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McHale Should Withdraw

HE DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT elections just completed leave no shadow of a doubt that the organized Democrats of Indiana want to get rid of Frank McHale as their national committeeman.

And small wonder. He has led his party to 15 years of defeat in Indiana.

. He has embarrassed his party, in state and nation, by reaping huge personal profits out of deals with the government while he held high party office. He has publicly claimed, and still publicly claims in the face of their denials, a relationship of the most intimate nature with the state’s leading Republican newspapers. i : - . = o. 8 8 IN.MOST of the state's 11 districts this week the one issue was McHale—and in most of those districts McHale lost. The one Democrat—Henry Schricker—who has had the personal strength to carry the state in spite of the party's leadership, is aligned with those who oppose him. It is obvious that the Democratic Party can hope for scant success in Indiana without strong leadership which has the complete confidence of the whole party. That is important not only to Democrats, but to all those who believe Indiana will best be served by two strong, vigorous, opposing political parties. : Indiana Democrats have plainly expressed their own wish for a new leadership that will restore their party to that status. Mr. McHale could contribute much to that end by simply withdrawing from any last-minute drive to hang on to his committee membership. : If he has the real interests of his own party and his

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| ‘Needless Tribute

“AS HE so often has done; Bernard Baruch again sized up our economic-war situation for just what it is. His extraordinary capacity for clearing away the fog, confusion, double-talk and political propaganda never was more effectively used than in his short talk to the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in Washington. . By the end of the next fiscal year, the sage Mr. Baruch iNiched, this country will have thrown more than 20 billion dollars down the ‘“rathole of inflation” since the fighting began in Korea. “Needless tribute to inflation,” he called it. "All because the Truman administration refused to do what had to be done to block inflation when the Korean War began. : Even now, in Washington, ke said, there is no “consistent sense of urgency.” And he cited the present crisis in steel production as a direct result of the administration's resistance to an effective, all-embracing stabilization program, and its lack of resistance to favored pressure groups. Here we are, nearly two years after the Korean War bégan, and still without a determined program to combat ifflation, letting up instead of bearing down, slackening mobilization, spreading out defense production. Yet Korea still is unsolved and the defense buildup for Europe is just beginning. » - n - » “ IN THE steel case, Mr. Baruch pointed out, special pleaders appeared before the Supreme Court to argue their awn particular interests. : :* But no one came forward, he said, as a friend at court for the public. ¢ That has been the case with the whole mobilization program. Too much of it managed according to the administration’s affinity or disaffinity for individual segments of the population, Not enough of it managed in the interest of the whole public. For that reason, the whole public is paying the “needless tribute to inflation.”

The German Issue

ALLIED NOTES to Russia on the German question spell out the issue in clear and irrevocable terms. Before a German peace treaty can be signed, there must be a. free and sovereign Germany nation. There can be a free and sovereign German nation only after the German people have had a genuinely free election to elect an all-German government. "No free elections can be held until the conditions for untrammeled voting exist beyond any doubt. No such conditions will exist so long as the Russian dictatorship maintains its shackles on East Germany. A Germany restricted in its rights to free international association, as Stalin proposes, would not be a free Germany. A Germany so fettered, as the Allied notes point out, could mean nothing less than a “permanent state of tension and insecurity in the center of Europe.” The Allied notes state the case in terms no decent, rable government could reject. The Russian game, obviously, is to prevent the Germans from joining the est European security bloc and to do.it by another round of fruitless negotiations which Stalin can use for propa.

ganda purposes. ~ Good News From the South

convicted of kidnaping and conspiracy for flogging a man a woman of whose behavior the Kluxers did not

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NORTH CAROLINA, 10 Ku Klux Klansmen have been

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. . . By Dan Kidney

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Rep. Halleck Raps Some Clauses In Puerto Rican Constitution

own state sincerely at heart we believe that is what he WASHINGTON, May 16— an

When the new Puerto Rican constitution comes up for approval in the House next week, Rep. Charles A, Halleck, Rensselaer Republican, will vote against it.

The dean of the Indiana delegation told his colleagues that he doesn't like what the constitution contains in its bill of rights. He thinks it was copied from the United Nations and suspects former New Deal Gov. Rex Tugwell of putting the Puerto Ricans up to it.

Mr. Halleck particularly dislikes any suggestion that the basic law should provide “the right to work.” He suggested that such doctrine might gpread to the U.S. government, or any one of the 48 states, if the Congress approves it for Puerto Rico.

