THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1953
BacksDulles' Warning• .to Eur,,:.:;:•:;7.-
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (N)—
President Dwight D. Eisenhow
er today reinforced Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles, warn
ing to Western Europe to unite
for defense and indicated Amer
ica might arm its Allies with
atomic weapons if war comes.
The President told a news con
ference Dulles' advice to get to
gether or risk reductions in U.S.
troops in Europe was neither new
nor blunt but based on the lam of
our land.
He put his foot down on shar
ing with the Western Allies the
know-hOw of producing atomic
weapons but not necessarily on
the sharing of the weapons them
selves if war should break out.
Beria 'Admits
Against Soviet
MOSCOW, Thursday, Dec. 17 (JP)—Lavrenty P. Beria has con
fessed to a traitorous plot against the
,Soviet Union and is ready for
trial along with a group of his former associates in the secret police,
the government announced today.
The statement said the Soviet
South Korean
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PANMUNJOM, Thursday, Dec.
17 (EP)—A South Korean clamb
ered out of the pro-CommuniSt
prisoner compound yesterday and
was quoted as saying at least
three of the 22 Americans who
stayed with the Reds also want
to go home.
The South Korean was the first
to ask to be repatriated since Al
lied interviews broke down last
Saturday over prisoner demands
that they be allowed to argue at
length with explanation teams.
With little hope that explana
tions can get going again before
the deadline Dec. 23, Allied offi
cers prepared to use loudspeak
ers for last-minute "come - home"
broadcasts to the balking prison-.
ers.
The South Korean, Pfc. Kim
Mun Du, climbed over the barbed
wire fence about dawn, walked
up to an Indian guard and said
he wanted to go home. he was
turned over to the UN Command
and taken to Seoul.
He was not permitted at once
to talk to newsmen. But Col. Choi
Yak Kyun, a member of the
South Korean explanation team,
quoted him as saying:
"A few of the 22 Americans
who the Reds say do not want re
patriation are willing to come
home. I talked with three Amer
icans who desire repatriation:"
Guam Plane Crash
Kills 16, Iniures 17
GUAM, Dec. 17 (IP)—A ,B-29
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Anderson Air Force base hous
ing a fiery swath today that
left 16 dead, including five chil
dren, and 17 injured. •
The plane, coming in for • a
landing at 6:48 a.m. when many
Air Force personnel and their
families
,were asleep, slashed
through 800 feet of the depend
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- Eisenhower also said he still
was intent upon peaceful, inter
national development of atomic
energy for the good of all hu
manity and Soviet rejection of his
plan for pooling atomic materials
for that purpose would not stop
him. On that proposal, he said,
there has been no official Russian
reaction.
The facts are plain for all to
see, he said, that the law of our
land says half the funds for mili
tary aid to Europe shall be chan
neled through EDC. He ,drum
med a desk top with fingertips
fo: emphasis.
If EDC does not produce, Eis
enhower inquired, what -do we
do?
As for sharing atomic informa-
Plot
Union
state prosecutor has completed his
case against the squat forther po
lice boss who was one of the prin
cipal men in the Soviet Union
until his arrest June 26.
It declared his "traitorous" ac
tivities went back as far as the
revolution-35 years ago.
The announcement, published
in the official newspaper Izvestia,
disclosed the names of six men ac
cused with Beria.
They include V.
N. Merkulov, for
mer minister of
state security who
for a long time
was Beria',s dep
uty.
The announce
ment said:
' "The investiga
tion has estab
lished that Beria
using the posi-
tion, had collec-
ted a treacherous
group of plotters hostile to the
Soviet state . . . strivir.g . . . to
grab power and to liquidate the
Soviet worker-peasant r egim
with a view of restoring capital
ism."
Beria was first deputy prime
minister, under Premier Georgi
Malenkov, and minister of inter
nal affairs. The latter office con
trols the police, intelligence work
and related activities.
The Supreme Soviet said Mer
kulov had been ousted Sept. 17
and Vassily G. • Zhavoronkov
named his successor.
The Mpscow radio, heard in
London, said Beria and his asso
ciates will be tried at a special
sitting of the Supreme Court of
the Soviet Union, but no date was
given. The official announcement
did not make it clear how Beria
had "confessed," but this is nor
mal. procedure in Communist
courts —defendants are not
brought to trial until the prose
cution has obtained confessions.
It can only be speculated, of
course, whether Beria was sub
jected to some inquisitorial meth
ods his police used for years.
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tion, the President said changes
in the Atomic Energy Act will be
necessary; but neither he nor the
Atomic Energy Commission con
templates any that would dis
close how atomic weapons are
built or the scientific processes
involved.
But he said it is foolish to think
we cannot or must not share some
of our information , with our Al
lies, who also must rely on the
s _pport of nuclear weapons. Fur
thermore, the President said he
sees sees no reason wh y the
weapons. themselves should not
be shared in event-of war if that
would best advance the interests
of this country. He said it would
depend • on military circu in
stances.
