PAGE FOUR ..• .e.,' . . ~. ~ , ',.'•` ',. ~.".• '''" ‘", -%. •I` ,I "Alh S ..i. '• , :3•.;,,,-.'?..` . . „ 4.. 4: , 2 -,-' : ~0 .. '.:,.'. ' 'l ;` . ',• '4 . ,75 ~:.. ~.', •• es 4,„ • : I '(. ali • i • .•t - 1. • . 44 5 I •' ,4 V ~.. •,, . ~ • • :. ... ! , {.. : " ..Pl. it '. ..,;i e.;N . , ~ i ~..,.:,. ,• , .2.4., /....5, . . . . • ...... I , i . .:: 11.6 . :',Y i ~ . 1 ...... ‘, ur • iv,... 0 • :,..:. " ~ ...q. • ler.v.f ,T „.,,,,•. v,,, k 4„. , Awe •\. ..., , • : . • UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Sept. 17 Secretary of State Dulles urged the Rus sians today to change their policies and co-operate for world peace before it is too late. He told the Eighth UN Assembly in a policy declaration approved by President Eis enhower that the need for new avenues to peace never was so great, since scientists have found means which "can wipe life off the surface of this planet." He obviously was referring to the hydrogen bomb and other atomic weapons. Britain, France Cut Bank interest (bate LONDON, Sept. 17 (A 3 )—Britain and France opened bank vaults a bit wider to their businessmen today to arm them in the fight for world markets. In a move brimming with confidence in Britain's present finan cial state, Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. Butler slashed the bank rate from 4 to 3 1 /, per cent. Across the channel the nationalized Bank of France, which sets the pace of French financial ac tivity and insures most loans made by other French banks, followed with a similar cut from 4 to 3 1 A per cent. Lower Product Prices This means 1. Money—that is the British pound sterling and the French franc—is cheaper and easier to. get at. 2. Manufacturers who want to borrow cash from banks to ex pand their plants, buy new ma chinery, and make other invest ments will now pay a lower in terest rate, which will permit them to - sell their products at lower prices. The cut means cheaper goods both at home and in the export markets, where every penny on the price tag is important. Easier Borrowing What the British Treasury did today—in banking - language—is to cut by half of 1 per eel - I'the minimum rate at which the Bank of England will discount ap proved bill of exchange. The British industrialist —or private householder will ha v e to pay less interest on the money he borrows. All money deals in Britain are ultimately pegged to the bank rate. Bank loans for newlyweds to set up housekeeping, deposit rates, mortgages, building finance company rates are all exepected to be cut, in line with the Treas ury move. Conservatives Hike Rate The cut reflects the Churchill government's satisfaction with re sults of a "scarce money" policy it adopted upon taking over con trol of the country from the La bor party in October, 1951. The bank rate, then 2 per cent, was immediately increased to 2 1 / 2 per cent as an interim measure to ward off "national bankruptcy," Churchill said then. Six weeks later it jumped to 4 per cent as part of the Conservatives' plan to squeeze out inflation. A Bank of England spokesman said that, while' the new rate does not mean any substantial change in the tight money policy 'of the last 18 months, "it is hoped it will stimulate production for ex port at competitive prices." Polio Outbreak 'Not AI 0:r SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 17 (M Dr. D. A. Santarsiero, county med ical director, today assured re gional residents "there is no cause for alarm" in view of the scat tered outbreaks of poliomyelitis in this area during the past few months, but Municipal Hospital authorities took special precau tions to meet a possible emer gency. Dr. Santarsiero also declared that an ample supply of gamma globulin, the antipolio inoculation serum. "has been and will be available to those who require it." His sta l / 2 m.:::- , E; came as Munici pal Hospit , r;Tics announced the admis• :an ce their 24th polio patient this year. See Interpreting the News by J. M. Roberts, Jr. on page seven idMv.c. - Ca rth y Th rette -,. s 1 yid restsNc NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (JP)—Sen. Joseph,R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) tan gled with two witnesses today in his probe of communism, angrily threatening to cite them for con tempt or perjury. • One witness, Julius Reiss, an American employe of the Polish delegation to the United Nations, answered a question which' Mc- Carthy thought . represented . a changeable attitude, and the sen ator finally said: "I will ask the committee to cite you for contempt or perjury. I'm getting sick of this. You are not going to abuse the privilege to cover up a conspiracy." A few hours later, McCarthy be came angry at one of two lawyers who had refused to say whether he was a communist. "In my opinion," he told news men, "the attorney's action was a clear case of contempt, and I hope the full subcommittee will cite him. I do not anticipate any diffi culty in getting a contempt cita tion." Reiss took the witness stand at a morning session of McCarthy's Senate permanent investigations subcommittee, which is probing Communists in the UN. The ses sion was open to the public. Reiss had been identified by another witness as a former Com munist party organizer. He re fused on constitutional grounds however, to say whether • or not this was so. f *4.l l e C y, 2,. 