SATURDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1954 Harriman Cancels Debate With Ives NEW YORK, Oct. 21 (TP)—Averell Hafriman—with an explana tion by his campaign manager that he would have no part of “gutter fighting”—today cancelled his part in a planned debate with Sen. Irving M. Ives. There .was no imrnedate comment from Ives, the Republican Dock Strike Paralyzes Great Britain LONDON, Oct. 22 (TP)—Hopes of peace in Britain’s crippling water front strike rose and then fell tonight. The showdown weekend began with the situation, unclear. The stoppage by more than 44,000 dock workers in the major ports of Britain now stretches over 19 days. More than 300 mil lion dollars worth of exports arid imports lie idle on the docks and in some 320 silent ships. Food stuffs cargoes are rotting. The strike has the enthusiastic back ing of the Communists. Minister of Labor Sir Walter Monckton today gave"the strikers until Monday morning to go back to work—or the Churchill gov ernment will call out troops to move vital materials. The strike began over objection to compulsory overtime. A mass meeting of London dockers will be held tomorrow when the attitude of the unoffi cial strikers toward settlement may be made known. One hopeful development to night was refusal of Manchester men to vote bn a motion in sup port of the strike. In other ports there was little change. London has 26,500 men on strike and. the port is paralyzed. Other ports hit are Liverpool and Birkenhead, Southampton, Hull, Garston and Rochester. Petition Forms Are Available For WD Posts Petition forms for West Dorm representative-at-large posts on the Association of Independent Men’s Board of Governors are available in 127 Waring. Twq West Dorm residents will repre sent the dorms at AIM meetings. Each applicant must secure 50 names for his name to appear on the election ballot Nov. 9. Dead line for applications is Nov. 1. West Dorm Council members will have pictures taken for La- Vie Oct. 27. Committee appointments an nounced ta the council’s meeting Monday night include William Kelly, first semester business ad ministration major, athletics; Earl Eisenhower, first semester arts and letters major, and Jacob Shook, first semester chemical en gineering major, projects; Thom as Byrnes, first semester aeronau tical engineering major, banquet; James Anderson, seventh semes ter meteorology major, parking; Jerome_ Shaheen, first semester .industrial engineering major, housing; and Keith Otterbein, first semester physics major, awards. Sheppard Murder Case Trial to Begin Monday CLEVELAND, Oct. 22 VP)—-The jury box was filled for the first time late today in the first degree murder trial of Dr. Samuel S. Sheppard, after a sultry young brunette’s loose tongue slowed things up. The trial then was recessed un til Monday morning. Attorney Charges Judge Of Sla siting for Lattimore WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (TP) — In a dramatic courtroom scene, U.S. Atty. Leo A. Rover today looked U.S. Dist. Judge Luther W. Youngdahl in the face and told him he was “slanted” in favor of Owen Lattimore and against the government. candidate for- governor. An hour-long debate- on gen eral campaign issues had been scheduled for a statewide tele vision hookup Oct. 27, under sponsorship of the Citizens Union. The Democrats said Ives. tenta tively had agreed to take part. Harriman, the Democratic nom inee, did not personally announce his action. But John P. McGrath, the Democratic state campaign manager, told, newsmen he was representing Harriman’s views when he declared: “Such a debate could serve no constructive purpose because Ives’ campaign has deteriorated into a gutter fight rather than a civiliz ed exchange of views.” Harriman’s change in plans, McGrath declared at a news con ference, came after Ives had “in dulged in revolting hypocrisy” in attempting to link Harriman with a $250,000 pier-lease deal. Ives charged in a statewide TV radio broadcast Tuesday night that a shipping firm controlled by Harriman had paid the money to a Brooklyn judge to obtain leases on two piers owned by New York City. Harriman denied knowing any thing about the affair. McGrath claimed Ives’ story was “an unfair and distorted ver sion of an alleged 1930. scandal which never actually was proven, even at that time.” Witness Found Guilty of Perjury Sn Coffin Case PERCE, Que., Oct. 21 (TP) Jean-Guy Hamel, 29-year-old-for mer employee of a Quebec city lawyer, was found guilty of per jury today in connection with testimony at the murder trial of Gaspe prospector Wilbert Coffin. Hamel was sentenced to five years in a penitentiary. • Hamel was charged - with per jury last July when he denied making statements to police "in connection with the slaying of three Pennsylvania bear hunters in Gaspe wilderness in July, 1953. Coffin was