THtmsDAY, October 23, 1952
Ike Hits Inflation Policy;
GOP 'Ballyhoo' Knocked
TROY, N.Y., Oct. 22 D. Eisenhower
tonight accused the Truman administration of
deliberately adopting a policy of inflation that
imperiled the nation like “a concealed minefield.’
The Republican presidential nominee charged
that the purpose was to win the next election by
making the people think they had more money
though it was worth -less.
His speech here followed a
three-day New England whistle
stop tour in which he slashed
back at President
Truman’s charge
that a Republi
can victory
would lead to an
economic crash.
He told cheer
ing crowds in
Hartford, Conn.,
Springfield, and
Pittsfield, Mass.,
today that pros
pects for both
prosperity and peace would be
better under a Republican admin
istration
“The inflation we suffer is not
an accident,” Eisenhower de
clared at Troy. “It' is a policy.”
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And, he added in one of his
stiffest attacks yet on the Demo
cratic leaders: “What, they have
done is to. cheapen our money and
history shows that this 'is always
done by administrations that care
more for the next election than
for the next generations.”
Eisenhower said that, back in
the Middle Ages officials tried to
make fortunes by “coin clipping”
and that outraged people some
times punished them by “cutting
off their hands.”
He added: “We have a more hu
mane and a more effective rem
edy for today’s coin clippers —
cutting them off from public of
fice.”
Eisenhower * said currencies
must be strengthened, inflation
beaten and economic affairs set
straight “or you will lose the bat
tle with communism without a
gun being fired.”
Lauds Dewey Saving
“Clemenceau French World Wax
I leader once said that war is too
serious a matter to be left to gen
erals,” Eisenhower said. “Today
someone might' well say inflation
is too critical a matter to be left
to the politicians of expediency
in Washington.”
Eisenhower sad d businesslike
methods must be applied to every
federal government program “to
brings about efficiency and real
saving—the kind you- have had
here in New York under Gov.
Tom Dewey.”
The general reiterated an asser
tion he- had made previously that
substantial savings were possible
in the nation’s military spending
and that “we can have more de
fense for less money.”
Battered Reds
End Hill Drive
SEOUL, Thursday, Oct. 23 (JP)
—Chinese Communist troops, their
ranks shattered by an estimated
1245 killed, broke off their on
slaughts on Sniper Ridge which
once carried them to the crest.
“We chopped up the better part
of two battalions, said the South
Korean officer who directed the
stout defense of the strategic
height on the Central Front.
After the last / Chinese had
pulled out to the north. South
Korean soldiers counted 645 Com-
munist corpses on the hill. Their
officers estimated 600 other Chin
- ese were killed in the battle that
raged over the ridge from dusk
Tuesday to Wednesday afternoon.
The Communists committed an
estimated 2000 'men to one more
furious attempt to take Sniper
Ridge and its commanding pinna
cle, Pinpoint Hill, captured by
the South Koreans in last week’s
limited Allied offensive.
While Allied losses were not es-
timated, the Defense Department
in Washington reported the high
est weekly U.S, casualty toll since
last July.
Lie Fires UN Employee
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct.
22. ( JP ) —. UN Secretary General
Trygve Lie today fired one Ameri
can UN employee who refused to
answer questions of the McCarran
committee, suspended another and
put 'ten on special leave pending
further investigation. '
‘THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
PITTSBURGH, Oct, 22 (/P) —President'Truman,
charged Dwight D. Eisenhower tonight with wag
ing a false, hypocritical and. circus ballyhoo cam
paign that could lead to “disaster for us and
victory for communism.”
Truman declared the general is willing to make
politics out of the Korean casualty lists. And he
1 said: “I cannot trust a man who
has played this kind of game with
the grave issues of our national
security.”' , • .
Truman’s newest onslaught
against Eis e n
hower was in a
radio and tele
vision addressj
after a day of;
barnstorming
through Pennsyl
vania on behalf
of Gov. Adl a i
Stevenson.
The President
was heckled re-
Ipeatedly by teen-
I agers at one stop, Northumber
land, Pa., where he said Sen.
Robert A. Taft of Ohio would be
the real President if Eisenhower
gets into the White House.
