Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1952 — Page 21

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by ship. 3} were due inforeseen ice

said. He €x~ ers were paid Ly . while they akers to clear

dicating poor In construction North Africa

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jection of Sen, (D, Tex,), tha ns Committee 2arings on the terway project,

urity

WEYL, writer, | Security Subhe and Alger ite Department longed to the ty at the same ow serving a for perjury. saw Hiss pay ues while they of a party cell

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in the complex ton A, Wasson law partner of is, government estigator. Mr. lent of the Chinal Foundation, le organization, controling incommon stock ‘ee of the eight ed. Mr. Morris 8 not. profited

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SUNDAY, FEE. 24, 1053 Washington Calling—

‘Stolen’ Records

Believed to Hold When Russ Whoop Up Trade i in Eastern Asia ‘Hot Tax

Data

By Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Feb. 23—Case of the purloined

records will ex:

t here next week.

King Committee staff members seized records in New York as Treasury and Justice Department men ‘were about to use them before a grand jury. Records have

since tHen,

2 ‘officials and Frank Costello, : More links between Henry (The Dutchman) Grune“wald and high administration officials.

3 3

King committee members have accused Justice «partment of wanting to get reco #80 they'd be kept secret.

been under 24- hour guard of House sergeant-at-arms

If full story comes out, it will disclose: =~ At least one member of Congress is involved in New - York area tax scandals. Direct tie between former Internal Revenue Bureau

De- $ before a grand jury

Treasury may make counter

‘charges. It has written committee demanding return of

records. Officials won't discuss

_ the letter, But contents, if re-

. shut down production.

i’

vealed mittee,

would embarras comit's reported. And they

ii may be revealed.

Serious effort is under way among Democrats in Congress to choke off King Committee, Two of committee's Democrat members, Keough of New York and O'Brien of. Chicago, have c¢riticized it openly, are threatening to resign. " House leaders have made quiet check. on committee funds. It still has ahout $100,000—enough to keep going several months, . If hearings on New York scandals are held, as originally scheduled, they'll bring out sensational new data about alecohodi¥ tax unit operations there, Facts will call for eriminal prosecutions, insiders say.

Backward Look

NEW CHELF COMMITTER —to investigate Justice Department and judiciary—will probe into J. Howard MecGrath’s years as solicitor general, as well as his cabinet term. - . Also, it will look at adminiEtration of Justice Department by Tom Clark, now Supreme Court associate justice. Committee is asking for records of cases referred to Justice Department’ during past six years and never acted on. That ¢overs-Clark’s years, and McGrath's service under Clark and as Clark's successor. Subcommittee members have already started. collecting evidence, though no chief counsel has been picked to direct probe, and no funds have been appropriated. Chairman Frank Chelf >. Ky.) 1s taking tims about getting counsel, insists on promise from candidates that they'll not use job to build up personal glory. He also wants assurance they've had no conneetion with legal cases involving the department. -

March Deadline?

GEN. RIDGWAY tells Penfagon he -still hopes for a truce, But If it"doesn’'t come before March, there's a chance Reds will hit us hard. Top men in Washington say speculative news stories about concessions we may make frequently -have

weakened Ridgw and Joy in’ dealing with thegdenemy. If full-scale fighting re-

sumes, plan here is to carry war to South China—but to avoid needless destruction of major cities, such as Shanghai, Canton, Peiping. ’ U.- S. leaders are chnvineed we can defeat China with tight naval blockade ard afr attack - on China rail fines. Air Force would attack rails, mine rivers and blast wharves, but leave cities intact. China's food supMlies are already at low levels. Cutting off gas and oil supplies would produce a cfisis, military believes, Pentagon figures strategy would also relieve préssure on Indo-China, and draw Red air force out of Korea. " -

Stretchout

PLANES will cost us more

under Defense Department's new stretchout budget. Contracts farmed out to

stibcontractotrs will be recalled. New plants, built to make planes, will be turned back to civilian production. As military sees {t, best thing about slowdown is that _it means continuing production program. If we'd reached peak goals this: year, and hadn't used up planes and tanks as we got them, we might have Military men think operating pro‘duction lines are worth more to us than actual Possession of weapons.

