Jefferson City Post-Tribune (Newspaper) - February 26, 1953, Jefferson City, Missouri VOL 87 NO 163 JEFFERSON CITY MISSOURI THURSDAY AFTERNOON FEBRUARY 26 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS Administration May Be Ready To Slow Sen McCarthy Probes Officials See Brake Signs in Recent Department Moves and Appointments WASHINGTON Eisenhower administration may be get ting ready to try throwing the brakes on Sen investi gation of the State Department Administration officials saw signs of this today in several re cent the appointment of Robert W S McLeod FBI agent as the departments boss of security with new policing powers In announcing appointment yesterday Assistant Sec of State Carl W McCardle pointedly called attention to Pres helping the Voice of America its prime target The President said he could without having more information j McCarthy praised that as a good sensible answer Two other developments were seen as significant 1 appointment of President Robert L Johnson of Temple University as acting chief of the departments International Information Administration 2 The reinstatement of Alfred H Morton after a sion as director of the depart ments National Broadcasting Service which runs the Voice Schedule Democrat Caucuses March 12 ident remark in his State of the Union message that First Responsibility The primary responsibility for keeping out the disloyal and dan gerous rests squarely upon the ex branch When this branch so conducts itself as to require policing by another branch of the it invites disorder and confusion Administration sources privately said McCardles action appeared to be indirect notice that Secre of State Dulles and his aides are ready now to handle whatever investigating and house cleaning is needed in the State Depart ment There have been reports on Cap itol Hill that Eisenhower is not too happy about the inquiry being con ducted by Senate in subcommittee Would Not Answer Eisenhower was asked at Tiis news conference yesterday wheth er he thought the investigation was Europeans Discuss Ratification Plan Adenauer Bidault Disagree on Saar ROME Iff West German Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault talked for 75 minutes to day in the first of a new round of conferences aimed at smooth ing the way for ratification of plans for the single uniform two million man European ar my Meeting in the closely guarded suburban Villa Madama Adenauer and Bidault threshed over the thorny question the industrial Saar which each of their coun tries wants to control The chancellor reportedly con tended that all West Germany Italy Belgium The Netherlands and Luxembourg should have equal economic rights in the coal producing valley in effect the first common European market accessible to all six of the countries now striving for economic and military union Position Not Known position was not made known Until now however France has stood fast on main the special economic ties she established after World War II with the coal producing border valley meetings today and to probably with Italian Pre mier Alcide De Gasperi on hand in a peace making role Ade nauer and Bidault were slated to take up the other major point still at issue between them Frances demands for special concessions in Congress Urged To Tell World Of US Policy Dulles Says America Will Not Be Party To Soviet Despotism WASHINGTON Ufi Secretary of State Dulles urged Congress to day to make clear to the world that the United States will never be a party to any international deal fixing Soviet despotism upon peoples in Europe and Asia Dulles made the plea in a state ment prepared for delivery to the House Foreign Affairs Committee The lawmakers are considering an administration resolution which would denounce Russian sion of World War II agreements Dulles advocated avoiding con over whether past agree ments between the United States and Russia should have been made and instead taking action which would look to the future libera tion of captive countries and stir their faith in freedom Prepare for Red Cross Campaign The Make Points Clear first and indispensable Arrangements were made today j airny for city Democratic ward according to Roy E man county committee He said that ward caucuses will be held at 7 p m March 12 to be followed by tho city conven tion Delegates will be named at the ward meetings to atend the citywide convention which will be held for the purpose of nomi Democratic candidates for city offices The city election vill be held April 7 Already several candi dates have announced their can subject to the city con vention The city convention will be held in the circuit courtroom of the courthouse starting about 8 p m or as near thereafter as the ward meetings arc concluded Those were deferred rather thart settled by the six na Bidault had shown ncss to compromise after running headon into the combined opposition jof the five other allies and the expressed desire of U S President administra tion for speedy formation of the international force Speedy Ratification Behind the cautiously worded communique issued at the meet ings close here is what informed sources say was decided at the conference 1 AH six ministers will go home and press for speedy ratification of the European Defense Commu EDC Treaty Although the pact was signed last May none of the six nations have yet ratified it 2 The ministers sympathize step toward stimulating a spirit of freedom Dulles said is to make clear the following points upon the authority of the Presi dent and Congress One the United States does not t h e violation by which Soviet leadership has per verted past agreements and un into chains of bond age That is a result which the American people never intended and which they will never accept Two the United States will