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DC PAGE THIRTY A! THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1954 V? 7 U I: McCarthy Attacks H-Bomb Program; Ed. H Murrow; In Latest TV Broadcast NEW YORK (Pi Sen. McCarthy (R-Wls) says research on Amer ica's hydrogen bomb was delbcr ately stalled lor 18 months In the lace ot reports that Kussia was "Ieverlshly pushing a similar project. .- "If (here were no Communists in our government, why did we delay?" McCarthy asked last night in a telecast billed as a reply to criti cism of the senator by CBS com mentator Edward R. Murrow. The H-bomb reference was Inter jected into an attack In which Mc Carthy termed Murrow "the leader and the cleverest of the jackal pack which Is always found at the throat of anyone who dares to ex pose Communists and traitors." "Who caused it?" McCarthy de manded of the alleged H-bomb de lay.. "Was it loyal Americans or was It traitors in our government?" "Our nation may well die be- MEET JUPITER, fawn colored boifer who thinb. "Jup'l ii ; credited, with sitting on a ftreet. corner when times are tough enot;cetching nickels in hit open jaws like peanuts and taking i his'' gleanings home to help fill the soup kettle. That's the story, told on Main Street. Jup also kept his own eye-arpoint-ment at the Klamath Animal Hospital when his family had given him up for lost remember? Owner is Brady Nary who doesn't deny Jup's prowess. Captured G's Refuse To Answer Russian Questions By TOM STONK FULDA, Oermany w Two U. 6. soldiers held 30 hours in the So viet Zone of Oermany said Wednesday they refused to give their Russian captors military In formation although they were warned they would be "dealt with as spies." "I just gave them the old 'can Bed answer' my name, rank and serial number," said Sgt. William Jack Young, ' 22, ot Rochester Mills, Pa. Pvt. Luther O. Wood, 37, ot Wlnna, W. Va., said: "I just told them I couldn't answer their questions even though they said we'd be dealt with aa spies." Both soldiers were returned to the West German border near bare Tuesday night, by Russian authorities after U.S. authorities protested their arrest. They had been seized Monday while on a routine patrol of the border. At a news conference here, the two soldiers said they were "well Inside" of the West Oerman bor der when five armed Russian sol diers arrested them. "We were driving along a back trail near the village of Fladun gen." Young said, "when we saw them. We turned our Jeep around and started back when it skidded Into a tree. Another Jeep with us got away." - Young continued: "There were three Russian sol diers with guns. Then two others drove up in a Jeep. They did not level their guns at us but they had them ready. "They motioned for lis to get out of our Jeep and come with them. They were speaking Russian and we did not know what Uiey were saying, uney searcnea us ana took our weapons, then they drove us across the 10-rrurtcr (six-mile) bor der strip into East Germany to a building on the edge of a village seven or eight miles away. "They did not mistreat us, but we were warned that if we did not answer their questions we would be dealt with as spies." The two soldiers said they were questioned until midnight, then were taken to a room where they spent the night In small, hospital type beds with sheets and blankets. Use Of Atomic Power Studied WASHINGTON ifi The Atomic Energy Commission, which has been moving steadily toward giv ing private industry a greater role in working for peaceful use of nu clear energy, announced Wednes day appointment of an assistant geueral manager for research and industrial development. Alfonso Tammaro, manager of the Chicago operations office of the AEC since 1947, was named to the post. The commission's announce ment said his duties would include assisting in "coordinating and di recting the AEC programs cur rently under the direction of the divisions of reactor development, biology and medicine, and re search, and the office of Industrial development." The AEC last month said it was canvassing private firms to see which ones might be interested in constructing experimental electric generating plants using nuclear power. Earlier, President Eisen hower advocated a greater role for non-governmental industry In peacetime nuclear., power expan sion and suggested Congress amend the atomic energy act to facilitate such development. NOW AT DERBY'S RADIO & TV Service Mr. joe fisher our full time service man on . . , RADIOS PHONOGRAPHS TELEVISION MUSIC CO. 124 No. 7th Ph. 4519 Eve. Ph. 7181 - 7241 cause of that 18-month deliberate delay," he added. RIDICULES McCarthy's statement was called "absolutely ridiculous" by Rep. Melvin Price (D-Ill), a member of the Joint Congressional Commit tee on Atomic Energy, "He doesn't know what he's talk ing about." Price said in Wash ington. "He snowea complete ig norance." Price said there may have been some delay In getting the H-bonib project started, but "certainly not for the reasons ' Mccartny indicated." Rep. Cole (R-NY). chairman of the atomic committee, said this country