FRIDAY. MAt 6. Isss 4000 Approve Bao Dai Ouster SAIGON, South Viet Nam,/May 5 (A*)—A foot-stamping, 9hout ihg 4000-man National Congress declared by acclamation today the end of ex-Emperor Bao Dai's rule over South Viet Nam as Chief of State. V At the tame time another Congress, made up of 700 local and provincial councilors and tribe chiefs, demanded that Bao Dai’s powers be given now to Ameri can-supported Premier Ngd Dinh Diem, leaving it to an elected National Assembly to depose Bab Dai. Shell-fire, Air Attacks Hit Quemoy TAIPEI. Formosa, M4y 5 (JP) — The Chinese Communists today loosed one of the heaviest shell ings of the year in the Quemoys across Formosa Strait close on the heels of their first aerial thrUst in the Matsu area. The Defense Ministry said that in 45 minutes Red artillery oh Amoy fired 150 roUnds into little Quemoy Island, four miles away. There were no further details. Little Quemoy, 22 square miles and stoutly defended, guards the western flank of Quemoy largest and strongest of the offshore is lands. Planes Attack Nationalist planes only yester day attacked five small Rea gun boats in Amoy harbor end claimed three damaged. They also fought off an attack of four MiGIS jet fighters 50 miles north of the Mat suS. The appearance of theJMIGs for the first tiihe near Matsu and lit tle more than 150 miles north of Formosa itself was not unexpect ed. The Communists have finished a big air base at Lukiao, 200 miles north of the Matsus. Reds to Follow Previous Tactics Nationalist officials predict that the Reds will, follow the same tact’cs in the Matsus as they did in f?ie Tachens farther north, The Nationalists quit the TachehS af ter the fall of nearby Yikiangshan island. The Reds first made occasiohal flights over the Tachens, then bombed them heavily and iii vaded'Yikiangshan.There is spec ulation that the Matsu group is land of Kaoteng will be the next “Yikiangshan.” It is but four miles frPm the Red mainland. Matsu, main island in the group, is 9 % miles from the Mainland. Senate Votes Pensions, Privileges for Presidents WASHINGTON, May 5 (#)— Former presidents,would receive a $11,500 annual pension, a staff of assistants, office space and free mailing privileges under legisla tion passed unanimously by the Senate today. The measure, which goes to the House, Would provide a $lO,OOO annual pension f 0 r widows of presidents. Congress in the past occasionally has voted presidential widows $5OOO a year, although they do not now get automatic compensation from the govern ment. Rent Your Tux NOW for the Senior Boll! It won’t be long now until you men are escorting your date to the Senior Ball. And when you do, you’ll want to be sure you look cool, crisp and correct in a White Dinner Jacket or Tux from Hur’s. Don’t wait until the last minute . . . Stop in at Hur’s today and rent youi*'din ner jacket or tux so you’ll be sure to look your best. Ultra MIN'S SHOT Opposite Old Main General Elections Both congresses called for gen eral elections within four to six months to choose the National As sembly and set up a. Workable government, They urged Diem in the meantime t 6 use ms National ist troops to crush the Binh Xuyen rebels, his foes in South Viet Nam’s week-old civil war. The Executive Committees of the two congresses split over whether to give Diem full power to organize the elections. The Na tional Congress Wanted the Pre mier to form a provisional govern ment which Would prepare for the voting. . The second group favored giving Diem himself full power to make these preparations. Details of Resolutions When all details of their for mal resolutions.have been finally settled, Diem will forward them to Bao Dai with a request that he choose among them. Bao Dai, once EmporOr of the small Indo chinese state of Annam, was ap pointed Chief of State of Viet Nam by the French in 1949. He has been living oh the Ffeiich Riyiera more than a year. l Out of the two political meet ing today came one fairly certain Conclusion: Bao Dai is ' finished in Viet Nam. Also there appeared to be little support for the Ameri can idea of a constitutional mon archy as the surest means of es tablishing a stable government in the country. Promises Bao Dal Depotal Ohe of the National Congress leaders, Gen. Nguyen Thanh Phuong, commander of the Cab Dai religious army, promised the cheering group that not only Would Bao Dai be deposed but the monarchy would be abolished. . Informants said the French have put forward a new plan for solving the political crisis. Eisenhower Seen Bungling Leader WASHINGTON, May 5 (ff)— Gov. George.M. Leader of Penn sylvania said today that Presi dent Eisenhower must accept the responsibility for “a buhgled for eign policy.” He predicted that will be the main issue in the 1956 elections. The 37-year-old Democrat told a news conference he does not thihk that “any executive, on the national or state level, can avoid accepting responsibility for his ad miriistration.” “No one is invulnerable,” he said., “No one is abdve critcism.” Leader thus lined tip with a growing group of Democrats who have reported themselves as being prepared to take on Eisenhower directly ip .the ’56 campaign. