Skit - fib/kir, MARCi 8, 1652
Truman Blasts
Use of Dragnet'
WASHINGTON, March 7-0 3 )—President Truman today barred
any "dragnet" grappling for evidence
. of corruption in federa,
agencies
He also accused same Senators of trying to hold onto "politica
patronage" plums at the.expense of his plan to revamp the scandal•
jarred Internal Revenue Bureau.
Just before departing for a vacation at Key West, - Fla., the Presi•
dent fired two• letters to Capi
tol Hill in which he:
1. Disclosed he had ordered all
government agencies to refuse a
House sub-committee's request
for data on cases they have sent
to the Justice Department for
prosecution.
2. Accused critics of his Intern
al Revenue Reorganization Plan
of seeking to "play politics" with
the nation's tax - -collecting- system
and of being "more interested in
their political patronage" than in
clean government.
Senator George (D.-Ga.), one of
the leading foes - of the President's
plan, took the Senate floor to
reply angrily to Truman late to
day. He declared the President
was trying "to remove the issue
of corruption from the 1952 cam-
paigni'
George. said the President, in
hisi latest statement, "confesses
that he has not been able to
appoint clean, efficient and honest
collectors of internal revenue."
The Georgian is author of a
resolution which would reject the
internal revenue reorganization
plan. A vote is due next week.
The committee had requested a
list of all cases over the last six
years in which the Justice depart
ment had either failed to prose
cute, delayed action or sent the
cases back to the agency which
originally recommended action.
In reply, the department said
Wednesday 'that would mean dig
ging into half a million cases. As
far , as it was concerned, it turned
down the request with a tart as
sertion that the Executive Branch
of government is "independent"
of Congress, and said the com
Mittee was going beyond its
authority. "
Official Refuses Seat
HARRISBURG, March:7—(R)—
Earl C. Bohr, Secretary-Treasurer
of the state AFL; doesn't want
the job of Democratic delegate at
large to the Party's National Con
vention.
Snow Fails
Taft Drive
CONCORD, N.H., March 7—(/P)—Senator Robert A. Taft swept
through western New Hampshire today, over snowbanked roads and
into the remotest communities, in a closing drive- to win next Tues
day's primary election, from General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the
indicated favorite.
For two days, .Taft has been • waging a campaign the like of
which this state has never seen. •
He is traveling by automobile
through back country, areas re
cently hit by heavy snowstorms.
His daily schedule keeps - him
going 12 and' 14 • hours -without
a stop, making speeches, 'shaking
hands, i tin g factories and
schools, and standing in the slush
at cross road junctions to press
home his arguments.
Late surveys, however, indi
cated that Eisenhower is still hold
ing a slim • lead. •
Taft is one of three presidential
candidates - touring New Hamp
shire before Tuesday's election,
the first primary in the nation.
Senator Estes Kefauver; oppos
ing President Truman, and Harold
E. Stassen, a third Republican
hopeful, continued today by auto
mobile to more towns end- vil
lages in a personalized, folksy
quest for votes.
To c o u n te r Taft's intensive
eleventh. hour campaign, Eisen.-
hower's backers brought two
United„ States Senators before
New Hampshire audiences today.
\ Senator Carlson, from ,
Eisen
hower's home state of Kansas,
spoke in New London. Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts appeared
at a rally in Nashua.
Taft is basing his effort on three
major arguments:
I.—The claims' that if' iiominat
ed he will be . , - victorious. "I have
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A.Bomb Crater
Plans Stopped
WASHINGTON, March 7
The Atomic Energy Commission
announced today it would tem
porarily hold up plans to fill in
the New Mexico bomb crater. It
is willing to see whether ways
and means can be found to pre
serve part o' it for historic pur
poses.
At the same time, however, the
AEC declared the crater site is a
"potential hazard" to health
which would grow worse with the
passage of time. .
The commission made these
statements in answering a tele
gram. from New Mexico's Gover
nor Edwin Mechem. He had
wired the AEC asking reconsider
ation of plan:, to fill in the crater
at Alamogordo, south of Albi
querque.
It was there that the world's
first atomic bomb was exploded
July 16, 1945.
Asked to amplify on the "po
tential hazard" to health aspect,
AEC officials told a reporter that
while it is believed there is not
"active" radioactivity in th e
area, the material inside the
crater might in time crumble and
be scattered by the wind—thus
spreading radioactivity if in fact
it is present in 'any significant
amount.
