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Russia’s Malik. Proposes Cease-Fire Talks
General Church Adaresses
VFW Here, Reviews Parade
LAB DEDICATION
Voice US Aims
TULLAHOMA, Tenn., June 23—
(AP)—A major pronouncement of
American aims is expected Mon
day when President Truman dedi
cates a giant laboratory that will
develop the super warplanes of the
future.
The day marks the first anni
versary of the war in Korea. The
President will speak in a setting
of pomp and ceremony arranged
by the Air Force, His 25-minute
{alk at noon (CST) will be broad~
cast nationally.
As it ends, a flashing group of
et fighter planes and bombers, in
¢luding big new 10-engine B-36 D’s,
will pass in salute. Then Mr. Tru
man will dedicate the $157,500,000
project named for the late Gen.
Henry H. Arnold.
Monday also is the birthdate of
the former Air Force chief. Mrs.
Arnold and her three oificer sons
il be honor guests when the
Arnold engineering development
enter is heralded.
Project Of Future
It's & project ahead of the times.
The first unit will he operating
next year, all three by 1954. In it
scientists will develop the aircrait,
et engines and guided missiles for
2 ceneration to come.
Weosk at a major -unit of the
center apparently will be halted
by a dispute during Mr, Truman'’s
presence. About 175 members of
the AFL hod carriers and laborers
union left their jobs on the engine
facility Wednesday in a dispute
cver a contractor’s foreman. A
mmion spokesman said no action
was planned until Tuesday be
cause Monday is a holiday on the
base in honor of Mr. Truman.
Tullahoma, which boomed with
the advent of Camp Forrest early
n World War II and then took
a slower pace when the soldiers
left, is at a high pitch over the
presidential visit. It is & town of
8,500 residents about 70 miles
southeast of Nashville.
Mr, Truman will arrive at 9:30
2. m. (CST) Monday in his plane
with 10 top members cf the White
House staff.
Military Reception
A military reception will be giv
en on _his arrival at Northern
Field. Nearly two hours is set
aside for the President's motor
parade along a 12-mile route
through Tullahoma to the AEDC.
The ceremonies begin an hour
before the President talks.
Speakers will include Air Sec
retary Thomas K. Finletter; the
Air Force Chief Gen. Hoyt S.
Vandenberg, and Maj. Gen. Lewis
A. Pick, chief of the Army En
gineers who' are building AEDC.
Air Force generals from through
cut the world are coming for the
occdsion.
Mr. Truman will be introduced
by Gov. Gordon Browning.
After the address and dedica
tion, the President will attend an
informal luncheon. Then he will
board the Independence for the
return flight to the capital.
Driver’s Licenses
ATLANTA, June 23— (AP) —
Just in case you had forgotten —
don’t throw away your current
Georgia driver’s license. It has
now become permanent,
Sure, it says right on the front
that its good until June 30, 1951.
But the last legislature changed
that, It made all current drivers
licenses permanent until revoked
for ecause.
So, you ean continue to operate
on your present permit after July
-
But, if you’d rather, you can
turn your present license in and
without cost—get one of the new,
permanent permits. Which might
be a good idea at that, if you plan
to drive in another state where a
cop might take a dim view of
using a license that looks like it
has expired.
BLUE RIDGE, Ga., June 23 as
(AP)—A piggy-back ride ended
in tragedy for a 46-year-old father |
and his eight-year-old daughter_
on the shore of Lake Blue Ridge
Friday night. ,
George Gober, a camp caretak- |
er, and daughter, Nora Grace,
sank and drowned before the hor- |
rified eyes of his wife and son, |
James. ;
Mrs. Gober told Georgia State|
Patrol officers that she and her|
son, the drowned -child’s twm,’
were watching her husband an¥
Nora Grace play in the water|
when they sank suddenly. The|
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated?r;Service
Major General John A. Church said today that “U.S.
action taken in June of last year was necessary and right.”
