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Secret Atomic Tests
Planned for Pacific
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (10--The United States disclosed tonight
it will make a ,super-secret series of atomic tests in the Pacific soon,
and there was immediate speculation that a mighty hydrogen weapon
would be exploded.
Signaling that the time has arrived for another advance in the
science of atomic warfare, the
Atomic Energy Commission said
men and materials would start
moving to the proving grounds in
the Marshal Islands this month
The carefully-worded AEC an
nouncement did not say that
preparations are under way for
the greatest man-made blast in
history. But it did state that
weapons tests of all categories
would be made,
Reports Strengthened
This lent strength to unofficial
reports that American scientists
are ready to unlease a blast of
awful proportions. It has been
frequently reported, and never
denied, that a hydrogen test de
vice was exploded at Eniwetok
in 1952.
The tests will be made against
a background of determination to
use American atomic power
against an aggressor
. if necessary
to preserve this country's free
dom.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
told Congress in his State of the
Union message yesterday that he
wants to use atomic "power to
serve the purposes of peace, but
We take into account our
great and growing number of nu
clear weapons and the most ef
fective means of using them
against an aggressor if they are
needed to preesrve our freedom."
Eisenhower declared American
air power, needed to deliver atom
ic weapons and to defend against
them, would be built up in the
next year. He also urged Congress
to authorize the sharing with Al
lied countries of certain knowl
edge "of the tactical use of our
nuclear weapons,
British Statesman,
Lord Geddes, Dies
CHICHESTER, England, Jan. 8
(R)—Lord. Geddes, 74, former Brit
ish ambassador to the United
States who helped mobilize Brit
ain's defenses in two world wars,
died today.
The tall, scholarly former col
lege professor rose to prominence
after he was discovered by Lloyd
George in World War I.
As a result of his services in
directing Britain's wartime re
cruiting program, Geddes was
named envoy to Washington in
1920, a post he held for , four years.
Bobo Rockefeller Takes
$5.5 Million Settlement
NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (EP)—Bar
bara Sears (Bobo) Rockefeller to
day accepted a $5.5 million. Settle
ment to end her Cinderella
marriage. Time ran out on her
just as it did on the original
fairy tale heroine. '•
Help People Buy Homes=mstapehart
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (IF)
Sen. Capehart (R-Ind.) today sug
gested a billion-dollar govern
ment program to help people buy
homes on 50 to 60 year mortgages
with little or no down payment.
Capehart, chairman of the Sen r
ate Banking Committee which
will consider President Eisen
hower's housing 'proposals, ad
vanced what he called a radical
idea of 'making homeowners of
citizens otherwise unable to af
ford their .own dwellings.
He told a CIO housing confer
ence he has long bee. , worried i
about the plight of citizens who
cannot afford either a down pay
ment on a home or the high rents
they are forced to pay today.
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Reuther Shot
By Gangsters
DETROIT, Jan. 8 (fl')—A high
ranking police official said today
that the shotgun blast which se
riously wounded Walter Reuther
in 1948 has been traced to gang
ster -elements which tried to seize
control of the big CIO United
Auto Workers union which Reu
ther heads.
Wayne County Prosecutor Ger
ald K. O'Brien, told in an inter
view today some of the details
which led to the naming of four
men Wednesday as conspirators in
the assassination attempt.
O'Brien indicated his staff will
outline the fight for power in
detail when the four men are
brought to trial.
O'Brien said the gangsters'
struggle to control the gigantic
auto union's affairs was a more
important factor in the assassina
tion attempt than their desire to
keep a multi-million dollar gam
bling ring operating in auto plants
at the time of the shooting. Reu
ther was an outspoken opponent
of such gambling.
Investigators said the mass of
evidence collected since the shoot
ing in April 1948 indicated that
the gambling issue merely served
to bring together labor leaders
and racketeers and set the stage
for ensuing events.
Guff Working
On '54 Strategy
PHILADELPHIA ,Jan. 8 (?P)=
U.S. Sen. James H. Duff 'left
Pennsylvania's Republican lead
ers still guessing about his polit
ical strategy for the 1954 gover
norship campaign after a quick
trip to his home state today.
"There's no news in my trip
here," he said. "I'm on a non
political trip and that's about all
I have to say on that.",
Was he ready to announce
whether he would seek the par
ty's nomination for the position
he held from 1946 until 1950?
"No, I'm not ready to make any
announcement. Any announce
ment I ma k e will depend on
events."
He dimmed seriously, for the
time being at least, the prospects
of a harmony meeting of leaders
of all groups in the party to talk
over possible candidates for the
top post on the state ticket this
year.
Capehart disapproved past pfo
grams under which public hous
ing has been built with federal
subsidies for rent to' low-income
families. He said it would be bet
ter to help such families finance
their own homes.
"We could go into it on, say, a
billion-dollar basis figuring on
losing $2OO or $3OO million," Cape
hart said.
"Even if we took a licking fi
nancially, because some of the
people couldn't keep up their paY
ments, I think we'd be better off
as a nation than with the public
housing plan. I think the vast
majority would become successful
homeowners."
Capehart said encouraging home
Congress
kers Plan;
Program
$5 Billion Cut
9n Expenses
Received Coolly
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (?P)
—Members of Congress took a
second look at .P r esident
Dwight D. Eisenhower's leg
islative program today anc . let
it be known that he will have
to fight t 3 get major darts of it
through the House and Senate.
