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'VOL. XXI, NO. 25 servo bt mono SHAMOKIN, PA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1953-16 PAGES CIRCULATION AUDITED BT ABO PRICE: FIVE CENTS IE Ml mm News WEST IE Reds Interview Prisoners Non-Aggression 1,000 Anti-Red PWs Win Sitdown Strike Plan Opposed by Bonn Government General Quizzed in Spy Probe Signal Corps Head Questioned by Senator McCarthy Against Interviews Rifle-Waving and Cajoling by Indian Guards Fails to Budge Defiant Group President Outlines Farm Plan New Program to Include Principle Of Price Supports KANSAS CITY, Mo. (U.R) President Eisenhower turned on his famous grim today for drought state governors who have been complaining most about the administration farm program.

At the chief executive's side was Secretary of Agrictulture Ezra T. Benson, who has been under more fire recently than most members of the President's cabinet. He said a new attempt to inter Adenauer Raises Two Objections To Pact Proposal LOXDOX (U.R) AVest Ger-many snagged the opening session of the western Big Three foreign ministers conference today by objecting to a proposal to discuss non-aggression guarantees with Soviet Russia. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault met to discuss a new note to Russia, the Trieste crisis and other urgent international problems. But it developed that the West German government, to whom a copy of the proposed note to Russia was submitted, objected to the wording of the text as regards a possible big power non-aggression pact to relieve East-West tension.

The note, while mainly concerned with arranging a four-power meeting with Russia on German and Austrian treaties, included in somewhat vague terms, informants said the offer to discuss a security system for Europe. Official sources indicated that aa the result of the West German objections', the Allied foreign ministers did not aoprove in its final form the note to Russia which their deputies had drafted here before the meeting. The note invites Soviet Foreign The President made what the White House described as a major farm speech here last night. He spoke to a national convention of the Future Farmers of America and. through these youngsters, asked farmers to be patient while he and his administration build a new farm program.

The President promised that "the price support principle must be part of any future planning. "We must and will continue faithfully to administer price sup port laws now on the statute books," said Mr. Eisenhower. Some of the President's closest gubernatorial friends were among the breakfast group of drought state Communist political officers at the processing tent at Indian Camp, Korea, top, interview POWs, bottom, who have decided that they do not want to return to the Reds. The POWs overwhelmingly rejected Communist explanations of why they should return.

Of 500 POWs interviewed only 10 changed minds and elected to return to Red rule. executives today. These close asso ciates included Democrat Allan Shi' Wable Implicates Himself In Two Turnpike Killings GREENSBURG (U.R) State police said today John W. Wable, 25, has signed a statement implicating himself in the slaying of two sleeping truck drivers on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and the wounding of a third NEW YORK U.R Senator Joseph R. McCarthy questioned a high-ranking Army general today to find out whether the Signal Corps was negligent in rooting out remnants of the Communist spy ring which Julius and Ethel Rosenberg died to protect.

McCarthy, chairman of the Senate Permanent Investigation Sub-com mittee, began the fifth day of hearings into espionage at the Signal Corps' Fort Monmouth, N. radar laboratory by interrogating Major General George I. Back, Signal Corps chief. Back appeared at the closed hearing accompanied by Major General Kirke B. Lawton, Fort Monmouth commandant.

The Wisconsin senator said last night the trail of espionage was leading back to the Rosenbergs, the atom spies who chose to die in the electric chair rather than reveal all they knew about a Soviet spy ring. McCarthy said testimony so far in his investigation indicated Rosenberg had set up an espionage ring at Fort Monmouth during World War II and the ring "may still be in operation." The senator plans to go to the Lewisburg, Federal Penitentiary Saturday to question David Green- glass, brother of Ethel Rosenberg, who testified against the couple at their trial. Greenelass is serving a 15-year sentence for espionage. Rosenberg, an electrical engineer, worked as a civilian specialist at Fort Monmouth in 1942 and 1943. He and his wife were convicted in March, 1951, of giving Soviet agents atomic energy secrets taken from the Los -Alamos and Oak Ridge in stallations.

