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Blackmer Will Settle1
Case by Guilty Plea
On One Tax Charge
By th« Associated Press
A Justice Department official
•aid today that Henry M. Black
mer will settle his score with the
Government by a guilty plea to
one of the 21-year-old tax-evasion
indictments standing against him.
The Government will then drop
the five other indictments, charg
ing tax evasion and perjury, this
official said.
The action, if carried out, would
•ubject the 80-year-old Denver
millionaire, who has been in exile
in Europe for the last 25 years, to
a possible prison term of one year
and a fine of $5,000.
Blackmer, who fled to France to
avoid testifying at Congressional
investigations into the Teapot
Dome oil scandals of the Harding
administration, arrived in Boston
by plane two days ago. He entered
a hospital there for a physical
checkup before leaving for his
home in Denver.
Will Surrender in Denver.
Justice Department sources
here said he will arrive in Denver
tomorrow to surrender to a
United States marshal and begin
proceedings to dispose of the old
Indictments against him there.
Of the six indictments, two
charge perjury in making out in
come tax returns for the early
1920s. The others charge tax
evasion during the years 1920
through 1923.
Blackmer, while abroad, paid
the Government a total of $3,600,
000 to settle a civil suit to recover
the old income tax claims. He
also paid a $60,000 fine for con
tempt of the Senate by refusing
to answer a supoena to testify in
the Teapot Dome inquiry.
Keenan Worked Out Plan.
Attorney Joseph B. Keenan,
who was prosecutor in the Tokyo
war crimes trials, represented
Blackmer in working out the
agreement with the Justice De
partment for clearing the books
of the charges, a department
official said.
This official said, in connection
with the concessions made by the
Qovernmnet, that department at
torneys had decided a long time
ago that the perjury indictments
could not be successfully prose
cuted. A conviction on perjury
charges carries a miximum penal
ty of three years in prison.
Blackmer has contended that
a secretary made out the tax re
turns on which the perjury
charges are based. The depart
ment officials said that an investi
gation showed that Blackmer had
in fact signed returns in blank
before they were filled out, that
he was either in New York. New
Orleans or Chicago when the re
turns wjre notarized and that
he had aot taken the oath before
• notary public as shown on the
returns.
Blackmer Appears Confident
As He Heads for Denver
BOSTON, Sept. 23 UP).—Henry
M. Blackmer will arrive in Chi
cago today in his trip West to
face Federal charges of income
tax evasions.
The elderly financier, appearing
brisk and confident, boarded a
Chicago train after spending the
bight in the New England Baptist
ftospital. He spent the night at
the hospital after flying here from
{‘aris.
He promised to surrender for
mally in Denver, to face the 21
year-old Government indictments.
Arraignment has been set for
next week.
Apparently in good spirits,
Blackmer posed for photographers
before entering the train. He told
them, “I'm flattered. Thank you
very much.”
The multimillionaire oilman
was accompanied by his second
wife—Eide Norena Blackmer, Nor
wegian soprano—whom he mar
ried while living in exile abroad.
He was escorted to the train by
three lawyers, one his son.
Blackmer was known in Denver
as the “Child of the Gods” for
his fantastic financial success.
Just before the oil scandals
broke during the Harding admin
istration Blackmer had a wide
reputation as a free spender and
philanthropist.
Republicans
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In Des Moines earlier this year.
He attributed the parenthood of
the Brannan program, with its
production payments, to the CIO,
declaring that the program first ■
was outlined at the CIO National 1
convention in Portland, Oreg., in 1
November, 1948.
At the same time Mr. Hope en
tered a strong defense of the Re
publican record in support of help
ful farm legislation. Particularly
did he commend the Hope
Aiken Act, which was en
acted by the 80th Congress,
although he admitted that the
Aiken part of the law—the long
range program with sliding scale
price supports—would need to be
reconsidered and amended before
going into effect January 1, 1950.
Bill Is “Smeared,” He Says.
