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University Daily Kansan Monday, Oct. 25, 1954
Poland Releases U.S. Architect, Admits Frame
Warsaw, Poland—(U.P.)—Communist Poland announced today that American architect Hermann Field was "quite groundlessly" framed by a Red security agent five years ago and has been released from a Polish prison.
The announcement was the first break in an international mystery in which four members of the Field family disappeared one by one behind the Iron Curtain and dropped into oblivion.
Until today no Communist country ever had officially admitted anything about any of the four missing Americans.
The United States embassy here said it had had no contact yet with the freed Ohioan, but added "he apparently is a free man. We assume he will walk into the embassy shortly."
The Polish announcement said Mr. Field had been framed on false charges by Josef Swialto, a Polish security agent who recently fled communism, asked for political asylum in the West, and now is in the United States.
Poland "discovered" that Mr. Field was framed after Mr. Swialto told the story of Mr. Field's arrest which he said he personally carried out on Communist orders in Warsaw in August, 1949.
The announcement gave no hint of the charges on which Mr. Field had been "framed."
It left unanswered the fates of Hermann's brother Noel, who disappeared in Czechoslovakia; of Noel's wife, Herta, who disappeared in Prague, or of Noel Field's foster-daughter, Erika, who dropped from sight after flying to Berlin to seek some trace of members of her missing family.
C-47,21 U.S. Airmen Missing On Flight Over French Alps
Nice, France—(U.P)—An American C-47 with 21 American airmen aboard was lost on a flight from Italy to Britain today, and search parties concentrated on the snow-covered Alps after one earlier clue proved false.
Search planes also swept low over the Mediterranean, but the main effort was concentrated on the French Alps whose 10,000-foot peaks have been called the "Air Force Graveyard."
New Lattimore Trial Stymied
Washington—(U.P.)—Federal prosecutors went into a huddle today to decide the government's next step in the Owen Lattimore perjury case.
Officials said U.S. District Attorney Leo A. Rover and his aides have not yet determined whether to ask the U.S. Court of Appeals here to disqualify Federal Judge Luther W. Youngdahl from presiding at the trial.
Judge Youngdahl refused Saturday to grant Mr. Rover's request that he disqualify himself on grounds that he is personally "biased and prejudiced" in favor of Mr. Lattimore.
Mr. Rover had no immediate comment. Legal experts said he can ask the appeals court for a "writ of mandamus" to force Judge Youngdahl's retirement from the case.
In an unusually sharp order, he termed Mr. Rover's request "scandalous" and accused the U.S. attorney of attempting either to discredit or intimidate the courts.
Mr. Lattimore. Far Eastern specialist of Johns Hopkins university, has been accused in two separate indictments of lying seven times in his testimony in 1952 before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee.
Mendes Changed West's Fears Strong Words,Stronger Deeds
France's 'Bright Young Man'-
By UNITED PRESS
Five months ago, the thought that Pierre Mendes-France might become the 20th postwar French premier gave high Western diplomats the shivers.
It was known that he regarded France's position in the Indochina war as hopeless.
It was accepted, though he denied it, that he was opposed to the ratification of the European Defense community treaty under which Western Germany was to be rearmed.
Mr. Mendes-France was confirmed as premier on June 18, and there was speculation that the "agonizing reappraisal" of foreign policy might be imminent.
Well, there has been a sweeping general resisqual of Western policy since then. There have been some more recent developments. But the West has emputed stronger
position in Indochina really was hopeless.
Premier Mendes-France pledged himself to get peace in Indochina by July 20. He did it. The allies accepted a defeat. But from the defeat has emerged the Southeast Asia Security treaty.
Secondly, the French parliament did kill the European Defense Community pact.
First, it turned out that the French
A search plane spotted the wreckage of a two-engine aircraft on the rock-ribbed island of Elba. But rescue officials said they believed it was the remains of an old crash.
But now the Allies have agreed to rearm Western Germany and to give it sovereignty under a new set-up which is stronger than the EDC.
The missing plane was being flown by a crew of officers logging flying time when it disappeared. Peasants reported two explosions during the night in the French Alps north of Nice.
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The plane's regular course would have taken it across Corsica and up the Rhone valley of France but authorities feared a fierce storm had ossified it off course.
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Headquarters of the Third U.S. Air Force disclosed the four officers in the plane's crew regularly were assigned to duties other than flying at their home base in Maston, England.
An Air Force spokesman said the officers were making the flight to meet regulations which specify that desk-bound officers must fly 100 hours a year to keep their flying status.
The other two members of the six-man crew were enlisted airmen, the spokesman said.
Action on Trieste and the Balkans pact came in the form of a resolution approving in full the foreign policy set forth by Marshall Tito.
The spokesman emphasized the ground duty officers operating the plane were able and experienced fliers who just happened to hold such desk jobs as adjunct or deputy commanders at present.
Slavs OK Tito's Foreign Policy
Marsal "Tito opened the debate with a speech hailing the postwar role of the United States in trying to bring peace to Europe and the Middle East, after a brief period of "normalizing" Yugoslav relations with Russia and her satellites.
Belgrade, Yugoslavia—(U.P.) The Yugoslav parliament today ratified the agreement with Italy over Trieste and the Balkan alliance binding Yugoslavia to NATO members Greece and Turkey in a pact strengthening the southern defenses of Europe.
Both houses of the National Assembly meeting in joint session fully supported the nation's foreign policy
Students Chosen for Play
The part of the governor in the University theater production "Right You Are-If You Think So," by Luigi Pirandello will be played by Kenneth morgan, college sophomore. Morgan, who played in "Antigone" last year, is replacing Robert Drewelow, college freshman, in the part of the governor. Gretta Reetz, fine arts senior, has been chosen stage manager of the production.
Nixon Hits Back At Adlai,Recalls Alger Hiss Trial
Las Vegas, Nev.—(U.P.)—Vice President Richard M. Nixon says that if a Congress of Adlai Stevenson's choosing is elected "the security risks when have been nred by the Eisenhower administration will be hired back."
Mr. Nixon, in a press conference here yesterday, also charged that some campaigning Democrats are trying to "ride on President Eisenhower's cattails."
"Stevenson, by failing to retract his attack on the security risk program." Mr. Nixon said, "is advocating a return to those policies of Truman.
The vice president said the 1952 Democratic presidential candidate 'has not changed since he testified for Alger Hiss."
When asked who specifically was trying to ride the President's coat-tails, Mr. Nixon replied a Democratic senator from Montana (who he did not name) is campaigning with an autographed photograph of the President and himself, although he has voted against the administration programs 75 per cent of the time.
"Stevenson's blindness on the security risk program gives the voters a powerful argument to reject his proposal (to return to a Democracy congress)."
His criticism of Mr. Stevenson was in answer to the Stevenson statement Saturday that the Republican high command has turned the campaign into an "ugly slugfest" under the "boisterous" leadership of Mr. Nixon.
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