TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 39, 1952 Truman Lambasts GOP, Depicts Ike as 'Front Man' Reds Seize Hill After 8 Attacks SEOUL, Sept. 30 (/F) Chin ese Communists .h ur 1 e d tanks, troops and heavy artillery •in eight concentrated attack's along a 10-mile sector of the Korean Central Front Monday and seized one hill. Allied defenders staved off ,six of the Red drives and stood firm on Capitol Hill, a major position. The U.S. Eighth Army said re ports were incomplete •on a sev enth Red thrust. The Chinese sent tanks and 1600 infantrymen charging up the slopes ,of Capitol Hill and nearby Finger Ridge west of the Pukhan River before dawn. 'More than 5600 rounds of artil lery and mortars fell on the de fenders. Other Fights Flare The South Korean Capitol Divi sion, however, rode out the'storm and held firm on Capitol Hill. A knoll was lost temporarily on Fin ger Ridge, but regained after de termined battling. ` Five other fights flared aroucl approaches to the same hill. Four Red attacks were repulsed and the fifth was the one on which re ports were incomplete. The new Communist ground blows fell in the coldest weather this fall. The mercury dropped below freezing for the first time. Snow mantled some of the higher peaks. Sabre Jets ,Bag MIGs At least 120 `MIGs swarmed across the Yalu River frontier of Manchuria Monday in an un usually strenuous Red effort .to intercept Allied fighter-bombers attacking targets north of Pyong yang, North Korean capital. U.S. Sabre jets, equipped with new but still secret devices, shot down two MIGs and destroyed two more, the Fifth Air Force announced. The still secret device on U.S. Sabres was rumored to be an improved gun sight, but there was no confirmation. • Lewis Signs Year Contract With Operators WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (IP) John L. Lewis and Northern coal operators signed a one-year con tract today but the Northern group's spokesman said the $1.90 a •day pay boost couldn't be paid the - miners until approved by• the government's Wage Stabilization Board. Lewis and Harry Moses, presi dent of the Bituminous Coal Op erators' Association, signed the Northern_ 'agreement today, after the contracts were unanimously approved by the 200-man policy committee of Lewis' United Mine Workers. Besides the $1.90 hike bringing the basici daily wage of miners to $18.25, the agreement calls for a.ten cent a ton boost in the em ployer paid production royalty which finances the union's wel fare fund. The royalty now be- come 40 cents a ton. Meanwhile, it 'was learned that ,Moses has written all his asso- Iciation's members—the Northern producers—that any pay increases paid without government appro val- would be„ 'at your own risk." Moses' letter said if the WSB does not act on -the new pay . in crease by Oct. 15, when •the pay checks containing the higher wage is -normally due—he will advise the union that "we cannot legally pay the increases until the ap proval is forthcoming." "The United Mine Workers then will be required to decide their own' course of action," the Moses letter added. Tilt DAILY COLLEGIAN,' STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA ABOARD TRUMAN TRAIN, Sept. 2§ (fP)—Whistle stopping Harry Truman lambasted the Republicans in a campaign sweep from Minnesota to Montana today picturing Gen. Dwight Eisenhower as the "front man" for big lobbies and declaring: • • "An • uniformed presiden lobbyists who run the Republi can party, shouldn't be in the White House. "That 'is the worst combin ation I can think of, but that is what they are, trying -to sell you this year. Don't you buy it." Whether he was gaining votes for Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson or not, the President unquestionably was scoring a personal success on this latest personal appearance tour. Crowds numbering up to 10,000 turned out at railroad sta tions to hear him, and cheered his half grim, half humorous man of-the-peOple approach. "They will tell you anything to get your 'votes," he declared at Larimore, N.D. "But 'when they get in control they will cut your throat." .Neither did he hesitate to refer directly and caustically to Eisen hower, picturing him as a man who doesn't un derstand govern ment and, as a gullible dupe of the "special interests." Th e Republi can candidate for President," Tru man told a crowd at Lakota, N.D., "is trying to make you believe that he is for farm programs and social gains, and everything else the Democrats , have done . . . • "But his party is owned body and soul by the big money boys and he can't change that. ' Truman likewise took a swipe at Eisenhower's running. mate, Sen. Richard M. Nixon of Califor nia. He said there's been a lot of talk lately aboUt Nixon's financial affairs but asserted: "That's not half as strange a story as his vot ing. record." The President also upheld his own administration, saying "the record is good." Buses Baby Sit As Moms Shop CLEVELAND, Sept. 29 (JP)—A surburban Euclid official appealed to mothers to stop using city bus drivers as baby sitters. Mayor's assistant - Michael Spino said many mothers have been put ting their children on buses with school passes and telling them to keep riding. Then, when the moth ers finished their shopping, they meet the bus and get their chil dren. As a result, said Spino, the bus drivers have the added burden of tending small children. fronting for the big-time Political News Tuesday, 'Sept. 30, 1952 By the Associated Press Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will fly to Columbia, S.C., to speak at the state capitol; then he will fly to \Ohio to join his west-bound campaign train. Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson is at his Springfield, 111., 'head quarters. Sen. Richard M. Nixon is in Washington; D.C., preparing for a new campaign' swing. Sen. John Sparkman will campaign in New York. State. President Truman will- cam paign through Montana an d speak at grpund-breaking cere monies at Tiber Dam. Sen. Robert A. Taft will con tinue campaigning for the Ei senhower-Nixon ticket at John son City, Term. French Blamed For Poor Bases SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED POWERS, EUROPE , Sept. 29. (?P)—France is responsi ble for defects in newly built runways on three air bases in France assigned to the U.S. Air Force, a SHAPE communique said tonight. - American offcials in Paris said Saturday that U.S. jet planes had been unable to use the 'air fields because the runways were soft, crumbling or badly cracked. The fields are the Chaumont and Toul-Rosiere in Eastern France and Laon-Couvron in Northeastern France. The communique said that un der the North Atlantic Treaty, responsibility for constructing air fields rests on the nation in which the _field is located, and added: "SHAPE is confident the French are fujy capable of remedying any technical defects which may exist in the pavement on the air fields in question." Ed School Council Co-Sponsors Trip the Education Student Council has accepted an invitation from the Penn State Christian Associ ation to join in sponsoring a trip to the United Nations. For $35 any •student can take the trip to New York Oct. 23-25 and visit the United . Nations. The council set 8 p.m. Tuesday as a permanent meeting time. Ike Invades Won't Meet COLUMBIA, S.C., Sept. 29 (W) —Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will make his third thrust into Demo cratic Dixie tomorrow to 'bid for South Carolina's eight electoral votes. Th e - Republican - presidential candidate. may be greeted here by a bigger crowd than he has had at any place on his previous Southern campaign swings. The independent South Carolinians for Eisenhower—Democrats who have put his name on the state ballot by petition—predict an au dience of up to 100,000. , Eisenhower's bid to crack the long Solid South started with fly ing trips to Atlanta, Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, Birmingham and Little Rock. Last week. he spoke to cheering thousands in Char lotte and Winston-Salem, N.C.. and Richmond, Va. His Columbia speech, for which he will fly here from New York before starting a Western cam paign tour, will be made from the state Capitol steps at 4:30 p.m. He will be introduded by Gov. James F. Byrnes, a career Demo cratic public servant who says he is placing loyalty to country above party loyalty by voting for Eisen hower. It will be the first time a ma jor• party presidential candidate has spoken in South Carolina since before the Civil War. South Carolina has been in the Demo cratic fold since .1876 except for its bolt in 1948 to th e States' Rights Democratic ticket headed by its former governor, Strom Thurmond. • Ike Accepts Challenge To Bare Income Status NEW YORK, Sept. 29 (W)—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower today ac cepted Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson's challenge to bare his personal fi nancial position. Just when.the Republican pres idential nominee will do so was not announced. James C. Hagerty, the general's press secretary, said ,he did not know details of what form Eisen hower's report would take. Asked numerous queries from the press as 'to whether Eisen hower intended to issue a finan cial statement, Hagerty called newsmen together and dictated this statement: "Since the general has not pre viously been in politics and since he has not had a political fund, and does• not now have such a NO BRUSH-NO GREASE-NO RAZOR CL Get smooth, slick shaves the ptlofes• sional way...with AERO SHAVE! 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The governor's chartered plane landed at Midway Airport : at 6:50 p.m. Before' leaving Springfield to day, Stevenson invited the Repub lican presidential nominee and; Mrs. Eisenhower to have lunch" with him Thursday at the gover nor's mansion. But Eisenhower declined the unprecedented invitation, saying he and Mrs. -Eisenhower would be in Springfield too short a time to accept. As the Illinois governor climbed into the special plane at Spring field, he declined to comment on Eisenhower's statement that• he is, going to make an announcement on all of his financial affairs. Stevenson, in putting his tax returns for 1942 through 1951 on public record, called indirectly on Eisenhower to follow suit. The said he feels every can didate for high public office should make a full - disclosure of his personal financial condition. fund, he has given little attention to the stories in the papers in the last few days regarding the relationship of such funds to in come tax returns. "Not until Saturday did the general have any press queries directed to him concerning his financial situation. "Since there now seems to be a public interest in his financial situation, he will get his records together and I am sure he will issue a statement later on." His headquarters said it was unlikely the statement would be ready before he left for Columbia, S.C., tomorrow on the first leg of an 8000-mile campaign tour that will take him to the West Coast. swesitAivaliwtyl4 7- , ur Barber Das' Pk4s4-4Mbec laMer • SH ust pus valve... come lathe rg ileSt 141; Per Kn - O 1 ,/:\1 PAGE THREE
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