FRIDAY. DECFMBER 21. 1956 Jailing Without Charges Reinstated in Hungary PEST, Hungary, Dec. 20 (I)—The Communist government brought back the ithout-trial methods of the Stalin era to Hungary today as a means of re revolt-ruined economy. BUD' internment storing the A d • i ly producti i ree said "persons whose activity or behavior endangers public order, especial n," could be placed under detention for six months without trial. The prose- Confers Nixon With ' About veryone ' Refugees ustria, Dec. Min— t Richard M. Nixon Fungarian refugee with everyone in VIENNA, • Vice Preside discussed the problem toda sight—from Theodor K.: youth just es der. • ustrian President rner to a legless aped over the bor- In the first day investiga within two ian border t where the munism werl His report wi deciding how gees are to _ United States ull day of his three don trip Nixon went iles of the Hunger- a refugee center gitives. , from corn sleeping on straw. I play a big part in many of the refu ,e brought into the Wants ore Admitted By the en. of the year 21,500 are due to get there, but Nixon wants more to be admitted. More than 70,000 of the 150,000 refugees who have fled since the revolt against Russian rule ate still in little Austria. William P. Rogers, U.S. Deputy attorney genera], said after a day of talking to refugees with Nixon: "We have a tremendous job to do in the United States to see that these people who come to us are properly taken care of. It's not only the humanitarian thing to (1,, it's what will serve our long-range interests best." Nixon Sees Koerner Nixon began the day with a formal visit to 83-year-old Presi dent Koerner. He brought a letter from President Eisenhower prais ing Austria's care of the refugees, and an autographed photo of the .President. He also saw Chancellor Julius Raab and other top Aus trian officials. Heavy Yule Traffic s-/ Clutters Highways PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20 {E?)— The heavy movement of holiday traffic, especially on the highways got underway in Pennsylvania to day. It is the great yearly trip back home for Christmas. • College students, vacationers from white collar jobs, factory employes on brief furlough, all who manage one way or another to be free on the timeclock for this merry interlude, set our to be with the family, to see the old folks, to try to find some of the ectoplasm of childhood. Railroad terminals and bus sta tions are janim e d. Shoppers, scarcely able to handle all their carrier bags and parcels, jostle against travelers loaded down with luggage. - - Colored balloons on long strings finally are found to belong to children, stuffing themselves with sweets and gaping at the chatter ing crowds. Santa and all the friendly folks at GRIGGS PHARMACY THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA tutor only has to issue an order on the suggestion of the police to have a person arrested. The decree said the prosecutor should investigate the case of the de tained person within 30 days. This was the same system that was used to intern thousands of Hungarians when Matyas Rakosi was the Communist boss. It was abolished when Imre Nagy be came premier in 1953. Sitdown Strikers Assailed The decree gave Janos Kadar's government a powerful weapon for breaking any ,strike—general, sitdown or slowdown. Factory' workers all over the country went on a two-day strike last week , when the government began ar- 1 resting members of the factory' workers' councils. The two lead ers of the Budapest Central Work ers Council who ordered the strike are still in jail. The Communist party news paper, Nepszabadsag, this week strongly assailed sitdown strikers who report to their factories each day and collect wages but pro duce nothing. Work Week Cut The paper also declared the, crucial- problem was the coal andl power shortage which preventsi the wheels from turning. For; weeks miners have been on strike. Thousands of them fled to the West, or vanished into the countryside, when the Oct. 23 re volt began. Now the country is estimated to be three to four months short in its coal supply. ' Worse, the shafts are in such bad shape from neglect that it would take 30 days to get many of them back in production if all the min lers came back to work tomorrow. Yesterday the government cut the work week in steel and ma chine building industries, the big users of coal, from six days to three. Sun -Telegraph Makes Clai Oil Map Case Possibly Linked With Rubenstein PITTSBURGH (11 3 ) The theft, the U.S. Tackless Corporation in of valuable geological maps f rom i the Bronx, where FBI agents re-I covered some of the stolen maps.' Gulf Oil Corporation may be. Lieberman also was arrested. I linked to the mysterious slaying Three Arrested of New York's millionaire play- Others arrested were Richard; boy Serge' Rubinstein, the Pitts- Seagraves, 70. a Texas oil and' burgh Sun-Telegraph said today. natural gas promoter, and John Marvin Leivia, 34, of Orange. Tex. The newspaper said New York Seagraves was Rubinstein's part police who worked on the Rubin- ner in an Oriental oil operation stein slaying conferred yesterday called the Chosen Oil Corporation, with FBI agents investigating the. the Sun-Telegraph said. theft. It said the police officers' In a court suit, Seagraves were interested because two off charged that Rubinstein swindled the men arrested in the Gulf Oill him out of half of the operation's case were associates of Rubin-I $7,200.060 profit. The suit was dis stein. missed in Federal Court but was Rubinstein Mystery Unsolved re-instituted by Seagraves in the The Russian-born Rubinstein, a; New York State Supreme Court. convicted draft dodger of World Believed Involved War 11, was found bound, gaggedl At the time of his slaying, Ru and strangled in the third-floor binstein was heavily involved in lbedroom of his luxurious Ne w oil operations in Canada and in