TUESDAY. MARCH 6. 1956 Senate-Approved Tax Bill Sent to House Committee Lower Ch Also Passes New Me HARRISBURG, The House tonig per cent sales tax ence committee t, disagreement wit on whether elect's oil and telephone taxed. At the same tinvi and Democrats i joined in overwhe to pass, 155-43, a 3 pancy tax on hote rooming houses. First New T-L It was the first by the 1955 Legis convened more t ago and appeared to a solution of th! l ew tax passed ature since it an 14 months o be a prelude tax problem. The conference committee—it includes three senators and three assemblymen d i v,i de d equally among Republicans and Demo crats—went into an immediate huddle in their efforts to draft a sales tax compromise. Smith Wants Revisions Rep. Charles C. Smith, House Republican floor leader, said the House GOP minority insisted on these two revisions as a condition for supporting the sales tax: 1. Removing from the tax tele phone, telegraph, fuel oil, gas, steam and electric services. 2. Providing that stamps be is sued by de,alers to ultimate con sumers as evidence that the tax was paid. Vote Could Be Tomorrow "Unless these conditions are met this sales tax will never pass," he told a newsman. "If they are met, I predict the sales tax will pass tomorrow." He said removing utility ser vices from the tax would cut the overall 322 million dollar revenue estimate from the sales tax by 25 million dollars. But he said the use of the stamp plan for collection of the tax would more than make up that difference. ' Stevenson Blasts GOP Farm Program In Primary Fight By The Associated Press Adlai E. Stevenson yesterday blasted the Republicans on the farm issue, in his current efforts to win Minnesota's 30 votes in the Democratic presidential con vention. Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennes see, the only other announced candidate for the Democratic nomination, planned to interrupt his New Hampshire campaign to contest with Stevenson in Min nesota. There were advance reports that Kefauver would attack the record Stevenson made as governor of Illinois before he accepted the 1952 Democratic nomination that Kefauver tried hard to win for himself. President Dwight D. Eisenhow er entered Maryland's May 7 presidential primary. So did Ke fauver. Carr Takes Seat On State Court SCRANTON, Pa., March 5 (/1 2 ) —Judge Philip 0. Carr, 41, of Uniontown took his seat today as a member of the Pennsylvania Superior Court at the opening of its session here. The jurist was sworn in by President Judge Chester H. Rhodes at the Lackawanna Coun ty courthouse. He was presented by Atty. EdWard Dumbald of Uniontown. Stock Market Soars IsiEW, YORK, March 5 641—The stock market hit another new rec ord high. today in a performance that matched Friday's rally to historic levels. tuber SEATO Ministers Discuss Russia's Far East Plan '0 sure (March 5 (441 t sent the 3 Ito a confer. iron out a I the Senate !i lls gas, fuel should be KARACHI, Pakistan, March 5 (/P) Foreign ministers of the eight SEATO nations to day informally threshed over s u g g e s tions for countering Russia's economics drive into Southeast Asia. Although. no details of the dis cussions were disclosed, state ments by two of the leaders—U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and French Foreign Min later Christian Pineau—gave some indication of the direction any new moves might take. The delegates gathered here on the eve of the opening of the annual three-day meeting of what has become known as the Southeast Asia Treaty Or ganization. The conference is scheduled to , Republicans the House I ming number per cent occu s, motels and Passed Westinghouse Strike Still Not Ironed Out WASHINGTON, March 5 (N)—Both the company and union involved in the 141-day Westinghouse sirike tonight delayed their decisions on a government package plan for settling the long dispute. with company and union repre sentatives answering questions about it, then arranged to meet for an hour with the union alone. James B. Carey, president of the striking International Union of Electrical Workers (lUE), was reported objecting in the closed HARRISBURG, March S (JP) —Westinghouse Electric Corp. today appealed a State Depart ment of Labor and Industry ruling that some 23,000 workers idled by a labor dispute are eligible for unemployment benefits. sessions to at least some phases of the settlement proposal. The plan has not 'been made public, but some details have leaked out. It includes a pro posal that the company reinstate 59 strikers fired for alleged vio lence, with arbitrators to decide whether 36 others should be re stored to their jobs. Carey reportedly insisted that the remaining 36 also be re instated without arbitration. Mediators were said to feel that while there were some roadblocks to acceptance of the plan, they could be overcome. Robert D. Blasier, Company vice president and chief management negotiator, was reported balking at any change in the plans terms and insisting othat company and union should either accept or r ject the entire package deal. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Federal mediators who drafted the plan spent five hours Earn Your Master's Degree Plan Now for an Executive Career in Retailing A one-year executive development Program open to all A.B. and 8.5.. degree graduates with good undergraduate records. Curricu lum includes executive direction in outstanding department stores in six major East and Midwest cities (with pay, minimum 145 e). You earn your Master's Degree at the same time. Co-ed. Schol arships.