SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 13. 1954 Strauss Refutes Atom Slow a awn WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (IP)—Chairman Lewis L. Strauss testi fied today the Atomic Energy Commission's weapons program has not been impaired in the long uproar over the Dixon-Yates power contract. Appearing before the Senate New England Train Crash Injures 21 NASHU.A, N.H., Nov. 12 M A crack Montreal-Boston express derailed, overturned and smashed into a mass of wreckage at dawn today in the. Union Railroad Sta tion yard here. One passenger was killed, 21 others injured. It, was the first fatality to a passnger on . the road since 1918. • Cause of the wreck was not im rriediately .determined. A Boston' and Maine Railroad spokesman said the train ap proached the station—where it was scheduled to stop— "at exces sive speed." He said brake fail ure of the speed could have caused the accident. The train was the Red Wing, made up of eight cars and a double unit Diesel engine. Only the foremost of the en gine units and a Pullman club car at the rear end of the train remained upright. The others overturned and de molished the tracks as they skid ded to a halt. The baggage-mail car landed on its roof. Other cars, smashed into freight cars standing on a siding, wrecking two of them, and ripping through the concrete and masonry wall of an adjoin ing building. The trucks under several cars tore loose and smashed through the wall of a freight shed, coming to scattered rest in the railroad yard. Taxicabs were pressed into service• to help the overworked local police ambulance carry in jured to hospitals. Ike Bags 5 Pheasants; Prexy Sees 2 Ducks TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov. 12 ,VP)— President Eisenhower went duck hunting today for the first time in 20 years and brought down the daily limit of four birds in the first half hour of shooting. In'2 l / 2 hours, the President bag ged five pheasants on which there is no limit. But th e President's youngest brother, Dr. Milton S. Eisenhow er, president of Pennsylvania State University, wasn't so fortu nate. He reported ruefully that he not only brought down no ducks, but saw only two during t h morning. He blazed away at them, but missed. House Atomic Energy Committee, which is studying the contract, Strauss said he was afraid the hearings had. produced "a mis leading impression" to the effect "that the weapons program has been impaired." "In my opinion," he said, "it has not." Take Stand AEC Commissioner Thomas E. Murray had said in previous testimony that the Dixon-Yates issue had diverted the coznmis sion's attention from its primary job-producing fissionable ma terials and atomic weapons.. With Strauss and other AEC of ficials on the witness stand to day, the Committee was combing over the contract paragraph by paragraph. Signed yesterday, the contract is between AEC and a utility com pany formed by E. H. Dixon, pres ident of Middle South Utilities, Inc., and E. A. Yates, board chair man of the Southern Co. Replaces TVA It calls for Dixon-Yates to supply 600,000 kilowatts of en ergy, with the government pay ing $2O million a year for 25 years for the ,power. Under the contract, Dixon-Yates is to build a $lO7 million generating plant. at West Memphis, Ark., to re place power the ,Tennessee Val ley Authority now supplies to atomic installations. Rep. W. Sterling Cole (R-NY), chairman of the Senate-House Committee, said he hoped to wind up hearings on the contract and then get a vote tomorrow on waiving a 30-day period in which the document would be considered by Congress at a time when both Senate and House are in session. Belgium Plans Uranium Pact WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (/1 3 )— Prime Minister Paul Henri Spaak disclosed today that Belgium plans to work out a new agreement with the United States and Great Britain for using uranium from the rich African Congo fields. He said it would carry provi sions under which -the United States would lend a hand to Bel gium's own atomic industrializa tion. The agreement would replace a 1944 pact, since altered in some degree, which has come in for hot political criticism in Belgium. For one thing, critics of the government have accused it of virtually giving the uranium away without getting help in return for Belgium's nuclear research pro gram. The price has been kept secret. Spaak• talked to reporters today after he and Minister Sir Robert Scott • of the British Embassy had conferred for an hour with Under secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIp Physiologist Says Men Are Capable Of 'Button' Warfare CHICAGO, Nov. 12 (JP)—Could you drum enough savagery to press the push button on a city busting, atomic-loaded rocket? A world-renowned authority on animal and human behavior said today that many normal men would find it less emotionally up setting than slapping a defense less little girl. And that's the reason, says Dr. Konrad Z. Lorenz, that humanity has been on "the razor edge of self-extermination" since the first primitive 'weapons were devised. Dr. Lorenz is director of the Max Planck Institute of Behavior Psy siology in Buldern, Germany. He has found: The raven that deliberately pecks out the eyes of some small animals and other birds refuses to use this form of attack against another raven, even when fight ing, A wolf will turn his head away and halt his attack on a hated rival if the defeated wolf bares his neck in submission. A dog will halt his attack if his dog enemy freezes or turns sub missively on his back during a fight. Dr. Lorenz says a dog will not bite a puppy under 4 or 5 months old, despite the provocation. The person who starts a push button war, Dr. Lorenz contends, could through repression—keep himself from realizing the conse quences of his act. s un b a . 9 ,, • • :14) Y:• U • FOR . THE 1 9 ,-,,, , f 5,.1,' . _s '' AP :A All the Scores! Colorful Stories! Action Photos! Complete Coverage! F. LLO PENN ST ;ti: TE Ft* * TBALL ON THE SPORTS PAGES •kF THE PLUS FREE sl.OOO Weekly Football Scoring Contest McCarthy Of 'Slush° WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (11))—Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis) was assailed today, as a spreader of "slUsh and slime," and defended as a victim of spiteful slanders, in the week's final session of the Senate debate on the question of censuring him. The slush and slime charge came from Sen.' John C. Stennis (D-Miss), a member of the special committee: which recommended censure for McCarthy. Stennis ar gued the Senate must "condemn" McCarthy's conduct in order to set a standard of political honor. Republican Sen. John W. Brick er (Ohio) and Barry Goldwater (Ariz) came swiftly to McCarthy's defense, praising him as the sym bol of American resistance to corn munism and blaming Communist influence for the move to rebuke him. Finally a second member of the censure committee, Sen. Frank Carlson (R-Kan), took the floor and protested sharply against Mc- Carthy's charge that the commit tee member were' "unwitting handmaidens" of the Communist party. Carlson declared McCL-thy's accusation—made in •a speech he put into the Congressional Rec ord Wednesday—was untrue, was a violation of Senate rules and "is therefore out of order." Goldwater described the cen sure move as "the culminating act to destroy America's foremost fighter against communism," and accused McCarthy's foes of hy pocrisy. "The masterminds in this fight have said one thing and meant another," Goldwater declared. 50.1 AR : ILL! 'i'j . IVI -, j ,of . Accused Spreading Ellis. Island Closes After 62-Year Use NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (R)—Ellis Island, through whose port a 1 s some 20 million immigrants pass ed in 62 years, was closed today. The last alien housed on the historic little isle in New York harbor came off at 10:15 a.m. and a few hours later - the last load of furniture needed immediately by the Immigration Service also was ferried ashore. All immigration activities have been consolidated at the district headquarters in mid-Manhattan occupied by the service a decade ago. In its peak years in the early part of the century it channeled as many as 5000 newcomers a day into the new world. • $ll2 Million Cost Set LONDON, Nov. 12 (JP)—Carol, Dolly, Edna and Hazel today sent the bill for their tragic sprees to Lloyd's and it came to a whopping $ll2 million. The four are the code names for hurricanes which roared out of the Caribbean this year and cut paths of devastation there and in the United States and Canada. _:y-~ n. r~e':Y. '.F~9`' ~q Y.J`•~ PAGE THREE
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