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101st Year. No. 156.
LeMay Quoted
By Vandenberg
As Opposing Cut
Long-Range Bomber
Reduction Below 57
Wings Called Risk
By John A. Giles
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg to
day read Senators a top-secret
message from Gen. Curtis E. Le-
May. commander of the Strate
gic Air Command, in support of
his contention that President
Eisenhower’s Air Force budget
would be a risk to national
security.
Gen. LeMay commented to the
retiring Air Force chief of staff i
on the reported proposed reduc
tion of five wings in the long
range atomic bombing fleet.
“A reduction below 57 wings
(as approved by the Truman ad
ministration) represents an ex
pansion of the calculated risk to
a point where it may no longer
be acceptable to the security of
the United States and its allies,"
Gen. LeMay asserted. "Fifty
seven wings would be a bare
minimum."
Worried Over Backing.
Gen. Vandenberg, in his third
day of testimony before the Sen
ate Military Appropriations sub
committee. added that both he
and Gen. LeMay were "tremen
dously worried” that there were
no planes to "back up” the Stra
tegic Air Command, which has
been called the major deterrent
to World War in.
The command consists of
heavy bombers capable of de
livering the atomic bomb over
long distances with such planes
as the giant B-36 and the newer
jet bombers. There are about
30 planes in each wing.
Gen. Vandenberg said the
message from Gen. LeMay had
been sent voluntarily.
Senator Thye, Republican, of
Minnesota, asked whether the
more destructive weapons, such
as the improved atomic bomb,
had been taken into considera
tion in Air Force plans for the
composition of the striking fleet.
“I can assure you that poten
tial targets have been looked at
very carefully,” replied Gen.
Vandenberg.
Some Protective Cover.
He said an increase in the
destructive power of a weapon
did not necessarily mean that i
the means of delivering those
weapons should be reduced. He
explained that to get the atomic
bomb over a target, the plane
carrying it had to be accom- |
panied by other planes for its
own protection, and that the!
requirements for aircraft were
just about the same as it would
be if conventional bombs were
in use.
Several members of the Senate
Military Appropriations subcom
mittee still were waiting to ques
tion the retiring Air Force Chief
of Staff yesterday after two days
of televised testimony.
The rebuttal—by Secretary of
Defense Charles E. Wilson—was
postponed until Monday.
Denounces Restrictions.
Gen. Vandenberg covered some
of the same ground yesterday
as he did in his fierce opening
denuniciation of both the air
budget approved by Gen. Eisen
hower and the numerous
"restrictions” laid on the service
by Mr. Wilson.
He said that if the United
States fell short of the 143-wing
goal of the Truman administra
tion and adopted the Eisenhower
120-wing program the Nation
would have a "second-best Air
Force”—topped by Soviet Rus
sia.
Senator McClellan, Democrat,
of Arkansas, told the general he
was convinced of the need for
143 wings and added he did not
"need any argument.”
Senators Hill of Alabama and
Maybank of South Carolina, both
Democrats, also rallied behind
the general. Republicans gen
erally indicated support of the
Eisenhower program.
Senator Hill said he and some
of his colleagues will move to
restore "about four” of the more
(See AIR FORCE, Page A-12.)
Disabled Veteran
Falls 2 00 Feet Off
Lookout Mountain
»r tho Associated Press
CHATTANOOGA, Term., June
5.—A disabled war veteran from
Alabama rolled and fell 200 feet
down the sides of Lookout Moun
tain late yesterday, tnen apolo
gized to his rescuers “for causing
so much trouble ”
Chester Goins, 31, of Gadsen,
was rescued four l.ours later as
he perched on the tiny ledge of
a 35-foot cliff above the mail
line of the Nashville, Chatta
nooga and St. Louis Railroad.
He suffered only minor cuts and
bruises.
Firemen. Red Cross workers,
police and volunteers all helped
in Mr. Goins' rescue, which was
effected with the help of a
searchlight and ropes.
