SATURDAY. OCTOBER 9; 1954
Opposition Feared
PARIS, Oct. 8 (JP)—A growing
drive to' prevent the rebirth of‘ a
German general staff threatened
Premier Pierre Mendes-France
with an,all out fight today to win
National Assembly approval of
German rearmament'. ' i ,
The assembly' move- to attach
“conditions”’to the London agree
ments is directly counter'to Men
des-France’s expressed hopes for
a free and stronger hand in forth
coming negotiations.'
Several factions, spearheaded
by Pierre-Henri Teitgen, leader of
the Popular. Republicans (MRP),
supported motions which in effect
Would put restrictions on the gen
eral staff, in any plan for West
German rearmament.
.... Germans to Join NATO
. The London agreements, which
Mendes-France is asking the as
sembly to approve, would permit
West German rearmament as part
of a.'revived Brussels Treaty and
would give' the Germans full
membership in the,North Atlan
tic Treaty Organization. These ac
cords'were, drafted as a substitute
for. , the European Army plan
(EDC) which the French Parlia
ment rejected.
Under l these new proposals, the
Germans would have their 'own
national army and general staff
which would become part of an
Allied command. Under EDC, the
Germans would have been enlist
ed into an international European
Army.
Opposes 'Conditions'
The Premier was described as
resolutely opposed to tying ,any
condition to the negotiations he
will conduct later this month
when the details of the, London
agreements are to be filled- in by
tne ministers.
The time of the vote appeared
to depend on whether Mendes-
France would find it necessary to
make his policy an issue of confi
dence. If so, then balloting could
not begin until Monday. If not,' it
might happen late tonight or
sometime tomorrow.
State Court Calßs
Senatorial Election
CARSON CITY, Nev.; Oct. 8(/P)
•—An election Nov. 2 to fill the
unexpired term of the late Dem
ocratic Sen. Pat McCarran was
ordered today by the Nevada Su
preme Court. The unanimous de
cision by the three-judge court
was a victory, for the Democrats.
The Republicans, reportedly
'with White House backing, had
sought to prevent the vote.
Democrats charged the Republi
cans were trying tc keep the yot
ers from exercising their fran
chise.
The Democratic charge has
become the major November cam
paign issue in Nevada, where the
Democrats hold a 3-2. edge in,' reg
istration.
Leader Attacks GO P
Administration Record
ERIE, Pa., Oct. 8 (£>) Sen.
George M. Leader, Democratic gu
bernatorial choice* said tonight
that his Republican opponent, ,Lt.
Gov. Lloyd H. Wood, has been a
part of the “atrocious record” of
the Fine administration. - •
“That’s why'-he (Wood) never
refers to it by narrie,” said Leader
at a Democratic rally.
Leader said .Wood' is suffering
from “political pipedreams” when
he said a Democratic victory
•would bankrupt Pennsylvania.
“Mr. Wood may not know it but
Pennsylvania is virtually bank
rupt now,” said Leader. “Just a
few days ago the state govern
ment had to -borrow $9O million
in tax anticipation notes. This
clearly supports the Democratic
charge that there, has been appal
ling mismanagement under Re
publican rule.”
The Democratic candidate said
Peiinsylvania has the largest debt
of any state in the union and add
ed:"' v
, “Nobody knows where the tax
'lke Makes Appectt
For GOP Congress
DENVER, Oct. 8 (JP) —President Eisenhower, making a. spirited
appeal' for a Republican Congress, told the nation tonight that, poli
tics will run riot in Washington if the Democrats' win control of the
legislative branch in the November elections. ,
In a nationwide television-radio address, the President cautioned
against what he termed the dangers of a politically divided govern
ment, with the White House Re
publican and Congress run by the
Democrats,
“You know perfectly well that
you just can’t have one car with
two drivers at the steering wheel
and expect to end up any place
but in the ditch—especially when
the drivers are set on going in
different directions,” Eisenhower
declared in a speech prepared for
delivered before a big political
rally in the 6000-seat Denver Mu
nicipal Auditorium.
The President said “a cold war
of partisan politics between the
Congress and - the executive
branch” would block achievement
of the goals which he said he'
feels can be attained through con
tinued Republican control of Con
gress.
The party’s congressional lead
ers arrived in Denver during the
day to take their place with Eis
enhower on the speakers’ stand
tonight.
Publicly they expressed confi
dence the party will continue to
sit in the congressional drivers’
seat after the November elections,
but privately some of them spoke
of concern about the outcome.
