SATURDAY. MAY 19. 1956
U. S.
Red
WASHINGTON, May 18 (EP)—Russia's announced plans
for a big reduction in military forces will be reviewed by
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's special eight-man panel of
nuclear, military and industrial leaders starting May 29,
Harold E. Stassen announced today
Stassen told a news con
400,000 Voters
In Oregon Cast
Primary Ballots
An estimated 400,000 voters
turned out in Oregon Friday to
settle intraparty fights in the
first Far Western primary elec
tion of 1956.
The Democrats decided between
Adlai Stevenson and Sen. Estes
Kefauver in a presidential write
in contest.
The Republicans settled on a
candidate to oppose Sen. Wayne
Morse this November. Morse, a
former Republican himself, is now
a Democrat. The choice to run
against him lay between former
Secretary of the Interior Douglas
McKay, and Phil ' Hitchcock, a
former state senator making his
first bid for a Washington office.
Balloting Got Brisk Start
The balloting got off to a brisk
start, spurred by hot weather in
the morning. Election forecasts
called for about 52 per cent of
the state's presidential primary.
President Eisenhower, unop
posed this year, was an easy win
ner over a large field of Republi
can entrants four years ago. In
that year Kefauver won the Dem
ocratic primary by a wide margin
over Stevenson and Supreme
Court Justice William 0. Douglas
after Stevenson and Douglas in
sisted they_ were not candidates.
Stevenson, Kefauver Campaign
This year both Stevenson. and
Kefauver put on belated but busy
campaigns through the state, hop
ing to gain strength for the up
coming Florida and California pri
maries.
- While neither of the Democratic
presidential candidates was on the
ballot, the winner of the write-in
vote is entitled to all of Oregon's
16 Democratic National Conven
tion •delegates.
Eisenhower - racked up the
state's 18 Republican delegates
without a contest.
Vote counting was expected' to
be slowed by complicated ballots,
with numerous state and local
candidates and issues to be de
cided.in additiOn to the presiden
tial and senatorial contests.
Florida Prisoner
Claims Illtreatment
RAIFORD, Fla., May 18 VP}—
Russell Tongay, burly swimming
instructor . serving 10 yearS far
manslaughter in the high diving
death of his daughter, says he has
been "beaten- and kicked" and
confined in a dungeon on bread
and water at the state prison.
Tongay made the charges in a
letter to a friend, William Burrell
Jr., . Coral Gables high school
swimming coach.
The Miami Daily News sent a
reporter to Baiford to investigate
Tongay's complaint_ Warden De-
Witt Sinclair refused permission
for an interview. He called Ton
gay a "troublesome publicity seek
er."
Sinclair said Tongay is "in max
imum security" at Raiford. Ton
gay was convicted on a charge
that he forced his 5-year-old
daughter, Kathy, to make a high
dive in which she was fatally in
jured. Kathy and her brother,
Bubba, once were famous as a
swimming team called the "Aqua
tots."
:;,ter Display Plan Altered
WASHINGTON, May 18 (. 1 11—
Air Force plans for the mightiest
display 'of atomic jet bomber
strength ever flown over Wash
ington were sharply curtailed to
day.
The aerial show, scheduled for
tomorrow's celebration of Armed
Forces Day, was cut from 216
847 atomic bombers to 45.
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Arms Cut
erence that the special group
formed by Eisenhower last sum
mer will assemble in Washington
• a week rom Tuesday to begin an
analysis of the "implications" of
the Soviet announcement, along
with the recent London disarma
ment talks which reached no con
clusions.
Leaders May Recommend
The . eight task force leaders
presumably will recommend what
moves if any this country should
take in response to Moscow's an
nouncement of last Monday that
Soviet military forces will be re
duced to 1,200,000 men.
Members of the group and the
subjects assigned to them as dis
armament consultants are:
Dr. Ernest 0. Lawrence, nu
clear; Gen. James EL Doolittle,
air; Gen. Walter Bedell Smith,
army; Adm. Oswald S. Colelough,
navy; Benjamin Fairless, steel;
Walker L. Cisler, power and in
dustry; Dr. Harold Moulton, mil
itary budgets; and Dr. James B.
Fisk, communications.
Conference Proposals Studied
They went over the proposals
which Stassen, Eisenhower's spe
cial assistant on disarmament,
took with him to the London con
ference, where he conferred with
Soviet and other leaders.
At his news conference Stassen
evidenced much less skepticism
than other officials have express
ed concerning the Russian an
nouncement of military manpower
cuts. He said it could be "a de
sirable dividend" for President
Eisenhower's peace policy.
