SATURDAY, APRIL' 19, 1952 Sawyer Threatens Steel Wage Hike WASHINGTON, April 18—(/P)— Secretary of Commerce Sawyer fired-- an ultimatum at the nation’s government-seized steel industry today with the, announcement that he will boost steelworkers’wages unless a settlement is reached by next Monday'or Tuesday. \ ■ / Engineers Will Mark Centennial - A student convention marking the 100th year of activities of the American Society of Civil Engi neers will be held at the College, Monday, Harold Light, president of the College’s student chapter, said.'yesterday. : Two hundred ) representatives from Lehigh, Delaware, Swarth more, Lucknell, Lafayette, Villa nova, Drexel, and the University of Pennsylvania are expected to arrive -tomorrow for Monday’s activities. The activities include a smoker at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Phi Sigma Kappa; breakfast at 8 a.m. 'Mon day in the Comer Room; regis tration at 9 a.m. Monday in the lobby of Electrical Engineering; technical session at 10 a.m. in 110 Electrical Engineering; luncheon at 1:30 p.m. at the State College Hotel; and a tour of the water tunnel at 3 p.m. Monday. Essays on technical subjects will be presented at the techni cal session Monday, morning. Light said the technical sessions are open to the public and that students interested in attending the session should obtain permis sion from their, instructors. The .essay topics are air photo grammetry in highway; construc tion, the. engineer’s .social respon sibility, grouting for foundation, incorporation of glass fibres in concrete pipe, the effect of ele vated temperatures on air en trained concrete, and the basic theory of prestressed steel and an elementary design problem illus trating a possible application. The last of these will be pre sented by Thomas Larson of the College. The will be judged by three, members of the parent so ciety and will be announced - at the luncheon Monday. ' . ~ Excuse Forms Offered Voters . Forms are now available at the Student Union desk in Old Main for students who wisji-to go-<home to vote in the Presidential pref erence primary Tuesday. The forms, which are to be signed by the chairman or a mem ber of the elections board in the student’s hometown, will serve as a certificate , showing that the student actually voted. The forms are then to be taken to the pro fessors of the classes .which the student misses. i . r Daniel DeMarino, assistant dean of men,, pointed out, however, that these, forms will not guar antee an excused absence. It will be up to the individual teachers to decide whether or not the cut will be excused, he said. DeMar ino added that this is the-plan to which the College has adhered in the past. New. Staff of La Vie To Be Revealed Tonight Next year’s La Vie staff will be announced at the annual banquet of the publication tonight .at Pi Kappa Phi. Both the old and new senior board will attend the din ner. Professor Woodrow W. Bierly and,, Prof.. Franklin C. Banner, editorial advisers, and Professor A." W. Case, art adviser, will be present at the banquet. Also at tending will be Robert Breon of the . Penn State Photo -Shop. Bifeon did the photography work for the publication. - '..Oceania is the name of a col lective- ’ group of islands in the South'Seas and the" central Pacific Ocean. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA . Sawyer sa'id he was, going ahead with plans for a wage hike be cause it has thus far been im possible to obtain an industry uni, o n agreement which would “get the government put of the steel business.” . Steel industry , lawyers were prepared to go into court the in stant Sawyer tries to grant the CIO steelworkers a raise over management’s head. They were expected to argue, that no warrant for such an action is to be found in the Constitution or laws. , Some Democratic Support ' Sawyer’s announcement late, in the day came as a group of Sen ate Republicans, quarterbacked by' Sepator Knowland (R-Cal.), opened legislative maneuvers de signed to choke off any federal funds" for government operation of the seized steel mills. Knowland claimed some Demo cratic support for the move in which Senator Bridges (R-N.H.), the Senate GOP leader, Ferguson (R-Mich.) and Mun d t (R-S.D.) also joined. - A cross-fire .of bitter debate broke out on the Senate floor as the Republican group sought to challenge President Truman’s ten-day-old seizure of the steel industry. Ferguson said Truman’s seizure showed the president con sidered himself “above the Con stitution and above the law.” The Senator declared “we must check this power” and demonstrate to Truman and the world “that Con gress has control of the purse strings.” 