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The Gazette and Daily, York, Saturday Morning, January rl 5, 1955 CIO Asks U. S. Aid Fni net Riranc President Issues Report Citing Danger Qf- Scoffing At Soviet Scientific Gains many citizens, scientists and non-scientists alike, in attempting to reconcile the "demands cf technological and. military secrecy with basic democratic freedoms." The Foundation was created by Congress in 1950 to appraise the impact of scientific research Biggest Bank Merger In History Approved By Directors In N. Y.

New York UP) The biggest bank merger in history has been approved by directors of Chase National bank and the Bank of the Manhattan Co. If the plan is approved by stockholders and the New York superintendent of banking, Chase would be merged into Bank of Manhattan Co. to produce the nation's second largest bank. Bank of America in California is the largest bank with total resources of around 9i billion dollars. The Chase Manhattan bank, as it would be called, would have resources of about IV2 billion.

Chase Manhattan would become the largest bank in New York apposition now held by National City Bank of New York. President Vetoes China Reprisals Americans disappointed that Peking has not freed fliers but nation must avoid talk of 'reprisal or Eisenhower declares. Washington UP) President Eisenhower called on all Americans yesterday to avoid talk of "reprisal or retaliation" against China despite "disappointment" at the Reds' failure to release 11 U. S. airmen immediately.

The President issued a formal statement commenting on the mission of Dag Harrfmarskjold, United Nations Secretary General who went to Peking to appeal for the airmen's release. The -President noted that Ham-marskjold believes progress has been made toward obtaining the freedom of the men and other U. N. personnel and that the way is open for further efforts. 'We must support the United Nations in its efforts," the President said, "so long as those efforts hold any promise of success." The United States, he declared, will not "fall into a Communist trap and through impetuous words or deeds endanger the lives of those imprisoned airmen who wear the uniform of our country." There were reports that one of the President's main purposes in issuing the statement was to head off any hot utterances from members of Congress at this juncture.

Sen. Knowland of California, the Republican leader, and some other legislators have advocated a blockade of China if necessary to obtain the prisoners' release. Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on returning Tuesday from a trip around the world that he would favor an Allied blockade if less drastic measures fail.

There was no immediate comment last night from Knowland or Radford. said at a 'hefts conference in New yesterday that his trip was a successful first step toward the desired goal, He said Chinese Premier Chou En-lai had laid down no conditions as barriers to the men's freedom. The President placed all the. emphasis in his statement, however, 'on what he called the -for Americans "to refrain from giving expression to thoughts of reprisal or retaliation." That will not be easy, he said, yet expressing such thoughts "is what we must not now do." Communist Party Loses McCarran Act Appeal Washington UP) The U. S.

Court of Appeals yesterday turned down a request by the Communist Party for a rehearing on the constitutionality of the 1950 Subversive Activities control (McCarran) act. A three-judge panel of the court a month ago upheld legality of the act and an order by the Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB) directing the Communist party to register under it. The party petitioned for a rehearing before all nine judges of the This was turned down yesterday without comment. This presumably is the last legal preliminary before the party petitions the Supreme Court to review the case and overturn the court of appeals decision. Washington UP) President Eisenhower yesterday sent to Congress a National Science Foundation report citing a "national danger of underestimating the strength" of the Soviet particularly in scientific achievements.

The Foundation's fourth annual report also said that in the United States "uncertainty was felt by 2 Spies Claim One shot and killed, other captured. Soviets declare. Both went to spy schools out side Washington, Russians announce. Moscow UP) The Soviet government announced last night its border forces had shot dead one resisting "American spy" and captured another after they had been parachuted into Soviet Estonia last summer. The state security committee of the U.S.S.R.

named the two men as Kalja Kukk and Hans Toomla, without further identification. The captured man has been turned over to a military tribunal for trial. The committee said the two men fought in the German army during World War II and then escaped to Sweden from where they were taken to the United States to-be trained as spies. It said, one received his espionage instruction at a town about 30 miles northwest of D. C.

the name of which tran slates into English as Poolsville. (Thp nostal ETiide lists a Jooies- ville, Md.) The other, the announcement, said 'was trained at a spy school about four miles outside Fairfax, alsj near Washington. It said they were sent from the United States to a spy school at a town called Starenben, uer- many (probably Starnberg, near Munich), where they learned sharpshooting, radio communications, writing with invisible ink, forging of documents and parachute jumping. The committee said the men wprp flown from Munich to a point over Soviet Estonia where' they were dropped into Soviet territory. Their mission- was to collect information on Soviet airfields and other military objectives, to select places on Estonian soil suitable for dropping other United States spies, to copy Soviet documents, and to recruit new agents for the U.

