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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
U. S. Rejects Soviet Union Move
To Seat China in United Nations;
Marines Start Offensive in Korea
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions ore expressed In these eolsmns, they sre those of
Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and nof necessarily of this newspaper.)
SECURITY COUNCIL:
No Communist Deals
“So long as men are dying on
the battlefield in defense of the
United Nations this council will
not wish to cheapen their suffer
ing or stilly their heroism by
seeming to engage in the consider
ation of deals.”
With these words, Warren Aus
tin, the American chief delegate to
the United Nations, rejected the
Russian move to link the question
of Red China’s entrance in the U. N.
with the Korean war.
It was a bitter exchange of words
between Austin and Soviet dele
gate Jakob A. Malik, who became
president of the security council
Aug. 1.
Malik wanted the question of
admitting Red China to the U. N.
the first order of business on the
agenda, with the Korean situation
second. The Russians were defeat
ed by a vote of eight to one.
No one believed the Russians had
any formula for peace that was
acceptable to the western powers
when 1 they ended their -boycott of
the security council. It soon be
came evident the Russians were
interested in seating Red China
and nothing else.
Some believed Malik's maneu
vers were only delaying tactics in
the belief the North Koreans would
quickly shove United Nation’s
troops off Korea and thus open the
way for any demands the Soviet
Union desired to make.
That belief became wide-spread
when the Russians demanded
American troops be withdrawn
from Korea, under threat of use of
the veto, and seat the North Ko
reans in security council delibera
tions.
On the other hand, it was just
as evident that the United States
would not agree to such a situa
tion. The only outcome could be a
deadlock, with the Russians resort
ing to the vote to kill any action
file majority might sanction.
TRANSPORTATION:
Truck Fleets Increase
A for hire fleet of 1,000,000 trucks
—part of the 8,000,000 which roll
America’s highways—is available
for transport of military supplies in
case of a grave national emergency,
the American Trucking association
has estimated.
The figure was the chief finding
of an industry-wide survey con
ducted by the transportation organ
ization as the first step in prepar
ing for a possible all-out mobiliza
tion. The for hire vehicles would be
the first to be mobilized and would,
the association said, carry the brunt
of the military ton-mile load.
But an additional 4,500,000 pri
vately operated trucks, 2,200,000
farm trucks and 335,000 trucks un
der public ownership, could ulti
mately be made available.
Taken as a whole, the associa
tion’s survey revealed the trucking
industry could provide 171,369,000
inter-city ton-miles of transport
facilities during the next\12 months.
In 1541—the year before Pearl Har-
bor-r~the industry clocked up 57,-
123,000 ton miles.
That difference—114,246,000 ton-
miles per year—represents the in
creased load of guns, food, ammu
nition or other military supplies
which American civilian trucking
firms are able and ready to handle
without relying on any other form
of transportation and with the full
advantage of point-to-point ship
ment without rehandling.
EUROPE:
Steps Up Defense
Hie democratic nations of Europe
with Communist aggression in Asia
uppermost in mind formed plans
for increased defense measures
against invasion by Russia.
The United States and its North
Atlantic allies mapped a three-year
$20 billion campaign of defense.
Britain offered to adopt a three-
year $9% billion defense budget, a
heavy load for the already hard
pressed British government, if the
U.Sk foots part of the bill.
Other members of the group
agreed to recommend that all mem
ber governments take immediate
steps to increase effective military
forces for common defense.
France meanwhile asked that
more American and British troops
be sent to Europe and pledged to
start a $5.7 billion three-year re
armament program. The new pro
gram would be in addition to the
1950 military budget of $1.2 billion.
Rebuke
The pent-up indignation felt
by all who had heard Jac
ob Malik’s scathing attack on
the United States in the U. N.
security council is registered
and voiced by chief U. S. Dele
gate Warren Austin. Austin’s
usual cool, collected tempera
ment has been put by the
boards as he replied to Malik’s
statements. This closeup shows
Austin fiercely rebuking the
Russian delegate.