Eisenhower’s TV-radio address
was . directed largely to party
workers and • recruits marking
“Precinct Workers Day” at an es
timated 26,500 rallies from coast
to coast. The White House esti
mated that 1,250,000 persons at
those rallies were tuned in to
the broadcasts from Denver.
Cornett Tomato
May Aid Politics
ITHACA,,N.Y., Oct. 8 OR)—At
tention tomato throwers and poli
ticians:
The New York State College of
Agriculture at Cornell University
today announced that its scientists
were working to develop a firm
er, less juicy tomato. The college
said the vegetable might be a
boon, to commercial growers and
home gardeners “and perhaps ev
en to politicians.” - .
The announcement came too
late"' for four boys in Watertown,
who tossed tomatoes at Sen. Irv
ing M. Ives, the Republican can
didate for governor, last Tuesday
night. The boys since have apolo
gized. T. ) .
dollars have gone. -We have had
government by secrecy and con
nivance. There is no public confi
dence anymore in the governor’s
misleading financial statements.”
, Leader then called for “an end
to government by favoritism, gov
ernment by chance and govern
ment by default.”
Sen. Joseph J. Y<?sko.(D-North
ampton) made public a letter in
Harrisburg in which he demanded
that Atty. Gen. Frank F. Truscott,
Republican candidate for lieuten
ant governor, investigate the fi
nancial operations of Harrisburg
State Hospital.
Yosko said “irregularities” have
appeared in state reports on op
erations of the hospital, adding
that $lOO,OOO hag not been ac
counted for in. inventories.
“I must state in the public in
terest that if this matter is ig
nored or whitewashed as has been
the case on numerous occasions,
action will be demanded from the
district attorney of Dauphin
County,” he said.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Parties Differ
On Registration
Interpretation
HARRISBURG, Oct. 8 (JP) —Re-
publicans and Democrats differed
today on the likely effect of new
registration figures which showed
150,000 more voters . eligible to
cast ballots in the Nov. 2 general
election.
An Associated Press survey of
county election bureaus reported
a total of 5,215,524 compared to
5,071,234 for the May primary.
The election registration com
pared with the general election
figures first, primary second:
Republican, 3,040,908, 2,968,607;
Democrat, 2,104,620, 2,035,605; mi
nor party and non-partisan, 69,-
996, 67,022.
Miles Horst, Republican state
chairman, said “There are still
approximately three NRepublicans
for every two Democrats in Penn
sylvania and all the high-powered
propaganda hasn’t changed that.”
For the Democrats, State Chair
man Joseph M. Barr said he was
gratified by the “tremendous
showing made by the Democratic
party” in the registration figures.
Wood/ Denies
Democrats - 'Cure'
ERIE, Pa., Oct. 8 (/P) —Lt. Gov. Lloyd H. Wood, Republican can
didate for governor, said tonight Democrats have “no cure” for the
unemployment problem.
“They have no magic formula for creating prosperity,” he told
a GOP rally here. “W,e found that out during 20 years of the New
Deal and Fair Deal in Washing
ton ”
Wood said it was only during
war that “we had anything ap
proaching full employment,” add
ing:
“The lives of hundreds of thous
ands of our war dead was a heavy
price to pay for that kind of pros
perity.”
• The lieutenant governor said
the GOP had “a better way to
bring progress to our people.”
“It offers our citizens good gov
ernment at the lowest possible
cost. It offers the kind of- govern
ment which encourages industrial
and commercial development.”
Slowdown 'Temporary'
Wood described the present un
employment situation as a “temp
orary slowdown” which is due to
the transition from a wartime to
a peacetime economy.” This type
a slowdown, he added, “is always
short-lived.”
- It .is only when government
meddles with the laws of econo
mics and hobbles business, labor
and agriculture with endless regu
latipns, that we find ourselves in
a never-ending mess,” Wood ex
plained.
Earlier at New Castle, Wood
said he would “rather be licked
and thrown out on the streets
than be a hypocrite on campaign
issues.”
Wants 'Adequate' Finance
He said he stands for the “ade
quate financing of our school sys
tem.”
‘My opponent, Sen. George M.
Leader, Democratic gubernatorial
choice, is unfair ; in not saying
what he stands for. He promises
more services for less money,
when we all know that it can’t
be done,” Wood declared.
