SATURDAY. MAY 21, 1955
French Troops
To Evacuate
SAIGON, South Viet Nam, May 20 (JP)—Premier Ngo Dinh Diem won an important
victory today in his drive to lessen French Influence in South Viet Nam. His deputy de
fense minister announced France had agreed to withdraw its troops from the capital city
of Saigon.
The minister, Tran Trung Dung, said that eventually the entire 75,000-man French
expeditionary force will be shift
ea from the big southern cities
to two or three coastal embarka
tion points. Diem's government
contends the troops in their pres
ent concentrations have angered
the Vietnamese people and fired
ur Communist propaganda.
Dung's announcement followed
disclosure that Gen. Paul Ely,
French commissioner general in
Indochina and commander of tne
French armed forces here, had
asked Paris to relieve him of his
post
Comes as Surprise
Dung and Ely are working out
details of the troops' regroup
ing. Ely's move came as a sur
prise, but it obviously was an
outgrowth of his clashes with
Diem on military and political
policies, and of American support
for Diem. ,
Diem asked tne French govern
ment last week '.o move the troops
northward to the border with
Communist-held North Viet Nam,
where they could guard against
Rea encroachment, or pull them
out of South Viet Nam.
Succeeds Again
Announcement of the agree
ment on shifting the French forc
es to coastal embarkation points
marked another success in Diem's
determination to prove that South
Viet Nam now is free, independ
ent and sovereign.
The victor in the recent civil
war with Bing Xuyen rebels,
Deim is arranging elections of a
National Assembly to set up a
government on a broad basis
which will decide the future stat
us of absentee Chief of State Bao
Dai.
Installed in 1949
Now living on the French Rivi
era, Bao Dai was installed by the
French in 1949.
The Premier made a strong bid
for top-level recognition a week
ago when he invited the Western
Big Three foreign ministers to
come here soon to draw up with
his goVernment a common course
of action against the spread of
communism In , Viet Nam.
So far no replies have been re
ceived,
Molotov Is
Russian Envoy
To UN Meeting
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., May
20 ("o—Soviet "ussia is sending
Foreign Minister Vassily M. Molo
tov to the 10th anniversary meet
ing of the United Nations next
month in San Francisco. Molotov
so informed the UN today.
This makes certain the holding
of new high-level East-West talks.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles and French Foreign Min
ister Antoine Pinay announced
earlier they will be in San Fran
cisco. The British also are expeet
ed to send their foreign minister
—Harold Macmillan if the, Con
servatives win next Thursday's
election, a Laborite otherwise.
The four ministers have just
met in Vienna for the signing, of
the Austrian independence trea
ty. They likely will confer at
San Francisco on plans for the
meeting of their chiefs of govern
ment later in the summer.
Molotov attended the UN found
ing conference at San Francisco
in 1945. He will come from Mos
cow after talks with India's Prime
Minister Nehru, who is slated to
visit Moscow early next month.
V. K. Krishma Menon, foreign
affairs advisor to Nehru, will rep
resent India at the San Francisco
session starting June 20. Menon is
conferring in Peiping with top
Chinese Communist officials.
Lattimore Trip OK'd
WASHINGTON, May 20 (.41-
ov(9o,LAttlznore, today won State
Department approval for a trip to
Europe this summer despite the
fact that ,he is under federal M
dictment on a '3 erjury charge.
Senate Opens Highway Debate
WASHINGTON, May 20 (IP)—A hot fight over America's highways-of-the-future opened in
the Senate today, with Democrats and Republicans vying to put across rival plans.
Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) in the first major speech of the debate, declared that a bill he offered
would criss-cross the country with "magnificent" new superroads.
"The like of it no nation has ever dreamed," he said.
Republicans, scoffing that the'
Gore bill would not do the job,
bided their time to try to substi
tute an Eisenhower measure,
turned down by the Public Works
Committee in favor of the Gore
bill. No Senate votes are to be
taken until next week.
Sen. Edward Martin of Penn
sylvania formally introduced
the Eisenhower bill and served
notice he would ask the Senate
to pass it instead of the Gore
measure. He praised tha admin
istration bill as a sound one, de
signed to mc4ernize the na
tion's roads on a "pay as you
use" basis and help cut down
the traffic death toll.
The Gore bills calls for a fed
eral-state outlay of $17,941,000,000
in the next five years on the four
road systems aided by federal
funds interstate, primary, sec
ondary and urban. Of the total
about $12,750,000 would be fed
eral money.
The Eisenhower plan would
allot 38 billions of federal-State
funds to the four systems over
10 ears . Of this, 26 billions
wou!el be spent on the 40,000-
mile interstate system, designed
to link up all areas of the coun
try.
