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Doctor's Car Looted
A doctor's medical bag, equipment and three vials of narcotics were reported stolen last night from his automobile. Dr. Albert M. Donato told police his car was parked near his office at 1521 Shelby St. He valued his loss at $300.
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HR Apr. 20—Col. Harry 8. Truman finally has gotten out of the Army. ‘The President, White House officials .said ay, formally was placed on the- officers honorary retired list last Nov. §. after having been in the Army and Reserve components since June 14, 1905, when he enlisted in the Missouri National Guard. Mr, Truman, as a retired infantry colonel in the Reserve, is entitled to a monthly pension of $95.66, but thus far he has not applied for his retirement pay: ‘The President's retired status is proclaimed officially in a small certificate which Mr, Truman has had framed as one of his most prized mementos. The certificate, signed by Maj. Gen. W. E,
“By authority of the President, the Secretary
on the officers honorary retired list.” The certificate specifies legalistically that “this shall remain in effect during the pleasure of the Secretary of the Army for the time being.” On May 8, 1044, when Mr. Truman reached the age of 60, he had completed 26 years, one
By MERRIMAN SMITH oniled Press White House Reporter
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to Washington,
Bergin, the Army Adjutant General, says that ' of the Army has placed Col, Harry 8. Truman
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month and 13 days of NHHtary service for retirement purposes.
Of this total, 25 Months and 25 days were |
on active duty in World War I when the Pres- | ident commanded an artillery battery. The law governing Reserve officers Hoes not make their retirement at 60 mandatory. When Mr. Truman became President in 1945, | in deference to his position as Commander-in- | Chief of all the Armed Forces, he was retained | in the active Reserve.
Last fall, during a casual conversation with |
friends, it was suggested to him that it would be appropriate for his name to be entered on
the retired list. The President told Army |
Secretary Frank Pace to draw up the necessary papers and Mr. Truman formally retired
“by authority of the President.” i
_ The mechanics of his retirement required his transfer to the honorary reserve. Then he was formally retired. He ‘could have started drawing his monthly $95.66 at the age of 60, but he failed to do so and has never drawn the pension. ’ The law prohibits accrual of this money and if Mr. Truman ever needs it, he will start with nothing more than the regular monthly
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and during the first act intermis-|ence than Mr. Truman. He ap|sion, the President leaned back in| WASHINGTON, Apr. 290-On a his chair while Mrs. Truman in a/scene as long as the stars came
movie house stage where Johnny! motherly manner dabbed a hand- {back for bows. Ray was crying only a few shows kerchief on his perspiring {fore-|
{plauded vigorously after each
The President summed up the audience reaction as he and Mrs.
| With the exception of the true Truman hustled out of the theater {opera lovers who shouted “bravo” after midnight. And in the words of President, after each aria, there was no ‘more “Very fine,” he said. Truman, having the Metropolitan|enth enthusiastic member of the audi- fine.”
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sence is “very fine.” Mr. and Mrs. Truman léd a first night audience of more than 3400 Washingtonians last night in cheering the Met's colorful performance of Verdi's Aida. This afternoon the Metropolitan offers Puccini’s Madame Butterfly and tonight, Bizet's Carmen. The opera is playing at Loew's) Capitol Theater, which normally features movie and vaudeville bills. In keeping with the starchy dignity of the opera, the management has stopped the sale of popcorn through tonight's perform. ance of Carmen.
Crosscut of U, 8. A.
The audience, including the 'Trumans in one of the better {boxes om the golden horseshoe, {was a graphic crosscut of Amer-
For glamor, there was Wash{ington’s famous hostess, Gwen |Cafritz, radiant in an ermine !stole and a swirling, silvery eve-
midnight blue dinner jacket and had trouble finding his tickets.) In contrast’ to the colorful so{ciety leaders, members of the {Cabinet and the Supreme Court and Dr. John R. Steelman in one of the few top hats in evidence, there were hundreds of government workers in raincoats who 'had plenty of trouble meeting the {$12 top charged for tickets.
