Revolt Spreading in East Germany
Berlin — (U.P.) — Armed revolt by Red army deserters, anti-Communist East Germans, and Czech partisans, fighting their way to freedom in the West, today was reported spreading in large areas of Soviet-run East Germany.
The U.S. High Commission's German - language newspaper, Neue Zeitung, said today that the underground resistance forces, armed with machine guns and other automatic weapons seized in raids on Red army and police barracks, are on the offensive.
The numbers in the resistance army are not known and it is unclear whether there is liaison between several reported bands.
The Neue Zeitung said the growing resistance army was comprised in part of Soviet deserters including the commandant of a Soviet air base at Grossenhain, near Leipzig.
It is known, however, that their numbers are large enough that they have engaged Soviet and East German People's police units in pitched battles and that 10,000 or more Red army troops and Communist police have been ordered out in the Berlin area alone in an attempt to root them out.
The strong band of Czech partisans, who have fought their way through a series of small night-time engagements some 60 miles from Cottbus to the outskirts of Berlin, are believed to have been aided by the East German partisans.
At last report, the Czechs were within 10 to 15 miles of West Berlin and freedom.
In addition to the armed resistance, the East-German Communist regime was in the throes of political troubles. Neue Zeitung reported that Wilhelm Zaiser, former Minister of State Security for East Germany, and Rudolph Hermstadt, former editor of the official Communist newspaper Neues Deutschland, have been arrested.
They were fired from their posts and purged from the Politburo and central committee in the aftermath of the June 17 workers rebellion in East Germany.
The Neue Zeitung attributed its story on the partisans to Soviet zone sources. The newspaper has excellent sources in East Germany, mainly in the southern part of the Soviet zone—in Saxony and Thuringia.
Sociology Club Elects
The Sociology club elected officers at a meeting held in conjunction with the "Sociology Coffee Hour" in 17 Strong annex E. The 1953-54 officers are the following college seniors: William Richard Scott, president; Richard A. Sears Jr., vice president; Suzanne Russing, secretary, and Joan E. Piller, treasurer. Faculty adviser is Dr. Charles K. Warriner, assistant professor of sociology and human relations.
Reds Hold Two American Hostages, Officials Learn
Washington—(U.P.)-State Department officials are convinced that two long-missing Americans are being held in a Russian prison camp and a sharp protest may be sent to Moscow soon, it was learned today.
The Americans are Pvt. Homer H. Cox, 33, of Oklahoma City, and Le兰 Tower, 29, of San Francisco.
Returning Austrian World War II prisoners reported two weeks ago that the two men were being held in a Soviet camp about 150 miles northeast of Moscow. The State and Defense departments immediately began an investigation to determine whether the reports were true.
Last week Dutch prisoners freed by the Russians confirmed the reports.
The State Department, as part of its investigation, has been cavassoning diplomatic missions abroad to endorse drafting a note to the Kremlin.
Officials were reported satisfied now that Cox and Towers actually were picked up by the Soviets and imprisoned. They intend to dispatch a diplomatic note to the Russian foreign office asking what has happened to the two men and demanding a full explanation of the cases.
Cox has been listed by the Army "absent without leave" from his West Berlin post since 1949. The Austrian war prisoners said Cox was arrested on June 9 of that year and sentenced to 53 years in a Red prison. They said the sentence later was reduced to 25 years.
The Army said the Austrian report was the first indication that Cox may have been seized by the Communists.
Towers' mother, Mrs. Irene Towers, said her son went to Europe in 1948 to "work his way around and see the countries." She said he wrote faithfully once a month but his letters stopped arriving in 1951.
The returning Austrians said he had been seized near the Soviet-Finnish border.
2 More Venezuelan Students to Enter KU
Two representatives of the Shell de Venezuelan company visiting the campus yesterday announced that two more Venezuelan students will enter KU in the fall of 1954 under aunspices of the Shell Oil company.
The two visitors, A.C. Earle and William A. Jansen, are on their annual tour of this country inspecting the colleges where 75 of the company's students are attending. The scholarships which the company offers include all expenses while attending school and travel expenses to and from Venezuela.
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Paris —(UP)— The National Assembly voted today to continue the eight-year-old war against Communism in Indo-China after Premier Jihad Laniel announced he would negotiate with the Reds to end it.
By 315 to 251, the Assembly voted confidence in Mr. Laniel's Indo-Chinese war policy ending one of the most crucial debates in the four-month tenure of the government.
French Assembly Votes Confidence
Mr.兰曼利 told the assembly last night France was willing to negotiate an end to the war if the Comintern ask ask first for talks, to be opened.
"We are not carrying on a crusade or war of extinction," he told he deplored. But he said France cannot be thrown out of Indochina by force.
Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1953
If the Communist Viet Minh leaders realize the impossibility of winning and ask for peace, Mr. Laniel said, then France and the three associated states of Indo-China will act.
Maud Ellsworth, professor of art education, will address Haskell home economics classes tomorrow night at Haskell. She will discuss problems in art from a recreational standpoint.
Art Professor to Give Talk
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Jobs-Tariffs Link Ridiculed
Washington — (UIP)— AFL president George Meany said today it is "sheer nonsense" to say 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 Americans might lose their jobs if U.S. tariffs were abolished.
"The extent to which American industry is in fact subject to jeopardy from imports, whether because of lower labor standards abroad or for other reasons, has been greatly overstated," he said.
U. S. imports would have to increase by $25 billion a year after the elimination of duties, Meany said, in order to bring it about.
He called for reduction of tariffs in a statement before the Commission on Foreign Economic Policy which today opened two days of hearings in Washington.
Allan B. Kline, president of the American Farm Bureau federation and the first witness, urged relaxation of trade barriers as a solution to falling U.S. farm exports.
Meany cited expert opinion to show that tariff relaxation would affect from 45,000 to 300,000 jobs.
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