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. H i i uii.jjiiiiiiJi.Wliji.i .iwifc'.miiy. 'Wl.mi hi.hu mmmt mmm mmm mmm - mi it i I K V7 itol Mill mm Wll Can. r Mop Probers- I Organize THE hunt I for Communists in the XJS. is likely to be intensi fied in the near future with the formation of a Senate "task force" to search out Reds in the Govern ment and in the United Nations. Sources on Capitol Hill say Sen. Homer Ferguson (R-Mich) is in line L to head such a group. There is talk that Delaware's Republican Sen. Wil liams may abandon his lone-wolf role as a sleuth for scandals in the Inter nal Revenue Bureau to head another group investigating that "agency. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of Wis consin, as chairman of .the Senate Committee on Government Opera tions, can launch investigations any where. He has declared his intention to extend the search for what he called "Communist thinkers' to the nation's universities and colleges. UJN. Probe Signs point also to continuation of the loyalty probe of U.S. employes .of the United Nations. Sen. McCarran (D-Nev.) says loyalty to the United States was secondary if not ignored altogether in State Department se curity checks on American employes of the U.N. He predicts that the Senate Internal " Security subcommittee, which he headed in the last. Congress, will have more questions to ask on the subject. It is clear the issue of U-S.Reds in the U.N. is far from dead. The new investigative lineup indicates that re sponsibility of the Democratic Admin istration wiU be emphasized. Background of U.N. Probe The background of the State De partment's role in U.N. employment of Americans is this: In 1946, James F. Byrnes, who was then Secretary of State, determined that the State Department should not make recommendations on applicants for UJf. jobs because the U.N. Secre tary General had exclusive authority. In 1949, a new system was worked out. State officials gave Secretary General Trygve Lie reports on Ameri cans employed or seeking jobs in the U-N. These reports were usually based on FBI investigations. The final decision always rested with Lie. Medicine Dye for Concussion Brain concussion Is one of the most painful of injuries and most stub born to treat. Researchers at the University of California are studying the possibility of using a red dye to treat such in juries. They found that concussion disrupts a delicate mechanism pro tecting the brain against certain nor mal components of the blood that are harmful to it'. The mechanism that does this is called the blood-brain barrier, made up of special semi-permeable meiq; branes in the blood vessels of the brain. 'One of its functions, for exam ple, is to keep up the supply of spinal fluid from substances contributed by the blood stream but to screen out poisons and infectious agents. In concussion, the researchers found, the permeability of this barrier is increased, possibly permitting some undesirable blood substances to pass through to the brain. The dye, trypan red, can lessen the permeability of a disrupted blood-brain barrier. The researchers, Dr. Robert B. Aird, Dr. Louis Strait, and Dr. David Zea lear, emphasize the correction of the mechanism's functioning may not be the whole answer to the treatment of brain concussion but the studies in dicate it is at least part of the picture. In Short Granted: by Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman, a "limited stay of exe cution to Julius i and Ethel Rosenberg, wartime atom spies originally slated to die in the electric -chair at Sing Sing Jan. 14, to permit them to apply to President Truman for clemency. Predicted: by i four GOP Senators headed by Sen. William F. Knowland of California, that the new Congress will shortly approve statehood for" Hawaii. . Killed: in highway accidents during the Christmas and New Year week ends, 962 Americans. Disclosed: by Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio), that he approves ."wide open hearings in Congress on pro posals to amend the Taft-Hartley labor law. Sidelights; O In Los Angeles, the Society for the Prevention of , Cruelty to Animals, . convinced that most of the 700,000 dogs in the city were neurotics be I cause of noise, hired a canine psy chologist to free the animalj from frustration. .f) In Buffalo, N. Y., members of a local church '. moved : through the ' streets inserting coins in parking me ters by - cars parked overtime, then ' attached summons to Sunday services to the windshields.. , . ': O In Sacramento, Calif., Assembly man James W. Silliman was very happy and virtually speechless when he took over as new Speaker of the State Assembly. He was stricken with Jarrngitis.a. few. days before....... . TIME FOR CHANGE NEARS CHURCHILL MEETS scarcely more than a week to go until he takes the oath of office as the first Republican D. Eisenhower has called a two-day conference of all his major appointees. The parley, scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, will mark the first meeting of the Eisenhower official family as a group. Attending will be all Cabinet appointees and top ad- ministrative aides. The President-elect summoned the meeting as a last-minute huddle to thrash over some of the top domestic and international problems facing the new -Administration. Eisenhower will also have the opportunity to discuss his conferences with Prime. Minister Winston Churchill in New York this week. Churchill, puffing the formidable cigar that has become his personal trademark, came to New York osten sibly to renew his old friendship with Eisenhower. Unofficially, he wanted to talk over Anglo-American tactics on a number of international issues. VARIATION. ON OLD CZECH THEME COMMUNISTS in East Ger many, taking a cue from the recent treason "trials in Czecho slovakia, have the stage set for their own long-heralded purge. . As in