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CHICAGO—Why. didn't Gov. Dewey, the Republican candidate, call President Truman's hand in the grain storage hoax .of 1948 and give the farmers the facts? “The truth of the situation and all the data were put in Dewey’s hands,” said a grain trade spokesman, “But he never opened his mouth. He didn't use it. He ignored it. “The trouble is, Dewey thought the convention was the election.” Dewey prokably was lulled by the Gallup Pell and newspaper columnists who predicted that Mr. Truman soon would be retired to Independence, Mo. Mr. Truman went on campaigning as the fighting little guy against Wall St. and the interests who would enslave the farmers and workers.

The Party Divisions N REFUSING to give a blanket indorsement to Democratic state tickets, Gov. Stevenson tacitly recognizes in his own party a division which is older and deeper than the Republican rift to which he has devoted so much attention. What is more to the point, he has given the green light to independent-minded Democrats to make a choice between his candidacy and that of Dwight D. Eisenhower. & If the head of the party can pick and choose, party members have the same right. As a matter of fact, a political realignment has been in process in this country for many years. Even where there has been a disinclination. to break away from traditional party labels, this trend has manifested itself in other practical ways, particularly by régroupings in Congress. The division is more apparent among the Democrats than th® Republicans, because the Democrats have been the party in power. In the 20 years they have been in power, their party has moved steadily toward the left. It has absorbed most of the Socialist Party and much of its doctrine. In the process it has become, if not a Socialist Party, at least a. labor party and an instrumentality of the labor bosses.

ss & 8 2 8 8 THE TREND toward the left began under President Roosevelt and has continued under President Truman. Gov. Stevenson owes his nomination to elements in sympathy with this trend. Under similar pressures, the Republican Party appears to be shifting from the right to a middle-of-the-road posiHox, This shit was personified by: the nomingtion of Gen. Democrats into farmer votes? Eisenhower. That is the question only the Nov. 4 election In view of these circumstances, it is to be expected Wi! answer. : many Democrats will find Gen. Eisenhower more in accord PUPPET . . By Ludwell Benny

with their views than Gov. Stevenson is. The latter obviously “accept® such losses as inevitable, but hopes to more than Ru SS S qu eeze d Chi Red China

offset them by bidding for support from the pressure groups, just as Presidents Roosevelt and Truman did. WASHINGTON—Red China is more of a Russian puppet than ever. This is confirmed by

. the Moscow announcement of results of the conference of Stalin and Chou En-lai, despite propaganda efforts to save Chinese face. The Port grthur naval base is the payoff. Two and a half years ago, when Peking cited its new Stalin promise to get out of Port Arthur

$ ¢ SH THE RECORD SHOWS that in November, Truman carried the five big farm states with 87 electoral votes by narrow margins, with the exception of Minnesota. There he had a majority of 209.349. He squeaked through with a 7107 majority in Ohio to take that state’s 25 electoral votes, He won Illinois and 29 electoral votes by only 33,612, compared to Gov. Stevenson's 572,000 majority, He took Wisconsin's 12 votes by a 56,351 plurality; Jowa’s 10 votes by 38,362, a HAD DEWEY not taken the farmers for granted, many argue, he would have come through in these states to give him 276 (189 plus 87), ten more than the needed majority to win. But Dewey was an Easterner, Truman a Missourian who talked the farmers’ language. At Kasson, Minn., Sept. 6, Gen. Eisenhower exposed the hoax, charging it was the Demo-

crats who stuck a pitchfork in the backs of the farmers,

He said:

“The case is now perfectly clear in the grain storage hoax of 1948. It is the story of perversion of government responsibility and powers — ga story of a giant federal farm agency backed by the people’s dollars, deliberately driving down the price of grain to instill fear in the minds of farmers. “It is a story of a government agency spreading panic—using press, radio and speeches to paint a picture—a false picture—of the lack of storage space for grain.” * oS IKE CHARGED that the opposition is spreading the same kind of fear today—*“telling you the Republicans will pull the rug out from under you.” Minnesota Citizens for Eisenhower distributed thousands of reprints of the magazine article, “Did Truman Ever Fool the Farmers.” Many of the estimated 80,000 at the plowing match took the article home to read. Others tossed them on the ground. Will Ike convert his aggressive attack on the

