PAGE MO Policemen Africans CAPE TOWN, South Africa (4'l Scores were injured by police clubs and gunfire yesterday as authorities cracked Convicts joined troops and do ,t•ii on Africans here. vilians yesterday in the tensel l'Olice declared they acted against Africans who were fight to hold back the waters oft trouble-makers or who refused to go to work. While the the dike -breaking Missouri and :Mississippi Rivers. authorities declined to give a full, The chief points of peril in the' account of what went on, it was Midwestern flood zone were along; clear that police had handed out 'the Missouri River in Missouri andi lough tteatment of all Negroes a 503-mile stretch of the Misses-I they found not working. ;sippi from lowa's southern bor-I The editor of a Liberal party der southward to Hannibal, Mo.; maga/me, Conac, said he saw The Red Cross estimated 30.140 1 police using ‘,Jiimboks -- whips ; persons have been affected by the' made of strips of rubber on floods—those forced to move or; Negioes a few blocks from the,whose homes have been damaged center of Cape Town. I —in eight states. The incidents took place in ' Of this total, a Red Cross Cape Town and its suburbs and spokesman said, 28,000 persons' in African townships on the out- s have been forced to abandon their ) skirts. At least 35 were report- homes. He predicted the number; ed wounded by gunfire. Official of homeless would Ilse to 40,000, reports were lacking, but hun- before the waters recede. dreds were clubbed by police Robert C Edson, director of, batons, according to the best P,ed Cross disaster services, said , available information. ;the agency would provide assist-' A noise at a hospital in the ance in repairing, refurnishing or' Nyanga Negro settlement said rebuilding homes to victims lack thole were so many victims of adequate resources of their beatings that she ran out of ban-:own. The estimate of damaged dages, homes rose to nearly 7000. "Police and army people seem' More than 300 convicts were ; to be beating up everbody," she i sent into the battle along the tees by telephone. Headquar-iMissouri River. Most of them were, tel of the Liberal party, an or-) assigned to sandbag-toting de- 1 ganization of whites and Negroes'taiis near Cedar City, Mo. About favoring conciliation between the , 4o inmates of the Algoa Reform laces, received a stream of re- , atory were put to work on the pouts on raids throughout the area.;Missouri shores near Hartsburg, One informant telephoned 1 All National Guard units in 34° that police had been beating up "almost every African they can Missouri were alerted to check on tr The Negro, like others who sup - see, and shooting at random." Irucks and other equipment for possible emergency use along the plied information on the day'si flood front. Lt. Gen. Emerson A. Itschner, events, insisted on not being iden-1 chief of the U S. Corps of Engi tified because of fear of reprisals. neers, flew from Washington to In reporting four Negroes 'St Louis to make an aerial sur wounded, the district commander' ' J. r Ney of the menacing Mississippi. of police at Athlone, Maj. T "I Meanwhile, President Eisenhow 'Rheeteer, said: ler designated flood-stricken re crowd of natives who had gath- " We were trying to disperse a dons of Nebraska as a major di lered in a threatening manner.,,,L" A.Hoegh. chief of the Officeaster area and announced that 'There was an incident and the' ',sergeant was forced to fire at ' of Civilian and Defense Mobiliza lclos range. Earlier police used ion will fly to the Midwest for their batons on many trouble conferences. 'makers and open intimidators in ;the location." The crackdown began in the ,early hours yesterday. C. J. Rein ecke, press relations officer in the 'government's Defense Depart pent, said army units moved in 'Cape Town to guard key points— ;road and rail junctions, oil storage points, docks and the houses of ;Parliament Wisconsin Primary To Open Today MILWAUKEE, Wt_; atm ap i ,rig to the pi c•sidencv d fu, niu.ly down to the fin k/, line ye-tei day in a blazing el, ct:on final, to Whcon,in' , , Domociatic primary campaign. The people pa.“ intim( nt today at the ballot boxes More than a Indium WHconsin recident; will vote hetv.cen 7 a m when the first poll, open and II p in. when the la,t clime. Thirty convention seats ale at stake in both Democratic and Republican primaries with a :list Democratic vote already al lotted to the National Committee member,.. In the closing days of the drive, teligion and records have become kev issues And, at the very end, so did a salient facet of foreign policy—a moratorium on nuclear to-,ts and support of the Eisen howiq administration on that gem e SOn. John F. Kennedy of Mas sachti.etts hit something of a hoadline jackpot on the test issue ith a wi then pledge to Presi dont Eisenhower to continue the administration policy should he bocome the next chief executive. Supporters of Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey tried hard to recoup. They snorted that Kennedy is showint a sudden, belated inter e,t m ch.;armament. as they con tend he ha' to a sound farm pro gr am It is Kennedy against Humphrev; in the first full-scale political bat-1 tle of a vital contest for the' chances of either to pick off thel Democratic presidential nomina- 1 turn at the convention in Los' Angeles next July Vice Pie.ident Richaid M Nix on h in the primary on the Re publican side, with no opposition. But he could come nut of the Pri mary with tainished prestige and a ieflection on his popularity if ho fails to show well in a state %Owl. e Th-publican rook