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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
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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.
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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.
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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.