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SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1952

Washington Calling— ‘Government Now

Keeping Secrets

From Itself

By Secripps-Howard N swipapers

WASHIN GTON, June 14—Government’s

“iron cur-

tain” of secrecy, lowered first against newspapers, then against Congress, now is hampering its own investigators. + + Offieial agencies with duty to hunt for waste, corruption, subversion in government are being cut off » from sources of information. General Accounting Office is being pushed around, though its right to all fiscal in- - formation is spelled out in law.

Some investigators are bitter, threaten to quit.

First came President's order denying investigators access ‘to personnel files. Then various agencies got ! White House instructions not to open specific records. Finally, President issued his “security order” extending’ military-type censorship of information throughout

government.

General Accounting Office, which reports to Congress, was created as watch-dog of government spending. This is first time it's had trouble getting basic data.

Difticulty in getting facts {s _ old complaint of congressional : getting worse, they say. King ch of way to get records committees, but situation is

Committee had to fight every . from Treasury. Chelf Commit-

ran up against same thing th Justice, “National security” , Agriculture Department excuse , for. withholding details of how one of ite men-spent $37.5 mil. Hon. buying ¥gyptian cotton, helping an Egyptian broker make a killing on market, State Department hid behind “nationa! security” when in. vestigators tried to find what happened to $100 million worth of Army surplus material in West Germany. (Said it would damage 1. 8. - British relations.) State Department also refused to turn over embassy inspection ‘report: wanted by House Appropriations Committee. Type of ihformation: Peta kept in embassies, contrary -to

ken, floors. . | Note: One government

were ‘staining marble

was" spent stamping ain dential” and “restricted”, hundreds of pages of re

Politics

IRE hasn't set country afire gince hé came home but he has made gains this week. He pried ‘loose a few converts in delegs‘tion meetings in New_York, made good impression at his

Gettysburg: farm yesterday.

Gov. John B. Fine still has ‘strong Taft leanings but-—for

wa»

* regulation, were not housebro-b

~ gleri’s ‘Arst 42y on job here.

first time «~~ there are indica- -

“Hons that important factor with: him will be Taft's November chances, He conceded Tke probably gained couple of ‘Pennsylvania. delegates, said gap. between him and Tke has narrowed, ‘but he has meetings

+ ahead with Taft and Gen. Mae-

Arthur, strong Taft backer. ‘'Tke’s leaders forecast his Detroit speech would be real Hee. Abilene press conference saved day for General in XKan‘8a8 after only average speech. He'll backdrop Detroit speech with Sunday press conference, spelling out labor stand in greater detail. Ike's campaign machinery still need: oiling — there’s a good deal of pulling and Hauling among his ad-

- visers.

. TV Blackout?

TANS DUE for still another tactical victory on contested delegates, Looks as if Republicans will bar television at sessions on credentials. They'll cite Democratic precsdént: Speaker Sam Rayburn’s har on TV and radio at House committee meetings. ’ Kefepver, out in front in Democratic race, is launching final push for victory, guided By competent “pro,” Gael Bul-

livan, who used to be Demo-

tratic National Committee's executive director. ONE: He's seeking out uninstructed and ‘favorite son” delegates, asking second and third choice pledges. TWO: He is meeting with Democratic Congressmen. tell-

"ing them they have 2a better

chance of re-election if tickef is headed By a proven vote- getter (such as Kefauver.)

arranging

Kefauver'll: get hoost next week when'a poll of county

; chairmen is published. They think he’ll be nominated.

(National and big-city party bosses are still against him.)

Who'll Make Steel?

STEEL for critical defense

not being made though strike was not sup-

' posed to, affect it.

Sc far, word hasn’t come trom armed forces as.to exactly what items, and how much, they need. When it comes, industries will have complicated

duction to a trickle. And union may have trouble picking men to work-and get. paid-—while most others are idle. Long conference: here proAuced only agreement for more tatu One reason why Congress is showing little alarm about shutdown: It’s heen told there's * 30-day supply of finished steel

“in mills and warehouses.

