THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1953 Remington Gets 3 Years In Per jury Conviction • NEW YORK, Feb, 4 W. Remington, convicted tool ofwartime Communistspies, was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday for perjury. “What was black is now white and vice versa,” he complained without bitterness. . “This conviction is unfair.” ) Ceasefire Urged by Red Official TOKYO, Thursday, Feb.' S(JP) —Red China’s Premier Chou-En i .. .. lai last night urged a ceasefire in Korea and resumption -of truce talks on Russia’s shop-worn terms. He warned the U.S. that if it balks: “We are thoroughly pre pared to fight the war out ... . to the last.” * The proposal, broadcast by‘Pei ping radio, carried on its face the same conditions which Russian Fpreign Minister Andrei Vishin sky made to.the UN Nov. 24 when he rejected India’s compromise plan to end the war. - In brief, it called for an imme diate ceasefire and a conference of belligerents and other inter ested nations later to discuss how to exchange prisoners of war. • The U.S. has insisted on settling the prisoner issue before an ar mistice.' - WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (JP) —The State department termed "old stuff" last night a proposal by'Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-lai to cease fighting in, Korea and then tackle the knotty prisoner of war repatri atiop issue. Officials took the stand that it would be a complete capitu lation-to the Communists to agree to a cease fire without gaining-acceptance of the West ern insistence that unwilling prisoners must not be sent back ' pnde? Communist rule at bay onet point. They reasoned that if .the Communists refuse to 490 along with the American view now they certainly will -not relent when military pres sure Vis relieved. ; Press Officer Michael J, Mc *Dermofl said in a. statement: ’ _ "This is old stuff.- This pre- V cise, proposal was introduced by Soviet Russia as an amend menl lo the. Indian resolution . at itte recent General Assembly and it was overwhelmingly re jected-by the United Nations." The Chinese reaction came with unusual speed after President Ei senhower’s order freeing National ist China to raid and harass ' the Red China mainland if it. chooses. Eisenhower, in his State bf the Union address to Congress Mon day, announced the lifting of the U.S. Seventh Fleet neutrality blockade in Formosa Strait. For mer President Truman ..ordered the blockade. June 27, 195Q?—-two' days after the Korean-War~6tart- : ed—to prevent Communist invas ipn of Formosa and Nationalist raids against Red China on the mainland. : ■ Lie Cracks Down On UN Employees UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 4 (/P) —Secretary General Trygve Lie. served notice today he will fire any UN employee he has ..reasonable grounds” for believ ing is carrying on subversive ac tivities against any of the 6(K UN member governments or is likely tp do so in the future. , At the same time, Lie informed fne UN .General Assembly 'in a 10,000-word report that he has the sole responsibility for hiring and firing UN workers. He said that, in justice to his staff, he must be given convincing evi dence before taking action. The rbport will be the taking off point for a hot debate in the' Assembly sessions beginning Feb. "'•Tuuja. Sweden, Norway, Egypt, .other ■. countries., are expected a ' thorough'Airing: of ;.the Whole personnel problem. The handsome blond, a former government economist, said he withstood even the pleas of an ailing daughter that he confess wartime Communist spy activities to avoid' the perjury indictment. But he added his principles would not let him take this way out. 'Too Far to the Left' Federal Judge Vincent L. Lei bell continued Remington in $7OOO bail so he can appeal the latest prison sentence. Two years ago Remington upset a five-year prison sentence on appeal. “Sometimes liberals may go too far to the left,” Judge Leibell told him in sentencing remarks that carried an undertone of sympa thy for ! Remington’s bleak out look at the age of 35. Judge Leibell noted that the career of the one-time $lO,OOO-a -year economist was wrecked and said, “I consider tHat part of his punishment.” Convicted Jan. 27 “I don’t think you have a sub stantial question of law on which to appeal,” the court told the de fense. Remington was convicted Jan. 27 of lying when he denied ever passing War Production Board secrets to Elizabeth Bentley’s war time Soviet spy ring. He also was convicted of falsely denying know ledge of Communist activities at Dartmouth College when he was a student there in the 19305. He could have gotten ten years in prison and a $4OOO fine. . The three-year sentence makes him eligible for parole in a year. Remington was convicted Feb. 8, 1951, of a single perjury count for falsely denying he ever was a Communist. He received five years and a $2OOO fine. Prison Group Hears Rioters PITTSBURGH, Feb. 4 (JP)— A half-dozen of the 1000 convicts who rioted Jan. 18 at Western State Penitentiary testified yes terday as Gov. John S. Fine’s five man prison investigating commit tee wound up its work here. The men who testified were chosen by the convicts themselves and their evidence was given in strict privacy. Prison officials and state police were left outside to ,ease inmates fear of reprisals. Complaints Not Disclosed The committee, headed by re tired Gen. Jacob L. Devers, also toured the penitentiary and ques tioned guards and prison officials. Thirty-nine state troopers stood by to guard the committee. Gen. Devers, former head of the Army ground forces, refused to PARKING IN REAR SHIRT SERVICE THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA AMSTERDAM, Feb. 4 (JP)— Fresh gales in the North Sea loosed new terror tonight along flood ravaged coasts of England, Belgium, and Holland. High winds, high tide, and rain threat ened to expand the havoc wrought by week-end storms which claim ed nearly 2000 lives ■ Amid winds up to 50 miles an hour, a driving rain broke over the devastated area of Holland— hardest hit of the three kingdoms. Gale warnings went "out to all Britain’s east coast. ' Against the sea’s rising. chal lenge, rescue work and recon struction operations -went on. Thousands of men, mud-caked and weary, struggled to finish repair ing broken dikes before their' hard gains were wrested away. The revised three-nation death list, as compiled from official and reliable unofficial quarters, mounted to 1783. Holland counted 1269, England 546, Belgium 14. Action Drops Off On Korean Front SEOUL, Thursday, Feb. 5 (JP)— Fighting in Korea tapered on the ground and in the air yesterday as the U.S. Eighth Army prepared to change commanders, possibly before the end of the week. Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, who will take over the Allied ground forces from retiring Gen. James A. Van Fleet, conferred at headquarters of the expanding Republic of Korea Army in Tae gu. Simultaneously, the Eighth Army disclosed that the 15th Re public of Korea- Division, newly activated, had been in combat on the eastern end of the line.. The , 51-year-old former para trooper also called on Maj. Gen. Thomas W. Herren, commander of the Korean communications zone which supplies the Eighth Army. disclose the prisoners’ complaints. Other sources said they were the same as voiced by convicts dur ing the riot. Then they made 13 demands, including better food, more liberal visiting privileges, and an improved parole system. The general said the committee tried “to loosen the prisoners up” so they would talk freely. He add ed: “We did our best to make sure there was no-pressure.” General Devers announced a week’s halt in the probe. Members of the committee will return to their homes to clean up their per sonal affairs before resuming their survey at Western State’s (Deposit each wash r dry cleaning , and shirt laundry stub in store containers) HURRY! ONE DRAWING DAILY LAUNDCRSTTC COMPLETE ONE-STOP SERVICE Fresh Gales Add Havoc in Floods Along North Sea Halted For Week MAY WIN *2°°CASH Offer Expires Feb. ’/2-HR. WASHING SERVICE Dulles Demands Europe Set Up Unified Defense LONDON, Feb. 4 (A*)—U.S. Secretary of State Dulles is giving the big Western European powers 75 days to show real progress in setting up a unified defense or risk cuts in American military and economic aid, a qualified informant said last night, The April 20 deadline was dis closed after, Dulles, in day-long ■meetings with British leaders, gave assurances that the United States will continue its policy of trying to limit the Korean War and will seek to counter British criticism -of U.S. action on For mosa. Visit Bonn, Germany. Next Dulles came here from Paris and Rome and in each capital, the informant said, made it clear that Congress may balk at putting up more billions for Europe unless he and Mutual Security Director Harold E. Stassen can report ad vances in the project to place troops of six continental nations in a unified army. Tomorrow, the American offi cials visit Bonn on" their swing around Western Europe and, the informant said, will set the same 75-day . time limit before West German leaders. There, Dulles will encounter uncompromising Socialist opposition ’ to any Ger man alliance with the West. Deadline Set at April 20 Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden were told today that the next 75 days are critical for the future of Europe and were given the atti tude of the United States toward it. Dulles presumably set the dead line at April 20, because the North Atlantic Council of Foreign Ministers' meets in Paris three days later. If the European Defense Com munity army project still remains a dream at that time, presumably Dulles would then re-define U.S. policy to its allies. Within those three days, Presi dent Eisenhower’s government would have time to make new, far-reaching agreements. Rockview branch, also swept by riots last month. The committee will not return to Pittsburgh, Gen. Devers said, “unless it be comes necessary.” Later, at Harrisburg, state Atty. Gen. Robert E. Woodside said Devers “had dropped in to talk for three or four minutes” late today. He didn’t make any kind of report or anything like that. He did tell me, however, that he felt We ought to try to get back to the_ normal routine at the insti tutions as soon as possible.” Edward R. Cass, secretary of the American Prison Association, is accompanying the committee as consultant. 210 W. COLLEGE AVE. OPEN DAILY 8:30 A.M. DAILY 1953! State Dept. Investigating Letter Files WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (A I)—ln vestigating senators unfolded yes terday a tale of an Owen Latti more letter mysteriously missing from State department files and of orders by an official to bum a letter derogatory to a department employee. Mrs. Helen B. Balog, who keeps the files on foreign service: offi cers, testified about the letters... She also said that John Stewart Service, later fired on grounds of questionable loyalty, had day and night access to the files for about a year. Something Taken from Files? Senator Potter (R-Mich.) com mented that was “like putting ah arsonist in charge of a match fac tory.” The trim little witness, in brown suit and gold hat, said she didn’t know whether Service took any thing from the files. Files are used in such a manner, she said, there is ample opportunity for re moving documents but no way of telling whether this really may have been done. Three or four hundred persons have access to the files, she' said. Witness' Names Withheld Mrs. Balog was the first witness as the Senate investigations sub committee teed off in an atmo sphere of mystery and suspense an inquiry into what Chairman McCarthy (R-Wis.) called mis management of State department personnel files. Names of witnesses were with held until the last moment and the story of the files was built up to repeated climaxes. Revised Files , Never volunteering anything, but never refusing to answer a question, Mrs. Balog said Service used to ask her late in the day for .the file room key, so she as sumed he was there at night as well as during the daytime. But she testified, too, that Ser vice had been assigned to revis ing “very sloppy” files, had a right to work with them, did so* for most of 1949, and she had no knowledge of his having removed or destroyed any material. More people live in Latin Amer ica than in the. United States. The estimated population is 152,- 800,000 in an area two and half times the size of Europe. 4 P.M. 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