CH 9. 1957 SATURDAY. MA t May Win rol of Suez Egy Con • ON, March 8 (?P) —An old fight between Western powers swung back into the fore- Eddie East situation today, with, Egyptian 1 Abdel Nasser rated a good bet to win. operating control of the Suez Canal. WASHING Egypt and the front of the President Gam At stake is Gaza Demonstrate For Egypt GAZA, March 8 (?P)—Thousands of - Palestinian Arabs surged through Gaza's streets today de manding return of Egyptian con trol to the Gaza strip. . Bewildered but good - natured Scandinavian occupation troops of the United Nations Emergency Force kept the demonstrations under control. No violence was reported. The UN took over from the de parting Israelis in midweek. The ultimate fate of the trip- is unde cided. It had been occupied by Egypt under 1949 armistice terms until Israel seized it last fall. Cheer UN Troops The Arab crowds cheered the UN troops as "spldiers of peace" but their banner warned of trou ble if the UN keeps Egyptian au thcirity out of the strip perma nently. The throngs were in a happy mood, waving the banners and flags, dancing in 'the streets, fir ingshots in the air, beating drums and 'tootling reed flutes Similar Celebrations Similar celebrations were staged in other towns in the strip. The ranks of the demon strators were swollen by hundreds of. Arab refugees returning to the area from Egypt after the Israeli withdrawal. The crowd packed into the main street of Gaza was estimated at 10,000. It gathered outside the Municipal Building to cheer for mer Mayor Munir el Rayess. He is one of 75 political prisoners arrested during the Israeli occu pation and freed by the UN force today. He made a fiery speech. Ghana Admitted to UN Three Days. After Creation UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., March 8 (JP)—Ghana became the 81st. member of the United Na tions today less than three days after it came into existence. The new African nation was welcomed by unanimous vote of the General Assembly. Gha n a combines the former British Gold Coast colony and the UN trust territory of British To goland. It became independent Wednesday. Minner Impressive FORT MYERS, Fla., March 8 (OP) Veteran pitcher Paul Min ner, 33, released by the Chicago Cubs last season, may find a spot with the Pittsburgh Pirates. 6 Arrested in New Hungarian Purge BUDAPEST, March 8 (IP)— Five church leaders and a Hungarian employe of the U.S. legation have been swept up in a new wave of arrests. The roundup was ordered by Communist officials in apparent fear of another revolt. An official spokesman scoffed at a report that 12,000 preventive arrests were . planned. But the large number of Hungarians miss ing from circles known to foreign ers indicates the figure may not be far off. Calvinist Leaders Seiied Arrests disclosed today includ ed five leaders of the Calvinist Church. It is second in strength only to the-Roman Catholic Church in Hungary. , At least two leaders had been singled out previously in.Cornmu nist attacks. on counterrevolution aries. They are Dr. Andor Be jsesi„ dean of the :Budapest Be; The State Department moved cautiously into action on the is sue. It prodded Nasser to stop ig noring a Western proposal on the collection of tolls and make some kind of reply soon. The proposal is several weeks old. robs Nasser seemed to authorities here to be moving ahead on some plan of his own for setting up the operation of the canal entirely on Egyptian terms. This would leave it up to the user nations; including the Western powers; to transit the canal as customers of the Egyptian gov ernment or take the long and costly route around Africa. If the West has any strong pres sures to exert on Nasser now they were not apparent here today. Some experts on shipping said that when the waterway is thrown open to vessels of all sizes in about three weeks no country which can get access to it can af ford competitively not to use it. Authorities are not yet eer- , tain, however, how Nasser in tends to play this situation whether he will take account of Egypt's long-range interest. The experts concede if Nasser wants to be tough he is in a strong position to get away with it. Suez interest , was focused here today on the statement of the Egyptian Canal Authority that ships of 500 tons could begiti mov ing through the canal immediate ly if they paid their tolls