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
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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-
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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.
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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
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