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SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS
of Main Street and the World
U.N. Forces Near 38th Parallel;
Johnston Wants New Parity Ruling
WHERE TO NOW. 7Grim, pipe-smoking Douglas MacArthur took
time out from directing a war in Korea and his duties as top man in
Japan to tell newsmen U.N. forces were insufficient in numbers to hold
a line at the 38th parallel. He pointed out that there are no natural de-
fense features anywhere near its immediate proximity.
The general's statement brought to the front again the question of
what happens now that the Chinese have abandoned their last great de-
fense center below the parallel and have retreated into North Korea,
Do U.N. forces advance beyond the line and continue their campaign?
The British government has insisted for weeks, as a political matter,
that the parallel was as far as U.N. forces should pursue the Rds. This
view was backed by a number of United Nations members.
In Washington the situation was put like this: If the U.N. succeeds
in smashing the next expected Communist offensive and the Reds then
continue retreating, how far north should the U.N. forces go?
Prodding, hard-working Matthew Ridgway, commander in Korea,
wanted a quick answer as his troops stood poised along the line. tf his
advance was stopped it meant a stalemate in the war and the dirty
business of preparing a defense line on unfavorable terrain. If he was
given the go-ahead signal it meant more of his slow but thorough tactics
of "operation killer."
MEAT MAKERS--A big man in s pearl-gray ten-gallon hat stiff-
ened, turned purple, and brought his polished boots from desk to flooz
with a crash: "This is the
most outlandish thing those
fools in Washington ever
thought up," he exploded.
One of 2,500 ranchers at-
tending a cattle raisers
meetg in Dallas, he was
expressing the view of fel-
low cattlemen who had Just
heard a government plan to
roll back cattle prices 10 tO
20 per cent.
That view of the govern-
meat's attempt to hold down
inflation and to regulate
prices was not confined to
his group. The automobile President Truman, vacationing at the
industry, labor, grain farm- "little White House" at the naval base
era, steel, and numerous
others c o n t i n u e d their at Key West, defended his admlnistra
screams. T h e cattlemen tion at a news conference. He said his
were just a little more color- staff was made up of honorable men.
ful.
Cattlemen said a roll-back of prices would force curtailment at
production and encourage black markets. Like farmers throughout the
nation, they argued that production costs have advanced and that in-
creased supply will regulate prices.
Said one rancher: "You can't control what the public is willing tc
pay for meat."
FOOD PRICE -Eric Johnston, the former fair-haired boy of the
movie industry, lately turned economic stabilizer for the government,
ent word to the White House he had found the way to hold down food
prices.
Smiling Eric reported that the "parity extension" provision is the
key to inability to keep food prices in line. So long as he and Michael
DISalle, the chubby price controller, cannot touch a food price until it
gets above a "parity" that moves in a rapidly ascending spiral, they
cannot control inflation.
This, Johnston said, is the heart of the problem. Unless food prices
can be held and rolled back. there will be no holding wages. And i!
wages continue to go up, industrial prices and "parity" will keep on
climbing and the economy will be torn apart.
Johnston has about as much chance of getting congress to repudiate
parity as he would of getting Iowa to stop growing corn. Nevertheless,
he recommended: (1) A change in the "parity exemption" provision el
the present law; (2) authority to use subsidies to hold prices in line;
(3) extended licensing powers; (4) adequate authority to handle labor
disputes.
THE HOT SEAT mTh hottest spot in the U.S. the past several
weeks has been the witness chair at the senate crime investigating com.
mittee's hearing in New York. Occupying that seat has been gambling
kingpin Frank Costello and handsome William O'Dwyer. former mayor
New York, now U.S. ambassador to Mexico.
The committee was trying to prove that Costello controls a gam-
bling syndicate that reaches to the Main Streets of America. As fol
0'Dwyer, the committee wanted to know if there is any cor ection be.
tween gambling and big-time politicians in New York.
The hot seat really got hot when Senator Tobey, balding and acid.
tongued member of the committee, asked O'Dwyer why such a "promi,
neat man" as he should trot to the home of Costello to ask his advice
and counsel.
O'Dwyer said he was carrying out an army assignment, adding,
"They say there's a lot of it (bookmaking) in New Hampshire."
