WEDNESDAY. MARCH 3. 1954
Capital . Heavily Guarded
WASHINGTON, March 2 (W) Extra guards were thrown around the White House and the halls of Congress
today as messages poured in frofn all over the world expressing shock at yesterday's wild gunfire assault by Puerto Rican
fanatics in the House of Representatives.
In New York, police reported they found "quantities" of Communist literature in the Brooklyn apartment of Rafael
Miranda, 25, one of the four Puerto Rican gun wielders.
All four assailants, including Lolita Lebron, 34, fiery self-styled ringleader, were held in $lOO,OOO bail each on
charges of assault with intent to kill.
Police said none of the four showed any sign of remorse.
New York authorities, announcing the discovery of a cache of Red propaganda, sai
Federal Bureau of Investigation to aid in attempts to find out whether the Capitol Hill shoot.
About 200 House members, mostly grave faced, showed up when
the chamber met for its regular session at noon today. Plainclothes
detectives mingled with spectators in the public galleries, and 30
extra uniformed police were posted at strategic points. FBI agents
were also in evidence.
House Group
Rejects Annual
Tax Cut Bill
WASHINGTON, March 2 (/F)—
The House Ways an,d Means Corn
mittee voted overwhelmingly to
day to cancel a scheduled $2 'bil
lion annual cut in corporation in
come taxes. President Dwight D.
Eisenhower has strongly urged
cancellation.
But members said the commit
tee also paved the way for almost
certain approval tomorrow of a
proposal—opposed loy the admin
istration—slashing.many excise or
sales taxes in half.
Chairman Daniel A. Reed (R
-NY) introduCed the _excise bill
today, predicting it would give an
immediate boost to consumer buy
ing and thus to the nation's econ
omy. He urged speedy action by
Congress.
The bill would slice to 10 per
cent all excise rates now above
that level, except for liquor and
tobacco. T.t would affect a score
of items now taxed at from 25 to
15 per cent.
It was a two-edged proposition,
canceling cuts scheduled April 1
in some other excises—on liquor,
tobacco, gasoline, automobiles,
beer, and wine.
The new excise cuts in the Reed
bill would take effect April 1 and
would amount to an estimated
$912 million a year.
Egypt Militia Jails
118 In Crackdown
CAIRO, Egypt, March 2 (W)—
Egypt's military regime said to
night it has jailed 118 persons in
a crackdown on what it called a
"conspiracy toward harming the
country's high interests."
In addition, official sources con
firmed the arrest of eight army
officers but there were conflict
ing reports over why they had
been taken into custody.
One source said the eight were
accused of Communist activities
and would be tried before the Rev
olutionary Council's tribunal. But
another denied there was any
Communist angle and said the
officers, all cavalrymen, would
be tried before a military court
on insubordination charges. '
This source said the insubordi
nation occurred during the dra
matic events which led to the re
storation of Gen. Mohamed Na
guib to the presidency Saturday.
The arrests were disclosed as
Naguib returned to Cairo from a
trip to Khartoum, capital of the
Sudan.
Kremlin Boots Signer
Of Stalin's Autopsy
LONDON, March 2 (JP) The
Kremlin today ousted Health
Minister' Andrei F. Tretyakov,
chief medical official at Stalin's
death bed last March and leading
signer of the Soviet dictator's au
topsy.
The Moscow radio heard here
said Deputy Minister M. D. Kov
rigina, a woman, succeeded him.
The announcement was made in a
brief communique from the Su
preme Soviet Presidium, which
did 'not reveal what was to be
come
of Tretyakov.
Andrews Will Speak
At Achievement Night
Stanley Andrews, director of
the national project in agricul
tural communications, will be the
guest speaker at the annual ag
achievement night at 7 p.m. March
24 in Schwab Auditorium.
Ned Clark, seventh semester
poultry husbandry major, is chair
man for the event.
Rep. James E. Van Zandt (R-Pa.) urged today that Congress
take steps to provide better protective measures to prevent a repe
tition of the shooting in House of Representatives.
Van Zandt estimated that it was "two or three minutes at least
until the uniformed police arrived" after the shooting started.
"A situation like that is a mistake," he said. "In this day and
age and in these times of world disturbance I think we should
have trained police in charge of the visitors' galleries, who would
be able to act immediately in an emergency and hold the fort until
help arrived."
