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Raich Socialist Victory
Shows Resentment at
U. S., Langer Says
By the Associated Press
FRANKFURT, Germany. Nov.
21.—Senator Langer, Republican,
of North Dakota said today that
the victory of West German So
cialists in two state elections Sun
day reflected public resentment
against American policy in Ger
many—especially talk of rearma
ment.
“Nearly every Western German
opposes rearmament until we get
enough American troops here,”
Senator Langer told newsmen.
“Haggling relative to the re
armament of West Germany and
the energetic campaign of Rev.
Martin Niemoeller have aroused
latent opposition to the Allies of
which they had better take prompt
notice,” he said.
Mr. Niemoeller, famed U-boat
commander of World War I, has
been barnstorming West Germany
In opposition to the creation of a
West German army.
Referring to the elections in
which two large states of the
American occupation zone in
dorsed Socialist anti-rearmament
programs the North Dakota Sena
tor said:
“The German people gave their
answer to the so-called bi-parti
san policy of the Democratic and
Republican Parties in the United
States operating under the leader
ship of the State Department.
“They did it in no uncertain
terms but in language so plain
that Congress must take notice
of it or suffer a continuation of a
deterioration of prestige and
power.”
Controls
(Continued From First Page.)
ciation said that the cobalt cur
tailment and present and pending;
curbs on aluminum, copper and!
nickel will cause a sharp drop in
production early in 1951.
A longer-range program will be
set up for December and the first I
Quarter of 1951. But the radio-!
television industry fears that the
curtailment may late even greater
than the temporary rule now in
force.
Older Type of Part Can Be Used.
The industry can shift to an !
1 older and more cumbersome type
of magnet, but this would involve
redesigning sets and resultant |
temporary shutdowns.
Little cobalt is produced in this !
country, practically all cobalt ,
coming from Africa. Today's!
order was directed to the im
porter. [
Sometime ago NPA announced
it might have to restrict the metal
entirely to defense production.
Li anticipation of today’s order
it froze the distribution of the
current supply four days ago.
Ives Predicts Controls.
Today Senator Ives, Republican,
of New York predicted that con
trols of prices and wages will be
needed by next spring.
His statement came on the heels
of a warning by Chairman Sym
ington of the National Security
Resources Board that if controls
are imposed “with too heavy a
hand they can seriously hurt the j
economy.”
Senator Ives asserted that at
the rate things are going we are
going to have price and wage con
trols by spring anyway.
“Otherwise prices are going
right through the roof,” he added.
Necessary Action Stressed.
Mr. Symington conceded that
It is easy to do too little in the
way of controls, and said that
everything necessary should be
done to get the country strong
enough to handle the menace of
Communist aggression.
He was asked about prospects
for a controlled materials plan
which involves detailed alloca
tions to industry of steel, copper
and aluminum. His reply about
too heavy a hand on controls was
made in response to this.
Discussion of a controlled ma
terials plan has been based on
the prospects of a military bud
get next year of $50 billion to $60
billion. Mr. Symington said he
does not know what the figure
will be. but he added that if the
military budget rises to $40 bil
lion there will be need for more
controls than at present.
Dispersal Funds to Be Sought.
Mr. Symington also said that
Congress would be asked “at the
next session” for appropriations
for the dispersal of Government
agencies into Maryland and Vir
ginia areas surrounding the Cap
ital. He then explained that
“next session” may mean either
when Congress returns next Mon
day or when the new Congress
convenes in January.
He said that decentralization—
the moving of some agencies to
distant cities—is being planned
along with dispersal.
Senator Ives, in discussing what
he felt is needed for controls, said
intelligent administration of the
Defense Production Act would put
an effective brake on inflation.
The act contains powers to in
voke price and wage controls.
Favors Limited Rent Controls.
New controls on the production
of consumer goods, Senator Ives
said, threaten to send prices soar
ing.
He said he would not object to
congressional extension of the
present local option rent controls,
but that he would resist passage
of any measure that would inter
fere with New York State's rent
control act.
