FRIDAY. FEBR lARY 15. 1957 and On' k Talks Oh Ma ORK, Feb. 14 (/P) —On again, off again optimism today marked peace talks in iy strike of 45,000 longshoremen from Maine to Virginia. The walkout drove ur Queen Elizabeth to cut short a transatlantic run and seek haven in Canada. !:e was costing shipping and allied industries about three million dollars a day, struck ports revealed. I NEW Y< the three-da the great lin The stril a survey of st Hike Asked reasury Inter Bein By ' XDN, Feb. 14 (iP)—! announced today] aise the interest it avings bonds to 3% ; present rate is 3 WASHING’: The Treasury it wants to i pays on U.S.! per cent. Thi per cent. If Congress pected the roactive to F< Other contf the savings retroactive to The E bont ity—and ma eight years at of the prese eight months, the face val same. approves as ex change will be ret :b. 1. mplated changes in jond program, also Feb. 1, include: s will reach matur-] timum va 1 u e—in d 11 months instead] nt nine years and; The issue price and te will remain the e Explained Persons whb redeem their bonds before the maturity date will re- ! ceive what the Treasury called “a substantially higher” yield than under the present program. To get the full 314 per cent they must hold bonds to maturity. A revised 10-year H bond—sold only in denominations of $5O0 — will be offered, also returning 2Vi per cent interest if held to maturity. The present rate is 3 per cent. The limit of E and H bonds, which may be purchased by one| individual in any one calendar! .year will be reduced from $20,000 to $lO,OOO in face value. Criticism .Helped | The Treasury’s decision to make! savings bonds more attractive toj the public follows considerable i pressure and criticism both in-and out of Congress. | Sales of the baby bonds havei dropped off sharply in the past year because the general rise in interest rates has made other in vestments more attractive. During 1956, redemptions of E bonds ex ceeded sales by more than a half billion dollars. England Will Cut Troops in Germany LONDON, Feb. 14 (JP) —Brit ain formally told her North At lantic Treaty Organization allies today she must cut the number of British troops in Western Ger many. A strained economy and a new nuclear concept of military strat egy lay behind the move. Details are still secret but it is reported Britain will reduce her forces in Germany from 80,000 to about 50,000. The decision was announced as French Defense Minister Maurice Bourges-Manoury arrived in Lon don and told newsmen that France too wants to slim down her mili tary system. He is here for talks with British officials on coordinat-j ing the two nations’ cuts. i Beginning Sunday SALLY'S I will introduce • New Super Sub Hos •The Pizza Steak Sandwich • Sally’s New Giant Burgers 14-pound of eating pleasure) and don’t forget our regular size burgers , You Can Still Get Delicious Piaza from Sally's Fast Service is Our Specialty THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Optimism in Strike - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad prepared to lay off 2000 to 2500 employes within the next five or six days because of the strike and the embargo on freight shipments to docks already crowded with unmoved cargo. Rail sources said other lines probably will be forced to make similar layoffs if the strike persists. Negotiators went into confer ence hopeful, they claimed, of a quick accord in contract terms. The striking International Long j shoremen’s Assn. (Ind.) predicted !a truce in short order. Strike Settlement ! The 170-member New York i Shippers Assn, foresaw a strike j settlement during the day. ; And Joseph Finnegan, federal ] mediation director, said the two l sides were “not .very far apart.” i But the rosy outlook darkened once the negotiators faced one an ! other across the conference table. ]The shippers handed the union what they called a “final offer.” “I don’t believe it’s improved enough,” was the first reaction [from ILA Vice President Patrick iJ. Connolly. To Vote on Offer The ILA’s 125-man Wage Scale Committee was to vote on the of fer later. Of the vote outcome, ILA attorney Louis Waldmanj said: ; “It is too hard to tell now.”] The strike started about 6 p.m. Tuesday after six months of bar gaining over a new contract came to naught. Up to the very moment of the strike, both sides voiced optimism that it could be averted. Wages were not considered a major issue in the strike. The two 'sides generally were agreed on a 32-cents-an-hour addition to the average $2.48 an hour dock wage, [spread over three years. Fringe Issues i Fringe issues vacations, holi days, working, hours, sling loads, ,for example —were the chief stumbling blocks. | More than 100 ships were i stranded by the second dock walkout in less than three months. The strike oriignally began last Nov. 15, but it was interrupted nine days later by a Taft-Hartley law injunction. The ILA was for bidden to renew the strike before this week. Lack of Oxygen Causes Death of Two Miners FINLEYVILLE, Pa., Feb. 14 UP) —Lack of oxygen was blamed to day for the deaths of two coal miners in a samll mine two miles north of here. State and federal mine inspec tors ruled out earlier reports that "black damp” gas caused the deaths of Martin Brandis and George Bero, both 42. of Library, Pa. They died yesterday. Million-year Old Skull JAKARTA, Indonesia, Feb. 14 \(IP) —The Reverend T. H. Ver- Ihoeven, a Roman Catholic mis sionary of Flores Island, has re ported finding a complete skull of a Negrito-type man believed to be more than a million years old. The Negrito-type man is of jthe same period as the ancient i Mongoloid man. Free Polio Shots To Be Required By House Plan HARRISBURG, Feb. 14 (JP) — 1 House Republicans today planned legislation requiring all school children to take free antipolio shots. “We can’t leave it to chance,”; [declared W. Stuart Helm, speaker of the House. “If we save but onel child from the anguish and suf-j fering of polio, then our efforts! will not have been in vain.” ' “We have the wholehearted sup-! port of Dr. Jonas Salk who deve-| loped the vaccine and feel that' it is