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SKINNY WAINWRIGHTS LEGACY
Long after General Jonathan M. Wainwright, the
hero of Bataan, is laid to rest in a soldier’s grave in
Arlington Cemetery, his courage in the face of the
most hopeless assignment any American commander
has ever had to accept, will remain a bright page in
our military history. But we hope too that his explan
ation of the Philippine debacle will be long remem
bered:
“For a while,” General Wainwright used to say,
“we were careless of our nation’s safety. We let our
guard down.”
At this very moment, this very critical mom&pt,
in our history, we face increasing opportunities for
letting our guard down. It could be as disastrous in
the plushy purlieus of the United Nations as it was
in the hell of Corregidor.
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NO ADMISSION
Interviewed in Seoul, Korea, Senate Majority
Leader William F. Knowland was asked if he would be
willing to swap a seat in the U.N. for Red China for a
unified Korea.
Senator Knowland’s answer was a prompt and
decisive “I would not.”
The fact that the Senator gave this answer after
five days in Korea, in which he has been talking to
President Rhee—who says the North Koreans are
prisoners of the Chinese — and must have talked to
U.S. officers who have given correspondents horrible
details of North Korean slavery under the Red Chinese,
is significant.
It proves there is a point at which, even to an
American, his own country must come first. The ad
mission of Red China would be our final and complete
acceptance of defeat before the world. That the U.N.
could not survive the blow either, is only a detail.
Representative McDonough, of California, has sug
gested putting a map of the nation on the back of the
dollar bill. If it is designed to show how far money
will go, he is wasting his time.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech,
whether in a senator or an orator. —Cicero
Justice Dept. Will Appeal
To Supreme Court To
Deport Union Official
SEATTLE, (A*)—The Justice De
partment will take an appeal to
the United States Supreme Court
in its two-year fight to deport a
Seattle labor union official ac
cused of joining the Communist
Party since he entered the U.S., it
was announced.
John P. Boyd, district Immigra
tion Service director, said he had
been advised by the attorney gen
eral that the appeal will be made
in the case of Ernesto Mangaoang,
business agent for Cannery Work
ers Local 56, International Ware
housemen’s and Longshoremen’s
Union.
Mangaoang, a Filipino', was or
dered deported in December, 1951,
as a Communist alien within the
meaning of the Internal Security
Act of 1950.
U.S. Tries To Recover
Ships Lent To Russia
WASHINGTON, iff) — The U.S.
government is trying again to get
back from Russia ships and money
borrowed when the two countries
were allies against Germany.
A memorandum handed Ambas
sador Georgi N. Zarubin Friday
renewed American demands for
return of 670 ships, mostly small
naval vessels. Undersecretary of
State Walter B. Smith also re
minded Zarubin that negotiations
for settling the lend lease account
have been dragging on more than
six years.
The United States asks $800 mil
lion in compensation for an esti
mated $2,600,000,000 in lend lease
items. The Russians last year of
fered $300 million.
Personal and Legal Size File
Folders on Sale at the Nugget. ,
Asia and the II.N.: It is certainly
a sound principle for one of the
permanent seats in the Security
Council to be held by a major
Asian power. Nationalist China is
no longer in this category. Com
munist China has clearly disqual
ified itself by waging open war
fare against the U.N. Fortunately,
there is another nation that is very
well qualified to serve. It has a
democratic form of government.
It now acts as the conscience of
Asia. It is in the free world but
sufficiently independent in its for
eign policy to have stayed clear of
formal alliances with either of the
major groups of powers. This na
tion is India. India is now policing
the truce in Korea—an assignment
that probably could not have been
given, with the agreement of all
concerned, to any other nation on
earth. The United Nations would
benefit if India were one of the
Big Five in the Security Council.
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Paper-backs: Despite TV and 3D,
Americans, because of the paper-backs,
are buying and reading almost three
times as many books as before. Annual
paper-back sales of around 8250 mil
lion, almost ninety percent fiction,
have been added to hard-cover sales
of some 8200 million.
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83rd Congress: The unkin ties t
thing about its first session has been
said by the Administration’s closest
friends: Ike got nearly everything he
asked for. The other side of that coin
is “nothing ventured, nothing gained
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The Trigger: Berlin: According
to Isaac Deutscher, the Germans
who surged into the streets meet
ing Russian tanks with a hail of
stones did in fact bring about an
upheaval; but the upheaval took
place in Moscow, not in Berlin,
Beria fell,
Excerpts from The Reporter Maga
zine. 220 East 42nd St., New York,
N. Y.
Alaska Airlines
Announces New
Low Freight Rates
SEATTLE—New low air freight
rates within Alaska were announ
ced today by Alaska Airlines. A
drop of four and five cents a
pound became effective Septem
ber 9, on flights between An
chorage and 22 interior points, be
tween Farewell and 4 points, be
tween McGrath and 2 points. A
new low rate of eight cents a
pound also takes effect between
Fairbanks and Seattle-Portland,
■southbound.
