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* Changing Scene POLITICS: Taft-Eisenhower battle is out in open in South Dakota's June 3 primary: Un-der-cover in California's on same date. California rdte is between Gov. Earl Warren and slate headed by Rep. Thomas H. : Werdel, who charges Gov. ~ Warren's views are too close to President Truman's, Werdel delegation would go to Sen. Taft, but is not likely to win, so Tafters “have .-been trying to woo delegates on Warren slate. After first ballot, they hope to get 30 or 40 per cent of the 88 votes. Gov. Warren's saying he'll not try to dictate second choice votes of his group. Heavy bargaining’s indicated. Le Sen. Kefauver believes he has the edge in California's ¥ Democratie balloting, Opposi-
$ tion slate—composed of oldtime leaders in party—is unpledged.
No Promotion
GEN. Matthew B. Ridgway leaves for Paris still a fourstar general. That means he'll be of lower rank than some of his subordinates in NATO. Pentagon wanted to make Gen. Ridgway five-star general while he was here. But it wanted President Truman to take initiative. President Truman told Defense Secretary Lovett he'd accept any recommendations by Joint Chiefs of Staff. None’s been made. Note: Red demonstrations against Gen, Ridgway, in Paris, may fizzle out. French Defense Minister Rene Pleven and Gen. Pierre de Chevigne,
\ head” of French army, have ; cabled there's no reason for, concern,
Still a Toss-Up IT'S STILL toss-up whether Taft or Eisenhower forces will control GOP convention credentials committee (which could decide nomination.) Each state delegation selects one member. Elections to date show Tafters can seat 186, Eisenhower forces 14. Twentyodd have not picked their credentials committeemen. * Credentials committee will pass on delegation contests (which seem likely) from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina altogether, 113 delegates, First round in Texas battle will be fought out Tuesday at Mineral Wells meeting of state executive committee. Tke swept state in precinet and county conventions. but Taft people are trying for 30 pt state's 38 delegates, Ike supporters offered them 12 or 15, to avoid
a fight, Tafters turned it down. : . Controls Doomed? PRICE controls ' may go
down drain even if Congress continues them. Law ties them to wage controls. And wage controls probably will flounder if labor boycotts revised wage stabilization board ‘as it's threatening to do. Congress seems sure {o take away labor representation on Hoard, provide for “all-public” members. AFL says it will submit nothing to such a board, CIO’s almost certain to take same stand. » Buying Is Off IT'S TOO early to be cer- ’ tain, but indications are that s lifting of credit restrictions : hasn’t Increased auto and appliance sales, Federal Reserve Board says . there's been no rush to buy goods under easier terms. Slight upturn in auto deals but “we don’t expect it to last” There's still lots of customer resistance in “hard white goods” (stoves, home freezers). Economists say signs support belief that high prices — not credit curbs—are holding down business, Lid to Stay On or INDICATIONS are that James P. McGranery: will he Just a caretaker during his sdven months as Attorney General, taking particular care to keep Nid on till elections are x
" There's no sign that heads will roll in Justice Department. Deputy Attormey General A. Devitt Vanech, whose quali-
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5 Washington Calling— * Laosit U.S. Plane-Building | Program Lagging; Air Force Blamed
WASHINGTON, May 24—U, 8. plane-building pro-
Senate Preparedness Committee says that even if we went to all-out aircraft production today, it would be October, 1953, before we'd get increased output. Indications are Air Force experts are responsible. They keep changing designs. take place until decision is reached on what kind of
Steady production can’t planes
- But Air Force argues it can't afford to start all*ouf production of planes which may be obsolete before they're
Actually, there's no thought of starting all-out production now. Under administration's stretch-out program, goals set for 1952 have been postponed to 1955. Plane production is lagging even behind those. Situation on pilots is even worse. Navy pilot training program isn't producing enough
cations have been questioned by Chelf Committee, has been with Mr. McGranery at all Senate hearings, served under him when Mr, McGranery was in department before. But chances are Mr. MeGranery will try to settle some old political scores — particularly in Philadelphia — while he's running Justice Department. He's at outs with Democratic reform administration now in power there, Chelf Committee's doing some watchful waiting. If Mr, McGranery tries to block their probe of Justice Department, he'll be “invited”, down to testify, as Mr. McGrath and Mr. Perlman were. Note: Story is that Mr. McGranery wanted to be sworn in at White House ceremony.
