'YttiRtTARY 21,• 1952
House Refusal
Hit by Truman
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-4?)—President Truman said today a
House group's refusal to give Newbold Morris power to grant im
munity, to witnesses in investigating government corruption would
hamper the inquiry.
~He told a news conference he assumed full responsibility for
recommending such a grant of
power to the special "clean-up"
investigator, and the administra
tion has nothing to cover up.
There was no bug under the
chip in the proposal, he said with
a laugh, adding that without such
power Morris would be prevented
from doing the bang-up job that
both he and Congress want.
Unanimous Vote
Morris had not not requested
such power, but had sought au
thority to subpoena witnesses and
documents which the President
also recommended.
The House judiciary committee
voted unanimously y ester day
against giving Morris power to
grant witnesses immunity from
proSecution for testimony that
might otherwise incriminate them.
The President explained further
his immunity request by• saying
whenever there is an investigation
by a grand jury the man who tes
tifies to help catch a criminal is
granted immunity.
Refuses to Comment
He repeated that he is going
to give Morris every help in the
investigation. Earlier in -the day,
he issued an executive order for
mally clothing Morris with au
thority to require, among other
things, any government employee
to give testimony at the inquiry
and all .government departments
and agencies to supply informa
tion and personnel Morris might
request.
During a brief discussion of pol
itics, the President again refused
to be drawn out on whether he
will run again. He also declined
comment when asked when Gen
eral Eisenhower might end his
present assignment as supreme
commander of the North Atlantic
Treaty forces.
Far from showing any annoy
ance at being asked the big ques
tion concerning . himself, he
seemed to enjoy today's new twist
on the old theme.
NATO Ministers
Meet to Plan
Field Armies
LISBON, Portugal, Feb. 20 —(IP)
—Atlantic Pact ministers met in
sunny Lisbon today to try to
translate "armies on paper into
armies in the field." The words
were those of Secretary of State
Acheson, who warned the Allied
powers "what we have done so
far will be of - little value unless
we, finish the job."•
Acheson's speech keynoted the
formal opening of the North At
lantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) council's ninth meeting,
held in the heavily-guarded white
marble parliament of Portugal.
TWo new members, Greece and
Turkey, joined the 12 Western
Allies at the, meeting, attended
by foreign, defense, and finance
ministers. Greece and Turkey
were welcomed into the council
by Lester• B. Pearson, Canadian
external affairs minister, who is
chairman', of the current session.
Besides the two new members,
the council is composed of the
United States, Britain, France,
Portugal, The Netherlands, Lux
embourg, Italy, Norway, Den-
Mark, Canada and Iceland.
Weber Announces
Air' Unit Activation
HARRISBURG, Feb. 20—(IP)—
Maj. Gen. Frank A. Weber, state
adjutant general, today an
nounced'the activation of a new
Air National guard unit in Penn
sylvania:
Weber said the unit has been
named the 8148th Air Base
Squadron. It will be located at
Spaatz Field, Reading.
AuthoriZed strength of the unit
will be three officers and 117 air
men. This force twill be aug
mented by a permanent base :de
taclunent.
In, Mexico, there are. 80 public
holidays annually: Mohaminedans
celebrate 62 holidays yearly.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Takes Blame
Harry S. 'Truman
West Germany
To Make Arms
On EDC Entry
BONN, Germany, Feb. 20—(?P)
—The Big Three Western powers
have agreed to let West Germany
start making weapons—barring
such things as atomic bombs,
guided missiles and battleships—
when she enters the European
Defense Community, Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer said tonight.
Back from the Big Three for
eign ministers' meeting in Lon
don, Adenauer . announced th e
Germans also will be permitted
to resume atomic and bacterio
logical research, though weapons
of that kind are out.
The authorization takes effect
when West Germany ratifies its
membership in the six-n at ion
European Defense Community
and the proposed Unified Euro
pean Army; he said. That may
be some months away.
The chancellor's three-day con
ference with the foreign ministers
of the United States, Britain, and
France was mainly designed to
speed enrollment of German man
power and industry in West,
Europe's defense.
NIT --
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consideration for the tournament,
Fishburn said it was the opinion
of the committee that participa=
tion in the NCAA tourney would
hold greater prestige for the Col
lege.
Fishburn also said that the feel
er had been rejected since there
was a possibility that an NCAA
bid would be forthcoming and
that it would be impossible to
accept both. The NCAA tourna
ment would be prefdrable, he
said.
