TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 1955 Defense Pact Might Cool Off Reds Dulles Tells Foreign Relations Group WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (4.71--Secittery of State Rah Foster Dulles said today that U.S. ratifica tion of a defense treaty with Nationaliat China might cool off the tough-talking Chinese Beds. "I doubt that the Chinese Communisti really intend to wage war against the United States unless 0# United Statet abandons this treaty with all tbat abandonment would imply," he told the Senate 11*Wgh katations Committee. Dulles said it was possible ti Wilson Decries Personnel Shortages WASHINGTON; Feb. 7 (Al— Secretary Of Defense Wilson said tcelat the inability of the armed servicjia to keep more trained, edbftble men in uniform poses a grave and growing threat to U.S. rnilittiry efficiency. "We have been impressed ter some time with the seriousness, of the personnel problems in the armed forces, but lately we have seen an already critical situation get worse," Wilson told a House Arnied Ser*ices stibconimittee. Wilson and other top Pentagon officials appeared before the sub- Committee, headed by Rep. Paul J. Xilday (D-Tex), to support the ad- Ministration's proposal for higher pay and allowances for career service personnel. Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the services will need a core of highly skilled young officers as long as the present "uneasy ten sions" in the world exist. Wilson said the time has come to recognize that "the present pay scales for military service are not sufficient recognition for the high standards of individual perform ance which military service de mands to attract and retain the leadership and levels of skill and experience that are so vital to our modern 'military forces." Another witness, Secretary of the Navy Themes, told the sub committee: "It i§ alarming to note that the Navy over-all re-enlistment rate has fallen from 24 per cent in fis cal 1954 to only .9 per cent in the Brat quitter of fiscal 1955." Fiscal 1955 began last July 1. Post Office-- (C'otitinned front page one) quirement that students living on citnpus pick up registered mail and C.O.D.'s at the campus station father than at the bdrough post of fice. James Milholland, president of the Board Of Trustees, when an nOunsing the name for the campus post office said: "It is our hope and belief that the widespread use of this name (Ulii l verSitY Park) in the mails and in the Press will enable us to es tablish more clearly in the public mifid our newly won status as a University." A.yesu- ago in November the in stitution's• status was formally changed from "college" to "univer sity." Since that time. confusion has stirrourided the status of the UniVereitY dice largely, University officials. believe, to the conflicting name of the borough. Lett NoVerriber a proposal td .changethe name of State College to Mt. Nittany was defeated by the- borough voters 2434 to 1475. University ,officials immediately started to formulate plans for a campus sub-station. Before choosing the name for the campus post office the Univer sity sampled borough and student Opinion regarding a name. Both The Centre Daily Times and The Daily Collegian published pref erenae polls concerning the name Choice, , When the new postal station.be comes official incoming mail to the University will probably only require the words "University Park, Pa." to pinpoint the destina tion. Outgoing mail, however, will carry a State College cancellation with "University Park" in a sec ondary position. Press association authorities have indicated to the University that "University Park, Pa." will be / A ) an acceptable dateline as soon as the name is listed in the official Postal Guide. Postal authorit!es said formal notice of the post office'S existence at Senate apPrOval of the treaty and the already accomplished aclop• tion of Adefend-Formosa policy I "will together create a satiation in which the, present Warlike mood of the Ohinere Cbtnthuitists may subside." The secretary made his ap praisals in a statement he carried, to a closed-clook nieetifil Of the committee. It is bonsideribg the mutual defense treaty shed by the United States and National ist China Dec, 2 under which the TJnite r i Staes pledged its aid "in aced tines with its consti tutionalprocedures" if CoMmit nist forces should attack For mosa or the Pescadores .Illarids. Sen. Waltes F. Ciecirge (D-Ga), For eigit Relations CoMmittee chairman, Mid newsclien follow ing a three-hottr closed-door ses sion with Dtilles that Dillies had reported "tidthing disturbing" about theevactuitioh of the Ta chen Islands north of Formosa "so faa as it has gone." George said Dunes apparently had not been informed that Red Chineie antiaircraft batteries re portedly openedup on high-fly ing U.S. war planes. Consideration Continued George said the committee would continue this considera tion of the FormOSit mutual de fense pact toinorrow morning, with a good possibility of report ing it to the • Senate for debate later in the day. If the Senate is to give its con sent to the treaty seen, George said, a c tion must come by Wednesday or at the very latest, Thursday. Lincoln Daly °retort Senate leaders have agreed $o take up notilibg important Cot con troversial after Thursday, George said, so that Republican stump orators can millke their Limitoln Day speeches. The annual period of Oratory honoring Lines:hit will not end until Feb. • 21. George said he hnew of zoo iur thet witnesses • the corrintittee Would hear and Indicated coritrnit tee awroval might be given the agree ent toinorrow: °UM* War Ouicorise Mlles, in saying he doubted the Chinese Reds *ants war With the United States added: "I do not doubt thatthe Chinese Commtibists are probing our reso lution. T hey no doubt hope that We want