FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1952 Clarification Ends Over 'Ultimatum' WASHINGTON, April 24— (JP short-lived.sensation today by sayi matum—backed up by the presem Middle East—and forced the Russi Truman’s '“disclosure,” which ence, startled and even amazed off: Political Roundup HST Hints of Choice ' WASHINGTON. April 24— (IP) —President Truman threw out a hint today that he "may soon break his silence on the scramble for the Democratic presidential nomination and name his choice as the party’s standard bearer. Four avowed. candidates ate now in the Democratic race: Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, Sen. Richard B. Russell of Geor gia, Sen. Robert Kerr of Okla homa, and Mutual Security Direc tor W. Averell Harriman. Truman defended Harriman’s refusal to quit his post as foreign aid chief or withdraw from the presidential, campaign. Stassen Bows Out WASHINGTON, April 24 (JP) —Daniel C. Gainey, manager of the Stassen - for - president cam poign here, said today he thinks Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has the “best chance” to win the Re publican presidential nomination. Gainey made the statement in response to questions at a press luncheon where he formally an nounced the closing, of the local campaign headquarters for Har old E. Stassen. He-said he is not counting Stassen out of the race but clearly indicated a belief that Eisen hower will win. Taft Critical of Poll WASHINGTON. April 24—(TP) —Senr Robert A. Taft of Ohio, a candidate for the Republican presidential, nomination, today criticized an Associated Press tabulation, of preferences among national convention delegates elected to date. ; He_ was asked specifically at a news" conference about an AP tabulation for morning news papers of today which showed 239 . delegates for Taft and 220 for Eisenhower. 'lke' Back in Harness supreme headquarters, Allied Powers in Europe, April 24 (TP) — Gen. Eisenhower, in high good humor despite a five-’ day illness, returned to harness today for his last full month as supreme allied commander in Eu rope., Eisenhower spent afternoon with staff officers'planning his activities between now and his scheduled departure for the Uni ted States and the political arena around June 1. . Kennedy to Close Priestly Lectures Dr, Joseph W. Kennedy, chair man of the Department of Chem istry at Washington University,' will deliver the last of the series of Priestley lectures at 7:30 to night in 119 Osmond laboratory. His topic will be “Self-Diffusion of Aqueous lons.” Dr. Donald S. Cryder, .profes sor and head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, will preside. • ■ SPR I N G EARN MONEY BY SELLING Wn an ajr Student Magazine Agency and Time Magazine need rep tl t SC resentatiVes to sell during the fall term. ' If V.ou can sell and are aggressive: IS ' Contact Student Magazine COM I NCS Agency for Interview NOW! V ’ W, ! U 1 " 112 OLD MAIN T?IE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE; PENNSYLVANIA >) —President Truman stirred up a ing he sent Premier Stalin an ulti ice of U.S. troops and ships in the ians to get out of Iran in 1946. he volunteered at a news confer licial circles until the White House, some three hours later, announced officially that: 1— The President did not send a personal note to Stalin that led to Russia’s evacuation of the Mid dle East country,/and 2 Truman used the word ulti matum in a “non-technical, lay man sense”—that is,, he didn’t mean to imply he told the Rus sians to get out or we would go to war. Volunteered Information The President meant, it was ex plained, that U.S. leadership ex erted in the United Nations, and “through diplomatic channels',” was a 'major factor in bringing about Russian withdrawal from Iran. The President brought up the Iran matter himself in outlining some of the actions he and other presidents have taken to meet na tional emergencies. He said also that he never has given any thought to taking over the nation’s newspapers and radio stations, despite a lot of published hooey to that effect.. Sent 'Ultimatum' The White House “clarification” of Truman’s statements about Iran were pretty much at odds with what' the President himself said, and repeated under questioning, at the news conference—adding that he was telling the correspon dents something not previously divulged. He said that in 1946—at first he said 1945, then decided it