MORNING HEADLINES WHRV MIDNIGHT Y Latest Deadline in the State Da) ilij CLOUD AND OOLE A5 VOL. LXII, No. 25 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1951 SIX PAGES Russia Explodes Third A-Bomb 'White House Says Blast Was Part of Series of Soviet Defense Tbests WASHINGTON--(P)-A third atomic explosion has occurred in Russia, the White House announced yesterday. It "apparently" was part of a test series, Presidential Secretary Joseph Short said. He did not use the word "bomb," as he did Oct. 3 'mvin announcing explosion of a second "atomic bomb" within Russia. SHORT SUMMONED newsmen and said: "Another atomic explosion has occurred within the Soviet Union, apparently as part of a test series * "Of course, there may be more such explosions from time to time." The announcement fitted into a statement Oct. 6 by Generalissimo SJoseph Stalin of Russia. Stalin said then: k. PHILIP JESSUP Jessup Gets Appointment To UN Post WASHINGTON-QP)-Presiden Truman yesterday announced f recess appointment for Ambassa dor Philip C. Jessup as a delegat to the United Nations, and de clared that some of the accusa tions raised against Jessup "bor dered on fraud." Mr. Truman roundly denounces what he termed "partisan poli tics" in the congressional row over Jessup. He also scoffed at fear, expressed by some Senators thal the American people have lost confidence in Jessup, declaring: "The American peoplemake their judgments on the basis of facts and on the basis of perform- ance." BY IMPLICATION, the Presi- dent took a slap at charges aired by Senator McCarthy (R-Wis.), who had accused Jessup of fol- lowing "every twist and turn of the Communist line" in helping shape U.S. policy in the Far East. Jessup, a top advisor to Sec- retary of State Acheson, has sworn he never followed the Communist line, never advocated measures to undermine the Chi- nese Nationalist Government, and never helped bring about the Red conquest of China. "~The record of the (Senate) hearings shows that charges to the effect that he was sympathetic to Communist charges were utterly without confirmation and some of the so-called documentation intro- duced in support of those charges bordered on fraud," Mr. Truman said in a statement. BESIDES McCarthy, Republican leader Harold E. Stassen had also attacked Jessup's fitness to repre- sent this country in the forthcom- ing important sessions of the Unit- ed Nations General Assembly in Paris. Stassen testified under oath that Jessup gave "false testimony" in denying that he never favored U.S. recognition of Red China. Jessup retorted that Stassen acted like a grasshopper Jumping from one ac- cusatiori to another in an attempt to escape from a "morass of mis- statements." Mr. Truman asserted that Jes- sup was "attacked for being at a meeting which he did not attend and for policy recommendations which he never made." / ., * * , "THE TESTING of atomic bombs of various calibers will be carried out in the future also ac- cording to the plan for our coun- try's defense against the Anglo- American aggressive front." Word of the third explosion came in the midst of reports of a tiny U.S. atomic burst on the flats of Nevada. Short would not say when the latest Russian explosion occurred, adding "it is not in the national interest to say more than I have already said." * * * JUST HOW the Russian blas will be tied with the Kremlin's de- mand for outlawing all atomic weapons was not clear here. Some officials here expect Russia to re- vive the demand at a meeting of the United Nations General As- sembly in Paris next month. That was the pattern two years ago af- ter the first atomic blast. A ma- jority of the UN insist, however, on a system of controls with in- ternational inspection which Rus- sia rejects. On Capitol Hill-abandoned to a great extent by Congressional adjournment - Senator Hicken- looper (R-Iowa) said the latest Russian explosion report was "nothing to get excited about." He is ranking Republican member of the Senate-House Committee on Atomic Energy. U.S. Sets Of f Tiny Atomic Bomb Burst LAS VEGAS, Nev.-(M--The tiniest atomic burst ever let loose officially in the United States-so small that it confounded many ob- servers--yesterday pinpointed the road to a possible new age of nuclear weapons. If this was the baby A-bomb, as some speculated, it was indeed the smallest infant yet reared in the American atomic family. While Atomic Energy Com- mission scientists maintained si- lence, newsmen pondered the' implication of an explosion whose flash was visible for only a tenth of a second or so. To some observers it appeared a vest pocket version of the great granddaddy of the A-bomb family,r the original trinity blast at Alamo- gordo, N.M., on July 16, 1945. Like Trinity, yesterday's nuclear mass was shot off a tower, but flared into only