WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1954 Ike Requests Cut In Military Budget WASHINGTON, Jan 5. (JP)—President Dwight Eisenhower has invited four members of the Senate and House Appropriations Committees to sit down with administration offi cials in an unprecendented move to shape a reduced military budget. For perhaps the first time in history, the chairmen of the two full committees and•the chairmen of subcommittees concerned with armed services funds will have a hand in help ing decide on the President's recommendations before he sends them to Congress. 498 Missing In Korea Listed Dead WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (IP) The long period of waiting passed with still no word, and,the Army today announced as "presumed dead" the names of 498 men who have been missing for more than a year in Korea. For relatives, the notification they received in the last several days may have brought one final heart twinge. But it could only make final the growing feeling they must have had that hope now must be abandoned for the husband, or son, or brother from whom they had heard nothing for so long. The Army told them it could not say when, or .how, the men died, but "in view of the lapse 'of time without information to support 'a continued presumption of sur vival" it has listed the men dead as of Dec. 31, 1953. Yearning to Grab Bags of Money Called Normal WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (AP) Don't be alarmed if, whenever you see a large stack of money, you have a sudden yearning to grab it and take it with you. And don't be surprised if, when ever someone else does grab it and take it with him, you may have, in spite of your better train ing, a tiny feeling of admiration. Dr. Winfred Overholser, super-. intendent of St. Elizabeth's Hos pital and a famed psychiatrist, explains it this way: "The acquisitive instinct seems to be fundamental in human na ture. You know what the Bible says, that money is the root of all evil. "I think you have the same feeling when you pass a bakery with all those nice smells. For a moment it's hard to resist the impulse to grab a loaf and start eating. Of course, nearly everyone does resist. "We have to have a certain amount of control of our acquisi: tive instincts, even though they're the basis of what we call getting on in the world." Does anyone, ever lose control and grab the money impulsively? "Occasionally a man who has led a life of probity suddenly gives in and commits a criminal act. Reward is Raised For Mine Vandals PHILIPSBURG, Pa., Jan. 5 (!P) —An additional $5OOO reward was offered today for the apprehen sion of those responsible for re cent dynamitings at strip mining operations in the state. The reward, posted by the Cen tral Pennsylvania Pit Mining As sociation brings to $15,000 the amount offered. Bradford Coal Co. of Bigler and the Howard Coal Co. of Philipsburg put up $lO,- 000 after their coal tipples in Clearfield County were damaged extensively by dynamite blasts Dec. 14. Damage was estimated at $50,000. , 'Juno' Tickets on Sale Tickets for Players' "Juno and the Paycock," at Centre Stage this weekend, are on sale at the Student Union desk in Old Main for $l. Performances will be given at, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the •arena theater, Hamilton av enue west of S. Allen street. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA I Sens. Styles Bridges (R-N.H.) and Homer Ferguson (R-Mich.) l and Reps. John Taber (R-N.Y.) and Richard Wigglesworth (R- Mass.) have been asked by the President to go over the proposed "new look" military, program with top administration officials be fore it is incorporated in Eisen hower's Jan. 21 budget message. 'They will sit down, possibly late this week or early next week, with Budget Director Joseph M. Dodge, Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, Deputy Secre tary Roger M. Kyes and Adm. Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Bridges and Taber, who head the Senate and. House Appropria tions Committees, both are on record for balancing the so-called cash budget in the fiscal year be ginning next July 1. This would mean that spending would be brought into line with the Treasury's cash income—in cluding about $3 billion collected for various trust funds and not I listed as revenue on its book keeping budget. The latter bud get' still would be three billion in the red. Eisenhower has been represen ted as being determined to attain this goal and members of Con gress said this would mean sub stantial cuts in the $42 billion level of military spending in the current year. Eisenhower is said to have stressed, in discussions with Re publican congressional leaders, a changed' military concept which would put greater emphasis on new weapons and expanded air power and less on manpower. Miss Monroe Still in. Frisco HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 5 (JP)—Mo vieland's mystery of the moment —where's Marilyn Monroe? —brought this flat statement to day from her renresentatiye: She's still in San Francisco. He said he talked with her by telephone today. Presumably she's staying with the family of her friend, Joe Di- Maggio, former heavy-hitting cen ter fielder for the New York Yan kees. In San Francisco, DiMaggio told a reporter that he and Marilyn have not been married and he added: "We're neither confirming nor denying our marriage in the fu ture. But if it occurs I'll issue a statement for everybody." Former Red Gives Data to Senators NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (2?)---Two senators said today they got names an d other information from Igor Gouzenko during, a sec ret five hour interview with the former Russian code clerk. "What are you going to do with it?" Sen. William E. Jenner (R.