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
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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.
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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