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Million Houses?" |

IT LOOKS like another boom year in housing. Government wants builders to. shoot: for 800,000 new “units. Industry expects privately "to hit a million by stretching scarce materials. (We: built 1,090,000 new dwellings 1951). Lafest government fig‘ures say we now have 45.9 , million dwelling | units, five * million of them b it sihce the war.

McCarthy Showdown

* SHOWDOWN Senate ‘vote on whether to continue investigation ‘of ‘Sen. Joseph MeCarthy (R. Wis.) seems likely: Privileges and elections subcommittee will ask Senate vote unless Gillette (D. la.) blocks it; in-

. dications Ye that he won't, . Bubcommiitiee’s likely to split 32 on issue.

‘Looks now as if Senate will ote to continue McCarthy inMcCarthy

Rouge,

in’

Chairman Guy-

: 't

Eye on Denver : CONGRESS has eye on U. 8. Attorney Charles Vigil of Denver, now presenting grain scandals to a Denver grand jury, Reputation of Colorado’'s Charles Brannan, agriculture secretary, may be" at stake in case. This affects whole Truman administration, But presentation to grand jury is being watched by House subcommittee set up to investigate Justice Department and judiciary. Probe. was ardered partly because of suspicion.that U. 8. attorneys in San: Francisco and St. Louis tried to goft-pedal tax case, with Justice Department help. Attorney General McGrath is being criticized, also, for letting agriculture department quash cases affecting it without any supervision,

Change of Plans REP. CHARLES (R. 0.) taught Pentagon a lesson on’ transportation and economy this week. Cineinnati firm notified Elston it had been ordered to ship 3500 quonset huts to Baton La., by rail instead barge. Extra cost: $38,000. Elston called . Pentagon, got runaround till he told them he's a member of the House committee investigating military waste. Huts are going by barge."

Tokyo Heist SENSATIONAL bank holdup in Tokyo by two white men in U. S.gAsmy uniform may affect negotiations between U. 8. and Japan on troop agreement. Japanese press had

.. been warning officials of that

country they better demand jurisdiction over foreigners away from agreed-on bases. Holdup strengthened their case, Some 300 American military personnel now AWOL in

-Tokyo area are being blamed

for increasing crimes,

Mac's Mate

POLITICS: Gossip about

* Gen. MacArthur as Republican

nominee has reached the point

where GOP on capitol is pick-

ing a running mate for him. Talk centers about Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R. Ill), protege of isolationist publisher Robert R. McCormick. National Democratic Chairman Frank McKinney confides

‘to friends he thinks Truman

will run (though he says

- President hasn't told him so.)

Taft campaign headquarters here think Senator came out ahead on angry TV. program where his book on foreign policy was discussed. “People of this country like a fighter,” is way Taft people put it.

Chilly Winter

CZECH EMBASSY claims Mrs. William Oatis ‘was allowed to send package recently to her reporter husband, jailed 10 months ago in Prague as a “spy.” Embassy says Oatis is in good health, is not forced to work. However, former prison-

ers of Czech Reds say that un-

less Oatis ‘is getting special treatment, he's having a cold winter. Pankrac prison cells are unheated.

For the Queen OVERTIME rates are being paid to get White House ready

in time for Queen Juliana’s arrival here Apr. 2. Word has gone out that

President Truman wants renovation campleted in time for receptions honoring Netherlands Queen. Installing of furniture and hangings on upper floors has begun.

Won't Work

EXPERTS on Taft-Hartley law say CIO. President Philip Murray is mistaken if he thinks repeated postponements of his steel strike rule out use of the law's injunction weapon. ,

. Original strike date was Jan. 1,

Third postponement, just announced, moves date along 80 days from starting point. Nostrike ‘injunctions are limite to- 80 days. But‘ fexperts say President could invoke injunction any time he thinks national safety is involved.

