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Washington Calling— Danger of Russian
Attack on Jap Isle
Worries
Defense
A Weekly Size-up by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, Aug.
16—Possibility of Russian
invasion of Hokkaido, northernmost Japanese island, worries American defense forces in Japan. . Sneak airborne invasion from Soviet-held island of Sakhalin, only 20 minutes flying time to north, would be
‘most likely prospect if trouble comes.
Far East com-
-mand has notified Washington several times that Russia has planes based there—which could be used for such
an invasion.
First Red objectives would be air fields on Hokkaido. We have one infantry division based on Hokkaido, plus a division of Japan's embryo army, the national police reserve. U. S. Air Force men in Japan, including ground crews, clerks and cooks, are getting combat infantry training on the side—just in case. No one counts on slow-building Japanese Navy for
much help.
Its present ships carry no guns.
Russians who seize Japanese fishermen off Hokkaido
question them persistently on strength and distribution of U. S. and Japanese defense forces on the island. They've eased off on seizures recently, may have information they need. But Japan's newly organized special investigation bureau, now reports Commies use geishas, street walkers and beerhall waitresses to gather information from American servicemen—and again — data about air fields are most desired.
” ” on BUT Joint Chiefs of Staff don’t think Russia's ready to start a general war now-—an estimate of what we would do may prevent aggressign- on Hokkaido or elsewhere, (for a time. Joint chiefs still think 1954 will be the crucial year. After that, war could come at any moment (that doesn’t mean
. they think it will).
Feeling in the Pentagon is that Russia has enough respect for our more advanced weapons to keep her from actual hostilities. They point out that most of Russia’s armament is defensive — indicating healthy respect for our new A-bombs. : Our arms build-up won't be completed before 1955 but joint chiefs say we’ll be strong enough by 1954 to force Russians to look at their hole card, before making any move,
Democratic Harmony
OUTWARDLY everything's fine between President Truman and Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson. Gov. Stevenson has made his point that he wants to run his own ¢ampaign—in his own way. Mr. Truman's made it clear he'll take orders. But there are signs that the President is amused and skeptical about the way the new standard-bearer ;s starting out. Insiders say he gets fun out of gags about Gov. Stevenson’'s erudite speech and outlook. President Truman knows, believes in, county courthouse, machine politics; the earthy touch’ in campaigning, the give-'em-hell type of speech. These are the things Gov. Stevenson apparently will have none of. So—for the time at least— things will be done Gov. Stevenson’s way. Mr. Truman's appointment schedule and itinerary through September show no signs.of a whistle-stop campaign trip.
Probing Lattimore
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT is going ahead gingerly with its investigation of perjury charges against Owen Lattimore; says that whatever action it takes will come well before election day. Charges were made by Sen. Pat McCarran's (D. Nev.) Internal Security Subcommittee. It accused the Far Eastern expert of being an' “instrument of Soviet policy” and said he lied under oath. Justice De-
partment is now reading the .
lengthy committee record.
Checks Ready
KOREAN WAR veterans who applied for mustering out pay can look for those $100 to $500 checks any day now. Army mailed first 2000 checks Friday, expects to he rolling them out at 10000day rate by end of this month. Air Force and Navy started mailing checks a week ago. Army has more than 150.000 applications, is still getting ahout 13,000 daily. (Nearly a third have to go back for more information.)
Votes on TV?
POLITICIANS have been eying the radio-or TV ‘talkathon” since Judge Francis Cherry won the Arkansas governarship’ by his performance
on one. Here's what they find:
Talkathons are brain-chil-dren of Robert Venn, Miami publicity man. Mr. Venn sets up show in which office-seekers answer public's questions steadily for many hours at a stretch. For $2400 a week (plus cost of air time) Mr. Venn provides advance work and publicity, his experience with other politics, a staff- to take calls and screen questions, and — if needed — advance on what to say and how to say it. Next to go for talkathon may be former price chief Mike DiSalle, who needs big boost of
some kind if he’s to beat Re- . publican John Bricker in Ohio
Senate race. Mr. DiSalle says he's studying idea of doing sixhour television shows in each 02 Ohio's five TV areas.