took "a long time" on the decision to go ahead with the hy drogen bomb." ' "But that does not mean there was anything sinister necessar ily." he added. The Atomic Energy Commission declined to comment. The H-bomb statement was a by-product of McCarthy's reply to charges by Murrow that he has abused his authority as a Senate investigator. ATTACK Murrow "attacked McCarthy on March 9. He offered to turn his r.0-mtnute See It Now show over to the senator for his reply. The answer was filmed over the week end and telecast while McCarthy was in Arizona. Although the film was kept se cret until shortly before air time. Murrow, through sources he de clined to divulge, obtained knowl edge of the charges and drew up a reply which was released at the time of the telecast. CBS said first listener reaction, via telephone calls and telegrams, was "overwhelmingly" In favor of Murrow. The charges and answers in cluded: McCarthy: That Murrow "as far back as 20 years ago was en gaged in propaganda for Commu nist causes ..." The March 9 at tack "followed implicitly the Com munist line laid down in the last six months" by various Communist publications. Murrow: "McCarthy's reckless and unfounded attempt to Impugn my loyalty is Just one more ex. ample of his typical tactic of at tempting to tie up to communism anyone who disagrees with him. ' McCarthy: That as acting dlrec tor of the Institute of International Education in the 1930s Murrow "sponsored a Communist school in Moscow. In the selection of Amer lean students and teachers, who were to attend Mr, Murrow's or. ganlzatlon, (Murrow) acted for the Russian espionage and propagated- 1st organization known as VOKS V-O-K-S. Many of those selected were later exposed as Commu nists." . Murrow: "In 1934, the Moscow University had organized an An glo-American Institute w'?h pro posed holding summers ;Ions in Moscow for English and American students ... I, as a represents. live of the institute . . , was one of the 24-member national advisory council which was set up to advise the director of the American group . . . The only contact which VOKS had with the American group was in connection with procuring living and travel facilities for the group while it was in Russia . . .Contact with it was necessary if the stu dents were to sleep and eat . , .Sov iets refused, after the 19o4 sum mer session, to have anything more to do with the institute , . ." IRRESPONSIBLE (Arthur A. Houghton Jr., chair man of the board of trustees of the Institute, commented: "Sen. McCarthy's remarks . . , are- so irresponsible and so far from ac tuality as to be undeserving of a reply . . ." McCarthy: Murrow. by his own admission, was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, 'a terrorist organization" of the early 20th century. McCarthy noted that in the March 9 telecast Murrow said "the actions of the Junior senator from Wisconsin have given considerable comfort to the enemy." That Is the language of our sta- out-- CO'- "lSj jp ljj FINI-CAI SIU AND LUXURY Here is the kry 1o l'nntlnc's great distinction, superlative rnmfnrt anil rrmarkaliln readability. It' hie; aa lop.priml cars! IINI-CAR DIPINDAIILirr Xo car at any price rxrrls I'nntinc for rclialiiliiv. 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'"If I am giving comfort to our enemies, I ought not to be in the Senate. "If. on the other band, Mr. Mur row Is giving comfort to our ene mies, he ought not to be brought into the homes of millions of Amer icans by the Columbia Broadcast ing System. This is the question which can be resolved with very little difficulty , , . "What do the Communists think of ine and what do the Commu nists think of Mr. Murrow. One of us is on the side of the Commu nists the other is against the Com munists ..." RED ATTACKS He then said that on numerous occasions since the March t tele cast the Communist Daily Work er has attacked him while praising Murrow. Murrow replied: "I cannot take responsibility for what the Daily Worker or any oth er publication has to say about my program or about me personally. I can say that I had no knowledge that I was to be the subject of notice by the Dally Worker . , . This is more than Sen. McCarthy can say about the Communist sup port he accepted in aid of his 1946 campaign for the U. S. Senate." (McCarthy has said he knew of no Communist support tor him.) MURROW PRAISED The Columbia Broadcasting Sys tem issued an advance statement praising Murrow for his "passion ate' devotion to his country and to tiie fundamental principles upon which it was built . . ." The network said that its most immediate nauge of public re sponse to the telecast was "over whelmingly in favor, of Murrow." It listed the following score for telephone and telegraphed mes sages: New York A two-hour period after the program 2,013 for Mur row, 977 for McCarthy. , - Los Angeles two . hours 849 Murrow, 144 McCarthy. ' Chicago 70 minutes 454 Mur row, 147 McCarthy. HOTELS OSBURN HOLLAND EUGENE, ORE. MED FORD .;.''. Thoroughly Modem. Mrs. J. . Barley Joe Barley Jr. v . 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