WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1953 Vishinsky Denies Atrocity Charges UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Dec. 1 (/P)—Russia’s Andrei Vishinsky today denounced as ‘bosh’ the American charges that the Reds killed thousands of soldiers and civilians by atrocities in Korea. He counter-charged that the Americans and South Koreans committed many war crimes. > > American Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge jr. promptly challenged the Soviet top delegate to permit an impartial commission of inquiry full access to all of Korea and China to learn the full facts. | “ Lodge previously had not asked for a commission because the “ Americans assumed the Russians would not let it go behind the Bamboo Curtain. They still do not expect Russian approval for such an investigation. - Hits Documents Vishinsky attempte' in his speech to punch holes in the docu ments put before the Assembly by Lodge. These Contained sworn statements by survivors of death marches and massacres and inter rogations of Communist prisoners alleged to have taken part in a number of the reported atrocities. Lodge said there were 38,000 vic tims. Vishinsky claimed there were many points not settled .in, the documents. He declared that kill ings reported to have been com mitted by North Koreans 1 and Communist Chinese actually were the result of wholesale bombings by American planes. He charged that Americans wiped out cities such, as Taejon and in doing so killed many women and children. Charges Falsification Vishinsky declared the atroci ties item is a ‘flagrantly concocted falsification, redolent with slan der and a recital of events which never took place.’ ■ He charged it was part of psy chological warfare intended to blow up the peace negotiations in Korea. He said the whole story is an “unprecedentedly cynical ma neuver” carried out by Lodge. He said the U.S. atrocities re port was full of miracles. “Whenever there was a massa cre, there miraculously were sur vivors who could give testimony of these alleged atrocities,” Vish insky said. Vishinsky admitted there were bad conditions for prisoners at times ‘because the Americans bombed everything.’ N.Y. Paper Picketers Will Vote NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (£>)—Strik ing newspaper photo-engravers agreed tonight to vote' tomorrow on whether to arbitrate remaining issues in a three-day-old strike that has shut down every major newspaper iri New York City. Negotiators agreed tonight to place before the membership four deadlocked issues, and to let the rank and file decide whether to send them to arbitration. The issues suggested for arbi tration are hours, wages and wel fare benefits, holidays and dur ation of a new contract. The struck newspapers have ex pressed from the beginning of the strike their willingness to arbi trate. The union membership turned down such a step before the strike began. Four hundred striking AF of L photo-engravers still were dead locked with publishers over wage, pension and welfare demands. The walkout started last Saturday, but today was the first full day in its publication history that New York was wihout a single major daily paper. Papers as far as 50 away stepped up press runs to fill the vacuum in New York, the most news-conscious city in the world outside of London. Out of town newspapers sold briskly. Egyptian Prince Places Defense On Social Life CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 1 (A*) —Ex- Prince Abbas Halim, 60, pleaded innocent of treason today. He placed his defense with criticism of the amatory and social life of ex-King Farouk I, his exiled sec ond cousin. ‘‘Farouk had an inferiority com plex with ■ women,” Halim told Egypt’s three-judge Revolutionary Court. “This is why he ran after them so much. He wanted to show he was tough with the fair sex.” Though the King was a young er man, Halim said in answer to a prosecutor’s question what “when ever we were competing to gain a lady’s favor, I won out without difficulty. I believe I am more successful than, Robert Taylor,” the American actor now in Egypt to make a movie. The ex-prince said the pudgy Farouk, now living in Italy, start ed his career as a Casanova as a 16-year-old student in London, using -an apartment “which offici ally was supposed to be a business office.” Chimes (Continued, from page two) time until 10 p.m. Then, the “voice of Old Main” remains quiet until the next morning. Although in the past the Old Main clock has been stopped by such things as cold weather, noth ing has ever silenced the. chimes —that is, nothing except a stop page of electricity. On March 10, 1951, hundreds of students and more than a few professors were late for their eight o’clocks when the chimes failed during the night. The reason: a .broken cable. The chimes were presented to the College in 1937 as a gift of that class. They were installed by two experts, Hal Byers, foreman of the power plant and Grave, University electrician. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Germans Pass Amnesty Bill ■ BONN, Germany, Dec. 1 (JP) — The West German Cabinet today approved an amnesty bill which will give thousands of . Nazis and anti-Nazis a fresh start in life. The bill goes to Parliament, where approval is certain. It is intended to clear up what the government calls “legal in justices of the late Nazi era and the early postwar period.” Three main groups will be af fected when the amnesty measure is voted into law. 1; Those who adopted false, names during and after the war. Both Nazis and anti-Nazis who took false names to avoid prose cution can assume their old names without punishment up to July 1, 1954. 2. Those who committed minor crimes during the chaotic last months of the war and the early postwar period. 1 3. Those who were punished under special- Nazi laws during this same period. ' Germans in these three groups who are still in prison will be freed. Those who were convicted and later released will have their convictions removed from their personal papers: Ex-Navy Scientist Named Possible 'Red 1 " WASHINGTON, Bee. 1 (£>)— Senate investigators, disclosed to day that in 1945 the FBI identified a war-time scientist in the office of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King as a Soviet agent who may have Stolen secrets of the hush-hush proximity fuse. A hitherto secret portion of an FBI report on Soviet espionage, released by the Senate Internal Security subcommittee, said the identification was made possible by Igor Gouzenko, former code clerk in the Russian Embassy in Ottawa, Canada. Nixon, Nehru Discuss Future Relations Today NEW DELHI ,India, Dec. 1 (/P) —Prime Minister Pandit Nehru and Vice President Richard NixOn disposed -of diplomatic niceties in an official visit today. Tomorrow they get down to gloves-off dis cussions which may determine the future relations of the' United States and India. Nehru met for 20 minutes with the American Vice president; at the Foreign Ministry. The Indian leader said it was a very good meeting indeed. But it was ob vious to everyone Who watched the two figures move through this inter-hemisphere drama that they were only following protocol and making the proper polite moves before starting long, tough talks over barriers to complete under standing between the two nations. Observers - here predicted the Korean deadlock and Indian con cern over possible U.S. arms aid to neighboring Pakistan Would be the main topics. What else they will discuss will depend on their own desires—both men have _§aid they had no agenda planned. McCarthy— (Continued -from page one) policy in a proposed meeting would be to press back the Iron Curtain beyond German and Aus trian territory. Since officials here do not be lieve the Soviets are ready to retreat in this matter, the chances for Success .of a Big Four meet ing on the terms laid down by Dulles today are not rated very high. Dulles declined to say anything about U.S. policy at the Bermuda conference on the ground that the conference would be one of the chiefs of government—President Eisenhower, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Laniel. In Bonn, the capital of West, Germany, German ■''officials said today the main aim of the Big Three at Bermuda must be to fix a common policy with which to face the Russians. Allies Begin Talks Today PANMUNJOM, Dec. 2 (JP) —The Up for debate was a Commu- Allies scheduled the first explana- nist plan to seat Russia, Indonesia, tions today for their own balking Burma, Pakistan and India at the soldiers and were fully prepared peace table as non-voting neutrals, for a storm of Communist abuse a plan which U.S. Envoy Arthur from the captives. Dean said was unsatisfactory. The Allied timetable, approved The Allies Tuesday made the yesterday by the Neutral Nations long delayed announcement they Repatriation Commission, calls for were ready to begin talking to interviews with 30 South Koreans their prisoners. ? ail L Un s +•* ! hese fes^s^- It was believed they deliberate ly held off their explanations so 2L the world’s attention' would not °P e lton be distracted from the propaganda will get their chance to choose beating the Communists were tak in § in their attempts to woo balk- As the long-delayed Allied come j n g Chinese and North Korean home campaign began, U.S. and captives Communist diplomats nearby re- „ sumed their debate over a Korean The Communists continue to peace conference after a one-day blame the UN Command for their recess. poor showing. lo^H-IJous 6 