But he’ll take oath at Justice
Department instead.
More Jap Trade
PROTECTIONIST bloc in Congress got the point. when Gen. Ridgway hinted we must do more trading with Japan— and some of them admit privately our Pacific security depends on Japan being prosperous without Red China trade, But nothing will be done this year to change present tariffs. For next year, system of quotas is possible. Plan is for Congress to fix annual quantity of Japanese goods of all classifications that could be admitted to U. 8. either duty free or with graduated duties,
Break for Taft
SHORT-TAKES: Taft supporters think small gallery at hall where National Convention will be held helps their side. Afraid Eisenhower forces might try to “pull a Willkie,” start gallery demonstrations . «+ GOP keypoter talk centers around Sens. Millikin or Bridges, Gen. MacArthur, Rep. Joe Martin . . , Some of Speaker Sam Rayburn’s friends think he’s got his lightning rod up, hoping lightning will strike him at Democratic convention. It might be his last chance—he’s 70.
Brief Notes From Afar
RUMORS PERSIST that the Eastern European satellites some day will be made “Soviet republics,” as the Baltic states already have been. One reason: The continued widening of railroad gauges to match the Soviet system. . » 2 NEHRU HAS suddenly gone sour on Panikkar, his proCommunist ambassador in Peking. Panikkar rightly tipped him off that the Chinese Reds would \intervene in Korea, but misfired on the Chinese invasion of Tibet, strategically im-
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» » . SWITZERLAND has the strongest land army in Western- Europe with over 700,000 men under arms, Sy 8 =» THE CHURCHILL government has not said so publicly yet “but it does not expect to get steel denationalized until next year. It will be busy for the rest of this year in Parliament getting the trucking systems denationalized and the railroads decentralized.
» » v CZECHOSLOVAKIA is reported to be constructing Soviet model jet fighters, the first such construction outside the Soviet Union.
7 » » . THE Communist city eouneil in the French naval base at Toulon has named a newly built-up street “Marshal Stalin Blvd.” “The construction was financed largely from United States aid.
» » » GERMAN Socialists are expected to increase their demands for new West German elections once the agreements ending - the Allied occupation are signed. Their argument is that the Bundestag deputies chosen in 1949 were not elected to exercise the increased responsibility which will fall on them.
~ ~ . GERMANY'S prewar air transport system, the Luffthansa, hasn't yet been re-estab-lished, but the uniforms already ‘have heen designed for its future hostesses.
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Pictures show the United Nations restive prisoner-of -war camp on Koje Island and its new commander, Brig.Gen. Haydon L. Boatner, U. 5. A. A former front-line commander who fought at Heartbreak Ridge, Gen. Boatner has the unenviable job of maintaining order among the rabid Reds who seized former camp commander Brig.-Gen. Francis T. Dodd and held him hostage for 78 hours, extracting damaging concessions from Brig.-Gen.
Charles Colson in exchange for Gen. Dodd's release and more rec to becloud the prisoner-of-war issue at the Panmunjom truce talks.
ently added a sit-down strike to their efforts .
Pinay, France's ‘Little Man," Gets Under Reds Hide By Ability to Talk Common-Sense in People's Lingo
» Compiled From the Wire Servieds What will Moscow's French
puppets do now? If Antoine Pinay gets through the next few weeks he'll have every chance of retaining the French premiership
until October and perhaps much longer, Paul Ghali, Times special correspondent,
writes from Paris.
The Commies know this and they hate Mr. Pinay, He is the first solid adversary: they've met in France since liberation —the first able to talk to the countryfolk in their own simple, commonsense language. o Mr. Pinay has already won out against the Communists on two important domestic issues. In an impressive success in the May 18 Senate elections, his Independent Party gained 10 seats over the 28 if already held.- { Last Tuesday, Mr. Pinay’s government loan of $1.9 billion—with its capital value attached to gald—was approved in-the National Assembly by 324 to 208 votes. This is his scheme to balance the budget and restore economy.
Swords Points
The Communists and the Socialists voted against the measure. They are also opposed to Mr. Pinay’s plans for a sliding scale for wages and prices with an upward trend for salaries starting one month after prices have risen.
On the international front Mr. Pinay and the Reds are at swords’ points on two issues: Tunisian reforms and the European army setup.