KOREA:
A Limited Offensive
The Korean military picture ap
peared a little brighter for United
Nations forces. A powerful Ameri
can attack, the largest launched by
the U.S. since the Korean war be
gan, rolled slowly forward on the
southern front.
The North Korean troops, evident
ly completely aware that an attack
was coming, took advantage of
every spot of cover and battled
U.S. marines for every foot of
ground.
In the central sector the Com
munists established one bridge
head across the Naktong river be
hind which United Nations forces
had established new defense posi
tions. Military authorities reported
immediate danger points were in
the south and center sectors. In
the center the Reds had three divi
sions and four of their finest in the
south.
While U.N. forces attacked in the
south, U.S. B-29’s pounded military
targets in North Korea, dropping
as many as 540 tons of bombs in
one day. One mass flight dropped
460 tons on railroad yards at Pyong
yang, North Korea capital, with
“excellent results.”
Air groups from two 27,000-ton
U.S. carriers bombed scattered tar
gets over southwestern Korea and
gave close support to attacking
troops in the southern sector.
Military authorities warned that
the southern action was a “limited
offensive” and not a “general of
fensive.” It evidently was designed
to block the Communist strategy
of:
(1) Drive down the southern
coastal plain, capture Pusan, seal
off the U.N. port of entry and the
only escape hatch; (2) smash
through to Taegu in the Naktong
valley, encircle the defenders and
cut them up.
Whether or not the Communists
can execute this strategy hinges on
the question: Have we the men and
the materials to stop them? Until
recently the outlook was grim.
BRIDGES:
Jailed at Last
Harry Bridges, turbulent long
shore labor leader, had gone to
jail at last.
Federal Judge George B. Harris
revoked the $25,000 bail under
which Bridges had been at liberty
since his conviction last April on
charges of perjury and conspiracy
in connection with his 1945 naturali
zation, and ordered him jailed.
In delivering his opinion. Judge
Harris assailed the C. I. O. labor
leader as “an agent dedicated to
the execution of the Communist
program nationally and interna
tionally,” and a menace to United
States security.
“This is not the time for divided
loyalty,” Judge Harris said. “This
is not the time for Communist
double f " t k.”
The move to revoke Bridges'
bail was started by F. Joseph
Donohue, special assistant to the
U. S. attorney general. Donohue
argued that remarks by the laboi
leader at union meetings, to the
effect that he opposed resolutions
supporting American intervention
in the Korean war, were against
the best interest of the country.
H-BOMB:
Work Continues
The United States has stepped
up its work toward production erf
the hydrogen bomb. The govern
ment has assigned a major seg
ment of the job to the du Pont
company, already experts in mak
ing the plutonium which goes into
the present atomic weapons.
The A. E. C. appointed the du
Pont company to design, construct,^
and operate some new plants of
advanced design.
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Plane Crash
Nineteen persons were killed and
60 injured when a bomb laden B-29
crashed, burned and exploded near
the Fairfield-Suisun air base in
California.
The plane crashed near a trailer
camp where 200 service families
slept. Hie flaming explosion of the
10 or 12 ^ 500-pound demolition
bombs the plane carried shattered
more than half of 50 automobiles
and trailers parked in the area.
FORMOSA:
The Big Question
In the minds of many interna
tional observers. Formosa had be
come the big question in the battle
against communism. And it pre
sented the first split in policy
among the western powers.
With the President’s order to the
U. S. seventh fleet to defend the
island from Communist invasion,
the split in policy first appeared
The split, or Russian trap as some
are inclined to believe, became
serious with the visit of Genera
Mac Arthur to the island and the
arrival of jet planes Immediately
after he returned to Japan.
Many observers point out that
U. S. policy is now clear: defend
Formosa and the Nationalist gov
ernment. This, they believe, may
involve the United States in a con
flict with Red China, a fight which
would almost be impossible for
America to win.
At the same time, the British
government has already recognized
the Communist government of
China. Several other western pow
ers have been reported on the
verge of recognition. This leaves
the U. S. out on a limb and could
involve the nation in a full fledged
Asiatic war.
