IAY. MAY 7 1935
Parliament Adjourned
Before Election Date
LONDON, May 6 (A*) —Queen Elizabeth II adjourned Parliament today, just 20 days ahead of the
general election.
Members of the outgoing House of Commons collected their la&t pay checks and free otie-way
tickets to their constituencies.
Britain’s 35 million voters will decide May 26 how many get free return tickets—and whether
Prime Minister Eden’s Conservatives remain in power or turn the government over to the oppo
sition Laborltes.
Political forecasters expect
about 500 of the 625 members of
the old House to show up again
—some of them after the political
scare of their lives. The new
House of 630 lawmakers will con
vene June 7. ' , ,
The Queen’s speech, written for
her by Eden and members of his
Cabinet, was read to a joint ses
sion of the two houses in the rich
red and gold House of Lords. It
reflected the Conservative’s polit
ical philosophy and assessment of
the situation at home and abroad.
But it also contained a refer
ence by Elizabeth to “my dear
sister,” the lively Princess Mar
garet whose name has been linked
romantically with a number of
men—among them Capt. Peter
It Was pointed out that "dear
sister” was the customary way for
a sovereign 'to allude to a close
relative in a speech of this kind,
apd had no special, significance.
Townsend fs a divorced common
er, and the prospect of a marriage
with Margaret presents certain
obstacles.
The Queen said the warmth of
the reception afforded Margaret
on a tour of Britain’s Caribbean
possessions last February “was a
source of great happiness to me.
In the foreign field, the speech
expressed- hope Britain can enter
into fruitful negotiations with the
Soviet Union, now that a rearmed
West Gerany has become a sov
ereign nation. The Queen wel
comed prospects of an Austrian
independence treaty. Concern was
expresed over the dangerous sit
uation in Formosa Strait.
RR Strike
Erupts Into
Pistol Fire
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 6 (/F)
•—Smouldering tempers in the 54-
day-old Louisville & Nashville
Railroad strike erupted into pistol
fire last night and today, leav
ing one striker dead in Tennessee
and another seriously wounded in
Kentueky.' This new outbreak of
violence, resulting in the first
strike-connected killing, brought
promgt withdrawal of a union of
fer to arbitrate the long-drawn
out dispute involving 25,000 work
ers in l 4 states.
In the South’s other major la
bor dispute, also 54 days old and
, involving some 50,000 Southern
Bell Telephone employes, the
company turned down an offer of
. CIO Communications Workers of
T America for a full public. arbi
tration of the issues.
Southern Bell called the offer
"a calculated attempt to gain from
an arbiter when the union has not
been able tp justify through the
process of collective bargaining.”
George Leighty, negotiating
chairman for 10 railroad nonop
erating unions, announced in an
80-station radio broadcast from
Washington the rail unions now
will insist on a negotiated settle
ment. He assigned the two shoot
ing incidents as the reason.
Charles E. Wright, 32-year old
striking L&N carman, was shot to
death last night near Mt. Pleas
ant, Tenn., 65 miles south of Nash
ville.
' State and county officers ar
rested four L&N workers and one
of them acknowledged firing the
fatal shot which he said was in
self defense. The Tennessee Bur
eau of Identification listed the
man as Roy Van Brindley, 28, lo
> comotive, fireman.
State Safety Commissioner, W.
W. Luttrell said Brindley fired
after the strike started', was ar
rested three times by state offi
* cers on charges of transporting
liquor in legally dry areas of
Tennessee.
Only 'Bataan' Survivor
Has Returned to A Farm
BUTLER, Pa., May 6 The
only survivor of the Bataan death
march to return to Bataan after
World War II has retired from
v.the Army, his future plans un-
Tcertain.
M. Sgt. Abe Abraham, who be
came known as “the Ghost of Ba
taan,” has returned to his 100-
acre farm in Conoquenessing Twp.
9 Killed in 4th Chicago Fire
CHICAGO. May 0 (#) The
fourth flash fire in cheap Chicago
hotels in three months today kill
ed nine men and injured 12 others.
Erupting about 1 a.m. while 77
/ men were sleeping in tiny cubi
cles on upper floors of the five
story Comfort Hotel on Skid RoW,
the blaze pushed the roll of dead
in Chicago hotel fires this year
to 51.
A Feb. 12 Skid Row flophouse
fire in the Barton Hotel, only
* three blocks from the scene of to
day’s blaze, toQk the lives of 29
men housed in quarters similar
to those in the Comfort Hotel.
Thirteen persons died in separate
fires in two other inexpensive ho
tels on the Northwest Side last
month.
