Army May Attempt
To Recover Bodies
Of 32 Marines
LONGMIRE, Rainier National
Park, </P)—Army mountain ex
perts today were to inspect the
treacherous South Tahoma glacier
and weigh the hazards of recov
ering the bodies of 32 marines
whose transport plane crashed into
the icy terrain during a storm last
December 10.
All of the bodies have been lo
cated, with 25 fully visible, the
navy said in a weekend announce
ment, but mountaineers have ex
pressed opinion that more lives
would be lost in the recovery op
eration.
Families of 14 of the youths,
here for memorial services yester
day, asked that the rescue opera
tions be suspended if the risk is
too great.
More than 200 persons attended
the memorial rites, including Maj.
Gen. Leroy Hunt, Marine Corps
commanding general, department
of the Pacific, who flew north
from San Francisco.
As each of the 32 names was
read by Col. W. W. Wensinger,
commandant of the Marine Corps
barracks at the Puget Sound naval
shipyard, a member of a Marine
honor guard stepped forward and
placed a single white carnation on
a flower-banked altar. Then came
taps and three volleys of rifle.
Similar memorial rites also were
held in San Diego.
Parents at the service included!
Mrs. Wilma E. Turner, Monroe,
Ore.; Mrs. Lula B. Walker, Ho
| Labor Law Needs
More Sharp Teeth
Says Hartley
WASHINGTON (/P)—Chairman
Hartley <R.-N. J.) of the House la
bor committee said today the Taft
Hartley act “does not have enough
teeth in it to give the public real
protection against nationwide
strikes.”
The co-author of the new labor
measure said he will try to have
Congress remedy the situation
next year.
Hartley told reporters the mea
sure of necessity was a compro
mise document, adding that its
machinery to stop strikes “docs
not go far enough.”
Under the act of government is
authorized to obtain court injunc
tions against nationwide strikes
endangering health and safety.
“At the very best,” Hartley said,
“this only stalls a strike off for
85 days. There may be some means
to press for enactment of the
monopolistic strike section of the
original Hartley bill.
This provision failed to win Sen
ate approval and was discarded
from the final draft of the act,
which became law over President
Truman’s veto.
It defined as a monopolistic
strike a walkout resulting from
“any conspiracy, collusion or con
certed plan of action between em
ployees of competing employers”
where the employees are not rep
resented by the same union.
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| Russians Release
| Three Anieriean
Soldiers Unharmed
SEOUL, (£')—The Russians an
nounced Saturday that three
American enlisted men taken into
custody just inside the Soviet oc
cupation zone in North Korea
Aug. 12 would be released yester
day.
The American liaison officer at
Pyongyang, Russian occupation
headquarters, was informed by a
representative of the Soviet com
mand that the Americans would
be released at the point where
they crossed the border.
The thre are T/5 Tommy F.
Pugsley of Renton. Wash.; Pvt.
John D. Hopfe of Seattle and Pfc.
Gerald K. Geffen of Port Chester,
N. Y.
An American intelligence offi
cer said they would be interview
ed in Seoul Sunday morning.
The intelligence officer express
ed some skepticism of the Russian
announcement, however.
“Our attitude here,” he said, “is
‘seeing is believing’,” and added
the Russians had promised to re
lease the soldiers once before, the
day following their seizure. <The
army had not previously disclosed
the earlier Russian promise to re
lease the men.)
Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge, com
mander of the American 'south
ern) occupation zone in Korea,
had lodged two strong protests
against the arrest of the Ameri
cans, who were on an official mis
sion to inspect telephone lines con
necting U. S. headquarters in Se
oul with those at Pyongyang.
His protests and demands for an
1 explanation were answered only
j with a terse statement that “Gen
i eral Korotkov (Russian occupation
zone commanden is handling the
1 case himself.”
_ I
I SEOUL. Korea, (/Pi — Three
American soldiers, released un
i harmed by the Russians after 12
days’ detention in the Soviet zone,
said today that guards with tom-j
myguns accompanied them con- j
j stantly, but that they were not'
I subjected to close questioning.