United States and United Nations intervention was man
datory, he declared, “in view of the faet that the behavior
of the Russians in Korea after World War II was much like
the behavior of Hitler in picking off one small territory
after another.”
Gen. Church, now commanding
officer of Fort Benning’s infantry
training school, arrived in Korea
three days after the North Korean
Communists marched into South
Korea. He commanded the origi
nal ground forces sent into the
war area and later took command
of the famous 24th Division.
The General spoke at the Geor
gia encampment of Veterans of
Foreign Wars meeting here. Some
300 VFW delegates and their
guests attended.
War Situation
‘lt is obvious to all thinking
people that the Russians do not
care how many Chinese lives are
lost in the present conflict as long
as their purpose is achieved. The
situation in Korea is something
with which we will just have to
bear until Stalin drops his last
card to show his hand. Stalin
holds the key to the whole situa
tion,” Church asserted.
The General said the 38th Par
allel originally was set up as an
arbitrary division for Russian and
United States disarmament pro
cedures, but “became a veritable
iron curtain as a result of post-
World War II Russian tactics”
In his talk, he outlined briefly
the first seven months of the Ko
rean conflict and commended the
late Gen. Walton Walker, Allied
commander in Korea, “who so
capably retained a foot-hold in
Korea despite the fact he had only
four under-strength and poorly
equipped divisions in the early
stages of the war.”
In reference the U. S. troops
nulling out of )’grea he said that
this step could only be taken if
the nation was willing to take the
loss of face that the move would
involve and the bolstering of the
Soviet Union’s renutation that
would be sure to follow such a
move.
Church . p2id a tribute to the
American fightine man, saving
that the seen U. S. divisions that
are in Korea are among the best
fighters thot have ever been pro
duced. He said, however, that
there was too great a tendencv in
the American preople to ride wher
ever thev go. “In some cases.” he
elaborated, “the soldiers in Korea
would ride in their jeens right up
to the front lines, sometimes losing
both their lives and vehicles in
the act.”
Early War Odds
The odds acainst the American
forces were often as great as ten
or twelve to one in the early
stages of the war, according to the
General. In the first fifteen days
of this hostilities one third of the
initial forces were lost as well as
most of the heavy equipment.
“Korea could unquestionably
have been liberated and unified
bv Christmas time of this last year
if the Chinese Communists had
ngt entered the conflict,” he stat
ed. :
General Church explained the
cause of the war as being primari
ly the dissatisfaction of the North
ern Koreans when the Southern
Koreans set up their democratic
government and the land had been
re-distributed to the small farm
ers. This set-up was termed by
the commies as a capitalistic dom
inated regime.
General Church was introduced
by a life-time friend of his who is
now one of the most respected cit
izens of Athens, Colonel C. G.
Hammond, U. S. Army, retired.
Colonel Hammond and the Gen
eral have been close friends for
over thirty years, serving together
in the 45th Division.
Colonel Hammond
Col. Hammond described the
most important men in the train
ing of trops for the nation’s de
fense program.” General Church
later disclosed that he is now aid
ing in the training of foreign offi
cers as well as American men.
At 2:30 Saturday afternoon Gen
eral Church and his aids were
among those at the reviewing
stand for the parade of the entire
delegation of Veterans who have
been in Athens for the past few
days for the encampment.
Other concluding events for the
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Continued fair and hot today, !
highest afternoon temperature
93. Sun rises at 5:23 and sets at
7:47.
GEORGIA — Mostly fair and
continued hot Sunday.
TEMPERATURE
Highest ;... ~.0 ivee o3s 92
YNest 0 v anad e 72
Mean ..cs sses srae soee s iBO
Nopmnal ... -0y e
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00 |
Total since June 1 .. .. .- 5.50 |
Excess since June 1 .. ... 3.01 |
Average June rainfall .. .. 413 [
Total since-January 1. .20.94
Deficit since January T .00
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY,
V.F.W.BEAUTY
1§ SISTER OF
MISS GEORGIA
A second member of the Taylor
family of Alma, Ga., was recog
nized for her beauty yesterday
when pretty Cristelle Taylor, sis
ter of Carol Taylor, current “Miss
Georgia,” was chosen as the win
ning beauty at the first annual
Department of Georgia Veterans
of Foreign Wars beauty review.
