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U.S. Pilots Say 'Reds Attacked'
MIG Attack
Described
By Airmen
TOKYO, Tuesday, Feb. 8 (VP)
—U.S. Sabre jet pilots who
shot down two MIG jets Satur
day said yesterday the Red
planes struck without warn
ing over the sea off North Ko
rea.
Capt. George F. Williams of
Austin, Tex., who got one of the
MIGs, told a news conference 12
Sabrejets escorting an R 845 jet
reconnaissance plane were on a
routine mission.
They had flown 40 miles up the
North Korean coast and had
turned south when eight MIGs
jumped them.
No Warning
"There was no warning," Wil
liams said. "They came from above
and behind us."
Lt. Charles E. Salmon of Port
Jervis, N.Y., who bagged the oth
er MIG, took up the story.
"I saw their tracers streaking
past our plane like red balls," Sal
mon said.
Reds Attacked
"They were firing from too far
away. They dove past my flight
and attacked the reconnaissance
bomber. I rolled over on my back,
slipped down to the left and rolled
out on the tail of one of them.
Both were wiring at the R 845.
"I fired five or six bursts and
he started to smoke. He burst into
flame and slipped off down toward
the sea."
Williams, who was in a different
flight of Sabrejets said he saw the
leading MIG flash in fast.
Second. Downed
"I broke to the left and got in
position," Williams said. "I op
ened up and hit him. He began
to burn.'
Williams said the flying ability
of the AUG pilots was "not so
good." He added that they were
not really so poor but "we're just
pretty good."
Williams referred to his 335th
Fighter-Interceptor S q u a d r o n,
which shot down more than 200
Red planes in the Korean War.
They reported there was no
markings on the attackers to iden
tify them as Chinese Communist,
Russia or North Korea. All three
Red air forces fly MIGs.
Employment Rise
Reported for January
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (W)—
Th 2 Labor and Commerce depart
ments reported today that unem
ployment rose by more than 500,-
000 in January while total em
ployment fell about the same
amount in the midwinter hiring
lull.
Unemployment climbed to a
total of 3,347,000 or 5.2 per cent
of the civilian lz.Lor force.
The joint statement by Secre
ary of Commerce Weeks an d
Secretary of —,abor Mitchell noted
that uncmploym?nt always rises
substantially with the layoff of
temporary holiday help after
Christmas.
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Library Boasts
Of 10,000,000
Volumes in Stock
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 ()
The Library of Congress proudly
reported today that during the
past year it latched on to its book
No. 10 million.
It now owns, the library told
Congress, not only irreplaceable
source books that keep students
scurrying in and out of its cata
combs, but also one of the world's
finest collections of dime novels
-20,000 of them; some poems by
Rudy ar d Kipling attractively
printed on dinner plates, a book
bound in imitation seaweed and
barnacles and even a book bound
in human skin.
The skin job is no novelty work.
It's "A Scrutiny of the Scriptures"'
and came out in the early days of '
printing, around 1470. The bind
ing wasn't put on until 100 years
or so later, and why human skin
was used, no one seems to know.
No one seems to know, either,
what book became No. 10 million.
It wandered in with the rest, and
disappeared in the scholarly maze.
When the library took inventory
for the official year that ended
June 30, 1954, it found it had 10,-
155,000 books and pamphlets.
By law, the government-owned
library gets two copies of each
copyrighted book. It also increases
its collection through gifts and
purchases.
Adenauer Urges Action
On Recommended Treaty
BONN, Germany, Feb. 7 (iP)—
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to
night called on the Bundestag, the
lower House of Parliament, to
ratify the Paris rearmament treat
ies this month "without waiting
on p' 'Meal developments in
France."
He told the Bundestag's Foreign
Affairs Committee "I feel that the
French government crisis will not
last much longer and that the new
French government will suOort
the treaties as did P r erm ie r
Mendes-France."
Mendes-F ranee 's government
fell Saturday on another issue,
North African policy. Ex-Premier
Antoine Pinay Is trying to form
a new Cabinet.
