SATURDAY, MAY 14. 1955
Reds Create
Military Pact
WARSAW, Poland, May 13 (/P) —With Premier Nikolai
Bulganin running the show, the Soviet Union and seven East
European Communist allies approved in 30 minutes today a
military alliance to operate under a unified command.
The treaty, designed to counter West Germany’s rearma
ment and assignment as the 15th member of the West’s North
Adenauer Tells
German Unit
He Will Resign
BONN, Germany, May 13 (JP) —
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer told
his Cabinet today he is quitting as
foreign minister so that he will be
able to concentrate on develop
ment of a democratic German ar
my.
He undoubtedly will call upon
Heinrich von Brentano to succeed
him in the Foreign Office. German
political experts regard Von Bre
tano, 50, as the political heir ap
parent to the 79-year-old Chancel
lor. Von Brentano present is par
liamentary floor leader for Aden
auer’s Christian Democratic party.
He told the Cabinet he will sub
mit his resignation as foreign
minister when President Theodor
He'uss returns from a summer va
cation.
Adenauer’s decision to give up
the foreign ministry stemmed
from these considerations:
1. His determination, to keep
the projected . 500,000-man West
German army from becoming a
"state' within a state” with such
great power as the old Prussian
led army had under the Kaiser
and in the Weimar Republic.
2. The need for a full-time for
eign minister to handle this new
ly sovereign nation’s bigger role
in world affairs.
3. The feeling that he should
.take things easier now that he is
approaching his 80th year.
Benson Proposes Rigid -
Wheat Control Program
WASHINGTON, May 13 (/P)—
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T.
Benson today proposed a rigid
control program for the 1956
wheat crop. He set June 25 as the
date for a grower referendum on
It.
His program would limit plant
ings to 55 million'acres, the mini
mum permitted by law, and would
be the same as allotted for this
year’s controlled crop. This is a
cutback from a postwar peak of
80 million acres.
Polio Vaccination
Resumption Okayed.
WASHINGTON, May 13 (A*) —The government authorized today
a partial resumption \>f polio vaccinations.
After rechecking for safety, the Public Health Service approved
11 batches of Salk vaccine made by Parke, Davis & Co. of Detroit.
This stamped the governmeni
vaccine except that in the hands
of Minnesota health authorities.
The Minnesota supply, officials
said, presumably is all right, too.
But its approval is being held up
until all the data is in hand.
All told, enough vaccine to in
oculate more than four million
persons was approved by today’s
announcement.
Some three-fourths of the 4,250,-
000 cubic centimeters involved
already has been used for vac
cinations. But Surgeon Gem Leo
nard A. Scheele said today’s ac
tion means “over a million more
children can now be vaccinated
beginning immediately.”
Inoculation of school children
was halted temporarily a week
ago, on advice from Washington,
after a number of inoculated
youngsters developed polio.
Scheele ordered Public Health
Service experts into the field to
check safety standards of the
manufacturers, company by com
pany. Parke, Davis & Co. was
first on the list.
The Public Health Service said
meanwhile it has under investiga
tion reported polio cases among
seven persons said to have de
veloped the disease after associa
tion with members of their fami
lies who had been vaccinated
Atlantic Treaty Organization, and
other documents will' be signed
tomorrow in Poland’s Parliament
building.
A Soviet spokesman said the
texts will, be published after the
signing. In the afternoon, Bul
ganin and other leaders of confer
ence delegations will speak at an
open-air mass meeting.
Who will become the supreme
commander of the Allied Red
forces may be announced then.
Konev Speculated
There has been speculation that
Marshal Ivan S. Konev Soviet
deputy defense minister, would
get the top spot. Some consider
the post may go to Marshal Kon
stantin Rokossovsky, the Russian
war hero who now heads Poland’s
armed forces.
The treaty links the Soviet Un
ion, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hun
gary, Bulgaria, Romania, Bast
Germany and Albania in the mili
tary alliance and provides as well
for mutual economic aid and cul
tural exchanges.
