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Da rally Journal Monday. January 14. 1141 nation Is In new circunntanccs. The iliiiS waif.ire policies, upending Md give away programs of the depression era ue net proving popular in an inflationary post-war period which cMl for opposite tactii-s. Even the democratic congressmen repudiated by the white huute frequently rode on the Roosevelt cot tails, or wanted to.

This year they may find they enn do better with only a nominal bow to the Truman coat tails. They probably will run on their own. No mad clutching for while house tailing is visible yet Diamond Mart Down In Bowery BY JEAN CEORGE NEA Staff Writer New York Down on the Bowery, Just acrofa the street from Joe' 10-cent flop house, the most fabulous business in the world goes on the business of buying and selling diamonds. In the windows of the diamond markets, saudy atones as big as walnuts glitter temptingly. Beside them, on black velvet, lie World Capital Battle St.

Pi-jl, Minn. A sedate prcsl dentiul of Harold Stu.v.en is recognized here us being under way. I I f-HrwWl VW'-V-i? WW I 'Iho 32-year-old navy commander It starting out upon the path which Wiiikie tiod, appearing on the quiz proiram of all sar.es information making speeches around the country to educational organizations, rug manufacturers, etc Plainly he if heading to fill thc Willkle vuccuum in a munrer, by establishing a republican leadership of the farming west and creating a kesmanMiip for the internationalist-liberal uprising-of-a-sort out here. blood red and glistening: amethvsts. His speaking style is not crisp.

opnls, sapnhlres, topazes, and the Jewels of kings. His comments are rarely unexpect Beneath the windows ra aired men ed. Consequently be has attracted little publicity attention, yet young Angostura The mill fif government are like the mills of in one njnvt they srind seceding flw, Wc have been luaimg the dam for i these many ears. Now out of the- imMeriom and unfathomable depths of tin department of the interior come one other word in regard to it. ''Initiation of actual construction on the Angostura unit," will iii.uk activities of the Bus can of I-teclamatiou in South Dakota during the first six months of wc are informed.

The Bureau announces that it the expenditure of "more than two million dollars" cu the Angostura unit in nithw extern South Dakota "timing the first half of the current year." But don't rush down there to see the money fly thu month or next. A little later in its announcement the department of the interior sty, 'Jt planned that actual coii-trmtioii will begin before July the bureau gets started well before July it will have hard work to rpend that two million ''during the first half of the current year." However, there is enough to do. This is some of it "The construction of a concrete and earth dam across the Cheyenne river, approximately nine mites south of Hot Springs, will provide water for the Irrigation of II. 180 acres of bench and bottom land In Fall P.iver and Custer counties. The main canal, heading at Angostura dam.

will be 30 miles long. Structures include four siphons. 17 bridges, two checks and wasteways, culverts, ono chute and on drop. The principal structure is a siphon more than 1.000 feet long, and S4 inches in diameter across the Cheyenne river. The acqui-aition of land required for the 160.000 acre-foot reservoir will be one of the first phases of current activity at the Angostura unit." All of this sounds interesting, even though wc di remember that the government mills grind slowly, and we hardly expect to see much of that two million fly before July I.

The Kapid Citv Rapid Valley dam has been building, at IV.c'.ohi and at Deer-field, for several years, and a supplementary statement to the Angostura anu muce-lnent. is that have been allotted to carry on field studies required for add-el reservoir capacity. for Kapid Valley to complement the Deerfield reservoir, which, we are assured, ''will be storing water during the current year." people like his clein-cut appearance and he is greatly extending his fol sleep on the sidewalk. Dirty street urchins run and down the stem of the rumbling 3rd Avenue El. ploying "Al Ccpone and cops." Old women pick in trash barrels for tin foil and string.

Here, amid hbject poverty. Is the greatest diamond market in the world. Merchants from France, China. India. Mexico, and all 4ft states journey across sea and land lowing.

