TEURBDAY. APRIL 26; 1951
Railroad Workers
Six Cent Wage Increase
WASHINGTON, April 25—(JP)—The government poked a hole
in its own wage eeiling today.
Economic stabilizer Eric Johnston approved a six-cent hourly
increase for 1,000,000 non-operating railroad workers to offset a cost
of living rise.
They would have been entitled to only two or three cents if the
government's 10 per cent ceiling
on wage increases had been ap
plied tightly.
Escalator Clause
But an "escalator" clause in
their contract called for the six
cents, because living \ costs had
gone up
Johnston bowed to the argu
ments of a three-man panel that
collective bargaining in the rail
road industry is "unique" and re
quires special handling. It takes
longer to negotiate a contract be
cause of "lengthy and cumber
some" procedures of the railway
labor act, said the panel, which
was appointed by Johnston at
President Truman's suggestion.
The railroads estimate that the
six-cent increase will cost them
$129,600,000 a year.
Questions Raised
The Johnston . action, first in
which he has permitted a boost
above the 10 per cent allowed
under the stabilization formula,
poses two immediate questions:
1. How will it affect the wage
hour dispute of the four opera
ting railroad unions—the firemen,
engineers, conductors, and train
men, who are still deadlocked
after two years of trying to nego
tiate contracts?
2. How will it affect other
wage cases awaiting the estab
lishment of a new wage stabiliza
tion board?
Truman To Ask
Farm Parity
Price Freeze
WASHINGTON, April 25—(IP)
—Legislators said tonight the
Truman administration plans to
ask Congress tomorrow for au
thority to put, a year-at-a-time
freeze on farm parity prices in a
new move to hold food costs
down.
Senator Maybank (D-S.C.), who
attended a meeting- today with
President Truman. and his top
mobilization command, said the
administration also will ask:
I.—Tighter rent controls, in
cluding ceilings on rents for com
mercial property.
2.—Subsidies on some imports,
perhaps including coffee, (sub
sidies are payments by the govern
ment of part of the cost in order
to hold down the retail price to
consumers.)
3.-,—"Probably" some new re
strictions on credit, in addition to
the installment buying and other
curbs already in force.
Such new anti-inflation powers
will be asked by the President in
a special message proposing ex
tension of the defense production
act, which expires in June. It is
under this law that the govern
ment has imposed wage and price
controls and many other economic
curbs in the past year.
N.Y. Post Says
Rita-My Through
NEW YORK, April 25 —(aP)--
Film. star Rita Hayworth intends
to get a divorce or legal separa
tion from Prince Aly Khan with
out seeing him again, the New
York Post said today. In France,
the Prince termed divorce reports
"ridiculous."
The Post story, by columnist
Earl Wilson, said "rather than go
through a spectacular meeting
with him, she'll send her lawyer,
Bartley Crum, to Paris to untie
the •famous knot."
Wilson said the red-haired ac
tress will acknowledge in a for
mal- statement this week that her
story-book romance with the
Prince is about over.
All this appeared to be news to
the Prince, who today in Cannes
said "there never has been any
question of a divorce." It was not
clear whether this statement ap
plied equally to a separation.
THE DAILY f COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Given
Doug's Day
Scheduled
For Chicago
CHICAGO, April 25. (JP)—Mill
ions from Chicago and the mid-
west are
. expected to turn out to
morrow to show Gen. MacArthur
he hasn't started fading away in
their minds. z.
Chicago is planning for possibly
the greatest demonstration in its
history to welcome -the five star
General on his first visit to, the
midwest since his return to the
United States last week.
Some are calling. it D (for
Doug) day. The city will go on
a virtual holiday footing. pfficials
are preparing for a turnout of
3,000,000 spectators.
A double barreled celebration
has been arranged. In the after
noon there will be a 23-mile par
ade from the airport to the loop
and through the business district.
At night, a mammoth jamboree
and .fireworks display will be
held in Soldier field.
Gen. MacArthur is due to ar
rive at Midway airport from New
York in his plane "Bataan" at
12:30 p.m., accompanied by Mrs.
Mad Arthur and their son, Arthur,
13. The General is expected to
speak briefly on his arrival and
to deliver a talk at the Soldier
field jamboree.
His Soldier field talk has been
billed as "not a major policy
speech."
Mrs. Fine Buried -
At Wilkes-Barre
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. ; April 25
—(JP)—Funeral services were held
today for Mrs. Helene Morgan
Fine, 42-year-old wife of Pennsyl_
yania's Governor.
They were as simple and un
assuming as the 42 years of her
life. -
Mrs. Fine died of a brain tumor
Sunday at the University hOspi
tal, Philadelphia, after two opera
tions.