Public reaction to yesterday's
State of the Union message, as
measured by telegrams received
at the White Houze, is over
whelmingly in favor of the Eisen
hower program, Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty reported.
He said that up to 4 , 3.m. today
30 telegrams had been received
praising the President's message
and 4 criticising it.
Opposition Sighted
But storm signals were hoisted
on Capitol Hill, where it was evi
dent the President will face stiff
opposition when he tries to raise
the national debt limit, hold taxes
generally at present levels, and
put farm price supports on a more
flexible basis.
Even Eisenhower's estimate of
a $5 billion cut in expenditures
during the next fiscal year was
received coolly in some congres
sional circles.
Chairman Taber (R-N.Y.) of the
House Appropriations Committee
said he expected the administra
tion to submit a tight budget, but
he added:
"I never saw a budget that
couldnt be cut. That applies to
all of them, Republican and Dem
ocratic."
There was early support, how
ever, for the President's proposa
to give the vote to 18-year-olds
young citizens who, as Eisenhow
er put it, have, in time of peril
been summoned to fight for Amer
ica.
Two . resolutions have already
been introduced in the House, and
one in the Senate, for a constitu
tional amendment extending the
right of suffrage to citizens when
they reach the age of 18.
The White House said ptiblic
reaction to lowering the voting
age has been particularly favor
able, and that considerable sup
port has been shown for Eisen
hower's proposal to strij citizen
ship from convicted Communist
conspirators.
Potter Denounces
Atrocity Film Delay
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (IP)
Sen. Potter (R-Mich) today blis
tered the State and Defense De
partment for postponing release
of an Army film showing Com
munist atrocities in Korea.
"It's silly, utterly ridiculous,"
said Potter, who lost both legs in
World War II combat.
"I'm getting damn tired of cur
policies being based upon what
the Communists . might think
about it."
ownership among low income citi
zens would be a good investment
against ariy• spread of commun
ism.
Leon Keyserling, former chair
man of the Economic Advisory
Council under the Truman admin
istration was another speaker at
the CIO conference. He advocated
stepping up the nation's housing
output from the present one mil
lion to two million units a year
by 1960. He said this must be done
to meet housing needs and avoid
depression.
Federal Housing Administrator
Albert M. Cole said President
Dwight D. Eisenhower will offer
a very realistic housing program
to Congress Jan. 25.
Voting Age Supported
Anti-Red Liberal tion
Set for January 22
PANMUNJOM, Saturday, Jan. 9 (?P)—lt seemed a cinch today
that- 22,000 Chinese and Noith Korean prisoners in the anti-Red
compounds will be released after midnight Jan. 22.
"Top authoritative sources in Korea , say it is inevitable that the
prisoners will stream south through the early morning darkness
of Jan.
,23.
These sources smile over the
letter writing, note passing and
arguments of the Communists, the
Allies and the Indians. The In
dians guard the prisoners.
"All this stuff now going on at
Panmunjom," one said, "is just
for show. The issues have been
settled a long, long time."
Allies Demand Release
The Allies demand release of
the prisoners at 12:01 a.m. Jan. 23.
The Reds insist they be held
while come home interviews are
resumed and until a Korean peace
conference can determine their
fate.
The Indians maintain a gentle
manly, wavering position, irri
tating but not actually antagoniz
ing either side.
It is possible Lt. Gen. K. S.
Thimayya, under instructions
from his government, might even
throw his vote to the Communist
side of the Neutral Nations Repa
triation Commission by deciding
the prisoners should be held past
the Jan. 22 date. The commission
chair Man thus would side with the
Poles and Czechs and against the
Swiss and Swedes.
Break-Out Planned
If the Reds win such a ruling,
plans already have been made for
the anti-Red prisoners simply to
break out of their 55 compounds
in the neutral zone and start
walking south, it can be said
authoritatively.
It also can be disclosed that the
Indian troops would make no
move whatever to stop them or
slow thed.
Truman Denies
Use of Phrase
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (JP)
Former President Harry S. Tru
man said today it was a reporter
at a news conference who referred
'to congressional spy hunts in 1948
as a red herring. Truman said he
himself did not use the phrase.
An unofficial transcript of the
Aug. 5, 1948 news conference
showed that the reporter first
used the words in a question, but
that Truman later said "Yes, you
can quote me . . . they are using
this as a red herring to keep from
doing what they ought to do."
Truman's version was given in
an interview recorded for tele
vision today. The interview was
between the ex-President and
Drew Pearson, columnist-com
mentator whom Truman once
called an "5.0.8."
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Dewey, AFL
s 'Unfair
NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (W)—The
old International Longshoremen's
Association, accused of gangster
tactics in a recent waterfront bar
gaining election, filed unfair la
bor charges of its own today.
Its targets were Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey and AFL President
George Meany.
The union accused them of con
spiring to interfere with last
month's bar gaining election
among 22,000 New York long
shoremen—the same charge both
Dewey and Meany already have
lodged against the ILA.
In Albany, Dewey's office said:
"The governor never responds to
charges made by racketeers."
Amid this picture of complete
confusion, the threat of a general
waterfront strike led the City of
New York to send 550 policemen
onto the docks.
It was feared that two small
strikes al r e ad y under way in
Brooklyn might explode into a
full scale strike.
The ILA and a new AFL long
shoremen's union are locked in a
bitter battle for control of the
New York waterfront.
Meany and the top echelon of
the AFL are behind the new un
ion.
The ILA is strongly backed by
John L. Lewis, powerful presi
dent of the independent United
Mine Workers.
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