TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1953 ~
Taft, jliiecasts
Future Change
In Labor Law
WASHINGTON, March 9 (fl 3 )—Sen. Taft (R-Ohio) said
‘after a White House conference today that chances appear
good for making “substantial” changes in the Taft-Hartley
labor law. V
It apparently was decided at the meeting with President
Eisenhower and legislative leaders, including chairmen of the
House and Senate Labor Com
*l
mittees, that no attempt would be
made to draft amendments until
present hearings are completed.
Taft, the Senate’s majority
leader and principal author of the
present labor-management law,
said the administration intends to
leave the matter of framing T-H
amendments largely up to the
congressional committees.
' This means that the Eisenhower
administration has no .present
plans for submitting any proposed
amendments in the near future.
Secretary of Labor Martin P.
Durkin, who also attended today’s
conference, confirmed this, saying
he has given up the idea of hav
ing a Labor Department advisory
committee composed of repre
sentatives of industry, labor un
ions, and the public—seek a com
promise of varying views about
the Taft-Hartley law.
The advisory group broke up
last week after a hot argument
on how to proceed.
Durkin said he still may make
some recommendations on chang
ing the law after the congressional
hearings get further along.-
Allred Jets
Attack Red
Supply Line
: SEOUL, Tuesday, March 10 (JP)
Thunder jets spewed a
fiery 1 trail of destruction, along
the Communist main supply route
to the Western' Korean Front
Monday and Sabre jets-reported
destroying three MIGs that tried
to' interfere.
The Fifth Air Force, announc
ing- the latest kills, said possibly
five other Red jets were damaged
in morning air battles over North
west Korea. -
Stiff . ground fighting erupted
along the Central Front where
the Eighth Army said “the enemy
continued .pressure.” One outpost
was lost northwest of Kumhwa
in a company-sized 175-man Chi
nese Red hand grenade attack.
An Allied counter-attack recap
tured it. The Communists lost an
estimated 66 men killed or
wounded.
. Smaller Red stabs were report
ed in. the Triangle Hill-S ni p e r
Ridge area and near Panmunjom
on the Western Front. Near Old
Boldy, southwest of Chorwon, the
Reds closed from three sides on
an Allied patrol and opened up
with artillery and mortar fire in
an effort to cut -off its escape.
Reinforcements helped the patrol
battle its way out.
The fighter-bombers struck Red
positions from the battle ' line
northward to Sinanju; only 50
miles from the Manchurian. bor
der. Bombs; machine guns and
rockets knocked out 59 Red gun
positions and bunkers along the
front, the Air Force claimed.; ’
USW to Install
New President
PITTSBURGH, March 9 (JP)
'The 35-man executive' board of
the CIO, United Steelworkers will
install a new. president and sec
retary-treasurer at its session here
Wednesday.
David J. McDonald, who had
served the 1.1 million-member
it was formed in 1936, will assume
union as secretary-treasurer since
the presidency. He succeeds the
late Philip Murray who died' Nov:
9.
I. W. Abel, former USW dis
trict director in the Canton, 0.,
area will succeed McDonald as
-secretary-treasurer. Neither offi
cer had any opposition in the na
tion-wide USW referendum elec
tion Feb. 10.
. Ofifcial tellers still are tabulat
ing votes to determine.- the- win
ners in several district director
races.
Tito Sails for Britain
LONDON, March' 9 (JP) —Yugo-
slav President Tito and military,
economic . and political advisers
sailed toward Britain today for a
five-day semi-official visit. Their
movements were ■ shrouded by
secrecy and security measures al
most unprecedented in peacetime.
Can you imagine?
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pressed for only
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Economy Report to Be Heard
HARRISBURG, March 9 (JP)—
Pennsylvania \General Assembly
cleared the decks tonight for
economy hearings that may last
a month.
A 30-member House-Senate
committee • will open hearings to
morrow on the bulky Chesterman
Committee reports proposing a
broad reorganization of state
agencies.
The committee estimated its
recommendations, if adopted,
would eventually save the com
monwealth 100. million dollars a
biennium. A bonfire of opposition
already has built up against some
of them.
Republican leaders decided to
dig: into the economy reports be
fore going into Gov. John S.
Fine’s recommendation for 157
million dollars in new taxes for
the 1953-55 biennium.
The economy committee, get
ting ready to hear both sides of
the numerous Chesterman recom
mendations, today named Sen.
James S. Berger (R-Potter) and
Rep. ■ Adam T. Bower (R-North
umberland) .as co-chairmen.