Softened ‘Controls

* SOFTENED price-wage-rent

Hose Revublinans olan wo.

* June 30.

pronged floor attack: (1) To provide automatic suspension of price ceilings when any commodity sells below ceiling for specified time; (2) To move up expiration date.

Senate voted to end controls Feh. 28. House bill makes it Republicans will shoot for Mar, 31. Truman had asked two-year extension. House probably will accept Senate action restricting Wage Stabilization Board's authority over lahor disputes. It's likely to insist on ending credit controls now,

Mobilizer LOOK FOR Henry H. Fowler to become “Mister Mobilization” under John Steelman, who issued directive last week centralizing mobilization activities™n his office. Fowler's been named head of inter-agency cominittee. -

Powley doesn’t accept ex-

Mobilizer Charles -E. Wilspn’s -

ideas on rearmament. He favs.

“ors something not yet tried:

building 2 new armaments industry into the national economy on permanent basis. It would cost 340 to $50 billion a year, indefinitely.

Inside Dope

. ACHESON’S expected to consult George Xennan, our

. ambassador to Moscow while

in Germany. Kennan’s been in Moscow several weeks; Ache-

gon wants his expert appraisal

of what Soviets are up to now. High on list of subjects to be discussed: How West should treat Russian demand for allGerman elections. When Kennan left for Russia, he favored West making clear its minimum demands, sticking to them. : British and French sources say Acheson is opposed to any four power meeting—that he feels it might be disasterous to ratification of German and

. Buropéan army treaties.

_ Johnson's

90 Pct. Parity

CONGRESS probably will raise farm price support: to flat 30 per cent on parity on six basic crops. Present flexible law provides 70 to 90 per cent varying with supplies. Many pro-farm experts think that’s protection enough, but this iz election year. Demoerats haven't forgotten that Truman would%have lost in 48 without farm vote. Agriculture Department is trying to keep Congress from extending support to perishables. It hasn't forgotten potato-dumping flasco. when public blamed the department for carrying out law Congress had passed.

Between Fires HOUSE MUST decide next

week which it wants to please —American Medical Ass'n. or

“ geveral mililon oldsters retired

under Social Security. It’s the second try at raising retirement checks $5 month, First time, House voted down bill when AMA objected to seetion on ‘insurance rights for totally disabled workers, House leaders thought they'd worked out Bill that would give increase pensioners are clamoring for but not bother AMA. Medicos, however, still aren't satisfied, have sent out word to oppose new bill,

Liquor Pressure

LIQUOR INDUSTRY'S naw nperating openly to pass retail price-fixing law. zo-called the ‘fair trade” bill Tt: strength wa: shown when Senate Commerce Committee—which seemed tc have majority against bill—voted instead to ‘‘compromise.” report bill without recommendation. Opponents will try now to refer bill to Judiciary Committee, where Chairman Me-

Carran favors revising it to

preserve anti-trust Jaws. Buf there's some chance liquor lohbhy's strong enough to heat this move, pass the hil! as-is,

Keeping Cool

STAFF of Sen Lyndon Preparedness Investigating Committee's investigating hot tip that a shipment of electric fans has just

been. received at Air Force's

‘Operation Blue Jay” project in Greenland where an open

World Reporte

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Flop of Kremlin-Inspired General Strike Shows Communist Control Over French Workers Broken

Reveals West th High Favor

Compiled From the Wires Services

The Kremlin-directed call to battle by France's Communist General Confederation of Lahor (CGT) may very well prove A boomerang not only for French communism but world communism as well, Paul Ghali, Times special cor. respondent, writes from Paris, It's too early to fully evalu. ate the “24-hour sitdown” fiageo hut one conclusion is ob vious, The workers of France are in a mood to be swayed away from communism’s siren voice to the voice of real democracy. Thus, the completion nf unified defense of Western

Burope becomes easier, Mr, Ghali states, The strike was called by

CGT largely as an anti-Amer-ican demonstration. By openly disobeying the orders of the CGT the workers of France clearly showed that {t= grip aver them had been broken It was the first real indica. tion since the end of the war of the net decline of Communist influence in France, Mr, Ghali reports, It showed unmistakably that the majority, not the minority of public opinion stands behind the West, in a country where the Commies boast support of 5 million persons or one-eighth of the entire population.