The indictment on which the Ro senbergs were tried specified that their espionage was committed between 1944 and 1950. This did not cover the period when Rosenberg worked at Fort Monmouth. McCarthy said an ex-Communist who testified at yesterday's hearing was a classmate of Rosenberg at the City College of New York. The witness, who was not identified, said Rosenberg still had "many contacts'' at Fort Monmouth as late as 1949 and 1950 and could have obtained any documents he wished, McCarthy reported. The witness said he was recruited into the Communist Party by Rosen berg and Morton Sobell, another convicted atom spy.

Lodge Accuses Russia Of Shenanigans in UN UNITED NATIONS, N. i. (U.PJ Henry Cabot Lodge, U. S. dele gate to the United Nations, stopped translators dead in their tracks yesterday when he accused Soviet Russia of "shenanigans" in the Security Council.

A half nour later the translator Interpreted It as "bad pleasantries." Soviet delegate, Andrei visninsicy called it "something referring to machinations." Injunction in Dock vers, of Texas, and Republican Dan Thornton, Colorado. After the fence-mending break last this morning, the President. weather permitting, planned to fly to Abilene, for a nostalgic look at the old homestead of his prairie forebears. Then he will fly back to Kansas City for an early evening banquet with 500 middle western Republi cans, a visit to the new headquar ters building of the American Here ford Association, and finally, a box seat at the annual American Royal Livestock and Horse Show, No set speeches were scheduled, but the odds were better than ven that the chief executive would riavi what the White House calls r.ial remarks" at every stop the da 7. In LiS specn st night, enhower said he was young farmers only i line of his farm plans.

"The goal is a soLdl prehensive farm remedy present diffi ing laws a prograr markets, safeguard protect consumers I think we are hammering out program for th. The skX i 1 It? A Wl Mi Suspect in Kidnap Killing Believed Slain; Body Sought Yard of Mrs. Heady's Home Spaded in Hunt ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (U.R) County jail prisoners armed with spades begin a search today for the buried body if there is one of Thomas John Marsh, the mysterious "fall guy" in the Bobby Greenlease kidnaping case.

Buchanan County Prosecutor John Downs said the prisoners would start digging in the yard behind the frame bungalow of Mrs. Bonnie Heady, who helped kidnaper Carl Austin Hall bury the body of their six- year-old victim in the same yard. Marsh, a tatooed ex-convict with a reputation as a "wino," was the object of a nation-wide search be fore Hall confessed he was lying when he tried to shift the blame for Bobby's death. Downs believed Hall may have killed Marsh to get him out of the way and protect his alibi. In Kansas City, meanwhile, Jack son County Prosecutor Richard K.

Phelps said he would set up legal machinery for a state charge of kid naping against Hall and Mrs. Heady in case any hitch develops in the federal effort to send them to the gas chamber under the Lindbergh law. Phelps said he had asked federal authorities to allow him to arraign the pair on a state charge of kidnaping, which also carries a maximum penalty of death. The Lindbergh law charge Is based on Hall's statement that Bobby, "who was kidnaped at his school in Kansas City, was taken across the state line to a wheatficld in Kansas and shot to death. In St.

Louis, a new theory on the whereabuts of the missing ransom money was advanced by Police Lieutenant Louis Shoulders, who arrested Hall October 6 in a hotel room. He said he believed the money, half of the $600,000 paid to the kidnapers, was In the hands of St. Louis hoodlums. Shoulders said he believed the money was stolen when Hall threw a party in a St. Louis motel with a prostitute, Sandra OTJay.

The woman apparently got only $1,000 herself, but Shoulders believes "un derworld characters" who had heard about Hall's free spending In St Louis might have made a bigger haul. State Officer Accused In 'Fix' Resigns Post LANCASTER (U.RV A state policeman suspended on charges of having taken part in a "fix" which resulted in the resignation of Lancaster County's district attorney, has resigned, also, Colonel C. M. WUhelm, state police commissioner announced. The trooper Is Corporal James J.

Haggerty, 46, a state policeman for 24 years, who was serving as a criminal Investigator attached to the Lan-c-ster barracks. He was suspended September 11 on charges of visiting a Justice of the at nearby Mt. Joy before drunken driving charges against Lawrence A. Benedict, a building contractor, were changed to reckless driving. John W.