$150,000 Fire Levels
Pittsburgh Church
PITTSBURGH, MarCh 7—(lP)
Fire leveled St. Peter's Catholic
Church in the south side district
today, causing damage in excess
of $150,000.
The blaze started in the base
ment while, preparations were be
ing made for the first mass.,Some
40 worshippers were forced to
flee and four fir em en were
slightly injured.
Halt
NH
aivvays won," Taft repeats in
virtually every appearance.
2.—He is hammering away at the
administrations foreign policy,
calling - Korea "an unnecessary
war t " and criticizing Truman for
having failed to follow General
MacArthur's advice.
3.—He asserts that the Republi
cans lost the 1948 national elec
tion largely because the candi
date (Dewey) failed to get out
and fight, and the people - to vote.
•
Harold• Stassen, speaking • at
Hanover, seat of Dartmouth Col
lege, lashed out directly at Taft.
He said, "Senator Robert Taft has
been wrong in the vital matters
of foreign policy for the last 12
years."
Stassen said Taft voted against
lend lease, against the Atlantic
pact, against the mutual assis
tance act,• and "even after the
Korean war broke out he advo
cated a smaller defense program."
Bridge Lessons
Twenty-nine students have
enrolled for bridge lessons be
ginning at 6:30 to 8 p.m. Sun
day in the TUB.
The classes, under the in
struction ,of Sidney Archer,
will meet every Sunday for
the next six weeks.
Another State
Bank Employe
?leads Guilty
1 PITTSBURGH. March 7 —(AP)
—Mrs. Goldie Caldwell, former
bookkeeper at the New Alexan
dria National Bank, today became
the third western Pennsylvania
bank employe to plead guilty to
charges of embezzlement.
Federal District Judge Wallace
Gourley delayed sentence. Mrs.
Caldwell was scheduled to go on
trial Monday, having previously
denied the charges. She is free on
$5,000 bond continued by Judge
Gourley.
An employe of the New Alex
andria Bank in Westmoreland
County for 28 years. Mrs. Cald
well was arrested by the FBI
Aug. 25 and charged with em
bezzling $28,000 in bank funds.
The FBI said the shortage re
sulted from the taking of bank
funds on several occasions be
tween Oct. 21, 1948, and Aug. 10,
1951, three days before it was dis
covered.
Mrs. Caldwell declined to say
what she did with the money:
However, her attorney, Joseph
Sheridan of Greensburg, said he
didn't think it went "into slot
machines as had been reported"
and said it "might have, been
used fo , :. household expenses."
Mrs. Caldwel was one of 11
bankers taken into custody by the
agents of the Pittsburgh office of
the FBI within the past 19 months
in a series of 13 bank shortages
involving some 3 1 k million dol
lars.
Two former employes of the
First National Bank of New Ken
sington have pleaded guilty to
embezzlement charges. They are
Otto Raymond Grotefend and W.
Paul Smeltzer.
Two Tremors
Fe't in • pan
TOKYO, Saturday, March 8
—(AP)--Two earthquakes, one
light and one fairly heavy, shook
the area north west of Tokyo Fri
day, killing one Japanese, injur
ing seven, and causing damage to
buildings and rail lines.
. The National Rural Police, who
reported the casulaties, said 34
houses were "half-demolished" in
and around Kanazawa. 200 miles
northwest of Tokyo. There
. was a
power failure at Toyama, 150
miles northwest of Tokyo, and a
landslide blocked trains between
Urlliya and Hosorogi.
The Japanese Government
meanwhile listed the toll of
Tuesday's heavy quake and tidal
waves on Hokkaido island in
Northern Japan as 27 dead, 570
injured and 3,353 homes wrecked.
Gas, OH Strike Delayed
DENVER, March 7 (JP) —An
oil and gas industry strike set
for midnight Supday was called
off 'today when union• officials
agreed to a postponement pro
posed by President Truman.
The threatened strike had been
called by 22 CIO. AFL and inde
pendent unions in support of
their demand for a wage boost
and other benefits for 'some 250,-
000 workers.
