SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1952
Last-Ditch Try
To Stop Steel
NEW YORK, April 4 —(AP)—
The nation’s wage boss made a
flying last-ditch effort today to
head off ' a Tuesday midnight
strike of 700,000. defense-vital
steel workers.
“I’m prepared to stay until
hell freezes over—if it will help—
to settle it,” said Nathan Feins
ihger, chairman of the Wage
Stabilization Board.
He flew in from Washington to'
an atmosphere of gloom—with
the CIO United Steeworkers re
signed to their first strike since
1949 and the industry already
preparing to shut its mills.
“I hope to be able to reopen
negotiations.
Talks Collapse
They collapsed yesterday in a
deadlock over the wage pattern
outlined last month by Feinsing
er’s own WSB. The union wants
the pattern with its 17£ cents an
hour wage increase. The company
won’t accept it, without a steel
price rise of some $l2 a ton.
, Feinsinger said his only in
structions from Washington be
fore- he left were “to settle the
dispute.”
Asked if he had any powers to
■ alter the previous WSB recom
mendations, Feinsinger said: /
“I won’t answer that question.”
Feinsinger wound up his sep
arate conferences late in the day
with no indication if and when he
might get both sides together
again. He said he plans further
conferences tomorrow—but sep
arately, at least at the outset.
Increase Doubtful
Under present government
price policies, the industry can
hope for a steel price increase of
only $2 a ton or slightly higher—
far below its $l2 a ton demand.-
Big steel said the WSB recom
mendations were worth 30 cents
an hour to the steel workers and
would cost industry a billion dol
lars more a year.
The industry made a final offer
yesterday, which it said would
add 16 cents an hour to a steel
worker’s wages. Murray said it
was only worth 144 cents and
turned it down.'
48 Cities Resume
Telegraph Service
NEW YORK,' April 4 —(/P)_
Western Union claimed restored
service in 48 major cities today, in
the second day of a nationwide
telegraphers strike.
An estimated 31,000 members
of the CTU quit work in the first
moments of Thursday morning.
They are demanding wage in
creases and other benefits worth
an estimated 50 cents an hour
per worker. Western Union has
not made public any counter-of
fer.
The shift of telegraph business
to telephone lines pointed up the
further threat to the nation’s
Comunication system if a Mon
day telephone strike deadline is
reached.
An'estimated 57,000 telephone
workers . are demanding unspeci
fied wage adjustments' in 43
states.
Costello Jurors Fired
NEW YORK, April 4 (£>)—
Two of Frank Costello’s contempt
trial jurors were fired today, and
one of them said the judge ac
cused her of a .$250 bribe deal.
The woman juror, Mrs. Helen
Louise Mason—the foreman—said
the trial judge accused her of
being mixed up in a deal to hang
the jury and prevent a verdict.
The judge gave no indication
of why Julius A. Fox, a textile
converter, was so abruptly drop
ped from the jury.
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PHILIP MURRAY, (right) CIO president and head of the
United States Steel Workers, raises his hand to quiet demonstra
tors outside the hotel room in New York where he was leading
wage negotiations with steel industry spokesmen. .
6 Reds Draw 20 Years
In Prison, Fined $lOOO
BALTIMORE, April 4— (flP) —Six communist conspirators were
sentenced to a total of 20 years in prison and fined $lOOO each today
for plotting to advocate violent overthrow of the United States
government.
They are the first of the so-called “second-level” party affiliates
.o be convicted and sentenced. Five of the six are acknowledged
party district leaders. The sixth
has served as a party attorney
and participated in their meet
ings.
Their attorneys immediately
began preparing appeals. Federal
Judge W. Calvin Chesnut ordered
them jailed until he decides on a
motion for bail Monday. The gov
ernment has asked a minimum of
$50,000 bond each.
Among those sentenced was
Philip Frankfeld, 44, former chair
man of the Communist party in
Maryland and the District of Co
lumbia and later party leader in
Ohio, five years imprisonment and
$lOOO fine. Last month the Daily
Worker, official party organ, said
he had been dismissed from the
party for expressions not in con
formity with Communist policies.
The conspirators were charged
under the Smith Act, which car
ries a maximum penalty of five
[years"and-$lO,OOO fine.
Before sentencing, each made a
brief statement reasserting his in
nocence and expressing the belief
all would be cleared, either by
higher courts, by repeal of the
Smith Act, or “by final"judge,
the people.”
