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Senate Democrats Restore
Barkley to Top Posts
WASHINGTON, (An—S e n a t e
Democrats today restored Sen.
Earkley <D-Ky) to the two top
committee jobs he formerly held
—foreign relations and finance—
and gave Sen. Morse (ind-Ore) his
long-sought post on foreign rela
tions.
They also gave Sen. O’Mahoney
(D-Wyo), another veteran mem
ber newly elected to the Senate,
two top assignments—judiciary
and the interior committee he for
merly headed.
The assignments were an
nounced by Democratic Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas after
what he described as a harmoni
ous meeting of the party’s steering
committee. He said all votes on
the assignments were unanimous.
Hammarskjold
And Chou En-Lai
Talks ‘Useful’
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UR—
Secretary General Dag Hammar
skjold and Premier Chou En-Lai
ended their Peiping conferences
today with an expressed hope “to
continue contact.” Their commu
nique made no mention of the fate
of the 11 U.S. airmen imprisoned
in Red China.
“We feel that the talks have
been useful and we hope to be
able to continue the contact estab
lished in these meetings,” they
said.
The U.N. secretary general had
been assigned by the U.N. General
Assembly to seek release of the
fliers and other U.N. personnel
held in China. He flew to Peiping
and had talked an aggregate of
13Vfe hours with Chou. Today’s
fourth and final meeting took up
an hour and 15 minutes.
U.N. diplomats received the
(news from Peiping with interest,
although they were unable to tell
from the final communique
whether any agreement had been
reached.
One Asian delegate expressed
belief the key might be found in
the word “useful.” If the talks had
been a failure, he said, this word
would not have been used.
Hammarskjold is expected back
in New York about Saturday.
Peiping Radio heralded the last
day of talks between Hammar
skjold and Chou En-Lai with one
of its bitterest blasts against the
United States. In one of its longest
tirades, the radio accused the
United States of abandoning at
tempts to solve world problems
peacefully and openly taking the
road to war. There was no men
tion of the purpose of Hammar
skjold’s visit to the ancient Chi
nese capital.
Snow Queen Shivers
PINECREST, Calif., (^—Dar
lene Cowden, 21, donned a bath
| ing suit in 27-degree cold and a
snowstorm Sunday to be crowned
Miss Snow Fun of 1954.
Miss Cowden represented the
Palo Alto Ski Club in the frigid
bathing beauty contest sponsored
by the Dodge Ridge resort.
66 Red China
War planes Bomb
Tachen Islands
TAIPEH, Formosa, (/Pt—At least
66 Chinese Communist warplanes
bomted the strategic Tachen Is
lands today in the Reds’ biggest
air raid against Chinese National
ist territory and the defense min
istry said two of the Russian-built
aircraft were shot down.
The ministry said more than
300 bombs were dropped by the
raiders—39 LA-11 fighter-bomb
ers and 24 TU-2 light bombers
escorted by four Mig swept-wing
jet fighters. Most of the bombs
fell into the sea, the ministry
added. •
In addition to two planes shot
down, the ministry said, two oth
ers were heavily damaged by anti
aircraft fire from the islands, 200
miles north of Formosa.*
The Reds flew more than 100
sorties, with the first attacks com
ing in four waves. The ministry
made no mention of Nationalist
fighter opposition.
A considerable number of civ
ilian casualties were reported. The
ministry said more than 10 houses
were destroyed.
The Communist planes evident
ly were from bases at Shanghai,
Hangchow and Ningpo.
Today’s attack fulfilled expec
tations in Taipeh that the Chinese
Reds would keep alive the “vest
pocket” war and possibly expand
it in 1955.
The raid might or might not be
one of a series intended to soften
the Tachehs for Red invasion. Or
i it might have been planned to test
possible American reaction.
American policy has been to
keep the Reds guessing whether
the U.S. Seventh Fleet, committed
by treaty to defend Formosa and
the Pescadores, will intervene if
the Reds pose any major threat to
the island outposts the National
ists hold off the Red China coast.
