Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1954-04-15
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, The Weather Serving the State Cloudy and cooler today University of Iowa wlLh a poulbUib of shoWt!rs and 'hunder Campus and storms endlDl' early In 'be aliemoob. IU&'h today Iowa City owan 62. Low 48-52. FrIday, e at fair and warmer. Est. 1868 - AP leased Wire, Wirephoto - Five Cents Iowa City, Iowa, Thursday, April 15, 1954 ----------------------------------~--------~~~~---- BVrd Claims Promoters Profited FBI Enters I~vest;gation Big 3 Take -Final. Step To Build Of Lost ROTC Weapon j . ~ p ·f· ' From. Ex(ess , FHA -Insure d\ LOanStio~h~a~~~~~Jt:u~'t~n~~~~t ~:n~IsciP1inaryactionwastaken. All-lance Agalnst - Reos In aCI I gate the disappearance of an MI A more serious incident oc- WASHINGTON (.4")- Sen. Har- rifle from the Reserve Officers curred Oct. 3, 1950 when an arlTl¥ PARIS (JP) -Secretlll:y of ry Byrd (D-Va.) declared Wednes- Army-McCarthy Heal'ing Planned Training corps armory. Col. Walt- Ml ritle was taken from the ar- Dulles, Laniel Agree on Defense Dulles concluded Wcdncsday day that some housing promoters, er Sewell, professor and head of mary and not recovered until Thrcc agrcement to work operating on shoestrings or with m ili tary sCience' and ta c t"d'CS, sal eight days later. Th e weapon was Western Pacific defenseI'o.Tlnlurlls.nl no capital at all, got excessive go v- the weapon wru; taken during a located in a sorority house after against the spread of ernment-insured loans running in- drill period WedneSday. an intensive search by the FBI. The final step was to mlJlions and reaped fat profits. A complete inspection of aIL the An SUI student ROTC cadet joint issuance of a cOTJ:lfi.ninlqule He told the senate the hOUSing Dulles and French F orelgn rogram had been marred by ex- ROTCT d weaponsb 5 h was conductedd' was dismissed from the univer- ter G earge B'dI au It spa tli P ues ay y t army or mance sl'ty for the act. No federal action th ' I d h' a ravagance and irresponsibility "it e war ID n oc ma as t personnel and the weapon was ac- was taken t . 11 S th t not actual fraud and graft," and counted for at that time. 0 peace m a ou · eas 'd "crimjnal prosecution may re- Dulles' goal was a 10- sal The weapon was noticed miss- il·t 11 ' Ilk NATO suit" If evidence shows govern- m I ary a lance e . lng by a ROTC staff member dur- D II • -~. F II ment ofricials acted deliberately in lng a routine check of thc rifle HOIg h way AOd1 BOil1 u es ....,...eII or orne such cases. After the agrcement was racks. Would Give Iowa nounced, Dulles lett lor home lie Heau Committee Acen" Start InvestlraUon plane. He will rcport to Byrd Is chairman of the joint Sewell said agents Crom the Ce- $15,223,000 Income ~ise{lbower on, the succcss of committee on reduction 01 non- dar Rapids office of the FBI were mission in London and P aris. essential federal expenditures. The starting an investigation in an at- WASHINGTON (.4» _ lawai s Thc joint statemcnt by committee began a study of al- and Bldault guaranteed leged housing Irregularities last tempt to recover the weapon scheduled to reccive $15,223,000 France, Britain and the July, but Byrd complained Wed- which is government property. annuallY under an expanded pro- States would furnish a com Anyone knowing the whcre- . ncsday that his committee had abouls of the rille is asked to no- !p'am of fcderal aId for highways iront at Gencva when the been "denied the facts'" by the tify the military department, the passed Wedncsday by the house Eastern conference opens April government agencies concerned. The statement, similar to He said he would insist that Iowa City pollce or the FBI. and senate and scnt La the White announcement in London '"IIP""'" Director Albert M , Cole of the Army ROTC students drill with Housc. by Dulles and BriUsh Foreign housing and home finance agency rifles every Wcdnesday in the ar- Of the lotal, the state would be cretary Anthony Eden, was testify "under oath" to furnish the mary. If the weather permits, as granted $3 537 000 tor interstate CA P Wlrephoio) proved by France's Premier information Byrd sajd has been was the case Wcdnesday, drill is roads and the ;emaindcr for slatc JOliN FO TER DULLE , left, U.. secretary of state, chat!! with seph Laniel before it was withheld so far, "Merely dismiss- (AP WIrephoto' conducted outside. The weapon highways. French PrenUer Joseph Laniel at the laUer's office in ParIs Wed- public. PLANS FOR THE PUBLIC hearings nexl week belore ~e senate \ as probably taken while lhe ca id als" of some officials of the fed- v :. - Illjnois would receive $30,811.