FRIDAY. MARCH 'l4. 1958 Havana Police Quiet Students HAVANA (JP) Threats of Havana University’s 18,000 students to stage a new demonstration faded Thursday as police sealed off all assembly areas. Tension continued as rebels circulated rumors a major revolutionary attempt to overi tista might be made “within Rebels Lose Oil Field In Sumatra JAKARTA, Indonesia (JP) —The Indonesian government Thursday announced the capture of the oil field near Pakanbaru in rebel lious Central Sumatra and said the American oil company, Cal tex, was now free to resume op erations. Rebel sources in Singapore said Central Sumatra forces withdrew to the outskirts of Pakanbaru. They said they had no infor mation on casualties or whether the two sides still were fighting around Pakanbaru. The Indonesian government claimed that Pakanbaru, Caltex headquarters city 15 miles south west of the big Minas oil field, was captured by 300 paratroopers and a combat regiment. Premier Djuanda announced the capture. The Caltex shut down Monday, ©n the advice of the Indonesian government, and evacuated some women and children of its 3,000 to 4,000 employes to Singapore. Djuanda said there was no need for further evacuation. About 600 Americans are in the area. All were reported safe. Capture of Pakanbaru and the nearby oil field, if confirmed, would put the government of President Sukarno on the way to control of vital areas under the sway of the rebel government set up Feb. 15. Dulles Says Break For Talks Needed MANILA (#} Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said yes terday ways must be found to break the deadlock over a summit meeting but he again emphasized that the East-West leaders shoud discuss Germany and Eastern Eu rope. The-Soviet Union has rejected any summit discussion of German reunification or the political stat us of Communist nations - in East ern Europe. Dulles reiterated the U.S. posi tion that in addition to these sub jects the conference agenda should include discussions of .the use of outer space for peaceful purposes and steps to reduce the threat of nuclear warfare. FCC Seeks to Reopen TV Case WASHINGTON (JP) The Federal Communications Com mission asked court permis sion Thursday to second-guess itself on a Miami TV case. Meantime, new testimony in a House influence probe churned up such-different names as House Republican Leader Joe Martin and the gangster “Little Augie.” The FCC told the U.S. Court of Appeals here it wanted to review its 1957 award of Miami Channel 10, worth several million dollars to a National Airlines subsidiary in the light of developments stem ming from the congressional in quiry. ' The FCC move came more than a week after Richard A Mack resigned from the commission in the wake of charges he was un der the' financial influence of a lawyer who went to bat for Na tional Airlines when the. case was before the FCC. Thursday, Frank W. Miller, a throw President Fulgencio Ba -48 hours.” Batista ordered police and armed forces to crush any dis turbance. Police guarded the big Roman or tripled at aU public build ings and military establish ments. Gunners behind sand bags guarded the presidential palace in the heart of Havana. Police guared the big Romani Catholic cathedral near the Uni versity of Havana. Radio cars stocked with weapons and gre nades were stationed at street comers. [ Police broke up small groups of students. They chased away Associated Press photographer Harold Val entine trying to take pictures and ordered him back to his hotel. They arrested his taxi driver. Students called upon all Cubans to observe 10 minutes silence starting at 3:40 p.m. in memory of Federation President Jose An tonio Echevarria. He and about 40 others were killed during rebel attacks on the presidential palace a year ago in an attempt to kill or kidnap Batista. Rigid censorship was enforced preventing publication of any news about bloodshed and vio lence throughout the island. Ba tista's suspension of constitu tional guarantees stripped Cu bans of all civil liberties for 45 days. Informed sources said elections Batista had set for June 1 will have to be postponed possibly un til November. . In Havana, a rebel gunman fired at former Minister of Com merce Raul Menotal but failed to hit him. His secretary was wounded. Leopold Freed; Wants Obscurity JOLIET, HI. (JP) —Nathan Leo pold, thrill killer of the ’2os, stepped into the world of free men Thursday and headed for what he says he hopes will be a lifetime, in obscurity serving his fellow men. The 53 - year - old Leopold walked , through the gates of StateviUe Penitentiary, free on parole after serving 33 years, 6 months and 2 days of a life sen tence for the 1924 killing of 14- year old Bobby Franks. Under conditions of his parole, Leopold, son of a millionaire, will leave Chicago for Casterier, Puer to Rico, for the job he requested as a $lO-a-week laboratory tech nician in a Church of the Breth ren mission hospital. He has steady income from a $50,000 trust fund set up by his brother and a legacy from an aunt radio TV-advertising man, told the House subcommittee on Legislative Oversight he'called on Rep. Martin "to ask him how things were going and things like that" in FCC's considera tion of the lO case. Miller said he was acting for; A. Frank Katzentine, who lost! the license fight to National Air-] lines. | Apparently Martin didn’t give: him much help. At least Miller! said he never beard from the Massachusetts Republican again, even though he told Katzentine in; a telegram, the day he called on' Martin: “Joe is going right down 1 the line for us.” Katzentine paid a return ’ visit to the witness stand Thurs day and indignantly denied charges, which he attributed to his opponents in the TV fight, ; that he has associated with mob- ; slers and allowed his Miami j radio station,- WKAT. to be . used in behalf of gambling on j horse races. Katzentine denied, among oth er