THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 20. 1958 Ike Predicts Grim Future If Foreran Aid Reduced WASHINGTON, today higher taxes, in defense spending ' his request for $3,94: He, drew this gri Probe Letter Cites Ni: As Conti WASHINGTON, Fel House investigators tu: day a letter describing ident Richard M. Nil “right man” to appro half of a Miami televi cant The letter said a Nixon aide would “present it” t> the vice president There was however, no testimony as to whether the matter ever actually reached Nix on. The vice president refused to comment on what the witnesses tlid say. Other testimony before a special House committee investigating government regulatory agencies was -that Sen. Estes Kefauver (D- Tenn.) had “incidents? conversa lions" with three members of the Federal Communications Commis sion. A. Frank Katzentine testified that Kefauver told him he also had talked with Commisioner Richard A. Mack, a key figure in the investigation of the FCC. Katzentine is_a Miami attorney and radio station operator who sought to obtain TV Channel 10 in Miami. An FCC examiner ruled in his favor, but the com mission voted 4-2 to assign the channel to an air line’s subsid iary. The House subcommittee .cur rently is looking for evidence of pressure being brought on behalf of various applications for the channel. The letter in which Nixon’s name figures was written .by Downey Rice,-a Washington at torney. Dated Oct, 13, 1955, it was addressed to Daniel P. Sullivan of the Crime' Commission of Greater Miami. Rice, a former FBI agent and investigator for the old 'Senate Crime Investigating Committee, said he had been to see Bob King, then Nixon’s administrative as sistant. Governor Declares State Of 'Extreme Emergency' Gov. George M. declared a state of “extreme [emergency” in Pennsylvania .Wednesday and thereby opened the way for local governments to bypass red tape in tapping their tills for money to fight the state's worst snow storm in half a century. The governor issued the proclamation minutes after he conferred with state Civil De fense and Highways Department officials^ •Dr.‘ Richard Gerstell, state CD head, described the governor’s ac tion as “the one thing that will allow stricken areas to help them selves.” Leader emphasized that the proclamation applies to “areas still suffering grave hardship from the snow storm.” Although the governor did not specify the areas he considered fitting into -such an emergency •classification, Gerstell made it known that there are "plenty of them.” High winds in eastern Pennsyl vania today continued .to pile snow into drifts of 15 feet -and higher along rural, and even some main highways. I The Highway Department re port on highway conditions show ed that in some districts road clearing crews'actually had lost ground overnight in their battle against' the shifting snowdrifts. These districts’were principally Franklin, encompassing north western counties,. Clearfield,' in cluding-west central counties, and Haverford, which takes in the Feb. 19 (/P) —President Eisenhower said jig draft calls and a “massive increase' 1 vould result if Congress sharply reduces 1,100,000 in new foreign aid funds, m picture in a special message formally requesting "vigorous continu ation” of the government’s global aid program for an 11th straight year. The money figure was not new, having been disclosed in his bud-; get message. i Clearly anticipating a hot : congressional fight, Eisenhower ; sought by unprecedented blunt , language to jolt foes into con- i sidering what he called the j menacing alternatives. j The message was released ati the White House and also at Ei-’ senhower’s Georgia vacation head quarters. The sum requested was about a billion dollars than an economy-minded Congress pro-; vided last year but 500 million! dollars less than the administra tion' sought in 1957. Nearly 50 billion dollars in foreign aid mon ey has been sent overseas since 1948. on ict . 19 (JFh ned up to- Vice Pres on as the ich in be sion appli- Eisenhower contended this new program, for the year be ginning July 1, represents "the critical margin of assistance" needed to assure American and free world security against Red threats. “It is my duty to make clear my profound conviction that the vigorous advancement of this pro gram is our only logical course,” Eisenhower said. “Our mutual security program is of transcend ent importance to the security of the United States.” At the Capitol, House Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex) called the message a strong one. Rayburn also credited foreign aid with “saving a lot of our friends from communism.” Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, the Senate Democratic leader, commented: “The mu tual security program has be come a major part of the for eight policy of the United States. With that thought in mind, the President's message will receive careful and ihor ough study." Rep. Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts, the Republican leader in the House, said legisla tion to meet Eisenhower’s request “is essential if we are to win the battle of the free world.” Sen. Javits (R-NY) called on Republicans to support the bill as “an important part of the record for the 1958 campaign.” By Th* Associated Press southeastern counties. The department said that of 13,785 miles of rural roads closed yesterday, only 400 had been re opened by today. Up to three more inches of snow; fell in some northwestern sections, of • the Commonwealth Tuesday night and Wednesday bringing with it added troubles for resi dents who had. just about dug themselves out of the weekend snowfall At least 27 persons perished due to the storm which has been accompanied by an "almost un relenting subzero cold wave that iced over some .roads and made travel virutally impossible. In western Pennsylvania the new snow and gusty winds kept many roads closed, especially in Somerset and Erie .counties and in parts of Cambria County. A state of emergency had been declared by Erie County commis sioners, who called on the state and National Guard for help in removing snow from rural roads. One bright note was a warming trend. The temperature climbed into the 20s in some areas, a wel come respite from numbing cold. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Macmillan Backs Talks At Summit LONDON, Feb. 18 (JP)— Prime Minister Harold Macmillan pro posed today a series of East-West summit conferences if a first one produced .any modest success. He insisted that all meetings be well prepared in advance. The British leader warned the, West against throwing itself at the mercy of the Soviets by aban doning nuclear weapons. He said Western abandonment of nuclear ! weapons would double, treble or! i even quadruple the military value jof the Sgviet Union’s vast store lof conventional weapons. Opening a 2-day foreign af fairs debate in the House of Commons, Macmillan spoke out in earnest for advance prepara tions for talks between Western and Soviet leaders. Banging on the table before [him, he told a cheering house: “I j want a summit conference, but I want it to be successful.” “Perhaps if we had any modest success at the first meeting, fur ther meetings might follow with similar preparation,” he said. Disarmament in the widest sense, he said, might be a pro fitable subject af any top-level meeting. But he said even the proposal for joint East-West abandonment of nuclear wea pons must be approached care fully. Such disarmament, he added, must bring a corresponding re duction in the total military power of each side. “There are over 200 divisions, Russian and satellite, in Europe facing the West. NATO would have difficulty to collect even a quarter of this number,” he said. Fires in State Claim 3 Lives PITTSBURGH, Feb. 19 W- Fires claimed three lives in west ern Pennsylvania today, and a fireman died of an apparent heart attack while fighting a blaze. Joseph MitcheK, about 40. and John Millhouse, 62, perished as flames destroyed a snowbound double house near Sipesville in Somerset County. Jacob Wirick, 89, died in Bed ford County Memorial Hospital of bums suffered Monday when fire leveled " his three-story frame house near New Paris, in Bed ford County. Pittsburgh fireman William A. Begleyi 54, collapsed and died of! an apparent heart attack while! helping fight a refrigerator firei in a home in the city’s'East Lib erty section. In addition the charred remains of Mrs. Jeannette Dungee. 82, was found last night after fire de stroyed her home at Houston, Washington County. Churchiirs Doctor Says No Danger NICE, France, Feb. 19 (JP) —Sir Winston Churchill smoked two cigars today and sent word through his doctor that he was not dying. “Sir Winston is suffering from a chronic bronchial condition," said Dr. David Roberts, his local physician, “but there is no ques tion of his dying.” Roberts has looked after Chur chill for the last three years whenever the former British prune minister has .visited the Ri viera. Roberts said Churchill’s trouble was respiratory, but that his great heart appeared strong. Air Delivery Ordered For Delayed Letters WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (JP) — The Post Office Department to day ordered air service for 3- cent letters that are being delayed by snow interference with sur face transportation. The department said a cttisid erable volume of such mail which bad accumulated in Boston and other New England cities is al ready being airlifted to Pitts burgh, Washington, Chicago and Florida points. Egyptian Rejected CAIRO, Feb. 19 (JP)— Egypt announced tonight the Suda nese government has rejected an Egyptian proposal to post pone all elections in a disputed border area between the two countries. Despite President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s personal inter* vention, no agreement foUowed : hours of talks here between him land Sudanese Foreign Minister 'Moharoed Abdel Mahgoub. Mah goub delayed his return to Khar toum for another talk with Egyp tian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi tonight. A communique broadcast by : Cairo radio afterward said in I part: "The Egyptian government f proposed to the Sudanese gov ernment that neither parly was : to conduct an election to cam j paign or plebiscite in these j zones until negotiations take j place— with a new Sudanese 'government to too elected. This ! proposal, the Egyptian govern- I meni is sorry to say. was turned ! down by the government of the i Sudan." I