WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 18. 1955
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Anti-KedßomaniansStart
Uprising in Switzerland
BERN, Switzerland, Feb. 15 (.41 3 )—A band of anti-ComH
mUnist Romanians boldly seized the Red Romanian legation
at gun point here early today and dragged traditionally neu
tral Switzerland into the middle of a cold war incident. The
legation chauffeur was wounded fatally in the attack.
After their day-long Beige the five or six armed Roman
- cans met Swiss negotiators shortly
before midnight but refused to
give up the building. Food stored
in the legation could feed them for
several days.
The group defied encircling
Swiss police hour after hour and
demanded release of five resis
tance leaders imprisoned in Com
munist-ruled Romania.
There has been no exchange of
fire with Swiss police. Two Swiss
officials entered the legation early
this evening and talked with the
men, but met with no success in
attempting to persuade the anti-
Reds to surrender.
Rodolphe Stalder, prosecuting
attorney for the Canton of Bern,
said Swiss authorities regarded
the invasion and slaying of the
chauffeur as • political crimes as
long as Swiss police were not at
' tacked.
The extraterritorial status of
the legation was a factor in both
police caution and in a blistering
'note which Romania fired to
Switzerland accusing i the Swiss
of responsibility for what it
I called a violation of international
law by "a gang of Romanian fas
cists and other criminal elements."
Through police and Radio Free
Europe's Romania Desk, these
were identified as Gen. Aurel Al-
I dea, interior minister in a pre-
Communist government who was
sentenced Nov. ilB, 1945, to life
imprisonment on a charge of plot
ting against the Red regime;
Bishop Nicolae Suciu, a Uniate
Eastern Catholic churchman im
prisoned since 1948; The Lazar,
Peasant Party secretary who was
imprisoned in 1947; lonel Anton
' Muresan, manager of the Peasant
newspaper Ardealul, which was
suppressed in 1945; former Sup
ply Minister Constantine Bratianu,
a leading member of the National
Liberal Party.
Ike to Send
Highway Plan
To Congreis
WASHINGTON, ileb. 16 (NO
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
announced today he'll send , his
multibillion dollar highway pro
gram to Congress early next week.
A Senate subcommittee also fixed
next Monday for hearings on a
rival highway plan backed by
Democrats.
The stage thus was'set for what
is likely, to become one of the
most heated political battles of
the year—over where the money
for a new and expanded road pro
gram is going to come from.
A special presidential highway
committee headed by Geri. Lus
ins D. Clay, retired, came out a
month ago with an ambitious 101
billion dollar program that would
be financed in part by a new fed
eral lending agency.
Clay called for increasing the
nationwide highway bill from the
present rate of 47 billion dollars
over the next 10 years to 101 bil
lion.
Much of the additional money
would involve the building of a
40,000-mile network of interstate
highways which would link the
major population centers of the
country.
The federal government would
pick up nearly the entire tab for
the interstate system.
Red Paper Tells People
About Guided Missiles
MOSCOW, F'eh. 15 (111 —T h e
Soviet Army newspaper Red Star
told the Soviet people for the first
time today about the nation's de
velopment of guided missiles. It
claimed the Russians have the
equivalent of the American Nike
to shoot down planes, and had al
so developed pencil-like jet pow
ered anti-aircraft rockets.
French Cabinet Crisis'
PAIS, Feb. 15 (W)—Christian
Pineau got promises of several
sizable blocs of support today in
his effort to solve France's 10,,daY
old Cabinet crisis. He seemed to
be almost ready to start pickirg
a Cabinet.
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Oil Creek Ice Jam
OIL CITY, Pa., Feb. 15 R
Residents of "this northwestern
Pennsylvania city today hoped for
continued mild weather to re
move a two-mile ice jam out of
Oil Creek. The jam holds a po
tential flood threat.
UN Defended on Failure Claims
WASHINGTON. Feb. 15 (i)--
Secretary- of State John Foster
Dulles today warmly defended
the United Nations against
Charges of failure in negotiations
for a Formosa cease-fire and for
release of 15 American fliers held
by Red China.
The world organization, Dulles
said, operates as "an almost es
sential buffer" between nations
which otherwise would deal di
rectly in rough "and perhaps in
war making terms."
Sen. William F. Knowland of
California, Republican leader, had
told the Senate only a short time
Spot of Tea?
