TUESDAY. MAY 24. 195 c Industrial Unrest Arouses Interest in British Vote LONDON, May 23 (/P)—An atmosphere of industrial un rest pulled Britain's election campaign out of the doldrums tonight and injected a new factor in Thursday's voting for new 630-member House of Commons. Behind closed doors, both quarters Planned -, 1a1t , :44m.4e either side means the right to gov ern Britain for the next five years. Socidlistic Laboritii, ksensing they were running behind; search ed feverishly for a new issue. Leftwing• Laborite. 4.tl'euilb.t it= an( contended in recent speeches the Conservative government has encouraged "a policy of ' grab by big business" and this philosophy has worked its way ,into the ranks of the workers. The Labor mod erates have taken up Bevan's theme. Standard Editorial Lord • Beaverbrook's Evening Standard gave: the Conservative answer in an editorial that said: "This is a dangerous line for the Socialists to adopt. On the one hand they condemn the strikes as datnaging to the nation's econ omy, while on the other they jus tify them as the inevitable result of ,Tory policy. And they hint that these disputes would never take Place' if the Socialists were in power . . . "By seeking to exploit the strikes, by playing the election game, the Socialists will harm no oneibut tl•-risev 4 . , es. They will cer tainly not deceive the electors." Accuse Tories While the Conservatives were implying that Labor was hitting Wow the belt on this issue, La borites accused the Toriek of corn mating a foul on another point. USUP 11V mild-mannered Cle ment Attlee, the Laborite leader, said with a waspish edge to his voice that the Conservatives had come up with an election stunt that is "one of the dirtiest things ever put. out," bogus ration books. Speaking to factory workers in his own district on London's East Side, Attlee held' up one of the books and charged the . Conserva tives were trying to panic house wives into believing that if Labor won the election the old ration ing and food queues would come back. POWs Appeal to U.N. NEW DELHI, India, May 23 OP) —Life in neutral India has palled on 43 Koreans who were prison ers of war when the Korean Wat ended. They appealed to the Unit ed Nations today to. speed- their resettlement in Latin America. or allow them to return to South Ko tea. They Also asked prOtection from "political pressure to return us to North Korea or Red China." In dian officials denied the group had been subjected , ln any such pressure. Since March; 1953 The former prisoners have been in India since March, 1953, when they were brought from the Ko rean .neutral zone with army units on teams. They wanted to. - live in neither North nor South Korea. Eighty-two Koreans in all yiOre brought here and housed in Bat racks, but 32 elected hto settle in India. The remaining , 50 n - have tinplate Laundry and • Dry Cleaning Service . High Quality 2-Day Serviiii REED'S Lauhdri .and Cleaners /ambushed in 1911 & Pugh lIL Pim. AD 1.111181 Conservative and Labor head campaign moves. Victory for Eng College Post Othren to Hoiderman • Dr. Kenneth L. Holderman, pro fessor and director if engineer ing extension, has been named as sistant dean in the College of En gineering -and Architecture. He will continue also as professor and director of enginzering extension. Doctor Holderman, a native of Pittsburgh, graduated froin the University in 1931 with a bachelor of science degree in architecture. He joined the facplty in 1941 with the Engineering, Science and Management Defense Training program. He was named assistant director of engineering extension in 1943, professor in 1947, and di rector of the program in 1949. Historic . Steeple To Be Repaired BOSTON, May 23 (,')—Restora tion of Boston's Old North Church steepl e—goppled by hurricane Carol 'set year—will begin tomor row morning. It was from a window of this steeple that a lantern was hung, touching off the famous midnight ride of Paul Revere to warn the countryside during the Revolu tionary War that the British were coming. ' 'Forty-six foot white oak beams first will be set into place. After that • the siding Will be erected, then the spire and weather vane. Anastasia Pleads Guilty CAMDEN, N.J., May 23 VII— Dapper Albert Anastasia, var iously described as the leader and trigger man of the notorious kew York "Murder, Inc." mob, changed his mind in Federal court today and pleaded guilty to income taut evasion. been waiting for two ±eara for permits to migiate to other coun tries and all but seven of this group joined in the appeal to'the U.N. They signed a letter addressed to U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold• and deliverpd to the U.N. office in New Delhi for forwarding. • Loader was Jailed They complained that their leader, Ji Ki Cheol, a former ma or,j Was jailed at an Indian mili tary base when they refused to submit ,to military discipline and 'NE DAILY COLWIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA President Chided For Participation In toal Rites WASHINGTON. May 23 (RI Coal men asked President Dwight D. Eisenhower today to close the damper against any governmental participation in "last rites"slor the steam locomotive. "Plain propfigithda" for the diesel and oil mauldrhis. the Nefional Coal Aim. fumed - in a telegram of protest to the White House. "Ridiculous," Rep. Bailey, Dem ocrat from West Virginia's coal regions, snorted in Congress. "Why. there were 6503 steam engines in service on the rail roads not,lator than last Month." Bailey told the House. "And lest tear the railroads bought 16.