the Czech purge, the whip ping boy will be the long-suffering Jew. In East Berlin this week, the ruling Socialist Unity (Communist) party announced adoption of a resolution which amounted to the indictment of two former high officials who have been behind bars for more than two years. The "Zionist Viewpoint" They are Kurt Mueller, number two Communist of West Germany until he was kidnapped on a visit to East Berjin in May, 1950, and Paul Merker, 'a Jew, former state secretary of East Germany's agriculture min istry and a member of the Politburo until September, 1950. Merker was charged with harboring the "Zionist vlewpoint. The 'language of the resolution hinted the East German purge may strike close to Gerhart Eisler, another Jew, who jumped bail and fled the United States in 1949 to become East Germany's propaganda chief. His job was abolished Jan. 1 without any an nouncement as tor his future. He was slated, however, to address a mass meeting in East Berlin after his job VHXtl VtlTX CAM WITH EISENHOWER AT HOME OF President since March, 1933, Dwight In press conferences, the Prime Min ister emphasized his opposition to any extension .of the war in Korea. Churchill said too that the "center of gravity" for world peace lies- along the frontiers of the Iron Curtain in Europe," and not in Korea. He de clared U.S. tariffs are impeding trade with Britain and thereby hampering efforts to "earn our own living by trade, not aid." Churchill was aware that Eisen hower was in no position to commit himself officially on specific Issues. His visit, observers thought, sought chiefly to lay the groundwork for a S I ' PAUL MERKER was scratched, along with other East German notables. Trotsky Issue The resolution charged that Mueller in 1949 had contacted "through the help of Western agents, foreign Trot skyites; like Ruth Fischer." Ruth1 Fischer is Eisler's sister. Rumors that Eisler was slated for . purging have ' abounded since 1950 when Merker and five other East Ger- US AttOZD TO LZUZVZ1 . . . BERNARD BARUCH formal, full-scale Anglo-American conference sometime after the new Administration takes over. Later in the week, Churchill and his wife went to Washington to pay a farewell call on President Truman before leaving for a two-week vaca tion in the British West Indies. Bearing Down en Budget An associate ef Eisenhower's said meanwhile that Joseph M. Dodge as Federal Budget Director will have perhaps - unprecedented authority in shaping fiscal policy. Eisenhower, in announcing the appointment of Dodge as head of the Bureau of the Budget, disclosed that he had asked the 62-year-old Detroit banker to sit in on Cabinet meetings. Eisenhower reportedly feels that under the Truman Administration the budget chief has been only a sort of super accountant with little policy making authority. y f t CERHART EISLER man offiicall were tossed out of their jobs and reported jailed. They in cluded Bruno Goldhammer, Eisler's deputy propaganda chief. . ; The fact that Eisler is a Jew and the brother of a Trotskyite is enough to hang him in view of the current Communist "party line." This seems to favor courting adherents in Arab countries by Jew-baiting at the moment. - TH2 C IZiVlZS 10 KrOSTES . . , i , - V.. . . T.TLL V.IIAT$ I.T.'T' . . Quotes Gov. I Adlal , Stevenson of Illi nois on his role in building up the Democratic party during the next fcfur years: Til always be available for such advice as I can offer, ril speak infrequently and it will; be when both a suitable occasion and something useful to say converge. Gen. Matthew B. Bldgway, Supreme Allied Commander in Europei "In the fight the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is making for peace by peaceful means, tit is of vital importance that our political authorities have their voices in negotiations be tween East and West backed up by the- only force potential ag gressors recognize.' Trieste Friendly Allied Pressure The U.S. and Britain are studying a friendly, but firm, proposal to Italy and Yugoslavia for quick settlement of their explosive differences over the strategic Adriatic port of Trieste. For seven years the Trieste prob lem has nettled Allied strategists who are anxious to tighten up defense lines by j drawing Yugoslavia into closer alliance against the threat of Russian aggression. The proposal would call for a solid settlement of the issue along the ter ritorial lines laid down in the Italian peace pact, with Zone A going to Italy, and with Yugoslavia retaining K. Aur Tm .v?l a Zone B, largely a hilly, agricultural region. The proposal, while giving Italy complete control of Zone A, would call for retention of Trieste as a free port for trade and shipping purposes a face-saving gesture not only for the two countries directly concerned, but for Austria, which has an impor tant economic stake in its continued operation1' as such. Trieste is supposed to be a free ter ritory but the Allies never have been able to make the basic decisions to get it running as such and occupation has continued. Dates Monday, January 12 Society of Automotive Engi neers meets in Detroit. Pope Pius formally nominates 24 Cardinals at Catholic consis tory in Rome. Tuesday, January 13 Retrial of William Remington for perjury opens in New York. Highway Research Board meets in Washington. Wednesday, January 14 Air Force spokesmen to explain contract procurement procedure to small businessmen in 27 cities. Thursday, Janaary 15 President Truman to make broadcast on the state of the na tion at 10:30 P.M. E.S.T. v Asian Socialist conference opens Sin Rangoon, Burma. (AD Rights JScMrvctf, JLP Nrwtfmtvr) m i OTr Mrssnsss mtmm i vKssswraTr. rsswsMM mwmmtmm aMsaasn THE new Republican-controlled Congress has set its sights on cutting government spending and reducing taxes. Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana, chosen by House Republicans as their floor leader, calls a cut in government costs the number on INFORMAL VISIT-President Truman chats with Sen. Richard Russell (D-Ga) during an Informal visit to the Capitol to have iuikii wnn oia senare pais. task of the 83rd Congress. He predicts it can be done without endan gering security or hampering government services. Rep. Reed (R-N.Y.) t new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is stumping for a bill to reduce income taxes of most Individuals by 11 per cent effective : ei June 30. Depends on Budget New Hampshire's Sen. Styles Bridges, chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, in dicates any tax cut must await a balancing of the budget. He also pledges a major drive to reduce gov ernment costs and implies a slash is possible on defense requests unless the Korean war expands. GOP leaders on Capitol Hill point out that the budget under which the. Administration will function through fiscal 1954 will be the one worked out by President Truman and his eco nomic advisors. "Nevertheless, Repub licans have ample opportunity to trim the outgoing President's budget pro posals. President Truman's proposed budg et for the new fiscal year, beginning July 1, calls for spending around 80 billion dollars. It will be the starting point for efforts to trim Federal out lays. Economists' on President-elect Eis enhower's staff, led by Joseph Dodge, who will head the Bureau of the Budget after Jan. 20, have had the Truman budget under study for some time, trying to find out where cuts -could be made. State of Union Congressmen heard President Tru man's final State of the Union mes sage this week. It was a message of almost unprecedented gravity in which the President coupled a wish of God speed to his Republican successor with a grim warning to Soviet Premier Stalin. The recent atomic tests on Eniwetok Island, said the President, clearly demonstrate that any new war will bring ruin not only to, Stalin's world, but to the Western world too. The President also drew a picture of swell ing Western strength and expressed the hope it would convince the Com munists of the wisdom in receding from the cold war they began. TREATIES IN THE BALANCE i THE n Premier of France, Rene Mayer, caused concern among some Western diplomats this week when he promised to subordi-' nate ratification of the European Army Treaty to an agreement on tiie Saar and to new negotiations to modify the treatyT These stipulations on foreign policy enabled Mayer to win votes from right-wing Gaullists, who had 9 supported no previous Premier. . Robert Schuman he stUl was as favor Mayer sought to allay fears that he able to European unity as when he was abandoning the European army defended the Schuman coal and steel project He assured Foreign Minister pool In the National Assembly, j Exactly what modifications in the The President submitted no new legislative proposals, saying he did not ' wish to impinge oh Eisenhower's priv ilege to chart the country's course. He recounted highlights of his Fair Deal program and declared it had been beneficial for the country. The Honeymoon Period With Inauguration only days away, j the" honeymoon .between the White j House and Capitol Hill is expected to ' last quite awhile with Republicans in control at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue for. the first time in 20 years. There is, however, an ever-present threat of a blowup in legislative-executive relation. The men Eisen-. hower has chosen as his administra tive assistants are notably less con- ; servative than I the GOP wing in power in Congress. The differences ; which characterized the two camps ' prior to the Republican Convention j last July could boilto the surface at I "any time. The big foreseeable issues facing j the new Congress deal with taxes, : Federal spending, labor,, foreign aid, r the war in Korea, price-wage-rent i controls, immigration and tidelands ; oil, to name a few. The biff question is: What will Sen. ; ' Robert A.:: Taft, Senate majority leader, do? The j answer may not be f forthcoming for several months, when the job of actual legislating; gets1 under way. .... Sen. Taft's expressed interest in the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee may forecast some tough going : for Eisenhower's foreign policy pro gram. The general is opposed to with drawal from Korea and endorses con tinued military aid to NATO nations. In addition, his position on world trade indicates he does not favor any increase in VS. tariffs. Taft, who rep resents the nationalist wing of the GOP as opposed to the international ists in the party, is likely, to exercise a conservative influence when these measures come up. European Army Treaty Mayer favored . was not clear. It was apparent, how ever, that there will be an even long , er delay than anticipated before the treaty finally Is ratified by the As sembly. '; All of this reflected the French con - . cern that the European army project will weaken their position In their . . overseas territories by pinning down in Europe those forces they might - : need abroad. ; ' . . In Germany, meanwhile, official - ' .. - statements that the Bundestag prob ably will not get around to acting until - late February on the treaty system which. will bring. rearmed Germany ' " ' into the European Defense Community caused additional concern over the ,r eventual fate of the entire West Euro . pean defense setup. . ' , This had U. S. military authorities , 1 ' gloomily considering withdrawing the V' operational area of Western defense , from Hesse and Saxony to the Rhine. In this connection. President-elect ;- - .Eisenhower intervened forcefully, sending a message-to West German ; T . Chancellor Konrad Adenauer endors - - - Ing the European Defense Community ' , - and urging speedy ratification of th . f treaty system binding a rearmed Ger . .many to the West ,