convicted .of the murder of one of the hunters and sentenced to be hanged Nov. 26. He is appealing the conviction. Hamel denied -at the trial that he told police a rifle said to have been in Coffin’s possesion was tak en out of the Gaspe woods and thrown into the St. Lawrence River. Hamel was a part-time em ployee of Raymond Maher, Cof fin’s lawyer. No weapon was in troduced as evidence in the three week trial of Coffin. Soar Dispute Snags German NATO Bid PARIS, Oct. 22 (TP) —The West ern Powers today invited Western Germany to sit in the highest military councils and share the diplomatic secrets of NATO. But the historic decision became snagged in a bitter French-Ger man dispute over the Saar when it was only minutes old. Premier Pierre Mendes-France of France, backed by a formal cabinet decision made today, an nounced he would not sign any agreement being made here un less the Saar dispute is settled. The deadlock over a piece of territory scarecely bigger than a big Texas ranch threatened to wreck the carefully laid plans to have three important new agree ments sighed tomorrow afternoon PRINTING Letterpress - Offset Commercial 352 E. College Ave. THE V DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Four Hutidred Miles Continuous Turnpike To Open December 1 HARRISBURG, Oct. 22 (TP) — Nearly 400 miles of. continuous highway V over the Pennsylvania arid Ohio turnpikes will- be open to motorists and truckers by Dec. 1, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission said today. , Added to the present mileage will be • the opening of the first 22 miles of Ohio’s cross-state toll road and the final section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s - Dele ware extension in Bucks County. Half of the 38-mile Delaware extension was operied in late Au gust. The commission said . .an other section, from the Willow, Grove iriterchange at U.S. Rt. 1 will be opened Nov. 1. The remaining section will open in the latter part of the month, thereby, completing 360 miles Of turripike across Pennsylvania. A bridge over the Delaware River to connect with the New Jersey Turnpike is under consid eration. Until that is finished in mid-1956, the turnpike will end at Route 13 above Bristol. Opening, of the first section of the Ohio Turnpike will eliminate a bottleneck at the Perinsylvariia- Ohio border, near Petersburg, Ohio. LA Lecture Topic to Be 'Crackpots 7 The first of the Liberal Arts ari nual lecture series, a panel dis cussion ori the topic “Must Crea tive Artists be Crackpots?” will be held at 8:10 p.m. Tuesday in the auditorium of the Mineral In dustries building. Dr. Frederick L. Gwynn, associ ate professor of English Litera ture, will serve as moderator and introduce the topic. Panel members will discuss in dividual cases of the artists, Franz Krafka, John Milton, and Vincent Van Gogh. A general discussion of the impact of personality upori creative artistry will follow. Dr. Helen Adolf, professor of German, will speak ori the life and literary works of Krafka, a modern Czech writer, whose short stories and novels seem to reflect the conflicts of his life. Dr. Ralph Condee, assistant pro fessor of English' literature, will refute the contention of some critics of. evidence of a disturbed personality in Milton’s works.- Dr. Paul F. Norton, associate professor of fine arts, - will con sider the Dutch painter, Van Gogh. He will stress the fact that the greatest part of Van Gogh’s work was accomplished in only ten years. In this panel discussion, the Liberal Arts committee has for the first time in many years devi ated from the usual practice of having -guest speakers exclusively. —agreements designed to make Western Germany the 15th mem ber of NATO and to tie Western European and' American powers together in a friendly cultural, military and political family. Enormous pressure was being brought on both countries to come to an agreement on sharing the coal and steel riches of the Saar Valley where about a million peo ple live. They were, made grimly aware in a late afternoon session of the North Atlantic Treaty Council that their dispute threat ened to • slow down or wreck four years of effort to ally Germany firmly- with the West. But the national pride and pocketbood are involved on. both sides. JOHN HALE at the piano TONIGHT TOWN HOUSE Brief Riot Explodes At Missouri Prison JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Oct. 22 (^P) —A spur of the moment demonstration against prison food flared and died during the noon hour today at Missouri’s state penitentiary—scene of a disastrous multimillion dollar riot just a month ago. Thomas E. Whitecotton, director of corrections, said no one was injured, no one was threatened and no damage was done by some 500 to 600 prisoners, who trooped out of one of the three dining halls. Dixon-Yates