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White House Officials
Irked Over Handling
Of Ladejinsky Case
WASHINGTON, (AV—W h i t e
House officials were pictured to
day as irked over Secretary of
Agriculture Benson’s handling of
the Wolf Ladejinsky case but con
vinced the administration’s secur
ity program is basically sound.
An official thoroughly familiar
with what he called the “rescue
mission” of President Eisenhow
er’s aides in the case said that
Benson violated “a very definite
rule” of procedure and thus pre
cipitated “a very embarrassing
situation.”
This source, who asked not to
be named, said presidential assis
tants are satisfied the security
program covering government em
ployes is essentially a good one in
need of no drastic overhauling.
The official said Benson “prob
ably could have averted this
whole controversy if he had con
ferred first, wuth Secretary of
State Dulles” regarding Ladejin
sky.
“He didn’t,” the official de
clared, “despite a very definite
rule requiring him to do so.”
Secret Radio Nework
Of State Prison Inmates
Smashed by Authorities
BOSTON, (iP—The “grapevine”
at state prison was back to the old
word-of-mouth method today, be
cause authorities smashed up the
secret radio network.
Prison officials disclosed last
night they confiscated more than
a dozen small receiving and trans
mitting sets which the inmates
were using to communicate with
each other.
The sets were built with radio
and electrical equipment which
inmates are permitted to keep in
their cells, authorities said.
Five inmates reportedly were
placed in solitary confinement in
connection with the radios.
Window-Smashing Officer
Finds Himself Unwelcome
OKLAHOMA CITY, W—A pass
ing motorist reported a service
station was being robbed last
night, and an off-duty officer,
hearing the police broadcast,
rushed unarmed to the scene.
Seeing the attendant with his
hands up, officer R. E. Albee
hurled a brick through the win
dow and ordered the bandit to
surrender. Then came the sur
prise.
The unnamed attendant said
there was no robbery taking place.
“This fellow bet me I couldn’t
hold my hands straight up for 15
minutes,” he said. “I was just
trying to win a bet.”
Man Dies After
Record Number of
Blood Transfusions
DALLAS, Texas, (A*)—Hubert
Harris died suddenly early today
to end a week-long fight to keep
blood flowing through his veins
while doctors tried to find a way
to keep it there.
More than 160 pints of blood
had been pumped in a steady
stream into the 47-year-old manu
facturer, bleeding “everywhere”
from a mysterious ailment.
An autopsy was being per
formed to find the exact cause of
death.
“It would have been caused by
a heart ailment,” said his physi
cian, Dr. John Emmert. “His heart
had been under a great strain. Or
it could have been from a massive
hemorrhage.”
Harris began losing blood thru
the intestinal tract last Monday
night. Two surgical operations
failed to find the cause of the
bleeding.
Doctors said Harris had re
ceived more blood transfusions
consecutively than any other
known person.
He was conscious until death.
Harris litreally lay in a pool of
blood throughout, his ordeal.
Emmert said most of the bleed
ing was through the intestinal
tract. But he said Harris bled
“through the skin, wherever he
was given a hypo, everywhere.”
Surgeons performed a five-hour
exploratory operation last night.
Emmert said they found “dif
fused type bleeding from multiple
areas prohibiting a surgical meth
’od of correcting” the bleeding.
Eisenhower Asks Congress for 15 %
Tariff Cut to Stimulate Economy
Of Allies in Interest of U. S.
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Stewardess is Heroine
Of Plane Crash in Which
All Passengers Survive
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., UP—A
National Airlines plane bound for
Miami crashed and burned on
takeoff here today. A stewardess
calmly shepherded the 10 passen
gers off the burning plane and no
one was hurt.
Airline officials described the
stewardess, Sara Reeves of Dania,
Fla., as the “heroine” of the crash.
She opened the cabin door and
calmed the passengers as they
stepped from the plane.
The plane was a twin-engine
Lockheed Lodestar.
