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.
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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.
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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.
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