SATURDAY. OCTOBER 1. 1955
No Trouble Seen
By Ike Cabinet
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 ( JP ) —President Eisenhower’s Cabinet, “greatly cheered” by his pro
gress toward recovery, said today the government should run smoothly while he is away.
A formal statement, issued after a White House meeting presided over by Vice President
Nixon, said:
“After a full discussion of pending matters, it was concluded that there are no obstacles to the
orderly and uninterrupted con
duct of the foreign ana domestic
affairs of the nation during the
period of rest ordered by the
President’s physicians.
Policies Are Well-Known
“The policies and programs of
the administration as determined
and approved by the President
are well-established along defi
nite lines and are well-known.
“Coordination of the activities
of . the several departments of the
government within the frame
work of these policies will be con
tinued by full cooperation among
the responsible officers of these
departments so that the functions
of the government will be carried
forward in an effective manner
during the absence of the Presi
dent, ”
Kidnappers
Of Till Boy
Free on Bail
GREENWOOD, Miss., Sept. 30
(&)■ —Two white men accused of
kidnaping Emmet Louis Till, 14,
walked free on bond today a week
after they were acquitted of slay
ing the Chicago Negro.
County Judge Charles Pollard
bound Roy Bryant, 24, and his
half-brother, John w.. Milam, 36,
over to the Leflore County grand
jury and set bond at $lO,OOO each.
' The two waived preliminary
hearing. The grand jury meets
Nov. 7..
Men Found Innocent
A Tallahatchie County grand
jury last Friday found the two
men innocent of slaying Till who
was taken Aug. 28 from the
sharecropper shack of his uncle,
Mose Wright, on a plantation near
Money, Miss., a small community
near Greenwood.
A body taken from the Talla
hatchie River Aug. 31 was .identi
fied as Till’s by his mother, Mrs.
Mamie Bradley of Chicago, and
Wright.
Body Appeared Older
The defense, however, intro
duced witnesses at the murder
trial who testified the body ap
peared to be that of an older per
son and showed signs of having
been in the water from eight to
25 days.
The Tallahatchie jury returned
its acquittal verdict after 67 min
utes deliberation.
Two Leflore County s officers
testified Bryant and Milam ad
mitted taking Till from Wright’s
house but said they released him
after Mrs. Bryant told them Till
was not the Negro who allegedly
wolf-whistled and made indecent
proposals to her.
Meanwhile/ Negroes in Detroit
held a 24-hour mass meeting to
protest the acquittal of Bryant
and Milam.
Bad Check Passer
Gets 2 Years in Jail
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30 (JP)
Richard Victor HI of Pittsburgh
today drew a two-year prison
term for passing $lO,OOO in worth
less checks.
Victor was arrested on Feb. 24
while a patient in St. Francis
Hospital. He was charged with
passing a bogus $3500 check on a
Mexican bank and using the mon
ey to open an account in a
Stroudsburg bank.
Navy Grants Commission
In Reserves to Landy
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (JP)
The Secretary of the Navy to
day overruled a special re
view board and ordered that a
reserve commission be granted
to Eugene Landy, 21, whose
mother was once a Commun
ist.
Secretary Charles Thomas held
there was no indication that the
honor graduate of the Merchant
Marine Academy had ever beeh
influenced by his mother in a
subversive way. He said the
youth’s association with his mo
ther was the "natural relation
ship of mother and son and not
a sympathetic association with
her political beliefs.’’
Mrs. Deborah Landy of Brad
ley Beach, N.J., the mother, had
admitted to 10 years membership
in the Communist party. She said
she left it in 1947 at the urging
ef her son.
Nixon's 3d Time
Today was the third time that
Nixon has presided over a Cabi
net meeting, but it was the first
time when Eisenhower’s absence
was due to illness. As on the two
other occasions! the President’s
chair in the Cabinet was left va
cant. Nixon used his own chair.
As had been announced earlier,
the White House statement noted
that Sherman Adams, top presi
dential assistant, was leaving'for
Denver today. It said Adams “will
be available there, in consulta
tion with the President’s physi
cians, whenever it may be ap
propriate to present any matters
to the President.”
Murray Snyder, assistant White
House press secretary who issued
the statement, declined to expand
on it when asked what subjects
were discussed.
Typhoon Wrecks
Japanese Island
TOKYO (A 3 ) —A big typhoon
roared up the Sea of Japan- to
day, a little spent after wrecking
the southern island of Kyushu
but still a serious threat to the
northern islands.
Police said the stoym left 20
dead, 10 missing, 105 injured and
120 fishing craft,
lose, in the churning seas.