Never Before

Never hefore has an order te strike by the CGT heen so flagrantly disobeyed or followed with such obvious bad

will, © Even in the Renault factories. traditional nerve center

for Red strike tests in France, Reds who infiltrated workshops and later invaded the plant's administrative building quietly abandoned their positiong without police spur. When the same groups of toughs later tried to enter, the plants they were told to mind their own bhuginess hy col league: firmly .determined to work, : 2 Apart from local incidents in

“such towns 2: Toulouse close

to Jacques Duclog’ native town of Tarbes, the sifuation vas’

normal and work continued. 2 The advertised reason for

the strike order wag Mr Duclos’ imprisonment after the May Paris riots. Mr. Duclos Had heen sitting in a2: No. 1 man of the French party during the absence in Russia of Maurice Thorez.

Driven Toc Far

Refusal! to follow CGT in. structions is a defirite indica. tion that French workers feel they've been driven too far by 2 union whose primary concern

veteran S1st Fighter Interceptor Wing over Korea,

EXIT HERE AND HERE ONLY-—Read barrier between British and Russian tones at Helmsted, Germany, is shown. The Soviet check point is shown in the background. Tha railroad is to the left. Helmsted is the only railroad and highway | ifaline between the East and West that the

Russians haven't shut down.

iz to szlavizhly follow where Moscow leads,

This awakened awareness

may have one of two serious

consequences for Moscow's puppet French union. It may bring a housecleaning of the CGT executive tp divert the union from Moscow subservience. It may incite more memhers of CGT to join rival nonCommunist organizations,

At the end of the war CGT had 8 million adherents, Latest estimates give it 3 million, The rival worker: ptrength and Christian workers organizationa listing only 1.2 million members may soon now find themselves with a chance to compete in influence with CGT.

.. Lafest circulation figures of - the - Red L'Humanite, communism’s loss of influences with the wofker.

‘reflect

East year's sales Qf 260,000 have’ dropped to 210,000; What are the hind the Communist ‘Mr least four, namely: ONE_The French worker refuse: to mix politics with husiness. TWO—Wrong timing. The Communists should have started their agitation last winter when prices were skyrocketing, inflation threatening

reazonz he fiasco?

— TWINS Twins : in the Air vores, Lts. John, left, and James W. Kump!, fly swept-wing Sabrajets side by side with the

They are the

sons of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Kumpf of Minneapolis and have been stationed together since they won their wings. (USAF Photo)

Wisdom Through Suffering—

Bootleggers Keep Dry

By GEORGE WELLER EOMEAY, India, June 14 The mild and temperate Indians, with their special genius for wisdom through suffering, have hit upon prohibition. The banning of drink in Bombay province has brought almost the same phenomena as the Volstead experiment in the United States. Fverything 1& an hand ex. rept Texas Guinan: The hootleggers. the zly bottles slipped into the hotel the bribes, the “medical prescriptions,” and the endless debate about the morality of it all The artificial drought has probably increased anti. foreignism a little, because the diplomats are a favored clazs. They can get liquor on- license without pretending to be ill. . The average Hindu or Parsee with a dry tongue speeds him-

self to-an obliging doctor,

“1 can't sleep, doctor” says. “Just a tot before tor time would fix me up.” He gets a one-pint, one bottle prescription, good for one month. Then he sends his wife to another doctor. Her insomnia, because women Aare better at faking. may get a bottle and a half. Three months of patient hoawding and the couple can give a party,

» > » THE LAW admitted!) at a narrow official figures show that less than, 10. per cent of the In. dians drink at all. To thiz.unholy minority, prohibition is a nuisance but not an obstacle, ‘rather lke the whole thing,” says one mild-drinking Hindu, “because it reduces the price of liguor. English gin, when it came honestly through the customs. cost 30 rupees 138) a bottle, mn the old days.

aims

Ghali pays there are at -

. any Communist

: Ridgway.

target. because ’

and working people suffering hardship. THREE The workers’ indifference to Mr. Duelos as & personality. Sarcastic and well-fed he has no emotional apredl. FOUR—The firmness of the Pinay government, particularly measures taken by the police when they arrested 20 of the most violent agitators.

