THURSDAY. DECEMi Eurof Take LONDON (/P) A great tempest overwhelmed two ships yesterday and brought the 5-day West European death toll to 109. Seafarers called it Europe’s worst storm in 23 years. WASHINGTON t/P) Merck & A Norwegian freighter with 20 men abroad sank off the, Co. Inc., one of the nation’s big ■ - south coast of Norway. :gest drug houses, charges $l7O for _ . The crewmen of a small Ger-the same quantity of an anti- Transit Strike man vessel apparently were|arthritic remedy sold by a Mexi ■ * feriiiivw dashed overboard in the same|can firm for $i3.61, a Senate m f fY«,, | f azea, leaving their ship driftmg| V estigator said yesterday. In rmsourah i and deserted - ! John I Con nor, Merck’s presi " * w Mountainous seas threatenedjdent, promptly accused the Sen r j. I n scores of ships fighting for sur-; a te Antitrust and Monopoly Cont tnt&fS Jfo UaV vival in w aters along the coasts.imittee of dealing m myths. He ¥ Worst of the disasters was the challenged the probers to summon PITTSBURGH (,P) Govern-, loss of the 1719-ton Norwegian |doctors and to ask them why thev ment mediatory said yesterday, freighter Elfrida. She capsized I prefer the Merck product to some they probably will call a joint ne-i near Lisia Lighthouse off the ! lower-pi iced diugs. gotiations session today in the! south coast of Norway. All of i The clash came after Connor Pittsburgh Railways Co. strike. ' her crew of 20 were believed ! had read a statement saying About 1700 trolley and bus op-| 1° have perished. I that Merck, of Rahway, N.J., erators struck Tuesday in a con-! As their troubles mounted they, had willing,slashed the price of tract dispute revolving ab o u tiradioed: “We are going ' down. cortisone from S2OO io $2O a wages, depriving some 115,000 j Thanks foi all assistance. We have gram within three years after riders of their regular transporta- launched our starboard lifeboat 1 developing it in 1945. tion. will try to leave the ship.”j The cortisone price reductions The trolley firm yesterday filed, Other vessels laboring in the did not come about from any charges of unfair labor practice!storm rushed to the scene. The;p ressure b v other drug houses, against the union. The charge was motorship Buffalo of Oslo found Connor said but were m line with filed with the National Labor Re-six bodies ! a Merck pol ' )cv t 0 make the late- Jations Boaid in Pittsburgh. t Ssvsn oiii©r m©n w©r© lost on Ityiodicinp svailriVil# l in tlm niihl C. D. Palmer president of the' fhe 995-ton German ship Mer- l as q uit . k j v a nd as cheaply as po: transit firm, said the union seeks} Kur m the same area. Crewmen to. use the strike “lather than; from the British trawler Ben- f Tnhn FUatr cnhfnmmitiA rhi, legal methods to enforce its in-: eUaboarded Jhe wallowing i ec oSomi® whose hav lerpretation of the pension con-; Merkur but found no one. The bcen challenged before, then pn tr; ' c '- r . | scrambled off the eerie duced furthel . evidence. He said The company and union have; ship- . 1 showed the Svntex Co of Mexii been deadlocked over the pension! Off the coasts of Britain, 23; Cltv was clearin? a proflt sellil . issue for moie than a year. The, sea men have lost their lives m; Prednis an a £ t iarthritis dru pension question, however, is not the last few days. . f „ t . nf tot involved in the contract talks Capt. John Vuona finally aban- ! f‘ h f;?' C 1 fol each bottle of 10( which touched off the strike. doned the 1045-ton Finnish: Blair said Merck charged thi Soviet Agency to Meet MOSCOW (fP) The Central Commit iee of the Soviet Commu nist party will meet Dec. 22 to discuss methods of increasing meat, grain and other food. Castro-Jailed American Escapes with One Cuban PINAR DEL PIO, Cuba (/P)]the hunt, urging them to “respect -Frank Austin’ Young ofs S'i'. 