TITESDAV; NOVEMI3Ert, 18, 1952 Probe to Be Of H-Bomb WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (fP)—Secretary. Lovett said today the Defense Department will cooperate in investigating the, possibility, of security leaks from the atomic tests at Eniwetok, which included successful experiments in hydrogen bomb research. The Atomic Energy Commission, when it announced completion of the tests last night, disclosed sortie concern about security. Lewis Hits WSB Raise , For Miners WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (R)— John L. Lewis declared today that "unrest and confusion" will pre vail in the coal fields until the government allows c o a 1 miners their full $1.90 daily pay raise. Sooner or later the miners will get the $1.90, he said. Lewis failed to make clear whe ther he meant the 350,000 soft coal miners will again walk out in protest if Economic Stabilizer Roger L. Putnam upholds a rul ing by the Wage Stabilization Board. The WSB has decided that only $1.50 of the pay boost is payable under inflation controls. Miners Continue Working But Lewis, United Mine Work ers president, seemed to indicate the miners will continue working regardless of how Putnam may decide the appeal from the WSB ruling. Any reversal of the WSB by Putnam could hasten the end of wage controls because the wage board has said the full miners' pay raise, if paid, would damage "our national effort to halt infla tion." More and more labor un ions are demanding that pay con trols be dropped. All wage and price controls expire next April 30, unless extended by Congress. Equality Removed Lewis and Harr y M. Moses, president of the Bituminous Coal Producers Association, argued at a special hearing before Putnam that the miners are entitled to the full $1.90 raise in any case. Lewis said the WSB had com mitted "an atrocious wrong on the miners. Moses said the WSB had "practically removed the equality of the American Consti tution" in its partial denial of the pay boost. U.S. Sabre Jets Down 5 Red MIGs in Korea SEOUL, Nov. 18 VP)—U.S. Sabre jets rampaged high over snowy Northwest Korea Monday, shoot ing down five -and possibly seven Communist MIGs, the Fifth Air Force said. The. U.S. Fifth Air Force an nounced that - in addition to five MIGs positively downed, a sixth destruction claim was pending, one more MIG probably was de stroyed and another damaged. BEAT PITT! Don't Forget the Pep Rally VHE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA See Column Page 4 This stemmed -from the series of letters which have come back from the Pacific proving grounds giving eyewitness accounts. One said an H bomb was tested. AEC Chairman Gordon Dean said an investigation would be made "leading to possible disci plinary action or prosecution for violatibn of task force regulations Or the law." At a news conference today, Lovett said that as far as he knew no postal censorship was enforced from Eniwetok during the tests. Witnesses Briefed He understood, he said, that all observers and participants had given assurances that they would make no disclosures and that the crews of all vessels in the force had been briefed on the necessity for safeguarding security. In announcing the tests, the AEC carefully refrained fr o m saying a hydrogen bomb had been tested. It said it had conducted successfully "experiments contrib uting to thermonuclear weapons research." Bomb Within a Bomb This scientist, who asked to re main anonymous, also expressed the minion that some kind of an experimental hydrogen bomb was exploded—possibly a bomb con tained within a "wrapper" made of an orthodox A bomb. Letters from men who saw the gig antic explosion—ship crew members and others attached to the secret task force—have been published widely in the United States. One writer said flatly he had seen the world's first bomb detonated. The letters describe a mile wide island disappearing und e r the blast, glaring fire and a cloud column soaring twice as high as those observed when a conven tional A bomb was exploded. Investigations Underway Chairman Gordon Dean of the AEC said the commission is con cerned over these letters and that "investigations are under way leading to possible disciplinary action or prosecution for violation of task force regulations or the law." Punishment for security viola tions could be severe. The Atomic Energy Act provides for life im prisonment and even death for persons whom the courts find to have intended "to injure the Uni ted States or . . . to secure an advantage to any foreign nation." Made Leaks India Presents New Proposal For Armistice UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Nov. 17 (W)—lndia offered the UN to day a compromise proposal for an armistice in Korea and a settle ment of the prisoner of war issue. But a United States spokesman immediately opposed it' and an Iron Curtain diplomat said it did not go far enough to effect an agreement. 