things, he was acquainted with THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Leader Urges Nation, States To Boost Public Works Efforts ALTOONA, Pa. (/P)_Gov. George M. Leader yesterday urged the federal government and every state in the nation to follow the lead of his ad ministration in accelerating ef forts to speed construction of public works and highways projects. The governor said such a pro gram would go a long way toward! solving the nation’s mounting un-| employment program. I Leader spoke at two regional j ; unemploymeni conferences i which attracted a total of more : than 2000 persons from 13 1 | southwestern Pennsylvania i counties. At news conferences here and | at Johnstown, where a morning Brundage Resigns Budget Chief Post WASHINGTON (JP) — Percival F. Brundage, who was alternately cussed as a spendthrift and a skinflint, resigned Thursday as budget director. President Eisenhower moved Dep. Director Maurice H. Stans up to succeed him in the fiscal hot seat. The change comes during a lull] between budget storms, with pre liminary work just getting under: way on the 1960 fiscal blueprint which will be submitted to Con gress next January. Brundage. who will be 66 next month, said he was leaving the $22400-a-year post to "at tend to some personal matters that have been neglected." He also noted in a letter to Ei senhower that his immediate predecessors set an example of resigning after a few years to give “others with a fresh view point” a chance. When reporters asked While House press secretary James C. Hagerty whether Brundage was leaving because of any policy differences, he replied. "Of course not." Eisenhower accepted his resig nation effective Saturday, and told Brundage in a “Dear Percy” letter that he was grateful for “outstanding service." Bargaining Election Sought by PGMA PHILADELPHIA (JP) The Pennsylvania Garment Manufac turers Assn., and its 300 member plants shut down by a strike Thursday sought a bargaining election “to determine what un ion represents its employes.” The PGMA petitioned the Na tional Labor Relations Board to approve an appropriate bargain ing unit "so all negotiations can be on an association-wide basis.” a gangland figure known as “Little Augie.” A former mayor of Miamii Beach, and now president of the Greater Miami Crime Commis-j sion, Katzentine said he assumed! the “Little Augie” was Augie Pi-j sane, one of various underworld i figures known by that nickname. “I don’t associate with people [like that,” Katzentine told a re porter later. He said he didn’t] remember seeing Pisano more ithan once. j PENN STATE DINER Fine Foods OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY “Tradition Demands Quality" session was held. Leader said “na tional action is needed to fight the recession.” ‘ “We must be realistic to deal with a realistic situation,” Leader said. Ha explained his program calls for spending 200 million dollars in federal and state funds during a 46-week period for highway, school construc tion and other projects. No new funds are being pro vided, Leader emphasized. [ He said his program calls for speeding projects already plan- Ined, declaring: “Some can be advanced a few weeks—others as much as 15 months.” Leader told the Altoona con i ference that if the federal gov- I eminent and all states would [ accelerate projects in the same > way as Pennsylvania it would jNikita Wants Curbs on Arms LONDON (JP )—Nikita Khrush chev said Thursday night the So viet Union favors a disarmament system which provides for “rea sonable international control." He did not define what he regarded reasonable. The Soviet Communist party boss again rejected any separate consideration of President Eisen hower’s proposal that outer space be used only for peaceful pur poses. In a letter publish, d in the Leftist British weekly News Statesman, Khrushchev claimed the Eisenhower plan was designed to isolate the question of the in tercontinental ballistic missile. He said the Soviet Union possesses the ICBM but the United States does not page three mean that thousands of th« un. employed would go back to work. “I do not mean this as ’make work program’,” the governor de clared, adding: “The states and the federal gov ernment just should advance the starting dates for projects which already are laid out.” Unemployment Still High Harrisburg i/P) Unemploy ment compensation claims are continuing on a high level in Pennsylvania despite a five per cent decrease last week. The Bureau of Employment Security reported Thursday it paid 330.473 claims to jobless Pennsylvanians during the week ended March 7. a decrease of 17.834 compared to the pre vious week. Farm Price Cuts Axed by Senate WASHINGTON .'/Pl—ln a slap at Eisenhower administration I farm policies, the Senate voted 50- 43 Thursday against allowing cuts in farm price supports this year. Then by the same margin ft re fused to pass a second bill freez ing supports for dairy products alone. This measure was rejected 50-43. The first bill, which now goes to the House, would freeze federal supports under most major faJm products and crops, including dairy products, at no less than last year’s levels. Eleven Republicans joined 33 Democrats, to pass the measure. Opposing it were 35 Republicans and 8 Democrats. Secretary of Agriculture Ben son, who already has announced plans for cutting 1958 supports on wheat and dairy products, told a news conference before the Sen ate voted that President Eisen hower would vote the measure if it ever reached him. Pechan First Candidate To Join Stasssn Battle PHILADELPHIA (JP) —State Sen. Albert Pechan today became the first announced candidate to join Harold A. Stassen’s battle against the state Republican or ganization for nomination as GOP candidate for governor. Stassen confirmed that Pechan will be a candidate for Secretary of Internal Affairs on his ticket.
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