THURSDAY, IvrAgcß. z 7, 1952
Wilson to Talk
To Steel Heads
WASHINGTON, March 26--(R)—KeS 7 federal officials, faced
with the threat of a nationwide steel strike April 8, said tonight
they, will meet tomorrow to "work out steps the government to
take" to avert a walkout. •
In Pittsburgh, the CIO United Steelworkers de - nu led that the
steel industry accept the Wage Stabilization Board's 'Controversial
recommendations for ending the
steel dispute. If the industry
,does
not do so, union leaders said, it
must take the responsibility for
an all-out strike April 8.
Three to Confer
Negotiations on the board's pro
posed settlement opened with
two of the nation's biggest steel
producers—U.S. Steel and Jones
& Laughlin—but no results were
apparent,
Charles E. Wilson, director of
Defense Mobilization, announced
he would meet tomorrow morning
with Nathan P. Feinsinger, chair
man of the Wage Stabilization
Board; Economic Stabilizer Roger
Putnam and Price - Stabilizer El
lis Arnall. ' ,
Andrew Berding, press aide for
Wilson, told reporters he could
not discuss what steps are being
considered. But he made it plain
that the talks tomorrow will con
cern future administration moves
in the steel dispute.
No Official Comments
The Wage Board, headed by
Feinsinger, has proposed that 650,-
000 CIO steelworkers be given a
17Y2 cent hourly pay boost and
other major benefits, but Wilson
has opposed this plan as infla
tionary.
Wilson held long conferences
today with bqth Putnam and Ar
nall but none of the officials had
any comment afterwards.
Berding would not say specifi
cally what plans will be dis
cussed, at tomorrow's meeting. He
merely said that steps to be taken
in the steel situation ' will be
talked over, and that a statement
will be issued afterward.
Music, Speech
Contest Here
High school students from the
central district of Pennsylvania
will participate in a combined
speech and music 'contest at the
College tomorrow.
The _competition is sponsored
by the Pennsylvania Forensic and
Music League. Students partici
pating will represent the different
counties in the district.
During the morning, piano and
voice contests will be held in
Schwab Auditorium and speech
- contests will be in 310 Sparks.
Afternoon sessions will include
instrumental and twirling compe
tition in 117 Carnegie Hall; chor
us, trio, and ensemble tryouts in
Schwab, and reading and speak.:
ing' tryouts in 310 Sparks.
Faculty of the Department of
Music will judge the contest.
McGrath Defends
Federal Attorneys
WASHINGTON, March 26—(A')—Attorney General McGrath to
day defended the 'right Of Justice Department attorneys . to practice
law on the side if they observed reasonable restrictions.
If the practice were banned, he told House investigators,. and if
no increased compensation were offered,, "you would- lose overnight
a majority of the U.S. attorneys,
and they would be the best we
have."
McGrath/appeared b e f ore a
House judiciary subcommittee
which is investigating his admin
istration of the Justice Depart
ment. Open hearings started to
day.
The attorney. general and cab
inet member asserted that his de
partment doesn't need investigat
ing any more than any other fe&
eral agency. Nevertheless, he add
ed.' he would - be "very glad" to
have its operations examined.
Questioned about the outside
activities of his legal staff,
_Mc-
Grath said , it isn't a general prac
tice for government attorneys to
take private law cases, but at the
same time it isn't prohibited.
"How can a man practice pri
vate law out of one drawer of
his, desk and represent the govern
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To Confer
Charles E. Wilso
Student Wins
Flower Judging
Leon Stankowski, a student in
the horticulture short course at
the College, won top honors over
36 members of 12 competing
teams in the national int e r
collegiate, flower judging contest
held in Washington, D.C., re
cently.
Penn State finished third in the
team scoring, with Michigan
State and Oklahoma A&M taking
first and second honors, respec
tively.
Stankowski is the second mem
ber of his family to receive hon
ors in the show. His brother,
Robert, a graduate of the College,
won first .place in 1938.
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Russians Refuse
Red Cross Inquiry
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.,
March 26—(JP)—Russia flatly re
jected today an American pro
posal for an International Red
Cross inquiry into Russian charges
of germ warfare in Korea and
China.
Soviet delegate Jacob A. Ma
lik said the Red Cross is not inter
national and is not competent to
make such an inquiry; he de
manded t h e UN disarmament
commission act on the whole issue
of bacteriological warfare and
said it is the only. organization
capable of acting.
U.S. delegate Benjamin V. Co
hen replied immediately in the
commission that the pebple of
the world will note that the
Soviet Union refuses to allow the
International .Red Cross to con
duct an impartial investigation.
ment out of an'other?"asked Rep.
Chelf ( D-Ky.), committee chair
man.
McGrath explained the attor
neys ,are barred from practicing
privately in 'criminal courts 'arid
from taking any case which would
conflict with the interests of the
government. .
McGrath to 1 d the committee
the present salary scale for gov
ernment lawyers is so low that it
is difficult to get competent men.
Committee members .cited the
case of T. Lamar Caudle• as one
reason for making a:strict check
on. the outside activity of federal
lawyer's.
Caudle was ousted. from his job
as assistant attorney general last
November by President Truman.
The White House said his outside
activities were incompatible with his official duties.
Extend Draft Deadline
WASHINGTON, March 26
(JP)—The Defense Department
announced today it has ex
tended until June 30 the-dead
line for prospective draftees to
enlist in the service of their
choice.
Such draftees •may enlist up
to the time 'they receive their
selective se r vice induction
notices.,
McCarthy
Sues Benton
For 'Libel'
WASHINGTON, March 26—(W)
—Se n a t o-r McCarthy (R-Wis.)
tossed a two-million-dollar "libel,
slander and. conspiracy" suit
against Senator Benton (D-Conn.)
today. --accusing. his arch critic of
unlawfully seeking to oust him
from the Senate.
