Firth)At, iviA.Y 16, 1952 Koje Island Prison To See Firm Rule KOJE ISLAND, Friday, May 16 (VP) -- A new era Of firm rule was proclaimed Thurs day for Koje Island, ending soft measures that allowed Red prisoners to negotiate with their captors and flaunt "insulting signs." Brig. Gen. Haydon Foatne... made this clear to correspondents 24 hours after he had taken over the festering prison island-scene of two riots and the sensational seizure of Brig. UN Planes Smash Red Repair Base SEOUL, Friday, May 16 (11 3 ) Allied war planes Thursday smashed a big vehicle repair cen ter in Northwest Korea an d shredded the Communists patch work rail systeth with high ex plosives. As they dealt their blows, a three-plane flight of Red MIG jets flashed out of Manchuria and tried to interfere. - All three were shot down by alert - U.S. Sabres on pa trol along three fronts, pilots said. The U.S. Fifth Air Force said fighter-bombers rained bombs and flaming gasoline on the ve hicle center north of the Korean Red capital of Pyongyang. Six teen buildings were left in fiery ruin. Other fighter-bombers broke the Red rail lines of northwest Korea in 67' places and pounded frontline troop and guh positions. The furious, five-minute air battle produced a new U.S. jet ace, Lt. James H. Kasler, Indianapolis. Kasler said he turned one MIG -15 into a "ball of flame" and then picked off another in a wild chase a' tree-top level for his fourth and fifth kills of the war. It takes five kills to make an ace. • Aground. patrols continued their ceaseless, chore of locating enemy positions, touching off a series of small clashes. The North Korean communique broadcast by Pyongyang asserted that nine Allied planes were shot down by ground fire in frontline and rear areas Thursday. Allied plane -losses, if any, are announc ed weekly. MacArthur Warns Of Military State LANSING, Mich., May 15—Gen. Douglas MacArthur asserted to night that election maneuvering in the presidential campaign "sets the stage for the emergence upon the American scene of the ugly threat of a military state." - IVlacArthur spoke before a jo L6gislature. He did not openly identify a political party ; nor any candidate, in his. warning about' "political conniving." However, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is the only military figure in the race. MacArthur made three other major points in his prepared speech:. 1. He said the talk of an im minent threat to the security of of the United States from abroad is "pure nonsense." Not even • the troops in Western Europe are in any present danger, the general s. 2. Neverthless, "our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon the incessant propaganda of fear." 3. "Our leaders are unable to survey the world as a unit, but Only 10 More Pays of Classes Take Your Clothes Home—CLEANED AT THESE LOW PRICES . . . SUITS, DRESSES 89e TOPCOATS $1.25 TROUSERS, SKIRTS .. . .49c EVENING CLOTHES $1.25 Mothproofing available at small extra charge! LAu DE RETTE Gen. Francis T. Dodd. Boatner declared he would, of course, hew strictly to the Gen eva Convent ion for humane treatment of war prisoners, but that the Communists behind the barbed wire would have to learn who was boss. Tanks, some of them equipped 1 with flame throwers, stood ready to foil any mass escape attempt such as the Reds threatened at the height of the Dodd incident. Troops were on the alert. Camp authorities were confident they could prevent any big break by the 80,000 prisoners. Boatner Irritated Boatner said he believed the Allies had been too lenient on Koje and had given prisoners "more, in my opinion, than re quired by the Geneva Conven tion." Boatner showed irritation at the idea of prisoners taking con trol inside the compounds and making demands on camp offi cials..' "Prisoners don't negotiate," he declared. Correspondents asked if, in his brief tour of duty, he had seen things that needed changing on this island off the southeast coast of Korea. Doesn't Like Demands "You're damned right I've spot ted some things," he snapped. "For one thing, I don't like those insulting signs. and the flags, and the demands." Boatner's stiff attitude doubt less was bolstered by the dissat isfaction shown by higher author ities in Tokyo and Washington over the way the-Dodd kidnaping incident was handled. Rep. Mansfield (D-Mont.) intro duced a bill in Washington for a congressional investigation of the incident, declaring "We in the Congress must find out who is responsible for this monumental blunder that has so irreparably damaged our military effort and truce negotiations in Korea." By the Associated Press nt session of the Michigan State have become so infatuated with one area of Western Europe that they. have• largely ignored the Communist assaults in many other sections of the globe." Asia, he said, has been allowed "to go by inertia and default." He said that.,political leaders of one party who attempt to obtain support •for their candidate from voters of th e opposition party threaten the essence of the Amer ican two-party system. As for his own aspirations, Mac- Arthur said: "There is no politics in me, nor none intended in what I say. I plead nothing but Americanism." However, he had plent y- of harsh words for the Truman ad ministration—words like "falter ing leadership . . . fiscal instabil ity and political insecurity. DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Truman Hints He May Help Select Nominee By The Associated Press President Truman hinted yes terday he may play a key off stage role in selecting the Demo cratic presidential nominee in July and then stump the country for the party's candidate. Still silent on his choice for the nomination, Truman told his news conference with a smile that a President has a little influenCe with his party's convention