SATURDAY. APRIL 13. 1957
House Committee Cuts
$3B Million From USIA
WASHINGTON, April 12 (/P) —Overriding a last minute
plea from President Eisenhower, the House Appropriations
Committee today whacked $37,900,000 from the 144-million
dollar budget of the U.S. Information Agency.
The cDmmittee then dealt a blow of similar proportions
at the State Department’s $227,714,552 new money budget for
the year starting July 1. The
State Department figure was
chopped to $180,382,743, a cut of
almost 21 per cent.
In a report written by Rep.
Rooney (D.-N.Y.), the commit-
V •> accused the State Department
of “fiscal irresponsibility” and
said the USIA, which conducts
overseas information and propa
ganda programs, engaged in
“mathematical abracadabra” in
its personnel requirements.,
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WASHINGTON, April 12 (#)—
A large-scale investigation of the
nation’s financial condition, in
cluding t; xes, interest charges
and debt, ' ras voted unanimously
by the Se late Finance Commit
dee today n a surprise move.
Chairma l Byrd (D.-Va.) said it
would be ‘ one of the broadest in
vestigation 3 ever undertaken by
Congress.” The staid Finance
Committee usually sticks with
legislation and only rarely gets
into the investigation picture.
The prc be appeared to have
political oi/ertones. Some Demo
crats on :he committee said it
would ceijter on “tight money"
and described, it as the answer
tc President ' Eisenhower’s call
earlier this year for a study of
monetary and fiscal policies.
The President asked that thiis
be made by an independent com
mission. Republicans have intro
duced bills in the Senate and
House to set up such a body, but
they have been stalled in Demo
cratic-eontrolled committees.
Republicans on the Senate Fi
nance Committee said they had
confidence any probe conducted
by Byrd would be “objective”
a jd “responsible.”
The Virginian said.the investi
gation would get under way with
public hearings.as soon as a staff
c n be selected. He said it prob
ably would run until January.
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey will be the first wit
ness to be. followed by William
M. Martin, chairman of the Fed
eral Reserve Board.
Sen. Martin (R.-Pa.), senior
Republican on the committee,
strongly endorsed the investiga
tion.
Suez Costs Set at $ll Million
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.,
April 12 (/P) —The UN report
ed today its mission headed by
Lt. Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler
cleared the Suez Canal of
sunken obstacles for less than
11 million dollars. It said the full
cost was covered by loans in
hand from 10 countries.
A UN ' spokesman meanwhile
declared, in comment on a syn
dicated Joseph Alsop report to
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Before sending the two agen
cy’s recommended appropriations
to the House floor for action next
week, the committee heard Roon
ey read a letter from Eisenhower
asking that no cuts be made in
the USIA’s fund requests .
The committee voted another
big slash, 41 per cent, in the 18&
million dollars requested for the
President’s special fund- for in
ternational cultural.and trade
fair programs. It cut the figure
to $10,900,000, citing what it
called “irresponsible handling of
the taxpayers' money” in con
nection with this fund.
'Niceties' Cut from Budget
In dealing with individual it
ems in the State Department
budget, the committee denied
funds requested for “such nice
ties abroad as swimming pools,
club houses, cabin boats, moun-
tain retreats, beach huts and ca
banas.” It said the department
was “completely unrealistic” in
making these requests.
The department's request for
$1,200,000 for representation al
lowances, irreverently known as
the “booze fund,” was cut in half.
This fund' is used to help pay for
the entertainment of foreign offi
cials abroad.
Navy to Launch New Sub
WASHINGTON,'ApriI 12, (IP)—
The Navy’s third atomic-powered
submarine. Skate, will be launch
ed May 16 at Groton, Conn.
Mrs. Lewis L. Strauss, wife of
the chairman of the Atomic En
ergy Commission, will sponsor the
ship.
the contrary, that “no concession
was made by the UN to the gov
ernment of Egypt” in a recent
understanding. on deployment of
the UN Emergency Force.
. Saudi Arabian Memorandum
Sheikh Abdullah Al-Khayyal,
Saudi Arabian delegate, sent Sec
retary General Dag Hammar
skjold a memorandum declaring
that the Gulf of Aqaba and ap
proaches were Arab “territorial
waters implying no freedom of
navigation through them.”
