14'RIDAY, MARCH 9, 1951
Troops
Senate
WASHINGTON, March B—VP)—Two major Senate 'committees
today approved resolutions urging that troops be sent to Europe
but calling on President Truman to get ehdorsement of both houses
in following this policy:
Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R-N.J.) quickly explained this re
str: ction was intended to apply only, to future trap moves not 'to
tip. 'assignment of four divisions already promised by Truman.
One, adopted unarkimously, re
quires only approval of the Sen
ate.
Approved , 16 to 8
The other, approved 16 to 8;
is a concurrent resolution, requir
ing both Senate and House ap
proval.
, • However, this is merely an
expression-4pf Congress, without
force of law. Administration for
ces rallied to defeat 13 to 11 a
Republican proposal to make it
a joint resolution, which would
become law with the P.resident's
• signature.
The key provisions of the reso
"lutions are in two paragraphs.
0.. e, from the original sponsored(
by chairmen Connally (D-Tex.)i
- and Russell (D-Ga.), of the two
committees as follows, reads:
• Key 'Provisions
"It is the belief of the Senate
that the threat to the security of
the United States and our North
Atlantic treaty partners makes it
necessary for the United States
to station • abroad_ such units of
our armed forces as may be pee
essary and appropriate to con
tribute our fair share of the for
ces needed/ for the joint defense
of the North• Atlantic area."
And this one proposed by Sen
ator Smith and supported by the
coalition:
"It is the sense of the Senate
that, in the interests of sound
,constitutional processes, arid of
national unity and -understand
ing. that congressional approval
should be obtained of any policy
requiring the assignment of Am
erican troops abroad when such
assignment is in implementation
of article of the North Atlan
tic treaty."
This article is the heart of the
treaty, under which mutual help
is pledged in building defenses
to discourage -eggressors.
Sought Atomic
Secrets, Says
Gov't Witness
NEW YORK, March 8 (R)—
One of the three defendants in
the nation's first atom spy trial
was accused to - day of saying in
1945 there ,was a continuing need
to supply military secrets to Rus
sia "even though the war was
over."
Max Elitcher, 33, an engineer
employed by the U.S. Navy on
confidential projects for 10 years
until 1948, made the accusation
against Julius Rosenberg, 34, an
electrical engineer.
Elitcher admitted Communist
affiliation under cross-examina
tionand said he concealed this
he signed a loyalty oath in 1947.
On , Trial With Wife
Rosenberg is on trial in federal
court with his wife Ethel, 34,
and Morton Sobell, 33, a radar
expert, on charges of conspiring
to spy for Russia during World
War 11. They face a possible
death penalty.
He said both Rosenberg and
Sobell asked him to supply gov
ernment secrets while he was
employed in the . Navy's Bureau
of Ordnance in Washington, but
that he never did.
. Asked For Plans
• The witness said Rosenberg:
Asked him 'in Washington in
1944 to obtain plans, blueprints
and other information for pos
sible use by the Soviets., , .
Told him that many people
were aiding the Soviets by pro
viding secret information.
Asked him whether he knew
any engineering students or grad
uates who were progressive and
who would be safe to approach
on the question of espionage.
Told him that some interest
in the United States denied in
formation to the Soviets during
the war and impeded their war
effort.
To Europe Ges
Committee OK
U.S. Says
Reds Lead
Arms Race
- PARIS, Marth 8 (W)—The Uni
ted States accused Russia today
of forhenting the current arma
ment race and said any western
move now,to disarm would alarm
the free peoples of ,the world.
U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Phil
ip Jessup made the statement at
the meeting, of the Big Pour depu
ties who are trying to arrange an
agenda for a meeting of the for
eign ministers of France, Brit
ain, the United States, and Rus
sia.
Sitting at his right was Andrei
Gromyko, Russian deputy for
eign minister. One source present
said Jessup looked squarely at
Gron)yko as he asserted:
The majority of the free peo
ples of the world and those seek
ing escape from bondage are
alarmed by the mass of arma
ments of the Soviet Union and
its bloc.