Earlier, usually reliable sources here had predicted that a settle ,ment would be reached by Egyp tian agreement to hold off on flections and by Sudanese agree ment to withdraw a company of troops reported to be in the area. The Egyptian press and offi cials in Cairo also sought aU day to tone down the - dispute over land which has been administered by the Sudanese for more than half a century. The area comprises 6000 square miles north of the 2?nd parallel. The biggest part forms a triangle with a point at the 22nd parallel and spanning out 150 miles to the Red Sea. i Nasser took a personal hand in ‘the affair, well aware that if he! pressed too hard, he might wind up gaining a relatively small stretch of worthless desert while losing the entire Sudan— a terri tory four times as big as Texas with 10 million people. Most of the Upper Nile is in Sudan. Segregation Outlawed On New Orleans' Buses NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 19 (JP)— The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals today outlawed segrega tion on city buses and street cars in New Orleans. i The action affirmed a decision by U.S. Dist. Judge J. Skelly Wright, who previously granted an injunction stopping city offi cials and New Orleans Public Service, Inc. officials from en forcing segregation laws. House Hits Cigaret Men For Deceitful Advertising WASHINGTON, Feb. 19(ff)| —Most filter-tip cigarets pro duce as much or more nicotine and tar as cigarets without filters, a House committee re ported today. The congressmen accused ciga ret manufacturers of having de ceived the American public in their filter-tip advertising. Unanimously approving a re port made by a subcommittee aft er hearings last year, the House Government Operations Commit tee also took the Federal Trade Commission to task. It held that the FTC, by not policing the ad vertising, allowed smokers to be come “brainwashed that filters would furnish health protection.” The FTC announced Saturday it had invited manufacturers to help develop uniform specifica tions for determining tar and nic otine content. It said its aim is to end confusion over various claims. While the tobacco industry de nied there were any health haz azard charges appear true by im plying that filter tips remove al leged causes of cancer and heart disease. Filter tips accounted for 40 per cent of cigaret sales in 1957. the report said. The figure in 1952 was only 1.4 per cent. When many people didn’t like the taste of their first filtered smokes, the report said, the man ufacturers loosened the filters and Proposal by Sudan Trouble Shooter Sent to Help Settle Dispute WASHINGTON. Feb. 19 (JP)— The United States tonight named a veteran trouble shooter, Robert Murphy; to try to settle the dis pute between France and Tun isia. A State Department spokesman said Murphy, a deputy undersec retary of state, would leave short ly for talks in London, Paris and Tunis. The announcement said Murphy would represent the United State* “in exercising this government's good offices” m seeking a solution which would be “peaceful and equitable.” France and Tunisia have ac cepted offers from the United State:' and Britain to use their good offices in the bitter dispute, aggravated two weeks ago by the French bombing of a Tunisian village. Murphy is an old hand at medi ation. He was the principal figure in the settlement several years ago of the dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia over the Trieste area in the Adriatic region. Bank Requirements Lowered by Board WASHINGTON. Feb. 19 (&) The Federal Reserve Board low ered the reserve requirements of member banks by one-half of one per cent today, thereby creating a theoretical increase of Hires billion dollars in lending capa city. It was a credit-easing, antide flationary move aimed at fighting the recession. An FRB spokesman said the ac tion will release about 500 million dollars from reserves which hte 6400 member banks are required to hold against demand deposits. It will become effective Feb. 27 in two banking categories and I March 1 in a third. used lower grade, stronger tobac co to let more smoke particles get through. But they still charged two to six cents more a pack for filter tips, the report said. "The filter cigaret smoker Is, in most cases, getting as much or more nicotine and tar from the filter than he would get from the regular cigaret the advertiser* have persuaded him to abandon —for his health’s sake,” the re port added. Tobacco Stocks Lose Heavily NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (JP) — Tobaccos were sold heavily late today on unfavorable news from Washington and other stocks wilt ed under a barrage of dividend cuts, leaving the market lower today. The market as a whole lost little ground although tobaccos lost close to three points for some jof the leaders. A House commit tee reported that “the cigarette j manufacturers have deceived the American public through their advertising of filter-tip cigar ettes.” The market was mixed and quiet at the start. It gradually picked up both pricewise and in turnover. A succession of divi dend cuts or ommissions and then the tobacco news reversed the trend. PAGE THBEI
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