He said Israeli efforts to use
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'Derby Trip'
To Ft. Knox
Called Off
WASHINGTON, A p r i 1 12 f.-P)
--Secretary of the Army Brucker
today yielded to House criticism—
although calling it "distorted”—
and called off an Army-paid con
gressional visit to Ft. Knox, Ky.,
May 3-4.
In cancelling invitations sent
to more than 100 members of
four Senate and House commit
tees. Brucker said the "serious
purpose"of the trip had been
"distorted by being associated
with the same weekend as the I
Kentucky Derby."
Two House members yesterday
accused the Army of extrava
gance and of trying to influence
consideration of the Army’s budg-i
et by arranging a demonstration)
of armored strength at Ft. Knox)
during the day and a half prior)
to the blue-ribbon horse race at!
nearby Louisville, Ky., on May 4.|
Hep. Mahon (D-Tex), chair- j
man of a House subcommittee i
handling military appropria
tions, described the proposed !
trip as a "seductive Army bob
ble" that could "possibly cost .
. the Army 100 million dollars in !
reduced appropriations."
Rep. Burdick (R-ND) called it,
an “extravagant excursion ar-j
ranged for one purpose and one
only—to please congressmen.” j
House Speaker Sam Rayburn of
Texas was reported today to have
sent word to Brucker that he
thought his Derby reference was
a “poor exhibition of public rela
tions.”
Hungary Invites
UN to Make Tour
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., April
12 (A*) —The Communist govern
ment of Hungary todays invited
U N Secretary General Dag Ham
marskjold to visit Budapest "ati
any time convenient for him.”
The Hungarians last fall had re
fused to admit Hammarskjdd
when he sought to go there to in-1
vestigate charges of Soviet inter
ference in Hungary’s internal af
fairs.
There was no immediate indica
tion whether the secretary general
now would accept the invitation.
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the waterway and give it inter
national character would en
croach on Saudi Arabian sover
eignty and threaten territorial se
curity and so would be opposed.
He asked that the memo be re
layed to all 81 UN members.
Israeli delegate Abba Eban
: .ked Hammarskjold to get an
answer from President Nasser to
Israel’s question whether Egypt
still claims to be at war with
Israel and thus entitled to bar
ships from the Suez Canal and
the gulf.
Nimr, Party Discuss
Jordan Premiership
AMMAN, Jordan, April 12 (JP) —Abdul Halim Nimr, extrema
Arab nationalist, conferred with ranking Jordan politicians tonight to
determine whether he should accept a call to form a new government.
Nimr, 40, deputy premier, defense and interior minister in Pre
mier Suleiman Nabulsi’s outgoing Cabinet, is a member of the
National Socialist party, which
Nabulsi leads. King Hussein fired - A 1 •
Nabulsi Wednesday. DOCTOr ACiVISeS
Not Asked Formally j _
Nimr has not yet been formally TnnMer/s
asked by the King to set up a| « ODUCCO
government, but was approached* CHICAGO, April 12 (ip) A
indirectly to find out whether he ?i^ w , y° rlt physician today said
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This already is the longest po-, cigarettes reported as causing can
litical crisis in Jordan’s history.'cer.
!As it continued, an atmosphere of
; expectation swept through Am
man and other Jordan towns.
Nimr—“tiger" in Arabic-held a
long conference this afternoon
iwith members of his National
(Socialist party. He was reported
to be talking also with leaders of
other political blocs.
Union Employs
Relations Firm
I WASHINGTON, April 12 (VP)—;
jA New York-Washington firm to-1
jday took over Teamsters Union'
public relations at a fee of $200,-
000 for the first- year, and dis
closed the program may be con
tinued for additional years at the
same annual retainer. I
The union has been under fire'
since its president, Dave Beck,;
refused.to answer questions from!
t u -' Senate Rackets Investigating)
Committee and other top union
officials were indicted on various!
charges. ]
Beck invoked the Fifth Amend
ment in declining to tell Senate
probers several weeks ago about
■ hi- admitted personal use of-some
! 300,000 to $400,000 in - union
funds.
Use of Nuclear Arms
GOETTINGEN, Germany (VP) —,
Eighteen leading nuclear scien-i
tists announced today they are!
opposed to West Germany’s arm-'
ing itself with atomic weapons, i
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