WtuHESDAY. MARCH 2. \96i, U.S. Demands POW Release WASHINGTON, March 1 (/P)—'The State Department announced today the United States his presented a new demand to Communist China for release of 41 American civilians. The action Was taken ih a meeting of American and Red Chinese consular representatives at Geneva, Switzerland. The U.S. consul general, Franklin C. Gowen, told Acting Consul General Shen Ping that the Amer ican government asked the free dom of the 41 on the grounds of their "ynwarranted detention.” The Communist .official, the State department said, “reiterated the Communist position that no Americans are being unjustly de tained ” • However, the announcement said that since contacts between the U.S. and' Red Chinese repre sentatives started' last • June at Geneva, IS Americans who had been imprisoned or otherwise de nied permission to leave Red Chi na have been released. Press Officer Henry Suydam said that “these negotiations have not been unproductive anti we naturally hope mote will be re leased.” The announcement said that among the 41 civilians are two employes of the Army Depart ment included by the Reds in spy charges along with 11 U.S. Air Force men. The negotiations for the civil ians are apart from those for the release of 15 U.S. airmen. Suydam said that the United States requested the meeting and that it regards the negotiations as continuing even though the Chi nese representatives met the de mand for freedom from "unwar ranted detention” by restating the Communist position that no Amer icans are being “unjustly de tained.” Chase Tours Quenioy Island TIPEI, Formosa, March 1 VP) — Maj. Gen. William C. Chase toured tense Quemoy Island today gath ering. information for high-level talks this week with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and top U.S, Navy officers. The Defense Ministry said Com munist batteries lobbed three shells onto QuemOy but that pre sumably was before the arrival of the head of the U.S. Military As sistance Advisory Group bn For mosa. Chase on Saturday visited the Matsus, 100 miles northwest of Formosa. By his visit to Quemoy, across the strait from Formosa, he completed the circuit of the major Nationalist offshore islands. He listened to reports from gar rison commanders, and inspected Quemoy's stout defenses: Sutherland to Spf ak Selections from Canadian liter ature, will be reed 'by Dr. A. Bruce Sutherland, professor of English literature, at 4:15 p.tn. to day in 106 Pattee Library. Dr. Sutherland will include se lections from the works of Steph en Leacock, Canadian humorist and former professor of economics at McGill University. Friday, March 18 Matusow Swears Former Wife Gave McCarthy $70,000 WASHINGTON, March 1 (/P)— Harvey Matusow, self-proclaimed false witness, swore today his former wife told him she gave $70,000 to Joseph R. McCar thy (R-Wis) rather than the $7OOO turned up in a Senate investiga tion of McCarthy’s affairs in 1952. Capping an eventful day before the Senate Internal Security sub committee, Matusow said his for mer wife didn’t want the investi gators to know about her gift, and he spirited her off to the Ba hamas so she wouldn’t have to testify. He agreed with senators that probably he had obstructed jus tice by taking the woman out of the . country at that time. But so did McCarthy, he added, and oth er individuals he said had a hand in it. Peren Unseats Three BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, March 1 (fl 3 ) —President Juan D. Peron today took control of three Argentine provinces, superseding elected Peronista officials. They had come under criticism previ ously for failing to cooperate With other officials of the Peron administration. Reds Released, But NEW YORK, March 1 (/P)—Six of the nation’s top Communists came out of prison today. But all of them were ticketed for re newed prosecution or deportation in Uncle Sam’s "Operation Re- Trap.” The six completed five-year prison terms—less one-third off for good behavior—for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. govern ment. . They went behind bars in 1951 and served three years and eight months. They were among 11 top Reds convicted in a celebrated 1949 trial, the first big govern ment attack on the heirarchy of American communism. In New York, a knot of women friends and relatives, festooned with orchids, awaited two of the returning Reds. The ex-convicts broke into broad grins at the re ception. As the six emerged from four different federal prisons, U,S. marshals were waiting to take them into renewed custody. Later, DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET Sponsored by Jazz Club 9:00 p.m. Tickets at Old Main int DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Air Force Shows Radiation Held To Safe Limits LAS VEGAS, Nev., March 1 (JP)— -The Air Force today took ad vantage of a brilliant atomic ex plosion visible in six states to demonstrate that radiation can be held to safe limits under good weather conditions. It allowed a group of newsmen to penetrate for thfe first time the edges of the cloud of a nuclear explosion. The third test of the 1955 series, a 300-foot tower shot on Yucca Flat flashed at 5:30 a.m. It was seen within a radius of 500 miles encompassing Pocatelle, Idaho, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City. Klamath Falls, Ore., and Phoenix, Ariz. The comparatively light shot, in the absence of clouds and high winds, bore out the AEC an nouncement that this was a smal ler device in the baby A-bomb class. Approximately 000. soldiers and 25 Marines maneuvered in the first major operation of Exercise Desert Rock, but they had to yield center stage to the atomic cloud today. The AEC and the Department of Defense relaxed restrictions after four years to permit five reporters to make a radiological safety flight in a 825, one of the Air Force’s score of cloud-sarrfp ling planes. Firearms Credit Asked For Courses in Schools HARRISBURG, March 1 (/Pi- Proposed. legislation to allow schools to grant credit for courses in conservation and the handling of firearms was submitted to , the House today. A bill offered by Rep. Edwin W. Tompkins (R-Cameron) would au thorize “scholastic credit at least equal to scholastic credit received for any course in physical educa tion” for conservation and fire arms classes. ' five were freed on bonds of $5OOO each to await trial oh new sub versive charges. The other still owes 60 days in a county jail. The original 11 were indicted Oh two different counts in 1948. They were tried on the conspiracy count and convicted Oct. 14, 1949, after a riotous nine-months New York trial.' Appeals consumed 1% years and seven of the Reds surrendered to begin their sentences on July 2, 1951. Four others jumped bond. Two were recaptured and are im prisoned but Henry Winston, 40, and Gilbert Green, 48, never have been found. The second count in the original indictment accuses the 11 of knowingly being members of a party dedicated to revolution. Conviction could mean an addi tional five years in prison. Not all of the 11 top Reds face retrial. Irving Potash, 55, freed from prison Dec. 9, is scheduled to leave for Commqnist Poland on Friday by agreement with the government. The Russian-born, Rec Hall $1.50 Churchill Says Reds Wouldn't Win H-War LONDON, March 1 (IP) —Prime Minister Winston Churchill said today Soviet leaders realize they never can win a hydrogen bomb war against the West. ' The United States has overwhelming superiority in thermo nuclear weapons that may be cut by the Russians Within four years, but cannot be nullified, Churchill said. He told a hushed House of Com mons the United States is “the only country which is able to de liver today a full-scale attack with hydrogen bombs.” The 80-ybar-old Prime Minister predicted it will take Russia an other two to four years to achieve the power to mount such an at tack against North America and even then the free world, with Britain now starting H-bomb pro duction, would have greater re taliatory power. Reasoning that Russia has lost the hydrogen bomb race, Church ill said: “In three or four years time, it may even be less, the scene will be changed. “The Soviets will probably stand possessed of hydrogen bombs and the means of deliver ing them not only on the United Kingdom but also on North Amer ican targets. “They may have reached a stage—not indeed of parity with the United States and Britain— but what is called saturation. “Saturation in this connection means the point where—although one power is stronger than the other, perhaps much stronger— both are capable of inflicting crippling or quasi-mortal injuries on the other with what they have got.” Volcano Erupts PAHOA, Hawaii, March 1 (JP) — A reawakened volcano today spread a lake of lava 1%-miles' long over Eastern Hawaii. It shot molten rock 100 feet into the air. Not Free one-time union official is leaving the country rather than stand trial anew. Deportation proceedings are pending against John Williamion, 52 and Scottish-born, and Jacob Stachel, 55, another native of Rus sia. They were released from Dan bury, Conn., federal correctional institution today and brought in handcuffs to New York. 1 Eugene Dennis, 49, the party’s general secretary, and John Gates, 41, editor of the Daily porker, were released from the Atlanta, Ga., federal penitentiary today At Leavenworth, Kan., another top Red, Carl D. Winter, 49, was released. The sixth Communist to finish his prison sentence was Benjamin J. Davis Jr., former New York City councilman. However, from the Terre Haute, Ind., federal prison, he was taken to Pittsburgh to serve an added 60 days for contempt of court during the trial. 7 DETROIT fk via f ALLEGHENY AZRUNES Confirmed reservations with i Capital 1 m f At HUNKS m A Non-Stop from Ptttebvrgh PAGE THffft Congress Approves Pay Raise WASHINGTON, March 1 (/ft— Congress voted itself a5O per c it pay raise today. The HoUse ste p ed final approval on a salary 'll which also provided increase or federal judges and prosecutors. Acting quickly on a compro;: ?e measure worked out in confer e with the Senate yesterday, ie House voted 223-113 to boost Con gressional salaries from $15,000 to $22,500 a year. The measure now goes to Presi dent Dwight D. Eisenhower for virtually certain approval. Eis n hower himself, has had a pr 3i dential commission before him, told senators and representatives in January the time nad com to allow themselves more monr". Eisenhower didn’t reconv. ->d a specific amount. The $7500 f nni ly agreed upon was the tuiaovnt chosen b£ the Senate last W ' !c and retained in the settlement of differences with the House. Congress last voted its members a raise in 1946, when the fate was $lO,OOO a year. While the House pushed out *he congressional pay measure, he Senate Post Office and Civil f ice Committee approved an i creasesveraging 10 per cent f a million government employ s. The same group last week bac’--d a similar raise for an additional half-million postal workers. Eisenhower’s signature on the enacted measure will fatten pay checks for members of Congress and judges as of today. The total. $22,500 finally ac cepted includes as before a ? 1 " 1 0 taxable expense allowance. It al so retains a $3OOO tax redu' n designed to offset the cost'- ->£ living in Washington as well as back home. The 96 senators ~ d 436 representatives also wib 'e reimbursed for one round-trip home at 20 cents a mile. Vice President Richard M. Nix on and House Speaker Sam P"v. bum (D-Tekas) will receive more than their present $40,000 a year. The over-all cost would be i 'st shy of four million dollars for Congress alone. State Senate HARRISBURG (£>) —A Repub lican controlled Senate commit tee stood pat today in refusing to bring out for a vote a resolution urging Congress to pass legisla tion setting up a public works program to relieve unemployment.
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