UESDAY. MARCH 2, 1954
McCarthy-Stevens to Hold
Behind-Doors Session
5 Are Killed;
2 Buildings Fall
In Philly Blast
PHILADELPHIA, March 1 (W)
—Rain and wind hampered in
vestigators today as' - they sifted
through tons of charred wood,
smashed brick and. broken glass
to determine. cause of an explos
ion that leveled two three-story
buildings, killing five persons.
The blast last night, packing
terrific force and concentrated- in
an area 100 by 100 feet, tore the
two buildings apart. About 20
other buildings in. the thickly
populated south Philadelphia
neighborhood, we r e damaged.
Many windows cracked in the
concussion;
However, cause of the explosion
was still undetermined 24 hours
after it happened. And probers,
p o king through the shattered
ruins, said it might be days before
anything definite wou l d be
known. A -steady- drizzle slowed
the investigation.
Meantime, some 150 firemen,
police and city workers worked
around the clock to cart away the
wrecked remains. A huge bucket
crane scooped up the glass, bricks,
plaster and splintered, burned
wood and piled into dump trucks.
Four of the victims died in a
luncheonette, while the fifth was
killed in the second floor of the
adjoining building that housed 'a
jewelry store.
Sudan Arrival of Nagui
Causes 22 to Die in Riot
KHARTOUM, Sudan, March 1 CM—Twenty-two persons, in
cluding a British colonel, were killed today in riots sparked by the
arrival of Egypt's restored President Mohamed Naguib. More than
100 were injured.
A state of emergency was declared after police gunfire stopped
Europe's Economy
Shows Increase
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 1
(IP) The United Nations Eco
nomic , Commission for Europe
said today the European economy
showed all-around imprOvement
last year but- failed to return to
the climate of "confident expan
sion" that preceded the Korean
War. -
The commission's annual •sur-
Vey was generally- the most favor
able it has made since World
War 11.
It said a big improvement in
Western Europe's balance of pay
ments during 1953 was due large
ly to "the growth of extraordinary
external disbursements by the
United States?'
The commission cautioned that
—despite last year's improvement
—Western Europe's a l ili t y to
guard against serious conse
quences of "more pronounced" re
cession "tendencies in the United
States" is problematical.
New Atomic Project
Announced by British
LONDON; March 1 (JP)—Britain
today announced the start of a
project that may revolutionize
her industry—an atomic• pile to
power the nation's homes and fac
tories.
The Labor opposition charged
the project would impair the effi
ciency of the nation's atomic pro
gram by removing it from im
mediate government control.
Laborites forced a vote on the is
sue. The government won, 244-226.
Lettermen to Discuss
'V Club Formation
University lettermen inter
ested ,in the formation of an
"S" Club will -meet at 7 to
night in 10 Sparks.
Ernest 'B. McCoy, dean of
the College of Physical... Ed
ucation and Athletics, will ex
plain the purpose of the club.
WASHINGTON, March 1 (W)—
Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.)
announced today that he. and Sec
retary of the Army Robert Ste
vens will hold, their postponed
face-to-face meeting to discuss
the Army's handling of alleged
Communists.
But it is expected to be a closed
session instead of the ballyhooed
and televised meeting which was
scheduled and then called off sud
denly last week in the midst of a
heated wrangle over - the issue.
McCarthy and Stevens' office
both said the Army secretary had
agreed to appear before the •Sen
ate Investigations subcommittee
either Thursday or next Monday.
The session, when held, McCar
they said, will be a closed door
affair unless Stevens prefers to
open it to the public. c' tevens' of
fice said the secretary understood
the meeting would be closed.
The senator said Army policy
is contradictory rather than uni
form in the treatment of purport
ed Reds and he wants to ask Ste
vens about that. But he grinned
and hurried on to say:
"I don't want this construed as
an attack on Stevens."
This time the question before
the two will be related but a bit
different fro - n the one that kept
the secretary and the senator war
ring all last week in one of Wash
ington's more spectacular clashes
of personalities.
Then the point of contention
wa s whether McCarthy had
abused officers he questioned in
connection with his charges of
Communist coddling by the Army.
spear-waving Sudanese tribesmen
from invading the British gover
nor general's house where 14aguib
was staying.
More than 30,000 demonstrators
agitating for and against Naguib
Massed in the capital to see the
controversial leader arrive for the
opening of the Sudan's first Par
liament. But the rioting became so
violent that the ceremony was
postponed until March 10.
