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.
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FERNANDO LAMAS
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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.
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