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Premier Attacks
U.S.-Nationalist
Defense Treaty
TOKYO, I/P)—Premier Chou En
Lai of Communist China in a
bristling attack on the U.S.-Na
tionalist mutual defense pact yes
terday called the pact “a grave,
warlike provocation against the
People’s Republic of China.”
In an official statement broad
cast by Peiping radio, Chou de
clared that unless the United
States withdrew “its armed
forces” from Formosa, the near
by Pescadores and Formosa Strait
“it must take upon itself all the
grave consequences.”
The broadcast, also recorded
in London, quoted the Red pre
mier as saying:
“To liberate Taiwan (Formosa)
and to liquidate the traitorous
Chiang Kai-Shek clique is a mat
ter which falls entirely within the
scope of China’s sovereignty and
internal affairs and no interfer
ence by any foreign country will
be tolerated.”
Chairman of AEC Defends
Dixon-Yates Power Pact
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., (UP) —
Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the
Atomic Energy Commission de
clared yesterday a $600,000 an
nual profit limit in the Dixon
Yates power contraot has made a
good contract better.
Strauss earnestly defended the
power agreement in a press con
ference attended by Sen. Ander
son (D-NM), a Dixon-Yates con
tract critic who will be chairman
of the Joint, Atomic Energy Com
mittee in the new Congress.
When it ended, Strauss said he
felt he deserved a “E for some
thing in testifying like this along
side Senator Anderson.”
Anderson volunteered he knew
Strauss to be a man of “great
intelligence and integrity beyond
question.” He said he believed
that when he voted to confirm
Strauss’ appointment as AEC
chairman “without question” and
he still felt the same.
Sen. Urges Defense Dept.
Renew Efforts Get Equal
Rail Rates For Alaska
WASHINGTON, (UP)—Sen. Mag
nuson iD-Wash) urged the De
fense Department yesterday to
reconsider its withdrawal from
efforts to have railroads give Al
aska the same combined rail
water freight rates that apply to
shipments to Hawaii, South Am
erica and Japan.
Magnuson said in a statement,
rates to Alaska unjustly increase
the cost of living there.
“It is a situation that is diffi
cult to explain,” Magnuson said,
“difficult to believe, because our
people in Alaska, already faced
with the high cost of living, are
charged by the railroads more
than is charged citizens of a for
eign country.”
Fear of Global
War At Lowest
Level In Years
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower said today he believes
the fear of a global war is at
a lower level now than at. any
time in the last few years.
The President was asked at his
news conference whether he be
lieved the chances of peace are
brighter than at any time since
he took office two years ago.
Eisenhower said he wanted to
differentiate between peace and
an armistice, but stated he be
lieves fear of a global war is
less now than at any time since
he went abroad to head up the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion. That was in January of 1951.
The old Indian Treaty room
where the President traditionally
holds news conferences was jam
med with more than 200 report
ers anxious to question Eisen
hower about Sen. McCarthy’s
charges of weakness against Com
munism.
Eisenhower refused to make a
direct reply, recalling that he does
not indulge in personal vitupera
tion, but stands for positive things
while always upholding the right
of Congress to investigate legiti
mate affairs in the executive
branch.
Asked about the statement by
Paul M. Butler, the new Demo
cratic national chairman, that
Eisenhower lacks the “capacity to
lead and unite the American peo
ple,” the President once again
said he was no going to reply to
an individual attack directly..
But he declared in a firm voice
that he had heard such charges
before and too often politicians
look into a looking glass instead
of a window.
Freezing Weather Extends
Across The Nation
Most of the nation shivered in
freezing weather today as the
early December cold snap con
tinued.
The U. S. weather bureau in
Chicago said this morning was
one of the coldest this season for
the country.
The 32 degree line extended
from southern Georgia, north
westward through northern Ala
bama into northern Arkansas and
west into California.
"AIRPLANE INVENTOR"
FLIES AIR FORCE JET •
LAREDO, Tex., UP)—Elderly S.
H. (Slats) Rogers flew a jet air
plane for 30 minutes yesterday,
just as he wished.
Rogers claims he built ,the first
airplane in Texas back in 1911
and flew it in 1912. He said he
has flown almost everything since
then except a jet.
He went up in a jet for 45
minutes with Col. W. T. Sam
ways of the Laredo Air Force
Base at the controls for 15 min
utes of the time.
Democrats Have
Many Who Will
Seek Presidency
SOUTH BEND, Ind., UP) — The
Democratic party has “many men
who are presidential timber” and
Adlai Stevenson must seek the
1956 presidential nomination “vig
orously” if he wants it, says Paul
Butler, the party’s new national
chairman.
Butler also told a television
panel of South Bend newsmen,
last night .that, “he (Stevenson’
and other candidates must let the
party and the nation know their
intentions by the latter part of
1955. ”
The South Bend lawyer, press
ed by the newsmen to name pos
sible candidates for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination in
1956, mentioned Sen. Estes Ke
fauver of Tennessee, Sen. Richard
Russell of Georgia, Gov. Frank
Lausche of Ohio, Gov. G. Mennen
Williams of Michigan, Gov.-elect
George M. Leader of Pennsyl
vania and Gov. - elect Averell
Harriman of New York.
The tenor of the new chair
man’s remarks apparently were
intended to establish himself as
an independent factor in the
party’s factional split, though But
ler was generally believed to be
pro-Stevenson in party affairs.
Butler will pay a visit to for
mer President Truman at Kansas
City today to “seek his advice
and counsel” as a “fighting Demo
crat who has the role of elder
statesman.”
