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Show Maa5gUH6 Truman Asks More Defense Funds; Members of Fourth Estate U. S. Atom Control Plan Approved -- By By BAUKIIAGE Bill Schoentgcn, WNU New i Anal rtf and Commentator. n calm which has In this WASHINGTON. settled over the domestic political scene, many a vest, shirt, blouse, or slip in the capital conceals a palpitating heart. What about my government Job after the glad (?) New Year? post-electio- g e y d n, white-pillare- air-tig- well-know- spot-chec- - :::: 71 i-- r : : ' WALLACE: On to '52 Henry Wallace, the incorrigibly Incorrect visionary, who stumped the political expert by getting his Progressive party on the ballot of 43 atates, now is working hard to 1952 keep his party alive for the campaign. In a speech in Detroit he criticized doubtera who argue that altiough a new party is needed, it shouldn't be formed until 1949. WHILE Wallaie didnt name any names he obviously was referring to the United Auto Workers, headed by Walter Reuthr, who had announced plans to farm a "genuine third party of prtgressive-minde- d DEFENSE: people after the election. The UAW leadership had conRig Budftet World tension had slacked off demned the Wallace third party as movement Communist-inspireslightly, but according to President a Trumans estimate on next years and supported President Truman defense budget the U. S. doesnt in- for IN THE waning days of the camtend to relax its vigilance on that paign Wallace was appealing to his account. THE MILITARY budget for 1949 followers to stick with him after November 2. 1 hope you are with will be a neat 14.4 billion dollars that is, if Mr. Truman's current re- us all the way after November 2, quest doesnt get trimmed. It rep- he told one audience, putting heavy resents an outlay about two billion emphasis on the word after. Youve got to drive it home to dollars higher than the figure at e of the UAW, and which defense spending is running the all labor: Where do Ve go after now. (It doesnt make any difference November 2? But wherever they were going, whether President Truman won or lost the election. He still was re- it didn't look like Wallace would quired to prepare budget estimates be in a position to do much guiding. for the congress convening next Last May, George Polk, CBS correspondent, waa taken out on Salonika bay In a boat where be was blindfolded, bound hand and foot and shot through the bead. Communists. Ilia murderers: Their motive: Simply to produce a murder, the blame for which might be pinned on the rightist Greek government In order to defame it abroad. Gregory Stakto-poulo- s. Communist Salonika newspaperman, confessed he had witnessed the slaying and implicated three other Greek Communists. k n d rank-and-fil- January.) The President said that his defense officials had wanted a budget of around 23 billion dollars for the fiscal year starting July 1, but that he had cut them back to the 14.4 billion figure. WITH RARE candor he admitted that it would take a Croesus to maintain spending as many billions as the officials wanted. His own aim, Mr. Truman said, was to get a military program the country could pay for. He added that he hoped eventually to reduce military expenditures to about five to seven billion dollars a remarkably optimistic statement, coming as it did before the election when he was conceded virtually no chance of being able to control any kind of governmental spending after the first of the year. ATOM PLANE: Seven Years? Look up into the sky in about seven years and you might see an airplane scudding across the clouds. Scientists now think there is a good chance that nuclear-propelleaircraft will be in production by that time. AN OAK RIDGE scientist, David s M. Poole, startled the public with the announcement that the theory of an n airplane has been worked out to completion and is ready to be translated by engineers into actual plans for such a plane. The nuclear scientists have thought out a way to tap the power of a mobile atomic pile, Poole said. The problems ahead are to devise the engine, fuselage and controls and to build a shield to protect the plane's crew. Poole disclosed that the scientists have made up their minds how to make the best use of the power whose source is the heat generated in an atomic pile. What kind of engine will be used to chain the tremendous power concentrated in the uranium fuel? The rocket-thrus- t motor was tried and abandoned, said Poole. Steam turbine. turbo-je- t and ram jet al were crossed off. THE POWER unit will be a nuclear rocket. Just what a nuclear rocket might be is information. All anyone can even guess at at this point is that it probably involves a new principle of atomic-powere- d d atom-drive- top-secr- appli-catio- n of power. reconciled with one another, and if this nation has the capacity to fill the military' estimated wartime needs. All this doesnt mean that war is necessarily around the corner Comprehensive analyses of the strategic blueprint are routine steps in U. S mobilization planning. However the spot-chec- Coining Event fpnin ii. , awns 5, , vs' i v 'X s , e. is in line with the taster military tempo these days , JTr4 ki All the way through the now historical