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SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1052
Washington Calling—
Gen. lke
Knows
He's in a Battle And He's Ready
By SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPERS WASHINGTON, June 7 — Watch Ike. You'll see changes. He has situation sized up now. Knows it’s tough. That half-reluctant attitude is being chucked. He's ready
to fight hard.
Taft and Ike are so close, chances are you'll not be sure who's winning GOP nominations until they start calling roll in Chicago next month. Popular pre-convention voting is over. Efforts to win big state delegations are on. ‘As Tke changes stride, mark down these possibilities
—which haven't jelled yet—
ONE: A major speech in South, if Ike fails to get what he considers his fair share of disputed delegates
in pre-convention dealings.
TWO: Detailed spelling out of Tke's
stand on labor
issues (steel case and Taft-Hartley law, for.example) or world peace policies in Detroit speech June 14. THREE: Get-together of Ike, Pennsylvania's Gov.
John 8. Fine and sizable group of Pennsylvania delegates at General's Gettysburg farm next Friday. Already, Ike has scheduled hour-by-hour meetings in New York next week with delegates from New England states, New vork, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, Alabama. What about Democrat race for nomination? Things haven't crystalized, won’t until GOP candidate is picked.
Keystone Prize : PENNSYLVANIA'S 70-vote GOP delegation is one of biggest so-far-unpledged prizes. Gov. Fine already has scheduled personal meeting with Ike — luncheon Sunday. But don’t look for results soon. Fine will take his time. Delegation likely will see both Taft and Ike before anything happens. Eisenhower claims New York, but Taft thinks he can nip off atleast 17 of the 96. Taft also thinks he can get 25 or more of the 70-Californians, though Gov. Warren leans toward Eisenhower, Tafters may try an ‘end run by offering Vice Presidency to“Sen. Knowland of California. Other. big question marks are Michigan, Maryland. Auto bigwigs may decide Michigan. Export market is important to them; Taff record on reciprocal trade worries biggest firms, But Chrysler's said to-lean toward Taft and Ohioan hopes for half the 46. " Seven southern states send 112 Republican delegates. Practically all have contests. Credentials committee will decide between Taft and Ike delegations. Taft seems to have majority in 32 states—which means majority on credentials committee. But Taft people are heginning to worry over backfire from Texas maneuvering which left state’s Ike delegation out in cold. They wanted to compromise, give Ike part of Texas delegates. Tke men turned deal down. Instead: They're trying to make sure credentials committee meeting is televised, want whole country to see and hear when they charge they were robbed in Texas. If this move fails, they plan to re-enact Texas proceedings for public to =ee,
Democrats MOST INSIDERS think Adlai Stevenson will let himself be drafted if GOP. names Taft. Big question here is whether Democratic machine in Chicago can arrange to keep control of state if Stevenson pulls out of governor race. If it’s Eisenhower for GOP, dopesters think Democrats will name Barkley or Rayburn. They figure it this way: Men who control party machinery would rather lose election than let Kefauver take over, North won't have Russell, South won't have Harriman. Kefauver's best chance lies in showing he’s made in popular voting. His California total (bigger than Warren's) impressed Easterners. Note: Whatever else he does, Kefauver already has caused important changes in Democratic control. His delegations defeated old-line national committeemen and other party wheelhors: in New Hampshire, Ohio, California, some other states.
Food . . . and Drugs
FOOD CHAINS, supermarkets are watching druggists’ fight to regain retail price fixIng law, If law goes through, food stores plan to sell more drugstore items. Drugstore markups are much higher under “fair trade” than grocery markups. Also, housewives visit food stores regulane, Competition could bé
eh Tobby “Concedes
Rat ~where &f2in..trade’ price “fixing 1s barred, as in District of Columbia, grocery stores have madé no inroads into drug store business.
Steel for a Week
AIR FORCE is worried over steel strike. Air leaders believe they can weather one or two weeks, but after that will be in serious trouble. Air Force takes less than one per cent of national steel production, but that one per cént includes more than third of hightemperature electric furnace steel output, essential to jet production, . Real effect of steel strike will ..be in planes undelivered 10 or 12 months. from now, when strike itself may be just Aim memory. ‘We'll lose lots of scheduled
night if necessary. American air transport wing with 80 or more planes is stationed at Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. Fields in British, French rones
are ready. And they've had experience.
