WDNESDAY. MAY 4. 1955 Diem Supporter Killed In Viet Nam Warfare SAIGON, South Viet Nam, May 3 (11:0)—A general of the Cao Dai religious sect was shot dead tonight while leading his private army alongside Nationalist troops against re treating Binh Xuyen. rebels with whom he once was allied. BUllets spewed from an armored motorboat by Binh Xuyen commandos felled Gen. Trinh Minh The, a handsome young officer who in recent weeks has stalwartly supported Premier Ngo Dinh Diem in ,efforts to restore order and unity to South Viet Nam. The ironic end of Gen. The (pro nounced Tay) came as he was crossing a canal bridge in the Khanh Hoi region southwest of Saigon, a marshy triangle en closed by canals that was be lieved to have been cleared of the rebels. Defense Secretary Tran Trung !Dung had announced only a few hours earlier that four of Gen. The's black-clad battalions—per haps 2400 men—had joined with government forces in a final drive against the Binh Xuyen. This was taken as another sign of Diem's growing strength in the face of rebellion and the displea sure of Chief of State Bao Dai. Gen. The was prominent in the National Revolutionary Commit tee which Saturday declared Bao Dai deposed=an action expected to be confirmed tomorrow in a national congress convoked by The Cao Dail general withdrew in March from the united front of opposition to Diem which had been formed by the Binh Xuyen, the Can Dai and the Hoa Hao religious sect. Gen. The's death leaves Gen. Nguyen Thanh Phuong, Cao Dai commander in chief, the sect's dominant figure. He, too, is a backer of the Revolutionary Com mittee and a Diem ally. Gen. The's participation in the fighting came as a surprise to the French. They had predicted that the religious sects, which they subsidized during the Indochina War, never' would turn on the Binh Xuyen. The French ended the subsidy payments for the pri vate armies in January. Western observers noted today that North Viet Nam's Commun ist government appeared to be . keeping hands off during the crisis. There is no evidence that the Vietminh are backing the rebels. Conferees OK Postal Workers Pay Increase WASHINGTON, May 3 (IP) Senate-House conferees today a greed on an 8.8 per cent average pay raise for the government's 500,000 postal worker s—well above the figure President Eisen hower has said would be accept able. The increase under the meas ure approved by the conferees, would be retroactive to March 1. It represents• a compromise be tween the 8.3 per cent boost voted by the Senate and a 10 per cent bill passed by the House. The President has indicated several times that he would not sign a bill providing for more than a 7.6 per cent boost. The compromise bill would cost an es timated , $l7B million a year as- compared with $169 for the House measure and $220 million for the Senate. It would give each postal work er a minimum seven per cent raise. The remaining L 8 per cent of increase would be accounted for by a reclassification plan de manded by the administration to remove inequities from present pay scales. The decisions of the conferees are subject to action by the House and Senate. Representative Thom as Murray (D-Tenn) head of the House conferees, said the House probably would consider the bill Friday. The House will act first. In 1954 460 bicycle riders were killed in traffic accidents. Senate Backs Trade Program WASHINGTON, May 3 yl 3 ) With opposition to President Dwight D. Eisenhower's foreign trade program dwindling in the Senate, agreement was reached today to limit debate and speed the bill to a final vote possibly tomorrow night. Sen. Stuart Symington (D-MO), in a speech supporting the meas ure, said if it fulfills its promise of improving international trade there may be an opportunity to sell to foreign countries much of the huge agricultural surplus which hhs accumulated in the United States. .0n the other hand, Sen. George W. Malone (R-Nev) as sailed the bill as "an economic Yalta—a sonata of the Ameri can working man and inves tors." The debate limitation agree ment was offered by Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D- Texas), approved by Sen. William New Wage WASHINGTON, May 3 (M—A business executive told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce today the guaranteed annual wage is "a beautiful rose" but that it has thorns which can scratch. Demands of some unions for a guaranteed wage may endanger the expansion of some businesses and bankrupt others, Frank B. Cliffe, vice president of the H. J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh, said at the chamber's 43rd annual meeting. He advised business leaders to find out where the thorns are and' "how much they can scratch you." Many firms, Cliffe said, have found it possible to regularize production and paychecks "with varying degrees of success." But he contended the risks are great for companies subject to seasonal fluctuations in sales or sensitive to the ups and downs of the busi ness cycle. "While I am in strong sympathy with the desire for steady work F. Knowland of California, the Republican chief in the Senate, and adopted with almost no dis cussion. Both Knowland and Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va), floor manager for the measure, expressed con fidence that the bill. would be approved substantially in the form it came from the Senate Fi nance Committee. It would extend the Reciprocal Trade .Agreements Act for three years from June 12. It would also give the Presi dent authority to reduce tariffs up to five per cent each year during that period in return for trade concessions from foreign countries. The Finance Committee wrote in several amendments which helped to quiet the opposition. One would give the President ad ditional authority to curb im ports if he believed this essential to protect an industry important Plan Blasted and correspondingly steady pay," Cliffe said, "the demand for a guaranteed annual wage seems to be using the wrong tool for the job. "Certainly the destruction of an employer's willingness to expand and experiment and the bankrupt cy of other employers who could not survive the additional load of payments demanded would harm employes far beyond the benefits they would have received." In a speech before the cham ber's trade association section, Attorney-General Brownell • told the businessmen the Justice