the briefest ball of fire and quickly dissolved into the familiar mushroom type cloud. But other onlookers, who hadI been expecting something resem-3 bling last winter's full blown ex-( periment here, got the impression that the experiment was a fizzle- perhaps a break-off or only partialx detonation of a larger mass. e Senate RFC r Probe Hits Barkley Aide 'Veep' Denies Knowingof Deal WASHINGTON-(P)-A Senate Committee yesterday began a pre- liminary investigation into reports that Vice-President Barkley's sec- retary and a Senate Committee lawyer helped swing a $1,100,000s government loan sought to build a Florida luxury hotel. Barkley told newsmen that if his secretary did try to sway federal loans, she acted contrary to his "specific instructions."" * * * Senators Thye (R-Minn.) and Schoeppel (R-Kan.) called it a "shocking" episode. The central figures in the latest " hubbub over loans approved by the government's multi-billion-dollar lending agency, the Reconstruc-. tion Finance Corporation, are: . Mrs. Flo Bratton, Secretary to the Vice-President. Charles E. Shaver, counsel to the Senate Small Business Com- mittee. SHAVER DENIED any wrong. doing; he also threw down reports that he planned to quit his Senate job. Mrs. Bratton's home in Cold Spring, Ky., reported she was en PART route to Washington to see the truck- Vice-President. Britai Shaver told reporters that he British and Mrs. Bratton visited several quell c RFC directors in the early months of 1950 and urged them to grantE a million-plus loan for construc- g tel in Miami Beach, Fla. Asked by newsmen whether Mrs. CAIO Bratton would be kept on his staff, Minister Barkley replied: Egypte T "I haven't had a chance to talk declared, to her yet to get her side of the decoa story." him to a Demands by Senators Thye and Travei Schoeppel for a Senate inestiga- ing crowd tion were quickly followed by an ime Mi announcement that the Senate's Prime as permanent Investigations Subcom- hamPash mittee has already started an in--"DmWnhh quiry. "We h . Francis D. Flanagan, , Chief ties and Counsel, said Chairman Hoey (D- tion s0 th N.C.) of the subcommittee ordered him to start a preliminary inquiry W ea "to find out whether a full-scale investigation is warranted." However, Chairman Sparknan T (D-Ala.) of the Senate Small Business Committee noted that Shaver was not employed by his NEW Y committee until June 16, 1950- Sheppard more than a month after the RFC home to loan was approved for the Florida the stage hotel project. Egyptian has fasc Nobody Seeks His fir E " d v'r e En gin Position Gloria The secretary post of the sen- ior engineering class is currently " s going begging. Cl s Petitions will be accepted till 5 1 p.m. tomorrow in the Student Leg- islature Building, 122 S. Forest, NEW Y Joe White, public relations chair- ing wildcf man, announced yesterday. Thus workers s far no petitions have been filed. New York They may be picked up from 3-5 railroad f p.m. today and tomorrow with An esti fifty signatures required. merchand The vacancy occurred when piers thr former secretary Duncan Erley area. elected to resign late last week. Only on Meanwhile, the SL candidate ported opi roster was pared to 44, as Bob Of rovir Baker, currently treasurer of the docks all organization, announced that he during th was withdrawing from the race. Harry Bo' His decision not to seek reelection "We are removed one of the leading candi- move. We dates for spring president of SL. turn to w 'ruce Talk Expected Momentarily ?;;s ;"' 5 e sReplace Two Delegates to Parley MUNSAN, Korea-(JP)-A go-ahead signal from the Reds, expected at any moment, will start new Korean truce talks, possibly today. Early this morning the Pieping Radio announced replacement of two of the five-member Red armistice delegation. It said Chinese Gen. Tung Hwa was being succeeded by Chinese Gen. Pien Chiang- Wu, while North Korean Gen. Chang Pyong San was being succeeded by North Korean Gen. Cheng Du Kon. No reason was given, but the Red shift matched last week's Allied action in changing two of its five delegates. * * * * Go :TION-A barbed wire barricade separates four British soldiers, two in prone position, from a load of Egyptian soldiers in the Suez Canal Zone city of Ismailia. This scene took place as n further strengthened its forces in Egypt and Egyptian troops carefully kept out of range of forces throughout most of the canal zone. Both sides are taking part in joint efforts to ivil disorders in Ismailia. *% * * * *, * * I * ypt's Premier Threatens British ( P) - Egypt's Prime called the British in he Enemy" yesterday and "we are about to bring severe accounting." rng from Alexandria to d speaking before cheer- Is at each railway station, inister Mustapha El Na- ha told his audience at ur: ave studied all possibili- all aspects of