SATURDAY. MAY 18
Egypt
Canal
CAIRO, May 17 r JP) —Egypt served notice today she will
exercise the “right o:i self-defense” if Israel attempts to send
a test ship through tl e Suez CanaL Israel appeared to be shy
ing away from any immediate move in that direction.
Abdel Rader Hstem, director of information, expressed
the first official Egyptian reac
tion to Israel’s announc ;ment that
she would try to sei id a ship
through the 103-mile waterway
which Egypt has nationalized.
Hatem’s statement hinted Egypt
would try to halt any Israeli-ship
the moment it enters Egyptian
territorial waters' and before it
could reach a canal entrance.
Stale of War
Egypt contends she is still in
a technical state of war with Is
reaL For that reason she has
barred the canal to Israeli ship
ping and to vessels carrying any
thing considered of strategic value
to Israel
. Hatem said Egypt will take
"whatever measures she deems
necessary for the canal, which is
an integral part of her territory.”
He declared Egypt has “the right
to defend her territory and safe
guard her security” under Article
10 of the Constantinople Conven
tion of 1888 governing the water
way. j*
Exercise Right
The statement said-Egypt “will
exercise this right fully and will
hold fast to it, for it is her legal
right as stated in Article 51 of the
United Nations charter, which
says that every state is entitled
to the right of ‘self-defense.’"
Last night Israel decided against
tending the Israeli-chartered Nor
wegian freighter Mars through
the canal on a voyage from Haifa
to Japan with 4,000 tons of potash.
The Mars will go via the Panama
Canal—a trip the Israelis said
will cost $40,000 more than if the
Mars used the Suez.
_ Israel said previously it did not
regard the Mars as a real test.
But the decision to change the
route was taken apparently in
line with the announcement that
Israel would not make any move
toward a test until after the UN
Security Council debate on Suez
set for Monday.
Union Reports
Seen Publicized
WASHINGTON, May 17 (iP)—
A bipartisan bill to require full
public disclosure of financial and
other reports now filed by unions
with the - government was intro
duced in the Senate today.
Secretary of Labor John P.
Mitchell has requested such leg
islation, and sentiment in favor
of it- crystalized during current
hearings of a special Senate Rack
ets Committee.
Sen. Lister'Hill (D.-Ala.), chair
man'of the Senate Labor Com
mittee, introduced the bill.
- Mitchell said he was - gratified
by the move. In recent Tetters to
congressional leaders he wrote
that public disclosures of finan
cial reports and other informa
tion filed with the -secretary of
labor, by labor organizations tin
der the National Labor Relations
Act “would be in the interest of
the' public and of the inembers
of labor organizations.”
Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark)
chairman of the Rackets Commit
tee, approved Hill’s proposal as
"a step in the right direction” but
forecast the introduftion of much
stronger, legislation later.
Eisenhower Taxes
Exceeds Truman
WASHINGTON, May 17 (A>)_
The UJS. Chamber of Commerce
said today that by early next year
the Eisenhower administration
will have collected more taxes
than did the entire Truman ad
ministration.
The Tinman administration in
7*4 years collected more than all
previous administrations from
George Washington through
Franklin X). Roosevelt, the Cham
ber noted.
A front-page artii
Chamber’s weekly paj
ington Report, said
hower administration
pass'that “before thee
year 1958, for which <
now. appropriating ft
is, in about 3% years.
Threatens
Defense
Negroes Pray,
Protest School
Discrimination
WASHINGTON, May 17 (/P)—
Massed thousands of Negroes met
Jn prayer and . protest- today—
three years, to the very hour, af
ter the Supreme Court banned
segregation in public schools.
Ranged in a great semicircle
before the Lincoln Memorial, for
this unprecedented “prayer pil
grimage for freedom,” they ap
plauded speeches charging that
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
and congressional leaders of both
parties have failed in the wake
of -the high court ruling to lead
the way toward equal rights for
aIL
Rep. Adam C. Powell (D-NY)
set the tone by calling on Negroes
to establish through their church
es a “third'force—nonpartisan but
political” to bring pressure on po
litical leaders.
“We meet here today in front
of the Lincoln Memorial," the
Negro congressman said, “because
we are getting more from a dead
Republican than we -are getting
from live Democrats and live Re
publicans.”
