davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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a Truman man, he was an in
heritance from the Roosevelt
regime. So he doesn't count at
the White House as a Murphy
debit; his fate was politically
as well as actually legal.
The President clearly thinks
he has put one over on his
critics and the Kefauvers. Full
brights. and Kings, not to men,
ton the newspapers who as
sumed the right to investigate.
His man is no creation Of theirs.
Too, he seems to rely on the
happy coincidence that Judge
Murphy bears a physical re-
semblance to great Democratic
President distinguished for
honor and probity. He has be-
fore now called 1t to peoples
attention as he is doing again.
OF course, when Judge
Murphy gets down to business.
he conceivably may find that
he cannot maintain an Olym-
plan detachment from Mr..
Truman's friends. Meanwhile
Democrats have already begun
to suggest that he may be New
York's next Democratic Gov
ernor-or a candidate for the
Senate seat which Republican
Irving Ives must defend this
fall.
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What Our Troops AreU u pAgoinst
Silver Spring Boy Tells How One U. S. Battalion
RepuIsed Chinese Division With Artillery Aid

scared when the artillery and
mortar shells were coming in
but all the time we were fight
ing the Chinese I felt confident
that we could win. The Chinese
were moving around in front
of us until $50 taking their
wounded and dead away. All !
suffered is bump on the head
and dent in my helmet. I had
my field jacket hood over my
helmet so I figured the China
man didn't know I had a helmet
on.
I'm sorry to say-they just
gave me the news-that the
observation post, which is the
3rd platoon of our company,
was wiped out. The second is
strung out to cover the 3rd's
area while they are on observa-
ton post. So the 1st made the
patrol today. When they
reached the observation post
they found % dead, 13 wounded
and II missing.
Some of the bunkers were
blown in front direct hits, SO
they don't know how many
were buried In them. Neverthe-
less our company accounted for
more than battalion of dead
Chinese and about three times
as many wounded.
To-day is Thanksgiving and
they sure gave us the trimmings
last night. The command post
says that we were attacked by
a Chinese division-our bat
talon, that is with North
Korean artillery and mortar
support. Some week this has
been but at least I'm still alive
and kicking and the last few
days is job in itself"
The boy who wrote the above
letter enlisted in the Army in
June, 1850. was in Korea eight
months later. when he joined a
front-line combat unit and is
now the squad leader of a re-
coilles gun squad. Less than 18
months ago he was playing the
drums in the band of the
Montgomery Blair High School.
Silver Spring. Md. That's quite
q transition.
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imposed a blockade of China
ports. We are not officially at
war with that country and con-
sequently. 1t was argued, we
could not under international
law take such drastic step.
When a number of Congress-
men pointed out to State De-
partment officials that such
blockades were permissible and
had been ordered in the past,
the answer was that 1t would be
politically unwise since this ac-
ton would shut the door to a
possible peaceful settlement of
the Korean war.
The truth is that our West
ern Allies insisted that we keep
our hands off because they deS-
perstely needed the Chinese
markets, even If it meant send
ing the Communists stategic
materials. There were some Off
cial orders preventing sale of
these materials. But the local
authorities were told to be le-
nient.
This type Of trade is, how
ever, necessarily on a small scale
and cannot help the British
economy, which needs vast out
let's and customers for consum-
ers' goods. The British govern
ment believes that Russia and
her satellites are becoming in
creasingly interested in obtain
ing from abroad certain types
Of goods which they cannot pro-
duce in sufficient quantities in
their own countries.
Britain and other Western
European countries believe that
in her present mood the
U. S. S. r. will not sacrifice the
production of military equipment
for the sake Of non-military
goods. But they cherish the
hope that once some firm ground
for continuous and regular ex-
change Of manufactured prod
ucts for raw materials can be
established, Moscow may pos
sibly become more mellow in
regard to the cold war.
None of our diplomats knows
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Fletcher Knebel:
Potomac Fever

