48-Hour Lull In Red
Attack On Dien Bien Phu
HANOI, Indochina, UP) — The
lull in the Communist-led Viet
minh’s infantry assaults on bat
tered Dien Bien Phu passed the
48-hour mark today. For the sec
ond successive morning, a terse
French communique announced
“last night was calm” at the
northwest Indochina bastion.
The calm was relative, how
ever, as rebel artillery and mortar
batteries and the French long
range guns kept up their sporadic
firing.
With the monsoons almost at
hand, rainy weather forced
French fighters and bombers to
let up in their constant hammer
ing of the Vietminh troop con
centrations and war depots
around Dien Bien Phu. But they
still roared northward, hitting
rebel supply convoys on the
mountain trails and highways
leading from Communist China.
The Vietminh virtually halted
their infantry assaults on the fo*rt
ressed plain’s barbed wire and
bunkers Monday after suffering
extremely heavy losses in a week
of fighting from the superior
French firepower and the con
tinual bombings and strafings.
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Fire Destroys B.J.L. Co.
Commissary and Mess Hall
On Elmendorf A.F.B.
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Fire de
stroyed the B. J. L. Construction
Co. mess hall and commissary in
side Elmendorf Air Force Base
Monday night with damage esti
mated unofficially at $25,000.
Winds with gusts up to 40 miles
an hour fanned the blaze sending
billowing smoke clouds over parts
of Anchorage.
For a time the blaze threatened
the construction company’s civil
ian housing units on the base and
the new multi-million dollar Sun
flower development, where scores
of service families are housed.
More than 150 firemen fought
the stubborn flames in below
freezing weather. After three
hours they succeeded in contain
ing the blaze to' the mess hall—
a large H-shaped structure form
ed of wooden barracks type build
ings covering a city block in area.
The fire broke out just at dusk
and some 1,000 spectators were
drawn from the base and An
chorage. Volunteer Air Force men
assisted regular fire companies in
handling hose lines.
Fire companies from Elmendorf
and nearby Ft. Richardson, An
chorage, and the Alaska Railroad
fire departments responded to the
alarm.
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[Churchill Discloses Wartime
Anglo - American Atomic
Agreement Is Still In Effect
KANSAS CITY. UP) — Former.
President Harry S. Truman said
today the Anglo-American war
time atomic agreement still is in
effect.
The agreement was disclosed
publicly Monday for the' first time
by Prime Minister Churchill in a
House of Commons debate. As a
result he was involved in one
of the bitterest political storms
of his career.
James Hagerty, White House
press secretary, said last night the
agreement was not in effect at
the present time.
Tuesday, however, Truman, in
an interview, said it was.
The former President said, how
ever, the agreement did not apply
to the hydrogen bomb which was
developed later.
Asked whether such an agree
ment had not been terminated by
the McMahon Act, which forbids
sharing of U.S. atomic secrets
with foreign governments, the for
Maj. Gen. James F. Collins
To Become Alaska Army
Commander In August
ANCHORAGE, (A*) —Maj. Gen.
James F. Collins, who now is as
signed to the Pentagon, will be
the Army’s new commander in
Alaska.
Army headquarters here an
nounced he will fill the top Army
post in the territory after an an
nouncement in Washington of his
transfer in August. He will suc
ceed Maj. Gen. William M. Miley.
Collins is deputy to the Assist
ant Secretary of Defense for Man
power and Personnel.
He served through World War
II in the South Pacific. He rose
to command of the 1st Corps and
after the war continued in charge
of that unit during the occupa
tion of Japan, until July 1946. He
has been in the United States
since that time.
The general is 58, a native of
Jersey City and a 1927 graduate
of the U.S. military academy.
With about 6 per cent of the
world's population, the United
States has about three-fourths of
the world’s automobiles.
mer President said the act did
not cover the British - American
agreement.
“We weren’t sharing our sec
rets with the British, Truman ex
plained. “They were sharing
their’s with us.”
He said the British had spent
$20,000,000 on atomic research,
found they couldn’t swing it and
asked our aid. Under the accord
the two-nation agreement was set
up for development of the A
bomb.
As for the “secrecy” of the
agreement, Truman said:
“I knew about it and so did
foreign relations committees of
both houses. It was a good agree
ment. There was no secret about
it to the people who were entitled
to know about it.”
The former President said he
renewed the agreement with for
mer Prime Minister Clement At
tlee of Britain and Prime Minister
MacKenzie King of Canada “when
I got back from Potsdam.” In the
summer of 1945. He said he did
not recall the exact date.
He added that members of the
Foreign Relations Committees of
both houses were present when
the agreement was renewed.
“There was nothing mysterious
about it,” Truman said. ‘It was
done to bring and preserve peace
in the world.”
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Receding Glaciers
Seen As Cause Of
Increase in Goiter
CHICAGO, UP) — A possible in
creased health problem from goi
ter in the wake of continually
receding glaciers in various parts
of the world was forecast Mon
day at the opening of the annual
meeting of the American College
of Physicians.
It was foreseen by a physician
who was prominent in the re
search that led to the develop
ment of “iodized salt.” This salt
has shown value in preventing
“endemic goiter”—a simple swell
ing of the thyroid gland in the
neck which spmetimes can have
serious consequences.
Dr. David Marine of Rehoboth
Beach, Del., said, it is almost uni
versally agreed by scientists that
“endemic goiter” is due to a de
ficiency of iodine in the water
and food of various areas of the
world, including parts of North
America.
And this iodine deficiency has
in turn been traced he, said, to
a “leaching” of the iodine from
the soil by the waters of melting
glaciers which four times over a
period of million years creaked
down over the United States and
other parts of the globe.
“As existing glaciers continue
to recede and world population
increases,” Dr. Marine said, “more
of these (glacial) valleys will at
tract settlers and protection ag
ainst goiter will be necessary.”
He pointed out that there al
ready has been an increase in the
incidence of goiter in Portland,
Ore., since the city began using
water from the melting ice of
Mt. Hood.
Churchill Would Welcome
Eisenhower to Britain
LONDON, W) — Prime Minister
Churchill said Tuesday he would
be delighted to welcome President
Eisenhower to London for talks
on the hydrogen bomb and other
world problems. But, the prime
minister added, he did not think
the President could leave the
United States right now.
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