SATURDAY. MARCH 6. 1954
Libel Suit Against Benton
Is Dropped By McCarthy
WASHINGTON, March 5 (II')---Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) dropped his $2 million libel and
slander suit against former Sen. William Benton (D-Conn.) today amid clashing statements as to why
the action was abandoned.
Benton, who had accused McCarthy of perjury, fraud and deceit, said the Wisconsin senator
"refuses to face examination under coartroom conditions." He said McCarthy never could have won the
Terrorists'
Try to Kill
Sultan Fails
MARRAKECH, French Moroc
co, Match 5 (4 3 )—Terrorists tried
for the second time in six months
today to kill the pro-French Sul
tan of Morocco, Moulay Moham
med -Ben Arafa.
But he suffered only a slight
head wound , in the explosion of
two hand grenades while he was
praying at a mosque in this tradi
tional southern capital of French
Morocco.
Three of his aides suffered
slight injuries. The Pasha of Mar
rakech, Thami El Glaoui, escaped
without injury. El Glaoui, also
known to be sympathetic to the
French, had a similar escape at
the same mosque several weeks
ago.
Police put the blamP on inde
pendence-seeking Mbroccan na
tionalists. The authorities said na
tionalists have killed 60 persons
and wounded several hundred
others since the French put Ben
Arafa on the throne last August
to replace Sidi Moharn - led Ben
Youssef.
The French sent Ben Youssef
into exile because they felt he
was showing too much sympathy
to the nationalists.
The situation has been compli
cated further by refusal of Arab
.chiefs in neighboring Spanish Mo
rocco to recognize the authority
of the new Jultan.
Plane Search
Turns to Alps
AIX EN PROVENCE, France,
March 5 (k)—Airmen of, three
nations turned their attention to
the lofty Alpine crags along the
French-Italian border in a search
today for a missing U.S. Air Force
C 47 with 20 Americans aboard.
Darkness forced a temporary halt
to the hunt tonight.
Hope of finding the crew and
passengers alive faded fast.
The plane, used as a transport
for the 50th Bomber Wing, was
flying northwest from R6me to
Hahn, American air base in West
Germany near the Luxembourg
border, on a flight that originated
in Tripoli.
It was last heard from when the
pilot was off Bastia, the port of
northern Corsica, at 12:42 p.m.
Thursday.
After an air-sea search today . by
22 American, French and Italian
planes and by vessels of the
French and Italian navies, plans
were made to turn the hunt full
force to the Alps tomorrow.
Amphibious radar-equipped Al
batross planes, some 826 bombers
and helicopters, will augment the
search force at dawn tomorrow.
NLRB Granted
Injunction on UMW
PHILADELPHIA, March 5 (JP)
—A request by the National Labor
Relations Board for a permanent
injunction bar the United Mine
Workers from using "coercive"
organizing methods has been
granted by the U.S, Circuit Court
of Arfpeals.
The court granted the injunc
tion sought by the NLRB on Feb.
4 in a hearing at which the UMW
was not represented. NLRB Atty.
Edmond Rovner said at that time
the "coercive" methods were used
in 1951 at these companies with
non-union miners involved:
River Smokeless Coal Co., Ir
vona, Pa.; Central IVloshannon Co.,
Clearfield County; Banner and
Elba Co., Houtzdale, Pa.; Howard
Co., New Miliport, Pa.; and Cave
lier Co., Canebica, Pa.
suit "because I told the truth
about him and he knew it."
McCarthy said his lawyers had
advised him they were unable to
find anyone who believed Ben
ton's charges. Under these circum
stances he said. it 'would be im
possible to prove he had been
damaged, and just, to demonstrate
that Benton's charges were false
would "not be enough."
McCarthy sued Benton two years
ago, accusing him of "libel, slan
der and conspiracy" to have the
Wisconsin Republican ousted from
the Senate.
The litigation was based on Ben
ton's charges before a Senate Elec
tions subcommittee in September,
1951, that McZarthy committed
perjury, fraud and calculated de
ceit of the American people in
pressing his campaign against
what McCarthy termed subver
sives in the government.
