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Czech Premier
Admits Discontent
And Rebellion
VIENNA, (JP) — Czechoslo
vakia’s Communist' premier ad
mitted today there are “discon
tent and rebellion’’ in the nation,
and indicated the Red regime has
not yet been able to bring pop
ular defiance under control.
This startling -admission was
published in Rude Pravt, the of
ficial Czechoslavak Communist
newspaper. Premier Antonin
Zapotocky was quoted as blaming
the rebellion on shortages of food
and coal.
The Communist president,
Klement Gottwald, previously ad
mitted that the production of
milk, eggs and farm goods in
Czechoslovakia has fallen lower
than it was in 1947, before the
Communists seized power.
The admissions lent weight to
Western reports that the Soviet
Union’s industrial demands on
Czechoslovakia have been severe
ly milking the nation and produc
ing chaotic conditions. The pro
duction of heavy industry goods
for Russia has cost the satellite
country terrifically, pushing down
its former high standard of living.
There have been reports of open
“hunger demonstrations” in de
fiance of Communist police.
Truman Orders
Security Plan For
U.N. Employees
NEW YORK, (/P) — President
Truman has ordered three
branches of the government to
collaborate on a plan to guarantee
“a maximum of security in U.S.
personnel employed by the
United Nations.”
The directive—revealed here by
Attorney General James P. Mc
Granery — has the approval of
Sen. Alexander Wiley (R-Wis),
who- is in line to become chair
man of the Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee in the new Con
gress.
Wiley says the Truman admin
istration “can render a service by
helping to solve the U.N. sub
versives problem before Presi
dent-elect Eisenhower’s inaugu
ration on Jan. 20.
Twenty - nine Americans have
been dismissed from the U.N. as
a result of various Communist in
vestigations. The firings were
largely for refusing to answer
questions about Communist affil
iations.
In Washington, spokesmen for
the State and Justice Depart
ments said last night the Presi
dent’s order had only laid “the
ground rules” for the program
and that no details had been
worked out yet.
Oil Stove Explosion
Kills Two, Burns Three
Fairbanks Servicemen
FAIRBANKS, (JP) — A flaming
explosion of a shack killed two
servicemen and burned three
others at Eielson Air Force Base
Tuesday.
The explosion was in a small
building in a fuel storage area
of the base, 26 miles south of
here, which the men had entered
to get warm.
Officials said several men had
been repairing a gasoline line
leak. Shortly after they stopped
work and entered the shack to
get warm, it exploded in a burst
of flame.
It was not known whether the
men’s clothing might have been
saturated with gasoline, which
could have vaporized in the room
and exploded, or whether the oil
stove caused the tragedy.
An investigation was launched
immediately.
Anchorage Businessmen
Confer with Gov. McKay
SALEM, Ore., (jT*) — Two An
chorage businessmen conferred
Tuesday afternoon with Governor
Douglas McKay, who will be Sec
retary of Interior.
They are Glenn Miller, retail
store operator, and Kelly Foss,
contractor.
They said they talked about
need for development of Alaska,
but that they made no recom
mendation as to who should be
appointed Governor of Alaska.
The question of the governorship
wasn’t even discussed, they said.
Ike Says Reds
Can Be Impressed
“Only By Deeds”
TOKYO, (JP) — President-elect
Eisenhower’s conclusion that the
Communists can be impressed
“only by deeds” was interpreted
by military leaders here to mean
the United Nations will be taking
the offensive in Korea.
Before his visit to Korea, mili
tary leaders planned to inform
Eisenhower that the only hope
for an end to the Korean conflict
was a military one.
Eisenhower’s statement on ar
riving in New York seemed to
bear out the belief that as com
mander in chief of United States
armed forces he would order an
end to the year-old stalemate.
“. . . We face an enemy we can
not hope to impress by words,
however eloquent, but only by
deeds — executed under circum
stances of our own choosing.”
In those 24 words, Eisenhower
not only seemed to say he would
take the wraps off Gen. Mark
Clark’s Far East command, but
also that the Armistice talks
could result in nothing more than
wasted words and time.
Jury Accuses
Owen Lattimore
Red .Sympathies
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A federal
grand jury has accused Owen
Lattimore of swearing falsely
that he had never been a sym
pathizer or promoter of Commun
ism or Communist interests.
The indictment returned late
yesterday also accused the Far
Eastern specialist and occasional
State Department consultant of
lying under oath on six other
points during his testimony before
the Senate Internal Security sub
committee last spring. The in
dictment termed all seven points,
“material.”
“I am, of course, innocent.”
Lattimore said. He is due to be
arraigned Friday. Trial date may
be fixed then.
Lattimore has been a frequent
target of Sen. McCarthy. McCar
thy said in March, 1950, that he
considered Lattimore “the top
Soviet espionage agent in Amer
ica.”
The president of Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, where
Lattimore is director of the Wal
ter Hines Page School on inter
nation relations, announced that
Lattimore had been given a leave
of absence, with pay, “until a
federal court shall have passed
upon the charges.”
The indictment prompted Sen.
Mundt (D-SD) to call for a Con
gressional investgation, “to try to
find out the names of the patron
saints of Lattimore and career
diplomat John Carter Vincent.