DINARS 5 toB DAILY (EXCEPHUN TODAY’S DINNER SPECIAL: Spaghetti with Meat Sauce The Town House caters to private parties, fraternity and sorority banquets ■ Cocktail music provided, Tel. 8-8777 Returning Japs Tell Of Soviet Build-up MAIZURU, Japan, Wednesday, Dec. 2 (/P)—Russia has created an atomic arsenal and a “terrifying” military establishment in Siberia with slave labor, repatriated Japanese war prisoners said today. For eight years, most of the 811 former Japanese soldiers and civilians Who returned yesterday were forced to work in hundreds of slave labor camps to build up Russia’s military might, they re ported. A Japanese civilian expert on Russian affairs described the So viet economic and military build up in Siberia as “terrifying.” Convicted as war criminals by the. Russians, the Japanese were the first to; come back from Si beria since April, 1950 Hed Cross Arranges Their return from Siberia to this southern port, formerly an Imperial naval base, was ar ranged by a Japanese Red Cross delegation in Moscow. They ar rived on the passenger ship Koan Maru. A woman repatriate said she learned of the atom bomb plant from a Russian worker who had helped to build it. She said the plant sprawled in the Angara River area, west of Lake Baikal in south-central Si beria. The woman, who asked not to be named, said she was told ura nium ore from the Arctic Circle was brought up the Yenessi River to the plant on the Angara, which is a tributary of the Yenessi. The Yenessi empties into the Arctic Ocean. Tell of Building None of the . other prisoners told of an atom bomb plant, but sever al said that they knew the Rus sians were building something big on' the Angara River. Others said they had heard that Japanese—-war prisoners never ac counted for . by the Russians— were in slave camps inside the Arctic Circle of central Siberia and farther south along the Sea of Okhotsk, working in uranium mines. The sea lies north of Japan. All but the higher ranking of ficers said they had worked as slave laborers. Some said they got a pittance a day on construction jobs- if they fulfilled a certain quota of work. Reds' Part— (Continued from page one) and other allies that they will get ho American money if they con tinue trading with the Chinese Reds. Without once mentioning Mc- Carthy by name, Dulles told his news conference that the type of criticism raised by the senator attacks the very heart of U.S. For eign policy. When McCarthy was told of Dulles’ statement, he asked re porters with a grin: “Do you think he could have been referring to me?” Strike Hits New York Waterfront NEW YORK, Dec. 1 Exilea dockers today started a strike snow-balling along New York’s vast waterfront, and by nightfall much of the port was tied up tight. The New York Shipping As sociation said the Walkout tied up practically the entire port. However, the harbor’s Water front Control Commission later disputed this estimate, and said less than 35 per cent of the piers were hit by the strike. The New York Shipping As sociation said the walkout vio lated a Taft-Hartley Law injunc tion which ended an earlier port strike. The injunction forbade any new strike for an 80-day period that expires Christmas Eve. U.S. Atty. J. Edward Lumbard replied: “If there has been a deliberate work stoppage there is a possi bility the court’s injunction has been violated and this possibility is 'being actively investigated by this office,” The police department alerted its men for a possible general waterfront strike. However, President William V. Bradley of the independent In ternational Longshoremen’s As sociation insisted: ( “I have called no strike for any time. On the contrary I am trying to get the men back to work. No order for a general strike has been issued and no order will be issued.” The strikers were trying to force the commission to reinstate at least temporarily on the piers scores of longshoremen who have been barred because of criminal pasts. Hardest hit by the strike were the midtown Hudson River piers, where the biggest luxury liners in the world dock regularly. One of them, the liner United States, was caught in a tieup at Pier 86. Wheeler Refuses Probe SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1 Donald N. Wheeler, named by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover last month as having been associated with the late Harry Dexter White and others in an alleged Soviet spy ring, today refused on consti tutional grounds to tell the House Un-American Activities Commit tee of his background. Music Every Night This Week PAGE THREE! Mickey Spillane's "I THE JURY" with Biff Elliot Yvonne DeCarlo Rock Hudson "SEA DEVILS" John Wayne Claudette • Colbert "WITHOUT RESERVATIONS"
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