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A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER
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DEFENSE . . . By Jim G. lucas, TA el
How Big A Navy Does U.S. Need For War? | Re
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learned not to quarrel in public. But “civilian” friends are under no restrictions. They frequently volunteer to say what soldiers, sailors and airmen would like to say but don’t dare. > & TWO RECENT speeches illustrate differences
, globe, but also control of the waters beneath and the air over the oceans. “This task is more difficult today because Russian submarine flotillas now greatly exceed the German and Japanese submarine flotillas at the beginning of World War II @
¢ <* “TO BELIEVE that it can is to court disaster, military and economic. From the military point of view, the experience of the last war demonstrated—tragically and brutally—the vul-
of such planes will have the capacity to deliver the personnel and logistics of our fighting forces to the ends of the earth Pra . >
“THIS VERY day, a flight of 23 Douglas C-124 Globemasters could airlift 5000 fully
; HEE ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE ER a a WASHINGTON, July 3—Arguments over the of:America has bebn vindicated time and time Not so, says Mr. Douglas. £ fast Jansport. Planes and modernized cargo : fim— role of the Navy in modern war continue again,” Mr. Hecht said. “Sea Power involves not od “The Pipeline of World War Ifegeared the handing will be no military cargo such an | ] , only contrel of the surface of oceans, com- ow. speed of a convoy o _ There . military i PAGE 10 Thureday, July 3, 1952 Men in uniform say little. They've finally . prising about 70 per cent of the area of the should never be reactivated” he says. "airplane could not carry,” he insisted. A fleet
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IN THE LIGHT OF THESE FACTS Mr. Pulliam’s cur-
HOW MANY OF THESE 8936 people thought when ‘hey started out during the holiday that they would never come back. Not one, ’ This one was just driving around the block to get a naper. This one was taking his family to visit friends in eoria. This one was merely crossing the street. Not. one 'f them was purposely going out to get killed. ~ So, you see, it could be you. But here's the bright spot in the picture: It doesn’t have to be you. / ~The National Safety Council, which has the grim re- . sponsibility ‘for estimating these holiday tolls in advance, says you can make its estimates look silly by merely using a little. caution, common sense and courtesy to offset the extra holiday traffic hazards. The council says the toll could be cut in half, or even by two-thirds, if you and I would make up our minds that, by golly, we aren't going to
away to the Gruber conference while Tito waited to carry his honor guest to the mainland by speedboat.
Check on Size of TV Screens
United- States political conventions are on in Chicago. _..
a back seat in the back pages of the newspapers while these biggest political shows on earth are playing. : 5 = =» THIS time it's different. These are some of the big stories that might break while American attention is concentrated on Chicago: _ Resumption of full - scale fighting in Korea. Chinese Communist on Indo-China.
attack
Berlin. : :
New Russian attacks on Scandinavian traffic in Baltic.
More clashes on East*West German frontier. .
East German demonstra-
pledged to Taft and are presumably all hon-
orable men who will honor their pledges. But that is a fact, to an Eisenhower man an
Usually, all other news takes .
New Russian blockade on
of an all-out war—on Chicago
conventions is uncertain. An
American alert, against a pos-,
sible sneak Russian air raid will be maintained, beginning in mid-July. The possibility of the election of a Democratic Senate and even a Democratic House of ‘Representatives this November, along with a Republican President, is not being regarded as too serious a handicap for any GOP man in the White House. »
» ” THIS is particularly true if
. the new 83d Congress is of the
same temper as the expiring 82d. Though nominally in control of the Democrats, the 82d Congress has voted oftener to follow the Taft leadership than President Truman’s.
