TUESDAY. MAY 18. 1954 6-Point Evacuation Proposed by French HANOI, Indochina, May. 17. (/F) The French High Command made a new six-point proposal tonight for evacuating Dien Bien Phu's wounded, including an offer to evacuate ser iously wounded rebel soldiers. The new prepared force Costello Gets Five Year Confinement NEW YORK, May 17 (W)—A federal judge threw the book at Frank Costello today, giving the racketeer income tax cheat five years in prison and a $30,000 fine. By custom, he could get no more. Costello took it with a weak grin. He seemed dazed. It was only the third prison rap of his sinister underworld career but by far the stiffest. He was denied further bail and put behind bars despite an appeal. Defense _Atty. Le o Fennelly pleaded that Costello's health is not the best and estimated the 63- year-old racketeer has no more than nine years to live; Federal Judge John. F. X. Mc- Gohey went along with the gov ernment. He handed Costello the maximum of five years and $lO,- 000 on each of three income tax evasion counts. As is customary, the court telescoped the terms so Costello can serve them together over a five year stretch. With time off fo. - : good behav ior Costello , can expect to serve three years and four months. Costello also faces a government move to deport him to his native Italy. Guatemala Gets Red Munitions WASHINGTON; May, 17 (JP)— The State Department charged today that "an important shipment of arms" has been sent to left wing Guatemala from "Soviet con trolled territory." "The Department of State con skiers that this is a development of gravity," an announcement said. Without elaborating in anyway, the announcement said the arms cargo is now being unloaded at the Guatemala port of Puerto Barrios after arriving Saturday aboard the ship "Alfhelm." The arms, said the State Depart ment, were shipped from the "Communist-administered port of Stettin formerly in East Germany and now in Communist-run Pol and. Department press officer Lin coln White refused to say where the arms were manufactured. Nor would he answer questions about the specific -amount involved in the shipment, White declined to say what ac tion, if any, the United States pro poses to take. Top officials have long been worried that the left wing regime in Guatemala might move against its Central Ameri can neighbors. Catholic Weekly Blasts McCorthy's Policies NEW YORK, May 17 (/P)=—The Roman Catholic weekly America said in an editorial today Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy (R-Wis) was attempting a "piecemeal an d `peaceful' overthrow of the presi dency."- "Whether or not the President is properly discharging the duties assigned him by the people ..-.," the magazine said, "is for the peo- - ple as a whole to ,decide—not the junior senator 'from Wisconsin, on, whom the American people never had a chance to vote.' PROGRAMS INVITATIONS COMMERCIAL PRINTING 352 . E. College Ave. plan, broadcast to the rebels over the French radio, came as the French air to hurl all available American-supplied planes in mighty strikes at Vietminh troops 'moving toward the Red River Delta. The French proposal called for: Repair of Dien Bien Phu's air field to permit the use of larger planes, in airlifting' the wounded, removal of the wounded at the highest 'possible rate,. cessation of air strikes of the .70-mile highway between Dien Bien Phu and Son La to permit the rebels . . to remove their own casualties, removal of Vietminh.— imposed barriers on evacuation of wounded Vietnam ese, and French medical aid and air transport to French hospitals for gravely' wounded rebels. Bombing Stopped The French had stopped bomb ing this and other roads in the area laSt Friday after Vietminh had agreed to permit the evacu ation of 450 of the 1300 to 2000 French Union wounded caught at Dien Bein Phu when it fell. Rebel Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap insisted the French must hold their fire on the roads so his own wounded could be moved. When the French found they could move only 11 wounded in two days by using helicopters and small planes, and the Vietminh refused to permit repair of the airstrip to' enable larger planes to land, the French High Com mand announced at Saigon it was no longer bound to withhold the air strikes. The French estimated it would take four or five weeks to remove the wounded at the old rate, Giap also refused to permit French controls which would pre vent his moving heavy arms and I fighting men over the roads along with the convoys of wounded. The French were particularly I angered that none of the Vietnam ese who had fought at their side during nearly two months of re peated massive assaults on Dien Bien Phu were included among the wounded evacuees. With the Vietminh wounded have gone thousands of cr ac k troops of four rebel divisions which spearheaded the "human sea" assaults on Dien Bien Phu. Vietminh's heavy artillery and anti-aircraft batteries have fol lowed the same routes, France Lays Quick Peace Proposal TAKE A DRIVE TO BELLEFONTE AND TRY THE FOOD AT Anyone planning to at- The tend summer school who ; wants part - time service C9orner C 7 Room station work, please apply Corner Spring & High Sts. during the next week. "We Know You Will Enjoy it" Dhrer, Served Daily 5-8 p.m. JACK WIMMER'S Sundays 12-2 and 5-7 For Party or Reservations SUNOCO Phone' 4869 - Bellefonte E. College Ave. Controls Refused GENEVA, May 17 (A , )— France laid a Western pro posal for a quick peace in Indo china before the Geneva con ference today, but most of the secret session was devoted to a wrangle over evacuation of Dien Bien Phu's wounded. The Western proposal was reported to outline detailed steps for ending hostilities, leaving political decisions for later. However, details of the plan were not made public. It was presented less than an hour before the session ended, and little debate was possible. The question of evacuating the wounded from Dien Bien Phu was unsettled as the nine delegations ended their ses sion. A reliable conference source said the Communists, headed by Soviet Foreign Min ister V. M. Molotov and Red China's Chou En-lai, again THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh Bus, Trolley Strikes ter 7d Week PITTSBURGH. May 17 (W) Whistle-weary traffic cops kept , yeri.rthing' moving today except the negotiations to settle Pitts burgh's nine-day-old bus and trol ley strike. , No serious jams developed as commuters began a second week of ride-sharing to get to work. The situation was complicated by repair work on the Liberty Tubes, the link between down town and suburban South Hills. Motorists had to take a round about route which added a half