THURSDAY, JAN VARY 10, IUMS HST Pros WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 k ze)—President Truman said today that within the next decade the nation can achieve a 500 billion dollar annual economy with every family having an income of at least $4OOO a year. He said that minimum of spendable income should be the target for "a basic American standard of living for all." The 500 billion dollar output of goods and services would c compare with 345 billion now. As for fam ily income, Truman said that in 1951 about 40 per cent of all American families had spendable income of less than $3OOO. In a 15,000-word message to Congress—his seventh and last economic repo? Truman sai that despit some faint alari signals which is "none too ear] to n e," t h prospect isft continuing "ui paralleled pro: perity" throug: out 1953. But the presi- Pres. Truman dent cautioned that once defense spending begins to taper off, the gravest threats since the end of World War II may confront this country's eco nomic stability. Specifically, he said 1954-56 will bring "serious" threats of a slump. And he said that in the bigger economy we have now, a recur rence of the great depression of the 1930 s "could mean some 20 million of our workers walking the streets." On Capitol Hill, Truman's mes sage drew barbed expressions of sarcasm from some Republican lawmakers. Democrats contended the 'message showed Truman has set the country "on the -right track, with a sound prosperity," and that any setback would be the fault of the new. Republican administration under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Sabres Bag Biggest Kill Since Sept. 4 SEOUL, Thursday, Jan. 15 (?P) —U. S. Sabre pilots scored their biggest air victory in four months Wednesday, repor ti n g they knocked down eight communist MIGs and shot up possibly 11 more over Northwest Korea., The Fifth Air Force said the jets damaged at least three others. One probable destruction and six damage claims are pending con firmation. It was the Sabres' biggest vic tory in North Korean skies since Sept. 4, when they sent 13 MIGs crashing to the ground. 30 Sabres vs 38 MIGs The Reds' late afternoon ap pearance broke six days of rela tive quiet in MIG Alley near the Manchurian border. The MIGs appeared only after the Air Force had leveled another crushing 150- plane assault on the battered bridge complex north of Sinanju. Then, returning Sabre pilots re ported. MIGs "popped up every where." About 30 Sabres took on 38 MIGs in swirling dogfights just south of the Yalu River .on the Manchurian border. Jet ace Capt. Leonard Lilley of Manchester, N.H., downed his -seventh MIG in one of the clashes. The latest fighter-bomber raid against Sinanju was the ninth heavy attack in six days on the vital bridge and rail hub which funnels Red supplies from Man churia to the front lines. More than 1,100 Allied warplanes have hit, the target since last Friday night. Several of the bomber pilots reported intense flak during the strike despite previous attacks against Red anti-aircraft guns in the bridge area. Ten more ground guns were damaged by the first wave of fiifhter-bombers. ROKs Ford River One reconnaissance pilot said he .didn't see "a single thing that is usable" in the Sinanju area hit by the fighter-bombers. On the ground, South Korean soldiers forded the icy Nam River on the Eastern Front, killing an estimated 26 enemy troops in a series of scattered clashes. West of the Mundung Valley on the East-Central Front, Allied soldiers holding thr e e outpost positions beat off three pre-dawn probes, killing and wounding an estimated 60 Chinese in battles lasting up to two hours. Other Allied troops fought off the Com munists in the below freezing temperatures along the front. The Defense Department in Washington announced an in crease of 191 battle casualties since last week, raising the total U.S. losses in Korea to 128,721. The new casualties included 48 killed in action. Poly Sci Group To Elect Officers The Political Science Club will elect. new officers at a meeting at 7:30 tonight in 319 Willard, Richard Floum, president, has an nounced. Those members of the club de siring charter membership in Pi Sigma Alpha, national political science honor society, may sign at this meeting. Requirements for membership in Pi Sigma Alpha are a 2.0 politi cal science average and a 1.5 All-College average. Poultry Club Meeting New officers will be elected and students in the poultry hus bandry short course will be en tertained at the Poultry Club meeting at 7 tonight in 108 Plant Industries. Sees ...,.:,-e.r Siate Attempts Murder Proof , BEAVER, Pa., Jan. 14 VP)—The state is expected to disclose some if its evidence for the first time tomorrow at a hearing on charges Mrs. Katherine Smutko mur dered an Ambridge girl four years ago. Special