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European War Unlikely
S ECRETARY of State Dean Ache-
son told a tightly secret meeting
of house and senate foreign relations
committeemen that he didn’t ex
pect Russia to make any war moves
in Europe in the near future, despite
our announced policy of reinforcing
Europe with arms and men.
One of the toughest problems the
U.N. faces, Acheson reported, is
bringing western Germany into the
program. The Gjyjrtfah people, he
said, were overwhelmingly opposed
to an armed/police force of their
own unless/4t is part of a “well-in-
tegrated”^ask force of all Atlantic
pact nations.
A separate police army, he ad
mitted, would be no match for the
Soviet military machine in east
Germany and might actually invite
Russian conquest of all Germany.
This, Acheson warned, would be
very difficult, if not impossible, to
prevent.
At the same time, Acheson said
that France probably would oppose
making western Germany a full-
fledged member of a mutual de-
' fense pact, since this would include
rebuilding its steel and potential
war industries to full capacity.
The final decision will be up to
the United Nations general assem
bly, Acheson explained, adding that
another question to be decided by
the U.N. was “who owns Formosa?”
The secretary of state pointed out
that while both the Chinese Nation
alists and Communists claim For
mosa for China, the important thing
was to keep the island “neutral” in
the conflict with ^Russia.
Since any decision should take
Into account the sentiment of the
Formosan people themselves, Ach
eson reported, the U.N. may decide
to bold a plebicite in Formosa be
fore determining its future status.
Ftllow Missourian
When President Truman met pri
vately with leaders of the AFL and
CIO recently, it was suggested that
each leader rise and introduce him
self to the honor guest.
Most of the leaders gave their
own names, names of their unions
and the office which they held.
But when it came the turn of
Charles McGowan, head of the
Boilermakers Union, he rose and
merely said: “Charles McGowan
of Jackson, Missouri.”
Truman seemed to get a big kick
out of this.
Two Wyoming Senators
There's an interesting contrast
between the two senators from Wy
oming, both able, conscientious
Sen. Lester Hunt, former gover
nor of the state and recently elect
ed to the senate, has just introduced
a resolution to abolish congressional
immunity from libel suits when a
member of congress makes defam
atory and untrue statements.
The founding fathers, Senator
Hunt indicates, never meant con
gress to be a sounding board for
such smears as McCarthy of Wis
consin and Schoeppel of Kansas
have put across. Both senators have
been challenged to repeat their
libels off the floor of congress and
this collumnist offered to pay Mc
Carthy’s legal expenses in case he
was sued. Neither accepted the chal
lenge.
So newly elected Senator Hunt
proposes to rectify this.
On the other hand. Senator O’
Mahoney, also of Wyoming and in
the senate for 17 years, has been
presiding over a committee exam
ining Senator Schoeppel’s attempted
Red smear of Secretary of the In
terior Chapman. And O’Mahoney
has become so steeped in the sena
torial idea that a fellow senator
should be permitted to talk indefi
nitely that he has let the Schoeppel
hearings become a filibuster in
which Schoeppel, with no facts and
no proof, continues to talk for the
purpose of saving face.
Under the American system a
man is innocent until proven guilty,
yet Senator O’Mahoney is so anx
ious to be fair to his colleague from
Kansas that he seems to think a
cabinet officer is guilty until prov«
en innocent
Marry-Go-Round
After seeing the early-American
pageant, “Faith of Our .Fathers,”
in which Martha Washington pleads
with George to take a rest, Mrs.
Oscar (secretary of interior! Chap
man remarked: “the life of a cabi-
wife hasn’t changed in all these
years. I’ve been after Oscar to take
Saturday off, but he doesn’t pay
any attention.”
Supreme Allied Commander
Not disclosed in recent news
stories about a supreme allied com
mander for Europe is the fact that
the joint chiefs of staff have been
vigorously opposed to the appoint
ment of an American.
Reason for their lack of enthusi
asm is simple. If an American is
made top commander in Europe,
they reason, then Europe will look
to the United States to supply the
troops for him to command. If there
is a French or British commander,
ml«ht furnish men—
■WEEKLY NEY/S ANALYSIS-
U. N. Forces Surprise Communists
With Amphibious Attack at Inchon;
Ministers Plan European Defenses
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of
Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
Robert Schuman of France, Dean Acheson of the U. S., and
Ernest Bevin, of Great Britain (left to right), open the Big Three
foreign ministers conference at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.
