Longshoremen
To Fighl Loyally
Screening Program
SAN FRANCISCO, i/P) — West
Coast longshoremen promised to
back up their disapproval of the
government’s loyalty screening
program by striking any commer
cial dock where a worker is laid
off . for security reasons.
The International Longshore
men’s and Warehousemen’s Union
announced Friday that the plan
had been approved by dock locals
from Seattle to San Diego.
Union spokesmen said the
Coast Guard has not been screen
ing dock workers from commer
cial jobs, although the port cap
tain has authority to bar any per
son from docks or ships as a se
urity measure.
Some members of the ILWU
have been refused clearance for
work on military docks and clas
sified cargos.
The ILWU program calls for
“full support to any ILWU mem
ber who, having been denied
Army-Navy ^work, is prevented
from a full share of commercial
work.
The longshoremen also voted to
build a $160,000 “defense fund”
to ward off legal attacks against
the union.
RIO DE JANIERO, Brazil, (JP)
— Fifteen persons burned to
death and 20 others were serious
ly injured Saturday in the crash
of a bus and a street car in Sal
vador, state capital of Baia.
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MUNSAN, Korea, (/P) — Frayed
tempers snapped Saturday as
iruce negotiators haggled over
how to police a Korean armistice.
From both sides of the conference
table came angry charges and
blunt warnings. There was no
progress toward a truce.
A U.N. delegate warned that
the Allies will not be forced to
bow to communist armistice de
mands by the threat of growing
Red air power.
“You have cast yourself in the
role of a bandit . . .” said Maj.
Gen. Howard M. Turner.
“You have fully exposed your
ugly, ferocious features of a ban
dit . . .” retorted Chinese Maj.
Gen. Hsieh Fang.
Using some of the strongest lan
guage since the armistice talks
began, Turner told the Reds “the
United Nations Command did not
come to Korea to surrender,” and
“we have no intention of leaving
the South Koreans to your tender
mercies.”
In a nearby conference tent,
Hungry Cow Electrocuted
As It Eats Electric Light
HUNTINGTON, Ind., (JP) —
Cows should be herbivorous, not
omnivorous, and penalty for
breaking that law of nature was
electrocution for one bovine Fri
day.
Russel M. Stenger found a hun
gry Guernsey dead in his barn
With a half-eaten electric light
bulb and socket in her mouth.
HONG KONG, </P) — Commun
ist New China news agency dis
patch from Kunming said Satur
day that an earthquake in west
ern Yunnan province Dec. 21
killed 390 persons and injured
1,537.
United Nations and communist
negotiators haggled fruitlessly for
more than three hours over how
prisoners of war should be ex
changed.
“Their arguments are getting
pretty feeble,” said Rear Adm.
R. E. Libby. “It is obvious they
are killing time waiting for in
structions.”
Libby said the Reds refused to
answer another request for an
immediate exchange of sick and
wounded prisoners.
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West Republicans
Ask For Candidate
With “No Strings”
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By JACK BELL '
WASHINGTON, {IP)—A strong
western demand for a Republican
presidential nominee “who has no
strings attached” was hailed Sat
urday by backers of Senator Taft
and Gen. Eisenhower as a boost
for their candidates. ^
State chairmen from 18 mid
western and Rocky Mountain
states, meeting in Chicago, ap
proved a resolution Friday which
said:
“We advocate a situation which
will make it possible for the vot
ers to support a candidate whose
hands are not tied and who has
no strings attached, who will
wage war without wavering
against the gigantic pyramid of
unholy power which has been
erected on the banks of the Pot
omac.”
Taft backers immediately inter
preted this as a plug for their
candidate. Taft has been vigor
ous in his denunciation of the
Truman administration’s handling
of domestic and foreign affairs
and has attacked the centraliza
tion of powers in Washington.
Po’litcal critics have contended *
Eisenhower would be bound to
support most of the Truman ad
ministration foreign policies and
thus in that field might be re
garded as having some strings at
tached.
Senator Duff (R-Pa), who for
mally opened a Washington “Ike
foT President” headquarters just
before Christmas, has said Eisen
hower would be “unencumbered
by promises” that might be made
by other candidates in a “purely
professional setup.”
Decline In Grocery
Food Prices Noted
WASHINGTON, The first
decline in grocery food prices
since October — 1.2 per cent be
tween Nov. 26 and Dec. 15—has
been reported by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics.
The index, based on a 1935-39
average base of 100, was 231.9 for
Dec. 15. It was obtained by sampl
ing retail food prices in eight
major cities.
Biggest decline included prices
of eggs, down 13.6 percent.
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