'Courage' to Impeach Senator Humphrey (D-Minn.). an administration stalwart,, de nounced the GOP strategy as a “back-handed, backdoor, slipshod way” of attempting to hit back at Truman. Davis Will Direct Forum on Alcohol The third semi-annual alcohol education forum and .workshop will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in 121 Sparks. Arthur F. Davis, professor of, physical education, v will direct the forum and will act as moderator. Norman E. Dettra, educational director of the Pennsylvania Tem perance League, will be, a' mem ber of the panel, which will also include two members of Alco holics Anonymous from Philadel phia. .The. forum will be open to the public. A coffee hour will, follow at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Moffitt, 229 S. Garner street. lota Alpha Delta to Meet Monday A group of graduate students in the process of .organizing lota Alpha Delta, a fraternity for graduate students majoring in guidance, will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday. in apartment 44, Metz ger building, William Braun, pub litcy chairman, has announced. Plans for the May program which will be sponsored by the Penn sylvania- State Guidance Division will; be discussed. ' / 4-H Club to Meet The campus 4-H Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in 100 Horti culture. Jean Singer, international for eign youth exchange delegate to Switzerland in 1951, will speak and ..show slides on ■ her trip. Building Construction The General State Authority yesterday called forbids. May 21, for construction of an addition to the Mineral Sciencebuilding at the College,- according to the As sociated Press. Pre-Vet Society to .Meet The Pre-Vet Society will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Agricul ture building for a. conducted tour of the bull barns, research centers and dairy barns. Peace Talks Will Resume On PW Issue Munsan, Korea, April 19—(AP) —Allied and Communist nego tiators today reopen secret pris oner of war discussions that may settle one of the three major issues blocking- a Korean armis tice. Staff officers representing the opposing truce delegations sched uled a meeting on the issue at Panmunjom at 11 a.m. (9 p.m. Friday, EST) sub-delegations deadlocked over two issues of truce supervision meet at' the same time. ' The reopening of the prisoner talks, recessed April 4, was agreed .upon Friday after another of a series of fruitless sub-delega tion meetings on truce supervi sion. The meeting lasted more than eight minutes, but brought no changes in the Reds’ insistence on Russia as a “neutral” truce ob server and the Allies demand for a ban on rebuilding North Kor ean ■ airfields during ah armis tice. There had been no word on the progress of prisoner of war dis cussions in the ten secret staff of ficers’ sessions that' preceded the April 4 recess. However, it is generally be lieved both sides used the recess to prepare a compromise formula allowing the United Nations com mand to maintain its position that no' prisoner should be repa triated against his wishes and the 1 Communist demand for the. re turn of all captives. Flood Levees at Omaiia Hold, But Crisis Jlemalus OMAHA, Neb., April 18— (JP) —The swollen Missouri pitched itself against Omaha and Council Bluffs levees with the most of its mighty strength today but couldn’t-smash the hastily-strengthened bulwarks protecting the cities. The crisis wasn’t over—and won’t be for several days. The long flat flood crest—the river area where water is at maxi- mum bulk—will be some 24 hours funneling through the channel “neck” between the cities. And the drop thereafter will be slow, river forecasters said. “We’re in the top of the danger ’zone,” said Brig. Gen. Don G. Shingler, Missouri river division engineer. “We’re winning the fight, but we’re going to be in this crest business for some days.” The renewed hope that the fur ious river has met its match at Omaha and Council Bluffs was not being duplicated downstream, as new towns and new thousands of acres in lowa, ■ Nebraska, Mis r souri, and Kansas yielded to the river’s relentless rise. ■ -Above Rulo, in Nebraska’s southeastern tip, the river was SURVEYS Bfl] PROVE fWf • Covers Scuff Marks I • Gives Shoes Richer Color KIWI Shoe Polish Jllla (k..