| Show Round Merry Army Eyes Plan j For Europe Foreign Legion Bj By Drew Pearson v WASHINGTON The army anny is toying with wih the idea of organizing an American j foreign legion in western Europe Europe- Europe 01 com J OIn posed of refugee Europeans equipped w with 1 American arms anns and taking their order order from the U. U S. S army This was revealed by Secretary of the thi Army Kenneth Royall Royal to a group roup of ot COngressmen con COn- cont gressmen just back from Europe The con co- co J gressmen reported that several young t tin in western particularly Europe Europe particularly refugee Poles Poles had had approached them about joining the American army and h had d declared they would rather serve the United States than than- their own governments go Royall countered with the idea of or tak 1 ing these men not into the U. U S S. S army proper but into an American foreign legion The congressmen also suggested to Royall that he could improve American troop morale overseas by paying G G. G Is La In dollars rather than foreign currency The G. G Is 18 are getting clipped the said because their pay is worth only j fraction on the black market of what they jl get at the official exchange rate j Upset Near in Kansas President Kansas President Tru Truman man was told last week that his failure to speak in Kansas during the campaign c coil coif l him that states state's eight electoral votes j 1 If had made two you speeches in ay- ay state you would have carried it declared Carl Rice Democratic national committee committeeman man from Kansas As it was we cut thi Republican majority to less than votes and their majority was against Roosevelt in 1944 19 In my own home county Wyandotte county Wyandotte we we elected every Democrat on the ticket from top to bottom concluded Rice Truman admitted he had been fooled by the Kansas outcome y I III didn't realize how close it would bethere br bt there but the way my schedule was a arr aj ranged it was impossible for tor me to make male any speeches in Kansas he explained However the president said he would try to make amends by doing his best to speak at the big Democratic Washington day dinner in Topeka in February Steel Argument A A hot backstage feud is going on between the commerce and in fn in- in tenor departments over steel controls 1 The commerce department which leans leani ean toward business believes that Voluntary controls are adequate that the steel Industry industry Indus Indus- try can be trusted to ration out steel when it is needed It takes this view despite tl the fact fac- that the steel industry recently refused steel to the government itself for tor the Oak Ridge atomic plant The interior department on the other other hand argues that even mandatory controls arent aren't reaching far-reaching enough that the govern m government ment must go still farther and force the thi steel industry to expand production Both sides argued their case face to f fe 1 recently before Budget Director Jm Jana Webb No decision was reached Insurance Probe Probe Probe-In In addition to Co Con Cert Congressman gressman Cellars Cellar's demand for a probe of insurance companies Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy an marine ex-marine is getting even more vigorous in his campaign against against I insurance companies for not giving better better protection to widows and orphans of seri icemen All ins insurance rance companies write special war-casualty war exemptions into their policies regarding servicemen but Mcarth Mcarthy has hai hll become especially indignant at Acacia Mu Mutual u. u as a result of correspondence over o Ma bits Robert Fraser widow of a marine pilot When he wrote the directors of Acad Acacia asking payment for Mrs Fraser he got the thc following reply Director Harry Blake Washington D D. C. C scribbled on the bottom of letter This letter does not deserve an an answer 11 It should be thrown into a waste waste- basket I have known kno the president ol of of Acacia for over 50 years Have been on the board of directors for 20 years and served on the executive committee for many years year I have nothing but contempt for a cheap politician who will stoop to using his high position in the public service in such a in Vin Vindictive way lay as you McCarthy Fires Back Burnt Back Burnt up thi senator dictated a final abrupt letter to tot Acacia directors i While several of your members Ind l indi-l cate their surprise that a senator can Wt time off to interest himself in what they then apparently feel to be an unimportant matter matter mat mat- matter ter wrote McCarthy I am sure that you yogi will realize that there is nothing r remarkable re remarkable or unusual in wanting to be o orvice of service to the families of those with whoa whom we served While I knew Major Fraser well when we were both serving in the marine corps corps' his widow and children are not constituents constituent of oC mine and I do not represent th them m pro I am interested in this c casi case primarily because to me it represents a typical cal example of the attitude on the part o of your company toward the families of de deceased deg ce ceased ed servicemen who were of yours de J |