China

THREF American nung and a 86-year-old French Catholic archbishop have heen expelled from Communist China, the Catholic Sunday Examiner reports in Hong Kong. They are Sisters Rugenia Beggs and Catherine O'Neill Philadelphia; Emily Kolb, New York City, and Vincentian Archbishop Jean * Joseph Deymier, Tareole; France.” The nuns operated a hospital and 2 hame for the aged fn Kiangst Province. They were under virtual house ‘arrest for a year. They reported their sister superior, Vincent Louis, Detroit, still iz under house arrest in Kanhsien.

haly

THE ITALIAN cabinet met with Premier Alcide de Gasperi to map plans to smash r attempts to make trouble during the visit this week of Gen. Matthew B.

Interior Minister Marie Scelba, chief of Italy's police

British, who

forcez, reported to the ecabhinet on .police security measures in the cities of Rome, Naples, Florence and Undine which the Supreme Allied

Commander in Furope will visit. The Rome police have hanned all public meetings “until further notice.” Tunisia

FRENCH authorities investigated an alleged attempt at poisoning the food in the: palace of the ruling Bey of Tunis, A spokesman for the French resident-general said Tunisian Premier Salah Fil-Dine Baccouche had lodged 2 formal demand with the residency general to investigate. Police searched for the pal-

-ace cook, who fled after a pal.

ace ‘oficial caught him in the

‘= act of pouring a * produce” inte

the food.

The Hague BRITAIN’S attorney-general Sir Lionel Heald finished his arguments in the Anglo-Iran. ian ofl dispute before the Inter: national Court of Justice. Mr. Heald said the AngloIranian ofl agreement of 1933 was not merely an “arrange. ment.” but a true “internation al treaty” since the League of Nations put it or record. The court is to decide whether it has jurisdiction to rule in the case Wrought by the contend that Iran violated a treaty by seizing the Anglo-Iranian Oi! Co.

Inside World Affairs

EVITA PERON’S serious illsess 1s not making the gen. eral’s job of running Argenting any easier. A good share of President Peron’s popularity stems from his wife's popularity with labor and women voters. Should anything happen to her, his hold on the publie would he seriously diminished. ~ * » THE United Nations disarmament commigsion realizes 1t can make no immediate progress. Its goal now is to keep creating world sentiment for disarmament and to set up a system for its accomplishment in case the Soviets ever decide they want peace instead of small wars, » » » REALISTIC A rah leaders are opposed to reopening the war against Israe! although daily hroadcast: claim it is just around the corner. Their strategy now iz to continue the hoycott against Israel with the hope that it will he successful in another 15 or 20 vears. The Middle Bast 1s willing to sit and wait, ” ~ » SIR GLADWYN JEBB, now expressing the policies of the Churchill Conaefvative government. helieves Communist China must be consulted at thé United Nations to make progress toward peace in Asia, The charge that British zocialfem iz tn blame for wanting Red China at council tahlee iz ne- longer valid. 5 » » BRITISH security forces in Malaya are going in for heli-

gopters to help combat the hit-

and-run jungle guerrillas, Helicopter squadrons will be

formed 23 soon as enough of the flying windmills are obtain. able. ® ® »

