SATURDAY. MAY 29. 1954 McCarthy For 'Usurping' WASHINGTON, May 28 (AO--A great constitutional clash be tween the Eisenhower admihistrationand Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Wisj came to a head today as the White Hoiise put out a state ment declaring presidential responsibility “Can’t be usurped by any individual who may seek to set himself above the laws of our land.” . Bearing the name of Atty. Gen. Herbert B. BrOVmell Jr. and ap proved by President. Dwight S. Eisenhower, the statement was a reply to the Wisconsin senator’s public call to two million federal workers in the executive branch to give him. secret information despite presidential orders to the contrary. McCarthy Came back swiftly with" an assertion that he is going to continue to get information from within the government whenever he can, and protect, the sources of that information. “I hope to remain in the Sen ate and see many presidents come and go,” he told reporters. “Re gardless of who is in the White. House—and there is nothing per sonal involved in this—as chair man of the Senate Investigations subcommittee I am charged with the important duty of giving the American people a clear picture of the" operations of. their govern ment.” • Government employes, he said, are “in duty bound to give me in formation even though some bur eaucrat may have stamped it sec ret.” Lewis Creates Marine Group in LJMW Union WASHINGTON, May 28 (VP)— John L. Lewis today jumped into the ■ East ,Co&st waterfront labor controversy. by forming a new Marine Division of the United Mine Workers Union. ■ The UMW president said Six lo cals of the independent Interna tional Longshoremen’s Assn. (ILA), with 9000 members, have already voted to quit the ILA and join the hew. marine unit. The workers are not longshore men or those who handle cargoes, but are crewmen operating tug boats, barges, scows and the like which jockey shipping in and out of the ports of New York, Phila delphia, Norfolk, Portland Provi dence, New Haven and Wilming ton.' Lewis also claimed some workers in the Albany, NiY. port on the Hudson River. The group is small but strategic, and. any- strike of such workers could cripple deep sea commerce in or out of the ports. The UMW said there are 45,000 marine workers eligible for mem bership in the. UMW division who work tugboats, barges, etc., On costal and inland waters in the United States and Canada. The UMW is not involved di rectly in the running feud be tween the ILA and a new AFL union with the same name, al though-Lewis reportedly loaned the independent Union more than $50,000- to fight the new AFL group. In a government-held election Wednesday between the rival longshoremen’s unions for bar gaining rights among 25,000 pier workers in the New York Harbor area, the independent union won by a majority of 319 votes. But the result is in doubt because 1792 ballots were challenged. Lewis created the Ult W’s Ma rine Division as part of the UMW’s “catch-all”' District 50 which claims to represent ■ more than 200,000 Workers in .50 different in dustries in the United States and Canada. Pope Pius X Made Saint VATICAN CITY, May 28 '(JP) — More than 400 bishops from many parts of the world assembled to day for the canonization of Pius X, the 258th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and the 6th in 1000 years to become a saint. By tomorrow, when Pope Pius XIII is carried on. his - portable throne into St. Peter’s .Square to preside at the solemn ceremony, the number of cardinals', arch-- bishops, and bishops is expected to be about 500. The White House statement de clared the executive branch of the government has the sole re sponsibility for law enforcement, including that in the field of na tional security. But he said it is the responsi bility of his subcommittee “to ex pose any cases where there is failure to enforce the laws.” The big storm blew, up at yes terday’s session of the McCarthy .Army hearings, when McCarthy said to those present and millions watching on their television screens: , “. .. I would like to notify those two million federal employes that I. feel, it is their duty to give us any information which they have, about graft, ■ corruption, Com munists, treason, and that there is no loyalty to a superior which can. tower above and beyond their loy alty to their country.” Investigators Look Into Own Files WASHINGTON, May 28 (/P>— Senators investigating the McCar thy-Army row subpoenaed some of their own files today in a topsy turvy sequence linked with the McCarthy-Eisenhower clash over secret information. Before the confused session ended. Acting Chairman Karl E. MUndt (D.-S.D.) halfway with drew the subpoena. And Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) came up with a demand that the Army be forced to produce a host of its own files. This-new storm, which found Democratic senators staunchly championing President Dwight S. Eisenhower’s cause, blew up as McCarthy aide Roy M. Cohn was me' DAitr COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA investigators Clear Top UN Official NEW YORK, May 28 (VP) —A U.S.. federal board today cleared Dr. Ralph Bunche, top American official in the UN Secretariat, of 'any suspicion Of disloyalty to the United States. Bunche, the first Negro to win a Nobel Peace Prize, had undergone two days of ques tioning by the board in secret session. The board, set Up last July 29 to investigate U.S. citizens em ployed by the UN, announced the decision through its chairman, Pierce J. Gerety of Southport, Conn. No Conclusion Reached Gerety. told a news conference that the six members, after two meetings with Bunche, “Un animously reached the conclusion that there is no doubt as to the loyalty of Dr. Bunche to the gov ernment of the United States.” •Gerety would not say what the allegations were that had ied to the hearing. Bunche is the top-ranking Amer ican in the UN 'as principal di rector of its Department of Trus teeship and Information From Non-self-governing Territories. May Be Undersecretary He is slated to became under secretary to Secretary General Dag Hamfnarskjold. He won fame by working out the 1949 UN armi stice that stopped Arab-Jewish