A President Eisenhower -
might have a little difficulty
Washington fire house during his tour of District of Columbia’ primary voting booths. ‘When the photographer asked
the cold and distinguished
candidate to pose, he never thought for a minute he'd get the picture. To his surprise, Harriman accepted instantly. “I've always wanted to drive one of those things,” he said, giving in to a long-suppressed desire, 80 up he climbed, his aristocratic wife beside him, and posed with a fireman's hat
proximately 200 unpledged delegates. They are not so much independent as they are state machine politicians who will
vote with their state leaders. e political
. LJ ” WHILE SEN. TAFT has
soundly repudiated the Eisen. hower smear cam n cons ducted by Joseph Kamp, other anti-Eisenhower literature is still flooding the mail. Latest entry is another elaborate, two-color printing job from Hoffman Nickerson of Oyster
Bay, N.Y., who seems to have’
plenty of money for his camHis newest is a pamphlet,
. “Who's
He Mists Gov, Dewey of New ork, . . Morse of Oregon, Duff .of Hoffman, Henry Ford-H and
Pennsylvania, Paul G.
dajly and Sun p : : tion. $5.00; er sta Ug. 8. Ressessians, Canada and over the Navy s role in another world war. The < <> nerability of surface transporta y equipped men from Boston to France, return to ites dais" $1.10 woth. Sunday 0 a coos. first was made by Frank Hecht, president of “THE SUBMARINE threat alone is serious “The American public can well demand 10 _ tp, United States and deliver 5000 more men » Telephone PL aza 5551 the Navy League; before the Senate Appropria- enough to more than justify the money we are know where ‘the dereliction of duty lies if in France before the average transport could 3 Ly » tions Committee. The. second was by Donald spending on our Navy to insure an uninterrupted American troops are cut off in Europe and Asia complete .a single one-way trip. This is a PANMU? Give Light and the People Will Fina Their Own Way Douglas Jr. of the Douglas Aircraft Co. to flow of .océan-borne materials from dur. by submarine action. . . . . present day, in-production transport — one ~Red truc ; Lions International in Mexico City. factories and an adequate, ocean-borne supply Mr. Douglas says reliance on ships is “the = which is actually being delivered in quantity today for t . Mr. Hecht’s theme was that we need a strong of gasoline, Smisiuiivion; food and supplies i economies or bamjcruptey & Be. I SORvieed fuat fo he Alr Force When we have the 55 ton voluntary ‘Navy to control the seas and supply troops our Army an r Force overseas. . . . ou air nsports “ evel : © airplane in quantity, we s pu us risoners, The Facts About These Delegates a command of the seas, it would be impossible to where they will provide complete support for the costly, unwieldly 1940-model pipeline. No Ph = iat Mr. Douglas, in effect, said we should ignore transport the Army and Air Force abroad and - (our) field military establishment.” i loAger must we reduce the over-all speed of our The first OBODY EVER QUESTIONED the claim that Gen. Eis- submarine infested waters by flying over them. support their vast operations in Europe, Africa, Instead of ships, Mr. Douglas wants the military deliveries to the pace of a 10-knot munkL va enhower’s supporters carried Marion County in the pri- “The concept of sea power for the protection the Middle East and sia aa efficient combination of large—really Jarge-- freighter” issue block: : i : record, they did 5 : Gi si came in a mary elections last May 6 because, on the record, . . pro we : vin more than half of the wards that were contested. MUGGER. .. By Clyde Farnsworth Holiday M ol se-Makers :P Z i prisoners } : : : : In view of charges that now are being hurled about, Ti Will p . : Hoosier Forum i nists also s s : i : : ings for “r though, it might be worth while to look again at what actu- ito ! rr ose ; i : : their offer B . . : : ° : ” - s ally did happen in that election, which was the direct elec- : Ul do not agree with a word that you : Chief U i i i - F : i to the death your : tion of 206 delegates to the Indiana State Republican con- 5 by t i say, but | will defend : tiator Maj. vention from ri County wards and townships. or na % Oo S i right to