FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 20. 1957 Faubus Rejects Court Subpoena LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 19 (P)—Gov. Orval F. Faubus, taking the offensive, struck back at the federal government today with two last-minute legal actions before Friday's cru cial- court hearing on his use of the National Guard to bar Negroes from a Little Rock high school. First, he refused to honor a federal subpeona summing England Raises Interest Rate By 2 Per Cent LONDON, Sept. 19 (tP) The; Bank of England . raised its in terest rate today to 7 per cent—l a 31-year-high—in a belt-tighten ing aimed at limiting inflation and saving the pound sterling from devaluation. The old rate. was 5 per cent. Virtually every financial insti tution in the c untry, from neigh borhood branchbanks on up, will increase their rates accordingly. Prices nose- ived on the stock exchange in t e first confused re action. Milli° s of Britons faced up to higher mortgages and in stallment-buying payments. In dustrialists predicted many em ployers would be hard hit and some workers would lose their jobs.. Demanding in effect that Brit ons cut their own spending and ship more goods abroad to earn gold and dollar backing for 'the sterling system, Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft de clared: "It will not be possible to check the rising cost of living and to maintain the worth of sterling if we try to spend more 'or live better than our resources allow or our production justifies." W. Germany Maneuvers BONN, Sept. 19 (JP)—West Ger many's first autumn military maneuvers begin next Monday. The Defense Ministry announce ment says they will be small scale in 11 training areas and will last until Oct. 12. Dulles Accuses Soviet of Risking War UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Sept. 19 (VP) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today accused the Soviet Union of risking war by threatening Turkey and building up Com munist arms in Syria_ He charged the Soviets with en gaging in acts apparently aimed at impairing the freedom and in dependence of some Middle East nations, and call e d upon the United Nations to take up the sit uation. Dulles made , the statements in a major policy speech of 25 min utes delivered to the 82-nation U.N. General Assembly. It dwelt mainly on the Middle East and disarmament. Dulles said the Soviet Union had no monopoly on use of outer space—an apparent reference to Soviet claims of having the intercontinental ballistic missile. "The Soviet Union has an- SDCLA Student Dry Cleaning & Laundry Associa tion .for Niffany-Pol: lock Area will be located in the PUB THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA him to court as a witness in a suit involving four recently pass ed Arkansas segregation laws. A few hours later, his attor neys moved to disqualify U.S. Dist. Judge Ronald Davies—sche duled to hear the National Guard case tomorrow—on grounds that Davies is prejudiced against Fau bus. Davies himself will have to rule on the motion to disqualify. Reporters Question Reporters asked Faubus if, hav ing flouted one subpoena, he will obey the second, summoning him to court tomorrow. "You just wait and see," the governor replied. He was smiling, almost casual in his manner. He gave the im pression of a man untroubled by the events swirling furiously around his head. The Arkansas Democrat re ported, in a copyrighted story to day, that if Davies orders Faubus to withdraw the guardsmen from Central *High School in tomor row's hearing, the governor will obey. No Responsibility Then, the Democrat said, he will wash his hands of all respon sibility for any violence—which he has predicted from the first— that may break out in Little Rock. He will also carry his fight to Id higher court, the 'newspaper said, by appealing to the - Bth Cir cuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis. And if necessary, he will go all the way to the Supreme Court, ;the report said, in an all-out fight for the rights of the states as against the powers of the federal government. The subpoena that Faubul de lied ordered i•;m 1., appear btlere a three-judge panel in a suit I brought by 10 Negro ministers. nounced it has discovered ways•sue to submit for U.N. discussion. to use outer space to wreak vast Syria has said it may bring destruction anywhere," Dulles de- : charges in the U.N. of aggression Oared. "That is no new discovery., against the United States. A Syr- The United States, too, knows howlian spokesman said his country's that can be done. Our task is to!foreign minister, Salah Bitar, will I see that it is not done." no doubt reply to Dulles in Syr- Dulles said Soviet action in thelia's policy speech next week. Jaw- Middle East constitute a violation;dat Mufit, a member of the Syrian of a U.N. resolution calling for U.N. delegation, commented that member nations to refrain from his country "has no intention of intimidating other countries, and threatening any of its neighbors." the General Assembly "ought at Japan's Foreign Minister least to discuss it." Aiichiro Fujiyania offered this He added_ that the United comment on the Dulles speech at States "reserves the right in a news cenference: the light of that discussion. to "Frankly speaking, I wonder a introduce concrete proposals." statement such as made might not A U.S. delegation spokesman provoke the Soviet Union to great said the United States had noler intentions and I wonder also firm proposals