SATURDAY. MARCH 27. 1954 Committee Asks Fund Reduction In Housing Bill WASHINGTON, March 26 (iP) President Dwight D. Eisen hower's public housing program received a heavy blow today from the Republican-dominated House Appropriations Committee. The committee recommended—and the House usually follows its recommendations—that the President's request for 140,000 units during the next four .years be scaled down to 35,000 units and be sawed off completely 'after two years. Cease Fire Plea Denied By Vietminh HANOI, Indochina, March 26 (4)—The French high command said tonight it had appealed in vain to the •Vietininh for a brief cease fire to permit planes to use the air strip at Dien Bien Phu for evacuation of the wounded. Despite repeated pleas, the high command added, the Communist led rebels continued shelling the, strip. The French said that they were able to remove some of their wounded by helicopters and transport planes which managed to land and take off despite the shelling. Today French patrols jabbed wearily •at the rebel besiegers of the northwest Indochina plains fortress. The French said they killed 15 rebels in driving a Viet minh company out of an aban doned village four miles south of the, fortress' center. Air attacks were maintained on rebel positions in the hills around Dien Bien Phu, but there were mounting indications the struggle for the fortress might be long and bitter. Despite firebomb and high ex plosive attacks the Vietminh were digging long ,networks of wind ing trenches and foxholes all around the oval-shaped plain of Dien Bien Phu. Many were within 200 yards of the barbed wire bar ricades guarding the entrance into the fortress. The French were counting on their firepower—most of it Amer i.can-supplied--to repel mass at tacks. Ike Authorizes Metal Stockpile WASHINGTON, March 26 (2EP)-- President 'Eisenhower today au thorized a further stockpile build up, primarily by purchases of do mestic metals, to protect the na tion from possible loss of produc tion in case of Soviet attack against the United States. The action was expected to prove a boon to the . hard-pressed Western mining industry, and was hailed by Congress members from the mountain mining states. The White House instructed the Office of Defense Mobilization to review present -‘ tives, and estimated that it will result in addit .onai government buying of 35 to 40 metals and min erals. Lead and zinc will be among the metals acquired, informed of ficials said. NLRB Asks NY Waterfront Vote NEW YORK, March 26 (JP)—A National Labor Relations Board examiner today recommended a brand new bargaining election on New York's strife-torn, strike-rid den waterfront. Examiner Arthur Leff accused the striking International Long shoremen's A s. s n . (Ind.) of fo menting violence and knifings at the polling places in an election last December between the • ILA and AFL dock union. Leff recommended the election results—which gave the ILA an apparent victory—be thrown out and a new election held as soon as possible. • It' was a sharp blow to the bad ly battered ILA, which w a s thrown out of the AFL six months ago for harboring , racketeers. _ It gave new hope to a rival AFL dock union of the same name that That is the number for which the government already - has corn mitted itself and made binding contracts, the, committee noted. Fight Threatened Democrats threatened a floor fight when the bill comes up in the House next week, but there seemed little likelihood that they would be able to pick up many of the pieces. In a message to Congress on Jan. 25, Eisenhower asked that the present public housing pro gram be continued "at a reason able revel. Specifically he re quested approval of a four-year construction program at the rate of 35,000 units a year. New Units Limited The Appropriations Committee put a limit of 20,000 on the num ber of new units that may be started in the coming fiscal year, beginning July 1, and called for winding up the entire program in the following year with 15,- 000 additional units. • • Rep. John Phillips, (R.