THURSDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1954- For London Plan Support PARIS (JP) —Premier Pi.erre. .Mendes-Franee has been authorized by his Cabinet to stake the life of his government if necessary on parliamentary approval of the London agreements for West Ger man rearmament and sovereignty. The Cabinet gave him its political do-or-die backing. The Cabinet ministers authorized Mendes-Franee at a three-hour meeting this morning to make the London acbords\an issue of confidence—putting the government’s life at state—if and ILA Stri ke Ends; Men Get Raise NEW YORK, Oct. 6 (JP) —A two day strike of. 25,000 longshore men ended today. Union leaders claimed a clear-cut victory in one of„.the shortest all-out strikes in port history although it cost them their right to strike for 45 days. “It’s 100 per cent sure every body will be back to work to morrow morning,” was the word from headquarters o'f the striking International Longshoremen’s As sociation.' Picket signs along the idle piers were quickly replaced by back-to work placards. The strike—third in little more than a year and the second in six months—began at midnight Mon day, with very little advance warning. Seventy-one ships were stranded in the paralysis that'sud denly gripped the world’s largest and busiest . port. However* the big- passenger liners were able to come and go without any great discomfort.' However, the shippers did gain a no-strike pledge from the ILA, good for at least 45 days—which gives them time to get. a head start on the annual flood' of Christmas season imports. A- dispute over retroactivity of wages and welfare payments sparked the walkout along 350 miles of waterfront. The ILA demanded and got immediate payment of an 8-cent an-hour wage boost retroactive to Oct. 1, 1953, when the last union shipper contract fan out. Shippers wanted to make the retroactive boost part of general terms in a new contract yet to be tackled. The increase brought the wage scale on the docks to $2.35 an hour. It will cost shippers an - added four million dollars a year; ' 7 The settlement also provided for a 2-cent increase in contribu tions to the union welfare fund retroactive to April 1, as proposed by the shippers. Two Strikers Convicted PITTSBURGH, Oct. 6 m-Two striking employes of a Pittsburgh department store, accused of beat ing an insurance agent, were con victed today of aggravated’ as sault and battery. AEG OK Rumored WASHINGTON, Oct., 6, (/P)— Strong indications developed to day that the Atomic Energy Com mission has approved the Dixori- Yates power contract, and Sens. William Langer (R-Ind) and Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn) filed an im mediate protest to the commis sion. The two senators, meeting as the Senate Judiciary Antimon opoly subcommittee, which is in vestigating the controversy-ridden contract, asked Chairman. Lewis L. Strauss to report by 2:30 p.m. tomorrow whether it has been approved “in any manner what soever.” Langer and Kefauver told Stfauss .it would be “highly im proper” for the government to go ahead with the contract while the subcommittee is investigating it. Meanwhile the Senate-House Atomic Committee telegraphed its members over the country that the AEC has advised Chairman Sterling Cole (R-NY) that “it is ready to present information con cerning the Dixon-Yates con tract.” The committee scheduled Whfen necessary in the Assembly debate. ' Then the Premier reported to the Assembly’s Foreign Affairs . Committee on his London ne gotiations'. Mendes-Franee predicted that a full and precise agreement can be achieved by the end of October, and the texts submitted to Parlia ment for ratification the follow ing month. His aim now is to put the Assembly on record behind the principles for an eventual rati fication, he said. Settlement Discussion The French’ Premier sought to ally the Assembly’s fear on an other point • by announcing that he planned to discuss a settle ment on the Saar problem -in a special meeting in Paris with Ger man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer Oct. 20. The appeared to have won his first parliamentary suc cess when the National Assem bly’s Foreign Affairs .Committee issued a communique tonight praising his -work in London. The committee did not officially vote for or against the agreements but said: “The London conference has given us the satisfaction of insti tuting within the European, or ganization a system of limitation and control of troops and arma ments on the continent.” The meeting closed, but re ports said the Premier stated his case vigorously. He eventually will need the committee’s support. Mendes-Franee Determined The meeting was closed, but accounts which filtered quickly to the legislative corridors said his arguments were vigorous and de termined. The Foreign Affairs Committee’s backing was needed too. Its adverse comment helped kill the European Defense Community treaty, the previous scheme