FRIDAY. APRIL 15. 1955 Supreme Court Ends Segregation Hearings WASHINGTON, April 14 (Al—Arguments over the momentous issue of how . to abolish the color line in public schools were com pleted today in the Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall, attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, got in the last word. He urged the court to be as "forthright" in de creeing a time limit for ending segregation as it was last May in declaring that segregation violates the Constitution, Otherwise, he said there will be long delays be fore Negroes are admitted to non segregated schools. Time Decree U.S. Solicitor General Simon E. Sobeloff called for a decree avoid ing the extremes of "a fixed and inflexible limitation" and "no limitation at all" on time. He asked the court to order "bonafide progress" toward in tegrated schools without "riding over people rough shod" and without leaving segregationl "hanging in the air. ' Marshall and Sobeloff were the only lawyers heard today, the fourth day of arguments on how to follow up last May's decision. Both took the position that the court in some way ought to make it clear that desegregation must apply to all the country, not just to the few individuals in the cases decided by the justices. 3 Contentions AEC Calms Fallout Fears Of Scientists DENVER, April 14 (JP) The alarm of two Colorado University scientists over radioactive fallout in Denver 'from Nevada atomic tests was explained today. Dr. Willard F. Libby, scientist for the Atomia Energy Commission, said their Geiger counter itself was contaminated. In a letter to Mayor Quigg New ton, Dr. Libby vindicated Drs. Theodore Puck and Ray Lanier, who had been denounced by Gov. Ed C. Johnson for alarming resi dents of the area with reports the fallout was reaching dangerous proportions after a March 7 ex plosion on the Nevada desert. The, university professors were bothered when their counter, which normally records . a back ground radioactivity of 80 counts per minute, jumped to 4000 counts per minute. Dr. Libby said atomic dust par ticles got into the Geiger counter used by Dr. Puck at the Colo rado Medical Center and contami nated the counter tube, thereby creating a falSely high radioactive reading. When they released their stater ment of warning, the two Colo rado university scientists said they were puzzled, but felt the matter could not safely be ignored. Rain Predicted For Trout Opener HARRISBURG, .April 14 (M— -ine weatherman: tonight predict ed a wet opening day for the start of the 1955 Pennsylvania trout season- today. The season opened at 5 a.m. with a good number of an ex= pected half •a_ million fishermen or more out in the field long be fore that. Blacktoing Turnpike HARRISBURG, April 14 (.41— Work will begin soon on ,black topping another 22 miles of the western section of the Pennsyl vania Turnpike, Commissioner David E. Watson said today. Ninety Cents Minimum WASHINGTON, April 14 (W)— The Eisenhower • administration asked Congress today to apply the minimum wage to 2,200,000 more workers arid raise the minimum to 90 cents an hour from 15. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell resisted all efforts by Sen. Paul N. Douglas (D.-111.), chairman of a Senate Labor sub committee, to put him on record as personally favoring an increase to $1 or more. • Strong sympathy has been ex pressed by Northern members of Congress for the $1 figure. Some senators of both political parties are supporting a $1.25 wage floor, the goal for which the AFL and CIO are fighting. Hearings on the political issue started today and may continue before the Douglas subcommittee for three or four weeks. Mitchell, choosing his words carefully, said it was the adminis tration's "serious recommenda tion" that Congress consider ex tension of coverage to multistate retail establishments , such as chain grocery stores; to employes of chain hotels and motion picture theaters; and to some 150,000 em ployes engaged in wholly intra state work but whose employers are principally in the interstate field. The present 75 cent minimum applies to 24 million workers, Mit chell said. A 15-cent boost would mean immediate higher pay checks for 1,300,000 workers now making less than 90 cents an hour. Mitchell said the cost of living There was little new and little dramatic at the windup of the hearings, which produced three different contentions: I,' Southern states argued that the Supreme Court should fix no deadline for integration, lay down no specific orders for carrying it out, and leave details to the states and their school boards. 3. Attorneys for Negro parents urged the court to say that seg regation must be ended by next September or, at the latest, by September, 1958. 