Benton, a wealthy advertising
man whom McCarthy called "an
odd little mental midget," deliv
ered a 25,000-word blast before
the subcommittee in support of
his resolution to expel McCarthy.
At that time Benton submitted
ten cases which he showed, among
other things, that McCarthy "ap
parently lied under oath" before
a Senate committee in 1950 and
that McCarthy committed a "most
serious breach of senatorial integ
rity—that of accepting 'influential
money'."
Gavin 'Fed Up' With
Agricultural Subsidies
WASHINGTON, March 5 (I-P)—
Rep. Leon H. Gavin (R-Pa), told
the House today lie's "kind of fed
up" with the whole idea of agri
cultural subsidies and promptly
found himself in the middle of a
debate.
The Oil City congressman ask
ed when Congress was going to
start easing off on subsidy pro
grams and approach the farm
problem from a basis of, what is
best for the nation and riot on a
basis of "political expediency."
Batchelor Placed B e hind Bars
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 5
(JP)—The Army put Cpl. Claude
Batchelor of Kermit, Tex., a pris
oner of war in Korea who
changed his mind about staying
with the Reds, behind bars today.
Fourth Army headquarters here
announced that charges of col
laborating with the enemy had
been preferred against the cor
poral and a pretrial investigation
will begin soon to determine
whether the evidence justifies
trial by court martial.
The other American POW who
changed his mind about staying
with the Communists also had
been charged with collaborating
with the enemy and is awaiting
trial by a court-martial. He is
Cpl. Edward S. Dickenson, 23, of
Cracker's Neck, Va., who came
out of a Korean stockade several
weeks before Batchelor walked
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Court Order
Disregarded
By Strikers
NEW YORK, March 5 (JP)—The
smouldering union rivalry for con
trol of New York's big waterfront
flared into a portwide wildcat
strike today in defiance of a fed
eral court no-strike order.
Dockers of the old International
Longshoremen's Association ig
nored their own leaders as well
as the government to tie up about
half of the port's 159 piers.
SOme waterfront observer s
sensed in the walkout the long
awaited, do-or-die showdown be
tween the ILA and a new, rival
AFL dock Union. However, ILA
dockers have staged similar walk
outs in the recent past as demon
strations and they have been
short-lived.
The strike hit hardest at the
Hudson River Luxury Line piers,
among the busiest in the world.
The world's largest line r. the
Queen Elizabeth, was caught in
the tieup but sailed on schedule
nevertheless. Some of her passen
gers had to carry their own bag
gage aboard.
The midtown Luxury piers are
the domain of the ILA's Local
824—called the "pistol local" be T
cause of its notorious record of
violence.
An unidentified offical of the
local said of the strike:
"You can blame the NLRB for
giving us a dirty deal. The AFL
started this business and the
NLRB lowered the boom on us."
It was the National Labor Rela
tions Board that went into federal
Court yesterday to get an injunc
tion against ILA strikes or inter
ference with normal waterfront
loading activities.
out of a neutral zone encamp
ment in Korea last Jan. 1. ,
Both of the soldiers are 23 and
both are from small towns.
Batchelor got back to Kermit,
in West Texas, last Sunday. He
came to Brooke Army Hospital
here yesterday for a medical
checkup.
Today he was confined to the
stockade at Fort Sam Houston
here, headquarters of the Fourth
Army. • He refused to make any
statement.
Army authorities quoted him:
"I did not harm my fellow pris
oners. I never gave information
about them."
They said the soldier showed
little reaction when informed the
charges were brought against
him.