- 700.000 tens of coal to run 'em." What got all the steam up was word by ':he Interstate Commerce Commitsion that a brass bell from a "retired" steam engine will be mounted on a stone pedestal at the Commission building in mem ory of the steam engine'sreplace ment by the oil burning diesel. 'The bel: and base were offer ed by -the Pt. Louis-San Fran cisco railroad. The ICC' eccipted and a ceremony is planned for Thursday. "They are gullible for fallin: for that nonsense by the oil men,' I3ailey said. ' "The steam locomtive isn't any more dead than I am." 11pTh1 ij(Jifl HARRISBURG, May 23 GP The State Supreme Court ruled today the jury was "well justi fied" in convicting John Wesley Wable as "the Phantom Slayer of the Pennsylvania Turnpike." The court • upheld the death sentence imposed on Wable. Leader Asks Senate to Raise Worker's Compensation HARRISBURG, May 23 071— Gov. Leader tonight 4sked the Legislature to increase maximum Weekly workmen's compensation benefits from $32.50 to $37.50. He said the increase could be handled by a 15 per cent increase in em ployers' insurance rates. These payments to work Ors in lured on the job, noW limited to 700 weeks under arty circum stances, would be lifelong or per- sought to appeal directly to Prime Miiiister Nehru. Indian military officers said the leader was detained after the group "became restive" over lack of action to move them to Latin America. The.letter said that at first the Koteans had received compara tively mild treatment, but the Indian attitude turned harsh when theprospect of their transfer to another neutral nation become vague. They asked that the U.N. 4ritervene to keep India to her pledge to treat them as civilians. True U.S. Air Strength Demanded by Democrais WASHINGTON, May 23 (W)—Senate Democrats put on nelk pressure today to get what Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson termed the "true story" of how American air power stacks up against Russia's. Sen. Stuart Symin'gton (D-Mo.), who fired up the controversy last week, demanded •in the Senate that the Eisenhower administra tion answer "the great question . . . How does our strength com pare with the strength of the Communists, those whp have so often reiterated their Hetermina tion to destroy us?" Johnson, of Texas, said Secre tary of Defense 'Charles E. Wilson owed it to the people to straighten them out on the question and to see to it that "the generals and the secretaries get together so that the right hand knows what the left is doing." Secretary of Air Force Harold E. Talbott 10 days ago issued a release discussing the appearance of new types of Russian war planes. That led Symington at the time to question whether Rus sia might not be gaining air su periority. Since then there have been what Johnson called " a new ralh of confusing statements." He , said "there should be clarification as to what is the true story." British Dock Strikes Cripple Four Big Ports LONDON, May 23 (/P)—Strik irig dockers crippled Britain's four biggest ports today in a bitter interunion fe u d for bargaining rights on the nation's waterfronts. The Labor party's chances in Thursday's parliamentary election were hot enhanced thereby. Food ships began to pile up in the Thames Estuary and govern ment officials warned the nation's vital export trade would be crip pled if the strike continues. More than 18,000 longshoremen quit work at London, Manchester, Hull and the twin Mersey ports of Liverpool and Birkenhead; A handful of others came out at smaller ports up and down the country. Another 30,000 remained on the job, but with working teams. split Up many gangs were unable to cope With their normal jobs. , Prime Minister Anthony Eden kept in touch with the strike de velopments at his country home at Chequers, as government offi cials worked feverishly to head off a second electioh week strike a threatened walkout next weekend of 70,000 railway engi neers and firemen seeking higher pay rates. manent disability under.the Lead er proposal. Companion legislation intro duced in the House also would broaden considerably the scope of occupational diseases subject to benefits. They are now limited principally to anthracosilicois (Mi ner's asthma) and asbestosis. The governor said all occupa tional diseases peculiar to indus tiy should be compensable. "The new workmen's compensa tion act, when made into law, will mark another great step f9rward in legislation designed to pprove the conditions of all wor lPig men and women in the Common wealth of Pennsylvania," said Leader in his message to the law makers. West Virginian Gives Warning A West Virginia editor told the annual Pennsylvania Pres.% Confer ence that the best contribution toward strengthening the American press "is what we do individually with out own papers." Brooks Cottle, editor of the Morgantown Post said that "We can make that *contribution only if we back off a little, toss away our preconceptions and self !atilt factions, see ourselves for what we are and resolve to do the better job of which we are capable." 111 Pugh St., State College
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