Ralph Starkey, airline vice
president and traffic head, said
Alaska shippers would welcome
the new economy rates not only
as cheaper cargo transportation
but as a general aid to business
throughout the territory. He said
Alaska Airlines officials consider
ed the new rates a strong factor
in helping build Alaska’s future.
“The added cargo tonnage will
eventually make possible in
creased flight service for both pas
sengers and freight. This makes
all outlying points more accessible
to larger centers such as Anchor
age and Fairbanks,” Starkey
added.
Under the new schedule freight
may be flown via Alaska Airlines
from Anchorage to Nome, Moses
Point and Unalakleet for 9 cents
a pound as against 14 cents for
merly. Anchorage merchants may
ship to Candle, Deering, Golovin,
and White Mountain for 16 cents
as against the earlier rate of 20
cents.
New Drive For Repeal
Of Taft-Hartley In Next
Session Of Congress
WASHINGTON, UP)—Sen. Mur
ray fD-Mont) said Saturday a new
drive fo'r outright repeal of the
Taft - Hartley Act may be the
Democrats’ answer to Eisenhower
administration discord over labor
policies.
Murray, top Democrat on the
Senate Labor Committee, said in
an interview he intends to spon
sor a repealer in the next session
of Congress and make the matter
an issue in new year’s congres
sional campaign.
“Secretary of Labor Durkin’s
resignation indicates very clearly
that any Taft - Hartley amend
ments the Republicans offer are
not going to be the kind promised
by President Eisenhower in last
year’s campaign which would be
sympathetic with the workers’
program,’ ’Murray said.
“The entire act ought to' be re
pealed and I intend to move in
that direction.”
OSLO, Norway, UPl — Three
young Poles slipped through the
iron curtain by stowing away in
the comfortable seats of Soviet
built autos being exported to Nor
way in the hold of the Polish
freighter Oksywie, police reported
Monday.
Miss and Mrs. America
Hail From Pennsylvania
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., W) —
Pennslvania had a comer in the
beauty market today, with lovelies
from that state the winners of the
1954 Miss and Mrs. America
crowns.
As Evelyn Margaret Ay launch
ed a whirlwind tour today, her
victory Saturday night over 51
other beauties in the Miss Am
erica pageant seemed like a
dream.
The 20-year-old pageant win
ner, who hails from the small
town of Ephrata, Pa., is a Univer
sity of Pennsylvania coed.
There’ll be an ironic touch to
Mrs. America’s appearance today.
At a fair in Reading in her home
state of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Sny
der had entered two beauty con
tests there in the past, but the
best she did was to finish as run
ner-up.
The 115-pound, 5 feet 444 in
ches-tall mother of two' boys also
has a year of personal appear
ances ahead of her as the queen
of married lovelies.
SEX STUDY DICUSSION
NO SUCCESS IN PASADENA
PASADENA, Calif, UP) — Dr. Al
fred Kinsey’s sex studies evidently
do not arouse enthusiasm for pub
lic duscussion in Pasadena.
There may be a private discus
sion and book stores report brisk
sales of the recent book on female
sexual behavior written by the
head of the Indiana University
study of human sexual behavior.
But the Celebrity Guild of Los
Angeles, which had hired a hall
for a panel discussion Saturday
night of the Kinsey book, has can
celled the program. The sponsors
said only a few tickets were sold.
. (By tee Associated Press)
American League
W L Pet. GB
New York 92 45 .672 ....
Cleveland 84 57 .596 10
Chicago 81 60 .574 13
Boston 77 65 .542 17 Vz
Washington 71 69 .507 22 Vz
Detroit 55 87 .387 39 Vz
Philadelphia 53 88 .376 41
St. Louis 50 92 .352 UVz
National League
W L Pet. GB
• Brooklyn 97 44 .688 ....
Milwaukee 85 56 .603 12
St. Louis '77 62 .554 19
Philadelphia 76 64 .543 20Vz
New York 65 76 .461 31
Cincinnati 61 80 ,433 36
Chicago 57 82 .410 39
Pittsburgh 44 98 .310 53 Vz
Coast League
W L Pet. GB
Hollywood 105 72 .593 ....
Seattle 97 80 .548 8
Los Angeles 93 84 .525 12
Portland 90 87 .508 15
S. Francisco 88 89 .497 17
San Diego 87 90 .492 18
Oakland 75 102 .424 18
Sacramento 73 104 .412 32
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