Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 1

wxxj Drive Carefully 4x 4 PHONE 3 4121 EIGHTY SECOND YE NO 78 OURTEEN PAGES TODAY PHONE 3 4121 House Sets Debate on Universal Training A (X: West Allies Set Steel Workers to halt 50 Division Goal 'v I Wage Board Presses Big Walkout Sale of Jobs Defense Scores (See I LED Pge 10 Col 3) will 't Raps Morris i li CHICAGO eb 21 red erick Wall secretary to Rep William Dawson (D Ill) and three other persons were in dicted by a federal grand jury to day on charges of conspiracy to sell post office jobs District Attorney Otto Kerne Jr said that there was no indication that Dawson Negro con gressman from the first Illinois dis trict and a kingpin in Chicago south side politics had any knowledge of the transactions Named with Wall in the con spiracy charge were William Creditt an attorney Donella Allen a former post office employe now unemployed and Mrs Mary Camp bell a post office clerk all of Chi cago 1 Pay Before Work Quiz Under Way Jap Commies Protest Pacts With US Defense Expert Warns Service to Remain Through Years Red Rioters Police Clash 5 LISBON Portugal eb 21 (UP) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization today set a goal of 50 divisions by the end of this year to meet any sudden Soviet attack The military committee of the NATO Council today ap proved the report of the NATO committee of experts headed Indictments Ordered Back to Jurors '1 THREATEN TV STRIKE HOLLYWOOD Calif eb 21 (IB The Screen Writers executive board has voted to call its first strike against television film producers March 10 in A dis pute over wages and working con ditions RENO NEVADA RIDAY MORNING EBRUARY 22 1952 Ridgeway Spokesman Unleashes Blast At Kremlin Tokyo Air Leader Refuses to Comment On Reports PtJSAN Korea riday eb 22 R) One American soldier and 69 Korean civilian prisoners were killed in a clash between troops and Communist led rioters at the Koje Island War prison on Monday it was an nounced today WASHINGTON eb 21 (UR) Construction workers on a top se cret airfield job near the North Pole collected more than $3000000 in wages before they ever lifted a tool Lt Gen Lewis A Pick said to day Pick chief "of Engineers Secretary aces Indictment xvii The End of the Tightrope I was the first I informant to testify not a party malcontent either but an I contact who was opposed to communism and Communists from the beginning It was the first time that the govern ment ever had publicly acknowl edged that it had undercover agents actually working inside the Com munist party x' 1 My testimony as we worked it out in long pretrial conferences had two main purposes irst I was to contribute all that I could from my experience to the aspect of the indictment to show that the party operated in secret met behind closed doors in private apartments organized itself on an underground pattern and spread its doctrines not openly but by planned subterfuge Secondly but of no less impor tance I to contribute my testi mony to the weight of evidence re garding what the Communist party taught and advocated in the meet ings which I attended We were to introduce' as exhibits numerous books and pamphlets used by me in secret training schools with Com munist comrades material which over the years I had bundle up and passed along to the ederal Bureau of Investigation I was to discuss the teachings in those Com munist and tell how the most pertinent and most revo lutionary ideas expressed in them were defined expanded and ex plained by party instructors After my testimony linked with that of other witnesses had helped to hail down the charge that The Eleven had deliberately re estab lished the Communist party for revolutionary purposes Mr Gordon led me into the full details of the teachings within the secret sessions of the party He introduced the complete outline for the teacher training course at 3 Hancock Street It was at this point in the trial from four year old report to the Bureau that I had written out with shaking fingers that the government drew up for the jury the definition of as the term was understood by Commu nists Anticipating a defense argu ment i that meant peaceable reform Mr Gordon took me back to the Hancock Street school where under the glare of a naked light bulb anny Hartman posed the "question do we mean by He asked me 3rd Party Threatened In South Again No Two in Reno In 4952 SAN RANCISCO eb 21 (IP) ederal Judge James Olger ee to day said he was going to refer the indictments against James Smyth ousted collector of Internal Revenue and three others back to a grand jury because they are "filled