TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 29. 1955
President Views
School Situation
GM Study
Raises New
Complaints
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 —(W)
Senate study of General
Motors Corporation turned.. up
complaints today that GM's fi
nance-insurance affiliates are
hurting independent car repair
shops.
The testimony came from Re
ginald J. Holzer. general counsel
of the' Automotive Repair Execu
tives' Association of Chicago, and
Paul - Ries and Ralph A. Pierro,
owners of two Chicago repair
shops.
They said, in substance, that in
dependent car repairmen seldom
get a chance to bid on repair l
work covered by "GM's insurance
affiliate. Instead, they said, the
business is shunted to repair
shops run by GM car dealers.
Holzer, Ries and Pierro ap
peared before the Senate Anti
trust and Monopoly subcommit
tee under Sen. O'Mahoney (D-
Wyo) in its study of the opera
tions of GM, which makes Chev
rolet, Buick, Cadillac, Oldsmo
bile and Pontiac cars, among oth
er things.
On a broader scale, today's
hearings produced:
1. Testimony by Holmes Bald
ridge, a Roosevelt-Truman era of
ficial of the Justice Department,
whb said GM and its finance sub
sidiary, General Motors Accep
tance Corp., ou,ght to 'be split
apart.
2. A statement by Sen. O'Ma
honey that the big auto makers
can now borrow money at in
terest rates little higher than the
federal government itself has to
pay.
Farm Expert Sees
Drop in Income,
Prices Next Year
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (4 1 P)—
An Agriculture Department eco
nomist said today the current eco
nomic squeeze on the nation's
farmers is likely to get, a little
tighter next year.
In a report to the department's
annual farm outlook conference,
Frederick V. Waugh, department
director of economics, made this
forecast:
"Looking ahead to 1956, we
again expect business conditions
to be very good. We again expect
agricultural prices and income to
lag behind. In other words, we
expect the f arm 'cost-price
squeeze' to continue in 1956."
This "squeeze" likely will be
marked, Waugh said, by some
further drop in farm income but
little if any drop in farm pro
duction costs.
Waugh's forecast was given at
the opening session of the outlook
conference, attended by more
than 400 Extension Service econ
omists from the various states and
by department officials.
-The conference is designed to
acquaint the state economists
with' economics trends affecting
farmers.
President Issues
'Conduct' Order
GETTYSBURG, Pa., (R—Nov. 28
—President Dwight D. Eircshow
er issued a conflict-of-interdst or
der today requiring "high stan-'
dards of ethical conduct" for gov
ernment "WOCs"—business an d
industry experts serving the gov
ernment without compensation. '
The order follows up legislation
passed by Congress just before ad-,
journment last August requiring
such defense production special
ists to file information on their fi
nancial connections, and to keep
the file up to date.
There are about 1000 WOCs in
the government, working on de-;
tense contracts and the like. Sev-,
eral cases alleging that some of.
them had conflicts of interest be-'
tween the government and their
private employer have come be
fore congressional committees.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (/F)
—President Dwight D. Eisen
hower said tonight the federal
government will have to step
in if necessary to prevent "a
lack of schools in certain im
portant areas."
He cautioned. however. that
"if we depend too much . . . on
the federal government. we will
lose independence and initia
tive."
The President's remarks were
sound-filmed at his Gettysburg,
Pa. office for presentation at the
White House conference on edu
cation, which opened last night
with the issue of federal school
aid pushing to the fore
Vice president Richard M.
Nixon and Neil McElroy. con
ference chairman, also were on
the speakers' list.
Reviewing the lead-up to the
conference, Eisenhower said:
"In the last 10 'years our popu
lation has increased by 26 million
souls. During that increase a sim
ilar increase in the number of
schoolrooms and qualified teach
ers available for teaching our
young has not come about . . .
"There are many conflicting
opinions as to how to provide
these things.
"But there are two points, I
think, on which we all agree.
"The first thing is that the
education of our young should
be free. It should be under the
control of the family and lo
cality. It should not be con
trolled by any central author
ity. . .
"At the same time, we know
that everybody must have a good
education if they are to properly
discharge their functions as a citi
zen of America."
.
This, Eisenhower said, was "the
heart .of this whole problem."
Cabinet Meeting
Cancelled by Seely
All-University Cabinet will not
meet this week, Earl Seely, All-
University president, announced
last night.
Seely said he will be out of
town Thursday to attend • a stu
dent union meeting at the Uni
versity of Maryland with George
E. Donovan, director of Associat
ed Student Activities, and Philip
Beard, All-University secretary
treasurer.
Cabinet will dine with Presi
dent Milton S. Eisenhower at his
home next Thursday.
sty'
Also $lOO to 2475 egnt;;Zs..
Wedding Ring $12.50 teed Houseately
YOU CAN PAY MORE, BUT YOU CAN'T BUY
A FINER DIAMOND RING THAN A KEEPSAKE
B. P. MOYER, Jeweler
218 E. COLLEGE AVE.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Lewis Urges
Welfare Fund
Crack Down
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 IRS—John
L. Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers, called on Congress
today to crack down on the "hu
man jackals and scoundrels" who
he said misuse union w elf ar e
funds.