The beauty contest was held at
the VFW Home on Sunset Drive
Saturday afternoon with 14 Geor
gia beauties competing for the
coveted title.
The young brunette winner won
an all expense paid trip to New
York City where she will enter the
National VFW beauty contest as
the Georgia entry. All of her
clothes for the trip will be fur
nished by the J. C. Penney Com
pany. While in New York Miss
Taylor will be given a TV test.
The winner of the contest is 18
yvears old and attends Berry Col
lege in Rome. She is spending the
summer at her home in Alma
helping with the farnr work on the
farm of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
0. L. Taylor.
Segregation Of Negroes
In Schools Is Upheld
CHARLESTON, S. C.,, June 23
—(AP) — A special three-judge
federal court today upheld negro
segregation in the south’s schools.
But it reminded southern states
that they must provide equal
facilities for negroes.
The court, in a far-reaching 2 to
1 decision, held that “segregation
of the races in the public schools
is a matter of legislative policy for
ATLANTA, June 23— (AP)—
Governor Talmadge, one of the
South’s leading advocates of ra
cial segregation, was “delight
ed” to hear of the federau court
decision uplMolding segregation
in South Carelina schools.
“If the supreme court follows
the precedent of more than 100
years, it will uphold the decis
fon,” Talmadge said. The ruling
was handed down tfoday by a
three-judge federal court.
George P. Whitman, jr., of At
lanta, chairman of the State
Board of Education, said he was
sure the board would be happy
about the decision..
the several states, with which the
federal courts are powerless to
interfere.”
But the court ordered negro
schols made equal to those for
whites and told school officials to
report back within six months on
what they are doing about it.
The decision came in a case in
volving rural Clarendon county in
South Carolina. The case, heard
here on May 29, was initiated by
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People in
a broadside assault on the south’s
traditional system of segregated
schools. b
The court majority, consisting of
Circuit Judge John J. Parker and
District Judge George Bell Tirg
merman, wrote that “in a country
with a great expanse of territory
with peoples of widely differing
customs and ideas, local self gov-
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40 KILLED IN PLANE CRASH A Pan-American World Airways Constellation
with 40 persons aboard vanished June 22 along the west African coast on a flight
from Johannesburg to New York City. The wreckage was located Saturday and the
There were no survivors. Three of the plane was reported completely demolished.
crew members killed with the 37 other ner<ons were, left to right: Pursurer Ray Tun
stall. Stewardédd "Bed "Pleoy "ahd Co-Pilot’ Géorge” Alcock. (NEA Telephoto 7 .
ATHENS, CA., SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 1951.
Forfy Dead In
Crash Of Pan
American Plane
MONROVIA, Liberia, June 23—
(AP)—The wreckage of the Pan
American Constellation, Greit Re
public, was located in the sodden
jungle 50 miles from Monrovia to
day, more than 24 hours after it
was due here with 40 passengers
and crewmen.
(A Pan American spokesman
in New York said the plane was
“completely disintegrated and
there are no survivors.”
(Earlier reports from Dakar,
French West Africa, said rescue
pilots saw what they believed
were signs of life and dropped
food and medical supplies at the
scene.
$ . 5 Informants at Idlewild Airport
in New York, said they believed
“rescue operations will be carried
on by parachute” as the nearest
trail was about four miles from
the crash.
(The wreckage was located by
a Pan-American DC-4 and two
other planes engaged in search
operations, A Pan American
| spokesman said they “identified
| the remains of Flight 151.”)
| Doctors and nurses in ambu
| lances and jeeps were dispatched
| at once but it was expected they
| would take four hours to reach
| the location from Monrovia.
| The big four-engined Constella
ition on a flight from Johannes
| burg, South Africa, to New York,
i was to have picked up 13 passen
| gers at Roberts Field here for
| various destinations.
| The plane left’ Accra, on the
| African Gold Coast 800 miles to
| the east, and reported at 2:45 a.
m. yesterday that it expected to
| land here in half an hour.
| No further word was heard
| from it.
