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FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS RESTRAINING ORDER—
Federal Judge William J. Campbell (seated), issued a
temporary restraining order last night, against a wild
cat walkout by Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen mem
hers. Government agents flew to Chicago from Wash
ington when 13 railroads were affected by workers who
called in “sick.” Judge Campbell is signing as Colonel
Julian C. Hyer, Judge Advocate of the Central West
region; Lt. Colonel B. M. Ayers, Judge Advocate of
Washington, D. C., look on.—NEA Photo.)
Striking Rail Workers
CHICAGO, Dec. 15. — (AP) — The striking railroad
workers in Chicago and other key cities made no attempt
to return to work today, apparently ignoring three federal
court orders and their union president,
The strike, which in two days has disrupted vital ship
ments of freight and mail and slowed some industrial out
put, hit on the home front. The Postoffice Department last
night clamped a partial embargo on parcel post mailing.
The order, coming at the peak|
of the Christmas mailing rush, in
cludes all parcel post and is ef
fechive immediately in hundreds
of postoffices throughout the coun
try. Airmail and air parcel post
's not affected.
The Postoffice Department
classified as restricted all second |
class (except daily newspaper),
third class, fourth class and all
first class mail weighing more
than eight ounces. The order
came after the strike had “effec~-
tively erippled the mail distribu~
tion system.”
Meanwhile top officials of the
mion, the Brotherhood of Rail
oad Trainmen, sald in Washing
on today they believed personal
ntervention by President Truman
night be the only hope for quick
settlement of the strike.
The unton's attorneys are pre
paring a brief in reply to the
“back to work’ orders obtained
by the government in three cities.
The brief declared the union is
trying “by every means at its
command” to control the strikes
and remedy their causes.
Edward B. Henslee, general
counsel, who is preparing the
union’s answer, denied the union
is striking as an “entity.” He
told newsmen “the ecourt must
take notice of the fact that indi
viduals spontaneously, without any
semblance of authority, have
ceased working.” :
Both Henslee and a union
spokesman said possible settle
ment was contingent on action by
President. Truman or someone
designated by him.
The strike, which started on a
small scale in Chicago Wednesday
morning and snow-balled into a
full-grown stoppage, yesterday
spread to Washington, St. Louis
and Alexandria, Va.
There were hints yards workers
in other cities may join in what
their union, the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen, has called an
unanthorized waikout. However,
railroad spokesmen in Washing
ton said the strike was “too well
organized and the activities of lo
cal brotherhood leaders too con
spicuous to lend credence to the
claim that it was not a planned
strike.”
10,000 Off Job :
About 10,000 rail workers are
off the job, the bulk of them in
Chicago. But the strike has made
idle hundreds of others in some
rail-related industries. Continua
tion would cut deeper into move
ment of vital war shipments and
curtail production in steel and
other key industries. Some ship
‘nents of meat to military forces
N this country and cverseas have
been delayed.
Passenger trains were operating
but many were behind schedule.
Che Railway Express has em
bargoed shipments of perishables
or livestock from Chicago and St.
Louis. Air express shipments
were heavy,
Thousands of carloads of freight
and mail were stranded in Chica
-20 and St. Louis. The strike in
Alexandria’s Potomac yards, the
South’s biggest rail center for
freight trains, affected nearly all
north-south freight moving on the
Eastern Seaboard.
The Army, which took over op
eration of the nation’s carriers last
August pending a settlement of e;
‘vage - hour dispute, appeared
ready to erack down'on the strik~
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ATHENS BANNER -HERALD
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Bride Kidnaper
Sought In N. M.
SANTA FE, N. M., Dec. 15 —
(AP) — Fears for a Kkidpaped
bride’s life spurred a search early
today for the girl and an ex-suitor
who killed her husband in a shot
gun ambush.
Braced for an expected gun
fight, possemen followed the ap
parently cooling trail of 52-year~
old Luciam H. Harris. They hoped
to find him before the Los Ala
mos construction worker could
carry out a reported threat’he
also would kill his pretty captive,
Adelina Brown, 24.
Presumably she .still did not
know her husband of a {few
months, Lancelot Chubley Brown,
jr., died several hours after being
felled by a charge of buckshot late
yesterday. It was fired outside
her parents’ home as they re
turned from the funeral of her
father, Nabor Lucero.
After roadblocks failed to in
tercepi the Browns’ 1937 model
(Dodge) sedan in which Harris
made off, officers first centered
their search on rocky Dalton ean
yon, 25 miles east of Santa Fe.