McCarthy's suit was filed in
federal court here eight days af
ter Benton, in a Senate speech'
offered to waive his immunity
against court action for accusa
tions he levelled against McCar
thy in- sworn testimony on Capi
tol Hill.
Under the constitution, mem
bers of Congress may not be sued
for anything they say in the halls
of Congress.
McCarthy told newsmen that as
far as he knows his action is with
out precedent—the first time a
U.S. senator has sued a colleague
for lib el under such circum
stances.
The Wisconsin senator also an
nounced that he will serve as.his
own attorney "so I personally will
be able to cross-examine Benton."
He is a lawyer and former Wis
consin judge.
- Benton . wa s not immediately
available for comment. He is . due
lin Los Angeles tomorrow to take
part in hearings of a Senate small
business taxation subcommittee.
McCarthy said his suit was
based on Benton's testimony be
fore a Senate inquiry committee
last Sept. 28 in .which Benton
demanded McCarthy's ouster from
the Senate. Among other things.
Benton accused McCarthy in • a
30,000-Word statement of perjury,
fraud, and "calculated deceit of
the American people."
Bookkeeper Confesses
READING, Pa., March 26—(W)
—Police found another cache of
loot from a $170,000 burglary to
day and said they gained a con
fession from a 25-year-old book
keeper and former convict. y
Detective Lt. Pa u 1 Slapikas
said Paul' Baer, an employee of a
leather goods firm, admit te d
breaking into the home of Mrs.
Helen M. Bidden last Friday night
and' stealing the mo n ey, then
splitting it up with an accomplice.
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Stevenson Possible
.Prgident Truman kept silent last night on published reports
that he has asked Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois to become the
Administration's candidate for president.
Stevenson himself would neither confirm nor deny the story.
- "As I have said repeatedly, lam a candidate for re-election as
governor of Illinois and have no
other - ambitions," Stevenspn said
at Springfield, 111.
- Presidential Secretary Joseph
.Short told newsmen at the winter
White House at Key West, Fla.,
that he had "no comment" on the
purported move by Truman to
draft Stevenson as his successor.
• The St. • Louis Post-Dispatch
said• Truman "offered to use all
his influence" to get Stevenson
nominated as th e Democratic
standard bearer, but that Steven
son was "not inclined, as of to
day, to• acdept."
In other political developments:
A New Jersey judge ruled that
Senator Robert A. Taft's name
must remain on the ballot in the
New Jersey primary on April 15.
The, judge said it was a matter
of- "overriding public interest."
Taft Refuses Comment
Taft announced last Thursday
that he was pulling out •of the
New Jersey race, where he faced
a head-on clash against Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Ohio
sefiator said a -fair contest - was
not possible' because New Jer
sey's. Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll had
thrown the' weight of . the . state
GOP machine behind Eisenhower.
Taft, campaigning in Wiscon
sin, said he - had no comment on
the New Jersey action.
Eisenhower is not entered in the
Wisconsin trial heat, and as a
result both the Stassen and War
ren camps have been telling the
voters: "A vote for' me is really
a vote for Eisenhower."
Stassen has even promised , to
throw half of his Wisconsin dele
gate strength to Eisenhower on
the first ballot at the GOP na
tional convention in July. War
ren's delegates have, said . they
will switch to EisenhoWer if it
becpmes apparent that• Warren
can't win the nomination.
Eight Airmen Killed
In Mane Disaster
TUCSON, Ariz., March 26—(P)
—Eight airmen were killed today
when their crippled B-29 bomber
crashed -and burned as it attempt
ed to return to Davis-Monthan
Air Force Base.
The plane radioed the Davis- ,
Monthan tower that one of its
engines was dead and that it was
returning to the base to land. It
crashed minutes later. - E ig h t
bodies have been removed from
the wreckage. 'Names of the dead
were withheld pending notifica
tion of kin.
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French Clamp
Martial Law
On Tunisia
TUNIS, Tunisia, March 26—(W)
The French clamped martial
law • on troubled Tunisfa today
after arresting Premier Moham
med Chenik and three of his pro-
Nationalist ministers. Th e pro
tectorate's 3 1 / 2 million M o sl e m
resid e n t s were placed under
dawn-to-dusk curfew.
A midnightcrackdown virtually
isolated this turbulent North Afri
can country, where nearly 100
persons have died in three months
of violence sparked by Tunisia's
demands for freedom from French
rule.
The military enforced rigid cen
sorship on all news inside the
country. A ban on outgoing dis
patches was lifted tonight.
Th e 62-year-old Chenik and
his three colleagues were flown
to Kebilli, deep in the South Tun
isian desert.
The French Resident General
Jean de Hauteclocque, accused
Chenik in a broadcast today of
encouraging "if he wasn't an
accomplice to"—r e cent attacks
and sabotage "which necessitated,
in the interests of maintenance
of public ordei, a legitimate re
pression."
- De Hauteclocque said he had
decided "to prevent the presen`
cabinet from pursuing its baleful
political activity by temporarily
sending s o•m e of its members
away from Tunis."
Borough Police
Go on Fox Hunt
State College ponce investi
gated a report Tuesday night that
a fox was at large in the College
Heights area. The police how
ever, could find no trace of the
animal.
Asa result of the repoit, the
police have issued another warn
ing to residents about allowing
their dogs to run loose.
. Burgess E. K. Hibshman an
nounced that residents should
keep -their dogs tied because of
the danger of foxes entering the
area and spreading rabies. He
also stated that violators will be
arrested.
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