Witness Hit On. Slander WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (A 5 ) — An Arkansas utility today hurled a two million dollar siander suit against a witness in the Dixon- Yates power controversy—an ac tion which prompted Sen. Langer (R-ND) to declare angrily he wouldn’t allow any of his wit nesses to be “bluffed, scared or intimidated.” The Arkansas Power & Light Co. filed the suit in Little Rock against Arthur E. McLean, a Little Rock banker who testified yester day that the utility was “the most corrupt, and ruthless corporation that ever operated within the bounds of the state.” The suit accused McLean of trying to destroy the company’s reputation by “malicious, false and slanderous statements.” Arkansas Power officials indi cated the suit was made on past statements made by McLean, who has been at odds with the utility for years. State Certified Eligible for Aid WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 <7P) President Eisenhower today cer tified Pennsylvania as a disaster area eligible for federal aid in recovering from the effects of Hurricane Hazel and accompany ing floods. Eisenhower, in a letter to Penn sylvania Gov. John S. Fine, said the federal government would make available “such, funds as arg. necessary to supplement state and local efforts.” . The President . added, “I am deeply concerned with the hard ship and suffering caused the peo ple of your state by the hurricane and floods.” Fine had requested federal aid in a telegram yesterday. The al location of unspecified amounts of disaster funds as in the Pennsyl vania case, is an unusual step aimed at speeding relief. Eisenhower had previously tak en the same action for North and South Carolina and Maryland. Hike Is Planned By Oufing Ciub The Penn State Outing Club will hold its weekly outing to morrow at Beaver Dam. The group will meet at 2 p.m. in back of Old Main. The cabin ahd trail division of the club will mark several trails tomorfow. and pick out a site for an Adirondack shelter, which it plans to use for ice skating parties this winter.- The winter sports division will provide refreshment for the outing. The cost will be 25 cents for members and 35 cents for • non-members. A current project of the field and stream division of the club is the preparation of a map indi cating game areas around State College. CIDER Good, even without Spud nuts; lip-smacking deli cious with Spudnuts! Dis count on 6 or more gallons SPUDNUT SHOP 111 Pugh St. Phoae AD 8-6184 An hour after the disturbance broke out, setting, off an alert that sent highway patrolmen of this area and Jefferson City police rushing to the prison, officials re ported the situation was under control. Whitecotton gave this account of the incident. Before all of the' inmates had entered the dining room, one con vict overturned his plate and complained loudly about the menu. Others, perhaps a dozen, joined him quickly. Still others apparently went back to their cell building to stay out of trouble. One guard was splattered with food. The convicts walked out of the building and gathered in the Lob by A Cell Building—the central point of rioting activity last Sept. 22—and shouted demands for bet ter food. As the convicts milled about in their / Cell Block Lobby today, Whitecotton and Warden Ralph Eidson went to the cell building and talked to the prisoners. The convicts agreed to being locked up once more. Heavy Turnout Is Expected In Nov. Vote WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (£>)— Despite widespread reports of voter apathy, state election and party officials look for a probable vote on Nov. 2 of around 45,115,- 000, an increase of 2,800,000 over the prevous record for a midterm election, in .1950. ■ These same officials - estimated for the Associated Press, that 74,879,146 persons are eligible to vote for congressional and state candidates this year. This also is a record for a non-Presidential election year, being 4,924,668 higher than the 1950 qualified voter total, the last top. It is normal, however, for. both registrations and the vote climb from one midterm to the next because of the growth in “potential” voter population. Valichnac Elected Slovak Club Head John Valichnac, seventh semes ter labor management major, has been elected president of the Slo vak Club. A tie vote last spring necessitated the election. Plans for the year, including a- Russian dinner at Christmas and procurement of speakers for the meetings, have been discussed. Committees for singing and danc ing have been formed. The club will meet every third Thursday. Anyone interested may attend the next meeting Oct. 28. FOR PENNSYLVANIA WEEKEND Fastest Service and Guaranteed Work on all Gleaning and Pressing Niffany Cleaners At Your Student Dry Cleaning Agency PAGE THREE
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