TUESDAY. MAY 4. 1954
Pentagon Inquiry
May Be Ended
WASHINGTON, May 3 - (JP)—Sen. Everett R. Dirksen (R.-Ill.)
said tonight "serious consideration" is being given to limiting further
testimony in the McCarthy-Pentagon hearings to Secretary of the
Army Robert E. Stevens and' Sen. Joseph E. McCarthy (R-Wis.).
Dirksen said he sponsored a motion adopted at a closed meeting
of the Senate Investigating Com
mittee to have counsel for all: in
terested parties canvass methods
of speeding up the hearings.
One of the proposals to be stud
ied, the Illinois senator said, was
suggested by Joseph Welch, coun
sel to the Army side in the dis
putes.
This calls for pairing the testi
mony to the two chief contestants.
Tonight's - speed-it-up meeting
was held after John, G. Adams,
Army counsel, took the stand
briefly for the first time and
sharply debated with McCarthy
the meaning of a press relea.se.
In the wake. of this exchange,
Secretary of the Army Stevens de
nied any knowledge that Adams—
as the McCarthy side charged—
made threats to issue a "smear"
report against McCarthy's chief
counsel, Roy M. Cohn, early this
year.
Stevens did some denying of
his own, too.
When McCarthy contended some
Pentagon officials were trying to
cover up for Communists, or for
those who "shield" Communists,
the Army secretary flared back:
"I'm not covering up for anybody
at any time."
If McCarthy and Stevens should
become the sole future witnesses,
the effect would be to eliminate as
principals in the dispute Roy M.
Cohn and Francis P. Carr of Mc-
Carthy's staff, and Adams and
Asst. Secretary of Defense
Struve Hensel on the - Pentagon
side.
It was evident, however, that
various methods of shortening the
hearings were under considera
tion.
Special Counsel Ray H. Jenkins
told newsmen after tonight's
meeting that one possibility would
be to eleminate Hensel as a prin
cipal in the proceedings.
McCarthy has long contended
the dispute is mainly between
Cohn and Adams.
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HARRISBURG, May 3 0 3 )—
Motorists will likely pay from
one-quarter to one-half cents a
mile above present tolls to travel
on the Delaware and northeastern
extensions of the Pennsylvania
Turnpike.
Traffic surveys for the new
links recommend the commission
charge about one and one-half
cents a mile for passenger cars
on the 33-mile Delatrare River
extension. The recommendation
for the northeastern extension of
110 miles is about one and one-,
quarter cents a mile.
The rates would mean a $1.40
charge to drive the entire length!
of the northeastern extension and
about 65 cents, including Pennsyl
vania's part of the bridge toll, for
the Delaware link.
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Red Captives
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Sabotage Items
BONN; Germany, May 3 (iP)—
The West German Socialist party
said today German scientists in
Russian concentration camps were
being forced to produce secret es
pionage and sabotage equipment
for the Soviet spy organization.
these former prisoners said
about 40 German scientists and
technicians we r e working in
strictest secrecy on- equipment for
the Soviet secret police (MVD) to
use in their worldwide sabotage
and espionage program.
Items mentioned' in the report
were:
A special lightweight and high
ly sensitive microphone and re
corder for clandestine eavesdrop
ping.
A poison gas that caused the
victim to vomit and made him
unable to fight back against kid
napers.
Sensitive electric alarms to
warn of any approach to border
posts and hiding places of MVD
agents. Equipment for tracking
down radio transmitters.
Dickenson Jury Recesses
WASHINGTON, May 3 (A')—A jury of eight 1 - e lighLranking Army
officers today deliberated for five hours and 22 minutes on col
laboration-with-the-enemy charges against Cpl. Edward S. Dickenson
and then recessed until tomorrow without reaching a decision.
The case went to the court-martial at 9:09 a.m. (EST) and except
for an hour for lunch the officers
stayed on the job until 3:35 p.m.,
when a recess was ordered until
8:15 a.m. tomorrow.
Dickenson was a prisoner of war
in Korea. •
Unaniminity is not required for
conviction. A two-thirds vote—in
this case 6-2—is necessary how
ever.
Dickenson, a 23-year-old youth
from the Hill country of south
western Virginia, sat impassively
as the chief law officer, Col. Rich
ard F. Scarborough of Macon, Ga.,
delivered a 40-minute series of in
structions to the jury before the
deliberations began.
The Cracker's Neck, Va., youth
faces a possible maximum penalty
of life imprisonment if convicted.
A two-thirds vote is required for
conviction.