The Alabaman said he thought
of “everything" as he crashed
down the mountainside toward
the railroad after losing his foot
ing.
A farmer and his wife work
ing in a tomato patch across
the Tennessee River heard his
cries.
Phone ST. 3-5000
McCarthy Asks Steps to Keep
Coe From Leaving U. S. Ago in
Ex-Monetary Fund
Aide and Senator
Wrangle at Hearing
By Cecil Holland
Senator McCarthy, Republi
can, of Wisconsin today called
on the State Department “to
close the borders” to Frank Coe,
former $20,000-a-year secretary
of the International Monetary
Fund.
Senator McCarthy, back from
an undisclosed secret trip that
carried him to Texas and other
places, made the suggestion dur
ing a public hearing of the Sen
ate Investigations subcommittee
looking into Mr. Coe’s activity
as a Government official over
many years.
Senator McCarthy asked a
State Department observer at
the hearing to call to the atten
tion of proper officials that Mr.
Coe had recently spent two
months visiting in Canada, the
Caribbean and Mexico and
added:
"I think he's a very dangerous
man.”
The McCarthy suggestion
climaxed a hearing marked by
heated exchanges between Mr.
Coe and the Wisconsin Repub
lican. The 46-year-old former
official refused on dozens of
questions to say whether he was
a Communist and whether as
secretary of the Monetary Fund
and in numerous positions w'th
Million-Doiiar Drive
Planned by CIO to
Expand Unionism
Executive Board Hits
President's Tax Stand
As Harmful to Labor
By James Y. Newton
The CIO soon will launch a
special million-dollar public re
lations campaign designed to
"sell” the idea of unionism to
unorganized workers throughout
the country.
The program was approved
today by the CIO Executive
Board, which also blasted the
Eisenhower administration’s
stand on taxation, foreign poi-
G. O. P. Delays Toft-Hartley Act
Change for Year. Page A-4
icy, social security and housing.
Details of the public relations
campaign were not announced.
But is was understood it will be
started in the fall and will in
clude, among other things, a
daily radio news commentary
and a series of television
programs.
Tied in With Member Drive.
The campaign is tied into a
stepped-up drive of the CIO to
enroll new members. It is de
signed to combat antagonism to
the CIO in some quarters, par
ticularly in the South where it
is regarded as having left-wing
tendencies. The Executive Board
recently reorganized its field
operations to release manpower
for a new organizational pro
gram.
Sharp criticism of the Eisen
hower administration was voiced
by the Executive Board. It said,
for example, that the adminis
tration’s tax program is designed
to increase the burden for middle
and lower income groups and
give relief in “the higher income
brackets and to the tremendously
profitable big corporations.”
Sees Sales Tax on Way.
The CIO said the administra
tion’s intention was to invoke a
general sales tax on the country
after the excess profits tax is
dropped next January.
The labor officials condemned
"confusion in the administra
tion’s foreign policy” and “the
revival of isolationism in the
Senate.”
On the subject of social se
curity, the CIO said the admin
istration is attempting to ap
pease business elements who are
“determined to turn back the
clock.”
Heads Legislative Unit.
The new head of the organi
zation’s legislative department
will be Robert Oliver, executive
assistant to Walter P. Reuther,
CIO president, the board an
nounced. Mr. Oliver, formerly
labor adviser to the Mutual Se
curity Administration, will co
ordinate relations with Congress
of all the CIO unions. He suc
ceeds Nathan Cowan, who re
signed to return to the CIO
United Steelworkers.
The board also approved the
progress made so far in working
out a “no raiding” compact with
the AFL. The agreement now is
being drafted and will be pre
sented next fall for ratification
by the CIO and AFL conventions.
Georgia Town Ravaged
By $1 Million Fire
By tho Associated Press
UNADILLA, Ga., June 5.—A
roaring night-long fire seen 20
miles away ravaged this Dooly
county town of 1,500 population
and left damage estimated at $1
million today.