TONIGHT
IN
SCHWAB
`You Can't*Take
It With You'
Tickets on sale at
SU Desk for tonight
and tomorrow night
Cleanup Chief
Newbold Morris
Morris Hit
For Trade
Halt Failure
WASHINGTON, March 7 —(W)
—A New York attorney testified
today that a foundation headed
by Newbold Morris, the govern
ment's cleanup chief, had the
power to halt a subsidiary com
pany's oil trade with Red China,
but did not exercise it.
The oil shipments have come
under the fire of the Senate's
Investigations Sub-c ommitte e.
Senator Mundt (R.-S.D.) has de
nounced what he called "the
blood-soaked profits" made in the
traffic.
Witnesses have testified the
shipments began in 1949 and con
tinued in early 1950. They ceased
before the fighting began in
Korea.
Under questioning before the
committee today, Houston H. Was
son acknowledged that the China
International Foundation, Inc.,
could have stopped the shipments
because it controlled the tankers
operated by United Tanker Corp.
Wasson is Morris' law partner.
He testified that their law firm
has received about $158,500 in
fees for representing two of the
shipping firms involved in the
oil trade.
Morris is president of the China
International Foundation an d
Wasson is Secretary and Treasur
er. It is described as a philan
thropic organization financed by
Nationalist Cliinese money and
dedicated principally to aiding the
education of Chinese students in
the United States.
Waynick Presents
Polarization Paper
Dr. Arthur H. Waynick, head
of the Department of Electrical
Engineering, recently presented a
paper to the Institute of Radio
Engineers in New York.
The paper, "The Polarization
of Vertically Incident Long Radio
Waves," was written by John M.
Kelso, Harold J. Nearhoof, Robert
J. Nertney, and Waynick, all of
whom are of the School of En
gineering at the College.
. . . TONY KIRBY
is a stranger to
the Sycamore family—
but RUTH SYCAMORE
loves Tony and invites
him and his parents
to - one of the most
hilarious dinner parties
ever held at the
Sycamore home
PAGE THREE
Ground, Air
Korean Forces
Have Light Day
SEOUL, Korea, Saturday, March
8 —(W)— United Nations airmen
and ground forces had a light day
along the Korean war lines Fri
day with the exception of Ma
rines on the Eastern front.
Grenade-slinging Leathernecks
drove off five North Kor e an
probes in early morning darkness
North of the punchbowl,
.an oval
mountain rim some 19 miles North
of the 38th parallel and 20 miles
inland from the East coast.
The Red attacks ranged up to
platoon size—about 40 men—and
lasted from a few minutes each
to 30 minutes in the heaviest
skrimish.
The Marines captured one Red
and estimated they wounded 11
North Koreans in the half-hour
fight. AP photographer Fred Wat
ers -reported no Marines were
wounded or captured.
A Marine officer speculated that
the North Koreans attacked be
cause they wanted prisoners. The
opposing for ces are becoming
more curious each day about en
emy intentions as the spring thaw
draws closer.
U.S. Sabre Jet pilots patrolling
"MIG alleg" in North Korea
sighted no communist jet fighters
during •the day.
Because of an overcast, Fifth
Air Force fighter-bombers flew
only 200 daylight Sorties and
blasted only 12 holes in Red rail
lines.
Joy Silent
On Truce Talks
MUNSAN, Korea, Saturday,
March 8 —(AP)----Vice Admiral C.
Turner Joy, chief United Nations
truce negotiator, returned Friday
from Tokyo conferences with
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway but
was non-committal on whether
he had brought any new formula
to ease the tight deadlock on the
Korean armistice talks.
An !Ailed spokesman at this
advanced U.N. headquarters
would not comment on the Tokyo
talks or the possibility Joy had
received new instructions. Only
developments in the
would
tents at Panmunjom would dis
clos • this.
During a one hour, 58-minute
session Friday, Chinese Red Col.
Pu Shan sent truce supervision
talks off on a new tangent. He
proposed striking out specific
-references to Korea in a para
graph covering withdrawal of
naval forces during a truce.
Allied staff officers quickly
diagnosed this as a new commun
ist attempt to broaden the scope
of the Korean armistice agree
ment to cover Formosa.
Grand Central Station in New
York City receives up . to 15,000
phone calls a day asking train in
formation.
KIRK DOUGLAS
ELEANOR PARKER
"DETECTIVE
STORY"
RAY MILLAND
HELENA CARTER
. "BUGLES IN
THE AFTERNOON"
TODAY ALL DAY
TIM HOLT
"OVERLAND
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