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NATO to Spend
$239 Million in ’53
To Block Soviets
PARIS, (JP)—The North Atlan
tic Treaty nations agreed Thurs
day to spend $239,600,000 in 1953
for airports and other solid de
fenses against Soviet aggression.
This is just a shade more than
half of the $428 million which
Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme
commander in Europe, had out
lined as the “minimum” to pro
vide security.
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway crit
icized members of the North At
lantic Treaty Organization today
for slowing down their defense
effort.
“I reject as unjustified the dan
gerous view that the potential ag
gressors don’t want war and
won’t precipitate war,” he told
the graduating class of NATO’s
defense college. “We don’t know
how long we shall be the Krem
lin’s targei, marked for war.”
Ridgway blamed the “slow
down in action” on wishful think
. ing, the hope that “we are no
longer open to attack and we
don’t need to make so great an
' effort to defend ourselves.”
One of Separated Siamese
Twins Doing Badly
CHICAGO, VP) — One of the
Siamese twins separated Wednes
day in a history-making operation
was “doing badly” today and
doctors doubted he would survive.
The parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Brodie of Moline, Illinois.
Dr. Eric Oldberg, head of the
department of neurology at the
University of Illinois, said sur
geons “had to make choice” dur
ing the day-long surgical opera
tion and that Rodney Dee, the
smaller of the twins, was given
the benefit because he showed the
greater chance for ultimate sur
vival.
Oldberg said surgeons found
the twins had only a single fused
outer brain covering containing a
single saggital sinus vein that
drains blood from the brain back
to the heart. Rodney was given
this brain covering and the drain
age vein.
STUCK WITH THE BAG
CINCINNATI, (IP) — The Nor
wood Eagles Lodge held the bag
Friday, five U.S. mail bags to be
exact.
Gus Merlacj, lodge secretary,
said they contained 2,000 copies
of the Ohio Tavern News, all the
same issue.
Merland said an automatic
letter-addressing machine had
stuck on the Eagles plate in the
mailing office in Columbus. Postal
officials waded through all the
mail checking adresses and then
delivered the whole works to the
lodge.
Ike Names Civilian
Heads of Armed Services
NEW YORK, (/P) — President
elect Eisenhower -announced Fri
day his selections of the civilians
who will head the armed ser
vices under Charles E. Wilson,
Secretary of Defense-designate.
They are:
Deputy secretary of defense —
Robert M. Kves, 46, of Bloomfield
Hills, Mich., a vice president of
General Motors.
Secretary of the Army—Robert
Ten Broeck Stevens, 53, of South
Plainfield, N-J., a director of the
General Electric Corp., General
Foods and Jackson Mills, and
chairman of the board of J. P.
Stevens and Co., textile manufac
turers.
Secretary of the Navy—Robert
Bernard Anderson, 42, of Ver
non, Tex., a director and deputy
chairman of the board of direct
ors of the Federal Reserve Bank
at Dallas, Tex.
Secretary of the Air Force —
Harold L. Talbott, 64, of New
York, chairman of the board of
the North American Aviation Co.,
and a member of the Chrysler
Coi'p. finance committee.
| Christmas Concert At
| Community Methodist
Church Sunday Evening
The following program is sched
uled for the Christmas concert at
the Community Methodist Church
on Sunday evening at 8:00 p.m.
The concert is also being given
in the afternoon at 3:30 to accom
modate those who cannot go in
the evening. A free-will offering
will be taken at both concerts
for the Organ Fund.
Program
Organ prelude, Robert Baldwin;
Processional, Choir.
Instrumental ensemble (tradi
tional selections), Mrs. Florence
Kearns, cello; Robert Summers,
cornet: Jim Roth, French horn;
Clarence Hahn, oboe.
“From Heav’n Above,” Bach;
“Beautiful Saviour,” Christiansen;
“Today There Is Ringing,” Chris
tiansen; —Choir.
“Prelude IV,” Bach; “The Little
Shepherd,” Debussy; “Andante,”
Mozart; — Florence G. Kearns,
Organist.
“Birthday of a King,” Neidling
er; “The First Noel,” Traditional;
“Christmas Lullaby,” Thompson;
—Choir.
Organ interlude —Robert Bald
win; “O Holy Night,” Adams,
Robert Scott, soloist.
Sonata III, First Movement, by
Vivaldi; “Siciliana,” Pergolese;
Florence Kearns, cello; Carolyn
Glavinovich, piano.
“Silent Night,” Franz Gruber;
—Choir.
It has been reported that over
5,000 pounds of mail has been
brought to Nome by Alaska Air
lines in the past two days.
Truman Defends
Foreign Policies
Of Administration
WASHINGTON, UP)—President
Truman stoutly defended Friday
the foreign policies of his seven
years in the White House and de
clared they have produced “a sit
uation in which it should be clear
to the Soviet leaders that they
cannot gain their objectives by
the use of force.”
“We have demonstrated to the
Communists that their expansion
ist efforts will be checked,” the
President said, adding:
“They know this nation is be
coming strong. They know the
strength and unity of the free na
tions is mounting. They can gain
nothing from war but catastro
phe.”
Truman conceded there have
been in his administration some
mistakes and a few failures in
international relations, but he
said those who criticize such
losses as the fall of China to the
Reds rarely look at the whole
balance sheet.
“We need not be panicky to
day about the state of the world,”
he said. “We are not on the losing
side. The world is not about to
collapse around us.”
