FRIDAY. APRIL 2, 1954
Senate OKs Bill
For 2 New States
WASHINGTON, April 1 (M—The Senate today passed a
bill to grant statehood to Hawaii and Alaska but the measure
may languish in the House. Republican leaders there are
receptive to Hawaii but not to Alaska.
The Senate passed the combined bill 57-28 after batting
British Reject
Soviet Union
NATO Request
- LONDON, April 1 (IP) —Britain
today rebuffed Russia's bid to
jOin the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization. She also brushed
aside Kremlin claims that Red
China will attend the Geneva
conference on a par with the
Big Four.
Echoing U.S. opposition, For
eign Secretary Anthony Eden de
clared Britain cannot agree to re
place NATO for the sake of new
arrangements in conditions as
they are today.
"NATO was the answer to So
viet policy and not the cause of
it," Eden told the House of Com
mons, adding that the organiza
tion was formed to serve as a bul
wark against "overwhelming SoL
viet strength."
"In these circumstances," he
said, "S o vie t membership in
NATO would not of itself be ' a
sufficient assurance to members
of that organization."
Jackson is Hospitalized
WASHINGTON, April 1 ' (IV)—
Justice Robert H. Jackson of the
Supreme Court is in a Washing
ton hopsital for treatment of a
mild heart attack, his office an
nounced today.
The announcement said the jur
ist is "out of immediate danger."
ASK,. - ..-.HF,R FOR A DATE TODAY!'
Semi-Formal Dancing 9 to 1
$4,00 per Couple
down moves to:
1. Grant -the two territories
commonwealth status, like Puerto
Rico's. instead of full-fledged
statehood.
2. Require a referendum in each
territory to let the voters choose
between commonwealth status
and statehood.
The first move was defeated 60-
24, the second 59-26. Both were
sponsored by opponents of state
hood for either territory, led by
Sen. George A. Smathers (D-Fla.).
On final passage, 23 Democrats
joined 33 Republicans and 1 inde
pendent. against 19 Democrats and
9 Republicans. Among the oppo
nents were some Republicans
who favored admitting Hawaii to
the union - but not Alaska.
Hawaii is normally considered
Republican and Alaska Demo
cratic.
GOP leaders in the House were
reported determined to prevent
Alaska from achieving statehood
now, even if it means a delay in
admitting Hawaii.
The House passed a Hawaii
only statehood bill last year, as it
had on two previous occasions;
and that is all that President
Dwight D. Eisenhowehas asked
for. Eisenhower told a news con
ference in February he did not
believe Alaska was ready yet.
It was both' or nothing when
the Senate reached the voting
stage after a month of intermit
tent debate. Sen. Clinton R. An
derson (D-N.1V1.), who helped lead
the fight to combine the two mea
sures in the Senate, was asked
if he thought Eisenhower held the
key to the final outcome.
"All he's got to do," Anderson
replied, "is take his foot off Alas"-
ka, and this bill will pass."
The Senior Class Proudly Presents
RICHARD HAYMAN
AND HIS - ORCHESTRA
The Best Weekend of the Year!
FRIDAY, MAY 14
Senior Ball
Recreation Hall
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French Halt
Red Attacks
In Indochina
HANOI, Indochina, April 1 (/F)
-The French High Command an
nounced tonight that French Un
ion troops defending Dien Bien
Phu had beaten off another ser
ies of heavy Communist-led at
tacks against the eastern Side of
the dust bowl fortress.
Another general mass assault
was 'expected yet tonight against
the fortress, whose outer defenses
were shrinking but whose heart
and main arteries were intact.
Bugle-blowing and . screaming
thousands of the Communist-led
Vietminh had failed to force a
break-through into the center of
the bastion, and the French spear
headed a half-dozen tank-led
counterattacks since last mid
night.
The last 48 hours have been
ripped by thousands, of shells ex
changed by opposing artillery,
tons of firebombs and high explo
sives dropped by the French air
force flying American-built
planes. and bitter hand-to-hand
combat.
