WgI)I4IESDAY, 13 . . t CEIVMErt 3, 1952 Taft Seen WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (4 1 )-'—Sen. Robert A. Taft, in an explosive protest which could fore shadow a great legislative struggle between two wings of the GOP, today labelled President-elect Eisenhower's choice of a secretary of labor as "incredible." The. Ohio senator's blast over the selection of Martin P. Durkin shattered the outward ghow of harmony which prevailed duiing the election campaign between Eisenhower and the man he beat out for the Republican nomination. In a statement from Cincinnat union, as a "partisan Truman Demi backed the GOP ticket, and also to. Democrats who jumped party lines. NEW YORK, Dec. 2 (.4 3 ) George M. Humphrey, Presi dent-elect Eisenhower's choice for secretary of the Treasury, said today he hoped the new administration could avoid a rift with Sen. Hobert A. Taft, critic of Hisenhower's selection of a secretary of labor. Humphrey also said the new administration should have good relations with labor. And he- brought th e matter down to more immediate political cases by asserting that Herbert Brownell has been "the key man in Cabinet appointments." Brownell. picked by Eisenhower to be attorney general, has been closely associated with the Repub lican 'group around Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and was campaign man ager in 1948 when the New Yorker defeated Taft for the nomination. Taft's implication was that the Dewey wing has taken over pa tronage and perhaps a command ing -position on policy issues. Taff said he had talked to Brownell and made "several rec ommendations" for appointments, adding: was never even suggested that, a man would be appointed who has always been a partisan Truman Democrat, who fought Gen. Eisenhower's election, and advocated the repeal of the Taft- Hartley law." He disclaimed any reflection on the "character or ability" of Dur kin himself. Taft's mention of the T-H labor law, and of the secretary desig nate's stand on it, opened up the question of just how much coop eration_Eisenhower can expect on legislative matters from the sena tors who usually follow th e Ohioan's lead. Durkin makes no bones about wanting more revision of the T-H law than Taft is likely to accept willingly, and he already has sug gested new powers for the Labor Department that Taft may not want in the hands of a man whose selection he ha s criticized so roundly. In addition to labor matters there are other broad areas of government policy where the Tart group in the Senate seldom sees eye to eye with those lawmakers usually identified with the Dewey forces. Convict Cau • ht; Five at Lk rge WASHINGTON, Pa., Dec. 2 (/P) —One of five dangerous escaped convicts from Pittsburgh's West ern State Penitentiary -who held a family of five prisoners for two days was captured today in West Virginia less than 12 hodrs after making a new dash for/ freedom. James Milk, 25, serving 10 to 20 years for robbery, was cap tured in a Western Union office at Charleston, W. Va. He was alone. Milk was taken without a strug gle as he went to the office for a money order for which he had wired to his home in Duquesne, near Pittsburgh. Milk and fotir, other prisoners fled after holing up from Sunday morning until early today at the home of Emile Lerby in the Little mining town of Bea. near Wash ington, Pa. • Held at bay were Lerby's wife, Ethel, 42; her son-in-law. John Gagich; her daughter, Mrs. Mary Gagich, 23; and two grandchildren Gagich Jr., 6 months, and Marlens, 2. Lerby had gone hunt ing. The convicts took .the - Lerby and Gagich cars, two guns, knives Blast at Ike Splitting GOP i Taft described Durkin, 58-year .crat." He said the selection was Robert A. Ta Flits Durkin Sel: nd of Nickel ?hone Booth all Authorized HARRISBURG, Dec.- 2 (JP)—The Public Utility Commission today authorized a $21,227,000 a year rate increase for the Bell Tele phone Co. signalling end of the nickel pay booth call in Pennsyl vania. • Although the increase is the largest ever placed before the PVC by Bell, it was reduced by 36 per cent from the original !33.- 009,000 the company sought. Sun- Pa-• is the effective date. Bell, ordered to pare some $ll,- 782,000, now must file revised statewide local exchange rates so that the lower rate of increase will be reflected in regular monthly home and business serv ice bills to 2,100.000 subscribers. If Bell files a uniform revision. it is estimated that local home telephone bills will rise an aver age .of 32 cents instead of 50 cents .under the company's re jected proposal. Business rate increases, rang ing from 50 cents to .S 2 in the pro posal, also would be proportion ately lower. Bell received the go-ahead from the commission, however, to raise public local coin box calls from five to 10 cents. and clothes and sped south toward West Virginia. Pennsylvania State Police Et. Singleton Shaffer said. Mrs. Lerby told state police the fugitives were "very gentlemanly and never abused us at anytime." They left when the entire family, exhausted from their long vigil, fell asleep early this morning. Mrs. Lerby and her daughter's family were herded into a back bedroom Sunday night, and the routine started over again Mon day. - i 'l guess we slept Monday night," Mrs. Lerby said, "although I'd never have believed it. But when we aw o k e this morning Write Easier, Faster, and Neater with BX • Scripto Automatic Pencils 29c • Scripto Ball Point -Pens 98c • Flneline Automatic Pencils MN • Esterbrook Pens $2.30 $5 in Sales, You get $1 FREE at the BX in the 'TUB THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA -old head of the AVL plumbers' an "affront" to labor voters who Reuther Apparently New CIO President ATLANTIC CITY, Dec. 2 (W)—The CIO worked today to repair a deep rift in its ranks over choosing a new CIO president—a scrap not yet Over but apparently won by 45-year-old Walter Reuther. The dynamic, red-haired Reuther, president of the big CIO auto workers union, was widely conceded as having whipped together enough votes to get the CIO pres idency in any convention show down. Top officials were trying to get forces backing CIO Executive Vice President Allan S. Hay wood, a 64-year-old veteran union leader who came up from the coal mines, to back off and concede to Reuther, But Haywood and his chief sup porter, David J. McDonald, presi dent of .the big CIO steelworkers