Police Inspector Melvin Leach
estimated the crowd at 15,000
though sponsors of the demonstra
tion, calling it the biggest of its
kind ever' held, put the figure at
25,000 or more.
Several white organizations is
sued “warnings” that disturbances
might result from the influx of
“pilgrims” from many parts of
the country. There were, no dis
orders, however, and police of
ficials .called it one of the most
orderly gatherings in their mem
ory.
5 Toll Bridges
To Drop Fees
MORRISVILLE, Pa. (JP)— The
Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge
Commission will drop tolls on
five bridges by the end of 1965,
the executive director of the com
mission predicts.
George L. Feaster said the toll
bridges will be free to the public
because of an increased program
of retiring toll bridge bonds and
by “prudent budgetary policies”
and careful investments.
Feaster made his prediction yes
terday in his annual report to
commission members at - their
yearly reorganization meeting.
Bridges which would become
toll free within another 8 tit years
are Trenton-Morrisville, Easton-
Phillipsburg, Portland-Columbia,
Delaware Water Gap and Milford-
Montague.
The commission also operates
12 free bridges which span the]
Delaware above Trenton.
Steel Union Adopts
Strict Ethics Code
WASHINGTON, May 17 m~
The executive board of the United]
Steelworkers union today adopted
an ethical practices code believed
to be-'stricter than any. other in
the labor movement. -
In submitting -the code to the
board - and recommending its
adoption, the union’s president,
David J. McDonald, was reported
to have said:
“I believe in the Seventh Com
mandment more than I do the
Fifth Amendment”
The seventh Commandment is
“Thou shalt not -steal,” while the
Fifth Amendment to Hie - Consti
tution permits citizens to refuse
to answer questions when they
believe answers might tend to
incriminate them.
le in the
>er, Wash
he Eisen
will sur
id of fiscal
kragress is
nds”—that
•Japan' has 89 million inhabi
tants, yet the land is smaller than
the state of Montana.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Beck's InlawTop Officials Reappraise
Sets Record U.S. Disarmament Policy
Using Fifth jUpon Stassen's Return
WASHINGTON, May 17 (A s ) —l WASHINGTON, May 17 (tP) —The United States launched
Norman Gessert, Dave Beck’s: a high-level review of its disarmament policy today a few
cousin by marriage, took thejhours after Harold E. Stassen returned from London to report
Fifth Amendment 71 times in ajP r °g ress in confidential talks with Russian representatives.
21-minute appearance before the! Stassen, the administration’s disarmament chief, met for
Senate Rackets Investigation' 2 hours with an array of Ei-
Committee today. including
„ T , J i Secretary of State John Foster
I guess he made a record,”j Dulles, Secretary of Defense'
Chairman John L. McClellan (D.-Charles E. Wilson, Lewis L.
Ark.) commented sourly at the, Strauss, chairman of the Atomic.
end of the fruitless questioning. (Energy Commission, and Robert
Gessert not only declined toj Cutler, the President’s special as
talk about his profitable dealings sistant for national security mat
with Beck, president of the Team- ters.
sters Union, but even refused toi State Department, in a
state his name or acknowledge! announcement afterward,
that he knew his own lawyer sit-; ssiti Stassen made “a full report”
ting beside him ion the nine weeks of talks in Lon
testify against himself. Beck has; _ e ?' „_ _ , 4 .
invoked it more than 200 times 1 U ’ S .’ J oslllon
but his appearances before the’ The . meeUng today was the
committee extended over a much |b^?i m I mn j’ , of . discussions which
longer period than Gessert’s 21 w j’L lea J? fu £ h f r formulation
minutes - lof the Umted States position m
w „ , the light of various pending pro
*?' iPOsals including the Soviet pro
hdud* clearly detrimental to j posals 0 { April 30 >• the announce
labor unionism. ment aMe l
‘‘These people owe an account- Stassen himself declined to com
ing for their actions involving the ment, but the State Department
use of union funds,” he told news-(reported he “answered a num
men. “Those funds are held iniber of questions” during the
trust for the benefit of unionism,'Closed door review,
and not for the personal profit The mention of Russian’s April
of union officials and their* Vin J3O disarmament proposal seemed
folk.” intended to assure Moscow that
Gessert, a husky, graying man would be carefully con
had been sought by the commit- ;si^ r f d during the policy review,
tee for more than two months fo r lY hlch «° «?, during the M
questioning about his financial j day * Stassen will spend in the
deals with Beck. He was finally “P ll * l * . 4
subpoenaed Wednesday after a Closer
police chase in Ellensburg, Wash, arrival Stassen said the
n . ._ v j S ’ “ 'West is gettmg closer to agree-
Robert F. Kennedy, commit- ment with Russia on a plan for “a
! tee cmmseL said Gessert drew small cut” in East-West anna
mare than $50,000 in salary and ments.
