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WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 1 Ike, Knowiand Disagree On Red Blockade Action WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (R)--;The Sehate's Republican leader called again today for a blockade of Red China to force the releasd of American prisoners there, but the White House said President Eisenhower feels this would be "war action." • Eisenhower thus lined up goL :Foster Dulles against the propose. UAW Signs; No Strike At Chrysler DETROIT, Nov. 30 VP)—Chrys ler Corp: narrowly averted a strike today to rush on without hindrance in the great 1955 car market battle. Almost exactly 50 minutes be fore a 7 a.m. strike deadline, the company came to an 'agreement with the CIO United Auto Work ers over an office workers' con tract dispute. The settlement, reached after marathon negotiations, kept Chrysler free to continue the bat tle for car buyers with its "Big Three" companies of the auto in dustry, Ford and General Motors. Bid To Recover Sales r( In the 1955 model production and sales drive Chrysler will bid to recoup ground it lost in 1954. Together, the "Big Three" have Produced more than 90 per cent of all the nation's cars. In the last year, however, Chrysler's share slumped from an estimated 20 per cent .down to about 12. A strike, if prolonged, could have closed down Chrysler entire ly. idling 150,000 workers. The Chrysler-union dispute dealt with a contract for 850 salaried office workers of the Automotive Body Division, one of Chrysler's 19 plants., Wages Not Involved • Wages, except for work classi fication adjustment, were not at issue. Chrysler Vice President Robert W. Conder, in charge of industrial relations, and Emil Mazey, UAW secretary-treasurer, a n n•,o u n c ed the settlement in a joint state nnnt. Their statement said the agree ment "continues" the union shop along - with other provisions. of an engineers' contract which the un ion had demanded in duplicate for the office workers. Leader Names Atty. Genera! -HARRISBURG, Nov. 30 (FP)— Gw.-elect George M. Leader to day selected Herbert B. Cohen to be his, attorney general. Cohen immediately hinted he would prosecute bingo games in Pennsyl vania. The attorney general-designate was asked at his first news con ference after Leader's announce mint 'if he would crack down on bingo parties throughout the state. "We're going to enforce the law," he said. "That's everything including bingo." But the 54-year-old York attor ney hedged when asked specifical ly if he thought bingo was illegal in Pennsylvania. To that question, he replied: "I - haven't studied th e law." Cohen differed with the position taken by Col. C. M. Wilhelm, state police commissioner in three Re publican administrations, that bingo is a matter exclusively for local prosecution. AAUP to Hear Staff Members Two 'University staff members will discuss the new amendments to the Federal Social Security Act at a meeting of the Perin State chapter of the American As sociation of University Professors at 7:30 tonight in 121 Sparks. Kenneth R. Erfft, associate comptroller, will describe the steps that are necessary if Uni versity employees are to be cov ered by social security, and Ar thur H. Reede, professor of eco nomics, will discuss the substance of the new amendments. dly with•-Secretary of State John I 'of Sen. William T. Knowland of California. In a major speech at Chicago last night s Dulles said the United States had . agreed _under the United Nations charter to try to settle international disputes in a manner which would not en danger world peace. 'Peaceful Mearis'• "Therefore," Dulles said, "our first duty is to exhaust peaceful means of sustaining our interna tional rights and those of 'our citi zens, rather than now resorting to war action such as a naval and air blockade of Red China." A strong American protest against the imprisonment of 11 U.S. airmen and two civilians as "spies" has just been rejected by Red Chinese representatives, in Geneva, Switzerland, the only point of direct diplomatic contact with the Peiping regime. Other Alternatives Knowland said there may_ be some other "effective alternatiye" to the blockade he advocates. "If it is effective, it will have my full supnort," he added. "But personally, I don't believe either the Congress or the country will remain complacent month in and month out while Americans .are in Communist jails." Interviewed on a television pro gram NBC's Dave Garroway show—the Senate leader argued that a blockade of the Chinese coast would make things- "so ex pensive" for the Communists that they would be forced to release the 13 Americans, whose prison sentences were announced last week, and a number of other U.S. citizens also being held. Hagerty Questioned The White House view of the situation was reported by James