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Evening star., 1954-01-02
Labor Board
Continued From First Page.)

NOOIlGuluCQ T1OLLl IL St oSC''
the minimum yardstick Of the
old board.
The unions say the new board
policy is widening the "no-man's
land" between Federal and State
Jurisdiction, pointing out there
will be no place for these small
local unions to take their griev-
ances. This policy of the board
accepting fewer cases, obviously,
cuts both ways. 1t woulo apply
to the small aggrieved employer
as we'll as to the union. But
majority of complaints filed with
NLRB are filed by unions.
Changes In Rules.
The board has changed the
rules regarding the eligibility Of
part-time plant guards to belong
to non-guard unions; to permit
the relatives. nephewS and nieces
for example. of company execu-
tives to belong to unions; eased
rules covering an unlawful re-
fuSal to bargain on the part of
employers; has broadened the
right of employers to fire en-
ployes involved in an illegal
strike. by including persons who
fail to "disassociate" themselves
from the strike by. for example,
crossing picket lines.
Union officials concede that
many Of the new rulings. when
taken alone, are unimportant,.
but they charge that collectively
the rulings indicate "anti-labor
bias"
Employer groups generally re-
garded the old NLRB as pro-
labor and they testified on that
point before Congress. Unions
generally were happy under the
old setup. Now there's been a
change and the attitudes are Ie-
versed.
NLRB Chairman Farmer says
the board has been calling the
shots as they see them. He points
out that he and Mr.. Rodgers
have been in Office only a short
time, and that it is far too soon
for any one to pass judgment on
their actions. He also points cut
that the board lacks a very
badly needed fifth member.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
Big Four
Continued From First Page)

that Russia can talk about any,
thing it wants to.
The West has repeatedly called
for completion of an Austrian in
dependence treaty. and Russia
has refused to agree to talk
about this at Berlin.
When the conference Is held
authorities here are highly un-
certain how long it may last.
Secretary of State Dulles would
be prepared to break it off in
two weeks if it was serving only
the purpose of a Russian propa-
ganda sounding board. But if
the Soviets demonstrate desire to
meet some agreements even on
secondary issues the duration
may be much greater. Many
gueSses are that sessions will go
on about a month.
Without referring to the pros
pective conference, Soviet Pre-
mier Malenkov in a New Years
statement SAD he believes there
are favorable opportunities for
reducing international tension in
1854. The statement, in t,,e form
of answers to questions submit
ted by Kingsbury Smith of the
International News Service. was
published in the government
newspaper Izvestia.
But a day earlier the Com
munist Party newspaper Pravda
accused the Western powers and
West Germany of ganging Up on
Russia to sabotage the forth
coming talks.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
3Cameras Returned
By Penitent Thief
By The Associoted Press


AUGUSTA. Ga, Jan. 2.-An
Augustan who wound up 1853
as a thief set himself spiritually
right for 1854 yesterday when
he turned over to his pastor
$500 worth of cameras he said
he had taken from a Life maga-
zine photographer at the Bon
Air Hotel.
Three Leica cameras, two
owned by Mark Kaufman of Life
and one by John Rous of the
Associated Press. were removed
from Mr.. Kaufman's room New
Years eve. Mr.. Kaufman dis
covered they were missing when
he returned from a party in the
hotel, but thought some one had
taken them as a joke.
Learning yesterday that the
cameras actually had been
stolen. Mr.. Kaufman called the
police department.
At noon the Bon Air manage
ment was notified by an Au-
gusta clergyman that a penitent
member of his church had
brought the three cameras to
him during the morning and
begged forgiveness for the theft.
A short time later Mr.. Kauf-
man. who valued the cameras
at $500 each, received them from
the clergyman. who refused to
permit his name or that of his
church to be used.
Mr.. Kaufman and Mr.. Rous
are members of the White House
press corps now in Augusta with
President Eisenhower. Mr..
Kaufman had borrowed one of
Mr.. Rous' cameras to try it out.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
BY the Asseeioted Press

TOKYO. Jan. 2.-"I knew
he'd come back to me-"
Pretty Kyoko Araki beamed
her biggest smile when she heard
that her husband. Corpl. Claude
J. Bachelor. would be in Tokyo
tomorrow-the second stop on
the trip from a pro-Red pris-
oner compound near Panmun-
jom to his home in Kermit,
Tex.
Corpl. Bachelor was turned
over to the Americans yesterday
after telling an. Indian guard
he wanted to be repatriated. For
four months he had stayed be-
hind with 81 other Americans.
I'VE are going to Atami Tin
South Central Japan for a sec
ond honeymoon" Kyoko said.
Claude always loved Atami."
The radiantly happy little
Japanese girl in a sparkling new
green suit, switched from Jap
anese to her halting English and
Evening star., 1954-01-02
Driver Only Dozed
In 6O-Foot Drop
From Bridge
BY the Assoeioisd Press