But all day long he kept ham
mering away in speeches through
out the hard coal region that a
Republican election victory would
Stevenson
Hits ike for
'Cruel Hoax'
BUFFALO, N.Y., Oct. 22 (£>)—
Gov., Adlai Stevenson .tonight ac
cused Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow
er of trying to perpetuate “a cruel
hoax” by holding out hope “for
swift release of those enslaved be
hind the Iron Curtain.”
Stevenson, the. Demo c.r at i c
presidential nominee, said the
general—his GOP .opponent for
the White House —made a “reck
less proposal” to free Soviet dom
inated peoples -in Eastern ‘Eur
ope. »
This was an allusion to Eisen
hower’s Aug. 25 statement in New
York that the United • States “can
never rest—and we must so in
form all the world, including the
Kremlin —until the enslaved na
tions of the world have in the
fullness of freedom the right .to
choose their own path.’’
Eisenhower’s statement was in
terpreted in some quarters abroad
as a pledge of military action. He
has denied any such intent.
Democrats accused Eisenhower
of proposing a war of liberation.
He said later that what he had in
mind should be accomplished
by peaceful means.
British Close Iranian
Embassy Amid Cheers
TEHRAN, Iran, Oct. 22 (£>)—
The British hauled down the Un
ion Jack and removed the coat of
arms from their Embassy’s gate
today, a signal that Iran had
broken diplomatic relations with
Britain. A small crowd of Iran
ians cheered as the lion and uni
con disappeared. To them it
meant victory in a multi-million
dollar fight with a powerful over
seas adversary.
Labor Members Hit WSB Tactics
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (JP)—
Labor members of the Wage Sta
bilization Board charged today
that the board “spent more'time
finding ways to deny than to ap
prove” the $1.90 wage increase
negotiated by John L. Lewis.
Public and industry members
of the WSB trimmed that $1.90
by 40 cents, leading to an im
mediate nationwide soft, coal
strike, the effects of which are
already spreading to other indus
tries. The public and industry
members said the full $1.90 would
violate government controls de
signed to curb inflation.
The labor members of the tri
partite .board severely criticized
their .associates and said the ma
jority decision in effect precipi
tated the strike. They said: “It .is
not this board’s job to create dis
putes.”
Issuing their dissenting opinion
in the controversial case, the six
labor members said the record of
past WSB action clearly made ap
proval of the full amount pos
sible! The main burden of their
argument was that miners today
do not get three “fringe” bene
fits in effect in many other in
dustries. These are paid vaca
tions, paid holidays, and higher
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President Truman's special
campaign train was both cheered
and booed on a five minute stop
here today. . ,
Cheers greeted the arrival of
the train and a chant "We want
Harry" went up from 3000 wait
ing people. Truman did not ap
pear. ~
result in “slavery” for the work
ing man and a new depression,
with up to 28 million unemployed.
He charged Eisenhower has
shown himself to be so subject to
political pressures that putting
him in the White House “could
plunge us into another depression
—or, even worse, might get us
into a third World War.”
Again challenging Eisenhower
to make public any way he knows
to end the Korean War quickly,
Truman said that these campaign,
tactics hgve one tendency—to
weaken our resolution, to en
danger the common determin
ation of the people in the struggle
for peace.
In a time of great international
peril like this, such tactics are a
threat to our national security.
shift differentials.
Strong criticism of Lewis’ re
fusal t’o accept the wage board
decision came meanwhile from
Rep. Lucas (D.) Tex., member of
the House Labor Committee.
Lucas issued , a statement de
claring that Lewis “for years ac
cepted all the privileges accorded
him under the law and refused, to
bear a portion of the responsibil
ity.”
Lewis’ remarks about the
wage board decision are “the ir
responsible ravings of a disgrun
tled windbag,” Lucas said.
“His demagogic statement about
taking milk away from miners’
chilren typified the kind of self
ish thinking which must be cor
raled,” Lucas said.
“He says nothing about the ba
bies all oyer the country who will
be cold for lack of fuel this win
ter.”
