SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17,1951 Revolting Laborites Flay Truman Program WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—M—The nation's top labor leaders to night followed up their revolt against a proposed new wage control formula with an angry charge that the Truman administration's home-front controls program reflected the interest of "big business." . • Industry representatives replied that the labor leaders were seek ing "hunting licenses for a higher, more inflationary sixth round of wage increases." The union labor revolt, which carries a threat of NVithdrawal from all home-front mobilization agencies, broke into the open last night. Industry and public repre sentatives on th e government's wage stabilization board approved a new "catch-up" wage formula to take the place of the present "freeze " Ten Per Cent Boost It would permit wage increases of ten per cent above the level of Jan. 15, 1950. The three labor members of the board promptly walked out, blasting the formula. Today the United Labor Policy committee (ULPC), composed of representatives of most labor unions, authorized the three labor members - of the nine-man wage board to submit written resigna tions to President Truman. The three are Emil Rieve of the CIO Textile Workers, Elmer E. Walker of the AFL Machinists, and Harry C. Bates of the AFL bricklayers. Charges Subservience It was the ULPC which issued a statement charging subser vience to "big business," declar ing that labor was being asked for unequal sacrifice in the defense effort, and stating that the pro posed wage formula had beendic tated by Charles E. Wilson, de fense mobili2.er. The Office of Defense Mobiliza tion (ODM) replied informally to night that Wilson has three times invited organized labor to name some labor leader to serve as one of his assistants. Wilson Away ' Wilson was out of town when the labor charges were issued. An ODM official told reporters of the three invitations. He said that in the third invitation, Wilson had dropped his previous insistence that the labor leader divest him self on all union connections be fore taking the ODM post. But he said Wilson still insisted that the new position must be a full-time one and that the man appointed must at least take a leave of ab sence. Gov. Fine's Wife In Good Condition PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 16 (11)) Mrs. John S. Fine, wife of Penn sylvania's governor, was describ ed in "very satsfactory" ton at the University of Penn sylvania hospital today. In a bulletin issued at 5:30 p.m., a spokesman for the hos pital also said Mrs. Fine was resting comfortably. Mrs. Fine is recuperating from the effects of two emergency cranial operations performed at the hospital yesterday. Send Men Or Face `Suicide'—Acheson WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 Secretary of State Acheson told Con gress today that if the United States held back troop support until after an attack on Europe, it might mean "suicide for all of us." Acheson also cautioned that America's lead in the atomic' wea pons race with Russia is limited by time, and warned that events in Europe may be building toward an explosion. The secretary, testifying at a jam-packed Senate hearing, gave assurance that western Europe is girding for its own defense. He said this country's European al lies are expected to double their combat forces in the next year. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Army chief of staff, told the lawmakers that plans for the dispatch of four more American divisions to Eu rope as disclosed by Secretary of Defense Marshall yesterday— would "immeasurably improve" the safety, of the two U. S. divi sions now in Germany if Rus sia attacks. Bradley said the divisions in Germany would be "in great dan- THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Russia Paid IPR, Sen. Mundt Claims WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 Evidence indicating that Moscow contributed $2,500 to the Insti tute of Pacific Relations was re ported by Senator Mundt (R-SD) today. He said the evidence was in documents which were at one time part of those seized by Sen ate inveStigators in a raid on a Massachusetts farm. IPR Secretary-General William Holland said in New York the $2,- 500 contribution was one of five annual payments totalling $12,000 made by, the Russian council of the Institute while it was a mem ber from 1935 through 1939. During the same five years, he told a news conference, other council members were contribut ing to the Institute's budget, the United States for example giving $lB,OOO in one year-1935. Holland expressed confidence a complete investigation of the IPR files would clear it of any "subversive taint." He also sent a telegram to the Senate investi gators asking that "unauthorized and partial leakages" from the files be stopped out of common decency and for protection of hundreds of persons named in the correspondence. Mundt based his statement on what he called "sample" Insti tute 'papers he said he and Sen ator McCarthy (R-Wis) examined. This was before an• agent of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee investigating anti-subversive ac tivities grabbed thousands of IPR documents last week from a barn near Lee, Mass. The South Dakotan described the material he and McCarthy studied as "not necessarily . sig nificant, but it certainly could be." Prof Attends