The government's policy in Tunisia is equally unpopular with Socialists and some Radical Socialist Party members. Washington reports that the United States has insisted on urgent reforms in Tunisia and hintssthat it could not support France's views should the matter be raised again at the Security Council have increased anti-Pinay feeling.
Lots of Support
The premier has one solid argument for his own parliament opposition and for Washington as well. If idealists always ready to blast “dirty colonialists” in favor of ‘‘oppressed people” should get their way immediately in Tunis, French North Africa would soon be in such turmoil that American bases would be rendered powerless in their defense of Europe. As for the European army setup, the Commies have lots
‘of ‘support for their antagonism in the National Assembly, Almost half of the deputies blame Foreign Minister Schuman for too much leniency toward: Chancellor Adenauer's government in order to get West Germany's signature on the ‘European Army treaty.
Moscow's French cohorts are definitely on the warpath. They may get spasmodic help from the Socialists and the DeGaullists. Both-—for differ. ent reasons—féel that Antoine Pinay is too small a man to succeed in his ambitious plans for France.
One thing they are expected to do is stage a general workers strike on May 28 and demonstrations in Paris to ‘“welcome” Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, NATO's new supreme commander.
France
FRANCE agreed “reluctantly” to join the United States and Britain in signing a separate peace treaty with West Germany. The French cabinet, in a lastminute turn-about, authorized French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman to affix his signature to the doctiment in ceremonies here Monday. The decision was reached
after a daylong threat by
France to skuttle both the peace treaty and the European army pact unless the U. 8S. Congress and the British Parliament guaranteed that Ger‘many would not later withdraw from the European army and form a separate, national military establishment. Fears that a stubborn holdout on the issue might prompt an American withdrawal from Europe finally tipped the balance in favor of the signing.
Italy
THE Communist press. today told Red voters to take no chances with smudging and thus invalidating their ballots in the current election. Women were warned against wearing lipstick or rouge on the off chance a red smudge might void their vote. The Vatican newspaper, “Osservatore Romano,” with the same thought in mind, advised its readers to he sure their hands were “very clean” when they voted.
South Africa
POLICE battled 12,000 hysterical, screaming South Africans—mostly women—riotIng over the arrest of a leftws
American Comics Upset British—
Can Sex and Crime Really
By WILLIAM McGAFFTIN LONDON, May 24 — The British are getting alarmed ahout the invasion of American comic books. Teachers are taking them away from their pupils. Par-ent-teachers’ associations and womens clubs are passing resolutions condemning them as a “dangerous and unhealthful’ Influence, Now one of the nation's leading magazines, Picture Post, joins the campaign with, a long expose, vividly illustrated with samples of some of the blood and thunder comics in question, headlined: “Should U, 8. comics he banned? Their sales are leaping in Britain. Do parents realize the effect they can have?” Here are some excerpts from
Picture Post:
“Implicit in most of these comics is the lesson that mankind is either evil, or helpless in the face of evil. - “This convenient philosophy
‘justifies’ the violent acts which alone can defeat evil, and serves to disguise the fact that the real selling point is not the triumph of right, but the brutal infliction of pain and death. ~ - » “AND SINCE MURDER by tommygun, a sufficient thrill for the moment, will pall in time, the dead must be resurrected to give a kick to the jaded palate. Graves are opened, the living dead pursue their murderers, walling: ‘I can't walk very fast, Johnny, - because if I go fast, a lot of me will break off and fall.’ “This type of horror story, in fact, as the logical development of the crime comic—and in essence they are all crime ‘comics. If the ceztral theme is the assault on the human person, then the bigger and more shocking the assault the better,
“But.it is not only an assault on the men and women in the stories. It is an assault
labor leader. Fifty-six per sons were taken to hospitals. The riot broke out when the mob gathered outside the Johanneshurg city hall to «protest the arrest of Solly Sachs, left-wing secretary of the South African Garment Workers’ Union. He was accused of defying a government ban on his activities.
He was released a few hours after the disorders had been halted, and was to appear in court Monday on charges of violating the two - year -old anti-Communist laws, which
Prime Minister Daniel F. Ma-
lan invoked recently to crack down on anti-government leaders. The , union sued a strike Tuesday.
immediately \ iscall, effective
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East Germany
A COMMUNIST East German court sentenced to death the principal defendant among seven alleged Western agents brought to trial on sabotage charges. The other six were sentenced from life to 10 years in prison.
East German Chief Justice
"Hilde Benjamin said the seven
were guilty of an attempt to dynamite the Soviet-govern-ment's “Blue Express” which runs between Berlin and Moscow.
