TUESDAY. APRIL 26, 1955
Peace Talk
BANDUNG, Indonesia, April 25 (/P)—Prime Minister Mo
hammed Ali of Pakistan said Red China's Premier Chou En
lai told him today the door to direct negotiations with the
United States on Formosa is almost closed, but then conceded
it "is still open a slight crack."
Mohammed Ali said he told Chou the door is still open
and should be opened wide. The
pro-Western Pakistani leader said
he believes "there is a sincere de
sire on both aides for a scttle
ment" of the Porrnosan issue.
He had, a 24-hour luncheon talk
with Chou in the aftermath of the
Asian-African conference and the
prospect for a Washington-Peiping
parley was among the topics.
There was no comment by the
Red Chinese on Mohammed Ali's
remarks.
Expresses newer
Another Western-nunded Asian
prime minister, Sir John Kotela
wala of Ceylon, expressed regret
over the American reaction to
Chou's offer to negotiate.
"It is a pity that the United
States -should reply to the• offer
without thinking," Kotelawala
told newsmen in Singapore on
his flight home.
Neverthless, the Ceylonese lea
der said he felt the Formosa situ
tion has eased as a result of the
conference.
Chou spurred hopes Saturday
for a peaceful settlement of the
Formosan question by proposing
that Washington and Peiping ne
gotiate directly on the issue. Then
he raised doubts a's to China's in
tentions by telling the conference
yesterday any U.S.-Chinese talks
Sikorsky Sees
Space Flight
LONDON, April 25 (IP)—Amer
icor helicopter engineer I. Sikor
sky says man will be flying in
space beyond the earth's atmos
phere within 25 years.
The immediate destination will
not be the moon or some other
planet, Sikorsky told a news con
ference today. First, as he fore
salAr it, a machine will be devised
to shoot out of the atmhosphere,
move along free of air friction and
then come down at some destina
tion on earth.
While the first timid venture in
to outer space may take place
within 25 years, Sikorsky said,
travel to the moon may be possi
ble by the end of the century.
He made his predictions as the
Russians announced they are con
sidering a plan to send a radio
controlled tank to the moon by
rocket ship. A broadcast by Mos
cow radio said the tank would
carry powerful television equip
ment to transmit pictures back to
the earth.
Supreme Court Makes
Ruling on Deportation
WASHINGTON, April 25 VII—
The Supreme Court today ruled
deportation orders may be review
ed by the courts under the Federal
Administrative Procedure Act as
well as by habeas corpus petition.
The effect of the decision is to
make it a little easier for an alien
to fight through the courts against
deportation. He can launch his
case without himself being in cus
tody—a necessity in habeas cor
pus proceedings.
Bomb Tests Seen Harmful
WASHINGTON, April 25 (IP)
Prof. H. J. Muller, Nobel Prize
winning geneticist, as i.rted to
night that radiation from H-bomb
tests' could cause "tens of thou
sands" of harmful mutations in
the next generation of Americans.
Fossil oysters 30 inches in di
ameter have been found along
the lower Rio Grande valley.
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would not affect in the slightest
degree the exercise by Red China
of its "sovereign right in the lib
eration" of Formosa, Generalis
simo Chkang Kai-shek's National
ist stronhold.
g alls on Peiping
The U.S. State Department has
called on Peiping to let National
ist China participate in any talks
on Formosa Eir.d to demonstrate
its own good faith in three ways:
Agree to an imniediate cease-fire
in Formosa Strait, release impris
oned American airmen and about
40-U.S. civilians also held in Red
China, and accept a UN invita
tion to discuss ways of ending
hostilities in the Formosa area.
Newsmen asked Mohammed Ali
if Chou thought the State Depart
ment stand left open the door to
further negOtiation. The Pakistani
prime minister replied:
"He didn't exactly interpret it
that way—though I did. He felt
that the door was not closed but
almost closed, and I told him it
was still open."
Mohammed Ali added that,
since Chou takes the view there
is still a narrow opening for fur
ther negotiations, "s om e thing
should be done, I believe, to open
it wide."
The Pakistani leader said he had
discussed all phases of , the For
mosa problem with Chou.
Truman Hits Ike Regime
On Public Power Ideas
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April , 25
(EP)—Former President Harry S.
Truman charged today that the
Eisenhower administration went
into office with the idea of "de
stroying the entire public power
program."
Truman• made the charge at a
press conference ending a 24-how
stay in Tennessee during which
he was featured speaker at the
festival the east Tennessee moun
tain village of Cosby holds an
nually in honor of the ramp, a
foul-smelling cousin of the wild
onion.
Big Three
WASHINGTON, April 25 (A))—
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles will meet with the• British
and French foreign ministers in
Paris May 8 "to discuss concrete
plans" for a later Big Four con
ference with Russia.
"The three governments earn
estly hope that a four-power con
ferenzle can meet as soon as pos
sible," the State Department said.
In announcing this today, the
department gave no official word
as to whether the Big Four meet
ing might be at the foreign min
isters level, or higher.
However, a top official said
what Dulles has in mind is a Big
Four• meeting of foreign ministers
first, perhaps to be followed by a
heads-of-state conference.
