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McCarthy Seeks Time Given to Nixon Reply
Washington—(U.P.)—President Eisenhower asked Vice President Richard M. Nixon to reply to Adlai E. Stevenson next Saturday on the free broadcast and television time also sought by Sen. Joseph F. McCarthy (R.-Wis.).
Nixon agreed. Neither NBC radio nor CBS television provided time for McCarthy. Instead they allotted 10:30 to 11 p.m. EST Saturday for Nixon's formal response to the March 6 speech in which Mr. Stevenson made a vigorous political attack on the President, the Republican party, McCarthyism and McCarthy.
McCarthy threatened legal reprisals against the networks last night when he arrived in New York and learned that NBC and CBS were not honoring his request for time.
Informed that Republican National Committee Chairman Leonard W. Hall had chosen the vice president to reply to Stevenson for the party, McCarthy replied:
"An excellent choice. But, I am delegating no one to make an answer to the attack on me. Mr. Nixon will speak for the party. I am speaking for myself. Stevenson made a vicious and lengthy attack on me. Mr. Hall had no choice but to ask for time since Stevenson's speech was an attack on the Republican party. Let me make it clear, that Stevenson made an intemperate attack on the Republican party but also a vicious attack on me."
McCarthy said federal communications rules required that he be given free time under the circumstances.
"They (the networks) will grant me time or they will learn what the law is. I will guarantee that."
CBS promptly repeated that it would not grant his request. It said in a statement that it was "logical and equitable" to give the time to the GOP national committee "rather than to any individual."
NBC withheld immediate comment.
The United Press was informed party strategists expect Mr. Nixon to speak on the Eisenhower administration record to date but not on the Senator. It is planned for him to make what is called "a positive presentation of the record which will be the umbrella for Republican candidates in this year's campaign."
It has been suggested that the networks have recently given much more free time to Republicans than to Democrats. The Republican answer to that is that over a period of 20 years the Democrats got the biggest share. Therein may lie a way out, if the networks need it, in their dispute with the senator. He might get some time apart from the half hour allotted Nixon, but the United Press was informed that Nixon's half hour would not be divided with McCarthy.
'In Your Hands'
Set for Thursday
A movie "In Your Hands" will be shown to physical therapy advisors, students, and public in 305 Student Union at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
Ivin Youngberg, executive secretary of the Endowment association will speak at the meeting.
Los Angeles —(U.P.)— Two leading local Democrats cried "foul" today over the party endorsement of James Roosevelt as candidate for Congress from the 26th district.
2 Cry 'Foul'
On Roosevelt
One of the Democrats, Ned Redding, attacked Mr. Roosevelt for bringing his personal affairs into his plea for the Democratic endorsement at a party caucus Sunday.
Mr. Redding declared before the caucus that he would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the June primaries regardless of whom the party endorsed.
City Councilman Harold Harby, who said he was a Democrat of long standing in the 26th district, said the selection of Mr. Roosevelt was "rigged", and pointedly remarked that there were several potential candidates whose reputations were "unblemished in every way."
Mr. Roosevelt told caucus delegates that he would use his candidacy to "obliterate" charges made against him by his estranged wife, Romelle, who has accused him of adultery with 12 women.
The son of the late president was chosen the Democratic candidate over the bids of 10 other hopefuls.
Mr. Redding said yesterday "I would have been content to face James Roosevelt in this battle on issues and on our own respective capabilities, but Mr. Roosevelt made his own morals an issue.
"I don't believe the yoters are interested in electing a man to Congress merely to absolve him from an accused guilt.
Mr. Redding announced his boy-cott of the Democratic endorsement meeting before Mr. Roosevelt made his plea for the party endorsement.
Mr. Harby was "amazed" at the "audacity" of Mr. Roosevelt in "arranging for and securing the endorsement as a Democratic candidate
"The idea of a rigged endorsement by a handful of so-called leaders is repungnant to citizens who feel that all the voters should have an opportunity to decide such an important issue at the polls, Mr. Harby said. Mr. Roosevelt declined comment on the statements by Mr. Harby and Mr. Redding.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Romelle Roosevelt's attorney, Arthur Schifferman, said Mrs. Roosevelt had "no comment" on the political furor stirring around her husband's candidacy.
Museum Displays AlphabetWoodcut
Group To Apply First Aid
Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity will see a first aid demonstration in their meeting tonight in the Union. The group plans on recruiting teams to take to the local Boy Scout troops.
Woodcut prints of the alphabet by William Nicholson, British artist, are on display at the Museum of Art.
Rejecting the nineteenth century treatment of the woodcut, in which painted pictures were laboriously imitated, Mr. Nicholson returned to the simple style of the early chapbooks and wood block prints.
The results were woodcuts which did not attempt to do what engravings, etchings, or photographs could do better. Their designs emphasize the nature of the wood that the printmaker cut and gouged in the making of the block from which the picture was printed.
"Although intended for children the Nicholson ABC is also worthy of adult attention, for its subtle humor and refined style only masquerade as innocent fantasy and simple pattern," he added.
"Nicholson's work exerted a powerful influence on modern poster and advertising design," Edward Maser, museum curator, said.
