SATtIIIbAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1952
Ike Names 2 to Cabinet;
Stassen Gets Aid Post
Atom Spies
To Die
In January
NEW YORK, Nov. 21 (P)—The
week of Jan. 12 was set today for
the execution of a. husband and
wife atom spy team—the first
traitors in American history
doomed to death by a civil court.
The pair, Julius Rosenberg and
his wife, Ethel, were convicted
and sentenced to death April 5,
1951, for ferreting out American
A-bomb secrets for a Russian
bossed international spy ring.
Countless of their fellow Ameri
cans—in anger or curiosity—have
pleaded to be allowed to watch
their' die in Sing Sing's electric
chair. Few if any of these re
quests can be granted.
The execution date was set by
Federal Judge Irving R. Kauf
man, who doomed them originally
with the personal opinion that
their treason led to the war in
Korea. They will probably die
Jan. 15—a Thursday.
In contrast to the dramatic tone
of their sentencing, when bells
tolled the hour of noon outside
Kaufman's federal courtroom, the
only sound today was the scratch
of the judge's pen as he , signed
the execution order.
Since they were sentenced, the
Rosenbergs carried an appeal
doggedly from one court to an
other. Finally, last week, the U.S.
Supreme Court gave them a final
turndown.
State Transportation
Tax Repeal Asked •
HARRISBURG, Nov. 21 (JP)—
The 1953 General Assembly was
urged today to repeal a special
2-year-old transportation tax be
fore 150 Pennsylvania bus firms
go bankrupt.
The warning came from the
Pennsylvania Bu s Association
which reported that 150 of 393 bus
companies in the state have lost
money so far this year because
of the tax.
The 8 mill levy was imposed by
withdrawal of an exemption on
gross receipts taxes previously en
joyed by bus and truck companies.
Walker Withdraws
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 21 (IP)—
Sen, John M. Walker today with
drew as a candidate for majority
leader of the Republican con
trolled state Senate.
Walker, who had said only a
few days ago that he had enough
support to retain the post he has
held the last two sessions of the
legislature, declared he was with
drawing because of . opposition
from Gov. John S. Fine.
Reading RR to Expand
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (/?)
The Reading Co. today sought
Interstate Commerce Commission
Authority •to acquire control of
the Central Railroad of New Jer
sey through the purchase of 8400
shares of Class A. stock.
Cost of Living Rises
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 UP)—
The government's cost of living
index, despite slight declines in
the prices of food and clothing,
inched upward again in the month
ended Oct. 15,
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NEW YORK., Nov, 21 (R)—Pres
ident-elect Eisenhower filled the
posts of secretary of the treasury
and attorney general today, put
ting a supporter of Sen. Robert A.
Taft in his cabinet for the first
time.
He also tapped Harold E. Stas
sen to direct the multi-billion dol
lar Mutual Security Agency.
The Taft supporter is George E.
Humphrey, 62, a Cleveland iron,
steel and coal industrialist whom
Eisenhower selected as his sec
retary of the treasury.
Attorney General Chosen
"It was a great surprise to me,"
said Humphrey, "I have been a
supporter of Taft and on his com
mittees from the first time he ever
ran for office,"
Herbert Brownell Jr.,
48, a key
adviser to the Dewey administra
tion in New York and a master
mind of th e Eisenhower cam
paign, wa s chosen as attorney
general.
Brownell's first order of busi
ness was to ask J. Edgar hoover
to stay on as FBI director,
Brownell Was Dewey Adviser
The two appointments today,
plus three yesterday, filled five
of the nine gaps in the Eisenhower
cabinet.
--, A New York lawyer, Brownell
Was a braintruster in Gov. Thom
as E. Dewey's vain bids for the
presidency in 1944 and 1948. Be
tween campaigns he was a trusted
Dewey adviser in Albany.
Humphrey, the new Treasury
Department chieftain, said "this
thing came up suddenly." He
talked with Eisenhower in New
York for three hours Wednesday.
Has Business Background
Since Taft was beaten out of
the GOP nomination by Eisen
hower, Humphrey said he has
supported the general but sought
no "promises or political commit
ments."
• Humphrey is president of the
M. A. Hanna Company in Cleve
land, a big iron ore and coal out
fit. He also is chairman of Pitts
burgh Consolidation C o al Com
pany world's largest producer of
soft coal: He sits as a director on
several other big organizations.
Today's appointments brought
to five the number of cabinet
posts filled by. Eisenhower in a
24-hout. span. There still are four
vacancies —post master general,
agriculture, commerce, and labor.
Stassen takes over from W.
Averell Harriman the spending of
billions on military and economic
aid throughout the world.