Beyer resigned as district attorney because of critlclfm he received in the case. fiscal year. Excise taxes are those levied on specific goods and services, such a gasoline, cigarets. autcmobilcs and movie admissions. Halleck plan calls for easing the burden on scne Industries while adding others to the list for the first tine.

Halleck. an Indiana Republican, saw Mr. Elsenhower this week before the President set off on a five-state speaking tour which has developed considerable political urgency because of tax, budget and farm problems. In addition to offering his proposals for broadening the excise tax base, Halleck assured the President that Congress will vote next session to maintain the 52 per cent regular corporation tax rate fixed two years ago to help finance the Korean war. The corporate rate is scheduled to drop back to It pre-Korean level of 47 per cent next April unless Con-gres acts.

Mr. Eisenhower already has asked that the present rate be maintained. There ha been considerable talk In Congress cf compromise, fixing the rate at 30 per cent. (Continued ca Tu CoL 1) litical I PANMUNJOM. Korea (U.R) One thousand North Korean prisoners of the Allies won a sitdown strike to day against Communist propagan dists assigned to lure them back to Red rule.

The defiant anti-Communists ig nored the coaxing, cajoling and rifle-waving of 600 tall Indian guards and refused to leave their compounds for a short tide to the tent city where Red interviewers stood by. After the strike had lasted five hours and the North Koreans showed no signs of weakening, Lieuten ant General K. S. Thimayya, head of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission, called off the inter views. Thimayya had ordered the Indians to use force, if necessary, lb remove the prisoners from the compounds, but declined to tell the guards to carry out his commands.

Diplomats Believe Red China Wants to Start Peace Talks Moscow Regarded as Opposing Settlement WASHINGTON (U.R) Red China wants the Korean peace conference to get under way, but Russia doesn't. High-ranking diplomats said to day they had suspected this was the case long ago, but now they are virtually certain of it. "The Russians, on this whole Korean business, Jump up and slam the door oefore Red China can get a foot inside," one diplomat said. One theory is that Moscow doesn't wtuit a rCoreau settlement that ould curb its scheme to dominate peninsula pointing toward Japan. China, on the other hand, wants in order to develop its shaky economy.

sis of Moscow-Peiplng artly explains why the has agreed to Red al to talk over pre ference arrangements njom, Korea. This pro- side-track the direct role la had while the Korean de- centered in the United Na tions. Although the Allies have offered to sit down at Panmunjom on October 26 with Red Chinese and North Korean representatives, there is some (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) 350 Men Trapped by British Coal Mine Fire MANCHESTER, England (U.R) About 350 miners were temporarily trapped today when fire broke out In an engine house atop a shaft of the Bradford coal mine near here. Officials of the National Coal Board, which operates the nationalized mines, said the fire was overcome and the miners were being brought up through another shaft.

The elevator cages in the main shaft were put out of operation when the fire broke out in the main winding-engine house. Flames shot up 30 to 40 feet and the winding-engine house colfapsed. Reported Dratt Standards To Be Unchanged WASHINGTON (U.R) The Defense Department has no Intention of low ering induction standards despite draft director Lewi B. Hershey'a warning that the nation may run "out of manpower" lx they are con tlnued. Actually, officials said today, the services feel that some men now be lng accepted should be rejected.

They explained that Inductees who barely meet mental physical re qulrement are sometimes proving a "hindrance" In training. The minimum standards for In duction are the same as those in ef feet at the end of World War li the lowest they have ever been. But Hershey ha urged that they be low ered still further. Defense Department manpower of ficials conceded there would be trou ble if enlistment and reenlistments fell below present levels. But they do not believe this will happen.

However, the officials asreed with Hershey that another look will soon have to be taken at deferment poll cle for atudenu, farm workers and other. view prisoners, this time 1,000 anti-Communist Chinese, would be made at 6:00 p. m. EST today. Thimayya told newsmen he would be more firm when he deals with the North Koreans again.

