SATURbAY. APRIL 16. 1955 Austria Occupation Soon to End Raab VIENNA, April 15 (PP) Chancellor Julius Raab came home triumphantly from Moscow today with Russian prom ises that Austria may be free of Big Four occupation no later than the end of this year. Raab, Premier of seven m confident the Russians meant Wolfson Gains In Ward Case SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 15 VP),-- Louis E. Wolfson gained strength in the Illinois Supreme Court today for his showdown battle with Sewell L. Avery for control of , the $7OO million Mont lomery Ward & Co. The court ruled all nine `direc tor positions will be up for grabs on a vote basis at the annual meeting of Ward stockholders in Chicago April 22. The ruling was a victory for Wolfson. who sued to knock out as unconstitutional Ward's system of electing only three of its nine directors each year. The court held the system unconstitutional. This gives either side a Chance , to elect a majority. Under the old system Wolfson could, at best, have placed no more than three of his director candidates on the board this year. Ward's stock jumped a point and ' one-half on the New York Stock Exchange after the ruling. Both sides predicted victory in the showdown a week from to day. Edmund A. Krider, Ward's pres ident, said the present manage ment forces led by 81-year-old Avery, already have enough prok ies to assure a majority of the director positions. Krider reported Thursday that management holds proxies for more than 51 per cent of the 6,700,000 shares of Ward stock. Wolfson, 43-year-old New york and Florida financier, claimed his side has four directors "in our pocket today." Godfrey Fires Nine from TV, Radio Shows NEW YORK, April 15 (W)—ln a bid to regain a top spot on the air, Arthur Godfrey today fired six slogers—half the vocal cast of his television and radio shows. Three writers also got the ax. "We've become top-heavy with stars," Godfrey said in an an nouncement that rocked the I.enter tainment worl like nothing since his =tick-pub icized firing 18 months ago o Singer Julius La Rosa. The Godfrey show has slipped out of the top 10 in ratings. The red-haired showman said he hopes to regain stature by changing the format, to make the program more a showcase for new talent and less patterned. "We are going to try to break into the top 10 again with a new show," he told a reporter. The big housecleaning cost the jobs of the Mariners, a mixed Negro and white male quartet whom Godfrey once swore by ,• Marion Marlowe, fiance of one of Godfrey's producers, and, Halelo ke, the show's little Hawaiian singer. Writers fired were Charles Horner, Preston H. Miles and Charles Slocum. The suddenness of the dis charges left Miss Marlowe in tears and near hysteria. Another CBS master of ceremonies, Ed Sulli van quickly signed her on his once.a-week variety show for a six weeks run at twice her salary with Godfrey. Ilion people, indicated he was hat they told him in Moscow. "We will be free after 10 years of hope and struggle," he told a cheering crowd of welcomers. The Soviets promised, in three days of talks, they would agree that their 44,000 troops, together with 23,000 of the United States, Britain and France, be withdrawn as soon as a treaty of indepen dence is signed, and in any case not later than Dec. 31, 1956. They also made promises of big eco nomic concessions. Presets* for Agreernent For a long time the • Western powers haVe been pressing Russia for agreement .on an •Austrian treaty including withdrawal of oc cupation forces. But, withdrawal by the end of 1955 even if no treaty is signed apparently would need new four-power agreement. Western and Austrian diplo mats, including Raab,. appeared confident• a meeting of the Big Four.ambassadors may take place soon in the Blue Danube capital in an effort to reach agreement on the still unsettled points • • of the treaty. • . They feel the •confer ence would give the real answer ap to whether a treaty will be signed by the end of the • year. 10 Yeats of Meetings During the last 10 years, the Big Four haVe had almost 306 meet ings on One level or another on the treaty without final agree ment. The news Raab brought from Russia had been announced - a few hours previously in a joint Aus trian-Russian declaration. A com munique said: 1. The Soviets have agreed to pull their troops out by Dec. 31, 1955, or sooner if a state treaty is signed. 2. They will allow the Aus trians to "buy back" with goods, instead of cash, 300 industrial en terprises which the Soviets have been controlling in the, Soviet zone since 1945. Chief Justice Warren Claims He Won't Run for President WASHINGTON, April 15 (4))— Chief Justice Earl. Warren de clared today he has turned his back on party-politids for the rest of his life and would not be a candidate for president "under any circumstarices or conditions." Warren former Republican gov ernor of California and 1948 GOP candidate for vice president, is sued a formal statement after a nationwide poll reported he was the top choice of Republican and Independent Voters for the GOP nomhiatiob If . President Eisen hower failed to seek se-election. His statement, believed unprece dented for a Supreme Court Jus tice, strongly recalled the 1883 declaration of Gen. William. T. Sherman: "If nominated, I will not serve." The 64-year-old Warren said: "My name has been used as a possible candidate for the presi dency. WELCOME ►o Pennsylvania E & A District XXI Conclave Sigma Phi Epsilon THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATT COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Walter Labels Former Adviser As 'Man of Poor Judgment' WASHINGTON, April 15 (M.—Rep. Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.) disclosed today he had recommend ed that Edward Corsi be fired as "a man of very poor judgment." He said Corsi once referred to framers of the McCarran-Walter immigration Act as "Nazis" and "candidates for an insane asylum. Pittsburgh Plans Welcome for Salk PITTSI3URGE, April 15 (IP)— Jonas E. Salk, heralded through out the world as the first man to develop an effective vacc i n e against polio, is scheduled to re turn home tomorrow. A huge welcome awaits him. • Word spread through the city late today that the famous scien tist is due at Greater Pittsburgh Airport on a Capital Airline plane at 3:30 p.m. Welcoming commit tees went to work immediately. Dr. Salk, his wife and three sons have been in Detroit from where word was flashed to a waiting world last Tuest .ay that the vac cine Dr. Salk developed at the University of Pitt burgh, was a success, Demos, South Compromise On 'Loyalt Oath' Fight 3 WASHINGTON, April 15 (J —Democratic leaders bowed to the South today by offering a compromise in the three-year-old "loyalty oar fight..under which most party members could bolt the presi dential ticket without punish ment. With party officials talking hopefully of success In next year's election, an advisory group head ed by former National Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell laid out the compromise in a confidential re port to be acted upon tomorrow. An effort to forte delegates to pledge support of the party's nom inees split the 1952 convention wide open. A compromise at that time called for delegates to give their best efforts toward getting names of the nominees on the bal lots in all states. The name of President Harry S. Truman was not on the ballot in Alabama in 1948. A States Rights ticket carried Alabama and three other Dixie states but "This has been a matter of em barrassment to me because it re flects upon my performance as Chief Justice of the United States. "When I accepted that position, it was with the fixed purpose of leaving politics permanently for service on the court. That is still my purpose. It is irrevocable. I will not change it under any cir cumstances or conditions. 'Be they many or few, the re maining useful years of my life are dedicated to • the service of the Supreme Court of the United States, in which work I am in creasingly happy." Friends had predicted Warren might issue such a statement aft er the Gallup poll said on Wednes day that the chief justice ran ahead of Vice President Nixon and all other Republicans as the second choice—after ,Eisenhower —for the GOP nomination in 1958. Walter. a co-author of the law passed in 1952 over former Presi dent Harry S. Truman's veto, testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee insestigating th e row over Corsi's ouster last week as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' adviser on immigration problems. A bizarre sidelight on Corsi's brief career in the State Depart ment was developed in testimony that when Corsi made a trip to Europe the department sent a for mer Texas Ranger with him to report on his activities.‘ This story, originally told by Corsi, was confirmed before the subcommittee by R. W. Scott Mc- Leod, State Department security chi ef. McLeod identified the Ranger as Roy Wade and said that in addition to his experience as a Ranger, Wade had worked for newspapers in New York and elsewhere. "He endeavored to be of as sistantance," McLeod said of Wade, "and he did report to the Truman won the election. The Mitchell report proposed that the national committee adopt a resolution saying: 1. "It is the assumption and un derstanding" that in picking 1956 nominating convention delegates, state party organizations would undertake "to assure" that the na tional ticket would get on the bal lot of their states under the Dem ocratic label. 2. "That no commitments shall be required of delegates to the Democratic national convention in the absence of credentials con tests . . ." 3. "That it is the duty of every member of the Democratic Na tional Committee or its duly au thorized subcommittee to declare his or her seat vacant." • While the advisory group was moving toward party harmony, the national committee wrangled at its session over whether to name three new vice chairmen. The committee meets again to morrow in advance of a $lOO a plate dinner tomorrow night hon oring House Speaker Sam Ray burn of Texas. Tax Comment Declined HARRISBURG, April 15 (W)— Gov. George M. Leader declined comment today on both Demo cratic and Republican attacks on his reported plan to propose a form of income tax as a means of solving the Commonwealth's fiscal dilemma. Gooky Sa Sw of Sp at WA department concerning Corsi's ac tivities." McLeod said he agreed with Dulles' decision to fire Corsi be cause he said he was "freewheel ing all over the place wtihout the authority or responsibility for de cisions." Corsi, scheduled to be hear d later, contends Dulles yielded to Walter's demand for his dismissal because "he had to work in Con gress with men like Walter." _ Walter also criticized the Eisen hower administration's Refugee Relief Act of 1953 as "phony." He said Democratic lawmakers, then in the minority, were given "little opportunity" to offer suggestions. _ _ At the same time he emphasized he favors admitting victims of wartime tyranny into the United States, saying hJ personally had arranged for the entry of 10 refu gees shortly after World War IT. Walter read a "strictly confidenp tial" letter he said he wrote to Dulles on March 14 in which he questioned Corsi's fitness on two grounds: "1. Mr. Corsi's association with highly objectionable groups and organizations, branded as subver sives by the attorney general, and his neglect to resign from such organizations after their true na ture' has become a matter of com mon knowledge proves conclu sively that Mr. Corsi—to say the least and be merciful—is a person of inferior judgment; "2. Mr. Corsi should not be en trusted with the administration of laws for which he has expressed contumacious disdain and con tempt." Strauss Reports 'Fallout' Protection May Be Possible WASHINGTON, April 15 ^— Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission said today there is some hope of de veloping protection' against the deadly fallout from hydrogen bomb explosions. Strauss told the Senate • House Committee on Atomic Energy the greatest radiological authorities in the country are working on the problem, adding: "A good deal of promising ex perimental work is being carried on by the commission looking to ward the protection of cell struo tures from radiation." Strauss and other top AEC offi cials went before the committee mainly in an effort to allay fears that harmful radiation is being lobsed by the current atomic weapon tests in Nevada. One such device—a big one—was set oft today. I STATE NO W "THE COUNTRY GIRL" —Postarstfair.. IM. 3:23 5:33, 7:11, *AS liebort Wanner - Dams Pseud John Lund ==l:ttMt!:Ms "WHITE FEATHER" -BEGINS MONDAY.... "CAMILLE" mbar_ TODAY _ Doors Open 1 p.m. TARZAN ESCAPES • COMING MONDAY • MARLON BRANDO ht „ THE MEW' PAGE THREE W MII I
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