union, were still-pledging a finish fight that could spill over on the convention floor. Selection of of ficers is due Thursday. The Haywood forces held a wild ly applauded rally tonight at which Haywood, McDonald and Presidents Joseph A. Beirne of the communications workers and Michael J. Quill of the Transport Workers Union pledged a fight to the 'end in Haywood's behalf. They adopted a resolution, sup ported by more than a score of smaller unions, refusing any quar ter in the fight anti insisting Hay wood's name will be put in nom ination against Reuther. State Hit by Rain, Snow, Icy Roads Snow, mixed with rain in many areas, accompanied by freezing temperatures last night sounded a warning to motorists to "take it easy." The snowstorm, second of the season, swept into Pennsylvania with what the Weather Bureau termed "jet speed" from the Mid dle West early yesterday. By nightfall there was ,as much as two inches in Philadelphia and the eastern portion of the state while Pittsburgh an d Western sections reported as much as three inches. they were gone." Ten convicts using prison -made knives broke out of the peniten tiary after locking up four guards and a deputy warden. One was caught on the roof and another outside the prison walls. Two others were captured yes terday, one in Pittsburgh, and the other in nearby McKeesport. An other convict still free was not with Milk and the four others. Shaffer said the convicts left the L e r by residence driving a black 1949 convertible Ford, Penn sylvania license No. 2UG27, and maroon Ford convertible, Penn sylvania license No. N 7443. By The- Associated Press UN Western Bloc Rejects Russia Push For Ceasefire Now UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec! 2 (W)—The Western; bloc today soundly beat down Russia's stubborn drive in the UN Political Corn-' mittee for an immediate Korean ceasefire, with negotiations to come later. The committee, virtually exhausted after more than a month's .k on Korea until it hears Com munist reactior to an Indian peace plan it approved last night. Only the five Soviet bloc coun tries voted for the immediate cease fire. Forty-one countries, in cluding the United States, Brit ain, France and Nationalist China, opposed it. Twelve countries ab stained. They were Afghanistan, Argentina, Burma, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Syria. Ecuador and Yemen were absent. The General Ass e in b I y was called to meet at 3 p.m., EST, tomorrow to consider the peace plan. When it is approved, As sembly President Lester B. Pear son is expected to send it to Peiping and Pyongyang for con sideration of the Chinese and North Koreans. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky apparently intended to put the neutrals, such as India and other Asian and Arab coun tries, on the spot with his motion for a ceasefire now. They voted for the Indian peace plan ap proved by the committee yester day, but they abstained today when the ceasefire idea was put up separately. Little hope is held here that Red China and North Korea will accept the peace proposals ap proved by the' committee. Repre sentatives of the West said, how ever, that they wanted to make the attempt regardless of almost certain rejection. An American spokesman • ex pressed satisfaction with the huge vote for the Indian plan in the committee. It had been amended to make it acceptable to the West, especially, Western sources said, to make certain there would be no forced repatriation of prisoners of war if its terms are finally accepted. argument, then suspended all to Campaign Spending Cuts Sought WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (W)— Congressmen hunting a way to bring some order into the chaos of political campaign spending heard a surprise suggestion today for a curb on the amount of edi torial space a newspaper may use to back a candidate. HARRISBURG, Dec. 2 (W) The state's two major labor or ganizations today repor t e spending a total of nearly $30,000 supporting Democratic candidates in the recent presi dential campaign. Anthony S. Federoff, chair man of the Pennsylvania CIO Political Action Committee, re ported expenditures of $14.926. County CIO groups received most of the money. For the AFL, Earl C. Bour, secretary-treasurer of the Penn sylvania Federation of Labor, said the organization s p.e n t $14.294. An AFL sponsored state-wide radio broadcast by defeated U.S. Senatorial Candi date Guy IC. Bard represented the largest expenditure—s2ooo. That proposal, from Rep. Hoff man (R-Mich.), was in sharp con trast to go-slow advice offered by Chairman Arthur E. Summerfield of the Republican National Com mittee. While he conceded, that more workable limitations on spending are desirable, Summer field said the whole •problem of changing the rules of voter woo ing should be approached with caution. The congressman and the GOP chairman, who is Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's selection to be post master general, were witnesses before a special House committee. The group, headed by Rep. Hale Boggs (D' La.), is concerned over loopholes in the law which per mitted outlays in the recent cam paign to soar into scores of mil lions of dollars. S SPECIAL! NEW WATCHES : BENRUS - BULOVA - GRUEN - OTHERS Identification Bracelets Speidel Bands For Men and Women Specials for Fraternities Discounts up to 45% Off All Brand New -- Guaranteed Callßbß h , 0 .01 .1 5051 . - ext. 287 .............. PACE THREE 40-Man Units Fight in Korea SEOUL, Wednesday, Dec. 3 (W) —Small 40-man units of grenade hurling Chinese infantry harassed South Korean defenders of snowy Sniper Ridge Tuesday in the only significant fighting on the bitterly cold Korean front. The Reds attacked Pinpoint Hill, highest point of Sniper Ridge, for- nine hours in inter mittent rushes but failed to dis lodge the entrenched Allies. In the air, a pair of Sabre jet Interceptors dueled two Commu nist MIGs over Northwest Korea and shot down one of them. The Fifth Air Force credited the kill to a Sabre ace, Lt. James F. Low of Sausalito, Calif. It brought Low's total bag to seven MIGs destroyed and two damaged. Despite bad weather, Allied fighter bombers sliced Commu nist rail lines at 17 points in West ern Korea and east of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. ouse :.~ ~a ~~ > i~~ ;.*y?:a
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