RUARY 20. 1957 WEDNESDAY. FE Lea Tax •G, Feb. 19 (?P)—The controversial stamp the state's 3 per cent sales tax was killed se tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. g out the stamp plan, the House committee cent rate permanent in the sales tax bill. HARRISBU plan of collectin today by the Ho - After striki made the 3 per NAAC Strong Civil ights WASHINGTON, Negro leader tes "cannot predict w be engendered" a 1 Negroes if they minimum guarant tional rights. Up to now, he followed a course in' the face of ex tion." Feb. 19 (W)—A in ied today he 'at mood might ong Southern a o not get "a •e" of constitu- .aid, they have •f "nonviolence eme provoca- Wilkins T' Roy Wilkins, e tary of the Nation, Fecutive secre [l Assn. for the j olored People, 1- judiciary sub on civil rights Advancement of I testified at a Senat committee hearin z legislation. He said Negro - ls have shown great patience though recent months "have been marked by al most continuous violence directed at Negro citizens and groups in the South who seeks elimination of discrimination and segrega tion." But he indicated this mood might change if Congress does not approve President Eisenhower's civil rights proposals. These measures are "meaningful," he said, and would serve as a start ing point for congressional action in this field. Separate Debates Wilkins said, however, that separate groups would ask to be heard separately should the Sen ate hearings develop "into, a for um for . . . antilaw and order forces." Wilkins conceded, under ques tioning by Ervin, that there are some "Ghettoes of the North" in which Negroes are more segre gated than in some Southern communities. Med School Teits Slated for May 11 The. medical college admission test for students planning to en ter medical colleges in the fall of 1958 will be given May 11. Application blanks and infor mation bulletins will be available in,117 Buckhout from Dr. Leon R. Kneebone, associate professor of botany. The application blank and re quired fee of $lO should be sent to the Educational Testing Ser vice, 20 Nassau St., Princeton, N.J. This fee pays for sending a report of the test to three colleges. Each report over the three will cost another dollar. Russian War Games Find Forces Wanting WASHINGTON (fl 3 )—Maj. Gen. Bela Kiraly testified today Soviet, and satellite troops held war games last year based on an as sumed war with the West. He said the Reds found their forces want ing. Kiraly was military leader of Hungarian fighters against Mos cow domination i the October revolution. He tes fied at a pub lic hearing before the Senate In ternal Security su 'committee. Pik up your Money or Books er Faces Opposition Without that action the rate will drop to 2 per cent on June 1. There was some talk of continu ing the 3 per cent rate for two years only but that was dropped. For The tax bills submitted to the House for a vote were estimated to yield about one billion dollars for the 1957-59 biennium. That, along with another 1 ,4 billion from other levies, is sufficient to fi nance the state's budget, Republi cans claim. Gov. Leader asked for an additional 108 millions in new taxes. The tax package sent to the House for a vote Tuesday and the estimated yield for two years: 1. Sales tax at 3 per cent, (473 1 / 2 millions). 2. Corporate net income tax at 6 per cent but an automatic re duction to 5 per cent on June 1, 1959, (314 millions). 3. Cigarette tax at 5 cents a package, with all revenue ear marked for general purposes, (111 millions). 4. Gross receipts tax on public 'utilities at 14 mills, (32 millions). 5: Real estate transfer tax at 1 ,per cent, (41 1 / 2 millions). Bali Oppossed In another prime development, the Democratic Senate caucus and Gov. Leader deadlocked over the appointment of William L. Batt Jr., now executive director of the Toledo, Ohio, Industrial De velopment Corp., as secretary of labor and industry. A committee of Democratic senators asked the governor to withdraw Batt's nomination on the ground he is a non-resident, although a member of a promi nent Philadelphia industrial fam ily. Leader Defends Batt A member of the committee, who declined quotation by name, told a newsman Gov. Leader "re fused" to recall Batt's nomination from the Senate. The Democratic Senate caucus action became significant since both Republican and Democratic votes are required for the neces sary 34 to confirm the appoint ment. The political lineup of the Senate is 27 Republicans and 23 Democrats. Four Teamsters Cited for Contempt WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 0 1 11--' Four officials of the Teamsters Union were cited by the Senate today on charges of contempt of Congress. They were Frank W. Brewster, Seattle and Einar Mohn, Washing ton, vice presidents of the inter national union, and Nugent La poma, Seattle and Harry Reiss. New York, officials of lode! unions. The four refused to answer questions in a Senate, nvestiga tions subcommittee probe into racketeering. German POW's Sought BONN, Germany, Feb. 19 (IF - West Germany's Red Cross lead ers leave for Moscow tomorrow to ask Russian help in finding out what happened to a million Ger man soldiers still missing from World War 11. The investigators were invited by the Soviet Red Cross. at the USA this week! THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Sent to House Soviets Tell Arab States U.S. 