altogether proper and fitting that Pennsylvania be the first to take such action.” Salk is associated with the Uni versity of Pittsburgh in his re search work. I Helm said the measure would' be introduced by Reps. Markleyj (R-Northampton) and Jump (R-j Luzerne). Policewomen in Cypress NICOSIA, Cyprus, Neb. 14 (tP) |Two senior British policewomen [have arrived from London to set |up a women’s division of the co llonial police force in the relent less campaign against under ground guerrilla attacks. They are Chief Inspector Miss W. Bar ker and Asst. Inspector Miss De nise de Vitre. Brownell Declares Civil Rights Will Increase Southern Vote WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (JP) Attorney General Herbert Brow- 1 nell Jr. said today that many more' Southern Negroes could have vot-j ed last year if the administration’s civil rights program had been in' effect. ! He told a Senate Judiciary sub committee that from 4,000 to 6,- 000 Negroes had been stricken from registration rolls in Ouachita Parish in Louisiana after being challenged by the White Citizens Council of the parish. j Denied Opportunity I Brownell said most of the Ne-! groes were subsequently denied i any opportunity to establish their qualifications. Had the administration’s pro gram been in effect, the Depart ment of Justice would have been able to initiate a civil action “for the purpose of restoring the Ne gro voters to the polls of the regis tered voters in time to vote in the November elections,” he said. Also, Brownell testified, regis trars in three North Carolina pre-' ATTENTION SOPHOMORE ENGINEERS 2 SCHOLARSHIPS... winners chosen on basis of scholarship, financial need, campus activities, and personal char acter, APPLICATIONS ... now available in room 204, Main Eng. Return no later fhan March l 9 1957. Interviews given during 2nd and 3rd weeks of March. The Engineering and Architecture Student Council Scholarship Committee Seaton States Opposition To Price-Wage Controls WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (/P) —Secretary of the Interior ■Frederick A. Seaton proclaimed today his opposition to [peacetime price-wage controls and said there is nothing he can do about recent oil and gasoline price increases. Investigating senators jumped him on grounds he had I not appealed to the oil industry !to hold down prices. | “There is nothing I' can do about it,” Seaton said evenly. Before Sen. Estes Kefauver (D.- Tenn.) and a couple of other Democrats went after him on the price situation, Seaton reported an “encouraging” outlook for the oil lift .to Europe. Report Given A -report brought back from Europe last night, he said, indi | cates the continent now is count ing on getting 80 instead of 75 per [cent of the oil of all types which jit needs to meet normal demands [for the first three months of this [year. This oil will come from the [United States and elsewhere. | Seaton spent the day as a wit ness before a Senate Antitrust- Public Lands subcommittee in vestigating the lift. The subcom mittee, which has heard some tes timony the program has been a (failure, also is investigating the , domestic price boosts, j No Power' Seaton said over and over that he and the government have no power to control prices. He said also that there is no law that [would allow the government toj [seize the oil industry. ' While Seaton said “the matter ■ of price is inevitably of continu ing interest and concern to every American citizen," he insisted he ! [is in not position to say whether [the recent oil price hikes were |justified. Nor, he said, does he [have any right to look into prices lor the books of the oil companies. cincts imposed technical require ments that kept Negroes from qualifying for the vote. In these Carolina and Louisiana' cases, Brownell said, “the pro-[ posed legislation would have been !of great assistance in protecting! the right to vote.” ! Civic Remedies “In most of these situations,! icivil remedies would enable the; [government to take affirmative] action to deal with attempts at: what amounts to mass disenfran chisement of Negroes in time to !be effective,” he said. Sen. Sam J. Ervin (D-NC) chal lenged-. Brownell's description of the situation. The senator said there are approximately .7500 lo cal election officials in North Carolina and Brownell had been able to criticize the actions of only three of them. Supreme Court Ervin, a former member of the | North Carolina Supreme Court, 'said that “until today I never 'heard of a single individual in my PAGE THREE Giant Cargo Plane Revealed; Carries 100-Ton Payload WASHINGTON. Feb. 14 — The Air Force issued details and photographs today of its new “giant of the airways.” the Doug las C-132 which will have a load of twice that of present cargo carriers. The huge plane, powered with four jet turbine-propeller engines, can carry 200,000 pounds, has a speed of more than 460 miles per hour and, with a lesser pay load, a range of 3500 miles, the Air Force said. With its maximum load, plus the weight of fuel and the weight of the aircraft, the C-132 will take off at a gross weight of more than half a million pounds. The 200,000-pound load for the C-132 will be twice the load lift of .the biggest American cargo car rier in existence, the C-99, a trans port version of the B-36 bomber. Ambassadors to Meet I GENEVA, Feb. 14 (/P) Ameri jcan Ambassador U. Alexis John [son and Chinese Communist Am bassador Wang Ping-nan held their 65th meeting today and agreed to meet again March 14. The two ambassadors have been deadlocked for months in negoti ations for the release of 10 Ameri can civilians held in Chinese pris ons. state that’s been denied the right to vote.” Reporters asked Ervin later if he saw any particular significance in Brownell’s citing North Caro lina cases to the subcommittee. | ’Til say this. If there’s no more [iniquity in other states than there [is in North Carolina, there is no ’need whatever for this legisla tion,” he replied. FRIDAY, FIB. 15 Schwab Auditorium 8:00 P.M. Admission Free WOftlD WIOI PKTUR&s pr4t*nH 'ffefiL, imuihtcmi
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