4 :: S 47. t- • _ er . • R• K iii ti. 1, k ;iii'``; iv% • O A , , 4. c•-'1 • .6. • 444; WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 VP)— The government tonight disclosed for the first time its official list of the 193 American cities which are rated as' probable targets of atomic attack. It named 70 "criti cal" target areas, including cen ters of industry and the nation's capital. The Federal Civil Defense Ad ministration issued the list—six weeks after Russia reported its mastery of the hydrogen bomb 7 to' spur the nationwide home de fense effort. The announcement came just two days after city legal officers, at a conference here, reported that some cities are considering aban donment of civil defense programs because of "inadequate" federal support. I The critical targets listed to embrace a population of G?, 0,982. The list supercedes one adopted, THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA He pledged that the United States will do its part for peace in the same spirit it asks the Russians to adopt. About 100 hatmen met in Old Dulles further told the Russians and the world in his 37-minute ad dress that the United States is not "exporting revolution" nor incit ing others to violence. Some key delegates said Dulles apparently was trying to calm the fears of the Russians and of some American allies that the United States might promote armed revo lutions in satellite countries and bring on a world war. Soviet Dele gate Andrei Y. Vishinsky will an swer Dulles, perhaps late this week. "Our hope is that the Soviet Communist leader, before it is too late, will recognize that love of God, love of country, and sense of human dignity always survive,"? Dulles said. He accused the Communists of being dilatory a b out arranging the Korean peace conference which, under the terms of the Ko re an armistice, should c o n vene before Oct . 28. He indicated that there is doubt whether the Com munist sidereally wants to with draw forces from Korea and create an i n d ependent Korea, He made no ref erence to a pro- J. F. Dulles posal .by Adlai Stevenson, Demo cratic presidential candidate in 1952 for the Eisenhower admin istration to take the initiative and seek new talks on worldwide arms reduction. Instead, Dulles said the United States is standing on proposals for arms limitation put up by the United States in previous assem blies. He called for an accelera tion of the study of limitation and control of all categories of arma ment. Vishinsky was extremely af fable after the Assembly ad journed, indicating that Dulles had said nothing that angered him. He was asked whether he regarded the Dulles speech as an overture to peace. He replied, "No, it takes two sides." but never made public, on Feb. 4 of last year. The defense agency sent the 1952 list only to governors and to state and city civil defense directors. Tonight it requested that all copies of the old list be destroyed by burning. The new document adds three "critical" targets to the old one: Bing hamton, N. Y., Evansville, Ind., and the Wilkes-Barre-Hazel ton area of Pennsylvania which has grown industrially. All capitals of state territories and possessions are named, but not as critical targets unless they are industrially important. Other cities having 50,000 population or more are grouped in the non-criti cal, bracket. The 70 critical areas are cities or population centers classed as standard metropolitan areas, each having at least 40,000 manufactur ing workers and at least one city with a population of 50,000, to gether with its closely-linke4 sub urban areas. Washington, D.C., was inclucl - 2d "because of iiq portance as the nation's capital." Accuses Corrimunists Vishinsky Friendly Capitals Named Carlson Proposes Cent Mail Rate • WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (JP)—Sen. Carlson (R-Kan) today tossed out for public reaction the idea of increasing the intercity postal rate on letters to five cents and sending most of them by air. Carlson, who heads the Senate Post• Office Committee, told a news conference that such a boost would bring in about $330 mil- Ferguson Claims Adlai Backs Red Appeasement CHICAGO, Sept. 17 (W)—The Senate Republican policy chief, Sen. Homer Ferguson of ,Mich igan, charged today that .Adlai E. Stevenson's proposals for cold war peace negotiations with Russia represent "appeasement" an d "softness toward communism." Furthermore, Ferguson told a news conference, he thinks he fairly well represents