The 75-year-old chief of the
' United Mine Workers Union sug
gested a congressional resolution
urging the attorney general to
step up prosecutions in all such
cases. Union leaders themselves
did not escape his wrath.
"If some of the leaders of or
ganized labor would abandon their
holier-than-thou attitude and for-.
get what they are going to do with
the rest of the world and put their
own house in order, welfare funds
might have a better chance to
live," Lewis told a Senate Labor
subcommittee.
The subcommittee is making a
study of the need for new legisla
tion to protect union w elf ar e
funds, now growing at the rate of
about five billion dollars a year.
Angelo Inciso, a Chicago labor
union leader, did not answer when
called as a witness, although he
had been subpoenaed. Chairman
Douglas (D-Ill) said he would
later that Inciso be cited for con
tempt of Congress.
The senators seek an explana
tion of how the health and acci
dent • insurance program works in
Inciso's Chicago Local No. 286 of
the AFL United Auto Workers.
This is different from the CIO
Auto Workers Union.
Tax Proposal
Hits Opposition
HARRISBURG, Nov. 28 (11')—A
new Republican-sponsored sales
tax proposal went into the bill
writing stage today as Gov.
George M. Leader's manufactur
er's manufacturers' excise tax
ran into further opposition.
Rep. Waterhouse (R-Erie) said
he would introduce a 3 per cent
sales tax in the Democratic-con
trolled House on Wednesday but
there was no hint from the ad
ministration of dropping its ses
sion-long opposition to that levy.
Waterhouse said that Republi
cans are convinced the excise tax
would "be damaging" to business
in the state because it would
"pyramid costs" to the ultimate
consumer.
STATE COLLEGE
Congressmen Held
Behind Iron Curtain
BERLIN, Nov. 28 (4))—Two U.S. congressmen and the
wife of one were held at gunpoint in East Berlin Sunday in
an incidant threatening all western rights in the Soviet sector
of the still-occupied city.
The implications of the treatment of the American party,
escorted by U.S. Army men, were'
so serious that Maj. Gen. Charles
L. Dasher Jr., U.S. commandant
in Berlin, and five advisers
worked at-afternoon on the draft
of a protest to the Russians.
Protest Not Delivered
It tras not delivered, however,
because Dasher still was dissatis
fk i with its tone and content.
Work will be resumed tomorrow
and Dasher personally will de
liver the prote i st.
The general's advisers said two
issues are at stake: The right of
Americans to visit East Berlin
wi Jout being molested and
whether an official U.S. Army
vehicle equipped with two-way
radio can be subjected to East
German ' Communist police pa
trols
===
U.S. officials fear all Allied
rights in the four-power city's
Soviet zone are in jeopardy.
The incident occurred Sunday
shortly before noon when Reps.
Harold C. Ostertag (R.-N.Y.) and
his wife, and Edward P. Boland
(D.-Mass.) visited the Soviet Me
morial Cemetery in an Army car
wit han Army officer escort
Communist police detained the
party, declaring the laws of the
East German republic against
two-way radios in foreign cars
ha been violated. The Russian
dep. , ..y commandant, Col. I. A.
Kotsibua, supported the German
Communist view but released the
group after four hours.
Sectors Distinguished
U. S. officials reasoned that
custom as well as agreements
long in use distinguished the So
viet sector of Berlin from the
regulations of the East German
Republic as far as Allied person
nel are concerned. If this has
been changed, they said, the en
tire character of the four-power
city could undergo far-reaching
change too.
Zaharias Begins Tests
GALVESTON, Tex., Nov. 28 (PP)
—Babe Zaharias was isolated
from all except intimate friends
today as a week-long series of
tests was started to determine
how the famous golfer is doing in
her fight with cancer.
She was permitted no telephone
calls and doctors at John Sealy
Hospital said there was nothing
yet to report on her progress.
Demos Offer
Foreign Policy
Political Truce
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (NI
Democratic National Chairman
Paul M. Butler tonight offered a
political truce on foreign policy
debate if President Eisenhower
will bar the word "peace" from
1956 Republican campaign slo
gans.
Butler said in a statement he
welcomes Eisenhower's concur
rence last week in the stand by
Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.)
that American foreign policy
ought not to be subjected to parti
san attack at home.
But he added that "bipartisan
ship in foreign policies applies not
just to the opposition party."
"If the Republicans are ready
to forego the exploitation of for
eign policy for partisan advan
tage," Butler said, "they will find
Democrats meeting them more
than half way."
Declaring that GOP National
Chairman Leonard W. Hall had
I said that 'peace' will be the Re
publican's chief political pass
word in 1956," Butler said:
"Ever since the meeting at the
summit, Republican leaders have
been stepping up their claims on
foreign policy. They have done
their best to make the voters be
lieve that they have established
general conditions of peace and
that they deserve exclusive credit
for it.
Penn State's fifth president,
James Calder, was an ordained
minister and had served as a mis
sionary in China.
thought of SPUDNUTSI
30 DIFFERENT VARIETIES
Breakfast•
Coffee Break•
Dessert•
Snack•
Any Party•
AD 8-6184
Phone 1 day ahead
j :' s 4. a.
Or,
- 4 r
1 1
:cep,
PAGE THREE