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Johnston Plans Tough Profits Policy
Wilson Sees Full U.S. War
Production Potential In '53
WASHINGTON, March 28 (W)—America's production machine
will be ready by 1953 to turn out the tools for all-out war and at the
same time provide more civilian goods, Mobilization Chief Charles
Wilson said today.•
He gave generally optimistic estimates on progress of the de
fense program• and the outlook for the future in private testimony
which the Senate Appropriations committee made public later,
But he told the senators there
are two dark spots in the picture:
less success so far in the field of
stabilization than in that of pro
duction, and a spirit of what Wil
son called "undue optimism"
that might lead to a let-down.
The defense mobilization direc
tor appeared before the commit
tee to ask 'for another $51,000,000
- cash and an additional $1,000,H
000,000 loan authority to keep
the defense program expanding
for the next three months. •
As Wilson testified, other offi
cials reported that a revamped
Wage Stabilization board may be
set up and ready to operate
within a week or ten days. The
present nine-man board went
out of business weeks ago when
organized labor withdrew its rep
resentatives
The new board probably will
have limited power to settle
labor disputes as well as to fix
wage policy. Officials said
. the
Justice Department after long
argument with mobilization of
ficials, has agreed that it will
not be necessary to hold a full
dress labor-management confer
ence before the new powers can
be granted.
Would-Be Killer
Seized In Iran
TEHRAN, IRAN, March 28—
(R:l—Authorities seized an armed
nationalist fanatic who planned
to shoot Premier Hussein Ala
when Ala left his office at noon
and later rounded up eight others
in the plot, a police source, said
tonight.
All were identified as members
- of the Fedayan Islam religious
sect, which has claimed responsi
bility for the assassination of
Premier Ali Razmara three weeks
ago and threatened others cool to
the proposed nationalization of
Iran's-British-run oil industry.
The police source gave this
account:
An informer told police that a
member of the sect named Hus
sein Zolfaghari had been appoint
ed to shoot the Premier. Police
caught Zolfaghari and took a re
volver from him. He then led
police to a suburban hideout,
where the eight others were ar
rested.
Allies :s' - --ear . ossible
Red Jumpoff Line
TOKYO, Thursday, March 29—(JP)—Allied forces on the rain
-swept Korean front Wednesday edged closer to new Red defenses
from behind which the enemy may loose a spring offensive.
•. •4 1. he. ne.r p.r llel 38 behin• h nder. . •
South Korean troops were six miles inside Communist North
Korea on the East coast, but that sector was considered relatively
minor. The bulk of Chinese and
Korean Red manpower was on
the central and western fronts.
No big Allied gains in those
sectors have been reported since
last week. The comparative lull
revived speculation of peace talks.
Rumors of "a big deal" swept
along the Ginza—Tokyo's Broad
way.
Chinese Maising
But the ominous massing of
Chinese on the central front and
the U.S. Eighth Army's cautious
advance appeared a preliminary
to fierce spring battles—perhaps
a massive Red attempt to crack
the United Nations line.
The driving rainstorms help
the Reds and hinder the Allies.
While the Communists, thus
shielded from U.N. air power, can
bring up supplies and massed in
fantry, the heavy Allied armor
struggles in the mud.
A similar situation arose in
February. A brief thaw turned
2HE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Charles E. Wilson
Red Policemen
Fire On Army
Tourist Buses
BERLIN, March 28 (JP)—East
German Communist police fired!
15 pistol shots at a U.S. Army
sightseeing ' convoy loaded with
73 American men, women and
children as it toured today along
the Soviet sector boundary in
the heart of Berlin.
Three bullets hit one in the
convoy of four buses and shatter
ed the windshield, but no one
was injured.
American authorities called the
shooting " a willful and unpro
voked attack." They said Maj.
Gen.• Lemuel Mathewson, U.S.
commander in Berlin, planned a
protest to the Russians as soon
as an investigation is completed.
Tonight the So vi e t-licensed
news agency ADN said the shoot
ing began after one of the buses
knocked over an •East Berlin
policeman who tried to halt it.
ADN said West Germans had ex
cited the neighborhood by
spreading leaflets just before the
buses arrived. Passengers on the
buses tried to take • pictures of
the incident and as a result the
East Berlin police sought to halt
the buses, ADN added.
