FtMAY,' MAY 1952., TO:um4i'Claio - ' S:eiiiitt°6: - Po*.er :WASHINGTON, May 22 VP)--President Truman declared today. that nobody—neither Congress nor the courts—can take - away from the President his power to seize indUstry in an emergency. Yet he, readily agreed that •if the his :*el industry seizure is illegal, he the plants to their private owners. He will turn the mills back and see what happens, he said. • lie promised that the nation's railroads, having reached a wage settlement yesterday a f ter 21 months in , -federal hands, will be retrned to private -'management as quickly as papers can be signed. Doesn't Expect Reversal Truman asserted his claim to in herent seizure power in • the strongest terms he has used to date. He implied at his news con ference that he would - veto any, act of Congress seeking to outlaw the seizure technique. .• , The President said he did not believe the 'questions • of consti tutionality were before the court, and he didn't expect the court to declare the seizure illegal. • • The President has the power to' seize, he stated, and they cannot take it away. Who is "they", Con gress or the courts? He was asked. Happy Over Settlement Truman replied that nobody— and he emphasized the nobody— can take the power away because it is inherent in the• Constitution, because the Chief Executive has the responsibility to see that the national welfare is met. Russell Gains Speed in Race By The Associated Press Georgia's Sen. Richard. B Bus sell picked• up speed yesterdWas a third-place contender irr";the' nationwide race for delegate's go the Democratic National Conven tion in July. • Russell got a big boOst when North Carolina Democrats, meet ing in state convention, endorsed him for the presidential nomina tion. The state's 32-vote delegation will - go . to Chicago without any binding instructions on how -to vote, but, _the formal endorsement plus the known leanings of dele gates strongly-indicated that Rus sell would get the lion's share. All nine of the first nine dele gates willing •to state a clioice said they favored Russell. ' • Previously, Russell had trailed far back behind the front-running. Sen. Estes .Kefauver and foreign aid chief W. Averell Harriman. TR' #re4!64 re,mmegt,tir The .90e'r • Here's a pair that gets along famously in any college man's wardrobe. The Manhattan Burt is in the ever-popular white oxford cloth with a softly rolled button-down collar. Its running mate is the Manhattan Range in fine • white broadcloth, featuring a widespread collar. You'll want both ' styles in your dresser to be ready to look your sharpest always: , Drop in and see our complete line of fine .21fanhattan men's apparel. 1 4.!4T7in TAf LON, The World At a Glance Allied Pignes:Smash 3d Red Supply Center SEOUL, - Friday,' May. 23 (IP)— Allied war planes Thursday smashed the third Red supply base in two months, leaving in flaming ruin a huge storage cen ter near the North - Korean capital of Pyongyang. The Fifth Air Porde said" the planes pressed home their all-out attack - from dawn to dusk. By nightfall, pilots reported 117 buildings flattened and 85 niore heavily damaged. , Harrltcon Replaces Joy MUNSAN, Korea, Friday, May 23 (AP)-:-Maj. Gen. William K. Har rison Jr. takes over today . as top man of the Allied armistice team, a serene soldier who says of Red negotiators "let 'em rant and rave." Harrison ,succeeds Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, who gave the Com munists a parting verbal volley Thursday and a tremendous. care. Joy in his farewell statement accused the Reds of being in terested 'only in gaining time to rebuild their "shattered forces" and to .win by negotiation what they-"could not accomplish in the field." 'Sutton Moved to - N.Y., OSSINING, N.Y., May 22 (10— Willie The Actor' Sutton, notori ous bank robber and jail breaker, was secretly moved from Sing Sing Prison to the state prison at Attica, N.Y., yesterday. Authori-' ties said today the undercover transfer was made to prevent any possible attempt to free the pris oner. Ridgway RJgsts Reds - WASHINGTON, May 22 (RIL Gen. 'Matthew B. Ridgway told Congress today Communist charg es • that the Allies used gas and germ warfare in Korea should serve as a "monumental warn ing" of deadly danger to the free world. The c..eie:ertv4, RAND . , ip tvi ~ • i o '.,. :f.,-, .' 'il'r_ 'il -i •.-. . '.'` t Gl" 'tkr:DA I ru'i:6OLiAGTAN. COLLidE. V!tiIII'SYL,VAMA Supreme court rules will promptly restore Red POW's Strength On Decline KOJE ISLAND, Korea, Friday, May 23 (W)—Communist inmates retained control within the 17 barbed wire enclosures of this big priioner-of-war camp today, but were weakening under a firm show of force by battle-tried U.S. troops. With an ultimate showdown in evitable; Gen. Jain e s A. Van Fleet, 'U.S. Eighth Ar m y -com mander; visited both.Koje and the prison hospital came at Pusan Thu'rsday and said the situation "looks very fine' today; there 'has been a great improvement." • "Within a few days," Van Fleet said, "we , will command these camps as everyone would like them to be commanded . we have treated Communist prisoners of war, with every human de cency. They, themselves, have re snonsibilities 7they have not ful filled." At the Pusan camp; one prison er was killed and 85 were injured when U.S. troops took chargé of the rebellious captives. The toughest 1 - 100 • prisoners were moved. Thursday to Koje Island, where 80,000 already are held. While the Reds still rule inside the wire at Koje, their swagger ing attitude had been tempered somewhat. Attention SENIORS PEN STATE with you after graduation . . . 1 1 0 e t„sCS to the 1952=53 CPY ONLY 9.75, for 7 Issues FROTH Name . Addresi City. . .Zone . LEAVE AT STUDENT UNION DESK go MIKE ENELOW' Russia Warns iron Against US. Aid MOSCOW, Friday, May 23 (A')—Russia, in a stiff note, has pro tested Iran's acceptance of American military aid and warned that it works against good relations with Moscow. The note was delivered by Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky to the Iranian ambassador here yesterday. It charged that by taking American military aid Iran had violated the Soviet-Iranian treaty of 1921. The Soviet note was published in all leading newspapers today. It declared that "by this token the Iranian army loses its char acter as a national army of an independent sovereign state" and said acceptance of the aid "is put ting the Iranian army under the control of the United States gov ernment." Russia agcused Iran, her neigh bor to the south, of co-operating with the U.S. "in the implementa tion of the latter's aggressive plans directed against the Soviet Un ion." The treaty which the Soviet Union claims Iran violated con tains, a clause giving Russia • a right to move troops into Iran if that country's soil is used by foreign military forces hostile to Russia. The Soviet note of protest was delivered just four weeks after the U.S. resumed military aid to Iran. It had been cut , off Jan. 14 when Iran refused to sign an agreement pledging to help in- TAKE a PART of PAGE THREE crease "the defensive strength of the free world." Such a statement is required under terms of the U.S. Mutual Security Act. 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