never be a party to any inter national deal or trade confirm ing the rule of Soviet despotism over the alien peoples it dominates in Europe and Asia Three the United States seeks as one of its peaceful goals that these enslaved national groups of Europe and Asia shall recover genuine independence Aimed at Moves Dulles admonition against con was obviously aimed at moves in Congress to rewrite the administrations resolution and strike at Presidents Roosevelt and Truman for making the agree ments with Premier Stalin at Yal ta Tehran and Potsdam The administration resolution would simply denounce Russia for wisting the understandings to Dring about the subjugation of free Sen Tsft told report ers he thought the Senate would put language into the resolution to make it clear that Congress was not ratifying the pacts even in formally by adopting the resolu John and Mrs W A Swearingen conferred this morning at the meeting of residential canvassers for the annual Red Cross fund drive that starts next month Mrs Swearingen is residential chairman while Scruggs is campaign fund chairman for the county photo Women to Visit Homes March Fifth Designated as Red Cross Night in Capital City to End Segregation Is Approved Lincoln Enrollment Not Suffer Prof Marshall Says to open all state supported colleges and universities to Negro students was approved by the House public schools committee to day Thirteen representatives voted for the and one voted present A series of speakers appeared for the authored by Rep Le roy Tyus St Louis and Rep A Clifford Jones R of I St Louis County No opponents testified Henry Von Avery representing the Urban League of St Louis said a aim is to of fer higher education to anyone who can qualify He asked if Mis souri were less democratic than the southern state of Maryland which admits Negroes at the col lege level would open the doors for Negroes at Missouri Univer sity Rolla School of Mines and the five state colleges at Kirks ville Maryville Cape House Committee Opens Penal Operations Probe Group Seeks Answer to 3 Questions Including Discharging of Engineer A House investigating committee turned its search light once more on operations of Missouris penal tions today This time the committee I tried to find out 1 Whether the state gave a contracting company an unwarranted plum in an estimated 50 or more big 2 Whether the penitentiary engineer was unfairly dis charged yesterday and 3 Whether officers at the penitentiary got more than their proper amounts of food from the prison commissary Most of the sharpest ques came over discharge of Lawrence W Fitzpatrick 601 State St as engineer He was hired as a choice of former Gov Forrest Smith Asked to Fitzpatrick testified Thomas E the new corrections director called him in Feb 18 and asked him to resign He said White Ike Stalin Parley Realm of Thought Dulles Says Nothing Set Up for Meeting WASHINGTON of State Dulles today described a pos sible meeting as cotton told him it was an effort Springfield and Warrensburg entirely in the realm of reappoint a former engineer Qualified Negroes already can enroll at the University of Mis souri if they cant get the courses they want at Lincoln University for Negroes at Jefferson City Would Hurt Lincoln Nothing whatsoever has been set up he told questioning mem bers of Congress C Collier Filzpatrick said he reminded Whitecotton that he was under the slate merit system but Dulles ran into questions SmS Rep Charles Fain R of Talerday when the secretary of st operates ney County Viat the House rhen wrote a letter The evening of March 5 has been Instructions and Red Cross kits designated as Red Cross Night the residential area of said that before the House Foreign University would have served its j Relations Committee Eisenhower j Feb 20 offering to resign April purpose if the became law had said he would be willing toJO Whitecotton replied by firing meet with Stalin under certain effective yesterday ditions i Whitecotton told the committee Rep Fulton RPa asked acted because Fitzpatrick had riven to elsewhere if all state Dulles knew of any definite derelict in his duties had Riven to of higher learning for a meeting between state funds without approval opened to Negroes land President Eisenhower the state purchasing agent and But A P Marshall a Lincoln said he did not and then added relationship with other City That evening about by Mrs women will visit homes in City residential faculty member and a repre districts to canvass for ships in the American Red Cross She tuld the workers of the Association for they are expected to finish their of Colored Under it was all in the realm of the first week in Sibley said that he would Frances feeling that a call in the next few days necessitates the right to with ting out places for the war troops from the European army if she needs them in such stormy parts of her overseas ter as Indochina or her North African protectorates Picketing Continues On Construction Jobs Picketing was still progressing Flood Control GrOUp on various carpenter jobs today Dp on both commercial and De tial buildings according to in A meeting lias been called for formation from the Labor P m March 2 at the corn Residential picketing just started Imunity hall at Tebbets to organ recently according to the an association for flood con tion Contending that the carpenter work on several construction jobs is being done by nonunion labor the union has been picketing last November In a drive to increase union membership pickets have been placed at various points of cAi struction These points are about half residential and half com according to the report Negotiations started last No trol along the Missouri River bottoms in Callaway County The meeting was called by W C Dixon who said that societies are being