The three men, detailed to in-1
spect a telephone line paralleling
a railroad linking Seoul with Rus
sian headquarters at Pyongkyang.
were taken into Soviet custody
Aug. 12 at the village of Yohyon
Ni, inside the Russian zone arid
about 40 miles northwest of Seoul.
They were released at the same
spot Sunday afternoon.
The three told their stories to j
intelligence officers today and
then met news correspondents.
They said they walked into the
Soviet zone inadvertently through
failure to see a marker at the 38th
parallel—dividing line between
the American and Soviet occupa
tion areas. They said they believed
a Korean section-hand had hung
his coat over the marker.
Soviet officers questioned them
twice on their birthplaces, ages,
and similar matters, and repeated
ly asked them why they crossed
the border, but never searched
them or examined their wallets or
personal papers, the three told
correspondents. (
There were no questions about |
American installations or opera-1
tions in South Korea, the soldiers
added, and the only time politics
came up was when they were
asked if they had heard of Stalin
and Lenin. The three answered
“yes.” . I
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| Widow Of Thomas
Edison Passes On
, NEW YORK, </P)—Mrs. Nina
1 Miller Edison, 82, who lived to see
her husband, the late Thomas A.
I Edison, hailed as one of the great
est investors in history and one of
her sons become a cabinet member
j and Governor of New Jersey, died
j last night.
Former secretary of the navy
! Charles Edison, inventor Thomas
Miller Edison and Mrs. John Eyre
Sloane were at their mother’s bed
side when she died in Harkness
Pavilion of the Columbia Presby
terian Medical Center, a few
hours after lapsing into a coma.
She had been a patient there since
July 16. Dr. James Coss, her phy
sician, said the “presumptive
cause of her death was cardiac I
failure.”
A friend of Herbert Hoover and
his late wife, Mrs. Edison worked
actively in both of Hoover’s Presi
dential campaigns. But in 194.3,
saying she was “ashamed of my i
party” in New Jersey, she an
nounced she would be a political
| independent.
SON BORN TO
MR. AND MRS. M. B. YOUNG
Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Young are1
j the happy parents of a son, born
at 9:40 this morning at the M. C.
Hospital. They young man weigh-1
ed in at 6V4 pounds. Both mother
and baby are doing nicely.
COTUIT, Mass. (/P)—U. S. Rep.'
Charles L. Gifford, 76, <R.-Mass.)l
died early today at his home. Gif
ford had been a member of Con
gress since 1921.
He was associated with the oy
ster and cranberry industiies and
served in the Massachusetts 1 • * • i5 -
lature from 1912 to 1910.
Dorsey Punches
Goodman; Verbally
And With Fists
HOLLYWOOD, (>P) — Benny
Goodman, long known as Ihe king
of swing, apparently was out
swung by Tommy Dorsey. That
much seemed certain Saturday.
Goodman was home nursing a
sore nose and chin where, Gold
wyn publicists said, trombone
Tommy landed the old one-two at
a recording session that got hot in
more ways than musical.
The story, as the studio spokes
man reconstructed it, was that
Goodman arrived two hours late
for the date Friday, then aroused
Dorsey’s ire—not always deeply
hidden—by interpolating some hot
licks which caused a remake. Dor
sey reportedly said:
"Look, Benny, I came here at
nine with the other boys after
working until two. Maybe you can
sleep but we’d like to get this over
with.”
An exchange of phrases led to
Dorsey’s blows, ringsiders said.
Goodman, who apparently landed
only verbally, picked himself up
off the bandstand and went home.
Later sliphorn Tommy sideslip
ped questioners, denying he struck
the clarinetist. Claimed Dorsey:
“There was a little verbal argu
ment. A couple of music stands got
upset. Why, I’m a musician. I
couldn’t punch my way out of a
paper bag.”
Goodman gave this version:
“I was just sitting there playing
my clarinet when Tommy walked
up and started swinging. I’m mys
ti ':°d about the whole thing.”
He denied calling Dorsey any
names.
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