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NEW DELHI, India, , Jan. 4 (k)—Dag Hammarskjold was
described by the Hindustan Times today as "unfortunately
too Dulles-minded." It advised the UN secretary general
humility is the only attitude that can bring ,success on his
mission to Peiping.
The influential English-language publication, often termed
Prime Minister Nehru's favorite
newspaper, loosed its blast as
Hammarskjold neared his jour
ney's end in Red China. He is
seeking the release of 11 impris
oned American fliers and other
UN personnel.
A political columnist of the
Hindustan Times wrote that Ham
marskjold's consultations with
Premier Chou En-lai's Red gov
ernment "will be successful only
if he observes humility and, in
stead of trying to justify on its
merits the case for release of the
U.S. airmen, asks for the gesture
in the interests of international
peace "
Con g ress
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vision networks will carry the ad
dress.
Informed sources said the presi
dential message will contain few
surprises_ They said, however,
Eisenhower will stress a new de
fense concept calling for man
power cuts in the armed forces,
balanced by new weapons and
closer links with this country's al
lies.
, The House will go through the
formality of electing a speaker to
morrow but, with Democrats out
numbering Republicans 231 to 203,
the election of Rayburn is a fore
gone conclusion. Rayburn, who
will be 73 Thursday, already has
served as speaker longer than any
other man in history.
The GOP senators chose Sen.
Styles Bridges (R-NH) chairman
of their Policy Committee. He
succeeds Homer Ferguson (R-
Mich), who was not reelected.
Sen. Eugene Millikin (R-Col)
Was elected chairman of the Con
ference of Republican Senators,
with Sen. 'Milton Young '(R-ND)
as. secretary and Sen. Leverett
Saltanstall (R-Mass) deputy floor
leader or whip.
Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz)
was reported in line to be chosen
later as chairman of the Republi
can Senatorial Campaign Commit
tee—with White House assent.
Goldwater is an outspoken sup
porter of Sen. •Joseph R. McCar
thy (R-Wis), who has split with
the administration over ways and
means on combatting communism
at home and abroad.
The Arizonan quickly came to
President Eisenhower's defense,
however, when McCarthy accused
the President Dec. 7 of displaying
a "shrinking show of weakness"'
over Communist China's jailing of
62 American airmen on "spy"
charges.
UCA Discussion Tonight
The University Clu•istian Asso
ciation will hold an informal dis
cussion, "Review and Preview," at
7 tonight in 304 Old Main.
The discussion will include an
evaluation of the CICA program
this semester and plans for next
semester's program.
Elections Committee
Th e All-University Elections
Committee will meet at 7 p.m. &-
morrow in the Student Govern
ment room in Old Main to review
the past election and begin plan
ning for the election in April.
Sharpsh*oter Hahs Rylbe.ry
With Split-Second Gun He, ing
NEW YORK, Jan. 4 (JP)—A re
ti d police sharpshooter, wh o
fires from either hip, chanced up
on a bank holdup yesterday and
foiled it with three shots.
The lone, would-be bandit was
slain before he got a dime. A
guar( and a customer w ere
slightly wounded.
The decisive, split-second gun
play in Manhattan's garment dis
trict—one of the world's most
congested areas--brought several
thousand curious persons converg
ing on ' a New York Trust Co.
branch. It is three blocks below
Times Square.
The ex-cop was. William Rettig,
61, who retired from the force 10
years ago this month with a repu
tation as a crack shot. He is a mes
senger for the Franklin Savings
Bank, four blocks away from the
New York Trust. He happen^d
into the New York Trust on an
"Expert Judgment"
"It is presumably to make such
a gesture easy that Nehru criti
cized the Unitad Nations for pass
ing expert judgment in taste,"
the columnist said.
Although not commenting edi
torially, the Statesman and the
Indian Express both reported Neh
ru had advised Hammarskjold not
to limit himself to the airmen is
sue if he wanted the Peiping talks
to succeed.
To Confer with Chou
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The secretary general expects to
confer with Chou concerning the
conviction and imprisonment of
the flier§ and others.on charges of
spying. The airmen were shot
down in the Korean War, when
Red China was fighting the United
Nations alongside Communist
North Korea.
in Moscow today the Soviet .
armed forces newspaper Red Star
issued a new attack on the im
prisoned Americans: It said:
"These spies who were• caught
with the goods received
,their de
served punishment. It seems their
American bosses should keep si
lent, but their impudence is so
great they complain in the UN."