British Steamer Bombed
LONDON, Sept. 30 (A 3 )—Radio
Peiping said four Chinese Na
tionalist planes attacked the Brit
ish steamer Tefkres off Swatow
today, damaged wireless appara
tus and a storeroom and injured
two members of the crew.
Hotel Strike Looms
PHILADELPHIA (A 3 )— Some
2,000 service employes in 10 of
the city’s major hotels have voted
to strike at midnight tonight
when their contract expires.
Last August, the Navy with
held the ensign’s reserve commis
sion for which young Landy had
worked at the academy at Kings
Point, N.Y. He stood second in
his graduating class, and among
other things won the award given
by the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution for attainments
in naval science.
The Navy said then, and Thom
as repeated today, there was no
question of Landy’s personal loy
alty to the United States.
Landy, who has begun the
study-of law at Yale, said at New
Haven. -Conn., that “I’m very hap
py" and “now I can start on a
normal life again.’*
He said he had talked with
Thomas in New York yesterda;
and “I knew he was going to be
very fair about it. He was a very
sympathetic person."
Mrs. Landy said she, too, was
“very, very happy.”
“This suspense was getting us
down a little,” she said.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
French Walk Out
Of UN Assembly;
Threaten ta Quit
UNITED NATIONS. N.Y.,
Sept. 30 (A 3 ) — France walked
out of the U.N. General Assem
bly tonight and one high rank
ing member of the French
delegation said his country
might quit the world organi
sation entirely.
The walkout followed the
Assembly action in deciding
by a one-vote margin to take
up over bitter French objec
tion the torrid issue of Al
gerian independence.
Immediately after the vote
French Foreign Minister An
toine Pinay asked for the floor
and in grave tones told the
representatives of 60 nations
that France would regard as
null and void any action taken
by the Assembly on Algeria.
Moroccan Sultan
To Leave Throne
PARIS, Sept. 30 (A 3 )—French
informants said tonight Sultan
Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa
has promised to quit the French
Moroccan throne peacefully for
the sake of calm and order in the
protectorate.
A statement to this effect was
signed by the againg Sultan with
out any conditions and he is ex
pected to leave ,in the immediate
future, said these usually reliable
sources.
This information apparently su
perseded advices from Rabat,
Morocco’s capital, that the Sul
tan had sent a letter to France’s
President Rene Coty offering to
quit if the French would let him
name his own successor or desig
nate the members of a projected
three-man regency council.
If the French informants’ state
ment is true, it would clear the
road for Premier Edgar Faure’s
reform program.
Increase in Polio
Vaccine Predicted
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (A 3 )—
President Basil O’Connor of the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis said today there might
be enough Salk polio vaccine
available next year to vaccinate
24 million children.
Also the Public Health Service
announced release of another 2,-
604,153 cubic centimeters, or
“shots,” for current programs.
“There is no reason why there
shouldn’t' be adequate vaccine
next year,” O’Connor said at a
news conference.
O’Connor said there are about
30 million children in the one to
nine-year group, but more than
six million first and second grad
ers will have received two shots
under the free programs spon
sored by NFIP this year but not
yet completed.
Mayor of Lock Haven
Turns in Resignation
LOCK HAVEN, Pa.. Sept. 30
(A 3 ) —Mayor Charles E. Herr, 82,
finishing out a four.year term,
today resigned effective tomor
row because of ill health.
In submitting his resignations
to the city council Herr cited his
failing health and “the tension and
pressure of being mayor” as his
] asons for wanting to leave office.
His term would-have run to the
end of the year. A new mayor is
to be elected in November.
Herr, a Democrat and print shop
owner, was serving his second
term as mayor. He was first
elected in 1840 and then in 1952.
Police Link Peron
To Teen-age Girl
BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 30 (A 31 ) —Federal police revealed today
what they described as the story of Juan D. Peron’s “intimate rela
tions’’ with a teen-age brunette who wants to meet him in exile
in Asuncion, Paraguay.
The police released two letters from the fallen dictator, 60, to
Nelida Nelly- Haydee Rivas, 16,
after a raid on her suburban
Buenos Aires home. Authorities
said they found $23,000 worth of
jewelry and $22,000 in cash in the
home of the girl, sexy-looking
daughter of a janitor.
The story of Peron’s romance
was the most amazing revelation
of his activities by investigators
of the new revolutionary govern
ment < who daily are unearthing
new evidence against him and his
10-year regime.
Police said the romance began
before 1953 indicating it
bloomed not long after the death
July 26, 1952 of Peron’s blonde
wife, Eva. In one of the letters
Peron addressed Nelida as “My
Dear Child” and signed off “Your
Daddy.”
The romance was carefully
shielded from the public, but
police said they were seen to
gether at the 1953 International
Film Festival in Mar del Plata.