“I said so a year ago when the
bill was accepted. It is being re
considered and amended now. But
no bill, unless Jt is the Taft-Hart
ley bill, has been so smeared and
misrepresented for political pur
poses during the past year as has
the Aiken bill,” he declared.
Mr. Hope and other speakers
today sought to differentiate be
tween the Republican farm con
ference and the Des Moines meet
ing held by the Democrats. The
Republicans, he said, have come
here to get the advice of the
farmers themselves in working
out a satisfactory farm program.
The Democrats, he insisted, went
to Des Moines for the purpose, not
of listening to the farmers, but
to sell them the Brannan package,
purely for political purposes.
Attacks Democratic Parley.
Addressing the farmers attend
ing the conference, Mr. Hope said:
“You have been invited to come
BOSTON.—AFTER *5 TEARS IN EXILE—Henry M. Blackmer,
80, Colorado millionaire, who chose self-imposed exile in Europe
25 years ago rather than testify at an investigation Into the
Teapot Dome oil scandals, smiled in a taxi yesterday, a day after
his return to this country. He faces Federal income tax evasion
charges in Denver. __
EIDE NORENA BLACKMER,
Blackmer’s second wife, as she
appeared in 1937. She is ac
companying him to Denver.
—AP Wirephotos.
here not as spectators but as par
ticipants.”
Of~the Democratic cdificafi&e
he safd: ' “There “Wfere nfrfflWS
there, all right, but they were
there as spectators. The news
paper accounts gave the idea that
the meeting was a great rally of
the CIO, the AFL and the rail
road brotherhoods.”
Mr. Hope argued that the
Brannan plan would eventually
make slaves of the American
farmer. He read to the conference
provisions in the Brannan bill im
posing fines and jail sentences
on those farmers who failed to
keep records prescribed by the
Secretary of Agriculture, or who
wilfully reported erroneously.
Will Gather Ideas.
Apparently it is not the purpose
of the sponsors of the Republican
farm conference to attempt to
adopt any specific farm program,
but to gather together all the ideas
presented by the fanners and take
them back to Washington for the
use of Republican members of
Congress.
This course will be followed/un
less a demand arises for a declara
tion in favor of some program.
There are a few rebels here who
Insist that the conference would
be a flop if nothing concrete
comes out of It.
The opening session was ad
dressed by Gov. Beardsley of Iowa,
Axel J. Beck, Republican Na
tional Committeeman for South
Dakota, chairman of the party’s
Committee on Agriculture, and by
Guy George Gabrielson, G. O. P.
national chairman.
Afternoon Session.
An afternoon session is sched
uled at which a formal hearing
by Republican members of Con
gress and of the National Com
mittee will be begun. Some of
these who will be heard are Ben
ton J. Strong, assistant legislative
secretary of the National Farm
ers’ Union; Hershel D. Newsen,
chairman of the Executive Com
mittee of the National Grange;
R. E. Short, vice president of the
American Farm Bureau Federa
tion, and John H. Davis, executive
secretary of the National Council
of Farmer Co-operatives.
Two sessions will be held to
night, one to continue the hear
ings and the other for speakers.
Senator Wherry of Nebraska, Re-*
publican floor leader of the Sen
ate, and Howard Edward Babcock
will be two of the speakers at the
night session. The conference
will continue through tomorrow.
Protection for Fanner.
Mr. Beck declared that the con
ference need not seriously ques
tion the need for support prices
for the farmers as a part of any
long-range program.
“On principle,” Mr. Beck said,
i “it U not different from tariff
protection to industry or mini
mum wages for labor or processing
taxes on the products of industry,
and agriculture in any event can
not operate without it, while j
annual peacetime expenditures of
the Federal government approxi
mate or exceed $40,000,000,000.*’
Mr. Gabrielson told the confer
ence the farm problem is “the
most important business problem
confronting the country, and that
out of the hearings and dis
cussions we hope to find a realistic
and practical and fair solution.”
