PAGE FOUR GOP Elects Dirksen; Filibuster Fight Begins WASHINGTON (/P)—Senate Republicans settled their differences yesterday by electing Seri Everett Dirksen of Illinois as party floor leader and Sen. Thomas Kuchel of California as his assistant. Dirksen, choice of the old-timers and once an ardent supporter of the 1 late Sen. Robert A. Taft, defeated Sen .John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky, the candidate of rcbel -1 met OOP members, by a 20-14 seciet ballot. A swine by in-betweencrs then put Kuehe), a liberal candidate, m the post of whip, or assistant leader Here, too, the vote was 20-11 Kuchel defeated Sen. Karl Mundt of South Dakota, whose name was put up by conserva tives irritated at the insurgents for challenging the elevation of Dirksen from his present job as whip. Republicans generally pro nounced themselves satisfied with the outcome These included Pres ident Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon, neither of whom had a vote in the oartv caucus. The liberals, who had been auarlerbacked by Sen. George D. Aiken of Vermont in their rebellion against conservative control of the leadership, at tained one of their main objec tives. This was to get a representative on the group that meets weekly with Eisenhower to discuss legis lative matters pending or to be presented to Congress. Sfafe Finances— (Continued from page one) move as an attempt at “strangle hold contiol” of the upper branch The House adjourned until Jan. 19. The Senate will not meet again until Jan. 20—the day Gov.-elect Lawrence is in augurated. House Speaker H. G Andrews temaiked that Johnson should have looked “into the future in stead of the past ” 254 Algerian Rebels Died ALGIERS (/P) —French authori ties said Wednesday night 254 tebels have been killed in three separate actions in Algeria. They gave no figures on French losses, but said the fighting was still go ing on. Quemoy Shell , Biggest Duel i TAIPEI Formosa (/P)—-Red China’s gunners shelled civ ilian centers of the Quemoys yesterday in what Peiping called a retaliatory action. This led to the offshore war’s biggest artilleiy duel in two months. Nationalist batteries hit back vigorously. Nationalist authorities said 1 many Soviet-made incendiaries were loosed by the Reds on ham lets and towns in a four-hour, 50-minute barrage that totaled more than 33,000 shells. t The official Central News Agency made no immediate es- j limale of the casualties. , The Military Information Serv ice reported the Nationalists coun-! terfire hit many Communist gun| positions and blew up several ammunition dumps. j A Peiping broadcast said the ' > Your HONEYMOON ; Must Be PERFECT! , First ol all, privacy In a secluded cottage deep in wooded hills: then the happy companionship ol others starting life together, folly mealtimes at an old time guest house, with easy-going leisure or vigorous out* door life. 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Both Mikoyan and Cyrus Eaton, millionaire industrialist who is host to the deputy premier for his Cleveland visit, voiced a hope .Congress would lift barriers to trade between the United States and the Soviet Union. Ealon introduced Mikoyan, whose talk was translated by an interpreter a mouthful at a time. Eaton said “mutually profitable commerce would be a further and broader path to friendship” but that present restrictive legislation “poses a serious barrier.” This was the first slop on Mi koyan's swing from Washington ! across the country on a "peace and friendship" tour. It produced noisy demonstra tions of protest from Iron Curtain nationality groups. Mikoyan ig nored the shouts and signs, kept smiling and repeated a doffed-hat greeting to the crowds. “When I return, I will tell the people of the feelings expressed here by Cyrus Eaton and others,” Mikoyan said. “I will speak of the words spoken here which indicate the hope of a peaceful coexis tence,” ing Resumes ; in 2 Months Reds had dealt appropriate pun ishment for what it called an indiscriminate bombard me n 1 "which caused heavy casualties to inhabitants" of Shantou vil lage, Tateng Island, Saturday. The Nationalists denounced the accusation as a lie. EATHUIKT GULF SERVICE EMM OPEN HOOKS We Giro S&H Green Stamp, THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA .ed, the first skirmish in the long-heralded fight began shortly after the Senate opened its new session. But after some heated parliamentary maneuvering, the struggle was suspended until Thursday. Northern and Western senators, Republicans and Democrats alike, were bent on blunting the filibus ter weapon used so effectively by Southerners against civil rights legislation in the past. The present Senate rule re quires the votes of at least 68 senators—two-thirds of the en tire Senate—to shut off a fili buster. Johnson’s plan would permit such a debate limit to be voted by two-thirds of the senators pre sent and voting. The Johnson pro posal has the backing of top Re publican and Democratic chiefs. Leaders of the antifilibuster bloc contend this is little better than the present rule. Some of them want an arrangement under which a majority could invoke a debate limit Basic lo the issue is whether the Senate is a continuing body with its rules carrying over. Antifilibuster senators got a lift at the outset when Vice President Richard M. Nixon, presiding over the chamber, gave his opinion that the Senate has a right to adopt new rules by a majority vote. Soviet Rocket Begins to Orbit MOSCOW (/P) Soviet author ities reckoned Wednesday night that the cosmic rocket Mechta has swung into orbit around the sun and started edgirg up toward its top speed of about 12,000 miles an hour. They said the peak will come next Wednesday when the 1%- ton rocket reaches its nearest point to the sun—about 91% mil lion miles from it—on an egg shaped course as the solar sys tem’s first artificial planet, the news agency Tass reported. “At that moment it will reach its maximum speed of more than 32 kilometers—about 20 miles—a second,” Tass said. By Soviet reckoning, the rocket has passed a point 621,000 miles on a direct line from the earth in its five-day flight. "Dear, do you suppose we could dine out tonight I broke the can opener!" 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