Redlands Daily Facts (Newspaper) - April 8, 1954, Redlands, California Vol Year No 58 THURSDAY APRIL 8 1954 Fourteen Pages 5 Cents MID Assembly Line Production Of H-Bomb Ordered Says U.S Attempting To Keep Atomic Superiority WASHINGTON UP The States is embarking on sembly line production of H- Chairman Lewis L Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission dis- closed this yesterday in an unu sually frank public statement He told a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee the Joint Chiefs of Staff are counting on the super weapon to insure that the United Stales maintains its superiority over potential aggressors In addition to thus suggesting the United States is ahead of Russia in hydrogen development Strauss confirmed that the United States already is stockpiling H- bombs He said President hower has ordered their tion greatly Increased He also indicated a number of thermonuclear els of different design and power are in the works He told the senators the types of H-bomb now t P u being tested in the Pacific have fte now supplied information which on a v THEY'LL GET AIR squad leader with an automatic rifle rushes forward as another French soldier lakes during heat of battle at Dien Bien Phu in Indo-China French togh command announced its forces had won a crucial round in this battle by repulsing a Communist siege army m savage five day struggle American plane reinforcements have arrived in and will be thrown into the battle in record time They will be flown by French pilots QUIZ ON DESTRUCTION OF RED FILES BEGINS WASHINGTON the and play an important part in making the thermonuclear weapon a jor instrument for the defense of the free In yesterday's statement Strauss was asking Senate approval of a revised presidential request for new money to run subcommittee's counsel a New York judge was a lieutenant in the New York gence unit in 1944 when word intelligence files on Communism J came that plans were underway Subcommittee Chairman have naval intelligence break group W B Howe intelligence for the New York unit Jenner made the Capt officer publicly In a i ment Jenner said witnesses the atomic project in of jsent Moms to Washington with a year starting July 1 UmU at New York One Brother Freed In Mink Coat Scandals WASHINGTON bro thers involved in the Senate's 1851 mink coat scandals tion got a split decision from the U S Court of Appeals one going free the other ordered to jail The court upheld the perjury conviction of E Merl Young tral figure in the instigation of the Finance Corp He during 1944 Boston Jenner's Version and files when the Navy district special the action Morse failed someone scattered the members to the four corners of the earth within a few Jenner's own version of the in- and they did something days even well publicized at the time worse They ordered the of his Jan 28 speech was this Robert Moms later 10 become mmk coat in- tion of the files Sent to Pacific Morris was sent to the Pacific and assigned to the intelligence staff of Adm Chester W Nimitz then naval commander for the at Pearl Harbor Jenner said Morris told Nimitz the story and he added that Adm Ernest J King then chief of naval LONG BEACH Church Uons later confirmed it of the First Born today in Jenner's speech he put it Use Of Live Rattlesnake Discontinued Re cons 1 ned using live rattlesnakes in their i this Nimitz told King what was convicted j following the te Bob Morris had told him and asked of lying about his finances to of Mrs Bertha uf jt could possibly be true that ate investigators Smith at last Sunday's service such an order could have The conviction of Merl's bro ier Smith died of the snake been issued Adm King replied it Young was revt ad i hu uhen she refused medical aid was true But Adm Nimitz Herschel was convicted of demonstrate her faith police demanded could possibly have 10 a Grand Jury in tii reported Her funeral was held given such an Adm King same general n replied the White the now defunct RFC Both Her Emory F Both King and Nimitz told months to two years in prison Weather the snake and refused medical such conversation tention was whisked away from the church to an unknown tion by chu eh members The church reported he was re- and intermediate valleys Mostly sunny except for some high cloudiness Fog or clouds late tonight and early To Mahe Traditional day morning Slightly cooler Appearance On day afternoon VATICAN CITY CUP Pope April 8 1054 High Sit 75 Lowest 44 ONE YEAR AGO TODAY Highest 59 Lowest 39 Pms II plans to make his appearance on the tral balcony of St Peter's before hundreds of of Jimmy on Easter Sunday April IS says this is a very thie Vatican Press Office con fine day m his firmed today book and he Every year in his reign predates it a lot the Pope on Easter Sunday has He knows that imparted his blessing to the city others do the and the world from the balcony same for have told him day that thing is just feet in the ot weather Hardly Army Settles On New Loot Uniform WASHINGTON UP After years of indecision the Army dis- closed today it finally has settled on a new look in uniforms Gone will be the traditional drab uniform with the hower jacket In the future the color will be Army green and officers and enlisted men henceforth will wear the same type uniform ing a trim single breasted