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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 6, 1952
Taft and Kefauver Bank on Ohio Vote
Washington—(U.P.)—Sens. Estes Kefauver and Robert A. Taft banked on Ohio voters today to boost them back into the lead in the race for delegates to the Democratic and Republican presidential nominating conventions, respectively.
Democrats voted in two other states - Florida and Alabama.
Kefaufer, who pocketed Maryland's 18 delegate votes yesterday, faced his biggest test today in Florida where the Tennesseeee was pitted against Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.) in a "popularity" contest. Florida, which has 24 votes at the Democratic convention, actually will not choose delegates until May 27.
Russell, who has pledged that he will not bolt the Democratic party over the civil rights issue, won the first two rural precincts to report in Florida, getting 20 votes to Kefauver's 1. Florida voting was reported heavy.
in Ohio, Taft was certain of winning enough home-state delegates to recapture the lead from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in the GOP delegate contest. The largest United Press tabulation gives Eisenhower
Oil Union Denies Settlement Near
Denver — (U.P.)— Union officials representing 90,000 striking oil workers denied today that a new settlement reached in California would presage any nationwide agreement ending their six-day-old walkout.
And even though the union lowered its wage demands from 25 cents an hour to $18\frac{1}{2}$ cents, hopes for large-scale settlement were generally not encouraging.
O A. Knight, president of the CIO Workers International union, said the strikers would be agreeable to the lowered figure as a basis for settlements.
However, Mr. Knight said the "reported settlement (in California) has nothing whatsoever to do with the current nationwide strike of oil workers."
James J. Spillane, regional director of the U. S. mediation and conciliation service in Chicago, said union leaders in the Chicago area had given indications of their willingness to "bargain on a raise between 18 and 22 cents an hour."
The union involved is Local 100 of the Independent Central States Petroleum union and represents 7,000 workers at the Standard Oil company of Indiana's Whiting plant.
Ask Judge's View On Steel Strike
Washington —(U.P.)— Two Republican senators said today they want a clear-cut opinion from Federal Judge James P. McGranery on the legality of the steel seizure before they vote on his nomination to be President Truman's new Attorney General.
Sens. Homer Ferguson (Mich.) and William Jenner (Ind.) told reporters they are not satisfied with McGranery's generalized discussion of the President's seizure powers or his reluctance to discuss the steel case at this time.
Both senators are members of the Senate Judiciary committee, which is considering Mr. Truman's nomination of McGranery to succeed former Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. McGranery, a former congressman from Pennsylvania, was recalled for further questioning today.
Chairman Pat McCarran (D-Nev.) said he had no idea when the hearings would end or what other witnesses would be called.
But it appeared likely that McGranery's views on the legality of Mr. Truman's seizure of the steel industry would play a leading role in the future hearings.
288 delegate votes and Taft 273. A GOP candidate needs 604 votes to win the nomination.
Ohioans voted for 56 Republican delegates. Taft is assured of nine unopposed delegates. Former Gov Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota is contesting him for the other 47, but Taft is counting on a sweep. Eisenhower's name is not on the Ohio ballot.
Yesterday's Maryland primary victory was Kefauver's eighth and the 18 delegate votes he picked up ran his total to $88_{1/2}$ six fewer than Mutual Security Director W. Averell Harriman, most of whose $94_{1/2}$ votes are from New York. It takes 616 convention votes to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
News Briefs Feinsinger to Resign
Madison, Wis.—(U.P.)—Nathan P. Feinsinger says he will resign his post as chairman of the wage stabilization board by June 30. "I’m tired and need a rest," he said. "Washington is no health resort these days. I have already extended my deadline twice and the president won't ask it again."
Wasp Reaches Port
New York — (U.P.)— The crippled aircraft carrier Wasp limped into port today with 61 survivors of the destroyer-minesweeper Hobson. The two ships collided in mid-Atlantic April 26 in the worst peacetime disaster in modern naval history. The Wasp wallowed at anchor off Gravesend Point with a saw-toothed 75-foot rip in her bow.