election campaign one thing was sure: Somebody would get to be President. On that theory work was begun last month on stands in front of the Capitol building in Washington which will be used for the inauguration cerele mony next January. This view was taken from the Capitol dome. odd-ang- JAPAN: On the Spot Lieut. Gen. Robert L. Eichel-bergeformer military governor of occupied Japan, admitted he might have made a mistake in not leaving the Japanese a few guns for their own protection. IT BOILS down as most international difficulties do these days to a matter of Communism and Communist influences inside the country. As a matter of fact, said Eichel berger. Communist pressure in Japan and the Far East in general may force the U. S. to carry oul a limited rearmament of the Japanese. believe I went too far in dishe said. arming the Japanese, They need a few machine guns and rifles to protect themselves against internal disturbances. IF AND when the Americar army withdraws, the Japanese wil have to be given something with which to defend themselves a strong police force or a small army." Communist Influence in Japan, h said, is about the same as it is here. They are a nuisance beyond their numerical strength. But its always the wrong guy that gets th I ANOTHER GONE: Nazi General Man About Totvn: Lady Aitora son and dancing stai Katherine Dunham hav Londonen behind tha backs oi their bandsl . . . Ambassador U Egypt Stanton Griffis' son, Nixon, and Martha Hughes (the New Ca naan sculptor) are now Renotables. . . . Emily Hahn, the beautiful novelist, rushed from England so that the new image (duo any will be a Yankee Doodler. Tb blessed event arrives at Georgetown Unlv. Itosp. . , . The Rex Harrisons want friends to know they are more In love than anybody. Ed die Cantors dghtr, Marilyn, and socialite thrush Hugh Shannon ol Le Ferroquet are on key. Do the Marcus (novelist) Goodrlchei (Olivia DeHaviland) know that his Helens been a secret bride allies Aug? She's Mrs. II. McEldowney ol Pittsburgh's Lorgnette Set . . . The Freddy Bartholomews should count ten hundred. . . . Bill Eythe, star ot Lend an Ear (due soon), and Nancy Kelly are closer than Truman and Oblivion. duck-cluckin- g split-secon- ... ... Fret. Trnman'ii sdvlseri are begging him to ate hie title of Commander-In-Chie- f and reverse the clemency decision on I 'VOU l 7 L, in. press wanon. Patters 1 Is Ur uS tweifled a J full sue patUm,Ir9riv, tlons nd numbernt tak. all ; oialerial C(n k. unjher vard. Jo i vi He. N. Y. 1. cheerfufaT A the news that your rv budget can be made h . wonders with lim, fort Just write douej of friends who smoke fcr a neighborhood dealq c well stocked with rj flavorful Camel r, and pound tins of mV V ready-dresse- can The International Airport Show and the Golden Jubilee Exposition in New York City may cost the city a million bux, so anemic were . . . New Canaan edithe tors are checking the tip that the wealthy P. Hanson Hisses will be news. He's cousin to Alger Hiss, who isn't going steady anymore with the Spy Probers. . . Scott Brady of the films and Shirley Ballard are Counting Stars. . . . Eve Orten is Richard Ney's new insomnia. . . . Arthur T. Robb and Newsweek got unmarried. He was in its Press section. Do the ship lines deny advising against foreign travel after Jan. 1st? box-office- d even dispense with fci fussing with cards, djj novel space provided fe sonalized seasons the wrappings of bethpee' itea budget will Ike these t gifts. And your friends n tain to welcome Camels and Prince holdji Alberti' ... OVERSEAS TICKER : Gets. Clay end French Commander Koenig are et war on bow Allied Germany should be run. . , . Molotov it expected to make a last moment Barrymore entrance at the UN. . . . Arms are being smuggled into Egypt in defiance of the UN truce. Everyone just winks. . . Ellen Adler, beautiful dghtr of ectress Stella Adler, and playwright lean Paul Sartre are a duetcetera in Paree. . , . Violinists in Paris swank spots (such as the Lido) get $2.7 f per night in U. S. money. ...The Duke of Windsor may return to England solo to seek an official job. (Wot could e doooo?). . . , Field Marshal von Rundstet of Hitler's army, allegedly in t prisoner of war camp in Wales, spends most of his time touring London night spots with British top brass. When the colyiun reported that Francos Govt sent Japan congratulations after the attack on Pearl Harbor that fact was questioned by some readers and listeners. Some iditorialists echoed the denial. . . . This is a canard which cannot be said one. . . . Veriwell. proven! See page 114 of the book, Complacent Dictator. The publisher Is Knopf. . . , The author is Viscount who was Britains Templewood, wartime ambassador. . . . Page 114 lays in part: "Serrano Suner was is wrong about the results of Pearl Harbor as the Japanese Minister. He also seemed to think that it was a iecisive victory for the Axis. In any :ase, he ordered the staff of his Min-str- y to leave cards of congratulation at the Japanese Legation the day following the outrage., Jim Farley was recently quoted from Madrid as saying: Yes, Ive heard such things g always by the press! . . . Leftwing or lefthook? NATURE'S REMEDY LETS A purely egeu relieve constipation wi griping, sickening, pel lions, and doer not cat NR you will ee the coated or candy coatei is dependable, thouyl millions of NR'mnve 2 Sc box and use at FUSSY STOMACH! RELIEF FOR ACID indigestiohAjjj, GAS AND HEART3URN The Ads Gi Your Shoi Bswgh Frcsa Ccn That 13 Creomultion relit it goes right to tl to help loosen st phlegm and aid I heal raw, tender, mucous membrani to sell you a bo with the -- J the way left-win- Broadway Stardust: Critic George lean Nathan (famous for walking ut on new shows) rejected an to occupy a colleagues seat closer to the stage. . . . 