THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1953
U.S. Scraps
Lift Controls ori $5O Billion
Of Business forFreeEconomy
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 .(£*)—The. government today
scrappedprice controls on more '5O- billion dollars worth
of business annually in a third major stride toward the re
turn of a free economy. . ; ;
The new flood of decontrol drders lifted price curbs on
thousands .of items—ranging from toothpaste to locomotives
—and. left only 13 per. cent of all
articles in the government’s cost
of-liyings. index still. under v full
control. Another 3% . per cent re
mains under partial, control. ,
Officials predicted some ...prices
will rise slightly, but , they "Said
others are expected to remain on
an even keel .without, being af
fected by the -latest.,'decontrol
action.
Service Charges Freed
Effective immediately, the list
of newly “liberated” items in
cludes milk, butter, ice cream and
other dairy, products, drugs, cos
metics, coal, lumber, and, farm
machinery.
Most service charges—such as
for auto, radio and television re
pairs and parking lot fees—were
also' set free.
In an eleventh-hour change of
signals, the .Office of Price Sta
bilization decided to retain curbs
on cigarettes and other tobacco
products. Instead, the agency put
dairy products and oleomargarine
on the free list. t
Wages 'Out' Earlier
Price Director Joseph Freehill
said the new order swept controls
from about ten percent of all
articles in ■the cost-of-liying in
dex. Two previous decontrol or
ders within the last two weeks
had, already set the pace toward
fulfilling President Eisenhower’s
call for an end to price-wage con
trols by April 30.
AH'-curbs over wages and sal
aries went out the window in the
first order Oh Feb. 6.
J Some Hises Seen
Officials said it was still too
early to estimate the total amount
of price increases resulting from
the lifting of curbs so far.
Freehill told newsmen that price
hikes "may be expected on some
of the newly exempt , items, no
tably, on charges for services, with
spotty increases on milk and dairy
products, and general raises on
many types of building materials.
U.S. Bomber Blasts
Own Lines; Kills 3
SEOUL, Feb. 17 Delayed by
Censor (JP) —An Allied fighier
bom b e r accidentally bombed
U.S. troops behind their own
lines Feb. 2. killing three sol
diers and wounding five, it was
learned today.
It was- the- second mistake
bohibing made known this year.
The bombs fell in the admin
istrative section of ■ a front-line
battalion about 2 Vi miles be
hind the main lines.
Clearfield Miners Riot
CLEARFIELD, Pa., Feb: 18 (/P) —Fighting with bullets, stones
and clubs, pickets and non-union coal .miners battled for nearly a
half-hour today at the Robert Bailey strip surface mine near here.
A United Mine Wqrkers organizer was shot.
The victim is John Lonetti, 40, police chief and president of the
UMW local in his home town of Vintondale. John Ghizzoni, presi
dent ■ of . District 2, UMW, said
Lonetti also is a special organizer
for . the UMW.
Ghizzoni said Lonetti had been
heading ah organization drive at
the .Bailey mine in nearby Grass
flat for nearly two months. Dist.
Atty. Joseph Dague of.'Clearfield;
who. launched .an immediate in
vestigation, said about 125 pickets
and 36 miners were involved. .
, Dague said the fighting started
when the, miners-met a line of
pickets, along a highway near, the
mine. Two autos were overturned
ahd their windows and headlights
smashed.
Workers began. retreating up a
nul, with pickets advancing .to
ward. thfim, when one of the min
ers pulled a revolver aiid“” fired
two warning shots. Dague identi
iied .him as Roger Davis, 48, a
“ r agline operator.
not going to take a beating
aiw * i want. you, to stop,” Dague
d Davis as saying. Then,- re
•lated the district attorney,'Davis
, a Snin, striking Lonetti/-iri
»he chest.
Senate Group
To Question
Sec Benson
Ezra T. Benson
To give views
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (JP)—
The Senate Agriculture Commit
tee laid plans today to question
Secretary of Agriculture Benson
about his farm policies and, hold
hearings soon afterward on plans
for stabilizing prices on perish
ables.
The senators agreed at the
same, time to inquire into two
other matters:
I 1. How New Zealand beef came
,to be imported to the United
• States 'to sell wholesale at 17
, cents a pound and retail at 39
cents, far under domestic costs,
in a period of falling markets.
2. The methods used by the
Agriculture Department’s Com
modity Credit Corporation in sell
ing grain stpcks last fall, a pro
cess which some senators have
contended helped break prices.
Chairman Aiken (R-Vt) report
ed the committee’s plans after a
closed-door session, emphasizing
that the invitation. to Benson to
testify does not in any sense rep
resent an investigation of the ag
riculture secretary’s policies.
Benson has been' under sharp
attack from some Democrats on
the contention that he has failed
to take needed action on falling
farm prices.
