The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, May 22, 1953, Image 3

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    •;FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1953
Ike',
Plan Meetings .
For Next Month
WASHINGTON, May 21 (JP)—President Eisenhower plans to
meet in Bermuda next month • with Prime Minister Churchill and
the Premier of France to .strengthen the Big Three alliance. and
discuss the advisability of a high-level meeting with the Russians.
News of the conference Was announced simultaneously today in
Washington, LOndon - and Paris. The French Foreign Office said it
will begin: June 17.
Soon afterwards, however, the
French National Assembly denied
Premier Rene Mayer a vote of
confidence and his Cabinet col
lapsed. :Presumably Mayer's suc
cessor will go to Bermuda, but
the French political' crisis could
delay the meeting.
It was understood Eisenhower
proposed the get-together and
Churchill suggested it be held on
the British island.
The President issued a state
ment saying the primary purpose
of the face-to-face meeting of the
Big Three leaders was to tackle
the many problems that must be
solved co-operatively., ,so -the
world cause of. peace may be ad
vanced."
But 'Churchill and Mayer im
mediately saw in the consultation
a path toward a later meeting
with Kremlin, leaders. "My main
hope;" Chtirchill told Parliament,
"is that we may take 'a definite
'step forward to a meeting of far
graver import"—with Soviet Pre
mier Geogi M. Malenkov.
A State Department spokesman
here said the agreement to Meet
"does not commit the United
States, or so far •as we know,
the British or the French to any
ultimate, four-power meeting."
Eisenhower's statement did not
mention the possibility of a later
meeting with the Communists.
Members of Congress received
news of 'the Berrhuda conference
with general approval. Many of
them saw in it an opportunity for
the Western . Powers to iron out
the differences among themselves
before atempting any sort of ap
proach to
_Malenkov.
Czechs Seek
Trade, Travel
Ban Lifting
VIENNA, Austria, May 21 (JP)
—Czechoslovakia broadcast a call
today for the United States to lift
trade and travel restrictions im
posed on. that Communist nation
in 1951 for the imprisonment of
William N. Oatis, the newsman it
called 'a spy.
A message from President Ei
senhower March 30 to Czechoslo
vakia's. President Antonin Zapo
tocky, made public in . Washington
only last night, was the peg for
Prague's move.
The Communist newspaper Rude
Pravo and the government-con
trolled Prague radio played up a
statement by President Eisen
hower that Zapotocky released
Oatis the United States "is pre
pared to negotiate on the basis of
full mutual understanding the:is
sues arising from the arrest of
Mr. Oatis and now outstanding
between us."
The radio broadcast Eisenhow
er's message, Zapotocky's reply of
May 15 that he had pardoned
journalist Oatis and a Rude Pravo
editorial calling for a lifting of
the U.S. sanctions. The restrictions
include bans on Czech imports to
the United States, all exports from
the • United States to Czechoslo
vakia, travel to Czechoslovakia by
any American not on official busi
ness and flights -of Czech com
mercial planes over- West Ger
many.
In his announcement May 15,
s , ,gapotocky paid 4,9 acted ' ert
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Smith Silent Fief Ore
Senate Questions
WASHINGTON, May 21— Edwin S. Smith, a National - Labor
Relations Board member for sev
en years under President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, refused to tell
Senate - investigators today whe
ther he was a Communist now or
when he held his federal job.
Smith was a witness before the
Senate internal security subcom
mittee, - which is investigating
what Chairman Jenner (R-Ind.)
calls "the pattern of Communist
infiltration of the government."
Much of the' questioning re
volved around a visit Smith paid
to the Soviet Embassy this year.
Morris asked him why he found
it necessary to spend "several
hours in the . Soviet Embassy on
April 15 Of this year." •
am not a spy!" Smith burst
out. "I resent any implidation of
that sort."
ROk's Rout Reds
On Eastern Ridge
,SEOUL, Friday, May 22 (IP)
Tough South Korean troops yes
terday drove off Chinese Reds af
ter, a bitter 2-hour battle for' an
Allied outpost on a jagged East
ern Korean ridge.
Victory came for the South Ko
reans on their third counter-at
tack after 150 to 200 Chinese had
smashed their way into the out
poSt southeast of Christmas Hill.
Elsewhere along the 55-mile
Korean battlefront, Chinese' and
North Korean Communists jabbed
and probed Allied positions.
Clouds and haze restricted Al
lied air strikes to fighter-bomber
attacks against . front-line posi
tions and, supply and personnel
areas behind Communist lines.
Alumnus Gets Wings
=Second Lt. Theodore C. Geary
Jr., former student at the College,
was awarded silver wings Satur
daY during graduation ceremonies
the-USA F -Pilot School at
Foict ,
•
Churchill
4...ti11e5:; . ''.:.11.1.1m Pjan.'Talk
- "NEW DELffl, India, May 21 VP)
—Secretary of State Dulles and
Prime Minister Nehru stirred in
tense speculation hcre today by
agreeing to an unscheduled con
fererCe after their second confi-
dential talk in as many days.
Dulles and Nehru emerged smil
ing after talking together for an
hour and three-quarters and an
nounced they would meet again
tomorrow: They had had their
first serious talk yesterday.
Dulles refused to tell newsmen
what he and the Indian Prime
Minister had talked about; but
Nehru said:
"Certainly we discussed Korea.
But we were able to talk about
a great many things this morning .
—I would say Korea roughly was
one-tenth of what we covered."
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Monday, May 24111
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New Proposals
For T-H Law
WASHINGTON, May 21 (p)—
Chairman H. Alexander Smith (R
-NJ) of the Senate Labor Commit
tee made public today a score of
proposed changes in the Taft-
Hartley law.
