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Gen. Clark Hopeful
After Showdown
Meeting with Rhee
SEOUL, UP)—Gen. Mark Clark,
U.N. commander, conferred today
with President Svngman Rhee,
then announced he can sign an
armistice without South Korean
approval, but he said doing so
would “depend an instructions
from my government.”
“I am authorized at the present
. time to sign the armistice which
has been drawn up,” he told news
men after what was apparently
a showdown meeting with the
rebellious Rhee.
“I am not trying to be overly
optimistic. There are many prob
lems. I feel somewhat more en
couraged; more hopeful,” he said.
Clark said he could not reveal
why he was encouraged.
Although Clark” indicated the
truce document was virtually
complete, he said there still are
problems and added, “the truce
timetable is more or less up to
the Communists.” He said a truce
could be completed promptly “if
the Reds desire it.”
Clark’s comments indicated the
free-swinging South Korean gov
ernment would check with the
U.N. Command before taking any
more such lone actions as its
single-handed release of 27,000
anti-Red Korean prisoners since
Wednesday night.
Rhee’s action froze- the armis
tice talks on the edge of signing
and left the UNC a plump target
for the Reds, who demanded re
capture of the prisoners and U.N.
contral of South Korea if the Al
lies wanted an armistice.
Rosenberg Funeral Brings
Attacks on U.S. Officials
For “Deliberate Murder”
NEW YORK, UP)—Funeral ser
vices for J,ulius and Ethel Rosen
berg erupted yesterday into tear
ful praise of the electrocuted atom
spies and angry attacks on U.S.
government officials. -
Defense Attorney Emanuel Bloch
declared in a funeral oration that
the executions were “an act of
cold, deliberate murder.”
He said he placed “the murder
of the Rosenbergs at the door of
President Eisenhower, Atty. Gen.
Brownell and (FBI Director) J.
Edgar Hoover.”
Semi-Orthodox Jewish services
were held for the Rosenbergs at a
Brooklyn funeral home chapel.
About 500 mourners jammed the
chapel and a crowd estimated by
police at 10,000 milled around out
side in 93-degree heat.
The chapel filled with hisses
and murmurs of “no” when Rabbi
Abraham Cronbach said, “Let us
give them (the prosecutors) credit
for this: that they did what they
thought was right.”
Bloch was attorney for the Ros
enbergs at the trial ,in which they
were convicted of conspiring to
pass U.S. atomic secrets to Soviet
Russia.
WASHINGTON, UP)— President
Eisenhower Monday nominated
Maj. Gen. Cortlandt Van Rens
slaer Schuyler to be chief erf staff
of the European Defense Forces
under Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther.
Alaska Unemployment
Fast Becoming Critical,
Says Gov. Heintzleman
JUNEAU, UP)—Gov. B. Frank
Heintzleman warned jobseekers
from the States Monday that the
unemployment problem '“rapidly
is becoming critical in all the ma
jor cities of Alaska.”
The situation has become aggra
vated recently, he said, toy an in
flux of unskilled workers without
funds to tide them over or get
them back to the States.
Jobs for these persons just are
not available, he stressed, in ask
ing that students and others
should not come north.
“Construction work in Alaska
this year has not reached the high
peak of several past seasons,” the
governor said “and most jobs can
be filled by residents or people
who arrived earlier in the season.”
Reds Mob in Paris,
New York, London
As Rosenbergs Die
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SING SING PRISON, Ossining,
New York, UP)—Julius and his wife
Ethel, walked quietly to the elec
tric chair Friday night and were
executed for the crime of deliver
ing to Soviet Russia the secrets of
the atomic bomb.
Neither of the condemned spies
talked, nor attempted to talk, as
the last moments came.
Both entered the death cham
ber in Sing Sing Prison — only a
few moments apart—with a firm
step and a stony face. They were
executed shortly before sunset, so
that the grim task would be fin
ished before the beginning of the
Jewish Sabbath.
They were the first non-mili
tary convicts in the history of the
United States to be executed for
espionage.
At the hour of retribution,
crowds gathered, demonstrating,
in New York, London and Paris.