Ladeiinsky Case
Propose
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (JP)—A
gr-,up of Jewish leaders yesterday
called on Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson, in the interest
of "civil rights and civil liber
ties," to reopen and reconsider
the case of Wolf Lad ejinsky.
Ladejinsky is the land .reform
specialist dropped by Benson from
his job as agricultural attache at
the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, on
technical and security grounds.
Ladejinsky had been cleared by
the State Department but Benson
decided against retaining hi m,
when the job was transferred to
the Agriculture Depariment.
The ouster led to a controversy,
and the case is, now being consid
ered by the White House.
errand for his Own bank.
The slain bandit, a nattily
dressed Negro. ./as identified as
Ellison Gaylord Gray, 27, of Kan
sas City, Mo. He checked into a
Broadway and 32nd St. hotel on
New Year's. Day.
A regular guard in the New
Ycr7: Trust, Edward A. Kaszuba,
33, cooly risked his life to call at
tention to the h..adup. With the
bandit's gun muzzle in his stom
ach, Kaszuba loudly assured him,
"I haven't got a gun."
Kaszuba was slugged over the
had and shot in the foot by the
holdup man, just . before Rettig
. .
dropped the gunman with one of
two.shots. The bandit died on the
spot.
"Rettig probably saved my life,"
Kaszuba exclaimed afterwards. A
stray bullet ricocheted and struck
cu - tomes with only a nick in the
ankle.
g- • t-A-ILLCVIPaq. JIAN I r L.LILLEcgt. PENNSYLVANIA
Mayor Elected
in Wake of Erie
Gambling Scandal
EI-tIE, Pa., Jan. 4 (A')—A 37-
year-old political unknown took
over yesterday as mayor of Erie
the wake of a gambling scan
dal which brought about the res
ignation of Mayor Thomas W.
Flatley.
The four-member city council
unanimously elected Arthur Gard
ne to the $7,000-a-year post. His
erm of office expires Jan. 1, 1956.
• The selection of Gardner to
head Pennsylvania's third largest
city came as a surprise to many
po'itcal leaders in the county. He
had been mentioned for the post
but only vaguely.
Gardner has been serving as
City assessor—a position Flatley
named him to less than two years
ago. Before that Gardner had been
a part-time instructor at Gan
non College in &ie.
Both Gardner and Flatley are
Democrats.
Flatley submitted his resigna
tion Dec. 8 after pleading guilty
to charges of violating his oath
of office and conspiracy. He was
one of more than 40 persons ar
rested by state police in a gam
bling raid last October.
McLeod Loses
nspect ion Post
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (A')—
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles for a second - time has re
duced the authority of his con
troversial security chief, R. W.
E ,ott McLeod, this time relieving
him of inspection power over
U.S. missions abroad.
Department officials said this
move, effective last Friday, fol
lowed a suggestion by McLeod
three days earlier that it be done.
It also was in line with recom
m ndations last spring by Dulles'
Public Committee on Personnel.
Department officials empha
sized Dulles' action was not to be
construed as a blow aimed at Mc-
Leod. He previously was relieved
of his duties as personnel chief.
T.n Friday's move, Dulles trans
ferred McLeod's foreign - service
inspection duties to Loy W. Hen
derson, veteran diplomat wh o
took over . Friday as deputy un
derscretary for administration.
Officials said McLeod wrote
Dulles a memo Dec. 28 saying
Henderson's appointment was a
good time to consolidate the for
eign service and domestic serv
ice inspection functions.
Meta Seg to. Meet
Theta Sigma' Phi, women's pro
fessional journalism fraternity,
will meet at 8 tonight in 111 Car
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HARRISBURG, Jan. 4 (Pl—
General Assembly of Penn
sylvania organized quickly today
for its 141st regular session and
heard outgoing Republican Gov.
John S. Fine describe a "severe
fiscal problem" facing the incom
ing Democratic administration.
With Democrats controlling the
House. Rep. H. G. Andrews, Cam
bria, was installed as speaker of
the House. Senate Republicans re
elected Sen. M. Harvey Taylor,
Dauphin, as president pro tern
pore. Both are veteran leaders.
Desks of both the House. and
Senate were piled high with bas
kets of flowers for the colorful
opening day's ceremonies, all but
hiding the lawmakers sitting be
hind them.
Fine Sees Progress
Fine, in his farewell message
delivered to a joint session of the
House and Senate, said that dur
ing the last four years the com
monwealth ha s' progressed in
"every phase of government."
