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Page 1 2 Thurs., Feb. 21, 1952
Ridgway Raps
pose Critical
Of Korean War
l 'Blind Can See'
: Enemy Intentions
:' TOKYO tP) Gen. Matthew
B. Ridgway said Thursday night
it is deplorable that many Amer
icans still ask "Why are we in
. Korea?"
The supreme Allied command
er declared the pattern of Com
munist intentions is "now spread
across the world where even the
blind can see."
For his part, Ridgway said there
can be no question of the "validity
. and purpose" of U. S. fighting in
i Korea "against that deliberately
planned, unprovoked aggression."
"To have done otherwise," he
said, "would have been a repudia-
tion of every principle we had 1
. previously professed."
Ridgway spoke at the annual
convention of the Far East De
partment of the Reserve Officers
Association.
r. HE MADE NO mention of the
Korean armistice talks at Pan-
munjom.
The address was devoted large
ly to remarks on Military Reserve
officers and George Washington,
who was born 220 years ago Fri-
day.
Ridgway said the same situation
exists today that Washington
found in 1775 when he wrote that
one of his hardest jobs was to
induce people to believe there was
-: "danger until the bayonet is
'' pushed at their breasts."
"Our country," Ridgway said,
"still has today many people whose
intelligence level offers no slight
est excuse for a similar mental
outlook on this problem.
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lAP WIlTDhtJtO)
MRS. LENA ZUKLE, 21, of Los Angeles, waits to be freed
from a wrecked station wagon in which she lies trapped,
her right leg pinned between the steering post, the seat
and floorboard. She pleaded with her rescuers not to
amputate her mangled leg and she was freed after a 40
minute struggle.
General Defends
'Stand-by' Wages
"WITH THE pattern of Commu
nist intentions now spread across
1 the world where even the blind
' can see, neither the seeming in
sulation of distance, nor the native
'born of a sheltered life, can plead
the slightest excuse, nor abate one
iota of our individual responsi
bility.
"To do otherwise than oppose
aggression in the future, within
our capabilities, will be to i
knowledge as sterile every sacri
fice America has made since it
obtained independence.
"We have heard and we still
hear at times, and I regret to say
from Americans referring to Ko
. rea, 'Why are we there?' I think
the question discredits him who
asks it."
Winnie Denies
He Did Wrong
On Free Rides
LONDON (fl5) Prime Minister
Churchill stoutly denies he did
wrong by accepting free rides on
steamships and trains during his
January visit to the United States
and Canada.
He said Wednesday in the
House of Commons, "the gifts and
services of the Cunard Steamship
Company, as well as those of the
United States and Canadian Rail
ways, were not to ministers but
to the British taxpayers." Con
servative supporters backed him
up with loud cheers.
He was hitting back at opposi
tion charges that he failed in his
duty by "the acceptance ot gifts
from commercial undertakings."
Laboritc Col. G. E. C. Wigg had
said that Churchill should have
declined free trips.
The value of the boat rides giv
en Churchill and Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden was 1,752
pounds, $4,905. The train trjps
cost considerably loss.
In New York, spokesmen for
the New York Central and Penn
sylvania Railways said all their
bills had or would be paid by
the British delegation to the
United Nations or reimbursed by
the Canadian Farific Railway.
Giving free transportation, they
said, violnles Interstate Com
merce Commission regulations.
WASHINGTON (IP) A Senate
investigation heard Thursday
that workers on a super-secret air
base construction program near
the North Pole collected more
than three million dollars in
wages before even reaching the
job.
Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief of
Army Engineers, defended these
payments as well as salaries at a
rate of $13,000 a year for laborers
and $17,000 a year for mechanics
on the project.
Questions by Downey Rice,
counsel for the committee which
was set up as a watchdog group
on military spending brought
out the salary figures.
RICE DID not .indicate how
many workers shared the three
million dollars, but said they drew
the pay while en route to the job
by ship and airplane.
He said some of them left Nor
folk, Va by ship, expecting to be
at the job in 15 days but actually
were 42 days on the way.
The project was known by the
code name of "Blue Jay" pre
viously publicized as being in
Greenland.
Rice said this project and an
other air base construction job in
North Africa, known by the code
name of "Atlas already involved
expenditures of about 100 million
dollars.
GEN. PICK recently has re
turned from a tour of these over
seas bases, including those in
French Morocco in North Africa.
Rice asked Pick why workers
had been recruited at "premium
pay," sent to a center and then
sent back home to await orders
while getting "sta.nd-by pay" that
amounted to $317,000 at the rate
of $4 -a day a man. Their regu
lar pay began when they left for
the job.
Pick explained that it was nec
essary first, "to carefully screen"
each worker after he had been
recruited, sent to a center to be
briefed and then sent home to
await orders after clearance.
"This was hazardous beyond
anything ever encountered in con
struction," Gen. Pick said, appar
ently referring to the North Pole
work.
He said it was necessary to
transport the workers by both
ship and airplane and that the
ships needed icebreakers to get
through.
"IT LOOKED like someone
made a mistake by paying sala
ries in excess of three million dol
lars before the workers even
reached the job," Rice said, and
asked who was responsible.
"I am, sir, Pick replied.
Ho said the northern air base
job was "something new, nobody
had done anything like it before.
The general said he was rushed
for time and thought "we had a
chance of getting it done."