-Calif.), chairman of the subcommittee that drafted the bill, said the public, housing program started back in the Democratic admini strations has not worked out satisfactorily. Phillips Cites Cases "In many instances," he said, "the people for whom these housese were intended haven't been able to occupy them. In some cases, political qualifica tions, rather than economic quali fications, appear to have been the yardstick." Moneywise, the c om mitt ee slashed $6.1 million from the President's $77 million public housing request for the coming year. For slum clearance and ur ban redevelopment, however, it approved the , full $39 million requested. ' Slum Clearance The committee commented that slum clearance is the only justi fication for the program. For the Housing and Home Finance Agen cy, which handles all the hotising and slum clearance programs, the committee recommended $112,- 568,500, a cut of $6,331,500 from Eisenhower's request. The funds for public housing were part of a $5,566,118,763 bill financing a score of federal agen cies and independent offices for the coming year. The total is $363,604,837 less than the Presi dent sought, and $375,168,400 be low the amount received by the same agencies this year. Rocket Plant Approved WASHINGTON, March 26 (W) The House Appropriations Com mittee today allowed all but $120,- 000 of the 2 1 / 2 million dollars bud geted by President Eisenhower to build a new rocket engine plant at Cleveland. it may yet win control of 24,000 New York longshoremen. The ILA, meanwhile, regained some ground in ,efforts to extend the 22 -day New York strike to the rest of the East Coast. Other ports refused to stage sympathy strikes, but Boston and Baltimore went part way by refusing to handle any more of the ships diverted from the New York waterfront. The ILA also gained support from 4000 tugboat crewmen in New York Harbor, whom they asked to honor longshoremen's picket lines. The ILA sent out a picket boat to intercept tugs in the harbor. Hovering above the union launch was a police helicopter, to see that there was no coercion. Two tugs bringing the liner Em press of Scotland into Pier 95 dropped her in midstream as the flfft- uArLY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Gunmen Rescue Pals From County Prison ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 26 (JP) The promise of a stake in a prison-plotted $60,- 000 holdup inspired two gun men to spring two of their pals from the Monroe County Peni tentiary, Detec t.i v e Capt. Charles F. Austin said today. Police said the men, armed with pistols, - walked into the penitentiary, bound and gagged two guards, and then stole a guard's car to , make a getaway. ke's 1 nsurance Plan Attacked by Co f C WASHINGTON, March 26 (W )—President Eisenhower's proposal to put limited government support behind private health insurance plans was attacked today by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which said it could lead to "soCialized medicine." Edwin T. Faulkner, a Lincoln, Neb., insurance man who spoke for the chamber, said the eventual effect of any such legislation probably would be "to defeat the President's desire to see volun tary insurance expand and to maintain a free medical profes sion," Faulkner testified before the House Commerce Committee. Another witness William S. Mc- Nary, chairman of government relations for the American Hos pital Assn., favored the adminis tration's plan and praised its objectives. In a special message to Con gress Jan. 18, Eisenhower pro posed creation of a 25 million dollar fund to help private in surance companies protect Amer ican families against the "catas trophe" "of prolonged major ill nesses. The President suggested the money be used to reinsure the private. plans against "the special additional risks" of exparfaing benefits to their members. Eisenhower has said he is op posed to socialized medicine. But Faulkner, president of the Woodmen Accident Co. and' a leader in health insurance trade associations, testified the ultimate end "could well be socialized medicine Under a compulsory health insurance plan." McNary suggested that an ad visory council of private medical leaders be given more power in writing regulations for ,policies which would be reinsured under the administration plan. He also proposed more liberal provisions for advertising insur ance policies that would have 'gov ernment 'reinsurance. Committee Rejects Labor Bill Change WASHINGTON, March 26 (IP) —The House Labor Committee today rejected by a tie vote a proposal to • relax the restrictions the Taft-Hartley Act puts on em ployers with regard to talking to workers about unionism at the work site. Chairman Samuel McConnell (R.-Pa.) 'said the charge, spon sored by Rep. Graham Ax Barden (D.