‘* The plane had enough fuel for
| approximately another 11 hours
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iernment in local matters is es
| sential to the peace and happiness
of the people in the several com
‘ munities as well as to strength and
| unity of the country as a whole.”
| Waring View
| Disrtiet Judge . Waties Waring,
| the jurist who opened South Caro
lina’s Democratic Party primaries
to negroes, took a far different
viéw in his dissenting opinion. He
wrote:
l “There is no longer any basis for
a state to claim the power to sep
-larate according to race in gradu
ate schools, universities and col
leges. I am of the opinion that all
!ot the legal guide posts, expert
| testimony, common sense and rea
| son point unerringly to the con
clusion that the system of segre
\ gation in education adopted and
| practiced in the state of South
ICarolina must go and must go
now.”
' From Columbia, there came a
| terse “no comment” from the of
| fice of Governor James F. Brynes
on the decision. The former su
preme court justice and secretary
of state had declared before the
case was heard that South Caro
lina wodld “reluctantly” close her
public schools before mixing the
races in them.
| In New York, Executive Secre-
I tary Walter White of the National
| Association for the Advance of
y Colored People, announced that
| the NAACP is not abandoning its
fight on the South’s segregated
‘schools. He said the Association
| would “appeal immediately to the
| United States supreme court.”
| Expresses Optimism
. James O. Hinton, president of
the South Carolina chapter o fthe
' NAACP, expressed optimism that
' the supreme court would reverse
the lower court. He added that
“we feel as strongly now that se
gregation is morally wrong and
'must be eliminated if America is
to focus her impact on the world
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Bayonet Weilding
Gls Rout Commies
East Coast And
Gulf Shipping
Remains Tied Up
NEW YORK, June 23— (AP)—
East and Gulf Coast shipping still
was tied up today by contract de
mands of engineers and radio op
erators although seamen returned
to work under a promise of more
pay and shorter hours.
Federal concilliator’s expressed
hope that 40 shipping companies
involved in the eight-day tie-um
would reach agreement before the
night was out with the CIO Amer
ican Radio Association and the
CIO National Marine Engineers
Beneficial Association.
Representatives of the ARA and
the ship owners held separate
meetings today, conferred from
time to time with the mediators,
and finally entered a joint meet
ing. i
The mediators reported “com
plete agreement” between the op
erators and the 52,000-member
CIO National Maritime Union was
reached shortly before midnight
last night.
The NMU and the operators
agreed to a two-year contract, re
troactive to last Saturday, when
the previous contract expired.
It calls for an immediate 44-
hour work week at sea, to be cut
to 40 hours Dec. 16, compared
with 48 hours heretofore. A 40-
hour work week in port will con
tinue as-at present.
The agreement also provides an
tight per cent across-the-board
wage increase. The union had ask
ed a 25 per cent boost. It had re
ceived a 6.38 per cent increase last
October, under which pay scales
were $213.70 a month for mess
man to $315.35 a menth for boat
swains. : o e
Other: provisions of the NMU’s
new contract: paid vacations of up
to three weeks, semi-annual re
view of basic monthly wages and
overtime rates — and installation
of a washing machine for the
crew’s use in every vessel.
Truman Fights To Save
Economic Curbs Plans
WASHINGTON, June 23.— (AP) —President Truman,
opening a last-ditch fight to save his economic controls
program, warned Congress today that “a relaxed, soft at
titude is an invitation to disaster.” -
The President sent an urgent letter to Capitol Hill lead
ers as Congress prepared to open debate next week on con
trols bills which deny the President many of the powers
he savys are imperative to fight inflation. e
For one thing, the bills pre
pared by Senate and House bank
ing committee would take away
much of Price Administrator Mi
chael V. DiSalle’s authority to roll
back the price of meat .and other
articles,
A majority of the Senate Bank
ing Committee issued a report to
day declaring that the threat of
rollbacks hanging over business
was discouraging production and
hence was inflationary.
