WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 13. 1954
French Assembly
Backs Premier
PARIS, Oct. 12 (JP) —Premier Pierre Mendes-France won
a vote of confidence 3-to-l from the French National As
sembly today on the Lqhdon conference plan to rearm West
Germany in the alliance against Communist aggression.
At the same time Assemh
Premier to make what he callr
Destructive
Hurricane
Hits Haiti
_ MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 12 (£>)—Hur
ricane Hazel left .a toll of death
and destruction in Haiti today as
it roared through the .Windward
Passage toward the Atlantic.
The storm’s 115-mile winds re
portedly left several persons dead
and upward of 700 homeless, as
it-thundered across Haiti’s south
ern peninsula which juts west
ward from the main body' of the
island.
Moving forward- at only seven
m.p.h.,the storm reportedly'caused
damage of $550,000 in Haiti.
Reports of death and damage
were received by President Paul
E.. Magloire from Julian Coride,
mayor of Aux Cayes, a city of
30,000 on the southern peninsula.
Aid was moving into the penin
sula from Port au Prince, the cap
ital.'' Red Cross teams reported
roads blocked at Grand Goave, a
sugar and banana community of
1800 population 50 miles west of
Port au Prince. /
Winds rose to gale force in the
Atlantic north of the Windward
Passage as the tropical storm
edged northward about 500 miles
southeast of Miami.. The Bahamas
were warned against -the ap
proaching storm.
Cuba, on the west side of the
Windward-Passage, still had felt
no high winds. The storm’s center
still approached that island’s east
ern tip.
GOP Candidate
Refutes Speech
YORK, Pa., Oct. 12 (JP)— Atty.
Prank _F. Truscott, Republican
candidate for lieutenant governor,
told a York County rally last
night that his statement about
subversives in the county was
misrepresented. . -
“A few weeks ago. I called at
tention to one of the most im
portant issues of this campaign—
the fact that the Democratic can
didate for governor not only re
fused to vote for the Pennsylvania
loyalty act but had fought against
it,” Truscott said in a prepared
speech.
“That statement and some other
remarks I made about subversive
activity in York County'were im
mediately seized upon by the sup
porters of iny opponent and mis
represented as a criticism of the
great county of York.
“There was nothing further,
from my thoughts.”
13 Puerto Ricans
Called Conspirators
NEW YORK, Oct. 12
teen Puerto Rican Nationalists
were convicted of seditious con
spiracy against the United States
tonight.
A federal jury deliberated less
than, four hours.
’ Four of the accused already had
been convicted of spraying the
House of Representatives, with
bullets last March and wounding
five congressmen.
The thirteen, including two
women, sat silently with . heads
bowed as the foreman read the
verdict.
GREETING CARDS
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348 East College' Aye.
iy leaders said they , want the
ed “simultaneous and parallel”
efforts to get a disarmament
agreement between Moscow and
the Western world.
The vote was 350-113, with the
99 Communist deputies furnish
ing the - bulk of the opposition.
Some"of the 152 deputies who.ab
stained, however, may swell the
“no’s” when the final London
agreements come up for ratifica
tion.
Go Ahead Given
Today’s vote authorized Men
des-Franee to go ahead with form
ing the Western European Union
decided upon at London Oct. 3
as an enlargement of the five-na
tion Brussels .'Alliance of 1948.
Britain and France are the pros
pective-bulwarks-of the new pact
together’ with their enemies of
World 'War ll—Germany and
Italy. The Netherlands, Belgium
and little Luxembourg would also
be members. The West Germans
would join the rest in the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization,
which includes the United States
and Canada among its 14 mem
bers.
.' Mendes-France’s victory by a
wide margin was assured last
night when the biggest party in
Parliament, the Socialists, decided
to throw its weight to his side.
The. Socialists control 105 of the
627 votes.
Socialists Back Premier
The Socialists, though not rep
resented in the Cabinet, have
backed Mendes-France consistent
ly since he took office l in June.
However, this time they had first
been expected to abstain. Then a
rash of pro-government resolu
tions came in from strong Social
ist organizations in the provinces.