'lnsane' MOSCOW, Feb. 19 (,P) Pre-' mier Nikolai Bulganin, bidding for Arab rejection of the Eisen hower doctrine, said today the, United States has insane plans for world domination. These can; plunge the peoples of the Middle] East into the "hell of atomic and hydrogen war," he declared. Bulganin called the Eisenhower doctrine "a colonial trap prepared' by U.S. oil monopolies.' "The Arab people must display' the greatest vigilance against the' threat of this new enslavement," he said. Khrushchev Agrees Communist party boss Nikita S. Khrushchev used the same forum —a Soviet-Bulgarian friendship meeting—to warn of other things. He called for two fold vigilance— first against "the intrigues of im perialist reaction" and second against past mistakes within the party. He cited particularly a need to "work tirelessly to con solidate the ranks of our party and make sure they are not pene trated by traitors and oppor tunists." Bulganin ranged over Hungary and a variety of other subjects as well as the Middle East. He had harsh words for Imre Nagy, who became premier of Hungary in the October revolt and was de posed by Janos Kadar when So viet troops moved into Budapest Nov. 4. Policy Unchanged As Khrushchev did last night, Bulganin said Soviet foreign pol icy remains unchanged despite the Feb. 15 shift which displaced Dmitri Shepilov and made Andrei Gromyko foreign minister. "We are struggling for peaceful collective security, reduction of armaments, a ban on atomic, hy drogen and other weapons of mass destruction and for peaceful co existence," Bulganin said. "From this policy we will not budge." Syrian Assassinates Political Refugee BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb. 19 UP) —An assassin's submachine gun bullets killed a refugee Syrian political leader in a Beirut street today. The shooting seemed likely to plunge Lebanon's relations with Syria, her Arab neighbor, to a new low. The victim was Ghassan Jedid,) former Syrian army major, a de— fendant in absentia in Syria's cur-; rent 'trial of 47 men accused of plotting to overthrow the pro-, Soviet Syrian regime. Jedid has been under a sentence of death.' Police pursued the assassin and shut him dead in a blazing gun-i fight The assassin was identified' unofficially as a Syrian named Izzat Shaath. Market Continues Decline' NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (il 3 )—Oils) rallied late today to give a spark) of life to the slowest stock market session in three months. Wavle WORLD of FUN! ITA S ITA New York Modifications Urged For Mideast Plan WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (M—Majority Leader Johnson (D.-Tex.) urged the Senate today to adopt the modified Middle East resolution and tell the Communists to "keep out" of that strategic area. Submitted by President Eisenhower, the resolution was rewritten by the Senate's Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees. United Anti-lied Front Johnson said that in its new form it serves notice that aggres sive communism will be opposed "not by just one man, and not by just one branch of government, but by the institutions represent ing the united will of the Ameri can people " Republicans also got behind the resolution as the Senate opened what is expected to be a two week debate on Middle Eastern policy. Warns Russia Sen. Saltonstall (R.-Mass.) said the resolution sho :Id make it ap parent to Russia that "any aggres sion on her part will bring con sequences which are both imme diate and devastating." In its present form the resolu tion expresses the readiness of the United States to use armed forces, at the President's discre tion, against any military aggres sion in the Middle East by "any country controlled by interna tional communism." Allows Military Aid It also empowers the President to launch a 200 million dollar economic and rn.litary aid pro gram for nations in the region. Johnson coupled his support of the legislation with criticism of the administration for the way in which he said,administration leaders presented it to Congress. No branch of government, John son said, should try to 'operate on a put up or shut up basis" and ask another branch to "do it my way, or else." Proposals Revised Originally Eisenhower asked for specific congressional "author ity" to employ U.., troops in the Middle East if necessary. The OPC '7, ,$998 ..ace 5699 up. 5523441 and 11398 up. PAGE THREE Oilman Claims Hike 'Overdue' WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (:P1 The president of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey today defended as "long overdue" a crude oil price increase which Sen. O'Ma honey (D.-Wyo.) estimated to be worth 100 million dollars to the company and its affiliates. The oil company head, M. J. Rathbone, told the House Com merce Committee: • "If the price is not sufficient to encourage continued adequate exploration an d development, America's economic health and security can be hurt." The House committee and also a Senate subcommittee headed by O'Mahoney are investigating the effectiveness of the emergency oil lift to Europe and increases in oil and gasoline prices. Senate Group Queries American Communists WASHINGTON JR) The Sen ate Internal Security subcommit tee announced today it is investi gating American Communists' re ported break with the Kremlin. Robert F. Morris, subcommittee counsel, said the subcommittee has issued a subpoena for Eugene Dennis, retiring secretary of the Communist party in the United States, to explore reports of a "connection" between Dennis and Moscow. House voted him such authority last month, but the language was changed by the Senate commit tees to delete any specific men tion of a grant of authority.
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