West Coast Shipping
Moving Today After
42 Days of Labor Tieup
(By t*ie Associated Press)
West Coast shipping was mov
ing Wednesday after 42 days of
labor conflict, but there was no
guarantee that the calm would
continue.
In the newest effort to bring
peace to the waterfront, the ILWU
Tuesday gave up its dispute with
the SUP over distribution of work
on the freighter Pacificus.
Fourteen hours before the
ILWU action, a six-day strike of
the CIO radio operators was set
tled, freeing 40 vessels idled by
that dispute.
The Pacificus conflict started 42
days ago in San Pedro when
both the ILWU and the SUP
claimed the right to unload No. 4
hatch. The SUP subsequently re
fused to work overtime and there
by delayed shipping schedules on
the West Coast.
Canada Leaving Korea
OTTOWA, OP)—Canada expects
to withdraw her last remaining
troops from Korea early next year.
Reporting this Monday night,
an authoritative Defense Dept,
official said no definite date has
yet been set for the move.
McCarthy’s Charge of Tolerance
Of Reds Seen As Deliberate Break
With Eisenhower Administration
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Japanese Call Truman
No. 1 War Criminal
For Ordering A-Bomb
TOKYO, UP) — Rightwing mem
bers .of the Japanese Diet verbal
ly attacked former U.S. Presi
dents Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Harry Truman and told a new
veterans group “both the United
States and Japan are to blame for
the war on a 50-50 basis.”
Assemblyman Yosuhiro Naka
sone made the “50-50” statement
at the Pearl Harbor day inaugural
meeting of the All-Japan Veter
ans Assn., attended by aged ex
generals and admirals, politicians
and the governor of Tokyo.
He said he referred to a book
by Adm. Robert A. Theobold
blaming the Pearl Harbor attack
on a conspiracy participated in
by the late President Roosevelt.
Ex-Col. Masanobu Tsuji of the
Japanese imperial army, like
Nakasone, a Democratic party
member of the Diet, told an au
dience of more than 1,000:
“If God were to give a fair
trial to war criminals, Truman
would be the No. 1 criminal for
killing 300,000 civilians at Hiro
shima and Nagasaki” because he
gave the order to atom - bomb
those cities.
“Stalin would be the No. 2 war
criminal for starving to death
hundreds of thousands of Japa
nese in Siberia.”
Pope Pius Closes Marian
Year With Broadcast,
Recovering From Illness
VATICAN CITY, UP) — Pope
Pius XII tonight dosed the
Marian Year with a broadcast
blessing to the world, recorded at
his bedside:
The Pope said:
“As we behold the entire Cath
olic world, kneeling today like one
family at the feet of the Immacu
late Virgin, we are grateful to the
Lord who, as a seal on such a
multitude of prayers and good
works offered up to him during
this year of grace, has asked of
suffering and sacrifice as an act
of love.
“And so, with suffering in our
members and sacrifice in our
heart, we are glad to close this
Marian Year by repeating to
gether with our children gathered
throughout the world, ‘and may
the blessing of Almighty God,
Father, Son and Holy Ghost, de
scend upon you now and remain
with you forever.”
The Vatican reported the Pope
was continuing to improve from
his grave illness. Besides taking
several steps today he was car
ried to an easy chair and remain
ed there five minutes while his
bed was remade.
, WASHINGTON, lift — President
Eisenhower, dealing with ques
tions about Sen. McCarthy’s at
tack on him, declared emphatic
ally today he has rro intention of
indulging in personal vituperation
or quarrels.
The President came up with a
crisp no when asked for com
ment at his news conference on
the McCarthy attack.
And, in what he did say later,
Eisenhower never did mention
McCarthy by name.
In this, the President was stick
ing to his repeatedly stated pol
icy of refusing to talk about Mc
Carthy as an individual.
McCarthy yesterday accused
the President of a “shrinking
show of weakness” toward Com
munism and of tolerance for Reds
who torture imprisoned Ameri
cans.
By all signs, McCarthy decided
deliberately on a break with the
administration. It was no off-the
cuff remark, but a prepared-in
advance statement, when he lash
ed at the President yesterday.
McCarthy apologized to Ameri
can voters for telling them in the
1952 campaign that election of
Eisenhower would guarantee “a
vigorous, forceful fight against
Communists in government.”
In response to newsmen’s ques
tions, McCarthy repeated his
statement of last week that he in
tends to continue in the Republi
can party. But this time he added,
perhaps significantly, that “at this
time” he has no interest whatso
ever in any third party.
McCarthy’s charge that Eisen
hower has displayed a shrinking
show of weakness in dealing with
Communism is traceable- in part
to Senate Republican leader
Knowland’s call for a U.S* block
ade against Red China in an ef
fort to force the Chinese C6m
munists to release 13 Americans
imprisoned as spies.
McCarthy has supported Know
land, but Eisenhower ruled out
such a step at this time. He said
a blockade would be an act of
war.
Knowland voted against con
demnation of McCarthy last week,
but he declined to go along with
the weakness toward Communism
charge against Eisenhower.
Couldn't Stay Away From Army
SALT LAKE CITY, M—Tommy
G. Romera, 23, discharged a year
ago November after 34 months
as a Korean war prisoner of the
Chinese Communists, yesterday
signed up for another three-year
hitch with the Army.
. “I like the Army,” he said at
the recruiting station in Salt Lake
City. “It’s just like home to me.”
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