Ft'liAY, 'MARCH 14, 1952 Re*tifiie'Reoiganization Bill Passed by Senate, 5137 WASHINGTON, - . . March 13—(A')—President Truman's bitterly. 'controversial plan to .revamp the scandal-smirched Bureau of In ternal RevCnue was written into law today when the Senate, some what. surprisingly, voted - 53 to 37.`in - favor of it. • Chief feature of the plan is to remove virtually all, top officals of the huge tax collection agency from the realm of political ap pointment and blanket them into the career civil service system. -Under the law, the votes of a full Senate majority-49 members —were 'needed to reject, the re organizational proposal. Oppon ents thus fell 12 votes short. West Offers New Treaty For Austria • WASHINGTON. March 13—(R) United States, Britain and France today proposed to Russia a short eight-article treaty to re store Austria's independence. The The proposal was submitted to Moscow by ambassadors of the three Western governments. Russia in long negotiitions over an Austrian peace settlement has agreed already to seven of the eight articles. The only new article would re quire Russia and the Western powers to give up all property in Austria claimed •by, them as Nazi assets and war booty. This single article alone makes it unlikely that Moscow will ac cept the three-power offer. Russia already holds vast prop erties in Eastern Austria on the grounds that they • are booty and former German assets. Allied officials never have been able to put a specific dollars and cents figure on these assets. But it is known they include 350 Austrian firms and industries, which yield 12 'per cent• of all Austrian production, produce an estimated - 1 1 / 2 million - tons of oil a year, and Danube river ship ping. The State department. in mak ing public a draft of the proposed treaty, said that Russia has ob structed all efforts to reach a'set tlement on amore detailed peade treaty. At one time the West had agreed with Russia on more than 50 other articles for a proposed Austrian pact. They have been unable, how ever, to get a final agreement. Mad Foxes Plague State for 3d Month PHILADELPHIA, March 13—(IP)—A plague of - mad foxes, des cribed probably the worst , in Pennsylvania's history, has aroused Much uneasiness in scores of vil the state. Commonwealth Officials adm way to go'before ending a 'scourg; of thousands for some three months. • . Many persons—their exact num ber undetermined--have been• bit ten by foxes; and at least •INVO have died. Men, women and chil dren have been attacked boldly and savagely. as they walked by the roadside, worked or played in their backyards, or strolled in fields. The foxes have set upon , 'pet dogs, killing some of them and infecting others With rabies. They have bitten to death• or, badl y. hurt poultry,,, sheep, pigs; • even young cattle. And 't h e,y' have hurled themselVes against , auto mobiles on the road. Worst afflicted areas are .in Eastern Pennsylvania and paitS of the. West, although 'marauding foxes have been reported also in the midland. " Are you . 81/zgaged? Everyone getting minded ihoitla have the hooblet "Plait Your Porfoit .. A copy is yours ;without obligation. Just unite a note to. Jan Devine, kneel Route 12, 'Cusco, Pennsylvania, today... or sooty. ___. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN,. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Sen. Edward Martin - -(FL-Pa) voted with the minority as the Senate refused to kill President Truman's reorganization plan. Sen. ;Ames Duff (R-Pa) voted againbt rejection of the plan. Most pre-iollcall guesses, even by administration supporters, had been that the vote would be close and that the Senate might turn in a majority against the plan but that it would fall short of the re quired 49 votes. There were only' six absentees, and even if all of them had voted against the plan, it still would have been approved. The absen tees were Sen. Benton (D-Conn), Taft (R-Ohio), Young (R-ND), Jenner (R-Ind), Kerr (D-Okla), and Bridges (R-NH). The vote cut sharply across party lines. Voting in favor of the plan were 30 Democrats and 23 Republicans, including Sen. Wil liams Mel), who helped uncover tax scandals. Against, it were 19 Republicans, and 'lB Democrats, all but four of them from the "Solid South" states. , Hails Vote The plan technically will be come effective at midnight to morrow, but the reorganization will take months to complete. Under its terms, it must be fully effective by Dec. 1. Secretary of the Treasury Sny der, hailing the favorable vote, said "The transition will be or derly to assure that the work of the - bureau will not be interfered