Truman Will Not
Permit Raise In
Price Of Gold
* (Continued from Page One)
buying or selling price from $20.67
an ounce which had been in effect
for decades.
Rumors that the gold price
would be lifted again have been
persistent in financial circles and
elsewhere outside the government.
Shares in gold mining enterprises
* have moved up several times as
the rumors became intense.
i
Persistence of these reports also
is believed by government offi
cials to be a major circumstance
in causing gold to start moving
from U. S. to foreign countries re-!
cently. The metal had poured into
this country for the last 15 years
without interruption except in war
time.
Certain foreign countries, offi
cials surmised, have been buying
gold from this government on the
theory that there might be some
thing to the rumor despite repeat
ed and emphatic denials by secre
tary of the treasury Snyder.
One point of the rumors was
that the administration, by raising
the paper-dollar price of gold,
would have a gain through in
creasing the value of the $24,500.
000.000 stock of gold it now owns.
The U. S. stock is about three
^ fifths of the world gold supply.
The “gain,” so the rumors went,
could then be used for issuing pa
Truman Says No
“Wholesale Cuts”
For Non-Selieclules
(Continued from Page One)
nautics Board.”
Heacock included in the dollar a
year mail offer a provision “only
that no subsidy be granted to
scheduled competitors.” The offer
was limited to the volume of ail
mail transported to the two Alas
ka cities during 1948, which he
said was 75 percent of the air mail
to all Alaska.
He said the mail pay in many
instances is higher than the sched
uled carriers’ total revenue from
passengers.
Heacock said independent car
riers had information that a CAB
examiner’s report on Alaska serv
ice will recognize a need for addi
tional cargo service to Alaska, be
yond that provided by presently
certified carriers, but will deny
the need for additional low cost
passenger service.
Any move to confine non-sched
ule carriers to cargo carrying will
be regarded as a move ot destroy
both Alaska cargo service and the
non-schedule carriers, he said.
“Once the subsidy of the threat
of non-scheduled competition is
removed, prices must necessarily
sky-rocket toward pre-competi
tion levels,” he declared.
per dollars to pay part of the
$256,800,000,000 federal debt.
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Catholic Information
Don't eat that—it's poisoned!
“Now, chidlren. be good while
Mother's out. Don’t play with the
matches! Don’t lean out the win
dow! Don’t eat that cake in the
pantry—it’s poisoned for rats!”
What a lot of commands! What
restrictions on the children’s free
dom! But who can question that
a mother has both the right and
the duth to give such commands?
Sver since Christ said to Peter:
“Feed my lambs. Feed my sheep,”
Holy Mother Church has exer
cised the right and duty to feed
her children God’s spirtiual food
and to protect them from poisons,
skillfully concocted to ruin the
l'aith and morals of the unwary. It
is for this reason th&t the Church
has its Index of Forbidden Books.
The Index is widely misunder
stood. It does not list by title and
name all books and authors for
bidden to the Catholic. In fact
those so listed are comparatively
few and consist largely of works
about whose character there was a
doubt and upon which therefore
the Church had to make public
decision.
The application to the great
4 mass of Catholics is in the General
Rules of the Index, which plainly
show the type or character of
work, the reading of w’hich is dan
gerous to faith and morals and
therefore forbidden under pain of
grievous sin. If books of such a
character are not know to the in-;
t
dividual by reputation, they soon
make themselves manifest in the
reading and the loyal Catholic im
mediately closes such a book.
The General Rules of the Index
closely parallel God’s natural law,
which forbids any man deliberate
i ly to lead himself into temptation;
for example, by such things as sin
ful companions, places of ill-re
pute, obscene plays and motion
pictures.
That the Index hampers free
dom of thought is not true, unless
license to absorb error and to
dwell on impurity can be called
“freedom of thought.” And the
Church is eminently fair and prac
tical. Just as the doctor or chem
ist is permitted to use drugs and
poisons forbidden to the masses, so
the well-foritfied Catholic teacher
or scholar may be dispensed by
the proper authorities from such
rules of the Index, the observance
of which would interfere with
some necessary study or research.
Christ said, ‘"He that heareth
you, heareth me,” and so the ap
preciative Catholic bows his head
in loving submission when Holy
Mother Church says: “Don’t read
that—it’s poisoned!”
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Krug Resigns As
Secretary Of
w
The Interior
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comment.
Friends said Krug apparently
felt that Mr. Truman should have
| ‘been able to do better by him
I than that.”