Main topic of conversation was the defense of Europe against Com
munist aggression.
KOREA:
Now the Offensive
With tmexpected and dramatic
suddenness the war in Korea
turned from the defensive to the
offensive.
It was sudden in that the Ameri
can people were surprised that
United Nations forces could be
mustered to launch an offensive.
And it was dramatic in its concep
tion and execution by Gen. Douglas
Mac Arthur.
From June 25, when the Com
munist struck with surprising force
and generalship, the people of
America watched one continual
withdrawal. They heard of one
Communist advance after another
and the fall of such cities as Seoul,
Suwan, Kumsan and Taejon. Fur
ther and further the Communists ad
vanced until U.N. forces held a
beachhead in the southeast corner
of Korea that offered little or no
room for further retreat and little
possibilities for an offensive.
And then in one stroke General
MacArthur launched an invasion of
Korea over 100 miles behind the
Communist lines at Inchon. Other
forces landed at Yongdok and at
points on the east coast.
The main Invading force on the
west coast at Inchon had one ob
jective: the capture of Seoul, for
mer capital of South Korea, and
cutting the supply routes of the
Communists from North Korea. At
the same time a general offensive
was launched in the south from the
U. N. beachhead.
General MacArthur did not try
to hide his eventual hopes for the
operatibn. " He wanted to cut Ko
rea just below the 38th parallel and
thus have the Communists armies
between two hammers that would
slowly but surely beat them to
pieces and destroy them.
The initial invasion was success
ful. U. S.. marine and army di
visions captured Wolmi Islands in
less than an hour, overran Inchon
and advanced on Seoul. Kimpo air
field, the best in Korea, was cap
tured, and American troops stood
at the outskirts of Seoul.
The southern offensive progressed
slowly against stubborn Com
munist rear guard action. There
were indications, however, that
Communist defenses were crum
bling.
SPYING:
Slack Admits Guilt
§
Alfred Dean Slack, a former
chemist at a Syracuse, N.Y., plant,
admitted in federal court at Green
ville, Tenn., he was guilty of war
time spying for Soviet Russia.
Slack said he supplied Russian
agents with a sample of RDX, a
high explosive, and the formula for
its manufacture.
U. S. attorney James M. Meek
told the court there were “exten
uating circumstances” in Slack’s
favor and recommended a 10-year
prison sentence.
Meek told the court how Harry
Gold, a Philadelphia biochemist
now awaiting trial on espionage
charges, made contact with Slack
and asked him to obtain details of
the manufacture of RDX.
Slack reportedly refused three
times to give Gold the information,
"but when threatened with exposure
as a “Soviet spy” obtained a
sample of the explosive and the
formula, and turned them over to
Gold.
JAPAN:
Ready for Treaty
Since the end of the shooting war
progress toward a Japanese peace
treaty has been blocked bebatise
the big powers- were divided over
what the treaty should be and the
procedure for drafting it.
Now, however, the United States
has announced it is ready for a
treaty and the state department
representative John Foster Dulles
instructed to begin “informal dis-
gnsstems.** 1
Headliners
“That’s a good sight for my old
eyes,” Gen. Douglas MacArthur
said as he inspected six Red tanks,
still smoking, where they had been
knocked out near Seoul.
“If we lose, we lose forever,”
Bernard Baruch warned in his
latest statement to the American
people that all-out war must be
waged by the U.S. to win in Korea.
“You see, kids, I happened to be
caught in two wars inside 10 years,
and the reason I am where I am
today is because I am fighting for
what I think is right,” Pfc. John J.
McCormick, 28, wrote in a letter to
his two daughters. The letter was
received three days after a tele
gram that informed Mrs. McCor
mick that her husband had been
killed in Korea.
“If American warmongers force
a war on humanity it will be their
last war. The hate of honest and
patient people will explode with a
strength greater than any hydro
gen bomb,” shouted Soviet Marshal
Semyon Bagdanow in a speech to
bolster Russian morale.