Representative Spence, Demo
crat, of Kentucky, who heads the
House Banking Committee, quot
ed President Truman as saying he
wants Congress to act before the
end of the year to extend rent
controls for three months beyond
December 31. Mr. Spence said he
would offer legislation to carry
out the extension.
Meanwhile, Alan Valentine, Eco
nomic Stabilization administrator,
announced the appointment of
Francis P. Whitehair of Deland,
Fla., as general counsel of the
ESA. He will succeed H. Graham
Morison, Assistant Attorney Gen
eral, who has been acting counsel,
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REDS DIG IN AFTER Gls REACH MANCHURIA—American
forces reached the Manchurian border (A) yesterday, splitting
the Red forces in East and West Korea. Meanwhile, the Reds
kept building defenses from Sinuiju to the Chongchon River
(saw-tooth line) in an apparent' effort to keep United Nations
troops from reaching the big Suiho Reservoir (B). In the East
South Korean troops reached Chuchonhujang, 85 miles from the
Soviet Siberian border. Split arrow in center indicates the twin
drive by United States forces along the sides of the Changjin
Reservoir. —AP Wirephoto Map.
War
(Continued From First Page.)
Italians and Germans in the last
war—is expected to grow.
Second—A buildup of organized
guerrilla activity to harass U. N.
forces both at the front and rear.
Most ‘guerrilla activity so far has
been by by-passed North Korean
units.
As time goes on, “line passers”
who slip through the front are
expected to build the guerrillas’
nuisance value. They are ex
pected to furnish more intelligent
planning and better execution.
Some probably will come from
special Communist guerrilla train
ing schools in Red territory.
Third—Sub-zero weather is ex
pected to hurt the ill-equipped
;nemy more than the U. N. forces.
3y spring, cold weather casualties
nay have reduced the Commu
lists’ fighting power sharply.
A winter campaign, however,
ioes not mean U. N. advances are
lot expected to continue.
Mountain Redoubts Difficult.
Arrival of the first Americans
it the Manchurian-Korean fron-|
,ier yesterday was expected to pro-;
’ide a big psychological uplift to
he troops.
To the east, the Republic of j
■Corea Capital Division will find
10 obstacles of terrain in its ad
vance up the northeast coast
oward Chongjin and the Soviet
porder.
Chongjin, last big east coast
port still in Communist hands, is
only 60 miles from Siberia. It ,is
an easy matter to supply this drive
by sea. Most sources here expect
the South Koreans to continue
winning ground.
But no one expect* a cleanup of
the inaccessible mountain redoubts
in North Central Korea before
spring. . '
Looking far to the future, most
qualified sources except a windup
of the Korean war next spring
unless a change in the interna
tional picture brings the Reds new
reinforcements.
One Problem Ahead.
At present there is no sign of
new enemy troops—Chinese or
North Korean—being pushed in
behind the northeast Korean
line. Information on the 8th
Army sector is unavailable here,
but presumably the picture would
be the same there.
With warm spring weather the
remaining enemy forces could be
rooted out of the mountains.
Mopping up guerrillas afterwards
probably could be left to the South
Korean army.
But one major problem could
arise. Communist forces might
still strike down from across the
border and find sauctuary in Man
churia when hard pressed. Greek
Communists did that from Al
bania after their army was beaten.
U. N. forces, playing the war
game by the rules, would not be
able to cross the border after
such hit-and-run Communists.
But that is a problem which will
have to be faced after it arises.
Dulles and Malik Confer
Again on Jap Treaty
By the Associated Press
LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 21.—
John Foster Dulles conferred last
night with Russia’s Jacob Malik
on a proposed Japanese peace
treaty.
The American delegate said to
day Mr. Malik handed him a
memorandum “seeking some clari
fication of the suggestions pre
viously made by the United
States.” He took the memoran
dum “under advisement for a sub
sequent reply.”
The conference was the second
held by Mr. Dulles and Mr. Malik
on the proposed treaty.
