SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 29. 1956 U.S. Invites Reds to View November Elections Here WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (M—The United States, in a surprise move, has invited Russia and four of her European satellites to send official observers to "view at first hand" the American elections in November. In announcing the action today, the State Department said it assumed the Red governments would reciprocate by Mitchell Hits Stevenson On Figures WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (Al— Secretary of Labor James A. Mit chell went to President- Eisen hower today with a claim that Ad!pi E. Stevenson made "false an d irresponsible statements' about living costs. In an Indianapolis speech today Stevenson said living costs were the highest in history and pre dicted higher prices to come. ii Visits With Ike Mitchell spe t half an hour with Eisenhow r and then talked with reporters. And he had a for mal statement, that the White House said was exactly what the secretary told the President. It started off that, "Today's statements by Mr. Stevenson with regard to the cost of living indi cate that he simply doesn't know what he's talking about." Charges 'Half-Truth' Under questioning, Mitchell said he wasn't challenging the Democratic presidential nominee's statement that living costs are at an all-time high. He said he was challenging Stevenson for' what he said was a statement that the cost of food was higher than ever before and for what Mitchell said were "the half-truth and distor tion" Stevenson used. Duff Says Clark Strong 'Leftist' HARRISBURG. Sept. 28 Un— U.S. Sen. James H. Duff said to day that his Democratic opponent, Joseph S. Clark, "is one of the leaders in a powerful left-wing and underground activity that es pouses a totalitarian concept of government wholly foreign to the American constitutional system." Duff, Republican candidate for re-election, said the Americans for Democratic Action was the Activity to which he referred. He said the ADA stands for Ameri can recognition of Communist China and for world government. Duff, addressing a regional meeting of the Pennsylvania Council of Republican Women, said he personally opposes admis sion of Red China to the United Nations and opposes American recognition of that country. Clark. in a speech yesterday, joined Duff in that position. U.S. Fails NEW YORK, Sept. 28 (IP) The Justice Department's five year campaign to strip Ameri can citizenship from racketeer Frank Costello collapsed to day. A federal judge threw the case out of court, with harsh words for the government'S con duct. - . Costello owed his victory to the inquisitive judge, a retentive minded president of a small Ohio college, and a former big city detective. These three men established that the denaturalization case aginst Costello was based on wire tapped - evidence—in f act the judge said Costello his been the target 'if federal wiretappers for more than 30 years, including the period when he was a star wit ness before Senate crime probers. Wiretapping Admissable The judge, Edmund L. Palmieri, ruled that such• evidence is in admissable in federal court and dismissed the denaturalization proceedings. The government said it will appeal the decision. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA inviting ArrOilcans to observe their elections "on the next ap propriate occasion." . The 'U.S. invitations, extending as part of the government's world-wide cultural exchange program, went to Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Ro mania nine dogs ago. None has accepted yet. U.S. Would Pay Expenses Each government was asked to send two or three' observers who would arrive Oct. 21 and remain about three weeks. Their expen ses while in this country would be paid by the U.S. government. The visitors would be permitted to tour the country, attending po litical rallies, hearing campaign speeches and finally watching the actual balloting process on Nov. 6. A State Department spokesman made clear in answer to ques tions that the bids were not in tended for such high ranking Red leaders as Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin or party chief Nikita Khrushchev. 'Not State Visit' "This is not intended," said press officer Lincoln White, "to invite anyone for a state visit." The department announcement said it "assumes that the invita tion would be s ot special interest to government officials or to pro fessors of government, political science or law." It said it has suggested that representatives be named from these groups. If they accept, the Communist observers would join 63 Western government representatives and 12 journalists from North Atlantic Pact countries who will be visit ingt the United States around !election time. Tax - Stamp Plan 'Off indefinitely- HARRISBURG, Sept. 28 (iP)— Atty. Gen. Herbert B. Cohen said today the Jan. 1 date to put into effect the stamp plan of collect ing the state's 3 per cent sales tax will be put off indefinitely. Cohen made the announcement after 12 firms asked the Dauphin County Court to throw out the stamp plan as unconstitutional. The suit against the Common wealth is answerable on Nov. 28. Cohen said, thereby forcing a postponement of the actual print ing of the stamps. The 1955-56 Legislature enacted the 3 per cent sales tax with a provision that the stamp plan go into effect Jan. 1 or "as soon thereafter as practicable." to Deport If it loses its appeal, the govern-' ment will have to start all over' again if it still wants Costello de-1 ported. Last spring Costello of-f fered to leave the country volun-1 tarily to avoid a prison sentence for income tax evasion. However, U.S. Atty. Paul W. Williams chose to put Costello in k prison and then proceed with, the deportation proceedings. Thei racketeer is serving a five-year' term on the tax charge_ Bound to Win One "This verdict makes me feel better," the ailing 65-year-old Cos tello said of Palmieri's dismissal of the case. "By the law of aver ages. I was bound to win this one." Costello bore a charmed life for more than 30 years, as the govern ment vainly tried to imprison him on various charges. But .his luck ran out in 1951. Since then he has been in and out of federal prisons He claims he has a skin cancer and a heart condition and that his, days are numbered. Nevertheless,' at the opening of the denaturaliza tion hearing yesterday Costello said. "I cherish my _citizenship."l l "The wiretapping was so es-' Illegitimacy Charge Made In D.C. Probe WASHINGTON (:Tn—A Wash ington Health Department aide told House investigators today he believes about 25 per