Conclave Esther A. Atkinson will attend a regional restaurant convention and exposition at the Bellevue- Stratford hotel in Philadelphia. Miss Atkinson is an associate professor in the Department of Hotel and Institution Adminis tration, at the College. ARKANSAS RATIFIES . LITTLE ROCK, Feb. 16—(P)— Arkansas yesterday became the 30th state to ratify a proposed amendment to The U.S. constitu tion limiting the President of the United States to two terms in office. ger" if war came. He said the pro posed increase in military strength would discourage, rather th an provoke, an attack by Russia. Declaring that Europe must be defended, not rescued after So viet conquest, Bradley comment ed that he would rather • fight a Communist enemy abroad than in the United States. Denounces False impressions "I think many .Atnericans will agree with me in this choice." Bradley also denounced what he termed "the false impression that we were planning to send large numbers of ground forces to western Europe." He said he believes that idea "has now been (Continued on page eight) /0,000 Walk Out In Woolens Strike, Demand Pay Hike BOSTON, Feb. 16 -- (JP) The nation's huge woolen and worsted cloth industry was slowed today in more than a dozen states by a strike'of 70,000 CIO mill workers who want a 15-cents-an-hour pay boost. Chiefs of the Textile Workers Union of America (CIO) said the walkout was "universally effec tive" in the first industry-wide stoppage in the union's 11-year history. Picket details were; light and reported orderly at mill centers throughout New England and in other Eastern states and the South. "Asked For Strike" Chief clash of the day was an exchange between Robert Mont gomery, counsel for the American Woolen company, and a union of ficial who charged that the firm "asked for the s t r ik e so they would have a talking point with Washington to relax the price freeze." In answer to that assertion by James J. Ellis, business agent of TWUA 's Central Massachusetts Joint board, Montgomery said: "The company did not want the strike and we told the union we didn't want it." Negotiations Break Down It was a breakdown in contract negotiations with American Wool en, traditional wage pattern maker for the industry, that launched the walkout last mid night. The CIO-TWUA held con tracts with 20 .of that firm's 25 mills. Industry and union sources said the strike affected about half of all the woolen and worsted work ers in the nation. American Ingenuit 'Bandit' Out Punchboard In WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—(JP)— Senate crime investigators threat ened an interstate ban on punch boards today after being told that between $100,000,000 and $1,000,- 000,000 may be gambled on them yearly. John W. Brookfield, a lottery expert of the federal trade Com mission, testified that the lowly punchboard had blossomed into a big-time gambling racket. He was the first witness before resumed hearings of the Senate Crime In vestigating committee. Brookfield reported punch boards are moving in rapidly as slot machines move out. He esti mated that manufacture of the boards alone had become a $10,000,000 a year business, and th a t sometimes the boards are fixed so the player can't possibly win a prize. Senator Kefauver (D-Tenn), 'chairman of the committee, stated punchboards might well be placed in the same category as slot ma chines and banned from ship ment across state lines. The idea was supported by Senator Tobey (R-NH), another member of the committee. Both said they thought an amendment to the slot machine law could be worked out. F & M President Named CD Head HARRISBURG, Feb. 15 (W)-- Dr. Theodore A. Distler, president of Franklin Und Marshall college, Lancaster, yesterday took office as chairman and director of the state Civil Defense commission. "I am glad to be of service to the commo_wealth," he said, af ter taking the oath of office ad ministered by Gene D. Smith, secretary of the commonwealth. Distler was named to the $15,- 000 a year post by Gov. John S. Fine on Jpn. 19 following a sep aration of the military and civil ian defense functions of the state's defense organization. Maj. Gen. Richard K. Mellon, of Pittsburgh, former head of both sections, now serves as di rector of the Civil Defense com mission's Military Advisory com mittee, a counterpart of the civil ian setup. Reds Probe UN Lines After Disastrous Attack TOKYO, Saturday, Feb. 17 (JP)—Battered Chinese and Korean Reds probed warily for soft spots Friday to launch expected new onslaughts after• a disastrous offensive which cost them an estimat ed 22,128 caualties by ground action alone in four days. . United Nations troops fought bitter but small-scale hand-to hand battles with the probing Reds in central and west Korea. Late field dispatches reported Korea Policy Talk Always Open--Lie LAKE SUCCESS, Feb. 16— VP) —The question of the 38th par allel and all matters of military policy in Korea are subjects of constant consultation between the U.N. command and all members taking. part in the fight against aggression, Secretary-G ener al Trygve Lie said today. The top U.N. secretariat • offi cial told his first news conference of 1951 that, no matter how un favorable the . prospects may seem to be at any given moment. the U.N. must stick to its fight against aggression and its attempts at peaceful settlement "with sanity, patience and steadfast purpose." Ready For Questions Lie knew questions