One group of tribesmen—brand
ishing steel-tipped spears and yell
ing slogans against Britain and
Egypt, killed eight policemen de
fending the residence of Gov. Gen.
Sir Robert Howe.
Police threw tear gas grenades
as the mob pressed towards the
governor's house. Then the tribes
men charged and police opened
fire.
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UN' Attacks Reds
CARACAS, Venezuela, March 1
(W) The 10th Inter- American
Conference, "a little United Na
tions" for the republics of this
hemisphere, opened today and
cheered an attack on communism.
Evaristo Sourdis, foreign min
ister of Columbia, was responding
to the welcoming address of Presi
dent Marcos Perez Jimenez of
Venezuela when he was inter
rupted by applause for his denun
ciation of the "forces of evil which
operate in darkness."
He urged nations of this hemi
sphere to adopt "the necessary
measures to impede or uproot all
activity which tends to encourage
Kill- r Suspect
?leads Guilty
GREENSBURG, Pa., March 1
(AP)—The accused phantom slayer
of . the Pennsylvb.nia Turnpike
-24-year-old John Wesley Wable—
was put on tria,. for his life today.
Calm and smiling occasionally,
he told Westmoreland County
court: "Not guilty." ,
Wable is charged with first de
gree murder in the killing of Har
ry F. Pitts, 39, of Bowling Green,
Va. Pitt's body was found in his
parked truck on the toll road.
Another truck driver, Lester B.
Woodward, 39, of Duncannon, Pa.,
was killed with the same pistol
used in Pitts' slaying, police say.
The bodies of the two men were
found three days apart.
Wable also is under indictment
for mu r der in the slaying of
Woodward and is slated to stand
trial later in this case.
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U.S. Offer Rejected
By India's Nehru
NEW DELHI, India, March 1 (P)—Prime Minister Nehru today
spurned President Eisenhower's arms aid offer similar to that just
granted neighboring Pakistan. Nehru-demanded that U.S. observers
get off the UN cease-fire team in Kashmir.
The Indian Parliament cheered as the Prime Minister commented
bitterly on Eisenhower's letter
explaining the U.S. decision to
grant Pakistan military aid for de
fense purposes and offering the
same treatment to India
"In making this suggestion,"
Nehru declared, "the President
has done less than justice to us or
to himself. If we object to military
aid being given to Pakistan, we
would be hypocrites and unprin
cipled opportunists to accept it
ourselves."'
The deputies laughed w hen
Nehru said
" President Eisenhower has been
good enough to suggest he would
give his most sympathetic consid
eration to any request we might
wish to make for military as
sistance."
India and Pakistan have been
disputing the future political sta
tus of Kashmir ever since the
Indian sub-continent was divided
between the two in 1947. Refer-
the dominance of international
creeds which threaten free na
tions of the world."
Almost at the same instant
Sourdis spoke, a responsible
source reported that J. Villagroel,
head of the Communist party un
derground organization in Vene
zuela, had been jailed, and that
Jai Narine Singh, member of the
ousted leftwing government of
British Guiana, had been told to
leave' Venezuela.
Singh told a news conference
here Saturday that if the British
do not voluntarily abandon Brit
ish Guiana and give it indepen
dence they will face an "armed re
bellion."
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Senate OK's
Earl Warren
Chief Justice
WASHINGTON, March 1 (?P)—
The Senate today confirmed Presi
dent Eisenhower's nomination of
Earl Warren as 14th chief justice
of the United States.
Approval came on a voice vote,
with no audible dissents, after a
brief discussion. About 40 sena
tors were present.
The 62-year-old Warren, three
times governor of California and
the Republican vice presidential
candidate in 1948, has been serv
ing on the Supreme Court since
last October under a presidential
appointment, made while Congress
was in adjournment.
Today's swift confirmation was
in contrast to the lengthy delay
before the Sena t e finally got
around to a vote. Warren's nomi
nation to succeed the late Fred M.
Vinson was submitted to the Sen
ate on Jan. 11, but it was not until
last Wednesday that the Senate
Judiciary Committee under Chair
man Langer (R-ND) voted 12-3
to recommend confirmation.
U.S. Reports Atom Mast
WASHINGTON, March 1 (?P)—
The government tersely announced
today that an "atomic device" has
been exploded in the mid-Pacific
in the first of a new series of tests
widely heralded to include a hy
drogen bomb blast.
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