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Fireside Chat Proposed
S ECRETARY of State Acheson
has been urging President Tru
man to deliver a fireside chat warn
ing the nation against falling for the
Russian peace offensive.
Acheson fears that victory in Ko
rea will lull Americans into for
getting that western Europe is still
Russia’s No. 1 objective and that
to let down now would prove dis
astrous later. Therefore, he has sug
gested the President give a blunt
talk to the people, perhaps on Co
lumbus Day, and in this way ex
plode Moscow’s peace talk.
Acheson wants the President to
point out that Russia still has 75
divisions in eastern Germany—15
of them armored—and is now stock
piling huge quantities of food and
raw materials—something you do
only when you are preparing for
war.
Senate Poet Laureate
Scott Lucas, the hard-boiled sen
ate leader, is one thing; but Scott
Lucas, the rhymester, is another.
Most people don’t know that when
the senator from Illinois gets fed up
with long, drawn-out senate debates
he scribbles lyrics. Here is one he
turned out when the senate was
tied up in a table-thumping debate
on oil:
"Who is this old man oil ^
That raises hell in committee
toil?
Open the door and let him in.
Hear him speak straight from
the chin.
"Remember boys—he’s a wily
old cuss.
He looks like ‘Hit’ and acts like
‘Muss’;
He’s a traveler of world renown.
Gushing and running from town
to town.’*
Korean Costs Increase
Most people don’t realize that the
cost of the Korean war to the tax
payers has been increased by about
five billion dollars, because of two
factors: 1. Unpatriotic war manu
facturers and raw-material dealers
have hiked prices; 2. President Tru
man, though given ample power by
congress, has failed to invoke price
controls.
As** result, it now costs the
services more for their
needs, without exception, than they
paid before the Korean outbreak.
Probably the most shameful is the
sudden increase in the price of
medical and surgical goods, urgent
ly needed to save lives in Korea.
The army must now pay $220 for
an instrument and medicine cabi
net that cost only $195 before the
Korean war. The price of glycerin,
a medical compound in demand in
military hospitals, has shot up 114
per cent. Even rubber surgical
gloves for operating on wounded
soldiers have increased in price
from 17 to 22 cents per pair.
The high-octane aviation fuel that
keeps our planes flying over Korea
costs 30 per- cent more than before
the war. At the same time, fuel
oil has shot up 54 per cent. The air
force is also paying as high as 175
per cent more for re’sistors, actua
tors and other electronic spares for
aircraft, and the navy is paying 10
to 12 per cent Tflbre for” ship parts
than these same iteihs cost before
K-day.
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In addition to paying 62 per cent
more for zinc, the army and navy
had to get tough before they could
even bt^y enough zinc for batteries
urgently needed in Korea. Assistant
Secretary of the Army Alexander
and Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Koehler personally had to put pres
sure on the zinc companies in order
to get military orders filled.
Believe it or not, these companies
—Anaconda, Sullivan Mining, Amer
ican Smelting and Refining, and
American Zinc company of Illi-
noJs—wanted to take care of their
civilian clients first rather than risk
losing business. Now the same com
panies are protesting against sup
plying zinc for the nation’s strategic
stockpile.
The basic commodities used
in the manufacture of military
items were the first to sky
rocket after Korea. Crude rub
ber shot up 162 per cent, with
some British companies charg
ing as high as 300 per cent above
the pre-Korean price. The price
of wool, so essential for the
freezing Korean winter, in
creased 61 per cent. Cotton for
summer uniforms shot np 50 per
cent. Steel scrap, which sold for
$24 a ton before the Korean war,
now costs $38 per ton.
Here are a few other comparisons
between the prices the armed for
ces paid before and after the Ko
rean war began: radio receivers
up from $550 to $910 a set; radiak
training sets, $84.90 to $289; ship
ping boxes, 82 cents to $1.24 each;
five-gallon gasoline drums, $1.79 to
$1.98 each; khaki trousers, 74 cents
to 84 cents a pair; adhesive tape,
26 cents to 30 cents a roll; tires,
$18.14 to $20.46 each; fire hose,
$20.64 to $23.10 per 50 feet; ground
interrogator, $1,842 to $2,303 each.
These are typical of the prices
the armed services are paying.
■WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Peace Talks Proposed by Stassen;
U. N. Forces Cross 38th Parallel;
High Prices Weaken Defense Plan
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When •pinions sre expressed in these eolnmns, they are those of
Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of thla newspaper.)
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Harold E. Stassen, president of University of Pennsylvania
as he announced contents of a message he sent to Soviet Gen
eralissimo Joseph Stalin proposing that they confer and urging
Russia to "stop the drift to war.’* Stassen’s message was delivered
to the Soviet embassy and a copy to the state department.
STASSEN:
A Just World Peace
Harold E. Stassen, president of
the University of Pennsylvania
and twice an aspirant for the Re
publican presidential nomination,
stepped in where angels fear to
tread.
