THURSDAY. O QBER 16, 1958 China Arrests Five Red On Espionage Charges J ) Radio Peiping said today two Britons and three Chinese were arrested i charges of running an American counterrevolutionary organization. Ihina broadcast said the group carried out its activities under the guise of janization that it identified as Jehovah’s Witnesses. ’ distributed “reactionary literature aimed at subverting the building of TOKYO (fl in Shanghai oj The Red ( a religious or It said thej socialism in Ch The Britons \ Stanley Ernest . uere identified as Jones and Harold ‘ie broadcast said re Ku Cheng-shu, jnd Teng Hsing as counterreolu- George King. T the Chinese we: Liu Wen-pin j jung, described tionaries. Jones and Kir of .the group, th In London, ; eign Office sai port of the arr how the two B) in Shanghai. The broadcast tionary organizi the U.S. imperii and its actual bers in Shangha nest Jones anc g were in charge e radio said. he British For d it had no re ests or any idea lions came to be said: ‘‘The reac ilion was led by ilist, N. H. Knorr, responsible mem were Stanley Er- Harold George King, both British. “Under the tloak of religious activities, they distributed reac tionary books hostile to the Chi nese people published by the U.S. imperialists and carried out coun terrevolutionary activities design ed to wreck China’s socialist con struction by preaching from house to house.” Nalhan H. Knorr is president of the Watchtower Bible and Traci Society whose interpre tations of the Bible and preach ing activity are carried on by Jehovah's Witnesses. At the organization’s interna-j tional convention in New York last August, a Swiss witness, Al fred Rutimann, reported there now are 99,000 members of the organization m Iron Curtain coun tries. In New York, Knorr said: ‘‘The; charges that these men have been operating as spies are untrue and absurd. Our work in China has been to spread the good news of God’s kingdom and is completely divorced from all political activi ty.” Stock Margins Raised By Reserve Board WASHINGTON OP) The Fed eral Reserve Board yesterday or dered margin requirements on purchases of stocks raised to 90 per cent, effective today. This is the second increase in margin requirements since the economy began recovering from the recession. Margins were raised to 70 per cent from 50 per cent on Aug. 5. The new margin requirement means that purchasers of stocks must put up enough cash to cov er 90 per cent of the market price ®f the securities they buy. They can borrow the remaining 10 per cent. H.IIIMIIIIHIIIIII!lllltllli!IIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIilimiSllllllllllfllllllll!ltlilllllll!II!IIIL!: LaVie Senior Portraits 1 CHEM-PHYS OCT. 16-22 No appointment necessary at Penn | State Photo Shop, 214 E. 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The little North African coun try, which won its independence from France only 2V2 years ago, took its defiant action against the bigger, more powerful UAR after art angry exchange in Cairo Sat urday at a meeting of the Arab 1 League.. Private Segregated Schools Blocked by Appeals Court ST. LOUIS (£>)—A federal appeals court yesterday ex tended again its temporary order blocking the use of Little Rock’s public schools as private, segregated institu tions. . Presiding Judge Joseph W.! Woodrough of- the special three member panel of the Bth U.S. Cir cuit Court of Appeals announced the order will remain in force until the court has made its final ruling. He added that would be “as soon as possible.” The court used strong lan . guage in its formal order which was broadened to include not only the school board but all others who might try to block The Tunisian delegate. Habib El-Chatly, had accused the UAR of trying to dominate the , smaller countries and particu larly of giving shelter to ene mies of Bourguiba. The UAR delegation walked out of the meeting. So did the Tunisians. The UAR returned to the league sessions. An invitation to Tunisia to come back was issued Wed nesday, but this was probably be fore the diplomatic break was made known there. Besides striking a sharp blow at Arab political unity, the Tun isian move may have a prepon derant influence on the course of the foreign policy in Algeria, next door to Tunisia. integration through the private school plan. The Little Rock School Board was attacked at the hearing by two Negro attorneys who charged it was irresponsible and trying to evade an integration order of a federal court. The government joined in the attack on the board. r "Players produce a HIT" WARD, Collegian See "THE DRUID CIRCLE" Tomorrow & Saturday CENTER STAGE TICKETS on Mk sale at HUB Ike Disowns Statement On Democrats' 'Socialism' WASHINGTON (fP) President Eisenhower all but dis owned yesterday an official Republican campaign statement that nationalization and socialization of industry “are the clear alternatives to a Republican Congress.” The President said he didn’t re call that language and in any event the statement wasn’t his, although it did grow out of a White House strategy meeting, Eisenhower also sidestepped at a news conference an oppor tunity to join other Republi cans in calling Democrats criti cal of his Far East policy ap peasers. “Foreign policy,” the President said, “ought to be kept out of partisan debate.” In about the nicest thing he has said about Harry S. Truman in years, Eisenhower said he no tices that “one of our most prom inent members of the other party is a man who happened to have .borne the responsibility of the 'presidency and he takes exactly the stand that I am just now ex pressing.” In reply io a series of for eign policy questions apart from PAGE THRU ; politics. Eisenhower put bis complete support behind Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles' position that the United States is not going to try to compel Nationalist China to re duce troop strength on the Quemoy and Matsu islands. The President also spoke out in angry tones once more against the bombing of Jewish temples and community centers in the South and Midwest. Reserve Your SUNDAY PAPER at Ihe NITTANY DELL "Home of delicious sandwiches" AD 8-8502
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