-w.«) ' y&MiSSßwgßz&k JgfijSS • LACK • TAN . RROWN • UUE . DARK TAN • MID-TAN OXRIOOD -• MAHOGANY • CORDOVAN • NEUTRAL Boom for Horrimon Seen by Democrats New York Democratic chieftains insisted yesterday that the fledgling boom from W. Averall Harriman, hailed by President Tru man as a “great liberal,” will develop into an all-out campaign to nominate Harriman for the presidency. , “This is not a gesture, nor.a Democrats' Hope W. Averell Harriman Deinosisfmtion Course Offered ' The College will offer a new course in lecture demonstration materials and methods during the Main Summer Session beginning June 30. Dr. David C. Duncan, acting head of the Department of Phys ics, pointed out that it is not al ways realized that a wealth of simple demonstration material is readily available and that a wide range of common objects can be used for effective demonstration purposes in physics. The course will emphasize the use of -simple devices and mate rials which are available even to the science whose conventional laboratory equipment is very lim ited. 14 miles wide. At St. Joseph, Mis souri’s third largest city, it spread itself to a five mile width. Hamburg, la., city of 2086, lost, the protection of an upstream dike and began frantic efforts to im provise a new one to protect the, city water plant, business district and the threatened two .thirds of its residential area. It was the same story written earlier upstream. Army troops pouring in . . . evacuees pouring out . . . back-breaking work on dikes and levees, a few to hold but most to yield . . . relief cen ters set up and mercy missions by the dozens . . . sandbags, sand bags, and more sandbags. By The Associated Press holding operation,” Sen.'Herbert Lehman declared, shortly after Harriman won the endorsement of the New York state Demo cratic organization. Lehman made the statement in the wake of reports that Harri man would figure largely as a “holding candidate” to keep a tight rein over New York’s 94- vote delegation to the Dem’ocratic national convention in July. Some party bigwigs had been described as having little expec tation that Harriman, a longtime disciple of the Roosevelt-Truman “deal’f programs and now the Truman administration’s foreign aid chief, would go anywhere on a national scale. ; But Lehman said Harrihian’s candidacy will be pushed in other states in, a full-fledged drive to win the Democratic pres idential nomination for him. Similarly, New York State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick said the ..party would proceed “with all vigor” to “lay before the people of the country the quali fications of the man we are sup porting. PHILADELPHIA, April 18— (AP) —Looking ahead four days to Pennsylvania’s primary elec tion, Democratic National Com mitteeman David L. Lawrence said today his party’s state dele gation is “not going to make any decision” on Presidential candi dates until the national conven tion. “We have said before and we peat, there will be no decision made now,” Lawrence said. The Pittsburgh mayor, long a power in national affairs of the party, commented that “anybody who makes a decision now doesn’t knov' what’s he’s doing. “Two weeks ago Harriman’s name wasn’t even mentioned. Now he’s. a candidate. In prior years when Roosevelt and Tru man were running, our conven tion was tailor-made: but not now.” 29 Are Killed In Plane Crash LOS ANGELES, April 18 (£>)— A non-scheduled - New York-Los Angeles airliner crashed and burn ed today in the Puente Hills 25 miles-from its destination, killing all 29 persons aboard. The plane, a C-46 two-engine transport operated by North Con tinental Airways, smashed into a low hill as the pilot,' Capt. Lewis Powell of Los Angeles, ‘ was try ing to find his way through a thick early-morning fog to the Los Angeles International Air port. Harry Bachelor, secretary of the airline, said it was impossible to say what might have caused the crash. The plane left New York Thursday and made stops at Chi cago, Kansas City, Amarillo, Tex., and Phoenix, Afiz. It apparently scraped the top of a 400-foot hill, then plunged in to another. There were grooves on the first hilltop barely six feet from the top, apparently from the plane’s landing gear. The TAVERN MENU Saturday, April 19 ROAST TENDERLOIN BEEF SEAFOOD PLATTER SPAGHETTI - PRIME STEAKS DINNER 5 • 7:30 p.m. Reservations after 6:30 PAGE THREE
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