with," but "we shall act as speed ily as circumstances permit." Angry charges against the Presi dent, marked the final hours of the Senate's two days of debate on the plan, - subMitted to Con gress two months ago and the subject of heated controversy ever since. ages, towns and rural regions of tted today they still have a long • which has affected the daily life IT'S A FACT From the period of 1887 to 1910 the freshmen were accustomed to holding an annual banquet; but if by any chance the time and place leaked out, the sophomores endeavored to prevent it. This practice led to soine lively skrimishes. Everyone is skrimishing down to Vic's in order to buy some ham salad, egg salad, and boiled . ham sandwiches to take back to their rooms for an eve ning snack. No waiting, quick service at Vic's. • Vk's Ike and Taft To Vie for Jersey Vote NEWARK, N. J., March 13—(IP) —N.ew .Jersey today moved into the front line of the nation's pol itical battlegrounds as the site •of the next—and possibly last— head-on primary contest between Gen. Eisenhower and Sen. Taft. The impact of the vote in the state's -April 15 preferential pri mary well could. decide the GOP nominee for President. some pol itical observers believe. Others point out that New Jer sey, sixth ranking industrial state in the country, with a primary voting potential of more than 2,350,000 will provide a vaster testing ground of strength than New Hampshire. Some 129,000 persons broke bal loting records t h e r e Tuesday. Close to a million of New Jersey's eligible voters are expected to participate in the balloting here. Eisenhower, Taft and Harold E. Stassen are Republican candi dates in the presidential popu larity 'contest, an innovation in New Jersey politics. Sen. Kefau ver (D-Tenn.) is the lone Demo cratic entry.. T h e deadline for withdrawals passed last midnight. The World At a Glance Prep.ident Still Silent President Truman kept silent yesterday oh any plans to rebound from the stunning .defeat he suf fered at the hands- of Sen. Estes Kefauver in the New Hampshire "popularity" election. ' Vacationing at Key West, Fla., the President skipped the usual Thursday news conference he holds, in Washington, and so far has said not a word on the con test which saw him lose to Ke fauver by a margin of 20,147 votes to 16,298. Pilot Blamed in Crash WASHINGTON, March 13—(R) —A pilot's poor judgment today was blamed by the Civil Aeronau tics Board for, the crash of a C-46 airliner lost Dec. 29 near Little Valley. N. Y. Railroad Normal CHICAGO, March 13 (W) Operations swung virtually back to normal on the New York Cen tral system today, after the last holdout strikers went back to work in Chicago, Toledo and Elk hart, Ind. 145 S. ALLEN ST. Morris Blasts Senators NEWBOLD MORRIS (standing right), the government cleanup man, talks to reporters in Washington after testifying before the Senate investigations subcommittee. Morris cried out at the hear ing that he was being subjected to "character destruction," and blasted at "these diseased minds in this chamber." Morris denied he had done anything wrong in ship deals or in connection with oil shipments to,Red China by a shipping firm with which he has ties. Maritime ' ':eacl Testifies WASHINGTON, March 13—(JP) —The former head of the old U.S. maritime commission testified to day that if there had been a "full disclosure" of the facts the com mission would not have approved the surplus. ships deal in which Joseph E. Casey and two friends earned $450,000 on a $lOOO invest-. ment. Adm. William Smith said any advance indication of a "specula tive purpose" on the part of the Casey group "would have disqual ified the applicants under the law —as I understand the law." Previous witnesses have testi fied that the group put up $lOOO to organize the National Tanker Corp. in 1948 and buy three tank ers from the government. It has also been testified that the maritime commission ap- PAGE THREE proved the sale to National Tank er even before the coxnnany was organized. National Tanker, the testimony showed, was committed to sell the ships to United Tanker Corp., the Chinese-financed firm, which was represented by a New York law partner of Newbold Morris, the administration's anti-corrup tion chief. In October, 1948, title to the ships was sold to United for $450,- 000. Later United used some of its ships to ferry oil to Red China until a month before the Korean War. Adm. Smith said today he did not know about National's agree ment to sell to United, which had been unable to get any ships from the maritime commission itself.
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