‘Fathers’ Week

"CONGRESS may be asked

to declare, by law, that Lin-

coln, Jackson’ and Jefferson all were born within the same week. As it 1s, Republicans take .coln’s birthday with nation; wide oratory. Democrats take

. off to celebrate Jackson and

Jefferson birthdays. More

time's lost over Washington's

birthday. So Congress does

.- little, or nothing, during Feb-

ruary. oi? on wae mtn Okla.) wil all garty heroes the same week week of the fathers.”

-—

ELSTON .

World Report—

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INDIANAPOLIS

TIMES 0

‘Autos’ Are Guns and ‘Spare Parts’ Bombs

Soviet Returns To Old Trick

Compiled Fram the Wire Services Russia seems to be testing the ground in East Asia to revive a well-tried Kremlin trick for helping needy Communist rebels, George Welter, Times special correspondent, . writes from Singapore. If the tactic succeeds again, arms will be shipped in as “machinery,” he said. Communist undergrounds in India, Burma, Malaya, Thailand .and Indonesia all suffer from lack of rifles, cartridges, grenades and explosives. Red China is able to supply the Communists in northern Indochina directly across her borders, but not the other Balkans of Asia. In Malaya and Burma, particularly, Red rebels have had to cut down their recruiting campaigns because the old jungle caches of weapons have been largely used up or deteriorated. In Hyderabad and Assam in (India, and in Indo-

nesia, Communist revolts have flickered hecause of lack of arme,

At this moment the Soviets have suddenly launched a blitz eampaign to export ‘machinery to these countries, A Bombay trade fair of Russia and its satellite powers has opéned. Ivan Krotov, termed in the British press at Singapore, a “key figure in the Russian espionage system,” has been selling am open-door-Russia in southeast Asia—open, that is, to sell “machinery,” Mr. Touller reports. Mostly Importer Since Russia has been pretty strictly an importer of machinery, the new shift is ims portant. Tooled exports were emphasized again in United: Nations talks in Rangoon, Burma where the Rus-

' sians suddenly came up with

an offer to sell machine tools, power euipment, electrical and transport” equipment, mining, textile and other machinery. All the Russians wanted in return was rubber, : jute, rice, copra, shellac, spice, tea, tin and quinine, This Russian trade offensive would seem only what it is proclaimed-—an effort to supply machines that the West cannot because of rearmament — if there had not come to light lately evidence of how Russia

" sells guns as “autos,” bombs as

“spare parts.” Alexander Barmine, political - refugee who's been an economic commissar and Red Army brigadier, has now revealed that during the Thirties, to stimulate civil war in Asia, Russia undertook to plant arms caches in China and Mongolia, for delivery to Communists, Cover Company The cover used for the shipments was a Russian governmental corporation known as “Auto-Motor Export Corp.” Barmine was its director. Gen. Berzin, chief of Russian trade intelligence, |asked Mr. Barmine “to open branches in China ostensibly or factually fon the export of trucks, for gelling trucks, spare parts and opening‘ warehouses, but the military intelligence could use the warehouses for storage for the arms.’ Mr. Barmine, now chief of the Voice of America’s Russian department, “revealed to the Senate board studying the pro-Red Institute of Pacific Relations how the Soviets use

“machinery export” in two ways: ONE—To camouflage -ship-

ments of arms under secret treaties with friendly foreign governments, TWO—To plant a store of arms unknown to unfriendly foreign governments for use by rebel Communists. ; Today Burhan Shahidi, the Soviet citizen whom Mao Tsetung has been forced to accept as governor of Sinkiang, looks like a veteran of this trade, Mr. Weller reports. Mr, Burs han got his start in "Chinesd _ Sinkiang as director of roads and trucking in one of the -Soviet-subsidized, , anti-Chiang provincial governments. Soviet effort to pump “machinery” “into the softest corners of Kast Asia is co-ordi-nated with the effort to smash arms production in Europe. In Vienna during the first fortnight of February the Redcontrolled World Federatfon of Trade Unions met and ordered Communist shop stewards in England, France and “Italy in engineering, aircraft and ship- ~

* puilding firms to slow-down

American - financed rearmament.