New Liner United States
Damaged At British
Dock by High Winds
LONDON, (JP)—The crack new
American liner United States was
damaged and other shipping im
periled Wednesday by furious
winds buffeting the British Isles.
There were gusts of more than
100 miles an hour.
The United States had just
pulled away from the Southamp
ton dock on a homeward voyage
to New York when a gale caught
her broadside and drove her back
to the quay.
The port side of the ship’s
bridge jammed in between two
high dockside cranes denting the
bridge work and scraping paint
off the observation deck.
The liner quickly worked loose
and tugs resumed trying to get
her out to sea. After an hour of
tricky maneuvering in the gale
force gusts, it was decided to wait
until the wind died down. The
liner was tied up at dockside and
the 600 passengers aboard were
told sailing would be delayed.
Grocefr To Enlist Aid of
Langlie for Anchorage
Candidate for Governor
OLYMPIA, (/P) — An Alaska
grocer who came here Tuesday to
call on Gov. Arthur B. Langlie
as an old-time friend said that
Alaska reports of Langlie’s back
ing for Walter J. Hickel of An
chorage for Governor of the Ter
ritory were not correct.
Keith Lesh of Anchorage, how
ever, didn’t find Langie at home.
He hasn’t returned from the Gov
ernor’s conference in Arizona.
Lesh said he knew Langlie in the
days when the latter was start
ing his political rise.
Hickel was described in pub
lished Anchorage reports as a
favored dark horse candidate for
governor because of the support
of Governor Langlie. Lesh said
Hickel doesn’t even know the
governor, but that he hopes the
three of them will be able to get
together later this week.
He said Hickel was expected to
meet with Gov. Douglas McKay
of Oregon, the next Secretary of
the Interior, at Portland Wednes
day. Lish said Hickel, a 33-year
old contractor who went to Al
aska in 1940, is getting his back
ing for governor from “interested
persons like myself,” not from
any special groups. He was the
Republican finance chairman in
Alaska in the 1952 campaign.
Red Cross Group
Hits U.N. Actions
On Korean POWs
GENEVA, Switzerland, (JP) —
The International Red Cross
Committee made public Tuesday
correspondence in which it said
that actions of the U.N. Command
in Korea “appeared” to violate
Geneva convention on POWs.
The reference was to the Koje
Island prison riots last spring.
The correspondence included a
reply from General Mark Clark,
U.N. commander, in which he said
the uprisings were “deliberately
planned by hard-core Communist
leaders” to embarass the U.N.
command and affect the armistice
talks.
Describing these incidents, the
committee declared: “In the . . .
circumstances it appears that the
firing constitutes a violation of
Article 42 of the Geneva Conven
tion of 1949.”
Article 42 states: “The use of
weapons against prisoners of war,
especially against those who are
escaping or attempting to escape,
shall constitute an extreme mea
sure, which shall always be pre
ceded by warnings appropriate to
the cirmumstances.”
In other letters, the committee
declared that the withholding of
food and water from prisoners
and other punitive measures also
violated the convention.
Ike Will Remain
Neutral on Naming
Senate Leader
NEW YORK, {^ — President
elect Dwight D. Eisenhower was
pictured today as “absolutely in
sistent on maintaining a strictly
neutral position” toward Senator
Robert Taft and any other Re
publicans in the running for Sen
ate majority leader.
An aide said that under no cir
cumstances would the general
take sides—and that support for
Taft voiced by two GOP senators
after conferences with Eisen
hower represented their own
Views.
The general takes the position,
said the aide, that it is a matter
for the Senate Republicans alone
to decide and that he is not going
to interfere in the slightest de
gree.
There were signs, meanwhile,
that if Taft decides -he wants the
leadership post he will have the
backing of a group of GOP sen
ators who supported Eisenhower
against the Ohioan in the contest
for the presidential nomination.
Navy Rocket Soars 135
Miles Straight Up
WASHINGTON, (fl-The
Navy’s Viking 9 soared 135 miles
straight up to equal the altitude
[ record for single-stage rockets set
more than a year ago by its Vik
ing 7.
The Defense Department said
the second record loft, equalling
the height reached Aug. 7, 1951,
was made yesterday at the
Army’s White Sands proving
grounds, Los Cruces, N.M.
The Army’s WAC Corporal has
gone 250 miles up but not in one
stage. It took off from an already
airbome German M-2.
The Viking 9, which weights
TVz tons and is 42 feet long, car
ried 750 pounds of instruments
for measuring upper-air sunlight.
The Defense Department said it
was traveling 3,900 miles an hour
when its fuel ran out.
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First Act Of Economic Stabiliser
DiSalle Will Be To Resign
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Michael
V. DiSalle is back in the govern
ment’s anti - inflation program,
this time as economic stabilizer, a
job he expects to hold for less
than five weeks.
After his appointment by Presi
dent Truman was announced.
Tuesday DiSalle lined up with
other controls officials for a news
conference.
“My first action,” he said, ‘“will
be to write out a resignation to
the new President-elect Republi
can Dwight Eisenhower,” whose
administration takes over Jan. 20.
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