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-
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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.
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