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Allied Planes Strike Red Korean Targets i t' KEEP YOU FOWDOt DXY-Army engineers ebty en eld military maxim and keep their guns and helmets dry, but handy, white repairing a highway bridge north of Seoul. This Is near the Kaesong area whtrt tha proposed trues talks whh the Communists are to toko place. U.N. Forces Active Pending fPHE end of the Korean campaigni-now 54 weeks old conceivably I X may be in sight but United Nations forces, of necessity, kept up their guard and maintained contact with the foe.- Strategists point out that any letup could be a priceless advantage to the Reds, permit ting them to build up strength possibly for a new offensive, should the negotiations for a truce fall through. , r But U.N. offensive action was con- centra ted where the Allies far surpass the Communistsin firepower, sir power and see power. Thus, while ground patrols moved forward warily, the big mobile pins roared as usual and the war planes were out in force, continuing to smash at Bed road and rail lines and troop concentrations. U.N. warships continued to blockade end shell the North Korean coast. The Chinese Reds continued to move up fresh troops from Man churia. ' - ,'. ' The Place Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, the UJi. commander in Korea, proposed that the cease-fire meeting be aboard the Danish hospital ship Jutlandia? in Wonsan Harbor but the Reds coun tered with a request for a meeting in Kaesong. -". - The Communists had two face-saving reasons for not wanting the meet ing in Wonsan. First it would ; indi cate they had compiled completely with Ridgways proposals. Second, any meeting held deep toade Red Korea would shatter their propaganda theme that they had won the war. Kaesong is a battered rubble pile that used to be a city of 70.000. It is on the western front, three miles be low the 33th Parallel, and one of the few points south of the prewar border now held by the Reds. The nearest U Ji. permanent mili tary line south of Kaesong is about eight or ten miles away, on the banks of the Imjin River. '. The Time" The Communists suggested a meet-. Ing in the Kaesong area sometime be tween July 10 and J15. - Gen. Ridgway agreed to meet with the Reds in Kaesong by next Tues day or earlier. As supreme com mander, he might send his chief of staff. Lt. Gen. Doyle O. Hickey. One stipulation that the US. is said to want if an armistice can be brought about is creation of a 20-mile wide buffer zone between the hostile forces. Another is creation of an inter national rommission to inspect forces on both skies of the parallel. Diplomatic Activity " Secretary of State Dean Acheson conferred almost daily with Mr. Tru : man in the White House. Representatives of 17 countries with forces in Korea discussed truce devel opments at a meeting - In the State Department By agreement last week. South Korea was represented for the first time. - - - : " I Defense Secretary Marshall! told Congress there would be no rush this time to bring American troops home from the Pacific when and if the fight ing stops. Asked whether, after a truce . end demobilization, the U.S. would go back to war again rather than give in to Red Chinese demands- for Formosa, Gen. Marshall replied, "The troops will be left there this time while a settlement is being reached." v In Short... - . Sent: To President Truman, as part of the week-long Philippine inde pendence celebration, a 200-pottnd chunk of The Rock of Corregidar Inland, stubbornly defended by Amer icans in World War XL ; , rttckedi By Cleveland hurler Beb - Feller, his third no-hit baseball game, . setting a modern major league record. Reduced: By the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, production at its Abadaai refinery, the world's largest, by 43 per cent in an effort to keep the plant operating as long as possible in the hope of a compromise settlement of the oil-nationalization dispute. . V. Talks r4ipliiiilililii,l si a-. Sidelights I 0 Twenty years ago Jack Burke eliminated Gene Sarazen in the PGA golf championship. The ! other day Jack Burke, Jr., eliminated Sarazen in the PGA tournament in Pittsburgh. 