WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1953
Soviets Accuse
"Killer' Doctors
MOSCOW, Jan. 13 (EP)—So vie t newspapers today demanded a
swift trial and execution for nine doctors charged with killing two
Russian leaders and trying to kill others. The government said most
of the nine in the "terrorist group" were tied up with a Jewish or
ganization, and all were linked with U.S. and British spying.
An official announcement
broadcast and discussed all over
the Soviet Union today—said the
doctors had confessed ending the
lives of Andrei A. Zhdanov and
Alexander S. Scherbakov through
faulty treatment of heart ail
ments. Zdhanov, a leading Polit
buro member, died four years ago
at 52. Sherbakov died seven years
ago at 44. He was head of the
Army's political administration.
The Communist newspaper
Pravda denounced state security
organs for failing to uncover the
group sooner. It said the investi
gation still is going on.
American Plot
The official accusation said the
nine doctors tried to weaken So
viet defenses by treating three
marshals, one general of the Ar
my and an admiral so that they
would eventually die. Others not
immediately named also were de
clared marked for death.
Moscow was struck by the state
ment that the plot was carried
out on instructions from British
and American intelligence serv
ices and Zionist organizations.
There were angry demands for
"stern punishment of the foul
murderers."
'Some Time Ago'
Typical of the Moscow editorial
reaction was a statement in the
Soviet trade unions organ Trud:
"Damnation and shame • the foul
degenerates and murderers. So
viet justice will crus h like a
poisonous reptile the criminal
band which sold itself for dollars
and pounds sterling. Nor will the
American and British inspirers of
the murderers and wreckers es
cape retribution."
The official announcement said
state security organs • uncovered
the plot "some time ago."
Three Named
By Eisenhower
NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (IP)
President-elect Eisenhower today
named an independent Democrat
as commissioner of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue —T. Coleman
Andrews of Richmond, Va. He is
senior partner of a certified pub
lic accountant firm ' which bears
his name.
At the same time it was an
nounced that Elbert Parr Tuttle
of Atlanta, Ga., the state's Re
publican committee chairman and
head of the Eisenhower delega
tion which' served at the Repub
lican Na t i o n al Convention in
Chicago last July, was selected to
be general counsel of the Treas
ury.
Another Republican, Charles R.
Hook Jr. of Cleveland, Ohio, is to
be dßputy postmaster general un
der Arthur E. Summerfield, it
was announced.
Short Dairying
Course Offered
A few additional students may
enroll in the dairy farming short
course Feb. 4 to March 4, A. L.
Beam, director of short courses,
announced yesterday.
This course utilizes the five
purebred herds at the College for
practical study and is primarily
intended for training dairy herds
men, dairy herd improvement as
sociation supervisors and other
agricultural activities requiring
knowledge of dairy farming. Pas
ture and grassland management
are among subjects included in
the four-week course, Beam said.
Influenza Outbreaks
Reported ip Midwest
AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 13' (JP)
Spreading influenza outbreaks
were reported over the Midwest
and Southwest today with Texas
apparently the hardest hit.
Schools in at least 18 Texas
towns were closed and dozens of
other communities were consider
ing closing their schools as the
illness spread.' None of the clos
in6 were in the major cities.
McCarron
Act Change
Needed- HST
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (2P)—
President Truman aroused a new
storm in Congress today by ask
ing for early consideration of
proposals to overhaul the three
week-old McCarran immigration
law.
He submitted a report of a
presidential commission calling
for revision of the law "from be
ginning to end," with abolishment
of the quota system of immigra
tion and admission of 100,000 ad
ditional aliens each year.
Rep. Walter (D-Pa.), who joined
with Sen. McCarran (D-Nev.) in
sponsoring the law, jumped up
in the House to 'charge that the
commission was set up "for the
purpose of discrediting the law."
There is nothing in the act that
can be construed as "anti-any
thing," Walter declared, despite
the claims of opponents that it
is discriminatory. He urged the
House not to be stampeded into
changes.
"So many professionals, profes
sional Jews, are shedding croco
dile tears for no reason whatso
ever," he said.
