8. 1958 THURSDAY. MAY , Senat Of $39,000 Fund. Theft WASHINGTON (. —Senate investigators heard yester day that a missing witness stole some $39,000 from the New York State Federation of Labor. The testimony came as a witness who had agreed to appear, Sidney Lewis of New York, dropped dead in the committee headquarters a few hours before his scheduled ap pearance. Joint Committee Agrees on Hike In Military Pay WASHINGTON (Al A mili tary pay raise bill designed to make a career in the armed serv ices more attractive was agreed on yesterday by a Senate-House Conference Committee. The first year cost of the pay, boosts, ranging from six per cent! to as high as 60 per cent, was placed at $576.4 million. Virtually( all military personnel with two; years or more of 'service would: benefit. The final draft of the legisla tion—passed by the Senate and the House in different forms—is in line with President Eisenhow er's recommendations for pay raises to keep and attract trained manpow s er in the larmed forces. The conferees accepted the new jay scales provided in the Senate bill. These generally were less generous than those in the House bill, which would , have cost s6B3i million the first year. The only major change in the Senate bill would permit an in crease in retirement benefits for three and four star generals al ready in retirement. The cost of this was estimated at $4OO thou sand. The measure now goes back to the House and then to the Senate for final action. If passed and then signed by Eisenhower this Month, the new pay scales would go into effect June I. Explorers eport Stars Don't winkle MINNEAPOLIS J P) Tw o space explorers, a seasoned bal loonist and the first astronomer to observe the heavens from the stratosphere, said yesterday, they found the stars don't twinkle when observed from about 40,000 feet over the earth. Navy Cmdr. Malcolin D. Ross i and Alfred H. Mikesell smiled] through beard stubble as they. reported their experimental bal loon flight very successful. The two were weary and hun gry after being flown here from Dubuque, lowa, near where their balloon came down in a clover field yesterday morning. The ascent provided the first test of techniques that some day will be used to record men's physical reactions•in an orbiting satellite. Heartbeats, respiration and other physical data were re corded by radio and transmitted Witness Accused Lewis, who was in the pub lishing business, was..the fourth I prospective witness to die be fore he could testify before the Senate Rackets Committees. The hearing went into alleged high-pressure sale of advertising for union publications, and three witnesses said the missing figure in the case, Benjamin Lapen sohn, held out more than 5167 thousand from the federation in such. sales. Committee aides Robert E.I Dunne and Charles E. Wolfe. add-! ed, however, that Lapensohn was! entitled to 75 per cent of his gross sales and so the net theft wasi something over $39 thousand. 1 Eleanor Lekowitz, who used to manage Lapensohn's New York office, said federation funds had a way of vanishing from the office safe while she was at lunch. Asked if it was Lapensohn who took them, the slender brunette witness replied, "It had to be." !Lapensohn, who has left the country and been unavailable to committee investigators, had a contract as head of Rolee Publi cations in New York to solicit ads and contributions for the yearly !New York Federationist, which he published for the union group. Robert F. Kennedy. chief • committee counsel, told news -1 men there was no connection between Lapensohn and Lewis, except that some of Lewis em ployes had worked for Lapen sohn. Another witness, Ruben H. Mil ner, testified he made some 570001 a year on the side out of handling advertising for a Pennsylvania ,yearbook with a circulation of '6OO to 800 copies. 8 African Nations Set Up UN Group UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. liP)— Eight independent African na tions set up a new group in the United Nations yesterday. It is an outgrowth of the 8-nation confer ence in Accra, Ghana, last month. The nations are Ethiopia, Gha na, Liberia, Libya, Morocco, Su dan, Tunisia and the United Arab Republic. A spokesman said the confer ence was not convened to form an African bloc but rather to show Africa's readiness to cooperate with the rest of the world. 1,300 miles by telephone to a Navy medical research laboratory near Washington, D.C. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA U.S. Begins AEC Tests At Eniwetok WASHINGTON (IP) The 1958 nuclear tests at Eniwetok in the Pacific are under way. The Atomic Energy Commission yesterday tersely confirmed that an explosion was set off on April 28. This word from the AEC came after the test was revealed by Rep. Charles 0. Porter (D-Ore.) in a House speech. He returned Tuesday from the scene. The AEC would not confirm Porter's statement that the ex plosion was the first of 30 nu clear test explosions scheduled. Porter revealed the blast in a speech renewing his demand for an end to nuclear testing. He said he did not witness the test but his speech had been cleared by the AEC. Porter said he was not at liberty to disclose the nature of the April 28 experi ment. Porter urged that all such tests be halted or, he said, they will intensify the atomic arms race.l He said unauthorized or accidental explosions are inevitable. A radiation danger area of approximately 400,000 square miles in the Eniwetok and Bi kini area has been closed to shipping since mid-April as a prelude to the 1958 nuclear tests. The AEC and the Defense De partment announced o r i g i nally that the tests will be aimed at advancing development of wea pons for defense against airborne and missile attack by a potential ,enemy. Another purpose, they 'said, is to further the development of nuclear weapons with reduced fallout. On May 2, the Defense Depart ment said it soon would test short-range defense missiles with nuclear warheads. It said they would be launched from remote Johnston Island—roughly 1500 to 1700 miles northeast of Eniwetok. - For Top Ranking Military insignia —BALFOUR Just as so many other former Penn State mili tary men, you'll appreciate tho fine quality of our insignia. And they're available at very rea sonable prices! Buying fine qualify insignia means that you will save plenty of polishing lime. 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"We didn't come to any agree ment on anything," Secretary of Commerce Weeks told reporters after an hour-long meeting in the office of House Speaker Sam Ray burn (D-Tex). "We're right where we were when we started," Weeks said, adding: "We sent up a bill we believe in. I told them we sent up a bill on which the administration spent a lot of time, and we still want the bill." Republican House Leader Jo seph Martin of Massachusetts, who atte:icled the session, gave newsmen a slightly more concilia tory report. "The administration is standing on Its original bill," he said, "but it doesn't look like we can get the bill through. There might be a compromise, but we don't know?! The ways and means commit tee will resume consideration of the bill Monday a f ter giving Eisenhower a chance to come up upwith Rayburnhis own compromise. told reporters earlier he had advised Eisenhower 10 days ago there had to be some concessions. 00000000000000000000005 Phonograph Repair Bengus Music Service II t East Beaver Avenue Opposite the Poet Office, JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 233 East Beaver KS%le Mit PAGE THREE Fleming Chosen Welfare Secretary WASHINGTON (1?) Marion B. Folsom put an Aug. 1 deadline on his departure as secretary of welfare and President Eisenhower announced the choice of Arthur S. Flemming to succeed him. The shift had been anticipated. Only Tuesday, White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said Folsom had renewed a request that he be excused from further service as secretary. Flemming, 53, has spent virtu ally all his adult life as an edu cator and government official. He is now president of Ohio Wes leyan University. Folsom, who is 64, said in his letter of resignation that he is leaving for personal reasons that he did not specify.
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