That, students of the present
world situation say, is exactly
what the Soviet Union desires. If
such a thing should happen Russia
would, of ‘course, materially aid
the Chinese.
It has been pointed out that the
American decision to defend For
mosa is a direct act of aggression
against Red China. It is a perfect
excuse for the Reds to rush sev
eral divisions to the aid of the
Koreans. Some observer* believe
such a move is already underway.
Within hours after MacArthur
returned to Japan, American jets
landed on Formosa—vanguard of
air units assigned to defend the
island.
A comment heard frequently aft
er they landed was: “MacArthur
certainly works fast.”
That may be, observers pointed
out, but it could also mean that
MacArthur has fallen into the
Russian trap. It was a serious sit
uation that the United States now
had to face.
ECONOMY:
Control Bill Likely
The senate banking committee ap
proved a home-front mobilization
bill which would give full discretion
to invoke wage-price-rationing con
trols to President Truman.
Last month President Truman
asked for limited economic controls.
The bill approved by the commit
tee, however, goes much further
than Mr. Truman asked.
Those less-sweeping curbs in
cluded authority to:
1. Allocate scarce industrial ma
terials.
2. Assign priorities to put defense
production work at the head of any
factory job sheet.
3. Let the government take over
privately owned plants, if neces
sary.
4. Curb consumer credit and real-
estate construction credit.
5. Grant $2,000,000,000 in govern
ment loans and loan guarantees to
spur defense production.
The measure gives the President
the right to invoke general price
control and rationing anytime he
decided such a step was warranted.
He could invoke general wage con
trols at the same time.
The only apparent restriction is
a provision saying the President
would be compelled to put wage
curbs in effect if price ceilings pre
viously had been established “on
materials, services, and property
comprising a substantial part of all
sales at retail and materially af
fecting the cost of living.”
The house was expected to agree
on some bill patterned principally
after the senate committee’s meas
ure. *
The Draft
Selective service officials at
national headquarters in Wash
ington get down to work on
army’s call for 100,000 men
during September and October.
Left to right: Col. Daniel O.
Omer, general council; Selec
tive Service Director Lewis B.
Hershey, and Col. Bernard T.
Franck, legislative officer.
ROBESON:
Passport Voided
Paul Robeson, native-born Negro
singer and a leader in left-wing
movements, was asked by the state
department to surrender his pass
port. He refused and the govern
ment voided the passport and ord
ered officials to stop him if he
tried to leave the country.
The state department said any
trip abroad that Robeson would
make would not be in the interest
of the United States.
SOLDIERS INSPECT KOREAN CIVILIANS . . . United States and
Korean troops somewhere in Korea inspect some Korean civilians. The
G.I. stands ready with gun in case the Korean showing the contents of
his bag may have a weapon hidden in same for sudden attack upon
the searchers. The North Korean Communists have been especially
adept in infiltrating American and South Korean lines.
BETROTHED . • . The engagement of Philip H. Willkie, 30, son of the
late Wendell L. Willkie, one-time presidential candidate, and Miss
Rosalie Heffelflnger, 22, member of one of Minneapolis’ most promi
nent families, was announced in Minneapolis recently by the parents
of Miss Heffelflnger, Mr. and Mrs. F. Peavey Heffelflnger, of suburban
Wayzata, Minn. No date was set for the wedding at the time of the
announcemeut. The betrothed couple are shown together in Minneapolis.
RECALLS STALIN INCIDENT . . .
Harry Venzer, Pittsburgh, tells
about Joe Stalin hiding under
bench on which Venxer, then a
child, slept in his father’s Odessa
saloon. Venzer says Stalin, fleeing
from the secret police, patted his
head saying, “Thanks, littie one.”
BEREAVED FAMILY . . . Mrs.
Douglas MacKiernan, wife of the
American vice - c o n s n 1 reported
slain near Tibetan border while
fleeing from Red China, holds her
twins, Michael and Miry, They
live in Fairfax, Calif.’ Tibetans
mistook the consul for a Red.