with am going to re refer this to a grand jury I think told these people what in dicted for because of the confusion in your ee told govern ment attorneys The original indictments against Smyth and the three others stand in the meantime More unds Sought ILM STAR WEDS LONDON eb 21 (IP) Glamor ous Elizabeth Taylor 19 and 39 year Id British actor Michael Wilding were married today in musty old Caxton Hall next door to the office where Britons line up for their fuel rations or YA Hospitals WASHINGTON eb 21 President Truman sent Congress two supplemental appropriation re quests today for more than $8000 000 He asked $5500000 for the Vet Administration to cover re pairs and alterations to VA hospi tal He requested $2590000 for the Bonneville Power Administra tion for a 230 kilovolt transmission line from McNary Dam to Walla Walla Wash and a 230 kilovolt substation at Walla Walla This re quest also covered the installation of new equipment on the power line between Spokane: Wash and Hot Springs SAN RANCISCO eb 21 (IP) Tree farming in the Western pine region during 1951 reached the highest peak in the 10 year history delegates to the West ern Pine annual meet ing were told today Truman Collins chairman of the forest conservation committee said all re cords for the region last year were broken with the addition of 60 new units totaling 777790 acres Collins owner of a pine company at Chester Calif addressed more than 200 Western pine lumbermen here for the convention Community Projects Allotted Materials TOKYO eb 21 Lt Gen Weyland ar East Air orces commander said today his headquarters could to an Air orce an nouncement that had been seen over Korea by 29 bomber crews The crew members wish to re main Weyland said Truman Happy He Confesses WASHINGTON eb '20 (UR) President Truman confessed today that he is quite happy with the job of being president Adding new fuel to speculation about his political plans the Presi dent discussed the presidency at a Masonic breakfast and said is an all day and nearly an all night job and just between you and me and the gate post I like Mr Truman was the top speaker at a breakfast of more than 500 Masonic leaders The breakfast is given anribally in his honor by rank Land of Kansas City Mo founder and secretary general of the Order of DeMolay XxX The remarks were made as a leading Dixie Democrat predicted that a third party will be formed in the South this year if Mr Truman and Sen Robert A Taft are the majority party nominees for the White House The speech was largely devoted to explaining to the Masons most of them grand mas ters of local arid state lodges the function of his ranking staff mem bers all of whom attended the breakfast As for himself Mr Truman said a great deal of his time had to be spent not in the exercise of his con stitutional powers but in public relations people to do things they ought to do without being The Dixie Democrat who cast the third party birth said there was little chance of a new crat should the President step aside for some other Demo cratic candidate or if Gen Dwight Eisenhower is theGOP nominee PITTSBURGH eb 21 (UR) The CIO United Steel Workers postponed a threatened strike of 650000 workers in the defense vital steel industry today until March 23 to permit Wage Stabilization Board action on their demand for a 18 cent an hour wage increase The strike had been scheduled for Saturday midnight ollowing day long conferences with top policy makers of the union CIO President Philip Murray an nounced that the union wage policy committee had authorized the de lay and gave him authority to order a walkout at the expiration of the postponement "in the event an equitable settlement of the dispute is not forthcoming by that Be Retroactive Murray said that only two things could prevent a walkout of the steel workers one minute after midnight March 23 They are acceptance of the WSB recommendations by both the union and the industry or if time is needed to reduce the recom mendations to a formula The resolution de manded that the final settlement be retroactive to January 1 1952 so that "the companies shall not profit from this The resolution called upon the WSB to "promptly make its recom mendation" and charged the steel companies had engaged in a "fili to hold up a settlement Pledges Speedy Action WSB Chairman Nathan ein singer said at Washington that the board expects to begin receiving reports from the fact finding panel which heard the steel case a week or 10 He promised speedy action He said the board will consider the 16 proposals separately as the panel makes its reports in stead of