York mansion in January, 1955. Central and South America. The His slaying has never been solved. Sun-Telegraph said some New One of those arrested by the York authorities are stating pri ,FBI was 32-year-old Emanuel vately' that they are satisfied the Lester. He is the brother of Ed- slaying is tied up with the Gulf ward Lieberman, 30, president ofi oil case. Merry Christmas Drive Carefully on Your Way Home 41z4 -4z.g -zt 4 ;At- • • g Postai Workers Shook as Teeth Appear in Pear PHILADELPHIA (.11 The Philadelphia post office has had some queer ones in its time, such as the Christmas gift that re sembled a head shrunken in Ecua dor. But those false choppers biting into a , pear ... They tumbled out of a damaged gift parcel of fruit and bottled flavorings, the teeth clamped grotesquely, on a pear. Even Harry Rose, veteran chief of the section, was shaken_ "Work here long enough," he said. "and you've got to figure some of Santa Claus' helpers are off their rock er." Rose explained he packed up the teeth, the pear and whatever else was worth keeping, and re turned them—his curiosity un satisfied. UN Emergency Force Gets $lO Million Grant UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 20 (M—The UN voted 57-8 today to make a special assessment of 10 million dollars on the 80 mem ber nations for expenses of the UN Emergency Force in the Mid dle East. The Soviet bloc nations voted against it and have said they wouldn't pay anything toward the support of the UNEF. The shares will be based on the 1956 budget assessment rates of members. The U.S. share would be 53.330,000; Britain's would be 5855,000; France's 623,000; Israel's $17,000: and Egypt's $40,000. wish you a See You in '57 Bipartisan Group Supports Sales Tax HARRISBURG, Dec- 20 (JP) A 250 million dollar tax program, centered on keeping the sales tax at three per cent, was proposed today as the bipartisan answer to the common wealth's tax dilemma. Gov_ Leader's 12-member tax study committee com posed of state labor and industry leaders—came up with a five-part plan to balance the 1957- 59 budget. The committee said it preferred the sales tax, despite its draw backs, to a personal income tax. Its unanimous recommendations called for: 1. Retaining the three per cent sales tax for the commonwealth's two-year fiscal period starting June 1. Unless the Legislature acts, the rate automatically falls to two per cent on that date. The yield would be 446 millions, an addi tional 149 millions over the cur 'rent biennium. 2. Reviving the cent a bottle tax on soft drinks and a half cent per ounce on soft drink syrup-- 135 millions. Impose Further Alcohol Tax 3. Imposing the sales tax on liquor and beer sold in taprooms and clubs for on-the-premises consumption-16 millions. 4_ Removing the sales tax ex emption for the value of trade lin allowances-28 millions. 5. Continuing the cigarette tax at its full five-cent a pack rate instead of allowing a penny of it —encated as an emergency flood relief measure in 1955—t0 expire automatically June 1 (22 mil lions.) _ Clothing Tax Suggested The committee suggested also that if further revenue were need ed, the Legislature should con sider extending the sales tax to clothing. This would yield 79 million dollars. The reaction to the program was guarded. Gov. Leader refused to commit himself. He urged lawmakers to study the program in preparation for his budget, expected to be submitted in February or March. Magazine Predicts Industrial Spread PITTSBURGH, Dec. 20 (.PI—A chemical business magazine fore casts a spread of the industry— currently enjoying a "boom" per iod —to the Monongahela River Valley, the Pittsburgh Post-Ga zette said today. Since the end of World War II the chemical industry has ex panded tremendously in the Ohio River Valley, largely in West Virginia. It is estimated that some 400 million dollars has been invested in new chemical facilities in West 'Virginia's Ohio Valley, from the 'Kanawha River northward to the tip of the Panhandle. ttttt 4 4 1 1 4 4 4 4' Happy New Year 51,e CORNER . . . urtuivat Court Clears O'Connor Of Charges WASHINGTON'. Dec. 20 (irt--- Author Harvey O'Connor's con tempt of Congress conviction was voided today by the U.S. Court of Appeals. The court ruled a "Communist conspiracy" question put to him by sen. McCarthy (R-Wis.) was "so imprecise and ambiguous" that O'Connor's refusal to answer it was not a crime. O'Connor. 59. author of books abo u t American multimillion aires, was convicted of contempt in U.S. District Court here in November 1955. The case grew out of O'Con nor's refusal to answer before the Senate Investigations subcomrnit- I tee in 1953 the question "whether ihe was a member of the Com munist conspiracy" , when he wrote books bought by the State Department for use in U.& infor mation centers abroad. McCar thy, who asked the question, then was chairman of the subcommit tee. In reversing the conviction, the Appellate Court said O'Connor was not indicted "for refusing to 'say whether he was a member of the Communist party, or any other named or identifiable or ganization, or whether or not he had engaged in any particular activity." The question of whether O'- Connor was at any time during the course of many years in "the Communist conspiracy," the court said, "is lacking in definiteness." California See Adlai As Knowland Opponent SAN FRANCISCO (R) The San Francisco Chronicle said to day "A powerful group in the Democratic party is considering Adlai E. Stevenson as a possible candidate in California for the U.S. Senate." That would mean running the former Illinois governor against incumbent Sen. William F. Know land (R-Calif.) in 1958. In California one year's resi dence qualifies a person to seek office. many friends and fine customers . . . Our good wishes for a Merry Christmas and a successful and PAGE THREE To our
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