SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1953
Allies to Counsel
In Asia Policy
WASHINGTON, Feb.
promised senators today
consult Congress and U.S.
moves in the Far East.
A curtain of secrecy
Government
Controls Cut
On Metals
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (£>)—
The government relaxed controls
substantially today on steel, cop
per and aluminum in another step
toward a free economy.
An order by the Office of De
fense Mobilization did not aban
don the system of allocating these
scarce metals to industry, nor did
it scrap price controls on them.
What it did do, though, is make
all steel, and alumirfum
not • claimed by priority users
available to manufacturers on a
free market basis.
Government spokesmen said
this" means that such production
ceilings' as the IVi million limit
on passenger cars each quarter
are ended as of today. Automobile
makers will be able to turp out
as many extra cars as. they can
produce with unallocated metaL
Similar restrictions will be re
moved from the construction in
dustry, it was said .
Under the old rules, manufac
turers who had used up their ba
sic metal allocations had to come
to the government for additional
supplies—and their output was
always limited by any production
ceilings placed on the industry.
President Eisenhower, in a
sweeping order issued under his
direction yesterday, lifted the
price lid off gasoline, soaps, poul
try, eggs, and thousands of other
items. .
The relaxation of the controls
on metals is called an “open end”
system. ODM Director Arthur S.
Flemming said i twould continue
until June 30, when the govern
ment hopes to substitute a sim
plified, system of insuring basic
metal - deliveries to defense con
tractors.
Fine's Order
Halts Access
To Statistics
HARRISBURG, F6b. 13 (IP)—
Gov. John S. Fine’s new clearance
order prevented immediate access
to'school health examination sta
tistics today.
It was the first instance that
a department refused to release
information since. Fine’s girder
went into effect this .week.
Dr. Russell E. Teague, state
health secretary, refused to dis
close school health data, claiming:
“I’m going to send these statis
tics over to the governor’s office
and see if this is the type of in
formation he means that should
be cleared.
“It’s not clear to me by ‘purely
routine’ news releases.”
The school health statistics were
sought as background information
for a news story on the cost of
the school health program in
Pennsylvania.
The Governor ordered all except
routine news relea s e s to be
cleared by his office in a move to
insure conformity with adminis
tration policies!.
An Associated Press newsman
made arrangements last week
with John.W. German, Jr., chief
of the school division in the health
department, to receive :the sta
tistics today.
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13 of State Dulles reportedly
that the Eisenhower administration will
Allies before undertaking any drastic new
around Dulles’ testimony, : imposed at liis
request, developed quick holes as
members of a Senate foreign rela
tions subcommittee gave news
men their impressions of what he
said.
Committee members said Dulles
informed them the administra
tion is not planning any action
now toward a blockade of Red
China.
Across the Capitol, Chairman
Short (R-Mo.) of the House armed
services committee announced
that Gen. James A. Van Fleet,
retiring commander of the U.S.
Eighth Army in Korea, will tes
tify March 4 on his views on the
Korean War.
Could Defeat Reds
< Short said he hopes the public
will be able to hear at least part
of Van Fleet’s testimony “because
the public has a right to know.”
Van Fleet stirred widespread
interest earlier this week with a
statement that an all-out Allied
offensive in Korea now could de
feat. the Communists.
Congress members said Van
Fleet’s prediction is contrary to
what they have been told by the
Pentagon high command.
Lead to War
Informants who heard Dulles
testify said they understood the
secretary of state plans to keep
American Allies fully informed
and to consult them in the hope
of gaining unified action in any
further moves in the critical Far
East situation.
British and French statesmen,
along with some -Congress mem
bers, have recently expressed fear
that President Eisenhower’s or
der to the U.S. Seventh Fleet not
to “shield” Communist China
might lead to spreading the Ko
rean War.
Former Senator Buried
.. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (A 3 ) —
Former U.S. Senator David A.
Reed of Pennsylvania was buried
in Arlington National Cemetery
today.
McCarthy Attacks
Voice of America
NEW YORK, Feb.' 13 (IP)— Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.)
said today some-people in the . State Department’s Voice of America
branch are doing “a fairly good job of sabotaging Dulles’ and Eisen
hower’s foreign policy program.”
The senator did not name them nor say how many he believed
were involved.
He said there are “some very
program, which sends information
by radio to foreign countries, but
that it included “a vast number
of good Americans.”
McCarthy, chairman of a sub
committee of the Senate perma
nent investigating committee,
made the comment to newsmen
after he and aides of other Senate
investigating committees began
New York hearings into Voice ac
tivities.
Five witnesses were heard at
today’s closed' session, and then
the. hearing was adjourned until
tomorrow. Tomorrow’s session
also is expected to be closed.
McCarthy ■ said most of today’s
evidence dealt with “a vast am
ount of waste, running into tens
of millions,” but .he declined to
elaborate. The rest of the evidence
dealt with subversion, he said.
The senator declared that a di
rective from Washington had rec
ommended that books by Howard
Fast, leftist author, be used, by
the Voice in “selected areas.” '
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v B-36 Plane Crash.
Kilts 3; Second
Disaster in Week
FT. WORTH, Tex., Feb. 13 (IP)
—Three men were killed and 14
injured when a. B-36 bomber
crashed and burned 16 miles from
Goose Bay, Labrador, late last
night.