waiting to take the case up as a whole However he said the recommen dations for settlement will not be made until the separate issues all have been decided He said the wage demand probably would be considered first Other issues include a guaranteed annual wage a union shop revised incentive pay systems and holidaypay Tree arm Production Upped blast at the Soviets Allied truce negotiators told the Reds that Russia was "unequivocally unac on the neutral supervi sory commission Still Peck Away United Nations officials said the deadlock over Russia one of three holding up the main truce talks could be broken only by Red aban donment of demands for Soviet membership on the commission Staff officers pecked away at technical problems yesterday The only noteworthy progress was deeper into the stalemate over Russia In an effort to shake the Red de mand for inclusion of Russia on the main peace keeping body in Korea after an armistice the Allies gave their reasons for vetoing the Com munist nomination "The United Nations holds that it is in the interest of all concerned that members of the' supervisory commission should be drawn from nations not in proximity to Korea and without a record of past par ticipation in the Korean Col Don Darrow told the Reds Adrenalin The moot point was whether both sides had to agree to nominations to the neutral commissions The Reds said no the Allies yes headquarters state ment on Russia was broadcast by his "Voice of the United Nations radio It said the news of agreement on the fifth and last item of the truce talks no doubt been calculated by Moscow to provide the free world with an other shot of phony Soviet adre the Moscow that is designed to frustrate the It noted that the settlement of peace conference plans was fol lowed by a new problem the nomi nation of Russia to the neutral com mission £So the cycle will it said "every step forward will be followed by a step backward until Moscow is convinced that the final decision for Korea must be made without further Speedy Creation of European Defense orce Endorsed at Lisbon Parley WASHINGTON eb 21 Wayne Coy resigned today as chair man of the ederal Communica tions Commission Coy called at the White House today and personally delivered his resignation to President Trurnah The resignation will be effective immediately Coy 48 year old native of Delphi Ind has been chairman of the CC for four years He told reporters that he is quitting I can nego tiate for a job in private life" SABREJETS PROWL SKIES OVER KOREA TOKYO riday eb 22 (UR) American Sabrejet pilots prowling North skies for Communist planes cut off 20 MIG 15s from a flight of 80 over "MIG Thursday afternoon and shot down two The victories brought the three day bag of the Russian built jet fighters to seven destroyed and five damaged The 20 minute dog fight was waged between the 20 MIGS and an attacking force of 26 Sabrejets The remaining 60 MIGS turned tail without a fight On the ground a Cortimunist am bush pinned down a UN patrol and entrapped reinforcements which were sent to its relief for an hour and a quarter in the Kangsong sec tor of the eastern front told the Senate preparedness sub committee the workers were paid $4 a day for a total of $317000 while waiting at home to ship out Once aboard they' got full wages because of the of the voyage The voyage a normal 15 day run stretched into a 42 day trip while th6 payroll mounted Pick said The ships had to batter their way through an ice pack six to seven feet thick and the "toughest weather in the Pick said the way had to be opened with icebreaker? The boss engineer took respon sibility forlhe decision to dispatch the convoy to the ar North and said he would do it again He said he acted on information that a "little strip of open water along the coast line" offered a chance for the ships to get through He did not disclose the site of the airfield but said its classifica tion has been Re cent reports have indicated an air fields was built in far northern Greenland Sub committee Counsel Downey Rice said workers on the' project were guaranteed a 70 hour week with overtime after 40 hours Some workers and foremen made $1200 a month he said The supervisors over them got only $850 a month WASHINGTON eb 21 The government today authorized a start on $218000000 worth of long deferred community construc tion pro jects Excavation and other prelimi nary work may get under way now but building materials will not be available until June action was the first major relaxation by mobilization planners of the tight controls they have placed on the construction in dustry a