WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1953 UN Delays . Truce Meeting TOKYO, Wednesday, • May ').9• (A)) The United- Nations Cora-. mand Tuesday delayed until Monday a critical meetira6f arm istice negotiators, gaining time- , to= revise a truce plan which•;,may contain a time limit ~for,,,poynri munist acceptance. Details of the Allied plan were'" secret but informed sources indi cated it may involve spot release, of North Korean prisoners who refuse repatriation to Communist rule if negotiations break down. Authoritative sources' at UN headquarters in New York said the U.S. has decided to modify truce proposals but the precise changes have not been- worked , out. The true talks had been sched uled to resume tod a y after a three-day recess- for "administra-* tive" reasons but the UN Com mand asked for a six-day exten sion in a meeting of liaison offi cers at Panmunjom. A reliable source said last night the UN Command is considering turning loose the - North Korean anti-Communist prisoners. The Tokyo source said a precedent for this" was set by. the Commun ists themselves early in,-the .war when they -said they relased Al lied prisoners. Most of the Allied prisoners "released" behind Red lines were South Koreans who were then impressed into the North Korean Army. Reds Faced With Contempt WASHINGTON, May 19 (JP)— Chairman Velde (R-Ill) said today the Houe Committee on Un- American Activities is consider ing contempt charges against var ious witnesses who have refused to testify about alleged Commu nist connections. These developments came as the committee, 'looking for evidence of Red subversion in the colleges, questioned a slender, nervous Uni versity of Buffalo, N:Y. teacher who refused to say whether he was part of a Communist cell at Harvard in the late 1930'5. Velde didn't name the witnesses or say how many there were. Davis Ends Training William Davis, former student at the College, has been graduated fro in the, Leadership Training School of the Ordnance Replace ment Training Center at Aber deen Proving Ground, Md. Atom Blast LAS VEGAS, Nev., May 19 (27)) A powerful atomic explosion rocked portions of three states to day and cast a radioactive pall over St. George, Utah, virtually closing the town for three hours. The Atomic Energy Commis sion advised the 4500 residents of St. George—about 120 miles east of • the Nevada Proving Ground —to remain indoors until noon, by which time the nuclear cloud had passed. Radiation monitors held up 100 northbound and other southbound Cars at St. George during, the Warning period. Some of the cars required a - decontamination wash ing at the AEC's expense. Despite the precautionary mea sures, the AEC insisted that "rad iation had not reached a hazard- ;;F:.E • A'- SENIORS . Take Penn State With You After Graduation JOIN ALUMNI Special Sealer Membership - $2.00 If you join on or - before the Day of Commencement Ouse to: the Alumni Office :Nem Amain Rods Return 2 'Country Club' Gls ~.BERLIN,.May 19 (AP)—The .Rugians returned two long missing Gls to ,the U.S. sector oriTerlin today in what some authorities regard as a grow ing move to clean out a "coun try club" 'of absentee Allied soldiers' living 'in East Ger many. The Russians have sent back four American soldiers from the zone in the past few weeks. Two convicted of desertion said they came back voluntar ily, but Army officials contend the way must have been paved by the Russians. Thf Russians also sent back a British private several weeks ago. The French said they have no men missing at the moment. According to Army esti mates, the East Zone. still is giving haven to 14 Americans, and between 2 and 14 British soldiers. AP Newsman Ousted by Iran For 'Falsifying' TEHRAN, Iran, May 19 (IP)— The Iranian government today ordered the expulsion of Marc Purdue, Associated Press corres pondent, for sending abroad what it called "false and provocative news against -the interests Of Iran." Foreign Minister Hossein Fa temi announced to a news confer ence that Purdue must leave Iran within _three days. He gave no details of the gov ernment's complaint. - Purdue, who has been in .this country eight months, is the fifth foreign correspondent ordered to leave since 'lran nationalized the Iranian holdings of the Anglo- Iranian Oil Company in 1951 and became embroiled in a violent quarrel with Britain. In the Parliament meeting, Mos sadegh's supporters remained si lent as firebrand opposition depu ties called the Premier the victim of "British tools" and a "toy in-the hands of a number of people em-' powered by Britain to ,drag Iran to extinction." loses Town ous level." The blast, set off in muggy weather, was felt in Nevada and Utah and gave earthquake con scious Californians, as far as 400 miles away, a good jolt before breakfast. Highways in Southern Nevada and Utah were closed to traffic for more than an hour as the AEC set up checkpoints at several points along two roads. The pre-dawn blast at Yucca Flat paved the way for the long awaited firing 'of a nuclear shell from the Army's 280 mm. cannon