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WASHINGTON—The time has come+*to tell of the hair-raising adventures of the richest man in Switzerland and his friends, including J. Howard McGrath. : The cigar-puffing McGrath had spent the day defending before the House Investigation Committee of Rep. Frank L. Chelf (D. Ky.) his re e as attorney general. The gentlemen questioned him about everything from a thieving tax collector in St. Louis to a lady who claimed in Milwaukee she'd die if she went to trial as a tax cheat. Then they asked Mr. McGrath if he knew Emil G. Buehrle. Golly! Came such a tale of international intrigue, military stupidity and multimillon-dollar bank ‘accounts as the movies never even considered. The ex-attorney general certainly did know Mr, Buehrle. He was the largest single taxpayer in Switzerland was all; a manufacturer of guns, rockets, machinery and no telling what all else. So this Mr. Buehrle had a fellow working for him named Antoine Gazda, who invented amd sold to the British admiralty the Orlikon rapid-fire gun as the only means of combating German dive-bombers. Before the first gun could be delivered from Switzerland, France fell

Russia Stays = RED CHINA has “asked” Russia to keep Soviet troops at Port Arthur, in Manchuria, and the Kremlin has “con-

sented,” according to an exchange of correspondence released in Moscow.

‘Far East, this is called “sa ving face.” by 1952 as proof of its independence, Allied dip- tq the Nazis. In the Far : : is ? 5 face lomats predicted he would not leave. Last month el: Two years ago, Russia promised to return Port Arthur when the Moscow conference started they re- Plot Thickens

peated that prediction. Now Red China has “requested” Russia to remain and Stalin has consented. The excuse is even more absurd than usual—the alleged threat of aggression by disarmed J apan.

A Bitter Pill

THIS WILL be a bitter bill for the Chinese people. They are not fond of the Russians and

THE BRITISH handed Mr. Gazda several millions (Mr. McGrath didn't knom how many) and told him to set up his gun factory in the United States; he chose Mr. McGrath’s home’ state, Rhode Island. Our own Navy gave Gazda's American Orlikon company a whopping order, too and guns were coming out at a rapid rate when Mr. Gazda went to New York on business. There an officious cop picked him up as a

to the Peking regime by the end of the year. But the Russians do not intend to keep the agreement, so it is made to appear that the Russians are staying on at Red China's

request. The excuse given for this request is that, since Japan has not signed peace treaties with Red China and the Soviets, “conditions have arisen dangerous for peace and Port Arthur had long since become a symbol. favorable for a renewal of Japanese aggression.” That is a Byt when their Red dictatorship sells out to + suspicious alien Sharaeter oo he landed on i i i a hia. a4aa: ; ception SHALN. the have. to -gepept itm rs —— Ellis Island in strict custody. He stayed there bit.of u \ humeos;-sinee Japan k unarmed and cout According to the Moscow announcement shires. MONLAS IRON! not disturb the so-called peace. suqn if so minded. Stalin is keeping another Part 6 ¥he 1505 bar > AB FOUSTY WN lo one. really will be fooled bv this wi ; gain swith- ‘Peking. He is returning the main No one really . be fooled by this window dressing. Manchurian railways, as promised—so it says. But it is the sort of fiction in which Oriental minds delight But a closer reading reveals a loophole. : when confronted by disagreeable realities. Russian posses- ae two governments have agreed to appoint ur: a joint commission “to begin measures” for sion of P ort Arthur serves no other purpose than to hold handing back the railroads to China. The Rus~ Red China -itsélf in bondage by keepitig~a gun pointed at sian record in satellite countries shows Stalin Peking. Poland's “loyalty” is similarly assured by having Russian officers command the Polish army.

often “begins” without ever quite getting around to keeping the promise. - He finally goes through the motions of reAll that the Chinese Communists appear to have gained from the month-long negotiations in Moscow has been an agreement to give them sole control and ownership of the

storing Chinese ownership to fool the Chinese people, he probably still will keep indirect at present jointly administered Changchun railway in Manchuria.

control. Results Not Known OF COURSE the Moscow announcement did not specify results of the general political and Here the Russians are surrendering something which cost them nothing, for the half interest in the railway was one of thei gifts Stalin took home from Yalta. And if the railroad isn’t operated to Stalin's satisfaction, it will be too

r. McGrath appealed The authorities eventually released Mr. Gazda in custody of the Army.