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PHILADELPHIA, Jan. ED
ward Sweeney, 40. lost control of
his auto shortly before last mid
night on the east ramp leading
to the Grays Ferry avenue bridge
across the Schuylkill River.
The auto rammed the rear of
a horse-drawn wagon, bumped
over "a foot-high curbing, crossed
the sidewalk, ripped out a sec
tiori of iron railing and dropped
so feet to a railroad siding.
Witnesses said the auto turned
a full somsersault and landed on
the wheels. All four tires blew
out; the trunk of the car Jared
open and the spare wheel and
tire bounced away.
Bridgetender Carlo Verrecchio
found Mr.. Sweeney sitting in the
drivers seat. dazed. At Phila-
delphia General Hospital, where
he was detained for observation,
Mr.. Swt teeney's injuries were
listed as cuts on the head, left
leg and left eye.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
Pope
Continued From First Page.

education, 1t Is also not without
dangers because Of the abuses
and profanations for which it
can be used.
Unlike the theater and the
cinema. whose audiences are
limited to those who. wish to at
tend. television comes into the
home and is seen by persons of
all ages. . Televislon programs
are. in the most part. made up
OF films and theatrical spec
tacles. and the number that
fully satisfy Christian morality
is still too small"
The Pope declared those in
charge of television had grave
duties and responsibilities before
God and society,""
Before us is constantly pres
ent the Sorrowful picture of the
harmful power of the cinema. It
can only be frightening to think
that through the medium of tele-
vision it is possible to introduce
into the home the same poison
of materialism and hedonism
that only too often appears on
the screen"
The Pope added: "It is not
easy to imagine anything more
fatal to the spiritual force of the
nation than bringing to the fam
lily hearth the same picture Of
pleasure. passion and evil.
I'VE hope that television Tin
italy, will be used to transmit
programs for the healthy enter
tainment of the public and Tor
its education.
The Pope said he had already
noted that television had served
in other countries for spreading
Christian education.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
Meeting Set to Pick
Spokesman at Site Talks

BONN. Germany. Jan. 2 P.-
The three allied High Commits
sioners in Germany will meet
here next week to select their
representatives to negotiate with
the Russians on a site for the
Berlin Foreign Ministers Confer
ence.
Allied officials said here today
the four commandants-the High
Commissioners deputies in Ber-
lin-probably will handle these
preliminary talks.
The final decision on this point
for the allied side will be made
when United States High Com
missioner James B. Conant,
British High Commissioner Sir
Frederick Hoyer Millar and
French High Commissioner An
DIRE Francois-Poncet meet in
special conference here, probably
next Tuesday or Wednesday.
DR.. Conant is due to return to
Bonn Monday from Christmas
vacation in Florence, Italy.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
Three Climbers, Caught
In Storm, Return Safely
By the Assoeicted Press

PORTLAND. Greg. Jan. q
Three climbers, isolated over
night by a sudden storm on the
snow covered slopes of Mount
Hood, walked into Timberline
Lodge yesterday.
Fred Hart. Corvallis, Greg:
Art Maxi. Ridgefield. Wash. and
Layden Walsh. Olympia. Wash,
apparently were unharmed by
the ordeal. They set out Thurs
day morning, hoping to be the
first 1854 climbers to reach the
peak of the 11.245-foot- high
mountain east of here.
But a heavy snow storm. car
ried on gale-force winds, struck
the mountain. The three, all of
whom are experienced noun
taineers. waited out the night
and made their way down the
slopes by use of a compass, For
est Ranger Jim Ralph said.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
Italy Silent on POW
Assertion by Russian
BY the Asseeioted Press

ROME. Jan. 2.-Italian Off
cials declined comment today on
a Russian claim that the return
next month of "a prisoners
would complete repatriation of
all Italian prisoners of war held
by the Soviets.
Soviet Ambassador Mikhail
Kostilev made the claim yester-
day. The Italian Foreign Min
is:ry said 1t had no comment.
Italy has said in the past that
hundreds. or perhaps even thou
sands. of Italians are still held
by the Russians.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
President Completing
Work on Messages; q
Due Here tomorrow
By the Assoeiatsd Press