The giant bomber was the sec
ond'Air Force B-36 lost within the
past week. Another crashed in
England after all crewmen para
chuted to safety.
The Labrador crash occurred as
the bomber was preparing to land
at Goose Bay after a flight from
England, officials at Carswell Air
Force Base announced here to
day.
The bomber was one of 14 re
turning to Carswell after a train
ing flight, to England, and was
making a scheduled stop at Goose
Bay.
Weather was reported to have
been clear and unrestricted at the
time.
Because deep snow prevented
the landing of aircraft near the
crash site, the dead and injured
were evacuated by helicopters.
Prison Riot
Probe Begun
BELLEFONTE, Pa., Feb. 13 (IP)
A five-man prison probe coihmit
tee today quizzed Eockview Pris
on officials, inmates and guards
held hostage in last month’s riots
there to determine possible causes
for the convict uprising.
Though the committee itself
would make no comment on the
Ro ckview investigations, the
group was reported to have ques
tioned M. N. Cobh, acting superin
tendent; H. R. Johnston, deputy
warden, and C. J. Conway, assist
ant deputy warden.
The committee was given a
“free hand” to investigate the en
tire state prison arid correctional
institution setup.
Headed by Jacob L. Devers,'re
tired Army general, the committee
was expected' to look into charges
of “perversion” made by Dr. Ralph
E. Carrier, State College, former
prison physician.
questionable people” in the Voice
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Pope Asked
For A-Bomb
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 13 (/P)— Pope Pius XII intervened in Wash
ington last December in behalf of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the
convicted atomic spies whom President Eisenhower has since refused
to save from the electric chair, Roman Catholic church sources said
today. 1 ~
The Vatican newspaper L’Os
servatore Romano announced the
Pontiff stepped in as an' act. of
mercy “insofar as it was per
mitted him by the lack of every
official relation with the compev
tent American government auth
orities.”
No Details Given
The newspaper made it plain
that the Pope’s action was being
revealed because of insinuations
in the Communist press—which is
loud in denunciation of the death
sentences—that he was not in
terested in the Rosenbergs’ fate.
But it. gave no details as to how
or when the Pope acted on_ behalf
of the couple, Jewish natives of
New York.
Msgr. Giovanni Cicognani’s ap
ostolic delegation in Washington
cleared that up a few hours later
with this statement. '■
Not Specific
“At the - request of the Holy Sea,
the apostolic delegation last De
cember communicated to the De
partment of Justice the fact that
the' Holy Father had received
numerous and urgent appeals for
intervention with intercession in
behalf of Julius and Ethel Rosen
berg which, out of motives.of
charity proper to his apostolic of
fice, without being able to enter
into the merits of the case, his
holiness felt appropriate to bring
to. the attention of the U.S. civil
authorities.”
Satican quarters said the Pope
d some time before President
Eisenhower took office. Jan. 20,
but declined to be specific. Dip
lomats in Rome said they had re
ceived no word of it.
Papers Request
Open Vice Trial
NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (JP)— A
State Supreme Court justice re
served decision today on a peti
tion to lift the ban on press and
public at the Minot (Mickey)
Jelke vice trial.
The action was brought by five
New York newspapers, two news
services and a feature syndicate
who seek an open trial of the pro
ceedings before General Sessions
Court Judge Francis. L. Valente.
Valente, at the outset of. the
trial last Monday, ordered his
court cleared of all but interested
parties as witness Pat Ward pre
pared to take the stand'. He said
he was acting to protect "the pub
lic from the “filth” that was sure
to be exposed.
ID-DIPPED
Allies Alert
For Chinese
Holiday Rush
SEOUL, Saturday, Feb. 14 (&)
Allied troops were alert today for
an explosive observation by the
Reds of this Chinese New Year’s
Day. On the eve of the holiday,
the Reds broke out a rash of at
tacks that cost them 200 in dead
and wounded.
Today, in addition to being the
old-style Chinese New Year’s
Day, also is the third anniversary
of the signing of a mutual secur
ity pact between Russia and Chi
na.
In the past, the Communists
have hit hard at Allied troops on
such occasions, but the day open
ed quietly along the front.
The Reds attacked seven Al
lied positions across the 155-mile
front Friday, breaking a three
day ground calm.
An Eighth Army officer said
Republic of South Korea defend
ers killed or wounded 73 North
Korean Reds in beating back two
platoons which attacked them at
Anchor Hill, on the extreme
Eastern Front. The Reds threw
nearly 1,000 artillery and mortar
shells at the ROKs during the at
tack.
Allied mortar and artillery
blocked a Red attempt to rein
force the attack with a third pla
toon.
Chinese troops attacked three
Allied positions east of the Puk
han River in East-Central Korea.
The Allies counted 46 Red dead
and estimated 47 others killed in
two of the attacks,'both of two
platoon strength. A Chinese pla
toon totals about 40 men.
2 Red Party Leaders,
Denied ParoEe by Board
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (A>)—
Two. of the “top eleven” Com
munist party leaders who Were
convicted in 1949 lost their bid
for freedom today when the U.S.
Parole Board turned down theii
applications for parole.
•The two, Irving Potash and
Benjamin Davis, are serving five
year sentences for conspiring to
teach and advocate the violent
overthrow of the U.S. government.
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