Dickenson's wife, Kate, whom
he married after he was repatri
ated from a Red POW camp, was
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NEW'YORK. May 3 (M—John
Patrick's delicate little comedy of
life on occupied Okinawa, "The
eahouse of the August Moon,"
today won the 1954 Pulitizer dra
ma prize. There was no fiction
award.
The only two-time winner in
the list announced by Columbia
University was Herbert L. Block,
the versatile cartoonist of the
Washington Post and Times-Her
ald. His cartoon on the death of
Joseph Stalin won him his second
award. He last won in 1942.
The history award went to
Bruce Catton, a 55-year-old for
mer newspaperman, for his Civil
War study, "A Stillness at Appo
mattox." The same book won the
National Book. Award for nonfic
tion early this year.
Charles A. Lindbergh, the famed
transatlantic flier of 1927, won the
Pulitzer Prize for biography with
his autobiOgraphy. "The Spirit of
St. Louis." It was his third book.
.The prize in news photography
went to a woman for the first
time—Mrs. • Walter M. Schau of
San Anselrno, Calif. •
Mrs. Schau, an amateur, caught
a dramatic picture •of a truck that
had smashed through the railing
of a bridge. It showed the rescue
of the two truckmen from the
dangling cab.
, Theodore Roethke's "The Wak
ing" won the poetry award and
the music prize went to Quincy
Porter for his "Concerto for Two
Pianos and Orchestra." Each
award in arts and letters is worth
$5OO.
among a handful of spectators
awaiting the decision at Ft. Mc-
Nair.
• In instructing the court, Scar
borough said Dickenson must be
acquitted if the jurors find that
there is a reasonable doubt of his
guilt, or that any of the acts he
is charged with were done be
cause of-duress, coercion, or lack
of mental responsibility as a, re
sult of pressures by his Commu
nist captors.
On the other hand, Scarborough
said, the question of morality is
not relevant in determining Dick
enson's guilt or innocence. He said
that "A mere defect of character
. . . is not a defense."
Dickenson stood accused on two
charges: A general collaboration
with-the-enemy specification and
an accusation of informing against
Edward M. Gaither of Philadel
phia, a fellow POW.
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HANOI, Indochina, May 3 (JP)—The Communist-led Vietminh
rushed up fresh troops in long columns of trucks tonight to the
French fortress of Dien Bien Phu after calling off its third heavy and
sustained assault on the hedghog defenses.
Hundreds of Russian-made Molotov trucks were spotted moving
into the encircling hills tonight, their headlights gleaming.
The , Red-led Vietminh troops
unaccountably halted their third
big do-or-die attack last hight'af
ter making savage headway into
the encircling barbed wire strong
points. They - overran three strong
points and part of a fourth and
severely shriveled up the ring of
defenses surrounding Brig. Gen.
Christian de Castries' central
headquarters.
3 Outposts Lott
A military spokesman in Paris
said three outposts at' the isolated
strongpoint of Isabelle, south of
the 'fortress' heart, were lost in the
attacks of the night of May 1-2.
This was the fourth strongpoint
which was partially overun. The
spokesman said another post was
lost but retaken by counterattack.
"The center of resistance of Isa
belle is entirely in our hands," the
spokesman said.
It appeared the rebels were us
ing the breathing spell to regroup.
Seizing the opportunity, the
French dropped fresh volunteer
paratroopers, ammunition an d
other supplies into the shell
pocked fortress in northwestern
Indochina.
3rd Red Assault
'Vietminh had launched its third
round of human wave assaults on
Dien—Bien Phu's shrinking peri
meter Saturday night.
The growing fear that the rebels
might finally overrun the fortress
by sheer weight of numbers em
phasized the mystery of last
night's let-up in the attacks.
The exact • position of the at
tackers when the let-up came was
not clear_ but they appeared to be
less than 1800 feet from the cen
ter of De Castries' fortifications.
Troops
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Flames Kill
Five Children
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., May 3
(W)—Fire flashed through a two
story frame home early today,
killing five sleeping children.
A .sixth child and the father
safely fled the flames. The mother,
not home 'When the fire broke out,
suffered shock on learning of the
tragedy.
Killed were Mary Ann, 11; Eli
zabeth Jean, ten; Bernard Jr.,
eight; David Michaels, six; and
Dennis Paul, 22 months—all chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J.
O'Brien.
Five-year-old Patrick O'Brien
was shoved out of the burning
house by his father who suffered
burns of the face and hands.
Chief Harold E. Kinley said the
fire started in the living room,
from a cause not determined.
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