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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER i Seek Conspiracy in High Prices ; U.N.Warned oh Greek Situation; Co-op- s' Are Studied $0&aa D0RGAQD EDITORS NOTE: This Newspaper through special arrangement with the Washington Bureau of Western Newspaper Union at 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C., is able to bring readers this weekly column on problems of the veteran and serviceman and his family. Questions may be addressed to the above Bureau and they will be answered in a subsequent column. No replies can be made direct by mail, but only in the column which will appear in this newspaper regularly. Congress Stalls Vet Benefits Thousands of war veterans likely will be disappointed with the failure of congress to increase subsistence payments for both single and married veterans attending school under the G.I. bill. Congress also failed to raise the ceiling for training payments and to extend the law giving automobiles, to amputees. This column has been in receipt of many letters inquiring about the action of congress on these various measures. Although several bills varying little in objective were introduced early in the session, it was not until the last week before adjournment that any action was taken on the floor. Through the efforts of Sen. Wayne Morse (Rep., Ore.) and Sen. Spessard Holland (Dem., Fla.) and over the objection of the GOP policy committee, the senate finally passed three bills by unanimous vote. One would have increased the subsistence allowance to veterans in school, another would have raised the ceiling on training and the third would have extended the law providing for free automobiles for amputees. These bills then went to the house and died there in committee although Mrs. Edith Nourse- - Rogers (Rep., Mass.), champion of veterans rights and for many years chairman of the house committee on veterans affairs, made a determined effort to bring the bills out of committee without success. Speaker Joe Martin, Congressman Leo Allen (Rep., 111.), chairman of the rules committee, and GOP floor leader Charles Halleck (Rep., Ind.) are credited with holding up the bills, first on the GOP economy pledge and second because they maintained that President Truman in his state of. the union message last January had declared that except for minor adjustments I believe that our program of benefits for veterans is now complete. After the three bills had passed the senate without a dissenting vote it was expected that the green light had been given and that they also would pass the house. The reverse, however, was true. So despite the increased cost of living veterans must get along on their present allowances, and there will be no more free automobiles for those ampu- tees who did not get their application in before the deadline when the old law went out of existence. on-the-j- . Questions and Answers Q. I have a $10,000 national serv- . ice life insurance policy but do not know the number of it. I .made a two months' payment and have received no acknowledgment of it from Veteran s' administration. What record or proof id payment should I have received? W. A. V., Little Rock, Ark. A. Veteran s administration should have sent you a receipt of payment but, inasmuch as you didnt list a policy number on your remittance, they may not have been able to find an account to which to credit the money. Suggest you write to VA, Insurance Division at Wash-intoD. C., giving them your serial number, story, military name, address and amounts of money mailed to them. Q. What is the punishment generally given for a person who has been absent without leave from the army for 14 months in peacetime, and will they keep on looking for him? K. L., New York, N. Y. A. Peacetime absence without leave usually draws a lighter sentence than in wartime. No one could tell what .the courtmartial board would impose as a Sentence because the circumstances surrounding each case are different. It is better for an AWOL serviceman to turn himself in than to wait until he is caught. The government will continue its search until the soldier is apprehended. n, . Alaskan Indians Honored Lincoln on Totem Pole . It well may be true that .Britons never, never, never shall be slaves, as the anthem has it, but in view of Prime Minister Clement Attlees new emergency action givTax-Exem- pt ing the government stern powers over British industry and labor, Released by Western Newspaper Union. many in the islands are now harof those are are in NOTE: When these colnmns, they opinions (EDITORS expressed boring serious doubts about that. Western Newspaper Union's news analysts anP not necessarily of this newspaper.) The emergency bill, which Winston Churchill charged invoked such restraints as the government has never before imposed except in time of war, has been passed by both houses of parliament and now for better or worse is law of the land. Designed to bring Britain out of her deadly economic slump, the bill empowers the government to command labor and industry to do practically anything and everything, if it is in the national interest. Rallying cry of the British conservatives, led by Churchill, is dictatorship. ' Anthony Eden, former foreign secretary, got into the fight by asking that parliament cut short a planned vacation so the members afirae Plane builder Howard Hughes sat aloof and amid a forest can be on hand to examof chairs in a senate caucus room after the investigation of his aviation ine the measures which contracts had been abruptly and mysteriously called off. Hearings the government will or17. to resume November scheduled were der. Eden The house cannot be RED SAUCERS: CONSPIRACY: an absent spectator while the government does a split over the Soviets Curious Probe Prices abyss, said Eden, also a Those flying disks were fun while member of the Conservative party. Many Americans who have had to empty their pocketbooks to fill their they lasted, but by this time everylarders probably have entertained, body has practically forgotten INDEPENDENCE: from time to time, the