SATURDAY. JANUARY 7. 1956
Times Editor Reveals
1-Year Red Affiliation
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (/P)
—Dr. Benjamin Fine, educa
tion editor of The New York
Times, testified today he was
a Communist party member
for about a year while a grad
uate student at Columbia Univer
sity in the 19305.
He acknowledged he had made
*'a tragic mistake" and cautioned
present day students against the
same error.
Dr. Fine was the final witness
as the ' Senate Internal Security
subcommittee closed out three
days of public hearings into al
leged Communist infiltrations of
the press and. other news fields.
Chairman James O. Eastland (D-
Miss) and Sen. William E. Jenner
(R-Ind) praised Dr. Fine as “a
fine citizen” and a “credit to your
business.”
When the hearings ended, East
land and Jenner issued a joint
statement in which they said the
hearings “disclosed many things,
including a significant effort on
the part of the Communists to
penetrate leading American news
papers.”
Testimony today'included:
1. There was a Red cell on the
New York Herald Tribune in the
19405.
2. Two witnesses who today in
voked the Fifth Amendment priv
ilege against compulsory self-in
crimination were fired by The
New York Times after they indi
cated they would take this course.
Ike Challenged
On 32 Points
By Democrats
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (£>)—'The
Democratic National Committee
today challenged President Eisen
hower on 32 proposals and state
ments in his State of the Union
message, particularly those deal
ing with taxes and the-farm prob
lem.
It said Eisenhower has approved
tax reduction before in the face
of an unbalanced budget, and that
his “soil bank” farm proposal is
a Democratic idea once opposed
by the administration.
An anlysis of the message by
the committee’s research division,
sent to Democratic legislators,
listed the President’s remarks and
committee comment in parallel
columns.
It also questioned the Presi
dent’s statements that national in
come is “more widely and fairly
distributed than ever before” and
“our defenses have been rein
forced.”
Referring to the Eisenhower
statement that an income tax cut
would not be justified if it un
balanced the budget, the commit
tee said:
"President Eisenhower did not
appear to be disturbed about un
balancing the budget in 1954,
when, in the face of a prospective
deficit of $2,900,000,000 for the
fiscal year 1955, he approved tax
cuts totalling $7,400,000,000 in
cluding the GOP tax bill which
gave three quarters of the tax
relief to the corporations.”
Budget Labeled
'Out of Balance'
CHICAGO, Jan. 6 (JP) —A Re
publican governor today said that,
if President Eisenhower’s recom
mendations are adopted, the bud
get “will be out of balance again.”
Gov. J. Bracken Lee of Utah
made that comment on the Presi
dent’s State of the Union message.
The President said he expects the
federal budget to be balanced.
Lee cited the recommendations
for such federal.aid proposals as
those for schools and roads, and
he added:
“I think the people are being
fooled.”
Lee, who spoke his views at a
news conference and in a speech
before the Executives Club, re
ported he is ready to formally
start his personal rebellion against
the federal incpjne. tax.. .. . <
Russia Gets $700,000 Bill
In Bering Sea Plane Shooting
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 W—For
shooting down one U.S. plane . . .
$1,449,895.36.
Less 50 per cent discount due
to special circumstances .. . $724,-
947.68.
Total due . . . $724,947.68.
That was the bill handed to So
viet Russia by the United States
today’ for the shooting down in
flames of a two-engine Neptune
patrol plane over the Bering Sea
last June 22.
All 11 crew members suffered
injuries ranging from bullet
wounds to burns and shock. Seven
required hospital treatment.
Russia and the United States
blamed each other for the inci
dent. Secretary of States Dulles
accepted Russia’s offer to pay half
the damage while “not condoning
the damages of the Soviet con
duct.”
Preparations were under way at
the time for the July, summit con
ference of Big Four powers in
Geneva, and Dulles’ acceptance of
the Russian offer was viewed as
an effort to smooth the path. Sen.
George D. Aiken (R-Vt.) called
it a desire to create “as friendly
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an atmosphere” for the Big Four
meeting.
In making the Russian offer
last June 26, Soviet Foreign Min
ister Molotov cited heavy cloud
conditions which made visibility
poor. •He said this did not “ex
clude the possibility of a mistake
from one side or the other.”
Molotov insisted the U.S. plane
was inside Soviet territory and
opened fire when approached by
Russian jet fighters. He expressed
regret at the incident.
The State Department denied
the American plane had violated
the Russian frontier, maintaining
it at no time was any closer to
Russia than midway over the Ber
ing Sea channel which separates
Alaska from Russia. It crash
landed on St. Lawrence Island.
The U.S. note was delivered to
Soviet Ambassador Georgi Zaru
bin and made public by the State
iDepartmcnt. A breakdown of
[damages "in round figures made
available by the State Department
included: cost of the Neptune
plane $294,700; value of plane
equipment destroyed $95,645; cost
of search and rescue $3,000; costs
to U.S. government resulting from
crewmen’s injuries and disabili
ties $335,674; personal injuries to
crew members $90,000; loss of per
sonal property aboard the plane
$875.
SHU LT O N Now Yo»t • Toronto
Monroney Says Report
Overlooked Air Travel
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (AO—Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney (D-Okla)
charged today that a Cabinet-level report on federal transportation
policy, praised by President Eisenhower yesterday, completely
overlooked aviation. "
Monroney, chariman of the Sen
ate Aviation subcommittee, said
aviation is an extremely impor
tant part of the U.S. transporta
tion picture and no general report
on transportation would be com
plete without it.
However, a Monroney query
about an “airline protest” against
the report brought to light the
fact that the Air Transport Assn.,
composed of scheduled airlines,
had not expected or wanted avia
tion mentioned in the report. It
said that subject had been covered
thoroughly in another report.
Monroney, questioning Frede
rick B. Lee, recently discharged
as civil aeronautics administrator,
brought out that Lee had not been
consulted in the preparation of
the report even though, at the
time, he headed the farflung
Operations of the Civil Aero
nautics Administration. -
Monroney asked the committee
counsel, Frank Pellegrini, to “be
gin negotiations at the summit”
with the Commerce Department
to find out why the transporta
tion report failed to mention avia
tion.
Secretary of Commerce Weeks
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Take Up Garbage
SPRINGFIELD, N.J, Jan. 6 </P)
—Garbage collectors here outearn
teachers and policemen.
Under a new contract signed
between contractor James Petro
zello of East Orange, and the
Local 945 of the'Teamsters Union
drivers on garbage trucks will re
ceive $ll4 for a 40-hour week and
loaders will get $lO4 a week.
Springfield teachers earn be
tween $3300 and $5500 a year.
And only the chief of police
makes more than the garbage
truck drivers. His men make less.
was chairman of the advisory
committee which made the trans
portation report to the President
last April. Monroney has declared,
during the subcommittee’s in
vestigation of Lee’s discharge,
that Weeks and Commerce Under
secretary Louis Rothschild are
“ground-minded” and tried to ex
ercise presidential authority to
i fire Lee and strengthen their con
trol of the CAA.
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