WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1956 Benson's Farm Policy Criticized by Democrats Foes Call Soil !kink Plan Too Old, Too New WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (in Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson underwent a I cross-fire of ridicule today from hostile House Agriculture Committee members. Flushing an unaccustomed pink on occasion. Benson heard the ad ministration's farm program called late, nebulous and pOlitical. The secretary, already given a rough time by the Senate Agri culture Committee, was sum moned before the House group to outline the administration's farm proposals—including flexible price supports and a "soil bank" for tak ing surplus cropland out of pro duction. Farmer System Junked The House commi tee last year voted to junk the fle ible support system for a return o high rigid price supports. The Senate corn: mittee has voted l'kewise this year. Chairman Harold D. Cooley (D- N.C.) at the outset accused Ben son of ignoring the committee in submitting specific proposals, and ordered him to have the program ready in legislative detail "by Monday." "You've been in of f ice three years and to this day we have never had an official bill," Cooley declared, and in evident sarcasm told Benson to "advise with your attorneys so you won't request au thority you already have." Under Cooley's prodding, Beft son acknowledged the soil bank feature of the program is not new, and that the Department of Agri culture had rejected similar pro posals contained in two House bills as recently as last July. Cooley Fires Back "You admit it's not new with you," Cooley fired back. "Then why did you come so late?" Benson agreed the soil bank idea went back to Biblical days of Joseph in Egypt. He said that his program took the best features of proopsals that have been made, and combined them. Rep. W. R. Poage (D-Tex) said the GOP was advertising it as "the Eisenhower-Republican farm pro gram," and remarked that he didn't think Joseph disclosed his party affiliation when he went to get the corn out of the Egyptian granaries. Bulganin Claims Atomic Leadership MOSCOW, Feb. 21 (Rl—Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin told the 20th Communist party Congress today Soviet Union leads other countries in peace ful uses of atomic energy and must keep its lead for the building of communism. The Premier, formally intro ducing the sixth Soviet five-year plan, also assured his audience there will be no return to the cult of individualism —such as prevailed in the Stalin era—and that the Soviet Union will con tinue under a collective party leadership. - Ye asked approval of the new five-year plan, which calls for big increases in industrial and farm production. In his 3 1 / 2 -hour speech, Bul ganin said the era the U.S.S.R.. now is facing differs from the prewar era because "no longer is it the case of one Socialist Com munist country competing with a capitalist world, but that of peace ful economic competition between two world systems—Socialist and capitalist. Nearly half the popula tion of Euripe and Asia have defi nitely and irrevocably broken with capitalism; more than a third of the human race has firm ly taken the path of Socialist con struction." He asserted that cooperation among them is contributing to the growth of the Socialist countries Hagerty Flares at Newsmen On Second Term Question THOMASVILLE, Ga., Feb. 21 (111—A usually well bridled. Irish temper got away from James C. Haggerty to lay in dealing wtih a fresh barrage of questions about wheth er President Eisenhower will seek re-election. Hagerty, White House press secretary, bluntly told new•s- men they had better lay off a bit or the President might decide to make his big announcement some where other than at a news con ference. On Feb. 8 at a Washington meeting with reporters Eisenhow er said he would like to announce his political plans at a news con ference and that he probably would. The President indicated at the same time he would be ready about March 1 to say whether he will run again. But he declined to rule out an earlier or later an nouncement. Today at a news conference a reporter asked Hagerty about the possibility of Eisenhower an nouncing his political plans at his next Washington meeting with newsmen, probably a week from tomorrow. "There is absolutely no reason to believe that one way or the other," Hagerty shot back. He ap parently meant that while the an nouncement could come then, it might not. The next question was whether there was any reason to believe it won't come then, in the light of Eisenhower having indicated he would be ready about that time. It was at that point the Hagerty temper flared. Hagerty announced the Presi dent will fly back to Washington Saturday, arriving in the capital sometime in the early afternoon. Death Toil Rises ==== LONDON, Feb. 21 (EP)—Heavy snowstorms brought new hard ship tonight to Europe's shiver ing millions in their record 22- day frigid siege. The death toll rose to 737. Weathermen promised no im mediate relief, but there were some brighter spots. Ag Eng Society to Meet The American Society of Agri cultural Engineers will meet at 7 tonight in 105 Agricultural Engi neering. and that the Socialist world sys tem is "immune to crises of un employment and other incurable maladies inherent in the capitalist system." "The increase of production in capitalist countries is due to tern porary, transient factors—that is, one-sided, extremely unstable and extending mainly to those branch es of industry which in one way or another are connected with mili tarizing the economy," he told the Congress. He said the 20th Century is be coming the atomic age and Com munists must place this discovery at the service of building com- see europe this summer by AMERICAN EXPRESS motor coach. Visit England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and Holland. Drive along the charming Riv ieras and spend carefree days in exhilerating Paris. Via the luxurious ships of the HOLLAND-AMERICA LINE 51 DAYS; ESCORTED TOUR. AU. INCL. Only $1001.50 Also, 8 attractive, pleasure-packed tours especially designed for students. Ask for our special bonus. To Avoid Disappointment. Book Early Through Our Authorized AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL SERVICE Campus Agent: Dr. Daybed de Levie 278 