"Our industries, our laboring
people and our citizens are bet
ter off today than they were four
years ago," he said. "I trust this
progress will be maintained."
Taxes Fe]l Short
.On state finances, the outgoing
governor said revenue from some
taxes fell Short of estimates and
the cost of education and relief
mounted above budget allocations,
all adding up to a prospective de
ficit of GO million dollars in the
present biennium.
"Of course, fiscal problems be
come increasingly grave by the
r - cpos9d lapse of the sales tax,"
he said, referring to the Demo-
Con loess tit
Report fro
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (IP)—Herbert Hoover will send to
Congress tomorrow a prospectus of the forthcoming new Hoo
ver Commission proposals for shrinking the size and cost of
government while improving its efficiency.
The 80-year-old. Hoover is expected to notify Congress,
immediately upon opening of the session, that the report will
run to 17 or 18 installments. The
first is due by the end of this
month.
Thereafter the recommendations
of the 2-member commission,
some of them certain to be loaded
with controversy, will begin
reaching the Capitol at the rate
of nearly one a week until May 31.
By then, Hoover hopes to have
laid down a blueprint for action
by the Congress and the White
House to reduce by a third or a
half the number "of independent
federal agencies. and for elimi
nating many of the estimated
1,500 activities in which govern
ment competes with -private en
terprise.
The report will continue the
work of the first Hoover Com Mi
ssion, which since 1949 has result
ed in 58 public laws, 39 presiden
tial reorganization plans, hun
dreds of executive orders, and
prospective savings estimate& by
some at four billion dollars a
year.
Tomorrow's "interim" report,
commission officials said, will be
a noncontroversial outline of the
commission's plans and a progress
report on the studies of .its 14
task forces in nearly every federal
activity.
These range from public power
policy and civil service practices
—topics already' scheduled for a
critical look by the Democratic.
Congress—to an inquiry headed
by Gen. Mark Clark into intelli
gence activities here and overseas.
The. commission can, and prob
ably will, explore whether the
government should sell power to
consumers, provide hospital ser
vice to nonveterans, serve meals,
make rope and paint, smelt tin and
lend money.
The section most nearly com
plete, and scheduled for iss.uance
in three or four weeks, is tiled
"paperwork management."
In this, the commission may—
or may not—recornmend the elim
ination of income tax returns for
some 35 million taxpayers. The
proposal, which, would not of
course excuse these millions from
paying taxes, is known to have
been under study by the paper
work task force.
Describes Funds
cratic campaign pledge to drop
that one per cent levy when it
expires on Aug. 31. It produces
about 100 millions in two years.
'55-'57 Budget
Fine, without discussing it in
his farewell message. has esti
mated the state's 1 1 / 2 billion dol
lar budget for 1955-57 will be 350
millions out of balance through
loss of the sales tax revenue and
increased costs of education and
other state services.
That gives the 1955 assembly
the hard choice of raising taxes
or cutting costs. There have been
advance indications there will be
some of both.
Democrats, too, showed their
awareness of the situation as Sen.
Continued Work
Headed by Clark
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BONN, Germany, Jan. 4 (IP)—
The . Foreign Office said yester
day French Premier Pierre Men
des-France plans to meet West
German Chancellor Konrad Ad
enauer within the next two weeks.
They probably wlil discuss 'once
again their accord on the Saar,
which has proved unpopular
among the Germans.
German sources said it is most
likely that Mendes-France will
stop off in Baden-Baden—near the
Black Forest resort where Ade
nauer will be staying—on his
way back home from a three-day
state visit to Italy ending Jan. 13.
While in Italy, Mendes-France
is expected to discuss closer
French-Italian economic ties and
the technical aspects of carrying
out the projected rearmament of
West Germany within the West
ern European Union.
France insists - on acceptance of
the controversial French-German
agreement to Europeanize Ger
man-speaking Saar territory as
part of the package of treaties
linking West Germany to the
WEU and th e North Atlantic
Treaty Organization.
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Joseph M. Barr, Democratic state
chairman. said the incoming ad
ministration of Gov.-elect George
M. Leader faces a "tremendous
challenc."
Leader Faces Problems"
"I do not know of any governor
who was ever confronted with the
problems that await George M.
Leader when he takes office Jan.
18," Barr said in a Senate speech.
Leader will have a divided Leg
islature—with Republicans con
trolling the Senate and his own
party ruling the House—the first
time this has happened since 1940.
Democrats hold a 111-99 edge in
the House and Republicans a
working majority of 26-24 in the
Senate.
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