THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1954 Congress Returns hi Hopeful Mood WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (?P)—Congress came back in a back slapping mood today to an election year session attuned to White House hopes for a peaceful world and a prosperous America. Today there was no legislative business, only prayers, eulogies for the late Chief Justice Vinson and a sort of birthday party on the House floor for 72-year-old Sam Rayburn, the Democratic leader. Tomorrow President Eisenhower comes before a combined Senate- House session to deliver p his State of the Union message sketching a legislative program for 1954. From then on, in the clashing cross currents of a campaign year, the air of gay good fellowship May . drift away like the mists of the morning. Democrats in Congress are al most as numerous as Republicans, and they are showing signs of a strengthened unity brought on by lashing Republican attacks and a dislike for many portions of Eisenhower's home front program. Major Bills Due Next Week No major legislation is on tap before next week, at the earliest. In the Senate, the GOP Policy Committee mapped out a program that is likely to set off the first blasts of controversy in the new session. It includes for next week not only a batch of minor legisla tion but also a start on either the St. Lawrence seaway plan or a proposal to limit the President's treaty making powers—a pair of items charged with legislative dy namite. But plenty of more important measures lie ahead. Eisenhower offers his farm and labor programs to Congress Monday, and contro versy already is swirling around them. Laniel Wins Vote of Confidence PARIS, Jan. 6 (?P)—Premier Jo seph Laniel tonight won from the National Assembly a vote of con fidence he demanded so "France can have a government solidly supported" for the Berlin confer ence of the Big Four foreign rain isters. The count was 319-249 Tor Laniel. Although it had been generally believed the Assembly would in dorse him, the size of the vote in his favor was unexpected. Some deputies had talked yes terday of abstaining to cut down Laniel's majority. He urged all deputies today to vote for him or against him, and not to resort to abstentions. "It would be better for the coun try to have a new ministerial cri sis opened tonight than to have the executive power diminished by the vote," Laniel said. He got the votes of most mem bers of the •parties that supported him at the time of his installation last June 26 except the Radical moderate Socialists. Most.of the votes against Laniel came from the Communists, who oppose his whole program, and the Socialists, who oppose his do mestic policies. The test was on a procedural question—whether to postpone de bate after Laniel addressed the Assembly on his policies, foreign and domestic. But he said this was to be regarded as a matter of con fidence and he would resign if the . Assembly did not go along with his request to postpone de bate. Project Underway On Power Plant A power plant improvement project :s currently underway at Shortlidge and Pollock road s, Walter H. Wiegand, director of the University Physical Plant, has re ported. Underground electric facilities are being installed. The Work is part of a long-range General State Authority project aimed at improving power facilities at the University. Clark Supports Dilworth As Governor Candidate PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 6 (W) Mayor Joseph S. Clark Jr. today renewed his support of Dist. Atty. Richardson Dilworth for the Dem ocratic gubernatorial candidate next fall. Clark and Dilworth have been political allies for several years and were elected to their present posts in 1951, with Clark becom ing the first Democratic mayor of Philadelphia in 63 years. Unemployment to Reach 200,000 This Month HARRISBURG, Jan. 6 (JP)—The Pennsylvania Employment Secur ity Bureau today forecast .unem ployment will climb to more than 200,000 by the end of the month, largely because of heavier than usual seasonal layoffs. Most of the lawoffs are in steel, anthracite, textile and apparel, construction and railroads. But by spring, said Executive Director A. J. Caruso, employment will pick up •to a substantial degree. Helium, the lightweight gas of which the Bureau of Mines, De partment of the Interior, is the sole commercial producer, is so inert that •it is often called "the nearest thing to nothing.' , THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Ike Joins in Prayer Signalling the start of the new congressional session, Eisenhower partook of Communion this morn ing and joined in prayers—pray ers that God will give him "ser enity of soul . . . soundness of judgment" and that Congress will go about its tasks in the interests of "the safety and honor and wel fare" of the people. Up on Capitol Hill gavels fell exactly at noon in the Senate and House chambers. Legislators and onlookers in crowded galleries bowed in prayer with the chap lains. Then the membership rolls were called. Once again, after five months of idleness, the legislative merry go-round was rea d y to start whirling. - 10 Hea" ;I.eveale;.: DETROIT, Jan. 6 (W)—Prosecutors today accused four men of conspiracy and assault with intent to murder CIO President Walter P. Reuther five years ago, and withheld names of four 'other per sons sought in what they called a "solution" to the attempted as sassination. Wayne County Prosecutor Ger ald K. O'Brien disclosed names of three men in jail and a fourth still being sought, but withheld names of the other four and in formation on evidence he had. One of those arrested is Carl Renda, 35, and the other is his father-in-law, Santo Sam Per rone, 56, an ex-convict, whose police record dates back 'to 1920. Perrone is sought. Renda stood mute on arraignment and was placed under $25,000 bail. Clarence Jacobs, 48, of Tecuni seh, Ont., was taken in custody in nearby indsor, Ont., and O'Brien said that the fourth man named in the warrant, Peter Lombardo, 51, is serving five years in the federal penitentiary at Leaven worth, Kan., for possession of counterfeit money. Reuther, then and now presi dent of the CIO United Auto Workers Union, was shot through a kitchen window of his home April 20, 1948. A shotgun charge crippled his right arm. His brother, Victor, was wound ed in a similar attempted assas sination May 24 ? 