The former Minnesota governor
wrote a letter to Premier Stalin
suggesting that they confer on
steps that need be taken to achieve
"a just world peace.’’
Stassen was quick to point out
that his letter was written without
consultation either with President
Truman or the state department;
that is, Stassen had written to Stalin
in his private capacity and the let
ter had no official inspiration.
Stassen declared that, if his bid
was successful, he would have “four
or five of this country’s top ‘ citi
zen leaders” accompany him to
Moscow for the conference.
There is a possibility that Stalin
might accept Stassen’s proposal.
In fact, some quarters believe the
Russians will jump at the chance,
if for nothing else, at least for the
opportunity to pound out the old
propaganda line that the Soviet is
anxious for world peace.
There is little possibility, how
ever, that anything constructive
will come of such a meeting. What
ever Stalin and Stassen’s delegation
might agree upon would have no
official standing and in all prob
ability would not coincide with
American foreign policy.
As could be expected, Stassen’s
gesture produced political over
tones immediately. One Democratic
spokesman pointed out that the
initiative of any such project prop
erly belongs with the state depart
ment.
RISING COSTS:
Cut 750 Jet Fighters
The howl of the housewife that
prices have climbed beyond any
reasonable or sensible level was
taken up by the air force which re
ported between April and Septem
ber increases weakened the force’s
purchasing power by an equivalent
of 750 F-86 jet fighter planes.
The cost increases in essential
materials, John McCone, under
secretary for air, told the house
armed services subcommittee
would run about $315 million.
The under-secretary cited many
examples. Among the increases
were crude rubber, 128.9 per cent;
aluminum, 2.9 per cent; copper,
23.6 per cent; tin 32.9 per cent;
plus signs of accompanying wage
rises as another basic factor in
cost estimation.
It all boils down to the fact
Which the housewife has long
known: prices are climbing by
leaps and bounds. If the increases
were hurting the armed service
then perhaps something would be
done to relieve the pinch on the
general public.
Rep. Carl Vinson, member of the
armed services committee, was
blunt about the situation:
"Let’s not kid ourselves. Con
gress has a choice of seeing these
programs cut (4,428 new aircraft
by 1952), or coming up with addi
tional appropriations to meet these
rising costs.”
Headliners
President Truman who is becom
ing famous as a letter writer, wrote
to his old friend Colorado State
Senator Neal Bishop, "I wouldn’t
appoint John L. Lewis dogcatch-
er.”
"The President could 111 afford to
have more brains in the dog de
partment than in the department
of state,” replied the UMW boss
with his usual bark and bite.
"We want nothing from Korea.
We want no bases there. We do
not want to and will not threaten
any other country through the tem
porary presence of American troops
in Korea on a U.N. mission,” War
ren R. Austin, American delegate
to the United Nations told the gen
eral assembly.
KOREA:
A Future Hope
The United Nations gave Gen.
Douglas MacArthur the signal to
cross the 38th parallel in the final
campaign to crush the Communists
and the future hope of a unified
Korea.
But the delay in giving that ap
proval may cost the U.N. forces
in manpower and material. It gave
the Communists time to collect
their shattered forces and prepare
for another stand, whereas a con
tinued attack by U.N. troops when
the Reds were in full flight could
have ended the war quickly.
It was the old story of immature
thinking and lack of plans on the
part of the western nations. Had
the situation been reversed, is there
anyone who thinks the Reds would
have stopped long enough to let
U.N. forces regroup? They would
have continued to attack and se
cure any necessary approval later.
But be that as it may, the gen
eral assembly finally got around
to voting on the invasion of North
Korea, approving it 47 to 5.
The assembly authorised:
1. That "all appropriate steps be
taken to insure conditions of sta
bility throughout Korea.”
2. “That U.N. forces should not re
main in any part of Korea otherwise
so far as necessary to achieve
some other aims of the plan.”
Defense Line
Defense department officials
and civil defense planners, met
with heads of more than 53
women’s groups at a meeting in
the national security resources
board headquarters in Washing
ton.
VJP.W. HOWLS
U. N. Flag 'Superseding' Old Glory
To most people it wa? amusing, ture extension service w
but to the department of agricul
ture it was serious.
The V.F.W., through its national
commander, accused the agricul
ture department of “an apparent
effort to flood the country with
United Nations flags” to take the
place of Old Glory over the nation’s
schools.
The commander said the agricul-
was supply
ing U.N. flag-pattern kits to 4-H
and women’s farm clubs -and urg
ing members to become "modem
Betsy Rosses” by making such
flags at home.
Said an agriculture department
spokesman, "The proposal is to dis
play U.N. flags parallel to the
American flag, just as it is done by
General MacArthur.”
UNITED NATIONS:
New Twist for Soviet
While men died on the battlefields
of Korea, power politics continued
to rage in the United Nations, but
with a new twist from the Soviet
Union.
The new twist developed when
the United States urged the U. N.
to adopt a plan by which national
troops would form a U.N. force
to keep world peace by the veto-
free general assembly.