English Refuse--
Piices too High
LONDON, F'eb. 15 (A') T h
price of tea has become a big
issue in Britain, where tea com
mands much :he same respect that
coffee gets in the United States.
Debate on the subject swept the
country today, and a use-less-tea
campaign got under way. The
prices have developed into a ma
jor political issue, ranking with
foreign policy in sparring for the
next general election.
The Conseriatives' five y ear
term runs into next year, but
Prime Minister W'nstoi Church
ill can call an election before
then. There is speculation he may
do so this fall.
Tea is selling at $1 to t 1.15 a l
pound. That is more than three
times the prewar rate. While it is
less than much of the tea sold in
the United States, incomes here
are lower.
Members of the principal op
position party, the Laborites, are
demanding government check
tea prices by reimposing controls
abandoned in 1852.
GE Making ,Diamonds;
Unveil 'Private Mine'
SCHENECTAD.e. N.Y., Feb. 15
(/F) Real twinkling diamonds
are being made in an amazing
private diamond mine unveiled
today at the General Electric Re
search Laboratory.
So far, it has made only $lO
worth of diamonds, mostly in the
form of a fine dust
That $lO retail value includes
the first "big" man-made diamond
—only one-si-" tenth of an inch
long—which cost hundreds of
thousands of dollars if all ex
penses of four. years of research
are included.
before that "the conscience of the
United Nations should be deeply
troubled" by its failure to free the
American fliers. In the case of
Formosa he said the UN apparent
ly has not become as "impotent
and futile" as the old League of
Nations but it "is not prepared to
take the necessary steps" to re
sist aggression by the Chinese
Communists.
Knowland demanded that the
American fliers should not be
come "the forgotten men" as the
UN concentrates on Formosa ne
gotiations.
Dulles spoke at a meeting of the
United States Committee for the
Moscow Receives
Indian Advice
NEW DELHI, India, Feb. 15 (W)
—lndia was reported today to
have advised Moscow that any
conference to discuss Formosa
outside the United Nations must
provide for Nationalist Chinese
representation.
Diplomatic sources here said
New Delhi conveyed this view
point in an "interim" reply to
Moscow's suggestion that such a
conference be held withoi't
nese Nationalists present. India's
charge d'affaires in Moscow, P.
11. Kaul, was said to have deliv
ered the reply in an interview
with Soviet Foreign Minister Mol
otov yesterday.
Chiang Confident of US
Help in Future Crisis
TAIPEI, Feb. 15 (JP)—President
Chiang Kai-Shek today appeared
confident of U.S. help in any new
Far East crisis involving his off
shore islands of Quemoy and the
Matsus.
In an exclusive interview, the
63-year-old Nationalist leader
gave the impression that he felt
the United States in the Tachen
withdrawal got more solidly be
hind him in his battle with the
Reds than ever before.
Catalogues to Be Ready
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this semester will be available ap
proximately March 1 in the base
ment of Willard Hall.
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United Nations. He praised the
work of the group in supporting
the UN, which he said engages in
many very useful but unspectac
ular projects.
Earlier a State Department
spokesman announced that Dulles
will clarify U.S. Formosa policy
with special reference to the Que
moy and Matsus coastal islands in
a speech in New York tomorrow
night.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-
Minn) disclosed that he had writ
ten Dulles asking clarification of
"the precise position and policy"
of the U.S. government on defense
of the Quemoys and Matsus.
GOP, Demos
Clash on Bill
HARRISBURG, Feb. 15 (..P'}—
Republicans and Democrats broke
openly in the Senate today on
terms of Gov. George M. Leader's
government reorganization bill.
Effotts to reach a bi-partisan
agreement collapsed, producing a
deadlock in that branch since nei
ther party commands the neces
sary 26 votes to pass a bill.
The measure, as passed by the
Democratic House majority two
weeks ago, would give the gov
ernor broad powers to reorganize
agencies of the state government,
subject to a veto by either branch
of the Assembly.
Republicans ripped out the sec-
I tion providing that any reorgani
zation plan would go into effect in
30 days unless one of the two
branches rejected it.
That action, hi effect, would re
quire an affirmative vote on both
houses to pass a reorganization
plan—the procedure required in
passing a bill.
Exam Blanks Available
Bulletins of information and ap
plication blanks for the next grad
uate record examination are
available in 117 Buckout Labora
tory. The examination will be
given April 30.
Applications are due April 15
at the Educational Testing Ser
vice, 20 Nassau Street, Princeton,
N.J.