Seven buildings baked tinder
dry by the hot sun of recent
week were wiped out. Quanti
ties of lumber, seed and grain
i were dfestroyed along with valu
able machinery and buildings.
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FRANK COE.
this Government he had ever
engaged in espionage activities
as a member of a Russian spy
ring here. He claimed the
protection of the Fifth Amend
ment in refusing to answer the
questions and protested bitterly,
if often quietly, against the sub
committee’s proceedings.
Mr. Coe objected strenuously
to Senator McCarthy’s sugges
(See COE, Page A-12.)
Gen. Marshall Warns
Britain on Attitude
Toward Korean War
Says Public Does Not
Fully Realize Size
Os U. S. Casualties
By «H* Associated Press
LONDON, June 5. Gen.
George C. Marshall appealed to
day to British leaders to foster
a generous understanding of
America’s aims and problems in
Korea.
In a stern tone, he told a
luncheon of the English Speak-
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ing Union it was important that
the British public resist Soviet
propaganda that the United
States is engaged on some war
like course.
He also declared the Ameri
can public “is intent on seeing
that nothing be permitted to
lend aid to the Chinese Commu
nist forces.”
Soviet Propaganda Blamed.
Gen. Marshall told the lunch
eon gathering of 2,000 he thought
the British public “only partial
ly realizes” the size of American
casualties in Korea. He added:
“For some reason—probably a
result of clever Soviet propa
ganda and subtle suggestion—
there seems to be a belief that
America is in a warlike mood,
fraught with the possibility of
bringing about a general con
flagration.
“Nothing, I know, could be
further from the desires of the
American people and their
leaders.”
Gen. Marshall also referred to
charges occasionally made here
that the United States Govern
ment ignores the advice of its
allies.
Cites Consideration of Views.
He said that in his own ex
perience as Secretary of State
and Secretary of Defense “I
think a maximum of attention
was paid to the view of our
associates, particularly those of
the British government.”
Earlier Gen. Marshall said in
a statement marking the sixth
anniversary of the American aid
plan bearing his name that
Western Europe has “moved a
long way forward from the
despair and defeatism which
prevailed in 1947.”
Gen. Marshall came to London
as an official American delegate
to the coronation of Queen
Elizabeth 11.
Policeman flops Woman
From Leaping Off Bridge
A police private today pre
vented a 34-year-old mother of
two small children from leaping
from the Calvert Street Bridge.
Pvt. Charles P. Bielaski of No.
13 Precinct, said he was cashing
his pay check at a bank at
Eighteenth street and Columbia
road N.W. when a man rushed
in to tell him a colored woman
was preparing to leap from the
bridge.
Pvt. Bielaski rushed to the
bridge and prevented the leap.
Police said a note found in the
woman’s purse read:
“Reason life unbearable.
Mother: Please come and get my
children. Do what you can for
them.”
The note was penciled on the
back of a $5 money order. The
woman was taken to Gallinger
Hospital for mental observation.
Truman to Be Guest Here
Senate Democrats announced
today they will give a buffet
luncheon for former President
Truman June 24, when he will
be in Washington for his first
visit since leaving office.
Truce Won't Cut
Tax Demands,
Folsom Insists
Tells Lawmakers
He Sees No Drop
In Arms Spending
By the Associated Press
Undersecretary of the Treasury
Marion B. Folsom said today a
truce in Korea would make “no
difference whatever” in the ad
ministration’s plea for continued
high taxes.
Prospects for an early end to
the fighting, however, prompted
strong demands from members
of the House Ways and Means
Committee for an end to any
further thought of extending the
excess profits tax beyond June
30 as asked by the Eisenhower
administration.
At the same time. Mr. Folsom
told the committee Treasury offi
cials put “no pressure whatever”
on business friends to line up be
hind the President’s request for
a six-month extension of the un
popular levy.