Radio Announces Treaty
In announcing the treaty’s ap
proval, the Moscow radio gave the
conference the formal title of “The
Warsaw Conference of European
Countries on Safeguarding Peace
and Security in Europe.”
Bulganin told the opening ses
sion Wednesday the treaty will be
open to any other European na
tion wishing to join and that the
alliance will automatically dis
solve itself if any all-European
security system can be devised.
Swedish Officer
Convicted As Spy
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May
13 (A 3 ) —Bo Jonas son, a lieutenant
in the Swedish army reserve, was
sentenced today to five years im
prisonment for spying for Com
munist Czechoslovakia.
The Stockholm Magistrates
Court gave his wife a two-year
sentence. The court said she con
fessed to selling her husband’s
military instruction books to the
Czech legation.
The sentences wound up the
government’s prosecution of 11
persons arrested in a nationwide
spy hunt last March. Among these
were two Czech military attaches
subsequently expelled.
t’s o.k. on all Parke, Davis & Co.
with the Salk vaccine. Those ac
tually vaccinated had not de
veloped polio.
A spokesman said two cases
were in Georgia, one in Montana,
one in California, one in Tennes
see and two in Nevada. All were
paralytic except one in Nevada.
Some states Wisconsin and
Connecticut among the first—
gave an immediate go-ahead for
vaccinations on getting word from
Washington on the Parke, Davis
Co. product.
Groff to Address Club
Capt. Rowland H. Groff, pro
fessor of naval science and tac
tics, will address the Faculty Lun
cheon Club at noon Monday at the
State College Hotel.
Using the theme of the Armed
Forces Day for his subject, Groff
will speak on “Power for Peace.”
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World at
A Glance
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, May 13 </P0 —
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas,
the Senate Democratic leader, said
today that some leading Republi
can senators apparently do not
trust President Eisenhower to ne
gotiate with the Communists.
If there is any cold war of par
tisan politics between the White
House and Congress, Johnson said,
it is beinv waged by the Rpubli
cans and not the Democrats.
's6' Candidates Forecast
NEW YORK, May 13 (>P)—Sen.
John J. Sparkman (D-Ala.) said
today that Adlai Stevenson, who
headed the party ticket in 1952,
would be the Democrats’ presiden
tial candidate next year, and did
not rule out that he himself would
run again for vice president.
Sparkman said Stevenson would
win “regardless of whom the Re
publicans put up for President,
including Eisenhower.”
Man With 6 Lives
LOS ANGELES, May 13—Au
thor-convict Caryl Chessman to
day was sentenced again to die in
the gas chamber at San Quentin.
July 15 is the new date set by
Superior Judge Charles W. Fricke.
It was the sixth time that Judge
Fricke, trial judge when Chess
man was convicted in 1948, has
set an execution date.
During his seven years in death
row Chessman wrote the best sell
er novel, “Cell 2455 Death Row.”
Leader Sets July 4
HARRISBURG, May 13 Gov.
George M. Leader declared today
his administration is working for
a July 4 adjournment of the Legis
lature contingent on passage of
his proposed classified income tax
program.
Newspaper Merger Study
WASHINGTON, May 13 (vT») —
Asst. Atty. Gen. Stanley N. Barnes
said today the Justice Department
is studying antitrust aspects of
newspaper mergers which leave
one paper in possession of the
field.
Reds, Allies Differ 0
WASHINGTON, May 13 (ff)
—A dozen disarmament docu
ments released tonight showed
Russia and the Allies as far
apart as ever on the question
of controls to make sure no
body cheats.
The hitherto secret documents
showed fundamental agreement
on many counts by all five mem
ber nations of the United Nations
Disarmament Commission which
has been meeting at London since
Feb. 25.
. Documents Show Gap
But they also showed a wide
gap on the issue of ironclad guar
antees.