Commissioner Dunlap says agents
probing alleged shakedowns New York Dunlap hopes
agency straight
be gotten swiftly Washington given away
The Loyalty Review Board the employees
they're loyal to the Government There's
picion been slipping foreign policy
almost it's been disagreed on.
filed against friends of ousted
Attorney General Caude Poor Caudhes the
only in his set without expensive suit to his
President Truman prfects his to clean
the Government What he wants hitting but fair report
that will stress how much things could have been under the
Republicans.
cold continues grip the Nation. In Washington
cold they talking about setting kitchens for
Federal officials outside the grand jury rooms
Republican Senator Young predicts that Gen. Esenhowers
for the COP nomination will fade Everybody knows
what's going to happen to Ike except the people.
Federal Judge Murphy takes before undertaking the
big Washington cleanup The administration him strike
swiftyin time to be completely forgotten by November.
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Constantine Brown:
Peace Via Trade, Churchi|rs Aim
British Premier Consulting Leaders in Paris Vital Topics
He Plons to P!oce Before President Trunan Next Month

Prime Minister Churchill is
now in Paris to discuss with the
heads of the French government
the vital topics he will place be-
fore President Truman early
next month.
The British Premier took to
Paris an unusually small staff,
which includes Sir Roger Makins,
undersecretary of the Foreign
Office in charge of economic af-
fairs. American observers be-
lieve that Mr.. Churchill is in
creasingly leaning toward the
idea that the East-West con-
f1ict might be settled easier by
economic than political-mili-
tary parleyS. He is believed to
advocate now, in the period of
cold war, leaving questions such
as limitation of arms, peace
treaties and other such "irk-
some" matters in the back
ground. Discussions leading to
resumption of trade relations
on a large scale can be more
conclusive, in his opinion.
The British Premier is con-
vinced that the U. S. S. r. and
her satellites need a volumi-
nous trade with the West about
as badly as Western Europe
needs trade outlets in the coun-
tries behind the Iron Curtain.
Before the outbreak Of the
Korean war there was as much
trade between Western Europe
and the U. S. S. r. as Moscow
desired. The British sold in
1916 not only blueprints but
actual jet engines for airplanes.
This enabled the construction
of the present MICS.
Since the Korean war, be-
cause of the protests from Con-
gress, the Southwestern Eu-
ropean trade has greatly dimin-
ished although fair volume Of
strategic materials found their
way into the U. S. S. r. and
China. The Western govern
ments shut their eyes to these
operations and actually encour-
aged this traffic.
Our own Government never
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trench we were in. They didn't
have weapons, all of them
mostly were armed with shovels,
picks and knives. They had
one chink in the front with a
burp gun. but I shot him while
he was putting another drum in
his gun. There were approxi-
mately ten that reached the
trench in front of us. My car
bine clips were all empty and I
didn't have time to load, so I
pulled out my As and shot the
second and third one as they
came over the top of the sand
bags. An ammo HEAVIER in my
squad was fighting with the first
one. so I concentrated on the
rest which were almost to the
trench.
"All this was happening in a
misty rain and the ground was
muddy. I saw more than. one
enemy slip and fall in the mud
trying to get to us. I only have
four men in my squad right now
because one man. the gunner, is
on rest and rehabilitation in
Japan. When the next bunch
reached the trench. we were out
of it and on the sky line because
you can't fight odds from a
trench. So far all that we suf-
fered was ratified nerves and the
ammo HEAVIER had a small cut
on his arm.
There were six or seven that
came over the trench next. I
emptied my clip on the first two
and was starting to put another
clip in when some one hit me
hard on my helmet from behind.
1t kind of staggered me. I
turned around and found the
Chinese had broken through our
perimeter some place and were
on the hill behind us. The
COOK that hit me had a small
pick. He came at me with it
again and I hit him in the face
with my pistol. But this time !
thought we were goners. but
everything got quiet all of sud-
den. I looked down the hill and
saw Chinese running In every
direction but not at us. I can't
say why they pulled back; they
broke through the line.
Its a funny thing. I was
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as the President is concerned.
Since his work has been wholly
outside Washington. he has not
been in conflict. direct or in
direct, spoken or implied. with
the immediate Truman circle.
That much-criticized group,
whose painful inadequacies have
been spread upon so many pub
lie records, are now, it seems.
all to be saved. 1t would be
difficult to alight upon any out
standing public figure here who
could not be shown to have been
at least impatient with Gen.
Vaughan, Donald Dawson and
the others. And President Tru-
man can almost claim patent
rights on the old love me, love
my dog" aphorism.
Judge Murphy can also thank
for his new eminence the fact
that he has no New Deal ties or
liberal, as apart from Truman
liberal, record within the party.
He will stand out as wholly a
Truman man-elevated to the
bench by Mr.. Truman and then
given the important new task
which will put him squarely
in the limelight.
True, Mr.. Hiss, whom he sent
to jail, was once in the admin
istration, but Mr.. Hiss was not
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nent for q Time