WASHINGTON — The government is spending $200,000 a month to operate a bureau which exists mainly to recommend that the Reconstruction Finance Corp, (RFC) make certain loans. This is the Small Defense

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economic negotiations, except the usual line about strengthening mutual friendship, international peace and security. It is known the Chinese were asking for more economic and military aid. It is not known how much they

didn’t do it, stuck.

will get. Plants Administration for the operators. But—or the basis of Stalin's past per- (SDPA). It was established bad pe formance in’ China, Korea and Eastern Europe last year, partially because

—{wo’' guesses are safe: Stalin will take more than he gres. and whatever he gives will be paid for ‘dearly by China. He will never let them have his newest weapons and best planes. Now that China is over-extended in Korea and completely at Stalin's mercy for military equipment, the Russian dictator can virtually write his own ticket. That apparently is precisely what he has done in these so-called negotiations in Moscow. Whether Red China has had enough in Korea, where it is taking heavy losses, does not matter much. The orders come from Stalin.

What Others Say—

IF THE dry rot of corruption and ¢ommunism which has eaten deep into our body politic during these last seven years can only be chopped out with a hatchet, then let's call for a hatchet. Sen. Richard Nixon (R. Cal). * SO IF THE Republicans don't wake up and reform, it wouldn’t surprise me if they never did win another national election.—President Harry 8S. Truman.

some Congressmen were looking for an indirect way to bring pressure on the RFC,

SIDE GLANCES

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Exit-Cy Ching, Honest Man

YRUS 8. CHING, one of the few really able men in the Truman administration, is resigning as director of the Federal Mediation Service. He is 76, and after five years at a difficult and thankless task, Mr. Ching certainly is entitled to devote some time to personal affairs. President Truman praises Mr. Ching for his “calm wisdom and unflagging patience.” It is praise richly deserved. His high qualities’ were recognized by all groups of employees and employers with whose differences he dealt in single-minded devotion to obtaining voluntary agreements. Ours would be a happier land if the President hac used Mr. Ching’s talents more often — instead of by-passing him when an opportunity came to play politics with man-agement-labor disputes. The steel strike, which set back the nation’s preparedness program and cost workers income that can be recouped only by many years of future toil, might well have been averted had the dispute been left to Cy Ching’s mediation. But. Mr. Truman turned matters over to the politically minded Wage Stabilization Board to attain a political ob- 'WORDS' jective. - Within themselves mere - words are small This friendly, lumbering giant of a man, who stands they She § Now an 2 Shin senven ‘that falls pr an easy 6 feet, 6 inches, even when slightly stooped, started lites scene . . + Somotines Jucy'se spoon just life as a streetcar motorman. He learned the prcatical and for fun . . a : tin human problems of industry the hard way, working to the any they are ney by Core a brid top — and then placed his experience and understanding at words that help . . . and ease an aching heart : 5 «+ + + they are the words I long to hear . . . the service of the government. ! ‘ for they Bre Sweet, not tare ar nm we gus i i i i not férget the words . . . the tender words of - a A aoe plc, le Thaugh! the thing 3» oo wih love . . that are so soothing to the heart , ... to reach a voluntary agreement, and to keep the wheels

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$b ab id I STILL think that American men are more charming, but they (the Europeans) are very pleasant.—Margaret Truman.

as balm from up.above . . . and last, the words

Um writing now . . . what are these words to turning. He never appreciated the reasoning of people who

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A COSTLY OPERATION . . . | U..S. Spends $200,000 Monthly On SDPA to Aid RFC Get Loans

In last year's Senate inestigation of the RFC, it if President Truman might expose congressional correspondence with - the big lending agency. He but the lesson

» ” ” » CONGRESSIONAL sponsors of the bill creating the SDPA apparently felt that nobody could complain if a Congressman asked the SDPA to recommend a loan for a defense

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So What? We're Cookin' With Gas

THRILLER-DILLER . . . By Frederick C. Othman McGrath Unloads Quite a Story Of Intrigue, Money and Stupidity

“And the Army kept him under guard for three more months in the Providence-Biltmore Hotel,” Mr. McGrath continued. “They sealed up suites and shut off doors and every time Mr. Gazda and his wife walked out of that hotel, a dozen goards went with them. It was ridiculous and laughable performance. But the Orlikon gun resumed production. “It is still our Navy’s main anti-aircraft weapon. But in those days there was Mr. Gazda, surrounded by guards wherever he went. It was fantastic. And an outrage. Finally, the Army got ashamed of themselves and released him in my custody. I was, in effect, his guardian and when I came to Washington, I let the Gazdas use my house.”

