SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 7958
Defense Against Missiles
Now Seems Feasible' .
WASHLNGTON VP) Thelicies and
. public education were
other subjects before Defense Department's director the editors.
of guided missiles, William M. retary of defense in charge assistant
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Holaday, said Friday a defense
against intercontinental mis- pression made Thursday by Re p p:
siles now seems feasible. Houseass (D-Calif), chairman subcommittee.
fa
. Work on such a defense is "be- Snyder was challenged in turn
rig pushed to the extreme limits by J. R. Wiggins, executive edi
of technology," H i laday told, the for of the Washington Post who
American Society of Newspaper said Moss was guided by "the
Editors.
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at their annual
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Defense Depart
Court Drops
Indict ent
On Pound
WASHINGTON, (IP)—Poet Ezra
Pound soon will leave the mental
hospital which has been his prison
for 12 years.
A treason indictment accusing
Found, 72, of betraying this coun
try with pro-Axls, anti-American
radio broadcasts from Italy dur
ing World War II was dismissed
Friday in U.S. District Court.
With the indictment out of the
way, only a few details remain
before Pound can leave St. Eli
sabeth's Hospital, where he has
been confined since he was ad
judged mentally incompetent in
1946.
For one thing, his wife, Dorothy
Shakespear Pound, must file a
plan for his care. The Pounds
hope to get passports to return
to Italy where they lived for 21
years before he was arrested by
American troops in 1945.
Mrs. Pound told friends her
husband probably will remain at
St. Elizabeth's a few more days.
"I've got to have time to turn
around," she commented.
Chief Judge Bolitha J. Laws
dismissed the indictment on the
ground that Pound is not and
never will be mentally compe
tent to stand trial. At the same
time it was held that he would
not be dangerous to himself or
others if set free.
The court proceeding lasted on
ly about 10 minutes.
The bearded Pound was brought
to the hearing by a hospital at
tendant. He sat among the spec
tators and listened with bowed)
head. Before the hearing started
he chatted animatedly with
friends and admirers who stopped
by to greet him.
Asked if he wanted to return to 1
Italy he replied with a vigorous:
"Yes."
Artist From Pitt
To Talk Today
Bruce Mitchell, newly-appoint
ed artist-in-residence at the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh, will speak
to students at 3 p.m. Saturday in
the Hetzel Union Building.
Mitchell will give his speech in
connection with an exhibition of
his jazz drawings which will be
in the HUB from today until Wed
nesday.
The exhibition, under the aus
pices of the School of the Arts,
will open at 2 p.m. Tea will be
served at 4 p.m.
Mitchell, known as "The Artist
Impressario of Jazz" has written
and illustrated jazz articles - for
Esquire magazine and has also de
signed covers for Dial and Debut
record albums.
APhiO to Hold Meeting
For Officers' Election
Alpha Phi Omega, men's na
tional service fraternity, will hold
a brothers' meeting for the elec
tion of officers at 8 p.m. Monday
in 217-218 Hetzel Union.
There will be a pledge meeting
at 8 p.m. Monday in 212-213 Het
ael Union.
most sincere desire to obtain a
better flow of information on
the government."
Snyder defended news arrange
ments at the Cape Canaveral,
Fla., Missile Test Center in good
faith between government and
;the information media."
Indonesians Close In
On Rebel Forces
JAKARTA, Indonesia VP) Government forces drove
Friday toward Bukittinggi, capital and last stronghold of the
tottering rebel regime on Sumatra, a military spokesman said.
"It will all be over soon," he predicted.
He refused to say how far the troops had advanced on
Bukittinggi. The town lies 581
miles by twisting mountain road
and 40 miles by air north of Pa
dang, the rebel port the govern
ment said its forces seized Thurs
day.
Rebel Premier Sjafruddin
Prawiranegara and his govern- t
ment of yours Indonesian col
onels apparently must soon
make the hard decision of
whether to stand and fight or
flee to the jungles,
Other government columns op
erating for weeks in eastern and
northern Sumatra are moving on
the rebel capital along all the
other roads from north, east and
south.
