TUESDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1952
Week-Long
Lewis Sends Soft Coal Miners
Back Pending Wage Decison
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 27 (JP) —The - week-long coal strike
ended today with John L. Lewis firing off “go to work”
telegrams to aides throughout the nation’s soft coal fields.
The president _of the striking United Mine Workers told
his 375,000 diggers they shorn
best interests of the public and
themselves pending a final deci
sion on their pay increase.
The nation’s coal production
was throttled just a week ago af
ter, the Wage Stabilization Board
ruled that 40 cents should be
lopped off the $1.90, a day pay
boost which Lewis recently ne
gotiated with the industry.
Miners, whose pay was cut
by the WSB action from the ex
pected $18.20 for a basic mini
mum day .-to $17.85 promptly re
fused to work. They too,k the
stand that the government had
nullified their contract. The
miners have a long “no contract
no work” tradition.
Lewis sided with his men and
said they Wouldn’t work unless
WASHINGTON. Oct 27 (JP)—
The Interior Department said
today the freeze on shipments
of soft coal ends ■ automatically
when each mine resumes pro
duction.
It had been imposed to con
serve coal in the event of a
lengthy strike.
No accurate estimate is pos
sible on the amount of coal
that was held up by the freeze.
they got the full $1.90. But over
the weekend President Truman
summoned Lewis and Harry M.
Moses, chief industry negotiator,
to the White House and made a
personal appeal for an end to the
strike.
Lewis then sent his district di
rector telegrams this morning
which said in part:
“It will require a reasonable
time for review, of attendant facts
and the reaching of a decision.
“It is my opinion that our in
dustry should be operating dur
ing that period and that the best
interests of the mine workers and
the public will be best served.
“1 am therefore requesting an
immediate resumption of opera
tions -at all mines in all districts
and I am urging each member
of our union to return to work at
once.”
There is no official indication
of how the pay issue will be re
solved finally. The industry and
the union jointly appealed the
wage board’s decision that the
full pay boost would jeopardize
the nation’s anti-inflation fight.
They appealed to Economic
Stabilizer Roger Putnam, who
has the- power to overrule the
WSB. i
In Washington, Putnam, cate
gorically denied that he was
aware of any deal to accommo
date Lewis as the price for end
ing the pre-election strike.
. “I just don't happen to be a
dealer,” Putnam told reporters.
“The only promise I made, or
know about, is that the appeal
made by Lewis and a major por
tion of the coal industry from
the WSB ruling will get prompt
and serious consideration.”
New Gettysburg Prexy
GETTYSBURG, Pa., Oct. 27 (/P)
—Gettysburg ' College has inaug
urated Dr. Walter C. Langsam,
author, historian, and educator*
as its first new president in nearly
30 years.
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Ex-Soldier Faces
Trial as Cbnvert
To Old Religion
NEW YORK, Oct. 27 (JP)—tn
one of the nation’s weirdest court
cases, -'a former American Army
sergeant stood trial today for
treason as a convert to an ancient,
stoic Oriental religion.
The defendant, John David
Provoo, 36, faces the possibility
of the death penalty if convicted
as a renegade to the Japanese in
World War 11.
Captured in the fall of Cor
regidor a decade ago, Provoo al
legedly shaved his head, donned
the robes of the Buddhist priest
hood and turned on fellow Amer
ican captives to single them out
for Japanese brutality.
Buddhism, a venerable religion
of the East, teaches that all life
is subject to suffering.
Witnesses from Japan, Aus
tralia,' Korea, Great Britain and
Italy are on call for the strange
trial.
Federal Judge Gregory F. Noo
nan ordered the process of pick
ing a jury to proceed after re
fusing defense requests to dis
miss the charges.
The defense argued a lack of
evidence and said Provoo was
cleared of all charges by the fact
of his honorable discharge from
the Army in 1946.
McCarthy
CHICAGO, Oct. 27 (/P) Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy, in a slash
ing attack on Gov. Adlai E. Ste
venson and his advisors, said to
night that the outcome of the
presidential election will decide
whether America wins or com
munism wins.
The Wisconsin Republican sena
tor charged that the Democratic
presidential nominee" is part and
parcel of the Acheson-Hiss-Latti
more group” and endorses ‘‘suici
dal Kremlin-shaped policies for
America” and once had a plan
for “foisting communism” on the
Italians after Mussolini’s fall.
“I do not state that Stevenson
was a Communist or pro-Commu
nist, but I must' believe that
something was wrong some
where,” he-said.