Cape hart Pressured
To Drop Probe
Of Housing Scandal
WASHINGTON, Oct. r .B (£>)—Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R-Ind.)
said today, that “pressure” has been put on him not to investigate
$60,000 in fees he said were 'paid to ,two Washington men for help
in getting government-insured loans- on housing projects.
“It makes me very suspicious of this whole thing,” the senator
said.'“They can’t put pressure on me and they might as well know it.”
Capehart is chairman of the
Senate banking committee, which
is concluding a six-month inves
tigation of federal housing prac
tices. The inquiry has resulted in
a shakeup of the Federal Housing
Administration and several crimi
nal cases have developed from it.
'Capehart skid the pressure had.
been exerted /in telephone calls
within the last 24 hours, but he
did not go into any details.
12 Firms Paid
Instead he < began digging into
the. question of the fees, which ne
reported were paid by a dozen
different firms to Richard Mc-
Cormack and Marshall Diggs.
McCormack was to have testi
fied today, but he was reported
to be suffering from high blood
pressure and nervousness and was
too ill to take the-stand.
Diggs Testifies
Diggs,. identifying himself as a
lawyer, testified that McCormack
had brought him 12 clients inter
ested in defense, housing projects
under the Wherry Act.
Each of these clients paid him
a $5OOO fee, he said, adding that
pne was returned entirely but
that he paid McCormack 50 per
cent of the others, or a total of
$27,500.
In no case, the witness insisted,
did the FHA. issue a mortgage
commitment for his 11 clients/
Diggs said he did not know what
McCormack told the clients.
Pittsburgh Settlement
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 8 (A>)—Lo
cal 249 of the AFL General Team
sters—key union in the 11-month
strike against five department
stores—today agreed to submit a
proposed settlement of the strike
to its members next week.
A Bird in Hand . ..
MIAMI, Fla., Oct; 4 “Did
you get his license number?” pol
ice asked Gregory A. Commes to
day after his car was struck by a
hit-run vehicle.
“I sure did,” replied Commes.
“I grabbed it as he drove away.”
He handed officers a complete
license plate. They are investigat
ing.
KICK OFF The Homecoming Weekend
by seeing the Penn State Thespia <
"FUNNY SIDE UP'
... a musical revue featuring
songs, comedy, dancing, girls.
WHERE?
—at Schwab Auditorium
WHEN?
—Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
October 14, 15, 16,, 8 p.m.
HOW MUCH?
—Thursday, $1.00:
Friday and Saturday, $1.25
Alumni
Tickets on sale at Student Union, Old Main, beginning
Monday, October 11, at 1:30 p.m.
Power Plan
Sidelined
Until Nov. 2
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (A>)
The administration’s plan for the
atomic energy commission to con
tract for private power in the
TVA area was. sidetracked again
today, until after the Nov. 2 elec
tions.
This is the second controversy
which has now been laid aside
until the campaigns are over, the
other one being the questions of
whether the Senate shall censure
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis).
The Senate-House atomic ener
gy committee had set a tentative
Oct. 13 date for beginning hear
ings on the proposed AEC con
tract, with'the Dixon-Yates utility
group. Nov. 4 is now the sug
gested ; date.
However, Sen. Bourke B. Hic
kenlooper (R-Iowa), who will
preside, said only two or three
of the 18 committeemen could be
here Wednesday and it was de
cided to wait until there was a
majority on hand.
Hickenlooper and Rep. W. Sterl
ing Cole (R-NY), regular chair
man of the committee, sent a
telegram to members asking if
they preferred postponing the
hearings until Nov. 4.
W. Va. Frosh Held
On Extortion Charge
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 8 (iP)—Fred
Hallford, special agent in charge
of the FBI here, said Joseph Mc-
Cort, 25, was arrested at his Mor
gantown, W. Va., home today,
charged with a $3lOO bank short
age.
Hallford said McCort admitted
taking $3621 by withholding pay
ments received for deposits at the
First National Bank, Point Mar
ion, Pa.
The FBI agent said McCort told
federal investigators he returned
$521 to the bank, lie was a teller
at the bank from Aug. 1, 1953 to
last Aug. 25, when he was dis
charged, Hallford said. ,
Coal'Confab Planned
HARRISBURG, Oct. 8 (/P) —
Twenty seven coal industry lead
ers will meet with Gov. John S.
Fine here next Wednesday to
start a study of Pennsylvania’s
ailing coal economy.
Fine already heads a committee
of governors which is attacking
the problem on a national basis.
Homecoming Weekend
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