Evening star., 1950-12-01
Wage Price Controls
Seen Near as Di SalIe
Is Given Key Post
~ Froncis P. DouqIos

messenger service in Washington
while a Georgetown University
student. conferred with Mr.. Tru.
man yesterday. He few back te
Toledo last night and is expected
to submit his resignation as mayor
at once.
His selection touched off predic.
tions In Congress that price ane
wage controls are sure to follow
Senate Republican Leader Wherry
said the appointment indicates
that the President is getting
ready to impose wage-price con-
trolls, at least on a selective basis.
He added: "He is not appointing
. man to that job just to si
around
Sought Senate Nomination.
Charles G. Ross, presidential
press secretary, who announced
the appointment yesterday. tole
reporters he could not say wheth.
er the selection of a price stabilizel
meant that controls were immi.
nent. Mr.. Truman told his news
conference yesterday the deter
mining factor in a1l-out mobiliza-
tion will be the outcome of the
Korean war.
Mr.. Disable has been mayor OF
Toledo since 1947 and is serving
his second term. Earlier this year
he was a candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for Senator. He
lost in the primary election. how
ever, to State Auditor Joseph T
Ferguson, who, - in turn, was
swamped in the November election
by Senator Taft, Republican.
Mr.. Disable was born in New
York and went to Toledo as a
child. He attended public and
parochial schools there and en-
tered Georgetown in 1926. He
studied in the college for two
years and then entered the law
school.
Worked While in College.
DR.. James s. Ruby, executive
secretary of the Georgetown
Alumni Association. recalled that
MFR. Disable worked his way while
Mt Georgetown by operating a
messenger service in downtown
Washington. He left before tax
ing his law degree when he found
he could not handle his outside
work and his studies at the same
time. He completed his law studies
in Ohio.
His first public Office was as a
member of the Ohio Legislature
In the 1930s. He was elected to
the Toledo City Council in 1941
and was Vice Mayor before his
election as Mayor.
Mr.. Disable gained national rec
ognition for forming the Toledo
Labor-Management Citizens Com
nittee which has been regarded
as q major factor in maintaining
industrial peace in Toledo in recent
years. His plan has, now been
adopted by number Of other cities
and has been mentioned as pos
sible model for such an organiza-
ton on q national scale.
Toledo Now Debt-Free.
His administration as Mayor
has seen the paying OF Of the
city's Indebtedness, and Toledo
Is now debt-free.
Mr.. Disable was one of those
who promoted the plan in the
spring Of 1948 for Americans with
relatives in Italy to write to them
urging that they oppose the Com
munists in the April election. The
Social Democrats won. In recog-
milton of Mr.. DiSalle's work in
this effort, Notre Dame Univer-
sity gave him an honorary Doctor
of Laws degree in June, 1949.
Mr.. Disable is married and is
the father of five children.
His appointment was praised by
Senator Taft, who remarked
Mike Di Sale is a good man
he is all right. There is hope g
good job will be done" He saio
il is going to be very difficult
to avoid wage-price controls.
Other Senators agreed that such
controls are coming nearer.
Chairman Maybank Of the Sen
ate aBnking Committee said hi
believes I'VE are coming awfully
close to wage-price controls" ane
added:
"I can't see how they can be
avoided unless there is a drastic
improvement in the world situa.
ton. II there isn't, we will have
to impose controls in simple jus.
tice to our fighting forces ir
Korea"
Chairman O'Mahoney of the
Senate-House Economic Commit
tee said:
"You can't spend perhaps VI
to $50 billion a year for defense
without controls, including wage
price controls. Inasmuch as We
are going to spend about thai
much, in my judgment wage-price
controls are inevitable"
Senator Ives. Republican, o1
New York said the nomination o1
Mr.. Di Sale indicates to him thai
the administration is getting the
machinery ready to slap on con-
trolls" He added, however. thai
he does not expect any overall
wage-price control program before
spring.
Senator Flanders, Republican, ot
Vermont, declared: Il am afraie
we are in for the worst so far a.
controls are concerned. The next
two weeks will bring clearer idea
as to what we are UP against-tha'
is, how soon it may be necessary
TO impose controls"
Senator Martin, Republican, o1
Pennsylvania, who has said gen.
eral wage-price curbs should have
been imposed weeks ago, callee
the appointment of Mr.. Di Sale