WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1954 Senate Censuring Committee Rejects McCarthy's Challenge of Partiality WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (JP) —Senators weighing censure charges against Sen. Mc- Carthy* (R-Wis.) late today unanimously turned down McCarthy’s challenge of the fairhess of the investigating committee’s legal staff. The special committee said it had “absolute confidence” in the fairness of its aides. McCarthy and his lawyer had said, that chief counsel E. Wallace Chadwick and his assistants, Guy G. DeFuria among them, had acted as prosecutors in the hearings and hence should not help write the report on the committee’s eventual find ings The committee’s ' report will serve as a guide to the Senate when it returns this fall or. early winter to act on the censure char ges fired at McCarthy by Senators Flanders (R-Vt.), Fulbright <D- Ark.) and Morse (Ind-Ore.). Chairman Watkins (R-Utah) read- a statement rejecting’ the challenge against Chadwick and DeFuria. He said there is an addi tional objection tod—that “if the motion -were granted it would, in effect, probably delay . for sev eral weeks the final report to the Senate” because of the difficulty of finding unprejudiced men will ing to serve, and the time it would take newcomers to familiarize themselves to the testimony. McCarthy’s lawyer, Edward Bennett Williams, told a reporter he was “disappointed” with the (Continued on page ten) • Fatal Particles Found in Smog NEW YORK, Sept. 14 (/P)— Tiny particles of certain salts may be the invisible killers in fatal smogs, a Mellon Institute scientist told the American Chemical Society today. W. C. L. Hemeon, engineering director of-the institute’s . Indus trial Hygiene Foundation of America, Pittsburgh, told of a new analysis of air samples saved from the Donora, Pa., smog in 1948 and- the great London smog in 1952, blamed for contributing to the deaths of 4000 persons. Hemeon said - the dangerous thing seems to be acidic salts, ushally sulfates and chlorides of ammonia. combined with zinc or other metals. The sulfur part comes from coal smoke, he said. The salt particles dissolve in liquids in the lungs and throats, causing acute irritation, he said, Hemeon expressed his belief that deaths and illnesses from severe smogs probably come from simple irritation of the breathing apparatus— of such substances, and are not due to poisoning by sulfur dioxide or other gases in the air. TEXTBOOKS- New & Used for all University Courses. DRAWING SUPPLIES- All Guaranteed Domestic & Imported KEELEH’S 3!”. University Book Store ZSToZES New FHA Windfall 7 Made Public by Cole CHICAGO, Sept. 14 ( JP ) —Albert Cole, federal housing admini strator, today made public a new list of government-insured housing projects on wjiich' certain investors realized “windfalls” totalling nearly 14 million dollars. ' - On the list, which Cole presented to a Sepate Banking Com mittee conducting hearings into FHA operations, was a ' group of five. New Yorkers which he said netted a “windfall” of 3% million dollars , on an investment of $lO,OOO, The list also showed that three Jamaica, N.Y., men invested a total of $6O on two Bayside, N.Y., construction projects totalling $6,- 101,600, and. realized a total “windfall” of $3,591,934. Another project, at Columbus, Ohio, Cole, said, involved seven persons who invested $4,000 and realized a “windfall” of more than one million dollars. The pro ject was government insured for $7,772,046. Sen. Capehart (R-Ind), presid ing at the hearing, asked- Cole if the $6O investment on the two Bayside projects was correct, and ART MATERIALS- Water Colors, Oils and Other Mediums THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Puerto Rican Testifies Attack Planned on Ike NEW YORK UP!—A Puerto Rican Nationalist has testified that con spirators who masterminded the shooting in Congress last March 1 also planned an attack on Presi dent Eisenhower. The testimony was given by Gonzales Lebron Sotomayor yes terday at the trial of .13 Puerto Ricans charged with seditious con spiracy to overthrow the U.S. gov ernment by force and violence. Cole replied “that’s what the' in vestigation shows.” Cole’s list of projects includes the Farragut Gardens now the Vanderveer Estates in Brooklyn, N.Y. As Maine Goes ... WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (JP)— Republicans blamed “local issues” today for their 16ss of the Maine governorship while Democrats hailed the victory of their own candidate as a foretaste 1 of suc cess in the Nov. 2 congressional election. National chairmen of both par ties gave their divergent views in separate statements followed by a joint news conference, while oth er political leaders .chimed in with individual post mortems on yes terday's (first-iii-the-nation) elec tion. One thing was pretty generally agreed upon: A split among Maine Republicans contributed to GOP Gov. Burton M. Cross’ defeat at the hands of Edmund S. Muskie, a one time Truman administration official. List Republicans sought to brush off Cross’ defeat and spotlight the victories of Sen. Margaret Chase Smith and other GOP candidates. EAT at the BEAVER HOUSE Good Food at Reasonable Rates 329 E. Beaver Ave. AOT-7851 EPISCOPAL FRESHMEN We Invite You and Your Friends—• To supper with the Penn State Canterbury group Sunday, Sept. 19th, 5:30 p.m. at the parish house.* IN ORDER TO GET ACQUAINTED—, WITH EACH OTHER WITH OUR UPPERCLASSMEN WITH OUR CLERGY, AND WITH OUR POINT. OF VIEW * CORNER OF FRAZIER & FOSTER Wiley Protests 3-Vote Power WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 Sen. Wiley (R-Wis.) raised new protests today against Russia hav ing three votes in the United Na tions, and recommended study of proposals for a new system of UN voting. One of these proposals is to base voting strength on the population of member nations and the size of the contributions they make to the UN. Under the Yalta agreement, Wi ley said, Soviet Russia “obtained the admission of Byelorussia and the Ukraine as full members of the United Nations.” -Byelorussia and the Ukraine are nonconstituent states of the Soviet Union, “somewhat like Texas and New York are consti tuent states of our own federal republic,” Wiley said. Bldg. AVE. PAGE SEVEN
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