The Record American from Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania • 1

American EIGHTY-FIRST YEAR No 87 FULL UNITED PRESS WIRE SERVICE DAILY MAHANOY CITY PENNA WEDNESDAY APRIL 14 1954 ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER 30c A WEEK SINGLE COPY 5c The Record RE-ELECTED ENDLESS VIGIL AT DIENBIENPHU Security Board To Probe Charge Oppenheimer A Security Risk McCarthy Held Scientist Suspect sen McCarthy charges scientist WAS A COMMUNIST AND HAS PROOF Oppenheimer Made the Security Risk Disclosure McCarthy said that Oppenheimer also had recommended individuals whn were or had been Communists for atomic work But the Wisconsin senator indicated he did when Oppenheimer had been a memlber of the Communist party The senator still appearing somewhat pale despite his rest said that he was over activities of others besides Oppenheimer who he said also were under scrutiny is not the only individual he said But he declined to identify at this time any other security risks in the atomic and hydrogen programs and indicated he was whether his talk at the San Jacinto Tex celebration on April 21 would include reference to the hydrogen bomb delay to which he referred in an earlier television appearance BRITAIN AGREES TO PLACE TROOPS IN EUROPEAN ARMY A Concession To French Who Delay Ratification Of the Army Plan LONDON iForeign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons today that Britain has agreed to place British troops in the European Army if and when it is formed The agreement is a British concession to the French who have delayed ratifying the European Army Plan because of French fears of a rearmed Germany within the European Defense Community (EDO) France repeatedly has pressed for such a British commitment It was formalized Tuesday in a pact signed between Britain and the six member nations of the European Defense Community "A clause calls for the inclusion of British Army and Air Force units in Europe under the supreme allied Eden told the packed House are ready to place a Britisb armored division now in Germany within an EDC corps as soon as the corps is ready to receive Up to now Britain has been reluctant to pledge any armed forces to the EDC because of widespread commitments In explaining the agreement signed Tuesday Eden said: aim has beep to confirm that British forces will be present in strength on the continent of Europe before and after any aggression begins He the agreement which faces strong Laborite opposition ensure the integration of British and EDC forces within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization The government later will publish two white papers giving the text of new agreement for closer links with the European Army and the text of the European Army agreement itself The European Defense Community would ally France Germany Italy Belgium Holland and Luxemburg The United States and Britain would cooperate in the plan but would not be actual members CONGRESS CALLS FOR INQUIRY INTO HOUSING LOANS Some of the Builders May Have Reaped S500 Million In "Profits" By UNITED PRESS Chairman Homer Cape'hart of the Senate Banking Committee said today some apartment house build ers may have reaped 500-million dollars in profits from oversized loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration since World War The Indiana Republican made the statement as his committee began what he called a complete 100 per cent of loan scandals in the agency which also is undergoing an administration shakeup The committee received an hour-long secret report from Albert Cole housing and home finance administrator who is directing the own investigation of tne FHA Capehart said some builders of apartment houses have obtained FHA loans far in excess of their actual building costs whereas such loans are supposed to be limited to 90 per cent of the value He said there are indications that as much as half a billion dollars of money found its way into pockets by this route Other congressional news: McCarthy: Sen Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis) disclosed he has asked the Defense Department for a report showing how many congressmen have sought special treatment of servicemen since the end of World War He say Why he wanted the infrmation But it could he ammunition for forthcoming Senate hearings on Army charges that MtoCartlhy and his aide Roy Cohn puit pressure on the Army to give special to Pvt David Scfaine a former subcommittee staff consultant Water: An Interior Department expert David Jenkins told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that government researchers are more than they had honed in their work on cheap nrocesses for converting salt water into fresh water The department believes such a process would be of