• House Speaker Joseph Martin (R-Mass.) told newsmen that Rep.
Alvin M. Bentley (R-Mich.), the most seriously wounded of r five
lawmakers cut down in the hail of bullets, needed .an emergency
operation.
Dr. George Crile, noted surgeon, who flew here from Cleveland
for consultation, said the wealthy 35-year-old Michigan lawmaker,
now serving his first term in Congress, has a "better( than 50-50
chance" to live.
When the assassins opened fire, shouting "Free Puerto Rico!" and
waving Puerto Rican flags, Bentley was felled by a bullet that
pierced his chest, lung, diaphram, liver, and stomach.
The four other wounded lawmakers were all reported to be doing
well. They were: Reps. Kenneth A. Roberts (D-Ala.), Ben F. Jensen
(R-Iowa), Clifford Davis (D-Tenn.), and George H. Fallon (D-Md.).
House leaders, shaken by the unprecedented attack, huddled
this forenoon to discuss tighter , security regulations. 'At present,
spectators are warned against taking cameras into either the House
or Senate, but there 'is no safeguard against concealed weapons.
Red Ouster
:locket by
WASHINGTON, March 2 (iP)-7.1. retired Navy officer repeated
today a statement that. former President Franklin D. Roosevelt
blocked the ouster of Communists from the U.S. Merchant Marine
in 1942.
The Senate Internal Security subcommittee heard from Rear
Adm. Adolphus Sta.ton, Ret., sub
stantially the same story he told a
news conference in October, 1950
—that he was ordered not to• oust
Communist radio - operators in
that period of wartime collabora
tion with Russia
Staton also quoted Adlai Ste
venson, the 1952 Democratic pres
idential nominee and a wartime
special assistant to the Navy sec
retary, as telling him that "I
don't think we should be too
hard on the Commies."
Same Old Story
In Chicago, Stevenson called
Staton's testimony "the same old
story that was brought up during
the 1952 campaign and fully ex
plained at that time."
Stevenson said in a statement
that he didn't recall all the details
but "I was executing the orders of
my superiors and I believe their
decision was to leave the doubtful
radio operators on the merchant
ships at that critical time to keep
the convoys moving."
, "My boss," he continued, "was
the secretary of the Navy, Frank
Knox, formerly Republican candi
date for vice president and no
lover of Communists and extrem
ists 'of any _kind."
• FDR's Views
Roosevelt's reported views were
brought out both in Staton's testi
mony and in the purp6rted min
utes of a 1942 .Navy Department
meeting. The same or a similar
document w a s distributed to
newsmen during Staton's 1950
news conference, which was ar
ranged by Hamilton A. Long of
New York, a former Army combat
intelligence major who was work
ing with Staton on a pamphlet.
thairman William E. Jenner
(R-Ind) admitted the document as
evidence in the committee record,
subject to revision if the Navy
later produces a different official
version.
Price Support Slash
WASHINGTON, March 2 (/P)—
A House subcommittee today vot
ed unanimously to modify Sedre
tary of Agriculture Benson's re
cent order slashing federal price
supports under butter and some
othe da'ry products from 90 to 75
per cent of parity.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Pope Observes
Two Anniversaries
VATICAN CITY, March 2 (W)—
Pope Pius XII today quietly ob
served the double anniversary of
his 78th birthday and the 15th of
his reign. Messages from far and
near arrived to express' wishes
for his full recovery.
The pontiff spent the day in the
solitude of his Vatican palace
apartment, where a stubborn ab
dominal ailment has confined him
for the last 36 days.
No official word of his progress
was issued today, following yes
terday's report by L'Osservatore
Romano that the Pope's general
condition was "good." But Vatican
sources said the slow improve
ment of the last four days con
tinued.
The Pope received only a few
members of his family, among
them Prince Carlo Pacelli, coun
cilor of the state of Vatican City.
Med School Tests
The next medical college Ad
missions tests will be held May 8
on campus. Bulletins of informa
tion and application blanks are
available in 106 Buckhout.
Applications must arrive by
April 24 at the Educational Test
ing Service, P.O. Box 592, Prince
ton, N.J.