3. The Eisenhower administra tion, through Sobeloff i proposed an approach with no fixed dead line but with insurance against any interminable delay. Now it is up to the justices to determine which course, to follow or whether to chart one of their own. Nearly a year ago, the jus tices. recognized that "problems of considerable complexity" were involved, Class of 1908 Graduate Dies in Gaithersburg Albert Clark Grazier of Gaith ersburg, Md., died of, a heart at tack at his home , early yesterday morning. He was N. 'Grazier was a member of the Class of 1908 at the University and a member of Sigma Chi frater nity. since 1950, when the 75-cent floor was set, has increased 13 per cent. A new Minimum of 90 cents, he testified, would more than com pensate for that cost-of-living in crease. Douglas said a 90-cent wage would give a wage-earner with four persons to support less than one half the amount he would need in many areas of the coun try, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics figures. But Mitchell said the minimum is by no means the "prevailing" or average wage. "I think it is important to keep in mind that the statutory mini mum is intended as a floor under wages, not as a prevailing wage and not as a substitute for col lective bargaining or employer employe negotiations" on wages. Principal opposition to an in crease in the minimum wage is certain to come from Southern THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Talk Called On Vaccine Distribution WASHINGTON, April 14 (in— The government called a top-level meeting of doctors, health offi cials and drug manufacturers to night to search out the best way of distributing Salk polio vaccine on a fair-to-everybody basis. Secretary of Welfare Olveta Culp Hobby issued the call for an April 22 conference in Washing ton after President Eisenhower ordered a quick study of ways and means to make sure every section of the United States gets a fair share. "The objectives of the whole conference," Mrs. Hobby said, "will be to carry out the Presi dent's directive to explore every pOssible means for assuring equal opportunity for immunization for all those who wish it as quickly as possible." Mrs .Hobby said the Washing ton conference will consider, along with vaccine distribution plans, continued public informa tion about the supply and distri bution of the vaccines, and con tinuin,..; close cooperation among the groups concerned. She said among those being in vited are representatives of the American Medical Association and other medical groups, the Assn. of State and Territorial Health Of ficers, the National Foundation for Infantile Ftzalysis and the phar n:aceutical industry. State Officials Wait For Serum Cargo HARRISBURG, April 14 (.IP) The State Health Department ex pects to be notified tomorrow of the date when the new Salk polio vaccine is to be shipped to Penn sylvania. Dr. William D. Schrack Jr. of the Department's preventive Ser vices Bureau, said the department has been informed that telegrams of instructicfn are due to be sent tomorrow to state health directors by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. "We believe we will be notified tomorrow on the when, what and why of the shipments," Schrack said. "Then we will know where we are and the state program can get moving." Actually, a shortage of needles and syringes in many counties is expected to hold up the state of inoculations for some of the esti mated 470,000 Pennsylvania first and second grade school children due to receive them. is Favored Democrats. Wages in the South are generally lower than those paid to Northern workers. The Fair Labor Standards Act became law in 1938 with a mini mum of 25 cents an hour. Truck Driver Killed In Turnpike Fire BEDFORD, Pa., April 14 (JP)— One man was killed and another burned today in a tractor-trailer truck fire inside the Allegheny Tunnel of the Pennsylvania Turn pike. William Cope, 41, of Easton, Pa., died under the trailer's rear wheels after jumping for safety. The blazing truck blocked both lanes of turnpike traffic nearly half an hour. Turnpike employes and Somerset firemen extin guished the flames. Freedom Readied MOSCOW, April 14 (A:l—Russia and Austria have agreed os "practically all questions" on a treaty to restore Austria's independr. ence, Austrian Ambassador Norbert Bischoff said tonight. In Vienna, Austrian Premier Julius Raab's People's party dis closed he had telephoned from Moscow saying: "Austria will be free, and we will receive back our native soil in its entirety. Our war prisoners will be free again." Raab and his advisers have been negotiating here for three days for Soviet consent to an in dependence treaty that would end 10 years' occupation of little Aus tria by the Big Four powers. Points Bischoff had this to say on spe cific points in the negotiations: 1. The question of guarantees demanded by Russia that Austria will never unite again with Ger many would be settled by a re quest by Austria to the occupying powers to protect her against an other such merger or anschluss. 