The Defense Production Act,
under which present price-wage
controls and other restrictions are
applied, expires June 30. The ad
ministration is conducting an up
hill fight to get it broadened and
extended before the deadline.
The President addressed his let
ter to Vice President Barkley and
Speaker Rayburn, and enclosed an
accompanying report by the Pres
ident’s National Advisory Board
on Mobilization Policy, stressing |
the dangers of inflation. i
Truman Distressed !
“T have been considerably dis
tressed,” the President said, “by !
ALLIED, RED AIR BATILES
BY DON HUTH
- TOKYD, Sunday, June 24.— (AP) —Bayonet wielding
‘ Allied infantrymen Saturday attacked and routed enemy
\troops on the central front in an attempt to upset a sus
\lp;ected third Communist spring offensive expected at any
our.
’ In bitter and bloody fighting, Allied troops cleared an
-area south of Pyonggang, 29 miles north of parallel 38.
Pyonggang stands at the tip of the old Red.“iron triangle”
massing area. T o .
Whitaker Heads -
Exchange Club
James S. Whitaker has been
elected president of Athens Ex
change Club, according to a recent
announcement. He succeeds Paul
Broun, who, in keeping with a
club tradition, now assumes the
post of vice-president.
Other officers are John Griffin,
secretary, and Bob Kimbrell,
treasurer, both of whom were re
elected.
New members chosen to serve
on the Board of Controls are Hey
ward Allen, Owen M. Roberts, jr.,
Tyus Butler and Dr. Bothwell
Traylor. Other members of the
Board who are to serve for the
following six months are Trout
man Wilson and Frank Hodgkin
son, James Whitaker, Paul Hodg~
son, Thomas H. Milner and Dick
Upchurch are retiring members of
the Board.
Mr. Whitaker, the newy-elected
president, has served the organi
zation well in the past, both as &
member of the Board of Controls
and as one of those in charge of
the exchange booth at the Agricul
tural Fair which is annually held
here in the fall. He was among
the original charier members
when the club was organized here‘
in 1946.
some provisions in the defense
production bills reported by the
Senate and House Banking and
Currency Committees. i
“These provisions take the easy
way—to relax controls and hope
for the best—which is extremely
dangerous. All of us should real
ize that we are in a hard, tough
fight with inflation®in this coun
try—just as we are in a hard,
tough fight with aggression in Ko-i
rea.
“l recommend most strongly
that the defense production bills‘
be strengthened, so that we can
build the defense of our country
without undermining the standard
or living of our people or weak
ening the American dollar.”
The President originally asked
that the controls act be extended
for two years. The Senate bill pro
vides for only eight months ex
tension; the House measure for
one year.
The President indicated today
he would be willing to settle for
a year, although still favoring at
least two vears. !
Board Advice {
He said his advisory board hadl
concluded that action should be
taken “for a long enough perlodt
of time—which means at least a|
year—sg that the planning and ex- 1
ecution of the mobilization pro-|
gram may not be fatally harassedl
by prolonged nation-wide uncer
tainty concerning national policy.”
The board uanimously conclud
ed that during the past year “the
dangers confronting our national
safety and economic stability have
in no sense diminished, and that
consequently the Congress should
act as rapidly as possible to com
plete consideration of and take
action upzn pending legislatlonl
relating {o the national emergen
cy."
The board, however, did not put
its greatest emphasis on price
wage controls.
“The most important approach,”
it said, “is to put the affairs of
as-we-go basis. |
For Russia’s own A-bomb arse
nal is assumed to be expanding,
and Moscow may tend with 'chel
passing years to discount Ameri-'
ca’s striking power.