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Gambling Opens Up
SLOT MACHINES and
. other forms of gambling that
went underground during Kefauver crime investigations are out in the open again in various places. In Louisiana, for instance, slot machines, mechanical horse machines, are operating openly in taverns just across the river™ from Baton Rouge, state capital. It was in Louisiana that Kefauver committee got its first big start, first used television.
Rush to Air Force
STAY-DOWN strikes of a handful of reserve pilots a few months ago has had an unexpected sequel. Applications for pilot training have zoomed upward. = When strike hit the headlines, Air Force had exhausted its backlog of air cadets, didn’t know where it would get men to fill next class. Today it has a backlog of several thousand applicants, can afford to be selective.’ Gen. Nate Twining, active chief of the air staff, likes to believe rush to apply for pilot training was due to ‘national embarrassment’ over the staydowners. : Also, one fighter-bember wing, with 81 per cent reserves, asked for overseas combat duty to “vindicate the honor of the Air Force Reserves.”
Civil Defense Row
HERE'S the reason why Veterans of Foreign Wars wants Office of Civil Defense abolished. Last spring VFW came to Washington with a plan for having entire posts volunteer as ground watchers and for manning communication centers. Effect would have been to turn over civil defense setup in certain communities entirely to VFW. Civil defense didn't like the idea, declined to surrender its prerogatives. President Truman upheld civil defense. VFW went off in a huff, Civil defense is in another row—with Air Force over top billing in campaign to recruit «8round watchers. Civil defense objects to posters which urge volunteers te get in touch with Air Force recruiter. It's less likely to win this oné&;
Back on Job GEN. HOYT VANDENBERG has officially returned to duty as chief of air staff, What's more, he’s back on flying status—and for that he had to pass a rigorous physical examination. He made at least one flight to the West Coast recently, handling the controls,
And he's playing golf regularly again.
Power Fades
NATIONAL SECURITIES RESOURCES BOARD (NSRB) -—Once a powerful cog in the defense machine—is down to 60 employees, including stenographers. NSRB was created by the unification’ act of 1947 and its chairman was given equal status with the secretaries of Defense and State when he was made a member of the National Security Council. But this year, Congress gave it only $625,000 —about the price of a heavy tank.
Job Lined Up? IT MAY NOT mean anything, but Mrs. James P. Mecsranery, wife of the Attorney General, is looking at houses for sale in Washington. Best guess: That Mr. MecGranery will go into lawyerlobbyist business here when Truman administration steps out. Gov. Stevenson insistence on naming his own men makes it unlikely McGranery hopes to stay in cabinet. He's said to have no desire to return to federal bench in Philadelphia.
Inside World Affairs
HOLIDAY TRAVELERS on Rhine steamers formerly often sang last year's carnival theme song, “How Can We Pay for All This?” as they passed the federal legislature buildings at Bonn. Now they sing a German version of “I Don’t Want to Be a Soldfer.”
“N ” ” A GERMAN report says purchasers of such bourgeois items as pajamas in Hungary _can get them only if they take
a volume of Stalin's collected
writings at the same time,
World Report—
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Economist Doubts U. S. Will Head for Skids If World Suddenly Makes Switch to Peace
ELECTIONS ARE LIVELY IN KOREA, TOO—Campaigning and electioneering in the Republic of Korea are, outwardly, at least, a good deal like our own when it comes to whoop-te-do. Pictures below show typical sceries in Pusan, the capital, during Korea's first presidential election by popular vote. President Syngman Rhee, running for re-election, won his second 4-year term, racking up more than five million votes to his opponent's 1,800,000. A total of some 7 million votes were cast. He was inaugurated last Friday at Seoul.