Rebels reports reaching Sing
apore asserted there still was
some street fighting in Padang
up to noon Friday and that
rebel forces still held positions
five miles south of the port.
But a delayed dispatch from
Associated Press Correspondent
Murray Fromson at Bukittinggi
said a Sumatran military spokes
man there had announced the loss
of Padang. The spokesman said
it was , occupied at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday by two Jakarta battal
ions.
Economists Reject
Big Steel Merger
NEW YORK (JP) Two gov
ernment economists testified Fri
day that the growth of the steel'
industry over the past 20 years
has been largely a case of the
big getting bigger.
They opposed the proposed
three billion-dollar merger of
Bethlehem Steel Corp. and
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co.,
the nation's second and sixth
largest steel makers respectively.
The government charges th e
merger would lessen competition,
and is trying to block it with an
lanti-trust action in federal court.
Teamsters' Fund Search
Begun by Court Monitors
WASHINGTON (P)—The court
appointed monitors of the Team
sters Union have started a hunt
for any funds missing from the
union's 40-million-dollar treasury.
It was learned Friday the moni
tors have hired the private audit
ing firm of Price Waterhouse &
Company to make a thorough
checkup.
The firm is expected to com
plete a preliminary audit within
the next few weeks, ahead of a
Teamsters Union Executive Board
meeting sometime in May.
The monitors, keeping a close
watch on disclosures being made
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Wiggins. a veteran ASNE foe
of news suppression, said a
temporary agreement at Cape
Canaveral which followed the
widely publicized failure of a
Vanguard launching attempt
last December amounted to "a
code of voluntary wartime cen
sorship entered into in secret."
The Washington editor said this
arrangement, which lasted two
weeks, violated two principles
established under World War II
censorship: 1. that any arrange
ments between government and
press should be made known to
the people, and 2. that restric
tions on reporters should be Inn
lited to matters of secrecy and not
!matters of policy.
Two Papers
Appeal To
U.S. Court
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Two
Pennsylvania newspapers sought
from the U.S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals Friday a decision which in
effect would void a contempt con
viction against them for taking
pictures outside a courtroom.
Counsel for the Greensburg Tri
bune Review and the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette asked an injunction
restraining the sheriff of West
moreland County—Howard Bud
Thomas—from enforcing any part
of the contempt order and from
interfering with photographers in
the future.
On April 12, 1955, the West
moreland County Court convicted
six newspapermen and a free
lance photographer of direct crim
inal contempt and sentenced each
to pay a fine and costs and to
serve time in jail. In October,
1956, the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court affirmed the conviction but
fixed the penalty at fines only,
erasing the original prison sen
tences.
The case then was taken to the
federal court in Pittsburgh, in the
avowed belief that a federal court
would have jurisdiction because
civil rights were involved. In Au
gust, 1957, Judge Wallace F. Gour
ley ruled that courts have the
right to deny the taking of pic
tures in or near the courtrooms.
The test f of such a ban en the
taking of news photographs with
concealed dameras rose out of the
195 t murdir trial in Greensburg
of John Wesley Wable. "phantom
killer of the turnpike."
before the Senate Rackets Investi
gating Committee, plan further
outside audits into local and other
Teamsters, branches later. It is re
ported, for example, the monitors
are watching the committee's cur
rent Philadelphia Teamsters hear
ing closely.
The allegations of corruption
and misuse of funds turned up by
the Rackets Committee have
mainly' concerned Teamsters lo
cals and other subordinate bran
ches. The Senate committee head
ed by Senator McClellan (D-Ark.)
has not yet concentrated on the
Teamsters national treasury.
Federal Deficit Enlarges;
Care Urged in Tax Cut
WASHINGTON (k')—Secretary of the Treasury Robert
B. Anderson, standing firm against any quick tax cut, said
Friday the federal deficit will be well over three billion
dollars when the present fiscal year ends June 30.
This compares with President Dwight D. Eisenhower's
estimate of 400 million in Jan
uary, before the pinch of the re
cession was felt.
