TUESDAY, APRIL 14,-1953 First ' , Communist Prisoner. Convoy TO . :koOve. 'Todaif, MUNSAN; Tuesday, April 14 (P)—The first truck convoy is scheduled to leave Communist camps near the -Yalu River border of Manchuria: today carrying Allied sick and wounded south for exchange at 'P anmun j o m UN Pilots Bag 1 -MIG, Blast Red Facilities SEOUL, Tuesday, April 14 (R) —The Allied air war against the Communists roared on unabated Monday, Sabre jets shooting-down one MIG and UN fighter-bomb ers blasting -Red communication lines all across North Korea, the Fifth Air Force reported. Ground action was light along the front, the Eighth Army said. The Communists threw five probes at Allied positions but all were repulsed. The sharpest ac tion was an hour-long clash on an outpost southwest of Old Baldy on the Western Front. Chinese Reds were forced to withdraw when Allied defenders called in reinforcements. A Marine patrol killed or wounded 15 Chinese in a bitter patrol fight one mile south of Panmunjom where prisoner ex change talks are held. Pilots' Group Asks Air Speed Limit WASHINGTON, April 13 (1?) The nation's airlines, worried about the, danger of aerial colli sions, want speed limits estab lished for airplanes over or near airports. The Chief Pilots' Committee of the Air Transport Association the organization of scheduled air lines—has recomthended that air planes be required to cruise at 180 miles an hour in outskirt areas of terminals, and 150 miles an hour over the airports and ad jacent areas. May Obtain . More Films NEW YORK, April 13 (JP)—Hol lywood's swing to new processes may give television access to hun dreds of previously unavailable feature movies, the head of Twen tieth Century-Fox said today. Spyros P. Skouras,, president, told stockholders in his annual report the advent of, the firm's own Cinemascope and other new techniques may make it "increas ingly advantageous to make avail able some of these older. pictures 'for television." . . While scores of, feature films have been sold to television by smaller companies, most of the major producers, including Fox, have refused to do so because of the .potential re-issue value for theater showing. As a 'result, TV has been able to get only a small fraction of the hundreds of fea tures locked in Hollywood vaults. However, Skouras said "it Is an- We Give You the BEST PICTURES in the SHORTEST TIME Centre County Film Lab 122 W. 84ver Ave. TtlE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA The 23-vehicle convoy, marked with bright red 'flags and banners on the hood of each truck; will take 2 1 / 2 days to reach the• Red armistice camp at Kaesong. The actual exchange will begin next Monday. . The Communists said this firit group would come from Camp. No. 8 at Chonma, which is only 1 14 miles from the Yalu boundary : of Manchuria and 27 miles east of 'the Korean frontier - base city of Sinuiju. There was no hint as to the nationality of the prisoners. To Avoid Hitting Convoys Chonwa is .only about 175 air miles from the Communist armis tice base camp at Kaesong. but I much farther than that on the winding roads and trails the con voy must follow on the mountain ous route south. . . The United Nations Command presumably wa s taking special precautions to see that prisoner convoys are not hit in the Allied air attacks on Red supply lines. Staff officers were scheduled . to I 'meet at 11 a.m. today (9 p.m. Mon day, EST) to talk over more de tails of the exchange of 5,800 ail ling Conimunist Chinese and Ko reans for 600 sick and wounded Allidd prisoners, 1',20 .of them American. ROK Demands Re-Screening While preparations were speed ed on both sides for the swap, the South Korean government de manded that its officials be al lowed to rescreen 5,100 North Koreans due to. be 'sent home. Foreign Minister Pyun Yung Tai told newsmen in Pusan "those who refuse 'to be repatriated should not be returned against their will." There was no immediate com ment on Pyun's statement from Allied or UN Command officials at Pusan, Seoul or Munsan. ticipated that the theater demand for motion pictures will be gen erally for pictures of the new types . . . ." That plus tip fast increase in the number of TV stations, he said, brings "a potential increase in the revenue possibilities of these pictures for television use." TICKETS ON SALE NOW ! SCHWAB AUDITORIUM Featuring these songs: "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" "The Touch Of Your Hand" From the State Capital House Adds to Tax Bill; to Vote Today HARRISBURG. April 13 (if)) —The Republican House tacked on some new amendments to its proposed 2 per cent sales tax bill tonight and set the contro versial issue down for a possible vote tomorrow. There was some doubt, how ever, that•the tax would be ,put to a roll call unless a count of noses showed sufficient GOP votes to pass the measure. The Senate rejected another major proposal by the Chesterman committee. This one would. have merged the state police and the State Parple Board with the State Justice Department. Bills to re-apportion districts of the House and Senate prom ised tonight but their introduc tio4 was put off until later in th 6 week. The GOP legislators also are tackling the budget-tax problem I om an economy angle. They have recommended 19 million dollars in specific budget cuts and