When nearing the end of the
runway, the plane’s landing gear
apparently collapsed and the wing
scraped the ground. The right en
gine then caught fire and flames
spread to the rest of the plane.
There was no panic among the
passengers, who lost all “baggage.
Texas Gets Needed Snow
And Warmer Weather
(By the Associated Press>
Rain and snow continued fall
ing in wide areas of the nation
today, and notably in drought
stricken Texas which needed it
most. The day also brought a
general warming trend.
Falls of snow up to eight inches j
deep in west Texas closed some
schools and made highways slip
pery, but the blanket of moisture
was welcome.
The snow was considered more
beneficial than the heavier fall
received by west Texas during the
last week of December because
the earlier snow was accompanied
by winds which stirred up dust.
Police Nab Kidnaper
Who Asked $100,000
For Return of Boy, 16
FREEHOLD, New Jersey, UP)—
State police nabbed a former sum
mer camp worker in a hotel room
yesterday on a charge of kidnap
ing a 16-year-old Yonkers, N.Y.,
boy in hope of collecting $100,000
ransom.
The arrest of Anthony Staikos,
31, of Matawan township, fol
lowed an intensive hunt by police
after the youth, Joel Robert Katz,
broke his bonds and fled from his
purported kidnaper.
Young Kutz had been a waiter
at the summer camp in Lacka
waxen, Pa., where Staikos was a
cook.
Staikos,' handsome and well
dressed, and who was quoted as
saying “God has forsaken me for
the past 31 years,” was to be ar
raigned today under the New
Jersey kidnap law.
A top penalty of 30 years to life
in prison is provided under the
state law in cases of kidnaping
where no ransom is involved.
Monmouth County Prosecutor J.
Victor Carton said a convicted
kidnaper may be sentenced to
death if ransom is asked, unless
a jury recommends life.
WASHINGTON, President
Eisenhower today asked Congress
for power to make a “moderate,
gradual and reciprocal” cut in
tariffs by as much as 15 per cent.
In a special message, the Pres
ident said this nation’s own inter
est requires a foreign economic
program that will stimulate econ
omic growth in the free world. He
said:
“Our own self-interest requires
such a program because (1) econ
omic strength among our allies is
essential to our security; eco
nomic growth in underdeveloped
areas is necessary to lessen inter
national instability growing out
of the vulnerability of such areas
to Communist penetration %nd
subversion; and (3) an increasing
volume of world production and
trade will help assure our own
economic growth and a rising
standard of living among our own
people.”
In the first of a series of special
messages to the Democratic 84th
Congress, the President specifi
cally renewed the request he
made to last year’s GOP-run Con
gress, without success, for a
three-year extension of the Recip
rocal Trade agreements Act with
new tariff-cutting power.
As other steps in the foreign
economic field, Eisenhower also
recommended:
1. Customs simplifications. He
asked Congress to take action fur
ther streamlining customs admin
istration and procedure which,
Eisenhower said, still causes “un
warranted delays” and hampers
commerce despite passage of the
Customs Simplification Act last
year.
2. Private investment abroad.
He recommended a cut of 14 per
centage points in the tax rate paid
by corporations on income earned
abroad, and asked Congress to de
fer the tax on income of foreign
branches until the funds are re
moved from the country where
earned; and to study the further
use of tax treaties by recognizing
tax concessions made to foreign
capital by other countries.
3. Technical cooperation. He
said this country should carry
forward its technical assistance
programs, concerned with “know
how rather than large funds.”
Eisenhower asked favorable ac
tion on his request, for technical
aid funds in his budget message
due next week.
4. General agreement on tariffs
and trade. This country and 33
others are now reviewing theGatt
Agreement for lowering of trade
barriers, Eisenhower said, to sim
plify its terms. When the proposed
revisions are complete, he said,
the results will be sent to Con
gress for approval.
Brazilian Train Wreck
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, if*— -
Six cars of a speeding passenger
train jumped the tracks last night
in Serigo State, northern Brazil.
The East Brazilian Railway said
9 persons died, 90 were injured.