House Votes To Boost Aid For Highways
Washington — (U.P.)—The House voted yesterday to boost federal aid to states for highway construction to $875,000,000 a year for the two years beginning July 1, 1955.
The measure, which now goes to the Senate, would hike federal highway grants by $225,000,000 a year. However, the expanded program is conditioned on Congress's extension of the present two cents a gallon federal gasoline tax scheduled to drop a half cent on Anil 1.
Under the House bill, highway funds would be distributed among states as follows:
1, $ 600,000,000 for primary, secondary and urban roads. States would be called on to match federal payments.
2. $200,000,000 for inter-state defense highways, with the federal government putting up 60 percent and the states 40 per cent. This figure would be cancelled if gas taxes are reduced.
3. $45,000,000 for forest highways and trails, $10,000,000 for national park roads and trails, $10,000,000 for federal parkways, and $10,000,-000 for road in Indian reservations.
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Well, the bridge was finished, but the river didn't come near it. Fact is, it wandered even farther away.
Money Needed to Put River Under Bridge Over Dry Land
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The engineers helped pick the site. But before work began there was a flood. The river moved out of its channel. The bridge-builders figured at the time this was fine. It made building the bridge that much easier than no water and all. Afterwards, the engineers could re-route the river.
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Washington — (U.P.)— Rep. Alvin M. Bentley, most seriously wounded of five Congressmen who were shot by Puerto Rican terrorists, was reported in "good" condition today following a second operation.
So the army engineers want about $2,000,000 from Congress to straighter things out. They can't move the bridge. They figure they can move the Missouri river, and in fact they say it ought to be moved anyway, bridge or no.
It seems the people around Decatur have been hankering for years for a bridge across the Missouri. Among other places, they figured to drive over to Onawa, Iowa, on the other side. Somebody got up a bridge commission, sold bonds, and went to work.
Washington—(U.P.)—A $2,000,000 toll bridge at Decatur, Neb., still hasn't rung up its first fare, although it has been built for four years. The trouble is there isn't any river under it. Where the river is, there isn't any bridge.
A House appropriations subcommittee which heard the story did not disclose at once whether it will put up the money. It did make public the transcript of the engineers' testimony. This showed that the Missouri river is hard to handle.
But Dr. Joseph R. Young, the hospital's chief surgeon, said it might be two or three days before it is certain Rep. Bentley is "out of the woods."
Police assigned a uniformed patrolman to guard the suite where McCarthy and his wife, Jean, were staying.
Rep. Bentley Improving'
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The Senator and his wife checked in at the Waldorf last night after they arrived by plane from Miami.
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New York—(U.P.)A man with a Spanish accent telephoned the Waldorf-Astoria hotel early today that "something terrible" would happen to Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy before daylight.
McCarthy Threatened By Spanish Telephoner
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The bridge sits idle, spanning dry land, going nowhere. Ordinarily there isn't even a trickle running beneath it.
Subcommittee members wanted to be sure apparently that they weren't being asked to do this just to help out a dry-land toll bridge.
"Yes sir," replied the engineers' witness, Brig. Gen. W. E. Potter.
"You would attempt to move the river back into the indicated channel regardless of whether the bridge was there or not?" asked Rep. John J. Riley (D.-S.C.).
Last year, as part of a vast project to whip the Missouri permanently into line, the engineers asked for money to put the river back under the bridge. Congress said no. Now they are asking again.
Fla. McCarthy is scheduled to speak today at a lunch meeting of New York's "Dutch Treat club."
At 6 a.m. hotel officials sana McAarth was sleeping and did not know that his life had been threatened. They said he planned to check out of the hotel today but re-tired last night without leaving a call to be awakened this morning.
Waldrof security guards reported to police that a man "with a Spanish accent" telephoned with the brief message that "something terrible" would happen to McCarthy during the night. The man hung up before the call could be traced.
The hotel said it was assigning one of its security guards to patrol the floor of the McCarthy suite along with the city policeman. Other hotel employees were alerted to keep an eye out for suspicious-looking visitors.
Even before the anonymous threat was received, police had taken extra precautions for the safety of the controversial Republican. On his arrival at International airport, 10 uniformed patrolmen waited to escort him into Manhattan.
McCarthy and his wife, who is or crutches with a broken ankle suffered in a taxi accident, appeared surprised when they stepped out of an airliner into the swarm of police. One patrolman told them:
"You've got to have protection. Everybody in the crowd's got to be watched."
This was in keeping with a policy of giving special police protection to public figures in New York since the shooting in the House of Representatives March 1 by fanatic Puerto Rican nationalists.
New York is the mainland headquarters of the Puerto Rican Nationalist party which inspired the Congressional shooting episode in Washington. FEI agents and U.S. marshals rounded up 91 persons of Puerto Rican birth or descent in the city yesterday for questioning by grand juries investigating the nationalist movement.
A JOB IS A JOB IS A JOB
WHEN YOU GET IT OR the case of the six-cent patsy
Once there was a Senior who was up against the grim prospect of Graduating. With Social Security 42 years
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He wrote immediately. Not cockily but convincingly. A masterpiece that took four nights and filled several pages with Deathless Prose. It left no doubt that here was The Man for the Job. He slapped on a 6-cent stamp, dropped it into the box, and sat back waiting for The Call.
P.S.—he didn't get the job. His episi-
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