TUESDAY, JANUARY 12; 1954 .......'•' - eds Ask Resumption of • Korev•-, First Official Red Since Talks Ended PANMUNJOM, Tuesday, Jan. 11 (AP)—The Communists yesterday formally asked for resumption of talks to set up a Korean peace conference—the negotiations broke up Dec. 12, The brief note was liande. State Department representat British Edict Grounds Comet Jets LONDON, Jan. 11 (JP)—Britain grounded all her world-famed Comet jet airliners for a search ing inspection tonight, after the third fatal Comet crash in ten months. • Thirty-five persons, including two Americans, were killed in yes terday's crash off Elba. High ranking British airline and civil aviation officials pushed a probe into the tragedy. The grounding order tempor arily suspending British Comet services between London, South Africa, and the Far East at mid night was ordered by the govern ment-owned British Overseas Air ways Corp., BOAC. The airline said it had taken its seven four-jet, 500-mile-an-hour plus Comet out of service for "a minute and unhurried technical examination." It called the action "a measure of prudence." It was not -an official govern ment grounding such 'as can be ordered by the Air Registration Board when the airworthiness of an aircraft is in doubt. BOAC said the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation con curred in the grounding decision. Canada and France were informed of the action so they could make their own decisions regarding their Comets. Two French airlines, the gov ernment-subsidized Ai r France and the privately owned Aero Maritime Transport (UAT) Co., also announced they were ground ing their British-made Comets for the time being. Three Comets are operated by Air France, three by the UAT and two by the Royal Canadian Air Force. Atomic Planes Are Predicted WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (IF)— Gen. James H. Doolittle predicted today atomic-powered aircraft will fly "probably within 25 years." He added that it is "entirely probable" that an earth satellite will be built within the next 50 years, and that attempts will be made to send missiles to the moon. By an earth satellite, Doolittle meant a platform suspended just outside the gravitational pull of the earth, to be used for various scientific purposes. The famed aviator and World War II leader of the first carrier based bomb attack upon Japan looked into the future in an ar ticle in "Planes," official publica tion of the Aircraft Industries As sociation. Doolittle, now retired, said high speed, long-range jet transports should be flying on U.S. sched uled 'airlines by the end of this decade, probably will be in wide use in the mid-19605, and within 25 years should attain speeds of 1000 miles an hour under certain conditions. Storms Hit Europe LONDON, Jan. 11 (R)—Contin uing blizzards .and scores of ava lanches roared over western and central Europe today, leaving a trail of dead and missing, isolat ing hundreds of towns and paral lyzing transportation. Waltz Composer Dies VIENNA, Australia, Jan. 11 (?P) —Oscar Strauss, 83, one of the of the great Viennese Waltz composers, died today in the re sort town of Bad Isohi. Move Dec.l2 r first official move here since over in Panmunjom to a U.S. ve who relayed it to Washing ton and said he was awaiting in structions. The Reds' action came amidst a swift series of developments, in cluding a bid by India to recon vene the UN General Assembly over the Korean question. The Reds' note was handed to the U.S. State Department repre sentative, Kenneth Young, under unusual circumstances. Young had not been advised to expect such a message but w en t to the area strictly on a "hunch." Note Sent to Capital "I have sent the request on to Washington and am waiting offi cial reaction,", he said. "Arwy de cision will have to come through the State Department." The note proposed that liaison officers meet at 11 a.m. Wednes day and discuss a time for resum ing the talks. The request from the Chinese and Nor t h Korean. negotiators made no reference to their charge of perfidy against the U.S. gov ernment which figured in the Dec. 12 breakup of the talks: Dean Quit Talks U. S. Envoy Arthur H. Dean called the charge an insult, walked out and said he would not be back until the charge was withdrawn. Then he left Young, his aide, be hind just in case. There have been hints since that the United States might not in sist on a formal apology if the Reds took the, initiative in resum ing the talks and showed willing ness to negotiate. There was little chance that a peace conference could be set up in time to pass on the fate of 22,- 000 Chinese and North Korean prisoners before Jan. 23. That is the date on which the Allies in sist that the prisoners, now held in an anti-Red camp, must be al lowed to go free in South Korea and Formosa. The Reds want the prisoners held until a peace con ference deals with them. India Asks Parley There were other developments related to the Korean crisis: India yesterday fornally called for the UN General Assembly to meet Feb. 8 and 9 on the Korean question but an Indian govern ment spokesman said this was not intended to delay release of the prisoners beyond the deadline. -:',itillom Hits the-'L.