"We've done all the appealing we can, Thimayya said. In refusing to attend the Commu nist "come home" talks, the North Koreans handed the Reds their sec ond major political setback in as many days. The anti-Communist Chinese prisoners set an example for other captives of the United Nations by refusing in overwhelming numbers at a ratio of 50-1 to return to Red China when the long-delayed "explanations" opened yesterday. But the North Koreans' passive resistance caused the Communists more' loss of face than did the in-(Contlnued on Page 2, Col. 4) Red Cross Makes Plans for 2 Local Bloodmobile Visits Methods Discussed For Raising of Funds Advancement of plans for two bloodmobile visits and a discussion of methods to raise funds for con tinuing the blood program last night mariced a public meeting in the local American Red Cross headquarters, Sunbury and Rack Streets.

Next visit of the bloodmobile unit will be October 29. The unit wiU establish temporary headquarters in Lincoln Street Methodist Church Volunteer Red Cross workers will sponsor that visit. Shamokin Junior Woman's Club will sponsor a bloodmobile visit November 16. Mrs. Robert Joyce, a member of the club, will serve as chairman of the committee in charge of completing arrangements for that visit.

Red Cross officials reported $1,388 received to date in contributions for continuing the blood program which has been threatened with curtailment because of lack of funds. The goal Is $2,000. Red Cross officials asked groups who have not contributed to the drive to send their donations to the local chapter's headquarters as soon as possible. Eisenhower Pledge Heartens Farmers WASHINGTON (U.R) Republican congressmen said today that President Eisenhower's premise to include price supports In his farm plans has heartened the nation's hard-pressed farmers. But a Democrat, Senator John C.

Stennis, cf Mississippi, warned that farmers will only be satisfied If these supports are continued at 90 per cent of parity as enacted by a Democratic Congress. In a major speech at Kansas City. last night. Mr. Eisenhower said the administration still hasn't fin ished working out the farm program It will submit to Congress next year, but that the "price support principle" would be preserved.

At' what level, he didn't say. Senator Hrtner Ferguson. chairman of the GOP Policy Com mittee In the Senate, said the speech showed the administration "stands ready to be a partner with the farmer." Senator Francis Case. S. said It will be heartening to the farmers throughout the Mid-West to know that the price support principle will or continued.

Since current studies are still in complete. Ferguson said he didn't believe the President could have "gone any stronger" than he did on the price support Issu. Stennis said there will be Drtno cratic support for the admlnlstra tion'a new farm program only If it is based on 90 per cent of parity up ports for the so-called six basic crops corn, cotton, tobacco, wheat. rice and peanuts. Mr.

Elsenhower said the "final phase" in drafting the admlnlstra tion faim program will get under way next week when the National Agrl culture Advisory Council meets here to formulate Its recommendations, Shamokin Police Probe Collision of Two Autos Collision of two automobiles at Independence and Market Streets was investigated last night by city ponce. Officers Identified drivers of the cars as Oliver H. Sigafoos, 720 Market Street. Trevorton. and Albert J.

Piearelll. North Sixth Street. PlcarelU wa. driving went on In dependence Street and Sicafoos turned his car onto the thorough-far from Market Street when the accident occurred, according to the polk report. Strike Extended NEW YORK (U.R) A Taft-Hartley temporary no-strike injunction against the International Longshoremen's Association has been extended to include a rival union organized by the American Federation of Labor.

Federal Judge Edward Weinfeld signed an order last night barring both unions from engaging In work stoppages on New York piers. Weinfeld also extended the temporary injunction against the TLA until October 25 and set October 20 for a hearing on the question of whether the Injunction against the new AFL-ILA should be made permanent. The Jurist made It clear that although the order forbids members of either union from taking part in work stoppages, it did not intend to Interfere with the unions' membership warfare. The TXiA, headed by Joseph Ryan and the new AFL union using the same name, have recently engaged In violent battles on the Brooklyn waterfront in their efforts to recruit members. Weinfeld original order was issued at the request of President Eisenhower to halt a strike by some 65,000 ILA members in New York and other Atlantic Coast ports.

The Justice Department has asked that the temporary Injunction be kept in force for the full 80-day cooling off period provided for In the Taft-Hartley law. Weinfeld decision on this Is not expected before next Tuesday. new farm "I look a sound undertakir of our fc. tics an be non in Supply second i.n is almost a report Tiamokln. Nor- medlcal direc- 'e oi aisinouuon of gamma globu- two weeks ago.

