FRIDAY. MAY 18. 1956 Senator Derides Eisenhower Plan To Give Advance Soil Bank Payments WASHINGTON, May 17 (IP)—President Dwight D. Eisenhower's proposal to give farm ers $5OO million in advance soil bank payments this year was derided as "a political lollipop" in the Senate today. Beginning debate on a new farm bill, Sen. Allen J. Ellender (D.-La.) attacked the Presi dent's plan as "sort of an agricultural will-o'-the-wisp" and added: "I do not believe it either Prison Riot Kills One, Wounds 11 RAIFORD, Fla., May 17 VP)— One convict was shot to death and 11 wounded today lived mystery riot at prison Warden Dewitt Sind of the 2539 prisoners troublemakers but tha fused to say why. He said several gro eaten some of their me ly but "this wasn't a strike. There were jus agitators." There are 1571 white prisoners in the prison. All the rioters were believed to be white. The prison is about 45 miles west of Jacksonville in open ccuntry and borders on State Rt. 23. It is one of the few in the country enclosed by a fence in stead of a wall. The shooting came when a small group of prisoners armed with baseball bats tried to force their way through an open gate to get into the dining room. A gun squad of a dozen guards v. arned them to stand back but Sinclair said "some of them just decided they could take the guns and started to bull their way through. So we had to fire." Sinclair said one work squad day before yesterday refused to eat the noon meal of beans, side meat and bread—"about all you can get at times out here in the country. They said they were tired of beans." State Passes $lOO Bonus, Pay Increase for Teachers HARRISBURG, May 17 QP) The Senate today passed, 46-1, a plan to pay Pennsylvania's more than 60,000 teachers an imme diate $lOO cost-of-living bonus and extra increases in their permanent salary schedule. The measure went back to the House for action on amendments. Chairman Stephen McCann (D- Greene) of the House Education Committee immediately predicted it would be placed on Gov. George M. Leader's desk tomorrow. The governor told his news con ference that he didn't know whe ther he would veto the measure, declaring: "The whole situation is some what fluid. I couldn't say what I would do on any salary bill until I get a look at the over-all finan cial picture." Leader has taken the position That there isn't enough revenue to finance necessary state corn xnitments. The program, supported by the Pennsylvania State Education Assn., is estimated to cost $2O million in the two-year fiscal per iod ending May 31, 1957, 60 mil lion in the following two years, and nearly $2OO million over the next eight years. The only no vote in the Senate came from Sen. Henry Propert (R-Montgomery) who said he was "unalterably opposed" to giving teachers automatic pay boosts. "I feel it is fundamentally and economically unsound for this ses sion of the Legislature to make a commitment that future legisla tures will have to finance up to 11 years in the future," he declared. Sen. Harry E. Seyler (D-York) praised the bill • as "a forward step" in education. The $lOO cost-of-living bonus would be given to teachers before July 1. And starting on that date common sense or sound policy for Congress to offer our farmers a political lollipop this year at the cost of paying for that lollipop next year.' The new legislation, passed in slightly different form by the House, would replace a catch-all farm bill Eisenhower vetoed a month ago. It doesn't provide for making 1956 soil bank payments to farm ers who promise to withdraw cropland from cultivation and place it in the "bank" next year, but Republicans are expected to push hard for an advance pay ments amendment. n a short 'the state Amendment Controversy A shower of miscellaneous amendments developed shortly after the debate got under way. In an effort to reach a final vote on the bill before the weekend, the Senate agreed to meet tomor row, two hours ahead of the usual time, and to limit debate to an hour on each amendment. Three hours were allotted to discussion of the bill as a -whole. Eisenhower asked Congress for authority to advance farmers up to 50 per cent—or about $5OO mil lion—of the benefits they would receive from a soil bank program next year. The soil bank theory is to pay growers for cutting down on the production of crops already in surplus and devoting the with drawn land to conservation pur poses. it said 225 were the they re- ps hadn't Is recent hunger 10 or 15 Seeks Advance Payment Without advance payments, the administration contend s, few farmers could benefit from the soil bank this year because the growing season is so far advanced. Ellender, chairman of the Sen ate Agriculture Committee, said the arguments for prepayment are "hokurn." "The farm program we formu late this year must be a program based upon our best judgment as to what is sound policy, not mere ly what is the most expedient election-year policy," Ellender said. teachers would get an extra $2OO a year permanent • pay increase for the 1956-57 school term. This would be in addition to the $2OO automatic pay boosts fixed by a 1949 law and increased every year by that amount through 1959-60. In the 1957-58 school year, teachers would be paid -an extra $lOO and in 1958-59, another $lOO. For these extra increases, plus the $lOO bonus, school districts would receive state aid on a cur rent basis. At present, state aid for teachers' salaries lags by a year. Pi Sigma Alpha Elects President Sidney Brindley has been elect ed president of Pi Sigma Alpha, national political science honor,. ary society. Mary Matzko was elected secretary-treasurer of the society. Joseph Hodorawis received the annual award given to the most outstanding student in political science. Recent initiates are Charles F. Adams, Sidney Brindley, Robert Dyer, Joseph Hodorawis, Sylvia Lancner, Eleanor Lewis, Mary Matzko, Martha Michner, Jean Pascarella, and Chester Staney. Collegian Promotions The Daily Collegian editorial staff has promoted thirteen candi dates to sophomore board. Those promoted were Riggs Griffith, Jeanette Saxe, Thomas Werner, Margaret Lieberman, Linda Segar, Joan Miller, Mat thew Podbesek, Charles Dißocco, Richard Spencer, John McArthur, Barbara Drum, Ruth Billig, and James Tuttle. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Chemist Testifies To Ten Years As Soviet Agent WASHINGTON, May 17 (M Thomas L. Black, Newark, N.J., chemist, testified today he became a Soviet spy in the early 1930 s because he wanted to go to Rus sia. He said he kept it up for nearly 10 years afterward because of fear that he would be killed if he didn't.. Black, who appeared before the Senate Internal Security subcom mittee, identified himself as the man who recruited Harry Gold into a Russian atom spy ring in 1934. chemist now serving a 30-year prison term on espionage charges, was one of the key figures in the atom spy case that led to the exe cution of Julius and Ethel Rosen berg several years ago. Black testified h 2 joined the Communist party in 1931 and two years later applied to the Russian Amtorg Trading Corp. for a job in the Soviet Union. At Amtorg, he said a man named Gaik Ova kimian told him he would have to "produce some evidence of use fulness" and asked nim to get for Russia some technical data on U.S. manufacturing processes. Luce to Stay For Treatment NEW YORK (W)—U.S. Ambas-' sador Clare Boothe Luce, who re turned suddenly from her Rome post because of illness, has been advised to remain here for treat ment for the next two months. Dr. Milton Rosenbluth, her phy sician, said today "at that time I would anticipate for her a com plete recovery." Emphasizing that he was speak ing with her permission, Dr. Rosenbluth issued this statement: "Mrs. Luce is suffering from a chronic enteritis which appears to be related to an infection of the liver which she had while abroad. She has as well a moderately se vere iron deficiency anemia prob ably due to the same cause. Pittsburgh Loan PITTSBURGH, May 17 (W)— Pittsburgh officials are discussing plans to ask the voters to allow them to borrow $3O million, the largest loan in the city's history. Plans call for a special election, to be held in late summer or early fall, at which voters will be asked to approve the huge bond issue. It will be used to finance a five year capital improvement pro gram, including rehabilitation of the water system. President Loses Fight For Foreign Aid Power WASHINGTON, May 17 (.4 , ))—President Dwight D. Eisen hower lost a major round in the foreign aid fight today as the House Foreign Affairs Committee turned down his request for specific power to pledge long-term aid to foreign nations. Instead the committee approved a "policy statement" that as long as there is a Communist menace the United States should continue such foreign aid as is compatible with its own "sta bility." In another blow at Eisenhower's $4.900,000,000 aid bill, the com mittee voted to cut in half the $2OO million in special economic assistance funds asked for the troubled Middle East and Asia. And it said this economic help should be offered only in the form of loans or surplus U. S. farm goods. The administration wanted freedom to make either loans or outright money grants. Chairman James A. Richards (D.-S.C.) announced the actions after a closed committee session. He said none of the votes was close. Richards and Rep. John M. Vorys of Ohio, a senior commit tee Republican, sponsored the principal amendments. Additional Difficulties Further trouble for the bill was forecast as the group neared a decision on the $3 billion Eisen hower has proposed for military assistance in the fiscal year start ing July 1. The amount is three times that which congress voted for arms aid this year. The President has asked for au thority to commit up to $lOO mil lion a year for 10 years for spe cific long-term aid projects such as dams, road systems and harbor developments. Richards Offers Policy The committee rejected this, agreeing instead on a policy state ment offered by Richards. Eisenhower has said the long term authority was needed to as sure foreign nations of continued U.S. assistance on specific pro jects. But many congressmen have objected to committing taxpayers' dollars for a long period in the face of swiftly changing world conditions. 3 Held for Theft Of Secret Paper WASHINGTON, May 17 (W)— The FBI today announced the ar rest of three men, including an Air Force sergeant, in the New York metropolitan area on charg es of stealing a classified govern ment document from the Brook lyn Army Terminal. The Justice Department declined to discuss the nature of the docu ment, or to say when it was taken from the terminal. The FBI said those arrested were S. Sgt. Harold E. Brill, 28, of the Air Force, and Sidney M. Stern, 39. and Seymour S. Hind man, 39, owners of the Distinc tive Emb re m Corp. of East Orange, N.J. The FBI said Stern and Hind man were taken into custody at their place of business, which handles uniforms and emblems. Brill was arrested at the Man hattan Beach Air Force Base. We Offer You BOX STORAGE for Your Woolens garments are guarded against moths, fire and theft for 0n1y54.95 per box Plus cleaning charges PENN STATE DRY CLEANING and LAUNDRY SERVICE 320 W. Beaver Ave. Dial AD 7-7629 PAGE THREE 65 MPH OK'd For Turnpike; Effective Now HARRISBURG, May 17 (RI-- A uniform speed limit of 65 miles an hour was fixed today by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commis sion for the 408-mile toll road across the state, effective imme diately. The change from the present 60 to 70 miles an hour ma•,timum speed became known, without an nouncement from the commission, through posting of the 65 mile speed signs and orders to the state police to enforce it. Commissioner James F. Tor rance later confirmed the com mission fixed the new speed limit 'He said it would apply through out the length of the toll road across the state, except through tunnels, approaches to tunnels and across bridges. Gov. George M. Leader asked I later at his news conference about the secrecy surrounding the com mission's new speed limit, said it also came as news to him. He said he would consult with Chairman G. Franklin McSorley about better access to news de velopments at the Turnpike Com mission. Newsmen complained that it has been poor. Japanese Ruling TOKYO, May 17 (.41—Japan's international trade and industry minister has ruled no weapons may be exported to countries in volved in international conflicts. Syria had been reported 'eeking weapons in Japan. . _ *CATImuld NOW: 12:45. 2:35. 5:115. 7:15. 5:34 The Golden 'Caruso' Voice Mario Lanza "SERENADE" *NITTANy Today - Doors Open 6 p.m. Fitataretheit: 6:10, 7:52, 9:34 "Guinness' latest frolic. 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