for freeing West Germany and arm ing her in Western defense, in the Assembly Aug. 30. The Premier, now riding a crest of favor in public opinion, can force the deputies to. remove him from office if they attempt to re pudiate the West European and North Atlantic plan which he ac cepted in London. These call- for expansion of the Brussels Alliance to include the Bohn government and Italy as a framework for West German re armament, the grant of sovereign ty to West Germany and her en trance as an equal member in the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion. Britain pledged in return to keep troops on the continent in definitely. . open hearings tentatively for Oct. 13. Earlier, the office of Sen. Ful bright (D-Ark) had reported Ful bright has been, told the contract had been approved and “we be lieve it to be true.” Fulbright has supported the contract, which calls for a 107 million dollar private utility plant to be built at West'Memphis, Ark., to supply power to the'Memphis area over lines of the Tennessee Valley Authority. This power would replace -TVA power which goes to atomic .plants. In still another development today, Sen. Langer announced he will ask a Justice Department investigation of the accounting methods used by. Middle South Utilities, Inc., one of the com panies in the Dixon-Yates group. Eisenhower proposed the con tract, as an alternative to appro priating money for TVA to build a steam plant near Memphis. Its supporters contend it would re lieve the federal budget and would be sound economics. They deny there is any favoritism in volved. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. El Italian Officers Enter Trieste, Allies‘to' Leave TRIESTE, Oct. 6 (JP)—' Ten Ital ian officers entered the territory fit Trieste today in a ceremony heralding the imminent departure of American and British troops. The rites were brief but his toric. It .was the first time in 11 years that an Italian soldier had pome to this long-disputed area in an officer capacity. The delegation was headed by Maj. Gen. Edmondo de Renzi, des ignated as governor extraordinary of the Trieste zone being restored to Italy under the Yugoslav-Ital ian agreements initialed in Lon don yesterday. . - He will take over the military government from the allied when the last of the British and Ameri can garrison troops leave, presum ably by the end of October. At ancient Duino Castle, De Renzi met the man who now com mands the Allied zone A, British Gen. Sir John Winterton. The meeting was highlighted by the flash of press cameras, butthe two men discussedi privately the outlines of the change-over plan. Two main 1 problems must- be dealt with before the Italians can take over: 1. The readjusted boundary line between the new Italian zone and the Yugoslav zone B must be marked out in detail. 2. The 3000 American and 2000 British now garrisoning the Allied zone must be withdrawn. Work already is under way on both tasks. Navy to Probe Piping Mixup WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (.£>)—A Navy investigation is under way to fix responsibility for a mixup which resulted in the wrong kind of steam piping going into the atomic submarine Nautilus. The Navy estimates that at least three months will be needed to untangle the trouble and get the Nautilus ready for sailing. . The Navy said today that sec tions of a 1%-inch steamline in the world’s first nuclear subma rine contain welded piping in stead of seamless tubing called for in the Navy’s specifications. It was a section of welded pip ing, bursting under a test Sept. 18, which led to discovery of the error, a Navy official said. This official said that the seam less tubing passed naval inspec tion at the fabrication plant and was shipped from there to the Groton, Conn., yard of the Elec tric Boat division of General Dy namics Corp., where the Nautilus has been built. No Act—Ask Brando! NEW YORK, Oct. 6 (/P)—Mar lon Brando played the make be lieve rple of a longshoreman re cently in a Hollywood movie. To-, day he got a dose of the real thing. Because of the dock strike,, there were no longshoremen to tote his baggage aboard the liner lie de France as he sailed for Eur ope. The husky actor bent his NOW IN STOCK! GLENN MILLER Limited Editions Vol. II Get Yours While They Last THE HARMONY SHOP 135 S. Frazier St. Phone AD 7-2130 Open every evening til 9:00 We do not close on Wed. ■nNsylvania Ex-FHA Chief To Block Investigation WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (A>) Clyde L. Powell cried “politics” today as he sought unsuccessfully to block a grand jury investiga tion of his activities as a govern ment housing official. Daniel 8.. Maher, attorney .for the ousted FHA rental housing chief, , asked the U. S. District Court 'to “take judicial notice of countless predictions in news papers- and political forecasters that there would be political in dictments returned against mem bers' of the former