TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1953
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PARIS, Dec. 14 (JP)-The United States bluntly told France
today it must ratify the European Defense Community
Treaty within the next few months or risk withdrawal of
American troops
,from the continent.
Secretary of. State John Foster Dulles, eaking to a news
conference, urged prompt rati
Judge Clears
DuPont Works
Of Charges
WILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 14 (W)
—The Du Pont wOrks today was
cleared of creating and maintain
ing a monopoly of the cellophane
business by a federal judge who
ruled America's largest chemical
firm should not "be punished for
its success."
The U.S. 'government, in a civil
suit filed six years ago under the
Sherman Anti-Trust Act, accused
E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.
of "attempting to monopolize and
combining and conspiring to mo
nopolize trade and commerce" in
the manufacture and sale of cello
phane."
Du Pont pleaded innocent and
U.S. District Judge . Paul Leahy
today said "the facts destroy' the
charges."
Specifically, Du Pont was
charged with controlling manu
facture and sale of cellophane,
limiting production, - excluding
competition, fixing prices, retain
ing tight hold on patents.
Leahy flatly branded all the
charges false and pointed out "the
history of Du Pont cellophane
business is a record of competi
tive achievement." The judge said
further:
"There has been no monopoliza
tion or conspiracy or combination
or attempt to monopolize shown.
The record reflects not the dead
hand of monopoly but rapidly
declining prices, expanding pro
duction, intense competition stim
ulated by creative research, the
development of new products -and
uses and other benefits of a free
economy.
Justice Clark
Ignores Ban-
FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec.
T 4 (IP) Chief Justice William
Clark of the U.S. court' system
in Germany 'today presided on
the bench alone in defiance of
his State Department suspension.
Clark was suspended as "insub
ordinate" when he refused to
recognize an order that 'he re
turn home by Dec. 7 for consul
tations.
The Princeton, N.J., jurist ig
nored not only . the suspension,
but
also his dismissal, effective Jan.
2, 'as "surplus."
The balky judge topped it off
by refusing to recognize the ap
pointment of his colleague, Jus
tice Carl W. Fulghum of Glen
wood Springs, Colo., as acting
chief justice,
Clark claims he was outsed be
cause he was critical of U.S.
High Commission policy in Ger
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cation o t an. sal. its
failure would force Washington
o make an "agonizing reap
•raisal" of its own basic policies
•
oward Europe.
"We are not so much interested
'n getting German troops as we
•re in a situation in which the
estern nations, especially France
•nd Germany, will not commit
, :uicide," he said.
"But if they' decide to commit
.uicide, they may have to com
mit it alone."
Dulles addressed the newsmen
after a plenary session of the
orth Atlantic Treaty Organize:
tion Council at which, according
to persons in the hall, he made
he same points to 13 other for
eign ministers, including France's
eorges Bidault.
Asked by the newsmen if the
nited States would pull its troops
out of Europe if France rejects
DC,' Dulles replied that the "dis
•osition of our troops would, of
ourse, be a factor in the agon
izing reappraisal I spoke about."
He declared that Washington
would not abandon or repudiate
American obligations under the
ATO alliance if EDC fails but
hat such an event would "in
volve a re-study" of how to im
•lement these obligations.
McCarth Hits Again
Harvard Criticized
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (?P)—Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy took a new
sideswipe at Harvard University today, calling it a sanctuary "of
Fifth Amendment cases."
The Wisconsin senator also said he knew of at least 12 employes
suspended as security or loyalty risks at Griffiss Air Force Base
at Rome, N.Y. McCarthy said his Senate Permanent Investigations
subcommittee staff had talked to them.
At Rome, Brig. Gen. Daniel C. Doubleday, base commander,
declined to comment on any suspensions beyond saying:
"This is a continuing proposition. Any suspensions would have
nothing to do with the McCarthy investigation. Any suspensions
would result from standard security investigations."
