SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 18. 1956
Natural Gas Bill Vetoed;
Killed by Case Incident
WASHINGTOI, Feb. 17 ( 1 1—The natural gas bill died suddenly today—killed by a wad
of $lOO bills and a 'preside nti al veto.
With a slap at the "arrogance" and "highly questionable activities" of some supporters
of the legislation, President Dwight D. Eisenhower refused to sign it into law.
He said he ageed with the basic objectives of the bill, which would exempt natural
gas producers fro direct federal regulation. But he said that to put his signature on it now
Probe Planned
On Tanks Sent
To Middle East
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17
Senators tonight planned an in
vestigation of the Eisenhower ad
ministration's abortive shipment ,
of tanks tt, Saudi-Arabia--an ep
isode which angered both sides in
the Middle East tinderbox.
President Dwight D. Eisenhow
er early today called off the ship
ment of is Walker Bulldog tanks
after Israel called it "b eyond
comprehension" and Democratic
senators denounced it as upset
ting the Middle East military bal
ance.
The call-off order upset the
Arabs. The Saudi Arabian Embas
sy said it was "very surprised"'
and Ambassador Sheik Abdullah
Al-Khayyal arranged a State De
partment conference to seek an
explanation.
Sen. Walter F. George (D.-Ga.),
chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, called the
proposed shipment "unwise?' He
demanded an explanation from
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles as soon as Dulles returns
from a Bahamas vacation.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D.-
Minn.), said colleagues should
study the advisability of a "full
scale investigation" of American
policies in the Middle East.
In addition to halting the tanks
at a Brooklyn dock, the Eisen
hower administration suspended
all export permits for arms ship
ments to the Middle East, and
started a review of all such sales.
Mother Accused
Of Coun terfeiting
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 17 On—
Mrs. Gaetana Kish, 29, whose coal
miner husband has been on strike
since last Sunday, yesterday was
accused of changing $1 bills to
$2O bills and trying to pass them
in stores.
The mother of two children was
given a hearing before U.S. Com
missioner Alexander L. McNaugh
er. She was released on her own
recognizance pending the posting
of $5OO bond.
Treasury officials said she cut
20 figures from the bigger bills
and pasted them on $1 bills. Only
one store accepted the currency
she told McNaugher. A second re
fused and reported to police.
Ike Plays Nine Holes of Golf
For First Time Since Attack
TIIOMASVH,LE, Ga., Feb. 17 (JP)—President Dwight D.
Eisenhower—"a little frightened" and a bit rusty—played a
round of golf today for the first time since his Sept. 24 heart
attack. He tallied an 11-over-par 47 for nine holes.
"Well, I have been looking forward to this," Eisenhower
said, a smile on his face, as he stepped up to the first tee
at the rolling Glen Arven Country'
Club Course. A light, misty rain
fell the full 90 minutes he was
*put.
He was tense and quite obvious
la, somewhat nervous, and he
stopped short of really laying into
his drives with the full power of
old. And at the end of the round
he remarked solemnly:
"It was awfully good to get
out. But I'm a little frightened
not only of the strokes. but also
Fin a Mile frightened of my
self!'
Eisenhower's personal physician,
Maj. Gen. Howard M. Snyder, told
reporters the President apparently
meant he was a little uneasy about
taking full swing cuts at the hall
with his driver and other wood
elute. Today was the first time
mince his illness more than 4 1 / 2
months ago that he had done any
thing more than putt and get in
would "risk creating doubt among
the American people • concerning
the integrity of governmental
processes."
Leaves No Doubt
The President left no doubt;
that he was referring to the $25001
campaign contribution-25 $lOOl
bills in an envelope—offered to;
Sen. Francis Case (R.-S.D.) a few
weeks before the Senate voted on
the controversial legislation.
Case refused the donation, and
in a subsequent investigation a
special Senate committee traced
the money to oil and gas interests
favoring passage of the bill. The
committee is now trying to de
cide whether or not the contribu
tion was offered in an attempt to
influence Case's vote.
$2500 Gift Backfires
But at any rate it was clear
that the $2500 prooffered by ar
dent supporters of the bill had
boomeranged and dealt a death
blow to the measure. in its pres
ent form at least. Nobody had any
belief that Congress would over
ride the veto.
The bill had split party lines
wide open in its passage through
Congress. On the final Senate
tally 31 Republicans and 22 Demo
crats voted for it, with 14 Repub
licans and 24 Democrats opposed.
That made the vote 53-38, well
short of the two-thirds majority
needed to override a veto. The
House vote was closed, 209-203.
Message From Georgia
Eisenhower's veto message was
drafted at his vacation headquar
ters near Thomasville, Ga., and
delivered to the House, where the
legislation originated last year.
It hit Congress with a thump.
Eisenhower told Congress that
since passage of the bill "a body
of evidence has accumulated in
dicating that private persons, ap
parently representing only a very
small segment of a great and vital
industry, have been seeking to
further their own interests by
highly questionable activities.
