THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1952 Truce. DecicHock May . Be 'Broken MUNSAN, Korea, Thursday, March 6—(P —Basic differences on prisoner exchange and Russian participation as a neutral truce inspector pointed strongly today toward a high level 'decision to break the Korean , armistice deadlock. Advande United Nations command headquarters ,w ould not conjecture on hoW the stalemate might be broken; But observers believed the problems were re ceiving a careful consideration in Washington and perhaps 'in Mos cow and. Peiping. Discussiofis Scheduled Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy. sen ior UN delegate was in Tokyo Wednesday • and presumably briefed Gen. Matthew B. Ridg way, supreme UN commander, on the latest developments in the armistice tents. This would not necessarily mean any change in the Allied position. ' Truce negotiators, despite lack of progress, scheduled more dis cussions in Panmunjom for 11 a.m. today (9 p.m. EST. Wed nesday). At Wedn'e i sday's session, the UN presented .the fourth and latest list of Allied prisoners believed to be in Communist hands but not acknowledged by -the Reds. The list, originally carried 174 names but one name was removed at the last moment. Prisoners' Bar Truce U.S. Ships Involved in, Oil Deal WASHINGTON, March 5- r (1P) —Houston W. Wasson testified today that he and Newbold Mor ris, "federal anti-corruptiori chief, were lawyers for a Chinese. Na tionalist shipping firm w h i c 4 hauled oil and other cargoes to Red China shortly before the out break of the Korean War. Testimony brought out that oil shipment were discontinued after the war began,- but other ship ments continued., Some of the ships, it developed, were war-built U.S. surplus ves sels sold through a complicated , Olga Konow deal involving prominent Ameri cans and a dazzling, green-eyed woman shipping broker, Czech born Mrs. Olga Konow of New York and• Palm Beach, Fla. Both Mt's. Konow 'and Wasson appeared before a jam-packed hearing of a Senate`investigating committee which is looking for any evidence of influence ped dling or tax avoidance on huge profits involving the sale of U.S. surplus ships. Mrs. Konow, who said she has been nicknamed "Oilboat Olga," testified she netted more than half a million dollars in the sale of U.S. surplus tankeis to a com pany heavily financed by wealthy Chinese. Mrs. Konow was identified as the third wife of Magnus Konow, 0, millionaire Norwegian ship ping man and international yachtsman. Her lawyer said She came to this country about 1939- 40 and has been in the shipping business in New York since 1944. Committee OKs Scout Code WASHINGTON, March 5 (IP) —A congressional c o m mit tee agreCd today that a government employee should be - trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous. kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. - Th4t goes for congressmen, too, meinbers made clear. • Though they didn't use exactly thOse adjectives, there was no dis pute among the seven House members present • about the im portance' of liVing up to such high ideals, which are set out in the handbook of the Boy Scouts. But a subcommittee of the House post office and civil ser vice committee had a few mis givings over how the public would . react in these days'' and times if Congress • formally pro mulgated a "code .of ethics" pro posed by Rep. Bennett (D-Fla.) Subbommittee Chairman Rhodes THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE. COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Rear, Adm. R. E. Libby sternly demanded a "satisfactory, account ing" for these and some 50,000 more prisoners mainly South Ko reans, who the communists de clare "do not exist."' Libby warned that the 50,000- odd 'prisoners "will remain as a bar to agreement . . . until you properly list t 11,e s e persons as prisoners of war and grant them the rights of prisoners of war." The Allies contend that most of the missing South Koreans have been impressed into the Red ar my. The -Reds have repeatedly claimed t h'e y released most of them at the front and - do not know who nor where they are. Truman Again Asks Congress To Test UMT' WASHINGTON, March S—(JP) —President Truman wants an other vote on UniVersal Military Training at this, session of Con gress, Rep. Bryson (D-SC) said today after a White House con ference. "He told us this is the eighth time he has •asked Congress for this legislation," Bryson said. The hotly disputed bill received a grade A setback yesterday when the House voted 236-162 to send it back to the armed services com mittee for further study. And its foes made clear today they were ready to renew their battle if the issue •is brought up again, either in the Senate or House. / Yesterday's action generally was. taken to mean the bill is dead - for this session: But Sen. McFarland of Arizona, Democratic .leader,' told reporters that "if it will do any good" the Senate still may consider a UMT bill at this session. ' • (ID-Pa.) suggested f olks might feel it .."an empty gesture" unless some kind of enforcement, pro visions were attached. Rep. Armstrong • •(R-Mo.) said he'd like to see a framed code of ethics hung on the wall of every government employee, "from the White House to the janitor at the City Hall." Bennett modestly conceded that his proposed code was no ,rival pf the Declaration of Independence in literary style. He argued, how ever, its adoption would be chalked up as one positive accom plishment of the 82nd Congress. It provides among other things that a government employee should: "Put loyalty to. God and coun try above loyalty to persons, party, or government department. "Give .a full day's. work for a full day's pay. ' "Seek to find and employ more Don't Thirik I ROBERT M. JONES 24, climbs back onto his perch on the 47th 'fibOr