FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1953 European Defense Encouraging - Du lies BONN, Germahy, Feb. 5 (#>)— Secretary of State Dulles will tell President Eisenhower on his return from Europe. that. he is “very encouraged” at prospects that the six-nation European army project will be rolling within two or three months. ’ ■ Dulles reached this conclusion during talks at this vital point on a European tour designed to infuse new life in the stalled project. . He has found that West Germany’s Chancellor Konrad Adenauer , and Italy’s Premier Alcide de Gasperi are standing firm fori the European defense scheme. He is also convinced the. new French government of Premier Rene Mayer is determined to push it a balky Parliament. "And, in addition, he has been assured that Prime Minister Chur chill will throw his full weight behind it. This summary of Dulles’ con viction after visiting the four chief West European capitals was given newsmen tonight by a high American' source. In his- talks here today, Dulles warned German political leaders, as'he did the British, that the United States will not continue its pfesUnt scale of economic and military aid unless there is con crete progress in increasing the European defense army in the next 75 days. •Dulles told the Germans firmly —both. Chancellor Adenauer and his'political opposition—that the American people and government this project to rearm West Germany’ within a European de fense. front as the real solution of. the European problem. :Oh his arrival here at noon from London with MSA Director Harold Stassen, Dulles said in a fprlnal statement that the “only way”, for West Germany to find security is to rearm quickly and join up with its neighbors in the continental army. Adenauer applauded. But So cialist Chieftain Erich Ollen hauer, chairman of the. powerful opposition, demanded that the ar my treaty be scrapped and some other means, be found through a grand alliance to include Brit ain and Scandinavia. The Socialist counter-proposals were discussed by Dulles and Ol lenhauer, in a 55-minute “confer ence. Top Priority Given Price Lift on Food .• WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (/P) —The government today gave top priority to lifting federal price curbs on restaurant meals at the outset of an expected flood of decontrol orders. Officials said an order will probably be issued tomorrow ending price controls on meals' served in half a million restaurants and other eating places from coast to Coast, Officials declined to -speculate on what effect the order might have oh restaurant prices. V The industry does, a 12 billion 'dollar business annually. v Earlier in the day; the govern ment scrapped price controls on an estimated 17,800,000. autos of pfe-1946 vintage in the first mar jor decontrol action since Presi dent Eisenhower said he wants-, wage-price controls to die. The immediate future of wage controls remained up in the air. The White House announced Eisenhowbr will meet tomorrow with CIO President Walter Reu thfer and acting President David J. McDonald of the CIO Steel workers Union presumably to discuss wage curbs. White House Press Secretary. James C. Hagerty told newsmen Reuther and McDonald had asked to see the President, and Eisen hower replied, “Of course.” The announcement came a few hours after Reuther disclosed he had urged the Eisenhower admin-, istration to order an immediate end to all wage controls. The CIO leader wrote Presi dent Eisenhower that applications for wage boosts involving hun dreds of thousands of workers are noiy. stalled before the Wage Stabilization Board. And ■ the board, he said, has “virtually ceased to fUrictioh.” *The White House remained si leht on the exact timing of an expected executive order to wipe oukwage; controls. Some officials looked for? the order within ,48 hours, along with a directive for step-by-step ending of price curbs'. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Eden Declines. View On Formosa Action .LONDON, Feb. 5 (£>)— Foreign. Secretary Anthony Eden Re clined tonight to “defend or justify” President Eisenhower’s action in deneutralizing Formosa, but he told worried Britons he was sure the United States has no aggressive intentions. Eden addressed a growling opposition and restless Conserva tives in the House of Commons. x He spoke after Herbert Morrison, the foreign secretary in the for mer Labor government, had voiced fear that there might be “considerable consequences” from President Eisenhower’s action. Morrison suggested that Eisen hower’s orders to the U.S. Sev enth Fleet no longer to restrain any Nationalist Chinese attacks from Formosa upon the Red Chi na mainland might result in Chi ang Kai-shek’s being trapped on the mainland and appealing for help, or in the British Navy being involved with Nationalist Chinese gunboats trying to enforce a blockade. He declared there was a “real risk that there might be major trouble, between Communist mainland China and the forces of the United States.” He said Americans’ “profound emotional hatred of communism” was lead ing them into a display of “bad temper and loose policy.” As Morrison spoke accusingly, Prime Minister Churchill sat slumped with his hands in his pockets and eyed him truculently. “I am not defending or justifying the policy,” Eden said in reply. “But we must examine it and see how these people Americans feel.” Buckiiell Coed Hunt Spreads .LEWISBURG, Pa., Feb. 5 (£>)— The search for a Bucknell Univer sity coed who left the campus on a weekend pass seven days ago ■spread to Florida tonight. Gordon