These changes in the balance of
military strength, which have
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“Kead Dally by §5,000 People In Athens Trade Are#
One hill changed hands five
times before Communist screening
forces were driven northward.
The Alliés ‘dug in after clearing
all Reds from these approaches to
Pyonggang, from which Commun
ist forces might strike southward.
As the United Nations command
sought to keep the Reds off bal
ance, Jacob Malik, Russia’s chief
delegate to the U. N. at New York,
made a bid for a cease-fire con
ference. He suggested ap armis
tice and withdrawal of troops
from both sides of the 38th par
allel, y
Eighth Army Dispatch
A dispatch . from U. S. Eighth
Army headquarters in Korea said
that Malik’s proposal had not been
broadcast by the Armed Forces
radio to front line troops more
than two hours after the first an
nouncement.
(The Peiping radio in a broad
cast several hours before Malik
spoke, talked defiantly of “wiping
out the enemy’s: manpower in
Korea.” The broadcast was record
ed by the Associated Press at San
Francisco. It was a switch from
the old Peiping theme of driving
the Allies' from Korea.)
There was no indication of a
‘cease-fire in the methodical pre
parations o fthe Chinese Commu
nists. They massea troops along
the 100-mile Korean front, espec
ally in the west north of Seoul.
In the air, 30 U. S. F-86 Sabre
jets battled 12 to 18 Russian-made
MIG-156 jets near the Manchurian
border—the sixth day of such air
battles in one week.
One MIG was damaged. It
raised the score for the week to 11
Red planes destroyed, one proba
bly destroyed and 22 damaged. In
the same period, two Allied planes
were destroyed and two were
missing. :
All signs still pointed to an im
minent Communist offensive, pos
sibly on June 25, first anniversary
of the war.
The U. S. Eighth Army com
mander, in a pre-anniversary
statement, said confidently, “We
shall not be defeated in Korea.” .
Ridgway Review
Lt. General James A. Van Fleet
reviewed a year of war which
seesawed to Korea's southwest tip,
to its northern borders, and back
to the nriddle.
Red resistance stiffened across
100 miles of front as screening
forces strove to keep the Allies
from penetrating outposts of the
new Communist line,
The line is roughly 20 miles
north of parallel 38 from the east
coast ot the old Red “iron triangle”
in central Korea. Then it curves
southwest to the 38th parallel
north of Seoul. :
| Inside the triangle, Allied troops
fought one of the bloodiest en
’ gagements in weeks. They twice
'won and twice lost a 500-3:)ot hill
before a third charge won them
the crest just south of the trian
gle’s apex town of Pyonggang.
In the west, Allied patrols were
rebuffed by two Red regiments.
These Chinese were believed to be
screening an even larger Commu
nist force north of Seoul near gar
allel 38, the old boundary which
the North Korean Communists
shattered at dawn June 25, 1950.
In east-central Korea, Allied
artillery pounded Reds observed
massing on ridges northeast of
Yanggu.
Saturday Jumpoff
United Nations elements lumped
off at dawn Saturday to clear an
area south of Pyonggang, northern
tip of the triangle and controlling
point for the broad plain to the
north.
A field dispatch said the attack
was aimed at throwing any immi
nent Red offensive off balance.
An Eighth Army communique
last night said Allied patrols op
erating on the east coast west of
Kansong withdrew under Red
pressure.
AP Correspondent Stan Carter
said Allied patrols northwest of
Korangpo on the western front
contacted an estimated two Chi
nese regiments. The enemy broke
contact and withdrew,
The Chinese resisted stubborn
ly northwest of Yonchon in the
hills between the Imjin river and
RN i e
Kaesong is 35 miles northwest
of Seoul; Korangpo 28 miles north
west; and Yonchon 35 miles north.
Allied planes kept pounding
away at Red airfields in North
Korea, a campaign spurred by re
cent bold forays of Red planes as
far as 25 miles south of Seoul.