BIG THREE:
Not in Accord
Diplomatic sources noted with
concern a break, although not con
sidered too serious, in the relations
of the Big Three foreign ministers
in their first series of New York
meetings.
Dean Acheson, representing the
United States, Robert Schuman of
France, and Ernest Bevin of Great
Britain were not in accord on the
U. S. proposal to rearm western
Germany. That was the major
source of disagreement.
The United States, through Ach
eson, had urged the 12-nation
North Atlantic council to reach
agreement in principle that west
ern German forces should become
part of the projected western Eu
ropean army.
The U. S. idea was that German
troop units would be included in
the western European army.
France, however, indicated that
she wanted to go slow and easy
on the question.
The gist of the French attitude
seemed to be that it was prema
ture to agree immediately on the
principle of eventual German re
armament. That attitude was un
derstandable in that France had not
forgotten, or is likely to forget.
World War I or World War II,
sparked by German aggression.
Observers said that there was a
possibility that the foreign minis
ters might come to some sort of
agreement in principle among
themselves, though it might not be
announced publicly.
The ministers discussed a broad
range of urgent problems. A com
munique issued by the three said
they were fully agreed that the
most urgent problem was that of
strengthening the defenses of the
free world both in Europe and In
Asia and were equally agreed that
immediate effective steps must be
taken to that end.
That, perhaps, was a true Indi
cation of the atmosphere in which
the ministers worked. It was not
a question of what had to be done,
but the best way to accomplish It.
Follow Through
A second offensive against com
munism began shortly after the
invasion of North Korea with the
Voice of America beaming broad
casts to the far east describing
the exploit.
Factual reports of the daring
maneuvers topped all broadcasts
to the far east and near east and
shared first attention with the for
eign ministers meeting in broad
casts to Europe.
MARSHALL:
Anger Close to Tears
In an atmosphere at bitterness
that at times brought senators to
their feet In anger that bordered on
tears, congress cleared the way for
General of the Army George G.
‘Marshall, a soldier for 40 years, to
serve as secretary of defense.
The waiver to the unification act
which forbids the office of secretary
of defense to a commissioned of
ficer within 10 years of the end of
his active service was approved
by the house 220 to 105 and by the
senate by 47 to 21.
But before the vote In the sen
ate. William E. Jenner of Indiana
took the floor and for an hour, while
the senators sat in silence and
shame, launched into an attack on
Marshall’s honor that astounded
foes and friends alike.
It was the reapparance of the
bitter core of isolationism and Sen.
Robert Taft of Ohio and Sen. Ken
neth Wherry of Nebraska Immedi
ately made it plain that they were
not going along with Jenner’s de
nunciation of General Marshall as
a soldier and a man.
Taft opposed the waiver on the
grounds that it would’ put - a inili-
tary man in the cabinet as head of
the military establishment apd
would strike at the old American
tradition of civilian control of mili
tary affairs. Taft also contended
it would strengthen the position of
the secretary of state “in relation
to the Chinese Communists.” That
was as far as he would go.
Jenner, however, attacked Mar
shall as “either an unsuspecting
stooge or an actual co-conspirator
with the most treasonable array
of political cutthroats ever turned
loose in the executive branch of the
government.”
Sen. Scott Lucas of Illinois called
Jenner’s speech “reprehensible, Ir
responsible, the most diabolical
speech in the halls of congress that
I have ever heard In 16 years here.”
The Republicans in the senate were
Inclined to agree.
Most observers said that Jenner's
attack on a man who has served his
country for 40 years and Is great
ly respected by the American peo
ple in every walk of life, will have
further and deeper repercussions.
The Indiana senator is known as
one of the most consistent Isola
tionists In congress. His attack,
although denied by such men as
Taft and Wherry, still carries the
label of the Republican party and
may be reflected In the coming
elections.
CONTROLS:
Curbs on Credit
With the restoration of govern
ment curbs on consumers' easy- ■
payment credits affecting car, fur
niture and household equipment,
32 war materials—^including steel,
lumber, industrial alcohol, and ny
lon yarn—were placed under fed
eral non-hoarding orders.