Markets Abroad Seen as Cushion
Compiled From the Wire Services Would a genuine peace reducing our defense at home and abroad—cause a depression? In the opinion of most leading economists the answer is: “No; don't be afraid of real peace.” Fred Sparks, Times special correspondent, reports from Chicago. Mr. Sparks put the question to Theodore W. Schultz, chairman of the Department of Economics, University of Chicago. ‘That sounds like the old Marxist theory, now being pushed in the Soviet press,” Dr. Schultz said. ‘The Communists have always said that capitalism must have occasional wars to maintain its markets. “The miracle of American production and research—plus untapped markets in backward parts of the world—can more than make up for any loss in the reduction of spending for armaments and foreign aid.” Here are other reasons listed by economists to smother the fear, too generally expressed, that we cannot have peace and prosperity: In 1929, when Wall Street collapsed, investors had little reserve in banks or sugar bowls. The nation was living from hand to mouth.
Cushioned for Setback
Stocks were liquidated at lower prices. Persons who were jobless became public wards. Today America is cushioned for the short setback that might accompany ‘a complete switch from a defense economy, the economists told Mr. Sparks. Never has there been 80 much folding money in sayings accounts. Stock brokers have on hand a record number of uncommitted dollars — and most stocks are owned outright, not on margin. We've become a
cautious people.
Although there was a small panic of scare buying when the Korean War began, since February, 1951, Americans have been spending less, socking away more. New products, born in scientific laboratories, “will make
, many offtoday’s Ffjerished pos-
sessions as obsolete as the buggy. They will open new fields of employment, the economists said. Freed from thinking of new ways to kill a possible foe, our geniuses will develop cheap color TV, auto-priced planes and ’copters, better housing, wrinkle-proof suits. And no man can tell what goodies the atomic age — just around the cyclotron — will bring into every home. Now, you might ask: Will more streamlined gadgets and production systems cause unemployment? Phil Murray, boss of the CIO, said recently he knows of no new machine invented
that has—in the long run—cut .
the nation’s payroll. Prof. Schultz, looking ahead 15 years (without war or threat of war) sees a rocketing increase in private American trade overseas, not only in the established markets like Europe but in virgin territories like Asia and the Middle East. He points to the amazing success of Sears, Roebuck in selling modern goods (since '45) through South America, including some mighty thick jungles. All economists see the whizzing assembly lines of our nation kept busy for centuries supplying the new material yearnings of the now awakened peoples of Burma, India, China. Prof. Schult? that—once the
is convinced international
jitters are gone—private industry can many times multiply the $5 billion in cash and goods the government will send abroad this year, (And in private trade we'll be paid —it won't be a give-away.) An automobile and an air conditioner will no longer be merely a gewgaw—seen in a Hollywood production—for the natives of Sumatra and Yemen. Our customers will speak 36 languages.
Soviet Union ONE MOST UNPLEASANT hangover from the Olympic games in Helsinki has been a slashing and bitter verbal assault by the Soviets on their Finnish neighbors. A report by a “special correspondent” of Taegliche Rundschau, newspaper of the Soviet control authorities in Eastern Germany, is filled with ominous charges and even more ominous hints. Finland's Social Democrats, who loom large in the government coalition in Helsinki, are “completely in the service of the American warmongers,” the article says. This was the case, it adds, with the Finnish “fascists” in 1939. What it leaves unsaid is that the Soviet used this charge as the basis for its invasion of Finland in 1939. The article has almost nothing good to say about the country. There is no suggestion of any new “crisis” or of Soviet “counter action,” but Soviet displeasure is plain.
Rhee's planes drop
election leaflets.
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Soviet failure to make of Finland a genuine ‘‘satellite”
continues to be one of the’
Kremlin's most rankling disappointments of the postwar period.
United Nations
ASIANS at the United Nations are preparing to square off in a bitter fight against the Union of South Africa when the General Assembly convenes Oct. 14. South Africa's latest device of rounding up Indians and Africans and charging them under the tough new "suppression of communism” act has created violent reaction among the Indians, Pakistani, Bur-
mese and Filipinos at the United Nations. Tho¥% rounded up and
charged are in many instances
anti-Communists, such as the president and secretary of the South African Indian Congress.