He suggested an obvious answer
“is the development of new uses
for agricultural products and new
market outlets.’*
Hiss Reported Seeking
Change of Venue to
New England State
•y th* Aitociotad Pr*u
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Reports
circulated here today that Alger
Hiss would seek a change of venue
to a New England State when his
re-trial on a perjury charge comes
up October 10.
Mr. Hiss, former State Depart
ment official accused of lying when
he said he never gave Government
secrets to a Communist courier,
was in New York conferring with
his attorneys but had no comment
on the reports.
His first trial ended in a jury
disagreement July a.
Mr. Hiss’ counsel also said they
had nothing to say about the
reports.
Difference of Opinion.
However, one of them, Harold
Rosenwald, said there has been “a
slight difference of opinion among
ugT‘‘ and addedt ^Jhere’s artot of
guessing going on that may or
may not be correct.”
Mr. Rosenwald also refused to
confirm a published report that
the defense might change its
strategy at the second trial.
“Nobody knows what the de
fense will be,” he said. “That de
pends on what attack we have
to meet.”
Jurors Hard to rind.
It was reported ttfe defense
would ask for transfer of the trial
outside of New York on the ground
that it would be Impossible to find
qualified jurors here who were not
affected by the wide publicity
given the first court case.
Mr. Hiss spent most of the sum
mer at Peacham, Vt„ but came to
New York occasionally for confer
ences with his attorneys.
He has not yet announced
whether Lloyd Paul Stryker, noted
lawyer who was chief defense at
torney at the first trial, will act
for him again.
If a defense motion for change
of venue is presented—the United
States attorney’s office said it had
no knowledge of such a plan—it
will be heard by Judge Vincent
L. Leibell, who will be sitting in
Criminal Court, Part 1, in Octo
ber.
Leibell to Pick Judge.
If the trial begins in October
Judge Leibell will have the job
of picking the judge to hear It.
As the calendar stands, now.
only three judges would appear
to be available at that time—
Judge Leibell himself. Judge Si
mon Rifkind and Judge Alfred C.
Coxe.
Judge Rifkind and Judge Lei
bell both are one-time law part
ners of former Senator Robert F.
Wagner, veteran New Dealer, who
resigned from the Senate in June.
Judge Leibell has been on the
bench 13 years and Judge Rif
kind eight. Judge Coxe, a Re
publican, has been a Federal
judge 20 years._
Wife and Sister Slain,
Merchant Found Shot
ly tht Aueciottd Pr«s
NORTHEAST. Md.. Sept. 23 (JP).
—State police reported today a
Northeast seafood merchant shot
and killed his wife and sister and
critically wounded himself.
He was listed as Henry Harvey,
about 40, partner with his broth
ers in the fishery business.
The victims were his wife Louise
and a sister Elizabeth, an employe
in the office of the Cecil County
court clerk. ,Both women were
about 40. A brother, Robert Har
very, was grazed by pellets from
the shotgun with which the
women were killed.
First reports said the shooting
was at or near the seafood,estab
lishment.
Investigating police said they
had been given a motive for the
shooting and were checking on it.
Mrs. Harvey died en route to
a hospital at Elkton. The sister
died the|e soon after the shooting.
Harvey himself was rushed to the
operating room for emergency
surgery.
Northeast is about 6 miles west
of Elkton. *
Church Fair Tomorrow
The Emmanuel Episcopal Church
of Alexandria will, sponsor a fair
from noon to 8 pm. tomorrow on
the church grounds, Russell road
and Mason street.
3 Policemen Appear
To Face Charges of
Roughing Up Prisoner
Three policemen went before
the police trial board today
charged with using unnecessary
force while a arresting theft
suspect.