say it." : ¥ison a on ie : 2 un omor In 15 of those voting units there was no contest at all. BRIONI ISLAND, Yugoslavja, July 3—Tito, : posals. In th ining 20, Eisenhower supporters won most Who carries an expensive stereopticon (third ‘Bi Lie’ Techni ve He told n the remaining ZU, dimensional) camera, is a hopeless ham when 9g q meeting: of the delegates in 11, Taft supporters won most of the dele- t comes to posing for other photographers. MR. EDITOR: : “They mn gates in eight, and they tied in one. He mugs shamelessly. He takes protographs The Star, the News, and Sen. Lodge would nay be im Altogether the voters of Marion County elected 113 of a en Pholoarants Of Tin be merely amusing with their big splurge about . ye do jelegates committed to Eisenhower, 28 committed to Taft ,,4 cameramen swarmed to Brioni on the a “sudden shift to Eisenhower” were it Bek offic, Ur ind 155 not committed at all to anybody, although spon- promise of a faréwell conference with Austrian that, as they Khaw, some people are stupid man, warn : : i Foreign Minister Karl Gruber, first European enough to believe them. was loade sored and in most instances entered by the pro-Taft & ounty foreign secretary to be invited to visit Tito. 1 do not know, of course, who will win the said its ful srganization. There never was a showdown vote by this dele- But as much as they were interested in Republican nomination (although, if experience known, gation, nor even any complete poll, so it is pure guesswork Graber aud the possinilliy. Snap Tp haa naked in government and proven political courage and va There 2 : ‘ mmi « for Austrian support on , ? 8, a8 to where these 155 unpledged, nee itted delegates— of the newsmen had come long distances by ability count, Sen. Taft certainly ought to) but, read it mo more than half the total delegation—actually did stand. road and rail in hope of seeing Tito. regardless of ultimate results, the Lodge claims, more poten If you assume that half of them went each way that Brioni is Tito’s summer hangout. Its played up so dramatically by our Eisenhower d would add up to 186 Marion County voters for Eisenhower Seiasinent 2nd Sistames from Belgrade 24 press, bear all the earmarks of Hitler's tech- Red P : : another handica run vi . ” and 110 for Taft, which is about what the Marion County ns ORT Sag nique of the “big lie.” As Der Fuehrer well Grow Eisenhower committee claimed and which was never chal- Appearance Unheralded Knew; 297 4¢ atten snough ud lot enough an Sh lenged, but of course was never verified, either. NW tacts and Sgures as Commnanict . p TYPICAL OF TITO'S safety precautions, A simple look at such facts a gure a; “ » ; .. 8 = his appearance here was unheralded. After all are avaliable shoud largely explode us i 1ncisasing) THIS DELEGATION WAS entitled to choose two dele- the visitors had taken the 20-minute ferry ride travagant : n. says e tos SD G the Republi National Convention—on from Pula, Tito swooped in from the sea. somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 conven- although tl gates of its own to the epublican First there was the roar of speedboat from tion votes. The Associated Press count credits a superior a straight majority-vote basis. around the curve of a wooded island. Trailed him with nearly S00 Jaown Io Be Sout 18 Mone i by a PT boat with the crew at battle stations, and everyone knows that his ac total sho : It never was allowed that choice. the speedboat cut a frothy full throttle circle in run ahead of these conservative figures. The The repo Before it ever met, and two nights before the state con- front of the Brioni Hotel. Tito was at the wheel Associated "Press credits Biscnowes with a Jets 2p enti . Pulliam made a deal with Marion Count —an intense hunched and surprisingly slight few over 400. In like manner his actual total numbers an vention, Bugens C t littl ion in the Columbia Club yw figure. His Panama was pulled down so tightly should naturally be expected to be somewhat 10 or fewer : GOP bosses at a secret li 8 Session In e : on his round head that it was out of shape. better than those counted by the Associated appeared ir get himself a seat as a National Convention delegate in re- With him in the speeding boat were the Austrian