They theorized Harris may have
headed for a cabin he has used on
hunting trips.
CHRYSLER INCREASES
Higher Auto Prices
Set For ‘sl Models
DETROIT, Dec. 15— (AP) —A
new and higher price line in the
auto industry for 1951-model cars
is now solid from end to end.
Chrysler made it so last night,
announcing price increases for all
its cars and trucks.
The Chrysler action, following
hard upon Ford and General Mo~
tors price boosts, came as the gov
ernment made a new move in the
inflationary spiral.
Heads of the auto industry and
union leaders were summoned tc
Washington for g meeting next
Wednesday.
At the capitol it was assumed
this would be an attempt to work
out a wage-price stabilization for
mula for the industry.
Directly affecting a million or
more wage earners as well as the
nation’s work in many fields, the
auto industry is vital to America’s
economy.
Wage stabilizer Cyrus W. Ching |
said “some kind of controls, either
voluntary or mandatory, are in the
realm of possibility.”
Without going into particulars,
Ching said he felt it necessary to
dscuss possible problems in such
event “as soon as possible.” .
The government acted 24 hours
after major auto makers had re
jected Washington overtures to re
scind price increases.
In boosting its 'sl-model prices
Chrysler gave an explanation al
oggi < m&?fl QMW
: reased costs of materials
Chinese Reds Drive Deeper
Into Shrinking Allied Area
FARM BUREAU
REQUESTS NO
PRICE CURBS
DALLAS, Dec. 15—(AP)—The
American Farm Bureau Federa
tion turned on the pressure today
in an attempt to persuade Presi
dent Truman not to impose price
controls. ‘
Delegates to the 1950 conven
tion which ended here last night
were wirtng their senators and
congressmen. Their president,
Towa hog farmer Allan B. Kline,
told them “Don’t let your senators
push you around.”
Kline himself tried to reach Mr,
Truman by telephone last night to
tell him of the federation’s unan
imous action yesterday in con
demning price and wage controls,
and rationing, as anti-inflation
weapons.
Unable to reach the President,
Kline sent him a telegram de
claring “It is our well-considered
and unanimously-approved opin
ion that price controls at the pre
sent time would be a tragic error.”
Aid Asked
Shortly before that Kline asked
“everyone here to write out 2
little wire to your senators and
congressmen.”
Kline asked them to “put in
your own words” their opposition
to controls. The federation chief
tain told delegates’ he had reached
Leon Keyserling, chief of the Pres
ident’s Board of Economic Ad
visers, by telepohne and that Key
serling expressed complete agree
ment with the Bureau’s stand.
Sustained applause accompanied
fadage of the anti-controls reso
ution, and Kline's news of his
personal efforts to persuade the
President.
“Inflation cannot be stopped by
price, wage and ration controls,”
said the resolutlotri:;, “'l‘il;:y inter
fere with production, impair the
our capacity to expand output, re
quire huge administrative staffs
and invite black markets.”
The Federation turned down a
Southern Democrat’s plea that
“we say something kind about our
government” by passing a resolu
tion thanking the late President
Roosevelt, President Truman and
members of Congress for estab
lishing stable markets and fair
farm prices.
Something Kind
“I hate for us to go home with
out saying something kind,” said
Edwin Hawes, jr., Wharton, Tex.,
Farm Bureau member and long
time Democrat. “Farmers should
not and must not cast off their
friends.”
The resolution wag tabled after
Charles B. Shuman of Sullivan,
111., president of the Illinois fed
eration, objected-that it was “un
necessary ‘because through the
years it has been left to our offi
cers and directors to express such
thanks.”
J. B. Butler of Chatsworth,
Calif.,, a Republican, made the mo
tion to table, whieh carried by an
overwhelming voice vote. Before
this, Hugh Agnew of South Caro
lina had suggested deletion of the
names of Presidents Roosevelt and
Truman from tue resolution.
“We must remember our fed
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and labor,
New Contract
This week Chrysler signed &
new five-year cost-of-living labor
coniract which it sald would mean
an additional outlay of $20,000,000
yearly, including a four cents an
hour annual wage boost for about
100,000 workers.
The Briggs Manufacturing C 0.,,
Chrysler’'s car body supplier,
signed a similar contract last night
covering 34,000 workers.
Chrysler made no estimate of
the percentage of its price boost.
Increases on its passenger cars
will run from SBO to $195, on its
Dodge trucks from SBO to $295.