C. Hageity, Eisenhower's press secretary. Newsm'en asked him whether the President agreed with Dulles that a blockade would amount to war action. "Yes," Hagerty replied. He went on to say that Eisenhower "ap proved completely" of the secre tary of state's speech. Club to Plan Deer Hunt The field and stream division of the Penn State Outing Club will meet at 7:30 tonight in 317 Wil lard to organize a deer hunt for this weekend. The meeting is open to the public. ontgornery Warns S LOS. ANGELES, Nov. 30 (p)— Field Marshal Lord Montgomery today warned thellnite'd States to be ready to 'take it' and strike back if it is to survive in the years of "co-existence with conflict" ahead. "We must expect that the Com munist powers will continue to use every means, short 6f world war, to penetrate, to disrupt and to dominate the other half of the world, probing the weak spots, and calling off 'the offensive in any particular place only if strong and effective resistance is of fered," / Montgomery said. But the Western world can Meet the challenge, he declared, by de veloping its , ability to hit back even after nuclear attack. Major war is not so likely, he said, "if free nations maintain the i r HOME , DELIVERY , . Oven Not Oven Net Oven Net Dr. 120 S. Pugh Call AD 7-2280 SHE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE' COLLEGE.. PENNSYLVANIA Czechs Ask Eight Nation Red-Alliance MOSCOW, Nov. 30 (A))—Spur red by the Soviet Union, Czecho slovakia today proposed - a com bined eight-nation Communist military command and East Ger many Called for an ariny 'of its own as Eastern Europe's answer to the prospective rearming of the West Germani. Czech Premier Vilem . Siroky and East German Premier Otto Grotewohl advanced their pro posals at the Communist nations' European security conference or ganized by the SOViet Union in 'an effort to prevent or delay ratifi cation of the Paris agteernehts by the Western powers. Those agreements scheduled fOr ratification by . March 1— would bring a near-sovereign, re arnied West Gerniany into the North Atlantic ._Treaty Organiza tion, a defensive alliance against aggression. A suggestion of a Conimunist combined Military command ap peared in a speech yesterday by Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov in opening the confer ence, to %Which Comniunist China has sent observers. Besides the soviet Union—Which undoubtedly would head the com bined command-LAlbania, Bul garia, CzechoslOvakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania ; East Germany, and six of the Soviet Union's re publics are represented. S. Africa Gets New Premier PRETORIA, South Africa, Ndv. 30 (W)—South Africa's governing Nationalist party today picked as ew prime minister a man whose goal is to make the country a re public. He also wants the govern merit to make an even sterner policy on racial segregation than it has now and to abandon use of the English language. A party caucus named Lands Minister Johannes Gerhardut Strijdom, 61, who uses only the Afrikaans tongue in public and is known as the " Lion of the Tran:s vaal," to succeed retiring Prime Minister Daniel F. IVltilan as iNT.a.- tionalist leader. With- the resignation of Malan effective at midnight, Gov. Gen. E. G. Jansen called on - Strijdom to form a new government. Strijdom has never yet said whether he wants to make South Africa a republic within the Brit ish commonwealth of nations or take it out •of the commonwealth. The new prime Minister favors even stronger measures than Ma lan to implement the Nationalists' uncdmpromising policy of radial segregation and white supremacy. strength. and unity, arid the lead ership of the U.S.A. is convincing and is exercised with understand ing." He told the Los Angeles World Affairs Council: "History Will measure the suc cess of the United States not so much by the quantity of your dol lars as by the quality of your leadership." The' deputy commander of the North Atlantic. Treaty Organiza tion said: "We are faced With the prospect of a 'peaceful coexistence' which, means the absence of both peace and war in the full sense of both words, and which may last for years—perhaps even for gen erations. It is better described as "coexistence with conflict." Beefing up defenses with in creased air power and use of nu- Senate to Vote Today On McCarthy Censure WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (JP)—The last full day of debate in the McCarthy censure row ended tonight with impassioned appeals and counterappeals in an all but empty Senate chamber. Sen. Herbert H. Lehman (D-Lib-NY) rang down the curtain "with a declaration that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis) must be rebuked because "the tactics he used are destructive to the very institutions of free government." Lehman spoke after Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-SD), taking