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' . SEOUL, Thursday, Feb. 19 (/P)—Almost 400 Air Force and Marine
fighter-bombers turned a sprawling Communist tank and infantry
training center near the Korean Red capital of Pyongyang into a
mass of “hellish fire” Wednesday in the second greatest all-jet
strike of the Korean War.
At least 38 Communist MIG
fighters, based in Manchuria, at
tempted to intervene but head
quarters reported five Red jets
shot down and two more were
maneuvered into fiery crashes.
The massive day-long air blow
by 379 planes shattered 139 build
ings and touched off raging, fires
and secondary explosions at Kang
so, 15 miles west of Pyongyang.
Pilots who unloaded 375 tons of
bombs on the target reported it
was pulverized into £i mass of fire
and twisted wreckage.
The jet battles produced the
26th U.S. ace of the Korean'War,
Capt. Manuel J. Fernandez Jr. of
Miami, Fla. He downed two MIGs,
his, fifth and sixth, to enter the
Naval Blockade
Against Reds
Under Study
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (TP)—
Secretary Dulles said today the
State Department is giving “very
careful scrutiny” to a possible na
val blockade along with other
measures to halt the flow of goods
of military importance to the Chi
nese Communists.
The additional measures under
consideration, he said, include
tightening the existing United Na
tions boycott against the shipment
of strategic materials to Red Chi
na and North Korea.
• “There are a whole series of
measures of varying kinds which
could be adopted,” Dulles told his
first news conference;
The new secretary guardedly
discussed administration hopes for
ending the Korean conflict follow
ing President Eisenhower’s state
ment yesterday that he personally
was not considering a blockade
although this was under study
elsewhere in the government.
Dulles' explained that such
means of bringing pressure have
been under consideration almost
•continuously since the Chinese
Communists entered the conflict
and that the new administration
has renewed the study.
Points under, consideration, he
said; include feasibility of specific
measures, “military consequences
and the degree of political embar
rassmentsNand troubles that'might
be caused with our allies.” Brit
ain already has voiced opposition
to a blockade as an extension of
the Korean conflict, i
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elite circle of jet airmen.
Fernandez was in a flight of
four Sabres that took on 32 MIGs
and downed four of them.
. Shooting Stars and Thunderjets
from four wings of the Fifth Air
Force and Panther jets of Marine
Air .group 33 pounded in waves
against the huge Red buildup area.
They hit first in the morning and,
then returned in the afternoon'
for another smashing blow.
The target contained numerous
buildings of all types, ranging
from small troop billeting struc
tures to a factory-size tank and
vehicle repair, shop. It also in
cluded a headquarters building,
several administration buildings,
and warehouses.
India Warned
About Military
NEW DELHI, India, Feb. 18 .(/P)
—Without naming -President Ei
senhower or others, Prime Min
ister Nehru told Parliament today
that military leaders are danger-
? us the head of governments
in times of world tension.
A soldier is a very fine person
m his own domain,” Nehru said,
“but this intrusion of the military
mentality into the chanceries of
the world presents a verv great
danger.
“As some Frenchman once said,
War is far too serious to be en
trusted to a soldier’—let alone
peace.
_ Peace now seems to be spelled
W.A.R. We are becoming en
veloped' by the military .mental
ity. Statesmanship is being more
and • more governed by military,
factors.
“This talk of a blockade of Chi-
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DRY CLEANERS
U.S. to Take
Firm Stand
On Korea
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb.
18 (.fl 5 ) —The United States is plan
ning a moderate but firm course
on Korea in the coming UN Gen
eral Assembly and will avoid any
spectacular move at present, a
diplomatic, source said today.
This was reported by a man ih
a good position to know the U.S.
intentions. It did not necessarily
run counter to a Washington state
ment by Secretary Dulles that
the State Department is studying
possible actions, including a naval
blockade, to cut the flow of goods
to Red China. Military actions de
cided upon by the United States
in the Korean War are not likely
to be brought here for debate be
fore such actions take place.
U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr. called 15 Allied dele
gates whose countries have armed,
forces in Korea to a secret caucus
at 11 a.m.; EST, tomorrow to talk
about the Korean problem. The
Assembly will reconvene Tuesday
and time is pressing for the West
to make decisions on its strategy.
The Americans are reported
preparing for an exnected blast
from Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei Y. Vishinsky charging the
United States with aggression
I against Red China in assisting Chi
jang Kai-shek’s Nationalist go.v-
I arnment on Formosa. The Assem
bly has refused to approve such
charges in previous sessions.
The 16-nation meeting will be
held in Lodge’s conference room.
Those invited were top delegates
of Britain. France, The Nether
lands, Belgium, Luxembourg,
Australia, New Zealand, South
Africa, The Philippines, Thailand,
Turkey. Ethiopia, Greece, Colum
bia and Canada.
na or other such steps is obviously
not talk of peace, whatever else
it might bring.”
The Prime Minister said the
American announcement of the
deneutralizing of Formosa “has
caused grave concern not only
here but all over the world.”
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