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Congressional
Leaders Praise
Cabinet Choices
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (R)—
Members of both parties in Con
gress joined today in praising the
three additions to President-elect
Eisenhower's high command—two
cabinet officers and a mutual se
curity administrator.
Eisenhower designated Herbert
Brownell Jr., a New York lawyer,
as attorney general, and George
M. Humphrey. Cleveland industri
alist, as secretary of - the treasury.
Former Gov. Harold E, Stassen of
Minnesota was choosen to direct
the huge mutual security program.
While congressional reaction
was favorable generally, Se n.
Morse (Ind-Ore) said "the latest
batch of Eisenhower appointments
is but a continuation of placing
reactionaries in complete control
of his administration."
Reporters who sought comment
from Sen. Taft (R-Ohio) in Cin
cinnati were told that he would
not have anything to say about
the selections.
U.S. and Allies
May Accept
Truce Proposal
UNIT.= NATIONS, N.Y., Nov.
20—(IP)The United States and' its
major allies seemed ready tonight
to accept, with amendments In
dia's compromise plan for Korea,
but Moscow reaction raised doubt
whether the UN was moving
toward actually stopping the war.
Moscow newspapers indicated
the resolution put up by India's
V. K. Krishna Menon is not satis
factory to the Soviet Union. For
eign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky
may give the official stand next
week.
If the Russians reject the plan
Western diplomats will have to
shelve' it and take up other pro
posals in an effort to find a way
out.
Menon received the first Mos
cow reaction with apparent gloom.
He also said he would have to
examine th e conditions being
laid dowh by the Western Allies
to see if they "poison the roots"
of his proposal before he could
say whether he would accept
them.
William Green Dies,
Was Head of AFL
COSHOCTON, 0., Nov. 21 (P)—William Green, who led and
spoke for 13 million American workers in the American Federation
of Labor over nearly three decades, died today.
The AFL president, only the second leader the AFL has had,
was 82. Establishment of his correct age caused 'considerable con
fusion. Close business associates,
his sister and his brother-in-law
thought he was 81. The birthdate
given in his biography would
have made him 79. However, the
Green family Bible showed the
labor chieftain was born March
3, 1870, in the Prosser's Hollow
section just outside Coshocton.
Green's death followed by only
12 days that of Philip Murray,
president of the rival CIO. Mur
ray died Nov. 9 in San Francisco
Death came to Green in a red,
brick home nearly in the center
of the Eastern Ohio town from
-Which he rose to labor fame from
his job as a coal miner. The time
was 1:22 p.m., EST.
The family said a heart ailment
caused the aged labor leader's
death.
Coshocton generally was not
surprised. Its citizens knew "Bill"
Green came home an ill man early
in October, although the family
tried to minimize the seriousness
of his physical decline.
But word leaked out. Green
went to CoshoctOn Memorial Hos
pital for two weeks, then re
turned home. Two weeks ago the
family installed a small elevator
to enable him to come downstairs.
He spent most of his time in bed
and he didn't emerge from the
house to take a walk through the
streets in which he grew up.
Green's car e e r followed the
time- hallowed American tradi
tion. A coal miner and son of a
coal miner, Green was born near
Coshocton March 3, 1870. By the
time he was 18 he was a full
fledged miner.
Speculation as to possible sue
cessors to Green as head of the
AFL, centered on George Meany,
AFL secretary t r ea s u r drr , and
George M. Harrison, head of the
big Rahway Clerks Union and an
AFL vice president. Meany is 58;
Harirson a year younger.
Meany has been No. 2 man in
the AFL since 1940 and in. recent
years, with Green's health fail
ing, he had performed many ex
ecutive functions which normally
would have fallen to the presi
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Smash Big
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SEOUL, Saturday, Nov. 22 (/P)
—U.S. warplanes smashed a big
military center near the Man
churian border Friday in another
of a daring, week-long series of
fire raids under the noses of the
Red Air Force.
A few MIG jets sallied out from
their Manchurian haven in a fu
tile attempt to save the center,
and screening Sabre jet pilots re
ported they destroyed one of
them.
Ground fighting . tapered off af
ter flaring up all along the front
late Thursday and Early Friday.
Sniper Ridge on the Central
Front, where South Koreans
crushed an attack by 750 Chinese
early in the day, was quiet Friday
night.
The r relentless fire raids, which
opened Monday, seemed designed
to drive Communist troop re
serves out into the bitter cold.
Most of the raids were aimed at
military headquarters and bar
racks.
Friday's fire raid was staged
by Thunder jet fighter-bombers,
who touched off such raging fires
in a military headquarters and
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over the target could not see it
because of the dense pall of
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