He disagreed with reporters
who suggested he might be out
of step with the White House and
State Department, both of which
had voiced essentially negative
reactions.
Soviets Told
MOSCOW, May 18 (JP)—A
generation of Soviet .youth
nurtured on Joseph Stalin
worship, with the idea that
Stalin was Nickola Lenin's
most beloved disciple, got a new
version . today—that Lenin con
demned Stalin in 1923.
This came about in the most
savage assault on Stalin yet pub
lished here. It was in Komsomol
Pravda, Soviet youth paper. A
column c ailed "A Children's
Guide to Stalinism," assertedly
written in response to letters from
children, related that Lenin had
warned the Communist party
against Stalin.
Words of Lenin
It used words taken from the
famous document usually known
as the "Testament for Lenin," the
revolutionary leader Communists
hold by. .
Some of Lenin's harsh words on
Stalin were cited in Pravda on
Nov. 2, 1927—in a speech by Sta
lin.himself. This speech was made
at the party meeting where Stalin
scored his final victory over his
archenemy Leon Trotsky—forcing
Poweil's Secretary Gu ilty
Of Income Tax Evasion
NEW YORK, May 18 (W)—Rep.
Adam Clayton Powell's congres
sional secretary was convicted by
a federal court jury today of in
come tax evasion.
Mrs. Hattie Freeman Dodson's
11-day trial was highlighted by
testimony that she kicked back
her secretarial salary to the Dem
ocratic Negro congressman from
New York. Powell, however, took
the witness stand to deny he ever
Air Force plans for the mightiest
Mrs. Dodson wept in her hus
band's arms when the case went
to the jury shortly after noon.
But she was in full control of her
emotions three and a half hours
later when the 10 men and two
women on the panel pronounced
her guilty of all nine counts in
the indictment. _
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN_ STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Legislature Fails
To End Session;
Lawmakers Clash
HARRISBURG, May 18 (Al—
Plans to wind up the Legislature ,
in a post-midnight session tonight.
collapsed in a disagreement on
appropriations and taxes.
And a contributing factor was
the eagerness of GOP lawmakers
to get away for the meeting of
the Republican State Committee
at Philadelphia tomorrow.
Legislative leaders now set their
sights on adjourning finally next
week, possibly Monday or Tues
day. The session, the longest in
the history of the Commonwealth,
entered its 560th calendar day to
day.
The Democrati c-controlled
House and Republican-dominated
Senate clashed during the day on
the genera/ appropriation measure
now calling for 1341 million dol
lars in grants for every-day oper
ations of state agencies_
Strangle Slayer
Is Ex-Convict
PHILADELPHIA, May 18 (4 . .)
Raymond P. 'Wilson, 33-year-old
ex-convict from Tulsa, Okla., to
day was found guilty of partici
pating in the strangle-slaying of
Mrs. Lulubel Rossman, 76-year
old wealthy Philadelphia widow
last July 3:
The Quarter Sessions Court jury
of seven men and five women set
life imprisonment as his penalty.
Mrs. Rossman was found slain
in her hotel room here on July 4.
Wilson and three other men—to
be tried later—were accused of
plotting the murder to steal more'
than $lOO,OOO from the elderly
woman's hotel room.
Others indicted in the case were
Frank J. Ellsworth, 36, of Tampa,
Fla_, and Omaha, Neb.; Robert
Thomas, 44, former Dade County,
Fla., deputy sheriff, and Gus A.
DeMoss, suspended Tulsa" police NACA Elects President
radio dispatcher. Frank S. Douglas Jr., a graduate
The prosecution charged that of the University, has been elected
Wilson and Ellsworth killed Mrslpresident of the Pittsburgh chap-
Rossman after the plot had been ter of the National .cririation of
hatched' by the other two. !Cost Accountants.
Lenin Condemned Stalin
his expulsion from the party- Sta
lin quoted Lenin's criticism and
then went on to attempt to refute
But Lenin's words on Stalin
came as news to Komsomol Prav
da's audience—for Lenin's "testa
ment" has been mentioned here
obliquely in the last 20 years or
more.
Lenin penned his attack on Sta
lin in December 1922 and January
1923, over a year before Lenin
died but at a time when he was
partly incapacitated.
He wrote that Stalin was "too
rude" and that this trait was in
tolerable in the office of Commu
nist general secretary. He said
Stalin's comrades should find a
way to replace him in this office
with someone more patient, loyal,
polite and attentive to comrades—
and less captious.