reasons for accepting Govern
ment service, the league asks
the more provocative question
of why some industry executives
are reluctant to take top jobs.
Which of these factors, it asks,
is most important:
A. Reluctance to be involved
in political affairs? B. Loss of
income and setback of advance
ment in regular trade or pro-
feSsion? C. Fear of congress
sional interference and criticism,
and bad publicity? D. Fear of
confusion and Illustration? E.
Belief that business position is
more important to the country
than position offered? F. Un-
certainty of length of time to
be served?"
That is just the beginning of
the QUESTIONABLE, which is
quite long. It takes up Gov
erment practices. personnel
problems, outside pressure and
other phases of the service to
: which the businessmen lent
Atheir talents for a time. .CAl-
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cerning these things the league
should obtain some useful in
formation and helpful opinions.
worth passing on to the people
more or less permanently in
Government. the people who
make a life career Of public
service. IL
But it seems to me the league
has overlooked the most i'm
portant question Of all and that
is. speaking to these ex-bureau-
Gratis: What now is your philos-
ophy concerning the relation
of business to the peoples Gov
ernment?
1t would be interesting to
know whether, or how much, a
tour of public duty affects the
attitude Of businessmen toward
their Government. Does Gov
ernment continue to be. in their
minds, something just to be
tolerated or to be fought, or do
they accept 1t as a principal in
strument for serving and ad-
justing the conflicting interests
of all the people?
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what Mr.. Vishinsky's extra-cir-
ricular activities may have been
in Paris. However. they sus-
pect that some hints may have
been dropped by the Soviet
foreign minister, either directly
or through representatives of the
Asian countries. to the British
and the French to the effect
that a political settlement Of
the East West difference may
not be possible because Of Amer
ica's adamant attitude. but trade
agreements between the indi-
vidual members Of the NATO
and the U. S. S. r. are quite
possible.
Western European diplomats
and politicians say that the
whole defense system created
under the North Atlantic pact is
now in jeopardy because of the
lack of economic stability Of
Western Europe. Britain.
France, and the Benelux states
are fundamentally industrial
countries. There are no markets
available for their products
which cannot be absorbed by the
United States or are interdicted,
except on a bootleg basis, in the
areas behind the Iron Curtain.
Western Europe can rearm. the
leaders say. only if their coun-
tries economic revival can be
complete. Trade with Russia
and its satellites representing
a population of nearly 900 mil
lion people is the only sound
policy that can actually put
Europe back on its feet, they say.
American assistance is a mere
shot in the arm with only
temporary effect. as has already
been proved. Should Russia
only half way open it's doors to
Western European industries,
these nations might not even
have to bother with rearmament
problems. 1t is this general idea
which is believed to have made
strong impression on Mr..
Churchill and he is expected to
present it to President Truman
next month.
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Doris FIeeson:
Doris Fleeson:
He Looks and Is Like Cleveland
Judge Murphy Known Democrat Who Doesn't Work at It,
Never Has Been in Conflict With Inner Trumqn Circle

President Truman apparently
has chosen to direct the corrup-
ton cleanup of his administra-
ton the man of whom he has
said repeatedly with great en-
thusiasm:
He looks like Cleveland and
he is like Cleveland. He has a
great future ahead of him."
Judge Thomas F. Murphy of
New York is the Federal prose-
cutor who secured the Alger
Hiss perjury conviction, later
became New York City police
commissioner and is now a Tru-
man-appointed Federal judge.
He is a Democrat who doesn't
work at it and he will be well
coined as a fresh and pictur-
esque figure on the weary Wash
ington scene.
Not all Democrats are happy
over his selection. They feel
that Judge Murphy goes with
Alger Hiss like corned beef with
cabbage and therefore will serve
to keep alive in the public mind
the recreant State Department
official who did such incalculable
damage to the administration.
But the New Yorker has one
big and handsome asset so far
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David Lawrence:

How much awareness is there
generally of the Korean war?
Is it a forgotten war;" and has
the talk of truce blotted out the
story of what is happening to
more than 350,000 American
boys? In both World War I
and World War II the CORE
spondentS in the war zones COW
cred not only the major move
ments of troops but also found
time to tell of individual ex-
ploits and experiences.
Today, except for the story
of an occasional ceremony when
a medal is pinned on the breast
of a returned hero or an award
is made poSthumouSly to a rela-
tive. the public doesn't learn
about the individual service of
the tens of thousands of boys
who don't get decorations or
medals but do the everyday
fighting.
Talking the other day with
the father of a boy now fight
ing in Korea, this correspond
ent persuaded him to share
with the public a letter from
his son. John Thomas White.
age 10. The letter, dated a little
over three weeks ago, gives a
picture of what American troops
are up against in fighting the
Chinese. 1t reads as follows:
This letter will have to be
fairly short because we don't
know If we'll be hit again to-
night. The last two days have
been a regular nightmare for
our battalion. Just as I woke
the next guy In my squad up for
guard at $3.50 last night, the
whole sky in front of us lit up.
We survived from $3.50 until
1890 one of the most devastat-
ing and destructive artillery and
mortar poundings that I've ever
been in. At 10:30. from three
places in front of us, green
Chinese flares went up. At that
time they concentrated all the
barrage on the line while the
Chinese attacked the battalion
observation post. At 1880 the
Chinese had annihilated our OBJ
servation post and were attack
ing us. The moon came up at
lilo am. but wasn't much help
because of the fog and mist and
white phosphorus smoke in the
air. At LAS am. the Chinese
made their big drive on us.
There Were so many that we
couldn't load our carbines and
Mis- fast enough.
"a plane from Japan flew over
and started dropping airplane
flares. When the first one went
off we could see the Chinese
coming off the next ridge like
cattle. My squad and I killed
231 before they got through the
barbed wire-we counted them
this morning. There was slight
break in the attack just before
they came through the last
bunch of wire. It was just long
enough for us to load our clips.
We fired the 81 until we ran
out of ammunition (23 or "a
rounds. We couldn't fire much
more anyway because they were
too close and we might hit our
selves with shrapnel.
There is nothing can say as
to how I felt when saw more
Chinese than I could count COM
ing the last 20 or 80 feet to the
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will be can only be told when
all Of the answers are in and
analyzed. But just to state some
of the questions contained in
the QUESTIONABLE submitted to
businessmen who've had Gov
ernment experience may stimu-
late your own thinking. Here
are a few:
rs patriotism an adequate in
centive for business executives
to take positions in Govern
ment?
I'm addition to patriotism,
how do businessmen rate the
following other factors as an
incentive? I'm order of impor-
tance.) A. Expected cutback in
civilian business? B. Examples
OF other important business
leaders? c. Urging by friends
and colleagues? D. Opportunity
to broaden experience and make
valuable contacts? E. Direct re-
quest by high Government OH
cial?"
Those being the commonest
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Lowell MeHett::
Lowell WeTett:
What Did Businessmen Learn?
Civil Service League Puts Number of Interesting Questions
To Those Who Lent Talents to Government for a Time

A lot of businessmen in re-
cent years have got into Gov
ernment and then got out again.
Now the National Civil Service
League wants to know what
these men learned, of value to
the country, as the result of
their experience. The league is
"a citizen organization devoted
to adoption in Government of
q modern personnel system
based on merit: and to the ex-
clusion of partisan control of
public employment It is older
than our present civil service
system, having been founded in
1881. probably in the belief that
q civil service system would cor
rect most of the shortcomings
of democratic government. It's
membership is drawn not from
the ranks of Government work.
ers, but largely from business.
industry, education and the le-
gal profession. Many eminent
men are members.
- How useful the present survey
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Col. and Mrs.
Jack White, of
2407 Churchill
road, Silver
Spring, Md.
But this is
the most de-
S C r / p t i v e
letter he has
ever sent u.s."
said Col. White
OF MS 1S-year-
old son. John
is with the
1st Cavalry Di-
vision in Ko-
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Tax Rote Continued

HAGERSTOWN, Nd. Dec. Is
R.-Washington County taxpay-
ers learned yesterday that their
taxes next year will be the same.
The county commissioners ap-
proved continuation of a rate OF
$150 per $100 valuation.
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DC. Youth Writes Home Often
About Details in Korea Fiuhtinu