An able young reporter, who wrs closely associated with him for some weeks at the Sim Francisco conference, says Slarsen there established on intimate resrect forci.tn delegates, particularly thc Latins, who were not rympnthctic to his purposes, but admired him. Colleae students particularly. I have found, are enthusiastic for him. I have heard en eminent young republican express belief that he would be thc next president "if" the republicans are "smart enough" to nominate him. to buy and sell the diamonds that eventually funnel throuuh this in conspicuous corner at Canal Street and the Bowery.

Each merchant rents a stall In the large room at the amazingly low rental of $1 a day. To him come refugees with their family jewels, pawn croKcrs with diam I Whatever the Matt: ui he wvll capital ftitf, actual location ns.ty tt certain fur sumo time uncertainty is per. haps the most notable feature Central Assembly moves alon all the various line of the many activities. There is noth'nj unccrtaiti, however, alxjut the t-piulij job whirii Smth Dakota an-i tlio black Hills "of Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska" have done in promoting the Dl.uk Hills as a s-iie for the UNO voiM capital. There has lien remarkable tuvpera-tion anil remarkably effective oik.

Prominent persons in hae rallied to the supjHjrt of the ofii-eials of Nebraska and Wj tilling hae been exceedingly helpful. Gov. iMiarpe, the Greater South Dakota Association and its capable executive M'crctary, Gfip: Starring, put out promotional work of the highest value. The whole state was stirred by the effort. South Dakotan may well be proud of the remarkable woik of two South Dakotans, Trod Christopherson of the Sioux 1'alN Lea and I'aul I d-Iamy of Kaj-id City, at h'ranci'Co, and the hitt(jr at They made theniH'lves, the state of South Dakota and the Black Hills felt under conditions of extreme difficulty: ioy pained entre i-vrrywhire aiil tiny were well receied." Tlcy operated oil a world piano with assurance and with a great measure of success regardless of what may bo the final outcome.

The Black llilUhould be happy over the unified, vigorous and eoopcrative effort which they made. The Chambers of Commerce and many leading citizens in each of the. Hills towns provided funds and gave absolutely needed support to the cause, while a small central committee, headed by Jarvin Davenport of the Elack Hills and Badlands association, did the tough and continuous spade work so vital in such cases. Other members of this informal committee were Paul Bellamy, Bert DeMersseman, K. I Gronert, K.

H. Lighter and Robert Dean. They did i a The man in the street out here suspects he is angling toward the senate seat of Hcnrik Shipstcad, who is up for re-election this year. ii CMAILY u. s.

r. on. WE, The Women and not exceptionally popular. Their theory is a senate would prepare the wmv for him to some national leadership. jeeted into the state department (men who drink Coca-Cola instead of teat decided that presidential orders should nut.be kisjed off so ainly.

Though no money was available, they finally went to the bureau of the budget and squeezed out enough cah money to hire new consular personnel. Already they VASIIIHQTO) OHIO GOVERNOR SETS GOOD EXAMPLE BY RUTH MILLETT NEA SUM Writer His friends in Washington have doubted he would care to take the nccdle.s ri.sk involved, and believe he could cot further, working outside as Willkle did, I do not believe he will run. His movement will be an inereas- have started Hying supplies to i Europe to set up special offices 1 1 ROUND na rhaltnni-rt Irt thn tnn tviciltnn By tllW PIARSON of Governor Dewey. The New Yorker must survive re-election this year to ma'ntain his power, and if popular men like Farley or For-restRl get into the race cgainst him (Justice Jackson seems headed to- screen refugees and give them It should tllnl out bc a V'8US- political move the governor Old-line diplomats are leaning 'of Ohio offering rooms in the gov-back in amazement. They have crnor's mansion to a former army never seen so much speed befurc.