0 In Lancaster. Pa, a! restaurant proprietor put a box on the outside ot his door with change for parking meters. After a week he went to put in more coins but found more money ii the box than he bad put there originally. e Near Crescent City, Calif, a fish erman fell partway down a 75-foot cliff bordering the Smith River, dis locating his knee. All day he waved a handkerchief at motorists on a high way across the river. The passersby just waved back. After 18 hours, one zqotorist stopped long enough to learn his predicament and brought a rescue party. i -yA ) Britons, trying i to channel the midsummer channel madness into one big spalsh, have lined up a field of 29 for a mass race August 13 across the English Channel. oki tk:ns ATTLZ Truce 1 viliiiilHVitiHfiiif: I I TALKS TAe0W 1 to? Taejon. '-; : -4 I Mount CONGRESS; Ecoridmic IT WILL be a hot summer in Washington. The heat will be oppressive and Congress will be wrestling with the controversial subjects of controls. , Last week Congress got Into such a jam about controls it wound up passing a 31-day extension of the 1950 Defense Production Act so it. could argue further about a new law. If the stop gap had not been approved, all f price and wage controls would have expired at midnight, June 30. k i : Steady lriee Rise Consumer prices have gone up an average ; of 8 J per cent since the Korean war started a year ago, ac cording to the Bureau of Labor Sta tistics. Beef prices led the upward spiral. I " - " - Price .; Stabilizer Michael DiSalle . ordered 'one rollback in beef prices and scheduled others for August and October.' A rollback on manufacturers prices on other items (machinery, cotton textiles, shoes) had been sched uled for this past week. There will be no further price roll backs, however. In voting the stop gap extension, Congress banned any roll backs past the price level of January 25eb,T,?!., yWr DiSaUe called the ban on rollbacks a 10 billion dollar "gouge" of : the American consumer. He said the one on cattle price roll backs was a body blow at the whole cootroT system and would restore a new price line at a higher level than had been anticipated. Administration Defeat During July, the Administration will bring all its influence to bear on Congress for enactment of a strong, long-term controls bill but the out look is not encouraging. . " The ban on rollbacks was passed THAI LAN D; Abortive Revolt The Premier Could Swim Premier P. Pibulsonggram of Thai land is back in the Government House in Bangkok after a revolting week end.. . - ' '; vf; . o: " A Premier Pibul, as he is known, was kidnapped by an armed naval patrol after officiating at the dedication of an American dredge. He was held , aboard the Navy's flagship, the Sri Ayuthia.f ; - ' The abortive naval revolt ' failed after Army tanks shelled the Thon buri naval . base and "sank the flag-' ship in the harbor. Premier Pibul es caped by swimming ashore.. The revolt collapsed after the na val base surrendered. Two rebel ad mirals gave themselves up and other naval officers fled the capital, some in civilian clothes. ' Premier Pibul broadcast an appeal for peace immediately on reaching. Government House. The American embassy in Bangkok I. . .- CM'' ... AiiOTllZZ TKZY DO IflnlOS A KOREAN SMItES-Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, UJL commander in chief, (right) shakes hands with a beaming President Syngman Ehee of South Korea at a conference in Pusan. t " Pj WHAT PRICE NEGLIGENCE? iM week oyer Administration , op- Potion by a coalition of Republicans InA n,ithm TVmo.. nT. n tion 'of anti-Administration forces probably will maintain control of Congress on all domestic issues; A major factor in the reluctance of Congress to approve ; strict controls was the apparent apathy of consumers. Despite an appeal by the President in an address to the nation, consumer mail favoring controls did -hot pour in on Congressmen. f j .. Some Congressmen argue an ar mistice in Korea would wipe out en tirely the need for domestic controls. They hold this belief despite the in was hit by several stray ! artillery shells. Bangkok hospitals were jammed with more than 700 civilian casualties of the three-day,;rioting. A German civilian, killed by i rifle bul let, was the only foreign casualty. QuoteS; :; t Gov. Themas E Dewey, em barking on a 25,000-mile trip through the Far East; The cold war will go on for the rest of our. lives or as long as Communism rules