U.S. Plane Rips
Sound Barrier
For New Record
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (?P)—
The Air Force disclosed today that
an American plane has ripped
through the air at about 27 miles
a minute-2 1 A times the speed of
sound—the fastest man has ever
traveled.
The man who first drove an
aircraft through the sound bar
rier, Air Force Maj. Charles Yea
ger, piloted the rocket-driven
Bell X-1A in the history-making
flight last Saturday, the Air Force
said.-
The new unofficial record of
more than 1600 miles an hour, at
an undisclosed altitude, topped a
record set only less than a month
ago. On Nov. 20 a Navy Skyrocket,
also a rocket propelled laboratory
plane, attained a speed mark of
1327 miles per hour.
The Bell X-IA, like the old X-1
which first cracked the sound bar
rier in 1947 with Yeager at the
controls, is purely a research air
craft, There are no weapons - in
the little, snub-nosed plane with
its wings as thin as the blade of a
sword.-
Wintry Front
Freezes State
PITTSBURGH, Dec.' 16 (11 3 )
Winter's coldest wave—with tem
peratures plunging toward zero—
swept into Pennsylvania today on
the heels of a storm that dumped
a foot of snow in some sections.
Hardest hit was the, northwest
ern corner of the state. Erie and
Corry measured 11 to 12 inches
of snow. The temperature at Cor
ry was 17—coldest of the season.
The unexpected Erie - Corry
snow disrupted bus service, closed
at least one school and caused
numerous bumper-to-bumper car
crashes.
Forecasters had no immediate
explanation for the fall. Other
communities in the area had only
three to four inches.
. -
Eastern and central Pennsyl
vania escaped with snow flurries
in the mountain sections and be
low freezing weather except in
the Philadelphia area where the
mercury ranged around the 37-
degree mark. Snow flurries fell
in - the afternoon at Philadelphia.
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Asked whether an atomic pool
ing arrangement should be work
ed out among non-Communist
countries, regardless of what hap
pens, Eisenhower said he didn't
believe in speculating on the next
ote.p until we see where the orig
inal proposition leads. He added
that he never believed in admit
ting defeat, and even Russian re
jection of his offer would not stop
him from seeking every possible
way to make the best possible
use of atomic energy.
Eisenhower turned up for the
news conference a minute late.
'The conference took a leisurely
gait, with the President chuck
ling at some of the questions and
philosophizing in answers to oth
ers.
Advice of Einstein
Stymies cCarthy
NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (in —A witness defied Sen. Joseph R. Mc-
Carthy's subcommittee today on the personal advice of world-famed
scientist Albert Einstein.
"I warship him," said the witness, Albert Shadowitz, of Ein
stein, who is a determined foe of congressional spy hunters.
McCarthy threatened the wit
ness with contempt charges, but
Shadowitz, 38, an engineer and
former employe of sensitive gov
ernment installations, refused to
say whether he had been a Com
munist and told the Republican
senator from Wisconsin:
"I discussed this / matter person
ally with Dr. Albert Einstein and
he advised me
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with this corn
mittee or .a n -
other committf
of a similar n.
ture."
As coached b
Einstein, Shad(
witz refused
answer most (
McCarthy's que:
tions but volu:
tarily testified ht.
never engaged in
espionage or dis
cussed classified government
work with any unauthorized per
son.
At one point; McCarthy asked
Shadowitz:
"You mean Einstein told you
not to say whether you were a
Communist when you were work
ing on classified government
work?"-
"Not in so many words," Shad
oivitz replied.
•At Princeton, N.J., Einstein con
firmed through his secretary, Hel
en Dukas, that he had talked to
Shadowitz and "advised him not
to cooperate with the investigat
ing committee on the basis of the
First Amendment, but instead of
this to make a spontaneous state
ment about his conduct as a citi
zen and as an employe."
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He laughed a bit when asked if
he had any objection to being
called "Ike" in newspaper head
lines—the nickname fits into
headlines a lot better than the
full name. No, he replied, he al
ways had been called that and
he. hadn't the slightest objection.
Eisenhower brought along a bit
of paper with reminders of some
items he wanted to mention:
Vice President Richard M. Nix
on's world-girdling tour, on which
he said he had received splendid
reports both from the press and
official circles in every country
visited.
The conference with Republi
can legislative leaders starting to
morrow to exchange views on im
portant problems.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., De v...
16 (2 1 1 3 )—Carl Austin Ha 11 and
Bonnie Brown Heady begin their
last day of life tomorrow, just 81
days a f ter they kidnaped and
killed six-year-old Bobby Green
lease.
The couple, still apparently im
passive; will be executed side by
side in the gas chamber of the
drab Missouri State Prison a few
minutes after midnight Thursday.
They have neither seen nor
talked to one another since they
were brought here from Kansas
City Nov. 20. But they will have a
few brief moments together be
fore they die.
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taken into a small cell in the, gas
chamber for their short walk into
the lethal gas tank. But they will
not be alone. Acting U.S. Marshal
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City, his wife and two ministers
will be with them.
Mrs. Tatman will be the only
woman to witness the double ex
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