Catholicism
Restricted
In Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, May 20 (W)
—Congress completed action to
day on a three-point program by
supporters of President Juan D.
Peron for restricting the Roman
Catholic Church in Argentina.
The Senate passed unanimously
a House-approved resolution to
set up the process for amending
the constitution to sepa r a t e
church and State.
The Chamber of Deputies ap
proved 112-9 a Senate bill to can
cel the tax exemption of church
es and religious• organizations.
'Point three in the program was
approved earlier in the current
three-week session by both bodies
—discontinuing Catholic religious
education in the public schools.
All three measures await signa
ture by President Peron but this
is taken for granted, since Peron
had\ said publicly he would sign
any actions against the church
taken by Congress.
Congressional approval of the
program had been anticipated,
since Peron's party controls all
the Senate seats and has an over
whelming majority in the Cham
ber.
There was no immediate com
ment from the Roman Catholic
clergy, Who had sought to rally
its supporters in defense of the
privileges the church now en
joys.
Red Envoy Refuses to Act on Taxes
BERLIN, May 20 (JP)—Soviet
Ambassador G. M. Pushkin re
jected today a Western appeal for
Soviet help in getting Communist
East Germany to pare down stiff
highway taxes in effect since Ap
ril 1.
tied only by direct negotiations
between the West German gov
ernment and the Eastern govern
ment, which the West Germans
refuse to recognize as legal.
Dependent on Transport
West Berlin, isolated within
East Germany, depends heavily on
trucks t o bring foodstliffs and
consumer goods from West Ger
many 110 miles away. In hiking
the taxes, East Germany asserted
more money was needed to keep
the roads in repair.
The Western ambassadors esti
mated the new rates will cost West
Berlin 7 to 10 million dollars a
year, unless a compromise can be
reached. The old tax was boosted
1 100 per cent for the largest class
of Western trucks to 240 marks
—557.12 for a round trip on th-.
Berlin autobahn. This is a tax of
about 25 cents a mile.
Mao, Nehru Confer; 'Pop Music Off Key,'
Ile again told the Big Three
Western ambassadors the levies
slapped on West Berlin's truck
traffic are the sole responsibility
of the East German republic.
Four-Hour Meeting
The ambassadors met with
Pushkin for four hours in the first
formal meeting of top Western
and Soviet officials in Germany
since 1948. They proposed that
the four powers occupying Berlin
appoint German experts to study
the tax problem and recommend
a solution.
In rejecting this, Pushkin in
sisted the question could be set-
Formosa Expectant
TOKYO, Saturday, May 21 (NA)
—Amidst new reports of some
thing brewing over, Formosa, the
top man in Red China, Mao Tze
tung, conferred yesterday in Pei
ping with the foreign policy ad-
Viser of India's Prime Minister
Nehru.
Peiping radio tersely reported .
that Mao received India's V. K.
Krishna Merlon and that Red Chi
na's Premier Chou En-lai also
was present.
Ike Weekends at Farm
GETTYSBURG, Pa., May 20 (VP)
—President Eisenhower arrived
nt his country hoine here this af
ternooo for a weekend of rest.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Agree
Saigon
A big bone of contention is the
method of financing the interstate
systeni. Under the Eisenhower
plan the federal government
would put up 25 billion for this,
raising 21 billion of it by 30-year
bonds issued bya special federal
corporation, whose borrowing
technically would not be counted
in the federal debt. The bonds
would be paid , off from gasoline
taxes, and other motor vehicle
taxes.
Democrats, including Sen.
Byrd (D-Va.) have attacked this
financing plan, saying it would
involve heavy interest payments
and evasion of the ceiling on
the federal debt.
Says British Conductor
BATH, England, May 20 (W)--
Sir Thomas Beecham, Britain's
noted conductor, today called
modern music a cinch to play.
There's so much discord in it, he
explained that no one notices
when you sound off with a wrong
note.
Sir Thomas, who at 76 is famed
both for his baton waving and
acid tongued lectures to audien
ces, told the Bath Music Festival:
"In old music you stand alone,
alone and naked, and every note
you play has got to be perfect.
No one notices in modern music
how many wrong notes you play.
"The cry today is 'down with
Mozart.' To hell with anyone who
can write a tune. Give us dis
cord."
Auto Price, Rent
Declines Reported*
WASHINGTON, May 20 (JP)—The government reported today
that consiumer prices for both automobiles and rents declined in
April because of record production in the auto and housing indus
tries.
The price declines were modest but possibly sign:ficant in view
of tremendous output in both industries. They were chiefly respcn
sible tor an over-all slight reduc
tion in the. nation's living cost
1c 7al for Apr:l.