National Production Au AT CKIAII A near curbs because parking was permitted in center lYlWlnU AM rAvu auto traffic on San Market St is snarled by worst ttaffic jam in history due to walkout of all municipal trolley employes Complicating prob lem sirens sounded an alert issued as forewarning of first atomic era air raid drill causing all traffic to halt (International) TOKYO eb 21 Mor than 10000 police were mobilized on an emergency alert in Tokyo to nght after co ordinated Commu nist riots here and in other cities Police and Japanese News Agency reports said that in addi tion to outbreaks here the Reds rioted in Osaka Nagoya Tottori Yonago Hiratsuka ujisawaw and other cities They attacked police and rail road stations at some At least 14 policemen were in jured in clashes th Tiothere orty one Reds were under ar rest here and in Osaka The riots were co ordinated take place between 5 and 6 pm on the occasion of a Red "anti colo day protest against United States Japanese negotia tions for a mutual security pact and the peace policies of the Jap anese government now being de bated in parli rrierit Authorities believed the out breaks were timed to anticipate ex pected announcement of a Japan ese American agreement under which American troops will remain in this country after the peace treaty has been ratified ZKXi Delay Strike To March 23 of the 50 division force The committee headed by the security administra tor was set up at the Septem ber NATO session to deter mine the contribution each member nation should make toward mutual defense 4 Nations Excluded The 50 division force contem plated for this year does not include the troops of Turkey or Greece which were not NATO members when the committee was estab lished Neither does it include any troops from Iceland or Portugal since neither of those small coun tries contributes soldiers to NATO The military committee approved the Harriman plan soon after the defense ministers of NATO gave their sanction to the long delayed formation of a 1430000 man Euro pean army which will include 12 German divisions That eventual unified European defense force will include some but not all of the units called for in the NATO defense program Defense ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization gave the 43 division army program their official blessing and a NATO spokesman said final approval of the full council of ministers would be mere Huddle in Secrecy As the defense ministers acted on the European defense plan the 14 NATO foreign ministers huddled in super secrecy to discuss: what steps should be take to similarly strengthen the position in Asia and the Middle East The historically unprecedented European army plan calls for a uni fied force of West German rench Italian Dutch Belgian and Luxem bourg troops under Gen Dwight Eisenhower Allied supreme com mander in Europe Approval of the defense ministers the chief security officers the way for NATO legal experts to draft a European army treaty which will end the German occupation and recruit Germans for the unified force i Navajos Endorse Truman as Council Visits White House WASHINGTON eb 21 (UR) An administrative spokesman warned today that most American for years to come can figure on serving a stint in the armed forces Even as Philip Hughes of the Budget Bureau predicted hat armed service will become a semi permanent" part of this program the House rules commit tee cleared the way for debate next week on universal military training Draft Proviso Senate UMT supporters said an amendment to trim the size of the armed forces as young men are trained and transferred to the reserves would help push UNJT through the House Chairman Carl Vinson of the House armed services committee said he will offer the amendment on the House floor He said it will assure the savings toward which UMT is It was learned the Senate com mittee wrote the amendment into its version of the bill only after con sultation with key House members UMT backers on both sides of the Capitol are counting on it to help sell the controversial measure Debate on the controversial mea sure will start in the House Tues day and end riday with voting set to start the following week By a closed door vote reported as the rules committee authorized 12 hours of general de bate with unlimited amendment Hughes issued his warning be fore the House veterans committee which is considering bills to extend to veterans of Korean fighting the free education and loan guarantee benefits provided for World War II veterans Hughes who said he was speak ing for the administration asked that the program be