would come on t h e current controversy whether Gen. Douglas MacArthur should cross the 38th parallel, the old boundary between Commu nist North Korea and the. South Korean government sponsored by the U.N. He knew also that Prime Minister Attlee of Britain had said there must be consultations on that question by all interested governments and that President Truman had said that crossing the line was a strategic matter in the hands of General MacArthur. Reads Statement So Lie read the following brief statement: "I have been informed that constant consultations are taking place between the unified com mand and all member nations participating in U.N. action - in Korea, with regard to matters of military policy, including any questions regarding the 38th parallel." He refused to budge from that prepared statement and referred all later questions on the parallel back to that one sentence. Prpmoters Offer, Maxim, Robby Bid NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 16—(N)— A group of Newark promoters to day offered light heavyweight champion Joey Maxim and newly crowned middle-weight champ Ray Robinson a joint purse of $125,000 for „a light heavyweight title bout. Th e fighters could split the guarantee any way they want, the promoters said. The bout would be staged in June at either the Newark or Jersey City ball parks of the former International League teams. At Cleveland, Maxim said it was up to hi s manager, Jack Kearns, to decide whether to ac cept. He added that he would rather fight Ezzard Charles for the heavyweight crown first. "If I should lose to Charles: . he explained, "then I could take on Robinson." APhiO To Meet Monday Alpha Phi Omega, national service honorary, will hold an open meeting in 405 Old Main at 7:30 p.m. Monday. Interested Boy Scouts and former Scouts may attend. Slides of the `national jamboree held at Valley Forge will be shown.. Extended Forecast Eastern Pennsylvania, eastern New York and mid •Atlantic states: temper ature will average .four to six above normal. warmer over the weekend fol lowed by colder Tuesday or 'Wednesday; some rain Monday or Tuesday and over the northern section Saturday. Western Pennsylvania, . western New York.' Ohio and West Virginia: temper ature will average four to six' degrees above normal ; warmer over the weekend followed by colder Monday and Tuesday and warmer again Wednesday: some rain tonight and northeast portion Saturday; precipitation again about Monday. PAGE THEE}, one force of 800' enemy troops about five miles northwest of Chechon in an attempted infil tration maneuver down the east flank of the Allied central-front positions. An earlier U.S. Eighth army communique said an enemy force in that area had been dispersed in a 50-minute battle at dawn with South Korean troops. An other Red column was sighted about 11 miles southeast of Won ju and nine miles northwest of Chechon, AP correspondent Wil liam J. Waugh reported from the central front. Unsuccessful Attack Chechon, a rail and road hub in the mountains of central Ko rea, was the goal of the Reds who unsuccessfully attacked the Won ju salient last month. U.S. Combat Casualties WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (IP) —American combat casualties in Korea passed the 48,000 mark yesterday. The government announced 7245 had been killed in action, 31,395 wounded and that 9395 were missing—a total of 48,035. The figures covered notifica tions to families through Feb. 9 and represented an increase of 647 in a week. Of those on the wounded list, 826 have since died, and 83 of the missing are known dead', bringing the actual total of U.S. combat deaths at 8154. At that time the 'U.S. Second Infantry division held the Won ju bulge. An estimated 20,000 Korean Reds sneaked past the Second division on its right flank down the same valley the Reds are probing today. Most of the Communists who passed that way before were kill ed in a ,massive guerrilla hunt that wiped out the Fifth North Korean corps. " Over the score of rugged miles leading northwest from Wonju to the allied salient at Ch'iwong. American, British, Dutch, and French troops were holding like rocks. They had their first day of relative rest since the Chinese and North Korean Reds began an offensive Monday. Ist 28th Draftees Head For Korea CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind., Feb. 16 (JP)—The first group of draft ed soldiers from the Army's 28th Division will leave Camp Atter bury tonight for eventual st.hp ment to Korea as replacement. They first will go on furlough. The division's public informa tion office confirmed the depar ture today. No National Guard troops are involved. The 28th originally was the Pennsylvania National Guard. No official figures were an nounced. The men are leaving for seven-day furloughs before re porting to Army personnel pools at undisclosed camps. They will be processed at these camps for overseas shipment. Automotive Engineers To Meet Tuesday The Society of Automotive En gineers will hold a business meet ing for all members and interest.' ed engineering students Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in 317 Willard hall. Charles C. Di Dio, associate pro fessor of Mechanical Engineering, will speak on "Trends in Auto motive Engines." There will be a discussion on the spring program and elections to be held in April for new offi cers
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