1 " ’ n<l Miami, sentenced Tuesday to' In Miami. Young's wife said . ! she did not know her husband SO years imprisonment, es-. wou ld try to escape. caped from military prison atl “I don’t know whether it’s good tv j i -D- * ji or bad —I’m afraid now that thev Pmar del Rio army bead- j might burt him in trying to catch quarters early yesterday. Troops! him,” she said. “I suppose he and civilians joined in the search I figured he would take his chances for him. iagainst being killed rather than Cmdr. Jose Argiba, head of the jspend 30 years in prison.’’ 6th Military District, said Younj» I Mrs. Young works as a wait -38. and Cuban prisoner Sergio jress to support the couple’s three Hernandez Reyes escaped by! children breaking a hole in their cell. It is believed they headed for nearby mountains—where ele ments opposed to Prime Minis ter Ridel Castro are reported active—preparatory to leaving Cuba. Reyes was seized as a member of an anti-Castro group and was to .be tried tomorrow on counter revolutionary charges. Army detachments were or dered into the surrounding area with orders to act Argiba asked civilians to join in Hmc WORWofFUN! sit MOW 43-65 I $9BB Mon? tow intlwh -tamdit fits. 'ow-sMt *Up» lo Mnits 4109 up, Soutfi Ar*wita44» op. Hawaii Studflow 43« w «a| irn tn. »*" ~ Vow VroTtl Aaont ■ SPJBA M lutelillti Urn mm mum. ***** ER 10. 1959 ean Storm \ 109 Lives freighter Anna ! Aberdeenshire. Coast guards took ithe other 17 crew members off by j breeches buoy Tuesday, but the 162-year-old captain refused to [leave the ship he had skippered Tor 24 years. ] rmt THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA hard aground off It'* fosy to Select Your Christmas Gifts. *v££e^ See our complete selection of women’s acces sories. Scarves, belts, purses, hosiery and jewelry. Juliet t^oom Senators Hit Drug Firm s High Prices druggists $l7O for Ihis quaniil' of Prednisone and that fhe rat lo patients was $283.33. Connor attacked the validity of Blair's reckoning. Among other .things, the Meick president said the $l3 61 figure represented only an assumed price to a mythical company. Eden Writes Memoirs LONDON I7P) Former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden is writing his memoirs back to front. He now is working on a volume covering the years 1951 to 1957, and including the Suez disaster before his retirement. Later -he will write about events going back to the 30’s. SAVE UP TO 50% DANCE PROGRAMS Personalized-matches, napkins Commercial Printing 352 E. College Am. AD 8-6794 Indians See Ike as Vishnu | NEW DELHI, India (/P) — j of Vishnu—to destioy the world 'Tr.riinr, i„,, „„ by a meie wish but like Vishnu dndian villages yesterday ac-| ntver USPd lt and , nstcad kppt lt President Eisenhoweri as fi final trump card against evil. as a reincarnation of Vishnu i Secondly, like Vishnu, he was 'protector in the Hindu trinity!! 8 ? nel “‘ or - „ . , ! . J I Did he not send us wheat iAnd perhaps as a yogi like Pumei when we needed it and build Minister !Nchru f who does head-; us dams?" she asked, stands. ! A a oss section of views from Her i ' allul >' clustering around | simple country folk showed they hcr 111 a bll!l °ck cart nodded as ,all considered the visitor Vishmi sent and her daughter Shantu reborn. added. “Does not this avatar also "Do you think we were fools to smi!e llke Vishnu—a divine, radi iravel from 10 to 100 miles to see : a, V smile? j anyone but Vishnu ka avatar," said Kanhi a 70-year-old woman : from Mehrauli village 10 miles 1 1. § - south of Delhi. Like many Hin- 8H & I dus, Kanihi has only one name, if 4? Hearing that this avatar-rein- g g .cartnanon was coming she sum- 1 *? *4 j__ « £YC,, <5 [moned her daughter and grand- V JlUGcfl! V|tf g I children from Ramzila village 100'S r , , 5 itR. «. reasons ,„| *•»■« H | ,considering Eisenhower the ava-'S DaVC IH R, itar of Vishnu p I/O|J g 1 First. 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