Although no consumer Items
were named, the “inventory con
trol” was broader than had been
expected. No shortages are expect
ed to develop, but the move was
made to prevent overbuying by
businessmen.
N.P.A. administrator William H.
Harrison said: “The purpose of the
order is to make clear that nation
al interest demands there be no
accumulation of materials beyond
what is needed for immediate pro
duction.”
The new defense production law
provides a $10,000 fine and one year
in prison as maximum penalty for
violations. Harrison ordered in
dustry to “cancel, reduce, or defer”
promptly any orders which already
may have been placed, if they
would bring stocks to an illegal
size.
CIVIL-DEFENSE
Plan Handed Congress
A blueprint for a vast civil de
fense program, greater than that
of World War II, was placed be
fore congress. It was designed to
rally the nation from an atomic at
tack and enable it to strike back
swiftly and destroy the aggressor.
W. Stuart Symington, chairman
of the national security resources
board which drafted the plan, said
the program was needed because
for the first time since the war of
1812 “an enemy has the power to
attack our cities, and for the first
time in our history that attack may
come suddenly, with little or no
warning.”
The board’s report said, “Grant
ed a few minutes’ warning, cas
ualties could be reduced by over
50 per cent through proper organ
ization and training in civil de
fense.”
The program outlined a mutual-
aid’ system reaching into every
American home and calling for the
services of hundeeds of thousands
of paid and unpaid workers at the
federal, state, and local levels.
CONTRACTOR:
Tape Was Too Long
On the lighter side of the news ;
Michael O’Malley, a Chicago ma
sonry contractor. Sued F. W. Wool-
worth company and the Waterbury
Lock & Specialty company for $20,-
000 fpr selling him a rule that was
one foot too long.
O’Malley claimed .the extra foot
caused him to build several ga
rages and a house a foot, too big
and he is being sued for not filing
his contract
Water Policy Wasteful?
LUCIANO AIDE . . . Vice king
‘Xucky” Luciano’s Brooklyn Hen-
tenant, Lucian Ignaro, deported
last year as a dope peddler, la
held in federal coart after he was
picked up by authorities for frying
to sneak back into the United
States.
LEAD FOR KO-REDS . . . Corporal J. C. Lovelace of Fowler, Ind.,
wears a scarf of .50-calibre shells as he loads the eight machine
guns mounted in the nose of this B-26 bomber, at an American air
base in Japan. The light bombers have been flying round-the-clock
missions against the North Korean Communists from several Jap
anese bases.
Probably the most damning indict
ment of our present wasteful na
tional water policy ever to be writ
ten has just been turned over to
President Truman’s new Water Re
sources PoBfcy commission, ac
cording to the Wildlife Manage
ment Institute. An 80-man commit
tee of the Engineers Joint Council,
representing the country's five ma
jor engineering aocieties, prepared
the report, which is couched in
clear, sharply worded language.
About one-third of the committee
members have served with federal
agencies, and the authority of tha
report is unimpeachable.
Nine task forces made the basic
study. The report deplored “ambig
uous, uncoordinated, and conflict-
ting” federal policies concerning
power, irrigation, flood control,
navigation, and other water re
sources projects. Warning that
“evaluation of project is the first
requisite,” the report attacked
boon-doggling and log-rolling in
stressing such items as local re
sponsibility, need for equitable al
location of costs, and the “fallacy
of incentive payments” to landown
ers for soil conservation practices.
Although the report did not direct
itself to the acUviUes of any one
agency, it cited the fact that the
Department of the Interior, Corps of
Engineers, Department of Agricul
ture, Federal Power Commission^
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U.S. Public Health Service, Weath-
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SCOT MEETS KOREAN . . .
Somewhere hi Korea, Regimental
Sgt. MaJ. Richard Thomas Boyd
of Danbartonahire, Scotland,
makes friends with a Korean boy.
British troops are fighting shoulder
to shoulder with other United Na
tions forces in Korea.
RESCUED FROM MINE CAVE-IN . . . Two of the 128 miners trapped
in a mine cave-in at New Cnmnock, Scotland, are led from the mine
site after their rescue, among a group of 28 miners first rescued near
ly 48 hours after the cave-tn. The rescued men wore gas masks and
respirators to crawl throngh the gas-filled shaft. When rescue opera*
Rons were completed, 115 miners were saved. ~
CHOICE FOR GOVERNOR .