It appears that the Comin- - form is renewing the slowdown

campaign of 1939-41—one in-

recent . ¢

MILES

Mining of Yangtse and Yellow Rivers would ‘blockade Siechwen and Norifwisé Provinces

Kweiyang

This vin aid oes dispersion otk a Red air force concentroted here. |

Bombing ‘railroads ond mining Grand Cane! would cut China in half,

~ Shanghoi

Reds,

Fronce, fighting Indo- Chinese rs Chinese attack;

Blockode of Chinese coast would stop Reds from getting material from

7 se 2 4 Canton ( ¥F M FR. * i Re Legend FE ~ INDO- 3 Rofionds CHINA P vee |

1).

wants more American oid

Suripe ond Southeost Asia

IF THE WORST COMES TO WORST—Timesnap shows possible ways of butting ti squeeze on Red China should the Korea truce talks fail. The big idea would be to cut her off from the

rest of the world.

tended to sap western resist. ance to fascism-—now to Communism,

Soviet Union

SOVIET Army leaders and Russian newspapers served notice. that Russia possesses “atom bombs of all calibres” and warned the West that any aggressor will be met with “crushing, deadly blows.” The occasion was the 34th anniversary of the Soviet Army. Army General Sergei Shtemenko's full page article in Pravda said that the peoples of Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaya, Burma and Indonesia are “waging =a just war for their liberation and the forces of resistance to imperiaiism are growing in the Middle East, East and in North and South Africa.”

Great Britain

LABOR PARTY LEADER Clement 'R. Attlee, said that “dangerous” American circles want a spreading. war with Communist China, He aciused Prime Minister Winston Churchill of leading the American- Congress to believe that Britain also favored that policy. * Mr. Attlee said Party recognized perialism (as) a very real menase to peale’ and =aid that the United Nations jintervention in Korea must be seen through to the end. _ But, he said, “it would be fooligsh for the Western powers to get heavily engaged in a war in Asia” because any “general attack” on China by the Western powers would -increase Asiatic and Chinese nationalist feelings. Meanwhile Queen Elizabeth 11 is discussing plans to hold her coronation in August or September and her decision is expected within the nextghree the Daily Express re-

the Labor “Soviet im-

orted. The Daily Express is owned

* by Lord Beaverbrook, a Con-

United States

-and effective as any

servative leader, and has excellent sources of information on court matters.

France

GEN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER is planning to. visit Greece and Turkey and it is “highly probable” he will go early next month, his Atlantic Pact headquarters said. An official spokesman said, however, that Gen. Eisenhower still did not plan tq visit thé “in the foreseeable future.” Gen. FKEisenhower’s visit will take him to the two mations whosé military forces add 40 divisions to the North Atlantic powers’ potential punch, Turkey's 30 divisions are rated about as combat ready in the world, ‘while Greele’s 10 divisions have been given in-

Her Arabic. Interpreter Blushed— rd

Lebanese Glad That Mrs. FDR Has Gone’

By ERNIE HILL

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb, 23 (CDN)—As Eleanor Roosevelt visited Pakistan, Lebanese officials make little effort to disguise ‘their obvious relief that her three-day visit here is over—without serious incident. Here in the Middle East Mrs. Roosevelt's name is linked with those who are the staunchest

defenders 6f the establishment

of Israel. Her visit here ‘as ,guest of the Lebanese government contributed little toward

“a week off “to celebrate Lin-- a solution of the delicate Arab-

Israel question. " Instead, it produced a new wave of anti-Americanism among the Moslem Segment of the populdtion. ‘The. pro-Arab section ot the American colony here claims