Farm Loan Association
Slates Annual Meeting
The annual stockholders' meet
ing ot the Lane County National
Farm Loan Assn. will be Tuesday,
Feb. 2(1, at the Osbum Hotel,
Harry I.. McGce, secretary-treasurer,
announced this week.
Registration will start nt 11:30
a.m., with a free luncheon at
noon. The meeting is expected to
be adjourned not later than 3 p.m.
Two directors will be elected to
fill the expiring terms of S.Y. Bar
tholomew and Truman A. Chase.
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Trumans Attend
Violinist's Concert
WASHINGTON (IP) President; lightning in the area.
Noise Alarms
Portland Area
PORTLAND (IP) A long rum
bling noise alarmed part of Port
land and a suburban area south
west of the city Wednesday night.
Police began an investigation,
but the cause of the noise was not
determined at once.
Heard over a wide area, lt
sounded like thunder. The Weath
er Bureau said that if it were
thunder it was a freak, for condi
tions did not indicate thunder or
and Mrs. Truman, accompanied by
Secretary of Agriculture Brannan
and Mrs. Brannan, attended a con
cert by violinist Jascha Heifctz
Wednesday night at Constitution
Hall.
Heifctz played with the National
Symphony Orchestra, conducted
by Howard Mitchell.
Some residents reported seeing
a flash, and some thought a jet
plane had crashed. The Air Force
said no jet planes were flying, and
a check of military and civilian
flying services disclosed no planes
missing.
A theory also was advanced that
a meteor had passed over.
U.S. Jets Down
Two More MIGs
Commie Ambush
Pins Down Patrol
SEOUL. Korea (IP) Amer
ican Sabre jet pilots shot down
two more Red jets Thursday
hrineine their toll this week to
ten.
The two MIG-15S eliminated
were blown out of the air during
a 20-minute battle in cloudy
North Korean skies between 27
American Sabre jets and 20
MIGs.
American losses, if any, were
not announced. The Air Force dis
closes U.S. plane losses only once
a week.
On the ground a Red ambush
pinned down an Allied patrol and
its rescue force for more man an
hour on the frozen Eastern Front,
A SECOND United Nations
rescue group broke the trap and
freed both Allied units in sharp
fighting. The action occurred
northwest of Kansong, on the east
coast.
Among the few planes in the
air Thursday morning was a jet
that bombed "Freedom Bridge"
linking Allied true headquarters
at Munsan with Panmunjom, site
of armistice talks. It dropped two
bombs.
Eyewitnesses said it resembled
an American F-80 Shooting Star.
One soldier said he saw USAF,
United States Air Force on the
underside of one wing.
NO DAMAGE or casualties
were reported. Only one bomb
exploded.
Naval headquarters in Tokyo
said the battleship Wisconsin re
turned to action off East Korea
Wednesday. The flagship of the
U.S. Seventh Fleet fired 5000
rounds of five-inch shells and re
ported direct hits on two im
portant Communist bridges. The
Wisconsin is commanded by Capt.
Thomas Burrows of Washington,
D.C.
Off the east coast, American
and New Zealand warships de
stroyed 15 sampans in a 50-min-
ute battle with a Red "fishing
fleet navy." The sampans are used
as blockade runners to move
supplies.
Works All Day and Nearly All Night But
Truman Admits He Enjoys Joh
Bv ERNEST B. VACCARO retired Instead 6f running for a i being "king" to people and thatL ,,.
By ERNEST B. VACCARO
Aiinelated mil t" rr
WASHINGTON (IP) President
Truman told a Masonic gathering
Thursday that .he works all flay
and nearly all night as President,
"but just between you and me and
the gatepost, I like It."
The President confided this at
titude in an off-the-cuff talk to
Grand Masters of Masons attend
ing a nationwide conference.
Cabinet members and White
House staff representatives also
attended the hotel breakfast at
which Truman defended his aides
against the description of "Mis
souri Gang," which he said has
been given them by his opponents.
He noted that Lincoln, Jefferson,
Cleveland and other .Presidents
underwent a lot of criticism and
that it was some years after Cleve
land left office that it was said of
him "they loved him for the enem
ies he made."
" I HOPE YOU love me for that
same reason," the President said.
Truman- did not identify the
"they" in the remark about Cleve
land. He went on to say that if he
thinks he's right in what he does,
"I don't care if anyone likes it or
not."
At one point, the President said
with a grin "this year is leap
year, a most important year in the
history of the government of the
United States."
He called attention to attacks
made on George Washington by
"a leading Philadelphia paper" and
said this was "one reason why he
At his news conference Wednes
day, the President declined com
ment once again on his political
intentions. He has said he faces a
difficult decision and hasn't made
up his mind yet whether he will
run again.
The President told the breakfast
meeting he spends most of his time
hi. --u V- . ana that
..a JUU , pi, narny a "public re
lations one," in which he seeks to
get people to do things for the
government.
Turning to' the criticism of past
Presidents, Truman said:
It has taken 150 years to
determine the greatness of Wash
ington. Thomas Jefferson was once
k wo nan.. .-iua
loune and crUleK
Inference to u",goI
Address saidft G,
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NEW YORK (IP) Joseph D.
Nunan, Jr., former Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, has resigned
from his Washington, D. C, law
firm because of the criticism di
rected at him m tax case probes.
Nunan's' New York counsel,
Richard J. Burke, announced the
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The action was attributed to
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