The Chancellor warned anew
against negotiations with the Rus
sians on the German question be
fore final ratification of the treat
ies, under which a virtually sov
ereign West Germany would line
up troops in Western defense.
Wisconsin Men to Sell
Commercial 'Hotfoots'
FOND DU LAC, Wis., Feb. 7
(IP) —T w o Wisconsin men an
nounced today that they are go
ing into business selling people
hotfoots.
W. G. Glascoff Jr., Waupun,
Wis., and Stanley Herlin, Ripon,
Wis., claim that they have invent
ed a liquid spray that keeps feet
warm. They say that their prod
uct called, suitably enough, "Hot
foot," is odorless, colorless, com
pletely harmless to shoes, and will
keep the feet warm for 18 hours,
They say that they will sodn
start manufacturing their prod
uct at Waupun, Wis.
The first summer session at the
University was established in 1910
during President Edwin E. Sparks'
administration.
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Piney Begins Rebuilding
New French Cabinet
PARIS, Feb. 7 (.4 3 )—Former Premier Antoine Pinay went through
a series of exploratory talks today in his effort to patch together a
new French Cabinet. He was still at least a day away from the crucial
make-or-break stage of the negotiations.
Piney hopes to be able to go before the National Assembly Thurs
day to ask for approval. By that time he will have a lineup of Cabi
net ministers and promises of sup
port from about 300 deputies if he
is to head up this country's 21st
Cabinet since liberation in 1944
Most of today's activities were
centered on protocol calls on the
presidents of the Chambers of Par
liament. He also stopped by to see
outgoing Premier Pierre Mendes-
France to get a fill-in on outstand
ing problems. There were talks,
too, with some highly placed civil
servants on financial and economic
matters.
Tonight, leaders of the various
political parties in the National
Assembly started their round of
calls at the office in the Economic
Ministry where Pinai l has set up
headquarters. These olitical in
terviews will be the irst qtep in
determining whether or not he
can count on enough support to get
the Assembly's approval.
After Piney' has outlined his
plans to the heads of the parties,
in their individual calls, the politi
cal leaders will go back to their
groups. Each party then can make
its decision, or pose conditions,
which the aspirant premier may
accept or reject. These complicated
negotiations, which cannot be
completed before tomorrow, will
determine whether Piriay can ex
pect enough backing td go before
the Assembly.
As of now, Piney can count on
only about 135 votes. All those
come from his own party, the in
dependent Republicans, Peasants,
and Social and Republican Action
group. These three parties are
loosely allied in a conservative
front movement.
Senator Gets 'Post Card'
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 7 RI
Sen. Symington (D-Mo.), is go
ing to get a postal card he can't
stick in his pocket.
Letter carriers at the parkway
station here are sending him a
card urging his suabort of a bill
Britain Wants Islands Evacuated
LONDON, Feb. 7 (JP)—Respon
sible informants said Britain
urged the United States tonight to
get Chiang Kai-shek's forces off
all China coastal islands—Matsu
and Quemoy included—as a first
quick step toward an unwritten
cease-fire.
Angry Laborites pressed nr
eign Secretary Anthony Eden in
the House of Commons to plump
publicity for immediate evacu
ation. Eden would only repeat
that delicate negotiations are un
der way and Britain feels Red
China has legal right to the off,
shore isles.
Even while Eden sidestepped
Laborite questions, responsible in
formants said Britain already was
urging full evacuation of the Na
tionalists in diplomatic exchanges
with the United States,
Prime Minister Churchill's gov
ernment was pictured as feeling
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Oil Import
Cut Asked
WASHINGTON. Feb. 7 (A)
Rep. Daniel J. Flood (D-Pa) called
on Congress and the President to
day to prove their concern fin. the
economically-distressed hard coal
regions by cutting back the im
ports of oil.