coat The Army presented its new look in uniforms in a fashion show before the Senate Armed Forces Committee New U.S Planes Bolster French Supply Line HANOI American built transport planes arrived in today to bolster the supply line to the battered French garrison of be- Dien Bien Phu French crew will use the tional planes to beef up the supply of ammunition and cines to the whose defenders are bracing for an new Communist assault Red artillery and ground action has cut Dien Bien Phu off from all supplies except those para- chuted into the ress Rainy Season Near Today's reports from the son said the Communists were j rowing and tunnelling all over the Bien Phu Basin An additional j Red reinforcements were pressing southward from depots along the Red China border to launch another Communist attack before the monsoon rains begin in about one week Communist forces re- grouping for the assault on Dien Bien Phu with other units m a series of bold raids that brought the sound of gunfire to Hanoi itself during the French military circles said the daring raids inside the Bed River Delta may herald a full scale Communist assault on north ern vital triangle whether besieged Dien Bien Phu falls or not Blockhouse Seized More than Communist troops already are within the ta perimeter carrying out mini- ature that have brought three-fourths of the rich plain un- tier Viet Mmh Communist ical control In the closest approach to Hanoi the Communists seized a house manned by loyal Viet ese only nine miles northeast of Hanoi Gunfire echoed through the city as armored French patrols moved into the outlying country to hunt enemy troop tions Radioactive Tuna Found in More Boats Japanese Fishermen Claim Boots Were Outside Danger Area TOKYO UP Two Japanese fishing boats which said they were outside the danger area when the second U S hydrogen device was exploded m the March 26 arrived in port day with cargoes of radioactive tuna Health officials ordered parts of both catches destroyed None of the fishermen felt sick and it was not immediately whether hot dust from the hydrogen sions showered the boats Japanese health experts began an investigation to learn why the tuna was Two Welfare Ministry officials armed with Geiger counters crawled over the catch brought back by the Shoho Maru and found six fish recording from 60 to 1300 counts a minute About 45 a minute is ed the maximum for human safety They ordered the entire cargo banned from sale but later re- leased some of the tuna About one third of the 35 tons of tuna caught by the Kaifuku Maru was ordered thrown away when it recorded more than 100 beats Parts of both boats also showed radioactivity The Shoho Maru landed this morning at Shimizu southwest of Tokyo while the second boat docked in Tokyo bor The skipper of the Shoho Maru Ma sac said he was sailing from March 17 to 31 on a course clearly outside the Bikini area a cloud in the sky and not too much haie around Jimmy says that if you have Woman 86 Must Leave Home To Moke Way For Dam SACRAMENTO UP Thebit several years ago Carter set of progress ground slowly j April 30 to determine whether Miss of Mr and Mrs G E Mullen 27 but onward today as an j Hawkins should get a larger share North Buena Vista drive around was ordered to of the paid to the owner of that way and see them Also the the rose-covered home her the property choice garden there All over town parents built to make way for a Miss Hawkins was born at the there are things to see and a 58 million dollar dam and ranch house in 1868 drive around now and then is worth Tragedy struck another family Miss Hawkins ordered in ine area which will be inundated 4 hillbilly who was appearing tu leave her house at Rattlesnake by the huge reservoir in 1952 when in a law suit was being questioned Bar 20 miles east of here was at James Peter Dickinson was shot by the plaintiff's lawyer Can least the third person whose life land killed by his daughter after you write asked the lawyer has been affected vitally because they grieved over losing their Nope ot construction of Folsom Dam on ranch to the government Can you American River Wall 1 kin read figgers pretty Federal Judge Oliver J Carter The daughter Etta Mae was committed to Placer County good but 1 don't do so good with has given Miss Hawkins until Ibut on Easter Sunday of 13 to vacate the premises or be 1952 hanged herself How's evicted by federal marshals 1 The dam will provide about Wall take these here signs Miss Hawkins has been offered acre feet of water along the road when I go places by the government for the ly for the Central Valley as well I kin read how furto but not lifetime free rental of the property as power and flood control she acquired when she soldi fits It is about half completed Personnel Security Directive Issued WASHINGTON The De- fense Department today issued a new personnel security directive designed to weed out security risks from subversives to drunks from the armed services The directive establishes the same criteria for personnel security in the armed services that the administration set up last April for federal workers Defense Secretary Charles E Wilson told the Senate Armed vices Committee the directive is designed to tighten up and to speed up procedures for ousting and keeping security risks out of the armed