Prosecutor Charles J. Margiotti said the state will at tempt to prove the 41-year-old housewife from nearby Harmony Township, killed 15-year-old Mar garet Bankowski. He declined to reveal his evi dence against Mrs. Smutko or the• suspected motive. Mrs. Smutko, who denies the charge, indicated she will ask for a lie-detector test in an effort to clear herself. , Summerfield Is ppr ov ed By Post Office Committee - WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (W)—Arthur E. Summerfield was okayed for the job of postmaster general by the Senate Post Office Com mittee today. He was the first of President-elect Eisenhower's Cabinet choices to win committee approval. Summerfield, a prosperous Michigan automobile dealer who headed the Republican National Committee during the presidential campaign, .met with members of the post office committee briefly behind closed doers. . Afterwards Chairman Carlson (R-Kan.) told reporters Summer field's nomination had been ap proved unanimously. Eisenhower is anxious to swear in all nine members of his Cab inet on inauguration day, next Tuesday They will have to be confirmed by the Senate on Tues day to make this possible. Republican and Democratic leaders in the Senate have agreed to hold a series of committee meetings in the next- five days to pass on all the nominees and have committee recommendations ready. for Senate action Tuesday. Actually Eisenhower cannot rnit the names of his Cabinet ers to the Senate until af ter he is sworn in as president. THE DAILY COLLEGIU'iN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Tito Elected; Dissenter Discovered BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Jan. 14 (JP)—Marshal Tito became the first President of Communist Yu goslavia to the cheers of Parlia ment today, but learned he - has a secret enemy among the na tion's lawmakers. Operating under a new consti tution with a secret ballot, Parlia ment elected the stocky former partisan' fighter and postwar Pre mier to the presidency by a vote of 568-1. Tito was the only candidate. In making their decision, the lawmakers had three choices They could vote "yes," "no," or abstain as they filed one by one to deposit their folded ballots in boxes sealed with red wax. There was no immediate way of determining the identity of the lone dissent- er. That question was a major topic of discussion around coffee houses and street corners of Belgrade tonight. Parliament recessed until, some time next month after electing an unopposed 44-member federal Ex ecutive Council which will serve as the country's chief adminlstra tive -body. The council replaced the exist-., ing parliamentary presidium. This represented a revision of the or iginal plan to increase the powers of the presidium and turn over to it affairs handled in the past by the cabinet. Philadelphians Take to Trains As Buses H&t PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14 (M Pliiladelphians were late for work and later for dinner today as they :jammed railroad trains, formed .car pools. rode taxicabs and took advantage of relaxed ' parking regulations to make up for the loss of their main means of trans- Meanwhile, leaders of the CIO Transport Workers both , local and inter national squabbled among themselves over the walk out. Michael J. Quill, interna tional president described the strike against the Philadelphia Transportation Company as "wild cat and illegal." Paul O'Rourke,. local 234 pres ident, said . the union member ship did not think the final PTC offer was enough. "Therefore . . . we will earnestly strive to secure better hours, wages and working conditions for the membership so as to end this disastrous strike," O'Rourke said. Meanwhile the Senate has agreed to proceed informally. A similar arrangement made it possible for the late President Roosevelt to swear in the members of his Cab inet on inauguration day in 1933. 00000 oe 00000 •••••a•oo••••a•eseeo 000000 •o o • _ . • • Your O,K. . • • :. • . is our reward. You say you like top quality food? • • • Then put your stamp of approval on Roan's satisfying • a sandwiches. Bring the gang '..n today. o • • , • 0 , 6 • . 9 • A. Favorite4oo E. College A Hangout 9 ..