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WASHINGTON, March 9 (JP)—
Witnesses before a Senate in
quiry committee testified today
that Russia is doing “a bigger job”
than this country in circulating
propaganda books and-pamphlets
in Europe and the Middle East.
Coincident with this new phase
of criticism directed against'• the
State Department’s overseas in
formation program, Sen. Mc-
Carthy (R-Wis) announced, that
his Senate investigations sub
committee will open a full-scale
probe later this week into an
other angle of the department’s
operations.
Atty. Gen. Robert E. Woodside
said his testimony tomorrow will
support Fine’s endorsement of
proposed consolidation of the
state police and parole boards
with the Justice Department.
Chinese Nationalists
Battle Red Warships
TAIPEH, Formosa, March 9 (JP)
—The official Central News Ag
ency said tonight that ■ Chinese
Nationalist warships steamed up
close and attacked Communist
craft in Swatow Harbor, opposite
Formosa, a week ago.
The report gave no idea of the
type or size of Communist craft
attacked but said one was cap
tured and others heavily damaged.
Yugoslavia Receives Jets
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, March
9 (JP) —Yugoslavia will unveil to
morrow at a formal ceremony the
first shipment of jet aircraft to
reach this - country under the
American. defense aid program.
, Bower immediately took issue
with the 100 million dollar esti
mated savings.
“I feel, like many of the com
mittee meinbers, that the 100 mil
lion dollars is a turkey that can’t
be accomplished,” Bower told a
reporter, adding: •:
“The report is full of fallacies
such as the abolishment of the 10
medical and surgical hospitals in
the hard and . soft coal regions.
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Electricity-Producing
Atom Furnace Built
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 9 (#>) —A reactor, or atomic furnace,
capable of producing useful amounts of electric power has been de
veloped here.
“It could turn out to be the most important achievement at Oak
Ridge since the war,” declared Dr. Alvin Weinberg, director of
nuclear research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where the
reactor was developed.
The Atomic Energy Commission
in announcing the reactor’s de
velopment today, described it as
“an important milestone” in the
search for economical atom-gen
erated power.
In tests last month, the reactor
produced 150 kilowatts of power—
enough to serve 50 average five
room houses.
The power-producing furnace is
a new type of reactor known as a
“homogeneous reactor.” A solu
tion of uranium, is fed into the
reactor. The nuclear reaction cre
ates heat which produces steam.
The steam, in turn, drives a gen
erator which generates power.
. A test reactor in Idaho produced
a small amount of electric power
two years ago. But the reactor
here, the AEC said, is the “first
to operate at a temperature and
power high enough for production
of steam to run a standard in
dustrial turbine-generator.”
There are still many problems
to .be solved, the commission said,
before atomic-produced power can
be generated cheaply enough to
compete with current methods of
commercial production.
Further study of the reactor will
be made, the commission said, to
acquire information regarding the
feasibility of' the “homogeneous”
reactor, for full-scale power pro
duction.
They (Chesterman Committee)
said 10 million dollars could be
saved by doing away with them
but they overlooked the fact that
somewhere in the neighborhood
of five million dollars comes in
each biennium in fees and pay
ments by patients. So actually,
only about half of the 10 million
dollar savings could be made by
turning the hospitals, over to the
local communities.”
PAGE THREE
U S. Ships
Aiding Reds
—McCarthy
WASHINGTON, March 9 (JP)-
Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) said today
the United States holds mortgages
on 96 foreign-flag ships hauling
cargoes to Red China and other
countries behind the Iron Curtain.
McCarthy announced that his
Senate investigations subcommit
tee will conduct a full-scale pub
lic inquiry to determine how the
U.S.-financed ships were permit
ted to engage in trade with Soviet
bloc nations.
The Wisconsin senator said For
eign Aid Chief Harold E. Stassen
and Maritime Administration of
ficials will be called to testify.
Stassen’s Mutual Security Agen
cy has primary responsibility for
enforcing the Battle Act, which
calls for suspending American
aid to countries selling strategic
materials to the Communists.
McCarthy said in a statement
that the 96 ships—described as
being all large dry-cargo vessels
left over as surplus from World
War ll—were sold, to foreigners
on mortgages by the old U.S.
Maritime Commission.
The senator said this country
now holds 25 million dollars in
mortgages on the vessels.
“Of these ships, 52 are regis
tered in Greece, 40 in Italy, and
four in France,” McCarthy said.
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