Instead of ripping the plan apart,
Soviet foreign minister Andrei Vish-
insky said he saw some good point
in it, but suggested each point of
the proposal be discussed separate
ly.
At first the western diplomats
were shaken by Vishinsky’s con
ciliatory tone and stared at each
other in disbelief. But then it
dawned upon them that by dis
cussing the points separately, Rus
sia almost certainly meant to oppose
the key provision that would al
low the general assembly to meet
in 24 hours and act against aggres
sion if a veto paralyzed the security
council.
It was the old, old story of pol
itics between world powers.
CHICAGO:
A Case of Jitters
Senator Kefauver of Tennessee
and his crime investigating commit
tee Strived in Chicago, held a series
of hearings, and departed leaving
a case of jitters behind them that
reached into high circles.
Said the senator as he departed:
"We think we have found strong
evidence that the Capone syndicate
is still operating . . . . . There is
evidence of gangsters muscling into
legitimate businesses, and of politi
cal ties between gangsters and poli
ticians of both parties.”
Kefauver’s committee planned
hearings in New York, Philadelphia
and then a jump back to Chicago.
A recent hearing in Miami revealed
connections between gamblers and
city officials in that winter resort.
After the Chicago hearings, Ke
fauver said he is convinced that a
Mafia is in operation in Chicago at
present. The Mafia is an Italo-Sl-
cilian-born secret society of loose
organization that specializes in ex
tortion, and deals out its own pun
ishment.
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- gregation in the country—ah youngsters two to eight years old—listens
to Sunday services conducted by the "little minister,” eight-year-old
r idtrry Belan, in the Little Chnrch of Dinuba, Calif. The steepled, white
stucco miniature church, costing $10,000, is constructed and furnished
with child-size pews, pulpit and altar. Its overall size is 34P by 23 feet
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The jagged line was the ap
proximate defense line of North
Korean forces battling against
United Nations forces under
Gen. Douglas MacArthur at the ^
time the general demanded the
surrender of the Communists.
SECURITY LAW:
Matter of Discretion
The nation’s new Internal Security
act has already been under fire in
enforcement. The law had threat
ened for a time to bar the return
to this country of Arturo Toscanini,
the world’s most renowned conduc-,
tor.
The immigration department
quickly issued a statement saying
the musician would be allowed to
re-enter this country, thereby avoid
ing a storm of protests.
At the same time Attorney Gen
eral J. Howard McGrath said he
was using his "discretionary” pow
er in permitting Friedrich Gulda,
20, Austrian pianist, to enter this
country for his American debut at
Carnegie Hall.
Gulda joined the Nazi youth move
ment at the age of 10 because the
law forced him to. The new law
bars admission to the country of
anyone who ever has been a mem
ber of, or “affiliated” with, a Com
munist, Nazi, or Fascist party.
CASUALTIES:
Heaviest Report
As United Nations forces crossed
the 38th parallel and advanced in
to Communist territory, the depart
ment of defense released the heavi
est casualty list of the Korean cam
paign.
It contained names of 1,211 mem
bers of the U.S. armed services.
The deaths numbered 225; those
wounded in action, 822; missing in
action, 73, and injured 48.
CRIME:
Up in Rural Areas
Its hard to believe, but the facts
are there just the same. The country
crossroads continue to hold the
crime spotlight during the first half
of 1950.
The F.B.I. reported an increase of
7.4 per cent in rural crime com
pared with the same period in 1949.
In the first half of last year, rural
crime jumped 7.6 per cent
Rural murders increased 1.6 pax
cent; rape, 4.8; robbery, 3.4
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ATOMIC ELECTRICITY . . . Dr.
Robert J. Moon, University of Chi
cago, has completed a device which
converts into electricity the power
unleashed by nuclear fission. The
instrument is known as the nuclear
thermometer.
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"HOLLYWOOD 10” MEMBER TO JAIL . . . Screen writer Adrian Scott
(right) leaves United States district court in Washington, D. C., hand
cuffed to an unidentified prisoner on his way to begin serving a one-
year prison term for contempt of congress. He is the last of the "Holly
wood 10” who refused to tell the house un-American activities commit
tee whether or not they were members of the Communist party. The
other nine already have begun serving terms in prison.
SAFE ESCAPE . . . Sergeant
Ralph Kilpatrick, Phoebus, Va.,
came out of the once-held enemy
hills in Korea in good health with
a barrowing story of grimly hang
ing to life in enemy-saturated
territory and received checkup
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TALK PLANE COSTS . . . Air Force Undersecretary John MoCone
(left) tells the house armed services committee that an additional
315 to 360 million dollars win be required to offset rising prices in the
military expansion program. He was corroborated by Lt. Gen. Nathan d
Twining (right), as the committee considered the advisability of asking
Truman to invoke wage and price controls. Inflation, McCone said,
would cost the air force an amount that would pay for 750 Jet fighters.
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crime committee to go after gam
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