Socialist Deputy Georges Guille,
the party’s spokesman from the
rostrum 'today, told Mendes-
France:
“We ask you to continue to work
for a united' Europe and the or
ganization of its safety.”
Wilson Denies Sly r in Story
'meant” at the news conference.
Two hours after Eisenhower is
sued his own. It started off by
saying:
“In my press conference yester
day I thought back in my own
home town I was in no danger of
having anything I said taken out
of context and misinterpreted.”
Wilson traced his background
back to when he worked in a. shop
for 18 cents an hour wheh he was
19 years old, and said “I have had
an extra understanding of the
problems of workmen.”
He said he told the dog story
“to make this point that I ad
mired spirit and initiative.” I
DETROIT, Oct. 12 (.flP)—Defense
Secretary Charles E. Wilson said
today he intended no slur against
jobless workers in an offhand
“dog” story he told newsmen here
yesterday.
He said he “certainly intended
no invidious comparisons, nor in
sinuations likening people to dogs
in any sense.” ?
“And for any one to imply I
did or under arxy circumstances
would think that way,” he said,
“is a complete distortion of the
facts.”
• Then he added:
“I am sure that the distorted
version of what I said is being
used, by the people of the adverse
political-party trying to capitalize
on a misinterpretation of the full
meaning'of what I actually said.”
With a new statement, Wilson
jumped into the political storm
which had swirled about him
since his news conference remark
first was published .24 hours
earlier.
President Dwight D. Eisen
hower had sought to calm that
storm today with a statement ex
pressing full confidence in his cab
inet member.
' . At the news conference, Wilson
had said he had “a lot of sympa-
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Ind. Flood
Crisis Past;
Rains to End
HAMMOND, Ind.. Oct. 12 (#>)—
The flood crisis passed in Ham
mond and suburbs today, but a
weekend of torrential rains built
up a fast-spreading flood at Ply
mouth, halfway across Northern
Indiana.
An end of the rains was fore
cast for tonight.
Yellow River, ordinarily only 3
feet deep, rose a foot to an 18-
foot, stage in downtown Plymouth,
chasing families from their homes.
Another 150 homes were flooded
around Lake of the Woods north
east of Plymouth.
The Little Calumet fell as much
as a foot at Hammond, and 350
national guardsmen and 5000 vol
unteers turned from sandbagging
work 'to patrols to watch for
crumbling levees, or looting of an
estimated 2000 deserted homes.
Across the state line, winds
helped dry out the sodden flood
debris left by Chicago’s worst rain
of tjie century. '
New dike breaks flooded 500
homes at the south edge of Ham
mond,- though, the Little Calumet
had already started to drop. Ear
lier breaks had flooded the adja
cent Schieicher section of 500
small homes, besides an estimated
1000 others in the suburbs of
Highland, Munster and Dyer.
The Red Cross moved in at both
Hammond and Plymouth, and a
state disaster • headquarters was
set up in Michigan City, halfway
between.
Traffic Banned
Traffic was banned in Ply
mouth, a-city of 6700 population
25 miles south of South Bend.
Only emergency telephone calls
were accepted. Schools remained
closed. Emergency quarters were
set up for flood evacuees in an
Episcopal parish house and Mar
shall County Democratic head
quarters.
At Hammond, Mayor Vernon
Anderson said he planned to con
fer with Rep. Charles A. Halleck
(R.-Ind.), House majority leader,
about getting federal emergency
aid: for victims.
The floods blocked U.S. 6 at the
Little Caluipet bridge _at Ham
mond, at two bridges between
Walkerton and Bremen, and near
Hobart.
thy” for jobless workers, but he
said he “always like bird dogs
better than kennel-fed dogs my
self.”
Grinning broadly, the blunt
spoken former General Motors
Corp. president then elaborated
by saying:
“You know, one who’ll get out
and hunt for food rather than sit
on his fanny and yell.”
Those were the words used by
Wilson as shown by a transcrip
tion from a tape recording of the
news conference. Today Wilson’s
statement' said that the kennel
fed dog “would sit back on his
haunches and yelp.”