They are Pvts. David Gould and
Delbert Brill of No. 14 precinct,
who also are charged with using
abusive language tow’ard a priso
ner. and Pvt. James A. Hans
brough of No. 10. On June 9
they had arrested James J. With
erspoon. 33, colored, in the Dun
bar Hotel on the complaint of
Miss Jean Cain that her pocket
book had been stolen.
Mr. Witherspoon testified he
had hidden Miss Cain's pocket
book to keep her from leaving
his room. Afterward, he said, Miss
Cain and Pvts, Gould and Brill
came to his room and started
searching.
He testified the two officers
twisted his arm when they put
some sort of instrument on his
hands and that when he stooped
to the floor to pick up a hat “it
seemed like they both jumped on
me.” He also said Pvt, Gould hit
him on the back of the head.
Pvt. Hansbrough arrived a few
minutes later to take Mr. Wither
spoon to the patrol wagon. Mr.
Witherspoon said he was taken to
Freedmen s Hospital by the police
men and had several stiches sewed
In his head and “four or five
smaller head wounds” treated.
Miss cain testified that she
didn't hear the officers curse as
Mr. Witherspoon testified.
The policemen found the pock
etbook in a clothes hamper and
consequently, a charge of petty
larceny was dismissed in Munlci-i
pal Court on grounds the charge
should have been taking property
without right.
In another case later today, Pvt.
George M. Nelson of No. 7 was to
face the board on charges that he
failed to identify himself to officers
of an Accident Investigation Unit
following an automobile mishap
at Twelfth street and Maine
avenue S.W. on August 27.
Arms
(Continued From First Page.’'
plus an equal amount in contract
authorization. The custom in such
situations is for the conferees to
split the difference in their re
spective figures.
Chinese Question Also Up.
The only other substantial dif
ference remaining to be settled
is the Senate's inclusion of a
$75,000,000 fund for China, to be
spent at the President's discretion.
There is no dispute between the
two branches over further mili
tary help for these areas:
Greece and Turkey, $211,370,000.
Iran. Korea and the Philippines,
'$27,640,000. ** — ‘v
The outcome of the Senate
fight yesterday was another vic
tory for the team of Connally and
Vandenberg, which has directed
bi-partisan foreign policy success
fully through many Senate battles
in recent years. Senator Connally.
Democrat, of Texas is chairman of
the Foreign Relations Committee
and Senator Vandenberg of Mich
igan is the former chairman and
now ranking Republican member.
In this latest contest Senator
Connally found three powerful
Southern Democrats—George and
Russell of Georgia and Byrd of
Virginia—lined up against him
and in favor of a much smaller
expenditure to implement the
North Atlantic treaty.
On the Republican side. Sena
tor Vandenberg had to combat
the opposition of Senator Taft of
Ohio, chairman of the Republi
can Policy Committee, and Re
publican Floor Leader Wherry of
Nebraska.
On the crucial test, the motion
to cut the European cash fund
to $300,000,000, nine Democrats
supported the reduction, but their
votes were canceled out by nine
Republicans who supported the
administration. This broke the
back of the opposition and the
Senate moved quickly to a final
decision.
It voted down, 47 to 31, an
other move by Senator Know
land, Republican of California, to
cut the European fund to $400,
000,000 in cash and $400,000,000
in contract authority.
Church Amendment Beaten.
The move of Senator Jenner,
Republican of Indiana, to ear
mark part of the money for re
building churches in Europe, was
beaten, 71 to 7.
The proposal of a group of
Senators, led by Senator Spark
man, Democrat, of Alabama, to
lay the ground-work for an in
ternational police force, was re
jected without a roll call.
Efforts by Senator Murray, Dem
ocrat, of Montana, to place re
strictions on aid to Great Britain
as long as Ireland is partitioned,
also were turned down.
The only floor amendment the
Senate accepted was one by Sen
ator Magnuson, Democrat, of
Washington, to require use of
American vessels in the shipment
of a definite part of the military
equipment.
Here is the Senate vote on pas
sage of the arms bill:
rOK THE BILL—55.
Democrats for—36.
