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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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