THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 20. 1958
Ike Predicts Grim Future
If Foreran Aid Reduced
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in defense spending '
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Probe Letter
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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.
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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.
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