FRIDAY. JANUARY 8, 1954 POW Argument Nears Showdown SEOUL, Friday, Jan. 8 (JP)—The Communists today pushed the explosive dispute over prisoners closer to a showdown with demands clashing head on with the UN Command's stand that the 22,000 Chinese and North Koreans must be freed as civilians after Jan. 22. - The Reds insisted that a majority of the supervisory commission agreed with them in the main. They quoted a hitherto highly secret memorandum of India's chief custodial officer as saying armistice terms were not specific' "about custody by Indian troops coming to an end." Shortly before last midnight, a Red messenger at Panmunjom turned over a letter demanding that explanations to the prisoners be resumed and that the prisoners be held until a peace conference deals with them, regardless of when it is convened. The letter replied to requests from Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya, In dia's chairman of the Neutral Na tions Repatriation Commission, that both sides present their views and help the commission reach a decision on what to do aoout the prisoners, Allies Swap Big 4 Ideas With Reds BERLIN, Jan. 7 (iP)--Represen tatives of the three Western Allies swapped views with the Russians today to try to smooth the way for the Berlin conference of the Big Four Foreign Ministers. But they had to schedule another ses sion for Saturday after failing to agree on a site for the parley, West Berlin's three. Allied com mandants conferred for six hours at British headquarters with Ser gei A. Dengin, Berlin representa tive of the Soviet High Commis sion. After what was officially de scribed as "an exchange of views," the four decided `to meet again Saturday at Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst, East Berlin. The Allies have proposed, the 500-room former Allied Control Authority building in the Ameri can sector of Berlin for the con ference, to open Jan. 25. Allied spokesmen said the talks were conducted in "a friendly at mosphere" and cautioned against any pessimism because the first preparatory parley did not pro duce agreement. .? - Before -the meeting got under way, a Russian-licensed news paper featured a front-page story declaring West Berlin was not safe for the Foreign Ministers conference. West Berlin, meanwhile, took a favorable view toward the Big Four talks. Runaway Lovers Wed KELSO, Scotland, Jan. 7 (/P)— Love triumphed tonight for Isa bela Patino and Jimmy Goldsmith, the - runaway romancers. The 18-year-old Bolivian tin heiress and her dashing English fiance, ' 20, were married in this picturesque border village seven hours after her father, multi-mil lionaire Antenor Patino, with drew a court ban in Edinburgh against their marriage. Spy Probers Warned of Waste WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (IP)— Sen. Carl Hayden (D-Ariz.) urged the Senate today to guard against "w as t e and extrava gance" in its investigations. He took his stand at the out set of a prospective new wave of congressional spy-h unt i n g probes. Hayden told the Senate he will invoke a long-dormant rule to force a delay of at least one day—thereby providing time for debate—before the chamber acts on proposals for investigations. Jennen Asks• New Funds The Arizona Democrat's move came as Sen. Jenner (R-Ind.) asked the Senate for $170,000 in new funds to carry on his Sen ate Internal Security subcommit tee's investigations of commun ism. Jenner beat Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) to the punch in introducing his resolution. for SPECIAL NEWMAN CLUB fi 65c WASH sOO I n V TICKETS 6c, DANCE SAVE $1.50 Friday, Jan. 8 LAUNDERETTE: 8:30 P.M. TU B 210 W. College Lye. Phone 4785 - Pickup & Delivery ,; THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Period Ended Dec. 23 Earlier, the UN Command had sent its reply stating that the 90- day explanation p er i 3d ended Dec. 23 as called for in the armis tice terms and that if no peace conference was set up in time to deal with the prisoners by Jan. 22 their release was automatic. Peiping radio, quoting from a confidential memorandum which Thimayya sent along with his let ter to both Communist Czechoslo vakia and Poland, said the ex planations should be resumed. The UN Command, advised of the broadcast, made no immediate comment. Prisoners Refuse Head Count Another development in the fast-forming crisis was a reliable