SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1953
'Red Riots Hinder
Persuasion Talks
PANMUNJOM, Oct. 17 (W)—More than
300 armed Indian troops, threatened a mass
planation sessions. •
Ignoring an ultimatum, the angry pris
smash at the barbed wire fences, dug trenches,
have been a bloody struggle.
The prisoners were armed with
sticks and stones. Thee Indian
guards, deployed about the seeth
ing compounds, carried rifles and
tear gas grenades. •
Rather than risk 'rioting and
heavy casualties, the Indians
swallowed their ."ultimatum" af
ter 5 1 / 2 --hours of tense maneuver
ing and announced' they would
deal today only with Chinese pris
oners in hope they would, prove
incire cooperative.
Red teams had waited through
the angry demonstration for a
t. chance to t alk to 1000 of the'
'North Koreans hoping to per
suade
them to return to Corn- 1
rnunist- •rule.
Threat Starts Talks
The Indian -backdown stirred
speculation as to its future effect
on efforts' to get the 22,400 anti-
Reds before the Communist ex
plainers. Both the 14,600 Chinese
and the 7800 North- Koreans have
an elaborate grapevine and signal
system. Few, if any of them,
could have missed the signifi
cance of yesterday's outcome.
A threat of force got the long
delayed explanations going Thurs
day when 500 Chinese reluctantly
went to the explanation booths
and all but ten chose to stay with
the United 'Nations.
Yesterday when , Indian troops
surrounded the first 500 North Ko
reans picked for questioning,
:thausands of other prisoners in
nearby
. stockades went into ac
tion,
They stripped. to the waist.
Those in the front ranks put on
gloves to protect their hands in
hauling down the barbed wire.
Some grabbed rocks. Others
loosed the fence posts.
Troops Consult NNRC
When the Indians rushed in
tear gas equipment, the North Ko
reans calmly retired to their tents,
closed the flaps carefully to keep
out the gas and wai+ed for a
charge that never came.
Dismayed officers ,of the Indian
custodial troops consulted with
the Neutral Nations Repatriation
Commission (NNRC). When the
Indian command declared that
the use of force probably would
result in "extremely heavy cas
ualties," the Indian-led NNRC
canceled the explanations for the
,clay.
Dewey Denies
Parole Charge
NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (W)—Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey was challenged
today to deny that *a close poli
tical association on the national
scene—"one of the most important
men in the United States"—tried
to get a parole for a labor boss
convicted of extortion. Dewey
promptly denied it.
The challenge came from Rob
ert F. Wagner Jr., Democratic
candidate for mayor of New York,
in a radio broadcast.
Dewey snapped back:
"No such appeal has ever
. been
made to me by anyone connected
with the national administration."
Thus came a new peak of poli
tical tension in the case of Fay
d3l AFL union: official convicted
of shaking down contractors for
s3B6,ooo—and , the . influential 'peo
ple who either visited him in
prison or pleaded his . case.
Curtis Retires - Fr,om 28th
HARRISBURG, Oct. 16 - (iP)—
Gov. John S. Fine today an
nounced the retirement of Maj.
Gen. Charles C. Curtis. as com
manding general of the 28th In
fantry Division, Pennsylvania Na
tional Guard.
Sesquicentennial
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 16 (JP)—
New Orleans rolled out the plush
carpet today for visiting diplo
mats, celebrities and just -plain
tourists as the Louisiana Purchase
Sesquicentennial neared its cli
'inax--a-visit by. President Eisen
:"lower.
Writers Protest
Kinsey Demands
For Censorship
CHICAGO, Oct. - 16 (W)—A group
of science writers said today that
insistence by Dr. Alfred C. Kin
sey that he check accounts of a
speech before they are published
is "tantamount to censorship and
a violation of freedom of the
press."
A protest of the Indiana sex re
searcher's condition for allowing
newsmen to hear his scheduled
talk Saturday .at a psychiatrists'
convention in Indianapolis was
made by the executive commit
tee of the National Association of
science Writers.
The specific terms announced
by the Indianapolis physician
who arranged for the speech,,
were signing of a contract re
quiring each newsman to submit
articles for checking "to correct
`or factual errors."
J‘merkan Legion
"Vants InvettlegaVoin
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 16 (~ P )
The American Legion said today
it is a target of Communist in
filtration and "welcomed" an in
vestigation into its ranks.
