THUR:SDAI'', MARCH 26, 193 Gives Okay A0...,:-.).',-,;.,5410en0p Ike To WASHINGTON, March 25 (iP)—President Eisenhower proposed today to give Secretary Benson blank check auth-, ority to reorganize the Agriculture 'Department and its far flung field agencies. The' purpose, lie said,,is to 'cut costs and simplify operations in farm aid programs. , Senator Taft (R.-Ohio) quickly forecast" congressional approval. He told reporters the plan closely follows recommenda tions made by the Government Reorganization Commission led by former President Hoover. Eisenhower's proposal was ad vanced in the form of a reorgan ization plan for the department, submitted to Congress by th e White House. Such a plan. goes into effect automatically in 60, days unless either the House or the Senate vetoes it. It could go into effect earlier by affirmative action of both houses. The, plan would give the de partment three assistant secretar ies instead of the present one, plus an- administrative assistant secretary to aid Benson. The big department now has 54,000 full time employes and the assistance of about 95,000 farmer committee men who peiform admihistrative tasks on a part-time basis. Administration aides speculat ed that the two new assistantships would go to John H. Davis, at present; president of the depart ment's Commodity Credit Corpor ation, and Romeo E. Short, di 'rector of the department's foreign agricultural service. They also predicted that the post of admin istrative assistant would go to Richard D. Aplin, presently as sistant to the secretary. The pres ent assistant secretary of agricul ture is J. Earl Coke. Eisenhower's message to Con gress said Benson had avised him that the new assistant secretar ies, and the administrative assis tant would imply replace existing positions and would "not result in• any net increase in personnel." He said the - secretary also had told him that "both the number of officers and the employees in the office of the secretary and the ag gregate of 'their salaries will be less than those existing prior to Jan. 1, 1953." Draft May Ease Off After Call in June WASHINGTON, March 25 (FP) —Draft balls may taper pff to 37,000 -men a month or less after June, , --the—Defense Departnient said today. The Current monthly rate is 53,000. • A Pentagon spokesman ex plained that prospects of a re duced• draft call were based on estimates that only 450,000 men will be required in the fiscal year starting July 1 to replace soldiers whose two years of service are ending. • . t Mayer Arrives In Washington WASHINGTON, March 25 (iP)— Premier Rene Mayer of France and leading members of his gov ernment arrived in. Washington today for a round of talks which are expected to produce a French request for increased military aid against the Communists in Indo china. The French delegation, num bering more than 30, was met at the National Airport by Vice Pres ident Nixon, Secretary of State Dulles and other American digni taries. In an exchange of greetings, Nixon said the talks opening to morrow will not only assist in solving mutual problems "but will serve the cause of peace through out the world." Mayer, replying, said the Uni ted States and France are fight ing side by side in Asia to ad vance the cause of freedom: "We are confident we will, like you in Korea, reach victory in- Indo china with the 'participation of the peoples of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia," the Premier stated. Churchill Eulogizes Queen Mary on Air LONDON, March 25 (W)—Prime Minister Churchill termed Queen Mary a figure of almost legendary distinction in a broadcast tribute tonight as the Royal Household prepared for her funeral Tuesday. "Queen Mary was loved and re vered far and wide, as perhaps nobody has been since Queen Vic toria," Churchill said in an ad dres to the British Commonwealth which was heard also in the Uni ted States. "Men and women of all ages, in all the lands owing allegiance to the crown, have sorrowing hearts tonight." The Queen, who died last night at 85, moved easily through the changing scenes from the Victor ian to the .atomic eras, he said, and she lived to See the British crown "far more broadly and se ---1v based on the peop'.e's love lot e man star has as many smash hits e you know you'll be seein g mendous when he surpassis he does now! For t his all-time lustiest vin'est Warner Bros. DONNA REED • COBURN THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA of loin did it! CHARLES, • r te ~ :~` World at A Glance La Presna Publisher Dies After Long Illness BUENOS AIR ES, Agrentina, March 25 (R)—Ezecluiel Pedro Paz, former publisher who was felled by a paralytic stroke Sept. 30, 1943, died today without knowing the Peron government had seized his famed independent newspaper La Prensa. He was 82. Newspapers supporting Presi dent Juan D. Peron ignored Paz' death. He had been bed-ridden and in such a condition that in timates never told him of the loss of the newspaper he had com mitted to the direction of his nephew, Alberto Gainza Paz. Four Dead Women Found LONDON, March 25 (2?)