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Communist Riots Kill Two in Tokyo
Tokyo—(U.P.)—Communist inspired riots celebrated May Day in Tokyo and Kyoto today with an outburst of violence that killed two persons and injured more than 500 others, including scores of
At the same time, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, "nominal" boss of the industry under government seizure, held a private White House conference with President Truman and Charles S. Murphy, special counsel to the President.
The nature of the conference, in which acting defense mobilizer John R. Steelman also was believed to have taken part, was not revealed.
The government is appealing federal judge David A. Pine's ruling that Mr. Truman's April 8 seizure of the industry is illegal.
The nine-man Appeals court, in a 5 to 4 ruling last night, temporarily restored government control of the industry pending the government's appeal to the Supreme court.
Washington — (U.P.) - Steel companies asked the Appeals court today to forbid a government-imposed wage increase, and acting Attorney General Philip B. Perlman said the request probably kept striking steel workers from returning to work this morning.
Perlman promised that "nothing will be done" by the government on changing wages and working conditions in the industry before 4:30 p.m. EDT, tomorrow—the deadline set by the Appeals court for the government to appeal its case to the Supreme court.
Today the steel companies returned to the Appeals court and asked it to modify its stay order to forbid any wage increase by the government while the steel mills are under federal control.
Court Hears Steel Appeal
The court immediately began hearings on the request.
Marines Watch Atomic Explosion
Mt. Charleston, Nev.—(U.P.) -An atomic device, dropped from an Air-Force bomber, exploded high above Yucca Flat proving grounds today as more than 2,000 battle-hardened Marines huddled unafraid in foxholes only 7,000 yards away.
The blinding explosion came a 10:30 a.m. CST, 48 hours behind schedule and after the history making Marine atomic maneuvers had been twice postponed by bad weather.
Seconds after the nuclear explosion shot a huge fireball, plus the familiar mushroom cloud, high over the desert test center, the cocky Marines climbed from their professionally carved foxholes to begin an assault on mythical Yucca Island.
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Berlin — (U.P) — Ten thousand shouting Community youths crossed the zonal boundary into West Berlin today and clashed with police in a bruising battle of clubs and firehoses, stones and fists.
Three hundred thousand Communist demonstrators marched in columns through downtown Tokyo, stoning and clubbing Americans, overturning their automobiles, and shattering windows in U. S. Far East Air Force headquarters.
Thirty-one of the demonstrators were arrested.
The youths marched across the border carrying banners and red flags and shouting "down with Adenauer (West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer)."
Police, attempting to break up the "peace" demonstrations, battled the youths for 30 minutes.
It was the first May Day violence in this divided city 100 miles behind the Iron Curtain.
The Tokyo riot cost the life of one policeman and injuries to 30 others. One rioter was killed, two were reported killed, and an estimated 300 rioters were injured.
Surging throngs estimated from 260,000 to higher than 350,000 rampaged through the streets after listening to violent anti-American speeches by Communist leaders.
An angry mob hurled two American sailors into the Imperial palace moat and stoned them as they struggled in the water. They crawled out with the crowd jeering and shoving at them. One of their wives was mauled.
Meanwhile about 500,000 other Communists rallied across the border in East Berlin in what was billed as a "fighting day" for German unity on Soviet terms.
A three-hour battle in Kyoto between police and demonstrators waving red flags caused injuries to 51 policemen and an unknown number of rioters. Seventeen rioters were arrested.
Tension was heightened by Tuesday's attack by Soviet fighter planes on an Air France airliner in an air corridor outside Berlin.
Pan American World Airways pilots, concerned about a possible repetition of the incident by Soviet pilots who might be trigger-happy on holiday vodka, met in Frankfurt to discuss a possible 24-hour stoppage of flights into Berlin. However, they decided against such an interruption.
Policemen, Reds Battle in Berlin
Reds Expected to Give Reply Tomorrow to U.N. Truce Plan
The U. N. promptly agreed to the meeting. It will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow (8 p.m. today CST).