Free Germany
THE SOVIET UNION is producing mouths to feed more rapidly than it is increasing the food supply. The well-informed Neue Zhercher Zeitung in Free Germany estimates that before world War II the Soviet harvest of food grains amounted to about 620 pounds per person each year. Even then times were not good, but just bhearable. ‘Currently, it estimates that even if the Kremlin can make good its promises to bring vast
POTOMAC PATTER . . . By Andrew Tully Adlai Tries Harry's Swivel Chair for Size
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16—
Harry Truman, who likes a
good gag as well as the next guy, had one ready for Adlai Stevenson when the Illinois governor arrived for their campaign chat the other day. “Glad to see you, Governor,” said Mr. Truman, grasping his visitor's hand. ‘Here, try this for size’—and he motioned Gov. Stevenson into the President's own swivel chair. Gov. Stevenson grinned and
blushed. But Mr. Truman insisted. “Come on, sit down, Gover-
nor,” "he said. “This will be yours next Jan. 20.” So Adlai Stevenson sat down for a few self-conscious seconds.
” ” ” GOV. STEVENSON, by the way, was getting off quips a mile a minute during his Washington whistle-stop. Samples: To White House photographers, “what are the ground rules around here?” So To a reporter who asked if he'd talk to the press later, “Okay, but be gentle with me.” To photographers who were
placing him for a picture, .
“Phew. They haven't had as much trouble with me since I went to dancing school.” Again to photographers, who asked him to make a gesture, ‘The only one I can think of I don’t dare make.”
” o ” . YOU DON'T AMOUNT TO MUCH socially in this town these "days ‘unless . you can casually drop into the ‘conversation that you were over to Leander McCormick - Goodhart's place the other day to take in a cricket game,
¢ fay
Although only a few Americans play the game, a lot of local socialites act like they were brought up on it and like to loll about on Mr. McCormick = Goodhart's greensward and match broad a's with the guardians of the Empah. There's a regular league in
town, too, made up of five teams and called the Washington Cricket Club. There's
the British Embassy team, of course, the British Joint Services Mission, the Pakistan Embassy, the combined IndianCeylon team and the Old Dominions team, which comprises the Canadian, Austral-
ian and New Zealand Embassy
staffs. One thing Americans like about watching cricket is that it's so nice and comfortable and social, Between the innings, téams and spectators both adjourn to Mr. McCor-mick-Goodhart's coach house for a spot of tea and a nibble of crumpets, And even while the match is on, you don't have to pay strict .attention. A lot of peoplesplayv bridge. It's kind of tough on guys who've been brought up on that crude game called baseball, though. You're not supposed to yell cries of encouragement to the players like “Throw it down his. throat,
Mike,” or “Hit it over the fence," ya bum.” If you get particu“larly excited, though, vou can
murmur something like "Well played, old chap,” or good, what?” sn » i "A FEMALE REPORTER for the London Express named Drusilla - Beyfus unsheathed
her claws the other day and :
“Jolly -
went to work on Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway, wife of the Supreme Commander in Europe, Drusilla ~called Penny Ridgway ‘‘the first General's lady to make it her business to splash around in the limelight. Penny has made a celebrity of the General's Lady.” Drusilla drew quite a picture of a press conference Mrs, Ridgway gave. She repsrted it was held at ‘the nearest thing to an American country club that France can offer (notices written in English only, ‘a barbecue in the garden, and murals of the American Civil War.” She wrote of how Mrs. Ridgway drove up in “the Ridgways’ mighty Chrysler,” and then proceeded “to do what no general's wife "has ever done before—hold a press conference.” Asked how many servants she had, Mrs. Ridgway replied, according to Drusilla, “I haven't had time to count.” Drusilla must have an inferiority complex about her
own hdts, because she seemed '°
disturbed to report that Mrs. Ridgway’s hats were so prétty. “When she puts on a hat, even Field Marshal Montgomery notices it.” wrote Drusilla. “'My dear, it really is most sweet,’ he said about a little straw number she wore re-
cently.”
