THURSDAY. JANUARY 5. 1956 French Premier Denies Harmful Election Results PARIS, Jan. 4 (/P) —Premier Edgar Faure, who provoked the general election in France by dissolving the old National Assembly, concluded today the results were not as disas trous as they first seemed. He urged the cjenter parties to put aside their campaign hatreds and form a govem mental team to rule France, and said it could be effective. Faure addressed the Foreign Press Assn, while the final official results still were being tabulated. These showed the Com munists will have 147 seats in the new Assembly—s 2 more than in the 1951 election—and that the followers of Pierre Poujade, who first gained fame by advocating a tax strike afnong small mer chants, will have 49 seats. These figures do not include overseas territories for which re sults have not been announced. The Premier attributed the strength of these two extreme parties to a wave of antiparlia mentary feeling throughout the nation. Defending his dissolution decision, he said that ending the old Assembly had not created this animosity to the legislators but had helped reveal its existence. Now, he said, the middle-of-the road parties must work together “because if we leave our insti tutions in the condition they are now, we will be submerged.” These parties of the center are the same whose leaders have . been alternating in power at the head of shaky coal i t i o n Cabi nets for more than eight years. Faure asserted that the bloc of stubborn opposi- tion in the new Assembly is not greater and even a little smaller than it was immediately after the 1951 election. At that time there were 95 Communists and 107 deputies committed to Gen. Charles de Gaulle and pledged riot to work with any government. Faure declared France has been living in a “false sense of securi ty” because Communist repre sentation had been artificially held down in the outgoing As sembly. _ The 1951 election law was de signed to reduce the number of Red deputies. The same law was not effective this time because the center parties fought among them selves instead of presenting a common front against the Com munists. The result was that the Communists have an Assembly contingent more in line with their popular vote. Faure said that the center par ties really are not far apart in their ideas for settling the Al gerian problem and assuring more governmental stability. He de clared the disputes mainly were among individuals and that these would have to be forgotten. Farm Chairman Says Benson Played Politics WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson gave Republican members of the House Agriculture Com mittee a look-in today on the ad ministration’s farm program and Chairman Harold D. Cooley (D -NC) promptly accused him of playing politics. By meeting privately with the Republicans only, Cooley said, Benson showed that he “seems more concerned with the political angles of this program than with the good of the country.” ' The White House announced that Eisenhower would send his farm message to Congress on Monday. Sen. Allan J. EHender (D-La.), chairman of the Senate Agricul ture Committee, said his group would go to work at once on a broad new farm program with the idea of getting it to the White House by Feb. 15. The election year race to help the farmers—whose income has been falling while the rest of the economy boom s—immediately produced one big area of agree ment: The*" ild be ' acre shou. a “soi ®r "fertility bank” scheme under which the government would fun nel money to'fanners who retire cropland from unnecessary pro duction. Newsmen Admit Communist Affiliation WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (./P) —Two New York newspaper men testified today they were Communists in the 1930 s but quit the party in disgust and disillusionment. One of them, James S. Glaser, said that as managing edi tor of the Daily Worker for a two-year spell he found that Moscow called the shots for the New York Communist news paper. Glaser is now a copyreader for the New York Post. The other, Clayton Knowles of The New York Times, said he joined the party in 1937 while with the Long Island Daily Press but walked out within two years when he found communism opposed to freedom of thought. Two other New York Times em ployes and another two identified as top men of the weekly Na tional Guardian also were called to testify as the Senate Internal Security subcommittee reopened what Chairman Eastland (D-Miss) has termed a search for Red in fluences wherever they may be found. Samuel Weissmen, who said he has worked in the Times’ editorial index department for 20 years, told the subcommitte he is not now a Communist and hasn’t been one for the last seven years. He declined to answer for any prior period. Jerry Zalph, a Times proofread er, invoked four constitutional amendments in refusing to answer many questions, including whe ther he is now a Communist. John T. McManus and Allan James Aronson both spurred ques tions about Communist connec tions as well as any connections with the National Guardian. The subcommittee described McManus as general manager and Aaronson as executive editor of the maga zine. Edgar Faure President Enjoys Day of Relaxation KEY WEST, Fla., Jan. 4 (/P) — This was a day of almost com plete leisure for President Eisen hower in his warm-weather re cuperation from his heart attack. He got in an early morning walk around the naval base, where he is staying. Along on the walk was a bridge playing friend who arrived. last night, William E. Robinson, presi dent of the Coca Cola Co. Another bridge enthusiast, Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, flew from Washington today to join the President for a few days. Lee Says Firing Was Not Explained WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (/P) —Frederick B. Lee testified today he never found out ex actly why he was discharged as civil aeronautics admini strator last month. Lee told a Senate Commerce Aviation subcommittee, headed by Sen: A. S; “Mike” Monroney (D- Okla>, that the nearest thing to an explanation came from Com merce Undersecretary. Louis Rothschild-in these words: “We haven’t been getting, along too well, Fred, and I don’t think we will be getting along. We’ve reached a parting of the ways.” Monroney said - his committee wished to investigate- Lee’s dis charge iri view of the possibility that “ground-minded” officials of the Commerce Department—spe cifically, Rothschild and Secre tary Weeks—were dictating avia tion developments to the detri ment of aviation. Monroney said he would intro duce legislation tomorrow to make an independent agency