SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1953 U.S. Calls Czechs Liars, Talks Tough to Communists Warns That It Will Take Needed Action WASHINGTON, March 13 (3>) The United States today- accused Communist Czechoslovakia of ly ing about the shooting down of an American fighter plane in Germany and warned that neces sary measures will be taken to prevent further “wanton actions” of this kind. The angry note to' Prague did not say what action would be tak en, but reports from Germany earlier this week said U.S., plants are under orders to fire if neces sary. Move Previously Planned The Air Force said today 15 Sabre jet fighter planes will leave soon for Germany. They are more deadly in combat with Russian made MIG-15s than the F-84 fighter-bomber which was shot down Tuesday by MIGs from Czechoslovakia. The Air Force said that dis patch of the Sabre jets had no connection with Tuesday’s inci dent; that the move had been planned long before. , Facts False The U.S. note declared it was established beyond question that the MIG jets flew from Czecho slovakia into tile United States zone of. Germany, attacked pa trolling F-84 and shot it down. The pilot parachuted to safety.. The Czech government had re jected an earlier American pro test Tuesday with the claim that the American plane had violated Czech territory. Of this claim today’s note said: “The Czechoslovak government’s attempted explanation of this pro vocative incident is a falsification of facts designed to cover its re sponsibility for this inexcusable action.” ' The fact that the two jets which shot 'down the American plane crossed into Germany and made their attack indicates, the. United States asserted, that a previous buffer zone policy has been aban doned by the Czech government. Russia Vetoes UN Secretary UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., March 13 (/P)—Russia of the new .Malenkov era today vetoed Les ter B. Pearson of Canada for the job of secretary general of the United Nations, well qualified sources reported tonight. It was the 56th veto the Soviet Union has cast in the UN Secur ity Council and the . first since Georgi Malenkov succeeded the late Joseph Stalin as boss of the Kremlin a week ago. An official communique, after the - closed-door meeting ended, merely said agreement ,had not been reached on to Trygve Lie because one of the per manent council members had cast a negative vote. Sources who were present said there was no doubt that Russia did- it, although vot ing was secret and the ballots were burned before the door was opened. Last Yankee Swears Allegiance to Lincoln DULUTH, Minn., March 13’ (/P) ■—Albert Woolson, last survivor of the men who wore the Union blue in the Civil War, vowed today he would carry oh “the highest tra ditions of • Abe Lincoln’s forces until the very end.” Woolson became 106 Feb, 11. The spry former drummer boy picked up a morning newspaper early today to learn that his only other Union Army comrade—lll - James A. Hard—-had died last night at Rochester, N.Y. FRATERNITY PAPERS LETTERPRESS - OFFSET COMMERCIAL PRINTING Pnarh-& Beaver State Collect THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Czechs Report Gottwald Sick VIENNA, Austria, Saturday, March 14 (IP) — Klement Gott wald, Red president and purge-master of Czechoslovak ia who had just returned home, from Joseph ‘ Stalin’s funeral, was reported gravely ill in Prague ' today. His ills were listed as pneumonia and pleur isy complicated by a chest hemorrhage. The Prague radio, breaking the news suddenly to the Czech people, appeared to be taking as a pattern the Moscow an nouncements on the last illness of Stalin, whose funeral Gott wald attended. The radio played solemn music and broadcast three communiques by seven doctors, some of .whom had Russian sounding names. The com muniques said Gottwald, 56, was suffering from pneumonia and pleurisy and . getting worse because of sinking blood pres sure and weakening circula tion. On the basis of the medical bulletins issued from Czecho slovakia, an Austrian special ist in Vianna said “I doubt very much if Gottwald can live through the night.” Sabres Down 6 MIGs As* Ace Gets 12th SEOUL, Saturday, March 14 (IP) —Paced by Col. Royal Baker of McKinney, Tex., a new top-rank ing jet ace who bagged his 12th, Sabre pilots claimed a kill of six- Russian-built MIG-15s near the Manchurian border in flaming Friday the 13th sky 'battles. • Friday’s accent was on sky fighting and air raids. Snow and mud cut ground fighting to a minimum. Terminal Payment Investigation Is Set WASHINGTON, March 13 (TP) —Chairman Carlson (R-Kans.) said today the Senate civil service committee will make a thorough in vestigation into the collection of $709,538 in terminal-leave payments by 15 former top officials of the Truman administration. The group included eight Cab inet members and several ambas sadors. Among the latter, William O’Dwyer, former ambassador to Mexico, is listed as having re ceived $5,396.68. Carlson told the Senate his committee will conduct an inquiry in an effort to “prevent further raids •on the Treasury” by out going officials. _ The Kansas senator said- he was amazed to learn of the payments, which-were disclosed by a House appropriations subcommittee ear lier this week. The House group denounced the payments as “a fla grant example of executive mal practice” and criticized the Civil Service Commission for allowing the Democrats to cash' in. It fur ther declared the payments vio lated “the intent of Congress.” •Several of those listed by the House subcommittee have staunchly defended their action, insisting they were paid only what they were due for vacation time they earned but did not use. Civil Service Commission offi cials said the law provides for such payments. “There seems to be no way un- HOME BAKED ißßaiaiip. COOKIES and coffee or fj- : z</ hot chocolate • 10c , Served Daily \ \ - 'til midnight V DUTCH 1 PANTRY \ \ 2SO E. College X #. h. vm Steps Taken To Minimize Risk of War ■ BONN, Germany, March 13 (A 5 ) —The United. States and Britain talked tough to the Communists today