Press as practically sure. Sa sven | 2 Eisen- 105 The he 3 3 y Foreign Minister and the Austrian Minister to hower should actually go to cago some- on of the tarn for certain commitments from him. Belgrade. thing approaching 500 votes and Taft at the Gen, Jam When Marion County delegates did meet they were Uniformed guards and plainclothesmen ma- same time goes there with approximately 600, Army com F. \ liam and William Hutcheson— terialized along the paved, stone-walled water- where is there any cause for rejoicing by Mr. big boost i handed the names of Mr. front. Tito brought the boat in without sec Eisenhower? h t . Yi a . -a a a e 0 rap- n ? He eapes » neither of them members of the delegatioh, by the way ing, landed his guests and took another roaring Leh e Communist: told those were their representatives and it was too late to turn for the photographers. Then he parked VERY SIMILAR is the great to-do made armistice. nominate any others. . - and scrambled ashore himself. about the announcement of Mr. Weeks from strength % : i i i : Massachusetts and the letter of my good friend, . heed most A majority of the delegation protested vigorously, tried Dog Welcomes His Master Lothair Teetor, to the Indiana delegates. ' I Fighting to block this steam-roller putsch, but failed to muster the HE WAS VERY agile for his 60 years. The know, myself, that Mr. Teetor has been for Mr, ed to patr vo-thirds vote that by this time was needed to do it. speedboat seemed to be a safer but equally Eisenhower, in all sincerity, for months and patrol used Worl ote M: Te d Mr. Hutcheson became the photogenic substitute for the horse Tito used to who can doubt that Mr. Weeks, of the Lodge ‘throwers ti * at's how Mr. A and. Mr. Sule : ride for the cameras, Tito had a good suntan organization, has also? These are just well bunkers no delegates of the Eleventh District—which is Marion County. that showed off his flashing teeth—including timed agnouncements. Then some writer on bs nis, b ood litical] one gold one : fa the News sits down and writes, out of his own “ Obj ; 5 . 3; Is our vpinion, shared by a geod many A: An adopted German shepherd dog, Tiger, ; head, a lead stating that Sen. Lodge's “electsl- | leaders, that Mr. Pulliam dealt Gen. Eisenhower out of one, nimgeit showing his age and disheveled from . TOE TI I pal Ny Wea ons i more Indiana votes he» might otherwise saltwater swimming, showed up to welcome his « . not stated) to be having a “visible effect” on 3) pos) to get this Selegdte seat § ars master. : : PAINS THE FTC . . . By Frederick C. Othman Indiana delegates. These same delegates, of ’ : Most of the press party was soon drawn : course, are nearly morally and legally
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rent protest to the Republican National Committee has a Darrel Brady, a Hollywood documentary pro- : * : unpleasant fact, and it doesn’t trouble the wrdinnns somewhat hollow ring. ducer, an Austrian reporter and I stayed near L F | WwW 5 t ( ews. Ne hein No one is being robbed of any national convention votes the Marshal. The long visit on the terrace was a eaves a e Oo f oO n use 7 The question is occasionally asked: “How 1ssUes ins! : good chance to observe Tito even if he wasn't dumb can you get? The Eisenhower press, rvati 1 from Indiana, and he knows it. talking much. * : WASHINGTON, July 3-1 guess maybe fele- You understand, while the manufacturers say where the public and the delegates are con- "The first : if} 3 . vision screens are like olives used to be; the yes, but what about phonograph records; beef- cerned, apparently think that credulity is prac- | ; This whole uproar—if it makes any sense at Bilis ‘The $55 Question’ large ones are tiny, the jumbos are small, and steaks, lumber and movie film? These commodi- tjcally without Hemit. Could it be that Pa July 28, ¥i simply an attempt to create an illusion, to make it appear the colossals are medium. This pains the Fed- . ties have some weird measurements, too. transparently extravagent Eisenhower claim aE 4 : . . HE MUST HAVE gone through half a pack T \ honi s land at “g outside Indiana that votes are being snatched illegally, to set of cigarets in that strange, upturned pipe-like eral Trade Commission. » ake