inestimable value to water-short areas particularly In the West A-Weapons: Adm Arthur Radiford chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said our growing arsenal of atomic weapons gives the US arnned forces a destructive punch that any ever experienced in the history of He assured the Senate For-eigh Relations Committee however that the military is not on atomic weapons Farm: The House resumed debate on the $698410313 Agriculture Department appropriations bill with members apparently ready to set a precedent by voting more money than the administration asked or the Appropriations Committee recommended Pending was a proposal to add $2198635 for farm research It was tentatively approved Monday Defense: Chairman Dewey Short (R-Mo) of the House Armed Services Committee said in pretty good now to head (Continued on Page Pour) FRENCH SOLDIERS MAN a machine gun (tap) to cover the advance of vanguard patrols during a lull in the savage Communist assault on the embattled fortress of Dienbienphu in Indo-China At bottom a patrol moves up through the early morning fog The Vietnam government has announced plans to draft all 21 to 25-year-old men to help the French defeat the Red-led Vietminh rebels international Radiophotos) SCHOOL BOARD REELECTS BOYLE ADOPTS BUDGET AWARDS INSURANCE AND PROTESTS WATER RATES INCREASE PHOENIX Ariz (UP) Sen Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis) said Tuesday night that suspended atomic scientist Robert Oppenheimer been a Communist party and said he had affidavits to substantiate the allegation McCarthy who has spent the past eight days in Arizona attempting to shake off a virus infection also told reporters that can say very conservatively that I believe there is a single atomic or hvd-rogen secret which is not available to the Communists have had free access to all information on the hydrogen and atomic McCarthy said in commenting on what he reported to be his investigation into the loyalty of Oppenheimer and others McCarthy asked when such information became available to the Communists said he not remember when it Dulles Pleads For A United Front In Southeast Asia By EDWARD KORRY United Press S-taff Correspondent PARIS (UP) US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault met today tn discuss ways of preventing the Geneva conference from becoming an Dulles went to the foreign office to onen a day-long conference with Bidault and other government leaders The American secretary arrived Tuesday night from London after -a 48-hour visit with Foreign Secretary Arithony Eden and British officials They agreed work on a plan for a 10-nation Far East security pact which would be to the East what NATO is to the West France and the three Associated States of Indochina would form the political backbone of the Far Eastern alliance and it is a French promise to cooperate with the Americans in this project that Dulles sought in this mission to Paris Dulles told the French on bis arrival hat the best wav to get an acceptable and quick peace in Indochina would be through a united front His emphasis on peace relieved French diplomats who feared be (Continued on Page Four) SOLD BLOOD FOR $5 BOUGHT A GUN AND HELD UP A TAVERN PHILADELPHIA (UP) Joseph Bates 38 received a one to five year sentence Tuesday after admitting he held up a tavern with a gun purchased with $5 he received for selling a pint of blood Bates told Judge Charles Guerin 'he committed the robbery because his wife daughter and stepson were regular food for five days except for In his appeal for mercy he said he came to Philadelphia about a year ago but was unable to find steady work Mrs Bates who married him following the death of her first husband gave birth Lv a daughter last December but had to return to the hospital in March he said The defendant was captured by the bartender following the $90 robbery on March 17 Capt John Thistle executive secretary of the Family Welfare Association testified there was a drop of food in the and that the family was Joseph Boyle superintendent of the Mahanoy City public schools since 1941 who was returned to office for another four-year term at the quadrennial convention of the local school district held last evening at the high school Voting Light In Illinois Primary Held Yesterday By TOM NELSON United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO (UIP) Rep Harold Velde chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee was nominated for a fourth term in Congress and political novice Joseph Meek won the GOP nomination for US senator returns from the first primary election of 1954 showed today Republican Velde easily stood off a challenge by one-armed state Legislator Robert Allison despite criticism of some churchmen in own district of the suggestion