“I believe the Communists were
bent on testing the authority of
the United Nations and the
strength of the free countries, by
force, sooner or later. If the test
had not come in Korea, it would
have come somewhere else.
“If we failed to meet the test
there, the free world today might
well be in retreat before Com
munism on a dozen other fronts”.
House Committee Says
Inexperienced Contractor
Flubs Rocket Launchers
WASHINGTON, (JP) — House
investigators say IVz million rock
et tubes urgently needed in Korea
have been held up because an
“inexperienced” company was
awarded the contract to modern
ize them.
A House expenditures subcom
mittee reported Thursday that
Army ordnance officers were to
blame, and that the Ordnance
Crops has spent several hundred
thousand dollars in a “face sav
ing” effort.
If the tubes are finally accept
able, it will be due to “nothing but
luck,” the subcommittee said
after investigating a two million
dollar contract to strengthen old
World War II bazookas so they
can withstand the added pressure
of new type rockets.
The subcommittee report said
the company is a reputable man
ufacturer of electric fans, but had
“no experience in heat treating,
an important process” in streng
thening steel tubes.
Communists Boast They
Will be In Seoul by Xmas
SEOUL, (/P)—Allied warplanes
smashed a big Red troop massing
area near the North Korean cap
ital of Pyongyang Thursday while
the Communists boasted they
would be in Seoul by Christmas.
The Air Force said more than
70 buildings were destroyed and
30 more damaged.
The Communist boast about
capturing Seoul came in loud
speaker broadcasts along the
front. High flying Red planes
also made a rare appearance over
the front, showering leaflets say
ing in effect “Yankee, go home.”
While Allied officers considered
the broadcasts one more phase of
the Reds’ psychological warfare,
one officer said the news had
spread through Seoul “causing
quite a commotion” for a while.
No signs have been reported
that the Communists were mass
ing anywhere along the front for
an offensive toward Seoul.
Owen Lattimore Pleads
“Not Guilty” To Charges
Of Communist Sympathies
WASHINGTON, (A1) — Owen
Lattimore lcrudly declared “not
guilty!” Friday in answer to a
seven-count perjury indictment
based on his sworn denial of
Communist sympathies.
The two words—almost a shout
—were all Lattimore said during
a brief court proceedings, but his
attorney, Thurmond Arnold, had
plenty to say about publicity the
case has received.
The judge gave Lattimore until
Feb. 16 to file motions attacking
the indictment returned Tuesday
by a grand jury, charging he lipd
when he denied to senators he
had been a Communist sympath
izer or promoter of Communist
interests.
Edward F. Hummer, a Justice
Department attorney who had pre
sented the case of the grand jury,
suggested that Lattimore “be re
stricted to the District of Colum
bia and Maryland. Judge Kirk
land spoke up:
“Mr. Lattimore, you may go
anywhere in th world but be back
on the date of trial.”
Attorney Arnold asked that the
judge admonish the Department
of Justice for newspaper stories
dealing with the case, but the
judge refused. He said he would
not admonish the Justice Depart
ment or the press generally, but
that if there was contempt of
court it would be dealt with sum
marily.
WASHINGTON, {A1) — Senator
Magnuson (D-Wash) announced
that a Senate labor committee is
sending an investigator to Seattle
to probe the longshore tieup
which paralyzed the dock 32 days,
halting shipments of mail, cargo
and passengers to Alaska.
FBI Names Suspect
In Million Dollar
Brink Holdup
BOSTON, (/P)—Joseph “Specs”
O’Keefe, 44-year-old Boston gun
man, is named by the FBI as one
of the masked men who robbed
the Brink’s Boston headquarters
of $1,219,000 on the night of Jan.
17, 1950.
O’Keefe was named in affi
davits filed by the FBI with the
federal court in Boston.
The affidavits became available
to newsmen Thursday as O’Keefe
fought a contempt of court charge
resulting from his refusal to an
swer pertinent questions before a
grand jury hearing evidence in
the fabulous stickup.
One of the affidavits, signed by
John B. Greene, a special agent of
the FBI who heads the Brink in
vestigation, telling of an alleged
telephone conversation between
O’Keefe, then serving 90 days in
Bradford County jail, Pennsyl
vania, and his wife, Mary
O’Keefe:*
“He asked his wife whether or
not she had been interviewed by
federal enforcement officials and
she said she had.
“He asked whether or not any
thing was found, and she ans
wered ‘No,’ and later he told her,
‘Just take good care of the baby.
You know what I mean’.”
Federal authorities said there is
no O’Keefe baby.
Cost of Living Index
Equals August High
(By the Associated Press)
The cost of living as measured
by the government crept up two
tenths of a point last month to
equal the record high reached
last August of 191.1.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics,
announcing its measuring as of
Nov. 15, said that higher home
rents were mainly responsible for
the increase in its index.
The slight rise was not enough
to prevent the nation’s rail work
ers from taking a one-cent cut in
their wages. They had received
two cents an hour increase in the
last adjustment.
$100,000 Safe Robbery
At Whitehorse, Y. T.
DAWSON CREEK, B.C., (JF)—
The radio station in this northern
settlement broadcast a report
Thursday of a $100,000 robbery of
the railway office at Whitehorse
in the Yukon Territory.
The loot in checks, bonds and
cash was reported to have been
carted away in the White Pass
and Yukon Railway office safe.
The firm operates a railroad to
Skagway, Alaska, and 'bus and
freight lines between Whitehorse
and Dawson Creek.
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