E. McCormick Ave. AD 11-6453$ THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Indian-Pakistani Border Clash Wounds Three BOMBAY, India, Feb 21 (in— Official Indian sources said to day Indian and Pakistani forces clashed Sunday in a disputed bor der area on the west coast near the Arabian Sea. Three Indians I were reported wounded. The informants said a large ,contingent of Pakistani troops I had seized control of a small is land both countries claim in a bog called the Rann of Kutch. It is a large salty wasteland straddling the international border. The In dian informants gave this ac count: About 50 Indian soldiers went to the island, Chhad Bet, to in vestigate reports o fa Pakistani nieursion. The Pakistanis ma chine-gunned the Indians. The Indians returned The fire, then withdrew. This border dispute may reflect tensions between India and Pak istan over other matters such as Kashmir. Air Force Plane Crashes; 5 Killed WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.. Feb. 21 (!P) A Boeing KC97 Stratofreighter crashed and burn ed near the Palm Beach Air Force Base late today and all five crew men aboard were killed. Eyewitnesses said the ship burst into flames along the fuse lage as it was coming in for a landing. One witness said the flaming ship struck the ground on the north side of Belvedere Rd., nosed into an embankment and flipped over on its bank to skid across the road and into an adjacent field where it Was enveloped in flames. IMELDIO "In the peaceful uses of atomic energy our country is: well ahead of other countries," Bulganin de clared. "This lead we must keep in the future as well." There appeared little doubt the party Congress delegates would vote promptly their approval of the five-year plan, This new de velopment scheme calls for rises in heavy industrial and farm pro duction and development of nu clear power stations. Among its provisions are a 70 per cent boost in steel output by 1960 and in creases from 85 to 154 per cent in basic food crops. Senate May Probe For Illegal Lobbying WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (r'}--The Senate today took up a resolution to authorize what is being billed as a far-flung search for "improper or illegal" lobbying and political con tributions. A vote was put over until tomorrow. The measure to set up an eight-man investigating coin- mittee of four Democrats and four Republicans was sponsored joint ly by Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Republican Leader William F. Knowland of California. Behind it were unanimous en dorsements of the Senate Repub lican and Democratic Policy Com mittees. Senate Was Pushed Yet the Senate was sort of push ed into the whole thing as a re sult of reverberations set up by J the disclosure of Sen. Francisj Case (R-SD) that he had been' offered, and spurned, a $2500 campaign contribution during, the Senate scrap over the natural gas bill. Around the Capitol there has been no little speculation as to just how deeply the Senate might dig in this election year for evi dence of any improper attempts to influence it or its members on the gas bill or other subjects. Sen. Herbert H. Lehman (D-NY) put it into words today on the Senate floor: "I have that feel ' ing," he said. "that it is necessary j to make very clear that the Sen- Lehman Speaks Out ate is not going to pussyfoot on this situation or whitewash any body." Johnson declared the commit tee would have but two objec tives: "To expose and bring it light any wrong-doing" and to "put teth into the lobby bill," propose other legislation and not produce "headlines, heroes and white knights." Bomb Explodes In PRR Station NEW YORK, Feb. 21 0-11— A phantom bomber struck again to day, planting a timed explosive in a lavatory of Pennsylvania Sta tion's lower level. An attendant was injured. It was the 26th time the phan tom has hidden a bomb in crowd centers around the city. The latest blast occurred about an hour before the start of the evening rush rour, when all facili ties of the big terminal are crowded. Bermuda ... After much clash and controversy, we've finally settled on the manner of selection. First of all, to be eligible for that all ex pense paid weekend to Bermuda, the con testant must be a co-ed, have her picture used in our weekly column OR her name mentioned in the column as having been noticed at some party we photograph. Retroactive from this past October Ist to this May 25th. Names of all contestants will be placed in a box and from it, winner's name will be drawn. To guarantee impartiality, Col legian staff will arrange the names in a box and may select someone to draw winner. bill coleman's lion studio Tank Sale Arouses Ire In Senate WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 teP)---- Democrats agitated over the tank sale to Saudi Arabia and other as pects of U.S. foreign policy today prepared to give Secretary of State John Foster Dulles a not-so-warm welcome home from a vacation in the Bahamas. Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) announced Dulles had agreed ten tatively to go before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Fri day. Other senators reported the meeting would "cover the water front" of foreign affairs contro versies. This would let Dulles in for a quizzing on at least these issues: 1. Shipment to Saudi Arabia of 18 light tanks with the lifting of a short-lived embargo last week on sending war equipment to the Middle East. 2. 'lsrael's expressed shock over ,the deal and renewed demands for !consideration of her appeal for U.S. arms. 3. Complaints of Democrats that ithe Eisenhower administration has failed to take them into confidence !on key foreign policy decisions. 4. What new strategy may he planned to prevent war in the Middle East and keep peace else -Iwhere in, the world, particularly in light of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's recent conference 'with British Prime Minister Eden. 5. The administration's foreign l aid program, due to be presented Ito Congress next week. 6. Dulles' "brink of war" inter view in Life magazine. Dulles is due in Washington to !morrow from a two-week Baha mas fishing trip. Players Ad Crew to Meet The advertising crew of the Penn State Players will meet at : 7 tonight in the loft of Schwab lauditorivm PAGE THREE
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