Governor John S. Fine had ask
ed for the reserved ceremony. He
sat beside his wife's bier as all
Episcopal clergyman intoned the
words of the scripture, "I am the
ressurection and the life."
For the people of this commun
ity, it was the second mourning
period in less than a year. Only
last September 33 Pennsylvania
national guardsmen from the
Wilkes-Barre region were killed
in a troop train wreck in Ohio.
The funeral services were pri
vate, except for the family, a few
close friends and an entourage of
top State officials who included
cabinet secretaries, juiists and
legislators.
Thinking Typewriter Unveiled
NEW YORK, April 25—(1P)—A
typewriter that thinks was dem
onstrated today to the American
Ngwspaper Publishers association:
This machine types the same
kind and size letters as your port
able or office typewriter. Electric
impulses change these letters into
any size, any style of newspaper
type you like. And it comes out,
complete, on photographic filin,
ready for the engraved plate that
will print your newspaper.
Eliminates All Type
The typewriter eliminates all
type, all typesetters, all linotype
machines, and all the casting of
type, the latter for example, an
item weighing 400 pounds, costing
$28,000. The • typewriter substi
tutes for the casting, a bit• of ma-
Allies Stem Red Army
Push On Central Front
Draftee Service
Set At 2 Years
WASHINGTON, April 25
(2?)— Length of service for
draftees was fixed at 24 months /
—three more than at present—
in a decision today by Senate
and" House conferees working
on a compromise of conflicting
bills.
In passing separate measures,
the Senate approved 24 months
and the HoUse 26. The defense
department sought approval of
27 months. ~
The term .of service agree
ment was the only one reached
in today's closed-door session.
Another ,meeting will be 'held
tomorrow.
GOP Asks
Inquiry Into
Mac Firing
WASHINGTON, April 25—(JP)
—The Senate Republican policy
committee called today for an
"all-out" investigation of foreign
and military policies linked with
the ouster of Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur.
Chairman Taft (R-Ohio) told
reporters the GOP group wants
an inquiry into policies as far
back as the 1945 Yalta confer
ence, with special emphasis on
what he •called the. administra
tion's "encouragement of Chinese
communists."
To get such an inquiry, Taft
said, the Republicans will hold
in abeyance a resolution by Sen
ator Ferguson (R-Mich.) for a
joint senate-house investigation
while they watch developments
in hearings to be opened May 3
by the Senate Armed Services
and Foreign Relations commit
tees.
MacArthur will be the first
witness and Taft said the Re
publicans will demand that the
hearings be public. Senator Rus
sell (D-Ga.), chairman of the two
committee inquiry, has said he'd
rather the hearings would be
closed.'
In New York, Maj. Gen. Court
ney Whitney, MacArthur 's
spokesman, said the five-star
general has no objection to pub
lic hearings or to being televised.
AP Chief In Prague
Feared Under Arrest
FRANKFURT, Germany, April
25 (!I')—William N. Oatis, chief of
the Associated Press bureau in
Czechoslovakia, disappear ed
Monday and the U.S. embassy ,in
Prague fears he is under arrest.
The embassy requested today
that the Communist government
investigate "on the most urgent
basis possible." Embassy Counsel
lor Tyler Thompson took personal
charge of efforts to trace Oatis.
chinery weighing a pound-and-a
half.
The purpose is faster, less
costly and more accurate printing
because of elimination of handling
by several printing departments.
In the long run, say the producers,
the Graphic Arts Research Foun
dation, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.,
more and better jobs will result.
Seven Fingers
The typewriter has seven little
fingers rods of metal, in its back.
Each letter or character moves
one or more fingers. The moving
finger closes -an electric switch,
sending current into a calculating
machine, or mechanical brain.
What happens there is the same
as when you dial a phone number,
all done, with the same kind of
electrical gadgets.
Next step is transmission of
this electrical control to a small
TOKYO, Thursday, April 26—(11 3 )—Savage Allied counterblows
stemmed the Chinese Red offensive on the critical Korean central
front Wednesday. The entire enemy drive was slowed by bloody
United Nations ground forces in the west withdrew slowly toward
Seoul. The motorized columns stretched for miles along the dusty
roads from points 25 miles north
of the shattered Republican capi
tal. -
___
U.S. Sends
Military Aid
To Formosa
WASHINGTON, April 25—(/P)
—The United States is furnishing
military aid to Formosa under
an agreement which requires the
Chinese nationalists to use the
arms for , internal security or
"legitimate self defense" only..
This was disclosed today 'by
Secretary of State Acheson, who
released the text of the hitherto
secret, three-months-old agree
ment.
Acheson also told a news con
ference that the government's
Formosan policy has not changed
in any way since President Tru
man assigned the seventh fleet
last June to protect the island
against possible Red Chinese in
vasion.