peace 'so ardently that we will retreat its the face of their threats. "It is true that tie want peace and that we do want it ardently. However, we •do riot want it at the price of our security or of our Minor. Walter Denounces Deportation Delay viASHIIiGTON I Feb.. 7 On— Rep. Francis E. Walter C D-Pa) said today that delays in departing al iens after Congress has repeatedly denied them adniiimion , td the United States is in danger of be coming a "racket." Walter is chairman of thsi House judiciary immigritioii.gnibcOMmit te, which called in Gen. Joseph M. Swing, - recently aPiKlinted corn misioner of immigratlon, and . oth er offiicals for an explanation. Swing conceded "there has been some very poor staff work" and "worse than negligence" on the part of district immigration affi mils an admission Walter de scribed as "the understatement of the year." Swing bluntly ascribed some of 1 3 the trou les of his service to "the habit of uccuinbing to pressure." He told t e subcommittee the pres., sure came from "prominent peo ple" hi government and else*here. "I'm aware of what's going oh," Swing said. "It's not going to be cleared up in the immediate fu ture—it's going to take some time. It's laxness, rin convinced of it. There's nothin: shady going on." will be published in an early issue of the Postal Bulletin whith, they explained, corresponds to listing in the Postal Guide. It is through press releases that th- University hopes to achieve le widespread use of the new tag. THE GAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA McClellan Says Bribe Charge Lacks Evidence WASHINGTON. Feb. 7 (..7 3 ) Sen. John L. McClelltin (D-Ark.) said today he has searched the Senate Investigations subcormtit tee files and found no Mention of evidence—reported by Sen. Mc- Carthy (R-Wis)—that a Democrat ic senator knowingly accepted WO front a Communist official. McCarthy said in Milwaukee yesterday he believed Charles ''racy of Brooklyn, N.Y., had been dropped as a subcommittee staff investigator after the DemodratS took over, because Tracy had "stumbled onto" evidence about the case. McCarthy said further today that a photographic copy of a batik draft coveting the payment to the senator might be in the subcommittee's file, but he wasn't sure. McClellan told a reporter today he had checked with Miss Rose mary Engel, a holdover McCarthy appointee in charge of the sub committee's,files, "and she says it is not in the files." He said she told him she know nothing about such evidence. • McClellan said he then checked through the files , himself, and found that Tree) , had written a memorandum about a recent , trip to the West Coast to investigate al leged activities there, but that the memOrandithh does not mention the case. contains no reference to the check, or a draft, or a photostat of - either, or of the ease," Mc- Clellan said. McCarthy so far has declined to name the senator he contend§ iat the Money from a West CoaSt of ficial of the Conti - 1701st party. McClellan said he had never heard of the case before McCat they mentioned it in a Milwaukee interview yesterday, but that he had requested and received Tfa cy's resignation in a shakeup of the subcommitee staff after tak ing over the chairmanship croft McCarthy. Arab Disagreement Seen Over Iraq's Pact With Tuikey CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 7 (11 3 )—A government spokesman said today Egypt, defeated it a hitter fight to enforce Arab neutrality in Mid dle Easterh defende maneuverings, Will pull out of the Arab League security pact the day Iraq and Thrkey sign 'their mutual aid treaty. Maj. Salah Salem, national guid ance minister, told visiting Leb anese newsmen that immediately on withdrawing from this tiligh merit Egypt would sign with other Arab states a new military treaty He emphasized the new one would bind all parties not to enter for eign alliances with other countries, including Turkey. There was no indication what commitments if any Cairo has received from other Arab govern ments for a new alignmeht, which apparently would exclude Iraq. When members of the eight-nation Arab League ended a 16-day con ference here last night without persuading Iraq to call off her pro jected alliance with Turkey, some of the others seemed inclined to join up with Turkey. Since Turkey , is a NATO mem ber Arabs allying themselves with that country would indirectly be forming ties with the West. Their apparent willingness to make such commitments is attributed to growing fears among them of pos &"l.n Soviet aggression in the Mid dle East. Princess Drenched For 2d Time . ST, GEORGE'S, Grenada, Feb. 7 (A 3 ).-:-Princess Margaret got caught in a thundershower today the second time in two days. But an alert chauffeur quickly raised the top of an open convertible in which she was riding and that, with a parasol, saved her from a drenching. The princess was seated in a gleaming white car riding around the track of Queen's Park in St. George's to wave to about 20,000 school children and adults at a rally. Margaret, 24-year-old sister of Queen Elizabeth, is on a month long good will tour of the Carib bean. The taln came suddenly. A para sol wag raised over the princess and the black convertible top came up cittickly as the car con tinued around the track. Also at the rally were delegates from St. Lucia and Dominica of the Windwatd Islands, which the princess will not visit on her tour of the Eititish West Indies. She ex pressed regret at not being able to see thole islands. The princess told Grenada offi cials she will carry back this is land's message of "loyal devotion" to her sister and added: "I know in what high regard she holds the allegiance of her people in the British West Indies." After the rally the princess mo tored through the streets of St. George's and past fields 'if sugar cane on