Wants to Keep 'lntegrity'
"These," the President went on,
"include efforts I deem to be so
arrogant and so much in defiance
of acceptable standards of pro
priety as to risk creating doubt
among the American people con
cerning the integrity of govern
mental processes_"
At the same time, Eisenhower
said legislation conforming to the
basic objectives of the bill is
needed.
"It is needed because the type
of regulation of producers of nat
ural gas which is required under
present law will discourage indi
vidual initiative and incentive to
explore for and develop new
sources of supply," he told Con-
I cress.
some off-course practice with ap
proach, irons.
RefesTing to the way the Presi
dent held back, Snyder said:
"That's the hell at a heart at
tack. Psychologically it is worse
for you than it is physically.
They are longer getting over
the psychological injury than
they are the physical."
Eisenhower used an electric golf
cart to travel from shot to shot,
just as he often did before his
illness. Snyder, his medical kit
along, rode in an accompanying
cart. •
The nine holes Eisenhower
played today were just a warm-up
compared to the 27 he got in the
last time he played—at the Cherry
Hills Country Club in Denver last
Sept. 23, the day before a heart
attack put him in the hospital for
seven weeks.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Reds Release
Georgian GI
To Authorities
BERLIN, Feb. 17 (11 3 )--A young
Georgia soldier, who spent four
years in Communist hands after
escaping from a U.S. Army guard
house, returned thankfully today
to American custody.
The Russians turned over Pvt.
Sidney Ray Sparks, 23, of Ten
nille, Ga., to Army authorities in
East Berlin.
Smiling and looking happy,
Sparks said: am thankful for
every assistance given me in
my release from the Soviets."
He was facing a court-martial
on charges of assaulting and rob
bing a German taxi driver when
he broke out of the guardhouse
in West Berlin Dec. 4, 1951.
An Army legal officer said
Sparks still faces these charges.
and an investigation is under way
as to whether he win also be ac
cused of desertion.
Spark's release closed out a
Bat of American soldiers known
to be in Russian captivity. The
Army's Berlin command still
has 10 men missing, one since
1949. but nothing is known of
their whereabouts.
Although Sparks spent most of
his time in Soviet labor camps,
he appeared to be in good health.
The initial physical examina
tion showed he is "in a good state
of nutrition with no apparent evi
dence that he is suffering from
any acute or chronic diseases,"
an Army spokesman said.
Snowstorms HD
Europe Again
LONDON, Feb. 17 (in—Fresh
snowstorms tonight heaped new
misery on Europe, ice-locked in
a relentless three-week cold wave
which already has claimed 616
lives.
Damage to crops ran into hun
dreds of millions of dollars. Fuel
shortages grew. Yugoslav army
artillery shelled ice barriers mass
ed on the Morava River in east
ern Siberia in an effort to ease
flooding.
Known deaths attributed to the
20th Century's worst freezeup:
France 147. Turkey -72, Italy 74,
Yugoslavia 67, Britain 50. Den
mark 33, Greece 30, Germany 30.
Austria 19, Holland 23, Portugal
17, Spain 19, Switzerland 12, Bel
gium 10, Sweden 6, Poland 4, Nor
way 3. The cold extendei.d south
to Africa where five additional
deaths were counted three in
Spanish Morocco and two in
Libya.
State Primary Papers
filed for Stevenson
HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 17 OM
—Petitions to place the name of
Adlai K Stevenson on Pennsyl
vania's April 24 primary ballot
were filed with the State Elections
Bureau today by Gov. George M.
Leader and Genevieve Blatt, sec
retary of internal affairs.
"I am convinced every day—by
the interest being shown—that he
(Stevenson) not only will receive
a tremendous vote in the Pennsyl
vania primary, but that he will
also receive a decisive majority in
November," the governor said.
Great Britain Announces
Atom Defense Program
LONDON, Feb. 17 (A))—Britain
announced today a defensive pro
gram accenting output of a var
iety of nuclear weapons. These
include an intercontinental-type
issile."
Prime Minister Anthony Eden's
government said the program was
essential to defeat what the Brit
ish termed Russia's fundamental
aim of world domination.
Washington Talks Set
To Endl24-Day Strike
At Westinghouse Plant
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (/P)—New peace talks in the
124-day Westinghouse strike were assured today when the
striking union accepted a government bid for the meetings
here.
The "all out effort" for a settlement will bring two of
the nation's top labor peace mak
ers, Dr. George W. Taylor and
David L. Cole, into the protracted
strike situation, the worst in the
nation in a decade.
James B. Carey, president of
the International Union of Elec-,
trical Workers accepted the invi
tation from Director Joseph F.
Finnegan of the Federal Media
tion Service for resumption of
government sponsored peace
talks. The Westinghouse coropra
tion had accepted earlier.
Leader Calls Experts
Cole and Taylor were brought
into the tangled dispute by Gov.
