FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1953 Soviet Accuses U.S. of Slander UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., March 19 (TP) Soviet Dele gate Valerian A. Zorin charged today that the United States has slandered Russia by asking for "action in the UN disarm ament debate to, demonstrate -that the Kremlin really wants Deace. He told the UN’s 60-nation. Political Committee that Ike Wonders If Red Talk Is Sincere WASHINGTON. March 19 (/P) — President Eisenhower raised a question today about the sincerity of Soviet peace talk. No overtures have reached him through proper channels, he said. Kremlin expressions of an in tention to seek peaceful settle ment of cold war issues, now that the Russian regime has changed, the President said at his fourth news conference, are just as wel come as they are sincere. No War Seen The Russians will never be met less than half way, Eisenhower said, because this administration’s purpose will always be to seek peace by every honorable and de cent means. The President saw no new threat of war in recent Soviet at tacks on Allied planes. The President deprecated any investigation of communism in churches, spoke out again in favor of bringing a balanced budget into view before taxes are cut, and defended his choice of Charles E. Bohlen as ambassador to Moscow. Issues Listed On a variety of other subjects, the President said: Military power—No amount of military force can give real se curity. He doesn’t think we can afford at this time to slash the total of our combat strength. Civil and air defense —A report on the question of more spending for these, drafted by a committee named by President Truman, is under staff .consideration. Economy—Secretary Weeks’ es timate that the Commerce De partment; for the year starting July 1, can be pared 15 per cent is an encouraging sign. He doesn’t expect all departments to have the same degree of success. Government jobs—There is no reason why any great number of government employees should have any concern about their jobs. 33 Feared Dead In Air Crashes ST. JOHN'S, Nfld., March 19 (vP) —The loss of a U.S. Air Force 829 {>omber off Western Newfound and was announced today even as rescuers searched for any sur vivors of an R 836, a bigger Amer ican plane which crashed on the east coast less than 300 miles away. Both went down in murky weather yesterday, carrying a pos sible total of 33 men to death. Both were on training flights. Wreckage of the 829 Superfor tress, which was based at Harmon Field, was found floating in St. George’s Bay with no sign that any of its ten crewmen had sur vived. The Air Force did not identify the ten immediately. • Twenty-three men, including Brig; Gen. Richard E. Ellsworth, 42, were aboard the R 836 which smashed into a hilltop in the rug ged, wooded country about. 50 miles northwest of St. John’s on a flight back from the Azores to its base at Rapid City; S.D. Twenty-one bodies have been found near the wreckage of the plane, the reconnaissance version of the ten-e ngi n e 836 atom bomber. DINNERS 5 toB DAILY (EXCEPT SUNj < THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Russia had demonstrated her de sire for peace repeatedly in the seven-year-old talks on disarma ment and atomic control and would continue to do so. For this reason, he said, the questions U.S. Delegate Ernest A. Gross asked yesterday about Rus sia’s intentions were artificial. “The preservation of peace and the struggle against a. new war has been and is the main concern of the Soviet Union,” Zorin said. ' His answer, made within 24 hours after Gross challenged the Russians to show their sincerity, convinced Western delegates that there was no break in the offing in the deadlock on disarmament despite the change in the U.S. and USSR leaders. Gross said yesterday that Prime Minister Georgi M. Malen kov had referred to his peaceful intentions and aims. He asked the Soviet delegate two questions and said he wanted them answered af ter full consideration by the Sov iet government. Zorin’s reply seemed somewhat quick to delegates who often have had to wait for days for Moscow to send instructions, but here is the situation: Question 1: Is Russia willing to discujss constructively the ques tion of disarmament at this time? Zorin replied that Russia had repeatedly submitted proposals and they were all “designed to bring about a. solution of that im portant problem.” Question 2: Does the Soviet government consider the UN the proper forum for such discus sions? Tito, Churchill Plan Safety -LONDON, March 19 (/P) —Yugo- slav President Tito spelled out for British Prime Minister Chur chill today plans to keep the Eastern Mediterranean safe from Soviet aggression. Later Tito said the two had “reached the same conclusions in greatest accord.” While the leaders were confer ring in secret, Tito’s foreign Min ister Koca Popovic told Britain’s Parliament that Communist, anti- Soviet Yugoslavia would fight on the side of the West “if the need arises.” Popovic declared his govern ment would support the West “regardless of the fact that Yugo slavians not a member of NATO.” While Yugoslav leaders were busy building up goodwill, the Belgrade radio came out tonight with a blast against the govern ment-owned British Broadcasting Corporation. Belgrade radio declared BBC reported last Tuesday that Tito and his party were received “in silence” during a sight-seeing tour in the British capital. McCarthy Investigation Suggested WASHINGTON, March 19 (/P) —President George N. Shuster of Hunter College said tonight the time has come for universities to investigate Sen. McCarthy. Speaking of McCarthy at a meeting of the National Civil Lib erties Clearing House, Shuster said: “I would remind you that the university has always been a for um in the presence of which the lords of the passing hour are sub jected to scrutiny. “No doubt the time