Change of Heart
INTERIOR Secretary Oscar Chapman, cahinet’s most ambitious politician, double crossed one Democratic ConStessman gs help another this ek, may hav I y e burned fingers Alaskan Delegate E. L. Bartlett had Chane} ra promise to support bill trans. ferring control of Alaska fisheries from Interior's fish and wild life service to territorial government. But when bill was called up for committee hearing, neither Chapman nor anyone from Interior showed up to testify. Reason was Seattle Congressman Henry Jackson had been pressured by Seattle fishermen, to block bill. Jackson is’ running for Harry Cain's
_ Senate seat. He took it up with
Chapman; House committee angrily ap- ~ proved Bartlett bill; after
almost. voting to force Chapman to testify under subpena.Ironically, Jackson can exe pect little help from fishing interests he helped. Most of them are pledged to Sen. Cain.
Korea
NAVY'S giving four more patrol boats to South Koreans. They'll take possession at San Diego next week. Korean embassy explains political mess back home %his way: Vice President Kim, leader 'of opposition, and wealthiest man in Korea, has heen buying up, assembly votes, it says. President Rhee isn’t willing to step out, let big land owners take control of government Embassy says that’s why he has dissolved assembly— which picks Korean presidents. British continue critical of way we've handled Koije prisoner mess. They point to
‘British handling of Russian
radio station problem in Berlin a= example of how to cope with nasty developments,
Won't Be long
GRUNEWALD contempt case is slated to go before District of Columbia grand jury in two or three weeks. It’s two months since House voted 332-0 to cite Henry (The Dutchman) Grunewald after he refused. to ‘answer questions of King Committee in-
vestigating internal revenue scandals. J District's TU. ‘8. attorney,
FBI still are investigating another King Committee sensation . . . the Teitelbaum story. Abraham Teitelbaum swore he was asked to pay $500,000 for tax fix. He named Frank Nathan, former Pittsburgh gambler, and Burt Naster of Miami. They denied it under oath. King Committee wants someone indicted for perjury.
Air Force Idea
AIR FORCE is sounding out Interior on new scheme to avoid congestion around its bases. It wants Interior to buy up land for two or three miles around big Air Force bases, turn land into national parks. Air Force complains that whenever it builds a big base, real estate people build houses right up to gates, then residents complain about noise, danger, and force it to move out.
Out of Storage WHEN Eisenhower made
“that switch to elvitan Gry.
after lunche here with : A visors I Washing: i ton store, sent up hats, shirts,
other haberdashery for him to pick from. An aide brought gray suit from New York where it had been in storage. » + Taft's golf score suffered during strenuous primary campaigning. But last week end he took time out, got it down to 87. . . . Problem of a GOP keynoter’s still unsolved. Can't find man big . efiough who's neutral or satisfactory to both Taft, Ike. . . . Former Sen. Glen Taylor of Idaho, who ran on the Wallace ticket four years ago, may
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
~ Smuggled Pictures From Red-Held Germany
WOULD YOU LIKE TO WORK HERE?—New uranium mines have been opened in the Thurganian
Sealed trucks pass through Saalfeld streets.
World Report— ;
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forests of East Germany.
Five thousands Russian
ards watch 300,000 workers, some recruited, some
orced labor.
Forty thousand of them are women.
Their ages range from 17 to 55.
Power station {right) and guard hotce fe.
rn
Workers hit the taverns after day is done.
West Declared Blinded by Russ Razzle-Dazzle Which Blotted Out Freedom for East Germany
Compiled rom the Wire Services
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Carefully disguised as “counter-measures” atnst ‘the West, a new “revolution” apparently is occurring in the Eastern, or -Soviet-occupied portion of Germany, David M. Nichol, Times Special Correspondent, writes from Bonn, Germany. It is less spectacular than
the February, 1948, coup which—
swallowed Czechoslovakia. Soviet military and political control of the 18 million Eastern Germans already is more firmly established than it was in Prague. Its aims, however, are similar. When and if it is completed the Eastern Germans will be as isolated from the West, including their own families and people in Western Germany, as the people of other portionz of the Boncuriained Soviet empire. A new satellite army, of dubious but increasing Soviet loyalty, will have come into existence formally. The shredden externals of “Democracy,” to whidh the Communists pay such avid lip service and so little attention in other ways, will have disappeared. Life in Eastern Germany will have been reduced to the dismal, even grey of the rest of Eastern Europe under a government “authorized” to take whatever measures it feels is necessary, and to support them with the unrestricted terror of its courts and police, Mr. Nichol says. The full significance of this calculated and precisely directed program seems to have escaped the West, including most Western Germans. Somewhere in the razzledazzle the West. has lost sight of the ball. The Communists themselves carefully have fostered the idea that their actions have been taken only because of Western Germany's new alliance and that their extraordinary measures will be regcinded if the Western Powers agree with the Soviets on elections in all of Germany. There is strong internal evidence against this view, however. Far more likely, the Soviets simply have used Bonn’s newfound status as an excuse. For one thing, the latest Soviet note on German elections arrived only hours before the signing of the peace agreements in Bonn, too late ‘to have any effect. For another, the Communist “reactions” required the most detailed and extensive planning. A new railroad and a new canal, the labor of
“the
* months, had to be built around
Berlin, for example. .~ For a third, the “laws” for stepped-up dictatorship were passed three days before the ceremony in Bonn. One of these laws permits the dictatorship to ignore the parliament. Another gives the prosecutor powers more gweeping than any which Andrei Vishinsky enjoyed when he was conducting the Soviet purges. Eastern German Minister President Otto Grotewohl said of the prosecutor's new position: “He must be crystal clear and diamond hard.”