the op posite side, declared it would be a great day for the world-wide Communist propaganda mill if censure is voted for McCarthy. He said .a censure vote would be viewed as a ‘ retreat in this coun-. try's fight against subversion. There'll be a few more speeches tomorrow. Then, by unanimous consent; this special session of the Senate will start voting late in the afternoon on the question of whether or not to reprimand the junior senator from Wisconsin on charges of unbecoming conduct and contempt of the Senate. Sen. William F. Knowland (R- Calif) said he expected the whole censure issue to be settled Thurs day night. The extraordinary ses sion then can end, he said, apart for possible later action on a few non-controversial nominations or other matters. Sen. J. William Fulbright (D- Ark) drew today's biggest audi ence of senators and spectators with a speech accusing McCarthy of starting a "prairie fire" of fear and hatred. Fulbright Says Mail Too Vile For Senate Ears WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (p)— Sen. J. William Fulbright (D -.Aik.) told the Senate today that some of his recent mail bears largely on what he said was Mc- Carthyism. He took the floor during the debate over the move to censure Sen. Joseph. R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) to discuss the matter of his mail and also to read some of the let ters, most of which were critical of those the- writers apparently believe are in favor of censure. Fulbright said that "criticism, vigorous and personal, is a char acteristic of public life in our derriocratic system. "All of us are accustomed to it and I don't think I am any more thin-skinned than most of my col leagues." But, he went on, recently, and "especially since the censure re solution came ,before the Senate, the character of the criticism has changed." Some of his recent mail, he re marked, is "so vile" he could not read it to the Senate. British isles Hit . By High Winds LONDON, Nov. 30 (!P) The great storm sweeping Britain sank a 7373-ton ship today and spread new floods and damage across the country. Rescue ships plucked three bod ies and 19 survivors from the boiling-Irish Sea after the British freighter Tresillian foundered at dawn. Coastguards reported 12 other bodies were sighted in the area and six more , crewmen were missing and believed lost. That brought the death toll in five days of shipping disasters to 43. Twci other ships are feared lost. Winds up to 100 miles an hour brought torrential rain and rising floods to more than 20 counties. Radio Guild to Meet Radio Guild will discuss radio continuity at 7:30 p.m., tomorrow at 312 Sparks. The meeting is open to the public. The guild's weekly workshop will be held Saturday. • clear weapons is necessary to de ter the forces of aggressive com munism, he said, _adding: "The essential point is that we ourselves should be able to re ceive a surprise nuclear attack, to absorb it, and to survive to hit back and continue the fight." The British war hero cited NATO advances made in the last five years, but said: "I often think the next five years are going to prove far more difficult than the last five" layers Present . . . The Corn is',-''.r7reen Friday nights, Dec, 3, 10 9 17 - Jan. 7, 14 Center Stage at the TUB Tickets at Student Union UMW Official Hit for Strikes WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. UP)— The head of a United Mine Work ers local union was reported to have been sharply criticized at the union's international executive board meeting today for several "Ivilcicat" strikes at th' Roena Mine, near Uniontown, Pa. Union officials declined to com ment, saying it was "an internal matter." It was learned reliably, however, that Alfred Cavalcante was warned against permitting further' walkouts by his local on grievances that could be settled through regular contract proce dures. 'The mine, one of the nation's largest, is owned by the U.S. Steel Corp. and was named after the mother of Harry Moses; presi dent of the Bituminous Coal Pro ducers Assn. Moses is the princi pal industry negotiator on labor matters with the UMW. College Enrollment Sets New Record WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (iP)— The U.S. Office of Education to day estimated college and univer city enrollment this fall at 2,472,- 000 students, the highest ever re corded. The total compared with the previous record of 2,457,000 in 1949 and a 1953 enrollment of 2,251,000. J. Kenneth Little, deputy seam missioner of education, com mented: "Except for the years imme diately following World War 11, when large numbers of veterans were attending college under the GI educational benefits, the. 10 per cent increase in number of students this fall over last fall is the largest single-year increase percentage-wise since the mid -305." PAGE THREE