last year that the clergy be investigated for subversion Meek a lobbyist pledged to our government to the outdistanced a bulky field of eight other candidates to win the right tn oppose Democratic Sen Paul Douglas in next general election With 8525 of 9805 precincts reporting Meek had 236937 votes to 152595 for Edward A Hayes a former national commander of the American Legion Chicago Attorney Austin Wyman who based his campaign on strong support of President Eisenhower trailed badly Complete returns from district the 18th gave him 27062 votes to 15081 for Allison The voting was extremely light possibly because Douglas was unopposed on the Democratic ballot The senator said the light vote a big Democratic victory in One of congressional colleagues ran into tougher Sledding than Velde faced He was Republican Rep Robert Chiperfield chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Lawyer Lawrence Stiokell who campaigned against the foreign aid programs anproved bv committee trailed him by (Continued on Page Four) Charles Dubosky Dies Unexpectedly At His Residence Charles Dubosky died unexpectedly at his home at 639 East Pine street last night at 11:45 Apparently in good health his death was unexpected and came as a shock to family and friends Bom and reared at Mahanoy Plane he resided there until 17 ago when he moved to town A miner by occupation he retired 19 years ago Surviving are his wife the ormer Elizabeth Rice and the following brothers and sisters Joseph town John FrackviHe Mrs George Rusk Shenandoah Mrs Thomias Malloy Mrs Charles English both of Frack-ville and a number of nieces and nephews Charles Reckiitas is the funeral director By LYLE WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) special security board moved swiftly today to determine perhaps in two weeks whether atom bomb builder Robert Oppenheimer is a securL ty risk No matter what the decision it appeared likely the matter would not end there and that a congressional inquiry also would be made The special Personnel Security Board headed by Gordon Gray president of University Of North Carolina and former Army secretary began its work Monday Members would not talk The number of witnesses to be called was not known Two however are Dr Vannevar Bush wartime head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and Gordon Dean former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Bush will be a character witness for Op-penheimer The capital still rocked with own disclosure that he had been charged with being a security risk By President order the Atomic Energy Commission raised a between the scientist and all atomic secrets Oppenheimer as foremost architect in the building of the A-lbomfo knows most if not all of them Many scientists rallied to hia side The Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton NJ of which Oppenheimer is director said it never had occasion to doubt hi loyalty He will continue as director Oppenheimer was stripped of further A-bomb and H-bomb secrete because the AEC said stantial derogatory was supplied about him by the Justice Department The scientist replied in detail to the numerous charges made against him He said that while he might nave been politically naive in his choice of some associates he was not a Communist never had been a Communist and was a loyal American The Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee kept clear of the issue for the time being It said it found no fault with AEC procedures in the case It left the door open for further inquiry at some later date It also made clear that such matters were in its province a seeming hint to Sen Joseph R-McCarthy (R-Wis) to stay out of its territory But it was uncertain whether McCarthy would take the hint after the Personnel Security Board finishes its hearings on Oppenheimer A spokesman for the AEC said the commission was not at Oppenheimer for making public the charges against him and his 47-page reply In his reply the man who masterminded Us development of the A-bomb denied he ever was a Communist Party member and insisted he did not oppose the H-ibomb proj est after the government ordered its development In Phoenix Ariz where he ia recuperating from a virus infection Sen Joseph McCarthy (R-Ris) asserted Tuesday night that he launched a secret investigation of Oppenheimer last May (Continued on Page Nine) Henninger Is Reelected Head County Schools Arthur Henninger Pine Grove was unanimously reelected superintendent of schools in Schuylkill County yesterday at a meeting of the school directors in the Necho Allen Hotel Pottsyille Henninger was formally sworn into office during the meeting by judge Vincent Dalton of Schuylkill County Court He will serve a 4-year term which will 'begin July 5 The county directors also