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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 27, 1953
Reds Admit Killing 4 Alleged Spies
Moscow—(U.P.)—The Soviet press announced today the execution of four American spies charged with being dropped by parachute from an unmarked U.S. bomber on Ukrainian soil April 26 with espionage equipment. $^{ \textcircled{4}}$
Ivestia, the government organ, and other Moscow newspapers devoted two columns of type to a communique from the ministry of internal security announcing the four had been shot to death.
The communique identified the men as Aleksandr Lakhno, Aleksandr Makoy, Sergei Gorbunov, and Dmitri Remiga. They were tried by a military tribunal of the supreme court of the Soviet Union.
According to the communique, Lakhno and Makoy, who were caught immediately, were saboteurs who gave fictitious names of: "Vasili Vasilchenko" and "Leonide Mackovsky", respectively.
The ministry said the four men were agents of the Nazi during World War II. Lakhno, the communique said, was unmasked as a traitor who betrayed five Soviet patriots to the Germans who had them shot.
Lakhno and Makoy "confessed they were parachuted into Soviet territory by American intelligence with diversionist terrorist assignments," the communical said.
Lakhno and Makoy testified the two other agents, who were arrested on the same day, had been given the nicknames "John" and "Dick" by the Americans. Lakhnо said his nickname was "Alek" and Makoy's was "Pit."
The announcement said the defendants testified U.S. intelligence had sent them to a spy training center near Munich for studying under the guidance of American intelligence officers.
Soviet news reports said the men admitted they were flown from Munich to Athens April 23 where they were met by a Maj. Harold Fidler, an intelligence officer who had come to the Soviet Union three times in 1951 as a diplomatic courier.
The reports said Maj. Fidler placed them on the bomber with instructions to land in the area of Kiev, Odessa, and by all possible methods to obtain genuine Soviet documents and contact U.S. intelligence in West Germany.
Faculty Members Take News Jobs
Five members of the faculty of the School of Journalism will work on publications this summer.
Prof. Elmer F. Beth will be employed by Time magazine during late August and early September. He said he probably will work in internal public relations.
Associate Prof. Emil L. Telfel and Assistant Professor Victor J. Danilov will work as copyreaders. Mr. Telfel will be with the Rochester (N.Y.) Times-Union, and Mr. Danilov will work for the Kansas City Star.
R. W. Doores, assistant professor of journalism, plans to work the entire summer with the Gardner Advertising agency in St. Louis. Harris Smith, journalism instructor, will be employed in reporting and editing by the Decatur, (III.) Herald & Review.
Free Train Rides for All
Fulton, Miss.—(U.R.) Trains of the Fulton Railway Co. will stop anywhere along the track to pick up a passenger and his baggage free of charge. When the 24-mile railroad was granted its charter in 1924, persons living along the proposed line gave free right-of-way in return for free passage.
HAROLD G. WILKE
Former Student Killed in Korea
Harold G. Wilke, 23, who attended the University from the fall of '48 through the spring of '51, was killed in a jet plane crash in Korea last week.
No details are available on the death of the Air Force lieutenant. He was a graduate of Concordia High School. While at the University he was a political science major. He enlisted in the Air Force in June, '51, and went into pilots training. In October, 1952, he received a commission.
Lieut. Wilke had been in Korea since April 14. He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. Survivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Wille Concordia, and a sister, Ms. Stanley Sager, San Diego, Calif.
Sen. Taft Proposes U.S. Bypass UN In Settling Korea, Asia Aggressions
Cincinnati —(U,P)— Sen. Robert A. Taft proposed last night that the United States "forget the United Nations" in settling the Korean war and take "a completely free hand" in dealing with Communist expansion elsewhere in the Far East.
In a statement which he admitted would "shock a good many people," the Ohio Republican leader said the United Nations had shown itself to be an ineffective means of preventing military aggression. He suggested a conference be called to amend the UN charter.
Sen. Taff's foreign policy views were contained in an address read for him by his son, Robert A. Taff Jr., to a silver anniversary dinner of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Sen. Taft himself
is in a Cincinnati hospital undergoing treatment for a hip condition.
"I believe we might as well forget the United Nations as far as the Korean war is concerned," Sen. Taft said. "I think we should do our best now to negate it on let England and our other allies know that we are withdrawing from all further peace negotiations in Korea."
Even the best truce settlement that might be reached in Korea would be "extremely unsatisfactory," he said. It would "release a million Chinese soldiers, who no doubt will promptly be moved down to southern China for use against Chiang Kai-Shek or against the French in Indo-China."
He said he believed the United
States should have insisted long ago on "a general peace negotiation with Communist China to end the threat of further Red expansion in southeast Asia.
"I believe in the United Nations myself, but not as an effective means to prevent aggression. It does have many methods by which, through peaceful persuasion, it can deter and prevent war." Sen. Taft said.
He said the United States had recognized the weakness of the UN by forming the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to meet the threat of Soviet aggression in western Europe. He described NATO as "clearly a military alliance of the old type."
Rosenbergs File New Plea
New York —(U.P.)— A new application to set aside the death sentences of convicted atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg was filed in federal court here today.
The petition, filed by the Rosenberg's attorney Emanuel H. Block, claimed the sentence was illegal and that 20-year imprisonment was actually the maximum sentence allowable for the crime of which they were found guilty.
Mr. Block also filed application for a stay of execution pending a decision on today's motion.
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson refused yesterday to grant another stay of execution pending filing of the fourth appeal, but it was said to be improbable that the husband and wife spy team would be sent to the Sing Sing prison electric chair if action is still pending before the court.
Mr. Bloch took the stay petition to Washington yesterday but was never admitted to Mr. Vinson's chambers. The chief justice simply wrote "denied" on the papers presented to him. Mr. Bloch and his associate, John F. Finerty, left the court building hurriedly.
Entomology Club Plans Photo The Entomology club's annual photograph will be taken at 4 p.m. Monday in front of Hoch auditorium. All members must be present.
British Lose Test In Tokyo Law Fight
The Tokyo district court rejected a request for an injunction to halt a Japanese firm from disposing of 18,000 tons of the disputed oil it imported from Iran.
The British company immediately appealed its case against the Idemitsu Kosan company to the Tokyo supreme court.
Tokyo —(U.P).—The British Anglo-Iranian Oil company lost another test case today in its legal battle to prevent the sale of nationalized Iranian oil.
Coronation Films To Arrive by Jets
New York —(U.P)American television networks set up a trans-Atlantic airplane race today to speed films of Tuesday's coronation to American viewers.
The films, kinescoped in London by the American networks from the British Broadcasting system television pickup will be flown to Goose Bay, Labrador, in Royal Air Force Canberra jets detailed to carry coronation films.
The overflows, estimated to reach a peak of from five to six feet in the Solomon at Niles this evening, are not expected to bring widespread damage.
Farmers in the soaked sections cheered since their farm ponds were filled for the first time this year. So heavy was the downpour in north-central Kansas that a special watershed forecast of floods tonight and tomorrow along the lower Solomon, Smoky Hill, and Saline rivers was issued by the state weather office at Topeka.
The rain developed as a thunderstorm centered over Topeka late yesterday. Then the storm grew with speed and intensity and spread in all directions.
Completely missed, however, was the dry southwest quarter of Kansas.
Southwest Kansas remained hot and dry.
Rains Break Heat Wave
"Down Among the Sheltering Palms"
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Heavy rains measuring unofficially up to seven inches drenched parts of eastern Kansas today, breaking the record late-May heat wave and filling creeks brimming full.
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