theory that them. India Riots Well, almost everybody. current astronomical costs of living Latest report having to do with were a conspiracy of some sort. During the two days before fateNow Attorney General Tom Clark the aerial chinaware is that Soviet ful India became a land of free has been struck with the same idea, agents in the United States have men, more than 200 died in a bloody .been ordered to solve the mystery orgy of violence and and he is dead serious, about it rioting in the of the disks. Presupposing the re- huge northern for of Punjab. anyprovince threatening jail sentences one who can be proved to have port to be true, it means, at least, Lahore, the capital, was the cenRusthat conspired to keep prices of food, sian the saucers were not of be- -' ter of the disturbance, but fierce clothing and shelter in the strato- lieved.origin as many at first fighting also took place throughout the west and east Punjab countrysphere. Soviet espionage agents here are Wide sections of Lahore were Assuming a get tough attitude, said to been advised that the side.) aflame. the justice department ordered a Kremlin have believes the flying saucers full scale investigation to determine This took place on the eve of Inhave some connection with might bewhether there is any subterfuge dias independence day, just before on methods of hind high prices in the nation, as army experiments the Indian out radar during down to constituent assembly sat knocking function as a free governindustry spokesmen hurried to point bombing raids.enemy out that their records were unbleming body. ished and that they would welcome CO-O- P Cause of the rioting, incited, as INQUIRY: . the liprooting of any existing evils. always, by terrorists, was the bitIn the meantime, the CIO full Two Questions ter disagreement arising out of the employment commission urged that Although the public is not too well partitioning of India into two sepacongress be summoned into special informed about it, one of the most rate zones one for Hindus, the session to restore price controls and and fiercely waged do- other for Moslems. roll back prices to where they were important In New Delhi, the independence mestic post '. war battles is that when OPA expired. Congressional being fought between private busi- day ceremonial program began committees were already looking ness and with two minutes of silence for cooperative enterprises. into price increases in the East and Crux of the feud is the fact that those who died in the fight for freeMidwest. while dom which was finally achieved cooperatives are The justice departments anxiety private business is not. From this through amicable negotiations with and its proposed drive to combat evolve two basic questions: the British. 1. What effect does monopolists was one of the strongest indications yet that the governhave upon growth ,of Meet ment is gravely concerned with the the cooperatives? infla2. Is possibilities of uncontrollable a factor tion in the nation. of discrimination against private business? MORE TROUBLE: A house small business subcommittee has begup an attempt to find UN Warned the answers with an investigation The United States has put one of the cooperative community enmore iron in the international fire terprise at Greenbelt, Md. In the as a result of the red-hBalkan Greenbelt case, business groups situation. have charged that the government In a bluntly worded ultimatum, has aided the cooperative in keepthe U. S. told the United Nations ing private business out of the desecurity council that it would take velopment area. This hearing, as well as others on the west coast, is being conducted MAY SEND TROOPS by Rep. B. Walter Riehlman (Rep., U. S. state and war depart-- ' N. Y.) as acting chairman of the ments have been reviewing subcommittee. the possibility that American In'view Of the theory that taxes troops ultimately may have to will remain high, compared with ofbe sent to Greece, although the past, for at least 50 years, acficials do not believe such a to economists, the cording move is necessary at the presexistfeature of ent. ence will grow increasingly imporThis is Sheikh Witant. lliam Edward Abdur Rahman direct action to defend Greece from Luts of Oakland, Calif., a marine Communist domination if the coun- DOUBLE TALK: who says he has been veteran, cil and general assembly are unn the Moslem Grand appointed able to do the job. 11 of Mufti Western States. He beIndications at the outset were That development followed a to Islam in 1943. a convert came that . the deadlock brought about twq, weeks previously when Russia vetoed an conference at Rio de Janeiro, offiAmerican plan to have a U. N. cially called for the purpose of TRUE SUB: commission keep order along the working out a permanent mutual 17. S. S. Odax defense treaty among American renorthern frontier of t Greece. Mofct nearly approaching the sciAnd it came on the heels of a re- publics, might find itself more, concerned with economic aid discus- entific conception of a true submasubcomport that a seven-natio- n rine is the U.S.S. Odax, a World mittee had been unsuccessful in sions. U. S. policy, as guided by Secre- War II submersible upon which finding a way to resolve the staletary of State Marshall, will attempt much work has been done since the mated Russian and U. S. stands. Delivered to the security council to hold down to a minimum any wars end to make it almost ideally by Herschel V. Johnson, deputy Latin American hopes for United streamlined. States loans. The North American U. S. delegate, the warning said: Despite their amazingly versatile delegation was expected, instead, performances, submarines have al"The continued failure of the to stress the fact that U. S. capital been viewed b$ engineers priways security council to take effecinvestments in South America are as surface craft able tc tive action in this case because more available and healthier than marily but compelled to operate submerge of the Soviet veto cannot, in the outright loans. most of the time on the surface. of U. 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