Stalin - Stopped. Listening
Komsomol Pravda said today:
"J. V. Stalin stopped listening
to the voice of Communists and
party leaders. He did not take
into consideration the opinion of
the members of the Central Com
mittee and severed himself from
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U.S. investigating
Egyptian Arms Deal
WASHINGTON, May 13 (,P)—Lincoln White, state de
partment press officer, said today the department is investi
gating rumors that Egypt is making a deal to obtain a new
supply of Communist bloc arms from Red China.
The State Department has no confirmation of the rumors
so far, White told a news con
ference, but he added, "You will
recall there were rumors before
the official confirmation of the
Czech arms deals with Egypt and
with Syria?'
The Egyptian government of
Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser rec
ognized the Chinese Red regime
Wednesday.
White Declines Comment
White declined any comment on
that action. Other State Depart
ment officials have said privately
that they feared it might mean
recognition of Red China by other
nations in the nine-member Arab
League of which Egypt is a
leader.
Egypt made a deal almost a
year ago to buy arms from Czech
oslovakia. The original trade was
80 million dollars worth of arms
in exchange for Egyptian cotton.
Later reports said the total
amount of arms thus obtained by
Nasser probably far exceeds 100
million dollars worth.
Equipment Listed
The deliveries included 200 jet
fighters and 50 bombers, 200 tanks
and half a dozen submarines.
The Czech deal has been report
ed by diplomats here as due to ex
pire by July 1 but a new trade
with Red China would keep the
arm flow going.
That would introduce a new and
dangerous element into the Mid
dle East situation at a time when
American officials and United
Nations leaders have said there is
a rC'al chance of stabilizing the
armistice set between the Arab
states and Israel and beginning
work on a more permanent settle
ment.
the life of the people_ He started
acting not by persuasion and ex
planation but by order and com
pulsion."
The article concluded, "The
Communist party has now straight
forwardly and openly told the
people about the harm done to
our country by the cult of per
sonality of J. V. Stalin."
Honorary Society
Elects Officers
The newly elected officers of
Alpha Pi Mu, national industrial
engineering honorary society, are
Edward Chagnot, junior fr o m
McKeesport, president; Jack
Hontz, junior from State College,
vice president; Martin G u t k i n,
junior from South Orange, N.J.,
corresponding secretary.
Vincent Lukach, junior from
Wilkes-Barre, recording secre
tary; Thomas Seeman, junior
from Sharon, treasurer; Herbert
Knappenberger, junior from West
Leesport, student council repre
sentative; Jonathan Plaut, junior
from Rockville Centre, N.Y., pub
licity chairman.
PAGE THREE
Decision Due
Today on GOP
State Chairman
PHILADELPHIA, May 18 (tP)—
A head-on intra-party clash be
tween the Republican forces head
ed by 'U.S. Sen. James H. Duff
and National Committeeman G.
Mason Owlett was down for deci
sion here tomorrow—with the se
lection of a state chairman the
specific point in issue.
Owlett, now recuperating from
a heart attack, has declared him
self a candidate for another term
as GOP national committeeman.
Duff is running for re-election to
the Senate this year.
Owlett Backing Bloom
Owlett is backing George Bloom,
Washington, Pa., attorney and ad
ministrative assistant to Duff's
senior Senate colleague. Edward
P. Martin.
Du f f--and the party's other
statewide candidates--at a re
cent meeting plumped for Henry
Lark, of Sunbury, who served as
Republican primary election cam
paign manager this year.
The formal selection of the state
chairman won't come until the
full state committee meets at the
Bellevue-Stratford Hotel here to
morrow morning. But the practi
cal spadework is expected to be
done at a closed-door session to
night, a session that should de
termine whether there will be a
battle royal or a smoothing over
of the crisis.
Duff and Owlet! at Odds
Duff and Owlett—long at politi
cal odds—outwardly settled their
differences in the pre-primary
weeks, but the gap between them
was widened again by the split
over the chairmanship. Beyond
that was the question of the gen
eral election campaign.
Bloom was looked on by some
as an odds-on favorite, partly on
the grounds he is the sort of prac
tical politician who doesn't de
clare his availability until assured
of victory.
40 Cars in Two Weeks
PITTSBURGH, May 18
►--
Three young boys were ques
tioned today by police who said
the trio has admitted stealing 40
cars in a two-week period in the
Pittsburgh area.
Police said the boys would steal
the cars, ride around in them for
a while ,then abandon them. The
thefts occurred in McKees*Rocks,
McKeesport, Ambridge, Neville
Island, Coraopolis and Pittsburgh.
The boys were arrested yester
day when they drove inio a dead
end street while being pursued
by three policemen.
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