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Steel Price Boost Will
Cost Average American
About $100 A Year
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Price
Stabilizer Ellis Arnall predicts
the new price boost will cost the
average American family about
$100 a year in higher prices.
Arnall said in a television inter
view that the $5.20 per ton price
boost for steel he signed reluc
tantly Wednesday would touch
off a new round of inflation.
He made it clear the steel in
crease was not his own choice,
•but was ordered by Acting De
fense Mobilizer John R. Steelman.
Arnall said it was “a very, very
bitter pill for me.”
Earlier in the day Price Con
trol officials had said the cost of
living, already at a record high,
is almost certain to climb even
higher because of “inevitable in
creases" in some major industries.
A top official said the higher
•steel ceilings probably will force
the government to drop its hold
the-line price policy and center
efforts on keeping apparently in
evitable increases as small as pos
•siole.
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Clearing Weather Brings
Renewed Intensity to War
SEOUL, (>P) — The U. S. Fifth
Air Force said United Nations
pilots shot down three Communist
jets and damaged two over North
Korea Friday as clearing weather
brought renewed intensity to the
war.
The U. S. Eighth Army said
bayonet-wielding Allied infantry
men recaptured the crest of Old
Baldy hill in a bloody eight-hour
fight on the western front.
In Tokyo, Gen. Weyland, com
manding general of the U.S. Far
East Air Forces, announced the
addition of about 75 sleek F-84
Thunderjet fighter - bombers to
U.N. air strength for action over
Korea.
A monthly Air Force summary
reported that the Communists lost
32 planes in July, the United Na
tions, 19.
Suported by fighter - bombers
and artillery fire, Allied dough
boys stormed Old Baldy from two
sides Thursday night. Recapture
of the strategic outpost marked
the first intense ground fighting
since last Saturday, the first of
six days of heavy rain.
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Alger Hiss Petitions
For Third Trial
NEW YORK; (/P) — Convicted
perjurer Alger Hiss, in prison for
•a five-year term, still insists he’s
entitled to a third trial.
The former State Department
official, convicted of lying to a
grand jury about his services to'
a pre-war Soviet spy ring after
a jury disagreement in his first
trial, took his plea Thursday to
the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
He previously had sought a new
trial with the claim that he had
discovered new evidence.
But this appeal was turned
down July 22 by Federal District
Judge Henry W. Goddard who
ruled there was not sufficient
evidence to influence another
jury.
In his latest plea, Hiss said
through his lawyer that Judge
Goddard “overlooked or disre
garded new evidence and his rul
ing was improper and an abuse
of his discretion.”
Credit Business In U.S.
Booms To New High
WASHINGTON, The lift
ing of controls o*n installment
buying last May 7 has pushed
credit business to a new high. The
biggest time payment boom was
in autos.
The Federal Reserve Board an
nounced Thursday that install
ment buying during June jumped
593 million dollars on top of 447
million rise in May.
The big rush for automobiles
was attributed to fear that the
steel strike would make new cars
hard to get for a long time.
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B-29s Dumped 630 Tons
Bombs On North Korean
Aluminum Plant
SEOUL,. (>P) — The U.S. Air
Force said 63 American B-29s re
turned safely to bases in Japan
and Okinawa early Thursday
after leveling a huge Communist
aluminum plant near the Man
churian border in the biggest
over - night raid of the Korean
war.
The 12Vfe-aere factory of the
Oriental Light Metal Co., 10 miles
southeast of Sinuiju, went up in
smoke and flame after the B-29s
hurled 630 tons of bombs on it
and an adjacent troop buildup
area.
An Air Force briefing officer
called the raid another calculated
effort to force the hand of stalling
Communist truce negotiators. Pre
sumably he referred to the series
of massive Allied raids which
started with the June 23 strike
against Red hydro-electric plants.
Acheson and Ministers of
Australia, New Zealand
To Map Pacific Defense
WASHINGTON, (jflP)—Secretary
of State Dean Acheson took off
Friday for Honolulu and a meet
ing with the foreign ministers of
Australia and New Zealand to set
up an organization for Pacific de
fense.
Acheson and a party of ad
visers left aboard a Constellation
aircraft chartered from the Mili
tary Air Transport Service.
Acheson said the main task of
the three ministers will be “to
work out the machinery of the
treaty” which the three countries
signed for their common security
at San Francisco last fall. The
meeting opens Monday.
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Australia to Supply
U.S. Uranium Ore
WASHINGTON, (/P) —Precious
uranium ore for America’s ever
expanding atomic program will
soon be coming from two new
foreign sources — South Africa
and Australia—the United States
revealed Thursday in a report
also disclosing substantial pro
gress in developing improved
atomic weapons during the past
six months.
The Atomic Energy Commis
sion in its 12th semi-annual re
port to Congress further disclosed
that uranium may come from ad
ditional new milling facilities in
Canada—long an American sup
plier—and that new sources with
in the United States itself are
nearly ready for initial produc
tion.
Conspicuous by its absence was
any reference to progress on the
projected hydrogen bomb.
Implying a vastly increased
tempo for its entire atomic energy
program of fissionable materials
for explosives and other uses had
at times been pushed even beyond
their designed operating capacity
— even as new ones are being
built and still others are in pros
pect under the recently approved
3Vfe billion dollar expansion pro
gram. '
AEC said the first of several
plants, being constructed in South
Africa to recover uranium from
gold ores of the famous Zawpr
land gold fields, are nearly ready
to start production.
Concerning the Australian
source, the AEC said only that an
agreement was reached with Aus
tralia to supply uranium to the
United States.
It was the first mention of such
an agreement by the AEC, al
though Australia disclosed in
March that she had accepted an
American offer to purchase ura
nium from the “radium hill” field
of South Australia.
MoTe recently, Australian of
ficials were reported trying to in
terest the United State? in de
veloping Australia’s so - called
“rum jungle’’ field—believed by
Australian experts to be poten
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