This alarm will increase; not
diminish, if the United States,
Britain, and France halt their ef
forts to reach a military parity
with Russia, unless there is some
asstuaance from Russia that she
has abandoned her aggressive
policy.
A short time before, Gromyko
had , said that the "furious arms
race of the West" was causing
the world's tensions. He said the
West had started the movement
and that the people of the world
are worried by it.
This exchange was part of the
fourth session of the deputies.
APRIL DRAFT QUOTA
HARRISBURG, March 8 (IP)
State draft headquarters today
fixed Pennsylvania's April draft
quota at 4243 men, some 1408
less than called in March.
The national quota was set at
60,000, a reduction of 20,000 un
der the March call.
'SHE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
President
Figures In
RFC Deal
WASHINGTON, March 8 (IP)—
A Senate committee investigat
ing alleged, influence on Recon
struction Finance lending dis
covered evidence t o d'a y that
President Truman himself once
supported a $12,000,000 loan to ,a
Boston, Mass., corporation.
Working through a personal
diary turned over to them by
RFC Director Walter L. Dunham,
the 'investigators found an entry
stating that John R. Steelman
telephoned Dunham last year to
communicate the President's in
terest in a project to build a
mammoth garage and 'air raid
shelter under Boston corrunon.
The entry was made part of
the record in the inquiry being
conducted by the Senate Banking
subcommittee under the chair
manship of Senator Fulbright
(D-Ark.).
Fulbright did not inquire into
the circumstances of the entry
beyond drawing it to 'Truman's
attention and getting it into the
record.
Dunham testified today that a
fellow director of the RFC' had
tried to get him to resign two
weeks ago and become "the
goat" in the Senate's investiga
tion of the bi g goVernment
agency.
The former Detroit banker told
the committee that the suggest
ion came from C. Edward Rowe,
who is under fire himself in the
inquiry.
. President Truman
Allied Troops Move
To Halt Red Drive
TOKYO, Friday, March 9 Allied troops seized jagged,
snow-patched heights along the Korean battlefront Thursday, ad
vancing up to two and one-half miles in a major offensive designed
to forestall a powerful Communist counter-punch.
Fighting in nippy weather but under clear, sunny skies, Ameri
can troops paced the general advance with strong artillery and air
support. Chinese retreated has
tily at points, leaving burning
campfires and hot food behind.
In the west, 25th division troops
drove through a lacework of
Chinese Communist mortar and
machinegun fire to gain a bit
terly-contested one and one-half
miles in their two-day-old offen
sive 15 miles east of Seoul. This
expanded t h e 25th's bridgehead
four miles north of the thawing
Han river.
Attack Blocked
In the east, U.S. Seventh divi
sion troops blocked a major
North Korean attack by captur
ing three peaks, each more than
a half-mile high in wild mountain
country northeast and northwest
of Panginm.
The Reds had driven a five
mile-deep salient in this area
through the lines of a faltering
South Korean division.
In the center of the United Na
tions front a battalion of Cana
da's famed Princess Patricia's
own light infantry charged with
fixed bayonets up the steep 60-
degree slopes .of a hill, only to
find that Chinese resistance there
had collapsed overnight.
The Canadians were flanked by
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Kentucky Senator
Dies After Crash
Of Truck, Auto
WASHINGTON, March 8. (?P)—
Sen. Virgil Chapman of Ken
tucky died on the operating table
at Bethesda Naval hospital today
seven hours after his automobile
collided with a big trailer-truck
in a fashionable residential sec
tion of Washington at 3:20 a.m.
E.S.T.
The 55-year-old Kentuckian, a
Democrat, was a veteran of 25
years in Congress.
His death reduced the Demo
cratic majority in the Senate to
a one-vote margin, 48 to 47.
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