expanses frorn the Teamsters ; Stassen said a plan now being
Sr 0 ? April. 1354. to 'considered would call for mutual]
M “ c ~ 1957. a period in 1 reductions in weapons, manpower!
which Kennedy said he spent iand defense spending, plus aerial 1
most of his time doing chores I inspection of defined zones in both
for Beck. I the West and East.
Ike Renews Fight to Save His Budget
CINCINNATI, May 17 (IP) —;housing.
President Dwight D. Eisenhowerj Sen. John Bricker of Ohio, a'
today renewed his opposition to surprise speaker at the ccrnfer
cuts in his foreign aid and mili-’ence, said letters he has received
tary budget, and said years of; asking for budget cuts have been
sacrifice to keep the peace “can 1 “the greatest uprising and ex
never equal the sacrifices of one'perience in my entire career in
week of global war.” . Washington.”
He told a Republican regional i He said, "I may be critical,
conference here by telephone from! bul I’m not one-tenth as critical
Washington that his legislative; as I have been of previous ad
program, submitted last January! ministrations.”
‘in the best interests of Amen- The President, whose address
ca,” has made' “little progress” in received only perfunctory ap
the Democratic-controlled con-'plause at this meeting, said the
firess. ‘Republicans “must win” control
Sen. Homer Capehart of In- j of the national legislature next
diana look the floor here after ! year.
the President's address and j He said, “it is clear that poli
said. "Whether I am right or i Real responsibility can be defi
whether lam wrong. lam going | nilely fixed only when one
to vote to cut the gadget." I party controls both the legis-
And later at a press conference, I lative and executive branches
Capehart said he thinks the bud-| of our government." *
get can be cut by three billion [ On his budget, he said, “In our
dollars, including federar aid to ■ desire to reduce our own tax bur
education, foreign aid and public! den, we must not weaken our-
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British H-Bomb
Claimed to Be j
Megafon Size *
LONDON, May 17 lIP) —Britain
announced tonight that her first
H-bomb test explosion in the Pa
cific was in the megaton range
equivalent to one million tons of
TNT.
The announcement, by Aubrey
Jones, minister of supply, was
made as Japan formally protest
ed the blast in the Christmas Is
land area of the middle Pacific
last Wednesday, and reserved the
right to claim compensation if
Japanese citizen* suffer.
In reply. Cmdr. Alan Noble,
minister of state for foreign af
fairs, pointed out that Prima
Minister Macmillan told the
House of Commons yesterday
Britain’s test would go on. From
two to four test explosions are
expected to be carried out. The
British government, however,
promised to consider any Jap
anese claims to damage.
In Tokyo, Japanese students
snake-danced through the streets
Friday night, carrying lanterns
and placards, in continued pro
tests. Four demonstrators who
managed to enter the gates of
the British Embassy said they
were pushed out
Tokyo police estimated 35,000
students took part in protest pa
rades during the day, but the
. numbers dwindled at night to
' about 3000. _
selves militarily or destroy our
leadership in the free world.”
At a news conference in Cin
cinnati, Mrs. Bertha Adkins, vice
chairman of the GOP National
Committee, said hundreds of tele
grams had been received in Wash
ington protesting the cost of gov
ernment. Others have written, she
added, not in protest, but merely
for information.
Eisenhower listed his civil
rights program, which be de
scribed as a "simple and logi
cal" one, as one of the admini
stration proposals now bung up
in Congress. Others included
federal aid for school building
and an increase in postal rales.
On Capitol hill. Sen. Lyndon
B. Johnson of Texas, the Senate
Democratic leader, said the Ei
senhower administration' appears
to be asking Congress to act on
■ two budgets—"a security budget
and a prosperity budget and we
are supposed to take our choice.”