SECRETARY OF STATE ACHESON is trying to stall the Moslem world on the question of Tunisia until the next Genera! Assembly in October. That would delay the question of greater Tunisian indepen. dence until after the November

elections when Mr, Acheson probably will retire. * ® » YUGOSLAVIA - 1g creating

two parliamentary houses in

nist government a closer resemblance to a democracy. The government, however, will remain strictly Marxist, Yugoglavs say. ” » * FORTY-FOUR poundz nf 2aparagus have heen gent to Gen, Ridgway by 2 farmer from the Loire Et Cher Department of France “25 a token of gratitude from a French peasant whom the Americans helped to keep his farm. " » 5 WHETHER Iran's Prime Minister Mossadegh resigns or not after he argues his country’s ofl case before the World Court, the violent anti-British sentiment will be preserved in the person of Ayatollah Kazhani, regarded az the real power behind the: throne in Tran, Kashani iz called a holy

war advocate, ” ~ ” THE SO.CALLED Free Greece’ radio, a clandestine

Communist operation, has recanted for recent sins, an indication of a crackdown from higher-up for its failure to propagate the line properly.

India’s Whistle Wet

Now that smuggling 12 wellorganized, and there's no customs, I can get it. for 28 rupees.” Most Tot the liquor supply seeps ‘in through the Portuguese and French colonies on India’s Malabar coast, particularly Goa. The law, in theory. is tougher than America’s Vol-

atead Act, which aimed:=t the ,

transport of liquor, Possession of strong drink iz a felony in India, even if the glass iz not Laught en route to the lips. The Socialist Party in the

recent elections, promised that they would bring back drink. ing freedom if they were slected, The farmers rose in wrath, defeated the Socialists and elected the abstemious Congress Party of Nehru. Then they went hack to brewing their sum toddy in kettles using cocoanut juice.

THE FARMERS figure that it 1s a good joke on the drink. ing city folks, whe have no coconuts in their gardens and therefore cannot brew their own, Fishermen profit, too, by using their heavy nets to suspend loads of hottles at off. shore depths, for night pickUPL. India's other atates have been cautious about plunging into prohibition, though several have drinkless days. The Bombay Premier Moraryl Desai defending the loss of revenue due to bootlegging said recently: “Prohibition i: like an infant, which takes 21° years to mature. It may take several years tc reach complete sucoess.” He added: “It is the business

of the government of the people to see that it does not

Place temptation in the path

of the people.”

Our Fair City—

Open Gambling Is Bringing Hoods Back Again 3

By THE TIMES CITY STAFF

od - en Toe

! i

BOOKIES, BOOTLEGGERS, crap shooters ,

“gamblers , ., The town’s crawling with them. The punks and penny ante hoodlums who

around poolrooms and cigar store gambling dives never

left town.

But the real McCoy gambling. bigshots once weih

booted out by tough Police Chief Eddie Rouls. re

Naw, they're back.

‘They've got baseball betting joints, horse race bets ting parlors and crap shooting spots, not to mention, &

~ couple of “pleasure houses” loaded with floozies.

Some of the city’s top cops are on friendly terms with

guys and gamblers who run them. Municipal Judge Bayt surprised no one, except

the

naive, when he said last week gambling was wide open

in town,

It's a known fact.

It has been since Mayog

Clark’s administration took over.

Boome gambling jointa are favored over others, especially when jt comes time for police raids. The token raids surprise no one, . Judge Bayt. who carried out the late Al Feeney's “get tough” policy on gamblers when he was mayor, says he passes a gambling joint every day on W. Michigan 3t. that operates 2s wide open as If it was a drug store. Two of the city's big three in gambling are back in buasinegs. They say they would not have opened if they did not get the “go sign.” Here's the payoff: The Marion County Crime Commission knows all about the widespread gambling. But it is. a creature of Prosecutor Fairchild’s political campaign. So far, the crime commission haz done nothing but talk about crime in twa years of existence and recommend a pay increase for the prosecutor,

No Hands

DOWNTOWN: jewelry store ‘attracted .mobe of

. with ‘a’ neat window display showing the watertight

tegrity and shock-absorbing ability of a nationallv-knowm watch . Weateh was alternately dipped ™n tank of water and

then hit against metal,

Az soon as crowds gathered, they laughed uproariously. The watch was stopped.

