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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1952
State... i GOP , Enters q Three
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• HARRISBURG, Feb. 18—(A')—Pennsylvania backers of Gen. Douglas MacArthur,
Harold E. Stassen, and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower entered their names today as
Republican candidates for President in the State's April 22 primary election.
Sen. Robert A. Taft, of Ohio,
actively campaigning for the Re
publican presidential nomination,
did not file for the Pennsylvania
presidential preference vote.
Neither were the names of Pres
ident Truman nor Sen. Estes Ke
fauver of Tennessee entered on
the Democratic ticket.
However, a blank space• is pro
vided on both Republican and
Democratic ballots for voters to
write in the names of their favo
rite, for president.
None of the three men entered
in th e Republican presidential
race in Pennsylvania signed the
petitions placing their names on
the ballot. Their signatures were
not required by state law. Neither
is the result of the vote binding
upon delegates to the two big
national conventions.
MacArthur's p e ti ti o n s were
filed by John G. Davis, state
chairman of the MacArthur-for-
President-forces; those for Stassen
by his long-time friend, Jay
Cooke, Philadelphia banker, and
those for Eisenhower by Edwin
F. Russell, Harrisburg publisher
and chairman of the Pennsylvania
citizens for Eisenhower organiza
tion.
Stassen, for m e r governor of
Minnesota and now president of
the University of Pennsylvania,
is abtively campaigning for the
G 0 P presidential nomination.
Gen. MacArthur has stated he is
not a candidate while Gen. Eisen
hower said lie would accept the
Republican nomination but would
not campaign for it.
Army, Marines
Ask for 19,000
Men in April
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—(N)
The'. Defense Department _ today
issued a draft call for 19,000 men
in April-15,000 for the Army and
4,000 for the Marine Corps.
The April call brings to 894,-
430 the total of announced draf
tees since selective service was
resumed in September, 1950.
The Army has asked for 817,-
000 of the total and the Marine
Corps for 77,430.
The April call is the lowest
since last September when 16,-
900 men were requested by the
two services.
The April call is the third low
est since the outbreak of the Kor
ean War. The loWest for any
month was July, 1951, when 15,-
000 men were drafted by the
Arfny.
Army spokesmen said one rea
son for the smaller draft in April
was the increased number of men
volunteering for the services, and
the greater number of veterans
who are reenlisting after the ex
piration of their first 'duty tours.
Natural Gas Well
Set Afire Again
RENOVO, Pa., Feb. • 18-OP)
A newly-brought in natural gas
well 10 miles from here- burst in
to a high sky-searing flames to
night for the• second time.
Gas experts on the scene said
the new fire was touched off by
a spark from the motor of a large
scooping machine which had Veen
removing earth from the top of
the shaft..
The well, believed to be one of
the largeSt in the nation, had sent
a flame 150 feet into the air on
Friday. It blew itself out yester
day in a freak occurence that still
has not been fully explained.
Paul (Red) Adair, a fire-fight
ing expert flown here from Texas
to extinguish the flame, said the
new one seemed "larger" than
the first.
blowsaid he , will attempt to
blow out
,the flame tomorrow
with 100 quarts of solid nitro
glycerine. Then an attempt will
be made to seal the well with -a
cap-capable of withstanding 10,-
000 pounds of pressure per square
ineh.-
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
OP Candidate
Harold E. Wasson
County Records
3-inch Snowfall
Three inches of snow fell in
Centre County over the weekend,
the first heavy fall since Dec. 21
when 3.5 inches were recorded.
The storm, . which struck the
County Saturday a f ternoo n,
brought more snow than had been
anticipated. Dr. Charles Hosier,
meteorologist at the Coll e g e
'Weather station, said yesterday.
Though only three inches were
recorded at the College, • up to
eight inches fell in the moun
tains where the snow turned to
rain later than it did t in the low
lands.
The storm added .6 of an inch
to the percipitation total for the
month.
In January only 1.08 inches of
snow were reported, one inch of
which fell in one day. The aver
age snowfall for February is 10.7
inches, ' but last year only 4.5
inches fell.
Reris Delay
Dele.,ations
MUNSAN, Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 19 (.4 3 ) The Communists
played a waiting game Monday, delaying until today a full-dress
meeting of the main armistice delegations while pressing for direct
Russian participation in Korean truce supervision.
A plenary session of the main armistice delegation was called off
Sunday without explanation and
re-scheduled for , 10 a.m. t o day
(8 p.m. Monday, EST) in Pan-.
munjom.
It was possible both sides could
reach final agreement on recom
mendations to concerned govern
ments for a. high-level political
conference after the armistice is
signed.
The U.N. command accepted the
Red proposal for, a post-truce
peace conference but added a
qualifying statement restricting
the talks to strictly Korean mat
ters.
The Communists ma y accept
this today or make an• e,xplana
tory: statement of their own. The
Reds also could move that their
proposal go into the record as the
final • settlement.
This could •leave it up to the
governments .themselves to inter
pret the - Red proposal which calls
for th e conference to ,consider
"withdrawal of all foreign forces
from Korea, the peaceful. settle
ment of the Korea question, et
cetera." The Allies questioned the
words "et cetera."
The dispute over Russian par
ticipation in neutral teams to in
spect and supervise the truce
first developed Sunday. The Reds
proposed Poland and Czechoslo
vakia also match the three Allied
proposed neutrals—Norway. Swe
den and Switzerland. ~
Allied negotiators agreed to Po-
UMT Program
Said to Save
Billions Yearly
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—(R)
The House armed services com
mittee today claimed full imple
mentation• of a Universal Military
Training program eventually
would save the taxpayers 13 bil
lion dollars a year.