~~ that Mrs. Roosevelt came with

a clossd ind!ana ier widioul

. refugees are living, but she clung to most of the convictions she arrived wit Arabs say. * " In informal discussions she sought to impress upon the Lebanese that Israel is here to stay and ‘that the Arab states should get used to: the

idea and stop thefr. boycott

which -is strangling. ‘the new state. Vw

‘AT SIDON,

a camp in which some 20,000 refugees are living in fents, basements and in one ¢dse 46 famides of 150 people in: a barn,

. “Why do you pot - try _to”

make or build something Tor yourselves?’ [asked Mrs. "Roosevelt,

“We want to go back to our : hemes in Israel,” an ou wom, s

the _

¢ the pro-~-

25 miles south. of ‘here, Mrs. Roosevelt, visited

tensive training under American direction.

East Germany

TWENTY Soviet armored and infantry divisions have concluded” winter war maneuvers -in the Soviet Union so realistic that several hundred

soldiers. were killed, sources close to the Soviet Control Commission said. Wounded numbered in the thousands,

the informants said. The maneuvers were held In the area between Moscow and Brest Litovsk and lasted eight weeks,

West Germany - + WEST GERMAN trade ufiions have warned Berliners that by buying in the Sovietstyle state-owned stores in the eastern party of the city they confribute to Soviet rearmament, J Figures for the whole of eastern Germany.are not available, but the state-owned stores in East Berlin .alone turned in a profit to the Soviet: zone government.’in 1951 of 126.7 million marks. The “profit” was about 40 per cent of the total sales.

Trade union experts have calculated that the sum is sufficient to construct a mill

with a capacity of 600,000 tons annually of steel and 350,000 tons of rolled products, onefourth of eastern Germany's entire present capacity.

Iran AN IRANIAN army spokesman - announced today the smashing of a Communist network within the army with arrest of eight officers and detention ‘of 20 others for qyestioning.

South Africa wih

MINING officials said pro--

duction of uranium is expected to start soon in -the Dominion of South. Africa.

It also would halt Pieping's adventures to the Southeast.

Egypt EGYPT'S prec arious gov ernment lineup, established by King Farouk to restore order. to the country, shows signs of an early crackup. King Farouk’'s nonpolitical cabinet appointed after the Jan. 26 riots which claimed 71 lives, is having trouble with the Wafdist political party which has a parliamentary majority. There's every indication that the WAFD and the Farouk cabinet will come to a parting of the ways before spring.

Mexico MEX IC AN officials sdid the breakdown of bilateral military negotiations with the United States “may be permanent” unless “certain proposals’ are withdrawn by American negotiators. Military officials said they felt the U. 8. proposals threatened Mexican sovereignty.

political campaigns forthe July presidential election may have influenced Mexican negotiators in breaking off talks,

Pakistan

SEVERAL persons were

injured when police charged ri-

oting students at Dacca, capital of East Pakistan, where an unofficial casualty toll of 12 dead and 50-injured was reported for the past two days. Students at Dacca began rioting when police fired on a group demonstrating for the adoption of Bengali as an offi-

. cial state language,

Japan PREMIER SHIGERU YOSHIDA'S frequent absence from diet ¢parliament) sé##ions has become a political issue. Hig critics say his excuse: is always the same: He is “indisposed.” But they insist his doctors report him in excellent health:

Inside World Affairs

BY UNSPOKEN agreement, the Duchess of Windsor is

» referred to socially throughout

the ‘British empire as simply “Wallis Simpson.” The title of Duchess {s given only when her name is written. Gi or ~ BY SWINGING its weight to India in the Kashmir dispute, Russia has written off Pakistan. rr 9 » ” ] TO PROTECT the valuable new oilfields in North Borneo, the British are taking measures to keep down the numbers of’ Chinese laborers. ’ ” ” » RUSSIA is wooing Japanese trade, holding out Sakhalin coal as bait for raw silk, silk varn and fishing boats.