a 12-inch symphonic phonograph record. are the desperate tactics called for by a des- * Owners : ; 4 The commissioners are old-fashioned gentle- BY no possible measurement can anybody find perate, if not hopeless, cause? up a new area of confusion and doubt and dispute. Sigaret holder Je Sas, A big Slamond on bis men. They still believe that one foot should 12'inches of music on it. Or say you buy a three- a i. Rivka o3n row bi : : e an ed as he gesture s . tb . Dennis, Richmond. an acre We have indorsed Gen. Eisenhower ourselves, and urged °° 880 0 oe studded gold clip pinned Stretch a full 12 inches. Now they are scrounging poung bestotetk: Sever weighs Sieve Jounde for the pap his nomination. If he gets it, though, we want him to get it nis blue tie to his soft white shirt. On his feet around CoE Sn TV at vn 1470 Ineupures it on the scale before he cuts off the fat A Free Press A bill, w - on the straightforward, honorable, basis that a majority of were basket weave leather sports shoes. screen, anyhow? The question simply is this: What's the Shooting About? MR. EDITOR: legistatues: the legally selected delegates are for him. He can’t afford} prs SoNiIl ee 20d iNtimates Srified so and ,ie the TV manufacturers telling the truth ar's the Shooting dd A ganged-up monopoly of the sources of in- PS dnot wish, to wi hony foul Re a i ost they SE about the size of their pictures, or are they A 35-MILLIMETER frame of movie film does ¢,,.54105 14 control public opini i Te and he would not, wish, to win on a phony foul. to the sume country club. Mostly they wore fuping? pot actually contain 35 millimeters, witle woot (FUSER, SL SUEY PANG spied te a6 more Lakeside ss = . . . >. na the : y I've been doing some checking of my own, IR a lumberyard has only s relationship to diana favo MR. PULLIAM SAYS HE intends to disregard the in ry ntermalily., . ; jet With yardstick and TV expert, and the Yu the measurements marked upon it. Consider the °Jron Curtain. The press and organized labor it encourag structions of the state convention’s overwhelming majority, ant Pea 5 iy yr . long press So lerenes oi are what you might call confusing. My own SUN | 254 mer used 8 3) houses Saw are the only institutions left in this nation to expand. . «« : ” : » - b . t: and vote for Gen. Eisenhower as “representative” of Marion |. J on and clicking by To an inquiry huge; 20inch Die Urs Mmesayte Joi snctiss actors Th HE ES Which 2¥% free to operate outside the restric- ii ad | County’s minority position. abbut a possible treaty with Russia he replied: the wrong measurement. Run the ruler from about that? monopoly laws. ‘For that reason Conserva : ; “That's the $55 question.” ' t . Everybody knows these things, continue the the public has a right to be especially eritical “ f We believe he should ‘and we trust he does. corner to corner, it says, or northeast to south- giveaway If he’ stent. h, about representing the rights Finally Tito shewed his guests: back to the west. manufacturers, and nobody-—not even the of them. ! losing valu e's consistent, though, abo P g speedboat. He took off for the mainland at full The commission and I tried that, too. Our Customers— Sonsider it cheating. They say the The Indianapolis Times is to be commended Members of minorities, he'll cast only 186/296ths of a vote for Gen. throttle, Boal. TaNown 20-inch Picture measured 18 inches diagonally. A Gay Picture tubes. So what's all on tne fact its editorial policy still maintains a body are : ; e at followed, its anti-aircraft Yes, said t kers, but that’ the pic- : " | Eisenhower and 110/296ths of a vote for Se Tafimand pointed toward the sky. gun ture. The tube is RP Part hE, at he De My own theory is that this argument may Sane te Talend foward Songun Tah nes gh r nt the delegation he says “elected” him. th . "Tis. too. y have given the commissioners an idea. They're - 4 cally represent g y ) e Hille Tis, too | not talking, but T wouldn't be surprised if they To apart oe Candiaste Eisenhower, yale Jews - . GOOD AND BAD ‘Getting Square Shake’ started measuring phonograph records, PUING papers’ which seem to feel it Ie toes olin functions a See You on the Fifth When everything is going right . . . and all rulers on 2x4s, and weighing