the think ing of the entire Republican par ty on that. Thus the GOP, on the eve of party conferences looking toward strengthening their narrow mar gin of contro in Congress in the 1954 election, began booming a counter-barrage against attacks cut loose by the D'emocrats at their own party rally here earl ier in the week. Ferguson will be keynote speak er at the Chicago conclave of Re publican women and state chair men from the Midwest and near by regions. It is difficult to "discover," he said, "exactly what Adlai Steven son is advocating, but anyone who has read the speech will have to admit that the old softness to ward communism which has mar red his wing of the Democratic party is still with us." While he was at it, the senator told questioning reporters: 1. The budget can be balanced and taxes be cut by the end of next year—and without a sales tax. 2. Defense spending will have to be trimmed, along with pay rolls, but this can be done through improved efficiency of operations. 3. The "mess in Washington" required some wrecking. That was a slap at former President Harry S. Truman's contention the GOP has turned a "wrecking crew" loose in the country and it is up to the Democrats to keep the nation and the world off the "road to ruin." 4. Democratic charges that President Eisenhower has brok en campaign promises to farmers won't stand up. 5. Instead of what Stevenson termed "government by post ponement," the GOP is provid. ing better government by re organization and improved per- 1 formance. • The critical list includes Albany-Schenectady - -Troy, N.Y.; Allentown, Bethlehem-Easton, Pa.; Binghamton, N.Y.; Buffalo, N.Y.; Canton, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio. Dayton, Ohio; Erie, Pa.; Lan caster, Pa.; Philadelphia, Pa.-N.J.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Reading, Pa.; Rochester, N.Y.; Syracuse, N.Y.; Toledo, Ohio; Utica-Rome, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.-Md.-Va.; Wheel ing-Steubenville, Ohio- W. Va.; Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton, Pa.; York, Pa.; Youngstown, Ohio-Pa. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1953 lion more revenue a year. That would go a long way to ward wiping out the Post. Office Department deficit, he sai d, which was estimated at $450 mil lion for the current fiscal year ending next June 30. The 5 cent expedited service is under consideration by an eleven member advisory council to the Senate Post Office Committee. Carlson heads the council; the ten other members are citizens representing various classes of mail users. Eliminate 6 Cent Air Mail The proposed. 5 cent letter rate would apply only to mail moved from city to city. Within a city, it would stay at the present three cents. The new rate would be a pen ny less than the, present 6 cent air mail rate, which would be eliminated under the plan. Carlson said the proposal calls for all Mail moving an average of more than 400 miles to go by air. That should mean overnight delivery everywhere in the coun try, he said. The rate would be five cents outside the boundaries of the local post office whether the mail moved by' rail or air. Rail Cut Small The senator said the plan would mean a 62 per cent increase in mail tonnage moved by plane but that the airlines could handle it easily. On the other hand, Carlson said, the proposal would cut total rail road revenues only two-tenths of 1 per cent and their mail pay ments by slightly more than 7 per cent. Campbell Fired For Opposing Health Plan HARRISBURG, Sept. 17 (4 3 ) Dr. Russell E. Teague, state health secretary, disclosed today he has fired Dr. J. Moore Campbell, dep uty secretary, for refusal to sup port the department's county health unit plan. Dismissal from the $10,890-a -year :job, said Teague, took effect Sept. 15. "He (Dr. Campbell) refused to support the policy of the health department, the governor, t h e legislature and the medical so ciety on county health units," Dr. Teague said. The 1951 Legislature set up a program designed to consolidate Municipal health units on a coun ty by county basis. So far only one county—Butler—has put the new plan into effect. Dr. Camp bell was known to be vehemently opposed to the idea. Dr. Campbell, 72, described the county health program as "wast ed motion" and added that it would be "much too slow" in get ting under way. "My objection is this—if you are going to have a county health department it will be a hodge podge. We have been get ting along with the previous sys tem and Pennsylvania still shows a wonderful record as far as pre ventive medicine is concerned." "Only five or six other states," he added, "have been able to complete statewide organization of county health units." Adenauer Stails Vacation BONN, Germany, Sept. 17 (/F) —Chancellor Konrad Adenauer left today for a vacation in the German. Black Forest.
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