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Gen. Eisenhower
Outlines Peace,
Security Program
DENVER, (/PI—Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower pitched his presiden
tial campaign Tuesday squarely
on a peace-or-war issue with his
GOP opponent, Sen. Robert A.
Taft of Ohio.
The general laid down the bat
tle lines in 3 television - radio
speech Monday night in which he
blasted isolationists and declared
he was in politics primarily be
cause he believed peace was at
stake in the contest for the GOP
presidential nomination.
He outlined his own peace and
security program in this way:
1— Convince the world that
America has a sincere devotion
to peace and will not consider
proposals for a “preventive war.”
2— Support the United Nations,
the North Atlantic Treaty Organ
ization, and other security agree
ments as instruments of peace.
3— Pursue a positive foreign
program, rather than a “hand to
mouth*’ operation, which will
line-up the Allies against the en
slavement of any nation.
4— Build up spiritual and mili
tary strength which will con
vince the Russian leaders they
must accept a “just and practical
plan” of world disarmament.
In firm command of his own
campaign, Eisenhower left no
doubt he classed Taft among the
isolationists and that he believed
a “retreat into isolationism
would leave the United States
“encircled by a savage wolf pack
of Communism.
Truce Negotiators Mark
Anniversary of Conflict
With Cross Accusations
MUNSAN, (/P) — United Na
tions and Communist truce nego
tiators marked the second anni
versary of the Korean war Wed
nesday by accusing each other of
touching off the bloody conflict.
Peace, each side argued, lies in
its proposal for the exchange of
war prisoners — the only major
issue blocking an armistice.
For the first time Gen. Nam II
acknowledged an Allied disclo
sure of Saturday that Soviet Rus
sia in World War II offered Ger
man soldiers the right to choose
whether they wanted to go home
if they surrendered.
U.N. insistence on repatriating
only prisoners who want to go
home has blocked agreement on a
Korean armistice for weeks.
Nam said the reference to So
viet Russia was “out of context
and has no bearing on present
discussions.”
Congress “Requests”
Truman Invoke Taft
Hartley in Steel Dispute
WASHINGTON, f/P) — The
House joined with the Senate
Wednesday in requesting Presi
dent Truman to try to stop the
three-weeks-old steel strike by
using the Tuft-Hartley law.
It wrote the “request” into a
wuge-price-control bill on which
a final vote still must be taken,
after refusing to “direct” the
President to take injunction
action.
WSB Orders 20(• an Hour
Ceiling on Wage Boosts
For Alaska Carpenters
WASHINGTON, W — The
Wage Stabilization Board Wed
nesday ordered a 20 cent-an-hour
ceiling on wage boosts for more
than 1,000 Alaska carpenters.
The board ruled that employ
ers who belong to the Alaska
chapter of Associated General
Contractors could raise the wages
of carpenters only by that
amount. The carpenters’ union—
the Alaska Council of Carpenters
— had asked a 41 cent an hour
boost.
Both agreed in advance to ac
cept any recommendation made
by the board retroactive to Feb. 1.
WSB officials estimated that
between 1,000 and 2,000 carpen
ters in Alaska—virtually all car
penters in the territory—are af
fected by the decision.
Russians Tell Rest
Of World Keep Off
Soviet Territory
MOSCOW, (JP) — Russia told
the rest of the world Wednesday
to keep its planes away from So
viet territory or run the risk of
having them shot down or in
terned.
This was the construction placed
by foreign diplomats here on a
Soviet note delivered to the Swed
ish ambassador. The message re
plied to a blunt Swedish query
asking whether the Russians had
shot down a Swedish transport
plane missing in the Baltic Sea
area since June 13.
The Soviet reply complained
that foreign planes have violated
the Russian frontier several times
recently while Soviet planes
never violate the borders of other
states.”
It then warned that Soviet
fighters have been instructed to
“open fire on all aircraft that vio
late the frontier and resist orders
to land at a local field.”
The latest Russian note did not
say specifically, however, that
the Soviets had fired on the still
missing plane.
