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. • ■
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>) —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.
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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
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