West Germany
POLICE came up with a new ‘secret weapon” to use against Communist rioters—a four-muzzled water cannon that squirts powerful jets of water capable of knocking a man flat from 225 feet.
Ceylon
CEYLON voted in its first general election as an independent country. The first definite indication of whether Ceylon is moving toward communism or away from it will come with the first results.
Soviet Union
A - 75-FOOT STATUE of Marshal Josef Stalin has been erected at the entrance of the new Volga-Don shipping canal, . Moscow radio said. The figure rises 200 feet on a granite pedestal. BATH, Eng, May 78 (CDN) == Clerks in the office of the Admiralty here are campaigning for “equal honeymoons for all.” Under present civil servfce rules, temporary employees get only a three-day
on thecaccepted standards of
civilized decency, on the pattern of behavior that we try
to inculcate in school and home . n - EJ “THE PORTRAYAL OF
WOMEN calls for special comment . .. their clothing is skintight, the drawings of their bodies are suggestive to a degree, and—perhaps most important of all—there is never a hint of a normal, decent relationship between men and women, “A henpecked husband, crazed beyond endurance by his nagging wife, plans to murder her. A gangster kicks his gun-moll out of his apartment to make room. for the widow of a colleague he has bumped off.”
Picture Post damns these
comics not only for their vie-
lence and treatment of sex but for proclaiming a creed of racial intolerance—foreigners in
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honeymoon with pay. Permanent employees get six. “The nuptial responsibilities of temporary and established grades are equally’ grave,” say the clerks.
Austria
AMERICAN officials in Vienna say payment of $11 million in Marshall Plan aid to Austria has been suspended pending completion of an investigation of alleged diversion of funds into private hands.
Mexico
Rotary Club officials are combing Mexico City for additional quarters for several thousand “unofficial” delegates as the international fiveday convention of the group gets under way.
Czechoslovakia
THE CZECHOSLOVAKIA government is trying to induce thousands of nuns in concentration and labor camps to give up their vows of chastity to return to normal Mfe, Radio Free Europe reports, The nuns are reported being
subjected to an intensive prop-
aganda campaign on such themes as the beauty of love and the dignity of mother hood.
Australia = AUSSIE girls are going to night school in Brisbane" to learn how to make love . in.a foreign language. Cupid's language students at Queensland University are girls who have married, are about to marry, or are going around with French, German and Ttalian migrants who
have come to Australia in postwar Years. Explains an instructor:
“They're afraid that not knowing their lover's language they might be missing something.
Britain
THE PRO-LABOR London tabloid newspaper Daily Mirror has apologized to Prime Minister Winston Churchill for publishing an election day. picture and he dropped a libel suit against the newspaper. The offending picture appeared on the front page on the” morning of the general election last Oct. 25 and depicted a pistol with the caption, “Whose finger do you want ‘on the trigger?”
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lains of the piece—and for glorifying war. Picture Post adds: “There is evidence from. America that comics of the kind described above do cause crime. Dr, Frederick Wertham, a leading psychiatrist of the Lafargue Clinic, New York, cites many such cases. Among them is the case of an 11-year-old boy who killed a woman in a holdup, and admitted he had learned how in a comic bopk.” What's to be done? : Picture Post calls for an import ban similar to that now in force in Sweden. It notes that “Sweden's action was tacitly approved at a recent conference held in Italy under the auspices of UNESCO, and attended by delegates from 24 countries, including the United States, - The conference agreed that “blood and sex” comics are.
‘turning the youth and adblescents of today into young ruffans and potential criminals.
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Qur Fair City—
Tuffy to
Gambling Trade, Avenue Buzzes 5
By TIMES CITY STAFF Isaac (Tuffy) Mitchell, pint-sized game bling czar of Indiana Ave. to announce formally retirgs. ment from big-time gambling operations. Instead, Tufiy is supposed to
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a real estate business.
Tuffy's trial and conviction had nothing to do with his decision to ‘change occupations; according to the Indiana Ave. Jowdown. Tuffy could take that ‘‘standing . on his head,” ‘one chum insisted. He can't take damage Last week, his 14-year-old son came home from school in tears over remark made by schools mate as to Tuffy's business. : There are some insiders who don't believe Tuffy . will quit for keeps. Said one: “Tuffy can live without gambling like fish can live without water.”
to his family.