-'! ortheast NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (?P)—A raging snowstorm., the worst in five years, buried the northeast today, and high winds piled up road blocking, man-killing drifts. Freezing rain and sleet moved in behind. Temperatures hit new lows for the winter—a blood-chilling 27 below zero in Maine, for instance. At least 33 persons died in the storm from New England to Mary land. Many toppled with heart at tacks as they bucked the snow afoot or tried to shovel it. Auto accidents and sledding mishaps also took lives. The storm, the Weather Bureau said, will continue into tomor row. Snow up to a. foot or more was in prospect in some areas. Others faced the hazzard of icy rain freezing atop the snow blanket. The great arterial highways that snake along the coast from New England south lay lonesome beneath a restless sea of drifting snow. Airlines fought a stubborn but losing battle against the storm as their planes were delayed or grounded. Schools closed tight in many areas. At Farmingdale and Port Wash ington, N.Y., Republic Aviation Corp: shut down, affecting 29.000 employes. General Motors Corp. shut its Linden, N.J., plant when few of the 2000 employes showed up. Telephone systems along the coast bowed under record bur dens, as housewives and school children, marooned in t heir homes, turned to phones for shop ping and gossip. Eleven 'million calls were anticipated in New Jer THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYIVANIA Truman Says President's Job Is 'Man-Killing' NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (IP)—Harry Truman, who as a former. Presi dent knows how tough that job can be, said today "You will never hear me attack the man who holds that office. "He has troubles enough with out a former President criticizing him," Truman told a luncheon meeting of the 'iadio and Tele vision Executives Society. "It's a man-killing job." At the end of his speech, Tru man tackled a number of written questions passed up to him from the audience. Among the ques tions and his answers: Question: What are your plans for future activities? Answer: "I've had every job politically from precinct to White House. Now I want to show my gratitude for the honors given me by the people." Q. Should the White House press conferences be televised? A. "I think that's' up to the President of the United States." In his talk, Truman said the opening of the atomic age prom ised such great improvements in people's welfare that "our chil dren will no doubt bless us for breaking the atom." Reuther Case Key Witness Given $5OOO DETROIT, Jan. 11 (IF) The missing key witness in the Walter Reuther shooting, named today as a defendant in the strange, tangled case, was given $5OOO of the $220,- 000 reward money, it was dis closed tonight. The CIO United Auto Workers Union, which Reuther heads, said it paid the money to Donald Ritch ie's wife after he had told au . - thorities a story implicating four men in the attempted assassina tion. The four have been charged with assault with intent to kill and with conspiracy. After telling his story, however, Ritchie slipped from the protective custody of two policemen in a downtown hotel suite and fled to Canada. That was last Friday and he hasn't been found since. Convinced that Ritchie would not return on his own, Prosecu tor Gerald K. O'Brien today ob tained an assault-with-intent-to kill warrant against . the 33-year- old Canadian. sey alone—half a million above the previous record. Philadelphia was hardest hit of the major cities with some 10 in ches of snow—heaviest in seven years. All city schools closed and many offices and factories limped along with skeleton work forces. New York took on a strange small-town look as the storm dumped 8.8 inches on the city in the first 24 hours—the worst since the 15-inch fall of 1949. Then rain and sleet punched the city anew. Municipal transportation held up well. But the normally auto choked midtown streets were as open to traffic as a snow-plowed country lane. 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Both sides, while evincing mutual cordiality not always evident in East-West talks, were keeping their own counsel as far as the public is concerned. It resembles a two-handed poker game, played close to the chest. Eisenhower suggested the talks in an address to the United Nations on Dec. 8. He said they should be private talks into which the United States would carry a "new conception." This new conception calls for the "powers principally involved" —words from the UN resolution of Nov. 18 calling for a study aimed at settling the atomic problem—to pool their nuclear energy and know-how for peaceful purposes. Such nations would include the United States, Russia, Britain, Canada, and presumably Belgium, which controls the Belgian Congo uranium fields. Dulles expects to leave at the end of next week for the Big Four foreign ministers meeting in Berlin, which starts Jan. 25, and this has lent an air of urgency to getting the preliminary atoms for-peace talks started. Ike Proposes New Farm Support Plan WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (M—PreSident Eisenhower today asked the Senate to ratify a defense pact with South Korea designed to head off future attacks against that war-ravaged far Pacific country. The language of the treaty made it clear that the pact would not require the United States to go to the aid of South Korea in the event that country attacks North Korea in an attempt to achieve unification by force. Eisenhower described the treaty as a move "to deter aggression by giving evidence of our com mon determination to meet the common danger" The President further declared it "reaffirms our belief that the security of an individual nation in the free world depends upon the security of its partners, and con stitutes another link in the col lective security of the free na tions of the Pacific." The treaty was negotiated by Secretary of State Dulles on a vis it to Korea last August. 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