in protesting the destruc tion 'of a British bomber and a U.S. fighter by MIG-15s, but took steps'to minimize the risk of un declared air warfare along the Iron Curtain. The risk was emphasized by a belated disclosure that a British European Airways Viking was buzzed by Soviet fighters on the border of the Frankfurt-Berlin air corridor yesterday only about a half hour before the British bomber was felled in flames at the East-West frontier near the Hamburg, Berlin corridor farther north. A BEA spokesman in London announced the Russians fired tracer bullets, “not directly at the aircraft, but as a gesture to get further inside” the corridor. Ap parently no passengers or crew men were injured. . The British previously had dis closed MIGs made a mock attack on another RAF bomber over the British zone yesterday. But caution was evident in British orders that went out to one of Gen. Matthew B. Ridg way’s biggest Allied air forma tions in Europe, the Second Tact ical Air Force. The British, Belgian and Dutch pilots. were ordered not to fly within ten miles of the Iron Cur tain- border. U.S. Air Force pilots, stationed farther south, are under orders to shoot back if attacked. But an American spokesman said they are advised to fly cautiously when near the Soviet zone border. - der present regulations,” Carlson said, “to check the accuracy of accumulated leave records of high government officials. Emphasizing that his committee will conduct a “full and complete investigation,” Carlson said he has introduced a bill designed to prevent such “cash lump sum payments” to - officials earning $ll,BOO a. year or more. Tornado Kills 12 HASKELL, Tex., March 13 (JP) : — Twelve persons were killed today and an undetermined number in jured as a roaring tornado central west Texas this Friday the 13th. Finland’s cinemas showed 261 American and 35 Russian films last year. ummm • MONDAY and TUESDAY • —DOORS OPEN 6 P.M.— Suspenseful, Exciting British Crime Hit! "BRIGHTON ROCK" Produced in the Hitchcock Fashion! Based on Graham Greene's r > best-selling novel 2 Educators Silent Before Red Probers WASHINGTON, March; 13 (YP) —Two witnesses from the higher education field refused to tell House investigators today whether they are or ever have been members of the Communist party. They were Prof. Byron T. Darling, 41, who was promptly sus pended from his job as a physicist at Ohio State University, and Mrs. Dorothy W. Douglas, 63, former Smith College professor, now retired, who was divorced in 1930 from Sen. Paul Douglas <D-I11.) Both cited the Fifth Amendment! to the Constitution, which pro vides that no one may be com pelled to give testimony against himself, ' Darling denounced the investi gation of the un-American activi ties committee, which is probing for Red influences in education, as a “witchhunt.” Mrs. Douglas, was told that she was identified as a member of a Communist group in the teachers union in 1938 and 1939 by Rob ert G. Davis, Smith College Eng lish professor who testified at a committee session last month. Mrs. Douglas tried to read a statement before questioning be gan but' Chairman Velde (R-Ill.) made her wait until the session ended. . In her statement, Mrs. Douglas said the committee’s interest in her political beliefs could result only in “suppression of freedom of conscience and of the mind.” She said she stood ready to an swer questions relating to her be liefs &nd associations “while I was the wife of Paul Douglas,” but would accept the consequences of refusing to answer questions dealing with the years since their divorce. Darling, who is now working on an Air. Force project which he described as a study of ozone molecules, refused to say whether he was a Communist or was re lated by blood or marriage to any member of the Communist party. Dr. Howard L. Bevis, president of Ohio State, said in Columbus, Ohio, that Darling was suspended from his duties there pending “a complete study of the record” of his appearance before the House un-American activities commit tee. BULLETIN MOSCOW, Saturday, March 14 (JP) Soviet newspapers to day announced the Supreme Soviet will open its first Mal enkov regime session in the Kremlin Sunday at 2 p.m. (6 a-fti- EiS,T*)* The Soviet Parliament is ex pected to approve sel-sct ; on of Georgi Malenkov as Prime Minister to succeed Joseph Stalin and other changes in the government. J. Paul Sheedy* Switched to Wildroot Cream-Oil Because He Flunked The Finger-Nail Test Hare's a sad cotton tale: poor Paul was in a stew about his hare until his paw wrote: "I ear you got a bun on because your girl lefc you. Now, lettuce look at the bre'r facts. To get in on the bunny huggin’, smart rabbits foot it down to any toilet goods counter for Wildroot Cream-Oil, America’s biggest-selling hare tonic. 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Near the Iron Curtain in Ger many this week Soviet and Czech MIGs shot down a British bomber and an American jet fighter: other Soviet MIGs are fighting UN for ces in Korea. Bulgaria has been “arming fran tically. in the past year or two,” the Yugoslav sources said, adding: “We need quite a lot of arma ment.” The sources indicated Tito also wants British Centurion tanks and other land fighting , equipment needed to put Yugoslavia’s esti mated thirty divisions on a first class combat basis. Tito is due here Monday. The talks are scheduled to go on all week and are expected to deal at length with Yugoslavia’s role ip Western defense, especially in the light of her new friendship arid security pact with Turkey and Greece. Color Television WASHINGTON, March 13 UP) —The House Commerce Commit tee decided today to investigate why color television is still not in the homes despite its approval by the Federal Communications Commission in 1950. Japs Oppose Yoshidti TOKYO, Saturday, March 14 (JP) —Three major opposition parties sought today to oust wily Shigeru Yoshida from the Prime Minister’s post he has held under Allied oc cupation and in the fledgling years of Japan’s new freedom. CIOOMSTHt Hilt ■'Him fttrihs
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