000 ransom to free the fliers.

Arnall Approved

THE BANKING COMMITTEE unanimously approved the nomination of Georgia's former Gov. Ellis Arnall as director of the Office of Price Stabilization. Approval by the Senate is regarded as automatic. Mr. Arnall succeeds

Michael DiSalle who resigned.

House

DEPUTY DEFENSE SECRETARY William C. Foster said the department was doing everything it could to avoid waste of money. He cited ways money has been saved, including rehabilitation of old World War II equipment. Mr. Foster testified before a subcommittee investigating waste in defense spending. The committee has been particularly irked by the Armed Forces’ failure to use a single catalog for buying, which Congress has been demanding for 23 years.

RFC Nomination

HARRY A. McDONALD, nominated by President, Truman to head the Reconstruction Finance Corp. was given a clean bill of health by a House committee investigating the Securities and Exchange Commission, which Mr, MecDonald now heads. The committee's statement

that it had no credible evi-.

dence reflecting on Mr, MeDonald was sent to the Sen-

ate Banking Committee. This been holding up | action on Mr. McDonald pend-

group has

ing the House inquiry.

DEAR BOSS : . . By Dan Kidney

Halleck’s Wisecrack Is Historically True

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—Rep. Charles A. Halleck’s

‘wisecrack about being ‘the majority leader in the

Republican 80th Congress and the leader of the majority in the Democratic 81st and 82d” has been found to

be historically true. The result of research by the bipartisan Committee to Explore Political Realignment points to Halleck’'s coalition with the Southern conservative Democrats as being successful, The final committee report lists many coalition accomplishments, They include —

Mr. Halleck

+». research

Initiation of congressional investigation of Communist activity in the executive department over President Truman’s ‘red herring'* protest, post-war liquidation of OPA, adoption of ‘the two-term constitutional limitation for future Presidents; the —Tdft-

[artley law, two-thirds vote

before cloture is applied in the

Senate, defeat of a federal welfare department with cabinet status, return of rent control to states, rejection of the plan “for - federal control of commodity markets, restoration of the power of the House Rules Committee to direct legislation, refusal ‘to grant federal authority over local employment practices, defeat .of

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the effort to place all foreign

relief spending under the State Department, and “continuous, though only partially successful” efforts to hold down taxes and curb federal spending.

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OF COURSE, Mr. Halleck had no direct control ever the Senate cloture vote, but the forces of coalition were the same as in the. House. In-

- cluded were the two Republi-

cdn Senators from Indiana.

Another Hoosier, Federal

Security Administrator Oscar °

R. Ewing, helped defeat the Welfare. ‘Department . setup twice. Word got around that ‘the President intended to ap-

point him as the cabinet official,

Here's what the report has to say regarding the GOP-

Dixiecrat coalition in Congress—

“Even the very- sneomiplete list shows clearly both the po-

litical effectiveness of the con-.

gressional coalition and the consistency.- of its effort to block the expansion of executive power by re-establishing truly constitutional govern‘ment in the United States.

“The -indication is that a

movement so successful at the, .

top should be even more so if consolidated at the bottom. Indeed the accomplishment of the coalition in Congress has given much substance to the movement for a formal alli-

ance of Republicans and the

Southern Democrats on the precinct level,” ~ ” ~ FULL TEXT booklets containing the committee's report: are in demand in Indiana ac. cording to the headquarters hers. The Indiana State Chamber ‘of Commerce placed a

large order for distribution -

among {ts membership, The committee is under the Joint chairmanship of Edward A. O'Neal, former American

" Farm Bureau president and an

Alabama Democrat, and Albert W. Hawkes, former Republican Senator from New Jersey. In a letter ‘accompanying

the report, Sen. Hawkes urges

that’ its findings be used to - save the two-party system by giving Americans everywhere a real choice between “‘federlist

- and anti-federalist.” He is not

. unmindful that a third. party may be necessary to bring this about, although he hopes not, He wants the Southerners to

support a ‘“states-rights” Re-.

“publican, ket and- let the Democrats continue their New

Deal-Fair Deal. "As one-time

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