4 Nation Commission The committee called off two meetings set for tomorrow so the members could study the long awaited proposal. Apparently they also awaited the outcome of vi tal talks scheduled for tomorrow in Washington between President Truman and President-elect Eisen hower. The nub of India's proposal calls for creation of a four nation pris oner supervision commission to be made up of Poland, Czechoslo vakia, Sweden and Switzerland. Political Conference This commission would super vise the non-forced repatriation of all war prisoners after they have been assembled in a de militarized zone, but an Ameri can spokesman said such a body could not work. He said the U.S. must be satisfied such an arrange ment could handle the tremen dous job of taking charge of thousands of men in a demili tarized zone, and feeding, cloth ing and housing them. Another provision of the Indian resolution is ! for the repatriation commission to leave to a political conference, 90 days after the ar mistice is in effect, the :disposi tion of all prisoners not yet re patriated. 8 Killed in Crash Of Flying Boxcar BILLINGS, Mont, Nov. 17 (IP) —An Air Force Cll9 Flying Box car crashed and burned in a swampy pasture 12 miles east of here today, killing eight men and injuring eight others. All aboard the ill fated ship we r e military personnel. The plane was the fourth Cll9 Flying Boxcar to crash in 11 days. Truman, Eisenhower: To Discuss Unity WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (N)—Harry Truman and Dwight Eisen hower meet tomorrow to confront together difficult problems that lie ahead and to show the world America is united in the cause of freedom and peace.' President and President-elect were agreed on that much goal in advance of an historic conference irf the green panelled office at the White House which the one relinquishes and the other takes over on Jan. 20. Whether there could be any meeting of minds and announce ments of decisions on domestic is sues was questionable. Political bigwigs looked for little along those lines as the result of a face to face meeting betw4en Eisen hower and Truman alone and their subsequent conference flank ed with key advisers. Conference For Briefing Eisenhower aides have said the general expects to make no com mitments and assume no respon sibilities for any governmental actions in the interval before he 1 takes over his new political corn ' mand. They considered the conference more in the nature of a briefing, in the interests of what Truman described as "the orderly transfer of the business of the executive branch of the government to the new administration." Meeting To Show Unity He was asking the man who will succeed him to come to the White House, Truman said, to discuss these problems and thus make it "plain to the whole world that our people are united in the struggle for freedom and peace." And Eisenhower, in accepting, said he shared this view. Thus the overshadowing prob lems pressing in on the two were largely those of national and world security—war in Kore a, chances of an even larger war, troubled conditions in Indochina, Iran and North Africa, aid to al lies, collective security, and now —the hydrogen bomb. CHRISTMAS CARDS Choose from 6 huge Catalogs of Christmas Card styles . . . all by the Finest card designers in Atherica. Take your pick of originals, and des: in mood from th© Fashioned to the 25 cards for $1.95 and up Order now for prompt delivery Keeler's CATHAUM THEATRE BUILDING Greek Premier To Reorganize Government ATHENS, Greece, Nov. 17 (R)-- King Paul today called on con servative Field Marshal Alexan der Papagos—winner by a land slide in Sunday's elections —to form a new Greek government and take office Wednesday. Papagos, national Military hero who promised to clean up corrup tion and cooperate with American and NATO authorities to strength en defenses against communism, will have an overwhelming ma jority in the new Parliament. Late returns gave the new Pre mier's right wing Greek Rally party 241 seats in the 300 seat chamber. The defeated leftist cen ter coalition headed by ex-Pre mier Nicholas Plastiras captured only 59. The Communists, who held 10 in the last Parliament, did not win a single seat. There was no question the re salt would be pleasing to Wash ington. American officials here maintained a hands off attitude during the campaign, but they ex pressed hope for a strong, stable Wovernment such as the Papagos victory 'appears to insure. In the postwar period the United States has poured two billion dollars in to Greek military and economic aid. T CAL PAGE THREE BEAT PITT! Since 1926
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