THUESDAY, iHEEBKOAJECr s XZ, 1953
Red-lsrael Break;
Diplomatic Relations Cut
After Tel Aviv Bombing
' LONDON, Thursday, Feb. 'll (A I )—Russia broke off diplomatic
relations today-with Israel over the bombing of the Soviet legation
Monday in Tel Aviv. . . . '
" .The break, announced on the Moscow radio, blamed the Israeli
government and said its police, connived in the assault.
Price Control
Standby Rower
Seen Possible
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (JP)—
Janies F.'Brownlee took a job as
government consultant on price
and other controls today in a
move suggesting the issu’e of
standby powers in that fiel<T is
far from dead.
The New York investment bank
er’s assignment also was-taken as
meaning that the Eisenhower ad
ministration , has decided against
the one-stroke erasure of all re
maining price curbs which has
been , urged in some quarters.
- Sen. Capehart (R-Ind) said
about the time Brownlee’s ap
pointment was announced that he
has personal assurance the admin
istration has an “open mind” on
the standby powers issue. Cape
hart is author -of a bill, to keep
control authority on the books
for application in case of a future
emergency. .
' The Indianian, chairman of the
banking committee which handles
controls legislation, did not relate
his statement directly to the
Brownlee post. But he said he
was assured the administration is
making, a study on the subject
matter of his bill. ;
The present economic controls
law expires April 30.
CIO Recommends
Toft-Hartley Chang'd
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11_(^P)—The CIO Executive Board called
for seven basic changes in the Taft-Hartley Act today in the
interest of “justice and fairness.” '
The' proposals were given out as the House Labor Committee
pushed forward its hearings on members’ suggestions to amend the
Labor Management Act .of 1947.
Rooney Involved
In Jelke Testimony
NEW ..YORK, Feb. 11 (TP)
Mickey Rooney’s name popped up
today from the purple past of call
girl Pat Ward, but the pint-sized
movie star said “we were never
alone.”
Miss Ward, a copper-haired 19-
year-old, is star witness at the
cafe society procuring trial of
Minot Mickey Jelke, who isn’t
much taller than Rooney.
Also mentioned as Miss Ward’s
acquaintances from the pre-Jelke
days_—when she was an. already
tarnished belle of cafe society—
were, disc jockey Jack Eigen,
comedian Joey Ad arris and a
well-k now n newspaperman”—
not identified. Eigen and Adams
both denied any more than casual
meetings with her.
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The. Soviet government ordered
members.of the Israeli legation to
get out of Moscow immediately
and told its own legation person
nel to leave Tel Aviv.
Four Soviet legation personnel
were injured in the bomb blast.
The bombing was attributed
generally to anti-Zionist charges
in Moscow in connection' with a
purge of nine doctors, some of
them Jewish. The doctors were
accused of destroying or attempt
ing to destroy some top Soviet
leaders.
. The announcement of the break
came a few hours after a Moscow
broadcast atcused Israeli police of
“connivance”in the bomb explo
sion. ■ *
In the Far East
TAIPEH, Formosa, Thursday,
Feb. 12 (/P)—The Nationalist De
fense Ministry’s military informa
tion service reported Wednesday
more than 100 Chinese Commun
ists were killed and 47 taken
prisoner in a sea battle of junks
off the Red mainland Monday.
SEOUL, Thursday,' Feb. 12 (A 1 )
—The Korean battle front was
the quietest—and the warmest—
of the new year Wednesday as
Lt. Gen. Maxwell-D. Tailor took
over .the 17-nation TJ.S. Eighth
Army as its fourth- commander.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (A*) —
Announced U.S. battle casualties
in Korea reached 129,819 today,
an -increase of 395 since last week.
The union made it clear that it
still wants'outright repeal of the
law but said that “because of the
realities of the situation” it is
ready “to co-operate with a sin
cere effort to amend the law by
eliminating its union-busting and
other anti-labor provisions.”
“Justice and fairness are all we
ask,” the board said. “Justice and
fairness, we hope; are what the
Congress wants.”
Chairman McConnell (R-Pa) of
the House committee indicated
that’s what he has in mind al
though he came out flat-footedly
against “such an extreme ap
proach as outright: repeal of the
act.”
McConnell mad£ his 'tomment
after Rep. Byrd (D-W.Va.), a
freshman lawmaker from a coal
mining district, told the committee
his constituents regard the T-H
Act as “a'slave labor law” and
want it thrown out.
