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Opposition Forms
To MacArthur’s
Views on Korea
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Watkins (R-Utah), declaring “You
can’t plan a battle in a legisla
ture,” lined up Saturday with op
ponents of a proposed congres
sional investigation of Gen. Doug
las MacArthur’s win-the-war
views about Korea.
“I'm afraid an investigation of
that nature might involve grave
risks of some inadvertent disclos
ure of matters which should be
the most closely guarded secrets,”
Watkins told a reporter.
Watkins earlier had suggested
that President Truman explore
any MacArthur Korean peace
plan at once with President-elect
Eisenhower and MacArthur. His
proposal drew a tart rejection on
Thursday from the President.
But Watkins said he fears cost
ly delays might result from the
fact Eisenhower lacks authority
to act on any MacArthur recom
mendations before his inaugura
tion Jan. 20.
“Timing well may be the es
sence of this plan which the
President has declined to look at
unless it is thrust at him under
circumstances holding little pro
mise of serious consideration for
it,” Watkins said.
Watkins said “hope dies slow
ly" and he still sees a chance that ■
Truman may reconsider his state
ments.
“But I do believe a congression
al investigation of the plan would
be premature and dangerous,” he
added.
Armed Forces Manpower
Needs Will Be Filled In ’53
By Selective Service
WASHINGTON, iJP)—The lady
boss of the U.S. military person
nel says the armed forces can
meet their manpower needs for
the next year and a half with
only a minor tightening of draft
rules.
Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, assist
ant secretary of defense in charge
of personnel, said last night the
Defense Department plans to
keep its present strength of
3,600,000 men and women
through June, 1954 without draft
ing fathers or Korean veterans.
She told television interviewers
this could be done through a
draft of 620,000 from the Select
ive Service pool in the year be
ginning next July 1. The armed
services will discharge 1,100,000
during the year, she said, and
the balance can be met through
volunteer enlistments.
Mrs. Rosenberg agreed with
questioners that the armed forces
are not making full use of their
manpower. But she said the mili
tary is as efficient as big busi
ness, considering that the military
does not have as wide a choice of
its workers and has only two
years to train and use them.
Congressional committees and
others in the past have accused
the services of being wasteful in
their use of manpower.
“We make big mistakes because
we’re big,” Mrs. Rosenberg said,
adding that the military employs
more people and spends more
money than any busir 2ss in U.S.
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Court Orders
Seattle Union
Picketing Cease
SEATTLE, (/P)—Seattle’s water
front, frozen by labor strife more
than a month began thawing out
Saturday after a heated blast was
delivered by a Superior Court
judge who ordered picketing by
warring longshore unions stop- j
ped.
Judge James Hodson based his
decision on his interpretation of
a contract held by the Interna
tional Longshoremen’s Associa
tion with waterfront employers.
The judge’s decision was sharp
ly critical of the union leadership,
and he said the picket leaders
were “mendacious, arrogant and
irresponsible.” They were, he
said, “strangling the economy of
the Pacific Northwest.”
The decision, delivered at the
end of a stormy five days hear
ing, granted the request of 12
stevedoring companies for relief
from the squabble by the two
unions.
The injunction did not specifi
cally mention the independent
foremen but the judge said they
must cooperate because they, too,
are bound by terms of the ILA
agreement contract.
Under his interpretation erf „he
contract, employers hiring tem
porary longshore foremen must
first call the ILA hall. The inde
pendent union is next in line if
the needed help is not obtained
from the ILA and, after that, em
ployers may seek men wherever
they can find them.
The judge said men dispatched
from either hiring hall must come
from a list approved by the court.
Meanwhile, Edward J. Dobrin,
attorney for the employers, told
union leaders that his clients
would seek “tremendous dam
ages” for their losses during the
tie-up.
In Bern, N. C., Rep. Barden,
chairman of the House Labor
Committee, said it would be im
practical for his committee to in
vestigate the waterfront dispute.
A request for the investigation
had been made by Reps. Tollefson
and Mack (D-Wush) and Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska.