UN Flvers 'Confess'
Tokyo—(U.P.)-Communist propagandists claimed today the United Nations are guilty of waging bacteriological warfare. They based their claims on the "confessions" of two American aviators. The airmen agreed with their Communist jailors they had dropped bombs filled with germs in flights over North Korea.
3 Killed in Bus Wreck
Ti Juana, Mex.—(U.P.)A bus loaded with persons returning from a Cinco De Mayo celebration spun out of control last night, killing three passengers and injuring 55 others many of them critically.
TV Soon to Cover U.S.
New York (U.P.)—All of the United States will be in a television range in four more years and international television will be realized in five years, RCA chairman David Sarnoff predicted today. Sarnoff said 16.-000,000 television sets are in use in the United States now and he anticipates 1,000,000 more will be added before the November election.
Airplane Crash Takes 11 Lives
Oslo, Norway—(U.P.)—A chartered Norwegian airliner crashed and burned on a mountain slope 120 miles southwest of Oslo last night, killing 11 of the 29 persons aboard.
Police identified the dead as eight passengers, all members of whaling crews returning from the Antarctic, and three of the four crew members. Ten survivors were injured seriously, but the remaining eight suffered only minor injuries.
First reports of the crash were given by six survivors who staggered into a mountain farm about 50 feet from the crash scene, near Dranredal.
Two thousand volunteers from Draggedal and adjacent farms were mobilized to bring the remaining survivors to a hospital.
Steel Production Near Normal Output
Across the nation blast furnaces and open hearths were back in production from the country's biggest producer, U. S. Steel, with its far-flung plants, down to the smallest operations.
Pittsburgh — (U.P.)— Steel production in the nation's mills neared normal today as CIO united steel-workers awaited the next move by union leaders in the stalemated wage controversy.
reached by the end of the week. Jones & Laughlin steel corporation, fourth largest producer, expected to reach normal capacity today. Primary rolling mills were producing, while some finishing mills, the final step in the restoration of production, were rolling steel.
U. S. Steel said all of its blast furnaces scheduled for production were in operation and all open hearth departments had started making steel. It indicated that normal production schedules would be
The American Iron & Steel institute declined to estimate production.
Union president Phillip Murray will report on "all developments" of the deadlocked wage dispute in Philadelphia tomorrow, preliminary to the opening of the union's biennial international convention
May 13. Approximately 3,000 delegates will hear Murray's report.
The convention will be the union's sixth regular convention. The last was held in Atlantic City in 1950. However, a special convention was convened last January 3 to accept President Truman's proposal that strike action be postponed pending a hearing before the wage stabilization board.
Film on Hawaiian Islands To be Shown in Union
"Paradise of the Pacific," a film about the Hawaiian Islands, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. today in the Hawk's Nest free of charge.
"To You of Who it May Be of a Concerned!!"
After The Downpour of Last Thursday
THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE
Senior Class Day Thursday, May 8
AT LONE STAR LAKE
The good Chancellor has requested that we take the full day off from rigorous duties of our school work.
HERE'S THE SCHEDULE—
8-11:30 - Sleep, party, sleep, party-study?
11:30 - Meet at Law triangle to assemble for a parade.
11:50 - Parade starts down campus.
12:30 - Leave for Lone Star - Buses will be provided for those who haven't benefited from the automobile age.
2:00 - Arrive at spillway of dam for tuq-of-war.
The lawyers refuse to accept the challenge of the engineers, so the men of Marvin will pull against any challengers.
3:00 - Softball game.
4:00-BAR-B-QUE-Here's a catch, it will cost you a dollar. Get tickets at the information booth or from a senior representative in your house.
9:00 - Leave for campus.
We invite all the seniors, their dates, the faculty who think they can withstand the ordeal, their wives, families and children.
SPECIAL NOTE TO SENIOR GIRLS: Please don't stay at home because you don't have a date. Be an individualist and come stag.
See you at the parade,
SENIOR CLASS DAY COMMITTEE