2. Austria promised not to per mit any foreign military bases on her territory. 3. Austrian participation in any military alliances was "not a point under discussion." Austria does not care to sign any mili tary treaties. No agreement was made with the Russians which would prevent Austria from join ing other international organiza tions, such as economic groups. All Must Agree The United States, Britain, and France will have to agree to any terms worked out in Moscow be fore the terms can become effec tive. Austrian Foreign Minister Leopold Figl, who accompanied Raab, - has kept the WeStern Big Three's envoys in Moscow fully informed on the Austrian-Soviet negotiations. Austrian • repor t s quoted Bischoff as saying he was sure the Western powers would not oppose the new agreement. Army Considers Contracts for Idle WASHINGTON, April 14 (IP)— An Army spokesman today prom ised "serious consideration" of a plea to channel more than a mil lion man-hours of work into dis tressed labor areas of Pennsyl vania rather than ;to English con cerns. Involved are contracts for gen erators and transformers to be used in the Army Engineers' con struction of Chief Joseph Dam on the Columbia River in Washing ton state. An English firm, English Elec tric Co., underbid all others for the two contracts. It offered to supply three transformers for $470,965 and six water wheel gen erators for $5,460,361. Low American bidder for the transformer wa s Pennsylvania Transformer Co., Canonsburg, Pa. at $556,868. Westinghouse Electric Co., Pittsburgh, was low Ameri can bidder on the generators at $8,338,941. Both Washington Count y in which Canonsburg is located and Pittsburgh are classed as distress ed labor areas because - of high unemployment. BIG PHOTO FINISHING SPECIAL Offered for the Month of April Get a 5X7 from any negative of your choice with every roil of film developed at • CENTRE COUNTY FILM LAB West Beaver Ave. • REA and DERICK'S South Allen Street • THE CANDY CANE Between the Movies The Fastest Service in Tow (In by 10:00, out by 5:00 the same clay) Treaty for Austria Corsi Case Debate Set For Today WASHINGTON,. April 14 (11 3 )—. Democrats sat back and watched Republicans argue today as a Sept. ate subcommittee announced pub-. lie hearings will open tomorruwi in the controversy over Edward) Corsi's ouster as State Departmenti adviser on refugee problems. i Sen. William Langer (R-N.D.),4 chairman of a Judiciary subeom. mittee investigating Corsi's charge of "scandalous failure" In carrying out the refugee program, said Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles' will be invited to testify, "very likely next week." He also said one witness will be called from the White House, but declined to identify him or spe cifically to say whether it might be Max Raab, President Eisen hower's adviser on the problems of minority groups. Two Republican Congress mem bers defended. the State Depart.. ment's handling of the program and a third criticized it. Siding with McLeod were Sen. Arthur V. Watkins of Utah, a member of Langer's subcommittee, and Rep. Frank Bow of Ohio. Sen. Irving M. Ives lined up behind Corsi, a fellow New Yorker, saying he had been "disappointed in the pro longed delays" in carrying out the program. Ives asked Durks to "make known to the American people all the facts surrounding the coo troversy" over Corsi's dismissaL He said it was deplorable that personalities and politics had been allowed to besiege the program. One of Corsi's complaints was that only 1,000 refugees have been admitted under the program, which authorizes the entry of up to 214,000 non-quota immigrants by the end of 1956. Corsi, a prominent New York Republican and friend of former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey was oust ed by Dulles last week after 90 days on the job. Argentine Suspends Catholic Teaching BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, April 14 (Al—President Juan D. Peron's government announced to day the "temporary" suspension of the teaching of Roman Catho lic religion and morals in Argen tine public schools. The announcement from the Ministry of Education was tie latest action in a 5-month contra. versy between Peron and Cabo lic authorities. PAGE THREE
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