” ” ” PHILIPPINE AMBASSADOR CARLOS ROMULO
tossed a fancy lunch the other
day--but made news because he didn't serve a single exotic Oriental dish. Si -The grub was strictly American—melon balls, soft shelled
Women jam polls.
new areas into production the
total” will be only about 550°
pounds per person. -
Great Britain
WHEN he is not dealing >with affairs of state, or feeding his goldfish, Winston Churchill, prime - minister, takes time off to be Winston Churchill, author and historian. Friends who have visited him at Chartwell, his country house at Westerham, Kent, where he is residing this
month, say he is now working, when his time permits, on the sixth and final volume of his famous war memoirs. The fifth volume, “Closing The Ring,” which came out in the United States some months ago, will be published Sept. 3, the 13th anniversary of the outbreak of the war. The first printing is expected to be 250,000 copies and will bring the total sales of the memoirs to more than 1.5 million.
France
FRANCE’'S hero of the battle of the franc, Premier Antoine Pinay, has his back to the wall. Three enemies, cattle blight, drought and worst of all, high prices, have blocked his campaign to restore economic stability. Where once he was able to arniounce ‘‘operation price cuts,” his warcry now is ‘operation price curb.” He'll do well to keep costs as they are.
crabs and sliced cucumbers, fried chicken with mushrooms and vegetables, a green salad, and individual souffies,
= o n ANOTHER Easterner who's gone heavy for American food is Chiang Kai-shek, Whenever he has people in to tea in his house in Formosa, Chiang invariably serves vanilla jce cream and strawberries and devils food cake, Incidentally, the walls of the Chiang home are decorated with paintings by Mme. Chiang, with poetry by the Generalissimo, on account of Chinese tradition says nobody but the husband should write verse for his wife's art. ”n o n WE GOT ROYALTY running out of our ears in Washington these days. In town at the same time are 17-year-old King Faisal of Iraq, and Prince Alexander of Ethiopia, also 17, grandson of Emperor Haile
Selassie. King Faisal is interested mostly in irrigation and is
going to visit a lot of ditches while touring the country. Prince Alexander, a student at Britain's Royal Naval College, keeps busy inspecting stuff at
Annapolis. 5 un on
SEN. HENRY CARBOT
LODGE (R. Mass). and Archibald Alexander, Democratic candidate for the Senate from
~ New Jersey, are married to sis-
ters. . . .. The Belgian ambassador’'s sister, Mrs. Suzanne Stevenson, campaign to bring out the women's vote up in Connecticut.
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Our Fair City—
Bosses Are Out To Recapture City Control.
By THE TIMES STAFF
DON'T LOOK NOW, but that same old political octopus is spreading its bi-partisan tentacles over Ine
dianapolis.
This is the discredited political machine ruled by a few power-mad, money-hungry Democrats and Republi-
cans. operations.
They want to. grab control of city and county
Once, they controlled judges, elected mayors, di-
rected prosecutors.
Court justice depended upon the size of the defend=
ant's pocketbook.
The bosses are staging a comeback. Some are en= trenched in the GOP. Others want to grab the Marion County Democratic Chairman post vacated last week
by David M. Lewis.
Then, they can again.play both sides of the political fence—dole out juicy political jobs, handle tax funds,
“assist” justice. Certainly the bosses—some builders, bankers, lawyers, liquor dealers—belong to their own political parties. But they pledge allegiance to the machine. That's the reason responsible Republicans hope county Dem-
ocrats can throw off the yoke
of the machine bosses and elect a county chairman with no strings attached. They don't want the. city
back in a political straitjacket. : Boy Wonder CITY STREET SCENE: A 12-year-old boy boarded Meridian St. bus
last week and
handed lady operator one dollar bill. “Change, please,” he said. “What else would I give you, sonny?” replied the she driver. Unmoved, the youngster shot back: “You might give me a transfer, honey.”