service The new directive was ordered after the Army was attacked by Sen Joseph R McCarthy for coddling Communists i son has admitted that the case of former Army dentist Irving i ess highlighted by McCarthy was badly COUNSEL HUNTS STAFF FOR QUERY WASHINGTON Ray H Jenkins a mountain lawyer who never lost a client to the electric started BULLETIN LONDON Brit- ish sources said today P S of State John Foster Dulles will fly to this for emergency ences in London and Paris on the American call for a warning to Red China against further inter- in the war Senate Accepts Compromise Farm Labor Measure WASHINGTON ate today accepted a compromise appropriating for op- of the Mexican farm labor import program June 30 The now goes to the White House The Senate originally had posed for the program to be administered by the Labor De- Senate conferees agreed on the lesser figure which was the amount originally proposed by the House Senate Democratic Leader don B Johnson of Texas agreed to the lower sum when it was found that it would be sufficient to provide for an additional re- station at Hidalgo Tex This resulted from a ler General's decision that em- instead of the Labor De- must pay for costs of medical examinations for can laborers coming in under the program House Approves Watered Down Wire Tapping WASHINGTON UP The House today passed and sent to the Senate a hilt giving Atty Gen Herbert Brownell Jr only part of the power he sought Ho nab spies and traitors The measure was approved on a final 378 to 10 roll call vote The would legalize tapping in national security cases and make evidence so obtained admissible in court in It adopted over protests a Democratic as a substitute to Brownell's so-called The House action came after GOP Leader Charles A Halleek first offered and then withdrew a proposal to give FBI Chief J gar Hoover blanket authority to tap telephone wires and permit use of such in court cases The House first tentatively ted the substitute which was 151 teller vote Then it confirmed that action on a 221 to 166 roll call vote Halleek withdrew his proposal after telling the House he felt it had-only an already con- fused situation Carroll Boyd Dumas Tex wheat grower asked Con- gress to investigate reports that the State Department helped for- eign competitors by blocking some overseas sales of U.S wheat ton and apples Boyd testified be- fore the House Agriculture Com- against the farm price support program Chairman Harold H Velde named Courtney E Owens chief investigator for the House Un American Activities Owens succeeds Louis J Russell whom Velde ousted from the post two months ago in the midst of a com- row over the EDC By Luxembourg of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg with only Its four Communist members opposed yesterday ratified the European Defense Community treaty Luxembourg thus became the fourth of the nations to grant parliamentary ratification to the EBC which would provide for German troops in a western European defense army The others are Western many Belgium and the lands Premier Mario Scelba pre- sented a ratification to the Italian parliament yesterday France has yet to take any action Deputies Catch Baby Strangler LOS ANGELES deputies today recaptured baby Delora Mae Campbell escapee from the State hospital near Oxnard she tried to meet her mother in south Los Angeles Deputies W W Caruth and E C Burling intercepted the young mental patient at the intersection of Firestone blvd and Alameda st where they said she was to meet her mother She was taken to eral hospital Unidentified Bodies Of 700 To Be Buried WASHINGTON The uni- bodies of an estimated TOO American servicemen who died in the Korean War win be buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at lulu An Army spokesman said there now are approximately 1300 uni- remains held at the Army's Kokura Japan laboratory ing a staff today to help him in- the feud Jenkins a Knoxville Taft Republican said he bas a com- open mind about the case He promised to assemble the facts ot the brawl between the Army and Sen Joseph R thy and present them fairly fiUly and impartially to the Senate Investigating To Start April 11 From then on he said it will be up to the subcommittee to make up its own mind Jenkins a rugged looking trial lawyer was picked unanimously by the six voting members of the tee late yesterday as the impartial counsel to head the Inquiry Carthy r e f u 1 a r subcommittee chairman not participate in Jenkins selection He is away from the capital The subcommittee voted to start hearings into the explosive case April 21 of next week It also specified that radio or TV broadcasts the sessions must not be sponged commercially Attorney Quit Jenkins picked as counsel one day Boston attorney uel P Sears quit in the face Of reports that though he assured Jie subcommittee he was impartial lie had McCarthy in the past The subcommittee will gate charges that McCarthy and his regular subcommittee counsel Roy M Cohn used pressure on the Army to get favors for Pvt G David former unpaid staff Training Plane Hits Tail Of Canada Airliner Plane Falls Info House Mother Baby Escape Death MOOSE JAW Sask UP Trans Canada Air Lines North Star and a Harvard training plane collided in the air and crashed day killing all 35 occupants of the airliner