Korea
(Continued From First Page.)
at 9:45 a.m. (7:45 p.m. EST Mon
day).
Col. Herbert B. Powell, com
manding the 17th, said Red Man
churia was within easy artillery
range, but his guns would not
fire across the river “unless they
fire at us first.”
The weary infantrymen, vet
erans of an outfit which fought
on Attu in the Aleutians during
World War n, reached the border
just 22 days after they made an
unopposed amphibious landing in
Korea. The border was the end
of a 100-mile march over treach
erous mountain roads in tempera
tures that sometimes dropped be
low zero.
Gen. Almond announced his
corps has liberated 23,000 square
miles of North Korea in less than
a month.
No Hint of Next Move.
There was no hint of the next!
move of the 17th Regimentals
Combat Team. Its position at
Hyesanjin cuts a highway and
rail network that Japanese mili
tarists built along the border
when they ruled Korea.
The Communists still can put
men across the border on either
side of this point. They could
take advantage of uncut sections
of the military road network, or
seldom used mountain passes over
which Chinese Communist divi
sions traveled when they first
poured into Korea.
Paralleling the 17th’s advance,
the South Korean Capital Divi
sion pushed 10 miles up the East
Coast yesterday, capturing Chu
chonhujang, 75 miles east of
Hyesanjin. This put the Koreans
just 85 miles from the Soviet
Siberian border.
Ahead of them lay a heavily
timbered mountain area, dotted
with solid rock and concrete forti
fications built by the Japanese.
Red Defenses Reorganized.
Beyond the northernmost tip
of Korea, in the Tumen area of
Manchuria, North Korean units
reported to be reorganizing and
recruiting to slip back again into
Korea.
Gen. MacArthur's intelligence
officers in Tokyo expressed more
concern over reorganization of
Red defenses along the northwest
front.
A MacArthur spokesman said
Red armies are organizing a de
fense system across strategic
heights facing the advancing
United States 1st Corps.
This line is about 10 miles north
of the present front. It covers
about 20 miles in the mountain
area between Huichon and An
jang.
uen. MacArtnurs spoaesman
said the Reds probably were forti
fying the peaks. From these they
could dominate highways and rail
lines leading north to the border.
The spokesman predicted this
line probably would have to be
attacked frontally.
To the west, Reds were estab
lishing blocking positions on hills
dominating the flat ground lead
ing to Sinuiju, main entryway for
Chinese troops into Korea.
These defenses block the U. N.
approach toward the Suiho hydro
electric complex along the West
ern Korea - Manchuria border
which supplies power to both
I areas.
Marshall to Attend Fete
Defense Secretary Marshall
plans to go to Dawson, Ga., Fri
day to take, part in a day-long
celebration there honoring Erie
Cocke, jr„ national commander of
the American Legion.
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Decided to Take Rap
After FuchsConfessed,
Gold Tells Court
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—Harry
Gold, Philadelphia atom spy,
testified today that although he
"lied desperately” when first ques
tioned by the FBI about his
espionage work, he would not lie
now, even to save his own life.
Gold made this statement at
the conclusion of his cross
examination as a Government
witness in the trial of Abraham
Brothman and Miriam Mosko
witz on charges of conspiracy to
obstruct justice. The Govern
ment rested its case shortly after
Gold left the stand.
The Philadelphia biochemist
stuck to his testimony that he
had served as a Communist spy
ring courier, that he had obtained
information for the ring from
Brothman and that he had lied
to a Federal grand jury in 1947
at the direction of Brothman,
then his employer.
Approached by FBI Last May.
Gold testified that last May,
when he was first approached by
the FBI, he realized that “the
evidence at that time was purely
circumstantial” involving him with
Dr. Klaus Fuchs, convicted Brit
ish atomic scientist.
"I realized I could possibly fight
this thing,” he said. “I realized
that all my relatives and friends
and the people at the heart sta
tion in Philadelphia would rally
around me.
“But, I realized that once the
FBI pulled one thread the whole
horrible scheme would become un
tangled. And I didn't want these
people (his friends and relatives)
to be so disillusioned.”