The labor members of the WSB
contended that the value. of the
three “fringe” benefits which the
miners do not get is 13.74 cents
an hour, or considerably m ore
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inoculations Save
Children From Polio
CLEVELAND, Oct. 22 ( JP ) —Some children have been saved from
polio paralysis .by shots of medicine made from human blood, sci
entists announced today. „
“It is the first means of protecting man against paralytic polio,
Dr. William McD. Hammon, University of Pittsburgh epidemiologist,
reported to the American Public Health Association. „
The shots are gamma globulin
—G.G. for short—containing anti
bodies against all three types of
polio virus. The protection is tem
porary, lasting five weeks or bet
ter. *
G.G. is not a vaccine, not the
full final answer to polio.
Tests on 55,000 Texas,. lowa,
and Utah children, 1 to 11 years
old, showed that G.G. supplied
by the American Red Cross could
significantly reduce paralysis, and
make some paralyzing attacks
milder.
963 Casualties
Of Korea War
Listed in Week
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (/re
united States forces in Korea re
ported 963 casualties, during the
week ending last Friday, the De
fense Department announced to
'day. It was the highest weekly
total since July 2, when 985
casualties were reported.
American casualties in the Uni
ted Nations’ campaign against
Chinese and North Korean Reds
have now mounted to 122,117.
Fighting began June 27, 1950.
Here is the Defense Depart
ment’s weekly summary, based on
notifications to the next of kin
through Oct. 17:
Increase New Total
Killed 133, 19,184
Wounded 794 90,114
Missing 36 12,819
Total 963 122,117
Battle deaths, including those
killed in action, 1986 fatally
wounded and 207- known dead
who were originally reported
missing, now total 21,377.
Army Alters
Service Period
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (JP)
Secretary of Defense Lovett said
today the Pentagon has overruled
an order by the Far East Com
mand extending the period troops
must serve in the line in Korea
before becoming eligible for rota
tion back home.
Lovett told a news conference
that the countermanding order
was’ sent Oct. 7 by Secretary of
the Army Pace. He said it in
structed Gen. Mark Clark to re
instate 36 "points as the number
required for rotation eligibility.
The Far East Command on Sept.
17 raised the eligibility total to 38
points.
than the 40 cents a day which the
board refused to approve. (
Joseph W. Chiles, CIO member
of the board, told a news confer
ence in issuing the opinion that
the WSB did not approach the
case with “an open mind.” Other
labor members present at the
news conference agreed with him
the board spent more time “find
ing ways to deny than to approve”
the petition.
All but a scattering of Lewis’
375,000 soft coal miners stayed
home for the ninth straight day.
Government production figures
indicate a loss of 10 million tons
of soft coal for every week that'
the United Mineworkers are idle.
Effects of the strike were reach
ing into some other industries,
notably railroads.
Neither the industry nor Lewis
made any public moves in the
wage dispute today.-
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Musi Co-operate
The news was hailed by medi
cal and health leaders as “highly
encouraging,” and offering a prac
tical method now of reducing
polio’s victims.’ The number of
persons afflicted by the disease
this year is expected to run to a
record 60,000.
Now. many agencies must co
operate to obtain: G.G. from per
haps as much as two million pints
of blood or plasma to battle polio
next summer, said Basil O'Connor,
president of the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis. One
pint of blood supplies enough G.G.
for one average sized protective
shot.
A special drive for blood dona
tions might be called.
Not Enough
The G.G. would be used only
in polio stricken areas to save
some children and put out. the
fire of an epidemic.
There couldn’t possibly be
enough G.G. to give it to all the
nation’s children, O’Connor said.
Priorities would govern its use.
The G.G. tests this summer and
last were the greatest human field
trials in medical history. They
cost one million dollars in March
of Dimes funds.
Reds Force Germ
War Confessions
. WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (AF*) —
The Air Force Association said to
day that Communists have tor
tured two U.S. Air Force fliers in
to making false confessions that
they took part in germ warfare.
The fliers are Lt. John Quinn,
30, Altadena, Calif., and Lt. Ken
neth L. Enoch, 27,. Youngstown,
Ohio. They have been prisoners of
the Communists since their B-26
bomber failed to return from a
night mission in North Korea last
Jan. 13.
An article in “Air Force Maga
zine,” published by the associa
tion—an organization of Air Force
members and veterans —said that
Quinn and Enoch are “innocent
victims of one of history’s. most
infamous hoaxes.”
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