1 lislike leaving my seat empty, he laid. Its unfair to the manage xient. . . . Whipping up a best-idledoesn't always mean you'll ing the bells on the Hollywood cash egisters. Variety reveals the top lve fiction aces have been ignored y the movies. Yet they are always wailing about the scarcity of expert rtories. . . . Prof. Cugats rhumbas znd sambas are graaaand, but this 'an wishes hed leave the jokes to be experts. ex-ir- a r This metropolis (New York) Is composed not merely of stone and steel: It also contains 285 farms! By cracky, there Is even a farm in Manhattan at 214tb street, flows crops, Elmer? I haPPy and vehip his Interest if build one of Prince Albert SmoLcj i the National Joy Saofc gifts come ful Christmas contain Nazi butcher Use Koch and ethers freed by Gen. Clsy. . . . Condemnation letters to the President (over this Judicial farce) now crowd most of the White House mailboxes. Mayor LaGuardias nephew, Rich-tr- d Gluck, is now in a Berlin court fight over who adopts him. - I- pistols. Mobilization Plans Experts Ei Staff Writer- - wa top-ran- k E up-ata- rt George Polk CEASE FIRE: Land Almost before anyone knew what happening fierce fighting beThe regular claailfled civil servants haven't much to fear. They tween Israeli and Egyptian force can't be fired without cause, and no matter bow thorough a new adminhad flared into bloom in the Negev, istration's housecleaning may be, most of the furniture lands right back aouthern Palestine deaert area. ISRAELI government apokeamen where It was before, although here and there, you may at first fail to said the purpose of the Israeli atrecognize an old friend in a new slipcover. tack was to smash open the road to Long ago most 100 per cent New " Jewish settlements in the Negev. Dealers in high placet displayed the be the public relations secretary Blocked transportation lines had wisdom which in the White House. The other waa prevented the Jews from running they felt was the a man who probably wont be in supply convoys to isolated settle1 better part of Waahington at all Dewey veteran ments in the district valor and va political adviser, Edwin Jaeckle. . . .. But Dr. Ralph Bunche, acting t mooted. Others Palestine mediator for the U. N., There wa no conflict between the assumed new col two, a rare situation indeed. Jaeckle f in hia report to the security counors. Some who supplemented Hagerty. cil. told a different story. Blame had not been too for the eruption of fighting in the This would seem to contradict the careful previousNegev, he said, was not a "question sharp charges of Warren Moscow, of black and white. ly to keep the author of Politics in the Empire EACH side has soiled its hands right hand from Slate which came out thia fall. In the grim business of trying to knowing what the Moscow, one of New York City win a war through the instrumentalleft hand was dopolitical reporter!, who ing gradually be- also covered Albany, claims that ity of forced truce, was his version of the conflict gan to grow am Dewey shut down news sources durBy the time the battle had pro bidextrous and ing his governorship in an attempt ceeded savagely for six days the soon were able to to thwait any criticism. That he harassed U. N. security council t ad write the lesson even trie! to lay down a pres conhad enough. It commanded both on the blackboard without exposing ference rule that a question was Arabs and Jews to issue immedifinger. the wedding-rinthus covering up off the lecord. orders. ate cease-firThere is however one class of the fact tiat an answer bad been Earlier. Bunche had attempted .o permanent Washingtonians which given not to be made public or had three-datruce in the goes on like the brook. But even been refused. Moscow asserts that promote a fighting, with each side holding the individuals in this class may find Dewey wan'ed to be the oracle, the position it then was occupying. The the nature of their daily tasks dif- one and on'y, the sole source of fell through, however, when effort administrations as be slightly should fering what reported. Israel to the rejected the proposal. of I course, refer, If that was true earlier in Dewey's change. EVEN as the security council actFouith Estate which now Includes career, the dapper New Yorker ed the fighting was spreading from commentators (since radio news- who ha been widely-touteof late the Negev to other fronts In the are as men as well newspapermen for being able to take advice and Holy Land along the Jerusalem-Te- l eligible to the National Press club), for being able to pick people who Aviv highway, where Transthus establishing at least a mini- know how to advise, has