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
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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."
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