Bucknell Conflict
It would be impossible for the
team to participate in both tour
naments, Fi s h b ur n explained,
since the UnAergraduate'Regula
tions forbid students to be off
campus for extracurricular activi
ties for more than 70 hours a se
mester.
Another factor which entered
into the decision, Bentley said,
was that participating in the NIT
would necessitate either cancel
ing or rescheduling the game
with - Bucknell University which
is to be played in Lewisburg
March 8. This is the same date
the NIT is scheduled to start.
The contest has created tre
mendous interest in Lewisburg,
and Bucknell would be opposed
to changing the date. The game
has been sold out for a week.
In commenting on the suggest
ion that the schedule could be
altered to make possible an ac
ceptance of the NIT feeler, one
College official commented, "At
no time would we consider .dis
rupting the schedule.",
State College Youth
Admits Two Thefts
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 20—(W)
—Police held a 13-year-old
State College boy for juvenile
authorities to da y after he
ditched two pistols and a dag
ger in a washroom in nearby
Wilkins Township.
Patrolman Alex Russell said
the boy confesed burglarizing
a State College sporting goods
store and 'stealing eight guns
He also affiliated the $5O hold
up of a State College bus
depot.
Tru -on
Denies
State ient
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—(JP)—
President Truman today denied
making any secret commitment
to Britain's Prime Minister
Churchill to send U.S. troops any
where in the world.
The President's denial came af
ter the House of Representatives
demanded in. a formal resolution
that he furnish "full and complete
information" on any such corn
initm ents he might have made in
his talks with Churchill last
month.
This .resolution wasn't binding
on Truman.
And when reporters asked him
about it at his weekly news con
ference he declined co mm en t,
saying the resolution hadn't
reached him officially. •
Richard L. Wilson, Washington
correspondent for the Cowles
publications, then asked if the
President without reference to
the House resolution had com
mitted this country to send troops
anywhere in the world.
Again Truman declined to com
ment.
But after the news conference
broke up he spoke privately with
Wilson and told him the answer
to his question was no.
Mass Oath-Taking
Approved by State
HARRISBURG, Feb. 20—(W)—
There is no legal barrier against
administering Pennsylvania's new
loyalty oath on a mass basis, the
State Justice department said to
day.
Robert Kunzig, deputy attorney
general, said mass oath-taking is
an accepted practice as far as the
law is concerned.
Ile made the comment in reply
to an Erie school board solicitor's
contention that mass taking of
the oath may be illegal.
e s emand UN Accept
ussia
MUNSAN, Korea, Thursday, Feb. 21—(4 1 P)—The Communists in
a loud propaganda outcry Wednesday demanded the United Nations
accept Russia as a "neutral" to help supervise the Korean armistice.
At the same time the Red Peiping radio rapped the Allied nomi
nation of Norway and Sweden to a six -nation, neutral supervisory
organ for policing a truce.
The debate was to continue
a staff officers' session scheduled
for 11 a.m. today (9 p.m. Wednes
day, EST) in Panmunjom.
In Tokyo the "voice of the
United Nations command" radio
in a broadcast to Korea accused
the Communists of deliberately
stalling for time under orders.
At Wednesday's staff officers'
meeting the Reds refused to be
diverted from their campaign for
acceptance of Russia as a Korean
"neutral" inspector.
Angrily, Col. Don 0. Darrow,
chief U.N: staff officer, told the
Communists that if they had no
intention of making any progress
the meeting might as well adjourn
for the day.
The Communists refused and
pressed their support of Russia.
The two-hour session ended only
after it was clear that neither
side was going to alter its stand.
Since Sunday the U.N. command
has turned down the Red nomina
tion of the Soviet Union as "not
acceptable" on the grounds that'
both sides had agreed the six
neutral nations invited to serve
in Korea must be agreeable to
both sides.
Tugs Tow Tanker,
Seamen to Safety
BOSTON, Feb. 20—(IP)—Two tugs started towing the stern
section of the storm-broken tanker Fort Mercer toward land late
today. The hulk has 13 seamen passengers aboard.
The Coast Guard received a message at 4:45 p.m. (EST) that the
tow was under way off Cape Cod. Two tugs, the Foundation Jose
phine and the M. Moran, took the derelict section in tow, bound in
the direction of Nantucket light
ship
At the New York office of the
Moran Towing and Transporta
tion Co., Inc., owners of the M.