Night Squad
IRATE ‘Irvington is up in arms about night bur
glaries.
Police Chief Ambuhl has established
squads to patrol “hot spots” hopes they'll discourage the night rajders, Lack of men prevents chief from putting cops on walking beats all day and night. So he's doing the next best thing. Putting his squad cars on burglary duty.
Jumping Jack
CITY TRANSIT system's plea for financial help doesn't always fall on deaf ears, For example, at a recent meeting of the Community Chest. campaign planners, one Indianapolis Railways, Inc.
official was a trifle red faced when someone quipped: “When {x Railways going to apply to the Community Chest sto become an agency? This, of course, is no joke They pcint
to transit officials.
to recent happening on 52d and Central Ave. bus to illustrate their woes. Company just put spanking new $20,000 bus on route. On its first trip out, young whippersnapper got ‘on with his mother and made ike a grass hopper— jumping from seat to seat.
Cause Sought
CITY-VIGNETTE—An aged gentleman, encouraged by his invalid wife, made the long trip doWntown with a dollar he had pledged to "help crip pled children.” Gent had forgotten organization's name and address. So he came to The Times for in-
formation. He left happy with names of several worthy groups.
PTA Politics
TEACHERS and parents who usually leave politics to the politicians came to town last week for the ParentTeacher Association's rational convention only to find they had to play politics in self defense. PTAers from over the country found a band®of Hoosier parents and teachers all steamed ‘up About federal aid to education. The Indiana group wanted to put PTA against federal aid. To prevent Indiana insurgents from “embarrassing” national officers, top PTA officers scored a strategic coup in defeating a key resolution aimed at ending federal aid. Both sides played power politics. Indiana insurgents finally lost when delegates voted to stay on record in favor of federal aid to education.
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Pay Phone?
WATCH. THOSE long distance phone calls. If you lose your temper you: may make yourself a reservation in a jail cell. °If your call goes out of state it is governed by the Federal Extortion Act. This means you can’t threaten
Job Wanted
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to injure anyone or destroy his property. A truck driver “discovered” this little-used part of the exe tortion law last week when he called his estranged wife ine Phoenix, Ariz. When she spurned his offer to freturn home, he threatened her, was. reported to the FBI, was arrested hy agents. ”
That's My Pop wt
A STATE tax investigator knocked on the door and asked if John Jones still lived here... “Mr, Jones?" replied the man at the door. “I think he moved” to Kentucky, Don't know where, but he moved.” : The door slammed shut. As the tax man was leaving, a boy about 9 came toward him: from the yard. : ia “You lookin' for Mr, Jones, mister? He's my daddy. You" was just talkin’ to him." %
New Pigeon Roost?
Special Judge Thomas Scans» lon, who presided over the Tuffy Mitchell trial, is now a » fervent supporter of a new courthouse, Bm During the prolonged trial, « he got an inside look at the “deplorable” condition of Judge Saul I. Rabb’s Criminal Court’ 2—alternately hot and cold, overcrowded, noisy and the general lack of respect for courts. : The special judge fumed for. several days, finally poured out. his grievdnce to the jury of seven men and five women. He said he hoped each would appoint himself as a commit. tee of one to whip up sentlment for a new courthouse. Judge Rabb, who's been trying to get a new courtroom for several years, remarked he was glad members of the Bar Association were starting to notice the handicap. :
Washed Clean Sy
WOMAN widlked into State Gross Income Division and. said she felt guilty. 4 “I've never paid my state tax,” She said. “You'd probably ever catch up with me, but I'd like to square up any way.” ; All her income was from rents, and state officials ade mitted it was true they'd probably never catch her, Because tenants don’t report as employers, rent income pro. vides a loophole to state tax
Officials figured her tax, in terest and penalties over the years. Bhe paid about $800 not exactly with a smile, but at least with a sigh.
Trash and Chuckholes
A reader writes— i “Mayor Clark's idea to ime pose fines on the people of In. dianapolis to keep trash out of the streets “is all well and good. But under condi here today why not en them to throw trash into the streets so the street cleaners. can sweep it up and fill our nice chuckhples.” Helping Themselves NOT ALL the people se : poppies downtown this x were collecting money for the American Legion or Veterans of Foreign Wars. Some r raking in the dough themselves. nr Even the wife of an old ; gionnaire complained a a “of poppy sellers on Washington St. were “phonys.” It's a
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