- nesda". In an a"reemen' announced In Pari. France joined Britain The statement sa that the . t' 'u lnvesUcations subcommittee of the McCarthy-army row were dis- dets were drilling outSide o!!iclBLs • .. I d h' ttl t d cral housmg admlOis ration WI cussed Wednesday by ae1.ln, chairman Karl Mundl (R·S.D.), rl,ht, said.' 000; Missouri, $19,643,000; Min- and lhe U•. In dealarin.... ... U WGuld examine the pos IbllUy of oreal- mh n hiPoc lOa 'flrea cne not meet thc situation, he a dd ed . n c sot a, $16,746,000i Nebraska, In .. & eoJlecUve defense In southea t Asia ''to assure the peace, se- t e woe aCI c area, ' ·tt d th &nd lef' to rlrnt, chlef counsel Ray Jenkins; aulstant counsel Solis ..... 1. In Id ts R -'-" k·... "I I I t' lth Bat h B yr d 5 commt ee an e .. v ...er c en epo<oeu $11,509,000; South Da ota, $8,769,- eurlty alld freedom of &hIs area," n c ose assoc a, Ion w senate banking committee headed Herwitz, Plttsburlh, Pa.. and Jtober' Collier, a chiel investlrator Similar incidents have occurred 000; and Wisconsin, $l6,012,000. - - --- interested nations, we wllI b h I H h t (R of the American B&r auoclatlon. th 'b'I't f yea rman' orner cape ill' - In past years, Sewell said. Last Thc compromise measure calls A EC E H d T T Ik 'm~ . e pOSSI' I I Y 0 estaO:USlun.,g;1 Ind,) have. announced plans for fall a rifle Will! reported miss- [or $966 miIlion a year for the X _ ea S 0 a wlthl~ the framework of the U~lt I forma,l hea~lDgs Into housing Irre.g- M C th W t D t 'ing after a mt>rnlng drill, but it two fiscal years starting July 1, cd Nutlons charter, II col1ecl1v€ ularlhes dIsclosed by the White C ar y an S a a was returned at I p.m. the same 1955. The CUTlcnt rate is 652"'~ A () h. P b def~nse to assure the p~aee, se House Monday. day by II freshman cadet. million annually through thc fiscal t ppen el mer ro e cUl'1ty and frcedom of thiS area. , Char,es Excess Loans 0 S · I T The stUdent told Sewell that year starting next July 1. Peace Depends on Unity I They Involve charges that ex- ROTC ' h d ' 'We recognize that our basic cessive loans were approved both n pec 1a reatment one of, hIS. .mstructors .o The senate approvcd the bill by WASHINGTON (,4» _ The two -- ective at the Geneva confer- lor apartmcnts and for home re- told him th~t an mfantry soldl~r voice vote a Ce',¥ haul'S after tbe former chairmen of the atomic he dropped his objections and got ence will be to seek the rc-estab- pair projects promoted by un~ WASHINGTON (IP)- Sen, Jos- never lets hIS rWe get ou~~ot hiS house voted ror ~t 134-9. energy commission, David E. LiIi- to work as soon as ex-President lishment of a peace in Indochina' scrupulous salesmen. eph McCarthy (R-Wls.) has asked play In the hearings. hands, ~o he took the capon The hou~e . orlginally voted Cor enthal and Gordon Dcan, will be Truman ordered work on the which will safeguard the freecfo~1 . Capehart said Wcdnesday he the Pentagon how many members McCarthy has relinquished his home Wlt~ him. H~ returned It an $875 mllhon, program and thc witnesses [or the defense in se- bomb startcd in January, 1950. of its people and the independenc I will ask $250,000 to finance his of congress and government ofll- chairmanship and his right to vote, when a frIend told hIm that a rl- (lCnntc upped .thls to $l,020,.000,OOO. curlty hearings for atom sclentist Presidcnt Eisenhower has or- of The Associated States. We ar I committcc's probe, which will in- ciaLs have requested "special as- fol' purposes of this inquiry, but !fIe had been stolcn from the ar- The 066 mUlion, cOTP~omlse was J. Robert Oppenheimer. dered all secret data withheld convinced that the possibility 0 clu<je a chec;]< 017,000 rental hous- signment and treatme~t" of serv- it hasn't been scttled whether he mory. 5 d R j d ~eachcd by a , s~na e-r o~scE , con- Lilicnthal, WOo ncadcd the (rom Oppenhcimer and the Am<!, obtaining this objective depends ing projects built with FHA-in- Ice men and women since the be- will withdraw completely (rom the t~ enl epr Iftasnde "d heren:e com~'~ e~ a ~el , Ise~- commission from ILs start in 1946, as iI result, has sus pended him as upon our solidarity." !ured mortgages.