AUGUSTA. Ca, Jan. 2.-Presi-
dent Eisenhower, nearing com :
pletion Of work on a series of
messages to Congress, confers
again today with administration
advisers.
: The President scheduled an
other early morning session in
his Office at the Augusta National
Golf Club.
He started the new year yes
terday with a four-and-a- half
hour morning conference on the
state of the Union message which
he will deliver to Congress in per-
son Thursday.
Then Gen. Eisenhower went
of for a round Of golf while his
aides worked on into evening on
the document.
Works on Budget Message Too.
James c. Hagerty, presidential
press secretary. reported after
the morning meeting that quite
lot of progress" was made to-
ward whipping the message into
final form.
The conferences here are be-
ing attended by Budget Direc-
tor Joseph M. Dodge, Ambassa-
dor Henry Cabot Lodge. chief
United States delegate to the
United Nations; DIR. Arthur S.
Flemming. head of the Office of
Defense Mobilization: Sherman
Adams. Gen. Eisenhower's top
assistant, and other White House
aides.
In addition to advising on the
state-of-the- Union message. Mr..
Dodge is working with the Presi-
dent on the annual budget mes
sage which will go to Congress
few days after Congress recon-
venes Wednesday.
Gen. Eisenhower already has
completed a report he will make
to the Nation Monday night on
his administrations first year in
office. The speech will be car
ried on television and radio. He
has nearly completed the annual
economic report to Congress.
Flies Back Here Tomorrow.
The President plans to fly
back to Washington tomorrow.
ending a visit which began
Christmas Day.
Gen. Eisenhower yesterday re-
appointed Harmar D. Denny to
a six-year term as a member of
the Civil Aeronautics Board. The
Pittsburgh Republican first was
appointed to the CAB last April
for the balance of a term which
expired this week. His appoint
ment is subject to Senate con-
firmation.
The President also named
three members of a board set up
December Is to investigate a
wage dispute between the Rail-
way Express Agency and the
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks.
Appointed to the emergency
board were Judge Fred w. Mess
more of the Nebraska Supreme
Court, William E. Brady, New
York lawyer. and Allen Dash,
jr.. of Philadelphia, labor ar
bitrator.
Evening star., 1954-01-02

f1ghter-I wanted to fight against
war and American aggression. !"
But Corpl. Bachelor said he
never believed Communist
charges that Americans used
germ warfare and he said he no
longer believes in communism or
that America is an aggresSor..
He described himself as a
leader of the American prison.
ers, but acknowledged that other
captives who talked with Indian
officers at the gate failed to pass
on information.
This included the news that
Corpl. Dickinson had returned to
his home town in the United
States and married, he said.
"The Chinese told us he had
been prosecuted" Bachelor said.
When pressed how the Chinese
were able to tell him while he
was in Indian custody, he &C
knowledged that there was
some contact" with the Red
command. He did not elaborate.
Corpl. Bachelor approached
an Indian guard at / am. Friday
and said he wanted to go home.
Fourteen hours later he was re-
turned to the United Nations
command in a ceremony near
Panmunjom. Then he was flown
to Seoul for a medical checkup.
Family Is Elated.
He told newsmen today he was
captured by Chinese Communists
in November, 1850. He said he
was among 80 American in
fantrymen surrounded and with
out food on a North Korean hill.
In Kermit, Bachelors parents
planned a welcome home cele-
bration for the son they have not
seen for almost three years.
Il feel just like shouting" his
mother said when she heard that
he had asked to come home.
Only last week Mrs. Bachelor
had said that only a miracle
would bring her boy home.
"It'S the answer to my prayers.
I just thank God" she sighed.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
India S Policy Still
Unsettled on Final
Disposition Of P0Ws
BY the Associoted Press

NEW DELHI, India, Jan. q
Prime Minister Nehru's govern
ment has not yet decided what
position India will take jan
uary % when the deadline for
the retention of unrepatriated
prisoners under the Korean ar
mistice agreement is reached.
Official sources report top In
dian officials are giving fully as
much attention to that problem
as to the nationwide clamor
against the proposed American
military assistance to Pakisstan.
But they have not agreed on
how India will vote in the neu-
trail nations repatriation COM
mission when the time comes
for a final ruling.
Shift Held Unlikely.
The possibility of shifting the
decision to the United Nations
through an emergency meeting
OF the General Assembly. which
1ndia's Mrs. Vijaka Lakshmi
Pandit as Assembly president
could summon. grows less each
day. In fact. most observers
here believed if Nehru wanted
the Assembly to decide the prob
lem he would have asked Mrs.
Pandit. his sister. to make the
emergency call before the New
Year began.
1t Is known here the Indian
government has been told plain
ly the United States has no in
tertion of altering its position
that the armistice agreement re-
quires the prisoners be given
civilian status within the repa-
triton compound on January
%.
Decision Kept Secret.
The nature of the possible In
dian attitude and action on the
prisoners of war issue is being
kept highly secret here. Premier
Nehru is on record as having
said a political conference was
an integral part of the armistice
agreement and the necessity of
releasing the prisoners does not
arise until the conference meets.
But there are some within the
Indian government who are not
inclined to agree.
Some high Indian officers.
when asked why India's neutral
chairman of the Repatriation
Commissio njoined the two Com
munist members insigning a re-
port asSailing the United Ma
tions, were inclined to describe
the action as a balancing de-
ciSion."
1--WE gave the Communists a
bad knock when we voted with
the other neutrals to end the
period of the explanation session
so we had to go along with the
other side on this decision" said
one official.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
BY The Assoeioted Press