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Pennsylvania
Said Troubled
By Red Activity
WASHII9*GTON, March 2 (IF)—
"A serious potential danger to the
security of this nation" exists in
western Pennsylvania as a result
of Communist industrial activity,
the Senate internal security sub
committee said._ today.
A subcommittee task for c e
haded by Sen. Hugh Butler (R-
Md), which investigated "subver
sive influence in the United Elec
trical Radio, and Machine Work
ers of America" in the Pittsburgh
and Erie areas last November,
made the following comment:
"The testimony establishes that
there exists in the area of Pitts
burgh, Pa., a serious potential
danger to the security of this
nation.
"It is unthinkable that a large
segment of the heavy industrial
area of Pittsburgh, Pa., should be
manned by a Communist-con
trolled organization masquerading
as a labor union. All the forces of
the Government of the United
States must be brought to bear
promptly to meet this critical
situation."
The report said the independent
union, known as the UE, had been
expelled from the C.lO because of
Communist domination and "has
been repeatedly exposed by var
ious committees of the Congress as
Communist-controlled," yet it, still
hsa an estimated 20,000 members
in western Pennsylvania.
Tunisia to Get
New °Reforms'
TUNIS (iP)—The French named
a man they threw into detention
camp two years ago to be Tu
nisia's Premier today and prom
ised "new reforms" soon for this
North African protectorate of
three million persons.
French Resident General Pierre
Voizard did not say how far the
reforms would go toward meeting
Tunisian demands for independ
ence, but asserted they would be
"neither a miracle nor a mirage."
He added they have been ap
proved by both the French gov
ernment in Paris and by the titu
lar ruler of Tunis.
Voizard proclaimed Mohammed
Salah M'Zali, 58-year-old Tunis
ian, as the Premier of a new
Tunisian Cabinet.
Often a minister in ( Tunisian
Cabinets, M'Zali was grabbed by
police along with other members
of the Cabinet of Mohammed
Chenik in 1952 and confined in
the southern Tunisian desert.
He was freed several months
later and has been in retirement
until brought out to succeed Pre
mier Salah Eddine Baccouche.
Egyptian ladies in the days of
Cleopatra painted their lower
eyelids green and the upper lids,
lashes, and eyebrows black.
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Dean Quits
Position As
Negotiator
WASHINGTON, March 2 (/1 3 )—
The State Department today an
nounced the resignation of Arthur
H. Dean, climaxing weeks of spec
ulation he would bow out as a
Korean peace negotiator.
The Wall Street attorney, a
former law partner of Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles, ten
dered his resignation in a letter
dated Feb. 26 and made public
today.
Dean, 55, said he was forced to
quit as Dulles' deputy because of
a press of personal business. He
said commitments to appear in
court prevented him from going
abroad this spring, when the Kor
ean peace talks will be renewed
at Geneva, Switzerland.
Criticism of Walkout
There was no mention in Dean's
letter of the criticism or specula
tion which sprang up after he
walked out of the preliminary
peace talks at Panmunjom last
Dec. 12, charging the Reds had
insulted the United States.
Some State Department offi
cials were reported to have been
distressed at the walkout, feel
ing it to be a tactical error, al
though this was officially denied.
Remarks Dean made subse
quently led to some criticism in
the Senate. Sen. Welker (R-Ida)
said in a Senate speech last Jan.
14 that Dean seemed to be spread
ing a type of propaganda designed
to bring about the "appeasement"
of Red China. Dean vehemently
denied this. •
No Change in Status
After the Panmunjom talks had
been bypassed with the schedul
ing of the Geneva conference, the
State Department denied there
was any change in Dean's status.
However, Dean's letter of res
ignation said he had accepted the
diplomatic job last August with
the understanding he could not
serve beyond March or April.
Jurors Unwilling
To Convict Wable
GREENSBURG, Pa., March 2
(. 1 1")—The State, seeking the death
penalty for John Wesley Wable,
accused phantom slayer of the
Pennsylvania Turnpike, found it
tough today getting jurors - willing
to return a death verdict based on
circumstantial evidence.
As the murder trial of the 24-
year-old native of Ohiopyle, Pa.,
moved through a second day, as
sistant district attorneys repeat
edly rejected persons who said
they could not conscientiously re
turn a first degree murder verdict
carrying the death penalty.
When court adjourned for the
day, only six jurors had been se
lected from among 106 persons.
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