Music Lovers? WITH COMPARABLE and even smaller cities about to enjoy summer music and operetta, local! fans still wonder what happened to Starlight Musicals. Evansville, they point out, i= going to have a lavish program in {is new $500,000 amphitheater. , Why not Indianapelis? Official story: No permanent site svaflable. Butler U. found the outdoor season damaging to the Bowl field. Fait Grounds disliked necessary daily opening and closing of track in front of grandstand. City Hall, ag usual short of funds. could give ne help in building proper facilities on some park site Difficulty goes back to 194548, when {irate regidents in region around, Garfield Park protested against summer operetta there, despite rezsonably adequate stage and seating facilities. Protest was operetta would “cheapen” neighhorhood. Some observers sourly term whole situation typical of local shilly - gshallying, pointing out repeated fizzles of grandly announced civic auditorium plana.

Hopes Dimmed INDIANAPOLIS once held high hopez of becoming the headquarters of the National Council of Churches. Ingiders now report city's chances of landing the council here are fading fast.

City Vignette YOUNG airman from Afterbury Air Force Base wanted

a few hundred dollars spending money for a fling in town

A Visit From Someone Who Cares

A TIMES reporter answered 2 knock at his door at home one night last week to greet a

Stranger. RECA hl RL ) ra r clipping. It was aearer ay in a Chicago because the mether had eaten

ht pend SF en in week. The “Times

Tribe Color Story

LEN but instead got a piece of vajuables advice. Afrman went to Indianapolih Red Cross offices with a $10

000 check he wanted to ¥.

cashed. Too lats to go to bank he told officers, wanted to see the city that evening and needed $500 spendy ing money. The check was made out to him as beneficiary of an insurance policy of Rig brother. The Red Cross was In | position to cash check of thal size, and cautioned him “H§ shouldn’t carry large amounts of cash. .

lke Likes Who?

ALL IS NOT rosy ih Joe diana Eisenhower - for - dent political camp. Seems as though jealousy has reared its

ugly head. BL "T lke Ike” boys now are

worried about who the boss is going to be if Eisenhower is elected. Ee Marion County Eisen boosters were dissatisfied

manner in which

Hoosiers - delegates to, national comvems

tion ‘were selected, ‘The . delegates — — Publisher

AFL, labor ‘leader Hutcheson-—don’t please local Ike fans. In fact Tke fans protested their appointment. - a= But James Bradford-Henry Ostrom-Alex Clark = political machine came to the rescus. 2 Messrs. Pulliam and H son. Bradford's. boys want - be on hoth sides of the Polity cal fence, as usual

This 1s just more of the same :

county battle for control of the Republican Party be County Clerk H. Dale and the Bradford. Ostrom Clark combination.

TAR

ELLIS RYAN and Hank Greenberg, who boss the Cleve land Indians, are getting were ried about their “Little Tribe” in Indianapolis. Altendanod 44 down. Some baseballers say this result of “colorless Ball club * others say the team can’t draw If it can’t wind up in the frst divigion, Bigshots of Big and LitHé Tribe are expected to get together for a powwow to seek remedy for the situation. sx

Almost Quit VICYPAL Judge Bayt wis

almost ready to quit the bench a couple of weeks 230. He was in bad health and couldn't get used to the idea of sending men and women to jail. Hie health hag improved and 20 has his mental nse Now, he's back on the ready to stay. Asked to ment, Judge Bayt said: ov “TI had been thinking about leaving my position because of my health, But T have decided te stay on the job. However, I'm going to take a different attitude toward it. Up ufit@ now, I've been every case home with Es ou can’t do that. You've got leave it in the courtroom it’s finished.”

Farm Supports he WHILE MOST farmers are fanatical about go price supports, Indiana's Bureau warns Hoosier f against government guaran of parity. a ress Président Hes sil enck last 150 farm women rs we “Yes, we want 100 per cent of parity, but in the place and not by decree. There is a diff, Mr, Schenck warned gow ment guarantees of pari would mean a ceiling on farm prices: and inevitable Priee fixing. i

politician Bugene Pulliam and : William

amps a