Janesville Daily Gazette from Janesville, Wisconsin • Page 9

JANESVILLE. WIS. JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1954 PAGE NINE. WASHINGTON CALLING Tension Between Italian Regime and U.S. Grows, With Ambassador Luce Constant Target of Reds By MARQUIS CIIILDS U.

S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, almost from the first day of her arrival here a year ago, has been the target of the Communist apparatus with its numerous and skillful propaganda organs. It has been a merciless, unrelenting attack carried on in wall posters, distorting and maligning everything that she has said and done. Palmiro Togliatti, Moscow-trained boss of the Communist party, said on the floor of the parliament that she had the "evil eye," putting a curse on everything ahe came near. Disagreeable as it is from day to day and week to week, the Communist drumfire can be donscount- ed and maybe even ignored.

But the subtle undercover opposition of the industrialists is something else again. It is part of the dubious political balance on which the government of Prime Minister Mario: Scelba is uncertainly poised. Ambassador Luce tells the government and the industrialists that she cannot approve placing contracts in pilaris where the unions have a Communist majority. She must try to place the work in factories dominated by non- Communist unions. In some' categories of work that is difficult or Impossible.

But, even so, Mrs. Luce out that she could never defend before a committee of Congress the awarding of a contract for military work in which Communist shop stewards have so much authority, with access to all information. The industrialists reply that most Communist workers are not real Communists, anyway. Furthermore, they argue that the effort to exclude big plants with Communist unions is bound to create more unemployment, and unemployment makes real Communists. Ambasador Luce also is trying to persuade the Scelba government to enforce another provision of the offshore aid act, which provides that the benefits of American spending be shared as widely as possible through every segment of the economy.

Unfortunately, very few specific conditions were laid down in connection with the spending of the nearly three and a half billion dollars in aid. As a result it was almost literally true that the rich got richer and if the poor didn't get poorer at least their position was little improved. Since the rich have up until now paid almost no taxes it has meant the persistence of the basic injustice of a more or less feudal system in the midst of an advanced technology. It goes without saying that this has meant a sent opportunity for the Communists. Italy, whereas the conflicts in France that have now come to the surface apparently were never reported to Washington.

The ambassador's remarks, as printed in garbled form here, have also increased the tension between the embassy and the government. There is even a growing tendency to blame America America is blamed for Italy's communism. Former Premier Alcide De Gasperl, who is considered the real power behind the present government, recently suggested in an article that the "climate of the Roosevelt administration" at the end of the war made it possible for Communists to gain power in Italy under American occupying authorities. Some of these things Mrs. Luce said privately when she visited America in January.

What she was trying to do was to alert people back home to the dangers here. Some of her critics have said that this was not the function of ani ambassador. But it did bring an awareness of the situation in Others' go further and accuse Americans of deliberately putting Communists in important offices This charge is made against Allen Dulles, now head of CIA and the wartime director of OSS in Switzerland, who is accused of having made a deal with the Germans under which in most of Italy Communists active in the resistance movement were given offices from which they have never been dis lodged. This may be merely a symptom of the need to find a scapegoat for so much that is wrong. Undeniably, the balance is delicate.

If it is upset from either the extreme left or the extreme right, this ancient land that has suffered so much will be in for more serious trouble. Decentralizing Is Under Study By ROBERT H. JOHNSON JR. DALLAS is the guinea pig in a study that may help a merchant in Cleveland or Phoenix decide whether to put four more floors on his downtown building or to set up shop on the outskirts of town. If you're just thinking ebout getting started in business for yourself, maybe it will help you to cide whether to rent space on main street or find a spot in the suburbs.

That's what the U. S. Census Bureau hopes will Ibe ithe value of the most intensive retail business survey it has ever made dn a single metropolitan area. The survey was started last Jan. 12 under the direction of Henry Wulff of Washington, chief of the Census Bureau's retail trade section.

From time time he has come here to work on it with James W. Stroud, regional supervisor of the bureau. Wulff said he expects the results to be published between late June and midsummer. He expects the field work to be completed within a week. The main object of the survey is to study an apparent trend toward decentralization of retail business find out what businesses are most affected and why.

Wulff said it's even possible the survey will show the trend has reversed itself that downtown business centers are becoming more entrenched. Stassen Stymied in Urging Moderate Peaceful Trade With Iron Curtain Areas By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN ship 'em good Wisconsin take our pay in manganese." This poem was written at the press table in the Senate caucus room and it is a pity, I think, that our serious-minded mutual assistance director, Harold Stassen, didn't see it. It said in a good many less words what he was trying to tell the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about our new program of reviving trade with Russia. Poor Harold.