Formosan policy has been one
of the controversial points in the
row between ,:esident Truman
and General Douglas MacArthur.
Following MacArthur's speech
to Congress last week the De
fense department announced
plans to dispatch a military mis
sion to Formosa. Without refer
ence to MacArthur, Acheson said
today that the policy behind this
was the same policy declared by
Mr. Truman last June.
In New York, Maj. Gen. Court
ney Whitney, MacArthur's
spokesman, said that in his per
sonal view "it would seen . ' to be
a reasonable conclusion" that the
administration decision to step
up military aid •to Formosa was
an indication of MacArthur's po
sition.
Cuban, U.S. Planes
Crash In Florida
KEY WEST; Fla., April 25 (JP)
—A big Cuban airliner and a
small U.S. Navy plane collided
with explosive force over Key
West today and spun into the sea,
carrying 43 people to their deaths.
Water splashed 50 feet into the
air as the transport, with 34 pass
engers and five crewmen, nose
dived with a terrific bang into
20 feet of water.
The Navy plane went to pieces
as it fell and crashed into the
ocean two miles west of the
transport. It carried a four-man
crew.
Hundreds of sunbathers saw
the planes meet at 4,000 feet al
titude with a noise that resembled
an explosion. Eyewitness.es at first
believed that the Navy plane had
blown up while flying alongside
the liner.
whirling disc. On the border of
the disc are eight circular rows
of letters. The eight contain 16
alphabets and the characters, such
as commas, that go to make an
alphabet complete for printing in
English.
Each letter is transparent. 'A
flashing light shines through
whichever letter the typewriter
chooses. Lenses focus this letter
on photographic film, and that
completes the job.
Small, Huh?
The apparatus attached to the
typewriter to do all this is about
the size of two family refrigera
tors.
The machine shown today is the
first ready for newspaper use.
The inventors are two French
men now living in Cambridge,
R. A. Higonnet and Louis Moy
roud.
PAGE THREE
Allied air power and artillery
took a heavy toll, but the Reds
kept coining heedless of losses.
More Reds moved up under cover
of darkness. Five trains and 1,100
trucks were spotted rolling south.
ward.
18,000 Reds Killed
An estimated 18,000 Reds were
kllled in three days—to noon
Wednesday—by Allied air and
ground action. That estimated did
not include wounded.
A field dispatch said that pos
sibly half„ of 33 Chinese Red di
visions which• struck in western
Korea were badly mauled.
The Chinese assault on the cen
tral sector of the 100-mile front
was checked four miles north of
Kapyong. Kapyong, 33 miles
northeast of Seoul, is on the
paved Seoul-Chunchon highway
a main Allied supply artery.
Reds Stopped At .Chunchon
AP correspondent Jim Becker,
on the central front, reported
an Allied tank-infantry column
MacArthur Aide Says
Staff Shared Policy
NEW YORK, April 24—(1P)--
An aide said today Gen. Doug
las MacArthur's desire to throw
Chinese Nationalists into bat
tle was shared by top Army,
Navy and Air commanders in
Korea.
The spokesman said Lt. Gen.
Matthew Ridgway, MacAr
thur's successor as Far Eastern
Commander, went directly to
the Pentagon with such a pro
posal apparently soon after
he got his first look at the sit
uation in Korea.
"As far as I know, there has
been no shift in the opinion of
any military leader on the
scene." added Maj. Gen. Court
ney Whitney, personal advisor
to MacArthur. -,
lunged back at the Reds pouring
down northwest of Chunchon.
The road and rail center 45 air
miles northeast of Seoul.
The task force swept to within
six miles of parallel 38, mowed
down the Reds and then returned
to U.N. lines after running out of
ammunition. A second armored
force struck north of Kapyong.
An estimated 750 Reds were
killed by the task forces.
Regrouping Necessary
A frontline officer expressed be
lief that the Chinese vanguards
of a 150,000-man force that made
a central front breakthrough had
been forced to stop and regroup
after being "hurt very badly"
Tuesday.
Br. Laborites
Seek U.S. Aid
LONDON, April 25 (W)—The
British labor government, shaken
by left-wing thunderings, called
for American help today to check
a raw materials crisis threatening
the nation's economy. The call got
a prompt response in Washington.
U.S. Secretary of State Acheson
pledged at a Washington news
conference that the United States
will take "full account of essen
tial needs' of friendly nations in
allocating scarce raw materials.
The United States will go on
pressing for increased production
and for efficient use of existing
stocks, Acheson said.
Foreign Secretary Herbert Mor
rison warned in a speech before
the American Chamber of Com
merce here that Britain's living
standards, her economy and even
her rearmament drive will decline
unless she gets more essentia/
supplies.