By full implementation, Chair
man Vinson (D-Ga.) said in a
statement, he means the training
annually of 800,000 youths. Vin
son said the statement was con
curred in by the armed services
committee.
The huge annual claimed saving
in the cost of the military estab
lishment is contingent upon a re
duction of 1,700,000 in the size of
the armed forces. That would
mean a standing force of 2,000,-
000 men, with a ready-reserve of
2,500,000 men in a drill-pay status,
and 800,000 youths receiving mili
tary training annually under
UMT. The big reserve would feed
through UMT.
Since there are no present plans
to train 800,000 youths annually
under UMT or to cut the armed
services to 2,000,000 men, the pro
jected saving of as much as 13
billions would not accure until
some future year.
Vinson made public his figures
as he prepared to take to the
House floor next week a bill pro
viding a starter on UMT.
Quarterdeck Society
To Elect Officers
The Quarterdeck Society will
hold its monthly meeting at 8
p.m. tonight in the Navy ward
room, Engineering E., Frederick
Rodgers, commanding officer, an
nounced yesterday.
Election of officers and a pro
posed amendment to the society's
constitution are scheduled.
Truce
eeting
land and Czechoslovakia, but Col.
Don 0. Darrow, chief U.N. staff
officer, immediately rejected Rus
sia as "not acceptable." There was
no amplifying statement. •
SEQUL, Feb. 19—(R)---Ameri
can jet pilots damaged two of the
250 Communist MIG jets they
saw Monday and on the ground
Allied infantrymen blasted at the
Chinese •with . two tank infantry
raiding parties. .
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rench Diplomat
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Steps Taken
To Patch
NATO Riff
LONDON, Feb. 18 —(W)-- The
Big Three foreign ministers and
West Germany's Chancellor Kon
rad Adenauer took two big steps
today toward preventing German
pride and French prejudice from
wrecking the Western defense
buildup.
Informed sources said the four
power talks, which continued far
into the night, ended with plans
by Britain, France and the United
States to meet French demands
for guarantees that German par
ticipation in a, European army
would not mean the rebirth of
German militarism.
French Foreign Minister Rob
ert Schuman also was said to
have agreed to negotiate a settle
ment of the Franco-German row
over the future of the rich Saar
basin. Adenauer is believed to
have assured Schuman, U.S. Sec
retary of State Dean Acheson and
British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden that he will take part
in such negotiations. Settlement
of the dispute is one of Germany's
conditions for joining the pro
posed European army.
Official spokesmen said the
ministers made "some progress"
on several issues confronting
them. But they also left several
questions unsettled.
The outcome of the London
talks could break a political log
jam in Paris, where the govern
ment of premier Edgar Fau r e
faces a vote of confidence on the
European army issue tomorrow,
and in Lisbon, where top-level
conferences are paving the way
for the opening Wednesday of the
North Atlantic Treaty Orangiza
tion (NATO) council.
One good. sneeze can send
20,000 infection- laden droplets
shooting as far as 12 feet at a
speed of 150 feet per second. Af
ter half an hour, 4000 of them
will still be in the air.
ITS A t o
When the doors of • the College Library
opened in 1859, there were 1500 volumes on the
shelves.
Yesterday, there were about 365,235 books
on record, according to the Catalog Dept. of
the Library.
This is off the record. But, I was counting
Hot Fudge Sundaes down at Vic's the other
night. And, they sure are popular. Join the
crowd. Run down and enjoy one or two tonight!
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Hoover Asks
Civil Service
Reforms
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—(?P)
Former President Herbert Hoover
tonight called on Congress for
civil service reforms to remove
what he called the "humiliation"
of "sickening conduct" by federal
officials.
Addressing a national confer
ence of persons supporting the
government reorganization pro
posals which his bi-partisan com
mission handed Congress three
years ago, Hoover declared:
"Surely the nation has a right
to a better system of choice and
management of its employes than
one which • has produced these
months of humiliation."
Can't Ignore Exposures
The 77-year-old Hoover said in
a speech prepared for the citizens
committee for the Hoover report,
sponsor of the one-day meeting,
that:
"No one can ignore the flood
of exposures of less than sacred
honor or real patriotism by em
ployes in many agencies of the
government during these recent
years.
"Daily, Congress and grand jur
ies are turning up sickening con
duct of federal civil officials.
Recommended In 1948
"These exposures can mean only
one thing: that our method of se
lection and organization of federal
employes is badly at fault some
where:"
Had the commission's recom
mendations for a stronger career
service system been enacted
promptly in 1948, Hoover de
clared, "they would . have saved
great grief to our country."
These proposals, many of which
are contained in a bill passed by
the Senate last October but not
yet acted on in the House, would
remove from politics many gov
ernment jobs. including collectors
of internal revenue.
Minors Picked Up
In Raid on Spa
At least six minors were picked
up in a raid made on the Spa
restaurant Friday night by 13
agents of the Liquor C ont r o l
Board and several State College
policemen.
John R. Juba, chief of police
in State College, reported that the
raid was a result of a large num
ber of complaints concerning the
presence of minors in drinking
establishments in th e borough.
Juba also said that plans are being
made for the checking of other
drinking places in the area.
The cases ag a inst both the
minors and the management will
be decided by the liquor board
when more information is gath
ered. Juba added.
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