He sat there in his black suit and he talked long and earnestly about the administration's decision to allow our merchants (merchants of peace, he called them) to sell stufMo the Communists. Most of the senators took a dim view of the idea Here we've been trying to chop off trade with Russia, they said and we've succeeded so well that the Kremlin is having trouble keeping '5ts folks in line. "Now in the face of that," said Sen. Homer Ferguson "we plan to send them more consumer goods to relieve their troubles." Why Not Try for Peace? The big, balding Stassen sighed I and said lhat wasn't exactly what' the administration had in mind. He said if we expected Russia to start another war in the next pie years, then of course we'd wise to try to strangle her economically.

But why not, he asked, work for peace? Why not let world trade begin to function little more normally? Why not give those Russians a taste of the good things in life, so long as they are willing to pay? Perhaps, said he, there never will be a war. Perhaps those Russians will learn to get along with us. And certainly, said he, some trade through the Iron Curtain ds going to give them a better idea about us. The senators, with the exception of Chairman Alexander Wiley weren't having any. Republican and Democrat alike criticized the idea.

For once, however, Stassen wasn't asking them for anything. He was telling 'em. The decision already has been 4-H ACTIVITIES made for the free world to sell peacetime goods to the Russians and Stassen merely was reporting to perhaps the most influential committee in Congress. He said we and our allies would draw up a new and much list of war goods we wouldn't sell the Reds. Anything left off of it would be sold to them, if they cared to buy.

Stassen said tractors were a good example. Big ones suitable for war would remain verboten. But if the Russians wanted to buy a few thousand small ones for farm use, we'd be pleased to sell. One of the senators wondered what about machine tools. Simple ones like lathes and drills they can buy, said Stassen, but Wg presses and mammoth forges 'they can't have.

The trouble with this deal, said Ferguson, was that was made a month or so ago at a meeting between France, England, and the United States. Since then, he said, the Communists have ed their big drive in Indochina. This indicated to him that no revival of trade would cause them to be more peaceful. Could be Changed Stassen said that if the freer trade decision didn't bring results, it could be changed in a hurry. In any event, we're going to be selling some surplus butter to those Russians soon, if they'll pay the price.

Our allies will be shipping them other items totaling perhaps a billion dollars worth a year. The Russians will pay for this either with gold, or with such items a manganese and chrome. This, said Stassen, would leave us still in the driver's seat, economically speaking, and he did believe it would be'worth a try. Some of those senators walked out shaking their heads. I wouldn't know, myself, who's right on this, but I expect we'll soon be hearing more, a great deal more, about Iron Curtain deals.

Rock township 4-H meeting has been postponed to Monday, April 19, when safety contest talks wall be given and a square dance held. The John Crrbben and David Johnson families are on the committee for the meeting. HIT N' RUN "WHAT'SA WITH THOSE GUYS CAN'T THEY WAIT UNTIL WE'RE OFF THE GREEN which four were cleared and one of the two auto thefts was cleared by an arrest. Two bad check cases also were cleared. Sending 95 to court, police obtained convictions in 86 cases, had two found not guilty and seven cases pending at the end of the month.

In traffic cases, 56 were sent to court with 52 found guilty, one not guilty and three cases pending at the end of the month. There were 62 traffic accidents investigated during March, a normal figure for that month, according to past records. Taken into custody were 13 juveniles for burglary, larceny, traffic and license violations, shooting in city, illegal dumping of rubbish and running way from home. Building Report Set foi April 21 Reports of the building and finance committees relating to construction of the new Rock County courthouse will come before the County Board as a special order of business Wednesday morningj April 21, it was planned today. Announcements of the spring board meeting, including an agenda of probable business, are being sent out this week to supervisors.

The board meets at 10 a.m. Tuesday of next week, April 20, and probably will adjourn 'after a morning session for election of a chairman, vice-chairman and highway and welfare committees. The welfare committee, formerly elected at fall sessions, will be termed a county welfare board hereafter under a new ordinance, and will be elected at spring sessions. The new chairman will appoint members of 17 other standing committees. Among matters for the spring meeting are a final report and recommendations of a countywide industrial and population dispersal committee, formed to consider problems of civil defense; and the annual report of the county highway department.

infantry and artillery training at Ft. Benning, and Ft. Sill, Okla. NO COP IN SIGHT OAKLYN, N. J.