In arguing against this, Mr. Halleck developed his own philosophy of government. He doesn’t think the government should guarantee any economic rights other than the protection of private property. ” 8 »

HE PARTICULARLY attacked Section 20 of the bill of rights and urged his colleagues to read it and oppose it. It reads:

“The Commonwealth - also recognizes the existence of the following human rights: “The right of every person to receive free elementary and secondary education. The right of every person to obtain work. The right of every person to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, and especially to food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services. The right of every person to

social protection in the event sickness,

of unemployment, old age and disability, The right of motherhood and childhood to special care gnd assistance.” - o o

SUCH THINGS cannot be provided even by the rich U.S.A, Mr. Halleck asserted as his considered opinion. Therefore, it is wrong to have them incorporated into the constitution of Puerto Rico, where, until very recently, the slums and poverty were even greater than when it was governed by Spain. The new constitution gives to’ Puerto Rico self-govern-ment on a commonwealth ba-

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sis with United States protectton. The “rights” set forth are mostly “hopes” at the present time, the island's first native governor, Luis Munoz Marin, repeatedly has explained. That explanation is contained in the section of the constitution to which Mr. Halleck offered most objection. It says: “The rights set forth in this section are closely connected with the progressive development of the economy of the commonwealth and require, for their full effectiveness, sufficient resources and an agricultural and industrial development not yet attained by the Puerto Rican community. . ” s “IN THE LIGHT of their duty to achieve the full liberty of the citizen, the people and the government of Puerto Rico shall “do everything in their power to promote the greatest possible expansion of the system of production, to assure the fairest distribution of economic output, and to obtain the maximum understanding between individual initiative and collective co-operation. The executive and judicial branches shall bear in mind this duty and shall construe the laws that tend to fulfill it in the most favorable manner possible.” Congress granted Puerto Ricans the right to write their own constitution. President Truman found it designed along U. 8. lines and sent it to Congress for final approval. Rep. A. L. Miller (R. Nebh.), member of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, said he shared some of Mr. Halleck’s apprehensions regarding Section 20, but pointed out that the committee held hearings and reported out the bill of approval without objections. os » . “WHEN the legislature met in Puerto Rico they approved this constitution,” Mr. Miller explained to Mr. Halleck. “There was a constitutional convention which lasted #6m:62 days and they discussed every phase of ‘the problem and voted 90 to 1 for its approval. “There was a general election and the vote was 374,649 for and 82,023 against approv ing the constitution.” : This, Mr. Miller indicated, was democracy in action. He concluded with a quotation from Section 9, which reads: “Private property shall not

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lic use except upon payment of just compensation and in the manner provided by law.” With an obvious reference to the steel seizure, Mr. Miller commented: : “That is probably a good provision that should be in our

LIQUOR INDUSTRY . . . By James Daniel

Whisky Piling Up Faster Than

Nation’s Customers Can Buy It

WASHINGTON, May 16—The liquor industry, feeling the effects of an oversupply of whisky, is looking for ways to work off the excess with the least possible cut in retail prices. Because there's so much of it on hand, ‘8-year-old: Kentucky whisky is wholesaling in bulk for $4 to $4.50 a gallon—before taxes, of course. Prime Kentucky, whigky half that old is $1.95 to $2.25 a gallon. Two-year-old Kentucky whisky sells in bulk for $1.35 to $1.50 a gallon. And a bottler who doesn’t insist on having his whisky from new barrels can buy aged whisky, from re-used barrels, as cheaply as $1 a gallon.

Sharp Drop LIQUOR men can't remember when there was such a surplus of bulk whisky, nor when the customers were warier of paying: the retail prices asked. Since last November, when the federal tax was increased $1.50 per gallon, the amount of whisky drawn from bonded warehouses — the point in manufacture at which the federal excise tax comes due—has dropped sharply. But beer and wine tax collections shot upward and are close to offsetting the drop in whisky taxes. This indicates whisky prices went so high that consumers turned to less expensive substitutes. And what about tax-free—but illegal—bootleg whisky? Seizures of moonshine stills are continuing on the upward trend. This was noticed when the end of World War II unleashed the pent-up

pressures of inflation and ended the moonshiners’ labbr, sugar and copper shortages. Liquor men are looking toward three possi. bilities to get them out of their presentopredica-

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2-Year Output ONE—A partial moratorium on further disstilling: After Korea, distillers turned out almost a 2-year output in 12 months. Much of this was speculative; outsiders who took a flier in the whisky market, and lost, are blamed for a lot of the whisky now on the market. Trade circles have raised the possibility of cutting production to 40 million gallons a year, less than half the current withdrawal rate. But enforcing this would be a problem, even if iistillery workers would allow it. Their union already claims a one-third unemployment rate,

High Taxes TWO—Reduce “federal taxes. They now are $10.50 per 100-proof gallon. On top of this the states and localities levy taxes averaging $1.68 per gallon, A fifth of 100-proof whisky pays direct taxes of $2.43. ] But the House Ways and Means Committee shows no disposition to grant tax relief. Permit whisky now in warehouses to stay there for up to 12 years, instead of (8), before the federal excise tax comes due automatically. This would relieve the industry of fears of what may happen about 1955 and succeeding years, when the great outputs of 1947 and after ward have to be sold.