TRAPPED IN EXCAVATION ... A day laborer, Anthony * Viglione,
grits his teeth and contorts his features in pain and agony as an un
identified group of rescuers makes an attempt to free him from an
excavation where he was trapped for some time before help was able
to reach him. The victim was pinned in the excavation where he was
working when shorings gave way, and was unable to extricate himself.
FACES COURT IN SPY RING PROBE . . . Miriam Moskowitz, who
was arrested in Cliffwood, N. J„ with Abraham Brothman, arrives at
federal court. New York City, to be arraigned on charges of conspir
ing to block justice. The pair was arrested by the FBI and accused of
concocting a false story for Harry Gold, confessed spy. The story,
according to charges, was to conceal the fact Brothman and Gold were
brought together by Semen Semenov, Soviet atom spy.
MELON QUEEN . . . Mary Ann
Davis, 18, a coed at the Arizona
state college, has been named
queen of the “melon festival” held
at Glendale, Arizona. She is hold
ing a small part of the valley’s
$5,000,000 melon harvest of this
year.
ANCIENT VOLUNTEER . . . Sam
uel Barsumian, 85, Philadelphia,
who fought with the Turkish army
in World War I, has appealed to
the President to put him in the
armed forces to fight against Com
munism.
BRIEFS TRUMAN DAILY . . •
Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman
of the joint chiefs of staff, arrives
at the White House for his daily
briefing of President Truman on
developments in the Korean con-
Secret EGA Session
A S CONGRESSIONAL leaders
gathered in his office to dis
cuss the President’s request for
an additional $4-billion to arm our
allies, Mr. Truman opened the
meeting by urging everyone to
“speak freely and give me your
opinions.” He got his wish.
There were two verbal explo
sions at the secret session, one from
Democratic Sen. Tom Connally of
Texas, who demanded that some
of the $4-billion be diverted from
ECA spending; another from GOP
congressman Dewey Short of Mis
souri, who objected to bypassing
congressional committees.
“Are all these millions for eco
nomic (ECA) aid necessary at -a
time like this?” demanded Con
nally, pointing out that if the U.S.A.
must tighten its belt* economically
for warr, out European-, friends
should expect less economic help
from us. “Why can’J^ some of it
be used for jnilitary aid?” the
Texas senator asked.
“We can’t cut off food to those
unfortunate people,” explained Sec
retary of State Acheson, who at
tended the n^eeting. He added that
this was more important than send
ing arms—certainly more impor
tant in keeping the friendship of
western Europe.
“Yes, but we don’t have to
feed them for five years,”
boiled the acid-tongued Texan.
“Some of our own people need
feeding. Besides, not all this
ECA money goes for food.
Some of It is spent for such
things as hydroelectric projects
in Europe.”
Acheson agreed, but reminded
Connally that western Europeans
need electric power not only for
peace, but to manufacture arms
for use agpinst aggressors.
“It takes two or three years to
build a dam and *the other facili
ties needed to produce electric
power,” shot back Texas Tom, in
no mood to be argued down. “We
are dealing with a current emer
gency—the problem of providing
military aid now. If an amendment
b offered to use some of t^iis ECA
money for arms. I’ll vote for It”
Missourians Differ
Congressman Short, the omy
house Republican from Truman’s
home state—therefore an object of
special disdain at the White House
—complained about the strategy of
bypassing the foreign affairs and
armed services committees by
sending the $4-billion measure di
rectly to the senate and house ap
propriations committees.
The time you will save will
not be worth the bad feeling you
will create in congress,” pro
tested Short. “If you went
through the regular procedure
of getting authorizations from
the foreign affairs and armed
service^ committees, you could
still get this bill to the floor in
a day.
“A lot of my colleagues will want
to know what type of weapons we
are sending to Europe—what coun
tries are getting how much—and
if the shipments can be made with
out weakening ourselves. But this
information will be denied us.