A hammering propaganda -
campaign preceded all this in Eastern Germany, From every part of the Soviet zone have come official accounts of “sabotage” and “diversionist” activities by agents of the West,
‘States. It has been accompa-
nied by a series of show trials. Propaganda announcements have disclosed, however, a strong undercurrent of active resistance. In at least three cases Eastern German Communist officials have been beaten to death, Meetings of factory workers have heen raucous and restive. Local party elections have gone consistently wrong.
Paris DONALD R: HEATH, U. 8. Minister to Indo-China, said that without an outright Chinese Communist attack in Indo-China there was “no question” of France asking for Allied troops to help there. “It is certain that one day the country with France's aid can master the civil war,” Mr, Heath told a news conference. “Without the aid of China, the war would be rapidly reduced to the statis of a police operation.” Mr. Heath will fly to Washington tomorrow to help in the visit there of Jean Letourneau, Frenieh minister of the Associated States of Indo-China.
Premier Antoine Pinay said today the French economy is getting back on-its feet as a result of government application of “simple methods of liberalism in business.” Mr. Pinay told an audience at the opening of the Beaume Wine Fair that the most simple economic rules were always the best to lead a country toward prosperity.
London
DEFENSE Minister Field Marshal Earl Alexander is on his way to the Far East for a
He Missed the Chopping Block—
EEN RIE By WILLIAM E: STONEMAN PARIS, June 7 When Antoine Pihay, 60-year-old tannery owner from the Rhone Valley, became premier of France some three months . ago, he was commonly regarded as just another customer on the French political chopping block. Nobody, including Mr. Pinay, expected him to last more than a few weeks. Gen. Charles ridiculed him: “Bankruptcy is upon us. The same men have come back, resolved to change nothing in the system that hrought it on,” he pontificatéd. Mr. Pinay had been an in-
De Gaulle
SHEE.
lar, boy to an official
(CDN rate of 350° A 6te ¢irculation”
had jamped 60 billion francs in a week and stood at an alltime high of 1188 billions. ” ” » FAILURE of the National Assembly to vote fresh taxes had stripped the government of ready money. Exports in February had amounted to only $201.5 millions compared to imports of $424.3 millions and the country’s reserves of foreign exchange were at the point of exhaustion. Today after 90-odd days of Mr. Pinay, the population of France has come to regard him, half-intredulously, as a combination of Jean D’Are, Napoleon and Clemenceau. Among the things he has ac-
complished are the following: — Restored
week- -long,, on- -the-spot survey of ‘conditions in Korea am Japan. ~ He will study conditions under which British troops are fighting in Korea, the rebellion in the Koje Island prison- . er of war camps, the deadlocked Korean truce talks and the worsening South Korean political situation.
English jibing at Scotland's bagpipes caused the Aberdeen town council to reject an offer by the University of Iowa girl pipe band to play there, the Evening Standard said today. “Jeers and insults” have caused Scots to clutch their pipes protectively Ttlose, the newspaper suggested.
Britain's divorce rate reversed its post-war downward trend last year and rose sharply, civil judicial statistics showed today. There were 38,651 petitions for divorce, decrees of nullity and judicial separation in 1951, This was 8683 more than in 1950.
‘Bulgaria
THE BULGARIAN government has limited the move.
- ments of Yugoslav diplomats
in Bulgaria to Sofia and itz immediate surroundings, the official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said. The agency reached that conclusion when Bulgaria refused to allow Yugoslavia Military Attache Lt. Col. A. Zajsek as travel to the Black Sea port of Varna, now known as Stalih, which is located “in the free zone of movement.”