Some of the agitation for
changes, Walter said, grew out of
refusal of American authorities
to allow some members of the
French liner, Liberte , to spend
Christmas in New York.
An investigation, he said, dis
closed that "a - finer crew of
throat-slitters couldn't be found
anywhere."
Under the restrictions of the
new act, shore leave was denied
270 members of th e Liberte's
crew who refused to answer
qu'estions about their political or
criminal background, if any, and
two others who failed to meet
the standards of the act.
.) 'limns Drop orse
From Two enate Posts
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (?P)—GOP senators today bumped Sen.
Wayne Morse, Oregon independent, off two major committees, and
the Senate itself upheld the decision of an unprecedented written
ballot.
The chamber rejected a plea
by Morse that he be permitted to
retain his seat on the powerful
armed services committee. The
tally was 81-7 against Morse.
Standing grim -faced before, his
colleagues, Morse then announced
he would not press a twin appeal
for his seat on another key com
mittee, labor.
"It would be a waste of the
Senate's time," he said. "The vote
Would be identical."
Placed on Lowliest
The vote capped twb hours of
lively debate in which the Ore
gon senator, who quit the Repub
lican party to support Adlai Ste
venson last fall, fought to hold
onto . his old committee assign-
merits against the opposition of
the Senate GOP conference.
The Republicans had decided
earlier to bump Morse from the
two key committees to two of
the lowliest to prevent him from
holding the whip hand in close
votes involving major legisla
tion.
Assignments Completed
It was the first time in the Sen
ate's 163-year history that • the
chamber had resorted to written
ballots in deciding an issue.
With
.the Morse case at least
tentatively settled, the Senate fin
ally completed all of its regular
committee assignments by agree
ing to leave Morse on the two
- . - ninor committees which the Re
publicans had left open - for him.
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Twelve Killed in Crash
OROVILLE, Calif., -Jan. 13
(JP)—An Air Force B-50 with
12 men aboard crashed in. a
rain-soaked rice field south
west of here today. The Air
Force said there were no sur
vivors. •
U. S. Backs
Japanese
Warning
TOKYO, Wednesday, Jan. 14
(IP)—Gen. Mark Clark, U.S. com
mander in the Far East, backed
up Japan's blunt warning to Rus- -
sia today to keep its planes from
the air over Japan or they might
be shot down.
Clark's
. headquarters said he
had "issued instructions to ap
propriate commanders to take all
measures necessary to prevent
further violations of Japan's se
curity or acts which endanger
U.S. forces."
Japan's warning, made with
full U.S.-^agreement, reflected a
toughening policy. U.S. planes
have not hitherto fired on intrud
'llY, Russian planes.
Under the U.S.-Japanese Peace
Treaty, American forces are
charged with the defense of Ja
pan.
The Japanese government in
an _official statement said flights
over Hokkaido, Japan's northern-
Most island only six miles from
the Russian-held Kuriles, "have
of late become increasingly fre
quent."
The statement itself made no
mention of Russia, but Foreign
Office spokesman Mitzuo Tanaka
did in elaborating on the state
ment at a news conference.
Tanaka said planes from TtuS
sian bases have flown over Hok
kaido island "at least 20 or 30
times since last summer" and
added:
"We will try to force the in
truders out of our air; if necessary
order them to land on any airfield
and sometimes, when they don't
follow our orders, if necessary,
shoot them down."
Joint Military Agency
FRANKFURT, Germany, Jan.
13 (A')—A joint Army-Navy-Air
Force agency to handle all U.S.
military construction in Western
Europe will be established soon
in Paris, it was announced here
today.
U.S. Aides to Visit
Europe Says 'lke'
NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (W)—Presi
dent-elect Eisenhower will send
two of his top officials to Europe
soon after he takes office to study
political trends there in relation
to United States military and eco
nomic aid.
They are John Foster Dulles,
who will be secretary of state,
and Harold E. Stassen, who will
direct foreign economic aid as
chief of the Mutual Security
Agency.
They are scheduled to leave at
the end of this month for 10 days
of. conferences, James C. Hagerty,
Eisenhower's press secretary, told
newsmen today.