The undersecretary said he
saw no possible violation of lob
bying laws or anything improper
at all in a series of conferences
of Secretary Humphrey and
other Treasury officials with
business leaders on the Presi
dent’s tax program. Testimony
that such talks had been held set
off accusations in the committee
that they constituted at least
improper efforts to influence
Congress on legislation.
Hope to Save $5 Billion.
Representative Jenkins, Re
publican, of Ohio, second in
seniority among committee mem
bers, told Mr. Folsom that re
gardless of the Undersecretary’s
position, most financial leaders
feel that a truce in Korea would
bring a $5 billion saving in gov
ernment expenditures and
"surely would have a great effect
on balancing the budget.”
Representative Mason, Repub
lican, of Illinois, interrupted Mr.
Jenkins’ questioning of Mr. Fol
som to declare heatedly that the
committee, if a Korean truce is
reached, should cut off its hear
ings on the excess profits tax
immediately and “end all
thought” of extending the levy.
Chairman Reed interjected
that he agreed “100 per cent”
but added that it would be un
fair to hear a large number of
witnesses who have gone to con
siderable expense and trouble to
prepare testimony opposing the
President’s proposal.
Mr. Folsom reported that
President Eisenhower already
has indicated there would be no
letup in defense spending if a
Korean truce is reached and he
(Folsom) didn’t see “how it
would make any difference
whatever.”
Questioned Sharpley.
The No. 2 Treasury official ran
into sharp questioning from
Mr. Reed as to whether Treas
ury officials used their “powerful
position in Government” to try
(See TAXES, Page A-12.)
3 Jet Bombers Smash
Trans-Atlantic Record
By lh« Associated Press
FAIRFORD AIR BASE, Eng
land, June s.—Three American
B-47 Stratojet bombers smashed
the United States-to-England
speed record today by crossing
the Atlantic in slightly over 516
hours.
Two of the swept-wing, six-jet
B-47s streaked from Limestone
Air Base in Maine to Fairford in
Central England—a distance of
3,120 miles—in 5 hours 36 min
utes. Another made it in 5 hours
37 minutes.
The previous record was 5
hours 38 minutes set last April
7 by two other B-475.
Today’s flight 'kveraged 566
miles an hour.
The planes form part of the
306th Medium Bombardment
Wing—4s Stratojets in all—
which are making mass flights
from their United States base at
Mac Dill Field, Tampa, Fla., to
their new base in England.
Fifteen planes of the wing
made the flight yesterday.
Security Agency Cleaned Up
—By Boss' Mop and Pail Crew
R. W. Scott McLeod, the State
Department’s new security boss
is cleaning up the department
in more ways than one.
He rolled up his sleeves and
helped scrub some "filthy” office
woodwork Wednesday night, it
was disclosed today.
About 50 volunteers from
among his security investigators,
evaluaters and their secretaries
joined in the co-operative over
time clean-up job.
It came about this way:
For the first time since he as
sumed office as Security Admin
istrator three months ago, Mr.
McLeod personally visited
Wednesday the office of John W.
Ford, who is director of the Of
fice of Security under Mr. Mc-
Leod.
The security offices are con
centrated in a separate build
ing at 515 Twenty-second street
N.W. a block away from the
main State Department build
ing where Mr. McLeod has his
office.
Who Said They Were 'Going to Shoot Santa Claus'?
Congress Nines Clash Tonight;
Eisenhower to Toss First Ball
No. 1 Golfer Heads Star-Studded Array
Os Notables Due at Game for Camp Fund
By Charles J. Yarbrough
President Eisenhower, who
likes his Congress peaceful, stirs
it up into a baseball wrangle in
Griffith Stadium tonight.
Before a star-studded crowd
of Government officials, the dip-
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lomatic corps and two-score past
and present sports champions,
the President will toss the first
ball touching off the annual
game to benefit The Star's Sum
mer Camp Fund.
Proceeds will send needy chil
; dren to Prince William County,
Va., summer camps for 12 days’
vacation beginning late this
month.