next Monday. A thousand armed forces ob served the blast, apparently with out injury, in trenches only 1,000 yards from the tower. From a dis:- tance of eight miles, 8 congress men watched the test. THE PENN STATE ASSOCIATION NOW 104 OW MAIN 'F''a A~'v"s4c'~P~>~ ~s+R?a THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Chinese Airmen Return to Bases After Big Losses SEOUL, Wednesday, May 19 (IF) —The Chinese Red Air Force, shaken by heavy losses in six days of blazing fighting, withdrew 1 Tuesday, and its MIG jets fled' to Manchuria when U.S. Sabres I -pproached. Allied fighter-bombers meth ; odically bombed Red transport targets while the MIGs remained in Manchuria licking their wounds from those angry six days 6 MIGs shot down, two probably, and 16 damaged. The Reds had been hurling hun dreds of jets across the border into North Korea, but' the few I' lIGs sighted Tuesday scurried be yond the Yalu when Sabres hbve into view, U.S. pilots reported. Without Red interference Allied fighter-bombers destroyed three Communist rail bridges and dive bombed a troop concentration north of the Western Front. In • the ground. war, stubborn South Korean troops smashed two Chinese Red battalion attacks, each numbering about 750 men, on the Central and Eastern Fronts. A total of more than 40 Chinese Reds were reported killed or wounded. State Voting Reported Low Voting was very light Tuesday as Pennsylvanians went to the polls in the state's off-year pri mary election. In many sections of the state near record low vot ing was reported. The weather varied from damp and foggy . to' sunny. State-wide there wasn't much at stake. There were only two uncontested state wide nominations in each party. Mayor candidates were named in 22 cities, including Pittsburgh where control of the GOP in the city, and in Allegheny County were at stake after a bitter pri mary campaign. The election there boiled down to a test of strength between the forces of Gov. John S. Fine 'and those of Dist. Atty. James P. Malone. Vote Threatens Defeat For Winston Churchill LONDON, May 19 (1?) The Churchill government had a close call in the House of Commons to night. It came within four votes of going do w n to defeat and brought Socialist cries of "resign." The issue was a Labor party proposal to exempt amateur thea tricals from entertainment tax even though they have' a paid conductor in the orchestra pit. NOTICE The Used Book Agency in the TUB will be open every afternoon during finals week (May 25-29) from I to 5 p.m. to receive your used books to be sold next semester. Why take books home? Leave them to be sold next fall. Books will be received in the BX in the TUB PENN STATE BOOK EXCHANGE Non-Profit Student-Operated School . Supply Store Senate Freeze WASHINGTON, May 19 (iP)- 7 The Senate refused today to give President ' Eisenhower power to freeze basic elements of 'the na tion's economy for a number of days in the event of a national emergency. It voted 45 to 41 to amend a new controls bill so that the Pres ident's authority to freeze wages, prices, and home rents would be ,restricted to an actual declaration of war or after a concurrent reso lution by Congress. Since only Congress may- de clare war, the roll call vote meant that the President could not act without the consent of Congress. It was a victory for Majority Leader Taft of Ohio, who had Argentina Opens U.S. News Agencies BUENOS AIRES, May 19 (A:)— The Argentine government opened the way tonight for U.S. news agencies to distribute news in this country again, after hav ing banned incoming news through these agencies since May 12. The news agencies had been under pressure since President Peron, in . his May Day address opening Congress, had accused the agencies of conducting a cam paign to defame him abroad and of accepting orders from the U.S. State Department. Japanese Minister Elected by Coalition TOKYO, Wednesday, May 20 OP) —Shigeru Yoshida became Prime Minister of Japan for the fifth time Tuesday when Right Wing socialists broke away from the coalition which unseated him in March. Vetoes Control thundered earlier that the freeze authority was "absolutely con trary to the whole theory of a free economy." The issue was full of paradoxes In the first place, Eisenhower never asked for the freeze au thority. It was written into the controls bill by Sen. Capehart (R-Ind), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. The final quirk was that Taft won his victory on an amendment sponsored by a Democrat, Sen. Byrd of Virginia. The bill being debated is a bob tailed extension of the Defense Production Act for one year. The freeze was the only part of the bill expected to run into trouble. Home Run BY TRAIN! hi , 5 • 7.1*-" i . ki IT'S A HIT! The fun of a train trip home with friends ... enjoying roomy comfort and swell dining-car meals. alf -7 1 2 1 ,1 a t MV" A-- IT'S A STEAL! You and two or more friends can each save 25% of regular round-trip coach fares by traveling home and back together on Group Plan tickets. 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