- Ind.) was asked of Gouzenko's data. "Use it for the internal protec tion of the United States," Jen ner replied. Gouzenko helped smash a Sov iet spy ring in Canada in 1945 af ter he had deserted the Russian Embassy in Ottawa. Jenner inter viewed him in hopes, he might furnish leads on American spies., With Sen. Pat McCarran (D.- Nev.), Jenner went to Canada to question Gouzenko on behalf of his Senate Internal Security sub committee. The two senators talk ed to reporters in New York dur ing a stopover on their return trip by train to Washington. Sad Father Helps Solve gold Theft WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (?P)—An anguished father set police on the trail of his daughter and her husband today—and within hours the Secret Service nabbed the couple and recovered $128,300 of the $160,000 whiked from the Bureau of Engraving and Print ing under the noses of armed guards. Held as the' chief figure in the bold, unprecedented New Year's Eve theft was a long-trusted bu reau employe, James Rufus Lan dis, 29, a Negro. His pretty bobby soxed wife Mamie, 2G, whom he married when she was 14, also was charged with currency theft. A neighbor who lives in the same apartment house, William Giles, also a Ne gro, was picked up later in a Washington tavern and held as an accessory. The baffling disappearance of the $160,000 in new $2 bills from the heavily guarded c ur r e n c y printing plant was solved through a heart-rending 5 a.m. telephone call from a Fauguier County, Va., farm where Mamie Landis' fath er, Irving Grant, is a servant. His story, blurted out to Vir ginia State Trooper S. S. Sacrist, was stark and simple: he had "a big pile of Treasury money" in his tenant house. And he was "scared to death." Jet Crash Search Still Unsuccessful HAMPTON, Va., Jan. 5 (W)— Although two new oil slicks have been sighted in the area of a jet crash Monday, neither the tran sient pilot nor the wreckage of his FB6 Sabrejet were located today, Langley Air Force Base authori ties reported. First Lt. Charles R. Raugh, 24, an Air Force pilot en route from Griffiss Air Force Base, Rome, N.Y., to Florida, stopped at Lang ley to refuel. He took off at 6:30 last night and crashed approxi mately four miles northeast of the base. Jenner told reporters "Names were mentioned, but under our agreement we cannot discuss it." The Canadian government, in granting permission for the inter view, stipulated it alone would decide what, if any, information furnished by Gouzenko could be made public. Jenner said he wants to study the transcript of the Gouzenko hearing and then probably Will make a formal request to the Canadian government to release all or part of the information. For the present, however, he added: "We entered an agreement and .we must abide by the ground rules. A great deal of good was accomplished." The senator said of Gouzenko: "Mr. Gouzenko has a very good mind and •appeared in good spir its." President Seeks Two-Party Backing WASHINGTON, Jan. , 5 (./P)— President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave Democratic congressional leaders a preview , of his foreign and defense programs today in a bid for two-party backing on these key issues in the new legis lative session opening tomorrow. The Democrats left the White House with polite pleasantries and a dozen different ways of saying "no comment." Eisenhower sketched over for them only the parts of his State of the Union message on foreign policy, foreign aid and national security. All these are fields in which there has been sizable em phasis on a bipartisan approach in the past. The Democrats got no look at presidential plans for handling such potentially explosive domes tic problems as taxes, social se curity, budget balancing, farm and labor questions, Hawaiian state hood, and a proposal to limit treaty making powers. In a Congress with almost even voting power between the two major parties, Eisenhower is go ing to need some Democratic help on those programs, too. Eisenhower will outline his pro gram publicly, in general terms, at least, when he personally de livers his State of the Union mes sage to Congress Thursday. Many of the details will be left to later messages on specific parts of the program. Area May Have Snowfall Tonight Although more snow in the State College area is a possibility for tonight it is not a definite prediction, a Meteorology depart ment spokesman said yesterday. Skies will be cloudy throughout the day, he said. The department estimated yes terday's snowfall at two to three inches. - 7.\\ L. : X ( 1 1 i, : ~~ 1 BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY Br COCA.-COLA BOTTLING CuI:4IPANY OF ALTOONA "Coke" is a registered trade-mark. Meeting Asked To Fix Confab Of Ministers BERLIN, Jan. 5 (?P)—The west ern allies proposed to day that Big Four representatives meet Thursday to fix a site and other details for the impending foreign ministers' conference in this So viet-encircled city. The United States, British and French high commissioners dis patched a note to Soviet High Commissioner Vladimir S. Sem yenov asking that Russia name a man to confer with their Berlin commandants on the technical ar rangements. They suggested some specific place to Semyenoy for the "little Big Four" session, but did not an nounce their choice publicly. Al lied spokesmen refused to name the place. Union Chiefs Fail To Oust Wage Tax PITTSBURGH, Jan. 5 (JP)—Un ion leaders got a flat "No" today from Mayor David L. Lawrence and city council to reject the pro posed wage tax. Representatives of the CIO, AFL, United Mine Workers and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen met with the city ad ministration for 4 1 / 2 hours. The union delegation proposed a four-point program of its own to cope with the city's financial crisis. Besides the millage increase of 5 mills on land and 2 3 / 2 on build ings, union leaders proposed: Transfer of the city Health De partment, the zoo and aviary and the Carnegie and the North Side Libraries to the county.. © 1954, THE COCA-COLA COMPANY PAGE TTTRE'E
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