Tho. Labor Department's Eur
_au of Labor Stat:stlcs sad fiat
between mid-March and miC. ' p-
Hi its consumers' price index a
clined a tenth of one per
114.2 per cent of the 1947 , 19 av
erage. _
Wadsworth
Hits Russia
On Attitude
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.. May
20 (IF')--1.1.5. Delegate .'ames J.
Wadsworth said today there will
have to be a change of mind at
the top level, especially on the
Soviet side, if disarmament talks
are to be make any progress.
Wadsworth returned from the
London conference of the five
power UN Disarmament sub-com
mittee, made up of Britain,
France, the United States, the So
viet Union and Canada.
He told a news conference that
new instructions on major points
must be handed down from the
higher level. This means the sub
committee will take up less im
portant matters until policy deci
sions are made at the expected
summer meeting of President
Dwight Eisenhower, Soviet Pre
mier Bulganin, British Prime
Minister Anthony Eden and
French Premiere Faure.
The London conference recessed
this week after 13 weeks of ,ses
sions. The Soviet Union on May
10 put up a newly phrased peace
plan. It had some apparent con
cessions to Western views but
Wadsworth felt the Russians did
not go far enough.
The Russians suggested once
more the creation of an interna
tional control commission to
check on observance of any plan
for disarmament.
When the higher levies went
into effect, Western spokesmen
denounced them as blackmail in
tended to gain formal diplomatic
recognition of . East Germany by
the West. They also charged the
taxes were aimed at weakening
the West's bargaining position in
future talks on German unity.
Judgeship Nominations
Sent to Senate
WASHINGTON, May 20 (EP)—
Nominations for four U.S. Dis
trict Court judgeships in Pennsyl
vania were sent to the Senate to
day by President Dwight D. Eis
en),e,,ver in an apparent effort to
end the long-standing shortage of
at junsts in the Keystone
State.
Immediate reaction from Capi
tol Hill sources was that there
was no guarantee the nominations
would win immediate approval.
The most dangerous day of the
week for driving is Saturday.
What'll you have?
The Chuck Wagon
Light up in
The Chuck Wagon
Good to the last drop at
THE CHUCK WAGON
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Lowest Since 1953
Th;s is threo-t :laths of one .)er
cent lower than April of last r.
It is the lowest living coat
since May, 1953 when the index
was 114. C.
The rent decline was only a
tenth of one cer cent. On a 0
monthly rent this would be only
a dime a month. But it was tae
first time rents over the ne. - 3n.
have averaged lower since tile
government rolled them back in
wartime 1042. The earliest ri•e
viouts reduction in a free rent r- 7r
-Iset. without controls, was back
1938.
No Break Ev!cl.mt
Mrs. Aryness Joy Wickan:
ing commissioner of labor :-
tics, said no break was ev:d
the housing market. She said r 3
have declined in some spots o - : ar
the nation for a year, be , "g
balanced by increases in oth-2r
spots. This was the first mc:ntii
the declines outweighed the in
creases.
"It's just that we have a better
housing supply," she said.
This is similar to what's hap
pened in auto prices. Dealers ha :e
been, givi.ng more and more con
cessions off list prices so that
costs of both new and used c rs
have dropped by more than
per cent between March and
Here again Mrs. Wiezens
there was no market break.
Rise in ,April
Food prices rose nearly half a
per cent in April. This was lari
ly due to a late March freeze in
Southern states. It helped send
potato prices up by an average
of 30 per cent, 60 per cent over
last year. Prices for most fruits
and vegetables increased for the
same reason. Meats were about
the same, but poultry and dairy
prices declined.
State Senator
Won't Answe:
Clinic Queries
PITTSBURGH, May 20 (1P)-
State Sen. John J. Haluska (L
Cambria), militant advocate of a
controversial cancer treatment, in
voked the Fifth Amendment to
day and refused to answer govern
ment questions about establish
ment and operation of the Hoxsey
Cancer Clinic.
First witness in an investiga
tion by federal authorities of the
Cambria County clinic, Sen. Hal
uska opened proceedings with a
five-page prepared statement at
tacking the government and the
American Medical Assn.
In his statement, IV • 'ca, ad
ministrator of the clinic, referred
to the inquiry as "persecution"
and "harassment."
He charged the government
prematurely released "evidence"
to newspapers and accused it of
becoming a "conscious participant
in trial by newspaper."
The Cambria County Democrat
said the government's action
against the clinic was part of a
campaign by the AMA to penalize
those "who refuse to conform to
the AMA and their political and
economic beliefs."