SATURDAY. M, Y 11. 1957 ence Found Evi In eck Probe JTON, May 10 —Senate rackets probers pro e today that Teamsters President Dave Beck from a benefit fund set up for the widow of WASHIN( duced evident reaped profit his best frieni Donol He< he and Beck s llund, a Seattle mortgage banker, testified that hared an $11,585 profit on mortgage sales to a fund set up by various unions for Mrs. Terry Leheney, widow of Ray Leheney, a labor leader whom Hedlund described as Beck’s “best and closest friend.” Beck was a trustee of the wid ow’s fund, and Robert F. Kenne dy, counsel for the Senate Com mittee, told newsmen there was a violation of the law regulating trusteeships in Beck’s receiving a profit on the mortgage sales to the fund. Profit Defended $272 Cut I rom idget Ag B WASHINGTC The House -Ap )N, May 10 (TP)— aropriations Corn- nillion dollars off mittee cut 272 the Agriculture get today and §>artment’s bud-! ed for “an en tive approach” tirely new let to farm problei It recomqien in new appropij led $3,692,889,757 iations for the de ije fiscal year start- partment for tl ing July 1. Bad Ag Conditions At the same time, in a long and critical report, it said: “Condi tions in American agriculture at the present time are not good.” Blaming thejEisenhower admin istration, the Democrat-controlled i 'committee asserted that “four years’ experience has shown that reduced acreage, reduced prices and rising costs lead only to re ducing farm income to a disaster level.” The report was written by Rep. Whitten (D-Miss). SlVi Billion Budget Cut Committee action on the agri culture bill brought to more than 'Wi billion dollars the amount it has cut so far out of President Eisenhower’s fiscal ’5B budget re quests. The full House will consider the Appropriations Committee’s rec ommendations next week. Then the Senate will debate the bill. During the past four.years un der Secretary of Agriculture Ben son, the committee report said, various approaches to the farm problem have been made. But the report said that during that time farm income has dropped 17.5 per cent while farm costs have in creased about 10 per cent and the average farm debt has risen 21.6! per cent. 80-Ton Seaplane Crashes Off California; 16 Rescued By the Associated Press An 80-ton Navy fighting boat crashed in San Francisco Bay Fri day—the fourth service craft forced down in watery descents since Wednesday from Japan to ■the Azores. Thirty-six men were rescued in the crashes, but five men in the crash off Japan still were missing. All 16 men aboard the seaplane •“Trade. Wind’s Coral Sea” were rescued quickly after the four engined, $2 million transport was forced down. A runaway propel ler sent it plummeting down on tha mud flats of San Francisco Bay. Five were shaken up and treated for m nor injuries. ight, a Navy Nep omber was forced, Thursday n tune .patrol t down into thi Pacific 175 miles pHmilltWWllWHtll S INSCRIPTION BLANK LTOi HE DAILY COLLEGIAN Box 261 JNIVERSITY PARK, PA. >3.00 a semester—ss.oo a year Naim . Street City .. Stale illion Hedlund defended the profit as being “done from the heart rath er than the head,” although earlier he had said he didn’t think it was handled in 'an ethical manner. Introduced into evidence was a Nov. 16, 1956, letter to Mrs. Le- heney in which Beck assured her she would be getting “a very fine return on your investment with the maximum of safety.” The committee also developed testimony that Beck quietly col lected thousands of dollars in fees on money invested in mortgages [■by his union, the biggest in the country. Beck, who didn’t attend today’s hearing, issued a statement de fending his method of handling union funds. Investments Yield 4% When he took over as inter national president. Beck said, the net yield on the union’s invest ments was 214 per cent as of Dec. 31, 1952. As of last March 31. he continued, the yield was 4-06 per cent. Beck put the total investment at $32,474,631. He said $28,582,646 of this is mortgages or bonds. “The statistics cited should in dicate that our investment pro gram has been and is among the most successful to be found in organized labor,” Beck said. Phys Ed Society Picnic Members of Phi Epsilon Kap pa, physical education honorary society, and their guests may at itend a. picnic at 6 p.m. Wednes day at Holmes Foster Park, State 'College. [southwest of Honolulu ’ when one! of its two engines caught fire. , Four hours later, while circling planes lit the area with flares,' ithe submarine Bream pulled the 110 crewmen from a bobbing raft. Riva Will Attend Air War College Col. Daniel Riva,.professor of, air science since 1954, has been selected by the Air Force to at tend a 10-month course at the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., beginning in August He will be succeeded by Col. Orin Rigley Jr., commander of the First Aero Medical Transport Group at Brooks Air Force Base, Tex. nmntiHWWimMumMWWWnmiimiMWiMMmr THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Soviets Attack U.S., Britain Nuclear Plans MOSCOW, May 10 W?)