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Reds Arrest Jewish Doctors as Killers
University Daily Kansan
Moscow—(U.P.)—A "terrorist group doctors"—most of them Jews—have been arrested for plotting against the lives of Soviet military leaders and for responsibility in the deaths of two top-ranking Communist party officials, it was announced today.
Press and radio reports said nine doctors had been arrested as members of an International Jewish Bourgeois Nationalist organization which was set up by American intelligence.
The doctors confessed killing Andrei E. Zhdanov, the founder of
the Communist International or-organization (Comintern), and Alexander S. Scherbakov, another Communist party leader and administration head, through false diagnoses, the announcement said.
The physicians tried to kill Marshal of the Soviet Union Alexander M. Vasilevsky_and other military leaders including Marshal Leonid A, Govorov, commander of the Soviet armies in Finland in World War II; Marshal Ivan Konev, former commander of Soviet ground forces; one-time chief of the general staff Gen. S. M. Shtemenko, and Admiral
Soviet Warplanes Warned Against Flying Over Japan
Tokyo—(U.P.) Japan bluntly warned Russia today that if any more Soviet warplanes fly over Japan they may be shot down by the U.S. Air Force. American leaders here said the United States would cooperate. «___»
Japan issued the warning in a public statement referring only to "the foreign power concerned," but the reference to Russia was obvious.
In recent months many foreign planes, believed to be Russian, have flown over Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island.
Mitsuo Tanaka, foreign office spokesman, said the violations, by a country he refused to identify as Russia, have occurred with increasing frequency since Japan regained her sovereignty last summer.
A spokesman for the Far East command said Gen. Mark W. Clark has issued instructions to appropriate commands to take all measures to prevent further violations.
Lately, he said, the intruding planes have been flying deeper into Japan, and the government has no recourse but to consider the flights intentional.
Mr. Tanaka did say the planes had been coming from the direction of Soviet-controlled territory
McCarthy Tries TV Permit Denial
Washington —(U,P)— Sen. Joseph McCarthy has asked the Federal Communications commission to deny a television license sought by two of his political enemies.
The Wisconsin Republican told reporters he has asked the FCC for an opportunity to present evidence that it is not in the public interest to grant a TV broadcasting license to Badger Television, Inc., Madison, Wis.
Sen. McCarthy said the station would be operated by William Evjue, editor of the Madison Capital Times, and Cedric Parker, the newspaper's city editor. Both have criticized Sen. McCarthy's Communist-hunting tactics and have been denounced by the senator in turn.
As chairman of the Senate's permanent investigating committee, Sen McCarthy is in a position to bring considerable pressure on the FCC. He has already announced that the committee probably will investigate the FCC soon, to determine if it has played favorites in granting broadcast licenses.
and had flown over Japan 20 to 30 times.
He said the warning to the foreign power dated from today, and that it might be correct to assume that in the future all American aircraft on patrol over Hokkaido will be armed and ready to fire at any invading planes.
Einstein Appeals For Rosenbergs
It has been reported that recently the United States staffed Hokkaido with F-86 jet interceptors to replace slower F-84 Thunder jet fighter-bombers, which were no match for the swift Russian MIG-15s.
Princeton, N.J. — (U.P.)—Dr. Albert Einstein has appealed to President Truman to commute the death sentence of convicted atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
"My conscience compels me to urge you to commute the death sentences of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. This appeal to you is prompted by the same reasons which were set forth so convincingly by my distinguished colleague, Harold C. Urey, in his letter Jan. 5, 1953, the New York Times."
In a one-paragraph letter to the President, Einstein said yesterday:
in his letter, Mr. Urey criticized "grossly unequal" punishment given the husband-and-wife spy team in view of lighter sentences handed other members of the ring. Mr. Urey also attacked the government's evidence against the Rosenbergs.
The Rosenbergs have appealed to President Truman to save them with executive clemency. Pending action by the President, they were granted a stay of execution but remain in the death house at New York's Sing Sing prison.
A feather factory is being established at Brooks, Me—said to be one of the only three in the United States to engage in processing poultry feathers into fertilizer.
Opera Excerpts to be Given At Fine Arts Recital Thursday
Two excerpts from operas will be presented by Opera workshop students at the regular fine arts recital at 3 p.m. Thursday in Strong auditorium.
