The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-01-28
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dental nominee when and if
the Republicans capture the
White House. Taft already is
aiming his guns toward 1852.
The Ohio senator is doing so
by facing the issues and taking
issue with President Trumah's
administration wherever he dis
agrees. He has criticized Thorn
as E. Dewey's campaign in priv
ate and limited at criticism in
public. He says he would have
made real sparks fly during the
l948 campaign had he received
the Republican nomination.
The Ohioan's first political
test is two years ahead. On-the-
spot observers say he must gain
ground with the public to re-
tain his Senate seat when he
comes up for reelection in 1850,
and Taft is gambling all by
standing his ground. He will
rise Of fall on the record-first
in 1850 and then in 1852.
There's a Senate move to take
a hand in the un-American ac-
tivities probe field - but it's
not likely to take the shape of
a Senate inquiry into disloyalty.
Rather, the move is likely to
support a proposal for a spe-
cial joint congressional COM
mittee in which the Senate
would have a part of the func-
ton carried on almost exclu-
sively by the House thus far.
Senator John l.. Mcclellan
Cd, Arkansas who, as executive
expenditures committee chair
man, will control the personnel
of the former Ferguson investi-
eating committee, supports the
plan.
Well ahead of the converting
of Congress, Mcclellan went to
work on a resolution calling for
a joint committee, very quietly,
for he wants to sound out House
sentiment before he gives it
publicity.
The Arkansas D Democrat
wants to see the un-American
probes continued. However, he
doesn't want to have his investi-
eating committee take over the
job. Thus, he looks toward a
joint committee to solve the
problem while removing the
possibility of criticism with
which the House group has had
to contend.
President Truman's recent
touch and go blind" landing
at Washington Airport has
touched off new congressional
pressure on the government to
perfect and install a uniform
instrument approach system at
all big airports.
The problem of landing an
airplane under zero-zero wealth
er conditions has been under
study for Is years. Politics and
inter-departmental wrangling
has retarded progress until to-
day there is no accepted system.
The Civil Aeronautics Adj
ministration has espoused the
instrument landing system
(ILS) with which the pilot lands
the plane by guiding it down a
path produced by radio on
his instrument panel.
The armed services have
plugged for ground-controlled
approach (GCA) in which a ra-
dar-radio operator on the
ground views the plane in a
scope and tells the pilot what
maneuvers to make to effect a
safe landing.
Actually, the systems compile
ment each other, but regula-
tons prevent their use by COM
mereial planes if conditions are
less than 400-foot ceiling and
one mile visibility. The presi-
dents plane came in on GOA
with three-eighths of a mile Wis
Utility because it is operated by
the Air Force which can set its
own minimum standards in ar
emergency.
For the rosiest possible view
of conditions in Russia one mas
only to consult the slick. cx-
pensive = and not exactly un-
biased = USSR Information
Bulletin issued by the Soviet
embassy in Washington.
The current issue hits a new
high, however, in a glowing ac-
count of automobiles behind the
Iron Curtain. The article re-
ports, for instance, that Nikolai
Vorobyec, a 35-year-old car
barn mechanic with two chill
ren was able to walk into i
Moscow auto showroom and
a new Moskvick sedan for three
months pay.
Another worker. a miner
named Sviridov, was depicted
as buying a much higher priced
Pobedas = no waiting list, nc
trouble, no nothing. Sviridoy
was quoted as saying the price
made a real dent" in his saw
ings, but added he would soor