the outskirts. The sun was out again. The drive twisted over the narrow roads up and down the Mountains which embrace the city. Margaret donned dark glasses against - the sun and waved to the crowds which stood by the road side. U.S. Planes- (Continued from page one) miles from some fleet units. But the 860 or more Red planes be lieved based as close as 100 miles from the Tachens were held in AP correapqndent Forrest Ed wards reported from the 7th Fleet that carrier planes patrolling high over the Tachens were fired on by antiaircraft gunners on Red is lands north of the Tachens. A pilot told Edwards some of the bursts came close but no dam age was reported. Explosions Boon On Yikiangshan, only eight Miles north of the Tachens, pilots said they saw explosions which apparently were caused by demol ition Work. But Red artillery on Yikiankshan did not open Upon the Tachens, where a party of U.S: Marines and Navy men went ashore. The fleet was under orders to fire back if Yikiangshan's guns opened tip. Lt. Gen. Liu Lien-yi, comman der of the Tachen garrison of 10,000 regulars and about 4000 guerrillas, told U.S. naval officers he has not yet received orders to withdraw, AP correspondent Jim Becket said in a dispatch from Tachens,. Spied -up Ordercd Becker quoted officers ati saying they belieVed Adm. Alfred M. Pride, 7th Fleet commander, had asked Taipei to speed up the or ders for an operation that 1411 take at least a week to complete. Nationalist press reports said more than 18,000 civilians in the Tachen area wanted to leave. The Communists made "no threatening nor unfriendly man euvers whatsoever" in the first day of evacuation and "indications are the Reds do not intend to make any," one U.S. officer told Becker. Fleet Ix Alert However, the 7th Fleet was on the alert. Rear Adm. Alonzo Sher wood Sabin Jr., commanding an amphibious force which has just arrived, from evacuating Indo chinese to Saigon, declared: "If I am fired upon I will fire back." Two Red mines were swept up as the Navy moved into Tachens' waters. Frog men—underwater de- Molition teams—probed the waters for mines and other obstacles end c",rnpleted a beach survey. A Navy beach master ri:rtrc.d ithe withdrawal will be 'painfully AFL Seeks Support for Rearmament MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 7 (R) —The AFL today appealed to Ger many's influential labor unions to switch their opposition to support for proposed German rearmament. The appeal, voted unanimously by tthe AFL Executive Council, was directed at all of Western Europe's 20-million-member free trade unions, and to Germany's in particular, asking their help in welding military strength as a bulwark against Russia. Meanwhile, CIO leaders began arriving at this winter resort for talks, with APL leaders Tuesday and Wednesday on the proposed AFL-CIO merger, AFL President George Meany declined to express optimism in advance but indi cated the talks may settle once and for all whether there is to be a merger. The general atmosphere among the union leaders was that a great many problems remain to be solved. - - - "Let's say I'm not pessimistic," Meany said. The CIO demands for concrete assurances that under a merger the CIO unions would be protect ed against raids on their member ship from AFL unions appeared to be the major problem. The AFL apparently was not prepared to make any such guarantee. The AFL Executive Council held a closed-door session for mote than an hour today with defense mobilization chief Arthur Flem ming on the Eisenhower adminis tration's new military manpower plans. These call for smaller full time armed forces but a large and well-trained military reserve. Meany said - the AFL has taken no stand on the program but would do so next Thursday. He said• the AFL traditionally has op posed Universal Military Train ing fearing it might lead to mili tary control of the government. Demos Pass up Senate Control HARRISBURG,' Feb. 7 (A:l— could conceivably have taken control of the Senate tonight but refused to take political ad vantage of misfortunes of Repub licans. The illness of Sen. H'nry J. Propert (R-Montgomery) coming on top of the injury of Sen. John T. Van Sant (R-Lehigh) placed both Republicans and Democrats on an equal footing with 24 votes each. Some parliamentary experts fig ured that Democrats, by letting Democratic Lt. Gov. Roy E. Fur man break a tie, could have upset the Republican organization of the Senate. He may break a tie on a matter of procedure but not in voting on a bill on passage. But Sen. John H. Dent, Demo cratic floor leader, made it clear, with emphasis on his words, that: "We Democrats in the Senate have no intention of disrupting the organization of the Senate. Acts of God such as these illnesses and accidents are, will not be used by the Democrats in the Senate to gain political ends." Sen. Propert suffered a possible heart attack in the Senate Ap propriations Committee. He may be back in the Senate next week but Van Sant is expected to be absent for weeks. Ike School Policy NASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (.4))— President Eisenhower will send a special message to Congress to morrow on school aid construction and education problems generally. The President is expected to recommend a specific program of federal aid in construction of schools. slow" because a 18-foot tides and poor beaches on the Tachens. U.S. cruisers and destroyers swung at anchor in the choppy waters off the low, mountainous islands. They were part of a fleet of 75 ships-5 carriers, 2 cruisers, 36 de stroyers and other warships—as sembled for the delicate operation. The carriers can put about 500 planes into the air. The carrier Princeton, with the fleet, has been modified to serve as an antisub marine vessel. PAGE Mt
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