Leader of Pennsylvania and oth
er governors of states affected by
the lengthy strike of 55,000 West
inghouse workers.
The two well-known private
labor arbitrators were first sug
gested for a fact finding job, but
Westinghouse refused to go along
with the governor's proposal, al
though Carey accepted for the
union.
Finnegan then suggested that
the federal government, which
had abandoned its peace vile as
fruitless :ast weekend, again en
ter the case with Cole and Taylor
assisting in direct negotiations.
State to Aid Workers
Strikers' hopes were raised to
day by a ruling in Pennsylvania!
that an estimated 25,000 idle
workers are eligible for unem
ployment compensation. The state
ruled the strike became a "lock
out" on Dec. 19 and that strikers
are thus eligible for state jobless
payments from then.
The ruling means that the strik
ers in Pennsylvania are due back
jobless payments amounting to
more than $2OO each.
Over Half Now Aided
About 3000 strikers in New
York state have been receiving
straight payments right along.
Now, over half the strikers will
be receiving more than $25 per
week in unemployment benefits.
Westinghouse immediately de
clared it will appeal the ruling.
Basis of the decision, settling a
question before the Employment
Security Bureau for three months,
was what the department termed
the company "turn down" of a
Dec. 19 peace proposal by Gov.
George M. Leader.
AF Pilot Dies in Crash
MONTREAL, Feb. 17 (4 1 )—Air
Force sources reported tonight
Harold E. Whitey Dahl, aerial
soldier of fortune, was killed in
the crash of a DC3 he was ferry
ing over northern Quebec last
Tuesday.
Common Cold Cure Foreseen,
Maybe in 5 Years, by Expert
NEW YORK, Feb. 17 01)}.---A cure or preventive for the
common cold ought to come soon, maybe within five years,
an expert predicted today.
The best bet is a yet-undiscovered drug rather than a
vaccine, said Dr. John S. Dingle, Western Reserve School of
Medicine, Cleveland.
Dr. Dingle hazarded his guess at a symposium sponsored
by the Common Cold Foundation,
an organization supported by a
large number of industrial firms.
He and other experts presented
instructive pointers on the cause,
psychology and treatment of this
seasonal misery.
A drug to control colds would
have to strike at the virus or
viruses causing colds. Present
wonder drugs do not hit viruses.
The problem in seeking a vac
eine is that having one cold
doesn't give you immunity for
very long against another one, Dr.
Dingle said. Maybe this is because
there are many different viruses
causing colds. It may be because
these viruses are weak in ability
to create immunity.
Human psychology makes it
tough to measure the effectiveness
of any treatment for a cold, said
McClellan Asks
For U.S. Policy
On Red Trade
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 IRl—
John L. McClellan (D.-Ark.)
put pressure on the Pentagon to
day to disclose whether the gov
ernment has agreed to free world
sales of war goods to Russia.
McClellan, chairman of a Sen
ate subcommittee studying Red
trade in strategic materials, said
he is determined to get the infor
mation. He threatened to use "le
gal process steps" if necessary.
Defense Department witnesses
have refused to testify about the
situation on the ground it is "clas
sified" or in the secret category.
But members of the subcommit
tee said it was common knowl
edge abroad that some important
items, like aluminum, have been
off the embargo list.
McClellan sent Robert M. Pen
noyer, a Defense Department at
torney, to the telephone to break
the information loose. Pennoyer
talked with legal authorities at
the Pentagon and reported the
question was being taken up with
higher authorities.
Timothy C. May, a Defense De
partment expert on light metals,
testified today he doesn't think
aluminum, magnesium and other
metals vital to a war industry
should be sold to the Soviet Un
ion. But he told the senators he
has no authority to tell them
whether the gods have been tak
en off the prohibited list.
MIT Pledge Dies
During Initiation
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 17 UP)
—The body of Thomas L. Clark,
18, MIT freshman who stepped
out of an automobile on a lonely,
dark road just a -week ago in a
fraternity initiation, was found
about a quarter of a mile away
under the ice of Cambridge Reser
voir today by skin divers.
Three divers of a team of seven
that had worked throughout the
day in subfreezing temperatures
were making a final descent for
the day when they saw the body.
It had floated up in 25 feet of
water in nearby Waltham.
Centre County Project
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17
LW)—
The Agriculture Department's soil
conservation division has ap
proved a watershed survey in
Centre and Clinton counties of
Pennsylvania.
Dr. Dingle and Dr. Howard S
Diehl, University of Minnesota.
They told of tests in which
people thought they had up to
60 per cent fewer colds if they
were given one of the present
cold vaccines. or various pills.
or other treatments.
The rub is that people given
worthless dummy pills or shots
reported exactly the same amount
of benefit, compared with people
getting no treatments at all.
So psychology—thinking some
thing good was being done—af
fects treatment •How much role
psychology plays in bringing on
colds is not known, they said.
Exposure to cold temperatures
does not make people get more
spontaneous colds, other experi
ments show.
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