report that the Indian command had asked for a new head count today in the anti-Red compounds but the prisoners refused. On Dec. 31, the Indian command made a roll call of nearly 5,000 Chinese during which 15 asked and were granted repatriations to the Communists. The Reds, who insist on doing their own explain ing, denounced the move as "il legal screening." South Korea, opposed to India's role in , the armistice, issued a veiled warning that any attempt to renew it might bring South Korean steps to free the 7,500 North Koreans among the 22,000 in the anti-Red compounds. Snow, !needs Strike italy LONDON, Jan. 7 (2P)—Beset by an Adriatic flood which laid waste six Villages in the Po River delta. Italy braced today for new peril from the north. Wind-whipped blizzards, swirling across Western Europe, isolated dozens of Alpine Hamlets. new funds. McCarthy has said he plans to ask an increase over the $200,000 allotted to his Sen ate Investigations subcommittee for last year. ; Jenner's request for $170,000 is $20,000 more than his subcom mittee received in 1953. Contempt Citations Voted Hayden denied to newsmen that his slow-down move was aimed at McCarthy or any other senate inquiry group. McCarthy's subcommittee vot ed at a closed-door meeting to ask the Senate for contempt of Congress citations against three balky witnesses. The three are: 1. Corliss Lamont, wealthy New York writer and philosophy teacher, who was accused by McCarthy on some "two dozen" contempt counts for refusing to answer subcommittee ,questions. ge:18 Vote Amendments Introduced WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (2?)— Acting promptly on President Ei senhower's proposal to lower the voting age to 18, constitutional amendments to bring this about were introduced in both houses of Congress today. Sen. William Knowland of Cali fornia, Republican leader of the Senate, offered ,a measure which won the immediate endorsement of five other senators from both parties. A similar bill was introduced in the House by Rep. Widnall (R-NJ) who said Am:erican youth is ready to shoulder more respon sibility for the government of the country. Since the Constitution does not set forth the qualifications of vot ers, this matter has been left to the "reserved powers" of the states. Forty-seven states require voters to be 21, but Georgia has permitted 18-year-olds to vote since 1944. A constitutional amendment, if passed by a two-thirds majority of Congress and approved by three fourths of the states, would es tablish on - a nation-wide basis the right of young men and women to cast a ballot upon reaching the age of 18. Eisenhower devoted a paragraph to the problem in his State of the Union message to Congress today. "For years our citizens between the ages of 18 and 21 have, in time of peril, been summoned to fight for America," the President said. "They. should participate in the political process that produces this fateful summons. I urge Con gress to propose to the states a constitutional amendment permit ting citizens to vote when they reach the age of 18." • 2. Albert Shadowitz, of Nut ley, N.J., an engineer formerly working for a plant doing work for the Signal Corps. He re fused to answer subcommittee questions at a New York hear ing last Dec. 16 with the explan ation that Dr. Albert Einstein, the famed physicist, had advised him not to do so. 3. Abraham Ung e r, a New York City lawyer. Asks for 4th Citation McCarthy said the subcom mittee also voted to ask the Jus tice Department to determine whether a fourth witness should be cited for alleged perjury 'in denying under oath that he was a Communist party member. McCarthy described the man as an employe of the General Electric plant at Schenectady, N.Y., who testified at a recent closed-door hearing in -Albany. Gruenther "Peace 1 n PARIS, Jan. 7 (JP)—Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, supreme com mander of Allied forces in Europe, said today the world's uneasy peace is balanced between Russia's military superiority and the West's ability to deliver crushing air blows to Soviet industry. "We still do not have enough forces in any area, particularly the central area, to meet an all-out Soviet offensive," Gruenther said, "but neither do the Soviets have the capability to defend them selves from an aerial attack on their industrial potential." Reviewing accomplishments of the