Russia." j ' ' j I ... - ' -! - i i Gov. Feller Warren of Florida, refusing to obey a supoena of the Senate Crime Investigating Com mittee: "I think state sovereignty IS something more than a fading memory to rest in the nations" archives. . i ' V LOVE UFE AFTO ALL 1 w r il -r' rill il Ma NEGOTIATOR Gen. Peng. Teh . TRAVELER Gov. Thomas E. Dewey (left) bids goodbye to Wuai, leader of Chinese "vol- wife and John Foster Dulles at start of trip to Korea, Japan, unteers, may talk at Kaesong. Formosa, Indochina, Malaya, Australia and New! Zealand. Controls, Pro and Con sistence of the President and Mobili zed Charles K Wilson that controls are necessary to prevent runaway in flation once the bulk of the huge defense program gets underway. If these views prevail. Congress may allow price and wage controls to expire at the end of this month. Mass of Bills The logjam affects other legislation than controls. The government's fiscal year, ended June 30 and at the 11th hour last week Congress passed a one-month emergency appropriations bill to keep government bureaus and agencies running. The government wound up fiscal Dope Expatriate Ring About SO men deported from the United States to Italy on narcotics charges since the end of World War II are reported in Rome to have formed the nucleus of an internation al dope smuggling ring. "Charles 'Lucky Luciano is always suspect in Italy," this Roman source said, "but we have found no evidence of his being implicated in illicit nar cotics traffic." Senate Report A Federal Narcotics Bureau expert, recently, returned from a Mediter ranean survey, testified before the Senate Crime committee that the Mafia, Sicilian underworld organiza tion, is active in smuggling dope injo the U. S. The - federal agent said Lucky Luciano was the head of an overseas syndicate which arranged for getting narcotics into the U. S. Luciano is a slight, swarthy man with heavy lidded eyes and a sinister background. Born in Sicily in 1896, he came to this country at the age of 9 when his family moved to the lower East Side of New York. " ; Prehibiliea Bootlegger Prohibition gave him' his start in bigtime crime. By the mld-U20s he headed an east coast bootlegging net work. Luciano branched out rapidly and within a decade became the rack ets and vice overlord of the eastern U. & V In 1938, Lucky Luciano was con victed of running a "white slave" ring and sentenced to. serve 30 to SO years. The prosecutor who convicted him was ' a rising young lawyer, Thomas E. Dewey. Ten years later, Dewey, then New York governor, commuted his sentence to deportation in return for somewhat mysterious wartime aid Luciano had been able to offer during -the Allied invasion ot Italy. -For a time he tried to live In . Havana where American gamblers like Frank Costello flew to visit him until protests by" the U. S. State De partment led the Cuban government to send him back to Italy. Since then Lucky has lived in luxury and ap parent idleness at such swanky Italian resorts as Capri, Milan and Naples. Mobilization Pace Is Billion a Week if !f WHY? f " 51 with a surplus of $3,300,000,000. This may be the last surplus for some time. Billions of dollacs of red ink spending are in prospect for the years just ahead unless taxes are increased or planned defense projects are cur tailed. . Before July Is over. Congress must authorize . funds , for government operating expenses for the rest of fiscal 19SZ. . Other major bills - awaiting action include the S Ji billion dollars sought by the Administration tor foreign military and economic aid and a new tax hike (already passed by the House) to raise 74 billion dollars. Dates Tecsday. July 1 AU Star Baseball Game, De troit ' Thursday, Jaly 12 ' Orangemen's Day. Friday, July IJ Nathaniel Bedford Forrest Day, observed in Tennessee. Saturday. July If Bastille Day, France. Sunday, Jely 15 St Swithin's Day. Documents Helium Preservative " The Library of Congress chose In dependence: Week to announce that a new way has been found to pre serve two of its most precious docu ments: the Declaration of Independ ence and the Constitution. They, will be sealed in bronze and glass cases filled with " helium. The new process was developed by the National Bureau of Standards after extensive research. At present the five pages of the Constitution