ar e strong Committee Will Study Tax Support of Schools HARRISBURG (MI —A study committee on education yesterday was charged with the important coordinate task of devising tax ation to support Pennsylvania's public• schools "Your lob is to translate money into brain power," Gov. David L Lawrence told the first meeting of his committee and its staff. "Put simply, you are asked the what, the how and the where of education• what is the best pro gram of education, how much will it cost and where will be money to pay for "A mandate as broad as this makes this both an educational and a tax study committee," the governor said. LOBSTER HOUSE LOBSTER NEWBURG en casserole TAXI RETURN GRATIS Has The Penn State Figure Skating Club Performed The Necessary Functions For The Encouragement Of Figure Skating As Provided In The Club's Constitution? Club, Shoot in Cape Town Martin Win Start LAKELAND, Fla 1.4') For mer American Leaguer Billy Mar tin definitely will open at second base for the Reds, Cincinnati Manager Fred Hutchinson said yesterday. LUTHERAN STUDENT COMMUNION at 6:45 a. m. GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH College and Atherton Wednesday ... March 23 Breakfast Follows Communion LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO DO? DON'T FORGET Players Present "THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS" Center Stage Every Friday and Saturday 8 p. m. Until May 14 TICKETS ON SALE AT DOOR OR HUB THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Convicts Aid In Battling Flood Peril By The Associated Press , Old Age Policy Criticized ' WASHINGTON (71 3 ) AFL :CIO leader Walter Reuther, who often makes Republicans see red, ;did it again yesterday by charg ing the Eisenhower administra tion backed away from a promise I to propose government aid health care for Social Security pension 'ers. !Trainer Reinstated ' LOS ANGELES (JP) Trainer 'Jack Phillips, suspended after 'procaine was found in body sam pies of one of his horses, was re !instated yesterday by the Cali fornia Horse Racing Board. U.S. Satellite Ban Rejected by Soviets GENEVA (O—A Soviet spokesman charged yesterday that the United States is trying to use the 10-nation disarm ament negotiations to nullify Moscow's lead in long range missiles and space vehicles. Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin rejected U. S. Ambassador Frederick M Eaton's proposal for a quick agreement banning nuclear armed satellites from outer space. These are re garded as the ultimate weapons of mass destruct.,n, perfection of which may be only a few years away. Zorin told the disarmament conference the Soviet Union will only enter into arrange ments governing space vehicles if the United States abandons its overseas military bases. He re peated this later to newsmen, saying Eaton's space plan "can not be accepted since it is one sided." He claimed the entire Western approach to the work of the con ference appears insincere and fails to provide for the "generalj and complete disarmament' called for in the United Nations Assembly resolution last autumn. Zorin's action brought the con ference to a standstill at the open ing of the fourth week of the talks. Western sources said he seems bent now—with the reference to U.S. bases on trying to win a propaganda victory. To prevent this, delegations from the United States, Britain, France, Italy and Canada are prepared to sit in Geneva in definitely and keep hammer ing away on the need for dis armament guaranteed by inter national enforcement ma chinery. Western delegates have stressed that the bases would be closed ' only in the later stages of a ! world-wide and fully controlled elimination of national military forces. Zorin accused Eaton's delega tion of trying to twist the 10- power negotiations to bolster the U.S. military program. It particularly seeks establish ment of controls over the types of armament in which the western powers, "as they themselves ad mit, are lagging behind the So viet Union," he said. TAT IE NOW "TOBY TYLER" STARTS WEDNESDAY Jerry Lewis "VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET" TUESDAY. APRIL 5. 1960 Ike Calls U.S. Most Powerful Nation in World WASHINGTON (/Pi Presi dent Eisenhower fired a new broadside at Democratic critics of his defense policy last night, say ing "only the ignorant and the blind" insist the United States is not the most powerful nation in the world. At the same time, Eisenhower .underscored his endorsement of Vice President Richard M. Nixon to succeed him. And he jabbed at certain Democratic senators he said have gone into "oratorical or bit" in hopes of scrambling into the presidency. In a speech prepared for the eighth annual Republican Wom en's conference, Eisenhower laid across the board claims of achievements for his adminis tration. But some of his most pointed phrases were aimed at Demo crats who have been contending his defense policies threaten to open the United States to missile attack—and destruction by the Soviet Union. "Our nation is the most power ful in the world," he declared, "and only the ignorant and the blind insist it to be otherwise." Eisenhower said he is "con vinced that our whole defensive structure has been accurately tailored in the light both of na tional need and operational ef ficiency." He called the GOP a party of accomplishment. He said that dur ing his seven years in office the record has been filled with such advances as improvements in the health and welfare of our people and the greater soundness, free dom and growth of our economy.
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