American and British Sip Tea
Claimed Left Over From Famed
1773 Boston Tea Party
BOSTON, (JP)—A spot of tea
claimed to be made from leaves
missed by revolutionists Dec. 16,
1773 was sipped yesterday in
commemoration of the 179th an
niversary of the Boston Tea
Party.
A group of 13 descendants of
Revolutionary War families and
the British Vice Consul, Mrs.
Muriel Rolls, toasted each other
from 70-year-old teacups—made
in England.
Edward Rowe Snow, an author,
said he obtained the tea leaves
from the late Jefferson Haskell
Parker who died Dec. 6 at the
age of 99 years and 11 months.
Parker reportedly obtained the
leaves from a descendant of a
survivor of the historic tea party
who died in 1846.
McKay Says There
Will be Hiring and
Firing In Interior
PORTLAND, Ore., (IP)—Doug
las McKay, who returned yester
day from a week of conferences
aboard the Cruiser Helena with
President-elect Dwight Eisen
hower, said he will resign this
week as Governor of Oregon.
McKay said he then will go to
Washington, D.C., for a series of
conferences before taking over as
Secretary of the Interior in Eisen
hower’s cabinet.
McKay’s successor as governor
will be Paul L. Patterson, a 52
year-old Republican attorney.
Patterson will take over by vir
tue of being president of the Ore
gon State Senate.
Tanned and relaxed afier the
mid - Pacific talks with Eisen
hower and other key officials in
the new administration, McKay
told reporters who met his plane
after a flight from Edwards Air
Force Base, Calif., that he could
not discuss what had been said
at the pre - inauguration cabinet
meetings.
But he did say that there
would be a lot of hiring and firing
in the Interior Department when
he takes over.
Refrigerator Ship With 7
Tons Turkey Breaks Up
In Italy’s Leghorn Harbor
LEGHORN, Italy, MP) — The
3,800-ton U.S. Navy refrigerator
ship Grommet Reefer broke in
half on the rocks of Leghorn Har
bor Monday with 40 men aboard.
She was drived aground by gale
whipped seas.
Three men were carried to
safety by breeches buoy across
the raging water, but in late
afternoon the line used to operate
it snapped. An Italian sailor
seized the broken end before it
disappeared in the sea and rescue
workers set to work at once splic
ing it.
Three men are aboard the stern
section of the ship firmly lodged
on rocks about 100 yards off
shore. The bow half of the vessel
drifted about the harbor for sev
eral hours and then crashed on
rocks nearby.
The Grommet Reefer carried
176 tons of foodstuffs, including
seven tons of turkeys for soldier
dinners in Austria and Italy.
China Angrily Rejects
India’s Plan For Exchange
Of Prisoners of War
TOKYO, (JP)—Red China today
blasted hopes for an early truce
in Korea by angrily rejecting a
United Nations peace appeal
based on India’s plan for ex
change of prisoners of war.
Peipini’s reply came from For
eign Minister Chou En-Lai, who
called the U.N. General Assembly
resolution illegal, unreasonable,
unfair and degenerate.
He demanded that the UJS. re
sume truce talks at Panmunjom
along the lines proposed by Rus
sian Forreigp Minister Andrei Y.
Vishinsky. The talks have been
suspended since October.
Eisenhower Plans
Positive Programs
For Korean Peace
By RELMAN MORIN
NEW YORK, (JP) — President
elect Dwight D. Eisenhower goes
back to work in his New York
headquarters today, prepared to
map “positive programs” for
bringing peace in Korea.
He said he returned from his
trip to the war zone with new
confidence about the outlook for
speeding a satisfactory solution.
In two public statements yes
terday, the general expressed op
timism.
At the same time, however, he
repeated his view that no simple
formula is at hand, and he said
patience, foresight and common
sense will be needed in finding
one.
Eisenhower gave no indication
when he plans to meet with Gen.
Douglas MacArthur.
This phrase — “Do things that
induce the others to want peace
also”—was contained in an ex
temporaneous statement at the
airport.