ready at this time, whether it will contribute to a nor any specific Middle 'East is- constructive solution." La Galeria . Invites you to an evening of %/1111' ' fine foods and N . music you will 8 " • love. We are featuring a Progressive Jazz combo from 9-12 tonight (Friday). Here, is something you don't want to miss. Enjoy fine)music in the pleasant • atmosphere of the . . . La Galeria W. Beaver Ave. Underground' A' Blast Nullifies Radioactivity ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev., Sept. 19 (JP)—History's first full scale underground atomic bomb test was conducted today with puffs of dust and falling rocks the only surface effects. For Atomic Energy Commis sion scientists, this was the 21st test of the summer series, and a banner one. They announced after the dust settled that abso lutely no radioactivity had es caped. Nuclear scientists, who hoped to show the world that A-weapons can be tested without liberating potential harm ful radioactivity, had reason to cheer. Earthquake specialists, who had hoped to learn new secrets about the earth's interior, will get less than expected—probably new da, to only on its rocky crust. The small bomb — with a force equal to between 1.000 and 3.000 tons of TNT—was fired at Leader Speaks On Civil Rights ALBANY, N.Y., Sept. 19 (.2)— Gov. George M. Leader of Penn sylvania tonight advised residents of northern states against taking a "holier-than-thou" attitude about civil rights in America. 44 . . We must do everything in our power to put our own house in order . . . and there is still much to be done," the Democratic gov ernor said. He described civil rights as "human rights" and called on members of his party to "lead in the march toward a more decent America, wherein every man's rights are the same and no man is fettered with the galling chains of prejudice." Leader was a keynote speaker at New York State Democratic Com mittee dinner. An average 40-page city news paper contains about 150,000 words. 10:00 a.m. in a chamber 800 feet from the top of a lonely desert mesa. Observers 21-2 miles away, hop ing to feel the earth tremble, felt nothing. They had set a table ten nis ball on a fence post and stacked tin cans precariously to see if they would fall. They didn't. The only visible results of the test were rocks falling down the mesa's slope, and 'pulls of dust- Scientists at more than 600 earthquake recording stations around the globe had looked for ward to the unprecedented test, hoping the blast's shock waves would race to the earth's heart and circle it via its rocky outer crust. But the mesa sopped up the waves like a sponge_ and a leading quake expert said he doubts even the most sensitive instruments could have detected them T,OOO .miles away. The sponge action ' was due to the absorbent quali ties of the mesa's rock, a vocanic substance called tufa. Increase Predicted In Vaccine Supply PHILADELPHIA. Sept_ 19 uP)— Asian flu vaccine can be given at one-tenth the present dosage with the same results, thus stretching limited supplies 10 times as far, a Philadelphia immunization spe cialist said here today. In children, he said, the doses could be considerably less. Dr. Louis Tuft, chief of the clinic of allergy and applied im munology ..at Temple University Hospital, said experiments have shown the amount of antibodies formed in the bitted stream by a one-tenth injection is approxi mately the same as that following 10 times the dose. CANDIDATES for COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF ADVERTISING PROMOTION BUSINESS CIRCULATION Please meet in Room I I I Bouche at 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, September 25th WESLEY FOUNDATION WELCOMES THE CLASS OF '6l at the WESLEY FAIR Methodist Student Center 256 E. COLLEGE AVE. SATURDAY, SEPT. 21 7:30 P. M. Recreational games Group Singing Refreshments Fun for All 'Syrian Head Urges U. S. Diplomacy DAMASCUS, Sept. 19 it?) -- Khaled Azem. acting cleferffe min ister of Syria. challenged the United States today to make di rect contact with the Syrian gov ernment in an effort to smooth out difficulties between the two nations. He said Syria would not object if U.S. warships want to pay a courtesy visit to Syrian ports as Soviet warships are going to do. Azem recently paved the way for Soviet aid and trade agree ments by a visit to Moscow. Defense Measures Taken "Certain defensive measures have been taken by the army," he said, but these "could not be described in any sense as mobili zation:* As to the Turkish border, where the Syrians profess to believe NATO maneuvers are being used to pressure them, Azem told this reporter: "I can say Turkish military con centrations remain the same. There has been no decrease in the concentrations, which, however, Turkey says are mere routine maneuvers which take place e:•ery year in this season." Soviet. Syria Debate Meanwhile, Soviet and Syrian delegations opened discussions on economic aid for Syria's six year development plan. Reliable sources said Russia is ready to offer equipment and plans for a number of projects, including a railway to Latakia and a power and irrigation dam. but that the Syrians will do the work themselves, possibly aided by E i gyptiarl technicians. Previous ly it had been expected the Rus sians would provide an army of specialists for the projects. The bald eagle mates for life and never deserts its home unless forced to by man or weather. PAGE THREE
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