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OUT OF THE LOT ___
THE TRUMAN SALVO __
Former President Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson,
and Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois got in the most
effective licks against the new Republican administra
tion yet swung at the recent Democratic rally in Chi
cago. But of all the speakers, the former President
seemed to hit 'hardest.
The main points of the Truman attack on the ad
ministration were as follows: 1. The Republicans say
they’re for national defense, yet they cut arms and
services. 2. They say they favor public housing, yet
they raise interest rates and kill public housing in
Congress. 3. They say the farmer should get his fair
share of the national income, but have no program to
get it for him.
4. They say .injustices in the Taft-Hartley law
should be corrected, but the Secretary of Labor resigned
because he thought they didn’t mean it. 5. They say
they want to develop natural resources for the people,
but are about to give away Hell’s Canyon and Niagara
to the power trust.
6. They say they are for cutting taxes, and yet
they are considering a new tax, the worst of all taxes
—a sales tax. The former President also hit the Repub
I leans on social security and career service in govern
ment. \
It seems obvious that the Democratic Party’s ap
peal in the next few years will be put on the plane
of the people against big business. !If put over success
fully, this campaign may prove effective.
The Democratic attack may not be able to defeat
President Eisenhower in 1956, or the Republican major
ities in 1954, if business and prosperity remain on a
relatively high level. But the mortal danger facing
the G.O.P. is that its leaders will slip up and let a
depression, or recession, overtake them.
The Earl of Home, minister of state for Scotland:
“We can build a house but a home must grow.”
Freida Miller, director, Woman’s Bureau, Depart
ment of Labor: “Out of every 100 working women in
America, 71 are married.”
Dr. Syngman Rhee, President of Korea: “We will
do anything we can possibly do to restore the unification
of our country.”
Two British Warships
Collide In NATO
War Games in Atlantic
LONDON, W)—Two British war
ships “attacking” NATO shipping
in vast maneuvers in the North
Atlantic collides in inky black
ness ehrly * today near Iceland,
Thirty-two sailors were reported
injured, none seriously.
The two ships, the 8,000-ton
cruiser Swiftsure and the 2,810
ton destroyer Diamond, were im
mediately withdrawn from the ex
ercises and steamed to port to
take stock.
The collision occurred before
dawn 80 miles south of Iceland,
where the Swiftsure and the Dia
mond had joined an “enemy strik
ing fleet” assigned to attack Allied
shipping in Operation Mariner, the
Western world’s biggest sea exer
cises since World War II.
Canner Charges
Japanese Exceed
Fishing Quotas
ANCHORAGE, tfV-J. H. Wake
field, an Alaskan cannery owner,
charged here Monday that the
Japanese exceeded their treaty
agreements on the amount of their
take in Alaskan fishing waters.
Wakefield is a partner in Wake
field Deep Sea Trawlers, the only
American firm engaged in crab
fishing in the territory.
He estimated, in an interview,
that the September catch in Bris
tol Bay this year was cut by about
50 percent due to Japanese fishing
earlier in the year.
“For the last two years,” Wake
field said, “our crews had in av
erage income of $1,500 for the
September catch. This year it was
about $700.
He charged the Japanese with
failure to comply with the terms
of a treaty set up last spring by
the U.S. State Department.
“They agreed to take only 50,
000 cases of salmon, but returned
to Japan with 58,000 cases,” Wake
field said. “The agreement called
for a catch of 1,100,000 crabs, but
the reports from Tokyo said they
took 1,995,000.
Wakefield spent some time in
Afcril, and again last month
aboard the Japanese factory ship
Tokei Maru as an observer for the
Fish and Wildlife Service.
The Japanese told Wakefield it
cost $4 to produce a case of 48
cans o’f crab.
“We can’t compete with them in
canning,” Wakefield said. “Our
crab is all fresh-frozen.
A comparison of production
costs, he said, showed that Japan
ese crew members and factory
workers get a base pay of $30 a
month. American crewmen aver
age about $1,000 a month.
Sen. McCarthy Wed
WASHINGTON, UPI — Sen. Jo
seph McCarthy and Miss Jean
Fraser Kerr, his onetime Girl Fri
day who won his heart, were mar
ried yesterday. Thousands of
well-wishers and curious surged
outside St. Matthews Roman Cath
olic Cathedral as they spoke their
vows.
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Growing Demands
For Meeting Of
World’s Big Powers
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., —
Israel wound up the U.N. Assem
bly’s general debate yesterday by
joining in the growing chorus of
demands that the great powers
get together in direct negotiations
to settle world tensions.
Shortly after the Soviet Union
handed diplomatic notes to the
West proposing big power meet
ings, Israel’s Abba Eban told the
60-nation General Assembly:
“Negotiations to resolve the ma
jor causes of international tension
are now envisaged by the leaders
of the great powers as a serious
and tangible prospect. All our gov
ernments and peoples have been
inspired by the vision of a new
international era in which the
second half of this century would
emerge full of peace
India’s V. K. Krishna Menon
Monday urged a big power con
ference to end world tension and
said he would ask the assembly
to call on leaders such as Prime
Minister Churchill, President Eis
enhower and Soviet Premier Geor
gi Malenkov to get together.
Door - to - Door Check
For Delinquent Taxpayers
Paying Off 310 To 1
SEATTLE, (£> — The Internal
Revenue Service has netted a re
turn directly or indirectly of $310
for every dollar spent during the
first month of its “door to door”
check for delinquent taxpayers in
Washington and Alaska, district
director William E. Frank dis
closed Tuesday.
Frank said a total of $930,000
in voluntary delinquent returns
alone had been turned in between
the drive’s opening Aug. 25 and
Sept. 25.
Of the more than 2,000 small
businesses contacted by special
revenue agents, he said, seven per
cent were found to be delinquent.
The direct return on the drive
has been about $5 for every dol
lar spent, he said.
Civilian Radio Operator
Guides Crippled C-119
To Safe Landing
DILLON, Mont., UR — A C-119
air troop carrier taking 34 Air
Force men from Alaska to Ten
nessee was guided to an emer
gency landing here Tuesday after
development of engine trouble.
Lt. T. M. Saddler, Nashville,
Tenn., commander of the plane,
said he was about to order the
men to bail out when the Dillon
airport picked up the airplane’s
distress signals.
Mike Schumauch, radio oper
ator at the airport, guided the
craft some 20 miles in for a land
ing. No one was hurt as the
plane set down at the airport in
this southwestern Montana town.
Saddler said the plane was en
route from Eielson Air Force Base
to its troop carrier wing head
quarters in Nashville.
Buyer For Army PXs
In Europe Charged With
Million-Dollar ‘Kickbacks’
NUERNBERG, Germany, UR —
The chief food buyer for the
Army’s post exchanges in Ger
many pleaded innocent Wednes
day to charges of running an
alleged multi-million dollar “kick
back” ring in the Army’s PX ser
vice.
The plea was entered by Chas.
E. Wilson of Harrisville, W. Va.
U.S. District Judge Carl A. Turmo
of Stoughton, Mass., did not im
mediately set a date for Wilson’s
trial and released him on his own
recognizance after he surrendered
his passport.
Wilson, suspended chief of the
food purchasing division of the
Army’s European exchange ser
vice, is charged on one count of
conspiracy, three of breach of
trust and 23 of bribery.
Prosecutor William D. Canfield
charged Wilson, and at least nine
other persons, hiked prices to sol
dier customers in the post ex
changes and kept the difference
between actual cost and sales.
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