Hysterical sympathizers, scream
ing and crying, milled around a
speaker’s stand in New York’s
Union Square.
Street fights broke out in Paris,
and in London thousands roved
the streets, waving copies of the
Communist newspaper, the E>aily
Worker, which carried a single
word in giant type—“Murder.”
In Dublin, two bottles of kero
sene were thrown through the
window of the U.S. Information
Office. They did not explode.
Pretend Atom Bomb
Strikes Juneau in
Civil Defense Test
JUNEAU, W)—Juneau was one
of the cities hit by a make-believe
atom bomb in a make-believe en
emy attack against the West Coast
Saturday.
The Civil Defense test got un
derway with reports from Alaska
that three flights of theoretical
enemy planes had been sighted
flying toward Seattle. On the way,
the aggressor bombers presum
ably wiped out Juneau with an
atomic bomb. Similar A-bomb
mock attacks were made on Seat
tle and Tacoma, where an esti
mated 70,000 persons would have
died if the raids had been real.
Churchill Declares—
No Commitments
To Conquer Korea
For Syngman Rhee
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LONDON, IjP> — Prime Minister
Churchill told a cheering House of
Commons today "We have not
committed ourselves in any way
to go forward and conquer the
whole area of Korea and place it
under the authority of Mr. Syng
man Rhee.”
At the same time, the Prime
Minister disclosed Britain had
sent a stiff note to Rhee denounc
ing his “treacherous action.”
Churchill said the South Kor
ean president’s release of thous
ands of anti-Communist prisoners
of war had created a situation
“full of danger.”
Churchill told the House “the
matter is obviously very serious.
We can all see the casting away of
the fruits of these years of fight
ing.”
He said the U.S. had a “very
heavy burden to bear” in the
guarding of the prisoners, ex
plaining that the U.S. had moved
“about 30,000 troops from guard
ing prisoners to the holding of the
front.”
The British protest note to Rhee,
delivered by the British minister
in South Korea today, told him:
“As a member of the U. N.
whose military forces are partici
pating in the Korea action, Her
Majesty’s Government strongly
condemn this treacherous viola
tion of the authority of the U.N.
Command to which the govern
ment of Korea had agreed in 1950.
Defense Asked To
Consider Valdez
As Military Port
J
VALDEZ, UP—The Valdez Cham
ber of Commerce yesterday called
for a Department of Defense in
vestigation of the “apparent utter
disregard of the port of Valdez by
military officials in planning sup
ply lines to interior Alaska bases.
The chamber also urged that
the House and Senate Armed Ser
vies Committees join in the in
vestigation.
The chamber expressed regret
over the Wednesday night fire at
Whittier but said it “has been the
view of many ranking laymen
throughout the territory that in
the event of a national emergency
Whittier could become useless in
a matter of minutes.”
Several chamber members, in
cluding President Stuart Starbuck,
Mayor George Wilson, John Kel
sey of the Valdez Dock Co. and
Territorial Senator William Egan
emphatically expressed the opin
ion war could never completely
cripple operations on the Valdez
waterfront.
Flat terrain by the waterfront
and no strong tides for shipping
were advanced in favor of Valdez
as a military base.
The Valdez chamber strongly
maintained that the Whittier fire
did not result in the devastating
blow to the military supply sys
tem in the territory as described
by the press.
Communist East Germany Admits
Anti - Red Mutiny In Uranium Mines
HEAT WAVE IN STATES
128 PERSONS DIE
Cooler air brought relief to most
of the midwestern states but high
heat plagued the South and some
eastern areas.
At least 128 persons died of
causes attributed directly or in
directly to the oppressive heat
during the four-day heat wave
that set .records in many cities.
It began Friday when spread
ing heat ran temperatures up to
Ft. Smith, Ark.’s June record of
105, Laredo, Tex.’s, 107 and Ash
land, Neb.’s, 108 peak. Storms
generated by the day’s stifling
heat and humidity wreaked minor
damage in Iowa.
Saturday was worse. Chicago,
which had a date record for the
day before, had its hottest June
day on record—104.2. A 60-year
record was set at Albany, N.Y.,
and Louisville, Ky. There was a
107-degree temperature in Arkan
sas, 105 at Oklahoma City, 103 at
St. Louis, 101 at Terre Haute, Ind.