North Atlantic Treaty Organi zation in the three years since Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ar rived to head SHAPE in 1951, Gruenther to 1 d the American Club, a group of U.S. businessmen here, that important progress has been made in long range air power. "We have the capability to be able to wreak a great deal of damage on Soviet industrial potential and they are unable to meet this development at this time," he said. NATO, a defensive alliance of 14 nations, actually has no long range bombers within its military command. In case of war, they presumably might be made avail able to the organization by the U.S. Strategic Air Command. At the moment, FB4G Thun derjets are the only atom-bomb carrying planes at NATO's dis posal. The" development of an air striking force which could cripple Soviet industry is "one of the consoling features in the balanced picture" of over-all defense, the general said. He recalled that when Eisen hower took the SHAPE command, the Western cause was in a sorry condition. The Korean War seem ed lost. There were only about 14 divisions, at Eisenhower's dis posal. There were 1800 planes. There were only 15 air fields. The -Soviet Union had—and still has—"probably the strong est army, numerically the strongest air force and the sec ond strongest navy," Gruenther said. Instead of the 15 NATO air fields, there now are 120 and more will be added in the next two years. The European nations of NATO are spending $11,600,000 a year for defense, instead of the 5% billion they were spending in 1951. Gruenther said his headquarters is studying the effect of the new atomic weapons on military plan ning, taxes and defense costs of the NATO nations, He said it is a certainty that NATO will, through atomic wea pons delivered by air, guided mis siles and artillery, have increased fire power in the future. Novelty TV Set NEW. YORK, Jan. 7(11") —A tele vision set on which hubby can watch wrestling from one station and the wife at the same time see a whodunit from another was de monstrated here today. The set, so far only in the nov elty stage, was developed by Al len B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. which calls it Duoscopic. Basi cally, it's two complete sets built into a single cabinet. States lk a lance lf 'o,uake° Hits Re.4dincl / Shocks Reach NY READING, Pa., Jan. 7 (Al—The Reading area was shaken by earth tremors today that tumbled sleep ers out of bed, toppled chimneys, rattled houses and tumbled liquor bottles from shelves in a state li quor store. There were 11 tremors in all, the first at 2:30 a.m. and the last at 1:45 p.m. Fordham and Colum bia Universities in New York said that seismographs t her e regis tered the shocks. The Rev. Joseph J. Lynch, Ford ham seismologist, termed them lo cal "settlement" shocks. He said that their exact cause could not be determined. Dr. L. M. Levitt, head of Phila delphia's Franklin institute Ob servatory, said the tremors were recorded on his instruments as "very mild earthquakes." Dr. Le vitt said they probably were caused by the "release of strains or stresses stored up in the earth's crust; the aftershocks like a bouncing ball or vibrating rubber band." N.Y. Writer Backs Male Debate Team Even the women are on the side of the Men's Debate Team as they go into action against the Mount Mercy Girls' Team at 7:30 tonight in 121 Sparks. A letter sent by the Men's Team to Doris Blake, advice to the lovelorn columnist for the New York Daily News, request ing, her opinions on her recent column topic which discussed, "Will the recent trend of women going from the home to industry do more harm than good?", brought the following reply: Regret that I can't be there but, "Wish your team good luck in the debate." Miss Blake said in her letter that she could not give her opin ions on the topic in a letter be cause it is contrary to her prac tices as a columnist. id exz.,,,,it:' , - *. '''' ' - '4;t!FI =- '‘fiiPer% t4r47 OUS f ' t.' , .., ~- -‘,.... 5 i", ,, '"' ''' > , ..:•0': , ;1/' 4 .IY::,,EF-%/...,::, ~ .4- 4 . , t.W.-Sr.f.S., Skd*tVM*4is-"Z; DIN ii krgfro• , l g.f. OT 4A 4 *t , 41 ( 41Z ; 14Z4412 4 ,g j, 4 ,4 ,;:0;,%. , :; , '"W•'`::• - •S:IYAF.k , . - • ,, Z:V=.W.,1-4.9N1- -A ,,, ,•A- ,,, ,',::?) "42• P,, :, .),- RUDY BLACK TRIO Special Matinee Fri. and Sat. at 3 p.m. PAGE THREE
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