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IKE FACES LONG STRUGGLE
General Dwight D. Eisenhower is not to be envied
when one takes into consideration the magnitude of
the international danger he will face as he begins to
serve his term as President of the United States.
The President-elect probably understands the
threat of Communism as well as most people, perhaps
as well as anyone alive today. If he does, he knows
that many of us—most of us—are still unaware of the
problem that confronts us concerning a divided world.
This divided world lives in an atomic age—which now
is to include the hydrogen bomb. It may turn out to be
the most terrible age of destruction the world has
ever seen.
The great supposition of the Communist countries
is that patience will win out against all obstacles, and
that if they are willing to wait and watch, the United
States (the leader of the free world) will become
bogged down in economic cirisis which will render this
great nation helpless to protect other free nations.
The Russians are planning on a long struggle. They
realize it might take 20 or 30 years for their plan to
be fully implimented. They are willing to wait. The
United States has never followed such a cold-blooded
aggressive policy. We mobilize in times of immediate
peril, and demobilize when the actual fighting stops.
If the reader will think back just three years, it
will be recalled that Winston Churchill admitted (in
1949) that the only reason the Russians didn’t overrun
Western Europe at the end of World War II was the
U.S. stockpile of atomic bombs.
By now—over two years later—the Russians have
increased their stockpile of atomic weapons.
However, the United States has led the way in
the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance.
This ties some 14 countries together in common oppo
sition to any European or Middle East aggression. And
by now the United States has rearmed. The crisis
period when the question was whether the Russians
would sit idly by and watch the U.S. rearm has
passed. And now that the United States has rearmed
and the free world has gathered together in an alliance
against them, the Russians have lost what might have
been a growing opportunity. Now that they have built
up a stockpile of atomic weapons, they find themselves
confronted with a rearmed United States and an alli
ance which binds 14 countries together — against
aggression.
The recent hydrogen bomb test once again puts
the Russians at a major disadvantage. They are now
in the position they found themselves in in 1945—re
garding atomic bombs. We have won that much time.
But the Russians believe that time will eventually
work against us.
General Eisenhower must keep the country strong
and must match coldblooded Russian patience with a
patience of his own. Yet he must keep the nation’s
guard up, even though the American people might
develop a tendency to let down. He must keep the
Allied countries together. It may be a big order. It
may be a big order for the next several chief executives.
The fella that invented the alarm clock probably
did the most to arouse the working classes.
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MAIN 20 or RED 41
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84 Red Prisoners
Killed as 4,500 Try
Mass Outbreak
By Sam Summerlin
PONGAM ISLAND, South Kor
ea, (/P)—American soldiers told
in vivid detail how U.S. and South
Korean guards shot to death 84
Communist prisoners in quelling
an attempted mass breakout Sun
day by 4,500 fanatical Reds. The
Communists were all civilian in
ternees—former prisoners of war
reclassified by the Army.
A grim force of 300 guards con
quered the mutinous thousands
in 55 frenzied minutes with mach
ine guns, rifles, carbines and bay
onets.
Two Americans and three South
Koreans as well as 118 prisoners
were injured.
The captives, locked arm-in
arm and fanatically roaring the
choruses of Communist songs, ig
nored volley after volley of close
range fire. They lifted their dead
and wounded as they fell.
After the battle, the guards had
to loosen the locked army of
many of the prisoners before they
could drag them from the stock
ade.
The once-defiant Reds were
cowed completely by 1:25 p.m.
Sunday. Newsmen toured the is
land Tuesday and entered the
compound where most of the cap
tives died.
Lt. Col. George P. Miller, Col
umbus, Ohio, boss of-the island’s
9,200 North Korean captives, said
he regretted the deaths but added
sternly:
“They brought it on themselves.
They tested crur strength and
lost/’ He said the tension which
was mounting on the island be
fore Sunday’s outbreak was van
ished.
Miller said “Had I not taken
the action, I would have had one
half the prisoners loose on the
island and we would have lost
many more lives. The barbed
wire cannot hold determined pris
oners.”
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by tne
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy with intermit
tent light snow tonight and to
morrow. Winds light and variable.
Lowest temperature expected to
night -10, high Thursday 0.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: Precipitation .03 in.
Temperatures: high 10, low -3.
Max. wind 18 mph from the ENE.
Sun rises 10:00 a.m., sets 1:56 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 18, low 11.