are looking for ways to slice off 11 million more, making - a total re , duction of 30 millions: The administration sought , to night to make it tough for in mates' who hold hostages in ct prisofi riot. Rep. Edwin M. Tompkins (R- Cameron)' sponsored a bill to .provide for life imprisonment in solitary confinement and a $lO,OOO fine for such an act. The Senate passed a bill tonight giving veterans of the armed forc es a year after their discharge to renew their application for a Pennsylvania' driver's lic en se without undergoing renewal tests. Legislation to giv - e aldermen and justices of the peace a chance to brush up on civil and criminal law reached the state Senate tonight. Letzler said the 72-hour courses, to be conducted by the Depart ment of Public Instruction, would not be compulsory. However, his bill provides for certain gradations in cases to be handled by men who have attended the proposed course and those who do not. There had been trade specula tion that three-dimension, Cine mascope and other new movie processes might give TV greater access to older conventional films, but Skouras was the first official of a major company publicly to forecast such an eventuality. "Lovely To Look at" "Yesterdays" Ex-Officer Admits • Role in C9nspiracy WASHINGTON, •April 13 VP)—Austrian-born Otto Verber, a for mer U.S. Army Intelligence officer, , pleaded guilty today to taking part in a conspiracy to spy on American military secrets for Soviet Russia. The 31-year-old defendant faces a possible maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Verber pleaded guilty to one count of" a two-count indictment. The second count, involving a pos sible death sentence, was held in abeyance until he comes up for sentence. The defendant made his surprise move in Federal Court after Asst. U.S. Atty. William Hitz agreed to accept a plea to the lesser count only, at least for the time being. There were indications that the government might want to use Verber as a witness at the forth coming trial of his co-defendant and brother-in-law. Kurt Ponger, 39, also a native of Austria. Federal Judge Alexander Holtz off said he will impose sentence on Verber later. Presumably this will be• after Ponger's trial. Verber and Ponger w e r e in dicted on charges of serving as agents of a Red spy ring directed from the Soviet Embassy in Wash ington. They were arrested in Vienna in mid-January and brought here for trial. Ponger indicated through .his court-appointed attorney that be intends to fight the charges. He is scheduled' to go on trial next Monday. .Federal attorneys de clined to • sa y whether Verber might appear as a government witness against his brother-in-law. The court to which Verber pleaded guilty charged him with conspiring with Ponger and others to collect secret data about the U.S. Army and Air Force in Aus tria and in this country for trans mission to Moscow. Morse Blocks 'Ammo' Probe WASHINGTON, April 13 (W)— Sen. Morse (Ind-Ore) blocked a resumption of the ammunition in quiry today by insisting that no committees meet while the Sen ate is debating the submerged oil lands bill. He set forth his position last week when he said the submerged lands issue is so important that all senators ought to be present when it is being debated. The measure would give coastal states the right to develop the mineral riches in the ocean bed for speci fied distances off-shore. STUDENTS INVITED TO DISCUSS CAREERS WITH PITT'S SCHOOL OF RETAILING REPRESENTATIVE ON CAMPUS - APRIL 11 The Admissions Counselor, Mr. William W. McCor mick, of the School of Retailing at the University of Pittsburgh will be on the campus all day Friday, April 17th. Any students, either men or women, who feel they may desire to do graduate work in retailing this coming year or in the future can make an ap pointment through Mr. Leetch, the College Placement Director, to talk with Mr. McCormick. Those students with Liberal Arts, Commerce, Education, and Home Economics backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply for an interview. PAGE 'THREE Grunewald Tells About 'TV Gifts' WASHINGTON, April 13 (2Ell— man Henry W. Grune wald testified today he - gave cost ly. TV . sets and other gifts to high tax officials and once had John L. Lewis as a client of his private investigating service. Lewis at the time was in trou ble with the federal courts. A shadowy figure around Wash ington. for years, Grunewald said a federal tax agent once investi gated his own bank records and he never heard any more about it after mentioning the matter to Daniel A. Bolich, assistant U.S. Internal Revenue commissioner. Yet the witness told a House in quiry committee he never talked tax cases with any of the Inter nal Revenue officials with whom he was on chummy, first-name terms. And he refused to say whether Lewis hired him to investigate the late Federal Judge T. Alan Golds borough, who clamped a three million dollar fine on Lew i s' United Mine Work er s several years ago for ignoring the court's back-to-work order. The implication• of questions fired at Grunewald was that Lew is hired Grunewald to investigate the judge and that Grunewald got $16,000 for it. WANTED More people to IMPROVE Fewer to DISAPPROVE WRITE: CHRISTOPHERS, Inc. Box 1635 - McKee Campus
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