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University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 16, 1952
Unions Dispute Rumor Of Strike Settlement
Denver—(U.P.)-A government forecast that the 17-day-old strike of 90,000 CIO, AFL, and Independent union oil workers would be over "within the next 48 hours" was disputed by union spokesmen today.
A. A. Knight of Denver, president of the CIO oil workers union, the largest involved in the nationwide walkout, repudiated a statement at-
No Hope Seen In Steel Strike
Philadephia — (U.P.)— Philip Murray, president of the CIO United Steelworkers, said today there are "no negotiations whatsoever" in sight with the steel operators.
Murray told reporters there had been no word from the industry on new wage talks since the union opened its sixth biennial convention here last Tuesday.
here has merely indicated strongly that the steel industry had no plans for again inviting the companies to the bargaining table. Thus the next move is up to the industry or the government.
But Murray said the union is always ready to negotiate, always has been, and that he had called for resumption of talks in his opening address to the 3,000 convention delegates.
With the enthusiastic support of the convention, Murray has made it clear that any negotiations will have to be "on the basis of" the 26 cents an hour wage and fringe package proposed by the Wage Stabilization Board. That means that the union demands the whole package, including the union shop.
Ike Will Arrive In U.S. June 1
Paris —(U.P.)— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower linked all East Asia with Europe as a tactical part of the struggle to preserve world peace to lay, and announced that he plans to arrive in Washington June 1, the day he retires as Allied supreme commander.
Arriving back in Paris in high spirits he gave definitely for the first time his expected arrival date in Washington.
Eisenhower said in London, concluding a farewell visit there, that Korea, Indo-China and Malaya are a tactical part with Western Europe in a global attempt to preserve peace.
Liquor Control Agent Quits After Drunk Driving Charge
Topeka—(U.P.)—Alcoholic beverage control agent J. Gordon Austin of Goodland, resigned Thursday after his arrest on a drunk driving charge in McPherson county.
Control Director Arthur A. Herrick said Austin had been with the office since 1949, following the referendum which legalized liquor in Kansas. Herrick said Austin "had been a very good agent."
Austin is free on $500 bond pending trial.
tributed to him yesterday in Washington.
He was reported to have said: "We are calling off the strike and we expect the men back at work soon."
Knight said the striking workers "are not expected to return to work until they have agreements giving them the full amount of wage increases approved by the Wage Stabilization board."
He then added that "any other statements upon which I have been quoted are inaccurate if they vary from this."
Another union spokesman in Denver, pointing to the threatened breakdown in negotiations between 31 CIO union employees, and the Wyco Pipeline company, of Casper, Wyo., said "Most of the discussions are hung up on the question of retroactivity."
Neither Knight nor any other national leader has the power to order the 90,000 workers back to their jobs because bargaining is being conducted by locals on a plant-by-plant basis.
B. J. Schafer, CIO union vice president, said that since "the companies have insisted on plant-by-plant bargaining, it may be quite a while before all striking groups are back at work."
Union pessimism came in the face of two strike settlements involving 1,700 workers in the Midwest.
The biggest break in the prolonged strike was the announced settlement between the Independent Central States petroleum union at Sugar Creek, Mo., with Standard Oil of Indiana.
Nebraska Senator Endorses Ike
Washington—(U.P.)-Sen. Fred A.
Seaton (R.-Neb.) today endorsed
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for the
Republican presidential nomination.
Seaton predicted the general will of Harold E. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota, who ran third behind Sen. Robert A. Taft and Eisenhower in the Nebraska primary last month. In 1948, he managed the campaign which gave Stassen a primary victory in Nebraska.
U.S. Consul Escapes Death
Tunis, Tunisia—(U.P.)—John D. Jernegan, U. S. consul general in Tunis, narrowly escaped death today when French sentries fired on his car after it bumped into a roadblock near La Goulette, 10 miles east of Tunis. Jernegan, 40, is a native of Los Angeles. He has been in the State Department Foreign service since 1936.
Topeka—(U.P)-Plans for a state office building entered the work- stage yesterday when state architect Charles Marshall began making sketches for the new structure.
Architect Begins Sketches For New State Office Buildin
Tidelands Oil Bill To White House AfterSenateVote
Washington — (U.P.)— The Senate today passed and sent to the White House a bill to give coastal states title to oil-rich submerged lands.
Senate approval of the compromise measure was by voice vote after Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.) predicted that the controversial bill "probably" will be vetoed by President Truman. Mr. Truman vetoo a similar bill in 1946.
The House yesterday approved the compromise bill by a 247 to 89 vote. This was 23 votes more than the two-thirds majority that would be required to override a presidential veto.
"I think this is a bill which will probably meet a veto," Sen. O-Mahoney said.
Koje Island Boss Starts Crackdown
Sen. Lister H. (D-La.) said he hopes Mr. Truman will veto the bill so Congress will get another chance to consider his proposal to earmark tideland revenues for the nation's schools. Sen. Herbert H. Lehman (D-N.Y.) who asked that he be on record against the measure, was the only other senator to participate in the brief debate.