Until September 1951 the voicemajor curriculum didn't include any course in stagecraft or operatic acting but a new course, Opera Workshop, was installed to rectify this omission.
On the insistence of Dean Thomas Gorton, School of Fine Arts, the one credit-hour course was added to the curriculum for the purpose of giving each senior voice major an opportunity to play a leading part in at least one scene from an operet
P. I. Levchenko, deputy naval minister, it was said.
Students other than voice majors are permitted to enroll in the course at the discretion of the instructor. Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Medium" under the direction of Joseph
Moscow radio said all the arrested men proved to be paid agents of a foreign intelligence. A majority of the doctors were said to be connected with the American joint distribution committee, which was described as a "Socialist Zionist" and "Jewish Nationalist organization."
This year with Dr. 'John Newfield, director of the University theater, directing the action and staging and Mr. Wilkins directing the music, four excerpts from operas will provide roles for voice majors and other members of the class.
F. Wilkins, chairman of the voice department, provided leading roles for all senior voice majors in the workshop's first venture.
Two of these excerpts will be presented Thursday afternoon. Parts from the operas "Marriage of Figaro," Mozart and "Pagliacci," Leoncavallo will be performed.
(The joint distribution committee is a Jewish charitable organization which did relief work throughout Europe after World War II).
The doctors were charged with contributing to Zhdanov's death in 1948.
There will be no admission charged.
"The criminals confessed that having availed themselves of comrade A. A. Zhdanov's illness they made incorrect diagnosis of his disease and, concealing a miocardial infraction from which he suffered, they prescribed a regime which was against that indicated for this serious illness and thereby killed comrade Zhdanov" the newspapers said in describing how the former central committee secretary met his death.
Similar activities shortened the life of Scherbakov in 1945, the announcement said.
Major Oil Firms Refuse to Bargain
Washington—(U.P.)-The Justice department went ahead with plans for criminal prosecution of the nation's major oil companies today after being rebuffed in efforts to substitute a civil anti-trust suit.
Attorney General James P. McGraner officially was waiting for the oil companies to answer his offer to drop the criminal proceedings if they will voluntarily produce documents on which the government can base a civil suit against the alleged cartel.
Commissioner Stephen J. Spingarn of the Federal Trade Commission, whose report on an alleged world-wide oil cartel led to the
But government attorneys said the compromise effort already had been stymied, at least for the time being, by the Jersey Standard Oil company's blunt rejection of Mr. McGranery's terms. Since Mr. McGranery had stipulated that all companies must accept the offer, Standard Oil alone was in a position to block the deal.
grand jury investigation, meanwhile demanded a congressional inquiry into the whole matter.
The controversy began last summer when Mr. McGranery ordered a grand jury anti-trust investigation into FTC charges that major U.S. oil companies had entered into a giant cartel agreement to divide up world markets.
The five principal companies involved were Standard Oil, of New Jersey, Standard Oil of California, The Texas Co., and the Scoony-Vacuum Oil Co., and the Gulf Oil company.
In the legal hassle over this issue, the oil companies had at least the tacit support of State department officials who feared disclosure of the documents might have repercussions in the Near East.
MEET YOURSELF- 10 YEARS FROM NOW
Ever wonder what you'll be like when the class of '53 holds its 10th reunion? If you started to work for one of the Bell System telephone companies after graduation, here's a pretty good idea.
POSITION IN THE WORLD: On the way up! A Commercial Manager, the company's representative and spokesman to as many as fifty thousand customers. A Transmission Engineer, helping to provide the telephone needs of an entire state. A Supervisor in the Traffic Department, responsible for the speed and quality of local and long distance service in several cities and for the personnel relations of a large number of employees. In the telephone company, jobs such as these are held by relatively young men and women.
FUTURE: Unlimited! The Bell System continually progresses and expands and its personnel grows with it. In the past 25 years, the number of telephones has almost tripled. In the past 5 years, telephone companies have introduced such things as network television transmission, radiotelephone service and dialing of Long Distance calls. And the best is yet to come.
FRAME OF MIND: Confident and proud! You'll be satisfied because you have a rewarding job...not only in pay and security ...but in service. You'll be proud of your share in helping provide and develop a telephone service vital to the country's social and economic life.
Like the picture? For further information see your Placement Officer. He will be glad to give you details regarding the opportunities for employment in the Bell System.
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