directly to Egypt. Since the canal is sched uled to be ready for about 70 per cent of normal traffic in three weeks today's announcement was taken as a pattern of the Egyp tian plan. The tolls formerly approached 100 million dollars a year. Israeli Withdrawal From Gaza-Strip Reported to UN UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., March 8 (A')—Dag Hammarskjold formally notified the United Na tions General Assembly today that Israel has withdrawn from the Gaza Strip and Sharm el Sheikh. He turned promptly to his next assignment of working for peace.' ful conditions in the troubled area. The UN Secretary-General report ed final liquidation of the invas ion of Egypt more than four months after the first assembly demand for Israel, Britain and France to withdraw. Britain and France complied in December. Israel, however, re mained behind until the Israeli government felt it had sufficient assurances against renewed Egyp tian blockade of the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba and commando raids from Gaza. formed Theological Seminary, and Dr. Barna Nagy, a seminary pro fessor. The Hungarian employe of the U.S. legation again under arrest was freed from prison last fall in the revolt against the Russians. Reds Seen Worried Communists authorities we r e clearly worried about March 15, the 109th anniversary of poet San dor Petoefi's rally - of Budapest students against the Hapsburgs. The Austrians crushed the 1848 uprising with Russian help. Students led off last October's revolt and are getting special at tention now. The army press serv ice reported militia searched Budapest Technical University Tuesday night. Unofficial reports said 20 students were arrested. The official statement said the militia seized weapons, a radio transmitter and conterrevolution ary documents. One student at the _university pleaded innocent today • to - a charge of inciting against the re- OLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA THE DAILY Senators Find 'Conflicts' Perjury Action Seen WASHINGTON, March 8 M—Conflicting testimony by Mayor Terry Schrunk of Portland, Ore., and six other witnesses about an alleged $5OO bribe was re-. ferred to the Justice Depart ment today for "possible per jury prosecution." The move was ordered by Chairman John L. McClellan (D.-Ark.) of the special Senate committee investigating rack ets. McClellan said the depart ment has a difficult job in de ciding whether perjury has been committed when there is a conflict between just two witnesses. "But in this Instance," he Macmillan Regime Seen In Trouble' LONDON, March 8 (JP)—Prime Minister Harold Mac millan's government is in serious trouble with the British electorate. With gasoline rationing dragging on and the cost of living rising, the tide of public opinion is flowing toward the Laborites for the first time since' they were swept out of power in! 1951. Five special parliamentary elec tions in the last few weeks have shown an antigovernment swing of between five and six per centj in the voting, enough to put the Laborites back ip power with a I majority of 100 seats in the House la Commons if the trend were maintained. The Conservatives lost a seal to Labor in one of the contests. Yesterday's election at Warwick and Leamington, former Premier Sir Anthony Eden's old seat, was the most staggering blow yet to the Conservatives. They got their man in—but only by a 2.157 mar gin in a Conservative stronghold, where Eden won by 13,466 at the 1955 general election. There is every sign that Mac millan means to ride the storm and take the government through its full term. It still has three more years to run. Peter Thorneycroft, chancel lor of the exchequer, may play a key role. If he can think up new ideas for easing the tax ; burden, he may win back many who have deserted the•govern ment in months of austerity. j Macmillan holds that present problems bear little relation to is-' sues on which the next general', election will be fought. Most Brit ons believe this will not be before 1959. Student Strike ;Forces College To Close Doors ALCORN, Miss., March 8 (JP) Students of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, an 86- year-old land grant school for Ne groes, announced its "death" to day and prepared to go home. Some of the 585 students cried and others . sang as they trooped from the rickety