SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1953
Dulles Attacked
On Bolden Choice
WASHINGTON, March 20 (TP) —Sen. McCarran (D.-Nev.)
charged today that Secretary of State Dulles overrode objec
tions of his chief security officer in backing Charles E. Bohlen
for ambassador to Russia. Dulles promptly denied it.
The Nevada senator asserted the security chief, R. W.
Scott McLeod, refused to clear Bohlen for the strategic diplo
matic post, but that Dulles gave
him clearance . anyway in testi
mony before the Senate Foreign
Affairs Committee Wednesday.
- Dulles, in turn, said- there was
no difference between him and
McLeod on the final evaluation of
an FBI report on Bohlen’s back
ground. There is absolutely noth
ing in the report, the secretary
said, which reflects on Bohlen as
a loyalty or security risk. _ *
Sen. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) jump
ed into the argument with a dec
laration that Dulles’ statement
“would appear to be untrue” from
what he knows of the situation,
“My information is in complete
accord with what Sen. McCarran
said,” the Wisconsin senator told
a hastily called news conference.
“I know what’s in Bohlen’s file.”
McCarthy said the foreign re
lations committee should recall
Dulles, “put him under oath,” and
then ask him whether he still
contended there was no disagree
ment between himself and . Mc-
Leod.
When reporters arrived at Dul
les’ office for a previously ar
ranged news conference, they
found the secretary flanked by
Sen. Wiley (R.-Wis), chairman of
the foreign relations committee.
Wiley’s committee voted 15 to 0
Wednesday to approve Bohlen as
ambassador to Moscow, and Wiley
expressed confidence that the
nomination would come up in the
Senate Monday as scheduled. Sen.
Taft of Ohio, Republican floor
leader, has predicted Bohlen’s
confirmation by a wide margin.
Rain Hits Korean Front
SEOUL, Saturday, March 21 (JP)
Soldiers grappled briefly in the
mud and raiding planes searched
low in the drizzling skies for. the
sight of Communist trucks Fri
dayg as the Korean War sputtered
through its 1000th day. •
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Malenkov Relieved
As Party Secretary
MOSCOW, March 20 (JP) —The Moscow radio announced, today
that the Central Committee of the Communist. Party of the Soviet
Union has freed Prime Minister Georgi Malenkov at his own request
from his duties as secretary of the Central Committee.
The committee in plenary session simultaneously elected a five
man Secretariat headed by 58-year old Nikita S. Khrushchev. '
The other four members of the
Secretariat listed in order were
identified as Mikhail Suslov, Peter
Pospelov, Nikolai Shatalin and
Semyon Ignatiev. .
Khrushchev was identified in
western circles as a fast rising
Soviet politician from the Ukraine.
First reports of his new job were
heard on broadcasts picked up in
London.
The Moscow radio reported the
committee met in plenary session
March 1 14 “to accede to the re
quest of the chairman of the USSR
Council of Ministers Prime Minis
ter, G. M. Malenkov for his re
lease from duties as secretary of
the Central Committee of the
Communist party of the Soviet
Union.” The committee elected a
five-man Secretariat.
Khrushchev’s name was the
first mentioned, indicating that
he would be head man of the Sec
retariat. He already is a member
of the ruling Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet.
Malenkov used the job of secre
tary of the Central Committee as
a stepping stone to the premier
ship which he took over following
the death of Joseph Stalin.
A British-Americancompany
has taken over Nicaragua’s only
cigarette factory.-
Gillette Attacks
Coffee Prices
WASHINGTON, March 20 (JP)
—Sen. Gillette (D-Iowa) said to
day coffee drinkers in the United
States have been gouged billions
of dollars.
Coffee prices are soaring again,
he told the Senate, with the end
of price controls.
Gillette revived a three-year
old international controversy by
contending that speculators in
this country and South American
nations, manipulated coffee prices
sky high.
Jelke Draws
Prison Term
NEW YORK, March 20 (IP) —
Playboy Minot (Mickey) Jelke
drew an eight months term in the
workhouse today as a gun-toter,
but his sentencing as a cafe so
ciety vice procurer was postponed
a week.
“He had guns at his disposal
nine-tenths, of every day,” Asst.
Dist. Atty. Anthony J. Liebler
told the sentencing court.
The sentence stunned the 23-
year-old heir to oleomargarine
millions, who had pleaded guilty
to illegal possession of the fire
arms.
“We think it’s harsh, excessive
and unwarranted,” said defense
lawyers Sam Segal and Martin
Benjamin.
Jelke originally went before
General Sessions Judge Francis L.
Valente for - sentencing on two
charges of compulsory prostitu
tion-involving Pat Ward, 19 and
Marguerite Cordova, 23.
Judge Valente postponed sen
tencing to March 27. because Jel
ke’s probation report still isn’t
ready.
Reed Renews Battle
For Tax Reduction
WASHINGTON, March 20 (JP)— The oldest Republican in con
tinuous service in the House said today the GOP “will have sold
the people down the river” unless it reduces taxes at this session
of Congress. • ' ] " ”
Chairman Reed (R-N.Y.) of-the.
tax-writing ways and means com
mittee threw that challenge to his
party in proclaiming “I have not
surrendered to anyone in the tax
reduction battle.”
The 77-year-old New Yorker
said he is confident House lead
ers will bring to the floor "in
the very near future" his bill to
chop personal income lax rates
10 per cent annually starling
June 30.
However, Chairman Allen (R
-111.) of the House Rules Commit
tee—which now has the Reed bill
bottled up—said he knew of ho
assurance to Reed as to when the
proposal will be brought to the
floor. Allen and other House
leaders denied they are welshing
on campaign pledges. They said
the GOP promised' to do just what
it is doing, balance the budget
and then cut taxes.
In a new statement today, Reed
said he wanted to make it per
fectly clear he is not capitulating
but merely shifting his tactics to
fight for either:
1. Action by the rules com
mittee clearing his bill to the
floor under a rule barring
amendments.
2. A petition to force his hill
out of the rules committee. If
he could get 218 signatures from
the House membership of 435,
such a petition could bring the
bill to the floor with amend
ments barred.
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PAGE THREE
Flanders Cites
'False Report'
in Plane Case
WASHINGTON, March 20 (JP)
—Sen. Flanders (R.-Vt.) told the
Senate today the Air Force issued
a “false report” in saying a U.S.
bomber which fought a brief air
battle with a Soviet plane off Si
beria Sunday was on a routine
weather reconnaissance flight.
Flanders said he had informa
tion that if the American plane
had followed a routine flight
course, it would not have come
within 400 miles of Soviet Kam
chatka.
Moreover, Flanders declared:
“The Russians appear to have
been discreet in warning it (the
American plane) off.”
At the Pentagon, the Air Force
declined any, immediate comment
on Flanders’ statement, and at the
White House, President Eisen
hower’s press secretary, James C.
Hagerty, said, there would be no
comment from there.
Later, the Air Force said in a
brief note it had “nothing to add”
to its orginal statement “except
to emphasize the fact that at no
time was the RBSO closer than 25
miles to Kamchatka, and was not
in air space claimed to be under
any national jurisdiction.”
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