She overnighted at the official
presidential residence, police said,
and Peron at times introduced her
as his niece,
One letter was written Sept. 20,
apparently from the Paraguayan
Embassy wheic Peron fled for
asylum. In this the • one-time
strongman told Nelida “to be
calm and wait until I send for
you ...”
Persons who have seen Nelida
describe her as “a petite brunette,
not beautiful but sexy” with a
whistle-provoking figure.
Peron wrote her: “I am tired
and need some quiet time. I think
I will get* it.” He said she could
write him through the Paragua
yan ambassador.
“I am very sad at seeing so
much anxiety and so many sacri
fices,” the . letter went on. “The
workers and poor people now will
begin to know who Peron was.
Nevertheless, I am not repentant
for having renounced civil war.
So many would have died and
the country would have been de-!
stroyed.”
Pay Hike Offered
By Westinghouse
PITTSBURGH Sept. 30 (/P)—
Westinghouse Electric Corp, to
day offered four unions represent
ing 70/100 employes a five-year
contract with pay increases it
said totaled 16 per cent.
The company announcement
said the proposal includes wage
adjustments now for day workers,
plus a three per cent increase for
all hourly paid employes. In ad
dition, Westinghouse said, the
proposal calls for three per cent,
increases in October, 1956 and!
October, 1957, and for 314 perj
cent increases in October, 1958,
and October, 1959. !
Macmillan Warns Reds
On Upsetting Middle East
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.,
Sept. 30 (JP) —Foreign Secre
tary Harold Macmillan of Bri
tain today warned the Soviet
bloc against upsetting the Mid
dle East balance by selling
arms to the Arabs.
“A heavy responsibility will lie
on any country which introduces
any new and disturbing factor
into this delicate situation,” Mac
millan said in his first speech to
the UN Assembly.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles and Fernch Foreign Min
ister Andre Pinay, who have ad
dressed the Assembly, are greatly
worried by the deal. But the
fourth member of the big power
ministerial circle, Russia’s V. M.
Molotov, has gone about his busi
ness here as if nothing untoward
had happened in the lense Arab-
Isrreli siturt ; on.
Vaclav David, Czechoslovak
Rain-Swollen
Rivers Flood
Gulf Highway
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 30 (F)—
Rivers flooded by Hurrican Jan
et’s heavy rains covered or wash
ed out highways and communica
tions lines over a long stretch of
Mexico’s Gulf Coast today, delay
ing reports of the storm’s toll.
Coastal towns from Tuxpan to
below Nautla, a small fishing
port 75 miles north of Veracruz,
have not been heard from direct
ly since the season’s most vicious
tropical storm crashed inland yes
terday and beat itself out against
the Sierra Madre Mountains.
Floods extended inland as far
as Pachuca, 100 miles west from
the coast and 70 miles north of
Mexico City on the main tourist
highway from the United States.
There was some radio communi
cation with the fringes of the
flooded area and no reports men
tioned any deaths or injuries.
Before dying in the mountains,
Janet had taken an estimated toll
of 200 lives in Mexico, chiefly on
Yucatan Peninsula, plus 200 oth
ers as she roared across the Carib
bean Islands.
Court Upholds
Gl Conviction
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (F)—
The highest military court upheld
today the ■ conviction of Cpl. Ed
ward S. Dickenson, 24, the first
turncoat American tried on char
!ges of aiding the Communists
while a prisoner of war in Korea.
The military court of appeals
unanimously sustained an Army
courtmartial’s conviction of Dick
ensor. and Lis sentence—lo years
at hard labor plus a dishonorable
discharge and forfeiture of pay
and allowances.
Dickenson, from the little town
of Cracker’s Neck, Va., is servi-.g
h : s sentence at Ft. Leavenworth,
Kan.
His attorneys had raised var
ious legal objections to the court
martial.
Killer Asks Life Term
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30 (F)
William D. C01e,'29-year-old con
victed murderer, asked the state
Supreme Court today to red ice
hisdeath sentence to life im
prisonment.
foreign minister, followed Mac
millan to the rostrum. However,
he took Molotov’s lead and said
nothing about arms barter with
Egypt. His speech mainly was
along the lines laid down by Mol
otov last week.
Molotov plans to depart tomor
row for Moscow to prepare for
the meeting of the Big Four for
eign ministers in Geneva Oct. 27.
The Russian obviously was
pleased by Macmillan’s speech as
a whole. Its theme was one of
moderation and an appeal for de
velopment of the Geneva spirit.
Molotov smiled and applauded
when the British minister con
cluded. On his part, Macmillian
expressed pleasure at what he
called the moderate tone of Mol
otov’s speech last week.
Macmillan urged the Russians
to accept a unified Germany
base don Western plans which
Macmillan said would guarantee
Moscow full protection against
any German threat of aggression.
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