When Democratic and Repub
lican members of Congress take
the field about 8:30 p.m„ Mickey
Mantle’s 560-foot home run rec
ord may be safe, but the attend
ance mark won’t.
Advance sales indicate a ban
ner crowd.
, Team line-ups, with 68 mem
bers of Congress on call, look
like a roll-call on a pay-raise
for-Congress issue. Representa
tive Bishop, of Illinois, manages
the Republicans: Representative
Herlong, of Florida, the Demo
crats.
The pre-game program gets
under way at 7:30, with pre
cision performances by the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force
drum and bugle corps and drill
teams and a review by the Presi
dent.
For him it is a well-filled day.
Late News
Bulletin
Mrs. Grimm Indicted
NEW YORK (/P).—The
State today indicted Mrs.
Barbara Lee Grimm, 24, for
| mer carnival dancer accused
I of kidnaping two children in
j Washington and bringing
! them to New York, on four
i charges of kidnaping and four
of endangering the health of a
child.
Toscanini Flying to Italy
NEW YORK. June 5.
turo Toscanini, 86 - year -old
maestro, left by plane yesterday
for his summer home on the is
land of Lago Maggiore, near
Stresa, Italy. He will return in
September.
A spokesman said that Mr.
MacLeod was shocked at the
“filthy” conditions he found in
the offices. Greasy dust-covered
files, bookcases, woodwork and
floors.
“Im coming back at 6 o’clock
to get this place cleaned up."
Mr. McLeod told Mr. Ford.
A spokesman said he reap
peared with about 10 men and
women assistants from his own
office.
In the meantime, Mr. Ford
had* called for volunteers from
his own staff. About 40 re
sponded, the spokesman said,
and joined Mr. McLeod’s crew
with scrub brushes, hot water
and soap.
By 8 o’clock Mr. McLeod was
willing to call it a day. But some
more special work may be
needed to complete the job, the
spokesman said.
For several months, Govern
ment economy has meant there
were not enough charwomen to
clean all Government offices
regularly.
| The sports champions, includ
| ing Golfer Gene Sarazen, Heavy
weight Champion Rocky Mar
ciano and Tris Speaker, Lefty
Grove and Joe DiMaggio, base
ball greats, lunched with the
President at the White House.
More than 40 of them sat
down at tables in the State din-
Democrat Catches
Fly Ball With Nose;
He'll Pldy Anyway
Representative Dorn. Dem
ocrat, of South Carolina has
•suffered a badly bruised
nose during practice for
tonight’s congressional base
ball game in Griffith Sta
dium. He caught a fly ball
with it. “But I’ll be play
ing in the game,” he an
nounced proudly, adjusting
his bandage.
ing room to cold cuts, salmon
fish mould, deviled eggs, baked
beans, salad, sherbet and coffee.
As a hearty gesture to Gen.
Eisenhower’s well-known sports
leanings. Mr. Sarazen was close
at hand during the luncheon.
Also in the crowd was Andy
Anderson, of Houston. Tex.,
sometimes regarded as the
world’s No. 1 fisherman
Tickets for the baseball game,
available at the Stadium and
The Star’s business counter, are
$2 for box seats: $1.50 for re
served seats and $1 general ad
mission.
A-Spies Denied Stay;
Perl Gels Five Years
By the Associated Pross
NEW YORK. June s—The
United States Court of Appeals
today denied a stay of execution
to condemned atom spies Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg, scheduled
to die in Sing Sing Prison’s elec
tric chair June 18.
Judge Thomas E. Swan told
Emanuel Bloch, counsel for the
Rosenbergs, that he might apply
for a stay before the United
States Supreme Court. The court
has refused three times to re
view the case.
Mr. Bloch said several days
ago he would appeal to Presi
dent Eisenhower for clemency.
Gen. Eisenhower previously re
fused such a request.
William Perl, former Columbia
University physics instructor
convicted of perjury in connec
tion with the Rosenberg case,
was sentenced today to five years
in prison.
