THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1852
Ike Against Taft-Hartley
Repeal, Favors Change
NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (tf s )—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told the
American Federation of Labor today he is against repealing the
Taft-Hartley labor laW but in favor of amending it.
The Republican presidential candidate emphasized he would not
support “any amendments which
weaken the rights of the working
men and women.”
Sits Opposite Stevenson
The approximately 2,000 union
people in the AFL Convention
Hall stood and clapped as Eisen
hower entered and when he con
cluded his Speech. They inter
rupted the talk with applause 13
imes.
Jets Dare
Red MIGs,
Down One
SEOUL, Thursday, Sept. 18 (/P)
—Sabre jets on patrol near Man
churia Wednesday dared the
bruised Rdd Air Force to battle
and reported knocking down one
of about 50 MIG jets which ac
cented the challenge.
The honor of destroying the
47th MIG so far in record-break
ing September went to Maj. Fred
erick C. Blesse, Phoenix, Ariz.,
the leading U.S. jet ace still in
action in Korea.
UN Panes Record
Blesse caught one of nine MIGs
which took on four Sabres near
the Yalu River boundary and sent
it spinning to earth. It was his
eighth MIG. He also has dam
aged three.
With little more
than half gone, the Allies now
have surpassed the old record of
44 enemy planes destroyed set in
April.
While the Sabres and MIGs
tangled* slower fighter-bombers
raked targets behind the stagnant
batlelines, including a storage
base and gold mine south of Ko
wan on the East Coast. Pilots
claimed six buildings destroyed
in the Kowan raid.
11 Ground Clashes
Other warplanes hit three rail
lines, cratered rail beds and
pounced on three troop concen
trations in Western Korea behind
the front. In all, pilots reported
29 buildings destroyed and 14
damaged. There were numerous
fires raging as pilots pulled away
from targets.
On the ground, fighting along
the 155-mile front was confined
to 11 small patrol clashes.
Polio Rate Drops;
Meeting Ban Lifted
LOCK HAVEN, Pa., Sept. 17
(JP) —Look Haven, hard hit by po
lio, lifted its ban today against
public meetings as cases from
the disease mounted to 900 across
Pennsylvania.
The Lock Haven Board of
Health permitted resumption of
city life after noting no new cases
of the disease have developed
since Monday. The ban against
public meetings, imposed August
13, included churches and thea
tres and was extended to tap
rooms a week ago.
The city school board also de
layed opening of the fall term
of schools of the epidemic
and has yet to fix the date for
start of classes.
The 900 total cases throughout
the state is exactly half of the
450 reported at this time last year.
Eng Research Develops
Exhaust Flame Arrester
Research workers in the School
of Engineering are developing a
flame arrester to be used on the
exhausts of gasoline engines used
in fork-lift trucks.
Dr. P. H. Schweitz, professor
of engineering research, in charge
of the project, said that the ar
rester will help prevent fires
starting in warehouses where the
trucks are used.
The project is sponsored by the
Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army,
Fort Belovir, Va., under a grant
of $25,000.
La Vie Sets Deadline
For Ag Senior Photos
Agriculture seniors may have
their pictures taken for the
1953 LaVie at the Penn State
Photo Shop, official LaVie pho
tographer, until Sept. 26.
Students who do not have
their pictures taken at the
scheduled time will not be
able to have their pictures in
the yearbook.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
But they sat silently as he took
a position directly opposite that
of his Democratic rival, Gov. Ad
lai E. Stevenson of Illinois, on
repeal of the labor law.
And they “sat on their hands”,
through lengthy passeges in which
he struck out at Stevenson and
President Truman's Democratic
administration.
Stevenson To Talk Monday
The convention is slated to en-j
dorse a presidential candidate
next Tuesday for the first time
in AFL history.
Stevenson, who will address the
delegates Monday, generally is ex
pected to win the endorsement
because of his stand against the
Taft-Hartley law. The CIO al
ready has endorsed Stevenson.
After his speech, Eisenhower
left by chartered plane for Moline,
111., to rejoin his whistle stop train
tour.
Newsmen at LaGuardia Field
asked him if he had discussed in
advance with Sen. Robert A. Taft
his AFL speech, defending the
Taft-Hartley law.
Receives 'Friendly Response'
“No,” replied Eisenhower. “All
these things I do by myself.”
As for his reception by the AFL
Convention, the general said:
“Personally I thought it was a
very friendly response. I had a
good time.”