Flood urged the House Ways
and Means Committee 'to write
Into the reciprocal trade agree
ments a provision that would limit
residual oil imports for any quar
ter to five per cent of the domestic
demand for such oil in the corres
ponding quarter of the preceding
year,
Similar proposals have been
made by repreSentaUves of other
coal prOducing areas, with some
suggisting a 10 per cent limita
tion and others leiiving the figure
for the committee to insert.
Flood said the use of cheap,
residual oil in place of coal is
mrsening the unemployment situ
ation in the coal regions, and
added:
"I have on my desk a two-foot
high stack of government reports
of the remarkable headway other
countries have made with their
economy programs . . . with par
ticular reference to the basic in
dustries of the, enumerated na
tions.
"I know That anthracite coal is
basic industry of the country
and I also know that all govern
ment agencies put together cannot
file such a favorable report for
us . . ."
which would grant postal em
ployee a 10 per cent wage hike.
It is 430 feet in site: weighs 27
pounds and will require $12.84 in
postage to s nd to Washington.
that the explosive Formosa situa
tion could be eased only by put
ting 76 miles or more of sea water
between the Chinese Reds and
Chiang's main bastions on FOr
mom end the Pescadores.
British Ambassador Sir Roger
Malting Wall reported to have told
the United States that prompt
Nationalist evacuation of Quemoy
apd the Matsu chain would bring
these advantages:
1. Chiang's troops would be re
moved from militarily exposed
end Untenable positions. Their
withdrawal to _Formosa and the
Pescadores would, eliMinate a dan
ger that the, screening U.S. 7th
Fleet might become involved in
clashes with Red China forces.
2. Chiang and his U.S. protec
tors would b put in a stronger
legal position in the eyes of world
opinion.
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Nixon, Cubans
Discuss Threat
Of Communism
HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. '7 —Vice
President Richard Nixon discussed
the threat of world communism
with Cuban officials today anfaP
parently dropped a hint t here
could be a more vigorous cam-I,
paign against the Reds on 'this is
land.
Nixon...emphasized before leav
ing Washington yestertlay.,for a
four-week swing through Carib
bean countries that he- wants to
spread the feeling of the "real
friendship the United States has
toward these countries." He added
Washington does not want to in
terfere in any way with their in
ternal affairs.
It was learned he has given un
usual emphasis in private conver
sations with Cuban leaders .to the
costly struggle the United States
and other Western powers are
waging with world communiant
His words assumed special Xignifi
cane here because Cuba is re
garded as second only to Brazil
as an outpost of Moscow commun
ism in the Western Hemisphere.
It is understood the U.S. State?
Department emphasized to Nixon
as he prepared for this trip 'that
communism in this hemisphere is
part of a vigorous campaign di
rected from Moscow in a, plan to
create as much strife in the new .
! world as possible. This view is in
tended to combat the widespread
idea -in Latin America that com
munism is merely • a case of intel
lectual measles which some lib-
I erals suffer briefly.
There is apparently feeling in
some quarters that Cuba, Brazil
and other countries are trying to
discourage communism, but are
not trying hard enough.
Army Aids Solectsd
CINCINNATI, Feb: 7 (Ip),
George Blackburn, new head foot
ball coach at the University of
Cincinnati, today went to Army
and the University of Richmond
for two new aides.
The University's board of di
rectors approved the selection of
Bill Shalosky, former Cincinnati
player who has been plebe coach
at Army, and Charles Ellis. back
field coach at Richmond.
The informants said ChurchilL
India's Prime Minister Nehru and
other Commonwealth prime min
isters meeting here are concen
trating their efforts now on get
ting an early unwritten cease-fire,
Ideas for a Geneva-type confer
ence to arrange a permanent
settlement between the two Chi
nas have been shelved until after
the shooting dies down.'
A Moscow radio broadcast said
the Soviet Union end Red China
confirmed today their "complete
unity of views" on international
quest ons and emphasized the far
reaching accord reached by the
two Communist nations in the Pei
ping pact of October 1054, So let
President Klementi Voroshilov
and Red China's new envoy to
Moscow. Li Hsiao, exchanged for
mal speeches when Liu presented
his credentials, the broadcast said.