Eisenhower also had a prepared
statement for reporters when his
big Constellation landed. In that,
he said something that sounded
similar to the off-the-cuff re
mark. He said:
“We face an enemy whom we
cannot hope to impress by words,
however eloquent, but only by
deeds — executed under circum
stances of our own choosing.”
He gave no indication of what
he meant. On the contrary he
said he is limited in what he can
report publicly.
In another passage he said: “I
believe the architects of aggres
sion can be made to realize that
it would be fatefully folly to ig
nite other conflagrations like the
Korean conflict elsewhere in the
world.”
Reporting on the American
forces in Korea, Eisenhower said:
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Suspects In Brink Holdup
Receive Jail Sentences
For Contempt of Court
BOSTON, {JP) — Two of five
witnesses who refused to answer
questions before a grand jury in
vestigating the $1,219,000 Brink’s
holdup were free on bail Satur
day after receiving jail senten
ces for contempt of federal court.
Judge Wm. T. McCarthy sen
tenced John H. Carlson, 27, a
Boston bookmaker, to 18 months
and Donald T. O’Keefe, 39, father
of three, to nine months.
Carlson appealed and was re
leased on $10,000 bail. O’Keefe is
a City of Boston Sewer Depart
ment employe.
The cases of two others, a hus
band and wife, were put over
until Monday.
Joseph O’Keefe, one of three
convicts brought to Boston to tes
tify before the grand jury, has
been named by U.S. Atty. Ed
ward D. Hassanan in open court
as a “suspect” in the Bink hold
up Jan. 7, 1950. He is serving a
sentence in Bradford, Pa. county
| jail for illegal possession of fire
arms.
82 Mutinous Red
Prisoners Killed
In Latest Riot
PUSAN, Korea, (JP) — Allied
guards killed 82 mutinous Com
munist prisoners and wounded
120 on Pongam Island Sunday in
quelling one of the bloodiest Red
riots of the Korean war.
The Allied prisoner of war
command said two American and
two South Korean soldiers were
injured by rock-throwing Reds.
Authorities said the riot by
about 3,600 die-hard civilian in
ternees probably was part of a
known Red plan to stage a mass
breakout.
The trouble started when pri
soners in six compounds defied
strict orders by organizing mili
tary drills and demonstrations.
Then they massed at the top of
a high terrace. Three ranks of
prisoners with locked arms de
fied advancing U.N. troops. Other
prisoners behind them showered
the guards with rocks.
Unable to advance, the guards
fired warning shots and ordered
the Reds to stop.
When they refused, the POW
command said, “individual wea
pons were brought to bear ... to
prevent the entire mass from
breaking out.”
Sunday’s mutiny involved re-,
classified Communist prisoners of
war. All are Koreans, probably a
mixture of both North and South
Koreans who cling grimly to their
Communist leadership in the
matter of repatriation. All have
elected to return to Communist
control.
Ridgway Insists NATO
Approve $428 Million
Construction Program
PARIS, (/P)—Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgeway insisted in a speech to
day that the ministers of the 14
Atlantic Pact nations approve his
428 million dollar military con
struction program.
But the 30 ministers postponed
any action on the program, at
least for today. The ministers also
postponed for another day taking
-any action on naming a com
mander for the new NATO Med
iterranean naval command. They
heard Premier Alcide De Gas
peri of Italy call for a united
propaganda campaign against the
Communists.
Russia is doing just that against
the Western democracies, the Ital
ian premier said in a speech at
the opening meeting of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization’s
top council.
In recommending the propa
it would “counteract outside at
tempts at sowing discord and di
vision among us.”
Chinese Reds Hit Three Heights
SEOUL, <iP) — Chinese Reds
struck through rain and snow to
day at three heights on the cen
tral Korean front, wresting one
outpost from hard-fighting South
Koreans.
Allied warplanes damaged two
MIG-15 jets in a flurry of 10 air
battles over Northwest Korea.
Fifteen U.S. Superforts Sunday
night blasted a supply center and
an ore processing plant in north
west Korea.