The 34-year-old jet propulsion
expert was accused of falsely
telling the Federal grand jury
that he did not know Julius Ros
enberg and Morton Sobell. The
latter was sentenced to 30 years
for his part in the spy plot.
A mercy recommendation by
the jury that convicted Perl was
brushed aside by Federal Judge
Sylvester J. Ryan in pronounc
ing sentence.
92 Degrees, Equaling
1953 Record, Due Today
A high of 92 degrees today—
tying the record for the year set
on May 26—was the Weather
Bureau’s prediction for Washing
tonians.
The bureau was doubtful that i
there would be relief from the
heat within the next two days.
A consolation of sorts was the
information that today’s high
will be eight degrees below the
record June 5 in 1952. There may
be showers tonight.
Today:
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Future Wage Rises
Cited by Transit as
Need for Fare Boost
Prompt Action Is Urged
By Controller to Fulfill
Pay Pacts With Union
By John W. Stepp
Unless the District Public Util
ities Commission acts promptly
and favorably on the present
fare increase petition. Capital
Transit Co. may come right back
with another rate increase re
quest next year. •
This was the testimony today
of Robert E. Harvey, company
controller. The commission hear
ings are now in their third day.
The company expected to con
clude its. side of the case this af
ternoon.
Two forthcoming employe wage
increases necessitate the speedy
action to which Mr. Harvey re
ferred. Under a labor contract
signed last summer. Capital
Transit must raise its wages 5
cents an hour, at a total cost of
$460,000, effective next July 1.
On July 1, 1954, a slightly higher
wage increase will take effect at
a total cost of $60,000.
Forsees Income Drop.
The controller pointed out that
while the requested fare increases
are expected to produce a 7.7
per cent rate of return—or $l.B
million in net operating income
—this rate percentage will drop
to 6.6—more than $300,000 —
when the July 1, 1954. pay in
creases become effective. Mr.
Harvey did not say whether a
6.6 per cent return would or
would not be satisfactory, al
though the company has con
tended all along that it is
entitled to a 10 per cent return.
He declared to the commission,
however, that “prompt action by
the commission is necessary if
further rate increases are to be
avoided.”
Notes Pass Decline.
Elsewhere in his testimony
today the company official ar
gued for elimination of the
weekly pass. He testified that
in 1945 the pass brought in about
one-half the company’s total
passenger revenues, but it now
produces less than one-quarter.
He further described the pass
as discriminatory both against
the company and against pas
sengers who use cash and token
fares. He cited what he called
abuses of the pass privilege
where Government agencies and
private businesses circulate
passes which they buy among
their employes.
“I don’t believe the pass was
devised for the convenience of
business firms and Government,”
Mr. Harvey declared, adding
that many of the downtown
transit vehicles are also “loaded
with lunch-hour ‘free-riders’ ”
people who lend their passes to
friends and fellow workers for
luncheon and shopping trips.
The rate increase request in
volves raising cash fares from the
present 17 cents to 20 cents,
tokens from five for 75 cents to
i five for 95 cents and elimination
of the weekly pass.
If Pass Should Go.
Yesterday, Mr. Harvey figured
that, if the pass should go, 16 per
cent of the present 2.8 million
pass-buyers would drop from the
picture altogether. The balance
would use tokens in preference
to paying cash fares and would
buy them at a rate of 17 tokens
per week.
Elsewhere in his testimony, i
Mr. Harvey noted that last year
the company cut down its
operating expenses by reducing
vehicle-hours on the street by
64.000. This lowered the total
vehicle-hours figure to 4,038,750
in 1952. I
Hopes Soaring
For Early End
Os Korean War
Agreement Could
Be Reached at
Session Tonight
By me Associated Press
SEOUL, June s.—The end of
the Korean fighting appeared
close today. A fateful truce meet
ing tomorrow could almost write
an end to three years of war
and death.