S. intelligence. The committee said the men were supposed to transmit their information by radio and also through the mail by using invisible ink; Claims Strauss Atomic Leases S. ALLEN pletely free to speak out on this matter. I see utterly no reason 1 see utterly why these rates should be kept secret, unless it is because there is something to hide about them.

And from information I have from other sources in the commission, apparently there is a great deal to hide about them. That may explain why this document was sent to me classifiedtop secret." Anderson stated that he is particularly "disturbed" because the charges proposed by the corn- -are for a seven-year per- iod, beginning July 1, with adjust ments to be based only on the wholesale index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Committeemen have also learned that Strauss has privately discussed the-secret rate schedule with Rep. Cole (R-NY)t former committee chairman, and Sen. Eourke Hickenlooper (R-Ia), former vice-chairman.

Strauss was quoted as telling them the charges are "reasonable, but if they turn out to be too low, we can increase them later." Anderson is making no secret that he intends to investigate the matter, among other things. He is a militant critic of the Dixon-Yates contract, and plans to continue that fight against Strauss. Doing nothing, Dulles told in wire, would indicate to world that U. S. not interested in blocking aggression.

Washington The following telegram, in connection with the fighting now taking place inside Costa Rica, was sent yesterday to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles by O. A. Knight, Chairman of the CIO Latin American Affairs Committee: Reports of the attack on the democratic government of Costa Rica are a matter of deep concern to members of Congress of Industrial Organizations. We are aware that Costa Rica has traditionally been one of the few ment and of the democratic spirit Dasuons 01 uemucraui: guvem in Central America As you are aware, we in the CIO have, been concerned for many months about the threat of an aggressive attack- launched against the people of Costa Rica. Such an attack now appears to be in progress with clear evidence pointing to its having been launched from outside Costa Rica.

The people of Costa Rica and their democratic anti-Communist government deserve the full support of the government of the United States against this unprovoked anti-democratic assault upon their sovereignty and institutions. If the Costa Rican government fails as a result of this aggression, the cause of democracy, not only in Latin Air.orica, but in other underdeveloped areas of the world, will have suffered a 'grave blow. In addition, the frequently expressed sentiments of our government and the American people that they will rally to the support of democratic institutions throughout Latin America will be questioned and derided. The government and peoob of the United States have made clear their abhorrence of -aggression or of foreign-inspired infiltration and attack on democratic regimes, not only in Latin America but throughout the world. An attitude of "neutrality" or failure by the (Continued On Page Thirty-one) See CIO Asks Homes In Levittown Sought For Negroes Philadelphia) Attorneys for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed suit in U.

S. district yesterday to force the sale of homes in Levittown, to Negroes. The suit alleged that prospective Negro purchasers have been denied the right to buy horfles because of their race and color. The action specifically seeks a federal injunction restraining Lev-it and Sons, builders, from discriminating against Negroes so long as Levitt uses the credit, guarantee, insurance, approval and assistance of the federal government. Sen.

Anderson Is Giving Away By ROBERT Washington Congress has been in" session only ten days, but already a new feud has broken out with Atomic Chairman Lewis Strauss. This time it's over rates to be charged for nuclear material and services. Sen. Anderson (D-NM), new chairman of the Joint Congressional Atomic Committee has angrily sent back a highly classi fied report on this from Strauss Anderson took this forceful ac- tion on two grounds: (1) JJis approval of the secrecy imposed by Strauss, and (2) belief that the rates are too low. Under, the new atomic law passed by the last Congress, utilities and other private interests can lease fissionable material from the government for developing atomic power and other non-military purposes.

The Atomic Commission was directed to set the rates for this material and services. Anderson has told members, of his committee that the charges proposed by the commission are "another Dixon-Yates give-away." "I shot this report right back to Strauss because I refuse to have anything to do with it," said Anderson. "I want to be com- upon industrial development and upon the general welfare of the United States. "In the interest of scientific progrgss," the report said, "American scientists must be informed on research developments throughout the world. At this particular time, however, the most acute need is for more widespread knowledge in the United States of the status of Russian science, and the National Science Foundation has turned its attention to this problem." The Foundation said that at its request the American Institute of Physics is developing a plan for improving translation of papers in Soviet physics research.

As for the "uncertainty" in reconciling "demands of technological and military secrecy with basic democratic in this country, the report said: "Perhaps the most hopeful note (with respect to reconciliation) was found in the fact that so many thoughtful Americans, of every class and interest, were aware of these problems and had the will to face up to them." Navy Shuns Plea To Avoid S. Africa As Bias Protest Washington UP) The U. S. Navy yesterday rejected a request to keep the aircraft carrier Midway out of Capetown. South Afri ca, because 400 Negro crewmen would be subjected to segregation wnne asnore.