Havana
THE GOVERNMENT’ charged today that more than $06 million was taken illega)ly from the treasury dufing the 1944-48 administration of former President Ramon Grau San Martin. Finance Minister Marino Lopez Blanco said the cabinet found that altogether $96,459, 138.97 was withdrawn for expenditures not authorized by law,
Rome ITALIAN housewives began cooking with gas again as 15,000 gas workers went back to work after a one-day na-tion-wide strike. The strike, originally scheduled to last four days, was called off when union and management officials agreed to resume negotiations on the union’s demand for a 15 per cent pay hike. The government will mediate.
IWO-During ‘the last fort-
“night the goRtXGaernd tins sold ih
the first part of a two billion dollar bond issue to the public. This will involve the raising of more than $500 million in fresh money, plus the con-. version of many old issues. THREE — In return for a law exempting income tax evaders for their past sins the government has acquired authority to make everybody start paying in full beginning July 1, 1952. The agreement of the government to forgive past sins has encouraged old sinners to buy the new bonds with concealed funds which they would otherwise not have dared to
produce, FOUR — Imports of nonessentials have been cut sharply in an attempt te bring the country’s trade and payments. into balance. FIVE—The budget has heen ; removing
Copenhagen
DENMARK and Sweden .
have- protested anew io Russia against its insistence on maintaining a 12-mile territorial ‘limit along the ~ Baltic Sea coasts it controls. The protest was made in notes delivered in Moscow by the diplomatic envoyz of the two countries.
Manila DEFENSE Secretary Ramon Magsaysay has departed by Philippine Air Lines for Washington. He will confer with Defense and State Department officials and undergo treatment for sinugitus at Walter Reed Hospital, Sicily THE EVER-SMOKING volcano on little Stromboli laland erupted violently today and lava started pouring from three craters. For 2000 years, the 3040-foot
cone has smoked almost con-
tinually. The island is a leading tourist attraction and it was there that Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini found romance while making a movie.
Inside World
Affairs
THE SEARCH FOR COMMUNISTS and Red influence in Malaya has led into Chinese schools in Singapore. One raid produced a cache of Communist documents. It emphasizes the hold China, Red or otherwise has on millions of Chinese living in Southeast Asia,
» - » . SWEDEN threatens to with: draw from the Council of Europe if that body is linked to the European defense community, as suggested by British Foreign Minister FEden. The Swedes, zealous guardians of their neutrality, say they joined the council on the assumption that military questions were verboten and it would stay alli-ance-free.
& v 8 THE inclusion of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia in the European region of the world Health Organization instead of the Eastern Mediterranean region aroused Moslem wrath. Pakistan led the battle to get the three protectorates in the Mediterranean section on the grounds that racially, religiously and culturally, that's where they belong.
Pinay Jerks France Out of the Old Soup.
construction ’P the” budget wemaking the-fuifiliment of such programs dependent upon the government's ability
“to cover them by borrowing.
SIX—A new sliding scale for wages has been approved. SEVEN-—The cost of living has been brought to a standstill and some prices have declined slightly. BIGHT — The government has felt able ‘to roll up its sleeves and give the Comimunist Party the threshing it has been asking for. The phenomenal success. of Mr. Pinay is credited to a combination of astute political manipulation, smart schemes
such as the bond issue which is “tied to gold,” and to a general surge of Juste opinion in favor
“week that
Our Fair City=
City Tax Rate oo
Due for Big Jump in 53.
y Times City Staff
LOOK FOR: a oH rate above $5 next ye ho
highest in Indianapolis’ history. The prospect of a 40 to 90 per cent Dost in
taxes in.an election year is worrying Republican city
and county administrations.
Budgets will be adopted in September and the tax’ rate will be set in October, a few weeks before the.
crucial November election.
re =
Mayor Clark, who's also the Republican county". chairman, has said he hopes to win a 25-cent increass °
in the city tax rate.
Coupled with an estimated 20- to 35-cent boost in the city school rate and a 25- to 30-cent rate in the county levy, the advertised combined rate is expected to,
reach about $5.50.
But hearings by county and state tax boards will reduce final figures. Present rates for Indianapolis tax. - payers range from $4.60 to $4.71. Center Township rate
is $4.627. GOP county officials are planning extensive public education program to back up their increased spending for next year. Close look at school budget shows this. Predicted boost will sent figures over financial $2 high hurdle. School moneymen aren't talking yet because they haven't completed tabulation but bet is total budget will pass $20 million. One of major expense items is increases in salaries, They are equal to a minimum bump of 15 cents on the tax rate,
Vexed by a Hex A COMPLAINT came up this left Times citydeskers gaping. _ Woman called to report another woman in small town south of here was being hexed. Said practitioners of the black arts were pouring blood of a chicken over a candle and putting death spell on the victim,
cauling her heart “to flutter like a chicken.” : Police wouldn't api. @aid complainant, so would The Times do something? Even W, Shakespeare had no answer in Macbeth.