Scv- received have already ugoslavia of arr isan I lfare I shall i Aiis au- mini 57 I Mm m. i A yfs UN May Go Easy on Dispute in Morocco UNITED NATIONS (U.R) The United Nations main political committee was expected to vote down today an Afro-Asian demand for immediate action In France's depute with Morocco. The 60-natlon committee was ex- nected to adopt instead a milder Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov to join with the foreign ministers of the United States. Britain and France at Lugano, Switzerland, on November 9 to discuss Germany and Austria and the East-West non-aggression pact.

The Allied ministers met for two hours at the foreign office, adjourned for lunch, and resumed their talk at 11:00 a. EST. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer raised two objections to the security pact offer. Infoimants said that Adenauer favors offering Russia a security guarantee. But he was understood to hold that an offer to discuss it now might delay French approval of the European aimy pact and that the Russians might raise issues which could be discussed only at a peace-conference in which an all-German government would take part.

Dulles, Eden and Bidault opened their meeting in the British Foreign 'Office to put their final stamp of aporoval on the invitation. The specific and straightforward note already is in Moscow to be sent to the Kremlin as soon as the three foreign ministers approve it. Western officials regarded the note as a decisive test on whether Russia Is ready to meet with the Big Three foreign ministers now or (Continued on Page 4. Col. 4) U.S.

Experts Test Surrendered Mig TCKYO (U.PJ General O. P. Wey-land. Far East Air Force commander, disclosed today that American experts have given extensive tests to the Jet plane surrendered by a North Korean fugitive from Communism. Weyland said the flight tests took place on Okinawa under the direction cf specialists from Wright Patterson Air Force Bise in Ohio.

The special team Included Major Charles Yeager. first man to crash the sound barrier, and ace test pilot Captain Tom Collins. Weyland said technicians dismantled the Russian Jet on Sep'ember 22. the day after North Korean Lieutenant Noh Keun Suk landed It at Kimp-) Air Force Bve near Seoul was flown immediately to Okinawa in a C-124 Globemaster. The Air Force general said thi was re-assemblcd.

around tested and given Its first new Tight on September :3 More flights were made the following eek. "A (treat deal of valuable Information was obtained which will en able our pilots to devise tactics better exploit the F-89 sabrejet advantages over the Mia If they have to ficht again." Weyland said Weyland cave no information on the tests other than describing the Mig as a "light airplane with a big engine." Five-Day Forecast Eastern Pennsylvania: Temperature will aerae three to fire de-green above normal. Warm irer the-weekend. Somewhat cooler Monday. Warmer Wednesday.

9eattr4 nhnwrr likely over northern eontk lale undav and aa'ln about Wed-neodar with rainfall amount of up to three-tenths of an Inch. Western rennshanl: Temperature will averase four to atx de-tree atmve normal Warm mrmt of the ttrrk'nd. Somewhat ronWr UlO undav or M'nda and warmer Turdav and Wrdned. Cbaneo ol M-allered hower un1T and Wrd-nesday. Tout rainfall arwit ono-ir nth lo loteotha of aa If aw in Ohio.

Captain Jack R. Dodson said the slight chiopyle. man. In, a 14 page statement "Implicated himself in all three shootings." However? htf said, Wable still had not admitted that he was the trigger-man in the cold-blooded shootings. Earlier, Dodson announced Wable had "confessed." However, when he released details of Wable's statement, the fact was disclosed the prisoner had only admitted "being present" when the shootings occurred last summer.

He has implicated h'mself In all three shootings." Dodson said. "We haven't got into his motives yet." Westmoreland County District Attorney L. Alexander Sulco said he would meet with police later today to review the case. Prior to being returned here from Albuquerque, N. where he was captured Sunday night following a service station holdup, Wable maintained he had nothing to do with killing two truck drivers and wounding a third In Ohio, near the western end of the turnpike, this summer.