The British termed the inci,
dent an outrageous act an d
promised a strong protest of their
own since the shooting occurred
near the British sector border.
the central front roadsinto quag
mires. The Reds counterattacked
and drove deeply before being
hurled back with tremendous
losses.
That was when the Allied line
was 40 to 50 miles south of paral
lel 38, the old political north-south
boundary.
Hiss To Serve 5 Years
At Lewisburg Prison
WASHINGTON, March 28—(F)
—The Justice Department said to
day that Alger Hiss will serve his
five-year sentepce on perjury
conviction at the Lewisburg, Pa.,
federal penitentiary.
Hiss, the department said, has
already been transferred there
from New York City, where he
surrendered last week to start his
time after losing a Supreme CoLirt
appeal.
Flays Collegiate
'lmmoral Doctrine'
WASHINGTON, March 28
—Sen. William Fulbright (D.
Ark.) accused the colleges
yesterday of corrupting their
"hired" athletes and student
bodies with "the cynical, im
moral doctrine that one must
win at any cost."
He criticized the schools
and their alumni alike, show ,
ering on them blame for the
recent coll e g e basketball
bribe scandals centered in
New 'York.
The Arkansas senator
charged colleges use "hired
players," "make a mockery"
of the whole spirit of amateur
sports and must share the
blame when scandal results.
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NEW YORK, March 28—
(IP)—The district attorney's
office said tonight detectives
are looking along the Atlan
tic seaboard for at least four
more fixers of college basket
ball games.
District Attorney Frank S.
Hogan would not identify
the hunted men. Detectives
from his office are prowling
eastern cities looking for
them, Hogan said.
A one-time college football
star himself and later a uni
versity president, Fulbright
spoke his views in a speech
prepared for Senate delivery
today.
"Out colleges, under extreme
pressure from the alumni,"
Fulbright declared, "have be
come so intent upon winning
football and basketball games
that they use any means to ,
gain their ends."
"They corrupt not only the
hired players, but also the
entire student bo d y who
learn from their elders the
cynical, immoral do c trine
that one must win at all costs.
"A by-product of this doc
trine, the necessity for big
money, leads naturally to bet
ting and the shocking epi
sode of the widespread brib
ery of basketball, players in
New York.
U.S. Concludes
Atom Spy Trial
NEW YORK, March 28—(W)—
The government wound up its
historic atom spy trial of three
persons today, and said they were
in league with other traitors who
got away.
The defense pleaded false incri
mination and lack of evidence.
U.S. attorney Irving H. Saypol
told a federal court jury the gang
banded together to steal for So
viet Russia "the most important
scientific secrets ever known v to
mankind."
The three defendants in the
nation's first atom spy trial were
Julius Rosenberg, 34, his wife,
Ethel, 35, and radar expert Mor
ton Sobell, 33.
"The identity of some of the
other traitors who sold their
country down the river along
with Rosenberg and Sobell so far
remains undisclosed," Saypol said
as he closed his case.
The case went to the jury at
4:53 p.m. (EST),
Morisette, 41, Dies;
Was Asst. Prof
In Foundry Tech
Clifford W. Morisette, 41, as
sistant professor of foundry tech
nology at the College, died March
21 after a brief illness.
Mr. Morisette, who came to the
College in the fall of 1946, be
came ill. Monday, March 19 and
died two days later. He was bur
ied in the Centre Hills cemetery.
Before joining the industrial
education staff at the College; he
taught at the Milwaukee Voca
tional school in Milwaukee, Wis.
He received his master's degree in
industrial education at Stout in
stitute, Menamonie, Wis. in 1939.
He is survived by his wife and
daughter.
Hopes To Stop Escalator
Of Farm And Food Costs
WASHINGTON, March 28— (iP)— Economic Stabilizer
Eric Johnston said tonight that he is almost ready to an
nounce a "tough policy" on profits.
He also disclosed at a news conference that he has been
discussing with farm groups a plan to freeze farm price
parity levels at the figures of
Jan. 25 when wages and general
prices were frozen. That could
have the effect of stopping the
escalator that is helping carry
farm and food prices up.
But it was not brought out just
how parity levels could be frozen.
Existing 1a w provides that no
farm product ceiling prices be
set below a level reflecting the
prices of things farmers must
buy.