might have- been later—he had to send an ultimatum to the head of the Soviet Union to get out of Iran. The Russians got.out, the Presi dent said, because 'this country was in a position then to meet r. situation of, that kind. This ultimatum, he said at an other point, was a message from him to Stalin and told the Rus sian leader that unless he did get out of Iran by a certain date we would put some people in there. The U.S., Truman noted, had ships in the Persian Gulf then, and had plenty of troops in the' neighbor hood. Kansas City Hit By Missouri KANSAS CITY, April 24—(TP) —Kansas City stood the strain today as the upper Missouri River’s greatest flood surged past on its way to the sea. - “I’m smiling today because it looks awfully good,” said Brig. Gen., Don G. Shingler of Omaha, Missouri river division engineer. “But when the record flood on the Missouri is passing your door, and you’re sitting behind dirt, you have to be watchful.” Shingler explained, the Mis souri is carrying about ■ 400,000 cubic feet of water a second— much less than the paralyzing flood of 1951. Last year the ram paging Kaw (Kansas) river dumped more than 500,000' cubic feet into the Missouri at Kansas City. . That disaster last July caused almost half a billion dollars dam age in the industrialized bottom land of Kansas City, Kas., and Kansas City, Mo. Today none- of those rich in dustrial districts suffered as the river’s crest reached Kansas City. Sensation to Stalin Prisoners End Riot In Michigan JACKSON, Mich., April 24—UP) —Convict rebels at Southern Michigan Prison, their five-day mutiny won, surrendered their fortress cellblock today. They re leased eight groggy but unharmed hostage guards. The 169 mutineers discarded a pile of weapons—knives, clea vers, ball-bats and clubs—outside their cellblock, a monument to the worst - riot ever to sweep a Michigan' prison. A roaring cheer broke the tense silence of the vast prison as the lost of the rebels walked out of isolation cellblock 15 with the guards. One convict died during the flaming rampage of 6500 danger ous men, many of them merciless killers who. would have paid with their lives for their crimes in other states. Michigan has no capital punishment. Cellblock 15, punishment" cen ter for convicts who break prison rules, was the first seized and the last surrendered. General riot ing in the world’s largest walled prison ended earlier in the week. A long - term convict in block 15 tricked a rookie prison guard and captured him to touch off the riot last Sunday night. Wives of the long imprisoned guards—some with babies clutch ed in their arms—screamed and sobbed hysterically in a mad dash into the arms of the freed but badly shaken hostages. Library Display Features Life Of Priestley An exhibit commemorating the life and works of scientist and educator Joseph Priestley is on display at the Pattee library this month. The exhibit includes sections on Priestley’s scientific works, his religious works, his political, educational, and historical writ ings, ,and the history of the Priestley lecture series at the Col lege. Photographs of the Priest ley home-and museum at North umberland are also on display. The home is now the property of the College, because of the efforts of the late Dr. Gilbert Pond, former dean of the School of Natural Sciences. Although best known as the discoverer of oxygen, Priestley wrote on many other subjects. He came to America as a result of his activities opposing the re ligious views of his time. Student Among Ten Austin Edgington,- a third se mester agronomy student, was one of ten persons arrested yes terday by State College borough police and charged with speed ing. John R. Juba, borough chief of police, warned that the arrests were the first of a series of traps which will be operated in all sections of the borough. Government Says Courts Are Powerless in Steel Seizure; Judge Surprised ‘ WASHINGTON, April 24—(#)—'U.S. District Judge David A. Pine indicated surprise today at a government attorney’s contention that the courts have no authority in time of emergency to interfere with such actions as President Truman’s seizure of the nation’s steel mills. The judge put off until tomorrow completion of legal arguments on the steel industry’s plea for an injunction which would void Tru man’s seizure. But he said that when arguments have ended, probably tomorrow, he will rule as promptly as