Hufnagle, Lewisburg police chief, said the father of Jacqueline Jane Mengoni, 18, of Trenton, N.J., told him he had asked police at Tallahassee, Fla., to be on the lookout for the girl. Hufnagle quoted Joseph L. Men goni, as saying there was a pos sibility that she might have gone to Florida with the brother of a classmate. Hufnagle added that in addition :o touching off a 13-state police search his local force had combed ;he Lewisburg. area without suc :ess. . . NEWMAN CLUB . Informal Party (OPEN HOUSE) Friday, Feb. 6 Theta Kappa Phi 8:00 p,m. flew and Old Students Invited! Bulletin Russia Will Join In Austria Talks LONDON, Feb. 5 (#■)—Rus sia has agreed to join the Big Three Western Powers tomor row in new talks on restoring the independence of Austria, it was announced officially to n'aht. But the stage setting indi cated the talks likely will de velop into nothing more excit ing than a wrangle over an agenda. In agreeing to attend, Rus sia's ambassador in Britain, Andrei A. Gromyko, made it plain he would not discuss a short form treaty of eight arti cles the West has proposed. Britain, France and the United States, on the other hand, made it clear they would • feel free; to discuss any relevant sub ject, including the abbreviated treaty they have offered be cause of inability to all four to agree upon a complete treaty. Allied Planes Hit Communist Base SEOUL, Friday, Feb. § (/P)—Al lied fighter-bombers T h u r sd a y wrecked a big Communist base, rained destruction on front forti fications and bombed a steamer at Chinnampo, port of North Ko rea’s capital of Pyongyang. More trouble for. Red air power appeared in the night skies. It has just been disclosed that both the U.S. Air Force and Marines have sensational new night jet fighters which have been shooting down enemy planes in Korea. Aground, there was nothing but patrol skirmishes as the Eighth Army awaited arrival of its new commander, Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor. Ctoctffcmm ALEC GUINNESS "THE PROMOTER" Midniie Show Toniie Marilyn Monroe "NIAGARA" sm JENNIFER JONES CHARLTON HESTON "RUBY GENTRY" OlMmm LANA TURNER "THE MERRY WIDOW" FERNANDO LAMAS 3000 From AMSTERDAM, Feb. 5 (IP) —A fleet of vessels under six flags, aided, by a swarm of helicopters, rescued 3000' marooned Dutch is landers today from the North Sea floods harassing Holland, England, and Belgium The operation on Goeree-Overflakkee Island, in the heart of the flooded Dutch lowlands southwest of Rotterdam, was the dramatic highlight of the day that saw the rescue phase largely completed .even as the three-nation death toll mounted to 1889. Sea-going craft of the United, States, Britain, France, Belgium, West Germany and Holland joined in removing. the 3000 from the waterlogged buildings and broken dikes “of the twin towns of Oude and Nieuwe Tonge. Fifteen hundred of these refu gees—men, women and children had spent four horror-filled nights on a section of dike that threatened to 'dissolve into the sea at any moment. Small boats and helicopters worked as guides and auxiliaries in assembling the refugees and speeding them to warmth, food, and shelter. The rescue fleet started its work in the night even as a North Sea gale churned up fresh trou ble for some coastal dwellers and threatened a sharp expansion of economic losses already tataling uncounted millions of dollars. Tides driven by 50-mile-an hour winds gouged several new holes in Holland’s dikes. There was a-fresh break in the Belgian dikes at Lillo, near Antwerp, and the last road between those two cities was submerged. Debris of Sunday’s storm —furniture, tim ber, books, mattresses—was flung back on England’s shore. British fears, however, that the Ouse River would flood, proved ground less, The river banks held under the pounding of currents five feet above normal. Benson Sees No Alarm In Farm Price Decline WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (JP) The Eisenhower administration does not intend to be stampeded into emergency action because of recent declines in farm prices, Secretary Benson said today. The agriculture secretary, at his first news conference since taking over the Cabinet post two weeks ago, made plain he saw no cause for alarm on the farm front. Dutch Rescued Flooded Island New York Waterfront Tieup Seen :new york:, Feb. 5 up)— a small harbor strike blossomed in to a full-fledged waterfront tie up today and President Eisen hower was asked to intervene. Thin picket lines were thrown up by striking tugboat crewmen and AFL longshoremen-' refused to cross them to unload ships. The Commerce and Industry As sociation of New York, Inc., call ed the tieup a threat to interna tional trade and asked President Eisenhower to try to end it, thus confronting him with the first crisis of his new administra tion. Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri’s office said fuel oil supplies that normally come into the city by water are “growing short.” Other essential-stocks were reported adequate. Eighty-three of New York har bor’s 143 piers were sealed off. Ocean liners inched in without tugs, a • hazardous job that al ready has sent two ships slashing into their piers. ■The 3500 tugboat men struck Saturday in a wage dispyte. But longshoremen, fellow - unionists with them in the AFL Interna tional Longshoremen’s Associa tion (ILA), stayed on the job un til today. There were signs of revolt, however, within the rackets-rid den ILA at President Joseph P. Ryan’s order for a full-scale wa terfront tieup. PAGE THREE
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