Other stations. 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -15 Blowing snow
Kotzebue 10 Snow
Wales 4 Part cloudy
Gambell 5 Snow
Nome 4 Snow
Unalakleet -6 Snow
Bethel -12 Snow
McGrath 3 Cloudy
Anchorage 34 Rain
Fairbanks 23 C]oudy
Whitehorse 0 Fog
Edmonton 2 Clear
Juneau 25 Part cloudy
Ketchikan 31 Part cloudy
Seattle 42 Fog
San Francisco 44 Cloudy
Duke, Duchess of Windsor
Won’t See Coronation
Of Queen Elizabeth II
PARIS, (AP)—Neither the Duke
of Windsor nor his American-born
dutchess will attend the corona
tion of Queen Elizabeth II.
He announced this Tuesday as
he and the duchess left for the
United States. Windsor said it
would run contrary to custom for
any king or ex-king to be in West
; minster Abbey June 2 when his
| niece takes the crown.
Buckingham Palace confirmed
this is the custom. It said sover
eigns did not attend the 1936 cor
onation of George VI and will not
see Elizabeth crowned.
Windsor himself was Edward
VIII, George Vi’s predecessor.
But he never took the crown. He
abdicated so he could marry the
former Wallis Warfield of Balti
more, “the woman I love.”
The Duchess of Windsor has
not been to Britain since she left
it in 1936. So far as is known,
Queen Mary, grandmother of
Queen Elizabeth, is still cool to
ward the duchess. Queen Mary
also will not attend the corona
tion, but likely will see it on1
television. Her health is not good. J
Shirley Temple's Daughter
Makes Stage Debut at Age 4
WASHINGTON, (ff) — Miss!
Susan Black made her stage
debut Tuesday as a fairy in Hon
| eywell School’s pantomine, “Cin
[ derella.”
She’ll give a repeat perform
ance Thursday night in American
University gymnasium.
Susan is four. That makes her
just one year older than was her
mother, Shirley Temple, when
she began her four-year reign as
America’s top movie bcfcc office
draw,
Susan’s father is John Agar.
Her mother is now Mrs. Charles
j Black.
Tito Breaks Diplomatic
Relations with Vatican
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, (/P)—
Premier Marshal Tito’s govern
ment broke diplomatic relations
with the Vatican Wednesday as
a followup to the naming of Arch
bishop Stepinac to the College of
i Cardinals.
Marshal Tito, in a speech Tues
day accused the Vatican of hostile
activility against Yugoslavia. He
also threatened to call off a proj
ected visit to London, because of
British charges of religious per
secution here.
Tito, speaking before a crowd
j of. about 15,000 in a small factory
j town, said the charges of religious
persecution were inspired by the
1 Vatican. He declared he would
I not go to Britain unless at least
; half the British people want him
: to come.
WSB ASSURES FAST ACTION
ON PAY BOOST APPROVALS
WASHINGTON, (JP)— The Wage
Stabilization Committee, organ
ized to keep the wage controls
program going, has promised fast
action on 12,000 pay increases
awaiting approval.
“We will make every effort to
get the maximum number of cas
es out before Christmas,” Chair
man Charles C. Killingsworth
j said.
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Alaska GOPs Act
To Recommend
Next Governor
FAIRBANKS, (JP)—Fourth Div
, ision Republicans named an 11
' man committee at a weekend con
I ference here to make recommen
I dations on political appointments,
including the naming of the next
governor.
Larry Meath of Fairbanks will
head the group. Meath, John
Brennan and Phil Anderson were
in Anchorage Monday to confer
with Republicans there.
Territorial Sen. Dan Lhamon,
who also was in Anchorage, sent
a wire to President-elect Eisen
hower urging that appointment of
! a governor be delayed until Re
publicans in all of Alaska’s four
divisions have a chance to express
their wishes.
He also sent copies of it to Gov.
Douglas McKay of Oregon, who
will be the new Secretary of the
Interior, and Sen. Hugh Butler of
Nebraska, who will head the In
terior Committee in the new Sen
ate.
There have been widely circu
lated reports in Alaska that Mc
Kay would announce the Alaska
governor appointment late this
week. However, McKay empha
sized at Salem Monday that all
announcements on territorial gov
ernor appointments will be made
by President-elect Eisenhower.
McKay said he will not an
nounce any of his own appoint
ments until after he goes to Wash
ington on January 1.
Gov. Ernest Gruening’s term at
Juneau runs to April.
VETS WITH NSLI POLICIES TO
GET $180 MILLION DIVIDEND
WASHINGTON, (A>) — Another
dividend will be paid next year
to about five million veterans
holding National Service Life In
surance policies, the Veterans Ad
ministration said Tuesday.
The first payments will be
made in February. The size of
the individual dividends for most
policy holders will be the same
as this year’s dividend, with the
vast majority of men getting a
flat $60. The dividend is the sec
ond regular one on NSLI policies
and will total $180 million.
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