Pammunjom, Korea—(U.P.)—The Communists asked today fear a full-scale meeting of truce delegations tomorrow, presumably to give their reply to a United Nations plan to end the Korean war.
The Allies assumed that the Red proposal for a meeting tomorrow meant that the Communist delegates had completed talks with their governmnts at Pyongyang and Peiping—and perhaps with Moscow—and have their answer to the U. N. proposal ready.
The Communist reply well may not be either a direct rejection or acceptance. Under similar circumstances in the past, the Reds have come up with a compromise offer which so closely parallels the allied plan that the U. N. has seen the way clear to accept it.
The truce meetings have been recessed at Communist request since Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, chief U. N. delegate, on Monday handed North Korean Gen. Nam II a proposed "over-all" solution to the armistice deadlock.
This face-saving device enables the Communists to claim that the Allies have accepted their proposals.
In any event, the Communist reaction to the U. N. plim probably will determine whether an early armistice is possible.
Terms of the U. N. proposal have not been disclosed, but it covers the stalemated issues of a prisoner exchange, the right to build airfields during a truce and Russia's eligibility to serve as "neutral" truce inspector.
Daily Kansan
49th Year, No.139
860,000 Workers Strike, Crippling Major Industries
Strikes by 860,000 workers today crippled the steel, oil, communications, transportation, construction and utilities industries.
Temporary control of the steel industry was handed back to the government by the split decision of a nine-man Appeals court in Washington.
A pessimistic attitude shrouded negotiations in the strike of some 90,000 oil workers as supplies, especially gasoline, showed the first signs of becoming short.
The next move was up to steelworkers President Philip Murray. If he refused voluntarily to call back his 650,000 striking steelworkers, the government said it would seek an injunction forcing him to do so.
On other strike fronts, 40,000 lumber workers in the Pacific Northwest went on strike against 700 logging and sawmill operators in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, northern California and western Montana over increased contributions to their welfare fund.
The coalition of 22 AFL, CIO and independent unions stuck firmly by their demands for a 25-cent hourly wage increase plus higher swing and graveyard shift differentials.
The contracting unions agreed to accept the association's "final offer" of a 15-cent hourly increase paid in two equal stages of $7 \frac{1}{2}$ cents immediately and a similar boost Sent. 1.
A scattering of "improved" offers were reported at the widely-scattered oil bargaining sites. Some were as high as 15 cents an hour, but the union turned them down.
The council feared the turnout would be small if the voters had to walk to the polls.
A strike by 2,000 truck drivers in Milwaukee. Wis., halted all shipments of food into the city except perishables.
However, the strike of 12,000 AFL carpenters in four San Francisco bay area counties went into its 29th day with little hope for an early settlement.
Washington— (U.P.) —The U.S. Court of Appeals today refused to bar the government from increasing steel wages until the Supreme court acts on the steel seizure case.
Bus transportation in seven western states was hampered by the longtime walkout of Pacific Greyhound employees. Other bus walkouts continued against Continental-Santa Fe Trailways and bus lines in eastern Massachusetts.
BULLETIN
There were no immediate prospects of a settlement of the strike by 30,000. AFL. telegraphers. against Western Union. And three Western electric plants in North Carolina were idled by the walkout of 5,000 CIO communications workers.
A scheduled walkout of 1,200 Dallas, Tex., bus and street car operators was postponed 24 hours at the request of the city council in an effort to get out the vote in a $50,-000,000 bond issue.
A five-day strike by AFL dairy workers in Duluth, Minn., was ended with the signing of a new contract. The walkout had cut off almost all fresh milk to the 250,000 residents of Duluth and Superior, Wis.
A scheduled midnight walkout by seven AFL building trade unions against the Des Moines, Ia., Master Builders association was averated by only a few hours.
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An otherwise dark labor picture was brightened slightly by a scattering of settlements.
Thursday, May 1, 1952
'MR. FORMAL'
Stalin Views Forces At May Day Parade
Moscow — (U.P.) – Premier Josef Stalin reviewed Russia's military and air might today at a May Day parade dedicated to preparedness against Anglo-American "imperialist aggressors."