possible. ' Industry ( attorneys urged im mediate action, CQntending that the government is about to take action which they said will result in “almost incalculable” damage to the steel companies. President's Emergency Holmes Baldridge, an assistant attorney general replying for the government, argued that the pres ident has unlimited power in time of declared emergency and that the courts have no authority to review his executive orders. The steel seizure was sucli an order. Judge Pine expressed surprise, noting that the President himself declares the emergency. He told Baldridge that under his theory, the government could seize him, Baldridge, and order him executed and that he would have no recourse to the courts, 'Greatest Emergency' “I’ll have to think that one over,” Baldridge replied.' Truman defended his seizure of the steel mills, telling his news conference he acted because the country was in what he termed its greatest emergency. But hew challenges to his seizure order were voiced on Capitol Hill. Truman brushed off as politics a move by some Republican House members to impeach him because of his seizure of the steel industry oh April 8. The GOP Congressmen have a right to try, he said, but he has a pretty good defense. Secretary of Defense. Lovett told on'e of three Senate groups inquiring into the seizure that any prolonged - stoppage of steel pro duction “could result in tragedy and disaster.” Over $3400 Raised For Jewish Appeal Over $3400 was raised on cam pus lor the United Jewish Appeal, Sara Basset and Stanley Gold man, co-chairmen, have an nounced. The sum is a ten per cent in crease over last year’s collection. Miss Bassel presented the $3400 check to Michel Harvel,, “Miss Israel of 1951,” at the UJA din ner in Pittsburgh Sunday. The local Hillel foundation was represented at the'dinner by the co-chairmen and Selma Fine, Aron Hoffman, Laeh Kadinov, and Sheldon Vilensky. . Regina Resnick, Metropolitan Opera star, sang. General Ginsbergh, assis tant to the-Secretary of Defense, spoke. GE Announces Layoff ERIE, Pa., April 24 (/P) — General Electric Co. disclosed to day it will lay off 2,500 workers in the refrigerator and freezer division of the Erie works May 9 because of high inventories. HIT TUNES From HIT MOVIES 33£ rpm Records "With a Song in My Heart" • "Greatest Show ' on Earth" Come In Today! STHE wwnezsM 1 203 E-BEAVER J AVE- J 'PAG® THREE The World Ata Glance Red Newsmen Hint Of Break in Deadlock. MUNSAN, Friday, April 25 (JP) —Communist newsmen hinted yesterday that a new develop ment was imminent in the bogged-down talks on a Korean armistice. They spread their hints at the conference site of Panmunjom in .the wake of sharply pessimistic reports from Washington and Peiping on the prospects of a truce. They gave no indication of the nature of the development. Tension mounted at the tiny tent town of Panmunjom. It ap peared obvious that off-the-rec ord negotiations on the crucial issue of exchanging prisoners were approaching a climax. ANPA Blasts Truman NEW YORK, April 24— (JP)— The American Newspaper Pub lishers Association censured Pres ident Truman today for his seiz ure of the steel industry and de clared it would “resist and de feat” a similar move against the press “by any president.” A resolution on the seizure is sue was adopted at a closed ses sion of the annual meeting of the ANPA with only four dissenting votes among- the 500 publishers attending. Red Rally in Berlin BERIN, April .24 (/P) —About 25,000 Communist blue shirts stormed West Berlin’s frontier tonight in a professed peace rally that resulted in a few cracked heads and 14 arrests. The regimented youths of East Berlin were sent to stir up trou ble with shouts of “Ami, go home” and “We demand a peace treaty.” It was the first time in months that _ Communist street fighting tactics have been em ployed in divided Berlin. , trimmings to Speak The Reverend Everett Crim mings of the First Baptist Church, Millville, N.J., will speak to the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellow ship at 7:30 tonight in 405 Old Main.. The Reverend Crimmings is a graduate of Baylor University and Eastern Baptist Seminary. Academy Award Winner HUMPHREY BOGART KATHRYN HEPBURN "AFRICAN QUEEN" safe BUD ABBOTT LOU COSTELLO "JACK AND THE BEANSTALK" OPEN AT 6:00 " Engrossing, Powerful * —Newsweek "THE WELL"
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