McCarthy’s much heralded “Ste
venson Story” which he 'described
as a “coldly documented back
ground of this man who wants to
be -president” was prepared - for
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Candidates Attack Each
On Questions of Foreign
Adlai Mentally
Untutored ike
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 27 (IP)
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said
tonight Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson
has a mentality “completely un
tutored” to meet tough world
problems and that the administra
tion has deliberately fostered poli
cies of inflation and “treadmill
prosperity” for workers.
The Republican presidential
nominee threw the double-bar
reled blast at the Truman admin
istration and his Democratic rival
in a speech delivered in this busy
steel center. '
Eisenhower repeated, as he had
all day long in a barnstorming
train trip across Pennsylvania, a
pledge that he will go to Korea
if he becomes president to see
what can be done about ending
the war there “with speed and
honor.” He jeered at Stevenson
and other critics for what he
called “partisan howling” on the
subject.
Stevenson has suggested the
place to settle the Korean War is
in Moscow. Eisenhower had this
comeback:
ABOARD EISENHOWER
TRAIN IN PENNSYLVANIA,
Oct. 27 (JP)— Gov. John S. Fine
flatly pr'e dieted'today Gov.
Dwight D. Eisenhower will carry
Pennsylvania by more than 150,-
000 votes next Tuesday.
“It betrays again the mentality
that is completely untutored in
the tough business of world rela
tions. It is the cry of men whose
formula for dealing with Soviet
aggression has been openly stated
in terms of ‘give and concede.’
Hits Adlai
Hours before/ McCarthy- spoke,
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, cam
paigning in Pennsylvania, empha
sized that subversives must be
cleared out of government but in
doing so “we have to destroy the
reputation of no innocent man.
We can do it and must do it the
American way.” His aides said
Eisenhower was making his own
position clear in advance of the
McCarthy speech.
McCarthy charged that the
Communist Daily-Worker in effect
has given “complete endorse
ment” to Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson
and “orders the Communists!’ to
support him.
GARY, Ind„ Oct. 27 (TP)—
President Truman declared to
night that Gen. Dwight D. Eis
enhower himself was responsi
ble for the withdrawal of U.S.
occupation troops from Korek
in 1948.
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Major Korean
Hill Recaptured
By Marines
SEOUL. Tuesday, Oct. 28 (JP)—
U.S. Marines battling with fists,
bayonets, and rifle butts wrested
back the crest of a major West
ern Front hill position Monday
from 1500 attacking Chinese Reds
only to withdraw after dark un
der intense artillery fire.
Front reports said the Reds
concentrated, more than 17,000
rounds of shell fire on the posi
tion known as “The Hook.” This
is a mile long ridge guarding main
Allied lines ten to 12 miles north
east of the truce town of Pan
munjom.
With trench defenses shot to
pieces, the Marines pulled off
the crest and slopes, Monday
night.
However, front dispatches said
the Communist ground threat had
been broken with heavy casual
ties. An accurate estimate was
lacking.
On the Central Front north of
Kumhwa, Allied and Chinese
troops dug in feverishly on the Y
shaped northern end of Sniper
Ridge after battling to a stand
still in 14 days and nights of sav
age action.
As the focus of battle swung
to the west, Navy, Marine, and
Air Force planes plastered the
attacking Chinese with rockets,
bombs and napalm. Almost 200
sorties alone were flown Monday
in the First Marine Division’s
sector.
Politicians Report
Campaign Expenses
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (JP)~
The Republican and Democratic-
National Committees - today re
ported their spending since Sept.
1, opening date of the presidential
campaign. Their outgo: Republi
cans $1,370,357; Democrats, $943,-
260.
The Democrats also reported
unpaid obligations amounting to
$306,383.
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Adfai Accuses GOP
Of False Promises
EN ROUTE WITH STEVEN
SON Oct. 27 (#>)—Gov. Adlai E.
Stevenson acidly accused his Re
publican opponents today of mak
ing vote-luring promises of “a
quick and easy end to Korean
War” which he said “may have
delayed an armistice.”
The Democratic presiden
tial nominee, greeted by uniform
ly large crowds on his final cam
paign swing through New Eng
land, took the offensive against
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower on
the Korean issue and ridiculed
GOP “smear” charges.
Stevenson was hailed at Provi
dence, R. 1., by a cheering throng.
The Illinois governor .prepared
t'rainside crowds from Boston to
Bridegport, Conn., for what he
predicted would be “the most
magnificent of all smears of all
time” by Sen. Joseph R. Mc-
Carthy of Wisconsin in a tele
vision and radio talk tonight. Ste
venson said McCarthy was talking
with Eisenhower’s “full approval.”
It was the Korean issue, how
ever, which Stevenson hit hardest
in his final appeals to the voters
in the vital states of Massachu
setts, Rhode Island, and Connecti
cut before his arrival in New York
City tonight for a major speech
in Harlem.
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