Moran, it was said the course of
the tow would be to Block Island,
R. 1., since that was considered
less risky than to Boston direct.
It was considered possible the
ultimate destination would be
New York.
The tug Ocean Pr in c e was
standing by and the Coast Guard
cutter Eastwind was escorting
the convoy.
The Foundation Josephine got
a line aboard the stricken stern
section in midafternoon. Shortly
after, the Moran transferred medi
cal supplies from the cutter to
the stern hulk. Two of the 13
seamen still aboard the wrecked
craft were ill, one with pneu
monia.
The 13 aboard were the last of
a total of 84 men who were on
the Mercer and another tanker,
the Pendleton, when a north
easter cracked them both in two
Sunday night and Monday. They
stayed aboard to help in salvage
attempts; 21 of their companions
had been removed earlier.
Six men were killed in the bat
tle with the elements, eight were
missing and presumed dead, and
57 were rescued.
While this latest chapter in the
drama of the seas was being writ
ten at a point about 90 miles east
southeast of Nantucket Island,. a
Coast Guard investigation in Bos
ton heard testimony from crew
men of the Pendleton.
While the battle to tow in the
crippled stern section of the Fort
Mercer was going on, it was de
cided to sink by gunfire the bow
section, drifting dangerously in
the high seas. The Trinidad Cor
poration, in New York, the ves
sel's owners, gave the Co as t
Guard permission to destroy the
hulk.
Mores to Talk
D. R. Meres, of the General
Electric Co., will speak to the
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers about "Fatigue Fail
ure" at 7 tonight in 110 Electrical
Engineering.
Armistice Role
Two MIGs Downed
SEOUL, Thursday, Feb. 21—(W)
—U.S: jet pilots Wednesday shot
down two of about 200 MIG-15
jets which the Communists sent
into the skies of northwest Ko
rea. Five other MIGs were dam
aged.
It was the eighth kill in four
days of blazing air action that
has seen the Reds in one day
throw in as many as 300 jets from
Manchuria. Allied losses, if any,
will be given in a weekly sum
mary.
Col. Francis Gabreski. the Air
Force's top active ace, shared one
of Wednesday's kills. He now has
four and one-half planes and
needs another half to get his jet
ace rating. He bagged 28 planes
in World War 11.
• American bomber pilots re
ported seeing unusual objects in
night flights. It was believed these
might be the same "strange look
ing orange globes" sighted . by
Superfort pilots over Wonsan and
Sunchon last month. One pilot
said the "things", could be flashes
of exhausts from Red jets. The
Air Force refused to comment.
PAGE THREE
Salesman Is
Hero in
Sutton Case
NEW YORK, Feb. 20—(W)—A
tall, young clothing salesman with
a memory for faces turned up to
day as the unsung hero in the
capture of notorious Willie Sut
ton.
He is 24-year-old Arnold Schus
ter, who tipped off Brooklyn po
lice Monday that a man he'd no
ticed on a subway was the elu
sive, long-sought bank robber.
Schuster recognized the 51-
BULLETIN
NEW YORK, Feb. 20—(W)—
Police Commissioner George
Monaghan today announced the
capture of Thomas Kling, whom
he identified as a pal of bank
robber Willie Sutton and one
of the nation's 10 most wanted
criminals.
year-old Willie from a "wanted"
picture that hung for months in
hi s father's Brooklyn clothing
store, where young Schu s t e r
works.
Police Commissioner George
Monaghan called off a meeting at
which Mayor Vincent Impellitteri
was to have congratulated the
thr e e policemen who captured
Sutton.
e He. talked with Schuster. Then
he confirmed the salesman's role
in the capture and promised him
full support in/ trying to obtain
any reward that may have been
posted for Sutton.
Senate Group
Approves UMT
The Senate armed services com
mittee yesterday approved a bill
to' permit the start of Universal
Military Training before the end
of the year by a 12-0 vote, the
Associated Press reported.
Meanwhile, President Truman
was ordering the assignment of
draft-eligible conscientious objec
tors to 24 months of consecutive
work in civilian capacities ap
proved by their draft boards, the
AP said.
In the UMT move, Senator Rus
sell (D-Ga.); chairman of the Sen
ate committee, said the Senate
probably will delay action on its
bill until the House has acted, ac
cording to the AP.
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