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Ike Refuses Plea
Of Convicted Spies
- WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (A) —President Eisenhower refused to
day to spare the lives of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, sentenced to
death in the electric chair for conspiring to slip atomic secrets to
Russia.
Fast Decontrol
Of Many Items
Planned Soon
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (/P)—
Price officials, laid plans tonight
for quick decontrol of another
long list of goods which would
leave only 10 to 12 per cent of
the consumer’s cost of living in
dex package under price ceilings.
A top official said the schedule
calls for an order by Friday prob
ably decontrolling milk, butter,
cheese, poultry, eggs, soap, lard
and shortening, along with other
items.
The list of products he named
as under consideration for inclu
sion in the order would take con
trols off about 15 per cent of the
whole cost of living bundle, sta
bilization officials said, and leave
less : than that percentage under
control.
Many important items such as
machinery, most autos and scarce
metals, among others, would re
main under control for the time
being, but they do not have much
direct consumer bearing.
The official who disclosed the
plan said the list is still far from
complete and final decisions will
be made overnight.
Senator' Thomas Dies;
Was High Commissioner
HONOLULU, Feb. 11
mer Sen. • Elbert D. Thomas of
Utah, high commissioner of the
U.Ss trust tercitofies of the Paci
fic, died -suddenly at his home
shortly before noon today. .
, He was 69.
,The exact , cause of death was
riot immediately determined.
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Their crime, he said, “far exceeds that of taking the life of an-
Ibther citizen; it involves the de
liberate betrayal of the entire na
tion and could very well result
in the death of many. thousands
of innocent citizens ”
The Rosenbergs, man and wife,
are awaiting execution - in New
York’s Sing Sing Prison.
They appealed for presidential
clemency—the last resort in their
long court fight—on the ground
that they were innocent. With the
appeal, Federal Judge Irving R.
Kaufman of New York granted a
stay of execution until five days
after the President announced his
decision.
This does not necessarily mean
the couple will die five days
hence. The question of a date for
their execution will come before
Judge Kaufman again.
The Rosenbergs heard of Eisen
hower’s action on a prison radio,
prison officials said; They had no
comment.
Their attorney, Emanuel Bloch,
said in New York that he was
shocked by the news.
He said he would appeal the
decision to the U.S. Supreme
Court.
The Rosenbergs will be the first
American civilians to Day with
their lives for the crime of es
pionage against the United States.
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Long Sees Attack
On Waste Charge
• WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (£>)—
Sen. Long (D-La) said today the
Air Force, hoping to confuse the
public, has opened a, “counter at
tack” against his charges of fabu
lous waste, on overseas air bases.
He spoke as senators delved in
to, the strategic “planning of the
Air Force and Sen.. Margaret
Chase Smith' (R-Me) hinted at
“big mistakes in the development
of this country’s air outposts
around the world.
The inquiry is being held be
hind closed doors by the Senate
Armed Services Committee.
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5— STATE THEATRE »LDG. STATE COLLEGE
Blockade
Isolation' Seen
In Treaty OK
BERLIN, Feb. 11 —(/P) The
Communists talked tough today
about a new blockade of Berlin.
The East Berlin party leader
ship issued a manifesto, obviously
backed by the Russians, which de
clared “further isolation” of the
West sectors can be counted on
if Wesp Germany ratifies the Eur
opean Defense Treaty next month.
Only Eastern adoption of the
Soviet /proposal for uniting Ger
many and Berlin can stave off
such consequences, the Commun
ists declared. Their manifesto
was printed by the Soviet Army
newspaper Taegliche Rundschau.
In West Berlin, a spokesman
for' the dominant Socialist party
said the manifesto apparently is
the starting signal for new mea
sures against the West.
American authorities said the
declaration was so bold and blunt
it must be taken seriously. Never
theless, Cecil Lyon, chief of the
U. S. High Commission’s Berlin
staff, commented tersely:
“Sometimes they say one thing
and do another.”
While the West was weighing
the words of the new threat, the
Communists were going about
measures that were suspiciously
like preparations that preceded
the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49.
Section gangs laid special S
bahn elevated tracks and switches
at strategic points in the Soviet
sector. The work appeared to be
part of a plan to cut off service
to West Berlin. The elevated lines
carry the brunt of the city’s traf
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