The West wants a control agen
cy in being, with wide powers to
go anywhere and check up on
anything, before the first gun is
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Ike Names
New Army
WASHINGTON, May 13 (£>)—President Dwight D. Eisen
hower named a new Army chief today to succeed Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway, who has decided to retire after bucking at
the President’s idea of a smaller atomic-age army.
Eisenhower’s new choice is Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, 54,
now Far East commander. ' ‘
Ridgway notified the Army he
intends to retire from active duty
on June 30—a month and a half
before his term is up as Army
chief of staff.
He reached the 60-year age lim
it for general officers last March
31, but was allowed to continue
on his two-year term under a pro
vision which permits the reten
tion of a certain number of re
tirement-age generals. This had
Eisenhower’s approval.
Informs Army General
However, last Monday Ridgway
informed the Army’s adjutant
general that he desired to be re
tired June 30, when he will have
completed 38 years’ service.
Ridgway, in recent appearances
before congressional committees
considering the military manpow
er budget, has said hi complies
with the decision of his superiors.
But in speeches and discussions
elsewhere he has said that the
dispersal requirements of an
atomic battlefield will call for
more, not fewer soldiers.
Eisenhower Replies ’
Eisenhower, when asked about
this attitude, told newsmen that
Ridgway had oply a “parochial”
responsibility for national defense
—a wor dwnich means limited or
narrow.
Taylor, a tall, handsome fight
ing man, campaigned in some of
the fiercest world War II battles
in Europe. Later he went to Korea
as Bth Army commander, then
moved up to commander in chief
of U.S. and Allied forces in the
Far East.
Quiet Hour Discussion
Nittany Council will discuss
quiet hours during finals and
recognition of retiring members
at its meeting at 6:45 p.m. Mon
day in Nittany 20.
scrapped under any disarmament
program.
Russia continues vague about
the powers of a control agency.
Indeed, the Soviets argue that
nations distrust each other so
much they would not stand for
unlimited inspections, so controls
are “mere formalities” and raise
false hopes of security.
Key Point Split
The split was wide open on this
key point—one so vital tjiat
American officials said agreement
could be reached on every other
issue and the talks could founder
on that point alone.
But the documents, when com
pared with a Soviet disarmament
plan being ballyhooed by the
Kremlin, show at least four major
concessions by the Russians. The
indicate, too, that Moscow has
come close to the Western view
on another point and has sprung
at least three surprises.
Taylor
Chief
Faure Objects
To Neutrality
Of Germany
PARIS, May 13 (iF) —French
Premier Edgar Faure came out to
day against the idea of a neutral
ized Germany as unrealistic. He
said he favors the prospective ' cp
level conference of the Big Four,
but that it should not halt West
German rearmament.
Some diplomatic observers be
lieve Russia’s consent to a neu
tralized Austria, under the inde
pendence treaty to be signed in
Vienna Sunday, may be des : g«ed
to prepare the way for a similar
offer to Germany.
Though many Frenchmen, fear
ful of a rearmed Germany, might
welcome such a development,
Faure told a news confereince:
“I don’t think this idea is real
istic and I haven’t seen that it has
been put in a form that could be
discussed now. Even for Austria,
it seems the idea of neutralization
has not been kept in the way first
suggested. In any case, the prob
lem is different for a country of
Germany’s importance.”
“We must at the same time push
our efforts to strengthen security
and to get useful negotiations, 1 *
he said.
Strikes in Singapore
SINGAPORE, May 13—A score
of new strikes hit Singapore to
day in the wake of rioting—offi
cially described as conforming
closely to a Communist pattern—
that cost the lives of American
correspondent Gene Symonds and
two Chinese.
Armament
It was because o fthe ballyhoo
that the documents were released.
Meeting Set Up in UN
Under terms of a United Na
tions resolution of last Nov. 4,
five nations have been meeting
in secret disarmament talks at
London. That is, they have been
considered secret by the United
States, Britain, France and Cana
da. But Russia broke silence three
times—the latest being last Tues
day when it broadcast its 5000-
word disarmament plan to the
world minutes after proposing it
at London.
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