35th Jet Ace Crowned As
Ground Action Sees Lull
SEOUL, UP)—Hot U.S. Sabre jet
pilots today blasted six Commu
nist Migs from the North Korean
skies.
The 35th jet ace of the war was
crowned in blazing aerial warfare
which extended nearly to the
Manchurian border. Col. Robert
Baldwin of Sherman Oaks, Calif.,
qualified as an ace by downing
his fifth Mig. He also has dam
aged three.
Ground action was light except
for continued pounding by the
Reds against South Korean lines
on the east-central front.
The lull on the key western
front has been unusual. Each day
the communique has been report
ing only two, three and four con
tacts among squad-size groups—
this along a front manned by at
least 200,000 Chinese and South
Korean troops.
HARRY TRUMAN TRAVELS
TO WASHINGTON, D.C.
WASHINGTON, Harry S. Tru
man slept “late” Monday—past 7
a.m.—and passed up his usual
before-breafast walk.
He was, he confessed, “just too
tired” after the three-day auto
mobile trip of nearly 1,200 miles
from his home in Independence,
Missouri.
The €9 - year - old Truman re
fused to talk politics for publica
tion on the ground that the time
is not ripe for serious attacks on
the Republicans.
ALASKA PLYWOOD CORP.
STARTS OPERATIONS SOON
JUNEAU, (5}—The first log ever
peeled in Alaska was run through
the plant of the Alaska Plywood
Corp. in a trial run Saturday.
Gov. B. Frank Heintzleman,
who as head of the Forest Service
worked for many years for indus
trial development of Alaska’s for
ests, was present. He congratu
lated Thomas A. Morgan, presi
dent of the corporation.
, BERLIN, UP — Communist East
Germany admitted today sabotage
had occurred in the Soviet-man
aged uranium mines and violence
continued elsewhere against the
Red puppet regime.
The Communist Party leader
ship hurled new face-saving char
ges that Western agents had para
chuted into East Germany to
spread havoc after the workers*
revolt flared last Wednesday. U.S.
officials derided the accusations
as fantastic.
ADN, the Soviet-controlled Ger
man news agency, confirmed re
ports that the anti-Red mutiny
had struck in the Saxony uranium
fields which have been exploited
by the Russians since 1947 in the
atomic weapons race.
ADN quoted statements of loy
alty by uranium miners saying
they would expand their efforts
to make up for lost production
“and to reconstruct the areas de
stroyed by the Fascist provoca
teurs.”
No estimate of damage was giv
en. A West Berlin newspaper,
Telegraf, reported Sunday that
100,000 Germans went on strike
Thursday in the Saxony uranium
mines after a Soviet firing squad
executed 12 anti-Red demonstra
tors. The stikers represented more
than one-third of the men in the
mines. ADN said Aue, heart of
the low-grade uranium ore fields,
was hard hit.
The sealed-off Soviet sector re
leased trains for West Berlin’s
elevated system, which carries a
million passengers daily, but none
of the five operating lines was
permitted to cross the border div
iding East and West Berlin. Lack
of trains had compelled the work
ing population the western sector
to limp along on foot, bicycle,
overcrowded bus and streetcar
lines.
A West Berlin youth was shot
and killed today by East German
police firing across the border in
to the British sector. Western po
lice said he had been with several
other youths who had shouted
jeers at the Communist police,
Soviet authorities announced a
new execution by firing squads at
Jena, bringing to 21 the number
dealt with in that manner in East
Germany thus far.
Big Three Conference
Aims to Meet July 8
WASHINGTON, iiV-The White
House indicated today the Big
Three Bermuda conference will
start July 8 regardless of whether
the French have chosen a new
premier by that time.
President Eisenhower, Prime
Minister Churchill of Great Brit
ain and a French government re
presentative will attend.
The British announced yester
day that the conference will start
July 8. The White House at the
same time described July 8 as
only a “target date,” and said the
actual start of the sessions still
was dependent upon selection of
a French premier.