Gold said he was first aware
of Dr. Fuchs' arrest and confes
sion when he read newspaper ac
counts last February. Between
that time and the end of May,
when the FBI first approached
him, Gold said he had given much
thought to the possibility that Dr.
Fuchs might have disclosed their
connections.
Shielded Superiors.
“I acted exactly as I decided
upon,” Gold testified. “Since
Fuchs had already disclosed about
our espionage activities, I would
confess about Fuchs and I would
not reveal the names of any of my
Soviet superiors or American
contacts.
“I would take the rap myself.
I would fight for time with my
family and to complete my work
at the heart station, and I stuck
to it.”
Gold said he told the FBI, “Yes,
I am the man who got informa
tion on atomic energy from Dr.
Klaus Fuchs.”
Gold, who has pleaded guilty to
espionage, is not on trial now and
is serving as the Government’s
star witness. He alreday has testi
fied that Brothman gave him Gov
ernment technical secrets to relay
to Soviet agents.
At that time. Gold said, he
worked for the chemical engineer*
ing fiim run by Brothman and
Miss Moskowitz.
Finally Confessed Everything.
Under cross-examination yester
day, Gold said he told Brothman
so many lies about his private
life that “it’s a wonder steam
didn’t come out of my ears at
times. ’
He said his tales began after
Brothman started “prying,” and
kept up until he confessed every
thing to his friend after they were
questioned by the FBI in 1947.
The false stories, he said, in
cluded a tale of a courtship to
“a very beautiful” girl with one
brown and one blue eye.
Later, the story expanded to
detailed accounts of a “family.” of
a wife, two fraternal twins, a
brother “who died in action in
the Pacific,” a mother-in-law who
was a “poor housekeeper,” and
a no-good father-in-law.
All were non-existant, Bachelor
Gold told the court.
Rain Fails to Dampen
Neighborhood Concert
More than 1.200 music lovers
ignored the rain last night to turn
out for the second Neighborhood
Concert of the season at Cardozo
High School.
The result was one of the larg
est audiences in the five-year his
tory of the series presented by The
Evening Star.
The audience heard the National
Symphony Orchestra, under How
ard Mitchell, playing music by
Dvorak, Berlioz and other com
posers. A radio audience also
listened over WMAL and WMAL
FM, The Star stations.
It was the first Neighborhood
Concert at the school since its
name was changed from Central
to Cardozo in connection with its
transfer to colored students.
The third concert in the series is
scheduled for 9 p.m. next Monday
at Coolidge High School.' Many
Montgomery County residents are
expected to attend in addition to
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Hearing Will Resume
Before PUC Friday
The long drawn-out Public
Utilities Commission hearing on
proposed electric rate increases
will be on again at 10 a.m. Friday
to consider the Capital Transit
Co.’s renewed attack on the re
quest.
Robert E. Harvey, special as
sistant to the transit controller,
testified yesterday that the Poto
mac Electric Power Co. should
have only a $684,500 annual
revenue increase to insure the
recognized fair return of 5 Vi
| per cent on its rate base.
This and other exhibits intro
duced by Mr. Harvey dashed hopes
of the PUC for a quick windup
underway sporadically since last
of the hearing, which has been
August 21.
Added Revenue Sought.
Pepco has asked for $3,379,000
additional annual revenue. V. A.
McElfresh, PUC accountant, has
recommended that the increase
not exceed $2.5 million. Mr. Her
vey’s figure is the lowest recom
mended so far for the power com
pany.
The transit company would face
a 58 per cent increase under the
Pepco proposals. Not only is
Capital Transit fighting a raise
but has asked that its annual
power bill be reduced by some
$200,000. An increase would mean
higher streetcar and bus fares,
the company contends.
Mr. Harvey said that Mr.
McElfresh, in calculating his
recommendation, used a rate base
of about $146 million but that
he should have used a base of
only $141 million. Mr. McElfresh
included in his rate base certain
future construction items that
will not be completed in the priod
covered as estimated, Mr. Harvey
stated.