Sutter Prices
Imp Sharply
WASHINGTON, April 1 (IP)
The price of butter dropped
abruptly today, and storemen be
gan marking do in a host of other
items ranging from costume jew
elry to mink coats:
Just what effect this would
have on buying, it was too soon
to tell. But there was no imme
diate rush of customers to take
advantage of price cuts resulting
from lower price supports to dairy
farmers and -lower excise taxes.
Both the price support drop—
ordered by Secretary of Agricul
ture Benson—and the excise tax
reductions—voted by Congress to
the tune of $999 million—went
into effect today :
Butter prices reacted quickest.
Almost everywhere in the coun
try they dropped from five to 10
cents a pound —in some places
even more.
H-B last Results
Shown by Film
WASHINGTON, April 1 (W)—Picture a glowing, red-orange,
hot-as-the-sun ball of fire 3 1 / 2 miles across.
Now imagine, foaming out of this inferno, a radioactive cloud
stem surging 25 miles upward, its "mushroom cap" spreading 100
deadly miles wide,.the whole formation suggesting a jagged, unholy
travesty of a cross
This is a hydrogen explosion—
far an away the most destructive
force ever unleashed by man.
You can see it yourself in movie
and still pictures released today
by the Federal Civil Defense Ad
ministration
Shown in these pictures is the
world's first full scale hydrogen
explosion—known by the code
name "Mike" and set off, in omi
nous inauguration of an awesome
new era, at the Marshall Islands
proving ground in the far Pacifit
in November, 1952.
28-Minute Movie
A 28-minute color movie of the
"Mike" explosion, shown to news
men yesterday, didn't by any
means show the whole story. Be
sides, the presentation of the sub
ject wasn't too good and the pho
tograph could have been im
proved.
But the impact of the .tremen
dous blast, coupled with the stark
statistics of the destruction it
wrought, was sobering to say the
least. The film shows:
1. The test island of Elugelab—
a half mile long, a quartr-mile
wide—blown off the face of the
earth. In its place, covered by
the placid blue Pacific waters,
was a crater one mile across—
big enough to hold 14 Pentagon
buildings. The crater sloped down
to a depth of 175 feet. A 17-story
building would be covered com
pletely.
3-Mile Radius Annihilated
2. Complete annihilation within
a 3-mile radius; severe to moder
ate damage as far as 7 miles from
the bomb; light damage as far as
10 miles away in each direction.
3. A nuclear explosive fireball
wide enough to engulf a quarter
of Manhattan island in heat of
such incredibly fierce intensity
that it would vaporize into radio
active particles anything it
touched.
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SATURDAY, MAY 15
Track -- Michigan State
Baseball Temple
Lacrosse -- Swarthmore
Fraternity Dances
Dulles Charges
f\lorth Koreans
Vock Probe
SEOUL, Friday, April 2 (?P)—
Despite a "gentleman's agree
ment" not to talk about it, sup
port was found here today for
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles' charge that the Commu
nists are blocking adequate, on
the-spot checks in North Korea of
reported armistice violations.
The record shows growing con
flict since last September within
the four-nation Neutral Nations
Supervisory Commission bossing
this job.
Sweden, Switzerland and Com
munist Poland and Czehoslovakia
man the NNSC and also the 10
inspection teams set up to check
all reports of violations.
Without a single exception the
records show Poland and Czecho
slovakia have sided with the
Communists. Swedish and Swiss
members on the other hand,
sometimes uphold Red claims.
Lawyer Named Counsel
For McCarthy Inquiry
WASHINGTON, April 1 (IP)
Samuel P. Sears, a Boston trial
lawyer who has praised Sen. Jo
seph R. McCarthy, was picked to
day as special , counsel to handle
the long-heralded Senate inquiry
into the row between McCarthy
and top army officials.
Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.),
who will preside at the inquiry
because McCarthy has stepped
temporarily out of the chairman
ship, said he hoped to start-hear
ings within 10 days.
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