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Troops ill Tanks, Trenches Unhurt By Atom Blast SURVIVAL CITY, Nevada, May 5 (&)—*Savage atomic power ripped into 'this Civil Defense test town today, but the smash ing nuclear blast left unhurt men •mr* women in close-up trenches and soldiers in stout steel tanks. An immediate check on what the explosion of the test device, equalling the energy of 35,000 tons of TNT, did to Survival City was impossible. A vast cloud of dust welled up from the desert floor instantly and cloaked the town from all but a sketchy sight by observers. What little could be seen m the first hours after the explosion in-' dicated that the homes built on ( Doomsday Drive, less than a mile from the 500-foot tower for the bomb, probably were crushed or burned o t both. A newsman passing by in a hel icopter about one hour after the explosion caught a glimpse, through the dust shroud below, of shattered timbers poking up out of debris; a tall red steel towef, which presumably was one of the two 150-foot radio towers, still standing above some kind of wreckage. What lay outward from this closest-up edge of Survival City— how far beyond Doomsday Drive destruction reached was bb scured until Civil Defense and Atomic Energy Commission offi cials could fly or drive in, after dust and possible lingering radia tion h&d subsided. 147 Polio Cases Found in Week WASHINGTON, May 5 (ff)— The ..Public Health Service said today new polio cases reported by Ihe States for last week totaled 147 as compared with 10& in the previous week. Last week’s figures also showed a gam, of about one-fifth, above theM22 for the corresponding Week of last year. The service said the number of confirmed cases of polio contract ed after inoculation with the new Salk vaccine has reached 41. In another report today, the service said there have now been 41 confirmed cases of post-inocu lation polio, an increase of eight over yesterday’s figures. Seven of the eight were Vaccinated with vaccine made by the Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., and one With vaccihe made by the Eli Lilly Co., of Indianapolis, it said. Ifavy Supplies Probed WASHINGTON, May 5 W Armed with a stack df documents two feet high, Hoover Commis sion spokesmen today stood pat on their report the Navy has a 60-year supply of canned ham burgers. House Cut WASHINGTON, May 5 VP)—The administration’s military bud get calling for an 87,000-man cut in the Army during the next IS months was approved by the House Appropriations Committee today. The committee voted $31,488,206,000 in new defense funds and said the present structure of the armed forces will be maintained “for an indefinite period.” This means there is little likelihood of any big reductions in defense spending in the near future. Flood to Block Manpower Hep. Daniel J. Flood (D-Pa.) an nounced he will try to block the manpower cuts now contemplated by proposing that 750 million dol lars be added to the bill when it comes up for floor debate next week. Flood’s proposal, defeated in committee by a reported vote of 29-7, is virtually certain to at tract enough followers to provide a lively floor battle. The new funds approved by the, committee, added to unobligated money left over from previous appropriations, would give the Defense Department a total of $48,081,000,000 for the budget year starting July 1. More Promised in Need More was promised in a hurry “in the event of drastically worsened world conditions.” In a report written by Rep. George Mahon (D-Tex), the com mittee said the budget offered for House and Senate approval lays stress on “continental air de fense and our increasing potential for massive retaliation in the event of enemy attack.” The committee said present Air Force strength “rests more on counteroffensive capability.t ha n actual defense.” It said it had been assured that the Air Force “is reasonably ready to counter any major threat to this country.” Army, Navy Marines-Reduced Whereas the Army, Navy and Marine Corps would be reduced in strength during the coming year, the Air Force would be in creased from 970,000 to 975,000. Its budget, as approved by the you can't hardly get them mi | Macy’S doesn’t tell Glmbel’s, but I Froth tells Colli Froth MONDAY MAY 9 Daring... Shocking... Revealing... 1 on sale at 8:00 Monday = HUB | Bulletin Board 8 Group OKs Army Forces Unity Sought. By Democrats WASHINGTON, May 5 The Democratic high command held out a forgiving hand today to any Democrats who bolted the party ticket in 1952 and now “want to return to the fold.” One of the bolters. Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas, indicated he would like to come back-provided /the Democrats don’t nominate Ad lai E. Stevenson for the presi dency again. Shivers and National Chairman Paul M. Butler took a few puffs on the party peace pipe in a 15- minute conference in the pantry, at a breakfast at the Capitol of seven Democratic governors and Senate and House Democratic leaders. But the exact extent to which things were patched up between national headquarters and Texas Democrats who backed President Eisenhower in 1952 was obscured a bit in the smoke." committee, is $14,401,904,000. a cut of $381,774,000 from requests but $3,473,000,000 more than this year’s figure. Over-all, the military strength next June would be 2,852,000 as against 2,954,000 this June. The total new money provided in the bill is $744,609,000 less than President Dwight D. Eisenhower requested but much of the cut was offset by bookkeeping trans fers making money available from other sources. Sure, It's Spring Week no more! lan that. IS OUT... “Big Expose' Issue" PAGE THINS Corner Room Waring Hall
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