Oh Yes, Money

WITH THE end of the war some years later Mr. Gazda and Mr. Buehrle dropped by Mr. MeGrath's place for a cocktail and a smile over their misadventures. There was only one small matter left. Mr. Buehrle had $4.5 million in

funds blocked by our government and he

wanted this money back. He got it, too. Mr. MeGrath insisted under persistent questioning he had nothing to do with this; it was Treasury Department doings. Then Mr. Gazda and Mr. Buehrle sued the U. 8. government for $30 million and that left Mr, McGrath, by then our attorney general, in an

awkward spot.

So he told his lawyers that though he was a close friend of Mr. Gazda, he wanted them to defend the case to the limit. This he said they did. Then a second lawsuit shattered tie friendship of Mr. Gazda and the richest Swiss and, well, that's the end of the story. If it lacks any spine-chilling periods of sus-

“pense, “you can fill them in; yourself. After all,

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ary €Xpericics ca briefs. Under the circumstances I think he did fine. So did the Investigators. He at least made their eyes bulge.

By James Daniel =

plant, especially a small one. Some other functions were assigned to SDPA, such as helping applicants get allocations of scarce materials and persuading defense agencies to reserve some contracts, or parts of contracts, for smaller bidders. But helping get RFC loans is SDPA’s chief function. Legally, it has no power to make loans, or to compel the RFC to make a loan it regards as unjustified or unsafe. The SDPA can only recommend. The SDPA’s sponsors wanted. to give it a big loan fund of its own. But some Congressmen balked at that. The outcome was that the RFC was given an extra $100 million of lending power, earmarked for “small” business,

Ld » ¥ LOANS ARE made this way: Any applicant for an RFC loan has the option of filling .out an extra sheet of paper, on which he asks to be considered eligible to borrow from this $100 million, if the RFC is unable to help him under any of its other loan programs, The applicant doesn’t have to be in defense work. The "RFC investigates and sends a copy of the credit report to the SDPA. The SDPA may then recommend that the RFC make the” loan. Sometimes a loan has already been made before the SDPA reply is received. Often, the RFC finds the applicant eligible under another of its loan programs.

ory status, the SDPA has been employing its own “financial ' advisers” in Washington and in its 15 field offices. In all of these cities there are RFC loan examiners. In fact, many of the SDPA’s “financial advisers” are ex&RFC loan examiners whose Jobs were eliminated because there wasn't enough work at RFC to keep them busy.

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Outlines Political Views MR. EDITOR: Bill Ridge tells us we should elect good men from both parties and I agree. However, thers is quite a difference of opinion who the good men are. For instance, he names Aldal E,

Stevenson as one. ' Now I have no doubt Adlai is a good man personally and in all probability an honest and sincere man at heart. However, that does not mean he is a fit man to be President of the U. 8, First, he was part and parcel of the old Roosevelt coddling, war making crowd that has got this country into the mess it is in today. Henry Wallace was one of them, too, and at least he has enough decency and honesty at this late date to admit that he was wrong, which Eleanor or. none of the rest have ever done. If Adlai knows he was wrong, he never admits it. Possibly he don't know it, because he was gullible enough to act as a character witness for Alger Hiss, Is that the kind of man fit to be President of the U. 8. in these perilous times when the lives and fortunes of 155 million people are at stake? So $$ BILL goes on to tell us that Henry Schricker is another good man. Henry gave the people of Indiana a solemn promise when they elected him governor that he would do away with property taxes, repeal the cigaret tax and pay the soldiers their bonus without raising taxes. He failed to keep his promise on every count and has actually raised both the gross income tax and raised property taxes by increasing their valuation. Is this the kind of man that Hoosiers want to represent them in the U. 8. Senate? : Bill goes on to tell us there are others not so good, such as McCarthy and Jenner, Well, the Wisconsin primary returns indicate the people of Wisconsin differ with Bill. As near as I can find out, the great fault the so-called liberals are findin ith both Joe McCarthy and Bill Jenner if because they have both had the intestinal fortitude to call a Red a Red whether he happens to be in some foreign country or in“our own State Department, Furthermore, neither of them could be classed as great liberals. They are both against war, communism, confusion and corruption in government, which according to the book of rules for both Democrats and Republicans of so-called liberals makes them reactionaries.