ANDERSON LUCAS
CHAPMAN MAONUSON
CHAVEZ MAYBANK
CONNALLY MCFARLAND
DOUGLAS McKELLAR
DOWNEY MCMAHON
FULBRIQHT MILLER
ORAHAM MURRAY
GREEN MYERS
HAYDEN NEELY
HIM. O’CONOR
HOEY PEPPER
HOLLAND ROBERTSON
HUMPHREY SPARKMAN
JOHNSON, Tei. 8TENNIS
KERR THOMAS, Ok'.*
KILGORE THOMAS. Utah
LEAHY WITHERS
Kepmblieani far—16.
BRIDGES MIlilKtN
DONNELL MORSE '
DULLES REED
FERGUSON -NSTALL
FLANDERS I , Ve.
GURNEY
HENDRICKSON EY
IVES ANDENBERG
KNOWLAND WILEY
MCCARTHY
AGAINST THE BILL—24.
» Democrats Aaalnit—16.
BYRD JOHNSON. Colo.
BLUNDER JOHNSTON, 8. C.
FREAR LONG
oeorge McClellan
GILUTTE RUSSELL
Eapablicani Arainit.
BRICKER MALONE
CAIN MARTIN
CORDON SCHOEPPEL
ECTON TAFT
JENNER WATKINS
KEM WHERRY
LANGER WILLIAMS
Pair*—TYDINOS. Democtpt, for: TAY
LOR. Democrat, a»aln*t. •*
Not paired but announced a* In favor
of the Mil—EASTLAND, Democrat; HUNT,
Democrat; KEFAUVER. Democrat; Me
CARRAN, Democrat.
Congress Members
Now Agree Threat
To Peace Is Real
|y th« Associated Press
There was one point of fairly
general agreement today in early
congressional reaction to news that
Russia apparently has the atom
bomb—the threat to peace is real.
On what to do about it there
were about as many opinions as
there are shades of thinking at
the Capitol on world affairs.
Sample comment:
Senator Wherry, Republican, of
Nebraska: “If the President knew
yesterday that Russia had the
atomic bomb, why has the em
phasis been placed on the ground
war strategy of the military as
sistance bill passed by the Senate
last night?”
He said this country should di
rect its defense efforts to develop- j
ing aiibases in the United States,!
North Africa and the Pacific, and
concluded a statement:
“A forthright, honorable foreign
policy, with fairness to Russia and
all other countries, is the best
guarantee for keeping the peace."
Representative Cox, Democrat,
of Georgia: “What the President
disclosed today emphasizes to me
that it would be suicidal for the
United States to falter in its pro
gram for reconstructing and re
arming Western Europe. Unless
we can save Western Europe from
Russian domination we might just
as well prepare to wear the yoke
that Russia will impose."
Representative Cunningham.
Republican, of Iowa: “If this is
true, it means World War III is
that much closer.”
Representative Harrison, Demo
crat, of Virginia: “The announce
ment emphasizes the need for
atomic controls in accordance with
the proposals advanced some time
ago by Bernard Baruch.”
Representative Rankin, Demo
crat, of Mississippi: “I’ll have to
look into it further before we
move the Capitol.”
U. S. S. R. Atom Blast Reported;
Reds Seen Having Key to Bomb
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United States and the Prime Min
isters of the United Kingdom and
of Canada, dated November 15,
1945, it was emphasized that no
single nation could, in fact, have
a monopoly of atomic weapons.
“This recent development em
phasizes. once again, if indeed
sugh emphasis were needed, the
necessity for that truly effective,
enforceable international control
of atomic energy which this Gov
ernment and the large majority
of the members of the United
Nations support.”
Not Based on “Hearsay.”
Charles Q. Ross, White House
press secretary, indicated there
would be no amplification of the
statement at the White House.
Officials familiar with the “evi
dence” said it was not hearsay, but
would give no indication of how
this Government learned of the
explosion in Russia.