Ford estimated its price boost
at 5.7 per cent. GM said its was
“something less than five per
cent.” g
The Economiec Stabilization
Agency’s Washington conference
Wednesday will “diseuss problems
of wage stabilization,” according
to the invitations to the auto com
panies,
Presidents of ten auto com
panieg were invited—General Mo~
tors, Ford, Chrysler, Stude
baker, Kaiser = Frazer, Willys-
Overland, Crosley, Hudson, Nash,
and Packard,
_ Also invited were the ClO’s
Walter Reuther and James B.
Carey and AFL President William
Green.
Reuther and Carey, as presi
dents of the ClO’s Auto and Ele=
trical Workers U&ions.__;sapecfi;::
Iy, speak for thgfmass of or-
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST CEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1950.
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Countless Chinese Killed By
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Counterattacking U. N. Forces
BY ROBERT EUNSON
TOKYO, Dec. 15.—(AP)—Swarming Red Chinese at
tacks drove into the shrinking Allied beachhead in north
east Korea today and roared on tonight with the aim of an
nihilating the U. S. Tenth Corps defenders. de %
Hunter Harris
Nominated For
Brig.-General
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—(AP)
—lncluded in President Truman’s
list of Air Force officers nominat
ed for -temporary promotion is
Hunter Harris, jr., 41, Athens, Ga.,
commanding officer, 509th Bomb
Wing, from Colonel to Brigadier
General.
Colonel Hunter Harris, jr., is the
son of Mrs, Hunter Harris, sr., of
Athens. His late father was a Ma
jor in the United States Army, re
tired, and a brother of General
Peter C. Harris, who was Adju
tant General of the U. S. Army
for several years. Colonel Harris
is also a first cousin of Mrs, Mar
garet Harris Blair, of Athens.
Colonel Harris is a brother of
Colonel William A. Harris of the
United States Army, now serving
in Korea, Both young men have
had distinguished careers in the
Army, each having served with
distinction in the last war,
Completion Of
Tax Bill Seen
The Senise Phtiens Cammities
drove today tomm of
its job of writing a multi-billion
dollar excess profits tax bill.
Chairman George (D.-Ga.) told
reporters he hopes his committee
can complete by nightfall—or to
morrow at the latest—its revision
of the House-passed measure, He
said he sees little likelihood of any
drastic reduction in the $3,400,~
000,000 first-year revenues aimed
for by the House,
Republican committee members
planned eleventh hour efforts to
revise the measure but conceded
they had little hope of winning.
Senator Butler (R.-Web.) *old
reporters he wants the bii: amend
ed to impose a milder excess pro
fits tax, but to boost the combined
normal income tax and surtax
rate for corporations from 45 per
cent to a new level of 50 per cent.
Such a charge, he said, could
raise the $4,000,000,000 Mr, Tru
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Mrs. D. S. Ranney
Taken By Death
Friends of Dr. and Mrs. Karl E,
Shedd will be sorry to learn of the
death of their daughter, Mrs,
Dorothy Shedd Ranney, in a 8 Bos
ton hosgital early today,
Mrs. Shedd and son, Donald, left
by plane this afternocn for Bos
ton. Arrangements for funeral
services have not been completed.,
WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Decreasing cloudiness becom
ing partly cioudy and warmer
this afternoon. Fair toni;bt,
turning colder late tonight. Sat
urday fair and rather cold; Sun
day’s outlook fair and contin
ued cold, Low expected tonl‘lz
32, high tomorrow 40. Sun se
tonight at 5:25, rises tomorrow
at 1182, ‘
GEORGIA—CIoudy this aft
ernoen and tonight, clearing in
north portion tonight and in
south portion Saturday after
noon, Warmer this afiernoon
cooler in north portion tonlxh‘
with little change in tempera
ture in south pertion. Cooler in
north portion Saturday and
turning cooler in south portion
Saturday afternoon.
EXTENDED FORECAST
Extended forecast for Georgla
for the period from 7:30 % m.
(EST) today to 7:30 p. m., Wed
nesday, December 20:
Average temperatures several
degrees below normal and pre
cipitation light fe moderate.