voted to increase the salaries of the county superintendent his two assistants and the supervisor of special education Under the new salary proposal salary will be increased from $8000 to $11000 his assistants from $6500 to $8000 and the supervisor of special education from $6500 to $8000 Henninger has been superintendent of schools for the last nine years He also served for eight years as county assistant superintendent and 12 years as a teacher Working Time fc I Company All idle Thursday except Oak Hill and Sheridan Gilberton Coal Company: Packer 5 works Gilberton idle Lehigh Navigation Coal Company: Coaldale district works rest idle Hammond Coal Company: Hammond idle Kohinoor works Morea Breaker: Idle Peca Coal Company: Idle Continental Coal Company: Works Russian Spies Desert Kremlin For Democracies By CHARLES McCANN United Press Staff Correspondent The Kremlin is having bad luck with its spy agents Vladimir Michalovich Petrov the spy chief of the Russian secret police in Australia has come over to the West He follows in the steps Of Igor Gouzenko confidential code clerk in the Soviet embassy in Ottawa Canada and Yuri Rastvorbv spy chief in Japan Petrov told the Australian security and intelligence organization to which he surrendered: no longer believe in Communism since seen the Australian way of That is a weak snot in the vast Soviet spy system The MVD the secret notice sends it most trusted men abroad to spy They see how people live in free countries and sometimes they choose freedom When Gouzenko surrendered himself to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1945 he turned over documents which rocked the Western world They led to the imprisonment of atomic scientists Alan Nunn May and Klaus Fuchs in Great Britain and the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in this country Just what information Rastvorov gave when he handed himself over to the United States intelligence agency in Tokyo last January is still not known But it is understood he discovered every detail of Soviet spy activity in Japan which would include Korea Petrov when he surrendered handed over documents which Australian Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies said involved both other MVD agents in Australia and members of the Australian Communist Party First dispatches said the Petrov documents did not concern attempts to ferret out the British-Australian atomic and guided missiles tests in the Monte Bello Islands and the Woomera rocket range But this could come later Petrov was 3rd secretary of the Soviet embassy in Canberra Ras-tovorov was 2nd secretary of the Soviet mission in Tokyo It is customary for the 2nd or 3rd secretary in a Soviet embassy to be the MVD He spies not only on the country to which he is assigned but on fellow members of the emibssy These men are the real bosses in their embassies When one of them over the to use the GI term it takes the joy out of life in the Kremlin for a while TREASURY REPORT The Treasury today reported a cash balance of $500803465780 concern over injuries suffered by the fishermen and offered the services of its best radiation experts But Japanese doctors accused America of looking upon the 23 victims only as The result was that knowledge that might have been gained from these first H-bomb victims seared by a hot ash 80 miles from the blast could now be lost to the world The wave of anti-Americanism that swept Japan was not the only result Fear of the awesome power of the H-bomb brought a crisis to Prime Minister Winston Conservative government in Britain In Australia France and India there were demands that all H-bomb tests be halted The Disarmament Commission of the United Nations was summoned into new emergency session World-wide fear dated not from the cautious announcements put out by the United States Atomic Energy Commission but from the on page five) Seek Special Tax Levy At Gilberton To Pay Judgment COURT HOUSE April 14 The county courts were asked today to direct Gilberton council to make a special tax levy to pay a $7800 judgment held by A toy McGuire Shenandoah Atty McGuire brought suit on February 15 claiming he held a series of $100 bonds issued by the borough in 1911 but that the borough has failed to pay any part of the principal sum or interest since the due date of February 1 193) His smt asked recovery of $3300 with interest from the due date Subsequently interest mounted to a higher amount than the principal sum of the bonds so that when he took judgment by default on March 22 1954 the total of damages assessed reached $7800 Judge Charles Staudenmeier signed a court order directing burgess and council to file an answer to the petition for a special levy with a statement of the indebtedness Court also set May 3 for hearing when