Koje Island, Korea—U.P.)-T h e new commander of the Koje Island prisoner of war camps, Brig. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner, backed his "tough but fair" policy today with sandbag pill boxes and re-located firepower.
But the hard-core Communists still faunted propaganda banners inside their compounds. At Boatner's direction, new sandbag pill boxes have been installed at key points.
Twenty-two tanks, their crews aboard, stand ready for action on a moment's notice.
points.
Two or three UN soldiers man each of the pill boxes around the clock. Trucks carrying quadruple 50-caliber machine guns stand guard outside the compounds.
Boatner ordered guard towers at corners of the compounds moved back about 50 feet, giving gunners a wider range of fire in case of extreme violence.
Boatner has also ordered more interpreters for the island and is making more use of those already there.
More Kansas Cattle Die From Anthrax
Topeka — (U.R.) — Anthrax has struck in Cowley more again resulting in more livestock deaths, but state officials said there was still "no cause for alarm."
Livestock sanitary commissioner A. G. Pickett yesterday confirmed reports that the disease killed cattle on two farms near Cambridge. He said the animals had been vaccinated.
Panty Raids Hit Two More Campuses
Recent outbreaks of the disease in Illinois and Ohio were believed to have originated with bone meal shipped into this country from Belgium.
The "spring fever" epidemic that has caused college students to stage panty raids on women's dormitories hit two more campuses today and Harvard undergraduates rioted over a matter that had nothing to do with sex.
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More than 1,000 Columbia university students charged across Broadway in the early morning hours on a panty-and-bra treasure hunt at Barnard college but were routed by the girls and police.
A greater force of students at the University of Miami, cheered on by coeds, were more successful at Coral Gables, Fla. Some of the 3,000 men who stormed the dorms came out wearing brassieres.
At least 2,000 Harvard students
lost their dignity for four hours last night and scuffed with police. They had assembled at Harvard square for a mock political convention and began rioting when a police squad car attempted to clear a path through the crowd to permit a bus to get through.
Police Capt. John Drake said at New York that the Barnard college girls waved panties at the Columbia students to tease them and then hurled water and garbage at them when they ventured too near.
At New York and Coral Gables, the worst damage suffered by students was soiled clothing, in but in the Harvard riot, a Cambridge, Mass., policeman was bitten by a student and two other cops received minor injuries. Twenty-eight students were arrested.
"It's just a lot of schoolboy spirit," Captain Drake said. "But it's the girls who are making it tough for us."
He agreed with Dr. Frank A. Ely, a Des Moines, Iowa, psychiatrist, that the contagious urge for undies was nothing but "impish pranks with a sex flavor" that excite the girls as much as the boys.
One of the raiders at Coral Gables also concurred with Dr. Ely, who commented on the popular fad after male students of the University of Iowa had gone in quest of lingerie.
"The girls loved every minute of it." Dick Stern, a University of Miami junior, said. "The boys dashed around the halls and did a lot of yelling, but I don't think they intended to do much damage."
Net Gain is Expected for Ike In Today's 2 GOP Primaries
Washington — (U.P.) — Republicans will choose national convention delegates in two states today, with the Taft camp conceding a net gain to Gen. Dwight E. Disenhower on the basis of expected results from Oregon.
Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, who leads in delegates chosen so far, hoped to get at least 10 of the 14 named at today's North Dakota GOP convention. But he was prepared to concede all of the 18 elected in the Oregon primary to Eisenhower.
the Oregon primary Eisenhower supporters in turn conceded that North Dakota was "Taft territory." They also displayed some anxiety about Oregon because eight delegate candidates, considered pro-Taft, went on the ballot under a 1905 law which does not bind them to the results of the presidential preference primary.
Other political developments:
Gen. Douglas MacArthur told the Michigan legislature that "it would be a tragic development" if a military man were elected president. He did not mention Eisenhower by name, but said that "nothing is more conducive to arbitrary rule than the military junta."
Mutual Security administrator W. Averell Harriman told a news conference in New York that he could beat Eisenhower or any other GOP presidential candidate by running on a "Trumanism" platform.
Gov. James F. Byrnes of South Carolina used a new third party movement if the South doesn't get its democratic consideration" from either Republicans or Democrats, Byrnes told a meeting of cotton planters in Cleveland, Miss., that "we are not going to return to the national Democratic party if we are going to be treated stepchildren."
Air Ace of Two Wars Shot Down by Reds
Seoul, Korea—(U.P.)-Col. Walker M. Mahurim, who has destroyed 25 enemy planes in two wars, was shot down by the Communists during American Sabrejets' first dive-bombing attacks on North Korea Tuesday.
Mahirun was lost in one of the strikes on the Kunu railway yards, his third mission of the day. He reported by radio that he had been hit by anti-aircraft fire and did not think he could make it back.
It was not known whether he parachuted from the damaged plane. The 5th air force listed him as missing in action.
Library to Extend Hours
The Watson library will be open until 10 p.m. the next two Saturdays, May 17 and 24, C. M. Baker, director, said today.
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