had some forces were grouped, and jordan mum standard of merit. good advice. If he should revert to northeast of Tel Aviv in areas held Moscow as describes, such methods Naturally we who cover the by other Arab forces. two things would happen: first, he While House always wonder Results of Jhe security council orwould fail he would second, suffer; we are what manner of man der, at the outset, at least, were of effects the In his and attempt, going to have to handle. While disappointing. Each side tried to the effort might be permanently a new incumbent is learning shift the blame to the other; neither disastrous. the art of getting his name appeared willing to hold the battle. favorably inserted into a WashSome presidents have tried to Palestine truce observers Inington dispatch or broadcast we conduct government by disformed the United Nations that the have a chance to learn the care Israeli forces generally appeared to turbing the checks and baland feeding of the source of be the attackers In the new fighting ances. It never works long pews which feeds the news to that had developed outside the and the freedom of the press us. is one of the checks a prinaouthern front in the Negev. Once Dewey had a bad reputaciple that is part and parcel CONTROL PLAN: most of the American concept of tion in this regard. candidates are suspect before they government. For Atoms start, since it is taken for granted A notible 'txwrft of how the How to establish effective, work. that they all are subject to the dis- very weight of the news, legitimate able control of atomic energy on an affects ease of prfsidentitis which news, breaks through any wall, was international scale Is one of the victims differently. the case of the financial conference rocks upon which the U.N. has alCoolidge, for instance, was percalled by President Hoover just bemost foundered more than once, haps least afflicted with this malady fore the end of his regime 1931, to but the situation began to look a that attacks the strongest individ- be exact. Hoover had no intention shade or two brighter when the d ual when he walks under the whatever of deceiving the public. United Nations suddenly steeled its portico of 1600 PennsylHe simply didnt understand that resistance to almost impossible Rusvania avenue to stay for at least couldnt have a gathering like sian demands on the Issue. four years. And Coolidge was about you OVER the objections of the Soviet that without making an adequate as rich in front page material of of some kind. At any bloc, the U.N. political committee explanation his own making as the clam he rate just a bare announcement wa' overwhelmingly endorsed the westsought to emulate. ern plan for atomic control as a issued. I remember a remark William necessary basis for eventual elimiIs Press Free Hard, now an editor of Readers nation of atomic weapons. Check Best Digest, once made to me: The conflict which has kept the House The next day at the White "Cal never seemed to suffer from atomic control problem deadlocked (Hard invented the news conference, Hoover said he presidentitis for so long is simply this: on the comment would not he is the only meeting word, I believe) The U. S. and the West insist that occupant of the White House I know (though the notice had appeared an system of international of who, when he lay down to take in the papers), and that he considcontrol and inspection must be esto not of the press his daily siesta, didnt think when ered it the duty tablished before the U. S. would he awoke that the world had gone print anything which was only parfeel safe in destroying its atomic or else to pieces. true, incomplete. tially weapons. York New the Richard Oulihan of No newsman, except toward The resolution which the political Times, one of the most bethe last, could complain about committee adopted is generally in loved and respected correspondents Franklin Roosevelts news conline with the American policy. The who ever covered Washington, and of ferences. what Regardless plenary session of the general asan outstanding leader, made a typone might think of his views, sembly was expected to give it a ically dignified, but very emphatic his news was always printable. routine final approval. protest then and there. He said it It will be hard to produce an Peculiarly enough, this was the was out of the question to ask the other such. first time since Bernard Baruch to a not as get complete reporters presented the American plan to the The heavy majority of those who story as they could. It was pointed atomic energy commisison in June, traveled with Dewey on his cam- out by another reporter 1946, that all of the United Nations paign trips had nothing but praise. that the press would have to have had a chance to vote on it. PreviBut a few of those who had ex- the story, and the reporters would ously atomic energy was discussed his press conferences, have to get it, regardless of the perienced in the security council and the only and had enjoyed or otherwise his Presidents wishes. atomic energy commission. press relations in earlier days were The President refused at first, but SHORTLY prior to the U.N. accynical. the reporters insisted. Finally he tion the U. S. had