Communists Riot In Japan
On Second Anniversary
Of The War In Korea
TOKYO, (TP) — One thousand
steel helmeted Japanese police
Wednesday night broke up a mob
of 2,500 Korean and Japanese
Communists hurling firebombs
and clubs in crowded Shinruku
station in a brisk half hour battle.
Rioting in the huge suburban
station followed by several hours
bitter anti - American rioting in
the crowded Osaka area in south
ern Japan.
An American general was
burned slightly by sulphuric acid
in the Osaka rioting.
The Reds were observing the
second anniversary of the Korean
war with demonstrations sched
uled in many large Japanese
cities.
Because of the incident all Am
erican military personnel in Tok
yo were ordered to remain in
their quarters by Gen. Mark
Clark, Far East commander.
U.S. military buildings were
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shuttered and well guarded.
COASTWISE LINE
SHIP FOR NOME
TO SAIL JULY 5
(By the Associated Press)
San Francisco Coastwise Line
freighter Seafair will load car
go at Seattle about July 5 for
Nome and Naknek.
Coastwise Line does not nor
mally serve Nome but lines that
do are strikebound* The an
nouncement said Nome is ice
free only a comparatively short
time each summer and depends
largely'on this season to build
up its supplies.
_
NOME AIRLIFT
STARTS TODAY
After appeals to President Tru
man, the Secretary of the Inter
ior, Delegate Bartlett, Governor
Gruening and leaders of the Sail
ors Union failed to get a ship
under way to Nome, local food
suppliers, who have been coop
erating for the welfare of the
community, chartered a plane
straight from Seattle to relieve
a small portion of the shortage.
Twelve thousand pounds of
merchandise arrived this morn
ing, half of which was for the U.S..
Mercantile and half for the N.C.
Store by the Pacific Air Freight
Co.
Mr. Galvin of the Merc stated
that, “Unlike the Berlin Airlift,
the Alaska citizen pays the bill
as the prices of merchandise
brought in this way averages from
600 percent to 1500 percent more
than by boat.”
He explained that meat which
costs five cents a pound by ship
was 31 cents a pound by airlift,
and dairy products which nor
mally by boat have a freight cost
of two cents per pound also has
the added cost of 31 cents.
Senate Recommends 13
Million Dollars For
Alaska Public Works
WASHINGTON, (A5) — Funds
for Alaska Public Works projects
were included in the $13,208,200
recommended Monday by the
Senate Appropriations Committee
to carry out the program during
the 12 months beginning July 1.
It was $6,208,200 more than was
approved by the House in passing
the Interior Department appro
priation, but $6,791,800 less than
was asked by President Truman.
The committee left unchanged
the House-approved figures of
$3,906,000 for Alaska Railroad
construction, 17 million for road
construction, and $3,318,000 for
operation and maintenance of
Alaska roads.
Senate Junks House Attempt Bar
Naming Ambassador To Vatican
"WASHINGTON, (/P)—A Senate
committee Tuesday junked a
House effort to bar President
Truman from sending an ambas
sador to the Vatican without con
gressional approval.
Approving a $1,015,016,735 bill
to finance the State, Justice and
Commerce departments, the Sen
ate Appropriations Committee
dropped a House - approved
“rider” which had that aim.
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Mine Workers Are Named
In $20 Million Suit Filed
By Usibelli Coal Company
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — John L.
Lewis’ United Mine Workers of
America was named a defendant
in a $20 million damage suit filed
in U.S. District Court here Tues
day by the Usibelli Coal Corp.
The company seeks reparation
for damages it contends was sus
tained while being picketed by
the union. The damages, the suit
sets forth, include destruction of
property iby illegal picketing and
potential loss of contracts, as well
as the loss of business because
the concern was unable to ship
coal.
The dispute between the com
pany and the miners, under way
since March 15, flared into the
open Monday. Union miners at
the Healy Coal Co. plant which
adjoins the Usibelli property
walked off their jobs and clashed
with non-union Usibelli miners.
Company attorneys charged ap
proximately $30,000 in damages
was inflicted on the property.
Films Show Attack
On Power Stations
100% Successful
SEOUL, UP) — Air Force and
Navy fighter-bombers teamed up
again Tuesday to hammer four of
the five Communist hydro-elec
tric plants smashed Monday in
the biggest air raid of the Korean
war.