Colder over week-end, warmer
by Monday, Showers likely late
ter part of period followed by
colder,
TEMPERATURE
WO Loy s Wevs B B
BRNE .5 s corimanill
MOAD i.so ssms soos ovem ..29
WO L e e B
| RAINFALL
Inches lagt 24 hours .. ... .01
‘Tstat since December 1 ... 2.86
" Excess since December 1 .. .68
E ~Al‘:vexiage Degember rainfall 4.59
- Total sinee January 1 ¢ ..38.10
- Medeit Mnce Janaaty (1.1 944
Many Chinese were reported
killed in headlong charges of Red
infantry and cavalrymen under
Allied tank, artillery and air coun
terattack and against withdrawing
doughboy defenses.
But the Reds kept coming onto
the Ylazing flatlands of the sea of
Japa% coast in the Hamhung-
Hungnam port area.
The first major attack was made
by some 2,500 shouting mounted
and foot soldiers who leaped
aboard American tanks and tore
at them with small weapons and
their bare hands.
Bigger ‘attacks were expected
tonight out of the force of 100,000
Chinese ringed around the United
Nations forces backed up against
the sea of Japan.
Last Refuge
The beachead was the lalt‘
refuge in the northeast for around
60,000 Allied troops who were
forced to retreat by the Chinese‘
entry into the war late in No
vember. |
One American platoon—nor=
mally 40 riflemen and one junior
officer—was cut off and presumed
lost in the initial attack by the
2,500 Reds.
A tank-led column failed to res
cue the platoon and had to fight
off Chinese soldiers who pried at
the tanks’ hatches in frenzied hand
combat,
The tanks withdrew undamaged
after they ran out of ammunition,
The bulk of Allied forces in the
slimming beachhead southwest of
Hungnam withdrew to new de
fense positions set up in depth to
the seashore.
In northwest Korea, a two-week
lull on the Eighth Army’s front
was expected to be broken soon
by other Chinese horc:n. A %
R Pny"s g Tk T eele
tral Korea northeast of Seoul was
reported. S
Another dogfight prelude to the
expected big air war was waged
by flashing jets in the extreme
northwest corner of the peninsula,
But the sustained assault by
Chinese horsemen and infantry on
‘the narrow Hamhung-Hungnam
‘sector in the northeast posed the
immediate and serious threat.
The Reds swarmed from snow
mantled foothills onto the flats at
Sinsong, six miles southeast of
iiemhung. They attacked in pre
dawn darkness in estimated regi~
mental strength. The assault raged
throughout the day and continued
into the night.
“We fired about 300 rounds of
76 mm. shells and about 15,000
rounds of machinegun ammuni
tion at the Chinese,” a tank of
ficer told AP Correspondent Tom
Lambert after his force tried tfo
rescue the lost platoon.
“I eouldn’t begin to estimate
how many we killed.”
Lambert Report
Correspondent Lambert, with the
U. 8. Third Division, reported the
Chinese broke through the out
lying mountain barrier onto the
plains.
The cutoff Third Division
platoon directed artillery fire into
the Red ranks. Communications
with the 40 doughboys blacked out
shortly after tanks failed to reach
them. The platoon men were pre
sumed lost, although Maj. SBamuel
G. Kail of Dallas sald they still
were battling when last heard
from at noon Friday,
Lambert said the Red “advance
onto the beachhead’s flat plain
fosed a serious threat to Allied
orces backed against the sea.” A
security blackout shrouded Allied
activities elsewhere within the
beachhead,
The U. 8. First Marine@gd Third
and Seventh Infantry Divisions
and elements of two South Ko=
rean Divisions, a few British com=
mandos and Puerto Ricans retreat
eddinto the beachhead last weelt~
end.
Friday’s major attack came aft
er two lighter, _Bx;oblng thrists
were beaten off Thursday.
Reinforcing Chinese still were
swarming down the valleys.
Amerlcan artillery and planes
po'\fi:ded at the Red forces.
e Chinese warmed up for bat
tle in a drum-beating, bugle
blowing and singing mass rally at
Oro, a town six miles northwest
of Hamhung abandoned by Allled
forces 24 hours earlier. Doughboys
heard the racket and steeled them=
selves for attack,
Maj. Thomas Cleary, a Third
Dil\aision regimental staff officer,
sa
Red Attacks
“The Chinese hit first last night
and apparently hoped to make &
breakthrough in the night hours,
However, the heroic platoon which
is now-eut off stayed out there di
recting the artillery fire and the
Reds were kept back until Friday
morning. y
"Tla'm they kept coming in day
umnerd MacArthur in his doily
official war summary fook the un
usual course of %uoting the Red
China radio at Peiping for the
purpose of “demolishing once more
the fiction” that the Chinese fight
' Korea are teers, "
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T'een Club Open
Tonight, Closes
Saturday Night
The Athens Teen-Age Center
at Memorial Park will be open
for regular activities tonight,
according to officials of the City
Park and Recreation Depart
ment.
