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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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