The announcement came as
American, British and Canadian
officials were conducting “explora
tory talks” here about a new
agreement covering exchange of
atomic information and sharing!
of the available supply of uranium,
the atomic raw material.
Need for a rational agreement
among the war-time partners in1
the development of the first
atomic bombs is emphasized by
the development in Russia, it was
said.
An official who did not want to I
be quoted by name said it was;
important to deal with the situa-l
tion now calmly because it doesn’t,
basically change the problem of!
working for world peace.
At the Capitol, Chairman Mc
Mahon of the Joint Congressional
Committee on Atomic Energy
called a meeting of the commit
tee behind closed doors. After
wards, he cautioned the American j
people to avoid “hysteria on panic
and appreciate that the United!
McMahon
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the top level scientists who helped
develop the bomb, and members
of the liaison group between the
commission and the defense
establishment.
To reporters who crowded
around him as he left, Dr. Oppen
heimer made only this comment:
“I am very glad we know the
facts.”
, Senator McMahon pointed out
that “our whole atomic program
has been based on the expectation
another nation would produce.”
The Connecticut Senator said
the information Mr. Truman gave
him unexpectedly late yesterday
wps “a shock, but not a surprise.”
"I thought Russia Wan not "go
ing to perfect the bomb until
about 1952?” a reporter asked.
Spies Busy in 1943.
Senator McMahon replied that
as early as 1943 foreign espionage
was busy, as later divulged in the
Canadian spy investigation. Too
often, he said, Americans are in
clined to .believe that work on the
atomic problem elsewhere began
only in 1945 after this country
dropped the first bomb al Hiro
shima.
“Will this development have any
effect on efforts of the United
Nations to bring about atomic
control and supervision?” some
one asked. •
“It ought to have.” Senator Mc
Mahon replied. “It has never been
marked off the agenda of U. N.
and can not be as long as this
question remains unsolved.”
The highest U. N. officials first
learned of the President's state
ment while presiding over a ses
sion devoted to national policy
statements in the General As
sembly.
Reporters sent a note with the
news to Assembly President Carlos
P. Romulo on the rostrum of the
big hall in Flushing Meadow Park.
Mr. Lie, sitting beside him, left
the dais after the note arrived.
News to Soviet Delegate.
British and Canadian delegates
to the U. N. confirmed the Pres
ident’s announcement.
A. A. Arutiunian, ranking Soviet
delegate on the Assembjy floor
when the announcement was made,
said: *
“I have heard this news from
the President for the first time.”
‘‘Is it true that the Soviet Union
has the atomic bomb?” he was
asked.
“I have no comment,” Mr.
Arutiunian replied.
Asked if the President’s an
nouncement was a surprise, Mr.
Arutiunian laughed and said:
‘‘There is no surprise under the
sun.”
Asked if that was confirmation,
he laughed and said:
‘‘It is merely a general comment.
It is an old Russian saying.”
When the Senate convened at
oon. Senator McMahon took the
floor and repeated the Presi
dent's announcement, calling it
of ‘‘transcendental importance.”
He said his committee will con
tinue to meet “after time for
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deliberation o nthe implications,!
military and.political, back of this
event.”
In his address to the Senate
about 3 o'clock yesterday, before!
he had any inkling of the in-;
formation about to reach him,
Senator McMahon said:
"Know Low” Declared Inevitable.
"The day will come when the
Soviet Union shall achieve atomic
weapons. When that day will be
no man knows, but that it will
come is as certain as that I
stand on the floor of the Senate
today. No matter how many times
that statement may be made
there is constantly in the back of
the minds of most persons the
thought that, whilt logically it
may be, true, yet the Russians
are barbarians and will- not be
able to make atomic bombs.”
Speaking at the time in support
of the military aid bill. Senator
McMahon went on to suggest that
when the President signs this bill
it would be “an excellent oc
casion” for. him to invite Mr.