Smith declared the program
was prepared by the staff of the
committee. He insisted it was riot
"a Republican program," but con
ceded that in discussions preced
ing the drafting Republicans on
the committee endorsed at least
some of the proposals.
Smith said the program would
be the committee "work sheet'?
when it gets down to consideration
of actual amendments to the T-H
law next week.
One major change in the pro
pctsed amendments would return
to the-states the power to regulate
strikes, lockouts and picketing, no
matter ' what the federal law
might say on those subjects.
This would :upset
. two Supreme
Court decisions involving Wiscon
sin and Michigan labor laws. It
would throw out the doctrine that
the federal law must take prece
dence over any conflicting state
law in the regulation of strikes,
lockouts or picketing_ and would
vastly increase the power of states
to handle labor disputes.
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on Korea. The I.l.niOttmei; hez:
taken the lead in the UN to Atop
aggression in, Korea. India is a
leader of those Asian nations try
ing to maintain a neutral attitude
between East and West.
The most recent example of a
divergence in Indian and United
States policy was the statement
of Nehru. May 15 in which he
backed the latest Communist pro
posals in truce negotiations at
Panmunjom over those advanced
by the United States command.
Disaster Strikes
In North, South
13y The Associated Press ,
Weather _catastrophes struck
both ends of the nation Thurs
day.
In the North, a rare tornado
ripped across the twin cities of
Sarnia, Ont., and Port Huron.
Mich., on the U.S.-Canadian
border.
And in the South, muddy wa
ters flooded into homes and
towns of Louisiana and East
Texas.
Several persons were report
ed killed in each of the Canad
ian border cities, separated by
the St. Clair River. Damage
was in the millions of dollars.
Smith Reveals
"KATHRYN GRAYSON
GORDON MACRAE
"DESERT SONG"
RITA HAYWORTH
STEWART 'GRANGER
"SALOME"
•
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RICHARD BURTON.
"MY COUSIN RACHEL"
Claudy Resigns As
Western Pen Head
PITTSBURGH, May 21 (JP)—Charges and countercharges over
responsibility for last January's riots at Western State Penitentiary
and Rockview Prison were climaxed today with disclosure of the
resignation of Warden Dr. John W. Claudy.
• The announcement came while an Allegheny County grand jury
met at the bleak Western Penitentiary to hear testimony on 80
Dr. Claudy revealed his resig
nation shortly after a report by
Gov. John S. Fine's special in
vestigating committee criticized
the warden's administration. He
called the timing of his resigna
tion and .the report coincidental.
A loyal subordinate, state execu
tioner Frank L. Wilson quit as
soon as he heard his boss had
resigned.
• Accompanying Dr. Claudy's
disclosure was a letter to Fine
from the Western State Peniten
tiary board of trustees answer
ing, point-by-point, the criticisms
of the committee.
Dr. Claudy, a 63-year old Pres
byterian minister, will retire June
30, two months before completing
his third year on the job.
The investigating committee's
report had recommended that all
eight Pennsylvania penal insti
tutions be transferred from the
Welfare to the Justice Depart
ment.
It also rapped Dr. Claudy's ad
ministration for poor food hand
ling, haphazard work assignments
for prisoners, bad security regu
lations and unsanitary premises.
At Rockview Prison, execu
tioner Wilson resigned after 4
years. Wilson said he had wanted
to quit three years ago, but re
mained on the job only out of
loyalty to Dr. Claudy.
Dr. Claudy first entered prison
work in 1932 when former Gov.
Gifford Pinchot named him sup
erintendent at Rockview. He
served there until September,
1950, when he was appointed war
den at Western Penitentiary and
Rockview.
Governor to . Speak
At Boctisburg Shrine
HARRISBURG, May 21 (iP)—
Gov. John S. Fine will address
the annual memorial services at
the 28th Division memorial shrine
at Boalsburg Sunday.
The service, sponsored by the
Pennsylvania Department of Mil
itary Affairs and the Society of
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New Korea
Truce Plans
Take Shape
TOKYO, Friday, May 22 (R)--
An optimistic view was taken to
day by authoritative- sour ce s
watching a revised Korean truce
proposal round into shape at Al
lied headquarters. But Peiping's
Red radio, anticipating the plan's
presentation next week at •Pan
munjom, sounded a sour note.
The authoritative Allied sources,
otherwise unidentified, said the
revised plan—born out of long
range consultations with Allies—
possibly would be offered on a
"now or never" basis. The Pan
munjom talks will be resumed
Monday.
Peiping Red radio, still insist
ing the Allies Were to blame for
the deadlock - over the prisoner
exchange issue, said reports of a
revised plan amounted to "propa
ganda deception."
The authoritative Allied sources
said the revised - plan would in
clude some of the India plan
adopted last December by the UN
General Assembly. The India plan
called for a post-armistice poli
tical conference to consider the
future of 48,500 Red prisoners re
fusing to go home.
Ulrike Idles 77,400
In Motor City Dispute
DETROIT, May 21 (!P)—Labor
disputes sharply cut automobile
production Thursday and made
idle 77,400 workers in the Detroit
area. About 126,000 workers were
idle in major walkouts across the
nation.
Off the job in Detroit were 29,-
600 at Ford plants, 19,000 Chrys
ler workers, 8,000 at the Budd
body stamping plant, and
Kaiser-Frazier.
The 126,000 total ineFuded the
77,400 in Detroit: in Toledo,
OhiO; 4,608 l ' Kenosha, Wis.;
2,50 at 114n - lAge, III.; 8,500 at
Forel .'e;ler. i.e. 'several cities, and
4,1' 1 40 Muncie, Ind.