The heads of both the CIO and
the AFL joined in rapping Wilson.
Democratic party leaders seized
on the quotation. Criticism even
came from within the Republican
party.
CIO President Walter Reuther
protested to Eisenhower. He call
ed on the President to order Wil
son to retract publicly or resign.
Eisenhower replied by saying,
“I have never found him, Wilson,
in the slightest degree indifferent
to human misfortune.”
The President said he was sure
“initial newspaper reports did not
fully reflect what Wilson said or
River Falls
Red Atomic Plan
Questioned by US
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 12 (A s )—The United States urged
the UN today to take a long and inquiring look at Russia’s new dis
armament proposals and once more pledged itself to use atomic
weapons only in defense against aggression.
In the first detailed reaction from the United States to proposals
laid down in the Assembly by Russia’s Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Ameri-
can Delegate James J. Wads
worth said Moscow appeared to
be standing fast for a veto on
decisions of the proposed Inter
national Control Commission.
He told the Assembly’s political
committee the Soviet proposal on
operation of' the international
control agency was obscure and
needed much clarification.
Vishinsky Replies
Vishinsky, who appears to be
primed to push the disarmament
debate along as rapidly as possi
ble in contrast to previous stall
ing tactics, replied that Wads
worth was confusing the issue
about the veto.
He said the control commis
sion would not have authority to
enforce decisions but must make
reports to the Security Council
where the big powers have a veto.
He said on procedural points ho
veto .would' apply but provisions
of the UN charter must apply on
important decisions. This, in short,
still means ,the veto always is in
the background when the going
gets rough.
Favors Inspection
Vishinsky said the Soviet Union
favored inspection “on a perma
nent basis to the extent necessary
to ensure the implementation of
above mentioned convention by
all states.”
On this point, Wadsworth, said:
“Any control organ with powers
‘to extent necessary to ensure the
implementation of the convention’
must clearly have the full run of
a country. Mr. Vishinsky pointed
out that during the war button
factories in the Soviet Union man
ufactured munitions.
“The International Control Com
mission must therefore have the
right to inspect button factories
in order to determine whether or
not they are manufacturing mu
nitions.”
Prisoners End Riot
SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Oct. 12 (JP)
—Three hundred rioting prisoners
of the South Dakota State Peni
tentiary gave, up two guard hos
tages and returned to their cells.
Leader Hits
Job Lack
Within State
LEHIGHTON, Pa., Oct. 12 (JPj—
Sen. George M. Leader said to
night that the Republican admin
istration at Washington has “sad
dled us with a had foreign trade
policy” which is wreaking its ef
fect on Pennsylvania’s economy.
in Pennsyl
vania has been pushed along peril
ously by economic failures on the
national frontier,” the Democratic
gubernatorial candidate said in a
campaign speech here.
He added: “The jobless crisis
has been compounded further by
the frightful inadequacies of state
government in the hands of poli
tical bunglers who have ho con
ception of the pocketball pressures
which are affecting the lives of
hundreds of thousarfds of our peo
ple.
Leader said the national admin
istration’s foreign policy has wid
ened the dollar gap between our
country and other" nations ahd
made -it increasingly harder for
foreign consumers to get Ameri
can dollars with which to buy our
products.”
The Democratic candidate said
that in Pennsylvania people “have
had enough of the hypocritical
Republican doctrine that what is
good for the Grundy-dominated
Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ As
sociation is good for the rest of
us.”
“Everywhere I go,” said Leader,
“people tell me they have reached
the saturation point and they are
apparently convinced that another
four years of Republican rule will
completely wreck the economy of
this state.”
Earlier today Leader, campaign
ing. at Beaver Meadows, Carbon
County, proposed establishment of
two state cancer clinics in Penn
sylvania.
“The whole purpose of these
hospitals will be to help those
who are unable to help them
salves,” he said.
Hoover Plans Trip
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (AP) —
Former President Herbert Hoover
has accepted an invitation to visit
German Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer.
Diplomats understand that
Hoover will visit West Germany
about Nov. 21. President Dwight
D. Eisenhower and Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles, both
admirers of Adenauer, urged
Hoover to make the trip.
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