4 Tornadoes Wreck
South; Six Killed
NEW ORLEANS, April 4—(AP) —
A quartet of small but vicious
tornadoes, one a. killer, struck
across Louisiana, Alabama, and
northwest Florida early today
bringing death to six persons, in
juries to at least 65 others, and
property damage estimated in the
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
All of the' dead and 63 of the
injured were in Louisiana, hit by
two of the four tornadoes born
in the winds and rains of a line
squall that lashed eastwardly
across the gulf coast states.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Made
Strike
Korean Talks
Uncover Hints
Of Settlement
MUNSAN, April s— (JP)— Hints
of compromise 'tfiat would bring
at least a Korean armistice were
in the air today on the three re
maining big issues—prisoners, air
fields, and Russia.
Truce talks backed away from
their secret sessions on exchang
ing prisoners to explore separate
ly “additional avenues” of Solv
ing the complex problem. After
10 off-the-record meetings, they
agreed Friday to an indefinite re
cess.
On the other two issues, Red
sources hinted strongly the Com
munists would drop their nomin
ation of Russia as a neutral truce
observer if the Allies would al
low the rebuilding of North Kor
ean military airfields during an
armistice.
SEOUL, April 5 —(yP)— Allied
warplanes harried Communist
troops along the 155-mile Korean
front Friday with showers or
rockets, bombs and flaming gaso
line.
Other fighter-bombers shot up
supply buildings and rail lines
behind the Red lines.
For the first time in four days,
U.S. jet fighters flew unchal
lenged across North Korean skies.
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Investigation to FBI
WASHINGTON, April 4— (JP) —James P. McGranery, the new
attorney general, said today that J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI will
be given the job of searching for corruption in government. •
“If there is anything wrong, we will find it out,” McGranery
said at, the White House after he had met with President Truman
for almost an hour.
The first chore, according to McGranery: “Find out if a cleanup
is necessary.”
But he seemed to think a cleanup will be needed, for he told
Ike May Talk
At Gettysburg
During May
GETTYSBURG, April 4—(£>)—
A report that Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower may take part in Me-
m'orial Day exercises here left
memorial committee members
puzzled but pleased today.
The committee said it had no
knowledge that the general was
planning to take part in the pro
gram, but it said it would be
“more than happy” to have him
participate.
John M. Cummings, Philadel
phia Inquirer columnist, reported
last night that the general will
return from Europe next month
and that his official, homecoming
will be held Memorial Day on
the general’s farm near historic
Gettysburg battlefield.
The Rev. Willis R. Doyle, chair
man of the Gettysburg Memorial
Day .committee, said today the
report was the first his group had
heard that Eisenhower would join
in the program.
“The committee has received
no word of any kind from Gen
eral Eisenhower concerning his
return here,” said Mr. Doyle.
He added that following a cus
tom of nearly 50 years standing
the committee invited Gov. John
S. Eine to make the Memorial
Day address and the governor
accepted.
House Votes to Ban ,
Vatican Mission
WASHINGTON, April 4—(/P)—
The House today voted to ban the
establishment of a diplomatic
mission at the Vatican unless the
Senate confirms the mission head.
Rep. PreSton (D-Ga.), who spon
sored the clause in the appropria
tions committee, said it was de
signed primarily to prevent Pres
ident Truman from making a re
cess appointment of an ambassa
dor to the Vatican or in setting up
a mission there without Congres
sional approval.
Preston said Truman still could
appoint a personal representative
to the Vatican, paying him from
executive funds.
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“I think the President is a
great man,
“These fellows who let him
down with their hypocrisy or
crookedness outght to be prose
cuted. I would not hesitate to
prosecute them whoever they
may be.”
In naming Hoover, who heads
the FBI, to do the corruption
hunting, McGranery junked the
elaborate investigating setup
planned by Newbold Morris, who
was until yesterday afternoon
chief of the clean-up-the-corrup
tion-in-government program.
Morris’ setup, McGranery said,
“will be dismantled quickly.”
It was the firing of Morris that
set up what appeared to be a
James P. McGranery
chain-reaction. Attorney General
J. Howard McGrath fired Morris
Truman then said McGrath had
resigned.
Quickly the president named
his new man: McGranery, a U.S.
district judge in Pennsylvania.
- Even before McGranery hit
town, he ran into criticism.
Rep. Velde (R-Ill.), a onetime
FBI agent, called him a “white
wash artist” for the way he han
dled an investigation of charges
of communism in the Amerasia
case as an assistant attomev gen
eral in 1945.
At the White House, McGran
ery vigorously denied there was
any whitewash.
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