Corpl. John Thomas White,
whose graphic letter of combat in
Korea appears in today's column
by David Lawrence. is an avid
writer Of letters to his parents,
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John played the drums in the
school band.
Eight months after entering the
service. he was in Korea with a
combat unit in the front lines.
Now he is the squad leader of a
recoilless-gun squad.
His letters to his father and
mother tell what he does almost
day by day, adding little things
like the type of fox holes he
builds and his general expert
ences.
Col. White is in the Office of
the Director of Guided Missiles. of
the Department of Defense. John
has a younger brother. Bobby. 13.
who is in the eighth grade at
Montgomery Hill Junior High
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He was born in ST. Louis and
was graduated in June, 1850, from
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Montgomery Blair High School.
He entered the Army the follow
ing month.
While at Montgomery Blair,
John played the drums in the
Evening star., 1951-08-01

posal by Senator Jenner which
would forbid the Federal Gov
ernment to deny funds to a State
because the State made it's well
fare rolls public.
Four separate bills to accom-
plish the same result have been
introduced in the House but are
bottled up in committee. Similar
proposals in past sessions of Con-
greSS made little progress.
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Indiana Launches Two
Court Fights 10 Keep
II. ). Welfare Funds
By the Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 1.-Indi-
ana planned speedy court action
today in an attempt to continue
receiving about $18.5 million in
Federal funds to help carry out its
welfare program.
Court action was mapped yes
terday after Oscar R. Ewing, Fed
eral Social Security Administrator
ANNOUNCED Indiana was cut off
from Federal welfare funds.
Two court suits will be filed,
probably in Indianapolis and
Washington, j. Emmett McMana-
mon, Indiana attorney general,
ANNOUNCED. He said he will ask
for a declaratory judgment in the
case in Southern Indiana Federal
Court at Indianapolis. The Sec
Iond suit, he said, will ask for a
writ OF mandamus to force Mr.,
Ewing to continue the Federal
lgrantS.
Calls Action "Strange."
Mr.. McManamon said: "It
meems very strange to me that an
appointed administrator would
rule on question which means so
much without review by the
courts"
Mr.. Ewing said he acted be-
cause he had no choice when
Indiana, under new law opened
the names of welfare rolls to pub
lie inspection. A Federal law
requires that names of recipients
OF Federal welfare funds-the
aged, blind, and dependent chill
dren-be withheld from the pub
lie.
The law was passed at the 1861
Republican controlled Indiana
legislature, Governor Henry F.
Schricker vetoed the law but his
veto was overridden.
In Washington, Senator Jenner
Republican, of Indiana, called
Mr.. Ewing a "socialistic-minded
dictator"
Indiana has been receiving
about $18 million annually from
the Federal Government for ac-
tual payments to the needy. and
ABOUT $1.3 million annually for
administration of this program
Payments Made Monthly.
Payments to the State were
made monthly by the Treasury
They will be cut off immediately
unless 1ndiana's appeals to the
courts upsets Mr.. Ewing's deci-
sion.
indiana can continue it's well
1are program with State and local
funds, but probably on a sharply
reduced basis.
Senator Jenner d Mr.. Ewing's
action lis another example of a
Federal bureaucrat's utter disre-
gard for the welfare of our aged
and needy citizens.
The Indiana General Assembly
did not bend to the dictates of
this Federal bureaucrat, so now
ne is trying to punish the people
OF my State through powers he
has automatically assumed.
II the aged, the needy and
others who are qualified under the
Social Security Act are deprived
OF the assistance to which they
are entitled, they can only blame
the Soclalistic minded dictator,
Mr.. Ewing.
The Senate has passed a pro-
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Accountant, Amok, Stays
Manila Paper S Auditor

MANILA. Aug. (CDM.- -
Crime news came to roost today
when Claro Santiago, chief ac-
countant of the Philippine Herald
ran Amok shortly before noon.
A lively gun in hand. Santiago
shot to death Leonardo Sicat
auditor of the semioff1cial Gov
ernment organ.
He then wounded the business
manager, Jose Perez de Tagle, and
a telephone girl. Climaxing his
spree in the papers editorial
offices. he sent fatal bullet into
his own body.
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Vicar Takes Odd Job

Because he can't make ends
meet on his $1,000 salary. the. Rev.
e. O. c. Halahan, vicar of Scot
horne, England, has permission
from the bishop to repair clocks
and watches.
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ScheeIite Is $6,440 a Ton

Scheelite, important ingredient
in the tempering of steel, was
worth $2,240 a ton in New Zea-
Fland in the last war, but now
brings $6,440 a. ton, Auckland re-
ports