TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1953 House Postpones Constitution Vote HARRISBURG (JP) Gen. Atty. Robert E. Woodside flagged a final House vote last night on an • administration bill to set up machinery to give Pennsylvania a new Consti tution. Rep. Albert W.; Johnson,, McKean Republican floor leader, 'said new amendments are planned to the measure, putting off the vote until next week., ~ : Woodside questioned. the; legal ity of the bill’s provisions pro viding that 30 members of the proposed 120-member constitu tional convention be appointed. ; The constitutional convention would meet in- Harrisburg next January, to draft recommenda tions for a basic law to replace the present document whch is 79 years old. The recommendations would then: go on" the ballot for voter approval in November, 1954. Fine to Appoint 20' . The legislation ' would provide for election of 90 delegates on the basis of three from each of the state’s 30 congressional districts. They would be nominated at par ty conventions. Gov. John S. Fine would be authorized to appoint 20 dele gates, ten Republicans and ten Democrats, and the legislature, six Republicans and four Demo crats. Tideland Action Halted In the Senate, Democrats got nowhere in seeking immediate ac tion on resolutions to: Place Pennsylvania squarely in favor of keeping tidelands oil in the hands of the federal govern ment. . Require a week’s advance no tice for appropriations committee hearings of departmental requests for funds. Withhold department funds where it is found that , publicity agents spend most of their time plugging, the department heads. Seek Fair Employment Surcharge William S: - Liven good, secretary of internal affairs, for the cost of printing in a state publication eight pages of biogra phical material on the Pennsyl vania ancestors of President Dwight D. Eisenhower during last year’s political campaign. Meanwhile, an administration spokesman disclosed identical fair employment practices bill will be introduced in both the House and Senate tomorrow or next week. Both the Republican and Dem ocratic platforms are pledged to back legislation to ban discrimi nation in employment or union membership because of race, creed, color or national origin. Fine Clarifies ‘Policy ‘ Ban HARRISBURG (#>)—Gov. ‘John S. Fine. yesterday instructed state agencies under his jurisdiction to submit publicity material “on ad ministration policy only” to . his office before release to the public. “All other information to which the public is entitled of the offi cial activities of .agencies under the governor’s jurisdiction is' to be released as before upon the re sponsibility of the. heads of these agencies,” Fine said in a new di rective. ■ Official departmental activi ties are to be given free access to the., press so far as factual data is concerned.” Denmark Draft Stirs Second Mutiny Action COPENHAGEN, Denmark (JP) —Denmark’s 1 extension of the draft term from 12 to 18 months stirred up mutinous actions in several scattered garrisons of the Danish Army today. ■ More than 80 soldiers who mu tinied and started to'march on| Copenhagen to voice their pro-: tests were turned back by the! fire-eating speech of their gener- 1 al who met them in the middle of | the road. ! But another, column of 200 started marching on the capital tonight from their headquarters at Haderslev in South Jutland to make a protest to Parliament. They were in formation and in uniform but were unarmed. Po lice at Holding, to the north of the advancing column, were alerted but were uncertain what action-to take. At the same time 200 enlisted men went on a hunger strike .at Aarhus, farther north in Jutland, protesting against the-extension of their military service. The first 80 marchers walked out on their local commander at Soegaard near the German bor der. One soldier, who tried to per suade his comrades to go on marching after they encountered their commanding general, was arrested by military police. But later he was released. Ike Initiates Action on Security Croup WASHINGTON (/P) —President Eisenhower took' a first step toward creation of a Cabinet rank federal security department yesterday, discussed plans for re pudiation of certain secret inter national agreements, and arranged to meet' today with Adlai E. Ste venson. The'President also stepped up the new administration’s cold war planning by appointing a special assistant. C. D. Jackson of New York City, to work with the var ious government agencies engaged in the psychological warfare field. Then he iftet with a score of administration and military offi cials- for a hush-hush conference which stirred speculation as to whether-the possibility of using atomic weapons against the Com munists in Korea was under study. Among those who sat in at the White House session were mem bers of the Atomic Energy Com mission and Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Vice President Nixon and other members of the National Security Council also attended. Earlier, the .White House an nounced that Eisenhower will I THE DAJXY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Soviets Fire First 3n Japan Battle TOKYO, Feb. 17 (JP) —A U.S. Air Force spokesman today, said Russian planes fired the first shots - in yesterday's air battle between American and Soviet planes over Northern Japan. After a ten-minute fight, one of the Russian-type planes was "damaged and smoking" as it streaked toward the se curity of the Russian-held Kur ile Islands, FEAF said. In a statement giving fur ther details of the incident Monday over the Northeastern tip of Hokkaido Island, FEAF said, "The LA-11 Russian-type aircraft which intruded over- Easiern Hokkaido early Mon day answered warning maneu vers of American aircraft with 'head-on firing passes and touched off a ten-minute air battle that saw one of the in truding aircraft damaged and smoking as it left the scene." Neither U.S. plane—FB4 Thunder jets was hit, FEAF said. 17 Dead Returned From Air Crash MOBILE, Ala. (/P) A Coast Guard cutter sailed into Mobile today with its grisly cargo of 17 bodies from the National Airlines DC6 crash in the Gulf of Mexico. There were bodies of three men and 14 women—all unidentified. The air-sea search for 29 other occupants of the plane went for