1 pilot and his wife. puTTtcu irrnrv I A Iar5? percentage of the voting er -r mpwo, AGEricy public has had experience SLANT NEWS? i in thc wcary business of house Last week the state department hunting to appreciate the story, and r.cutcrs, the British news agen- Only one thing could have made cy. engaged in a controversy as to the yarn better and that would whether or not Retirs slanted its have been for the couple selected news to favor British interests. is roomers to have hud a baby. Apropos of this, certain Japanese Now if the governor's gesture files, seized since the war, are re- would only prompt the leading cit-vculing.

Iu 1939 the Japanese sold I teens of every community to make thrir entire salmon catch, nartly the same offer in behalf of the lo- tward the chief justiceship rather thnn Alhnnv at the mnir.witl Dewev Drew Pearson Says-Harry Truman forgets senate days when he got kicked by white bouse. State department peps up refugee program. Battle over FBI and foreign intelligence. WASHINGTON TODAY taken off the shores ot Canada and i Ci-l housing situation, the problem of finding living quarters for vet onds and topazes that were never claimed, buyers from swank Fifth Avenue jewelers, from California and Iowa, old men with beards, yourjj men starting in the buainvs. All of them me bursting with jewels and rolls of bills.

A rough, renrred hand holds a $23 000 bracelet. It throws off a million har lights from carefully cut facets cf many diamonds. Engraved on thc back are the words "To Paula with love. Charles." At one time it's existence was a token of love. Now it is rapidly tos ed from hand to hand.

Thc brrcelet is now someone's bread and butter. Never Robbed Surrounded by an armload of precious jewels. Felix Ecker eatr a ham sandwich and drinks a cup of coffee. A sign over his booth reads: "The eleventh commandment Thou sh.Mt not chisel." The rich and the poor come in, some to buy, some to sell. Before a bargain is struck, the merchants run out into the daylight with a jeweler's loop and the diamond.

There on the street, bumping elbows with truck drivers and rough looking Bowery drunk, they look for imperfections in the jewel. In the 70 years that the diamond market has been on the Bowery there has never been a robbery. The sparklers are like apples in an orchard. They arc taken for granted. This is business.

A transaction means a few dollars here. $100 there. Each merchant makes a living at it not a fabulous living, but a secure income because diamonds are currency. The men are in the business for many reasons. Some because their fathers were, some because they love beautiful things, some because they happened to come up in the business and never changed.

In one corner of the mart, Nathan Woll, a goldsmith, sits with a jeweler's blow torch and file, designing brooches and earrings. He often wonders who will wear them, in what family vault they will be stored, what lovely woman will wear the opal pendant. And all around him the picayune noise of small business talk goes on "What-cha want for it? I'm in no mood to dicker. My sister-in-lnw wonts a diamond ring, and this is good enough." will have his troubles. He has made no move since the national election to establish a personal national leadership, except organizationally in his loose personal control of national headquarters.

At any rate I do not find confirmed republicans talking either Stassen or Dewey, as much as Bricker. The Ohio ex-governor has a strong personal following in the party. In a three-way republican contest today, I believe he would win. A surge will come up for him if he wins the Ohio senatorship (Burton vacancy) in the fall. On the democratic side, or inside, the current word is that Truman Washington.

When President Truman was Senator Harry Truman, he sometimes entered the senate chamber and sat down at his desk grumbling. "Just got another kick in the pants from the white house." he would tell colleagues. "They've Alaska, to British firms. This was announced in Tokyo and started to cause a furore in the Canadian and English press. However, the Mitsubishi firm in London stepped in and used its influence with Reuters to kill the story.

just appointed another Stark man FBI BATTLE to a good job. "stark man" referred to supporters ot Gov. Lloyd Stark, leader of an anti-Truman democratic faction in Missouri. will not run, because neither he nor Mrs. Truman like the job.

They Today, however, senators wish that the ex-senator from Missouri crans and their families would be well on the. way to being solved temporarily. For if the families who live in the big houses and set the social pace in their communities would find a room or rooms for a veteran and his wife other families would feel they could afford to do the nr.me thing without jeopardizing their social standing. BREAKING THE ICE To popularize the idea should not be too hard. Put pictures of leading citizens with their veteran roomers on the society pages of local pacers, and you'll find women as patriotic about renting rooms r.s they were about rolling band-ases.

