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‘The Truman Legacy . . . No. 1—
New President to Inherit Rash of Global Problems
By KERMIT McFARLAND Seripps-Howard Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Apr. 7 ~—When President Harry S. Truman steps out of office next January, his
Administration will bequeath to
‘his successor, whoever he may be, a legacy of vast global and domestic problems. The new President will inherit the same basic issues which’ confronted Mr. Truman when he took over in 1945. For the United States, at the end of seven Truman years, is about where it was at the start. It is at war—and the danger of a greater war hangs ominously over the world. Inflation is still with us—only more of it, and still more threatened. The history books, when they come to be written, will need many pages just for the highlights of the Truman years— years of feverish: action. But the definitive results will be far less adaptable to concise reporting. : The next President will inherit not only a vast assortment of commitments made by the Truman Government, both at home and abroad, but also —despite the frantic and impassioned action of the Truman years — a host of unresolved issues. : » » » THE TRUMAN years have been years of historic events, but also years of incredible contrasts in Administration policy: The close of two wars, and the beginning of another. The earthshaking decision to use the atomic bomb on the Japanese, and the abrupt refusal to permit the Chinese on Formosa the privilege of diversionary attacks on the Red-held China mainland. The. bold challege to aggression in Korea, followed by the collapse of a seemingly wellmounted offensive and nine
months of a near-groveling °
scramble to withdraw from the action so valiantly begun. The daring Berlin Airlift, which scored such a stunning triumph over Russian bullying, and the diplomatic tenderness of the negotiations with Czech Communists for the release of the pilloried and imprisoned
The dramatic’ dismissal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, and the placid tolerance: of scandal - smirched politicians in high places. The brave words against inflation, and the default by which it was permitted to reach new heights. The rousing and insistent outcry against the Taft-Hart-Tey Labor Law, and the repeated use of it to that or thwart major strikes. ® = =»
THE MILITANT demand for more and more guns, and the stubborn refusal to interfere seriously with civilian lolli pops. 0 : Seven years of Truman, while the Russian bear looked over the shoulder of the American Government eating its pore ridge and trying to have it toa. In these seven years, the personal income of Americans rose $80 billion to an incredible
to nearly half its buying worth of pre-war years. Throughout his administra~ tion, Mr. Truman has pitched his labor policies on a pro-union key. Yet in this seven-year hitéh there have been more
““strikes, more strikers and more
man-days lost than in any pre vious comparable period. Mr. Truman has set precedent after precedent—he has verily become Mr. Precedent. And at the same time his penchant for drift and delay has made him a Mr. Hesitant.
» ¥ " WHEN HARRY 8. TRUMAN stood before Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone a few minutes past 7 that evening in April, 1945, he was an humble, tense citizen, elevated by death to the top position of world leadership.
He hadn't wanted to run for *Vice-President, a. few months earlier, and had made no bones about it. As a Senator, he had said: “I've got the best job a man tan have.” But the Democratic kingmakers, trying to patch up the party split over the New Deal, were looking for a compromise substitute for the verboten
Henry Wallace. Senator Tmu-
man, head of the bi-partisan war ‘Investigating committee, fitted the specifications. So the power of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the big city bosses ground out the decision at a stormy Chicago convention. “What can you do?” pleaded the man from Missouri. Eighty-two days after Vice President Truman took office, a cerebral hemorrhage struck down the audacious and masterful politician who had been so long in the White House. # = » WITHIN THREE ‘HOURS, a Constitution written 158 years before went swiftly into action and the United States had a new President. At that hour, the Allies were on the way to victory in a war around the globe. U. 8, tanks and a half-million GI's were driving headlong on Berlin, 50 miles-away. . The ring around Japan was tightening fast. The “arsenal of democracy” was turning out weapong at an all-time peak, national income was at a record high, the dollar had depreciated by legs than a quarter, inflation had” up a
head of steam but still was rela- |
tively well contained.
Victory was in the air. new man in the White House got a friendly reception, and a good deal’ of sympathy. Four days after. he took the oath of office, the President went to the Capitol and addressed a joint session of Congress. “I ask only,” he said humbly, “to be a good and faithful servant to my Lord and my people.” ‘ “With great humility,” he said, I call upon all Americans to help me ,..” : * =» =
CONGRESS gave him an
ovation. The whole country lauded. t by July, six of the Roose-
parted. In September, Secre-
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demobilization and reconversion, the scramble back to normalcy was on. The Presidency no longer: was a job of carrying out policies and plans already laid down, The honeymoon was over, “If this has been a honeymoon,” quipped the President in August, “then some terrible has happened fo the institution of marriage.” But this was just the begin~ ning . . , the beginning of the Truman legacy to the next President of the United States.