Saturday U. S. Fifth Air Force
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EDITION
Peace Bid Made
On Nationwide
Radio Network
" BY A. I. GOLDBERG
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,
June 23. — (AP) — Jaeob
Malik, Russia’s chief dele
gate to the U. N., called te
day for a Korean cease-fire
conference. »
In his first public Kerean
peace bid that was not hedg
ed with conditions faverable
to Red China, he said the
belligerents on both sides
should take part in diseus
sions for an armistice and
withdrawal of troops of beth
sides from the 38th parallel.
Malik did not specify whe he
thuoght the belligerents were. U.
N. spokesmen said they assurhed
he meant the Chinese and Nerth
Korean Communists on one side
and the U. N. forces on the ether,
Malik’s high policy statement,
the first program speech he has
ever made on a U. S. radie net
work, was contained in a broad
cast of 14 minutes and 25 seconds
recorded for a U. N. weekly pro
gram ‘Price of Peace.” He was the
series’ 13th speaker.
U. N. delegation heads in New
York began a quick study of the
English version of the statement
which Malik read for the tran
scribed broadcast. They indicated
they would not have comment un
til the statement was referred
back to their governments for
further study.
Mallk devoted much es his
speech to 2ttacks on the Western
powers, the North Atlantic Treaty,
American military bases abread,
the armaments race, and U. S.
WASHINGTON, June 238 —
(AP)—The State Department
declared {onight the United
States is ready to play its part in
ending the fighting in Korea if
the cease fire suggestion by
Russia’'s Jacob Malik “is mere
than propaganda.”
policy in Germany and Japan.
“Peaceful Soviet”
He insisted that the Soviet
Union and its people were deveted
to peace and still believed in the
peaceful coexistence of seelalist
and capitalist systems.
He charged that the lhlfi
States is trying to spread war i
the Far East and guiding the U.
N. into becoming an instrument of
war. He attacked what he ealled
seizure of Formosa by the United
States, the embargo on Red China
after it was declared an aggressor
in Korea, and denial to Red China
of a place in the U. N. £
But after summing up Ms ‘at
tacks and what he called the
“profoundly vicious” policy es the
West, he said the Soviet peeple
felt the problem of the srmed
conflict in Korea could be settled.
“This would require the readie
ness of the parties to enter om the
path of a peaceful settlement of
the Korean question,” he said.
“The Soviet peoples believe tha:i
as a first step discussions sheul
be started between the belliger
ents for a cense-fire and an zis
tice providing for the ual
withdrawal of forces from the 38th
Parallel, k
“Can such a step be taken?
“I think it can, provided there
is a sincere desire to put am end
to the bloody fighting in Korea.
“I think that, surely, is net too
great a price to pay in order to
achieve peace in Korea.”
Past Proposals
In past proposals in the U. N,
for settling the Korean conflict,
Russia and the Soviet bloc goun<
tries have always made Red Chie
nese membership in the U. N,
turning Formosa over to Red Chi~
na, and withdrawal of U. N. forces
from Korea conditions for a halt
to the war.
In proposals for discussing a
cease-fire the Soviet bloc has al
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W.A.C. Training
|
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|
(Censer Proposed
|
' WASHINGTON, June 23—(AP)
—A niew, permanent training een
| ter for the Women’s Army Cerps,
|to cost in the neighborhoed or
| $10,000,000 has been proposed to
Congress by Secretary of Defense
’ Marshall.
It would be located at Fort Mc
| Clellan, near Anniston, Ala., and
' would replace the present WAC
' training center at Camp Lee, Va.
| The WACS, oldest of the wo
' men’s military services, now have
a strength of about 10;000. They
plan to have three times that many
by the middle of next year.
Some 1,800 recruits at a time
now get basic training at the tem
perary quarters in Virginia.
The proposed permanent train
ing center would include eclass
room buildings, living quarters, a
recreation hall and various ether
buildings.
The WACS have been in
porary quarters at Camp :
Va., where the army's g
master trainw &éwols are held.
The present WA mlnln!h:-tu
there would be moved to new
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