Stalin, standing with other Politiburo members atop Lenin's Mausoleum, acknowledged with a vigorous waving of his arm the cheers of some 100,000 spectators packed into Red square.
It was Stalin's first public appearance since the meeting of Russia's Supreme Soviet (parliament) last March.
Charles Stough, Lawrence attorney, will speak for Eisenhower and Cliff Stratton, Topeka newsman will represent Taft.
The club's annual picnic April 14 will be discussed, and a convention report of the Kansas Collegiate Republicans clubs will be read.
Lawyer, Journalist Discuss Candidates
Taft and Eisenhower forces will clash in a debate before the Young Republicans club at 7:30 p.m. today in 106 Green.
Don Stephenson Hits Jackpot As 'Mr. Formal'
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with scattered showers and thundershowers in east portion tonight. Little change in temperature. Low tonight 40 northwest to upper 50's southeast. High Friday in 80's.
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Stephenson will receive the "Mr. Formal" jackpot of prizes including a complete "After Six" summer formal outfit. He is automatically entered in the "Mr. Formal U.S.A." contest, competing against "Mr. Formals" from about 100 other colleges and universities throughout the United States.
The prizes given to Stephenson included a pair of black shoes, a formal shirt, two steak dinners, two passes good for one month at the Granada and Patee, a cigaret lighter, and a dozen roses for his date.
The final judging was held Tuesday at the University Shop. Judges were Coach Bill Easton; Lt. Col. Jim Hausman; Jeannine Neihart, education senior; Connie Maus, college junior; Jonell Ashcraft, college junior, and Sydney Ashton, education senior.
Donald Stephenson, business senior and a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, has been chosen "Mr. Formal" at the University.
Each member of Stephenson's team will receive a beer mug emblazoned with the KU seal.
Kennev. Lovellette to Speak
Also in the contest were Frank Emery, Richard Mercer, George Warren, John MacCormack, Albert Mulliken, Kelleam Childers, William Thorne, Nelson Perkins, Ray Slavic, Willim Beydler, Donald Sight, Ted Barbera, James Hoefener, Courtney Sloan, Duane Unruh, Dean Owens, and John McGillev.
Each had been chosen by his team as the man with the best appearance in the "After Six" dinner jacket in the preliminary judging.
The final judging of "Mr. Formal U.S.A. in New York will be pre-
pared in the panel of prominent person-nalities in the fashion and en-
tertainment worlds.
Prizes in that contest will include a $500 savings bond, an expense paid week in New York, and a Hollywood studio audition.
Bob Kenney and Clyde Lovelle will be the speakers at a meeting of the Dorsey-Liberty Post No. 14 of the American Legion at 8 p.m. today in the auditorium of the Municipal building.
Mr. Gordon has been economic advisor in Washington and China to the Chinese Supply commission. He was in charge of the ECA China program while ECA was in operation, and later was chief of their overseas territory division of ECA mission to France.
David Gordon to Speak At Teachers' Meeting
Dr. George B. Smith, dean of the School of Education, will extend greetings to the group from the University at 10 a.m. Students, faculty, and the general public are invited to attend. A discussion period will follow Mr. Gordon's speech.
David L. Gordon, director of the European division of the Mutual Security agency, Washington, D.C., will speak Saturday to the Kansas Council of Social Studies teachers about "The Foundations of Mutual Security."
The Social Studies Teachers meeting will open with registration at 9:30 a.m. in the old Journalism building.
Mr. Gordon is bringing films with him from Washington. "Project for Tomorrow," a story of the rebuilding of Austria, "Bull's Eye for Farmer Pietersen," built around mechanized farming in Holland are two films he will show.
"Cornish Canal," describing the help given by America in rebuilding the canal and telling the importance of it in the Greece program will also be shown by Mr. Gordon at 1:30 p.m.
The annual business meeting of the Social Studies teachers will take place at noon. Election of officers will be held.
About 50 teachers are expected to attend.