demanded that until the agreed to give out an official stateWait, they said, the world group turn the deadlocked honeymoon is over. ment after the conference. problem over to the five great powI found it hard to get concrete ers and Canada for direct negotiaI have known other examples predictions. I myself had seen a tions. of short-live- d rules. One gag vast improvement in Deweys press At that time Warren R. Austin, which Secretary of the Treasrelations over the years since his to estabchief U. S. delegate, had told the tried Morgenthau ury first campaign. And I see no realish on the treasury. He issued political committee that son why a person can't and doesnt the U.N. could go no further in its an order that none of the treaslearn. efforts to control the atom until the ury officials could talk with On the train, whenever he could Soviet union agreed to participate newsmen. He might as well (and that is the way most of the in the world community on a cohave told reporters not to read described it correspondents operative basis. the market quotations. It failed. not could, would), Dewey HOW much good the U.N. vote of news continued to be Legitimate went into the press car attached approval would do as long as the as it always had been. reported to his train, chatted individually Russians continued to object was a Franklin Roosevelt had, at one with the fellows, learned to connect that remained hanging fire. question names with new faces, answered time, at least 80 per cent of the It was conceded generally that, him. He questions, and at least appeared to newspapers "against regardless of how much satisfaction be frank and free with his off the knew he couldn't change their edithe western nations might achieve remarks concerning Re- torial views by giving out news to by thus overruling and snubbing record their representatives. He also knew Moscow, the paramount problem publican doubts and fears, real, imthat if he tried to withhold news, He or assumed. sometimes that of preserving the peace probagined, took time for a game of chess the American people would be far ably had not been moved very far less likely to support him. And bewith the boys. along the road to a solution. cause he understood the meaning There was, however, much of the freedom of the press, he DEFENSE SURVEY less informality in the atmoswouldn't have thought of trying. phere of his entourage than he knew how to make it appear And there was in Truman's. The as favorable as possible. Eye U. S. so smoothmoved affair Dewey The most effective check in a two or would ly that a creak Top military planners are rushing democracy is not the first, second of work to complete a have been welcome. Like the or third, but the fourth estate. An States mobilization United farmer in the poem so even requireunenlightened public conceivably ments by November 15. ran his course of life the neighmight elect a totally bad president The check will disclose whether bors thought it odd. a and totally bad congress which the United States over all strategic a would establish who made suman bad one was totally There defense plan makes sense and preme court, but unless the press is ress relations on the Dewey cam-gwhether it can be applied readily. In a the public democracy train a joy well, two men. gagged, Mobilization experts intend to find cannot be trained democratically was Jim Hagerty, t out if the requirements listed by the to who is expected rmyL navy and air force can be n Russia continue not only to hav great and grievoua trouble with United State and difference membei opinion with moat of tha countries of the United Nation, but her political rift with tha satellite also is growing worse stead of better. THE TROUBLE originally began within tha framework of the Comln-for(Communist Information Bureau), the master organization through which Russia control her satellites, when Marshall Tito said his nation would not bow to the Com Inform edict ordering Yugoslavia to maka Itself a precise modal of Soviet Russia in all political and economic aspects. And in recent week the heresy of Tito and the central committee of the Yugoslav Communist party has become more absolute and more determined than ever. THAT holda true despite the fact that Yugoslav Foreign Minister Edward Kardel haa been displaying firm adherence to the position of the Russian bloc in tha United Nation general assembly arguments. U. 1. Says Cease Fire in Palestine; U. S. Presidents Respect But-the- SQUABBLE: Yugoslavia WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS 1 Former German Field Marsha Walther von Brauchitsch died in th British military hospital at Ham burg. Germany, where he was un The word bank originated from der guard awaiting trial as a majoi Ihe Italian word, banca, meaning war criminal. The British army's announcemen Dench. In Venice banking waa carof the death did not state the cause ried on in the market place. Von Brauchitsch. who was 67 ant In 1787 the motto, Mind your had been ill for some time, wai scheduled to come up for trial iz uslneaa," was imprinted on coin, franklin get credit for that Hamburg In January. Also Do Help femaU turbanoes nervous, In try Lydia relieve u Tablets art build up r I |