The club will be open from 8
to 10:30 p. m.
There will be no activities at
the center Saturday night be
cause a basketball game follow
ed by a dance is slated at the
Athens High gymnasium.
UN Negotiations
Continue For
Peace In Korea
NEW YORK, Dec. 15—(AP)—
A three-man United Nationsecease
fire committee today begins the
search for ways to persuade the
Chinese Communists and battered
United Nations forces to end their
bloody war in Korea, .
Outspoken Russian opposition
promised little success for their
efforts, but the committe®é went
ahead nevertheless.
The trip — General Assembly
President Nasrollah Entezam of
Iran, India’s Sir Benegal N. Rau
and Canada's Lester B, Pearson—
holds its first meeting sometime
today. Their next move lfpetred
to be to seek from Red China rep-~
resentative Wu Hslu-chuan what
his government considers accepta~ |
ble cease fire terms.
The U. 8. reportedly has said it
will stop fighting if the Reds do
e s s e P
cob A. Malik has said the Chinese
will withdraw from Korea if tor-J
eign—United Nations—troops pull
out.
The General Assembly, with on=
ly the Soviet bloc in opposition,
established the committee yester
day and told it to seek means of
halting the Korean fighting. The
resolution named Entezam to head
the group and he immediately ap
pointed Rau and Pearson.
The United States, which with
Britain supported the proposal,
named U, N. Delegate Ernest A.
Gross and Lt., Gen., Willis Crit
tenberger to serve as American
liaison officers with the commit
tee.
The Assembly is expected to
clear its calendar today of all bus
iness of this fifth session except
the Korean question. But until
every acceptable path toward
peace there has beep explored, it
will not adjourn.
Should a cease fire appear so
be in the offing soon, President
Entezam plans to continue the
main body in session next week.
Otherwise, while the three-man
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AEC ESTIMATE
S. C. Bomb Plant Cost
Set At S6OO Million
BY MARGARET KERNODLE
AP sdn,clul Washington !orviAcg
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—(AP)
—Chairman Gordon Dean of the
atomie energy commission expects
the new atomie plant on the Sa
vannah River in South Carolina
to cost about $600,000,000.
Asked at a house appropriations
subcommittee hearing it he
thought the cost could be held
down to $600,000,00, Dean replied:
“We hope so. I would hate to be
frozen to that, because you must
appreciate that the estimates we
are making today are on the cost
of production units that have
never been built hefore,
“They are estimates which are
based on comparable cost of other
facilities.”
Testimony made public by the
appropriations committee today
shows that at this point the com
mittee discussed the South Caro
lina plant further but on an “off
the record” basis due to security
an%les involved.
he Savannah River plant is
being started under a $260,000,000
program voted by Congress last
fall but was discussed in the tes
timony dealing with the new sl,-
050,000,000 atomic expansion pro=-
gram asked by President Truman.
Dual—Purpose Facilities
Dean brought out that the $260,-
000,000 program was for * ‘dual
purpose facilities” and so is the
one now proposed.
~ “We have to have them to go
either way, because we do not
know todagv as to the feasibility of
?n H-bomb program,” Dean testi
ied. .
He said it is figured that the
250,000 acres o! land ‘to be used in
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ision mail petty officers look on eagerly as Navy mail« {
men begin the long tedious sorting task.— (Navy Radio- |.&
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President To Ask
Great Sacrifices
Tempo Of U.S. Arms, Manpower,
Production Effort Is Speeded
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.— (AP) —President Truman
calls on Americans tonight to unite in greater saecrifices
behind the eritical effort to build up the free world’s mili
tary might, o
The tempo of that effort was already being speeded up
rapidly, but members of Congress and others were de
manding definite manpower and production goals.
It was disclosed officially today
that the government has picked
a site near Paducah, Ky, for &
$500,000,000 atomic energy Jro
ject —the second expansion of the
atomic program to be announced
within three weeks.
And Secretary of the Army
Pace was tg:'tcwfix ‘g'“htfll told
3 e
‘m % for the m
] . .. year
[m He sald the M’
‘est request for $16,844,000,000 has
been outmoded before éonzreu
can act on it.
Mr. Truman, speaking as 10:30
p. m. (EST) on radio and televis
ion, plans to outline the home
front sagrifices he thinks are nec
essary to meet the grave crisis of
military defeats in Korea and the
threat of new Communist aggress
ion elsewhere.