ledge - of the Carew Tower in Cincinnati; March 4, after threatening to jump for more than two hours. Shortly after this picture was taken a man dashed up behind Jones and pulled him to safety. Thisipicture was taken, by Ho ward Newman, staff photographer of the Cincinnati Times-Star. Bevan Splits Labor; Churchill Gets Vote LONDON, March s—(lP)—Aneurin Bevan, left wing socialist leader, split, the British Labor Party wide open tonight and paved the way for an overwhelming 314-219 vote of confidence for Wit - 16ton Churchill's handling of the rearmament program. -The bushy-browed Welsh rebel and upwards of 50 of his leftist labor followers in the House of Commons abstained from voting in protest against both Churchill'sl • $13,160,000,000 arms pitogram and Clement Attlee's ( leadership of the Labor Party. Coupled with the, small normal Conservative Party edge in the Hou s e, the Bevan move let Churchill and his followers beat down decisively the Labor Par' motion of confidence grounds that ti government wl moving too slo , ly in rearm ment. Churchill col ceded in the daz long debate th; the arms prc gram was run ning a year behind the time-table. He blamed this on a lag in Ameri can aid, but said he pins his hopes for peace, mostly on the United States' "rapidly growing stock pile" of atom bombs. He also said that British ,air power was dragg i n g and an nounced he was mobilizing home front volunteers against the re. mote possibility of an airborne invasion. Parliament went on,record,for mally in.favor of the rearmament progra\m itself by a 313 to 55,vdte which followed- the vote of `con fidence. Bevan, whose supporters are booming him as -- prime minister timber, has bitterly opposed any cuts in social services 'even for the sake of national defense. He has demanded economies in the' arms program, instead. efficient and economical ways of getting tasks accomplished. , "Never discriminate unfairly by the dispensing of special favors or privileges to anyone, whether fo r rOmuneration or n o t; and never accept • favors or benefits from persons doing business with the government. "Expose corruption wherever discovered." Depot Site Sought WASHINGTON, March 5 (JP) —The air force is making pre liminary surveys of two areas in Monroe an d Carbon Counties, Pa., as a possible site of a 62 million dollar depot,,Rep. Walter (D-Pa.) said today. Walter said tbat if the air force finds general conditions suitable, engineers will make' gibund bor ings in the areas. Red Troops Move North of Saigon SAIGON, Indochina, March 5 (fP)—Regular Vietminh troops ap pear to be moving into are a s north of Saigon in increasing strength after losing a series of fights with French union forces to the south in recent weeks. The French announced tonight about 200 of the, Communist-led rebels had stormed a fortified post Tan Phu, 18 miles north of this capital. They were beaten off by the 80-man garrison .and reinforc ing French mobile units after bitter hand-to-hanpl fighting. Nine men of the garrison were killed. Vietminh losses were not immediately determined in this incident of the six-year -old war. Ruhr Leaders Arrested BONN, Germany, March 5—(W) Four Ruhr industrialists were arrested today on charges of sell ing western industrial secrets to commounist East Germany. The men were seized in a raid on their hotel at Kettwig, near Essen. Add New Glow to Your Room Table Lamp ...• . - 'NOW! Table Lamps at the $1 05 . Low Price of $3.95 See Wolf's Fine, Colorful • Selection COME IN TODAY! WO NEXT TO NITTANY DELL PAGE THREE Hoffman Supports Ike in Primary CONCORD, N.H., March 6—(JP) —Paul a Hoffman told New Hampshire's storm-blasted voters tonight that if the Republicans don't nominate Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower they may wind, up as a "splinter" party. Hoffman, former Economic Co operation Administrator, spoke fo r Eisenhower at Durham as Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio pre pared to open at Manchester • to morrow a three-day drive which may affect vitally his chances in the March 11 ' presidential pri mary. In a fighting mood, Taft fired a telegram to Enoch D. Fuller, Ne w Hampshire's secretary of state, protesting again the Ohio an's fourth place listing on the preferential (popularity) ballot. Taft said this placed him "at a disadvantage" but "despite ob vious unfairness of the ballot in its, present form" he would not take legal action: Criss-crossing the state, Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Terin.) and .H a r old E. Stassen, Republican former governor of Minnesota, struggled through snow drifts to carry their presidential aspira tions into the smaller towns. Hoffman said in a talk pre pared for a Univerity of • Ne w Hampshire audience that Eisen hower is the only GOP candidate "who can win the independent vote and break the single `solid south'." Lattimore Tried For Red China Aid in 1945 WASHINGTON, March 5 (R) —Owen Lattimore testified in ef fect today that he tried to get President Truman to give Amer ican military aid to the Chinese Reds in 1945. He did not say so in so many words, but he conceded to inves tigating Senators that he tried to influence t h e President against limiting the aid to Chiang Kai- Shek's Chinese Nationalists alone. In the eighth day of his mara thon appearance before the Sen ate's internal security subcom mittee, Lattimore referred to the "two competing parties" in China and said' his concern was that giving aid to the Nationalists and none to the Communists, Would give the impression that this country was taking sides in Chin ese domestic• affairs. Furthermore, the witness said, he favor e d using any forces which _would fight the Japanese and - thereby diminish American casualties in the Far Eastern war.
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