cent of the Negro students in Washington integrated schools are illegitimate. The witness, Howard West, tes tified befare a special House sub committee investigating the ef fects of a school integration policy adopted in the nation's capital in the fall of 1954. Another witness said integra tion of kindergarten and first gradt. youngsters had shown her there were "many Negro children with nc concept of home, no mother or father, no home life." - Mrs. Bessie Wood Cramer, di rector of supervision and instruc tion in 'the city's elementary schools, said she believes integra tion "has done a great deal" to make such children "feel more secure and loved." She described some integration problems as a "terrific shock," however, s and said she developed an ulcer as a •result. "I'm ashamed to say so," she added. "because of my lack of ability to take things as I should." Republican Policies Lack Imagination, Kefauver Says WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Sept. 28 (in—Sen. Estes Kefauver said to day the Republicans have "a dearth of imaginative programs and policies" and this is reflected in the blank utterances of their candidates." 'Jibing at President Eisenhower's description of the Republican par ty as the "party of the future," the Democratic vice pi esidential nominee said: "The only people who have a future with the party of the fu ture are Richard Nixon and the White House dinner guests—that collection of millionaires whom the President invited to' dinner and who stayed to take over the lease." In an address prepared for the state convention of Young Demo crats after a day of campaign ing in Pennsylvania, Kefauver said the Republicans are "con cerned only with yesterday" while the Democrats put their "main emphasis on tomorrow." Uninvited Visitor Causes Big Stink JACKSONVILLE. Fla., Sept. 28 VPl—Sailors missed the last nine minutes of a movie at the Jack sonville Naval Air Station because of a visitor that slipped in with out paying. Dick Coppertino of special serv ices on duty at the theater said ithe house emptied "faster than a fire drill" when a skunk came in land got excited. Costello • Cast Removed, Boy, 12, !Breaks His Leg Again tensive and of such a far-reachingi ~,,,_, Pa.. Sept. 23 4,P) Ray nature that it well night impos-' - r - " - lir- , Bible for me to determine what;Sheline, 12, removed the cast yes may be admissable and untaintedterday after recovering from a (from that which is inadmissable;broken leg. He went for a bicycle and tainted." ride and his bike collided with Meanwhile, defense attorney 1 an auto. Now Ray has another Edward B. Williams said he may broken leg. I try to upset Costello's 1954 in-I After the first accident—also a come tax evasion conviction on !bike-auto crash Floyd Zimmer ! grounds that it, too, was based on,was the first person to arrive at 1 wiretap evidence. . !the scene. Last night Rav found !himself lying injured at the sam 'spot he suffered his previous mis 'Rome'-ing Alley Cats lhap. When he looked up there THE HAGUE, Sept. 28 UP) was Zimmer again. The 18-year-old Putch Crown 'Princess Beatrix came back fro la vacation in Rome worried abou , the Eternal City's stray cats. Shc has asked the World Federatim • for the Protection of Animals !take up the question of Rome - Lmany alley cats at its next meel ing in Orleans, France. We Feature the Exclusive Franchise for the VINCENT & JOSEPH LAMP CUT VOGUE BEAUTY SALON 402 E. College Ave. AD 7-2296 Adlai 'Crisis' Dangerous MILWAUKEE. Sept. 28 Stevenson said tonight that the "crisis" in the American school s3s,em presents "a very great danger for our country." In a major radio-TV speech, Stevenson said tonight that "unless something drastic is done, there will be over a million new school age children each sear whom we do not have classrooms for," Stevenson was introduced by remote control by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt on the West Coast The Democratic presidential' nominee said the educational sit uation "adds up to a crisis for our schools that presents, in my judg- I ment, a very great danger for our country." Flies From Indianapolis Stevenson flew here with a pre pared address after hitting at the Republican administration in a speech at Indianapolis in which he said the cost of living has reached an,all-time high since Ei senhower has assumed the presi dency and appears likely to go higher. "Your rent is likely to go up. •Your car is almost sure to cost ,you more, and so are television sets, refrigerators, clothing and nearly everything else you buy;' Stevenson said. Stevenson said the "most stag gering" fact in the education pic ture is: "If we want college-trained teachers for our children, one half of all our college graduates dur ing the next 10 years will have to go into teaching. "Well, they won't. And classes will get bigger and teaching stan dards lower" Says Americans Worried Stevenson said Americans are worried when they hear the So viet Union is producing twice as many engineers as this country is turning out. But, he said, even if the Soviet Union should disappear the Uni ted States "would still have the problem of developing enough talents to man the posts of the new America and to help make the world a better place to live." Glass Workers Sign Contract PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28 (..Pl— reached agreement on a new one-year contract today. ending a 27-day strike of 7000 workers at seven glass plants. Federal Mediator William Rose of Philadelphia announced the settlement following a meeting with officials of the American Flint Glass Workers Union and the National Assn. of Manufac turers of Pressed and Blown Glassware, representing the sever firms. I Rose said both sides accepted 'his recommendation of a six per !cent hour pay raise for em- Iployes with a minimum 10-cent ,an-hour boost. Pre-strike pay irates was about $1.75 an hour. IThe contract is retroactive to Sept. 1. Calls School Bullet Wounds Rhee Critic SEOUL, Korea, Sept. 23 111— Vice President Chang Myun, an outspoken critic of President Sy:ngnian Rhee, was wounded in the hand today by an assassin who fired two revolver shots as the vice president stepped from the stage at a political meeting. The convention was thrown into turmoil and tension gripped South Korea tonight as the public specu lated upon - the significance of the shooting and its possible conse quences. Chang, 56, was wounded by a jobless veteran of the Korean war as Chang started to leave the municipal theater after ad dressing his opposition Democrat ic 'party The assassin. Kim Sang PAGE THREE
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