Saturday. January ig. iv^4 Harvard Furry Declines To Tell Names Of Associates By The Associated Press BOSTON, Jan. 15 A Harvard . professor—frequent ly the target for Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy’s anti-Red probes —testified today he was one of six Communist party mem bers who worked on a to*, secret radar project during the war. But Prof. Wendell H. Furry, 47, flatly declined to name, any of his associates for the Wisconsin Republican, sitting as a one man investigating subcommittee. Furry, a physics professor, took the same line on that as did an other Harvard man, Leon J. Kam in, a $3200 a year research assis tant at. Harvard. “I do not think that my duty to my country requires me to be come a political informer,” Kamin said in a prepared statement. Kamin Admits Membership Kamin admitted past member ship in the Communist party. Furry, told the House Un-Ameri can Activities Committee last Ap ril he has not been a party mem ber since at least March, 1951. Furry, who waived his consti tutional rights after claiming the privilege of the Fifth Amendment in three previous appearances be fore investigating committees, said that “I am not seekng to protect the guilty from prosecution I wish merely to secure the inno cent from persecution.” McCarthy told Furry, as he was temporarily excused *rom the wit ness stand,. that his case will be submitted to the Senate for con tempt proceedings and to a grand jury. McCarthy also told 26-year old Kamin his case will be recom mended for. contempt proceedings. McCarthy Sees Contempt McCarthy said that in his opin ion the Furry case was “one of the most aggravated cases of con tempt” he, had seen. “To me it is inconceivable that a university which has had the reputation it (Harvard) has had keeps this creature on, teaching our 1 children,” McCarthy said. McCarthy previously has de manded that Harvard President Nahan M. Pusey oust Furry from the faculty. Pusey, who was a fellow towns man and political foe of McCarthy in Appleton, Wisu, before coming to Harvard last year, has declined to fire Furry. The professor is on probation at the university for three years on charges of giving false information to government investigators in 1945. Testifies on- Five Furry testified that none of the other five Communists who worked with him in the radar lab oratories - at Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology are working on government projects now. He said he knew where they were, but he wouldn’t tell Mc- Carthy. AIM Committee Head Robert Harding, vice president of the Association of Independent Men, has been named by AIM President Joe Somers to head the reorganization committee of AIM. Harding replaces William Shiff lett, who resigned to accept the chairmanship of Tribunal. Cold Front, Snow Paralyze Montana By The Associated Press HELENA, Monti, Jan. 15 Old Man Winter, traveling on . Cana dian-born cold front, tripped the end gate of his snow truck over Montana today, leaving up to 12 inches of the crystals in the north eastern part of the state. At Kalispell, plows had to cut street lanes through eight inches of snow,. _ Drifts up to six feet hemmed in the airport. Schools throughout the area were closed. Kalispell’s chief forecaster, Ray Ball, was unable to leave the wea ther station last 1 night because of the deep snow. He had only two candy bars left to eat when res cuers opened a path today. At least one death was blamed on the storm which reached bliz zard proportions at many places. A Helena truck driver,. Edwin Claver, 45, was struck and killed by a car while helping another Prof Joseph-R. McCarthy Uncovers New Evidence Big Four Site Still Undecided By The Associated Press PARIS, Jan. 15 The United States, Britain and France have sent their representatives in Ber lin new instructions aimed at solv ing the dispute with Russia over a site for the Four Power foreign ministers meeting, French For eign Office sources said tonight. A senior American spokesman in Berlin said at midnight the new instructions had not yet been re ceived there. • The French sources did not dis close what decisions have been reached, but informed sources in Washington have reported the United States favors making a concession to Russia. The French' foreign ministry expressed “sur prise” at the'report, however, and said it did not “seem' to corres pond to reality.” Russia wants half of the meet ings to be held in East Berlin. The West has contended three fourths of the meetings should be held in West Berlin. The .four commandants in Berlin,- unable to break the deadlock, decided early Thursday to refer the dis pute back to their governments. Room Signup Set for Jan. 25 Students remaining on campus between semesters may register until Jan. 25 in the Dean of Men and Dean of Women’s offices, James W. Dean, assistant to the dean of men in