old chapel where Prof. Clennon King—whose dis missal or resignation they de manded as a condition for stay ing—made a half-hour plea for "understanding." King did not re sign. The students said they objected to a series of articles written by King, a Negro professor of his tory. The articles, which began appearing in the Jackson State Times last Sunday, criticized the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People. The State Times' associate Ed itor, Robert WebL, said the paper would continue to print King's articles. It Was not clear whether the students would have a college even if they decided not to leave. The State College Board yester day had ordered the students to return to classes or find their school closed. Bill Axes Postal Savings WASHINGTON, March 8 VP)— The House Post Office Committee today approved a bill to junk the 47-year-old Postal Savings Sys tem. gime. He and 10 others are ac cused of printing an underground newspaper after the Russians at-: tacked Nov. 4 and crushed the' student-worker revolution. The government modified its' plans for March 15, a national holiday. It decided the day would; remain a national holiday with noi classes in schools "but in every other respect a normal working day," the announcement said. PENN STATE DINER 1 Testimonies Conflict I I M M .. I LOVE the food at... said, "I think there is an oppor tunity for the department to find the correct answer and determine what its duty is in prosecuting the guilty." "Big Jim" Elkins, former boss of Portland's underworld, has testified he was told by a gambling associate that Schrunk accepted a $5OO bribe to call off a gambling raid in 1955, when Schrunk was Mult nomah County sheriff. Five other witnesses have corrobor ated parts of his story. To Use Lie Detector But Schrunk swore today he never accepted the bribe. He has agreed to undergo a lie detector test in an attempt to convince the committee he is telling the truth: The senators are making a nationwide inquiry into alleged racketeering in labor unions N.Y. Tugboat Strike Ends NEW YORK, March 8 /A 3 l—A 36-day-old tugboat strike in New York harbor ended today. The strikers ratified a new contract and started back to work aboard !400 idle tugboats. MAKE YOUR IFC WEEKEND REALLY BIG The Jazz Club-presents The Four Freshmen and the big beat of BUDDY MORROW SUNDAY, APRIL 7 2:30 P.M. REC MALL PAG! THREE in Probe and industry. For the past two weeks they have been investi gating Teamsters Union and racketeers in Portland and Se attle and Spokane. Wash. Union Man Testifies Another witness today was Clyde Crosby, the 516,800-a -year international organizer for the Teamsters Union in Ore gon. Crosby testified Elkins once tried to extort SlO,OOO from hint He said the gambler told him that if he paid up he could have some tape recordings of conversations which Elkins rep resented as being detrimental to Crosby. The union official said Elkins played the recordings for him but he didn't hear "anything derogatory to me." Crosb3L assailed Elkins. a key witness in the probe. as a per jurer and blackmailer. Bill Would Up Fishing Fees HARRISBURG, March 8 (iF)— The state Fish Commission said today it expects a propo7d bill doubling the $2.50 fishing license fee will be ready for introduction in the legislature next week. William Voi g t Jr., executive director, said the bill would be submitted with two companion measures designed to save the state $40,000 annually. Voigt said he hopes the license fee bill will win bipartisan sup port The "money-saving" bills, he said, would cio away with fish license buttons and metal license tags now required for owners of motor-powered boats. He placed manufacturing cost of the buttons .at about $24,000 a year and the ;license tag expense at $lB , OOO an nually. PENNA. HIT PARADE THESE RECORDS NOW IN STOCK AT THE MUSIC ROOM Philadelphia 1. Banana Boat Sens. Tarries. Gly. 2. Young Lore. T. Hunter. Dot 3. Butterfly. C. Gracie. Cam. 4. Toe Much. E. Freeley. Vie. 5. Don't Forbid Me. P. Boone, Dot i. Marianne, T Cilkyson. 7. Tsang Lave. S. Jame.. Col. P. Almost Paradise. L. Stein. Linn. 9. 3loonlight Gambler. F. Laing, Col. Pittsburgh 1. Teen-Ase Crush. T. Sands, Cap. 2. Party Doll. 14. Knox. Hit. 3. Banana Beat (Day.o) H. Belafonte. Vic. 4. Young Lore, T. Hunter. Dot S. 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