1949: He lost an eye. O'Brien said today's arrests did not solve the assault on Victor Reuther. Heiress' Romance May Be Scotched By Irate Father EDINBURGH, Scotland, Jan. 6 (IP) Runaw ay Bolivian heiress. Maria Isabela Patino, 18, and her dashing English love r, Jimmy Goldsmith, 20, appealed to Scot land's highest court today for the right to marry, over her father's objections. Three Scottish judges will be asked to rule "yes" or "no" to the young sweetiv.larts' appeal against a temporary injunction tin magnate. Atenor Patino ob tained yesterday to block their quickie Scottish wedding. Patino, one of Latin America's richest men, dashed here from Paris last week after learning his petite dark-eyed daughter anct the debonair, Eton-educated Gold smith had eloped. He is dead set against his pretty daughter's mar riage until she grows a little older. But Goldsmith's older broth er, Edward, who introduced him to Isabela at a coronation party in London last June, told re porters there are other reasons for the objections, including six suitors of French royal blood who are all lined up to marry Isabela. Italians Batik Po Dike Hood MILAN, Italy, Jan. 6 (?P)—Po lice, f ire men and volunteers fought tonight to hold the broken dikes of Italy's Po River delta against tides from the storm swept Adriatic which already have flooded six villages and poured killing salt water over hundreds of acres of farm land. The battle against the sea de veloped as snow and ice glazed most of Western Europe from Bri tain to Italy. Wind-whipped waves of the up per Adriatic carved three 100-yard gaps last night in the delta dikes that guard Rovigo, 25 miles in land, in the farming area halfway between Venice and Bologna. Authorities ordered the evacua tion speeded. They warned that tonight's Mood •tides may be even worse than those last night. 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College • Atom-Peace Talks OKd By U.S., WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (W)—The United States and Russia agreed tonight to hold preliminary talks concerning President Eisenhower's atom-for-peace plan First the Soviet Foreign Ministry in Moscow announced that Russia was ready to begin the talks—which will deal with such questions as how, when and I where negotiations on the Pres ident's idea will be held. The State department declared that Secretary of State Dulles "ex pects to proceed at an early date" with the conversations with the Russians. The talks are scheduled to be held in Washington with Soviet Ambassador G. M. Zarubin speak ing for Moscow. The President's plan calls for an international pool, to which atomic powers would contribute some of their atomic energy, for research and use on such peaceful projects as medicine, industrial power, etc. The United States has been earnestly pressing Eisenhower's atomic pool idea. The President has taken the stand that, since Russia and the United States have been unable to agree to a system for control of atomic weapons, the practical thing to do is to ap proach the atomic problem from another angle—a pool of atomic energy for peaceful purposes. The idea behind this is that if such a plan should work out, the cooperative effort among na tions might lead eventually to co operation on the issue of control ling or outlawing,atomic weapons. Daring Thieves Go on Spree WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 ( 3 )— Secret Service agents quizzed four more persons today in a broaden ing search for $31,700 still miss ing in the daring New Year's Eve theft of $160,000 from the Federal Bureau of Engraving, the nation's paper money factory. Auhtorities said some of the money—believed spirited f Tom the heavily guarded plant in "false pockets" worn by a $3,460- a-year employe—was passed in a whirlwind spending spree in Washington and Baltimore. At least three automobiles, li quor and other luxuries were re ported to have been purchased with stolen $2O greenbacks as the suspects tried desperately to get rid of the "hot" money fresh from the government's printing presses. Farm Aid Plan Costs 14 Billion in 25 Years WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (W)— Direct federal farm aid programs have cost the government about $l4 billion since the days of the Hoover Farm Board 25 years ago. This estimate, as calculated by the Agriculture Department, came to light at a time when the Eisen hower administration is facing the prospect of having to ask Con gress for several billion dollars more to carry out the congression al price guarantees to farmers. SMAII-TSHOW' announces its JANUARY CLEARANCE I REDUCTIONS ON . °COATS °SUITS , and °DRESSES °BLOUSES °SKIRTS °HATS and many other items Savings Up To 50% ,'-SMART SHOP- PAGE THREE lryrd Decl•‘res He Will Fight Debt Increase WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (4?) Two key senators said today they would vote for a moderate in crease in the national debt limit if necessary. but Sen. Harry Byrd (D-Va.) declared anew he would fight any hike. An administrative bill to raise the limit from $275 billion to X 290 billion was blocked by an 11-4 vote in the Senate Finance Com mittee last summer. Two members of the committee who voted against the increase at that time Sens. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) and Ral p h E. Flanders (R-Vt.)—made it known today that they are not adamant against a boost. Byrd, however, held to his po sition that the administration could stay under the $275 billion ceiling by economizing. He led the fight against the boost in the finance committee last year. Byrd displayed a table—' on Treasury figures—which indi cated the national debt would be $271 billion, and the government's cash balance $10.2 billion next June 30, the end of the current fiscal year. This, the Virginia senator said, would give the government a $9.5 billion "cushion" at the end of the financial year. But Treasury men have argued in the past that the government's financial position worsens in the first half of the fiscal year be cause the biggest revenue returns come in the last half of the 12- month period. With the national debt now within $5OO million of the statu tory ceiling, Treasury officials have left no doubt that they still favor an increase. Mane Crash Kills RAF Rugby Team ALDBURY, England, Jan. 6 (IP) A two-engine Royal Air Force troop carrier plane carrying an RAF rugby team crashed on a blizzard swept hillside tonight, killing 15 of the 16 men aboard. Two men were pulled alive from the wreckage strewn over th e snow at Toms Hill, 30 miles north of London. One ided in a hospital; the other was in critical condition. The pilot of the plan apparently became blinded by the storm and crashed into trees. The rugby players aboard were being carried from Bovington air field to their base at Thorney Is land, in the south, after a game at Reading.
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