charge of inde pendent affairs, has announced. ; Only those students who have signed by that date will be per mitted to stay between Jan. 27 and Feb. 2, Dean said. Dormitor ies will close at 5 p.m. Jan. 27 and will reopen 8 a.m. Feb. 2. No meals will be served to stu dents who remain between se mesters, Dean said. The last meal in the dormitories will be served at noon Jan. 27. Dining halls will reopen with breakfast Feb. 3. Residents counselors will not be on duty between semesters in the area accommodating remaining men, Dean said. A 75 cents charge per night will be made for the rooms. motorist whose auto had slipped into a ditch. The massive storm front was expected to cover all or parts of six northern states by tomorrow. Eight to 12 inches more snow was forecast west of the continen tal divide in Montana, with less er amounts for the eastern two thirds of the state. The weather bureau here also warned northern Montanans east of the divide to btace for temp eratures as low as 35 below. Cut Bank," in northeastern Montana, shivered at -25 early today. Edmonton, across the bor der in Canada, reported -34. Great Falls, Mont., had -21 and Helena -15, coldest for the capital city in several years. At West Yellowstone, often the nation's icebox, residents had the laugh on the rest of the state’s cold-numbed residents. The temp-1 me uailt <_.ULLfcGiAN. biAIE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Admits Tie With Reds Congress Considers Pay Hike WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—Congress eyed hungrily today an of ficially proposed $12,500-a-year pay raise for every member. But election year fears of what the folks back home might think caused doubt the lawmakers would vote themselves that much. A nonpartisan 18-member commission reported this morning that senators and house members have been “grossly underpaid” for a long time and should raise their own salaries from the pres ent $15,000 to $27,500. The commission, headed by Philadelphia lawyer Bernard Se gal, also proposed more money for other government officials: 1. $40,000 salaries for the vice president and the speaker of the House, plus “adequate” expense funds. They now get $30,000 sala ries and $lO,OOO expense accounts. 2. $39,500 for associate justices of the Supreme Court—a $14,500 increase. The chief justice, who now gets $25,500, would be raised to $40,000. , 3. $27,500 for U.S. district judg es, who now get $15,000, with comparable increases for other federal jurists. Segal, who presented the report to President Dwight D. Eisen hower, quoted the chief executive as saying he was “whole-heartediy in favor” of substantial increases for members of Congress and judges—and for U.S. attorneys as well. The attorneys’ pay wasn’t covered in the present survey. Segal also told reporters Vice President Richard M. Nixon and House Speaker Joseph W. Martin (R.-Mass.) assured him they would seek prompt action by Congress. Privately, most members were quick to say a $27,500 salary would be none too high for the work they do and the expenses they in cur. Not many cared to go on record, however, in favor of an in crease' which might sound bigger than' necessary to the voters. Chairman John Taber (R.-N.Y.) of the House Appropriations Com mittee said he believed a raise would be voted—but probably not as much as the proposed $12,500. Rhee Sets Date For Unity Try By The Associated Press SEOUL, Saturday, Jan. 16— President Syngman Rhee today set Feb. 23 as the deadline when he considers South Korea, will be free to attempt unifi cation with North Korea in any way it chooses. This could mean a renewed outbreak of fighting. Rhee said his . deadline is "180 days from the start of the Korean preliminary peace con ference talks." They began Oct. 26. "At the end of the scheduled time something must be done," Rhee said. But he declined to indicate what action he would take. In the past, Rhee has threat ened to send his powerful South Korean army marching into the Communist half of Korea. erature there was the warmest in the state early today, 21 above. The official national and Mon tana record low reading was -66 on Feb. 9, 1933, at Riverside ran ger station in Yellowstone Nation al park; The advance head of the storm struck Wyoming and northern Colorado this morning, and touched Idaho and North and South Dakota. Eastern Colorado was threat ened with a severe cold wave with temperatures expected to plunge to five below tonight and stay below zero tomorrow. The Wyoming cold front ex tended from northwest to south east, cutting the state in half. Forecasters expected the storm to bring light snow to most of the state and lower temperature ,to 5-15 below in the north by to morrow morning. i By The Associated Press Ike's Strike Plan to Have Pull Hearing By The Associated Press • WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 —Pres ident Dwight D. Eisennower’s strike-vote proposal is headed for a full airing during two weeks of hearings on the Taft-Hartley law which. Sen. R. Alexander Smith (R-N.J.) announced today would start Jan. 25. The hearings, agreed to unani mously by the 13-member com mittee, will open with testimony from Secretary of Labor James Mitchell. CIO president Walter Reuther,. AFL president George Meany and other top labor union leaders, including John L. Lewis, probably will testify. Smith, chairman of the commit tee, and Sen. Irving M. Ives (R- N.Y.), second-ranking Republican previously had expressed strong objections to any further hearings on Taft-Hartley Act amendments. They said the voluminous record taken last spring was sufficient. It ran 7000 pages. Wood Picked As Candidate By The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 15 Lieut. Gov. Lloyd H. Wood, a 56- year-old Montgomery County tur key farmer, was picked by Re publican lead rs today as the par ty’s compromise candidate in the 1954 gubernatorial campaign. The selection drew the “unani mous” approval of widely diver gent GOP groups led by Gov. John S. Fine, U.S. Sen. James H. Duff and National Committeeman G. Mason Owlett. Thus it appeared the party was united behind a candidate for the first time in more than six years. Selection of" Wood came at an all-day secret session in a Phila delphia hotel. Ike to Fight WASHINGTON. Jan. 15 —An administration official said today President Dwight D. Eisenhower is prepared to take his case against the Bricker amendment to the people if such a source is necessary to preserve his treaty making powers. The official, who asked to re main unidentified, said the Pres ident obviously is going to rally all the opposition' he can to the constitutional amendment pro posed by Sen. John W. Bricker (R-Ohio). Another attempt by Senate leaders to agree on a compromise to offer Bricker - - as reported to have ended in failure today. But Sen. William F. Xnowland of California, the Republican leader in the Senate; Sen. Homer Fergu son of Michigan, head of the-GOP policy committee; and Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell will meet again tomorrow. James C. Hagerty, the presi- ■JotfN.jjoiis'j DIMERS s*oB DAILY (EXCEPT SUN; a RUDY BLACK TRIO I SATURDAY AFTERNOON j "ISSION STYLE at 2:30 P.M. | The Associated Press U.S. Agency Fires 10-20 As/ Risks 7 By’ The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 The director of the government’s over seas information-propaganda serv ice testified today that some ten or 20 of its 7800 employes have been fired or allowed to resign as security risks since Aug, 1. Theodore C. Streibert, head of the much-investigated U.S. Infor mation' Agency for the last five months, said he is “confident that we have no subversives” on the payroll now. His figures on security risks were only an off-hand estimate, produced under questioning by Sen. J. William Fulbright (D.- Ark.) at a hearing of a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee. Streibert said he would supply an accurate count later. The ten or 20, he said, weren’t Communists. In most instances, he said, they were dismissed or permitted to quit under fire as “a matter of stability.” He didn’t explain that, other than to say they were security rather than loyalty cases. USIA officials said that as of Nov. 30 the agency employed 1174 Americans and 6682 for eigners in its operations in 78 countries. The subcommittee chairman, Sen. Burke B. Hiclcenlooper (R.- Iowa), told newsmen he had heard a larger number of USIA workers than the ten or 20 Strei bert mentioned had left because of security reasons shortly before Streibert took charge. Streibert agreed that “of course a lot of action had been taken prior to Aug. 1.” Both Hickenlooper’s subcom mittee and the Senate Investiga tions subcommittee headed by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) have investigated the service and criticized it. Un-American Committee Splits on Russeiß Faring By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 The House Un-American Activities Committee split angrily today over the firing of Louis J. Russell, its chief investigator. Some members appeared to be at loggerheads over the way the committee is conducting its hunt for Reds and other subversives, and there were signs that other members of the staff may be leaving soon. Amendment dent’s press secretary, said he knew of no plans at the present time for Eisenhower to stump the country against the Bricker amendment. Some senators said Eisenhow er’s news conference statement Wednesday, in which he said he will never approve returning to the 18th century system of letting individual states nullify treaties, had upset tentative agreements of the senators with Brownell. 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