ward. ■ The foredeck of the cutter Blackthorn was littered with wreckage from the plane which plunged intp the Gulf Saturday afternoon with 46 passengers and crewmen. confer at 12:30 p.m., EST tomor row with Stevenson, the Demo cratic presidential nominee he de feated in the November election. . Afterward Stevenson will join Eisenhower at a luncheon, the Chief Executive has scheduled for a group of about 20 Congress members, both Democrats and Republicans. Asked about the purpose of the Eisenhower-S t e venson meeting, White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said, “The Pres ident just wanted a little chat with him.” Stevenson, former governor of Illinois, plans a round-the-world trip starting March 2. He and •Eisenhower have, not met since 1947. Eisenhower’s initial step toward transforming the Federal Security Agency into a Cabinet depart ment came at a 'meeting with GOP congressional leaders. Senate Majority Leader Taft told a news conference the Pres ident is drafting a reorganization plan which he discussed with the lawmakers at their regular Mon day morning meeting. . The Ohio senator reported gen- House Group Starts Budget-Cutting Drive WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (TP) —The House appropriations commit tee launched its 1953 budget-cutting drive with a bang today, slash ing 60 per cent for a supplemental money measure. Thq. biggest cut was a complete turndown of a Defense Depart ment request for $1,200,000,000' to tide it over until the end of the fiscal year ending June 30. The committee hacked $1,409,046,670 from a .$2,313,719,590 request by all government agencies, approv ing on 1 y $904,672,920 in new funds, The requests for-supplementary funds originally were made by .the Truman administration and. in some instances, were scaled down by department heads ap pointed by President Eisenhower. There was some question whe ther the claimed saving resulting from the committee’s action oh defense funds is an actual econ omy or a bookkeeping operation. The committee' didn’t halt any of the defense projects involved, but said they should be financed from funds already appropriated for this fiscal year and not yet spent. To accomplish this., it auth orized transfers within /the De fense Department’s many budget accounts. One possible effect is that the funds from which the transfers are made may have to be re plenished later , when the depart ment’s regular budget bill,’ for the, new fiscal year starting July 1, is considered. The committee also got a hint that the military’s efforts to keep from asking Congress for more funds this year may result in higher requests for money for the next fiscal year. Army officers told the commit tee there was enough money on hand to finance the Korean fight ing through June 30 Without ask ing for more funds, unless the tempo of the fighting picks up. The committee spelled out - the death of the Council of Economic Advisers, a White House adjunct created during the Truman ad ministration, by disallowing the entire $75,000 requested for it. In stead the committee recommen ded $25,000 for employment of a presidential economic adviser and staff. eral agreement on the basic idea of a Cabinet-rank department, which probably would be headed by Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, a Texas Democrat who supported Eisenhower for the presidency. She now is director of the FsA, with jurisdiction over the social security and health and education programs. Various plans for creating a full-fledged federal security de partment have been considered by Congress in the past, but have been shelved for one reason or another. The reorganization plan Eisen hower intends to submit will go into effect, automatically 60 days after Congress receives it, unless it is vetoed by either the Senate or the House. INTERESTED ! AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH? THE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT UNITED AIRCRAFT CORPORATION EAST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT will have a representative on the Campus on FEBRUARY 19 to interview students having Bachelor's or advanced I I I I L degrees in AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Inquire at the Placement Office for an interview appointment and descriptive literature. Rosenbergs' Sentence Is Upheld NEW YORK (JP) —The atom spy team of Julius and Ethel Rosen berg were condemned anew yes terday to die in three weeks—a judgment that is expected to heighten the drumbeat of world wide propaganda against their execution. Without comment, Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman set the week of March 9 as the execution period for the first American civ ilians ever condemned to die for war-time espionage. Sing Sing Prison’s regular exe cution night is Thursday, which falls on March 12 that week. The tfaditional hour is 11 p.m. EST. However, U.S. Marshal William Carroll said a state execution is cet for that day so a different day in the week will be picked for the Rosenbergs. ' Rosenberg, 34, and his tiny 36- year-old wife were spared death on the original execution date of Jan. 14 so they could appeal to the White House for clemency. Pres ident Eisenhower turned them down last week. Communists throughout the world have protested the verdict that doomed the couple for their wartime spying for Soviet, Rus sia. Picket lines have tramped be fore the White House off and on for weeks. However. non-Communist con cern with the case was high lighted last week when it was revealed Pope Pius XII had re layed to the Justice Department protests he received against the execution. The Pope did not com ment on the merits of the case. Work Started At Rockvtew . Work at Rockview Peniten tiary, especially" among inmates working on the farm, is being in creased, J. M. Cobb, acting super intendent, said today. Five gangs of inmates started to work on various outside jobs today and three more groups are expected to begin work tomor row. j Work begpn today at the gar den site, hauling lumber from the mill to the lumber yard and in Some general farm work. | The saw mill is expected- to be I put in operation tomorrow and I some threshing will be done this 'week. E'ACfE THIOSa
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