Mayor's Proposal
Today’s tragic fire brought a
proposal from Chicago’s new may
or, Richard J. Daley, that the city
license hotels and rooming houses
in an effort to prevent a recur
t zence. He also suggested in a con
ference with top city officials that
city-operated, non-profit lodging
houses for Skid Row habitqes be
AEC Will Hold
Closed Seminar
WASHINGTON, May 6 (JP)—
The, Atomic Energy Commission
announced ; today ft will hold a
closed seminar tomorrow at its
Bettis Plant in Pittsburgh to dis
cuss the full-scale nuclear power
plant being built at Shippings
port, Pa.
Approximately 300 scientists,
engineers and management ex l
ecutives are to attend the session.
The AEC said all have security
clearance for their work with the
nuclear power program.
Staff members of the Joint Sen
ate-House Commijttee on Atomic
Energy, AEC officials and repre
sentatives of other government
agencies also are expected to at
tend.
Administration Attacked
NEW LONDON,. Conn., May 6
(JP) —Democratic National Chair
man Paul M. Butler accused the
Eisenhower administration tonight
of hiding from the public things
that the people have a right to
know.
constructed.
Firemen found most of the vic
tims suffocated in their 65-cents
a-night 6x7 feet cubicles on the
second and third floors of the
hostelry. Bodies of three others
who apparently had dozed off
while watching a television show
were found in chairs on the sec
ond floor.
20 Occupants
Firemen carried about 20 occu
pants down ladders. Another man
was rescued frqm a ledge on the
fourth floor. Two policemen who
turned in an alarm and then help
ed abput 25 men to the street said
many of the men were drunk and
tried to fight off their rescuers.
The blaze was quickly put out
and Fire Marshal Albert Peter
son estimated damage to the
building at about $5OOO. The first
floor was occupied by a restaur
ant.
Started’ in a Room
The night clerk. Al Reese, 50,
told pblice the fire apparently
started in the room of Raymond
Lawson, 55, who died in the blaze.
Reese said he saw smoke pouring
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Government Halts
Vaccine Program
During Conference
WASHINGTON, May 6 (&)
The federal governm Jnt’s program
of approving Salk polio vaccine
fo. shipment has been brought to
a temporary standstill while a top
level scientific conference reviews
production and safety standards.
Surgeon Gen. Leonard A.
Scheele disclosed this today. He
stressed it does not mean the vac
cine is “under suspicion.” He ex
plained that the government
merely wants to use “every con
ceivable safeguard.”
He urged that inoculation pro
grams thorughout the nation con
tinue with vaccine already ap
proved, and said he was confident
the clearance embargo would be
lifted in a few days.
Scheele, head of the U.S. Public
Health Service, told the House
Banking Committee the vaccine
is excellent despite some 40 cases
of reported polio among children
who have had their first “shot.”
Republic Urged
For Viet Nam
SAIGON, South Viet Nam, May
6 (JP) —A government informant
said today South Viet Nam will
proclaim herself a republic if as
sured backing by,France, Britain
and the United States.
The attitude of these powers,
the source close to Premier Ngo
Dinh Diem said, is the only
stumbling block to the South’s
revolutionary move to depose
Chief of State Bao Dai.
U.S. Secretary of State Dulles
and French and British officials
will discuss South Viet Nam poli
tical developments in Paris this
weekend. Bao Dai also is expect
ed to be on hand with a personal
appeal to France and the United
States to keep him in power.
The President of South Viet
Nam’s Revolutionary Committee,
Nguyen Bao Toan, said today thai;
as long as Bao Dai remains as
Chief of State there can be no
lasting friendship between France
and his country.
Electronic Brain Tested
SUITLAND, Md., May 6 (JP)—
The Weather Bureau put into ex
perimental operation today an el
ectronic brain it hopes will im
prove the accuracy of weather
forecasts.
The experiment was begun
ceremoniously when representa
tives 1 of the Weather Bureau, the
Navy and the Army pushed three
activating buttons on the calcu
lator, which is the joint property
of the three agencies.
out of Lawson’s cubicle—separat
ed from others by corrugated iron
walls and a chicken wire ceiling—
and tried to force his way into the
room.
Unable to get past the locked
door, Reese said he sounded the
hotel’s alarm system and then
banged on doors until he was
driven from the building by
smoke. Most of the survivors were
taken to Cook County Hospital
suffering from shock, smoke in
halation and exposure.
Mom will enjoy it . . .
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
A Farce-Comedy . M ti'pf
T 0 NI 0N T
at Canter Stage
Nationalist Chinese Use
Mines to Thwart Invasion
TAIPEI, Formosa, May 6 yP)—'The Nationalists disclosed today
they have sown mines in waters close to Red China to thwart any
invasion moves against offshore islands and to choke off shipping
to the Red port of Foochow.
