WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1953
Cold War Prevents
Budget Cut—Dulles
Educator
Appointed
'Voice' Head
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 24 OP)—
Dr. Robert L. Johnson said to
night he is taking over immediate
command' of the State Depart
ment’s International Information
Administration, including the
Voice of. America.
5B-year-old president of
Temple University said his deci
sion resulted from talk's with Sec
retary of State Dulles and Pres
ident Eisenhower. Earlier, John
son had announced he would take
the job on a strictly temporary
basis.
Earlier, the chief of the broad
casting division of the Voice of
America, a big and controversial
part of the lIA program, was sus
pended on the ground that he
had disregarded an order against
use of material from Communist
and fellow-traveler writers.
Johnson, for several years head
of the Citizens Committee for the
Hoover Report, a private . group
backing the government reorgani
zation proposals advanced by a
commission headed by former
President Herbert Hoover, him
self first disclosed that he had
taken an lIA post for a study
term.
The suspended Voice official is
Alfred ,H. Morton, .chief of the
International Broadcasting Ser
vice,- at New York.
Assistant Secretary of State
Carl McCardle said Morton had
circulated a* memorandum ex
pressing disagreement with, the
order against use of material from
Communist sources. The order was
made last Thursday.
Chesterman
Idea OK Fine
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 24 (JP)—
Gov.'John S. Fine said tonight
Pennsylvania can expect “brighter
horizons” as a result of Chester
man committee recommendations
for $lOO million in state govern
ment economies. ' ,
“Economizing in the conduct of
government is perhaps the great
est problem which confronts pub
lic administrators today,” he said.
“Of course, you can go just so
far in any economy program and
then you must stop.” Otherwise,
he added, “irreparable harm to
services” can result.
“We look for brighter horizons
resulting from the report of the
Chesterman Committee which has
made so many worthwhile recom
mendations for streamlining our
state government and economiz
ing in our expenditures,” he! said.
Former Wisconsin
Senator Shoots Self
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (JP)—
Former Sen. Robert M. LaFollette
Jr., member of a famous Wiscon
sin political dynasty, shot himself
to death in his. home here today.
The former senator’s body was
found -in his bathroom about"
12:30 p.m., by his wife, Mrs. Ra
chel. Young LaFollette. He; h'ad
been shot through. the head and
there was a .22 caliber, pistol
clutched in his right hand.
A sleeping, person changes his
position from 20 to 65 times in the
course of a night.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 of State Dulles
reportedly told Congress today that world tensions Will bar
any drastic cutbacks in this country’s jmultibillion-dbllar
defense and foreign aid spending. „
Testifying at a closed-door session of the Senate ; Bahking
Committee, Dulles was quoted as sayixjg he hopes the inter
national situation will not require even bigger government
spending in the next 12 months.
New Controls Bill
Dulles reportedly told Congress
that world tensions will bar any
deep cuts in this country’s multi
billion-dollar defense and foreign
aid spending. Budget Director
Joseph' Dodge also reportedly tes
tified it is questionable whether
the federal budget can be bal
anced in fiscal 1954, beginning
July 1. •
Chairman Capehart (R-Ind.)
said he will introduce a biU to
morrow authorizing the President
to impose a 90-day freeze on
prices, wages, and rents in an
emergency.
Capehart informed newsmen
later that Dulles said the global
picture is “about the same as a
year ago—no better and no
worse.”
Grim Outlook
Capehart said Dulles told the
committee, “Pressure from Rus
sia is as great as it ever has been
and is expected to continue.”
- Committee members said that
in general Dulles sketched a grim
long range outlook in the cold
war with Soviet Russia, reflect
ing much the same atmosphere
that prevailed at a 1 White House
briefing of congressional leaders
last Thursday.
Several senators said they
pressed Dulles about the possi
bility of slashing new expendi
tures in foreign aid from $7 bil
lion to half that amount, or at
least down to $5 billion.
Dulles refused to give any es
timates on the subject, they said,
explaining that spending plans of
the new administration will not
be formulated until-April.
Dulles’ reported testimony once
more underscored the belief l of
top administration officials that
while no sudden crisis is expected,
it would he dangerous to cut taxes
or make deep slashes in defense
expenditures at this time.
Under the proposed' budget
submitted by former President
Truman, more than $46 billion of
the total $78.6 billion would go
for defense spending. Hopes for
lower taxes and a balanced bud
get' rested largely on trimming
military and foreign aid outlays.
'Restore 1 Tidelands
To States McKay
WASHINGTON, Feb: 24 (A 3 ) —
Secretary of the Interior McKay
urged Congress today to “restore”
to the coastal states title to the
disputed submerged off-s ho r e
lands.
