FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1953 Strike Hits Ports, Tis‘H-_.Act Invoked NEW YORK, Oct. 1 (JP)—The great port of New York lay paralyzed today as' President Eisen hower invoked the Taft-Hartley law against a multi-million dollar East Coast waterfront strike. At best, however, the strike of 60,000 longshoremen was expected to run into next week, at an estimated cost to the shipping -industry of Pk million dollars a day. Ports were idle from Maine to Virginia. The White House set up a board of inquiry, giving it until Monday to report back. Then the way would be clear for a strike-ending court injunction. The rackets-ridden ILA, kicked out of the - AFL only last week, launched the strike at midnight yesterday to back up wage de mands on deep water shippers. The union's very future was at stake. Its leaders promised to return to work if and 'when there's an injunction. It was the first time in his eight months in office that Presi dent Eisenhower had made use of the Taft-Hartley ,law. President Truman invoked the law 10 times, once against the ILA in 1948. ILA pickets roamed the deso late 35 miles of New York piers, where only military ships were being worked. Tugboat crews were respecting ILA picket' lines. As a result; the big luxury_ liners, Liberte and Constitution, docked by them selves. - . Twenty-eight ships were caught at their berths in New York. Countless others rode their an chors in the harbor itself. Sixty eight streamed out to sea yester day to escape the strike. A strike leader announced in midday: "The ports are tied up com pletely from Portland, Me., to Hampton Roads, Va. Nothing is loading." His boast went unchallenged. GOP Chairman Warns.. Nation ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Oct. 1 (?P)—The chairman of the Repub lican National Committee said to night the nation must keep on the alert against a "tidal wave of total statism which threatens to engulf the four corners of the earth." Leonard Hall said "exponents of Marxist socialism and com munism" are the "chief exponents of this total statism," and added both "communism and socialism have made • their inroads" in the United States. Hall spoke at a banquet meet ing of 700 Republican women from 12 eastern and southern states. They are meeting to map plans for GOP victory in the 1954 congressional elections. "There is scarcely an Ameri can that is not fully aware of the Communist network . . ." Hall said, but "less understood is the socialist network." Turning to the Democrats, Hall said they were dominated by a "left-wing element" whose chief instruments of government "have been federalization and taxation." He said Republicans. can do a great service if they do their part "in educating Americans to, the true nature of the left-wing ele ment which now controls the Democrat party . . ." Forest Protection Sought CHARLESTON, W. Va., Oct.- 1 (W) Conservation authorities marshaled fire-fighting forces to day to prevent another autumn catastrophe in West Virginia's woodlands. Conservation Director Carl J. Johnson, armed with new legal powers given him by the , 1953 Legislature, already had moved to prevent a recurrence of the fires of last fall which ' ravaged a half-million acres of timber land. • THE CHUCK WAGON INSTA - BURGERS INSTA - STEAKS 200 E. College Ave. 4 Carry Out Service THE DAILY, COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA UMW Hits GOP Rule, T-H Law WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (AP) -- John L. Lewis' union newspaper said today - organized labor might as well realize the only way it will get the ' Taft-Hartley law changed is to elect a sympathetic Congress in 1954. "It is just not in the cards for this Republican administration to adopt the role of a champion of organized labor," said an editorial in the United Mine Workers Jour nal. It was the first word on the subject from the UMW. headed by Lewis, since the controversy arose between President Eisen hower and former Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin over amend ing the• T-H law. Durkin, an AFL union leader and Democrat, quit the Cabinet three weeks ago charging Eisen hower broke a pledge to recom mend that Congress approve 'l9 amendments to the law. Fbllow ing up previous White House de nials, Eisenhower said • yesterday he, never broke his word to any one. The editorial in Lewis' union newspaper. said Eisenhower and Durkin weren't "arguing about anything too important" anyway Reds Riot Inside U. S. Stockades 'PANMUNJOM, Friday, Oct. 2i ported wounded later, so serious (lP)—Five hundred North KorearillY he may die. Before the 60-minute demon anti-Communist prisoners'"rioting ' stration ended, guards hustled at the sight of Red Polish and away five medical inspectors in- Czech medical inspectors inside I eluding two doctors from Iron their stockades, were quelled by, Curtain countries. They were I es gunfire yesterday in what the corted to a "safe area away from the cpmpound," an official re- Indian guards called a "m ass, lease 'said. breakout" attempt. J The reports of the shooting One North Korean was killed and at least five• wounded in the: first shooting incident since some 23,000 Chinese and North Korean prisoners who renounced commu nism were turned over to neutral ] i custody last month. A sixth North Korean was re-1 THE USED BOOK AGENCY Will Be Open October sth - 9th So that Money and Unsold Books May Be, Picked Up. 10% Charge For All Book Receipts Not Claimed During This Period USED BOOK AGENCY Boyer Resigns As AEC Chief WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (2?)