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.
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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.
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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
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Radford Reports
Mainland Buildup
By Chinese Reds
WASHINGTON, May 3 (/Pl-.
Adm. Arthur W. Radford, fresh
from a trip to Formosa, said today
there is "a auestion" the Chinese
Reds are building up their air
strength on the mainland opposite
the island.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff and Asst. Secretary of
State Walter Robertson spent al
most an hour with President Ms
enhoWer, reporting on their recent
Formosan visit.
But neither would discuss their
report in any detail with news
men.
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.