—Scot land Yard detectives tonight pried open, scraped and examined every inch of a grimy house of murder that has yielded the bodies of four scantily clothed women. Three of the victims were young. All were poor and work worn when the killer struck. - Post-mortem examinations dis closed that three, found walled up in a pantry yesterday, were stran gled, presumably several months ago. Detectives today/ recovered the body of the fourth—a woman of undetermined age—from under the floorboards in the small front room. UAW Reelects Reuther ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., March 25 (W)—Walter P. Reuther, who first won the CIO United Auto Workers presidency as the upshot of a factional feud here in 1946, was re-elected unanimously today to his fifth straight term. and the nation's will than in the sedate days of her youth." "Queen Mary will long live mel low and gracious in all our memo ries and in the annals of these tumultuous times," Churchill said. "We pray that she may now rest in peace." A private funeral will be held for her Tuesday in St. George's Chapel of Windsor Castle, for cen turies the final resting place of British kings and queens. The regal old Matriarch, who died last night just two months short of her 86th birthday, will be buried in the chapel beside the body of her husband, King George V. who died in 1936. Their son, King George VI, is among others who lie beneath the ancient stone floor. Queen Elizabeth decreed only a month's court mourning. Ma, 11••' .L.3;?'•K :f dL ~~' ~~'>?' CC~"%.S`,"v ~"' BEGINS FRIDAY! Bohlen Appointment Vote Is Postponed WASHINGTON, March 25 (JP) The Senate today postponed a vote on President Eisenhower's nomination of Charles E. (Chip) Bohlen as ambassador to Moscow amid signs of 'stiffening opposi tion by asmall Republican-dom inated group. Senate Republican Leader Taft of Ohio made the decision to de lay the showdown until Friday when it became clear the debate would keep the Senate far later than its usual quitting time. Leading off the administration's drive for confirmation, Taft told the Senate that Bohlen is "a com pletely good security risk" and that even Bohlen's bitterest crit ics had never accused hi m of Communist leanings. As the hard core of the opposi tion, Senators Bridges (R.-N.H.) and McCarthy (R.-Wis.) hotly de nounced Bohlen as a supporter of the old Truman-Acheson regime, while Sen. Lehman (D.-N.Y.) ex pressed his "indignation" at the attacks on Bohlen. Lehman, in a speech closing de bate Jar the day, deplored what he described as tactics which 'fill men with fear -and make them afraid of self-appointed, self-des ignated defenders of the security of the United States." The New Yorker said Bohlen had bene "pilloried on mere ru mor," and he told the Senate: "There has never been a blem ish on his record. He has served his country with great ability and unswerving devotion." Then, turning on McCarthy, Lehman accused the Wisconsin senator of making "indefensible charges against a great American, Averell Harriman." `lt is an outrage," Lehman said. "He (McCarthy) virtually accused him (Harriman) of being sym pathetic to the Communist cause." Lehman's outburst apparently stemmed from McCarthy's asser tion that Harriman, former am- The Penn State Thespians, RO ERTA The popular Broadway musical comedy. One of Jerome Kern's Best.. . Hit Songs -- •Smoke Gets in Your Eyes •Lovely to Look At •Touch of Your Hand . . . and many more See Roberta, Packed with Gags, Laughs, and the Beautiful Dancing Girls IFC WEEKEND ENTERTAINMENT THURS., FRI., SAT. EVENINGS and SATURDAY MATINEE Schwab Auditorium Family of Ten, Crash Victims, Buried Today WASHINGTON, N.J., March 25 (IP)—Five small white caskets and five bronze coffins bearing the broken bodies of the Matlock fam ilyvictims of the nation's worst single -car_ traffic accident were lowered into the grave today. Seven hearses slowly wound their way. from a funeral home in this rural community to two Warren Coiratty cemeteries. Matlock, his wife, Alma; two sons, three daughters, two sisters and his mother—all riding in his new automobile—lost their lives in the collision of the car and a giant trailer truck on Route 69, not far from this hamlet. More than 2000 persons visited the Devoe Funeral Home to mourn the family over the weekend and early this week. The driver of the- truck that collided with the Matlock car, John Scarantino, 21, of Scranton, had been passing a truck on a curving downgrade - when his trailer-truck smashed headon into the Matlock car last Friday night. bassador to Moscow, started Boh len "along the road to fame and Yalta." _ . THEY SAY: "Very Good. Great Story Behind It." —DON MALINAK . • TROUBLE ALONG THE WAY 111 CATHAUM FRIDAY Present For Your PAGE THP'IE
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