the borough is required to show cause why an order should not be entered directing levy of a special tax to pay judgment Bail Set For Burglary Judge Charles Staudenmeier set $1000 bail for the release from prison of James Brennan 98 Schuylkill ave Shenandoah Hghits on a burglary charge Brennan is charged with entering West Miahanoy Township High School last Friday morning with intent to commit a felony Prosecution was brought by James McHugh school principal Earlier president Judge Cyrus Palmer had set similar bail for Robert Brann 37 High Road Lost (Continued on Page Four) sued in anticipation of amass assault by the Reds against the fortress The weather Was good and French-piloted transports took off regularly from Red River Delta airbases with food ammunition and medicine for the garrison A recent shipment of B-26 attack bombers thoroughly checked by American Air Force technicians went into action for the first time in Indochina with French pilots at the controls They dropped loads of bombs and flaming jellied gasoline on Communist Indochinese troops encircling Dien Bien Phu in northwest Viet Nam Artillery duels provided the only action at Dien Bien Phu early today but Col Christian defenders expected the Red forces of Gen Vo Nguyen Giap to attack within the next 48 hours when the monsoon season will begin Vo was reported to have com- pleted his buildup and French officials warned he probably would attack with four freshly-reinforced units division strength and thousands of guerrillas the school district It is believed that at the end of the present school term there will be a small balance in the district treasury During the school term 1954-1955 there will Ibe a decrease in the state reimbursement due to three things: A change in the reimbursement formula which provides that reimbursement for kindergarten shall be -based on the number of teachers rather than on pupil enrollment 2 A change in the reimbursement formula which excludes tuition students from reimbursable units This will be compensated for by increased tuition rates Decreasing enrollment During the past five years elementary enrollment has remained stable but there has been a steady decrease in the secondary enrollment In that period there has been a loss of almost 100 secondary students This amounts to 4 reimbursable units or almost $1500000 salary law requires that each teacher receive a $20000 annual increase in salary With a policy of not replacing retiring teachers it is believed that the manda-(Continued on Page Four) Ten Coal Operators Cited As Violators Clean Streams Law HARRISBURG (UP) The state Sanitary Water Board today ordered 10 coal mine operators to correct violations of state clean streams laws The board said the violations were uncovered in a recent check of 233 coal companies It added that the companies cited were guilty of one or more of the following: discharge of acid discharge of excessive amount of iron failure to provide surface water diversion facilities from a strip mine -and discharge Of coal silt Notices of violation were sent to these companies Bowie Coal Co Scrubgrass Twp Venango County West Freedom Mining Co Perry Twp Armstrong County and Parker Twp Butler County James Meroatell Winfield Twp and the Allison Engineering Co Washington Twp both in Butler County Clarence Fletcher Mt Pleasant Twp Westmoreland County Jay Coal Co Sandy Twp Clearfield County Carrier Son Clarion Twp Clarion County ATumib'augh Coal Co Stony Creek Twp and the Boswell Fuel Co Brothers Valley Twp both in Somerset County and the Lake Erie Coal Co Darlington Twp Beaver County The board also announced receipt of Dlans tr construct sewage system additions from 11 Pennsylvania communities Permits to proceed with the projects will be granted by the state Department of Health if the plans win board approval The communities seeking permits are: Johnsonburg Elk County Brook Haven Delaware County Hopewell Twp Beaver Coun-(Continued on Page Four) Joseph Boyle superintendent of the Mahanoy City Public School district since 1941 when he was elevated from the High School principalship to succeed Harvey Bolan who resigned to accept the superintendency of the Ashland Schools was retained in the office at the quadrennial convention of the local School District held last evening at the High School The action was by unanimous vote of the board Which continued the present salary of $8000 per annum In thanking the directors for his reelection Superintendent Boyle recalled that he subsequently had been elected at the conventions in 1942 1946 1950 and 1954 The convention was held yesterday as prescribed by the school code Following the adjournment of the convention the Board reconvened for its regular monthly meeting postponed from the preceding evening Budget