TOMORROW—"Let the Dust Settle.”
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Vote Registration Deadline Tonight
Today is your last chance to register to vote in the ‘May 6 primary. Registration ends at midnight. If you're not registered, visit the Registration Board office, Room 2,. Courthouse. It will be open until the midnight deadline. Residents who did not vote in either 1950 or 1951 elections must reregister to vote in the primary. If you have moved to another precinct, you must transfer your registration.
leaps to Safety Times State Service FORTVILLE, C. Anderson, 25; iapel, jumped to safety just before an Indianapolisbound New York Central freight train demolished his auto stalled on the tracks near here early today.
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213 Hoosier Workers Join Phone Strike
Shadeland Ave. Plant Not Involved
By EMERSON TORREY About 130 telephone installers in Indiana joined a nationwide strike against Western Rlectric Co. today, but a threatened tie-up of Hoosier telephones was at least temporarily averted.
The big Shadeland Ave, plant of Western Electric here was not involved in the strike. But 85 repairmen and warehouse workers at the WE distributing house here also joined the walkout, Indiana Bell Telephone Co. reported service normal as the union did not establish picket lines here or elsewhere in the state, Leaders of Bell operators’ unions in Indiana have said they would honor WE picket lines, Kenneth Silvers, president of Local 10523, Communications Workers of America (CIO) here, said picket lines may be set up in the state “as time goes on.”
Other Labor News
Other labor developments in Indianapolis and Indiana: STEEL — An estimated 70,000 Hoosier CIO steelworkers in 18 plants were poised to join a nationwide strike at 11:01 p. m. Wednesday ‘unless a settlement was reached. Ninety per cent involved are in the Calumet area. WESTERN UNION — A. G. Dudley, Western Uniéh superintendent here, reported messages and money orders moving “with normal speed” to 80 major centers which have been reopened throughout the country. ’ Mr. Dudley said a number of workers returned to their jobs here as the strike enteréd its second week and other WU employees had been brought in from other cities.
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affairs into politics generally are in busi- (Ing some things that already ness. Republican - business. plain business and some of it has of the investigation, the business.
all correspondence between Senators financial RFC, the FHA, the Commodity Credit Corp., and thers, should | be available on demand. I think there is a“great need for an in-| dependent study and review of] such correspondence.
was something new, didn't like it, for they have had a nice pattern down vogue since the days of Andrew Jackson, who said: “To the victor belongs the spoils.”
White House McGrath and and “Newbold”
By NEWBO As told to Scripps-Howard
NEW YORK, Apr. T—I in Washington a wonderland,
I found that Attorney General McGrath resented the investigation of the federal government just as soon as he learned that I meant business, I found out that those who say I'm a political dope are right. I could have gone down there and sat around, making just enough little noises to remind the impor-
EXCLUSIVE
tant ones why I was there—and
my kind of a political dope. I found out that lip service is readily obtained in Washington. Promises are made easily and broken just as easily. Investigations will be boycotted in Wash-
members feel free to ignore presidential orders. J. Edgar Hoover's FBI files already are well loaded with dead bodies—scandals that should be, but probably never will be, brought out for grand jury action.
Not Hoover's Fault
This is not Mr, Hoover's fault. He knows all about these bodies,
subpena powers, gather facts, He delivers facts and then they are buried,
torney General, apparently neither he nor Edgar Hoover can do what my mission was supposed to accomplish, even if they werd of a mind to attempt it. However, the néw Attorney General already has said there is
ernment, He is a real whitewasher. He doesn't even pretend to be a reformer, The whole setup in Washington
no department dedicated to check-
ments. Such a department badly needed. This is because the Congress’| leaderg don't want too much checking up. That was evident when they refused to grant me the power of subpena~—the tool to, I was told by a friendly Sena-| tor who wanted to help me, “They don’t want these investigations. They just want to keep these clouds going back and forth. Peo-| ple don’t know what's going on. | And they don't want to let the people have the facts.”