Air Guard May Go
STORY behind the story in federal hearings on conflict between Weir Cook Municipal Airport and Stout Field ix city fear Air Guard will “take a mile” if given an inch at Weir Cook. Guard, homeless gzince Stout was’ closed last year, iz due back from active duty Nov. 1. State officials threaten to reopen Stout for flying to provide a “place for the boys to come home to.” City officials unofficially say Guard is using threat in effort to force space at Weir Cook. City’s fear is Guard will give about $200,000 for privilege of moving in, plus yearly rental of ahout $25,000, then demand millions of dollars worth of new runways and hundreds of thousands of dollars in service, City also afraid military planes would disrupt seriously flow of commercial airliners. Claim military has little regard for civilian air traffic control orders. Best bet is Airport Use Panel, which held hearings, will order military flying ended once and for all at Stout. Guard then would have to move headquarters to some other” state-owned field, such as Baer in Ft. Wayne.
Left Strapless INDIANAPOLIS Railways’ reduction of runs on 23 lines effective tomorrow likely will leave a lot of straphangers unhappy. | Railways officials say cut due to loss of student business with closing of Indianapolis schools. Riders claim crowded busses and long waits at bus stops can't be blamed on school passengers. . Downtown-bound woman passenger commented, after
fighting through Pennsylvania
So Who.Likes It as BhaZ
St. bus at 7 a. m., long befora students boarded busses: “The Indianapolis Rilways put -up the fare and take off the busses.” : Open Case—Still “os CORNFIELD ‘slaying of . Lumberjack Mike Mattes is more and more in official hair," Who's the latest to point thé = finger at whom in the three way round-robin? Statements and retractions have kept case » confused and brass in a dither, Problem facing Sheriff Smith" and prosecutor's office is that of presenting case to the grand jury and who should be named | for blame.
A New One
PROBATE Court Judge Dan, V. White thought he'd seen about everything during his’ 27 years on the bench. Then. this happened last week: A $20 claim was filed’ against a local man’s estate... The judge did a fast double..
’
take, then tossed it in waste
basket. Claim had beén presentéd by * a daughter for flowers she'd bought for father's funeral.
Swarm of the Law...
SPRING “beeing” what it is, police switchboard is swarming with calls. But the honeymakers are not going homeless if they take up resi dence on a car bumper or your * front porch. Call thé law.. Department has three numbers they will give out to bee-sieged”: people. Could use a couple more hivesters for one is about ready to hang out NO VACANCY ‘sign. 5
Loaded? >
STATE HIGHWAY officials are looking cautiously at highs" sounding Project Adequats Roads Committee, which res,
cently organized branch im.
Indiana. PAR is for better roads, and: that’s OK with all. But PAR. is loaded, nationally and on state level,
other big users of highways.
PAR As pushing for roada”
that will allow heavier truck weight limits. PAR iz oppos-~
ing current “inadequate” prae<”
tices of securing safety by re... routing trucks, reducing speed and adding stop signs. State Highway ne lision<.. ers will go along with dreams for super-superhighways. But they note PAR itself gues’: this will cost $5-7 billion anny. ally for 15 years. “Nobody In the truck indusea try has volunteered to help pay that much,” eracked one stats official.
Man in White Hat?
wd
SOENE in a downtown .
drugstore:
Man at tobacco counter buy#
cellophane-covered package of chewing tobacco. Drops it on floor, steps on it, jumps up. and down and grinds it vigor. ously underfoot. When well
flattened, up comes package. off _goes dirty cellophane, in the hip pocket it fits. Man“ walks off with nary a bulged
in his.
showing . .
. except cheek. p
Political Tag se
County Commissioners, swamped with about overcrowded Courthouse
parking lot, finally have decid ™
ed to take action. They're going to distribute
75 metal tags among office ' Us 3 ng lot:
la
holders. The tags clip cénse plates, show attendant car belongs in lot.
Politicians can’t wait to.
hear the lawyers squeal. Statehouse parking lot has
had tag system for several.
years, all Te.nigidly. -enforced:
-
WE fas di
with representa. tives of truek industry and
complaints.
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