FRIDAY, MAY 14. 1954 Military. : 'Buy-off' fi*ieinied by . Adams WASHINGTON, May 13 (A))—Army Counsel John G. Adams denied under oath today he ever tried to. buy off a -McCarthy investigation of the Army by offering tips on homo sexuality or subversion in the Navy or Air Force as "bigger bait." This is one of the more serious charges hurled at Adams by Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R.-Wis.) and aides. Calmly, in a day of rapid-fire cross-examination, the - Army lawyer de nied that one and also a volley of similar charges, among them: Government To Study Testimony WASHINGTON, May 13 (IP)— Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell said today the Justice Department will look into . every legal question raised by the testimony in the Army-McCarthy hearings. The attorney general made the statement , at a news conference, in response to a question whether he is now investigating the case of an Army Intelligence officer said by Sen. Joseph McCarthy to have given him the contents of a secret FBI memorandum on Ft. Monmouth personnel.- "The Army has already_ started its investigation, and normally thi; is a matter in their primary jurisdiction! We will decide later what else might be necessary to be done." Asked whether this pointed to possible prosecution, under stat utes relating to the handling of confidential information concern ing the national defense, the at torney general did not use the word prosecution. He - simply re plied, "or further investigation." He also said he would_ not at this time interpret the phrase "unauthorized persons" as used in the statutes forbidding the pass ing of confidential defense infor mation to unauthorized persons. Senate OKs . TV. Sponsors NEW ORK, May 13 (2P)—The Senate Permanent Investigations subcommittee today gave the green light to sponsorship of tele casts of the Army-McCarthy hear ings. Sen. Karl E. Mundt ,(R-ND), chairman .of the subcommittee, asked the networks to use "good judgment in the types of sponsor ship which they 'secure, since these televised hearings will be goinginto homes and some school classrokoms. The only . two networks carrying the hearings on live TV—Dumont and ABC—both said they are try ing to line up sponsors, although they have none'as yet. Costelio Convicted Of Tax Evasion NEW YORK, May 13 M Frank Costello, once the king of gamblers, was convicted tonight on three-counts of federal income tax evasion. The 63-year-old Costello, dressed as conservatively as any banker, bowed his head into his trembling hands as the foreman of the jury announced the verdict. It was the third time in his long and checkered career that Cos tello was convicted of a crime. The 62-year-old racketeer was accused of cheating Uncle Sam out of at least $52,239 in income taxes for the years 1946 through 1949. , ' Girl, 2A, Suffocates In Accordion Case DETROIT, May 1 (W)—Little Carole Timte was found suffo cated today in an accordion case, 3.4 hours after more than 250 searchers looked everywhere but in the living room of her suburban Farmington Township home. Her grief-stricken mother, who wears a hearing aid, unknowingly sat only a few feet from Carole's tomb while the all-night search went on. 1. That Army officials gave spe cial treatment to Pvt. G. David S.chine to curry favor with the McCarthy committee and halt its investigation of 'alleged subver sive activity at Ft. Monmouth, N.J. 2. That Adams "leaked" to the press a series of charges against McCarthy aids mainly against Roy M. Cohn—to block subpoe naing of Army Security-Loyalty board members. Adams acknowl edged, however, he discussed these charges with five newsmen. 3. That Adams tried to sponge a free prize fight ticket from Schine and did accept free theater tickets from -Cohn. Adams testi fied he paid Cohn back for the theater tickets and "I never asked Dave Schine for a stick of gum." Law Partnership Mentioned 4. That Adams tried to wangle a $25,000 a year law partnership through Cohn. Adams said such a thing never was mentioned ex cept in a "for amusement only" vein and he said Cohn knew this perfectly well. The high strung but low-voiced Army lawyer did accept the truth of one allegation—that he tele phoned Maj. Gen. Kirke Lawton at Ft. Monmouth, N.J., and asked him to withdraw security risk, charges against nine persons. Adams said he did so because' Pentagon screening officials felt i there wasn't enough evidence against these individuals to jus tify a case before a loyalty-se-, curity board. Heart of Testimony The meat of Adams' testimony came in a three-hour afternoon session, after he_ had freely ac knowledged going out of his way to be nice to McCarthy staff mem bers but insisted he did nothing to hamper their probe of alleged Communist infiltration in the Ar my. Eden States Plan To Unify Korea GENEVA, May 13 (/P)—British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden laid down today the "absolute minimum" of Western require ments for a formula to unify. Korea. He urged action upon them by the 19-nation. conference on Ko rea, but most of the principles Eden cited have been rejected already by the Communists. Two of the points made by Eden tuday—free elections supervised by the United Nations and pro portional representation of North