THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1952 Western Union, Telephone* Strike Set for Today With, the threatened steel strike showing the way, a widespread wave of new strikes began to crop up yesterday throughout the na tion and principally among the Western. Union workers, and tele phone workers. Union President Adolph Brungs tonight ,told 30,000 Western Union employes to walk off their jobs at midnight (EST) at West erp Union offices across the coun try. . • i The Strike call almost certainly means a crippling tie-up of the nation’s telegraph system. 4P.000 Telephone' Workers . Kerman Becomes US. Ambassador To Soviet Union WASHINGTON, April 2— (JP)— Russian expert George F. Kennan, believer in a return to old-time diplomacy between Washington and Moscow, was sworn in today as Ambassador to the Soviet Un ion. He said a reduction of “exist ing tensions” is possible if the Kremlin will cooperate. • “I will be happy,” Kennan said, “if the work at Moscow gives me a chance to make a contribution to the reduction of existing ten sions and the improvement of the international atmosphere. These are objectives which seem to me urgently desirable and I see no reason why. they should not be within the realm of possibility, if the desire is reciprocated.” Government May Seize Steel Plants WASHINGTON, April 2— (JP) — The Administration disclosed to night that it is giving active study to the possibility of seizing the steel industry as a means of head ing off the wage strike set for Tuesday. The announcement was made by a spokesman for John R. Steel man, acting Defense Mobilizer, NEW YORK. April 2—(/PJ— -Steel wage talks were stalled for a third day today, while the industry doggedly fought in Washington for a $l2 a ton price bbost. as the subject of possible seizure came to the fore in two develop ments in -Congress:, " 1. Chairman Murray (D-Mont.) of the Senate Labor committee, aiming specifically at the steel situation, ordered the committee staff to draft a bill for “actual seizure rather than token seizure” when the government takes over in a labor dispute. He proposed it as a prod for quick settlement. 2. Senator Taft. (R-Ohio) in a Senate speech said he had heard that seizure of the steel plants was contemplated and protested any such move as “very high handed and arbitrary.” The can didate for the Republican presi dential nomination said .the prop er move in the situation is an 80-day anti-strike injunction un der the Taft-Hartley law.^ The Washington -developments came as wage talks between the industry and the . 650,000 CIO steelworkers continued in dead lock. The discussions were sched uled for renewal in New York tomorrow morning but there was no indication of a break from either side. A high hurdle for the negotia tors to get over was the indus try demand' for a big price rise to compensate for any pay boost. iiiimiiiiiimimiimiiiimiimmiHimjL | WOLF FURNITURE CO. | = in State College 5 OPEN I Monday and | Friday Nights 1 Until 9 p.m. j niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiimiiiiimimiiiiMiiif? THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE, COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Brungs messaged all members of his AFL commercial telegraph ers union that last-ditch mediation efforts to settle the union’s fight for more wages had been “abso lutely unproductive.” Meanwhile, the CIO commun ication workers went ahead with tomorrow morning’s strike pl%n for 40,000 telephone workers in Ohio, Michigan, and Northern California. There was cautious op timism these walkouts might at the last minute' be stalled. Federal Mediation Set . The three-state strike is set for 6 a.m. (local time). Another 15,- 750 installation and sales depart ment workers are set to strike in 43 states and the District of Col umbia at j;he same time Monday morning. These are employed by Western Electric, a manufactur ing subsidiary of the American Telephone and -Telegraph Com pany. The Federal Mediation Service set up peace talks in 1 the Western Electric dspute in New York for tomorrow afternoon. The CTU’s Western Union em ployees want a'straight 16-cent wage boost plus a 40-hour week at 48 hours’ pay before they sign a new c'ontract. These two de mands are estimated to .total 50 cents. Western Union officials are re ported ready to attempt to keep at least a dozen key relay points open. Union officials said pickets would patrol these points and seek to stop all messages and re lays, even those of an emergency nature. Taft Happy Over Primary Wins By the Associated Press Senator Robert A. Taft showed a new turn of speed in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination . yesterday (Wednes day) while Senator Estes Kefau ver surged farther out in front in the Demojratic field. Hitting the comeback trail after earlier reverses, Taft- rolled up a tight but impressive lead over Gen.' Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Nebraska primary and scored a thumping victory over his other major rivals in Wisconsin. Jubilantly, Taft commented: “Midwestern voters have dem onstrated there is just as much of a ground swell for Taft as for Eisenhower.” / Kefauver, the Democratic front runner now that President Tru man has definitely stepped aside, OrcfCindij. fourty. /■ Dress up your velvet jM-A/ " \ skirt with this crisp or mjk tv gcmdy blouse pastel blue, pink, maize—embroi- Jffl dered in white—full Gibson girl sleeves—tiny pearl buttons — _2=> sizes 9-15 Mary Leitzinger ictor' Bows Out Sutton Draws Life Sentence For Offenses NEW YORK,, April 2 (JP) They threw the key away today for Willie Sutton. Judge Louis Goldstein, angrily, regretting •he could • not sentence the dapper little bank robber -to death, did his best to make sure Sutton spends his remaining years in jail. , ’ > Goldstein sentenced him on gun charges as a fourth ' offender in such a way that Sutton would have to live past 90 -to get out even if he were the most model prisoner who ever went ,to Sing Sing. Sutton is nearly 52 now. The judge, mindful of Sutton’s record of two jail breaks, said he hoped a cell could be found “secure enough to withstand the machinations of. even his evil genius.” “Take him out, get rid of him,” Goldstein snapped, after deliver ing a long lecture on Sutton’s crimes over the past 30 years. “There isn’t a vestige of good left in him that is worth a damn,” Goldstein said after Sutton’s law yer tried to point out. that Sutton is sorry for his wasted life. Goldstein said Sutton would have to serve “several lifetimes in jail” to pay off all the time he owes for past crimes and jail breaks. romp'ed in both the Wisconsin and Nebraska contests. The lanky 48-year-old Tennes sean hailed his triumph in Ne braska as a victory “against the entire Democratic machine,” con tending, he had overcome White House, support and cash outlays for his opponent, Senator Robert S. Kerr. “I believe this expression of faith in the principles for which I stand will, set the pattern for the nation,” Kefauver said. “I be lieve in restoring to the people their control of their government. The people approve.” In Wisconsin, Kefauver cap tured 85.3 -per cent of the total Democratic vote against pro- Truman slates and won all of the state’s.2B delegates to the Demo cratic National Convention. Tru McGrath On 'Resignation WASHINGTON, April 2—(iP)— Attorney General McGrath spent 15 minutes with President Truman today and emerged from .the brief conference refusing to say whether he will resign his cabinet P ° St McGrath has split with the President’s cleanup chief, Newbold Morris, over a searching question naire Morris has sent to 596 offi cials of the Justice Department to check on their outside income and financial status. May Ask Dismissal . To date the Attorney General has not filled out the question naire himself and has not ordered any of his subordinates to do so. The situation has reached a point Where capital observers be lieve Truman will have to ask McGrath to leave the government unless he wants to lose Morris and risk torpedoing .of his whole anti-corruption campaign. Leaves Statements to President McGrath was sober-faced when he left the White House. “I discussed departmental mat ters with the President,” he said. “Anything that is to be said about our discussion will be said by the President or his staff.” Asked point-blank if. he was going to resign, the cabinet offi cer said unsmilingly that the statement he had just made was all he had to say. The White House had no im mediate comment on McGrath’s visit. The World At a Glance Neyr Jersey Strike NEWARK, N.J., April 2—(JP)— A strike vote was begun today by 10,000 CIO telephone operators seeking higher pay from the New Jersey- Bell Telephone Company. Dutch Queen Arrives WASHINGTON, April 2—(A*)— A grateful Queen Juliana flew here today to thank the U.S. for its help in liberating her Nether lands from the Germans. Korea—ss Billion in '52 WASHINGTON, April 2—(A 5 ) — The war in Korea is expected to cost the United States slightly more than $5 billion during the fiscal year ending next June 30. That’s the latest—March 28, 1952—estimate of the Defense De partment, given 40-the House Appropriations Committee during hearings on the new defense bud get. States Get Oil Lands WASHINGTON, April 2—(£>)—• The Senate voted today to give the states, instead of the Federal Government, ownership .and con trol of the oil-rich lands lying within their costal boundaries. .Buffalo Plant Strikes BUFFALO, N.Y., April 2— (JP) — About 400 production workers walked out of the Buffalo plant of the American Car & Foundry Co. today in what the CIO United Steelworkers Union called an un authorized strike. . Union leaders said the men would be back to work tomorrow. man announced last Saturday he will not run again. __ In Nebraska, Kefauver far out distanced Kerr, with 1512 of the state’s 2058 precincts showing him ahead by 44,690 to 29,439. The .largest boxing bout gate re ceipt was drawn by Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey in 1927. AUDIE MURPHY YUETTE DUGAY "CIMARRON KID" JOHN PAYNE rhonda fLeming "CROSS-WINDS" OPEN AT 6:20 HENRY FONDA 'GRAPES OF WRATH' PAGE THREE Silent With the possible exception of Herbert Hoover, George Washing ton was the United States’ weal thiest president. days