organized by county units Larid owners tenants and oth ers interested in preventing over front today There was no action on the ground or in will lead a group of air but heavy artillery canvassing the business sec roared briefly in the early Weck Mrs Ben Czar Dulles told committee that the Soviet satellite peoples arc oppressed by a great fear that at some future time the Unit ed States may agree to a partition of the world whereby we would ac cept and support Soviet dictator ship of alien peoples in the hope of gaining greater security for ourselves The resolution argued would be a move toward offsetting this fear and promoting the faith of the satellite peoples in their own eventual liberation Commission Set Up To Cut Tax Waste WASHINGTON President suggestion a tisan commission was set up to day to draft laws to elimi nate hodgepodge duplication waste in taxation and other fields shared by the federal and state Heavy Fighting On Western Front SEOUL UPl Allied united into Red lines an estimated 197 Communis sporadic predawn clashes he bleak 155mile Korean pie argued that opening other Under the merit system law an may be fired for good has the schools to Negroes would not cut enrollment at Lincoln Some Ne j March I If they are unable to participate Hie allout drive next from small the campaign workers not attend college asked to visit the homes in their coin were closed he said area at a convenient time during the week that news conference statement certainly should not boj interpreted as willingness to ne ege if a compromise with Russia T on the issue of enslaved peoples S at Negroes Dulles said he was discussing jle Marshall agreed that who want courses that other state enslaved peoples issue with Plans said he planned to to the state Personnel Ad Board If inst him he to the cir because Whitecotton had the March Hed Cross drive He D W Jr and Carl ng Allied fighter bombers the President told the committee him that so far as he let a convict run the ou CT er is concerned he would never office of engineer at the prison of rights as any negotiation other convicts assigned to the attendance at college is another Husky is in charge of towards the warping of the Pr buildup areas and supply lines Univer n North Korea in daylight the of national firms nd U S Fifth Air Force reported in chario of govern US Sabre Jets damaged two monta offices Red MIGs in a clash between four Sabres and four Russian built K fighters Heaviest ground fighting was reported on the Western Front where UN troops blasted their way to the main Red de fense line The raiders were sup ported by tanks artillery and mor rof H M of many Negroes who feel Miss brunt of segregation most Soviet leaders which bring in spent their lime joyriding sue the principles of this in the vehicles assigned to tion I Dulles was before the House j committee primarily to discuss the the St Louis Civil Liberties A on said that although nt present hem Had Well Dup Me said had a vvell riim at nne of the prison farms here the office for More Nixon Funds on said that although nt evidence that agents office for supposed to offer would havi lo unn on bid opportunity lo Negroes the any He charged that Filzpatrick tion has can w 0 at was not getting a ong we 1 with schools ever be equal and other 1UH HM ffic f Ilif Thc Now York tars Allied raiders kill 67 Communists in a 45 scrap on a low hill position presidential Last Year Russian displays of in Dr Warren L Briggs of jn n session arc representing the ls propaganda i moves which could turn into a of the prison The asked whether had some livestock on prison farm during his first term ns director of corrections and j is Mill 101 u i union invi diplomatic trend if not to sive the trust fund ex souri steamed into battered i san harbor just before dawn newspaper said that in adj pounded Communist positions with tf fund 16inch shells Navy carrier planes v Nixon in his television broad heckling during the campaign there were at least two other funds hand s ana J pel 011 TO hold a meeting in the He sjd i bull two segregation f pdm of later traded for a rl here feel would be to nn ne farm at times but made their customary raids along the cast coast governments suggestion was ac by a group of members of Congress and state governors meeting with him at the White House An official announcement said details of the commission will flow of Missouri bottomlands are be worked out at later meetings invited Dixon said pit Bilk eir IU vember between the Carpenters ill St Union and William Motel on Highway 54 South The Presidents press secretary James C Hagerty said the com mission will have some members appointed by the President some designated by Congress and disposal problem was ST LOUIS UrVA new type of it deceives the average person is in circulation in the St Louis area Leo A Smugai Secret Service agent in charge here said today Five of the bills have been turned Section Worker Found Dead in Train Car ST LOUIS C by bank tellers Smugai said 65 section foreman for the counterfeiters had crumpled Mobile and Ohio Railroad in an effort 19 conceal they found dead on a train which on paper slightly heavier rived at Union Station today tha us currency he added Trainmen told police Cox said when he boarded the train at war the nnmc o th Federal Reserve Bank Tamms 111 his home that he stLouis also have been re going to Missouri Pacific Hospital I ln Springfield 111 and Chi here for an examination Police said death apparently wasj due to natural causes WEATHER Transfer Atomic Spy To Alcatraz Prison Jefferson City and Central WASHINGTON So tonight and bei convicted as an atomic spy Friday Hich Friday in the along with Julius and Ethel Ros has been transferred to 50s Low near 32 8 m 3 10 nm 4 i 52 Alcatraz to serve his 30 vear 6 2 pm Precipitation