—Soviet] Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko charged today the Western pow-| ers are afraid .‘‘like the devil 1 fears Christ”—to stop'testing nu clear weapons. _ 1 He fold Ihe Supreme Soviet that the United States asd Brit- I ain fear termination of the tests would "undermine their whole position on the use of nuclear weapons." The 1347 deputies, acting withj their customary unanimity, then] adopted a resolution calling uponi the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament to join in a three-] power parliamentary commission to study the best means of halting future tests. j After that, the Supreme So- j viei ended its three-day session, i having preserved its rubber- ! stamp record. Without a murmur it ratified' all decrees of the Presidium since] the last session, and approved* party boss Khrushchev’s sweeping' plan for decentralizing and re-; organizing the Soviet union’s gar-] gantuan industrial administrative machinery. Chemistry Society To Hear Executive Thomas P. Carney, vice presi dent of Eli Lilly and Co., will speak at a meeting of the Cen tral Pennsylvania section of the! American Chemical Society at 8] p.m. Tuesday in 119 Osmond, i His topic will be “Major Prob-j lems in Medicinal Chemical Re-; search.” ; Dr. Carney is a fellow'bf the! New York Academy of Sciences' a trustee of the Nutrition Founda tion, a member of the Chemical J Corps Advisory Council and o£ { the industry subcommittee of the; National Cancer Chemotherapy Center. World Body Said Needed To End Atomic Threats I WASHINGTON, May 10 (.^5 —Secretary of State John Foster .Dulles said today the proposed international agency for peaceful I uses of atomic energy can be a stepping stone toward control of | nuclear weapons. i Urging speedy Senate action to make this country a member 'of the new 80-nation International i Atomic Energy Agency, Dulles, jsaid: “In the agency, for the first] time in history, the overwhelm 'ing majority of the nations havei agreed on a far-reaching system] iof controls and safeguards.” i J “The Agency can help in mov-j jing toward control of nuclear i weapons,” he said. ! Dulles testified at the opening of Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee hearings on the member ship treaty submitted by Presi dent Eisenhower on March 22. j A number of senators in both ; parties have expressed misgivings j about the agency. Ratification of | the charter requires a two-thirds i vote of the Senate, i Dulles, under questioning by Sen. Sparkman (D-Ala), said fail jure of this country to join would 'ihave “disastrous effects on the prestige and influence of the United States in the world.” With out U.S. support he said he felt ]“the whole effort would collapse.” Russia already has ratified the treaty, along with Byelorussia, Austria, Guatemala, Romania. Switzerland, and Pakistan. Dulles underwent critical ques tioning by two Republican com- Imittee members. Sen. Knowland I of California, the GOP Senate |leader,and Hickenlooper of lowa. !Pa. Fire Controlled ! CLARION, Pa., May 10 UP)— IA forest fire thought to have been jcontained flared anew today in I the northwestern corner of Clar jion County but it was brought (under control in about six hours ,with the help of a three-quarter inch rainfall. PAGE THREE Northeastern Fires Rage for Fifth Day By the Associated Press I Forest fires ravaged Northeast Itimberlands for the fifth consecu itive day Friday. They disrupted the plans - of thousands for out door weekend trips. Rain brought a measure of re lief to Maine. New York and Ver mont But elsewhere there was no sign of a break in a dry spell that has turned forests tinder-dry. Historic Plymouth. Mass., where the Pilgrims landed in 1620, was saved from destruction for the second time in two days. Fanned jby 35m.p.h. winds, the flames crackled to within a few hundred I yards of Jordan Hospital. Young American Art .., CLOSER THAN YOU THINK On Mother's Day. a student art exhibition will be held at ALPHA RHO CHI FRATER NITY. 220 East Foster At*. The show will include oil drawings, and pastel sketches, all done by students in Archi tecture and Fine Arts. Open to public from 2 to 5 on Sunday Afternoon. Don't miss this en lightening show of student art work.
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