FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1954
Courtmartial Seen
For U.S. Informer
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (JP)—' The Army today ordered a court
martial trial for the first American soldier charged with- informing
on his fellow captives and collaborating with his Communist captors
in Korea.
He is Cpl. Edward S. Dickenson, the Virginia mountain boy who
changed his mind about staying
with the Reds and returned to
this country after first refusing
repatriation.
Dickenson is the first Army sol
dier charged formally with squeal
ing on his fellow prisoners to
gain better treatment for himself.
The Army is known to have
under investigation the cases of
other former prisoners who may
face similar charges.
Dickenson is charged with vio
lating the Military Code of Justice
and specifically with violating
two articles of the code. The first
alleges’ that he gave information
to his captors concerning his fel
low prisoners and that by so doing
he caused other Americans to
suffer punishment and hardship. •
He also is charged with unlaw
fully collaborating with the en
emy and giving information to
him. A conviction on the first
charge could result in life im
prisonment. The maximum sen
tence for conviction on the col
laboration charge is death.
However, Dickenson’s was de
scribed as a “non-capital case” by
Maj. Gen. Edwin K. Wright, com
mander of the Military District of
Washington, who ordered the pre
trial investigation.
Dickenson was arrested Jan. 22,
when he appeared at Walter Reed
Army Hospital here for a medical
checkup. The Army conducted a
two-week pre-trial investigation
of his case before ordering a gen
eral court-martial. The court will
convene in Washington on a date
to be announced.
In announcing the action, the
Army and the Defense Depart
ment emphasized that the charges
were based solely on Dickenson’s
alleged conduct while he was a
prisoner in the hands of the Com
munists in North Korea.
McCarthy
Asks Army
For Names
NEW YORK, Feb. 18 (#>)—Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) to
day demanded that the Army
name within 24 hours its people
who promoted and then honorably
discharged a man described by
McCarthy as a Communist.
McCarthy called it a “hurry-up
discharge” and said the Army had
ample evidence available before
hand that the officer, former Maj.
Irving Peress, was a Red.
“Either the Army will give the
names of men coddling Commu
nists,” McCarthy declared, “or we
will take it before the Senate and
—attempt to have cited for con
tempt those responsible for a
shameful situation
“I want to know in 24 hours
whether or not the Army will give
those names.”
The senator’s demand came aft
er Peress refused to tell McCar
thy whether or not he was a
Communist in uniform. He in
vol v e d the Fifth Amendment
against self-incrimination!
McCarthy fingered a duplicate
of Peress’ honorable discharge at
one point and declared:
“This was signed and handed
to this Fifth Amendment Commu
nist major after I suggested to
the Army .that he be court
martialed. I did this to notify
officers of the Army, to show
that 20 years of treason has been
ended.”
British Present
Record-Budget
LONDON, Feb. 18 (JP)— The
British today announced a record
peacetime defense budget de
signed to build up atomic strength
as a *war deterrent. They warned
Russia that British and American
airpower with A-bombs would
answer any global aggression.
The Churchill government took
the wraps off its “new look” de
fense program patterned after the
American plan for a strategic
atom bomber striking force. It is
in a white paper sent to Parlia
ment for debate within the next
two weeks. Parliamentary approv
al is assured.
The British budget called for
defense spending totalling $4,591,-
720,000 in the fiscal year begin
ning April 1. This is $B, 960,000
more than the present year’s.
The figure includes American
military aid amounting to 239
million dollars, the white paper
said.
Italian Government
Threatened by Reds
ROME, Feb. 18 (/P) —Premier
Mario Scelba staked the life of
his eight-day old “fight for demo
cracy” government before Parlia
ment tonight. He was met with
a storm of abuse from his Com
munist foes in both chambers.
In the Chamber of Deputies to
night black-clad ushers linked
arms and formed a barrier to
block Leftist deputies ivho
stormed from their seats and tried
to force Scelba from the speakers’
stand.
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Plan to Trap Beria
BERLIN, Feb. 18 (jP)—Eastern
sources said today five Soviet ar
my marshals ‘ personally ushered
unsuspecting Police Boss Lavrenty
P. Beria--to his doom. The infor
mants said this previously undis
closed episode in Beria’s downfall
illustrates the- leading role the
army plays in Kremlin policy.
These sources said the army’s
grip on Premier Georgi Malenkov
partly explains the path Foreign
Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov
has followed in the Big Four con
ference about military dispositions
in Germany and Austria.
They claim Malenkov—on the
army’s insistence sent Molotov
here to block troop withdrawals.
The troops will remain in their
forward posts through the Big
Four’s failure to agree on German
unification and an Austrian inde
pendence treaty.
The informants gave this ac
count of what happened to Beria,
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Rocket Smashes
Into Girts School,
No One Injured
CHICAGO, Feb. 18 (£>) A
rocket from a parked Air Force
jet plane accidentally discharged
today and smashed into a school
where 350 girls were at their
studies.
No one was hurt.
The rocket shot across O’Hare
Field and exploded on one corner
of the building. It blasted a 10-
inch hole and blew out several
windows.
Officials of the school, St. Pat
rick’s Academy, said the girls
marched quietly from the build
ing in suburban Des Plaines.
Lt. Frederick Ludeking, public
information officer at the field,
said the rocket was of the 2.75
inch type usually carried on the
FB6D jet. He said the rocket pod
h'ad been lowered preparatory to
unloading the plane when the
rocket was discharged.
