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:
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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,
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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,
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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.
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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.