PRISONER OF WAR . . . By Keyes Beech

Dodd Kidnaping Seen as Red Plot to Sabotage UN Program

SEOUL, Korea, May 16—The kidnaping of Brig. Gen. Dodd was a Communist coup to sabotage the United Nations program for voluntary repatriation of POWs. This became apparent as Army authorities continued their investigation of Dodd’s seizyre, the sorriest chapter yet written in the United Nations command’s policy of appeasement toward prisoners of war, Anti-Communist POWs are literally being held prisoner by Red rulers within their own compounds to prevent their escaping Communist clutches. This is particularly true of compound 76 which. houses 6000 POWs and where Gen. Dodd himself was held prisoner 314 days.

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Dodd's release, unharmed, camp authorities promised there will be no more “forcible screening” of prisoners “nor will any attempt be made .at nominal screening.” Screening of POWs was undertaken by the United Nations command to let the prisoners decide for themselves whether they want to go back to Red territory. As a result of the screening, United Nations negotiators at Panmunjom informed Communist delegates that only 70,000 of more than 160,000 POWs wanted to go home.

2 2 s THE COMMUNISTS have rejected this figure. . But it is now plain that United Nations negotiators were understating their moral case against communism in hope- of bringing about an

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MR. EDITOR: I see in the paper that the Teamsters Union says that if they get enough mechanics and drivers. support they will close the Speedway if it doesn’t give in to their demands. Well, possibly they can, but if I were Wilbur Shaw they would have their opportunity. As I understand it, the drivers and owners voluntarily entered this race and if they didn’t want to race then let them sit it out. And as long as one car and one driver were available he would be the winner of the race and all the prizes if it took him a week to complete the 500 miles. ® >

I AM A FACTORY worker and a member of the UAW-CIO (not necessarily by free choice) and I sincerely believe in organized labor as hardly any venture succeeds without organization and co-operation and labor must be organized in order to compete with the rest of the country, but I am thoroughly disgusted and fed up with our unions of today. The majority of the members are O.K.—just everyday guys like me, but they have been lulled into feeling like they can’t get along without the Red Reuthers, Muscle Head Murray, Greedy Green and Lunkhead Lewis, and many others of- their ‘ilk.

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NEVER ONCE have I seen or read of any of these little dictators suffering through one of their strikes. Do they do without their pay and their families suffer as the strikers do? Their salaries go right on. Do their jobs depend on their ability to produce and satisfy their employers, or do they depend on their crafty scheming to keep the members lulled to a false sense of security and in keeping them informed on only what they want them to know? Why don’t: they post their salaries beside the salaries of executives they -are always screaming about? In most factories you must be a union member or you can’t work. Therefore, I would like to know is this one thing legal? oO

YOU ARE forced to belong to the union if you work. One cent out of every dollar goes to support the PAC which is and always has been strictly rotten Fair Deal. Therefore, a member is forced to contribute to a political party. Wake up, FelloW Americans. If this trend

‘JUST HORSEPLAY’ . . . By Frederick C. Othman

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“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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dictatorship, but rather the most scheming, double-crossing, so-called labor leader. It's time to put the unions back in control of the members. -—An Average American. P. S.: I know this is a long letter, but the more you think the more you want to say. It's time to start thinking and quit being blind, fanatical followers.

Think It Over MR. EDITOR: For a long time I have had the urge to answer some of the sickening letters raking the Indianapolis Police Department that appear in the Hoosier Forum. Never had the time nor patience, but the letter written by a Franklin S. Deems, dated May 12, 1952, is really something to vex the average policeman and test his intelligence. Undoubtedly Mr, Deems is not too intelligent or he would understand a few things about..our police department, of which I am proud to be a ‘member, having been a city police officer for four years. . I, as well as the average member of our force, have made good catches, saved the average businessman many a dollar, but that is never brought to the public's attention. Only the moronic gripes appear in the Hoosier Forum. For Mr. Deems’ information, some of the stupid questions that are asked of us day in and day. out are enough to try the most patient policeman. - If people would ask questions about the average place, I'm sure any policeman on the force could answer, but why should we know the answer to a typical question: “Where is the Doaks Loan Co.?” or “Why has the bus stopped running on a certain street?” If people would go to the right place for certain answers I'm sure they would be satisfied with the answers, but no, the average person is too lazy for that. He thinks a policeman should know the answer to every question he asks. After all, we are only human, . As for being sloppy, I have yet to be seen

‘with my coat unbuttoned in public, even after

a rain, The average police officer will get his uniform pressed as quickly as possible, even if it takes his last bit of money. No, Mr. Deems, I'm sure if you would ask an intelligent question you would get a civil, intelligent answer. Just think that over.