UB Someone broke into the South Jersey Suburban Police Association training barracks yesterday and walked off with $135 in cash and 14 cartons of cigarets. There wasn't a cop in sight. bull from Godfrey Milton Junction. The young bull ds sired by Senrab's Prince Monarch. Curtis R.

Pierce and William C. Dallman, Edgerton, have purchased a young sire from Wilma Katherine Boese, Fort Atkinson. GUERNSEY TRANSFERS Irvin Gruennert, Janesvdlle, has purchased a purebred Guernsey! RECORD CATCH DETROIT Iff) their bare hands and a bucket, Karen Lee Reynolds and Rose Ann Brisson, each 14, caught a 26-inch northern pike in shallow water behind a Rouge River beaver dam yesterday. by the American College of Surgeons. Evansville EVANSVTLLE A planning meeting for the Union Township Playday will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in City Hall.

Past Matrons chain of OES will hold its April meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Masonic Temple. The dessert committee includes Mrs. Harry Roderick and Mrs Claude Rogers. Mrs.

R. J. Antes and Miss Hattie Axtell will have charge of the program. Pliny Tolles has returned from Florida, where he spent the winter. Mra.

Kilmer Reque entertained a group of children recently in honor of the sixth birthday of her son, Jackie. Hattie Patterson Guild of the Baptist Church will meet at this evening dn the home of Mrs. Oliver Franklin. Mrs. Harry Cole will lead devotions and Mrs.

John Heritage will present the program. Wilder School PTA will meet tonight in the school. Mrs. Morton Batty and Mrs. William Porter wiH be hostesses.

Mrs. Batty also List 112 Arrests Here During March Janesville police made 112 arrests in March and sent 95 persons to court, according to the monthly report made today by Police Chief Jasper A. Webb. Of the 112 arrested, 105 were men and seven were women who were taken into custody for glary, larceny, auto theft, assault, fraud, possession of stolen property, carrying weapons, intoxication, disorderly conduct, vagrancy, intoxicated driving and other traffic, parking and license violations. There were 732 parking tickets issued for penalties during the month.

Three juveniles were ordered to bicycle court. Of the seven burglaries reported during the month, four were cleared. There were 19 larcenies of has charge of the program, which will include a review of the book, "Power of Positive Thinking," by Norman Vincent Peaie, given by Mrs. Jack Heffel. There will also be musical numbers by the Haakenson quartet.

Election of officers for next year will be held. Mrs. George Schroder, phone 79 -J. la EvmnsTllle news correspondent. Agent In Paul Dooley, 143 W.

Main St. Fhnne 434-W by p. m. It paper Is not delivered. Dunn County Faimeis Organize New Bureau County i the 55th Wisconsin county to affiliate ROKS SAIL FOR V.

8. SEOUL (JB Two hundred fifty- eight South Korean army officers sailed Friday to take six months of with 1he Wisconsin Farm Bureau. The 60 members enrolled in the ounty organization are'headed by Alfred Vermes, Wheeler. Robert M. Davie, Madison, state organization director, said that the 55 counties in which the Bureau is now operating produce 93.85 per cent of the state's agricultural income.

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Woodstock's mother. General meeting of the WSCS of the Methodist Church will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the church. Members of Circle 4 will serve on the hospitality committee. Mrs.

H. B. Crull will present devotions and Mrs. Leo Kuenzli, the program Plus "SONG OF THE LAND" SPECIAL MATINEE WEDNESDAY Pinoochio Hats and Nose Masks. NOW on sale In our lobby.

Don't Miss This Worthy Benefit Show Saturday, April 17 Tickets Now on Sale MIDCITY TONIGHT Monday and Tuesday MEANS "THE GREATEST!" CLARK kHh GABLE GARDNE COMPANION THRILL FEATURE A Truly Thrilling Western TECHNICOLOR ANSCO The Haresfoot Club of the U. of W. Presents Wait and See 99 An Original Musical Comedy to Be Presented in the Janesville II. Auditorium 8:00 p. in.

Saturday. April 17 All Seats Tax Included A Benefit Performance The proceeds from this performance will go to the Sight Conservation Program and the Scholarship program. Both programs are devoted to the Janesville school children and developed by the Janesville Lions Club. Tickets Now on Sale Tickets may be purchased from any Janesville Lions Club member and also at the following business houses: Dell's Cleaners; Dr. Howard Aeh, Optometrist; Goodenough Music Store; and the First National Bank.

Address mail orders to Sherman Ely, First National Bank, Enclose check made out to Janesville Lions Club Benefit. Sponsored for the 4th Consecutive Year by Janesville Lions Club.