and the pilot of the trainer The passenger plane a gined craft similar to a ried 26 passengers five company officials and a crew of four Crashes Into Howe The names of the passengers were not released immediately The crew members were Capt I H Bell First Officer D W rie Steward L Penner and ardess H L Quinney ail of couver It was not known immediately whether the trainer earned one or two persons but only the body of Che pilot was found in the led Harvard The North Star crashed into a house at the edge of the dale Golf Course It was first be- a mother and her child in the bouse were killed but they were later found to have been away from the house and were- safe Wing Fallt Off The trainer crashed on the golf course some distance from the airliner An eyewitness said the consultant The group also will go lard trainer struck the North Star into McCarthy's countercharge that the Army tried to blackmail him out of investigating Stassen Compares Ike Favorably With Washington DENVER ations Director Harold E Stassen compared President Eisenhower favorably to George Washington last night and said America has a rosy economic future and a world of friends He made no reference to a gram for putting one billion lars worth of surplus term com- into the foreign program which had been outlined in a pre- pared speech He discarded the speech in favor of an informal talk to 850 delegates to the tional Farm and Ranch Congress Mr Eisenhower's actions since he became President Stassen said have been the most ful since the days of George ington our first The U.S foreign aid program has created a fundamental ship among free nations of the he said He said cessation of hostilities in Korea triggered a long down of prices but the outlook is bright and the nation is fully coming through a period in the tail A wing of the airliner fell off and the big craft into the house The crash set fire to the house and gutted it Houses on either also were badly damaged by the flames and flying wreckage The weather was clear with un- limited visibility It was first fatal accident since May 1 1947 and only the third in its history Senate Passes WASHINGTON ate passed a late yesterday to boost federal aid for highway construction to an- for the two fiscal years beginning July 1 1355 Present highway budget is The measure was approved by voice vote after the Senate re- to 37 an attempt by rural state senators to kill a new method of federal way aid funds among the various states The now goes to a Senate Conference Committee for adjustment of differences with a 875 million dollar passed lier by the House The Senate allotment sy centered around a proposal to increase federal aid for interstate highways from 25 million dollars to 150 millions but to distribute it of economic readjustment among the states according to a is building up Stassen admitted that President Eisenhower cannot settle all lems but predicted that none of the problems facing the stration will prove to be Disarmament Commission Seeks Hydrogen Bomb Ban UNITED NATIONS N Y UP world has history's hottest potato on its hands in the hydrogen bomb and tomorrow men will sit down to talk about cooling it off They are the members of the U N Disarmament Commission to work out a plan for banning nuclear ons acceptable both to Russia and the United States Their chance of accomplishing that is ingly dim But the unbelievable fury of the hydrogen bomb has brought a frightened chorus of demands from other countries that United Nations try The disarmament Commission is two years old It is a combination of two earlier commissions one specializing ia atomic weapons and the other in conventional weapons It includes all the big power nations and six smaller ones Behind it an unhappy record of deadlock The United States has stuck con- to the Baruch plan It provides a system of inter- national control and inspection of atomic production Once such a police system was working there would be a ban on making nuclear weapons Until then the United States would hold on to its stockpile Russia rejected that plan It ob- to spying inspectors en- tering the Soviet Union Instead Russia proposed immediate lute prohibition of manufacture or use of nuclear weapons and de- struction of all existing stockpiles Later there would be international control That's where we stand today The only difference is both tions now have added the H-bomb to their arsenals new formula Fifty per cent of the 150 millions would be allotted among the states according to their population and the other half according to a long standing formula which takes into account the states population area and road mileage Jordan Charges Israelis Fired Across Border JERUSALEM Israeli troops today of ing across the border and charged that Israeli jets violated the tier The Jordanian government an- it had made four new protests to the Mixed tice Commission against alleged Israeli truce viola tins Jordan radio said Israeli troops fired toward Sheikh Jarrah St on the Jordanian side of divided and at an Arab shepherd in the Bethlehem area Six Israeli jet planes flew over the Jordan River while another Israeli aircraft roared over the village of El Jaba near die Arab village of where nine damans were killed last week Jordan radio said there were Bo casualties fn the latest border in