By a City Police Officer.

For contrary to popular understanding not all 80,000 POWs remaining on Koje— the others were removed to other camps after screening— are Communists. The screening was not come plete when United Nations negotiators - made’ public their figure of 70,000 who wanted to g0 home.

s = ” THIS IS evident from the following facts: When Gen. Dodd was captured he was trying to pere suade Red leaders in 76 to permit screening in that come pound. This was involuntarily admitted to correspondents Monday by Lt. Col. Wilbur R. Raven who was with Gen, Dodd when the latter was captured. Col. Raven was promptly silenced on this point by Brig. Gen. Charles F. Colson, who was relieved as camp commander.

Col. Rdven stated that all

work details leaving 76 were handpicked by Red leaders to make sure they returned.

n n EJ CAPT. JOSEPH..J. HUNTER, commander of compound 76 said there were “plenty of men in that compound who would like to come out if they could.” But, Capt. Hunter said, there had been no screening in 76 because no American had been inside the compound for at least two weeks. Although the Army has declined to clarify this point, the meaning of the Reds’ protest against “forcible ' screening” has been made clear. What the Reds were objecting to was the entry of United Nations troops into the compounds to make sure that every POW had an opportunity to declare whether he wanted to go home or stay in United Nations territory.

2 » 2 IT WAS this kind of “forclble screening”—which the Reds did everything in their power to prevent—that touched off the bloody February riot in which more than 70 POWs were killed.

Barbs—

SWEET - SMELLING spring flowers soon will be popping

through—and be right up to snuff,

2 2 2 A TENNESSEE woman of 87 has never seen an auto. How lucky she is that she’s never been hit.

2 8 = IT’S STRANGE how many people. would rather pay for a doctor's advice than take it.

8 = os THE two-dollar “bill is considered bad luck—possibly be-

cause you might pass it for a one.

” 2 ” A NEW JERSEY man reported the loss of an $800 Indian blanket. That's enough to make him go on the warpath.

s ” ” IT’S easy to get by a railroad

crossing safely on your good looks.

Senators ‘Sweat’ a Craps-Shooting Witness

WASHINGTON, May 16 — The trouble with ladies, like

Mrs. Clark Wideman of Co«Jumbus, O., is that they're too doggoned curious. Imagine, asking a gallant Senator like Joe McCarthy (R. Wis) and his friends what is this game called craps? 3 The gentlemen assembled in the Senator's room at a Columbus hotel sought to show the lady how the game was played. They sent the bell captain out for a pair or dice and for hours they shot craps with imaginary money for the benefit of the puzzled -females. 80 now comes Sen. William Benton (D. Conn.) to charge that Sen. McCarthy should be tossed out of the Senate because, among other things, he lost $5500 to one Bob Byers Jr. at this game—and never paid up. 4 Mrs, Wideman's husband, a

real estate agent, writhed in:

husbandly agony when forced to recall for the benefit of the

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her part in this most troversial craps game of 1949, Poor guy. I felt for him. I also have a curious wife, ~~ ® = =» 3

ing, Mr. Wideman said. The subject got around to gambling in the Army. “And one of the guests said he'd never seen a dice game,” Mr. Wideman continued. ‘Sen. Robert Hendrickson (R. N. J.), nearly split a gusset. A man who'd never seen a crap game. - “As a matter of fact,” said Mr. Wideman, “it was a lady. It was Mrs. Wideman.” “Oh, said Sen. Hendrickson, who also is a husband. “Other ladies present also were interested,” husband Wideman continued. “So we attempted -to explain to them

of.” This just confused them. One of the gents figured the only thing to do was demonstrate with real dice. The bell captain rushed up a pair of cubes. And the game was on, . » . “IT WAS a very simple and innocent demonstration, I assure you,” said the sweating Wideman. “It was for the benefit of the ladies.” This did not satisfy Com-

mittee Counsel John Moore. What about the reports of Sen. Benton that here Sen. Mec-

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Carthy lost $5500 to the realty agent and never paid off?” Mr. Wideman laughed, but he did not seem amused. There wasn’t any money, he said. The gallant ones merely imagined they were tossing around $100 bills for the benefit of the fascinated women.

“Quite late in the evening” he continued, “when everyone had lost interest in the game, except one or two ladies who still were trying to figure what it was about, Bob Byers had the dice. The Senator agreed to cover his bet. All still imaginary, oP “And Bob had a streak of imaginary luck. He kept on making passes. It was fictitlous money, I insist. Just horseplay. ‘And Sen. McCarthy was sleepy. He wanted his guests to finish their game and

go home so he could get to bed.” :

. The trouble was that now ne owed Mr. Byers $2400 in make-believe cash, “80 the Senator said, ‘shoot the $2400, and Mr. Byers

won,” said Mr. Wideman. “That

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