Greeted by Bing
Rudolph Bing, director of the Metropolitan, met the Trumans at the theater entrance and escorted them to their box. It was warm inside the theater,
Patrick M. Evard
To Play in ‘Othello’
Times State Serviee | RENSSELAER, Apr. 20—Patrick M. Evard of Indianapolis will play Cassio in Shakespeare's “Othello,” to be produced by the Columbian Players of St. Joseph's College here Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Evard is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Evard, 5854 College Ave.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS POLIS TIMES
[he Here's News That ould Not Be Suppressed
‘Another Chapter in The Story Behind the Seizure of the Steel Mills,
(An Editorial from the N. Y. Daily Mirror, April 26, 1 952)
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Politics, Not Government
Slowly it all comes out. That is something that the news suppressors in Washington do not seem to understand. In Russia, the news can be suppressed at the source, because they shoot those who do not conform to the dictates of the masters. Here, where the worst the president can do is to call a man a liar, the news will in time be available and published.
So, it happens that John C, Bane, Jr., industry member of the Wage Stabilization Board's special steel panel, appeared before the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare to tell of the irregular procedures in that board
when the so-called ‘steel package”. came up for action. Me. |
Bane said:
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“What I do know that would explain the ranges: of the board's extravagant wage recommendation is very little. As I have stated, a departure from the regulations was not suggested at any meeting of the panel or the board until late on the afternoon or evening of March 20th at a meeting an hour or so before the board's recommendations were published. At that meeting, the public mem. bers who attended, operating as usual under the potent leadership of Mr. Feinsinger, presented one by one the recommendations which made up the ‘package’ published later that evening. Among them was the recommendation that wages be increased by 1215-cent to 1714-cent series of steps. No industry member of the board of the panel had ever heard of this proposal until then. In spite of that,
~ the wage recommendation, like all others in the case, was pnd
at once, without discussion, hy the votes of the publi and labor members of the board...”
Here is one of the most vital questions in our economy, a decision regarding which led to the seizure of the steel plants and the enunciation by the President of a doctrine of inherent powers—which is government by obiter dicta and not by law—and one hour's notice is all that is given. for its consideration. : That is politics, not government. The decisions are not made by those who assume responsibility for them. Actually, the Wage Stabilizaation Board is a packed agency. The labor and public members vote together against the industry members. The board is dominated by its chairman, Nathan P. Feinsinger, who has, since 1947, opposed the Taft-Hartley Law and is not likely to use its provisions if ‘he can help using them. Mr. Bane’s statement repeats the question: “Why did the board depart from its regulations?” Obviously, Mr. Feinsinger does not find it necessary to
abide by regulations or even to report to his own board. Mr. Bane concluded:
. It now means that the board has no particular standards
or limits in the establishment of wages. Its only standard is to be its own more or less discreet pleasure. What a union gets, in short, under this precedent, may depend on its peculiar standing in the ° favor or disfavor of the board, and perhaps the amount of political and social pressure it can exert on the public members of theboard. To an American lawyer, government of this kind is abhorrent; it is government by men, not by law.” Naturally, when a President rules without law, his subordinates will imitate him. Now every little bureaucrat will make his own rules and change them at will. The law is being subordinatdl not only to the whim of the President, but to the wishes of little board chairmen.
"Maybe Congress needs to investigate whether Congress itself has anything to do with the laws of this country.
It Is Your Fight DEL
If you are opposed to the un-American-like methods, as ‘de scribed by the Mirror which led to the seizure of the steel mills, you are anxious to have the whole story brought out into the open.
The House of Representatives voted 255 to 88 last Thursday to bring this about through an igvestigation of the Wage Stabilization Board by its Labor Committee. It is your privilege as an American citizen to advise your representatives in Congress of your interest in and support of this investigation which begins in Washington May 6. Write for copies of Mr. Bane's testimony and the booklet “Facts in the Steel Controversy.”
STEEL COMPANIES IN THE WAGE CASE Room 5401, Empire State Bulag: H New York 1 N. Y.
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