now,’ said Mrs. Roosevelt, “why don't you plant a few things or do something to occupy your time and‘ your minds?” : “We want to go back to our homes. in Israel.” Mrs. Roosevelt asked why the Lebanese and Syrian governments did not attempt to assimilate the stranded Arabs. It was explained fo. her that they wanted to go home and that the ‘two countries already had unemployed. ? . Fearing. demonstrations and even violence, the Lebanese government kept their distinguished guest's itinerary in

the country a secret, When she

_went to Sidon she was. pré-

ceded by a truckload .of 30

goldiers and’ followed by 5

others in private cars,

ONE CONFERENCE was arranged with the" Amerioan ;

GOGGLED submarine fishermen, diving with spear guns for sport to kill the huge sea bass of the western Spanish coast, have almost wiped qut this rare breed. Caves are too few to hide the big fish. u ~ » OLD-STYLE British rubber

: planters, angered at the friend-

ship ..of Malcolm MacDonald for: Malayans and Chinese and hiz refusal to Join allwhite clubs, are trying to get the commissioner for southeast Asia removed, Churchill dislikes MacDonald. eeu THE Japanese want to legse a number of American warships to augment their marine ‘safety forces.

the Lebanese government decided ‘it would be ‘unwise to permit the Lebanese phess to talk .with her: : Mrs. Roosevelt expressed te Beéjger that the 800,000 refugees in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and _Egypt should be moved into

sparsely settled areas of Arab .

countries and assimilated. Government “officials said that neither the Arabs nor the countries involved wanted to follow such a course. It wassexplained to Mrs. Roosevelt that 90 per cent of

the refugees have now been’

oriented toward communism

because of their ‘bitterness.to-

ward the United States, blam-

~ ing “Washington for Israel's

establishment. i As Mrs. Rgespyelt’ walked

through tents and hospitalssin | old women cried out Arabi¢ phrases at her which made the Arabia interpreter at’

Sidon,

her side

Our Fair City—

Milk Seems ] pe : Likely to Stay At 23 Cents

By The Times Staff

Li ii

IN SPITE OF heavy market pressure for anothek boost in retail milk prices, best guess right now is that

it won't come this season.

Milk prices to farmers in this area have risen 32 cents per hundred pounds since last December when last 1-cent a quart hike socked consumers. ~"3 This much rise in wholesale price usually is enough

of 23 cents.

“to put another cent on retail prices, now at all-time high

But dairymen, sensitive to’wrath of customers, are expected to hold present rate in hope that wholesale price

will drop after Mar. 1.

They're saying they would rather take “little loss :

this month than“boost retail bills now and be forced into

cutback later. Watch Hughes

LATEST guessing among Republican leaders on Governor scramble is centering around -vague signs W., O, Hughes, Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives and Kt, Wayne attorney, is beginning to look like top choice of Sen. - - William | Jenner's forces for Governor.” Talk on that subject firmed up last week when Walter Helmke, Ft. Wayne attorney, spiked Governor moves in-his behalf and urged support of fellow townsman for Governor, Tieup is offer made to Mr. Helmke by Jenner forces to act as Senator's campaign manager for re-election. If Mr. Meilmke becomes Jenner manager, he'll be on record as supporting Mr,

- Hughes for Governor,

Tag Fido IT 1S QUITE possible that in. the near future violator§ of city's dog control laws will be lining up- along with traffic parking violators to pay their fines in “cafeteria court.” Mayor Clark and Health Board members are planning a “sticker” system like those on illegally parked cars to crack down on dog law vio-

‘lators in Municipal Court,

Purpose is twofold: Forcing dog owners to get licenses by wholesale enforcement provides quick check on owner-

ship-and history of animal in

rabies control. Crackdown would reduce number of owners who permit their dogs to run loose,

Follow Niblack?

SUPERIOR COURT Judge John Niblack's campaign, backed with legal power of bench, to boost his court reporter's pay $50 a month, is expected to result in same salary raise for reporters in all other 13 county courts, Judge ordered Auditor Roy Combs and Treasurer Louis Rainier- to put raise in next pay check in defiance of County Council budget which refused money for raise. Refusal of county officials to boost checks would make them liable for charge of contempt of court and possible jail term if judge followed through on edict, ) Other judges in Courthouse won't comment on it publicly but are saying privately they favor {increase for reporters

and would demahd same raise

if Judge Niblack wins fight.

