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18,436 HEADERS THE ATTA ON Civilian Council Meets Tonight Number 205: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1956 Price Five Cents SCONA OPENING-DAY SPEAKERS — Discussing- the afternoon sessions are from left to right Congressman Walter Judd, congressman from Minnesota; Don Weber, command ing officer A TC; Senator Lyndon Johnson, keynote SCONA speaker; Don McGinty, SC ONA committee and Hon, Olin (Tiger) Teague, congressman from this district. m e ?r ' i c a n W o in a u In ary Irish Blast Republicans Army Post BELFAST, Northern Ireland, (A 3 )—Fears of new raids by the outlawed Irish Republican Army sent royal Ulster police and troops scouring the mountainous frontier with the Irish Republic last night. Prime Minister Lord Brooke- borough said evidence indicated raids early today by roving bands of gunmen originated in Eire. He accused the Irish Republic of fail ing to cooperate in checking the outlaws. New tension mounted between the six northern counties linked to the British crown and the Irish Republic, even though the Dublin government has condemned the IRA which seeks to force the British out of Ulster and unite the country. First SCONA Speakers Lord Brookeborough appealed for “restraint and calm” in Ulster and warned, “If we feel there is the slightest need for it we will not hesitate to assume wider pow ers to deal with this kind of at tack in the future.” Police armed with Sten guns patrolled all roads leading to the border and manned barbed-wire roadblocks looking across into southern Ireland. Police arrested five men after an estimated 150 raiders swooped over the frontier, dynamited a Biitish radio transmitter and two other buildings, set fire to a court house and tried to seize a military barracks. Damage was estimated by Ulster police at a million dol lars. Three of the five were charged with the attempted murder of a police sergeant. The other two were accused of shooting with in tent to kill. Russia Ordered To Leave Hungary VIENNA, Austria—UP)—The U.S. Embassy here said today Mrs. Georgette Meyer “Dicky” Chapelle, an American photographer whose work appears in Life magazine, is miss ing in Hungary. Austrian authorities have been asked to look into her disappearance, since she was last seen in Vienna. Mrs. Chapelle, 37, of Milwaukee, works for the National Research Institute, a business advisory service, in New York. She has taken time off on several occasions to do assign ments for Life, specializing in pictures of refugees. Since the great flow of refugees into Austria began last month, she has made frequent trips from Vienna to the border area to make photo--* graphs. She left her hotel U'l Tft f A • r-'i ® Architects Hear Stress Revolt Against Soviet Burchard Tonight By JIM NEIGHBORS Sen. Lyndon Johnson yesterday told the kick-off crowd for SCONA II that the Hungarian rebellion symbolized the tremendous strain in the Soviet system. An hour later. Congressman Walter Judd pointed out that “now is the time to exploit the weak nesses in the Soviet Union and to make clear the fakery of Com munism.” Last night in the final talk of the day, Clarence E. Manion said the imly way to dissolve the predica ment we are in with Russia is to support a revolution by the Russian people against their Soviet rule. Johnson said “I believe we must look forward to a new period of provocations and incidents on the part of the Communists. They will become increasingly insolent and increasingly belligerent as their power wanes.” In his speech Judd contended that our first problem is “how to deal with the lying words of the Soviet.” No real peace or relaxation can be realized until the Communist move- t of the population of Russia a ment fades or changes. Our peace this by saying only three percent and freedom can be secure when when their purpose is changed or their will is weakened, or their capacity to conquer the world is reduced. “I know Communism will fail be cause it violates the basic urge of all men to be free,” Judd said. “The most dependable allies we have are the 900 million people be hind the Iron Curtain.” Manion said the US “is the hope and the envy of all mankind. If the US disappeared from the face of the Earth tonight, the entire world would be plunged into terror and destructive war. The people of Hungary are the only ones who know what the effect of it would be.” On the subject of Communism, he said the main struggle in the world today is between the US and the USSR. Manion agreed with Judd and said “our best allies are the people of Hungary, Poland, Germany and Russia.” He qualifed Communists. “The rest of the people hate Communism as much as the US does.” “Everything we do should en courage these people to resist the Communist rule. By breaking off diplomatic relations with USSR, the people of Russia would know we are for them and against their Communist rulers,” said