Stalin to a meeting either in
Washington, some point in Eu
rope, or even in Moscow.
Senator McMahon emphasized,
however, that he attaches one
paramount condition to an in
vitation to such a meeting, name
ly that the Russian people,
through the United Nations, be
given full knowledge of this coun
try's attitude in extending the
invitation.
Elaborating on the suggestion
today. Senator McMahon said, it
would be a test of good faith if
the Kremlin “would let its own
people know our position and
their own position which appar
ently they don't" dare do.”
Gold Star Wives to Discuss
AMVET Post Auxiliary
Members of the Gold Star Wives
will discuss plans to form ah auxi
liary to Amve\ Post, No. 13 at a
meeting at 3 p.m. tomorrow in
the post’s Club Shamrocker, 1536
Connecticut avenue N.W.
Mrs. Marie Jordan, founder and
national chairman of the Gold
Star Wives, who Will preside, said
all widows of World War II ser
vicemen are invited.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
By “REX” ALAN
An English ‘prof, claims the
ancient Egyptians discovered
America about 2,000 B. C. If
this is true, it puts Columbus
and the
Norsemen in
the minor
leagues. It
would also
make the
history books
as confused
as Siamese
twins at a
three-way intersection. If the
Egyptians did discover America
almost 2,000 years before Isabella
pawned the family jewels to buy
over-sized rowboats for Chris,
why didn’t they say something
about it? Even before we de
veloped the atom bomb America
must have made some impres
sion. Anyway, the important
thing isn’t who discovered us .. .
it’s where do we go from here?
We noticed a report that Greta
Garbo, the silent Swede, bought
70 pairs of shoes in Florence,
Italy. The lady must be going
to take a long walk. Why walk
when we deliver? Yes, Just give
REX LIQUOR 8TORE, 6319
Wisconsin Avenue, a call and
well deliver the goods in the
•Ttostrict.” Phone EM. 6363.
States faces the most crucial
dilemma in its history.-’
The word swept swiftly around
Government departments and
through Congress.
At the Pentagon—headquarters
of the military services—there
were signs of some excitement,
but no officials would discuss the
matter.
A spokesman for the Atomic
Energy Commission, in reply to,
queries, said: ”we have nothing!
to say.”
Russia has blocked efforts of a!
United Nations Commission to |
agree on effective international j
control of atomic energy. The
United States offered gradually to
make available its atomic infor
mation to other nations if effective
control could be established.
Russian spokesmen have made
cleai during the last several
months that they were developing
their own atomic bomb.
American authorities, as the
President.pointed out. haye been
sure that the United States could
not keep a monopoly forever on
the knowledge of how to build
an atomic bomb.
Authorities here have felt, how
ever, that the achievement of one
atomic explosion would not mean
that Russia had come anywhere
near catching up with the United
States in the atomic energy field.
It would take, they figure, a
long time for the Russians to build
very many atomic bombs after
their first success.
The President met with his cab- i
inet for more than an hour. When
the meeting ended, reporters
crowded about Secretary Johnson.
“Have we made any change in
the disposition of our forces since
this happened?” a reporter asked.
“No.” Mr. Johnson replied.
"Does the cabinet know any
more about this than is contained
in the President’s statement?”
“The cabinet knows all about
it,” Secretary Johnson said. “It
was fully informed.”
Release of the President’s state- j
ment recalled wartime scenes at!
the White House.”
There was no evidence during
the first part of the morning of
any ”hot” news. Mr. Ross met
reporters for his usual 10:30 a.m.
conference with no indication of
any out-of-the-routine news in
the making.
After reporters returned to the
press room Mr. Ross sent his
secretary out to advise them not
to leave—that he had something
coming which he believed all re
porters would want.
A few minutes later, the re
porters were called back into Mr.
Ross’ office. He asked that the
door be closed and that no one
leave until all had copies of the
statement he was handing out.
The first reporter to receive a
copy uttered an exclamation as
he read the second paragraph of
the President s statement.
