WEDNESDAY.
PRIL 22, 1959
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(lP)—Communist China will join the Soviet
en European Communist nations next week in
iscuss world Communist objectives for the
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l ers conference in Geneva.
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The committee recommended
that contempt action be started
against Louis Fabrizio, owner of
the Knox Coal Co , and Robert
Dougherty, former Knox presi
dent.
The Supreme Court has been
asked by Fabrizio to reverse a
Dauphin County Court ruling
which upheld the legality of the
committee.
The mine owner contended the
committee was not established by
Under the state constitution, the
two men could be imprisoned for
contempt of the Legislature if they
were called before the entire Sen
ate membership and refused to
answer questions without plead
ing sth Amendment immunity.
Snork Completes Flight
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. M
A Snark intercontinenal guided
missile logged an apparently high
ly successful round trip yesterday
after being fired by a crack mili
tary crew.
The fiery launching was one of
the final tune-ups for the 69-foot
Northrop missile that is expected
to be assigned to combat troops
within the next two months.
Income Drop Predicted for Farmers
WASHINGTON (/1 3 )—A Imo s t
all the business indicators went
up in March, but there is depres
sing news for the nation's farm
trs.
The Agri culture Department
said yesterday farmers' realized
net income this year probably will
be down about a billion dollars,
or nearly 8 per cent. Realized net
income is the amount left after
paying production costs.
A report on the farm income
situation forecast - earnings at
about $12,100,000,000 compared
with $13,100,000,000 last year.
This prospective decline is based
on a lower level of farm product
prices expected to continue
through the year n e da sharp
re
duction in govern nt payments.
The forecast c me at a time
when government economists
had been predicting higher in
come for the nation as a whole
This year. It is likely to stir up
new demands in Congress that
something be done to improvt
The agricultural outlook.
The Commerce Department sa.
ina separate report that the ni
Lion's total output reached a n
cord rate of 465 b Ilion , dollars
year in the first qbarter of 195!
It rose at a rate which, if co?
tinued, could carr
lion or beyond in t
period.
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mate,
"A rise in corporate profits
indicated by the increased sab
in most lines of buSiness," the di
partment said. PrOfit figures b
agency Tass failed to make clear
whether the Communist Chinese
will be present with the Warsaw
Pact nations as an observer, or
as a full participant.
The meeting is called for April
27, two days in advance of a
Western strategy meeting in Paris
to examine positions with relation
to the May 11 conference in Ge
, neva.
The Tess announcement said
the Warsaw Pact meeting "will
review questions connected
with the coming Geneva talks
concerning Germany, including
a peace treaty with Germany
and the question of abolishing
the occupation regime in West
ern Berlin?'
Whether Communist China is
present as full participant or ob
server, its attendance indicates
an intention to present a solid
Communist world front to defend
and advance Soviet positions in
Europe.
The communique's wording in
dicated the red bloc hopes to re
strict the Geneva foreign minis
ter's conference to discussion of
the twin Soviet demands--a pro
posal to make West Berlin a "free
city" without occupation forces,
and an insistence that the two
sides in the cold war sign peace
treaties with both West and Com
munist East Germany.
The Warsaw Pact is a mili
tary alliance of the Soviet Un
ion with the Communist -gov
erned states of Poland, Czecho
slovakia, Hu n gary, Bulgaria,
Romania, Albania and East
Germany.
The pact came into being in
1955 as a Communist response to
the West's moves to rearm West
ern Germany.
Walker Paper Published
A paper on a code for the aca
demic profession by President
Eric A. Walker was published in
the March issue of "Liberal Edu
cation" —a report on the pro
ceedings of the 45th annual meet
ing of the Association of Ameri
can Colleges.
the first quarter have not yet been economists expect profits to
compiled. exceed all previous highs this
Profits rose steeply through- year.
out 1958—from a rate of $3l,- The consumer price index for
700,000,000 in the first quarter. March is due Wednesday. It is not
at the depth of the recession, expected to show much shift from
to $45,200.000,000 in the final the February level, 123.7 per cent
quarter. Most government !of the 1947-49 average.
it to 475 b
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Kennedy Bill
Provisions
Unapproved
WASHINGTON M—The Sen
ate rejected efforts to strip the
proposed Taft-Hartley Act changes
from the Kennedy labor bill yes
' terday.
Then it turned back an effort
to write in Taft-Hartley changes
sought by the Eisenhower admin
istration.
On the first floor test, an amend
ment of Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr.,
(D.-N C.) to eliminate all the!
Taft-Hartley provisions was beat
en 67-27. Most of these provisions
long have been sought by labor.
Two hours later, the Senate
turned down a proposal of Senate
Republican Leader Everett M.
IDirksen of Illinois to substitute
the Eisenhower administration's
!Taft-Hartley proposals for those
in the Kennedy measure. The vote
on this was 67-24.
The chief effect of this substi
tute would have been to add to
the Kennedy measure two Taft-
Hartley changes which the admin
istration contends are needed in
any effective regulation bill.
These would have banned all
secondary boycotts and sharply
limited organizational picketing.
Castro May Reject
Cuban Presidency
NEW YORK UP)—Cuban Prime
Minister Fidel Castro said yester
day he may not seek the presi
dency when free elections finally
are held in his island republic.
He added that when that day will
come he doesn't know.
Castro told newsmen his new
government might set a date for
elections next month. But when
they actually would be held is
another matter. In Washington,
he had said it might be four years
before h's people are ready for
free elections.
"The sooner free elections, the
best for us," he declared. But
Castro explained that Cuba's
political parties are badly dis
organized and time is needed to
form new ones.
Asked whether he would seek
the presidency, Castro replied: "I
have no thoughts on that at pres
ent for I am working."
Tax Plan Approved
By House Committee
HARRISBURG (iP)—The House Ways and Means Commit
tee yesterday approved in one lump the administration's com
plete tax program. Rep. Stephen McCann, Democratic floor
leader, set next Wednesday for a new tax showdown.
At the same time, McCann predicted the Democratic
majority would pass next Tues
day the two Korean bonus bills,
including re-enactment ,of the 1955
flood emergency provision and a
one-cent cigarette tax put into
the bill by the Republican-con
trolled Senate.
House Democrats we enjoying
the discomfiture of House Repub
licans over the Senate action on
the cigarette tax. Originally, the
re-enactment of that tax was
scheduled for action in a separate
House bill.
Instead, the House passed the
Korean bonus legislation to levy
an additional one-cent tax to
pay the $l5O million bonus.
The Senate Finance Committee,
headed by Sen. Edward J. Kess
ler (11-Lancaster), not only ap
proved the bonus tax but also
amended the legislation to re
enact the emergency tax.
The amended bills sailed
through the Senate without
comment.
When they came back to the
House, however, where the GOP
is in the minority, the Republicans
raised objection to re-enactment
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The cigarette tax re-enactment
was not included in the package
sent to the floor by the Ways and
Means Committee yesterday. The
package included:
a A cent-a-bottle soft drink tax
•Taxing underground storage
of gas at the monthly rate of 1-12
of 1 per cent per 1000 cubic feet.
•Imposition of a 25 per cent tax
on tobacco products—cigarettes
excluded—and dropping the sales
tax on tobacco products.
Red Chinese Communes
Will Need Tax Relief
TOKYO (P)—Red China dis
closed yesterday its peasant com
munes are in trouble and will
need both a subsidy and tax re
lief to bail them out.
By order of Mao Tze-tung and
the Communist Party Central
Committee, a subsidy of a billion
yuan will be used for pump-rnim
ing in communes and production
brigades which are lagging.
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