Miracle Needed
DEMOCRATS need a miracle to capture Marion County this fall—-even with the popular Schricker running for Senator, David Lewis’ resignation as County Chairman left the party high and dry. Democrats now are way. behind on registering voters, polling people and raising dough— all essential ingredients for
winning. Most local Democrats are bitter, feel IL.ewis let them
down when victory was within reach, They can’t understand why he fought so hard to be boss and then--on the eve of
election quit. Here's inside story on why he quit:
He couldn't raise funds or get state jobs for his workers an important phase of bullding a political machine. And when top state Democrats declined to let him run the show, he quit, : Before he left, however, he had done some good. For example, he attracted ‘new faces” to the Democratic party, built a ticket of determined Youngsters. But
able now, they resent his sudden withdrawal. Without any real pol-
fitical experience, these younggters flounder. around, apparently lost in the political whirl.
So They Say ... . LAWYER Thomas McNulty,
Republican ward chairman, commenting on why his inter-
est in politics had lessened, gaid: “Politics is too crooked for me.” Courthousze officials introduced an old political boss to a political gathering, saying: “For every dollar he made out of politics he spent $100.”
Prosecutor Fairchild balked at giving out statement on
Army conference .on venereal disease situation, telling a reporter. “l.ast week you ac-
cused me of making silly statements. And I'm not going to make any more.” Going Up MAYOR CLARK feels city needs more services and city workers need more pay. That's why local tax rate is sure to go over $5 first time in history. As Republican County Chairman as well as city boss, Mayor Clark’s likely to get what he wants. City councilmen are hacking away at the Mayor's $4 milliofi~ proposed budget increase. But they'll probably let him have at least $2 million. Best guess is the combined city, council, school and health tax rate will be between $5.40 and $5.50 for each $100 of assessed property valuation. If council wants to get tough, tax could be cut even more.
Tighten Relief MARION COUNTY Welfare Department is swinging fure ther away from “coddling” relief recipients, a T his was interpretation placed on election last week of Hiram W. McKee as Welfare Board president. Under his tenure, department is expected to adopt even more tight-fisted policy in distributing tax dollars. =
«, But high level welfare offi»
cial insists changing attitude will not work to detriment of really needy. Policy change began with appointment of Carl King as wele fare director. Insiders say he's operated department on busi nesslike plane, made some enemies among graduate social workers on staff.
Loaded Joint
MORE gambling headlines are promised this week unless Prosecutor Fairchild and City Police close a gambling den on W. Ohio St. near the Ohio Theater. Local businessman lost $3800 in craps there recently to the same characters who once ran the fancy crap joints at 4444 W. Washington: St. and the Liberal View League Club. Cops know all about this establishment and the operators,
Who Likes lke?
THE DIEHARD Taft supporters at Republican State Headquarters are having a tough job trying to proye to skeptics they really intend to work for Eisenhower. 8o, they installed giant “We Like Ike* sign. In corridor. It hits. visitors just as they ° get off the elevator. . Trouble is, it makes the old Taft boys mad every time they see it. Taft supporters won't take it down, but will not discipline any old Taftite who thumbs his nose at it.
Not Like Oldtimes
THAT OLD saw about exuberance of “visiting firemen” didn’t hold true during Indiana Firemen’s Convention in city last week. Safety Board received letter saying management of downtown hotel was happy with hook-'n-ladder boys for holding “one of the most well-behaved conventions in a long time.”
Duly Noted ELMER BE. WARREN JR, Center Township chief deputy assessor, who bears the brurit of taxpayers’ complaints, installed an air conditioning unit in his tiny office last week, On it is this note: “In answer to the silent inquiry of my ‘friends,’ this air conditioner was bought by and assessed in the name of Elmer P. Warren Jr.”
Fireman, Save My Engine
LETS GET A NEW ENGINE
FOR
YEARS, built own firetrucks in depart-
Indianapolis
ment shop, bought engines separately and installed them. Reason: Economy. City saved lots of money. 9 ‘But. sihce, 1943, city has ught vehicles complete. Reason: Economy. Too expensive to build them these days
HR
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Fire Chief Hancock said steel and parts cost so much on open market price “is prohibitive, Department keeps sharp eye on some costs. - Recently bought engines at $600 apiece to re= place engines that eame with original vehicles in 1921. That ls stretching it out.
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