has come to ask on what meat this, our Caesar, has fed, and to review his activi ties with the utmost objectivity, calm, and chilly resolution, so that an authoritative report can be made to the people.” Doesn't Say How If that is done, Shuster said, “I fancy that the day on which the senator is summoned before the bar of American history and social science will be not the least revealing of his career.” Shuster dropped the subject there, without saying how or by whom such a, proposed investiga tion would be conducted. Informed of Shuster’s remarks, McCarthy commented: “Every Communist, every left winger in the . country has been investigating me. This gentleman is welcome to join the pack’ if he wants to.” In his prepared speech Shuster suggested some of the educators’ problems would be solved if the Communist party were declared illegal. Membership Legal “As matters now stand,” he said, “the law about Communists is nebulous and inchoate.” Shuster said it is legal to be long to the p>arty. And, he said, if a teacher is called before a congressional investigating com mittee, he is within his legal rights if he refused to answer a question on the grounds that his reply might tend to incriminate him. Yet, Shuster said, if this hap pens,, a college is expected to' dis miss the teacher. Pandit Rejected By UN Council UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., March 19 (/P) The UN Security Council tonight turned down Rus sia’s latest candidate for secre tary-general of the United Na tions, Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pan dit of India. A communique, issued at the end of a five-hour closed session, announced that Mrs. Pandit, sis ter of India’s Prime Minister Neh ru, received only two affirmative votes out of the council’s 11. Sev en votes are required for Approv al. One delegate, reported to be Nationalist China, voted against her and eight others abstained. The balloting was secret. The two votes for Mrs. Pandit were reported to have been cast by Soviet Delegate Valerian. A. Zorin and Lebanese-D elegats Charles A. Malik. West Germans Pass European Unification BONN, Germany, March 19 (JP) —The West German Bundestag (lower house) gave final approval by wide margins tonight to the twin treaties under which West Germany is to rearm as a partner of other free European nations for defense against Communist ag gression. It was a victory for the views of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Warned by Adenauer that Stal- Earthquake In Turkey Kills 1000 ISTANBUL, Turkey, March 19 (A 5 ) From 500 to 1000 persons were reported today to have per ished in a violent earthquake and fires which laid waste a rich farming and mining region north west of Balikesir in Western Tur key. The Interior Ministry announced tonight that 300 were listed dead and more bodies were being dragged from fire-blackened ruins in the village of Yenice alone. With official reports still lack ing from Cihan, another hard hit village, two Istanbul newspapers, Hergun and Yeni Gazette, put the death toll at 1000. Earlier, Red Crescent, the Turkish Red Cross, had estimated the dead at 500 on the basis of incomplete and un confirmed reports. The shock at 9:07 p.m. Wed nesday (2:07 p.m., EST), said by the newspapers to have been the strongest felt in Istanbul in 80 years, caused buildings here to sway and damaged the city’s main water line. But no other damage was reported. The pipeline break left a large section of Istanbul without water. U.S. Ambassador George C. McGhee and M. L. Dayton, chief of the U.S. Mutual Security Ad ministration in Turkey, flew to the area by plane from Ankara. Throughout the quake area of about 10,000 square miles persons fled from buildings and homes when the tremors were felt, and spent the night in open fields. Prof to Judge Festival Associate Professor of Dra matics Robert D. Reifsneider will serve* as critic judge of the 11th Delaware Play Festival today and tomorrow at the University of Delaware. Drama groups from Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey will participate. in’s death increased the danger of a new world war, the House approved the European Army Treaty 224-165 and the Allied- Bonn Peace Contract 226-164. Under the European Army Treaty, West Germany is to sup ply a half million troops to a uni fied European command of two million. that would take in also the troops of France, Italy, Bel gium,. The Netherlands and Lux embourg. Trouble Threalerfed The peace contract is the instru ment through which the Big Three Western Powers—the United States, Britain and France—re nounce most of the rights they have held under the postwar oc cupation and grant West Germany near sovereignty. The negative votes were cast by the Socialists, the Communists, the neutral Centrists and a scattering of Right-Wingers. East German Communists have threatened trou ble, including a new squeeze on West Berlin, if the treaties, go through. Howling Red demonstra tors clashed with police outside Parliament during part of the nine-hour debate today. Reds Riot A heavy police guard and barbed wire street barricades sur rounded Parliament to keep out demonstrators. One column of nearly 1000 tried to march on Parliament but was beaten back by police with water hoses and flailing fists. After this skirmish, the Reds retreated to the downtown area where 3000 of them—mostly wom en and youths—staged a demon stration that snarled traffic near ly an hour. Reinforced police routed them with night sticks and hoses and packed them out of town. Most of the Reds had been imported from the Ruhr cities- to create disorder. Saint Patrick's Dance A Saint Patrick’s Dance will be held from 9 to 12 tonight in the West Dormitory lounge, with mu sic by Lynn Christy and his Campuseers. The dance is spon sored by the West Dorm Council. PAGE THREE
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