Mrs. Ana Frohmiller, state audi
tor, was nominated for governor
by Arizona Democrats. For 24
years Mrs. Frohmiller, 59, has
been state auditor and gained the
nickname, “watchdog qf the treas-
er Bureau, Coast and Gqod
Survey, and many others are Con
cerned with one phase or another
of water development As the num
ber of federal agencies involved
has grown and “as these have risen
in stature their overlapping func
tions have become increasingly
striking and their competitions
have become impressively expen
sive.” The present situation is de
scribed as “chaotic.” Haphazard
development of vital water Re
sources was denounced by the en
gineers who especially decried
projects developed and construct
ed, and often operated, by the agen
cy originating them.
To alleviate competition between
agencies, which is fostered by this
practice, and to safeguard the pub
lic against exaggerated ip tangible
benefit claims as well as improper
allocation of costs between general
taxpayers and project beneficiaries,
v tbe report recommended cr^
of a board for the impartial
ysis and appraisal of all f
water projects. Such a board
also serve to protect the
against “the present excessive
economically unsound rate of plan
ning and congressional authorizing
of developments,” Since the board’s
review would be “prerequisite to
the authorization of appropriation
by congress of or for projects
this kind.” e
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Nobody Barred
Dick Miller, famed angler and
rod-designer has come up with a
nevf-type glass rod that makes this
fishing instrument available to al
most anyone who is interested in
owning one. Miller, who is vice-
■president of the Langley outfit,
holds several world’s records in, fly
and bait-casting events and should ]|
and does know what a rod should
have to obtain maximum results
Dick
GENERAL CLARK ARRIVES FOR WAR GAMES . . . Gen. Mark
Clark (left), commanding general of the army field forces, arriving
at Rhine main air force base in Frankfurt, Germany, meets Gen. T. T.
Handy, commanding general of the European command. General Clark
is in Europe for the purpose of observing exercise “Rainbow,” annual
fall war games of the Allied armies in Germany.
JOLSON ARRIVES IN TOKYO ...
A1 Jolson (left) tells composer
Barry Askt that It gets warm In
Tokyo as they step off plane at
airport. Jolson was the first top
flight entertainer to arrive in the
orient to entertain troops.
and enjoyment for the user,
says of his new rod—which is shown
here—that by the use of longitudi
nal glass fibers and after exhaus
tive tests for performance he has
created a fishing instrument which
will stand the heaviest fishing pres
sure and yet permits the use of
standard and light lures. Among
the most important things is that
the rod is priced where any fisher
man can handle the expense of
owning one. Thus with Dick’s rod,
nobody is barred from the
user field.
In testing this rod, we found
it had amazingly resilient
despite the strength so e
built into it, and frills and
bellows have been sacrificed to
ity and performance. While J
signed to haxu ’e ihe 3/8-ounce
the rod will do iW and sa ‘
ily, if the caster wUl use
the “lightning-fast,” to
reels and a small-diameter
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Muskie Hooks
SOUTH KOREAN GIRL JOINS MARINES . . . Captain W. F. Lloyd,
recruiting officer for the United States marines in Washington, D.C.,
swears in Verna Kim, a 21-year-old South Korean girl, as m member
of the corps. Miss Kim’s family came from the Seoul area, now re
captured from the Rod forces by. U.N. invasion forces. Miss Rim’s
father, who died in 1944, was a sergeant in the American army. Miss
Kfaw li following a family tradition.
SON OF FLYER WILL TRY
WINGS ’J fc . William F. Ricken-
backer, 22, son of the famous fly
er, Eddie Rickenbacker, tries on
an officer’s cap and finds it’s a
good fit after he had been aecept-
ed^for^the cadet program for the
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Whether you troll, cast or
fish, the hooks you use for
ies should be very strong. ]
muskie s are hook-benders
there’s nothing quite so
breaking as to lose a good
cause of weak or inadeqi
For this reason, it is moi
for general situations to
large spoons, wabblers
which are equippe ‘
hooks than to use
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