ERIC JOHNSTON
Russia Drops
Potsdam Issue
As Big 4 Topic
PARIS, March 28 (?P) —Andrei
Gromyko dropped today his in
sistence that the Potsdam agree
ment on the demilitarization of
Germany become a topic of a
new Big Four foreign ministers
meeting.
The Soviet deputy foreign min
ister agreed for the first time to
inclusion of the question of the
"level of arms" of the United
tates, Britain, France and Rus
sia on the proposed agenda.
He abandoned; also, his stand
that German disarmament must
be discussed as a separate topic.
These developments in the 19th
meeting of the four powers' dep
uty foreign ministers led western
authorities to say guardedly that
the four at last may be making
some progress toward arranging
the work sheet for a foreign min
isters conference to ease world
tensions.
"The proposal, at first glance,
seems to indicate that Russia has
moved, a step toward meeting the
West, but really we must study
this item," a high official said.
"Obviously it contains some
flaws."
Charge Carroll
Broke Rare Law
KANSAS CITY, March 28—(W)
—The government, using a rarely
enforced provision of the Internal
Revenue code, today charged
James J. Carroll with failure to
report payment of $52,688.15 on
bets and commissions in 1948 and
1949.
Two informations were filed by
U.S. attorney Sam Wear against
Carroll, nationally known St.
Louiis betting commissioner. They
cited him for failure to report to
federal tax officials money paid
to winning bettors and in com
missions.
Payments involved were alleged
to have been made to 20 indivi
duals and companies in scattered
sections of the country. Sums
paid were described in the infor
mations as "gambling gains" and
"compensation."
Simmons Musicale
The Simmons musicale will be
held tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the
Simmons hall lounge.
Long-playing records to be
played ar e Bach's "Passacaglia
and Fugue in C minor;" Mendels
sohn's "S,ymphony No. 3
(Scotch)"; Richard Strauss's tone
poem "Thus Spake Zarathustra";
and Lambert's "Horoscope Ballet
Music."
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There was a report, too, that
Johnston has proposed that the
escalator clauses in labor con
tracts providing for cost of living
adjustments be allowed only un
til July 1, but the stabilization
chief would not confirm that.
The outlines of a broad new
offensive by Johnston to halt in
flation in the fields of business,
agriculture and wages emerged
along with these other mobiliza
tion developments:
1. The office of price stabiliza
tion put out its long-awaited food
price orders, limiting the mark
ups for wholesalers, chain stores
an d independent retailers on
about 60 per cent of what the
housewife carries home in her
market basket. OPS said there
should be more price cuts than
rises. Meats and fresh fruits were
excepted from the order.
2. Mobilization Director Charles
E. Wilson testified that by 1953
American production will be
ready to turn out tools for all out
war and provide more civilian
goods.
3. Part of the groundwork was
laid for labor's return to the mob
ilization agencies, by a justice
department decision that the
wage stabilization board can be
reconstituted with more members
and more power without first
holding a full dress labor-man
agement conference. Lab or
spokesmen had walked out of the
set-up protesting a wage raise
limitation policy they called un
fair. They also charged "big busi
ness" domination of the program.
and demanded a voice in general
policy making.
Johnston told newsmen he will
spell out in a few days a policy
dealing with "new profit stand
ards." He did not go into detail:
but indicated he planned a hard
fisted approach.
Whether this would be a move
to apply specific ceilings on the
"markups" of manufacturers was
not stated.
Nehru Attacks
M'Arthur Offer
NEW DELHI, March 28—VP)—
Prime Minister Nehru took a rap
today at Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur's offer to talk peace with
the Chinese Communist high
command in Korea.
Nehru told parliament in a for
eign affairs debate it was "an
ex tr a ordinary development
fraught with grave consequences
for all countries concerned—when
military commanders in the field
make statements of political
policies.
"Certainly, no field commander
is going to lay down the policies
of the government of India"
Nehru said. "Political policies are
laid down by governments, not by
commanders in the field."
MacArthur announced in Tokyo
Saturday that organized Com
munist forces had been substan
tially cleared from South Korea.
He said he is ready to meet the
Chinese high command at any
time and seek a military means of
achieving the United Nations'
political objectives i n Korea
"without further bloodshed." He
asserted that if the U.N. should
decide to attack the Chinese main
land bases and coastal areas, the
results would be disastrous for
the Reds.