The governor of Ohio has broken the ice, and now anyone ought to feel free to offer rooms to veterans. From now on taking in roomers should be socially acceptable. say Byrnes is the likely man. I doubt both suggestions. had a better memory and would If Truman succeeds In staving think back to those by-gone days.

Simmering beneath the surface in Washington is a hot battle of bureaus which concerns one of the most important jobs inside the government foreign intelligence. Some people use an uglier word-espionage, Call it what you please, it is an important fact that almost any nation today has to keep its eyes open as to what other nations are doing. Especially in these days of atomic bombs, when the nation which gets the digging, day in and day out without their constant effort, nothing could have been done. The Black Hills made a gallant and a worth-while fight against almost insuperable odds. No matter where the world capital goes, the Black Hills and the State of South Dakota have put up a battle that will long resound to their credit and to their permanent advantage.

One senator who especially wishes it is Jim Tunnell of Delaware, who 1 has jvst received the most resound off unpopularity through this crucial changeover period, he will like the job better. Few leave the white house willingly. Furthermore, Byrnes as yet has not established any degree of popularity in the handling of foreign policy to warrant long range presidential expectations. True enough, he swerved policy in December to what the leftwing was demanding (fulfillment of Russian purposes) and thereby caused the Roosevelt- the first jump may rule the world, is it necessary to know what others are doing. Present controversy revolves round the proposal to create a super-duper detective agency in the state department.

Before the war, most foreign intelligence was carried on by the army and navy, with the FBI operating inside the USA and on certain specific missions abroad. During the war, the Ofiice of Strategic (Rapid. Qifm. of From Journal Files 14. 1919 Jan.

and Mrs. Mr, W. H. Murphy left Services, which did a great job be hind enemy lines, was accused of last evening for Miles City, Pastor Builds His Own Churches Charleston, Mo. (TP) Many pastors have been called "church builders," but the Rev.

Allen B. where Mrs. Murphy will spend a messing up the entire intelligence picture by enlisting a lot of amateur detectivec and social sleuths ing kick in the pants recently given by the white house to any alleged friend. Senator Tunnell has been one of the most loyal of all the Roosevelt-Truman He has slaved night and day for their program. He is one senator who can be absolutely depended upon.

Partly because of his loyalty he faces a difficult reelection fight this fall, with the DuPont republicans preparing to put a toush candidate in the field against him. Until recently, they had been planning to pass over cx-Senator John Townsend, a staunch friend of the DuPonts, but considered a bit out-of-date because of his isolationist record. However, Townsend will now be their candidate thanks to Harry Truman. For the president has just appointed Townsend as alternate U. S.

delegate to the United Nations. This automatically takes away the taint of isolation, elevates him to a position of prominence, and remakes his political future. It was the most crushing blow faithful Jim Tunnell could have received. At first, politicians blamed Secretary Byrnes for the appointment. He, however, had nothing to do with it.

Then they blamed Town-send's son-in-law, Prew Savoy, who was among the group which helped invite Truman to the Jefferson island party last summer. Replied Cooper, 47, really builds them. He new deal-left leaning group to cease its criticism of him and the communists their picketing of his state department. But a lot of democratic water will flow over dams and into rivulets, before its side of the picture becomes clarified. Immediately ahead are the congressional elections and the administration got off to a bad start there.

The Truman state of thc union speech, blaming his own congress for all domestic ills, was of the same technique as similar Roosevelt attacks upon his own party but it was far different in effect. With this same gflme, Roosevelt always repudiated but held the south; nearly always followed and approved the opposite group interests of CIO, leftwing labor and even communists (for the fourth term at any rate) in the north. It was quite a trick, requiring an unusual personality to manage tne riding securely of two horses going in opposite directions. Truman does not seem to have the personality for it. Also the knows his carpenter's tools as well as his Bible.