— Chairman Lewis L. Strauss today announced th e resignation ;of Marion W. Boyer as general man ager of the Atomic Energy Com mission, effective Nov. 1. Boyer will be succeeded by Maj. Gen. Kenneth D. Nichols, 45, a longtime expert on atomic weapons and fo r mer special weapons project. Boyer, who took the post for a three-year term on Nov. 1, 1950, is returning to private business. He is a vice president of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Nichols, now on duty in Wash ington as the Army's chief of de velopment and research, will re tire from military service on taking over the AEC post. A native of Cleveland, Nichols was a pioneer in the development of the atomic bomb. He had been scheduled for wartime troop duty when he was assigned in -July, 1942, to a special group set up by the late President Roosevelt to deevlop and produce the A-bomb. The secret project later became known as the famous Manhattan Eingineer District. because the 19 changes were un satisfactory from labor's vievi point. The editorial noted that the proposed amendments would have done nothing to wipe out the T-H law's "vicious injunction weapon against labor." caused some surprise among dip lomats at the United Nations in New York. They had been as sured only Monday by India's delegate, V. K. Kirshna Menon, that the Indian guards were un armed. The flareup of violence graphi- In The TUB Eisenhower Favors Pact With Russians WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (W)—Adlai - E. Stevenson reported today that President Eisenhower is "very much interested" in the idea of a non-aggression pact with Russia as a means of relieving tension in Europe. The 1952 Democratic Presidential candidate had lunch at the White House and said afterward that Eisenhower was giving close study to the possibilities of an east - west non - aggression agree ment, along with other methods of abating the cold war. Stevenson proposed a non-ag gression pact in his recent Chi cago speech and brought the sub ject up again when he called on the President to report on the world tour he took earlier this year.. Secretary of State Dulles also was present. "If Russia was unwilling to ac cept the proposal," Stevenson said, "it would be rather apparent that her peaceful professions aren't as sincere as they might seem." - It would put the Russians on the spot with respect to their in tentions, he added. He then went on to say he thought Eisenhower feels _ somewhat, the same way about it. Stevenson spent half an hour with the President and Dulles, then sat down to a stag luncheon in h i.s honor attended by the President and 16 other high gov ernment officials. After eating with "great restraint." what he called a very fine lunch, Steven son conferred with the President in the latter's office for another 15 minutes. He said Eisenhower, 'Whom he found "very alert to the problems confronting our country around the world," asked a number of questions regarding individual areas Stevenson visited. 1400 Remain Idle Some 1400 production workers at the Pennsylvania Transformer Co. plant remained idle today as the international union tried to settle a wildcat strike that began four days ago in the midst of ne gotiations for a new contract. The old contract expires Oct. 14. cally emphasized the latest break down in truce machinery calling for "explanations" to prisoners balking at return to their home lands. Originally set to begin last Sat urday, the explanations we r e postponed until yesterday and then delayed again for an in definite period. Many prisoners objected to forced attendance at the interviews. The UN Command and the Communists have refus \ ed to go ahead with the interviews until each side relocates and builds better "explanation centers" for "persuaders" to talk to the pris oners. Community Forum 8:00 p.m. on the Following Dates General James A. Van Fleet Soldier-Statesman Charles Laughton Nov. 19 Dramatist (Presented by Pavi Gregory) Irwin D. Canham Editor, Christian Science Monitor Chester Bowles SCHWAB AUDITORIUM RESERVED SEASON TICKETS . . . . On sale Monday, October 5, 1:30 p.m. at the Student Union Desk in Old Main; and Griggs' Pharmacy, East College Avenue, State College. Jet Machine Gun Accidentally Set Off; Hits Town FARRELL, Pa., Oct: 1 (W)—A U.S. Air Force FB4 jet plane ter rorized this western Pennsylvania town today with an accidental bust from a machine gun that sent bullets crashing into build ings and autos and whining past pedestrians. Police Chief John J. Stosito said there was considerable prop erty damage but no casualties. He said the plane was based at the Vienna Air Force Base near Warren, Ohio, and had been on a routine flight. "Something happened to one of its machine guns," Stosito told a newsman after a conference with Maj. A. F. Martin Jr. of the Vien na base. An officer at the base said con trols for the firing mechanism apparently tripped accidentally. Residents said the plane passed over the community once then circled a few times." • The 50 caliber slugs truck 12 automobiles, setting two afire, and 29 business places and homes. D. A. Stayer, a Transfer, Pa., carpenter working in a store, :aid a slug ripped through the building within five feet of where he was standing. "I didn't know what it was," Stoyer said. "I was pretty fright ened by it." Mrs. Joseph Frank was ironing as a bullet tore through the wall of her home and landed at her feet. She collapsed and was placed under a doctor's care. Twelve persons standing in front of the gate of the Sharon Steel Corp. plant narrowly were missed by slugs that tore into an auto, setting it afire. Official Asks, Air Program HARRISBURG, Oct. 1 (?P)—A State Public Instruction Depart ment official today called for an expanded aviation instruction pro gram-in Pennsylvania's secondary schools at the final session of the two-day education congress. Elecrtical storms, common in mid-summer, annually kill 400 persons in the United States. STATE COLLEGE SEASON OF 1953-'54 Former Ambasador to India $4.80 (Inc. Tax) PAGE THREE Oct. 14 Feb. 11 To be announced
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