Eisenhower told the delegates
he had not come before them to
curry any special favor nor to
“bid or compete for your endorse
ment.”
“Take whatever political action
your conscience dictates,” he add
ed. “I will always try to be a
true friend of labor.”
Eisenhower said that, in seeking
Taft-H ar 11 e y amendments, he
would ask the advice of “all
groups—public, management and
labor.”
To Encourage Bargaining
He said some of the principles
he thought should “continue in
law" were:
“The encouragement of collec
tive bargaining; the right to
strike; an advance notice before
a strike is called; a requirement
that both unions and employers
live up to contracts; the assur
ance that members of unions get a
regular report on their organiza
tion’s finances.”
Adlai
Start
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Sept. 17 (/P)
—Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson —who
says Sen. Robert A. Taft has tak
en over Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower’s campaign—soon will car
ry his battle for the presidency
into Taft’s home state of Ohio.
The Democratic nominee’s plans
were disclosed today by his cam
paign manager, Wilson Wyatt,
who also announced that Steven
son’s first major speech on a
week-long Eastern tour starting
tomorrow in Connecticut will deal
with the nation’s atomic energy
program.
Wyatt told a news conference
that after the Eastern swing, Ste
venson will rest for a day and
a half at his campaign base here
in Springfield, then take off Sept.
26 on another trip which will in
clude speeches in Cincinnati—
Taft’s home city—and Columbus,
Ohio; Indianapolis, Ind.; and
Louisville, Ky.
Walter F. Heer Jr., Franklin
County Democratic chairman, an
nounced in Columbus that Steven
son’s speech there is set for the
evening of Oct. 3, with a nation
wide telecast planned. Taft, too,
Political News
Thursday. Sept. 18
By The Associated Press
Gov. Adlai Stevenson will
fly from Springfield. 111., to
Bridgeport. Conn., for an east
ern swing including an atomic
energy speech from Hattford
tonight over a Connecticut ra
dio hookup at 8 p.m.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
will make whislle-s.ops through
lowa, reaching Omaha, Neb.,
for a major speech tonight.
Sen. John J. Sparkman of
Alabama will speak in Tampa
and Tallahassee, Fla.
Sen. Richard M. Nixon will
campaign by rail through Cal
ifornia with a flying side trip
to Reno, Nev.
3 Girls Killed
As Train Hits
Pa. School Bus
MONESSEN, Pa., Sept. 17 (/P) —
Three high school girls were kill
ed today and 47 other pupils in
jured by a freight train which
slammed into the rear of their
school bus and turned it into
crumpled junk.
Fifteen of the injured boys and
girls are in a serious condition.
Killed were Janice Everett, 17,
a senior; Norma Bergman. 15; and
Leola Bradley, 14. Janice and Le
ola lived in Collinsburg within
sight of the crossing. Norma lived
in nearby West Newton.
Bus driver Edward Steiner, 23,
was taken into custody for ques
tioning. He was a victim of shock.
Only an inch or two made the
difference between disaster and
safety.
The front of the Pittsburgh and
Lake Erie railroad locomotive
snagged the rear bumper on the
orange bus on a street crossing
in Collinsburg, a small coal min
ing town about 20 miles south of
Pittsburgh. ‘
The bus was bound for the Ros
traver Township Westmoreland
County High School. It stopped at
Collinsburg to pick up 20 pupils
and proceeded on its way with
55 passengers.
Fine Cites Penna.'s
industrial Leadership
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 17 (/P)—
Gov. John S. Fine told the clos
ing session of the annual meeting
of the Pennsylvania Electric As
sociation today that Pennsyl
vania’s industrial growth last
year was one of the greatest ever
recorded by any state.
Manufacturing industries, he
said invested nearly IVz billion
dollars to expand facilities or es
tablish new plants at 677 locations
in the state.
The governor declared that
Pennsylvania last year “again
ranked first in the nation in ex
penditures for new construction,
expansion, and equipment of in
dustrial plants—a leadership it
has held throughout the postwar
period."
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Eastern
is scheduled to speak in Columbus
that day.
Heer also announced that Ste
venson will speak in Cincinnati
.and Dayton Oct. 3 before moving
on to Columbus.
Stevenson will make his atomic
energy speech in Hartford, Conn.,
tomorrow night. Stevenson’s plane
will arrive in Bridgeport, Conn.,
at mid-day tomorrow. He will
speak briefly there, then move on
by automobile for speeches during
the afternoon at New Haven,
Waterbury and New Britain.