“As one humble and insignificant
member of congress,” the Mis
sourian continued, “I can’t say that
we should give unanimous approval
to this unconstitutional procedure.”
“Oh, you’re trying to make an is
sue out of nothing,” snapped the
President.
“No, I’m not,” retorted his fel
low Missourian. “There’s a proper
and an improper way to handle
these matters.”
Finally, house GOP leader Joe
Martin intervened in favor of the
president.
Wirefapping Probe
Betting odds on Capitol ,Hill are
that the federal grand jury now
probing police-state methods and
the wiretapping inspired by Sena
tor Brewster of Maine will end in
a whitewash.
Despite the efforts of con
scientious James Mclnerny,
chief of the justice department’s
criminal division, alibis are
arranged to get Senator Brews
ter and his friends. Pan Amer
ican Airways, off file hot spot.
In the first place, the justice de
partment held the wiretapping re
port for almost a year and only
fished it out of the files after the
facts had been exposed in the press.
As a result, the statute of limita
tions is about to expire, and but
one scant week remains—seven
days from today—in which the
grand jury can. act.
Feared for His Life
Meanwhile Senator Brewster’s
story is that his life was in danger
and he called in the Washington
police. While they may have tapped
some wires in protecting him, he
had no knowledge of what they
were doing and received no infor
mation from them.
Significantly, other policemen
who tapped Howard Hughes’ wire
under Lieutenant Shimon’s direc
tion had instructions to listen espe
cially for conversations pertaining
to the airplane industry.
Foodstuffs mailed at Christmas
time should be packed with spe
cial care. Cookies are the com
monest casualties, but they can
be protected by packing them in
alternate layers with marshmal
lows or popcorn.
When light cream has a mind
jof its own and refuses to be
whipped, it’s time to assert your
self. Toss the white of an egg into
it, and beat some more. It’ll get
stiff in short order, and nobody
but your mother-in-law will sus
pect that it’s been “doctored.”
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BINGHAMTON, N. Y. —
Hitchcock of nearby Chen
Bridge was sitting in a hob
Bogota, Colombia, as snipfrs’
lets whizzed around during the
ing there.
That was bad enough, but Hitch
cock was even more worried about
his wife back home. She was ex
pecting a baby.
As the dismal hours passed, he
heard sputtering* from the small
short-wave radio set he’d carried
with him.
“Randall * Hitchcock,
Hitchcock,” called a voice. u
you’re listening, your wife has had
a fine baby boy and you’re a proud
father. Mother and baby doing
nicely.”
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The voice was that of Wolfie
Wolfinger, an amateur radio
ator at Hillcrest, near Hitchc
home.
“It was the biggest moment
my life,” said Hitchcock,
the danger from the bullets
mobs of the revolution.
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‘Worst’ Rtekltss Driver I
Wild Sprat in Jail Coll
WICHITA, KAS. — Fining
motorist $600 and sentencing
to five months in jail. Judge
Rogers said the case was the *
instance of reckless driving”
brought to his attention. ■ .
Joseph D. Rosario Jr., 30,
the penalties for: ^
Speeding 80 miles an hour
night through heavy do
traffic in’ a 20-mile zone;
12 traffic lights; driving wii
license; reckless driving;
without lights; driving on the
side of the street; possessing
in violation of Kansas dry laws
resisting arrest.
The wild chase, with two motor
cycle officers in pursuit, ended
Rosario’s car smashing to a stop
a clump of shrubbery.
He wasn’t hurt.
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Buy Has 17 Years to Pay
Fine for Smashing Window
BURY, ENGLAND. — Four-
old Stephen Jones has 17
save up three dollars to pay
judgment.
The obligation, grew out
incident involving a stone about
size of a peach and the glass
of a greenhouse. The county
held Stephen and the stone
responsible for a smashed
glass.
Then the law took ai
twist. The action, it was held,
against Stephen, not his fa
the judgment was against
But a judgment cannot be
from a legal infant so file
house man has to wait until
is 21 before he can collect,
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