the situa- at we may reach our aim without enabling the enemy and usurper to dominate us. "THE ENEMY has lost his head and has been overwhelmed with a wave of madness and fear. "He has thus committed ag- gressive attacks about which he will not keep silent and we are about to bring him to a severe accounting." The Prime Minister's progress through Northern Egypt came at the end of a day in which his gov- Ahead' lthy Texan on Way Home ?Marry Egyptian Dancer YORK - (R) - Wealthy King III was on his way Texas yesterday to clear t for marriage to his belly dancer-A girl who inated more than one st step in Houston is a Tom. his American wife, .cat Strike es Port' ORK-(oP)-A snowball- -at strike of rebel dock sealed off the Port of yesterday and led to a reight embargo. mated $4,200,000 pile of ise lay unattended on oughout the vast port ae or two piers were re- erating. ng pickets who swept the but clear of stevedores e day, union organizer ewers said: going to make a counter will help the men to re- work. THEN IT'S back to the mysteri- ous East and the arms of Sainia Gamal, the dark lovely Egyptian gal with the built-in Swiss move- ment. "The very day I get the di- vorce, I'm going to hop off to Cairo to marry Samia," the 26- year-old King told newsmen as he flew in from Europe. That should be in four to six weeks, he added. Chief stumbling block to a ro- mance that began .in Paris and blossomed beside the Nile is King's widowed mother, Mrs. Bonner King. She has threatened to dis- inherit her love-smitten son. KING SAID he's prepared to dig up a few "family skeletons," if need be, to oVercome her opposi- tion. He didn't say what they might be. "I think she will find it neces- sary to settle without any trou- ble," said the heir to his late father's oil and cotton fortune. "She objects to anything I do. She 'just wants me around so she can tell me what to do. "Mother has built up such a prejudice before any meeting that she won't give herself a chance to like her (Sarnia). ernment took several more set- backs from the British forces in the Suez Canal Zone. British Army tanks yesterday seized the Egyptian State Rail- way's workshops just outside Suez, southern terminal of the canal. Egyptian residents of the town feared they soon would be entirely cut off from the rest of Egypt. 'I * * EGYPTIAN Interior Minister Fuad Serag Ed Din said 20 tanks took the shops and 25 locomotives. An Associated Press dispatch from Port Suez reported 10 tanks were involved. Serag Ed Din also said a Brit- ish military policeman ahot an Egyptian dead and that the po- liceman said he fired because the Egyptian passed too near a British military camp. The Army move was a swift fol- lowup of the British Navy's seizure of command in the harbor to break a tie-up of British merchant ship- ping caused by an Egyptian labor boycott and a harbor pilots' strike. AUTHORITIES reported Ne land and sea moves were related. The railway seizure was repoited aimed at enforcing a British ulti- matum calling on the Egyptian dock workers and llots to get back to work. Court To Hear Reds' Appeal. WASHINGTON-()-In a step rarely taken, the Supreme Court reversed itself yesterday and agreed to hear an iappeal by six lawyers 'sentenced for contempt of court in the stormy New York trial of 11 top Communists. The Court agreed to determine whether U.S. District Judge Har- old Medina, who accused them of contempt, had authority to con- vict them after first defering judg- ment. . LIAISON OFFICERS of both security and neutrality rules surra side village of Panmunjom. Vice Adm. U. Turner Joy, Chief United Nations Armistice Delegate, quickly ratified the agreement yesterday afternoon and invited the Reds to do like- wise. "On the day following receipt by me of such acceptance by you," Joy wrote in a letter to the Chief Red Delegate, Lt. Gen. Nam Ii, "the UNC (United Nations Com- mand) delegation is prepared to meet your delegation, as tentative- ly arranged by the liaison officers at Panmunjom at 11 A.M. for the purpose of resuming discussion of agenda item 2 of the Military Ar- mistice Conference." c * * AGENDA ITEM 2 is the ques- tion of where to draw a buffer zone between the two opposing armies. That item had stalled the conferences at Kaesong from July 27 until the Reds suspended them Aug. 23. The subsequent two months have been given over to exten- sive bickering over Red charges of Allied violations of the neu- tral conference area, finally ending in agreement on the new site at Panmunjom. Although Admiral Joy's letter referred to a day's lapse between Red ratification and resumption of the talks, iltrig. Gen. William P. Nuckols, UN Command spokes- mah, told reporters a prompt re- ply could cause the talks to start this afternoon. DESPITE OPTIMISM surround- ing the new truce effort, the Al- lied soldiers still grinding pain- fully north in Korea took the at- titude that "seeing is believing." The job of ending the 16- months-old war will sti be as tough as when the Com unists and the Allies first met on July 10. Thorny items still to be decided are: 1. A buffer zone to separate the opposing armies. 