"Well, we haven't a Costelio in New Hampshire," Tobey roared.
"I wonder," O'Dwyer retorted, adding that Tobey had sent to New
York for campaign funds.
"It's not true," Tobey shouted.
"I'm under oath," O'Dwyer
bristled. "You're not."
To which Tobey roared, "I'm
not a fourflusher."
All of which provided 15,000,000
television fans with a spectacular
show, putting soap operas to
shame. What it provided in the
way of facts concerning gambling
tnthe U.S. is anybody's guess.
POLITICS-The 1952 presi-
dential campaign was again iv
the news with a published reporl
* The realities of the Korean war that President Truman made a
are shown in the picture of two deal with General Eisenhower te
wafts, perched on a haystack, make Ike available in 1952.
calmly waiting for U.S. troops in According to the story, widely
the background to fire a heavy published throughout the U.S.. the
mortr. Ask yourself this question: President told Ike that one Harry
How would yon feel if it was acted Truman did not want to be ac-
eat in the U.S. and the wafts were cused of exiling a potential power.
American kids? ful contender for the honors ot
the White House. The general, iv
Ms usual blunt and straight-forward wa)', attempted to kill the story.
His statement said "the President has never mentioned to me any
political possibilities of 1952 whatsoever."
That should have been that, but rumors persist that Eisenhowe
will be available in 1952 to one of the major parties. As things stan
now it would appear he could win hands down.
RENT CONTROL--A {}(}-day extension of the rent control law was
passed by the house after heated debate. The measure already has been
enacted by the senate. It was sent to th'e White House where the Presi.
dent was expected to sign it without delay. It becomes effective April I
and expires June 30.
House members pushing the measure argued decontrol would inter-
fere with recruiting workers for defense production and lift limits in
defense and military districts.
CROP PROSPEC'I'S
1%1 Production May Set New Record
With a break in the weather, with a low of 78,000,000 in 1948.
American crop production in 1951 Stocks of wheat ar.d corn, raw
may set a record, but whether the material for meat and dairy pro.
ARMY RE-BUYS GI STOCK . . . Soldiers check merchandise in army
truck in Philadelphia as bales of goods are piled on sidewalk outside
a war surplus store for loading on three giant trailer trucks. The goods
were bought by the army from the store. It was hinted that the army is
buying up the stock on a rush order from Washington. This was a re-
purchase of stock sold to the store earlier by the army, and the trans-
action was very hush-hush. Goods included overshoes, cartridge belts,
garrison caps.
NEW PREMIER OF IRAN . . . Hussein Ala {hat in hand), the new
premier of lran, attends funeral of Gem All Razmara, with Razmara's
family. Hussein Ala, a strong pro-westerner, was approved unanimously
by the senate to succeed Gem AH Razmara, who was assassinated
recently.
in the Pittsburgh Pirates and Bob Hope in the Cleveland Indians,
Dorothy Lament becomes the third member of the films to Join the
ranks of bseball folks, and signs up as a scout foe the Best, n Red Sex
as General Manager Joe Crouln holds contract in Sarasota, Fla. Miss
Lamour Is on location at Sarasota and spends much of her spare time
watching the Red Sex in their spring training workouts and exercises.
Spring Offensive
F RUSSIA follows the doctrine of
the amous German war strate-
gist, Count Karl van Clausewitz, as
it has in the past, it would seem
likely that Moscow would order an
attack on Yugoslavia some time
this spring, for Clausewitz taught
that the time to make war is when
you are strongest and your poten-
tial enemy is weakest. The moment
your enemy begins gaining strength, :
according to the war theory fol-
lowed by the Germans and Russians
for the last hundred years, then it's
time to strike.
A careful, cold-blooded diagnosis
of Russian strategy in the past
shows rather definitely that they
expected the United States to fail
apart at the seams economically
after V-J day in 1946. The depres-
sion which even some American
economists expected after th war
was banked on by Moscow to start
unemployment, unrest and riots and
either bring the United States into
the Communist orbit without war
or else make military victory easie
for the Russians. Certainly the ex-
pected depression, Moscow figured,
would bring communism to Europe.