Lt. Ludeking said the discharge
may have been caused by static
electricity or stray voltage.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 18
-Albert C. Beeson’s confirmation
as a member of the National La
bor Relations Board squeaked
through the Senate today by a
margin of three votes.
The appointment, which had
aroused a hot controversy, was
approved 45-42 after several hours
of debate.
Beeson, a 47-year-old business
man from San Jose, Calif., was
endorsed by most Republicans as
eminently qualified . . . fair mind
ed” and with a character above
reproach.
The Democrats challenged his
testimony before'the Senate La
bor Committee, and Sen. Matthew
M. Neely (D-W. Va.) denounced
him as “a .nan utterly destitute
of veracity.”
Forty-two Republicans and
three Democrats put Beeson over.
former interior minister and No.
2 Soviet leader, whose execution
was announced Dec. 24:
One night early last summer,
Beria was guest of honor at a
Polish Embassy party in Moscow.
Other guests included Marshal
Nikolai Bulganin, defense minis
ter; Deputy Defense Minister
Marshal Georgi K. Khuvov, con
queror of Berlin; Marshal Leonid
A. Govorov, defender of Stalin
grad, and two other marshals.
The distinguished five Escorted
Beria from the party with all the
pomp due a leader who ranked
second only to Malenkov.
The party left in three cars. A
full general—disguised in a chauf
feur’s uniform for the grim occa
sion—drove Beria’s car.
The convoy started for Beria’s
home, then before he realized
what was happening, swung into
a prison courtyard where the mar
shals turned their distinguished
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Mason Raps Adams,
Resigns in Protest
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (JP) —Rep. Noah Mason (R-Ill.) resigned
from President Eisenhower’s Commission on Intergovernmental Re
lations today with a blast at what he termed “autocratic dictatorship”
by Sherman Adams, White House chief of staff.
Mason announced his resignat:
Dr. Clarence E. Manion, former
dean of the Notre Dame Univer
sity Law School, as chairman of
the 25-member commission.
Aske-d to Reconsider
Late in the day, Manion tele
graphed a plea to, Mason to re
consider his resignation “in the
national interest.”
Manion told Mason he was
“most grateful for your fine com
pliment to me,” but declared:
“More than ever before, this
important commission now needs
your wise, patriotic counsel in the
interest of revitalized constitu
tional government for the United
States.”
Manion said yesterday he had
resigned at Adams’ request and
attributed his ouster to speeches
he has made supporting the ad
ministration—opposed Bricker
amendment to curb the President’s
treaty-making powers.
A storm of criticism, almost en
tirely from the Republicans, broke
out on the Senate floor late yes
terday on the heels of Manion’s
tearful announcement to his staff
that he was resigning against his
wishes.
Wanted to Stay
Associates said Manion’s one de
sire was to carry on the monu
mental task assigned to the com
mission by President Eisenhower
last Aug. 18 of seeking a remedy
to the vast overlapping of federal
vs. state-local, programs on such
matters as taxes, roads and other
projects.
Ike Delights Hogcm
PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Feb. 18
(JP) —President Dwight D. Eisen
hower delighted golf partner Ben
Hogan and a cheering gallery to
day by laying a difficult approach
shot three feet from the pin on the
ninth hole and then dropping the
putt for a par.
Disclosed
captive over to hand-picked jail
ers. _
An eight-man tribunal, headed
by Marshal Ivan S. Konev, later
tried Beria as an enemy of the
state and ordered him shot. Many
believe the ex-police boss was put
out of the way long before the
execution announcement.
The Eastern informants said
Beria’s downfall stemmed from a
disagreement with Malenkov, and
other Kremlin leaders over the
concept of Soviet government.
Beria—like Stalin —believed in
one-man rule over the Soviet
masses. Malenkov and his group
felt it should be a “committee”
form of dictatorship.
Failing to reach agreement, the
Malenkov faction called in the
army to “get" Beria. Later the
Kremlin leaders amassed “evi
dence” to support their drastic
act.
lon in protest against the firing of
DII worth Quits
As Candidate
For Governor
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 18 (/P)—
Philadelphia Dist. Atty. Richard
son Dilworth, a prime favorite in
the race for the Democratic guber
natorial nomination, formally
bowed out today and a dark horse
candidate was entered.
But there was no immediate in
dication that the party’s slate
making problems were any nearer
a solution.
While Dilworth was announcing
he is not a candidate for governor
and while Philadelphia Democrats
were moving behind the new can
didacy of City Councilman Victor
E. Moore, the 59-member Demo
cratic state policy committee post
poned for a week it’s candidate
selection conference.
Observers were quick to point
out:
1. That while Dilworth’s “I do
not choose to run” statement ap
parently removed him from the
gubernatorial picture, there was
nothing standing in the way of a
party draft, a mandate he himself
has indicated he would accept.
2. Moore is a virtual unknown
among voters and party workers
in the middle and western por
tions of the state.
Rosenberg Boys
Taken by Court
NEW YORK, Feb. 18 OP)— I The
much-buffeted Rosenberg boys,
orphaned by their atom spy par
ents’ execution last June, were
taken from unauthorized guard
ians today by a children’s court.
The Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children complained
that the boys, Michael, 10, and
Robert, 6, were “being exploited
for fund-raising purposes.”
The SPCC declined to enlarge
on its complaint outside of court.
Communist agencies, among
others, raised considerable sums
of money for Julius and Ethel Ro
senberg during their long legal
fight that ended with their elec
trocution last June 19.
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