The Legion's National Execu
tive Committee unanimously
adopted a resolution setting forth
that the Legion believes all nhas
.es of American life should he
subject "to "all investigation in
connection with infiltration.
"The American Legion," con
tinued the resolution, "is recog
nized as being a powerful force
in shaping public opinion and
policy in the United States and
is therefore, an actual target of
infiltration."
Grand Jury, to Review
Passible Periury Case
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16SP)—Atty. Gen. Brownell said today a
federal grand jury will seek to determine whether Warren L. Ste
. phenson, a Republican who once had a White House pass, committed
perjury in a Congressional "four person" inquiry.
Brownell coupled the announcement with a new warning against
!any revival of the "influence"
racket which flourished in the na
tion's capital in recent years.
Actually, there is nothing ille
gal about .attempts to peddle in
fluence for a fee—either the "five
per cent" deals exposed with some
frequency during the Truman ad
ministration or the bargain-rate
"four per, cent" variety brought
to light in the Stephenson case.
Stephenson, who served as ex
ecutive secretary of President
Eisenhower's inaugural commit
tee, acknowledged to a House
armed services subcommittee last
June that he offered to seek more
government business for a Cali
fornia firm in return fol. a $2,000-
a-month salary or a four per cent
fee,
The firm, Century Industries
Inc., rejected the offer and tipped
off the Navy about it.
Immediately after Stephenson's
testimony was published on Sept.
19, Brownell ordered the Federal
Bureau of Investigation to find
out whether any government em
ployee was involved in the leak
of confidential data to Stephen
son.
The FBI is still investigating
that angle.
The dapper, smooth-talking
Stephenson has been quietly
stripped of all his Republicar
party roles since the House sub
committee published his testi
mony.
He was dropped from the 86-'
member GOP local committee
His temporary White House. pa
expired without being renewed. ,
THE • DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
7000. North Korean prisoners yesterday defied
breakout and forced cancelation of Red ex-
oners loosened posts of their stockades for a
and made other preparations, for what might
Ike Relives
Memories
in Abilene
Kan., Oct. 16—
t P resident AßlLENE Eisenhower took l ime
out from his. Western farm state
tour today to relive old memories
at his boyhood home here.'
It was his first trip back to his
old hometown since he was elected
President.
Earlier the President had heard
his philosophy on federal-state
sharing of responsibility put into
action in an agreement by drought
state 'governors on emergency
feed relief. It fitted in, with a ma
jor plank in his administration
policy—greater responsibility for
local government.
He told the( governors he was
p7eased with their action.
At Kansas City last night, Ei
enhower said he was convinced
the federal and state governments
should move hand in hand to
tackle problems like the present
'drought in the midlands.
Eisenhower had a chance .to see
that philosophy in action today
when the governors of 12 drought
stricken states presented him
their plan to cope with the prob
lem of getting' emergency hay
and feed supplies 'to tarry live
stock through the winter.
Gov. Dan Thornton of Color
ado, chairman of the governor's
conference, said later the Presi
dent was pleased at their ap
proach. It calls for the federal
and state governments to share
the cost of transporting hay and
roughage to the drought area.
States will be asked to' pay
what they can, but they won't
be ruled out they can't put up
any money.
Wable Denies
Pike Murders
GREENSBURG, Pa., Oct. 16 (/P)
—A few hours after police said he
wrote a statement • implicating
himself in the brutal slaying of
two• sleeping truck drivers on the
Pennsylvania Turnpike, a slender,
sullen native of Pennsylvania's
mountains quietly pleaded inno
cent tonight to formal murder
charges.
Skeptical police continued to
grill John Wesley Wable about the
slayings which created a reign of
terror on the famed toll road last
July. They say they doubt his
story that someone else was the
triggerman.
The 24-year old Wable•• was
asked by Alderman Henry Fred
erickson what plea he wished to
enter. Quietly, the young prison..
er replied, "Not guilty."
Near East Troubleshooter
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (IP)
President Eisenhower, declaring
the interests of world peace "call
for every possible effort" to ease
tensions in the Near East, an
ounced today he is sending. Eric
Johnson into that area as a high
level troubleshooter.
It is believed that the first
moV
metal type for printing was
,ast in Korea in 1403.