„ fv . . . ~ . Avenue a o••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• FBI Will Investigate Ike's Key Nominees WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (JP)—The Senate's new foreign relations committee announced today it will require an FBI field investiga tion of all persons nominated for key positions in the State Me.; partment. It also decided to establish a subcommittee on security affairs to investigate the effect of "totalitarian techniques of espionage, sabotage and subversion" on I American foreign policy. Chairman Wiley (R-Wis.) said the subcommittee would be em powered as well to look into charges that disloyal and subver sive persons have infiltrated into the U.S. diplomatic service and American personnel at the United Nations. Investigate Dulles These decisions, arising from criticism of State Department se curity policy in recent years, ap pear. to be line with what John Foster Dulles himself plans when he takes over as secretary of State. Soon after he was selected by President-e lect. Eisenhower to head the State Department, Dulles said he had . asked J. Edgar Hoov er, head of the FBI, to investigate "my life . and record." "There is going to be no taint of suspicion about the new State De partment," Dulles said at that time. "That goes for top, bottom and all in between." Dulles is scheduled to appear before the Foreign Relations Com mittee at 10 a.m. (EST) tomorrow. The committee will pass on his nomination to be secretary of State and make a recommendation to the full Senate, which must confirm the appointment. The Ihearing will be open to the public. Will Not Impinge Wiley said this is the first time the committee has ever required full FBI investigations for persons nominated to be ambassador, min isters or similar high diplomatic officials. . Wiley said the new security subcommittee would not impinge on probes now under way, such as that being made by a Senate internal security subcommittee into the loyalty of American per sonnel at the UN. If the group undertakes any investigations, he said, it will confine itself to the foreign field. Meanwhile Sen. McCarthy (R- Wis.) named Republican members of his Senate investigations sub committee which will dig into charges of corruption in govern ment and Communist activity in the U.S. Marshal Tito Acheson Sees EDC Despite Big Roadblocks , WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (R')— Secretary of State Acheson pre dicted at a farewell news con ference today that the European Defense Community will come into being despite formidable ob stacles. Terming movements toward Western unity "the real vital force in the mid-20th century," he said that the French and Ger man delays in ratifying the EDC treaty were only a setback and a slowdown. He acknowledged that the EDC, a six -nation, program for pooling European mi lit ar y strength, faces dificulties. But he listed some of the major steps toward unity which have been taken since the Marshall Plan was submitted less than six years ago at a time when Europe was "almost approaching disaster," Included was •the..S c.h um a n Plan for pooling coal and steel resources which he said is ''pro foundly changing the attitude: - of mind of all people in the si— countries and outside who are af fected by it." PAGE THREE Communism's Threat Studied By Ike, Chiefs NEW YORK, Jan. 14 (W)—Presi dent-elect Eisenhower and his for eign strategy chiefs conferred to day on the global threat of com munism—but gave no hint wheth er any policy decisions we r e reached. The private meeting lasted three and one half hours. Advance word from Eisenhower aides that the session would deal with global aspects indicated the Korean War and Western Euro pean defense buildup were among the topics discussed. Attending the ' meeting were . John Foster Dulles, who will be secretary of state; Charles E. Wil son, who will be secretary of de fense; Harold E. Stassen, who will head the Mutual Security Agency, and Walter Bedell Smith, Central ' Intelligence Agency chief who will be under-secretary of state. Reporters saw Wilson after ward, but he declined to comment. On a less momentous topic, Ei senhower's headquarters said he will dispense with the traditional top hat and tail coat at the in auguration ceremonies. Instead, he will wear a black. Homl3erg hat and short black coat, striped morning trousers and striped tie. Sen. Charles W. Tobey, New Hampshire Republican, visited Ei senhower this afternoon and later told newsmen that the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee which he heads might investigate New York-New Jersey waterfront racketeering. "It's a national scandal, a na tional disgrace," he said, referring to conditions brought to light in recent hearings of the New York State Crime Commission. Non-Stinging Bees? CHICHESTER, En 'land. Jan. 14 (JP)— Anew strain of non stinging,• non-swarming bees has been developed by artificially in seminating queen bees under an anesthetic. The bees, known as strain No. 58, were developed for use in '::eekeeping instruction for chil- !ce Cream Conference Six • leaders in the ice cream industry will speak at the annual Ice Cream Conference closing the two-week ice cream course for plant men Jan. 23. /QPVIRRNEII**6 • CattateedAN ESTHER WILLIAMS in !WILLEM DOLLAR MERMAID" C *Ari t Damon Runyon's "STOP YOU'RE KILLING ME" BRODERICK CRAWFORD GARY COOPER IN "HIGH NOON"
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