TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1952 WSB Cuts Miners' Boost; Strike Starts PITTSBURGH, Oct. 20 (iP)— Stung by a government order reducing a pay increase, 305,000 of the country’s 375,000 soft coal miners refused to work today. V The protest walkout hit hardest in the number one producing state —West' Virginia —where all the 115,000 members of the United- Mine Workers stayed away from the pits. Reds Halted; UN Forces Wait Attack SEOUL, Oct. 20 (P)—Allied and Communist guns duelled furious ly across the valleys around Sni per Ridge and Triangle Hill Mon day night, but mauled Chinese forces had no appetite for another attack. On the two scarred Central Ko rean r heights, U. S. and Korean troops dug in for the next Red blow. The night was dark —perfect for a Red. attack. The stars were hid den by haze - and fog. / Although action dwindled after a night and day of costly and fu tile Red attacks, United Nations officers refused to predict that the Chinese Communists had giv en up. South Korean Second Division troops fought back Monday to dominating positions on the two thirds of nearby Sniper Ridge. Officers said at least 884 Chi nese were killed or wounded in 24 hours of fighting around Tri angle Hill ending at dusk Monday. Communist casualties on Sniper Ridge were not estimated. - - The United Nations forces stormed the two heights north of Kumhwa last week in the first Allied limited offensive this year. Allied fighter bombers and ar tillery Monday pounded Papa San Mountain, towering Communist stronghold just north of the Tri angle, Sniper Ridge . sector. The Chinese used its craggy slopes as .a base for two assaults involving up to 7000 men. The Red attacks were beaten off by Monday after noon. Adlai Depicts Ike as Man With "'No Polity / No Faith 7 SPRINGFIELD, 111., Oct. 20 (£>)-rGov. Adlai E. Stevenson to night pictured Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as man “with no policy, no program, and no real faith in the future of America.” Stevenson, the Democratic presidential nominee, said in an ad dress prepared for a home town audience that Eisenhower, his GOP opponent, “goes around saying one thing,” only to have'Republi can Sen., Robert A. Taft of Ohio, “assure the country that he (Ei senhower) really meant something else,” Describing Taft as “the great est authority on what the general really thinks,” the Illinois gover nor added: “While the galaxy of political followers ride off in all directions with the general struggling might ily to keep from falling off the thrashing elephant, the expedi ency of it all is showing through —no policy, no program, and no real faith in the future of Amer- Stevenson’s address at the Ar mory in Springfield was primarily in behalf of Illinois Democratic candidates for state and congres sional offices. A few hours before the rally, Stevenson’s -campaign manager, Wilson Wyatt, said that what started out to be' Eisenhower’s great crusade for the presidency appears to be degenerating into “the great smear campaign.” Stevenson’s speech tonight was FELLOWS ! Get your white and dress shirts laundered now at the PORTAGE Cleaners ONLY 35c for 2 SHIRTS For other dry cleaning needs it's PORTAGE Cleaners 118 S. PUGH STREET on alley fHE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Pennsylvania counted 86,500 idle diggers. All of Illinois’ 17,000 UMW' members are out, as well as 33,000 of 60,000 miners in Kentucky, 8500 in Indiana, all of Alabama’s 15,000 plus 12,000 in Ohio, 9000 in Virginia and 2000 in Tennessee. Other coal states reported smaller numbers. Ups Minimum Wage The familiar “no contract, no work” chant went up from min ers.. One. UMW leader said the 'men felt their new contract was nullified when the Wage Stabili zation Board reduced their $1.90- a-day pay boost to $1.50. The cut made the basic mini mum daily wage $17.85. It for merly was $16.35 and • would have been $18.25 under the new contract. UMW President John L. Lewis maintained an unbroken silence in Washington. No publicized, of ficial orders for a work stoppage have come from him or any other UMW leader. 'Long Shutdown' Possibility of an extended strike is ’ seen by President George J. Titler of UMW District 18 in Beckley, W. Va., Titler de clared: “The mine shutdown might be a long one, maybe as much as six months.” The work stoppage began last week when restless miners first stayed away from the pits to show dissatisfaction with the gov ernment’s failure to act immedi ately on the contract negotiated by Lewis and the coal industry Sept. 18. By the end of the week, 160,000 miners were staying at home. No one is likely to suffer from lack of coal for at least two months. The walkout’s start found about 85,000,000 tons of coal piled above gro u n d—a near record amount. on the eve of a 4000 mile cam paign swihg into the Midwest and East, the final tour in his bid for the presidency. He leaves Spring field tomorrow on a two week trip which will take him into 12 states with 208 electoral votes among them. In his speech tonight, the Demo cratic nominee said of Eisen hower: “Some days the general seems to stand with the Democrats for positive action abroad to stop and turn back Communist aggression, and positive action at home to pre vent depression and improve the freedom and security of our peo ple. “But on other days—and these seem to be in the majority, the general advocates the election of all Republican