On other sections of the eco
nomic front
•The House Ways and Means
Committee approved a IU-bil
lion-dollar unemployment relief
program to be financed wholly by
the federal go'
ernment. Criti
protested that
would be a dol
•The Pres
dent's Council
Economic Advi
ers reported tl
gross nation,
product - the va
ue of all goo(
and services pro
duced in th
country -- drol
O p o e o d ,oo b o y d u sB r ,6 i 9 n o, g -
Robert B. Anderson
the first quarter of 1958, when
figured on an annual rate basis.
•Anderson told the American
Society of American Editors, "We
are not headed for a depression,
but for new horizons of progress."
•The New York stock market
perked up, apparently encouraged
by the government's latest moves
to make money ,easier to borrow.
In his ASNE address, Anderson
predicted a deficit approaching
four billion dollars next fiscal
year even if federal revenues re
main at a high level, something
he said was not likely to happen.
Eisenhower in January estimated
a 500-million-dollar surplus next
year.
The Treasury chief reiterated
his opposition to an abrupt tax
slash. The tax situation is receiv
ing daily consideration from gov
ernment officials, he said, but
added:
"Modification of taxes in an
economy as complex as ours . . .
must be based on a very careful
review of what in fact can be
accomplished and not on the
theory that a single dramatic ac
tion will automatically be all that
is required to assure business re
covery."
Anderson's position , on taxes
was supported to some extent by
a Harvard University economist,
Sumner H. Slichter, who present
ed his views to the-Senate Finance
Committee.
Slichter said he would not favor
a general tax cut but only a tem
porary reduction in or suspension
of the 10 per cent excise levy on
,automobiles.
Frosh to Crown
Queen Tonight
The Sweetheart of the fresh
man class will be. crowned in a
garden setting tonight at the
freshman class dance. "April in
Blue." The dance will be held
from 9 to midnight in the Hetzel
Union ballroom.
She will be chosen by ballot by
those attending the dance. Nomi
nees are three freshman coeds:
Margaret McPherson. Judith Tif
enberg and Barbara Green.
Local merchants will donate
gifts for the Sweetheart. Among
the gifts is a shampoo, cut, and
set from a local beauty shop.
Candidates State
Views on Taxes
Republican voters in Pennsyl
vania were given a look at their
gubernatorial candidates views on
taxes Friday.
Arthur T. McGonigle, the or
ganization choice, said he would
never promise to reduce taxes
because "I would rather lose the
election than make promises I
couldn't keep as governor."
Harold E. Stassen, independent
Republican candidate, pledged to
cut the state's 6 per cent corporate
net income tax to the level of that
in Ohio and California. "Present
taxes are much too heavy on
manufacturing and industry." he
said.
Relief Bill
Favored By
Four Dems
WASHINGTON (W) Four
Democratic congressmen from
Pennsylvania said Friday they fa
vor a bill extending unemploy
ment compensation benefits and
are puzzled by Arthur T. Mc-
Gonigle's position on the matter.
The four, Reps. Morgan, Dent,
Holland and Clark, said in a let
ter to the Pennsylvania Repub
lican organization that the guber
natorial candidate has asked Con
gress not to extend the compen
sation payments.
The congressmen were reply
ing to a telegram from McGoni
gle to Pennsylvania's congres
sional delegation asking their
support for the extension.
The letter to McGonigle said
his telegram "seems as twisted to
us as a pretzel" since the Demo
crats were supporting extension
legislation "long before you be
came a candidate."
McGonigle in private life is a
pretzel manufacturer.
The letter identified the Nation
al Association of Manufacturers
as McGonigle's political Godfath
er and said the NAM and Rep.
Simpson (R-Pa), also a McGoni
gle supporter, opposed extension.
"You further confuse us,"
the congressmen said in ,their
letter "by sending this tele
gram almost immediately after
saying on television that you
are proud to be a member of
the Pennsylvania Manufactur
ers Association and that you
endorse its principles.
"We remeber that the Penn
sylvania Manufacturers Assn. did
everything in its power in 1955,
to prevent passage of the best un
employment compensation bill
Pennsylvania ever had."
USW Election Questioned
PITTSBURGH UP)—Donald C.
Rarick, who sought election as
president of the Unite d Steel
workers last year, took legal ac
tion Friday to obtain a detailed
tabulation of the election's ballot
ing results.
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