Mr. Ross again demanded that
no one leave the room. When all
reporters had a copy of the state
ment there was a race from Mr.
Ross’ office to the press room.
Unruh Indicted in Slaying
Of 13 Persons in Camden
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CAMDEN, N. J., Sept. 23.—
Howard B. Unruh was indicted
yesterday for the mass slaying of
13 persons in a 20-minute shoot
ing orgy on River Rocd Septem
ber 6.
Sixteen bills of indictment were
returned by the Camden County
grand jury—13 for the paeons
slain and one each for the three
victims wounded by the ex-artil
leryman.
Sixty witnesses were on hand to
describe Unruh's brief reign of
terror but the grand jury sum
moned only six and then dis
missed two of those.
Russians Have Hinted
Repeatedly at Having
Secret of Atom Bomb
By the Associated Press
The Russians and their Com
munist allies in Europe have
thrown out repeated hints that
the U. S. S. R. has broken the
secret of atomic bomb production.
A year ago, Andrei Y. Vlshinsky.
Soviet Foreign Minister, pro
claimed in Paris that the United
States no longer had a monopoly
on the deadliest weapon in the
history of warfare.
Mr. Vishinsky, then deputy for
eign minister, made this remark
October 1, 1948, in a United Na
tions address:
“It is a mistake to think that
there is just one state whicfl has
a monopoly over atomic energy
and the atomic bomb. It is use
less to think of such a thing. It
is useless to hope for that, because
this is fraught with dire and dan
gerous consequences and miscau
culations.”
Molotov Statement Recalled.
Almost a year before that.
Mr. Vishinsky's predecessor as
Foreign Minister, V. M. Molotov,
dropped a suggestion only a bit
less broad. The secret of the
atomic bomb, he said, “has ceased
to exist.”
Samedi Soir, a Paris weekly
newspaper, said July 26:
"The U. S. S. R. has the atom
bomb.”
The Paris newspaper said that
on July 10, United States detect-"
ing devices had “revealed without
possible doubt that the Russians
had atom bombs exploded in their -
far-away Asian territories.”
This, Samedi Soir said, over-'
turned “the whole strategy of the
cold war.”
Americans had reason to suspect
as early as last March or April
that an explosion had occurred in
Russia's Asiatic territories, the
newspaper said. It added that a
Russian major named Silov, who
had escaped in May to the British
sectdfr of Berlin and was later
brought to Frankfurt and London,
had reported that tests had gone
on in Siberia and the Urals region
of an “atom mixture” furnished
by atomic piles and that these
tests had been satisfactory.
Flyers Hinted at Bomb.
In March, a Russian Army flyer
who fled Siberia and landed his
plane in Japan told reporters Rus
sian flyers “have the impression
that the Soviets have the atomic
bomb.”
There have been other such
hints. Notable was the one thrown
out last January by Palmiro Tog
liatti, the boss of the Italian Com
munists, who is as close to the
Kremlin as it is possible for a non
Russian Communist to be.
Togliatti made a speech in Bo
logna in which he said “the atomic
bomb is no longer a secret.”
“Don't be worried,” Togliatti
told his Communist followers, “be
cause the United States can't
make war.
Autopsy fo Be Held in Death
Ot Man, 81, Struck by Bus
An autopsy was scheduled today
in the death of William E. Ride
out, 81, colored, 1820 Swann street
N.W., who died at Casualty Hospi
tal after being struck by a Capital
Transit Co. bus.
He was struck as he attempted
to cross O street N.E. near Ecking
ton place. Police said they were
told he started across and then
turned back indecisively from the
middle of the street as the bus
approached. The driver was iden
tified as James I. Mills, 37, of 1228
Penn street N.E. An inquest in
the death will be held later, ac
cording to Deputy Coroner Chris
topher J. Murphy.
The number of traffic fatalities
this year now is 46 as compared
with to this date last year.
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