The Communists were reported
to have submitted terms so close
to those of the United Nations
Command that an armistice
might be signed by June 25, third
anniversary of this war that al
ready has taken an awesome toll.
Minor details must be ironed
out, but “peace fever” was in
the air here as well as other
allied capitals.
Even the Reds were feeling it
—Communist front-line loud
speakers broadcast warnings to
allied troops: “Don’t stick your
heads out. There will be a truce
in a few days.”
South Korea Dissents Bitterly.
A high United States official in
Tokyo said an agreement to ex
change prisoners likely will b«
signed tomorrow. However, a
truce could not be signed before
next week, he added.
Allied and Red negotiators
meet in the tiny hut in Pan
munjom Saturday at 11 a.m.
(10 p.m. Friday EDT).
However, there was one jarr
ing and bitter dissent to the
optimism. President Syngman
Rhee’s South Korean govem
, ment stubbornly opposed the
truce terms although Mr. Rhee
has said he would co-operate “at
any cost” with the United States.
Gen. Mark Clark. U. N. Far
East commander, flew to Seoul
from his Tokyo headquarters and
j conferred with Mr. Rhee, pos
! sibly in an eleventh-hour at
i tempt to overcome the opposi
-1 tion of the aging, but fiery, pres
ident.
Rhee Reported Displeased.
They talked for an hour but
there was no announcement
after the meeting. Pyun Yung
Tai, South Korea’s acting Prime
Minister and. United States Am
bassador Ellis O. Briggs were also
present.
Gen. Clark flew back to
Tokyo after the conference. He
refused comment.
However, a source close to the
South Korean government said
the meeting was not satisfactory
to Mr. Rhee.
Meanwhile, the South Korean
government said it will make
public tomorrow its counterplan
for a Korean truce.
It said the plan was presented
to President Eisenhower several
days ago. Government sources
said it was connected with an
earlier four-point Rhee demand
I which asked:
, A mutual security pact between
| the United States and South Ko
rea, an increase of United States
economic and military aid, with
drawal of Chinese and U. N.
forces after a truce and a pledge
the United States or U. N. would
not attempt to stop South Korea
in any attempt to unify the
country.
Plans Called Cowardly.
South Korea’s bitter opposi
tion to the U. N. proposal was
pointed up by Mr. Pyun in a
heated attack. He said angrily
in an interview:
“I have never come across
more dishonorable—and more
cowardly—plans. We are greatly
; disgusted with such an igno-
I minious truce.”
He said war prisoners who re
fuse to return to communism
would “commit suicide in dis
gust.”
The violent South Korean op
< position has worried allied
! leaders. The South Koreans
have threatened to continue the
fight if an armistice is signed
;on the present proposal and
| Mr. Pyun predicted bloodshed if
! some of its terms are enforced.
Gen. Clark met earlier with
Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison.
; chief allied armistice delegate,
i and Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor,
. Bth Army commander.
He also conferred with MaJ.
Gen. Thomas Herren, comman
der of the Korean communica
| (See TRUCE, Page A-12.)
Maryland University
Will Graduate 2,100
; MARYLAND GRADUATES—Mors
; than 2,100 Maryland University stu
dents will be graduated tomerrow. A
complete list of the graduates is on
page A-24.
PLAYCLOTHES—MiIady's summer
i vacation garb is the subject of pic
tures and some helpful tips by Thu
Star's fashion expert, Eleni, on peg#
B-l.
DANCE CLASS—Housewives will be
the performers in a dramotic-donee
presentation by the YWCA next Mon
day. Staff Writer Betty Miles tells
how this interesting "V" activity grew
in an article on page 1-4.
Guide for Readers
Amuse'nts A-30-31 Lost, Found A-3
Classified C-5-15 Obituary . ..A-12
Comics .. A-34-35 Rodio-TV ...A-33
Editorial A-8 Sports C-l-5
Edit'l Articles. A-9, Woman's
Financial—A-11-19; Section •-1-4