Nearly 200 Navy planes from
big fleet carriers off Korea’s east
coast joined Air Force planes
from dozens of Korean bases to
hit the shattered generating sta
tons for the second straight day,
Navy headquarters announced.
" Military officials in Washing
ton said Monday’s raid on Com
munist generating stations inaug
urated a new “get tough” policy
adopted as a result of Red stalling
in the armistice negotiations.
One spokesman said: “We now
realize the best chance for break
ing the deadlock at Panmunjom
is to hit the enemy with all the
force at our command.”
A study of gun camera films
from the 500 Air Force, Marine
and carrier-hased Navy planes (
which took part in the Korean
war’s biggest air attack showed
the strike was virtually a 100 per j
cent success, the Air Froce said.
Joey Maxim, Light Heavy,
And Suger Ray, Middle,
Rattle For Title Today
NEW YORK, (/P>—Joe Maxim
of Cleveland, world light heavy
weight champion, weighed 173
pounds today for his once-post- j
poned 15 - round title fight in
Yankee Stadium against middle
weight champion Ray (Sugar)
Robinson.
The noon temperature was 90
and the weather bureau forecast
a hot, sultry evening. The bout,
which will not be broadcast nor
televised for home viewers, will
start at 7 p.m. PDT.
Promoter Jim Norris said ad
vance ticket purchases already
exceeded $270,000 and he esti
mated they^ would reach $350,000.
Robinson was a 6 to 5 favorite.
Monday the odds were 11 to 10.
U.N. Commanders
Dare ’Reds To
Open Offensive
SEOUL, (JP)—'The United Na
turns’ top military commanders in
effect dared the Communists
Wednesday to launch another all
out Korean offensive in the wake
of smashing air attacks against
hydro-electric plants serving Red
war industries.
“We hope he <the Reds) comes,"
said Gen. James A. Van Fleet,
TJ.S. Eighth Army commander.
“We would pile him up on the
(barbed) wire and maybe end the
war."
As the Korean conflict entered
its third year, Van Fleet said he
thinks a new Communist offen
sive would prove to be the de
cisive battle. But “I don’t think
the enemy has the stomach to
fight another offensive.”
In Tokyo, Gen. Mark Clark,
United Nations military com
mander, said U. N. troops are
ready of the Reds choose to
launch a new attack.
“We prefer to achieve an arm
istice at the conference table,”
Clark said. “But if the enemy
prefers otherwise and forces a
return to the bitter and bloody
fighting of 1950 and 1951, we are
ready.”
Lt. Gen. Glenn Barcus, Fifth
Air Force commander, said the
U. N. had undisputed control of
the skies over Korea.
President Rhee of Korea
Narrowly Escapes Death
In Assassination Attempt
PUSAN, Korea, (tP)—President
Syngman Rhee Wednesday nar
rowly escaped assassination by a
member of a Korean secret so
ciety as he addressed a crowd of
6,000 on the second anniversary
of the Korean war.
The would - be killer drew a
German-made pistol and pulled
the trigger only five feet from
Rhee. The cartridge did not fire.
The man was seized by military
police and bystanders and thrown
across the speaker’s platform into
the lap of U.S. Ambassador John
Muccio.
Authorities identified the man
as 62-year-old Ryu Shi Tae, a
member of a secret society known
as the Corps of Blood Justice.
Only a few miles from Pusan,
Korean bandits blew up a rail
line and attacked a National
Railway train, killing two Am
erican soldiers and 45 other per
sons. The South Korean army said
the bandifs carried off 80 pas
sengers, all believed to be South
Koreans.
SHIP UNLOADS FISH AFTER
LYING IDLE 2 WEEKS IN
SEATTLE SALMON TERMINAL
SEATTLE, (IP) — AFL sailors
granted permission Tuesday for
the strikebound motor vessel Su
sitna to unload almost two mil
lion dollars worth of fish and sal
mon in Seattle. The Susitna has
lain idle more than two weeks at
the Pier 24 salmon terminal.
Meanwhile, Alaska Freight
Lines hoped to finish loading a
barge for southeastern Alaska by
Wednesday night.
Company officials said another
barge will start loading Thursday.