trace in 21 hours at 7 am Missouri Kansas City Jefferson City Hermann Lake o St Thorn 41 rise 01 ijj W 73 fall 05 Bay The Federal Prison Bureau dis closed Sobols transfer from At lanta federal penitentiary to the maximum secur institution in San Francisco 74 no chR The Rosenbergs under death sen f fan are awaiting execution in 50 rie oi iSing Sing prison in New York state Sanitary Cooperation Sought by Communities in Nixons behalf by Dana C Nixons California Thc Post said one was a special mentioned Circuit Judge court crave dangers Sam C Blairs ruling Missouri University to qualified Negroes He said that the Supreme Court of the United States may a decision for equal rights at Ihe school level i Fred Vogel Jr Roofing Firm Sued By National Guard ihe did not think any payment had en made to Hie stale testified he went hunt c with a inmate who was bird do enthusiast said kept his own dogs at pris nn farms ST LOUIS un all St Louis Con in operation of sr for disposal of A suit for was filed in Driver Says Behind Cars Ab Jenkins of Lake City insulation and Roofing Co lo directly engaged inj on nr me 11111111 that on Oct racing driv c to speak andI a lf Kiwanis In League of Municipalities has dateline and written ou to the t oor tf u their luncheon in iJ parked on a spur of the Missouri Hotel today that the Pacific railroad leading into the highways of today are 20 years sought nt a meeting tonight in subey was transmitted immediately to urban Clayton directly engaged Frank L Martini acting financing of the St Louis County The story carried under a Wash of Municipalities has dateline and wr pointed a committee to G the feasibility of the system Tho story these figures tell is iHouse last session The urgency of the countys there a Nixon fund ofj instead of the others named by the Conference Of itate Governors The White House statement said Eisenhower pointed out at todays meeting the great need to safe guard the objectives of programs riow shared in by federal and stale governments from the threat im posed by existing confusion and in efficiency and of the need to de fine the role of the federal govern with respect to the states in attaining these objectives Youth Struck in Eye With BB Gun Pellet yesterday at a meeting of mentioned by the vice pres Save Your Vision Week Next week is Save Your Missouri National Guard tbe automobile ance depot and that it was ram lie said that traffic fatalities second car which will continue to be great until the council It was pointed candidate in Effort to Balance Budget Taft Sees Cut in Military Spending WASHINGTON Taft President Trumans 78 bil Byrd said he is Convinced the in his in Missouri been released when more divided high numerous which his marie ion defendants lor rating on the salt flats but that they have failed to and at speeds up to miles an hour refused to make restitution including spins near accidents land mechanical troubles i Ho sairi his stand I he highways of today are crowded for a driver to make really good time such as he made Robert Koch of California when he raced a triet winner in ihe American rnm New York to San Legion Oratorical contests won better fiscal lion budget administrations Told about Taft reported leers including Secretary of Oratorical Contest Ohio predicted today Congress J Dili Ui J il 11 j v t 01 mvi will cut deeply into military spend jho budget will Humphrey and Budget second place in the zone contest hnn John Hutchison Jr in an effort to balance the i Director Joseph Dodge have at won said that the speed tests old son of Mr and Mrs John task President Pressed for figures the of their determination bower has Hutchison Sr of Eldon will know later today whether or not docti ors can save the sight of his left difficult eye The youngster was s indicated he the reduction slash spending JS will be substantial but he wouldnt Byrd said he district contest at no simply was held Feb 12 for but to test mech First place was won by Alan parts tires and lubricants estimate how much The Ohioan the Senates Taft agreed with Ei leader told reporters he Conference statement estimates and in the back ic wouldnt Byrd said he understands they irst place was won t Min and lubricants rc aiming for an overall of Fulton who won hoin for general use of about 10 per cent in contest for the second year by with a BB gun yesterday believe the military can vill be a of appropriations already made eighth district spoke Koch who represented the the was struck by one of the pellets claim exemption thing l bring which was accidentally Ferguson RMich In Our Kerr to Speak charged agreed on in balance Ferguson told reporters he that Ferguson took issue with substantial savings can be bowers assertion that if it in military funds if the A buildup of pressure the eye from hemorrhaging House members who heard so difficult a job the services will cooperate to be relieved by minor surgery rotary of Defense Wilson have been balanced long Dirksen said he thinks econo by doctors at Still Osteopathic Tuesday in a closed session can be made by field investi got tho he be Hurry Truman never wanted of the materiel the armed Hospital this afternoon cel The attending physician few substantial reductions there is a 5050 chance the eye jean be made in the 46 billion dol country to spend more than lie wanted the services have on hand and by a He af Democrat Dinner Robert Kimbrell representing the ninth KANSAS CITY district and son of Mr and MrsA Kerr will speak at a F Kimbrell Fulton meeting of the Business Womens can be saved liar military program outlined collect Ferguson it in the production of Chambers of the items Kimbrell will represent the Club on March 7 zone in the state contest to be Mrs Lorraine Ruppel Aurora held at 2 pm March 27 in thoMo of the Missouri Democ Stall in