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And then the blow fell, The real tip-off on this Wash-
[ington attitude toward Investiga(tors came from Howard McGrath ‘himself. When he found out I’ meant business, his reaction was to cripple me on my appointments 7 {to my staff and snarl me up in mj ‘red tape. *
but the head of the FBI has no He simply can the
I found out that is the way things “are done in Washington,
I am emphasizing this because complete 6o-operaiio ri P. McGranery, the new Ate P Operation,
nothing wrong in the federal gov-|
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LD MORRIS Staff Writer Murray Davis
found the federal government
I found there are people on the federal payroll who have worked only a half hour in six months.
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(Newbold Morris of New York City was sworn in as a special U. 8. attorney general to clean up corruption in Washington. Last Thursday, after two months in office, he was fired. In ‘What I Learned in Washington,” Mr, Morris, in an ex« clusive interview, tells his story of vicious undercurrents, double talk, broken promises and leaderless government, which combine to protect officials from investigation. ; (This is the first of a series.)
wound up with a federal judge- he run over by a streetcar. Anyship. I'm going to continue being thing might happen.
This delaying game might have gone on indefinitely if I hadn't sent Col, Sam Becker, my assist-
work on the Justice Department, Mr. McGrath came face-to-face
ington just as long as cabinet with Col. Becker and was asked
his telephone calls. He was told that 11 lawyers
the personne! files and the files of prosecutions which have not been made and on which the statute of limitations finally ran out. It wasn’t until then that he fully realized I wasn't fooling. He
business. :
Last Act In Hamlet
doesn’t know what I know—that/ IT thought I was the President's
jman and that the President had |confidence in my good taste to keep those questionnaires confidential unless there were facts that would warrant sending them {to the grand jury, | My first instinct was to call {the President, Then I relaxed. I realized this was a dispute ' be{tween the President and one of {his appointees. The President would have to resolve it,
Well, he did. First it was Mor-
overnmental depart-ris and then it was McGrath, riding. ing up on @ jg lying around like the bodies in|
the last act of Hamlet, To say I was putting it mildly, What I had expected was something entirely different, which I will go into later. And, as a matter of fact, I still don't know just what is in store for mie so far as Washington is concerned. The reason’ for this doubt 1s because the President, I'm told, tried to get'in touch with me last Friday after I had left for New York. ¥'m going to be in Wash. ington Tuesday night and for several days. If he wants to get hold of me, I'll be around,
In the meantime, I'll be weigh
have happened and the undercurrents that foretold the doom
NEXT: Mr. Morris had three strikes ‘on him before he was
Find Gun Used | To Kill Schuster
were ready to start going through
finally understood that I meant
When I got Col. Becker's report of that meeting I knew fit was|ride, McGrath or I. The attorney general had flatly refused to complyifigured out what cash fare to ' ) with - the President's order of charge patrons who do not intend made. Geb weekly pass, but said it would be “more than 15 cents.”
Unofficial estimates place the new| ‘MF Feents Bounced he was o 8
Glenn McCarthy
Transit Asks Pass-Card Fare System
By IRVING LEIBOWITZ
to raise bus and streetcar fares in Indianapolis to pay for the wage increases it gave some 1300
for his appointment calendar and drivers and other workers,
For economy-minded transit passengers, Indianapolis Rail ways, Ine. suggested a combina~ tion fare. Here's the latest fare proposal which the transit company will present to the state Public Service Commission later this week:
to use the
cash fare between 17 and 2 a ride. THREE: High school students would be required to pay a flat 10 cent fare for each ride. Grade school students would pay 5 cents {a ride,
Would Eliminate Tokens
This new fare schedule would {eliminate token fares. W. Marshall Dale Railways president, said the weekly pass card would provide for unlimited
[riders because most “people who will purchase such a pass are more inclined to take advantage of their investment, Mr. Dale |said, In 8t. Louis, the pass fare card costs 65 cents with a 10 cent additional charge each ride, How-
card costs $1.25 with a 5 cent additional charge for each ride. In Indiapapolls, transit officials will allow the pass card to be used for as many trips and by as many separate individuals during the week as desired by the payment of an additional 10 cents for each ride,
Would Pay $1.63
The city's transit system today| ant, to see Mr. McGrath and start proposed a completely new plan
ONE-—A 65-cent weekly pass which. will allow passengers to ride any time during the week|livered several days for an additional 10 cents each
TWO-—Transit officials haven't
This pass-type fare, now being | used in St. Louis and Kansas surprised 1s/City, appeals to economy-minded
ever, in Kansas City, the weekly:
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Risks Loss Of Shamrock, Pet Project
Insurance Firm Moves to Foreclose
HOUSTON. “Apr. 1—(0P)]
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Co, of New York is taking steps to foreclose on Glenn McCarthy for mortgages hg return for the company's mile lion loan, the Houston Press said in a copyrighted story today, Mr, McCarthy himself said he knew of no such plans and he'd Jump that fence when I come ta
The Scripps-Howard ' said it had learned rom Aaron financial sources in New York that Mr, McCarthy had been asked
other properties whigh mortgaged.” :
These sources, the press aid, reported Mr, McCarthy had Equitable that instead of giving. in he may “start his own eourt fight against the life insurance company.”