out of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, which now is a part of the Com- lil bank" THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Tokyo Rose To Be Released From Prison WASHINGTON. Jan. 4 (iP)—Al mond-eyed Tokyo Rose, one of the siren voices of the Japanese radio during World War 11, gets out of jail at the end of the month. Federal Prison Bureau officials announced she will regain her freedom on or about Jan. 28, hav ing then completed a 10-year sen tence for treason, with tij;.ie off for good behavior. Tokyo Rose is Mrs. Iva Ikuko Toguri d’Aquino, now 39, and the wife of Felipe d’Aquino, a Portu guese national. At her San Francisco trial six years ago she was called an “arch traitoress” and a "female Bene dict Arnold.” Tokyo Rose, as she identified herself to American troops in the Pacific, served her time in the federal women’s penitentiary at Alderson, W. Va. Federal officials (Inclined to de scribe her life there or her future plans. "As an American citizen— she was born in Los Angeles July 4, 1916—she has a right to live in this country if she wishes, offi cials said. Israel to Cut Program To Meet Military Needs NEW YORK, Jan. 4 (/P)—lsrael has decided to cut her 1956 pro gram for new immigrant housing in order to meet increased mili tary needs, thus threatening to curb Jewish immigration to Israel, a Jewish leader said today. Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of .the Jewish Agency for Pales tine, told a news conference that Israeli Finance Minister Levi Esh kol informed him last week of plans to switch housing funds to military uses. merce Department. i Monroney also asserted that Lee| was fired through the assumption! of presidential powers by Weeks j and Rothschild during President! Eisenhower’s recent illness and absence from, Washington. “The motivation of Lee’s dis charge did not originate at the White House but in the. Depart ment of Commerce,” Monroney said. “This assumption of presidential powers bears upon very vital and constitutional problems. “It emphasizes the need for in dependence of aviation from the secretaries ' and undersecretaries of commerce.” Lee said that after he refused Rothschild’s invitation to resign last Oct. 17, he discussed the mat ter at some length Oct. 29 with Weeks. Then on Nov. 29, he said, Weeks “called me in at 11:30 a.m. and asked for my resignation by the close of business that night at 5 o’clock.” Lee said he sent a memorandum to Weeks later that day asking the secretary to indicate the rea sons for his discharge, other than his relationship with Rothschild, Sharp Decline Seen In Eden's Popularity LONDON, Jan. 4 (JP) —Political barometers showed a sharp de cline today in the popularity of Prime Minister Eden at. a time when he is planning his talks later this month in Washington with President Eisenhower. Eden’s leadership has come under attack from sections of his own Conservative party. This has given heart to his Labor opponents now hammering the 58-year-old Prime Minister's government. Laborites have accused Eden of failing to make decisions on dif ficult problems. Now these char ges are being echoed in some Con servative quarters, including rank and file Tories in Parliament and big Conservative newspapers. The Daily Tel egraph and the Daily Sketch, both Conserva tive, have told Eden the British public expects firm decisions. Recent pub lie opinion polls in dicated the Lab orites might de feat the Conser- Anthony K4tn vatives if a na tional elections were held now. Specifically, Eden’s critics ac cuse him of failing to deal ade quately with inflation at home and foreign policy abroad. Growing Russian penetration in the Middle East, an area of tra ditional British influence, and failure to stop anti-British out breaks in Cyprus have caused the most concern. The Eden government has been embarrassed by disclosures that it had failed to plug loopholes [through which private dealers 'were able to send surplus Brit , ish arms to Egypt. The wisdom of ; the government’s approach to the I Israeli-Arab problems also is [questioned. Legislators Ask Funds For Towns WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (JP)— Legislators from six states today urged a Senate committee to ap prove federal funds and other as sistance for economically de pressed communities. They testified at a Senate labor subcommittee hearing on a bill by Sen. Paul H. Douglas )— The Navy antarctic expedition re ported to Washington today that one of its transport planes flew over the South Pole yesterday— the third time an American air craft has been there. The flight over the pole, where the plane circled for about 30 min utes, was not planned. or to permit Lee, as a presidential appointee, to take up the question with the White House. He added that at a brief meet ing Dec. 2 Weeks declined to go further into his reasons, but told Lee he would arrange a meeting with presidential assistant Sher man Adams. - Lee testified for two and a half hours. Monroney said the former CAA administrator would con tinue his story tomorrow. Lee is a 49-year-old Vermont Republican who came up through the ranks in the CAA. RUSSIA and the IRON CURTAIN Countries can be in YOUR summer travel plans for 1956 SCANDINAVIA: RUSSIA (4 wks.): BUCHAREST: BUDAPEST: VIENNA: MUNICH: PARIS: LONDON All inclusive: $1930.00 For detailed information write: En>n Steinbeck Georgetown University Washington, D.C. Jackson Tells Of Russian Air Strength WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (/Pi- Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash) said today Russia may have guid ed missiles that could deliver H bomb strikes at targets 1500 miles away—including “virtually all” U.S. Strategic Air Command bases overseas. Jackson, chairman of the Senate Armed Services subcommittee on atomic weapons, told reporters “there is reason to believe" the Russians may have developed such faster-than-sound weapons. Jackson made no direct com parison of what he believes the Russians have achieved, and what this country may be doing, in the race to be first with what he termed the “absolute weapon” of a supersonic Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile. Such a weapon, he said, could carry a hydrogen warhead “5000 miles in 30 minutes with a high degree of accuracy.” He said that 2 what he believes is true “the Soviets may beat us” in that race. “The Soviets in my judgment,’* he said, “are giving this Rem and one or two others even more fantastic H-bomb delivery sys tems—the highest priority.” thoughts SPUDNUTS! 30 DIFFERENT VARIETIES Breakfast* . Coffee Break» AD S-SlB4 PboM l. day ahead ® PAGE THREE