SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1953
Red Sitdown
Stops Talks
PANMUNJOM, Dec. 12 (R')—A Communist sitdown yesterday
abruptly halted Allied, efforts to complete explanations by the Dec.
23 deadline to former soldiers, including 2,2 Americans, resisting
repatriation' after Red captivity.
Whether the explanation could get s going again by switching
Ifrom balky South Koreans to the
Arriericans remained to be de
termined.
Yesterday •25 South Koreans,
obviously taking their cue from
the Communists, suddenly refused
to face interviewers unless they
could make time-consuming
"counter-explanations."
30 Refuse to Answer
GI Mother
Puts Trust
In Prayer
TOKYO, Saturday, Dec. 12 (2P)
—An undaunted, greying Amer
ican mother put her trust today
in prayer and the U.S. Congress
to help her get to Korea in time
to save her soldier son from be
ing lost forever to life behind Red
China's Bamboo Curtain.
After flying nearly 7000 miles
from her Alden, Minn., home,
Mrs. Portia Howe got a fast turn
down yesterday from the Far East
Command for permission to go to
Panmunjom. There Pfc. Richard
F. Tenneson;' her son by a pre
vious marriage, is among 22
Americans refusing repatriation
after Communist captivity.
"I have not giVen up hope," she
said firmly, managing a smile.
"I am going to stay here for a
while and wait and pray. I still
hope to see my son.
Mother Vows to Pray
"There is a great deal of power
in prayer. Prayer has worked for
me all the way through and I am
still depending on it. And I am
hoping for action in Washington
that may clear the way. I met a
number of congressmen who said
they would try to help me."
The slender woman was
whisked off to the Far East Com
mand headquarters as soon as she
arrived here and had a private
conference with Gen. John E.
Hull, Supreme Allied Comman
der.
General Had to Refuse
After the meeting, Hull's head
quarters issued a statement quot
ing the general as saying he had
been "obli to refuse permis
sion" for the Minnesota woman
to go to the demilitarized zone
of Korea.
In Washington, the Pentagon is
sued a statement emphasizing
that prisoners who refuse repat
riation are under the control of
the - Neutral Nations Repatriation
Commission and not the United
Nations Command.
The only way an American civ
ilian legally can visit a relative
under neutral control is as a mem
ber of the UN explainer team,
the Pentagon said.
Johnson to Speak
To Luncheon Club
George F. Johnson, professor of
agricultural extension, will speak
and show slides on "Colorful
Pennsylvania Through the Four
Seasons" with special emphasis
upon the Christmas season at the
Faculty Luncheon Club meeting
at noon Monday in the Hotel State
College.
Club members on the steering
committee for the spring semester
are Ernest W. Callenbach, head
of the Poultry Husbandry depart
ment; Hugh H. Chapman Jr., as
sistant professor of Romance
languages; Marguerite L. Duvall,
associate professor of child de
velopment and family life exten
sion; Ruth R. Honey, professor
of family economics and housing;
and Charles J. Rowland, head of
the Department of Accounting and
Business Statistics.
Town Men to Hear
Blue Notes at Dance
The Penn State Blue Notes will
play for a combination dance and
jam sess:on tomorrow afternoon
in the Temporary Union Build
ing. The dance is being sponsored
by Town Council for men living
in town.
The dance will be held from
2:15 to 3:45 p.m. After a half hciur
intermission; the jam session will
be held until 5:15.
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Thirty more South ' Koreans
were called up today but with no
assurance they would respond.
If the South Koreans continue
to resist, the UN Command con
ceivably could switch to the 22
Americans and a Briton. These
men have indicated 'they would
face explainers but that they
want the right to fire a big bar
rage of questions at the , inter
viewers.
An atmosphere of frustration
also hangs over the tent in Pan
munjom where today negotiators
round out seven weeks of talks,
as far apart as ever over efforts
to arrange for a Korean peace
conference.
Reports were that U.S. Envoy
Arthur Dean may go home soon
and leave an aide to carry on the
talks, thus putting it up to the
Reds whether they are to be
broken off.
South Koreans Questioned
Before the latest prisoner stall,
224 South Koreans ha d run
through explanation booths, all
electing to stay with the Reds and
be sent to a separate compound.
Twenty-six others who heard
explanations Thursday refused to
move to the separate compound
and went back into the area
where prisoners are awaiting the
talks.
Only 5 of 30 requested prison
ers showed up yesterday and they
had to be tossed out when they
attempted to give their own ex
planations. The other 25 wouldn't
even come inside.
