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Ship Wins Fight Against Fires
Aboard President Pierce off Yokohama — (U.P.)— Exhausted American crewman and Japanese fireboats brought under control today the last stubborn fire smoldering in the hold of the American President lines freighter President Pierce.
The 1.925-ton ship was dangerously near capizing from the tons of water poured into its hold during the 24 hours the fires blazed.
Capt. Frederick Willarts, La-Fayette, Calif., prepared to bring the Pierce into Yokohama's inner harbor tomorrow. Three salvage crews and insurance underwriters will take over.
There were 54 crewmen and nine passengers aboard the ship when four acteylene gas explosions touched off fires in three holds early yesterday afternoon.
Nearly all the ship's 7,000 tons of military cargo plus a load of cotton appeared to have been destroyed.
The Navy tanker Barrett took aboard all nine passengers, three injured crewmen and another crewman suffering from pneumonia.
One crewman was said by shipmates to have suffered a "nervous breakdown" from the tension of waiting for another explosion. Capt Willarts suffered second degree burns on his hands from the first blast.
"I threw up my hands in front of my face," he said. "If I hadn't, I would have been blinded.
"The first explosion hit at 12:52 p.m.," he said. "The flash swept right through the ship. I chased the passengers aft and started the men going with the hoses."
At the time, the ship was about 110 miles east of Tokyo bay. While crew members fought the fire, the ship limped slowly to port, finally anchoring off Yokohama before dawn today.
Rosenbergs Plan To Request Stay
New York —(U.P.)— Counsel for convicted atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg planned to ask the U.S. Court of Appeals today for a stay of execution.
Emanuel H. Bloch, attorney for the couple, said the stay would be sought to permit him to appeal to the U.S. Supreme court for a new trial.
The Supreme court twice has turned down appeals by the Rosenberg's attorney.
President Eisenhower refused on Wednesday to grant the Rosenbergs clementy. His action limited until Monday a stay granted Jan. 5 by trial Judge Irving R. Kaufman so the spies could appeal to the President.
Judge Kaufman is expected to set a new execution date on Monday. The couple, convicted in 1951 of passing this country's atom secrets to Russia, originally had been scheduled to die. Jan. 14 in Sing Sing prison's electric chair.
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Sen. Carlson, one of the key members of Mr. Eisenhower's campaign group, also said he believed Congress will enact a farm price support law "very similar" to the present one which expires in 1954.
Earlier, in Columbus, he told a news conference the State department would soon send teams of businessmen abroad to investigate our foreign aid spending, and that some twice daily mail deliveries would be restored.
He also stated that the President "has some very definite suggestions for psychological warfare that are going to be very effective."
He also said something must be done about putting cattle prices on a firm basis, and that "Congressional committees are now looking into the processing costs of beef."
Anderson Attending Meeting
Dean Kenneth E. Anderson of the School of Education is in Atlantic City, N.J., attending meetings of the American Association of School Administrators. Next week he will attend meetings of the National Association of Research Science Teachers
He traveled to Atlantic City from Chicago where he attended conferences of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
Vatican City —(U.R.) Pope Pius XII made known to the United States his support of the clementey appeal of condemned atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenbower before President Eisenhower refused their plea for life, it was announced today.
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Pope Supports Clemency Plea
The Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano said the Pope intervened from "motives of charity" without regard to the merits of the case in which the Rosenbergs were sentenced to death for giving atomic bomb secrets to Russia.
Vatican sources said the Pope acted "some time" before President Eisenhower on Wednesday rejected the Rosenbergs' clemency appeal.
It is believed that the Pope probably intimated his support of the clementy appeal either through Monsignor Amelo Giannelli Cicognani, the Papal nuncio in Washington, or through Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York.
It was noted that Osservatore Romano made a pointed reference to the absence of diplomatic relations between the United States and the Vatican.
In a long editorial Wednesday Osservatore said that Clare Boothe Luce, named U.S. ambassador to Italy, cannot act as a diplomatic link with the Yatican.
Dulles Warns Europe Cooperate or Risk War'
Washington—(U.P.)—The Eisenhower administration today left it squarely up to Western Europe to quit stalling on military cooperation or risk falling into the "fire-trap" of World War III and occupation by Red armies.
Secretary of State John Foster' Dulles offered these grim alternatives in a speech last night. He also indicated inaction might prompt an angry Congress to reduce foreign aid sharply.
Reporting on his recent seven-nation tour of Europe with foreign aid chief, Harold E. Stassen, Mr. Dulles said their conclusion was that the plan to weld German manpower into a new European Defense Community was "not dead but only sleeping."
While chances are good that the defense plan can be ratified, Mr. Dulles expressed hope that real progress would be made within weeks or the administration's "future planning will be difficult."
In his talks with Allied statesmen, he is said to have set April 1 as a deadline for this progress, but only yesterday there was the discouraging word that the all-important French debate on the issue would be delayed again until at least June.
His speech was generally conciliatory in spite of a candid analysis of harsh realities. Although he was
reported to have talked tough to Europe's leaders, he went to great lengths last night to tell Americans of the advances already made and the magnitude of the difficulties the Allies were facing.
Mr. Dulles emphasized that the United States was determined to see the Italians, West Germans, French, Belgians, Dutch, and the people of Luxembourg bury their traditional rivalries and work together on the European army plan. Without this cooperation, he said, the whole North Atlantic Treaty organization extending from northern Europe to the Mediterranean has a "fatal weakness."
Mr. Dulles said Europe's political splits, which have led to "recurrent wars," have so weakened Western European nations "that today no one of them could offer strong resistance to the Red armies."
The 50-year European Defense Community treaty was negotiated last May by the six countries and final ratification was vainly expected by the end of last year.
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