The minefields were laid around islands which the Nationalists
hold as close as four miles to the mainland
The move freshly underscored
Nationalist intent to hold on to
the islands. Foreign Minister
George Yeh is reported to have
assured the Legislative Yuan Par
liament today that the govern
ment resolutely opposes any idea
of a cease-fire in Formosa Strait.
Yeh was quoted as saying the
Nationalists regard as “impossi
ble" any UN trusteeship for For
mosa and stand inflexibly against
anything tending to set up two
Chinas,
No Withdrawal
The meeting was closed to the
press but officials present talked
freelv of what Yeh said. They said
he repeated assurances there
would be no Nationalist withdraw
al from the offshore islands,
where there has been both Red
air and artillery action this week.
Yeh said the concept of two
Chinas was contrary to the wishes
of the Chinese people end that,
apart from a few nations support
ing the Reds or taking a neutral
ist stand, no other countries have
proposed such a situation.
Territorial Waters
Nationalist quarters did not say
flatly the minefields were laid in
territorial waters of Red China but
this would seem inevitable. They
said there was no need to notify
other countries since it has been
made clear for years that ships
trading with Red China must do
so at their own risk.
The Nationalists believe the
Reds have been getting through
with jet fuel and other war sup
plies to Foochow despite the vigil
of garrisons off the Fukien Pro
vince coast in the Matsu Island
group.
They are less concerned about
Amoy, considering it a dead port
so long as they hold Quemoy and
other islands in the area.
Water Situation in Need
Of Conservation Policy
HARRISBURG, May 6 (IP)
Pennsylvania agriculture faces a
new competitive situation for
water resources!that only a step-
conservation program can
solve.
“Through the use of irrigation,
agriculture is going to increase its
demands on water,” said Dr. Mau
rice K. Goddard, state secretary
of forests and waters.
Goddard said a vast increase in
irrigation throughout the state by
farmers puts them in a severe
“Competitive situation” with in
dustry and municipalities for
water supples.
He cited the Brandywine Val
ley of Chester County where a
state survey showed twice as
many farmers planned to irrigate
this year as in 1954.
1955 Predicted to Be
Most Prosperous Year
HOT SPRINGS, Va., May 6 (A>)
—lndustry leaders heard today
that the ‘production and income
boom is well on its way to making
1955 the most prosperous year in
American history.
The appraisal was presented,
amid unusual secrecy, at the
spring meeting here of the Busi
ness Advisory Council of the Com
merce Department.
The council’s membership in
cludes the heads of about 100 of
the largest corporations high
government officials attended.
Council Chairman Harold Boe
schenstein, president of Owens-
Corning Fiberglas Corp., declined
to give reporters an account of
the closed session until tomorrow
PAGE THWtt
Dulles Flies
To European
Conference
WASHINGTON, May 6 (iP)
Secretary of State John F. Dulles
flew to Paris tonight decla' ng
that “a new Europe, united, f ae
and secure” is assured with Car
many's entry into the North At
lantic Alliance.
Dulles took off with a party of
advisers in President Eisenhow
er’s four-engine aircraft, Colum
bine. He had conferred with the
President earlier in the day on
problems of Far Eastern peace,
European defense and negotiations
with the Communists. These are
questions he will be discus: *g
with other Western ministers in
the French capital for the next
week.
In a departure statement Dulles
announced that if talks now ur.lor
way with the Russians in Pr.‘ ! s
can finally break the 10-yer,- d
stalemate over an Austrian •' 3-
pendence treaty he will fly f'cm
Paris to Vienna to conclude that
document.
About -three hours before he
went to the airport Dulles accent
ed from West German Ambassa
dor Heinz L. Krekeler a docu
ment making Germany the 15th
member of the Atlantic Alliance.
Germany will take its seat at a
meeting of the North Atlantic
Treaty Council in Paris next
week.
Dulles said Germany’s admis
sion to the, powerful defense or
ganization—to which she is due to
add half a million men in about
four years—and completion of an
Austrian independence treaty,
taken together, “would of them
selves open up new vistas for ac
complishment.”
Prior to his departure. Dulles
worked today on Far Eastern as
well as European problems. One
task was the formulation of a
statement issued this afternocr to
counteract an impression that the
United States is trying to save
Viet Nam’r Bao Dai.
Labor Relations Board
HARRISBURG, May 6 {IP) —A
suit has been filed in Dauphin
Cdunty Court by two former
members of the Pennsylvania La
bor Relations Board who sa’d
they never received some $lB,OOO
in pay increases provided by law.
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