Wurfl Will Lead
Christmas Sing
George J. Wurfl, professor em
eritus of German, will lead the
24th annual Christmas Sing at
8 p.m. Tuesday in Schwab Audi
torium.
The sing, sponsored by the De
partment of German, is open to
the public.
Wurfl will read the account of
the Nativity according to St. Luke
in German, and George E. Ceiga,
University organist, will play the
prelude and postlude.
The entire Chinese language is
made up of words of one syllable.
Each sound may have ten or more
meanings and the language has
no rules of grammar.
U.S. -i . -'ay Examine Neat East "..' siliey
KARACHI, Pakistan, Dec. 11 (EP)
—Competent sources predicted to
day Vice President Richard Nix
on's return to Washington Mon
day will signal the - start of a wide
spr e ad re-examination of -U.S.
policy toward southeast Asia and
the Middle East.
Behind this, they said, is a ques
tion whether the United States is
still satisfied to permit Prime
Minister Nehru's India to domi
nate the region or intends to build
up another nation—probably Pak
istan—to challenge Nehru's lead
ership.
The question of Indian reaction
has been studied carefully, these
sources said, but a final decision
will be taken only after Nixon
reports to President Eisenhower,
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles and the Department of De
fense.
Key U. S. officials have ex
pressed strong doubts dur". - ig vis
its to this area that past Ameri
can policy toward Nehru has
achieved even "friendly neutral
ity" on the part of the Indian
leader.
There is a strong feeling here
that a decision• on American mill-
Communists
Occupy
Lai Chau
HANOI, Indochina, Dec. 11 (IP)
—The French discloc9d torl a y
they have evacuated Lai Chau
without firing a shot, leaving - the
Thai tribal capital they had vow
ed to defend to fall like a ripe
plum to the Communist-led Viet
minh.
Only a few pro-French Thai
partisan fighters were left to
stand between the sleepy, palm
lined town in northwest Indo
china and :the bulk of a rebel di
vision when the last of th e
French Union garrison pulled out
Tuesday.
The French high command
staked all upon the newly forti
fied plain 'of Dein Bein Phu, 50
miles south of Lai Chau, to make
good its pledge to "defend the
Thai country"—the mountanious
homeland of 300,000 tribesmen
now almost wholly in viecminLl
hands.
A temporary capital has been
established for Thai President
Deo Van Long at Dien Bien Phu,
a collection of straw-thatched
huts wh i CAI French parachute
troops wrested from the Viet
minh three weeks ago. The
President was reported to have
assented to the switch. Thousands
of fresh troops and huge cargoes
of American-supplied war equip
ment were flown in to reinforce
French regiments already based
on the broad plain around the
village. -
Vietminh division No. 316 had
split its force, with thousands of
troops marching northwestward
on Lai Chau, at the head of .navi
gation on the Black River only 30
miles from Red China's frontier,
and other thousands heading
southwestward toward Dien Bien
Phu.
Explaining th e withd raw al
from Lai Chau, which a high
command spokesman de c 1a r e d
only Wednesday would be kept in
control of French and Thai troops,
Gen. Rene Cogny said cryptically:
"We do not defend the town it
self because it is like a mouse
trap . . . The mousetrap is now
ready for the Vietminh troops."
French Club to Meet
Le Cercle Francais, French
club, will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday
in 1 Main Engineering. Winston
R. Weisman, assistant professor
of fine arts, will discuss French
manuscript illumination. He will
illustrate his talk with slides.
Pre;Nacation Class Cuts
Need Profs' Excuses
Students desiring to be ex
cused early from classes to
work before Christmas vaca
tion begins Dec. 19 must re
ceive approval from their in
structors, Frank J. Simes, dean
of men, has announced. No 'ex
cuses will be approved by the
Dean of Men's office, he said.
tary assistance to Pakistan—cer
tainly a major factor of new pol
icy—will be taken within weeks, if
not days. Long delay in deciding
whether it is wise to .build up
Pakistan in the face of certain
Indian opposition has had the ef
fect of leaving smaller nations
dangling in uncertainty, infor
mants said:
Nixon has behind him direct
discussions with Nehru, .Pakis
tan's Prime Minister Mohammed
Ali and the leaders of other na
tions from Thailand to Iran on the
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Military Str"ngth
Vital, Says Ms rshall
OSLO, Norway Dec. 11 (JP)—Nobel peace prize winner Gen.
George C. Marshall said today military strength is vital in the "pres
ent highly dangerous situation," but that keeping up big armies in
definitely is not a promising policy for lasting peace.
