European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse January 1953 the stars and stripes Page in challenges state on alleged reds United 3 up the United nations yester Day bluntly challenged loyalty charges against at least two staff members the state department believes to be communists or under communist eight or nine others against whom the same charge has been levelled will have their Job status reviewed by a special the world organization in the two or three cases the in is it said Secretary Gen eral Trygve lie has no reliable cause for proceeding since he either is completely without evidence or is in Possession of evidence which substantially refuted the correctness of state departments Efalua the announcements were contained in an eight Page document which added up to a rigorous in counterattack against both the state department and a Federal grand jury which last month said an overwhelming number of disloyal americans had infiltrated the slow replies in the Case of the state depart the in complained that the government bad wholly failed to Back up Adverse against unemployed with specified info it accused the department of being to reply to Many of the inquiries made by the in on american staff members or it noted one Case where More than four years elapsed Between the time the employees name was sent to the state department and the tune an Adverse comment was the Jane a librarian was then in Ranery orders data for new grand jury 3 attorney general James Mcgranery last night ordered Federal officials to give a newly empanelled new York grand jury All the Evi Dence it needs to resume an investigation of communist infiltration of the United nations Secre if Granery said he has instructed Myles attorney at new to give any and All evidence of espionage or other crimes uncovered by an other jury that expired Early last the previous jury charged 2 that american communists had infiltrated the in secretariat and that the state department had not done All it could to prevent fight looms of of alien act 3 up congressional sources last night predicted lawmakers soon will be engaged in a debate Over whether to Amend the controversial Mccarra Walter immigration act which went into effect two senators and two representatives Are preparing to introduce legislation to Amend the measure which has been described by a presidential commission As unwise and injurious to the Jacob javits and Emanuel Celler and Robert Humphrey d and Herbert Lehman d will head the attack on the they agree completely with the report of presidents commission on immigration and naturalization which reported yesterday that the act should be revised from be ginning to Bui drafted i javits already has his Bill fora substitute Law drafted and is expected to introduce it the presidential com missions recommendation to re write the act Drew immediate hostile reaction from influential members of the the sharpest attack came from Pat Mccarran co author of the Law and the outgoing chairman of the Senate judiciary Mccarran termed the report a propaganda said it parrots left Wing thinking and accused the commission of using the big lie he said the Law is very Tough on comm criminals and subversives but does not contain one Iota of racial or religious no changes seen Willis Smith an other member of the judiciary com also was outspoken in de sense of the he predicted Congress would make no material changes in the Law because there is nothing materially wrong with Republican members of the Judi Ciary commission were More re served in their attack on the re port since Dwight Eisenhower has agreed that the Law should be rewritten to eliminate its unfair us to get Argentine meat Buenos 3 a Argentina and Britain signed a new Trade agreement by which the Brit ish will get More than tons of meat and will ship Argentina much needed Johnston again urges halving of High living overseas staff around the world the assures on Churchill talks 3 styles Bridges said yesterday president elect Dwight Eise Shower has assured four Republican senators he would make no commitments in his forthcoming talk with Britain prime minister Winston he said we did not have to worry about any not Only to Churchill but to other foreign Bridges told a two other Republican senators who participated in a meeting with Eisenhower on tuesday in new Milton of North and Leverett of said the pres Dent elect had assured them his conferences with Churchill would be purely indo rebels killed in French drive 3 French High command announced last night that communist led Viet Ninh troops were killed in the monthlong operation Bretagne in an area about 40 Miles Southeast of Hanoi and said the operation has been the announcement said French Union troops had engaged vie Minh regulars and guerrillas a the Southern part of the red River in addition to the the French reported capturing 263 and said others suspected of Provie Minh activities also have been rounded red paper confirms China uprising 3 communist newspaper yesterday confirmed reports of an open rebel lion among peasants of Northwest chivas Kansu province last the published in said some persons fought communist government forces and killed the dead included Mili tary and civilian the paper it said the rebellion was not quelled until late Netherlands need for Aid studied 3 officials said today that the Mutual Security Agency has still to decide whether the Netherlands should receive any further defense support but they believed that the economic and financial situation of the Netherlands had so greatly improved recently that further Aid might not be defense support Aid is largely economic in including raw materials and production equipment but of types suitable for military 56 in desert crash reach Karachi 3 British and 26 Pakistan passengers from the Kim spymaster which crash landed in the saudi arabian desert yesterday after running out of fuel were flown Here Early today from they were in High spirits following their virtually from the belly the chartered for a flight from London to was forced Down 17 Miles Short of the air base at dutch reject Russ protest Over arrest the 3 Netherlands foreign ministry announced yesterday that it has formally rejected a soviet protest against the arrest for espionage of lev cons Antinovitch a correspond ent for the official soviet news a soviet note on wednesday branded the arrest unlawful and demanded the immediate release of the soviet newsman was arrested 24 on charges of espionage and the illegal Possession of secret committee shocked at luxurious living 3 a Olin Johnston Cit ing evidence of alleged High among government workers i again recommended f in Jing about half of employees Johnston made the statement in an interview following his return from a recent seven week study of government personnel in Europe and North chairman of the Senate civil service headed a special congressional inquiry com Mittee that conducted an overseas luxurious Johnston said committee members i were shocked by High salaries and luxurious living of Federal workers he said the committee found some government workers living i in expensive apartments or houses that have three or four Domestic i including a Cook l and even average stenographers earn a year and have their own personal it was girl friends cited committee investigators also alleged that some american officials of their european girl friends on payrolls As clerks or they charged hat when officials moved from country to country on different assignments they took their girl friends along and got them new Obs on the Federal the investigators said that in addition to regular salaries Over seas employees collect costo living allowances of 1025 per cent of their Basic plus living quarters allowances ranging from to a employees in some areas Are Given allow they breakdown of benefits the comic Ittzes estimate that an overseas stenographer gets a year was based on a an missing Lin found by scientist off african coast Model of the coelacanth a species millions of years old and Long believed to be is to the one found after a 14year search by British ichthyologists who described his As one of the most amazing Ever made in the found off East is thought be one of the Missine links in the evolution of press photo stocks vary widely in 1st 53 session new 3 Stock Market turned in a highly confused performance in its initial trading session of 1953 yesterday with special groups closing prices Allied chemical off american can off Amer ican Telephone up Anaconda Copper up Bethlehem steel up 1 Chrysler Oft 1 general electric 72 off general motors off is International har Vester off International Nickel up Standard Oil new Jersey tra Samerica unchanged Seel up Westinghouse elec tric of Canadian Pacific up is Central up Penn Sylvania Railroad up Southern Pacific off is Bank of America 31 unchanged pan american airways up Paramount Pic Tures unchanged Emerson elec tric up Mexico ant corruption Bill Mexico 3 mexican Senate has approved an act corruption Bill which would Force All government officials to publish a sworn statement of their both before and after hold ing Public Nual plus 1025 per cent costo living plus a year for Hving committee members reported learing More than one High salaried employee complain it Cost him As much As 5150 a year of his own salary to meet his annual living sex employees reported satisfied but investigators said not a single employee they talked to expressed any desire to come bade to United states and made no Effort to disguise their Delight Over their Good Johnston said Many employees admitted having been on the payroll Lor six months or More before doing any work or even knowing their Bosses in other he the com Mittee found employees had been kept on the payroll for months after their work had been Turkey gets million in new Mesa Grant 3 the Mutual Security Agency bounced yesterday it an has allotted to it is the first such Aid Given to that country in the present fiscal year which july officials said that details As to How Turkey would spend this Money were not yet other countries which have received allotments so far in this fiscal year include the United kingdom and