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Hopes Dim
HARRISBURG, April 25 (W)
The rosey-red Salk anti-polio
'vaccine was injected into the
arms of thousands of Pennsyl
vania youngsters today while
those in some counties bided
their time' until syringes and
needles arrived for the program.
"Many county programs got
under way today and it is safe
to say that thousands of first
and second graders were given
the injections," said Dr. James
Purvis, head of the State Health
Department's Bureau of Epi
demology.
"However, ten counties have
not yet received the needles and
syringes necessary to conduct
the ptogram oli an all out basis."
he added.
In some of the ten counties, he
said, shots of the anti-polio ser
um developed by Dr. Jonas E.
Salk, of the University of Pith
burgh, were started despite the
lack of sufficient equipment.
The needles and syringes, he
explained, are expected to be
available starting Wednesday.
Compromise Tried
On Oil Question
WASHINGTON, April 25 (N)—
Administration leaders tried to l
day to compromise on the ques
tion of oil import quotas in an ef
fort to save their reciprocal trade
agreement program from crippling
amendments.
Backstage discussion continued
on counteroffers made at a secret
conference yesterday by Sen. Wal
ter F. George (D-Ga.) and Secre
tary of the Treasury Hubert H.
Humphrey. The Senate Finance
Committee put off, at least until
tomorrow,a showdown vote on the
oil import issue.
Under a pending proposal, im
port? of residual and other fuel
oils would be limited to 10 per
cent of domestic consumption.
This would involve a material cut
back from the 1954 import level.
eeting Set
dropped a remark Saturday in
Moscow that he was interested in
such a high level meeting, telling
newsmen to "ask Eisenhower and
Eden about the date."
If the foreign ministers' meet
ing made a promising start in set
tling the East-West deadlock over
Germany's future, it was said au
thoritatively, President Dwight D.
Eisenhower would be prepared to
meet with Bulganin, British Prime
Minister Anthony Eden and the
French premier.
In advance of the American-
British-French meeting in Paris,
the three Allies agreed to send
teams of lower ranking diplomatic
experts to London Wednesday to
chart the steps to be followed in
arranging a later meeting with
the R ssians.
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WASHINGTON, April 25 (A')—The mammoth Soviet army,
strengthened with new atomic warfare training, is "equipped and
dispdsed to undertake a major War with little warning," Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway has told Congress.
The Army chief of staff said in testimony released today the
Soviet army remains in "an ex
cellent over-all state of combat
readiness" and is "the most
powerful land combat force in
being today."
Ridgway told a closed door ses
sion of a 1-louse Appropriations
subcommittee in February that
last year the Soviets kept up their
conventional training schedule
which was "supplemented by
atomic warfare training"
Record Discloses
The screened record of the pro
ceedings also disclosed:
1. Ridgway estimated the Army
eventually will need 200,000 spe
cially trained volunteers annual
ly to build up the planned
strength of the reserve.
2. He reported communist
ground forces in Korea have been
reduced to a 1 1 / 2 to 1 numerical
superiority over South Korean
and U.N. troops.
3. Secretary of the Army Ste
vens said. the Army now has
enough ammunition to hold its
U.S. Vetoes Talks
With Red China;
Asks Cooperation
WASHINGTON, April 25 (.T.)--
The United States was understood
today to have decided against any
direct talks with Red China un
less the Communists make more
conciliatory gestures.
That would throw the question
of a Far East settlement back to
the United Nations, where Red
China has a standing invitation
to appear in debate on the Fdr
mosa issue.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles, back from five days at his
island retreat in Lake Ontario,
spent the day catching up on this
and other world problems. He
prQpared to answer questions
about it at his news conference
tomorrow.
The State Department already
has laid down two prior condi
tions for meeting with Red Chi
na: Nationalist China would have
to be at the conference as an
equal participant, and there would
have to be some show of Red
sincerity.
Red China's Premier Chou En
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Army Fixes Value
4. Army estimates fix the value
of fighting equipment stored in
this country and abroad at 20 bil
lion dollars.
"The Soviet army," Ridgway
told the legislators, "is continuing
its program of modernization and
reequipment. Thereby providing
substantial improvement in its
mobility, firepower and combat
readiness."
With Soviet help, he said, "the
other Communist bloc armies in
Europe and Asia are also under
going modernization programs.
"Although their rate of pro^•• •ss
is much slower than that of he
Soviet army, they are gradv
being molded into effective mod
ern forces."
Ridgway said the U.S. Army
is "engaged in a program of in
tensive studies and field tests"
to determine changes in tactics
required by nuclear warfare.
Chinese Vexed
Over U.S. Talks
TAIPEI, Tuesday, April 28 4 I P)
—Chinese Nationalists advocv
an uncompromising stand agr, Ist
communism today gave the im
pression of disappointment over
high level U.S. talks with Chiang
Kai-shek.
Walter Robertson, assistant sec
retary of state, and Adm. Arthur
W. Radford, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, were leaving for
Washington later in the day bar
ring a last-minute change of
plans.
There was nothing firm to go
on, because their talks with Chi
ang Sunday and subsequently
were a well kept secret.
It was noted, however, that
neither took any pains to deny
publicly speculation that they
might have come to propose the
Nationalists abandon the offshore
islands of Quemoy and the Mat
sus.
lai gave a boost to hopes for a
peaceful Far East settlement last
week, then dashed them some
what yesterday.
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