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World News Capsules - Senators Demand Study of Fees Paid in Lucrative Tanker Deals Compiled by Lee McGary (Compiled from the wires of Associated Press and United Presn) 'I wo Republicans demanded Tuesday that senate invesi find out what fees, if any, went to Ncwbold Morris’ law fnin for its work in "Kct-rick-tjuick” tanker deals. Sens. Karl 1\. Mundt (K S. I).j and Richard M. Nixon (K nl■) also demanded that Morris he called to testify, before the senate's permanent investigating committee closes its pub lic hearings on the tanker deals. Morris, New York lawyer, was recently appointed to head Presi dent Truman’s drive to clean up corruption in the government. The demands came us the committee resumed Its public unraveling of the corporate maze through which former Hep. Joseph E. Sasey (D-Mass.) and his associates made huge profits on the purchase, op eration and sale of eight surplus government tankers. A senate investigator said Tuesday that a group headed by Casey was offered a $150,000 "present'’ to turn over an Interest tn three surplus tunkers to u corporation financed chiefly by a Rationalist Chinese organization. Casey defended his big-profit operations in surplus tankers as "a real public service.” lie told the Senate investigating committee he Is not ashamed that iJie ami his associates made some $ii,800,000 in less than three years on one deal. He said they had to borrow almost $10,000,000 and put up $100,000 themselves to do it. He also said they were aiding the Maritime commission in the sale of extra tankers. Two 10,000 ton tankers broke in half. . . . . Monday In the midst of a violent northeast gale and snowstorm that took at least 30 lives on land in New England. Kivc and possibly six seamen were drowned in high seas off Cape Cod Tuesday as the Coast Guard attempted to rescue crewmen trapped aboard the drifting remains of an oil tanker. The men were lost when they leaped into the sea from the bow of the tanker Fort Mercer in a futile attempt to reach life rafts floated to them from the Coast Guard cutter Yifkutat. Thirty-two men were plucked off the icy stern section of the tanker Pendleton, six miles from the scene of the other wreck. The captain of the Coast Guard cutter McCulloch said there was no other sign of life on the bow section of the Pendleton, indicating that the captain and six others including three mates and a radio operator probably had perished. ♦ ♦ ♦ "Flying Discs" have been sighted over Korea. . . ... by crew members of two United States bombers, said air force officials Tuesday. Top officials have ordered a full investigation of the reports, which came through regular military Intelligence channels. A spokesman said the objects were described by four eyewitnesses as globe-shaped, bright orange in color and emitting an occasional flash of bluish light. The air force, which has thrown cold water on hundreds of previous "flying saucer" stories, apparently was impressed by the circumstances under which the new sightings were reported by its own personnel. The nation's first hydrogen bomb. ... will be tested at Kniwetok atoll this spring, said highly-quali fied sources Tuesday. There was no official confirmation, but it was learned that the con gressional Atomic Energy committee has called top Atomic Energy commission officials to a secret meeting Thursday to report on progress in carrying out President Truman’s two-year-old directive to build an H-bomb. Hydrogen bombs, unleashing the same elemental fury displayed in the burning of the sun, theoretically could be built 1000 times as power ful as present A-bombs. Universal military training opponents rejected. . . ... Tuesday, as "preposterous,” claims of UMT backers that the plan in full swing woud save $13,000,000,000 yearly in defense costs. A 27-man majority approving the bill, recommended in a full report filed with the House clerk Monday that UMT be launched on a small scale as soon as possible and expanded rapidly. Once it is going full blast, the group said, the armed forces can be cut from 3,700,000 men to 2,000,000. Rep. Paul W. Shafer (R-Mich.) said Tuesday, "They just grabbed those figures from the air.” Shafer was one of seven members of the house armed services committee who voted against the UMT bill. ♦ ♦ ♦ The Big Three foreign ministers. . . ... reached agreement Tuesday on all "outstanding issues" barring the way to West German participation in Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's European army. An offical comminque announced the agreement and American sources said Secretary of State Dean Acheson was confident that all major bars to speedy establishment of the European army had been removed. These important developments were accomplished in London, Paris and Libson: 1. The ministers agreed to give West Germany an indirect voice in North Atlantic pact affairs and also agreed to lift all direct controls on German war production. 2, The U.S. and Britain pledged to stick to their previous decision to maintain armed forces on the continent even after a European army is created. . 3 The North Atlantic Treaty organization council deputies in Lis bon completed a draft agreement which would commit U. S. forces to West Germany's defense if she were attached. Wednesday, Feb. IS, 1952 5:0fl p.m. Piano Moods 5:15 Guest Star 5:30 World News 5:45 Sports Shots 6:00 Table Hopping 6:15 Music In the Air 6:30 Foreign Student Inter view 6:45 International Visitor 7:00 (Question Panel 7:30 Mood Music 7:45 Campus Personality 6:00 Campus (lassies 9:00 Serenade to the Student 10:00 Anything Goes 10:50 World News 10:55 Tune to Say Goodnight 11:00 Sign Off Schmitt and Brown Write Western Another boon on the Old West has been written jointly by Martin Schmitt, curator of special col lections for the University library, and Dee Brown, librarian at the University of Illinois college of agriculture. Their current book, "Trail Driving Days,” was released Feb. 18. "Trail priving Days” is a pho tographic history of the cattle in dustry during the period after the Civil War. Collected from many sources, it contains numerous con temporary comments about trail end towns, cowboys, and cattle drives. Like Brown and Schmitt's first book, "Fighting Indians of the West,” published in 1948. this book is filled with old illustrations and photographs. A review of "Trail Driving Days” can be found in the Feb. 18 issues of Time and Newsweek. The book is in the University library and the Co-op. Movie About Ivan IV Will Be Shown Sunday "Ivan the Terrible” will be shown in the Student Union in the Student Union ballroom Sun day at 2:30 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. The movie, which now stands as a monumental work of art, is about Czar Ivan IV of Russia. It is directed by Sergei Eisenstrin, and stars Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Zharrov. Admission price is 30 cents. A University of Texas profes sor, doing research in South America, finds that the population complains of inflation. . . like pay ing 15 cents for a haircut and 10 cents a pound for sirloin. CAMPUS CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20, 1951 Noon Inter’! 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