and the one page Dec laration are in glass cases filled with ordinary air. - In a careful, lengthy operation, the air will be. pumped out slowly and helium substituted. The helium will be maintained at pressure and a leak ometer has! been developed so that daily tests can be made to insure that none of the gas has leaked out " The operation will not be fully com pleted until September 17, which happens to : be Constitution Day, An appropriate ceremony is being planned. -4 ' ,-' Ever since the time of President Monroe, historians have been upset at the gradual deterioration of the documents. The Declaration has faded until lt is a bit difficult to make out the bold signature of John Hancock. Several years ago a bug was caught nibbling at the Constitution. "Now at last," says Acting librarian Verner W. Clapp, "we think we have found a way to save, them for the .centuries." ; c 1 t J- Defensel Spurt Ofy THE nation's defense industries will really move into higb gear this summer with or with out peace in Korea, j 5 ; T Economic Stabilizer Eric John ston told Congress the govern ment plans to go ahead with a "oil lian-dollar-a-week" mobilization pro gram in order : to build the armed might of the free world to the point where it can counter communist ag gression. 4 , i . Red Ink Spending Johnston said that in July.i August and September, the Treasury Depart ment will spend a billion dollars mora than its income. The Defense Production Admin ! tration has. reported evidence of' a shift of industry away from the coaate and populous centers to less industri alized areas of the mountain states, south and southwest. ' Indicative of this trend, DP A said the combined share .of mountain and south central states is 45.4 percent of the entire planned defense plant in vestment. This compares with a 14T' capital investment representing 30 J ' per cent of the national total. ; v- Marshall Banters Meanwhile in) Washington, there .is talk again that George; C Marshall ? would like to step down this fall as -Secretary of Defense. An early settle ment of the Korean crisis may speed i. bis decision to retire. , I ; y Gen. Marshall is 70 and none 4oo robust in health. He retired in 1945 from active Army duty as a five stac- . general, only to be called back- by President Truman to serve as Secre tary of State.,. t f . I v: Marshall resigned the State Depart ment post to undergo a serious kidney , operation. He was recuperating at bia Leesburg. Va, home when Mr. Tru man asked him to succeed Louis John son as Defense Secretary on Septem ber 21. 1950. As a I "good soldier,"! he accepted appointment to what normally should be the top civilian defense post be cause of the national emergency.-He was reported to have insisted that his service be for a limited; time only. Talk ef Seeeeseors I . ' The question of who might succeed - Marshall in the Pentagon assignment has paced talk about the possibility of his resignation. - Among names mentioned have been those of Robert A. LovetV the deputy . secretary; John J.. McCloy; American high commissioDer in the UJS.l Occu pation Zone In Germany, and W Stu art Symington, presently bead of the -Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The two-year term of Gen. Omar N.' , Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chie . of Staff, runs .out August 18 but Mr. Truman is expected to urge him to remain. Under provisions of the Na tional Security Act, reappointment of -the JCS chairman for a second term may be made. . --..;! Saga Holdouts Yield . f. On June 39, six years after- Em peror Ilirohito surrendered, 19 stub born Japanese on tiny Anatahan Is-, land in the western Pacific gave up The U.S.'I Navy finally convinced? them the war was over by dropping . photographs and letters ; of relatives who wrote that Japan had been de feated and was well on the road te recovery under American occupation. The group, then 33 in number, were-, stranded on Anatahan in. the Marianas : 60 miles .north of Saipan in . June. 1944. - when their fishing i boat wae sunk by Amerrcae attack. They lived, well on fish, wild porky fresh fruit end vegetables but feeds broke out . Six men were- slain, five in a fight -over the oner woman in their midUt, and one was killed by an ! allied, bomber. Five others died accidental deaths. ; " .. . i