—C. D. C., Terre Haute. .

Our Freedom to Howl MR. EDITOR:

It takes a glance abroad to rouse in uj a new sense of gratitude. Until recently, few of us have realized the extent of our all-time privileges. : . Yes, political wolves and weasels flourish on our shores. But at least we can howl about it —to lung-limit. And when enough howl is heard, something rips at the seams. The real privilege, of course, lies in our freedom to howl} America has ballyhooed that word “frees dom” until it yields about the same kick as a cup of tepid tea. But in times like these, we begin to grasp its true meaning. Even in dark days America can still boast her Four Free« doms—and more, : “ oo 9S

HER POOREST worker can vote as hg pleases, change his job, enter the church of his choice, speak his mind or print his complaint, read whatever he sees fit, listen to any doctrine, and go home to a place that at least partially reflects his taste. If you see nothing remarks able in this, remind yourself to check Uncle Joe's regime. . None of us has total freedom, since the merd act of living carries discipline. But every

+ dweller under this flag has ample measure of

that commodity—and will have. It isn’t in America’s blood stream to be pushed around. Bred to liberty, she snofts like a bucking broncho at sight of a noose. : eS &

AND THE first politico to toss that noosk may expect to clear the corral at no mean altis tude, under hoof-propulsion. This, then, must be our national pride: That you can differ from me and still be right. That no individual may reduce another to underprivileged status. Thaf, innate human dignity and the law of infinitg preference. he wea iy THF ve equals ownership. Such is the fabric of frees dom—the finest word in any language.

—Eleanor Flaig, 47 N. Irvington Ave, City. ~ How About Some Answers?

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It is sure very disgusting to listen to a Domine for President and hear him say at every other word: “That mess in Washington and throw the fools out.” Why don’t they say what they would do td correct it? People want to know what to do to improve things in Washington. But they don't know themselves. They only know how to throw mud. Why doesn’t someone tell Ike if he doesn’t know how it sounds? But we can overlook that s 1 t speech here in Indianapolis, for look who he was associated with. A man who knows only to run down people like Gen. Marshall. If he was only as g a man as Gen. Marshall, statesman, ehetea goed But people will retire old “hot air” to pri vate life Nov. 4. We don’t need him in the ivy If the Republicans want to elect any men at all, they better quit throwing mud as people don't like that kind of speeches.

=A Times Reader, City.

Swept Off of His Feet

MR. EDITOR:

Congressman Brownson used t the same line as J enner, and at nk as Ike came home and swept him off his feet, turned him around ang had him believing the same as Ike. Now Ike would have us believe de seus oye to ve with Jenner, at least until the on. So where does that lea: Brownson? The things I think Tke ae for are his first speeches, off-the-cuff ones, before everyone started telling him what to say. He said in a Jecent Speech he would treat other countries ® same as Europe. Don't the people realize that would take money? One would think he Was running for President of the United Nastions instead of America. —Indep, City.

Urges Police to Obey Laws

MR. EDITOR;

Do you remember the sto - apolis papers last week about Te ae an in so big a hurry to get to work that he ran a bat Zlop-tignt at Holmes and 10th 8t., hitting 2 Bike boy and girl. Later the boy died of inWell, what do You think of in a'squad car running the Rill Be on Tuesday, the 9th of Sept. at 16 minutes after 4 o'clock? They could not have been in pursuit of a car because there were none. And if they had been on call they should have had the red light on or their siren going,

Their view was obstructed on the west by a

could have heen coming through on the sig nal and if the squad car — have hit A it would have been the other person’s fault, That is their story always, Hla You cannot expect the laws to be obeyed it our police department is let do like they are, They should be men that are next to! perfect,

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