Mr. Harvey also charged that
Pepco has underestimated its 1951
revenues by $1,065,507.
Overcharges Claimed.
Reviewing the rates charged the
transit company since 1933, when
it came into existence through a
merger of two other firms, Mr.
Harvey said Pepco has over
charged the transit company by
$7,860,000.
He based this statement on the
fact that, from 1933 to 1948, all
Pepco customers but the Capital
Transit Co., got electric rate re
ductions. If the transit company
had received the same reductions
as other customers, it would have
saved the $7,860,000 on its power
bill, he said.
Capital Transit Co. has a sepa
rate contract for power with
Pepco which contains a fuel
clause. As the cost of fuel went up,
the transit company's power bill,
went up over the past 17 years.
The PUC excluded the transit,
company from reductions granted
other customers during that pe
riod.
Friday’s hearing will bring Mr.
Harvey back tp the stand for ques
tioning by the PUC staff attorney,
Lloyd Harrison and by Pepco at
torneys.
Mother, 2 Children Fall
In Train's Path and Live
By the Anocialed Prtss
LONDON, Nov. 21.—A mother
and her two children fell into a
Dath of a speeding subway train
last night—and lived.
Several cars passed over them
before the train screeched to a
halt at London’s busy Charing
Cross underground station. The
electricity was quickly cut off
from the live rail. Station guards
crawled underneath the train and
pulled the three to safety.
The mother, Mrs. Ivy Learwood,
38, suffered a fractured arm and
head injuries. A daughter, Irene,
2, and a son, Clive, 8, suffered
minor injuries and shock.
The three fell onto the tracks
when the mother tried to grab
another son, Nigel, 6, who was
running along the platform. Nigel
fell on the platform and was only
scratched.
Czechs Attribute
Onion Shortage to
Fear of A-Bomb
By Hm Associated Press
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Nov
21.—Some people in Czechoslo
vakia are. buying heaps of oniom
to protect themselves againsl
atomic radiation, the trade union
newspaper Prace said in a derisive
report last night.
Others, it said, are stocking up
on vinegar to guard against gas
attacks.
Prace blamed such citizens, “in
suring themselves against all even
tualities,’ for current shortages of
these i’f/o commodities.
Neither a bad onion harvest nor
insufficient vinegar production
caused the shortages, it said.
Instead, it declared, a woman
spread the rumor that the smell
of onions helped counteract the
effect of radiation after an atomic
bomi- explosion.
“And so,’ Prace went on, “people
bought a quintal (220 pounds) of
onions and put them under the
bed.’’
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[Hearing Resumed in Detroit On Radio License Renewal
By th« Associated Press
DETROIT, Nov. 21.—The Fed
eral Communications Commis
sion’s hearing on the license re
newal applications of Detroit’s
WJR and two other radio sta
tions resumed in Detroit today.
The hearing involves charges
that G. A. Richards, owner of the
stations, instructed newscasters
and others to distort news to fit
his personal opinions. The charges
have been denied repeatedly and
witnesses have testified to Mr.
(Richards’ integrity,
i At stake are the license renewal
(applications of stations WJR in
Detroit, WGAR in Cleveland, and
KMPC in Los Angeles.
The FCC already has conducted . ■
87 days of hearings in Los Angeles i,
from June to October 20. Alto- S
gether 177 witnesses appeared.
First item here is expected to
be the calling of witnesses by the ;
FCC to complete the KMPC phase “
before starting the WJR case.
Breakage Costing More Than Loot, Victim Says
The plate-glass breakage
charged up to thieves is costing
Norman Abrams more than the
loot is worth, he complained to
police today.
Two weeks ago, the thief broke
a plate-glass door at the front
of the Abrams hardware store.
3653 Georgia avenue N.W., and *
made off with two BB guns and
100 tubes of shot.
Last night, a brick, heaved ?
through a back window, broke the ►
plate glass atop Mr. Abrams’ desk.
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