warfare in. Palestine. He had spent almost all of Tues day and yesterday in secret session with the board at the' Federal Building here. Manning Johnson and Leonard Patterson, Negro ex- Communists once on the party’s National Committee, also were known to have gone before the board. In between his appearances be fore the board, Bunche and his wife were guests of President Eisenhower at a state dinner in the White House for Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. Pipeline Blast Injureis 3 WAYNESBURG, Pa., May 28 (VP) —Three Employes of the Equit able Gas Co. Wtere injured today in an explosion at a pipe line con struction site at nearby Mather. under cross-examination, and it left him sitting silent On the wit ness Stand for much of the. after noon. Earlier Cohn denied under oath that. he “declared war” on the Army in a fit of rage because he was barred from a secret radar laboratory at Ft. Monmouth, N.J. In the day’s other major devel opment, McCarthy announced an other of hiS: aides, Francis P. Carr, will be available for questioning later in the investigation. The four Republicans on the sub-committee voted earlier this week to drop all charges against Carr and to dismiss him as a wit ness. The three Democrats called this a “whitewash” and some in- Russian Unity Plan For Korea Rejected GENEVA, May 28 (TP) —Six nations whose soldiers fought under the United Nations flag in Korea rejected one by one today the Com munist plan to unify Korea with what the West calls “rigged" elections. Led by the U.S. Undersecretary of State, Walter Bedell Smith, the delegates demanded that thei United Nations supervise any eleC-l tiOns irt divided Korea, as pro posed by South Korea. Colombia, j Turkey, Thailand, Australia and Greece followed Smith in reject ing the Communist formula. Smith referred to a denuncia tion of the United Nations by So viet Foreign Minister V. M/ Molo tov two weeks ago and to similar declarations by Red China’s For eign Minister Chou En-lai and North Korea’s Foreign Minister Nam 11. Smith observed: “What the Soviet Union, through its delegate, is telling the world from Geneva is that it rejects the principle ' of collective _ security, that it intends to do as it pleases without regard to truth or justice or peace.” Non-Communist Asian countries have expressed belief in the Uni ted Nations as the cornerstone of their security against aggression. Molotov, Chou and Nam , II have repeatedly denounced the United States as.seeking to impose “West ern imperialism” on the east. “It is a strange phenomenon,” Smith said, “that We who came here to unite a divided and war torn nation find ourselves defend ing the international system of se curity to which every one of the governments of the world, if it were truly representative of the wishes of its people, would be eager to contribute all possible and material support.” Smith - said the UN charter is still regarded “by the vast ma jority of us as the world’s best hope for peace.” Secret Radio Hits Reds GUATEMALA, May 28 (IP) —A secret radio urging Guatemalans to fight communism and attack ing the government continued its broadcasts today despite reports •officials had smashed it. Outside of this development the capital settled down to' normal af ter a jittery 24-hour period in which- a plane rained anti-Red leaflets over the city. Airline service was resumed. fluential Republicans didn’t like it, either, McCarthy’s announcement qUelled that controversy, but it didn’t take long for the new one to arise. This is how it happened: Special Counsel Ray H. Jenkins —and Democratic senators—Want ed to see some evidence that Shine really did do subcommittee work during the 16 leaves he was granted in his eight weeks of basic training at Ft. Dix, N.J. Cohn offered to produce some reports and memoranda. But Mc- Carthy said the subcommittee would have to subpoena them. So, Jenkins hastily dashed off a sub poena. Carrier Deaths Rise; Mystery Shrouds Blast QUONSET POINT, R. 1., May 28 (/P) —Twin scourges of ravaging burns and shock pushed the death list higher today as Navy doctors worked to save the lives Of fel low-men of the sea trapped in Wednesday’s explosion on the air craft carrier Bennington. . The number of dead stood at 99 after eight crewmen of the big carrier succumbed since 'the dis aster at Newport Naval Hospital across the bay from this naval air base. Of the 69 remaining in the ihos pital about 30 still were in critical condition. Every medical skill is being utilized for the men, many of them swathed in bandages like mummies. They are all together in two compact wards. Cause of the blast that took the heavy toll of dead and injured will be the subject of investiga tion by a- naval court of injuiry that opens hearings here at 9 a.m. tomorrow. The Navy has not forgotten the Bennington dead, meanwhile. On Monday—the Memorial Day holi day—when the nation honors its hero, dead, a special service will be held on the flight deck of the 32,000-ton carrier on which the victims had been taking a routine coastal cruise. All Navy person nel at this big base have been in vited to attend. Many of the survivors are ex pected to testify before the court of inquiry which is headed by Adm. John . Hoskins, Quonset Point Air Fleet commander. The cause of the explosion and fire below decks still was a mys tery after the chief of naval op eratiohs, Adm. Robert B. Carney, made an inspection with other top-ranking officials. 'Surplus Fleet' Matter Settled With U. 5., Tycoon WASHINGTON, May 28 </P) Stavros Niarchos, the Greek ship ping tycOort with headquarters in London, made a multimillion-dol lar settlement with the United States government today for the scoreof vessels he illegally obtain ed from the U.S. surplus fleet af ter World War 11. _ The settlement involved, among other things ,an agreement to hand the vessels back to the Unit ed States, along with a four-mil lion-dollar indemnity payment. "3 COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN" Cinemascope Clifton Webb SMS Lana Turner Pier Angeli "FLAME AND THE FLESH" DOORS OPEN 1 PJM. Walt Disney'* "THE LIVING DESERT" PAGE THREE
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