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Refugees Evacuated
From Wake Island
HONOLULU, Sept. 17 OP)— Relays of planes today flew scores
of refugees from’ stricken Wake, tiny airfield island smashed Tues
day by one of the worst typhoons in the Pacific’s history.
Weary, bedraggled arrivals in Honolulu told of heroism in a time
of terror, of trees and wreckage from Quonset huts flying through
the air like straw, and of the
very grass flattened by the pres
sure of the 161-mile winds.
Rescue plane crews bringing in
food and water found only four
injured among the more than 750
persons who were caught in the
storm.
The Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration in Honolulu announced
Wake was closed to civilian air
traffic indefinitely.
Shaved in Cham]#agne
Only the most essential work
ers were remaining on the corral
island. Food was short and the
water supply was contaminated
when the seas rose and _ swept
over the island at the height of
the storm.
Water was so scarce that the
17 men left behind were shaving
in champagne and soda water.
So great was the havoc that
officials estimated it might take
four months to get operations
back to normal on Wake, impor
tant stop on the military and civi
lian air route to Japan and Korea.
Early unofficial estimates were
thrt damage might reach $10,000,-
000.
One Warehouse Left
Radio towers on Wake were
knocked down and the air term
inal building was unroofed. Only
a few steel and concrete build
ings and a residence or so were
left standing.
The only electricity was in the
Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion’s radio station and in one
warehouse, where the island's
slender food supply is stored.
With Wake, 2300 miles west of
Honolulu, taking only emergency
landings, transpacific flights were
rerouted through Kwajalein and
Guam.
Pa. November
Draft Quota
Set at 6204
HARRISBURG State Se
lective service headquarters has
fixed Pennsylvania’s draft quota
for November at 6204 men, high
est since the start of the Korean
War in 1950.
Col. Frank J. Graf, assistant
state draft director, said the rec
ord high quota was due primarily
to the fact that original inductees
are now starting to be discharged
from the armed services.
No one under 20 will be called
in November, be told a reporter.
The November quota contrasts
sharply with those earlier this
year: 452 in June; 1762 in July;
1398 in August; 763 in _September,
and 8844 in October.
“Pennsylvania has a pool of
6000 men examined and accept
able,” Graf said. “That will be
cut sharply by the November call.
Pennsylvania has had a little bet
ter break than other states because
of the high ratio of enlistments
and reservfe calls.”
Graf explained that with the
present pool of 6000 men avail
able for induction, a large num
ber of registrants will be called
up next month for physical ex
aminations to maintain a pool
for.future quotas.
First Football Death
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (A>)
Sixteen-year-old James Ryan died
in a hospital today after suffer
ing a brain hemorrhage in foot
ball practice at lona Prep yester
day.
It wds the first gridiron fata!
ty of the year.
PAGE THREE
Anthracite
Miners Get
Fund Boost
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (JPh-
John L. Lewis won a 20 cent
boost in the anthracite industry’s
welfare fund royalty today in an
agreement which cancelled any
threat of a hard coal strike and
left Lewis free for his annual tus
sle with soft coal mine owners.
The anthracite producers, whose
mines are concentrated in East
ern Pennsylvania, signed a tem
porary agreement with Lewis in
creasing their tonnage royalty
payments to finance miner pen
sions and other benefits from 30
to 50 cents effective Oct. 1.
With soft coal mines in most
Northern states facing a strike by
Lewis’ United Mineworkers mem
bers next Monday, there were
these other developments:
1. The government moved to
freeze stocks of unsold soft coal
at mines facing the Monday strike
threat. This will save an estimat
ed million tons of coal for doling
out later by government orders.
2. Th top negotiator for South
ern soft coal producers, Joseph E.
Moody, told reporters that com
mercial mines faced “economic
suicide’ ’if they accepted the
union demands for increased
wages, boosted welfare fund roy
alty and, shorter working hours.
Moody indicated the soft coal ne
gotiations are practically stale
mated.
The anthracite agreement is a
temporary arrangement providing
that the 65,000 hard coal diggers
will remain at work until a com
plete contract is negotiated. This
left such matters as wage rates
and other points to be agreed up
on later, probably on whatever
terms Lewis manages to wrest
from the soft coal industry.
The situation in the bituminous,
or soft coal industry took on a
more serious tone with the ex
planation by Moody of the wide
disagreement between union and
owners.
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