ing his properties, and of remaine ing head of the fabulous Shame rock Hotel which he admittedly \ regards as his “pet.” : Equitable’s ultimatum for Mr McCarthy to sign over his prope erties or face foreclosure was
Press said, by Warner
go for as little as $2 each, “to let the little investors” get intg the oil business. The new come pany is in the process of being formed, 2 :
the & Gas Co, the olle man’s biggest concern, . i ——————————
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As a result, the average worker
a week, would pay $1.65 for tran-| sit service each week with the combination weekly pass and 10-| cent change fare. Under the pres-! ent token fare, the same worker pays $1.25 a week. However, the more the weekly] pass is used, the lower the fare
NEW YORK, Apr. T (UP)—A,
38-caliber revolver found on 4a Brooklyn parking lot was ‘the weapon used to kill Arnold Schuster who fingered bank robber Willie (The Actor) Satton, ballistics experts determined to-| dav, Police arrested a longshoreman
for questioning about the -Tevenge murder of the 24-year-old) clothing salesman, The gun was found last night]
just don’t want an investigator. on a Brooklyn parking lot five But a permanent investigator is blocks what I will recommend.
from the street corner
All workers on the pier were |
Dowager Queen Ili LONDON, Apr. 7
to her home at
(UP)-|the hourly wage rate from $1.53 was granted. Mr. Dowager Queen Mary, confined an hour to $1.66 an hour on May Marlborough 1 and to $1.70 an hour beginning to each other. The Fouse with a chill since last week, Nov. 1. This will
gress- continues to make “satisfactory | Workers an average monthly sal-
becomes on a weekly basis, For example, if the pass is used 20] times a week, the average fare! would be 13 cents, - If it is used 256 times, the average fare would bg a little more than 12 cents a 'ride, Indianapolis Railways began experimenting ‘with different types of fares to attract more passengers, hold the present crop of riders and make enough money to operate without a loss. | Agree on Pay Boost |
The need for a fare that would,
|where Mr, Schuster. was slain|Pfing more revenue to the com-|{McCall expected to open InThe record of what happened Mar. 8, Police sald they believed PANY” Was underscored yesterday to me in Washington is complete-'the weapon had been stolen from when the transit company and 1y inexplicable, I had the bae¢king a Brooklyn pier. i |of everyone important, from the President and br. McGrath Fight being rounded up - for question-. tor Coach Employees of America § (on down, with the exception of a ing. § (few members of Congress, -
the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Mo-|
(AFL) agreed upon a new érne year labor contraet that boosted wages more than $494,000 a year. | The new contract will increase]
give regular|
progress,” her doctors said today, 8rY of $294.10 in November,
Elizabeth 11, will be 85 on May 26.
Ice Damages Bridge
On Mar, 19, Railways an
the state to approve a fare boost, | (However, no specified fare was! |suggested since the transit com-| {pany filed the request merely tok SWIFT CURRENT, Sask., Apr. give the state time to make an! (UP)—Three spans of the §1|examination of the company's lion Skaskatchewan Landing records. : (bridge were swept away yester-|. Now the trangit company fn.!
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The insurance was reported to have offered Mr, Moe Carthy the privilege of repurchase
Glenn McCarthy To Face $34 Million Loan Suit
‘What | Learned in Washington’. . . Story By Newbold Morris
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