2. Supervision of the cease-f ire.A 3. Exchange of prisoners. 4. Recommendations to t h e governments involved. Each is capable of breaking up the. talks permanently. Formosa Rocked By Earthquakes TAIPEH, Formosa-(P)--Panic- stricken residents of,' Formosa abandoned their homes for the second straight day early today as violent earthquakes and after- shocks rocked this Chinese Na- tionalist stronghold. sides yesterday signed elaborate ounding the new site at the road- S* * * Allies Move As Enemies Melt Away U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD- QUAR'T'ERS, Korea-W(P-Twren- ty-six U. S. Patton tanks punched through the smoking ruins of Kumsong in a four-hour raid yes- terday while Allied infantry moved within 600 yards of that Central Korean Communist base without contacting the enemy. Chinese resistance melted o.n the foggy mountain ridges south- east of Kumsong during the day. * * THE U. S. EIGHTH Army Com- munique last night reported Uni- ted Nations units were "advancing toward their objectives, against, Tittle enemy oppksition." It said a patrol was less than one-third of a d)le from the now neutralized Red Road and Rail Junction, 30 miles north of Parallel 38. There was no significant fight- ing along either the Eastern o Western fronts, and contact was light elsewhere along the central front, the Com unique said. EIGHTH ARMY Headquarters estimated that Allied tropsin- flicted 29,275 casualties on the, Reds during the week ended last Friday. This included 22,000 killed, 6,000 wounded and 1,275 captured. The war which has blazed with savage intensity on all three fronts during the past few weeks seemed destined to sim- mer down to a slow boil onc cease-fire negotiations begina again. Conditions appeared all set for resumption of the talks at Panmungom today or tomor- row. Some observers felt the 500,000 Chinese and North Korean troops probably would stay in their fox- holes with one ear cocked for word from Pa nurnjom. They.' felt that Allied military might--- about even in manpower-won't be much more active so long as the talks progress, In the air war yesterday, six separate jet enggaements blazed over Northwest Korea. American jet jockeys claimed two Russian MIG fighters probably shot down and one damaged. Some 180 Red fighters were sighted during the day. In Tokyo the Fifth Air Force said Allied fighters destroyed two Communist jets and damaged twd in five actions yesterday. There was noimmediate ex- planation of the discrepancy be- tween the Tokyo and Korea re- ports. World News Roundup By The Associated Press BERLIN - Mounting under- ground attacks on Russian trains in Poland have forced the Soviets to like her (Samia). ment. LOCAL CLERGY SPLIT ON ISSUE: U.S'. Displays Violent Reaction on Vatican Ambassador I j By ZANDER HOLLANDER The nomination of Gen. Mark Clark as our first ambassador to the Vatican was still up in the air last night but experts and religious leaders kept up a din of criticism and countering praise for Presi- dent Truman's latest move. The sizzling fat could be heard logical reason to complain," the pastor of St. Mary's Student Chapel went on, "are the Com- munists-and they certainly are complaining." Logical or not, there were plenty of complaints from non-Commu- nist quarters of Ann Arbor and the rest of the country. * __ * *_ Presidential secretary Joseph Short told newsmen that over a hundred letters and telegrams - most of them critical - had come into the White House since the plan for diplomatic relations with the Vatican was announced Satur- day. Other White Houes sources said it was pnlikely that the 7 and our historical American tra- ditions. It is a major blunder. We will fight Senate confirmation. The timing suggests political scheming. It will confuse our life and death fight against Commu- nism and divide the country." * * * REFLECTING the national split on the appointment issue, lo- ed the move as an attemept to "secure the Roman Catholic vote." * * * BUT ACCORDING to a Univer- sity Survey Research Center study, cited by Political Science Prof. Samuel Eldersveld, there was little Pres. Truman could gain in nam- ing an ambassador to the geo- graphical focus of Catholicism. naming of a military man to what is customarily a civilian office. But, on the issue of naming a formal diplomatic representative to the Vatican state, Prof. Knap- pen was firm: "Without regard to the domestic issues involved I consider the ap- pointment as a reasonable and natural move in the development