steaks before and ,pqry 4 play polities at the dirty level Ponsh partment a YOU GET the idea, A 20-inch tube is a good after the butchers’ ministrations. ¥ level and dismy skies are blue . . . life seems to hold a 1ot 44) gifferent from a 20-inch picture. The prob- One other thing. Mrs. O. bought lives ~~ °8ard the job of giving facts. mission. E HERE ARE YOU going to be July 5? for me . . . a special rosy hue . . . Igo along jon, ig whether the customer MoE oe (he eon oe Wy They sora 4 There is nothing which will arouse the public thorities o t home? At work? On vacation? nd. I feel rather light at heart . my Picture when he thinks he’s buying a whopper. were, She also. purchased some prunes labeled 20d bring about investigation and regulation of War Meroe omer : : + + + 8nd.1 feel rather light at heart . . . my The Radio-Television Manufacturers Associa- jumbo. They weren't. This has had an unforty-° (De Press than the realization the press is mo- ay Jen Are you real sure? What makes you so certain you dram Sour very high . £0 but When the Tost tion insists that he’s getting a square shake; nate-effect on her usually trusting heart. nopolizing to control politics. It is bad enough “Legal Not may not be one of the hundreds of people who will start sete Father hip gi pond ER wide ‘hey don’t.advertise the measurements of their Our colossal, 20-inch TV screen, however, When the press is solid in its attempt to sup- . ; : d : back . de all of 8 and that is Pictures, but the size of their tubes. The com- satisfies her perfectly now that she’s over the POrt the Republican effort and defeat the Demo- No sut on a Fourth of July holiday trip—and won’t come back. we 2 only 34 pain v times and sad ~ T.ssioners wonder whether they oughtn't to shock of discovering that the picture's only one Fats, but when the press takes the next step for ae pire) Not a pleasant thought, is it? You may be a little dian nell Sundries mention the number of square inches in the foot tall. It still seems big enough to her and I and tries through monopoly effort to nominate State Hichw ked that we've brought it u take both the 1a tht + © Images actually on view and skip the parts of mention this in case the Federal Trade Commis-. the Republican candidates, it: has become a is. office, 10 rovo at we've brought it up. ° g . : the tube nobody ever sees. — sion is interested #n some sworn testimony from political machine and must be regulated as apolis 9. Ind Well, that’s all right with us. For the more provoked : ~By Ben Burroughs, © The government is open-minded about this, a mere client. such. ~J. E. D., Crawfordsville. time they» you get, the more you may think about this Fourth of vy ; = Invitation diana. dell July traffic toll that annually makes a massacre out of a SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith BIG STORIES? “ies By Peter Edson is : or, plant vic noliday that ought to be for pleasure and patriotism, not . ’ ns fon 9 Teh World News Might Overshadow Polit a ro lami orld News Mig vershadow Politics oi That's what the 360 people thought who were killed CHICAGO, July 3—No one uprisings in Tunisia, Greece, riman and wife sitting in the chances of Warren or Stassen Plans ieinit oer the Memorial Day holiday Just & month ago. That Te rua ypc tae TE, IER L RL. ne ak what the 8936 people thought who have died in holiday sibilities for big news on the velopments would have—short Mr. Harriman had gone to & convention BE wi Tublican °" pvitation traffic in the last six years. international front while the e ap- Bolts. Fire E
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George E. Allen, former Tru ® . arming. man buddy
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“It won't be me.” Then act accordingly. fusal to ratify fey. A President Taft should Stassen could and would throw . Nickerson classifies them ye a istoit. Pa AoE. British or French govern. get along with it swell © their 100 delegates to Gen. “Me-tooers,” inter ee aL .a Take, : : TT ment crises. . That newspicture of Presi- Eisenhower, it wouldn't be Trumanites and Wal- ; 4 4 Happy Fourth of July. See you on the fifth. . Fresh Communist - Insp dential Candidate Averell Har- enough to put him over. The laceites, big bankers.”