He admitted owning a gun which state police said was used In all three shootings, but said he loaned it to a man named "Parks" and got it back later. Authorities took no stock in the story. (Continued on Page 4. Col. 1) proposal of Latin-American origin The resolution sponsored by the 15-natlon Afro-Asinn bloc calls for Immediate lifting of martial law In Morocco, the establishment of "democratic Institutions," the holding of free elections and the setting of a five-year deadline lor Moroccan Independence.

However. Bolivia was expected to present a resolution that would rtrike out the operative parts of the Afro-Asian measure, retaining as its onlv major section an observation that last year assembly recommendation In the French-Moroccan dispute had not been Implemented. Last year's measure simply called upon France and Morocco to conduct negotiations In a constructive manner and to take steps to ensure the realization of Moroccan independence and sovereignty. The theme of UN debates, long heavily underscored by Korean and transposed to the trouble spot the Mediterranean, with the question of Trieste sharing attention with the Moroccan issue. At Thursday' meeting of the Security Council.

Russia Andrei Y. Vtshinsky charged that the an-nounced intention of the United States and Britain to give Zone A of Trieste to Italy was a violation of the Italian peace treaty and a feature deslrned simply to attain Rome' ratification of the European Offense Community plan. But U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodee Jr.

ftole the Russian' punch bv charging that the Kremlin had raised the isstte of Trieste In the Security Council only to stir up "at much trouble a povibK" The 11-nation council then ad-journpd Its Trieste debate until next Tuesday afternoon. Calling Up Reserves BELGRADE. Yugoslavia (U.R) Informed sources said today Yugoslavia Is quietly Increasing her armed forces by about one-third while waiting for the Big Three foreign ministers meeting In London to act on Trieste. Broadening of Excise Tax Urged byHalleck WASHINGTON (U.R) House Majority Leader Charles A. Halleck has proposed to President Eisenhower a reshuffling of federal excl.e taxes that would produce a net gain In revenue from that source in the next District Legionaires Hear Many Reports Legionaires of the Seventh District la.t night heard a report concerning the so-called "pauper's oath" now required from veterans with non-service connected disabilities who are seeking admittance to Veterans Administration hospitals.

The new ruling was brought to the attention of district Legionaires by Joseph Oavenonis, ldred. past district commander, during regular meeting In the Trevorton American Legion post home. The ruling requires veterans with non-service connected disabilities to submit a report of their financial status before being- admitted to Veterans Administration hospitals. Another Issue brought to the attention of Is the American Legion's contention that insurance companies providing accident and health policies should be required to make payment to veterans who are patient In Veterans Administration hospitals. Under the present ruling.

Insurance concerns are not required to pay benefit In those cases. Oavenonis rt President Dwight D. Eisenhower has reactivated the Hoover Commission, which Is again scheduled to study economy measures in connection with veteran benefits. Legionaires approved an amend ment to the by-laws whereby five officers will serve in the district. Previously, the district had two.

Under the new tetup. two service o'fl-(Coatioutd on Pu 4, Cot. 1) The sources estimated 100.000 re scrvists at the mast have been called up this week. The total amy. navy and air force strength usually I estimated at between 300.003 and 353.000.

The sources emphasized the current call-up was a "natural" strengthening of forces located near the Italian fron'ier. There are daily reports from that area that Italian units are moving up to Join the three divisions which went Into the border area six weeks ago. In no sense was the current call-up a mobilization the sources said. Two or three whole chases of reservist have been called to active duty In Croatia and Slovenia this week. It was leernod hrre.

From other parts of the country numerous individual specialists, but no whole classes, are being brouaht Into the Zagreb Military District. This district is responsible for the Italian fnntier nreas. Trained reservist of all classes number more than 1.000.000 the government itself announced tome months sgo. President Tito once estimated j.ubudy Yugoslavia could put 2.C03.VJO men in the field if necessary. According to report reaching Bel-trade from fleeted areas, there was ho panic tnd even little excitement connected with reservist movement.

Travelers said railroad station in the area acre jammed wtih military traffic but the atmosphere wai calm. Pretty First Lady to Looking more like movie star than California's new "First Lady." Mr. Robert Eaton, daughter of newlv appointed Oovernor Oood-win Knieht. She. together wif her husband and daughter April, will soon move l.

to the executive mansion, and Mr. Eaton will become the governor' secretary. 1.