Big Three Concur
On Trieste Decision
LONDON, Oct. 16 (FP)=The Western Big Three ministers agreed
tonight to stand firm on a British-American decision to transfer
Trieste's Zone A to 'ltaly, but were reported to have decided the
Allied troops must stay there until Yugoslav and Italian tempers cool.
The original idea was to withdraw the 4400 American and 3000
British soldiers now on occupa
tion duty in the free territory
about the end of November.-
Official sources said the United
States, British, and French min
isters also discussed whether they
should make an early offer to
Russia for talks on an East-West
non-aggression treaty. Faced with
an objection by West German
Chancellor Konrad 'Adenauer to
making the Offer now, they were
reported to have postponed a de
cision until tomorrow.
U.S. Secretary of State Dulles,
British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden, and French Foreign
Minister Georges Bidault also
pondered' the new frontier flare
up bet Ween Israel and Jordan.
They were said to have weighed
a British suggestion that the mat
ter be put before the United Na
tions Security Council, but failed
to agree on that move.
With Eden presiding, the min
isters opened their three-day
meeting on pressing world prob
lems at a time of high tension.
Much of their time is known to
have been spent figuring 'how to
douse as much as possible such
flashpoints of the war as Trieste,
the Israeli-Jordan border, and
Germany, where Communist and
Allied armies still face each other
eight years after the end of the
World War 11.
With all these dangers in mind,
the group was reported to have
decided on calling the 14 NATO
foreign ministers to a Paris con
ference in December. The NATO
ministers met last in the spring.
rzxplosion Ksils
30 on Carr;er
BOSTON, Oet. 16 (IP)—A rumb
ling explosion tore through the
big aircraft cprrier Leyte today,
killing at least 30 ,and injuring 40
others.
It was not known immediately
how many of the dead were offi
cers or enlisted men. It was re
ported some civilian Navy Yard
employees were, among the vic
tims.
The 27,500-ton ship was tied up
at the South Boston Naval Ship
yard Annex when the explosion
and flash fire swept below decks
forward.
The flash fire which• accompan
ied the blast charred some of the.
bodies so badly that naval spokes
men said identification will be
difficult.
Capt. Thomas A. Ahroon of
Norfolk, Va., a Navy pilot who
took command of the ship on
Sept. 27, said that rescue parties
and damage control men were in
action "in seconds" after the
blast shook the ship.
Capt. Ahroon said a court of
inquiry had convened to investi
gate the blast. It was the worst
Navy explosion disaster in peace
time since June 12, 1924, when
48 were killed abOarci the battle
ship Mississippi off the Califor
nia coast.
PAGE THREE
Senate Probers
Gain Confession
About Spy Ring
NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (IP) A
mystery witness broke down dra
matically before Senate probers
today, reportedly confessed lying
and promised to "tell all" about a
Ft. Monmouth, N.J., radar spy
ring.
"The witness talked about mem
bers of the Rosenberg spy ring
and said he knew Rosenberg
Very well," said Sen. McCarthy
(R-Wis) later.
The senator has described atom
spy Julius Rosenberg as master
mind of a spy ring at Ft. Mori
mouth, the Army Signal Corps
headquarters of America's top se
cret radar defense against atomic
attack.
McCarthy did not identify the
witness "in the protective custody
'of this committee," the senator
told newsmen, "and I wish you
would not, If you know his name,
publish it, because he is afraid
of his own personal safety, in fact
his life and the safety of his fam
ily."
This air of mystery and tension,
the pale and shaken attitude of
the witness built up an impres
sion. that a major break in the
spy probe may be near.
The witness was reported by
McCarthy as at first denying any
knowledge of communism or es
-:-'.onage at Ft. Monmouth.
McCarthy said the witness was
put under vigorous questioning
to the point w her e he broke
down.
"He changed his mind," the sen
ator reported, "said he was lying
and' wanted to tell the truth."
Vean Bill-of Health
G:ven to McCarthy
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (11')---
Atty. Gen. Brownell today gave
Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) a clean
bill of health on questions of per
sonal finances and possible elec
tion law violation, but said the
government is still investigating
McCarthy's income taxes.
The attorney general's long
awaited announcement stemmed
back to a report issued by a Sen
ate Elections subcommittee last
Jan. 2—raising questions about
McCarthy's financial transactions .
and his role in the bitter 1950
Maryland •senatorial election.
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