PANMUNJoM, Jan. 1.-THE
United Nations command today
gave the Indian custodian COM
mand a sweeping Endorsement
of its head count of Chinese
prisoners of last Thursday
count the Communists angrily
protested.
The U. N. command said it re-
CARDS "as a normal and neces-
Sary administrative action" the
head count which gave 1876 pro-
Communist Chinese prisoners
their chance to return to the
Reds.
The formal U.N. statement
said:
IF this checking of the pris-
oner of war rosters affords some
prisoners an opportunity to re-
quest repatriation, this is in
conformity with United Nations
command policy that every ef-
fort should be made to insure
that every prisoner in the Gus
tody of the Indian custodian
force should have every oppor-
tunity to make a free choice as
to where he wishes to CO."
South Korean Protests.
The statement diametrically
opposed the stand of South Ko-
rean Foreign Minister Pyun
Yung Tai. who protested the
head count on behalf of his
government.
An Indian spokesman said the
Red protest came late Thurs
day. Immediately after the check
that returned 1876 Chinese pris-
onerS to the Communists out of
4,385 prisoners questioned.
The Indians asked no ques-
tions. They simply, called pris-
onerS from the enclosures 10
compounds. three at a time.
separated the men, had them
write their names and serial
numbers on a slip of paper, and
marched them past a gate where
Evening star., 1954-01-02
~. N. BocksIndion Commands s
Head Count Of Chinese POWs

an Indian officer checked his
master roster.
The 136gtook this opportunity
to ask for, repatriation.
The Neutral Nations Repatri-
alton Commission met for an
unusual confidential session to-
day and 1t was reported the
Communist protest was dis
cussed.
An Indian spokesman declined
to say so specifically, but an
nounced afterward that a
memorandum will be sent to
both sides"
He said it was highly con-
f1dential at this stage"
Pyun bitterly criticized the
head count as a violation of
armistice terms providing a 90
day. period for explanations to
prisoners who refused to go
home. This period ended De-
cember 23..
The RCK foreign minister
limited that steps might be taken
to liberate about 5000 anti
Communist Koreans in Indian
custody II the head count con-
tinued.
Intimidation Charged.
There was speculation that
the u. N. Command statement
was aimed at paving the way for
a head count in the Com
munist north camp. Two Arneri-
cans and a number Of South
Koreans fwho asked repatriation
have said some men were being
held back by intimidation.
The Communist protest against
the head count apparently was
based on the fear that such
actions by the Indians might
compromise demands for ex-
tended explanations.
The Indians. while insisting
that any requests for repatria- =
tion were purely coincidental,
have said in the past they felt
a moral obligation to make sure
each prisoner hAd an oppor-
tunity to choose his future.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
Antarctic Station Planned

CANBERRA, Australia. Jan. 2
(P.-Foreign Minister Richard
G. Casey said yesterday a SCI
entific station will be set up
in the Australian sector of the
Antarctic. The motorship KiSta
Dan is sailing from Melbourne
Monday with 10 men who will
spend II months surveying geo.
graphical, meteorological and
other aspects of the south polar
region.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
Strikers in Ceylon
Routed by Teur Cos
BY the Assoeloted Press

COLOMBO. Ceylon, Jan. g.
Ninety miners on sit-down
strike in graphite mines at Ruan-
wella. 40 miles from Colombo.
fled the pits today after they
were sprayed with tear gas.
The demonstrators had been
without food and water since
they occupied the mines on Fri
day. They demanded higher pay.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
Agriculture Building
Fire Quickly Halted

A fire did slight damage today
to refrigeration room on the
fourth floor of the Agriculture
Department Building.
The fire, confined to grease
and belt on an electric motor.
was brought under control in
about 10 minutes by the firemen
and a building guard. No one
was injured.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
New Beloit President