administration prior to the November election.” But District Judge F. Dickinson Letts rejected Maher’s challenge of the legality of the grand jury and refused to quash a subpoena directing Powell to appear before it. He said “no irregularity has been shown” in setting up the grand jury, and that no injustice to Powell had resulted. Today’s developments came in the wake of testimony before the Senate Banking Committee yester day that Powell demanded and re ceived $lO,OOO from a Washington architect before he would approve an application for increasing an FHA-insured loan on an apartment project here. The committee also heard testi mony that Powell banked almost three times his salary over a peri od from 1945 through last April, although he reported only his salary on ’federal income tax re turns. Maher, in addition to contesting the validity of the special grand jury, specifically asked that a sub poena for Powell’s appearance be quashed. He said a statement by Atty. Gen. Brownell announcing that the grand jury would investigate brib ery and other criminal conduct in the federal housing program was “a patent attempt by the chief law enforcement officer of the United States to use an arm of the United States District Court as an instrumentality of political propaganda. The Justice Department said Powell “had charge of the rental housing program' which operated from 1946 to 1950 and resulted in windfalls to speculators'exceeding 51 million dollars alone in 285 cases reviewed by the Housing and Home Finance Agency.” Two Die; Ten Hurt- As Plane Crashes .FT. BRAGG, N.C., Oct. 6 (IP) — A Cl 19 Flying Boxcar, its left en gine spouting flames, crashed in to a barracks construction proj ect here today and' killed the pilot and co-pilot. Teh aboard the giant ship were hurt—three crewmen and seven military passengers. Four civil ians helping build barracks for the new home of the 82nd Air borne Divisioh on this sprawling reservation also were injured. Only the heroic action of the pilot, W. Li Wiatt of Ft. Bragg prevented :a higher death toll. The co-pilot was Lt. S. N. Fulton of Southern Pines, N.C. Witness es said the crippled plane, head ing straight' for the three-story brick barracks that was teeming with construction workers, sud denly . veered away from the building and crashed on a paved street. . Nearly one out of every four Pennsylvania residents purchased a new car in the eight years fol lowing World. War 11. State resi dents bought two and a half mil lion new passenger cars. back to it and lugged his own lug gage aboard. Fails Soviet Raps Allied Plan On Germany BERLIN, Oct. 6 (JP) —Soviet For eign Minister Vyacheslav M. Mol otov struck back tonight at new Allied plans for getting West Ger many to join in European defense. He called for a Big Four meeting on German reunification and an immediate end to German occu pation. Molotov, who made a surprise flight to East Berlin last night, made his major policy speech at a meeting of ranking East Ger man officials and representatives of a dozen Communist countries including Red China. The speech came on the eve of the fifth an niversary of the founding of the Soviet-dominated East German government. He condemned the recent nine power Western Allied conference in L o n d o n as making German unification impossible and greatly increasing the danger of Euro pean war. His proposals were seen as the first big guns in a Soviet campaign to wreck the de cisions of the London conference. The Soviet government de clares today,” he said, “that it proposes anew to the govern ments of the United States, Bri tain, and France to conclude an agreement on the withdrawal of occupation troops from the terri tory of East and West Germany and to solve this problem imme diately.” The acceptance of this pro posal would ease the situation of the population in East as well as in West Germany for reunifica tion of Germany.” Molotov said there can be no doubt that the “basic solution of the German problem” is the con clusion of a peace treaty with Germany in accordance with the Potsdam agreement of 1945. Marilyn Monroe Exits From Honeymoon Home HOLLYWOOD, Oct. - 6 (IP) ~ Marilyn Monroe, sobbing and scarcely able to speak, made an exit worthy of an Academy Award today from the honey moon house she once shared with Joe DiMaggio. Leaning on her attorney and flanked by press agents, she faced nearly 100 newsmen when she emerged from the Beverly Hills home the ex-baseball star had left only an hour before. I can’t say anything today,” she said, falteringly, to reporters who had hoped she would explain the sudden breakup of her nine- marriage. “J have to go to work,” the blonde beauty, absent from her movie job since she announced the split, exclaimed. THE VICTORY DINER « » « is always open PIZZA PIE Italian and American Foods Sana Capparelli, owner AD 7-3646 N. Atherton St. J (Just past the Boro Line) j PAGE THREE
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