and South Koreans on any infica tion organs—are absolutely op posed to the Communist program for Korea. Eden made -three other points in his listing of "basic principles" for solution of the problem—elec tions for . the formation of an all- Kore a n government, universal adult suffrage and a secret ballot and absolute freedom in balloting. They drew only , silence from the Communist seats. Universal adult suffrage seemed to be the only idea acceptable to the Commu nists in the present atmosphere. Eden rejected the charges made TAKE A DRIVE TO BELLEFONTE AND TRY THE FOOD AT • The • c 7 . Corner ...lea R oom Corner Spring & High Sts. "We Know You Will Enjoy It" Dinner Served Daily 5-8 p.m. Sundays 12-2 and 5-7 For Party or Reservations Phone 4869 - Bellefonte THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE OENNSYLVANIA Ike Signs St. Lawrence Seaway :ill WASHINGTON, May 13 GEM— President Eisenhower signed the St. Lawrence Seaway bill today, authorizing the United States to join Canada in digging the great new waterway. The project will open the heart of the American continent to ocean shipping. A companion pro ject calls for a dam on the broad St. Lawrence River, to provide a new source of electric power for the northeast. The engineering plan is to dredge the St. Lawrence deep enough to allow salt water ,ships with a 27-foot draft to sail from the Atlantic to the Great Lakes and as far inland as Toledo, Ohio. Locks and canals also will be con structed. The federal government will spend an estimated 105 mil lion dollars on the work. A 46-mile stretch of rapids be ginning near Ogdensburg, N.Y., will be dammed and a $6OO mil lion electric power plant con structed. It is expected to gen erate more than 12 billion kilo watt hours of electricity annually. Eisenhower backed the bill for security as well as economic rea sons. Hydrogen Tests Ended WASHINGTON, May 13 (2P)— The Pentagon and the Atomic • Energy Commission today an nounced "successful" completion of the 1954 hydrogen explosion r tests in the Pacific. by Fed China's Chou En-lai that the United States was embarked on a policy of "imperialistic ag gression" in Asia and warned that "we shall not achieve our aim of achieving peace by raking over the embers of the past." "In our judgment," Eden de clared, "the action of the United Nations in Korea has been no more or less than its duty. If it had failed to take up the chal lenge of the aggressors, its auth ority would have been destroyed. U.S. lovites India, S. Asians to Unite WASHINGTON, May 13 (11')—The United States, it was learned today, is opening conversations with several South Asian countries, including India, to give them an opportunity to join a united front against Communist power. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his chief aides regard the diplomatic move as an ex tremely delicate one. They have designed it in such a *ay that none of the five countries princi pally involved has to say "yes" or "no." Of the five it is expected that India and Indonesia will show no interest in, joining any such co operative enterprise at this stage. Their foreign policies to date have aimed at a kind of neutrality be tween the Communist and non- Cominuriist blocs. On the , other hand Western of ficials have believed that Burma. Pakistan or Ceylon—perhaps all of their—are interested - in lining up .with the free world nations in opposing Red aggression. These fiVe are known as the "Columbo powers." The Prime Ministers of the five nations met last month at Columbo, Ceylon, Where they split along policy lines. India and Indonesia sought to concentrate on the denuncia tion of colonialism whereas the other three wanted also to in clude communism among threats to world peace. The result was a comproinise resolution warning 1 IReds and anti-Reds alike to watch 1 their step. While Secretary Dulles has been concentrating. on trying to win the active and early , cooperation of five other Asian countries and five Pacific powers in the de velofment of a new anti-Com mimist alliance, Deputy Under secretary of State Robert Murphy has nandled the talks with the Columbo group. The British • gov ernment has also been in close contact .with the Columbo group, all •of which are members of the British . Commonwealth except Indonesia. eniorssos- Commencementt Marks the Real Beginning of Your In terest in the University . . Not the End ! 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The Fr en c h said their battalions smashed the assault, btit suffered "serious losses." The Communist-led Vietminh threw 2000 to 3000 regulars against the French one mile south of Phuly—a key point in the delta on a direct road to Hanoi. Rebel losses were described as "ex tremely heavy " In repelling the assault the IFrench used intensive artillery fire, "massive" air strafings and bombings, and counterattack by infantry spearheaded with tanks, the high command said. Other French. Union forces hurl ing grenades and charging with bayonets drove Vietminh Aroops from two villages only eight miles from Hanoi and lying close to the important rail and highway link with the seaport of Haiphong. don't underestimate the versatility of a Spudnut PAGE THREE
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