senators and con gressmen who vote against just such positive foreign and domestic policies.” Wyatt told a news conference that there had been “shocking” distortion of the truth by the Re publican opposition. Political News Tuesday, Oct. 21, 1952 By the Associated • Press Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson will leave his Springfield, 111., head quarters for a studio fireside chat at Chicago to be broadcast over CBS radio at 10:30 p.m. Gen. Dwight . D. Eisenhower will continue New England tour in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and make a noon speech on Boston Common be fore flying to New York at 4 p.m. Sen. John J. Sparkman, Democratic ’ vice presidential nominee, will speak at Rocky Mount, N.C. Sen. Richard M. Nixon, Re publican vice presidential nom inee, will campaign by train through Missouri. President Truman will start a new three-day train swing into Pennsylvania, New Jer sey, West Virginia, and Mary land for the Democratic ticket. Survey Shows ike Gains Sn Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20 (£>)— Editors of newspapers represent ing all of the State’s 67 counties believe Dwight D. Eisenhower has gained on his Democratic Presi dential opponent in the last month and would receive about 53 per cent of the popular vote in Penn sylvania if the election was to be held today. The same editors—asked to ex press their opinions in the second 1952 Associated Press survey— said they believed Adlai E. Stev enson would receive about 47 per cent of the Pennsylvania vote to day. These figures represent a gain of about one per cent for Eisen hower over the figures given in a similar survey a month ago. The 55 editors who took part in the Associated Press survey were asked for their estimates of polit ical sentiment as of today in their home counties. These answers were compiled on a statewide basis with all 67 counties repre sented, and the total then com puted to statewide percentages based on the 1948 total vote. In that election Republican Dewey received 1,902,197 votes to 1,752,- 426 for President Truman and ap proximately 80,000 for other can didates. ! 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Ah airlift of 12 planes made a night landing on a clockwork basis at the Nairobi Airport. Use of the airport after nightfall is considered an emergency opera tion. The action was taken under the militapr code name “Opera tion Sterling.” The men came equipped with rifles, light ma chine guns, and Sten guns. At the same time, the Colonial Office announced in London that the cruiser Kenya would go to Mombasa, 400 miles from Nairobi, to support troops in the Kenya capital. It was the first major show of force Britain has made in East Africa in years. Britain. fears Kenya could become another area of guerrilla warfare like Malaya. So far as can be learned, however, the Mau Mau has no Communist leadership or back ing. Eisenhower Says Public Will Oust Democrats WORCESTER, Mass., Oct. 20— (A P) —An angry Dwight D. Eisen hower said today President Harry too angry to speak. You speak for administration and added: The people “are going to throw it out of office.” Whistle stopping to tens of thousands through Southern New England, the Republican presi dential candidate charged his-op position with spreading lies, poi son, and drivel against him. The general's ire bubbled up to the point where he told a police estimated crowd of 8000 at New London, Conn.: “I get to the point where I get S. Truman has a “scandal-a-day” me on Nov. 4.” • Eisenhower’s speech here was a major one in his tour and he used it for a 15 point restatement of “the beliefs which make this a crusade for me.” “I am still a ‘No Deal’ man,” Eisenhower said as he opened this review of what he regards as his basic political creed. Then he went on to make such points as: “Anyone who says it is my purpose to cut down social se curity, unemployment insurance, PAGE THREE I —The British sent a battalion of ad declared a state of emergency lony in an effort to control the known as Mau Mau. Lood oath to drive the British out 7 Hawaiians To Be Tried As Red Agents WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (ff)— Seven persons described by the FBI as Hawaiian Communist lead ers, including Harry Bridges’ top lieutenant there, must stand trial on charges of plotting to over throw the government by force and violence, the Supreme Court so ruled today. The court, in another action, agreed to pass on whether unions violate the Taft-Hartley labor law when they cause their members who break union rules to lose their jobs. In the Hawaiian case, the high court refused to issue an order sought by the seven defendants to prohibit U. S. District Judge- Jon Wiig from going ahead with the trial. Jack W. Hall, regional director of Bridges’ International Long shoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, and the six others contend ed an indictment returned against them in Honolulu Aug. 9, 1951, was defective. They argued the indictment was drawn by a fed eral grand jury which was not racially, economically, or geo graphically representative of Ha waii. to'leave the ill and the aged des titute, is lying . . . “I believe that corruption in government is not something to be shrugged off . . . That is why this scandal-a-day administration stands before the country dis credited . . .” 0 TALC ' FOR BODY LOVELINESS iK k * the original , '