Report Adopted The report of the Budget Committee Lipp Lukach and Davidson which retains present tax levies was adopted The report follows: committee has carefully studied the financial condition of Mrs Bloshock Buck Mtn Matron Dies Sugar Notch Mrs Veronia Bloshock mother of John Bloshock of Lakewood and Joseph Bloshock of Buck Mountain died at the home of her daughter Mrs Pauline Karlowitch Sugar Ndtoh last night Born in Poland she lived in this country for years and for a time had made her home with her son John a-t Lakewood Her husband Joseph preceded her in death and she is survived by the following children Mrs Karlo-wiiteh at whose home she died Mrs Jennie Terreto Luzerne Mrs Mary Marstel Wyoming John and Joseph and Frank the latter of Shenandoah A number of grandchildren great-grandchildren and a sister Mirs Mary Pomorsky in California also survive Funera-l will be held Monday morning from the home of her son Frank 113 West Washington street Shenandoah A Oravitz and Sons funeral directors WOULD see outside world PHILADELPHIA (UR) Frank Alexander Holden a former Army Cavalryman sought a to town today because tells me to go out and see the world once Holden who saw service on the frontier in 1876 is 104 years old The Riverview Home for the Aged indicated It would grant him the pass if someone will accompany him BEVAN RESIGNS JOB LONDON (UR) Left-wing Labor Party leader Aneurin Bevan resigned tonight from the Labor The resignation split opposition party wide open AMERICAN CARGO PLANES FLY WAR MATERIALS TO FRENCH IN INDOCHINA A-BOMB TESTS BRING FEAR TO JAPAN AND ALSO TO REST OF WORLD MAGAZINE "IRON AGE" NOTES IMPROVEMENT IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY MEW YORK The Steel first quarter decline has been arrested and the steel market climate is improving according to the magazine The national metalworking weekly said the next 60 days will go long toward shaping the course of the steel market in 1954 Iron Age in a check of the steel market for the current week shows significant improvement in and sees none in prospect However it points to the following three signs that the steel market climate is on the upgrade: 1 The over-all economic activity is leveling off on a lower plane than peak 2 Inventory corrections although they will continue be a strong Influence for some time slowly becoming less of a 3 Labor negotiations in the next two months expected to convert a lot of steel users to a buying Pittsburgh district steel Deduction will hit a neiw low this week the magazine said Mills scheduled operations at 10 per cent of capacity a drop of three points from last week Youngstown area production also dropped three points to a 60 per cent production rate Wheeling area mills also declined three points to 19 per cent a The Weather Partly cloudy tonight with lowest 48 to 56 Thursday some cloudiness and rather warm with chance of scattered showers High: 70 above 12:15 Wednesday Low: 50 above 5:00 A Wednesday Wind velocity: High SW 24 MPH 2:20 Tuesday Low WSW 8 MPH II :28 A Wednesday HANOI Indochina (UP) American cargo planes landed in Indochina today with war materials for the of Dien Bien Phu now coping with an ammunition shortage under heavy artillery fire from the Communists The two-engine arrived at Tourane Air Base south of Hanoi with American pilots at the controls French markings were painted on the planes at Clark Field in the Philippines Communist artillerymen began the 33rd day of their costly campaign to take Dien Bien Phu with a blistering barrage against the French garrison Hour after hour shells from 120-millimeter mortars and 105-millimeter howitzers hit the defense perimeter or exploded over trenches and earth-afid-log bunkers But Dien Bien were ordered to hold their fire to save precious shells even though some of the Red artillery emplacements were only 1500 yards away The hold-your-fire order was is By RUTHERFORD POATS United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO (UP) Just a month ago the Japanese fishing vessel Fortunate Dragon returned to its home port of Yaezu on south coast and its 23 crew members became unwilling entries on a page of history They were the first victims of the H-bomb The fishermen were vomiting and they had diarrhea Their faces were burned black and their hands were swollen and blistered Today their blisters have healed Patches of new white skin show where the old skin peeled off But the mushroom cloud of fear that spread around the world when details of their story became known has not diminished Nor were apanese-American relations improved with Japanese re alization that just as they had been the first to suffer under the atom bomb in 1945 they also were the first to suffer under the H-bomb in 1954 1 The United Steles expressed I.