Building country churches on Reforming German Labor By PETER EDSOM Washington Reorganizing a strong German labor movement and teaching German working people the democratic way of life will be one of the best ways to de-NaEify Germany, says Frank J. McSherry, who came back to Washington recently to report to the War Department oi? his activities as Chief of Manpower for the IX. S. Group Control Council. Gcheral McSherry is a regular Army officer, not a labor union official.

During the early years of the war, however, he was in charge of the labor training program and he was deputy director of the War Manpower Commission. After serving as head of military government In Algiers and the European yieatcr, he was given the manpower job in Germany when the fighting stopped. Pre-Hitler Germany had a strong organized kbor'movement of about eight million members, the pre-Hitler social security system had much broader old-age health and unemployment benefits than in the United States and was fundamentally sound. But the labor situation General McSherry and his little manpower organization inherited from the Nazis was a large mess. All war plants were, of course, closed down, throwing hundreds of thousands out of work.

A quick survey registered six million workers, over 20 per cent unem-ployed. In addition there were two or more million displaced persons, plus a million in concentration camps, plus tw'o million discharged soldiers and two million prisoners of war. Housing was 50 to 90 per cent destroyed. GERMAN LABOR GETS LESSON IN DEMOCRACY The Nazi labor system was organized from the top down with all union officials appointed. The wage system was completely cockeyed.

Old men got more than young men, to force young men into the army. Heads of families got more than single men, to encourage the birth rate. The problem was how to democratize this set-up. First step was to vote for shop stewards by secret ballot. German workmen didn't know what it meant because, under Hitler, the only ballots the Germans knew about were those a single slate of picked candidates and a place to mark "Ya!" Three thousand shop elections were held under IX.

S. supervision and 10,000 stewards were elected. It was a great experience for the Germanstheir first lesson in democracy marking a secret ballot in a closed booth and dropping it, folded, into a box. Next job was to organize unions. The Germans were permitted to organize os industrial unions like CIO, or craft unions like AFL, or-' ganized along democratic lines.

CONSTITUTION REQUIRED IN ALL UNIONS Every union must have a constitution. Every issue must be decided by membership vote. There must be regular meetings, Books must be, open. Dues must be approved by membership. Officers must be rotated and can serve only one-year terms.

There can be no closed shop. So far, over 200 unions have been so organized, U. S. policy is not to encourage the formation of a purely Labor political party as In the British rone. Instead, the union members are being encouraged to take an active part in national tics through Jhe established German Social-Democratic, National-Christian or other political movements.

It's an interesting experiment. Maybe it will work and maybe it won't. But as General McSherry sees it, one of the two best chances to democratize Germany will come through a well-organized labor movement. The other chance will come through proper education of the week-days and preaching on Sundays, he has done most of the saw- iOS and hammering in the construc tion of five churches in Missouri and one in Arkansas. His New Eethel church in the nearby Bridges community, considered a model rural church building, was started with material salvaged from a fire and no monev.

The college-trained, hammer- wielding preacher has been at it for five years. Remedy Needed For War's Neglect The Black Hills has shown unusual resourcefulness, initiativje and enterprise in promoting its tourist advantages. In addition, it has had some very satisfying aids. Evan the WPA helped. Thtre't the dinosaur park on the Skyline Drive and those ornamental stone walls which added so much to the attractiveness of the Drive.

It is painful lo mention the Drive, however, for there we are woefully lacking the roadway- has never been what it should it is at this moment barricaded; the people of Rapid City and tourists to the Hills are denied access to one of the most scenic and delightful views of the Hills. A notable help to the entertainment of visitors to the Black Hills has been the splendid activities of the forest (service in the Black Hills aud the Harney National Forests, which cover much of the area of the Hills. The national forests have been well managed and for the most part adequately supported by the federal government. Among great helps for which the forest service has been responsible is the placing of artistic signs throughout the Hills and the providing of recreational activities small parks at various points throughout the Hills fitted with small retreats, picnic tables, etc. These have been a great convenience to the people of the Hills, and a very decided tourist advantage as well.