Emergency Declared
A declaration of national emer,
gency — to speed up military con
tract letting and put the country
nearer to a war crisis—seemed
certain either as a preiude or aft
ermath of the Presltrent’s speech.
This could be accompanied or
followed by selective price and
wage controls. Most speculation
was that their application would
be gradual while personnel is be
ing built up to administer them.
Administration officials said the
declaraton of an emergency may
be quickly followed by calls for a
4,000,000-man army and an event=
ual expenditure of $100,000,060,=
000 a year for defense,
Word that the armed services
will need more money came from
testimony by Pace before a House
families will be forced to move,
Dean said that of the $250,000,~
000 appropriated in September
“roughly $158,000,000 was for pro
duction facilities. Today we should
call it the Savannah River site
program.
He later testified that $500,000,~
000 asked for a progosed new
plant at Paducah, Ky., described as
“one of the main legs of this whole
expanstan,” and tnother request
“called new operations office,
which totals $392,000,000, is for all
the new facilities to be added at
the Savannah River site.”
The chairman testified that the
$260,000,000 expansion program
was presented to Congress six
months before hostilities started in
Korea and that it was drafted be
fore “the knowledge that the Rus~
sians had exploded a bomb.”
“We came up with the philo
sophy,” he said, “that we should
have enough plant capacity, either
gaseous difusion or reacters, plus
feed facilities, so that we could
process in any one of the next sev
eral years all foreseeable ore
available that year to the western
powers.”
He told the committee the pro
gram “was also based on the evi
dence that Russia apparently does
not want to produce peace in this
world — and that is the thing that
moves us.”
Dean insisted that this country
“is in a very strong position” in its
atomic energy program.
I can say, as one who has come
into that program, who has watch
ed it and worked on it hard, that
we are in (?o very sttrorig positlign,"
he said. “Comparatively speaking,
I say %fi‘h g::fl ahead of Rus
sia.” .
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EDITION
Appropriations Sobcommitiee on
Dec. 9. It was made public today.
Pace told the lawmakers :}*
emergency money bill are
considering “has dtas been
overtaken by the rush recent
events,”
Wg:gl of the new atomie n-zy‘
pro came hearings on
same bfll.wfi::‘ covers a fl.-
deag request for sl, o
| for the Atomic Enery Commission.
1 Testimony revealed that it will
include two gaseous diffusion
plants. The gaseous diffusion pro
cess of producing atomic materials
i'; the one employed at Oak Ridge,
‘enn.
The commission disclosed on
Nov. 28 that it will build a new
project in South Carolina. Testi~
money released today placed its
cost at $600,000,000 or more. AEC
Chairman Gordon Dean said this
will be a dual purpose project
“because we do not know as to the
feasibility of the H- bomb pro
ject.” The South Carolina plant
has been reported designed mo
duce fuel for the hydrogen .
Construction Soof;n
As for the Kentucky plant, Rep.
Gregory (D-Ky) said last night
work will start as soon as Con
gress votes the monei'.
To direet industrial mobiliza
tion, the government . called :3
Charles E. Wilson, é)residlnt
the General Electric Co., who said
he will accept. Wilson will head a
new central agency.
Although most speculation was
that wage-price controls would be
imposed on a gradual basis, Rep.
Wolcott of Michigan, senior Re
publican on the House Btnkin‘
and Senate-House Economie com
mittees, said there is talk in ad
ministration circles of a price
wa;lghtreeze. 7
“The difficulty there would be
in enforeing it,” he said. :
Chairman Taft (Ohio) of the
Senate GOP policy committes
called for a pflsfioentinl announee
ment of over-all manpower and
production goals. He said Rfi
cans, who will have heavy -
ence fn the new Congress, would
go along willingly if they kmow
where they are going. "
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York, the 1948 GOP presidential
nominee, wanted even more dras
tic measures taken than anyone in
Congress has suggested.
Dewey called in a statement last
night for (1) general registration
of every American above 17 for
national service, (2) an army of
1000 divisions, (3) an 80-group
air force and (4) recommmission
ing of all mothballed navy ships.
Dewey’s plan went further than
most congressional Republicans
seemed ready to travel at this
time.
The New York governor urged
turning over 25 per cent of Ameri
can productive capacity to defense
work.
Steps Taken
Two steps were taken here,
meantime, to make ang' enemy aii
attack on the United States as in
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