-N.C.), failed of adoption by a 13-13 tally. The committee's sen ior Democrat wanted to relieve employers of the obligation to give unions equal time in which to ans w e r management argu ments. picket boat , came' alongside. Strik ers on the pier shouted:. "Let Dewey dock the ship. We'll tie up the whole country." Gov. Thomas E. Dewey sup ported AFL• charges of intimida tibn by. the ILA. The 26,000-ton liner, back from a South American cruise, was un able to dock by her self because of high winds: So she went back out to quarantine to, anchor over night. Her passengers remained stranded aboard, and friends wait ed in vain to greet them on th dock. The waterfront was generally quiet during the day. The New York - New Jersey Waterfront Commission reported 3854 men were at work on 39 ships through 7 out the harbor. As on other days; this represented a modest increase of about 142 longshoremen return ing to work. Movie Will Reveal H-bomb Explosion WASHINGTON, March 26 (M—The American people will get their first look April 7 at a hitherto secret movie of a hydrogen ex- plosion They may see a mile-wide island disappear in a glaring ball of fire and a:cloud of debris mushrooming twice as high as those pro duced by the "old-fashioned" A-bomb. Indochina To Receive U.S. Planes WASHINGTON, March 26 (R l ) The United States announced to day it would send 25 more 826 fighter-bombers, together with ammunition and other defense supplies, to Indochina to bolster French Union forces now holding off a powerful Communist offen sive_ The planes will be loaned tem porarily to French Air Force units to help maintain a round-the-clock aerial bombardment on Red divi sions threatening the vital strong hold of Dien Bien Phu in north west Indochina. The Defense Department dis closed the supply reinforcement plan -as Gen. Paul Ely, chairman of the French Joint Chiefs of Staff, wound up a six-day visit with top military leaders here. On Capitol Hill, Sen. Monroney (D-Okla.) said the action was to be expected. "As long as we limit our aid to supplies, and not men, it's all right to keep funneling it in there," he said. • Monroney noted that "half of our foreign military aid is going to Indochina already." He said dollar aid to France for equip ment to fight the Indochina war apparently is not being translated into planes and other war ma teriel fast enough. The emergency move reflected the American government's de termination to prevent a Commun ist victory at Dien Bien Phu and consequent strengthening of Rus sia's and Communist China's bar- I gaining position at the April 26 Korea and Indochina peace con- I ference in , Geneva. "NEW FACES" in Cinema Scope with EARTHA KITT ALAN LADD SHELLEY WINTERS "SASKATCHEWAN" . . LEO GORCEY and BOWERY BOYS in "PRIVATE EYES" President Eisenhower has au thorized the release of a 28-min ute motion picture of the blast set off in the Pacific in November, 1952, when this country's scien tists began major firing tests of H-bomb weapons. No official description of this explosion has been released so far, but letters sent home by some of the men in the task force at that time told of the disintegration of the island and of the huge cloud column. Meantime, the House Appropri ations Committee today approved a fund ,of $1,189,000,000 for the atomic Weapons, plus the program to adapt atomic power to peace ful. purposes. Tile sum is $132,179,000 greater than the Atomic Energy Commis sion appropriations for the present fiscal year, ending June ,30, 1954, but is $152,039,000 less than the AEC had originally asked. Rep. John Phillips (R-Calif.) explained that the AEC had withdrawn re quests for $238,000,000 for con struction because it found it would have • sufficient money on hand for that work. Some• sections of, the film de picting the 1952 hydrogen blast have been cut out by the censors in the interests of national se curity. What remains, however, will be made available by the Civil Defense Administration to newsreels and television networks for showings starting at 6 p.m. EST April 7. A series of "still" photographs taken from the movie are being released to newspapers and maga zines for use at the same time the film is shown. The President authorized re lease of the 1952 film after con sultation with the National Se curity Council, which he heads. Stassen to Attend Red Trade Talks WASHINGTON, March 26 VP) —Foreign aid chief Harold E. Stassen is going to London today to discuss Iron Curtain trade policies with British and French representatives. There have been several sug gestions by British officials re cently for increasing trade be tween Russia and the Western Allies. An announcement by Stas sen's office said he will hold an "exchange of. views" with the British and French "on- policy concerning , trade with the Soviet Union and the Soviet satellites in eastern Europe." • MEXICO ADVENTURE and STUDY TOURS 30 Days $350 • STOP IN FOR AN EXCITING NEW "SITA" BOOKLET FOR DETAILED INFORMATION State College Travel Bureau State College Hotel Phone 7136 Lotman Neuebanen Jo Gettis PAGE THREE
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