De partment's antitrust policy is aim ed at "making real strides towards either cracking restraints on en try of new businesses into an in dustry or controls over price." He also said the Justice Depart ment is trying to help business men "who seek in good faith to live within the law" to find their way through the maze of federal regulations. ltit DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Congress Windy In Passing Laws Study Reveals WASHINGTON, May 3 (JP)—ln these gabby days, it takes 14 hours two minutes of congressional talk to make .a bill a law. This is figured from a report card handed Congress today, the official resume of its activities from the day this session open ed, Jan. L. through April 30. In that time, the report shows, the 96 senators talked away for 220 hours 46 minutes, spreading their wisdom, their worries or maybe only their whims over 2750 pages of the "Congressional Record." The House, even with its much tighter rein on its members' 435 tongue..,, managed to get in 172 hours nlne minutes debate, there by filling 1898' pages. One result of all this talk: We now must obey 28 new public laws. U.S:-Turkey Sign First Atomic Pact WASHINGTON, May 3 (VP) The United States and Turkey today signed the first agreement for cooperation in the peaceful uses of atomic energy under the new Atomic Energy Act. Presi dent Eisenhower said: "This may be a historic day." The agreement permits the leasing of uranium to Turkey and the release of information neces sary for building and operating a research reactor in that country. to the national security. Sen. Frank Carlson (R-Kan) told the Senate today he had received assurances from the administration that new powers provided for the President in the bill will be used to hold oil imports to 1954 levels here after. The question of oil imports has been one of th 3 most disputed in connection with this year's re ciprocal trade bill. Miss Blatt Is Inaugurated HARRISBURG (?P)—Miss Gene vieve Blatt was inaugurated sec retary of internal affairs at a col orful ceremony today—the first woman to hold statewide elective office in. Pennsylvania's history. Miss Blatt, long prominent in Democratic affairs, immediately pledged her full support to Gov. George M. Leader's industrial de velopment program. *NOW * Deem Open 5 p.m. Lucky 13 Film Festival Nit Number 8 "THE CRUEL SEA" Feat:inking' 5:15, 7:18, 8:28 —NEXT— "TieeI,I.I 'M. - ' -• U.S. Steel Names Blough New Head NEW YORK, May 3 (W)—Roger M. Blough, 51-year-old lawyer and son of a truck farmer, today became board chairman of the $2,350,000,000 United States Steel Corporation, the world's biggest steel enterprise. He succeeded Benjamin F. Fairless who reached the company's retirement age of 65 today and I stepped aside, as he put it, to surrender his responsibilities to "capable and younger hands." Blough was elected at an organ ization meeting of the Board of Directors which followed by one day the annual stockholders' meeting at which Fairless an nounced his retirement. Slough's first connections with U.S. Steel were in 1939 and 1940 when he acted as associate coun sel for the corporation during the investigation of the steel indus try by the temporary National Economic Commission. He was appointed general soli citor for United States Steel Corp. of Delaware in 1942. In 1951, when U.S. Steel merged its sub sidiaries into U.S. Steel Corp., Slough became executive vice president-law, secretary, and a di rector of the corporation. He became general counsel and vice chairman In 1952. Blough also succeeded Fairless as chief executive officer of the corporation. Clifford F. Hood, president of U.S. Steel since 1953, was designated as chief adminis trative officer and will be in Charge of operations. Fairless, continuing as a mem ber of the board and of the finance committee, was appointed chair man of the newly formed execu tive advisory committee of the board. Slough was succeeded as gen eral counsel by John S. Tennant, who in January became associate general counsel of the firm. Budget Hearings Open HARRISBURG, May 3 (R)—An economy-minded legislature open ed hearings today on the adminis tration's record 1.8 billion dollar budget with a call to tr im it "somewhere along the line." Chairman J. Dean Polen (D- Washington) of the House Appro priations Committee, keynoted the first round of hearings with a statement he never yet had seen a budget "which could not be pared somewhere along the line." The 22-m ember committee heard first from Harry Shapiro, Secretary of Welfare, detail the items in the $195 million estimates for that department for 1955-57, an over-all increase of 45 millions from the 1953-55 'biennium. Of that increase, Shapiro said, $3O million represented financing of the state's mental hospital pro gram in a changeover of policy from custodial care to treatment R.O.T.C. 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Radford and Robertson flew to Formosa late last month for talks with Chiang Kai-shek, the Chi nese Nationalist leader. While they were there, Red China's Pre- Mier Chou En-lai broadcast an offer to discuss Far Eastern ten sions. The two emissaries did not dis- cuss the possibility of a cease-fire in the Formosa area when they talked with reporters. Radford's comment on the air buildup was in response to a question. Another reporter asked wheth er the U.S military training mis sion on Formosa was going to be enlarged. Radford said it alren had been. When he was asked whether further enlargement was contemplated, he said, "probably. in certain specialties." and cure, The remaining $l5 mil lion increase, -he said, would be used to "e x p and existing ser vices." Shapiro said problems of the mentally ill constituted the bulk of his department's budget be cause "47 per cent of the beds oc cupied in hospitals are occupied by persons suffering from some form of mental illness" and that many more cannot be admitted to hospitals because of overcrowd- ing. . Pointing up the administration policy of treatment rather than custodial care of mental patients, Shapiro said the number of at tendants would be reduced from 6289 to 5958 while nurses would be increased from 1051 to 1506 and physicians from 219 to 396. That would mean an average of one physician to every 125 pa tients, Shapiro said.
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