Wednesday, March 9. 1955 University Daily Kansan
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Matusow Testimony Continues for 3rd Day
El Paso, Texas—U.P.)—Harvey Matusow testifies for the third consecutive day today on details of his earlier false testimony that helped convict labor leader Clinton Jencks.
The admitted perjurer is the main witness at a hearing for a new trial for Jencks who was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of filing a false non-Communist affidavit with the national labor relations board.
Matusuw will be preceded to the witness stand today by John Clark, president of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers union, who arrived in El Paso yesterday from Spokane, Wash.
A grand jury stayed in session during the hearing for a new trial. The panel, ready to return indictments against Matusow if his testimony warrants; heard statements yesterday from E. E. Ward, waterfront clerk in San Francisco; Harlow Wildman, international representative in Los Angeles of the Am-
LMSWU, and Jim Simmons, Am-
cillo police department detective.
The grand jury did not reveal
details of their testimony.
Matusow told the court yesterday that three incidents occurred while he was in Dallas which caused him to turn to the "hard decision" about repudiating his earlier testimony;
1. He became upset by the "harsh sentence" given Cpl. Claude Bateleur of Kermit, Tex., last summer.
2. He worked with children in an unidentified Dallas hospital, entertaining them with puppet shows.
3. He decided to go back to church and "strengthen his belief" in God and the Bible.
He said he first discussed it "with a clergyman in the Mormon temple in Dallas" and then decided to repudiate all previous testimony.
Matsouw was the only government witness in Jencks' original trial in January 1954. Today's testimony was before the same judge who tried Jencks, U.S. District Judge R. E. Thomason.
Jencks was president of the Bayard, N.M., local of the MMSWU, an independent union ousted by the CIO on grounds it was red-dominated. He has been free on an appeal bond.
Matsusow testified at the present hearing: "Never at any time did I discuss any Communist matters with Jencks."
5 Students Named For Kansan Board
He also testified yesterday: "There were about 75,000 Communists and I knew about 200 of them. I once said I knew 10,000 by sight and if my memory was good, I'd get thousands in trouble."
Five members were named yesterday to the Kansan board, governing body of the University Daily Kansan.
They are Tom Lyons and Jerry Jurden, journalism seniors; John Herrington and Jim Cazier, journalism juniors; and Sue Epperson, fine arts senior.
The board heard Fred Kreye, of the University Veterans organization outline the proposed University honor system.
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Asia War May Be in Offing
Tokyo —(U.P.)—United States military leaders in the Far East have warned Washington that a general war in Asia may be only weeks away, well informed sources said today.
Such a war presumably would involve the use of atomic weapons by the United States against military targets.
This is the background of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' blunt warnings to Communist China that aggression would bring United States and allied retaliation from southern, central and northern fronts.
American military and diplomatic officials here and in Taipei have been calling for just such a clear warning to the Peiping government.
might be started by a big-scale Communist attack on the Nationalist-held islands off the mainland.
They said the warning was needed o head off a major war which
They said the greatest danger is that the Communists might strike Matsu or Qemoy in the mistaken belief that the United States either would not intervene or would limit retaliation to the immediate mainland costal area of the Red amphibious operation.
United States and Chinese Nationalist intelligence, according to highly reliable sources, reports that the Chinese Communists have now moved enough aircraft, small boats, troops and supplies into the coastal areas opposite Quemoy and Matsu to plan a limited war against them early this spring.
The Reds still lack the stockpiles or fast shipping needed to sustain an assault for weeks or months
against determined resistance, these sources said. However, if the Reds faced only Nationalist opposition they could land overwhelming numbers of lightly armed troops and sweep over the islands before their supply problems caught up with them.
Shakespeare Texts To Be Discussed
Professor John E. Hankins, English professor, will speak on "The Origins of Shakespeare's Texts" at 4 p.m., March 16 in the Kansas room of the library. The public is invited.
The Library is displaying a Shakespearean exhibit, until March 19, including materials loaned by the Folger Shakespeare library of Washington, D.C.
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