hour durinp rush periods. Federal and state mediators met with Mayor David L. Lawrence for a no-progress report. Then they continued separate talks with officials of the AFL bus and trol ley drivers union and the Pitts burgh Railways co. No attempt has been made so far to bring the two parties together for fur ther bargaining. Some 2700 drivers walked out May 9 in a dispute over a new contract. C. D. Palmer, company presi dent, says the transit system can not afford a raise under the pre sent schedule. Fares are now set at 20 cents for trolleys and 25 cents for buses. with a number of reduced fare zones. Monosson Law Violations GREENSBURG, Pa., May 17 (JP) —Seven Monessen men, charged with election law violations, pleaded innocent - as they went on trial today before visiting Judge Ivan J. McKendrick of Cambria County-. The University of Pittsburgh was founded in 1787. tried to bring the French and Vietminh into direct negotia tions on the question here. Although sentiment among some members of the French delegation for entering such negotiations was reported, 'For eign Minister Georges Bidault has consistently rejected this course. He rejected it again to day. the informant said. A communique issued by U.S. delegation headquarters after the meeting said only that statements were heard on the evacuation of the wounded and that peace in Indochina also was discussed. Bidault left Geneva for Ev ian, France, after today's ses sion to visit , Vietnamese Chief of State Bao Dai. • Bidault's visit follows one paid to Bao Dai last night by U.S. Under Sec r retary of State Walter Bedell - Smith. The French were reported unfavor ably impressed by Bao Dai's McCarthy Get Delay WASHINGTON, May 17 (W)—The McCarthy-Army hearings bumped into a presidential order today and, the result was an un expected, dramatic halt—for a week at least, maybe forever. Taking a personal hand, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued a directive forbidding Army. witnesses to testify about the role of White House and other , high offi cials in the televised controversy between Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis) and civilian Pentagon chiefs McCarthy cried "Iron Curtain!" Democrats raised a protest of "whitewash." And in the end the Senate Investigations subcommit tee voted to recess the public in quiry until next Monday to see if Eisenhower would withdraw or modify his secrecy clampdown. Acting Chairman Karl E. Mundt (R-SD) declared there is nothing about the recess which "even remotely implies a discontinu ation of these hearings" for good. The Democrats, however, said it looked to them as if the hearings may well have blown sky high— unless 'the President should change his mind. The chances of Eisenhower do ing this appeared pretty slim. The President said in today's secrecy order , issued to Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, that his stand was taken "to maintain the proper separation of powers between the executive and legis lative branches of the government in accordance with my responsi bilities and duties under the Con stitution." And he said, too, in language that left little if any room for backtracking: "This separation is vital to pre clude the exercise of arbitrary power by any branch of the gov ernment." Atom Bomb Attack To Be Dramatized NEW YORK, May 17 An "atomic attack" on television to morrow night will be pure fiction, ABC said tonight. The network said the dramatic show to be put on at 8:30 p.m. (EST) tomorrow over the entire network will be realistic and au thentic, thanks to the help of civil defense authorities. But it won't be real, and viewers should not be excited by it, the network said. The hour-long dramatization is to show what would happen in nearby Westchester County after a' hydrogen bomb practically wiped out Manhattan Island. independent dealing with the United States. The nine parties to the nego tiations—the Big Four, Red China, Viet Nam, Laos, Cambo dia, and the Vietminh repre sentatiyes met in a smaller room today. The secrecy of the meeting was so strictly ob served it was not learned who had spoken. One reliable informant said definitely that there had been some translation from the Rus sian language, which would mean that Soviet Foreign Min ister Molotov had entered the dispute. This informant said there had been several brisk exchanges. RECORDS /or radu,ation to The Music Room Phone 2311 203 E. Beaver Avenue Hearings for. Week Segregation Felt Deeply By South ATLANTA, May 17 (W)—White political leaders of the Deep South reacted all the way from bitter criticism and near-d efia n c e through mild anger and on to quiet caution today when the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed the area's traditional segregation of races in public schools. Gov. H . e rm an Talmadge of Georgia, who has repeatedly vow ed, "There never will be mixed schools while I am governor," was the most violent in his reaction, declaring, "The United States Su preme Court by its decision today has reduced our Constitution to a mere scrap of paper." And in a neighboring state, Gov. James F. Byrnes of South Caro lina, a former Supreme Court jus tice, said because it has been held many times the separate but equal doctrine "was not violative of the Constitution, I am shocked to learn that the court has reversed itself." Talmadge lashed out at th e court ruling in a prepared state ment, saying: "The court has blatantly ig nored all law and precedent and usurped from the Congress and the people the power to amend the Constitution and from th e Congress the authority to make the laws of the land. "Its action confirms the worst fears of the motives of the men who sit on its bench and raises a grave question as to the future of the nation." Negro spokesmen cheered the historic decision and expressed belief it coup be made effective with. a minimum of dislocation— given good will in both races. Australian Commission Gets Soviet bisciosure CANBERRA, Australia, May 17 (R)—Soviet spies used everything from blackmail to petty bribery in an effort to learn Australia!s diplomatic and military secrets, a royal commission investigating es pionage was told today. The disclOsures were made by William Windeyer, chief counsel to the commission studying in formation made available by Vladimir . M. Petrov, former third secretary of the Soviet embassy here. Petrov fled the embassy last month and asked for political asylum in Australia. "PRINCE VALIANT" Cinema Scope James Mason Janet Leigh "MA AND PA KETTLE AT HOME" Marjorie Main Percy Kilbride "THE LITTLE WORLD OF DON CAMILLO" with Fernandel PAGE r-IRE'E
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