BELOIT, Wis. Jan 2 (PH.-Dr.
Miller Upton. 81. dean of the
school of business and public ad-
ministration at Washington Uni
versity, st. Louis. has been
named president of Beloit Col
lege. He will succeed DR.. Carey
Croneis, who resigned to go to
Rice Institute, Houston. Tex.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
Three Prisoners Slain
By Drunken Russian,
Ex-Captiye Reports
BY the Assoeiossd Press

BERLIN. Jan. "A young
German journalist who spent
almost seven years in Soviet cap.
tivity said today a drunken Rus.
sian guard wantonly sprayed the
compound of a camp in East
Prussia with bullets and killed
three inmates last September Is.
The incident occurred, he said,
at the Tapiau Camp in East
Prussia. former German state
now incorporated in the Soviet
Union.
Werner Hemm, 20. who came
back to Berlin shortly before
Christmas with other repatriates,
said he was In the camp at the
time Of the shooting. Arrested
in East Berlin in February, 1947,
Hemm was sentenced to 10 years
as a "sabotuer." He said the only
basis he could think Of for the
charge was that the Russians
one time forced him to sign a
pledge he would work for them
as an undercover agent, a prom
Use he never kept.
Heard of Other Violence.
Mr.. Hemm described life in
Russian camps as one long
round of damp, black bread.
salted cabbage" illness and
death. The shooting at Tapiau
was the only outbreak of such
vicious violence he saw, but he
added there were constant
grapevine reports of similar oc-
currences elsewhere. He named
the three slain Germans as
Hinueber. Reineck and Petereit.
but knew nothing more about
them.
At the Kargopol slave labor
camp i'll the Soviet Union, Mr..
Hemn said he met Norwegian.
Oswald Ha.jo, who described
himself as a iormer Communist
VINO fled his native land when
the Germans occupied it early
in World War II. Mr.. Harjo
told him he was given IS years
for illegally entering the So
Wet Union
One of Mr.. Hemm's first acts
in Berlin was to look up an
American, Leland Towers. who
was released by the Russian this
week. They met in the Simka
camp at Ustvim early last year.
Cured of Communism.
Mr.. Towers, a merchant sea-
man and self-styled former
Communist, went to the Soviet
Union without permission in
1851. crossing the Finnish
frontier by hacking through
barbed wire. He drew three
years for illegal entry and told
a news conference after he ar
rived here that he was cured Of
communism.
The Army hospital gave Mr..
Towers a final examination and
release this morning. He will
leave by military train tonight
for Bremerhaven to embark by
Army troopship for New York.
His passage has been arranged
by the State Department.
Mr.. Towers said he wants to
work out some way to return in
order to fulfill an oath he swore
in prison camps. He said he saw
a number of Spanish prisoners
and promised them he would go
to Spain, if he ever got the
chance. to report their plight.
Three of them were pilots in the
Loyalist Air Force during the
Spanish civil war. Others were
in the famed Blue Division
which fought with the Nazis on
the Russian front.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
Bishop Appointed

VATICAN CITY, Jan. 2 lPD.-
Pope Plus today appointed Msgr.
AleSsandro Olalia Bishop Of Lipa,
in the Philippines. He was for
merly Bishop of Tuguefarao. also
in the Philippine Islands.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
Foreign Guests Checked

Hotels and rooming homes in
Lourenco Marques, Mozambique.
are now required to provide po-
lice with detailed information
daily on all foreign arrivals.
Evening star., 1954-01-02
FOUND.

PUPPY, female Dalmatian, sick; vicinity
Rock Creek. RA. 3-O511.
TIKE-n the driver of the car who
lost tire in the 5000 block Of 5th
ct. on Thurs. will call, identify same
and pay tor this ad he may have IT..
10. o.76S0.
Evening star., 1954-09-21
South Korea Currency.
Slides 10 a New Low
D. ,he 4 dated Pres. I

SEOUL. Sept. 2l.-The value
of South Korea's currency
skidded to a new low on the
black market today while COM
modify prices continued to spiral
upward.
The hwan, officially worth 180
to 81, sold on the black market
at TAO to-$1.
South Korea's shaky economy,
long bolstered by post exchange
merchandise and free-spending
American soldiers, was jolted by
the recent announcement that
most United States infantry di-
visions and many air units were
being withdrawn.
The chief Of South Korea's
armed forces appealed to the
United States for more arms to
keep the Communists from
sweeping over Asia and then
turning on America"
Gen. Lee Heung Keun, chair
man Of the ROK Joint chiefs of
staff. said, 1--WE need immedi-
ately at least Is additional di-
visions with arms, equipment
and supplies that can stop q
Communist attack"