And there was a time, late in
1947, when this strategy.almost suc-
ceeded in Europe. This was when
droughts, plus a Communist-inspired
strike of Italian harvest hands, plus
French railroad a n d shipping
strikes, plus riots and general war
discouragement had certain Euro.
penn democracies near the toppling
point. It was at this crucial time
that such American aid as the
friendship trains, followed by a
special session of congress which
voted food for hungry Europeans,
followed by the Marshall plan.
broke the back of the Communist
drive to take over Europe.
Since then the pro-American
democracies in Europe have
been getting stronger while the
Communist movement is getting
weaker. M o s c o w definitely
missed the boat in those im-
mediate postwar years and now
is faced with the quandary of
whether it may miss the boat
again or whether it should cold-
bloodedly precipitate a war, for
the beginning in earnest of Eu-
ropean rearmament under Gen-
eral Eisenhower means that the
military advantage now enJoyed
by Moscow soon must pass from
its hands. Unpleasant as the
contemplation of those facts
may be, nevertheless they are
facts we have to face and no
country need contemplate them
more carefully than the one na-
tion which dared to thumb its
nose at MoscowJugoslavia.
Tit0 Knows Russian Traits
When talking privately, the man
who now bosses Jugoslavia is ex-
tremely frank about the danger of
an attack on his country this spring.
Tire also expressed the view
that, if the Russians attack, they
will drive through the British
sane of Austria, skirt one side of
Trieste, and advance down the
unguarded Dalmatian coast.
This would cut off all Adriatic
seaports and make it impossible
for the United States to send
military aid to him.
Simultaneously, Tit o predicted,
he Bulgarian army would advance
from the opposite direction to cut
off th rail line from Jugoslavia to
Salonika (Greece). He added that,
in anticipation of such an attack,
ne had established a series of hid-
den forts in the hills along the Dal-
matian coast--forts tlat are well
stockd with food and ammunition
and cbuld hold out for some time.
"I am not worried about all at.
tack by satellite armies," Tire said.
"The Hungarians, Poles and Czechs
will not fight. The Bulgarians will
fight better because they have been
promised Macedonia. However," he
DOTTLE JOINS BASEBALL RANKS . . . With Bing Crosby interested added, "if the Red army itself at-
tacks, that is something else again."
t Tire also expressed the opinion
that Moscow did not want the Ko-
peak output is the answer to spiral- ducts, are ample and without acre-
ing fo:*d prices is the big question, age restrictions. Winter whea! i RED OFFICIAL ENDS SENTENCE , o o Eugene Dennis, secretary
even for the nation's farmers. I planting is up one-sixth over lasl general of the Communist party, drives with his wife and son following
One favorable trend is the grow. [year. Indications in the midwesl Dennis' release from the federal huse of detention in New York. He
ing number of beef cattle and hogs, j corn belt point tward another i was released after serving a shortened term of one year for contempt
sources of a major item in the [ bumper planting this spring, of. ! of congress. Dennis, who was convicted with other top Reds for con-
zountry's diet. Cattle numbers re [ ficials of the department of agri. spiring to overthrow the government by force, is free on bail in the case,
now at 84,200,000 he,,d, compared t culture said in a recent report, pending a decision by the United States supreme court.
roan war to spread and actually had
tried to hold back the Chinese Lrom
taking the offensive against the
U.N. forces there. He based this
view on his own experiences with
the Kremlin; also because the Rus-
Isians had sent Jugoslav, Polish
!and other satellite nationals to work
in China in an attempt to cement
the Soviet orbit through an ex-
change of personnel. Some of these
Jugoslavs, he said, had reported
their impressions of Russo-Chinese
relations back to him.
Vigorous in his denunciation of
Russia, Tito said "We do not pro-
pose to become an appendage of
Russia." Then, to his American
friend he added, with a smile, "nor
of America, either."
Well-Trained Troops
Perhaps the most imporLant fact
about present American aid to Jugo-
slavia is that, in effect, we are buy-
ing the support of 32 Jugoslav di-
visions. This brings up the all-im-
portant questions:t are they pre-
pared and will they last longer than
the Jugoslav army in 19417
The answers are obviously dif-
ficult. Howe;cer, American military
observers recently have been per-
mitted to inspect Jugoslav troops
consider well
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