- G.I. approved. Gradu- Aectively (ore grad text class 4, Its& Write .LETIN "C." iL OF LING fIY OF URGH relt 13. Ps. work out a program to meet the current Soviet peace drive. Speaking privately to both American and Pakistan employes of the U.S. Embassy and other agencies here, Dulles warned that Moscow's new foreign policy might contain less violence but more guile. This appeared to forecast a greater emphasis in SEATO on counter-subversion measures. Dulles credited the ring of col lective security arrangements built by the free countries with forcing Russia to adopt a policy of less open violence and intol erance. That shift may make less likely a general war, Dulles said. He praised the peoples of the nations who cooperated and built a strik ing power so great that war N% , 'as no longer a paying proposition to the aggressor. kardi Appeals 2d Indictment PITTSBURGH, March 5 (fP)— Aldo Icardi, already under a per jury indictment in a wartime OSS Office of Strategic Service murder in Italy, today sought dismissal of an indictment charg ing him with trying to influence a witness in a Federal Housing Administration case. Federal Judge Herbert P. Sorg took the motion under advise ment. The government charges Icardi with approaching Mrs. Virginia B. Petro of Aliquippa, a witness in a FHA fraud case against a Pittsburgh contractor. Ike Plays Golf on Lawn WASHINGTON, March 5 (iP)— President Eisenhower practiced golf shots in springlike weather this afternoon on the south lawn of the White House. THE DOW CHEMICAL 'COMPANY REPRESENTATIVES WILL INTERVIEW SCIENCE MAJORS ENGINEERS TECHNICAL SALES (2 YRS. SCIENCE OR ENGINEERING) ON THIS CAMPUS • STARTING LOCATION& 'arch 26 and 27 Midland, Michigan and Freeport, Texas SEE YOUR PLACEMENT DOW OFFICE FOR AN • APPOINTMENT THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY Lawyer Sought WASHINGTON, March 5 (,--An lowa lawyer swore today that lawyer-lobbyist John M. Neff offered $2500 for Sen. Bourke B. Hiekenlooper's vote in favor of the natural gas bill. Wendell T. Edson of Storm Lake. lowa, told a special Senate committee that Neff visited him last fall as a repre- Britain Leaves Jordan; Stacks Might on Cyprus LONDON, March 5 (4))—Brit ain pulled more of its waning power out of Jordan today and grimly decided to stack all its remaining Middle East might on Cyprus. To prepare the way for the last stand on the island, the British made it clear they would no long er tolerate Greek Cypriot vio lence behind the army's back. The immediate retort from the Greek Cypriot leadership was defiance. Similar defiance in varying de gree since early 1948 has driven the British successively out of Palestine, Egypt, Iraq (where the Baghdad Pact preserves a British tie), the Sudan and now Jordan. Jordan has served as Britain's last mainland Middle East mili tary preserve. Announcing the collapse of negotiations aimed at bringing domestic peace to Cypru a. Prime Minister Eden's govern ment threatened to use its armed might to enforce law and order. Archbishop Makarios, leader of the island's union-with-Greece movement, immediately declared his followers will "struggle to the last, resisting passively the ille gal sovereignty over the island." Cyprus is Britain's headquar ters for, air and land forces in the whole Mideast. It lies in the far East ev n mediterranean, about equally distant from Turkey and Syria. U.S. Military Aides In Secret Huddle WASHINGTON, March 5 (R)-- America's top military command ers have assembled secretly in Puerto Rico for an intensive "new look" at this. country's defense strategy in the light of changing world conditions. News that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had left for a week-long huddle was confirmed tonight by the Pentagon. A spokesman there said the military chiefs flew to a seculded rendezvous in Puerto Rico last Saturday. Says Neff to Buy Vote sentative of the Superior Oil Co. of California and offered to drop the money in Hickenlooper's cam paign kith• if the lowa Republi can voted for the bill. Neff Backs Edson Neff, called back before the in vestigators, acknowledged that Edson's story was essentially cor rect. "I would say from his point of view it was substantially true," Neff said. Edson testified he considered the offer "a hot potato" and that he never told Hickenlooper about it. The inquiry has brought out that no money was ever contribut ed by Neff to Hickenlooper's cam paign fund. Votes for Bill Hickenlooper voted for the gas bill, a controversial measure to exempt natural gas producers from direct federal price control_ When the legislation reached the White House last month, how ever, President Eisenhower vetoed it with a slap at the "arrogance" and "highly questionable activi ties" of some of its advocates. Neff Confronted Neff was confronted today with his prior testimony that, as far as he could recall, he had told the committee about "every offer . .. every undertaking" in connection with the gas bill. Charles W. Steadman, committee c o u ns e I. asked him why he hadn't men tioned his visit to Edson. McKeldinSeizes Striking Transit BALTIMORE, March 5 VII Gov. Theodore McKeldin, playing his last card in an attempt to g streetcars and buses running here after 36 days of idleness, today seized the Baltimore Transit Co. Moments later an official of the AFL-CIO union representing the company's 2000 striking employee said service should be resumed within 48 hours. McKeldin had announced he would take over the company. un der a three-day-old Maryland law unless its contract dispute with the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Mot or Coach Employes were settled. Just a reminder! BURROUGHS will be interviewing next Thursday & friday March 8 & For Electrical and Me chancel Engineers, Phy sicists, Mathematicians, and other specialists. See your Placement Office for details and an appoint ment. Boroughs locations include: Research Center. Paoli. Pa. Main Plant. Detroit. Mich. Philadelphia. Pa. C.LC.. Brooklyn, New York The Todd Co., Rochester, N.Y. Haydn Bros.. Plainfield, NJ. PAGE THREE
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