It is reported that current bills, now pending in Congress, providing appropriation! for the support of the forest service, do not eon-tain funds for continuing these recreational advantages. If this Is true, the matter la one that needs immediate Chamber of Commerce attention cr for that matter, direct appeal by ettiiens of the lack Hills to Congress. It is assumed that this is a routine matter which mav be remedied bv a few well placed protests or appeals for action. few weeks visiting her uncle E. H.

Johnson. G. C. Dean was a visitor in the city, yesterday. Jan.

14, 1S2B The Neighborhood Five Hundred club wes entertained at the V. C. Swnnson home Wednesday evening when Mrs. Cecil Lnne and Mrs. A.

D. Lane were special invited guests. Jan. 14. 1S36 Miss Florence Becich and Mrs.

Nickic Paulich of Lend spent the weekend visiting with friends in Hroid City. Preliminary survey for the location of the $375,000 tuberculosis sanatorium at the Indian school site west of the city started here today: Sioux Falls Cafes Refund For OPA Sioux Falls, Jan. 14 (A3, A total of $029.78 been collected as refunds from three Sioux Falls residents in cases where overeeiling sales were claimed, the district OPA reported today. It said: Mrs. Sam Margiofortc, who operated Look's Cafe from March 1, to Sept.

1, submitted S348.03. Robert Amundson, who op-eratod the snme cafe from October to December, submitted A. G. Doering paid $33.75 on a washing Mfchine transaction. Action for a license suspension was listed us having been filed in circuit court nainst Fred Bedard, operating Barney's market at Cen-tenille.

Overceiling sales of groceries was alleged. Savoy: "I only wish I could plead guilty It would have put me in right with my father-in-law." Now, however, President Truman has confessed that he did the job himself. He is the sorriest man in ray )our friends tins compliment in Washington. Big question is: Who should do this delicate but important job now that the war is over? In the opinion of this columnist, who has watched the merry-go-round of Washington for many years, the only agency which has thc confidence of both congress and the public is the FBI. ihey had a superb though little publicized record in Latin America as well as the USA.

To do a good intelligence job you have to get congressional funds and you can't always tell congress publicly how you are spending undercover money. The FBI, far more than the state department, has the public confidence and can get the appropriations. Furthermore, the state department should not be put in a position where it must both pour oil on diplomatic waters and at the same time stir them up by planting secret agents inside foreign countries. The FBI should get the information on it? own and. then hand it over to the state department.

However, certain ambitious gentlemen, transferred from the army to diplomacy, think otherwise. Result is one of the hottest battles of the bureaus raging backstage in Washington. (Copyright, 1948, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DISCHARGED Gann Valley, an. 11 W) One hundred and one discharged service men and women have report, cd to the Buffalo county selective service board in thc past months. The number constitutes approximately 61 percent of the county's residents in the service during World War II.

Mediae drum 1 1 Set Old McBrayer before guetti, end you give them key that's thoroughbred. Delight Jeli.ht- fully smooth and mellow, Die tinctive in its rich bourbon tsste, v. Dis 015 the world and has said so to Senator Tunnell. But the appointment can't be changed. He did exactly the same thing he once -cussed out Roosevelt lor making an appointment without consulting the senator concerned.

EUROPEAN REFUGEES Some of Jimmy Byrnes expediters have really pepped up old-line state department diplomats when it comes to admitting European refugees. When President Truman first proposed filling unused, U. S. immigration quotas by admitting homeless refugees from Europe, state department diplomats said they had neither funds, nor the personnel nor perhaps even the disposition, However, some of the South Car-olina blood which Byrnes has in- From blueprints to final launching. American commercial ships arc subject to scrutiny of Coat Guard officers who pass on their seaworthiness and details of operational control.

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