The American soldier-statesman outlined in a lecture at Oslo
University festival hall the broad I
steps he believes would lead to
the end of wars.
Most important of these, the '7B
- sponsor of the Marshall
Plan declared, is "a spiritual re
generation which would re-estab
lish a feeling of good faith among
men generally."
lie called on the democratic
nations to provide leadership
against intolerance, distrust and
"that fatal insecurity that leads
to war."
Marshall said that, because the
United States is made up of so
many nationalities, Americans
have acquired a concern for other
peoples' problems and a "deep
urge to help the oppressed and to
give aid to those upon whom great
and sudden hardship has fallen."
Marshall did not once mention
the Soviet Union or communism.
But the speech he had prepared
long in advance replied directly
to Communist critics and in effect
to a group of young Red demon
strators wh o yesterday inter
rupted the award ceremonies to
protest.
"There has been considerable
comment on , the awarding of the
Nokel peace prize to a soldier,"
Marshall said pointedly. "I am
afraid this, does not seem as re
markable io me as it quite evi
dently appears to others. I. know
a great deal of the horrors and
tragedies of war."
British Party
Split on Suez
LONDON, Dec. 11 (?P)—Prime
Minister Winston Churchill flew
home today from the Bermuda
conference and landed in the mid
dle of a growing fight within his
own conservative party over plans
to withdraw British troops. from
the Suez Canal Zone.
The 79-year old statesman was
in a buoyant mood as he stepped
out of his plane. There were
strong indications he had Ameri
can backing for his policy in the
Middle East. The Suez Canal Zone
is a vital link in the defense of
that area.
Some 30 conservative members
of Parliament have drafted a mo
tion opposing the government's
proposals for a g r a dual with
drawal of the 70,000-man garri
son with the exception of 4000
technicians needed -for safeguard
maintenance of the billion dollar
installations.
Johnstone to Speak
Professor Henry Johnstone, as
sistant professor of philosophy,
will discuss "Proofs on the Exis
tence of God" at a joint meeting
of the Young Friends and Young
Unitarians at 6:15 p.m. tomorrow
in, 304 Old Main.
question of proper U. S. policy
toward this vast area.
What he intends to tell Eisen
hower is a strict secret, but com
petent sources in this Moslem cap
ital believe he will recommend
it is time to abandon the present
"soft policy" in relations with
Nehru.
United States leaders are be
lieved most nettled by Nehru's
furious opposition to proposed
military assistance for Pakistan
so much as by his attitude on Ko
rean War questions.
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Divorcee
Protects
Ex-husband
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (JP)—A
slender brunette divorcee refused
today to tell anything about the
whereabouts of her former hus
band, described by- Sen. Joseph
McCarthy (R-Wis.) as a member
of the Rosenberg spy ring and as
a fugitive from the FBI.
"Your refusal means that you
are equally guilty with him," Mc-
Carthy told Mrs. Louise Sarant,
called before the Senate investi
gations subcommittee in its search
for Soviet radar spying at the Ft.
Monmouth, N. J., Army Signal
Corps laboratories.
Mrs. Sarant, refusing at first to
discuss her family, finally identi
fied herself as the daughter of an
Ithaca, N.Y., lawyer. McCarthy
said after the hearing her former
husband, Al Sarant, is believed to
have left the country.
One other witness today was a
New York lawyer, Joseph H. Per
coff, who swore he never engaged
in espionage but then refused to
say whether he ever passed sec
ret government documents to
Communist spies.
Percoff contended McCarthy
had no right to question him about
"political activities" and also
questioned the senator's power to
make rulings with no other com
mittee members present.
McCarthy told him sharply,
however, he already had waived
immunity from questioning, so
far as any spy activities were con
cerned, by denying he ever took
part in an espionage .conspiracy.
Strickler Undecided
On Political Rare
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (IP)—
Maj. Gen. Daniel B. Strickler, for
mer lieutenant governor of Penn
sylvania, said today he hasn't de
cided whether he will enter the
1951 gubernatorial race in Penn
sylvania.
Strickler, 56, of Lancaster, told
a reporter he has received many
requests from all parts of the
state that he seek the Republican
nomination for governor.
"As the movement grows," he
said, "I realize I'll have to make
a decision whether to enter the
political picture or remain in
Army service."
He explained he would of
course, have to give up his mili
tary post, as did President Eisen
hower, if he re-entered politics.
Orientation Counselors
The student orientation coun
selor committee will meet at 10
a.m. today in the Dean of Men's
office to discuss talks with new
students entering the University
in February, Harold W. Perkins,
assistant dean of men, has an
nounced..
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