The President received the let
i ter of resignation half an hour af
ter Krug confided to reporters that
he was leaving and had ‘‘wanted
j to leave for a long time."
j It was explained later that the
I delay in delivery of the letter was
! inadvertent.
Krug had nothing to sav on his
plans. He has an interest in a
Tennessee textile mill—in an area
where. 10 years ago, he was chief
power engineer for the Tennessee
Valley Authority.
Chapman likewise had no com
ment. His wife said he was at his
I office all last evening writing an
; address he will give at San Fran
l cisco Sunday.
Chapman has been a member of
j the so-called “Little Cabinet” for
16Vfe years.
He became assistant secretary o'
] the interior in May, 1933, under
| der Secretary Harold L. Ickes. He
served as acting secretary in the
I six-week interim between lcke.->’
•resignation and Krug’s appoim
i ment, and became undersecretary
i the day after Krug took office in
March, 1946.
j He served on navy transports
during World War I and was once
referee and chief probation officer
of the late Judge Ben B. Lindsey’s
famous juvenile and domestic re
lations court in Denver.
Chapman was “advance man”
for President Truman’s western
campaign travels last year, and
was credited with much of the
success of the tours.
Krug, on the other hand, was
roundly criticized by the party
faithful for not campaigning more
ardently in 1948. Krug spoke for
Mr. Truman in the pre-convention
campaigning, but was not as ac
tive in speech-making thereafter
as some of his cabinet colleagues.
There have been other differ
ences between Krug and Mr. Tru
man since then.
The President recently vetoed a
Navajo rehabilitation bill because
of an amendment, said to have
been accepted by Krug, which
' would have made the Indians sub
ject to state laws.
The President’s comments on
two recent reclamation proposals
also appeared critical of the six
foot-four, 200-pound-plus “baby”
1 of the cabinet. He reluctantly ap
proved one, but vetoed the other
on grounds that the interior de
partment’s reclamation bure a u
had not established its feasibility.
As secretary, Krug vigorously
backed the cause of resource con
servation. He also worked for de
centralization of the department,
and argued persuasively for large
appropriations for his bureaus.
He was a champion, too, of fed
eral government ownership of the
oil and other resources of the na
tion’s tidelands.
Krug made his reputation in
federal government when he was
with the Office of Production
Management, later the War Pro
duction Board.
In 1943 he was given full au
thority over power utilities. Later
he took charge of vital war mate
rials as vice chairman of WPB.
He went into the navy in 1944,
but was recalled the same year to
become head of the WPB. Truman
said the job he accomplished there !
was ‘‘little short of miraculous.”
How Cold Is Your
Hiji Toe; Scientists
Can Tell You
SEATTLE. (>F) — University of
! Washington scientists will be their
own guinea pigs for the next
month in Alaska.
They themselves will wear a
specially constructed hooded suit
I connected with intricate equip
ment which can measure the skin
I temperature at 38 different parts
of the body—or of a single toe.
; The l'oui -man research team will
; headquarter at Ladd Air Force
i Base in Fairbanks, and test the
equipment in temperatures rang
j ing downward to 40 degrees below
j zero.
Dr. Loren D. Carlson, associate
I professor of physiology and bio
! physics, will head theexpedition.
He said the whole thing works
) something like a telephone switch
board.
“If you want to know how cold
a big toe is. you dial it on the ma
chine. Over the wires from the
i big toe comes the answer, which
is recorded on a graph,” he ex
plains.
You can get a report from all 38
points on the body, or from tiny
desired number of them, and you
can also record the total amount
I of heat loss from various areas of
the body.
The group also will have an
other piece of equipment connect
ed with a chest panel on the suit.
It measures the respiratory oxygen
and carbon dioxide exchange of
the subject. Water vapor content
and temperature of his exhaled air
also is measured, to indicate the
total heat production of hi* oody.
Other members of the group are
Dr. Allan Young, a research asso
ciate; Wayne Quinton, electronic
engineer, and Henry Burns con
sulting engineer. They'll take
turns wearing the wired suit. All
equipment will be mounted in a
mobile laboratory.
The project is sponsorec oy the
air materiel command oi the air
force. A preliminary study was
made in Alaska last winter, and
the new equipment was designed
on basis of needs determined then.
Objectives are to find ’he lim
its of body reaction under extreme
cold and estimate the adaptibility
of men working under those con
dition. Dr. Carlson concluded:
“When this is determiner!, we
should know what physical char
acteristics make man best suited
for Arctic life, and we should have
tin indication of how the oody can
be made more resistant * ex
treme cold.”
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