City Lobby Due

CITY ar is starting early oh Jugh- pressure lobby machine to “get some things done” Taf *Tidianapolis in a next legislature. Mayor Clark will form Jegislative advisory committee to draft some bills for Indianapolis municipal government. One bill will seek to consolidate all sewer responsibility with one city board. Now it's divided. between Sanitation Board and Board of Works. Same thing will be asked for building and maintenance of streets. Work now is divided between Works Board and Park Board. Latter department

controls all boulevards in and

around parks. 2 Also to be considered -— equalization of police and’ fire department pensions. Pensions of retired firemen run as much as $150 a month . , . top police pensiotis $100.

Meter Muddle

HIT-SKIP distribution of parking meters in outlying areas is causing some questions to be asked, For instance, business districts at 34th and Illinois Sts.and 38th and Illinois Sts. are fully equipped with meters in four directions. At 16th and Illinois Sts, where business and traffic is just as heavy or more 50, there are no ‘parking meters. ‘Only explanation: Last Democratic administration,

Haven't All Horses Gone to Chicago? Ti a

te otekeur contrast between the vanishing Jithiils ene ~ of the horse-and-wagon era and thie machine age was ; graphically on a downtown street here r

Horse hitched to wagon where o driver Jud duitaly

which .

sponsored meter projects, did. not get around to some diss tricts before it went out of office Jan. 1. New GOP admine istration hasn't moved on mes ters as vet.»

6? 9? 0? IF figuring your federal n= come tax is not enough of a headache, try reading fine print instructions on form called “estimated tax for 1952." : Most taxpayers just skip fine green print rather theh try

~~ BN 2) nN \ Pe VD QUA & 2) d// (> x Slit, hype (19 a D Nr ain!

to strain eyes enough to read it. One taxpayer got magnifying glass in determined effort to read it carefully. Even then he couldn't decide whether one figure was 9, 8 of just. 0,

Old Hands Stay

FRICTION is beginning to develop between Mayor Clark's new GOP administration and the party machine, Organization leaders are grumbling out loud: in some quarters about slowness of Sity Hall in ousting holdover Dems ocratic workers and putting in “deserving GOPérs.” Mayor Clark doesn't appear to be in mood to worry about such demands from party leaders, “We haven't heard too complaints,” he said, brushing subject aside,

.No Soap on Dope

ar, tough Narcotics Act of 1935 was enacted to put “teeth” into enforcement of law against harmful drugs, : But it has turned out tn little more than empty words on paper. Law made State Pharmacy Board responsible for its en~forcement, But economyminded legislatures in recent vears eliminated appropriations for hiring even one state nar. cotics inspector. Pharmacy Board has only

. two inspectors and their duties

are confined to inspection of drug stores, Narcotics law directs police officers “in-state tp co-operates with’ Pharmacy Board in Arug inspections but Board's actual enforcement has been negligible, Federal agents in co-op« eration with local and state police do all narcotics sleuthing,

Who's Got Button? | SUPPORTERS of Gen. mr. senhower for GOP presidential nomination are advising ohe servers not to be misled by pre ponderance of cam buts tons for U. 8. Sen, Taft ; Republican county and city government workers. Eisenhower strategists ems plain dearth of “I Like Ike™ buttons is result of deliberate “down play” so as “not to tip our hand too early.” ‘

Lax on Tax

RECEIPT of foot-thick files on income tax case of Lawse rence Bardin, former Indianapolis Brewery manager, stirred up long-smoldering complaint of federal prosecutors. - They've been complaining that voluminous tax cases have been reaching them sometimes only six months before the deadline for prosecution under statute of limitations or

years),

District attorneys say many times they don’t have enough time to dig through all evi dence and get it to grand jury before deadline.