if he wishes to use it—and he can use it without being on the scene. House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas was chosen as permanent chairman of the convention, and House Derriocratic Leader John W. McCormack of Massachusetts was named chairman of the prelimin ary platform drafting committee. Meanwhile, the national politi cal spotlight swung to the Pacific Northwest where Eisenhower was rated the favorite to win the Ore gon popularity primary against strong contention from Califor ni7.'s Gov. Earl Warren. Eisenhower, Warren and the trailing• Harold E. Stassen are listed on the ballot. Sen. Robert A. Taft decided to sit this one out, and his lieutenants have soft pedal] ed a write-in drive in his behalf. Military Given Pay Raises WASHINGTON, May 15 (W)— A bill granting a 4-per cent pay raise and 14-per cent increase in Jiving allowances to members of the military services was passed by House and Senate today and sent to President Truman. If the President signs it before May 31, al he is expected to do, it will become effective with May payrolls. An estimated 3 1 / 2 million active and retired personnel are affected. The bill finally approved today to cost 484 million dollars annual ly. The raises are a flat 4 per cent on base pay and approximately 14 per cent on rental and food al lowances normally paid to per sonnel with dependents. * r ANNUAL SPRING CARNIVAL OF ALL-TIME HITS MAY 19 - 23 For those who haven't seen them and for those. who want to see them again - Here is a program of top bracket favorites! • AION., MAY 19 TUES., MAY 20 Noel Coward's Adventure in Unbearable "BRIEF ENCOUNTER" Suspense Celia, Johnson "ODD MAN OUT" Trevor Howard James Mason - Robert Newton • WED., MAY 21 , THURS., MAY 22 Irene Dunne - Robt. Taylor From Howard Spring's Beet Selling Novel "MAGNIFICENT "fiIY'SON, MY SON" OBSESSION" Madeline Carroll - Louis Hayward C FRIDAY, MAY 23 Live and Love a Wonderful Time! • 'TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS" Robt. Newton - John Howard Davies • GOOD PICTURES NEVER GROW OLD • The Steel Story Truman's Economic Head Blasts Steel Industry NEW YORK, May 15 (JP)—For the second day in a row Roger L. Putnam, a Truman administra tion man, today blasted the steel industry for failing to agree to a government-tailored wage in crease. Putnam, the president's admin istrator of the Economic Stabi lization Agency, - told the 20th anniversary conference of Mayors from 250 cities: "The steel industry has been putting on a propaganda drive that even Dr. Goebbels might envy. "The truth of the matter is this: The steel companies can grant the adjustments in pay recommended by the Wage Stabilization Board without any financial hardship to themselves and without violating existing stabilization pol i c y." Much the same theme came yes terday from Vice President Alben Barkley and Labor • Secretary Maurice J. Tobin at a Philadel phia convention of the CIO United Steelworkers. Steel Dispute Called, Anti-Truman Strategy PHILADELPHIA, May 15 (if') —Sen. Humphrey (D-Minn.) charged today that corporate in terests are using the steel-labor dispute as part of a "grand strat egy" to kill the Truman admin istration's inflation s control pro gram. _ Humphrey told the 2500 cheer ing delegates at the CIO steel workers convention that business interests have been attempting for two years to destroy wage price controls and now are re doubling their efforts in the Con gress. - Philip Murray, head of the CIO and the steelworkers union, told the convention that he never would agree to steel industry labor contracts containing any thing less than the 26-cent hourly package and union shop recom mended by the Wage Stabiliza tion Board. - "This organization is not going to compromise any more on this issue," Mur r ay insisted. "Our demands already have been com promised by the WSB. We didn't get all we wanted by any means, and we're in no mood to com promise any more with any body." Steel companies have rejected the WSB's full proposals on the ground they would be too costly. Truman OK's Benefits WASHINGTON, May 15 (A 3 )— President Truman today signed legislation increasing railroad un employment insurance benefits. It would set up a new scale of payments running from $3 a day to $7.50 for unemployed railroad workers. The present scale starts at $1.75 and goes to $5. PAGE THREE Tanker Sinks, Four Men Lost WILMINGTON, Del., May 15 (R)—The F. L. Hayes, a tanker carrying 640,000 gallons of high octane gasoline, burned and sank after a collision with the Barbara Lykes freighter early today in the Chesapeake an d Delaware Canal. Four missing crewmen went down with the ship, their captain said. A flaming torch for more than 12 hours after the crash, the 240- foot tanker sank partially across the heavily-traveled waterway. There was no immediate indi cation when it might be possible to r esume ocean-going traffic through th e 19-mile waterway across the Delmarva Peninsula. A third ship, the Angelina, was following the Lykes and was forced to pass close to the burn ing Hayes. One of a series of explosions that ripped the tanker threw burning gasoline onto the Angelina. Home Run BY TRAIN! ~:>:`.~ IT'S A HIT! The fun of a train trip home with friends enjoying roomy comfort and swell dining-car meals. ark. . IT'S A STEAL! Gather a group of 25 or more heading home in the same direction at the same time. Then go Group Coach Plan ... returning sepa rately next fall if you wish. You each save up to 38 % compared with one-way tickets! SAFE AT HOME! You'll get home promptly as planned on the train with safety and all-weather certainty no other travel can match. ASK YOUR RAILROAD TICKET AGENT ABOUT GROUP PLAN AND SINGLE ROUND-TRIP SAVINGS EASTER N RAILROADS Pi/ 7--TAVOM
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