restricted sharply to prevent costs from be coming prohibitive is important to bear in mind that a new (veterans rehabilita tion) program will be of as yet un determined Hughes said in a prepared statement It is likely to be semi per manent part of our federal system of benefit programs most of the maturing male population of the Nation would become eligible as veterans for the assistance given under such a The Senate amendment ap proved by the armed services com mittee Wednesday provides that the standing armed forces will be cut back semi annually after UMT turns 300000 trainees into the re serves The services would be trimmed at the rate of one regular for each three UMT graduates until the armed forces are down to 2006000 a level they could reach five to six years after the cutbacks begin 1 WASHINGTON eb 21 Sen Richard Nixon charged to day that Newbold Morris was the "key figure in what appears to be a subterfuge to get around the in a profitable surplus tanker deal President government corruption clean up chief retorted the statement "Just so what more can I say Nixon a California Republican referred tor Morris role in a surplus tanker deal which netted former Rep Joseph Casey (D Mass) and associates $450000 on a $1000 investment The perma nent investigating committee is looking into it I LED THREE LIVES CITIZEN 'COMMUNIST' COUNTERSPY By HERBERT A PHILBRICK Sea Water Treatment Revealed BOSTON Mass eb 21 A new5 comparatively cheap meth od of taking salt out of sea water today opened the possibility of pro viding reservoirs of fresh water for arid sections of the United States The new technique announced at the annual meeting of the can Research and Development Corporation also may end the threat of metropolitan water short ages such as New York City feared two years ago TOKYO riday eb 22 (UR) The Russian shadow over the Ko rean truce talks lengthened today with a supreme headquarters warn incr that thorn wnnlri hn armic i tice so long as thekremiin sees by Averell Harriman calling for speedy creation any gam further stalling The Allies hardened their stand against Russia both here and at Panmunjom Gen Matthew headquarters loosed a Corruption Prober Hurls Answer 1 Slows irefighters KANSAS CITY Mo eb 21 (UR) A six story building in Kansas rickety old north end caught fire early today and 18 fire com panies' battled four hours in 19 degree weather to bring the blaze under control I Allies Harden Stand Against Soviet Survey Russ Shadow Darkens nice Talks our and a Half Days of Testimony End Counter r' i r' nyciil nil inc AUIIiruuc VUI1 Do Is to Shun Him SXX XXX tSX' XKXXXiX WASHINGTON eb 21 (UR) The Navajo Indians suggested to President Truman today that he seek reelection Mr Truman received the Na vajo tribal council in the White House rose garden and most of the talk involved the problems of the 72000 Navajos in Arizona and New Mexico After a formal exchange of re marks Council Chairman Samuel Ahkeah of Window Rock Ariz told Mr Truman are the only president who has helped my people greatly and therefore we would li' to see you run for president very Mr Tru man replied "and a pretty good politician Taft Gets Majority In Wyoming Survey CHEYENNE Wyo eb 21 (UR) Sen Robert A Taft held a 407 vote margin over Gen Dwight Eisen lower as a choice for Republican presidential nominee today as a re sult of a series of informal polls conducted during 11 Lincoln Day dinners in Wyoming this month The Ohio Republican presidential hopeful received a total of '1095 votes compared with 688 Sub relzing Cold Coy Resigns CC Chief to Return To Private Life Wbaiia WttWaumM i ESTABUSHTO NOVZMBKB 33 X870 xx JNe vaaa X' Armed orces Stint aced By US Youth Eisenhower Entered In Oregon Primary SALEM Ore eb 21 Gen Dwight Eisenhower was entered today in May 16 primary election as a candidate for the Re publican nomination for President State Rep Mark Hatfield filed petitions bearing more than the required 1000 names of registered Republicans after receiving a tele graphed request from Sen Henry Cabot Lodge Jr (R Mass) man ager of the national Eisenhower for President campaign Eisenhower is the second candi date in GOP primary The name of Gen Douglas MacArthur was filed Tuesday Exchange Rallies Over Broad ront NEW eb 21 (UR) Stocks rallied over a broad front today and then settled down to a leveTwell below the highs Trading decreased substantially as compared with vol ume when the market was declin ing I recovery best in the early trading was ascribed to tech nical factors Some short covering in advance of the birthday holiday helped the i up turn i I AM' i 1'' I X' I Ax.