McKay also recommended that
Congress nail down the -federal
government’s claim to the much
larger area of oil-rich marginal
seas that extends from the state
claimed area out to the edge of
the continental shelf—up to 1,75
miles in some places..
- McKay made his recommenda
tions in testimony before the Sen
ate Interior Committee, now con
ducting hearings on bills dealing
with ownership of the submerged
lands.
His suggestions were in line
with campaign statements by
President Eisenhower last year to
the effect that he would approve
■claims of the states to submerged
lands within their historic bound
aries.
John F. Dulles
Testifies on Hill
Press Admitted to Jelke
Trial; Judge in Outburst
NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (/P)—Mi
not (Mickey) Jelke’s vice trial
was thrown open today, just in
time for the public to hear an an
gry outburst by the trial judge.
General Sessions Judge Francis
L. Valente accused the defense of
stalling and groping for witness
es. He .oared at defense lawyer
Sam Segal, “I’m not going to keep
this jury waiting while you peo
ple prepare your case.”
Valente, who blocked out the
state’s testimony in the lurid cafe
society procuring case, threaten
ed to cut off further defense testi
mony completely. When Segal
made a motion for a mistrial be
cause. of the argument, Valente
snapped at him, “You can make a
motion. You can make another
six motions. They’re denied.”
The uproar was sparked by Se
gal’s failure to have on hand as
witnesses Nick Condos and Grace
Appel. He said they ignored sub-
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' Customs Union
ROME, Feb. 24 (iP)—Holland’s
plan to knock down West Eu
rope’s tariff walls took its first
steps forward today, but the
broader program for a joint Euro
pean army encountered heavier
going.
Foreign ministers of the six
countries involved expressed un
animous approval of the “general
principle” of The Netherlands’
proposal for • a customs union
which would create a common
West European market in about
five years.
Foreign Minister Paul Vanzee
land of Belgium, chairman of the
two-day conference, said after the
first-day’s closed meetings: -
“All six foreign ministers ex
pressed themselves enthusiasti
cally in favor of the general, idea
of the plan.”
He said it would be impossible
to work out all, details of the
scheme here. He added the min
isters probably would recommend
that a special committee be set up
to clarify “how to fit the principle
of the .plan into hard economic
realities.”
poenas because of the spicy na
ture of x the case.
Condos is the husband of com
edienne Martha Raye, whose New
York apartment was the scene of
call girl Pat Ward’s suicide at
tempt last year.
- The Appel- woman was said to
be a friend of Miss Ward.
Miss Ward was pictured by the
defense -today as a schoolgirl
tramp long , before she crashed
cafe society as a high-priced call
girl.
. Jelke, 23-year-old heir to an
oleomargarine fortune, is being
tried on charges of inducing the
copper-haired teen-ager into $5O
to $lOO a’ night prostitution and
collecting $lO,OOO to $15,000 of her
earnings.
However, the defense opened
fire with Pat’s records as a 16-
year-old high school girl. They
portrayed her as an indifferent
student with a chronic yen for
running around all hours of the
night with “bad company.”
HUGHES
PAGE THREE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (/P)—
The House wrangled hotly today
over a prospective hunt for Com
munism in schools,- then handed
its un-American activities com
mittee a hefty $300,000 for this
and other investigations.
In the end, the vote was an
overwhelming 315 to two to set
up the big expense fund for the
next two years.
The commnu-a will start tomor
row a hearing on Communism in
education—its first public hearing
since the new Congress came in.
Over in the Senate, where the
internal security subcommittee al
ready is digging for Reds in col
leges , and schools, a professor
once groomed for Communist par
ty membership testified he per
sonally kno w s of . Communist
activities in the faculties at Co
lumbia University and Queens
College in New York City.
Dr. William Withers, professor
of economics and contemporary
civilization at Queens and former
ly a professor at Columbia, said
Communist teachers -do their
worst damage outside the class
rooms and actually ruin the lives
of young Americans. He-said he
could name 20 or 30 who have
been ruined and two who are
under the care of psychiatrists.
Withers said he first ran into
Reds in education in 1934 or 1935
when he was teaching at New
College, a teacher training insti
tution now part of Columbia. He
himself was not unsympathetic to
Communism at the time, he said,
adding that he was invited to join
the party and was groomed for
membership but never went in.
While the lawmakers pressed on
with the studies, Methodist Bish-.
op G. Bromley Oxnam tore into
the methods he said committees
are using.
Describing the practice as “in
credible,” Oxnam said “anyone
can send any kind of lie” to the
un-American activities committee,
whereupon it becomes part of the
committee files.
sfat<p House Hits Tax
HARRISBURG, Feb. 24 (A 5 ) —
The House today adopted a Sen
ate resolution urging the’ federal
government to leave gasoline tax
ation to the states.