The actual departure date and,
the itinerary have not yet been
worked out.
NATO Representtotive
Will Remain at Post
PARIS ; Jan. 13 (. I P)—U.S. Am
bassador William H. Draper Jr.
announced today that at Presi
dent-elect Eisenhower's request
he will stay on several months
longer as U.S. special .represen
tative on the NATO Council.
Last October, Draper informed
President Truman he wanted to
quit public life this January, re
gardless of the presidential elec
tion outcome.
Oil Companies Stall;
Obtain More Time
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (JP)—American oil companies involved in
government charges of world-wide monopoly today won a delay
which throws the whole case into the lap of the incoming Eisenhower
administration.
Defying the Truman administration to go ahead with criminal
action and turning down a con
ditional offer to substitute a civil
suit, the companies went to court
on their own trying to head off
the whole affair.
Federal Judge James D. Kirk
land rejected their motions asking
him to cancel•subpoenaes for com
pany records, void various orders
he has signed, and dismiss the
special grand jury investigating
charges of price fixing and mar
ket splitting by a great inter
national cartel.
To Give More Time
But he put off until Jan. 28 the
date for production of the papers,
which had been subpoenaed for
tomorrow. That is eight days after
the new Republican regime will
be installed in Washingtoh.
The judge remarked that his
action will give the present ad
ministration 'time to make up its
mind what it wants to do" and
allow the new regime time "to
consider if it wants to act or not."
• Pleas Turned Down
Altogether some 20 U.S. oil
firms were under orders to pro
duce records and more than half
of them had been resisting.
The essence of what all the com
panies said was that the basis for
a grand jury action no longer ex
ists since President Truman said
yesterday that the national inter
est •might be better served by a
civil action. Kirkland turned all
the pleas down.
The judge indicated he was
irked by the cla:;sification of some
documents in the case as sensi
tive. He remarked that one docu
ment which has been sealed con
tains nothing to warrant " a cloak
and dagger atmosphere."
Separate Trial Denied
To Alsatian• Soldiers
BORDEAUX, France, Jan. 13
(?P)—A military tribunal today re
fused to grant a separate trial
for 13 Alsatians .among 21 for
mer German soldiers accused 'of
participating in the wartime mas
sacre of 642 Frenchmen at Ora
dou-sur-Glane.
The decision was a defeat for
the 1 1 / 2 million inhabitants of the
French province of Alsace who
see the trial as a political and
moral issue. Twice violently torn
from France by Germany, the
province is heatedly opposed to
seeing its citizens judged side
by side with the Germans.
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Yugoslavia
Adopts New
Constitution
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Jan.
13 (/P) Parliament opened the
way today for the election of
Premier Marshal Tito, probably
tomorrow, as Yugoslavia's first
president.
The Communist party will
strengthen and perhaps simplify
its present firm control over Yu
goslav affairs through a new Con
stitution adopted unanimously by
the lawmakers.
This Constitution sets up a sys
tem of government under which
Parliament's 40-member Presid
ium, which has had little author
ity in the past, will take over ex
ecutive affairs from the Cabinet.
The lawmakers are to choose
the new president and Tito, who
is both the chief of state and head
of the Yugoslav Communist• par
ty's ruling body, has no opposi
tion for the office. The change
will make little difference in the
powers he has wielded since 1944.
As members of Parliament, most
of Tito's ministers probably will
retain their present jobs, but un
der different titles.
Allies Hit Red
Supply Artery
SEOUL, Wednesday, Jan. 14 (JP)
—Allied air might struck the Sin
anju transport area a pulverizing
blow Tuesday with a 440-plane,
around the-clock assault on that
Communist supply artery for the
Korean War front.
This seventh heavy attack in
five days on the Northwestern
Korean rail and bridge network
came as U.S. Eighth Army offi
cers disclosed that two fresh Chi
nese Communist armies are on the
Western Front.
The 440 fighter-bombers streak
ed through vicious Red anti
aircraft fire for low level attacks
that wreathed marshaling yards
and bridges in smoke and flames.
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