Returning to New York to continue his public hearings into
possible Communist espionage at Ft. Monmouth, McCarthy ran
headon into four witnesses who dodged questions.
The last was a Bronx public school clerk, Sylvia Berke, who
worked at Ft. Monmouth for a year during the War.
She denied she was a Red at the time but refused to say whether
she ever had been a Communist, citing the Fifth Amendment against
self-incrimination.
McCarthy suggested that if the Board of Education fires Miss
Berke for her evasion, "you might apply for a job over at Harvard."
"It seems to be a sanctuary over there for Fifth Amendment
cases," the Wisconsin Republican added as he dismissed the woman
from the witness stand. •
McCarthy is an old foe of President Nathan M. Pusey of Har
vard, who opposed McCarthy's re-election when Pusey was president
of Lawrence College in Wisconsin.
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U.S. Envoy
To Return
From Korea
SEOUL, Tuesday, Dec. 15 (M
U. S. Envoy Arthur Dean will fly
home today, leaving his chief
aide, behind for "about a week to
see if the Communists wish to
resume the talks" aimed at ar
ranging a Korean peace confer
ence.
The special envoy of the State
Department walked out of the
talks Saturday, saying they were
off until the Red negotiators re
tracted a charge of perfidy against
the U.S. government.
Peiping radio broadcast a joint
statement of the Red delegates
saying the charge was "the truth
and constitutes no .insult at all."
The statement said it was up to
the United States to decide wheth
er the talks at Panmunjom would
be resumed.
The statement said the Reds
still have a demand standing for
Dean to retract a "provocative
and slanderous remark" that the
Chinese and North Koreans were
agents of the Soviet Union but
"did not on this account uni
laterally declare a suspension of
the discussions."
22 U.S. Prisoners
To Hear Repatriators
15 (in—The 22•U.5. soldiers who
have refused repatriation were ex
pected to get an appeal today to
listen to American explanations
which they so far have snubbed.
Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya, chair
man of the repatriation commis
sion, said he was going to make a
personal appeal, but there was no
reason to believe he could budge
them when the mother of one ap
parently failed.
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At efense
Ike
For
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (A') President Eisenhower today
voiced an "appeal to the common sense of America" to prepare, with
out panic or hysteria, for the possibility of atomic attack.
Asserting that the nation's cities will become front-line targets
in the event of World War 111, the President told a conference of
175 U.S. mayors: .
"When a threat is not immedi
ate with us, the ordinary Ameri
can is not particularly anxious to
get out and do a drill that he
thinks has a little of the infan
tile about it. He possibly sees
himself back in primary school,
where he had drills, or evacu
ating the school room, in case
of fire.
"But there was a very great
principle there.
"Ordered haste will, save you,
and panic will destroy you. So it
is, first of all, against the inci
dence of panic that we must be
prepared."
Eisenhower keynoted the theme
of calm preparedness at the out
set of a two-day closed door con
ference, called by himself, on
problems of national defense. The
White House later made his re
marks public.
The President told the mayors,
representing the country's larger
cities, that he had not checked
back into history, but he de
clared:
"I know of no other time when
the President of the United States
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felt it necessary to invite to a con
ference the mayors of our cities
in order that they might together
discuss—and the staffs mighi
discuss with you—national se
curity.
"For the first time in history,
cities have become principal tar.
gets for any enemy seeking to
conquer our nation. The city ha:
moved from a position of suppor
in the rear. It has moved out ie
a very distinct way into the from
line.
"And so that creates problems
They can be solved only if w
consult together and act intel•
ligently."
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'someone really feel impor
tant, avoid' that "last-min-
ute rush" to choose your
Christmas gifts. After all,
you do select your gifts more
wisely if you're not pressed
for time. In your leasure
hours shop State College
where you'll find a large,
new variety of gifts with
prices comparable with those
of Metropolitan shopping
centers . . . so this Christmas
. . . Shop State College.
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