He accepted an offer to have
Lt. Col. Kerlin J. Bragdon, a fel
low Texan, serve as his counsel
Guatemala H its
On 'Scare Warning'
_
CARACAS, Venezuela, March 5 (i 1") Guatemala accused the
United States today of using Red scare warnings as a mask for at
tempts to pry into her internal affairs. Secretary of. State John Foster
.Dulles lashed back, saying the United States would not permit
"abusive" language to obscure the Communist issue
Guatemala's Foreign Minister
Guillermo Toriello in a stinging
55-minute speech accused the
United States of pressuring the
20-nation Inter-American Confer
ence to investigate Red infiltra
tion in' this, hemisphere. This, he
said, was designed to embarrass
Guatemala and tag her with an
"unjust" Communist label. ,
Toriello's speech won him 60
seconds of applause, nearly twice
that accorded Dulles when he
spoke yesterday. Some delegates
said the Guatemalan used an ap
proach that appealed to many Lat
in Americans
Toriello said an attempt by the
United States to get the confer
ence to adopt an anti-Communist
position was a "maneuver against
Guatemala, which has been mali
ciously and unjustly accused of
being Communist, of being the
beachhead of communistm, a dan
ger to the Panama Canal, a bad
example for the other peoples of
the continent, and a menace to the
security and solidarity of the
American republics."
The Guatemalan minister
charged that "imperialists, mono
polists and some government of
ficials" in the United States at
tack his government because of
its program of agrarian reform
and its efforts to "improve the
living standards of our people."
Six Months Grounding
Sought for Godfrey
WASHINGTON, March 5 (M
A Civil Aeronautics Board ex
aminer threw the book at Arthur
Godfrey today for "reckless" fly
ing, recommending that he be
grounded for six months. This is
the stiffest available penalty.
In New York, the radio-tele
' vision star said through a spokes
man that he would not appeal. If
no appeal is filed by March 15,
the finding of the examiner, Al
bert H. Ruppar, will become- the
final decision of the five-man
board and Godfrey's pilot's cer
tificate will be suspended for six
months.
Ruppar said he was •convinced
that Godfrey intentionally buzzed
the Teterboro, N.J., airport.
and he and the colonel went into
conference.
Fourth Army spokesmen em
phasized that the charges pre
ferred do not involve Batchelor's
temporary refusal to be repatri
ated.
Stevenson Says Army
Not 'Coddling' Commies
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., March 5
(R')—Adlai Stevenson said today
he is sure the Army has not cod
dled Communists—as charged by
Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) "any
more than previous Democratic
administrations ever coddled a
Single subversive, traitor or spy
deliberately."
Stevenson, the 1952 Democratic
presidential nominee, struck out
against what he called "McCar
thyism."
'..,i - ble Trial
*:.2eri; State
Asks 'Aieath
GREENSBURG, Pa., March 5
—Selection of the jury was com
pleted today and the state opened
its case against John Wesley Wa
ble by demanding "death in the
electric chair" for the accused
killer of two truckers on the Penn
sylvania Turnpike.
Asst. Dist. Atty. John K. Best
said the state will prove by wit
nesses that Wable had the death
gun the night Harry F. Pitts. 39,
of Bowling Green, Va., was shot
to death while asleep in the cab
of his truck.
Wable, 24-year-old resident of
Ohiopyle, Pa., also is accused of
killing Lester B. Woodward, 39,
of Duncannon, Pa.,
and wounding
a third trucker, John K. SheperB,
of West Alexander, Pa. Sheperd
recovered and will be a state's
witness. Wable is on trial only for
the slaying of Pitts.
In the opening address to the
jury of seven men and five wo
men, the state spent 28 minutes
outlining its case. Best mentioned
all three shotings. He said the
state had witnesses who will prove
Wable was on the turnpike on the
dates of the killings.
Best told the jury:
"We feel there is enough evi
dence for a verdict of murder in
the first degree, sending him (Wa
ble) to his death in the electric
chair."
Best said a friend of Wable will
testify that the "defendant told
him he was the turnpike killer."
Vietminh Raiders
Cripple Airport
HANOI, Indochina, March 5 (IP)
—Vietminh commandos raided
Hanoi's big civil airport yester
day, blowing up at least 12 trans
port planes before they were
beaten off. The attack crippled
the vital airlift to the embattled
French Union bastion of Dien
Bien Phu.
In anticipation of fresh rebel
assaults, the French hastily or
dered their key defenses bolstered
all along the vital Red River Del
ta around Hanoi.
A spokesman said today more
than 200 suspects have been
rounded up following the daring
raid on Gialam Airport—import
ant base for funneling men and
supplies to Dien Bien Phu in
northwest Indochina.
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