The request came from Clarence Mitchell, director of the Washington bureau of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Sen. Lehman (D-NY) also pro tested tnat the Negro crew members of the carrier may face dis- crimination during the vessels visit to Capetown. In making his request. Mitchell said: "We must not permit the colored, Jewish, Protestant and Catholic freemen of the United States to stain their shoe soles on the hate polluted soil of the Union of oouth Ainca.

'In the name of the vita! dem ocracy which we all love and are prepared to defend against all' enemies, we ask that the-midway stay out of South Africa and proceed to some other port where our flag may fly high in air that is not tainted with a stench of apartheid (segregation) and where our fighting men may walk ashore with the dignity that United States citizens deserve." A Navy spokesman said that Mitchell's protest had been re-enemies, we ask that the Midway stop at Capetown as scheduled. Mitchell said his request resulted from an order that the Negro crewmen of the Midway must carry special permits enabling them to drink liquor in bars for non-European (mixed race) people only. Refusal Of Work Permit For Boy Upheld In Court Philadelphia UP) The State Superior court ruled yesterday that the superintendent of public instruction properly refused a work permit to the 14-year-old son of a Lancaster county farmer who wanted to. quit school "because of religious belief." Blair Gunther wrote the opinion in which the Superior Court upheld the Lancaster County Quarter Sessions' decision which ordered Samuel L. Smoker to send his son Mervin to the elementary school Leacock township, Lancaster county.

Smoker, an Amish farmer, had applied for a farm work permit for Mervin on the grounds that it was necessary for the son to be at home to help with the work. The permit was refused on grounds that the child's family was not in "dire financial circumstances." PILOTS BODY FOUND Los Angeles UP) The body of air speed record holder James B. Verdin, who baled out of a bantam jet bomber 30,000 feet over the Mojave desert Thursday, was found yesterday about 2y2 miles south of the wreckage of his plane. Security System Prejudice Ripped Calling person security risk because of his race, color, creed, as has happened, points up need of revamping security system, JWV chief de clares. Washington The government's security program was scored yesterday as "completely inadequate in that it leaves the door wide open for individual prejudices to confuse what should be a cold appraisal of any given case." Joseph F.

Barrj national commander of the Jewish War Veterans, told a luncheon group in Hartford that "the Ladejinsky case, the Chasanow case and the Ft. Monmouth case are typical examples of how the security program is subject to abuses and how these abuses can be- openly practiced." There were anti-Semitic overtones to all these cases. "It is time that the Administration came up with a security pro-garm that truly answers all the requirements," he said. "The American people are sick of seeing all our anti-Communist and anti-Fascist efforts weakened by procedures that can only result in confusion, hysteria and prejudice," the JWV reported in a release. "Let us not fall into the trap of a man-made hysteria," he warned, indicating that he would urge "at every public function, which he attended, that the security program be revamped as quickly as possible so that there will never again be the spectacle of an American being prosecuted as a subversive solely because of his creed, color or place of origin." Albert Schweitzer Declines To Speak On 80th Birthday Paris UP) Dr.

Albert Schweitzer, Nobel peace prize winner, declined to make a radio address on his 80th birthday yesterday, saying he was tired. The Nationalized French Radio Network had sent a transmitting team to Lambarene in French Equatorial Africa especially to broadcast a few words from the venerable doctor on his birthday. However, after various of the doctor's hospital aides were inter viewed Schweitzer himself declined to speak. There was speculation in Paris that Sweitzer's extreme modesty may have played a part in his decision not to go on the air. Earlier yesterday, a French press agency report said Schweitzer, his wife, and his aides sat on the steps of his house and listened to natives in the village chant songs in honor of his birthday.

The village of Lambarene is inhabited by 500 persons 230 of them lepers cared for by Dr. Schweitzer. In the little group wfth Schweitzer during the birthday chant were his nephews, Drs. Percy and Guy Schweitzer, and several nurses who have worked with him for years. When the singing ended Schweitzer rose, thanked the natives and wound the whole affair up by saying: "Let's all get to work." Police Are Torturing Terrorist Suspects, French Writer Says Paris UP) Francois Mauriac, French.

Nobel prize novelist, accused French police yesterday of torturing Algerians suspected of nationalist terrorism. The interior i i which controls the police, said an investigation of such charges has already begun. A ministry official added that so far all investigated have proved false, but some remain to be checked. Mauriac cited an unidentified informant, apparently a lawyer, as having seen the evidence of the tortures. He told of the use of whips, electric currents, buckets of dirty water in which a suspect's head is allegedly held until he almost drowns.

These methods were used, he said, to obtain the names of other suspects..

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