Manion. Judd told the audience that Rus sian farmers would rather have freedom than food. They are pro ducing only enough food to feed themselves and are using this as a political weapon against their Soviet rulers. “Resistance to tyrants is obedi ence to God,” said Manion as he quoted Thomas Jefferson. He said the only way to preserve the US is for the Russiau people to revolt against Communist rale. Manion said the “greatest travesty in history was our re cognition of the Soviet government in 1933. At that time, the Soviet government was about to fold and was saved when we recognized them and began diplomatic r lations with them.” “There are four ways in which we can break down the impasse with Russia,” Manion said. “First, We could go to war with Russia, but this is not necessary or pos sible. Second, we could continue with the co-existence as it is to day. Third, the US could be converted to Communism which is the main target of the Soviets is the main target of the revolution behind the Iron Curtain.” D. D. Burchard, head of the De partment of Journalism, will speak tonight at 7:30 in the lecture room of the Biological Science building before the Division of Architec ture. His subject will be “There is Public Relations in Your Future.” In addition to teaching experi ence in Oklahoma and South Da kota, Burchard has 13 years expe rience in radio and newspapers in Chicago, Milwaukee and Indiana polis. Civilian Council To Discuss Bowl The Civilian Student Council makes final arrangements to night for the 12th Man Bowl in their meeting in the Press Club Library, Ground floor, YMCA- General Election To Decide Senate Insurance Plan Fate By LELAND BOYD Student votes will be cast Mon day in the Memorial Student Cen ter to decide the fate of the Stu dent Senate proposed blanket in surance plan. Two choices are to be on the general election ballot. “For com pulsory insurance” is one. “Against compulsory insurance” is the other. The basic points of the proposed insurance are: 1. Each student who pays the $10 Medical Service Fee will pay $1.55 in additional required fees each semester or $3 for two semes ters. 2. Benefits are up to $1,000 for each accident and an additional LIONS CLUB TREES—Capt. C. W. Jefferies, left, a menv ber of the College Station Lions Club, shows the good points . of a Lions Club Christmas tree to Mrs. Joyce Gage, right, and Mrs. Earl McElroy. The Lions are selling the trees in the building next to Black’s Pharmacy on Hwy. 6 from 1 to 7 p.m. on weekdays and from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on „Saturdays. Proceeds of the sale go toward buying eye testing equipment for A&M Consolidated Schools and all of the Lions’ other civic projects. Soph Aggieland Picture Schedule Civilian sophomores whose last name begins with N-Z must have their pictures taken for the Ag gieland ’57 today and tomorrow at Aggieland Studio, according to Don Burt, Aggieland editor. Pictures may be made at the Studio from 8 a, m. to 5 p. m. Coats and ties will be worn. Schedule for junior, senior and graduate civilian students after the holidays is as follows: Jan. 7-8,' A-G; Jan. 10-11, H-N; Jan. 14-15, O-S and Jan. 17-18, T-Z. $1,000 if the student dies due to injuries received in the accident. 3. The policy’s coverage is lim ited to accidents. 4. All accidents are covered re gardless of where it happens. (In cludes corps trips, trips home, and non-traffic accidents.) 5. Participation is limited to students who pay the medical ser vice fee. Weather Today Improving weather through to morrow is forecast. This morn ing’s temperature reading at 10:30 was 42 degrees. The high yester day was 81 degree’s, and this morn ing’s low, 40. These are the essentials of a plan the Student Senate passed in its last meeting. The senate vote was not unanimous. The Student Health Services Board Tuesday afternoon gave the plan it unanimous approval. Student senators took a partial poll of several dormitories before they passed it last week. • Public opinion concerning the plan show ed wide differences, depending on which senator was taking the stu dent’s ideas. Dormitory 1 students gave their approval to the plan eight to one, accoi-ding to Don Weber, senate publicity chairman. Weber took this poll. Seven against to one for were the results tabulated in another dorm when another senator was taking the poll, Weber said. Weber said he favors the plan. The actual policy has not yet been written, he said. Students will not get a choice in the actual policy but will only vote for or against compulsory insur ance, he added. If the general election gives ap proval to the plan, it will be pass ed along from the Department of Student Personnel Services, the Executive Council and finally to the Board of Directors for final acceptance. (See SENATE, Page 3) Dec. 4, telling 1 the clerk she was going- to Lower Austria and would be back in three days. Most of her baggage was still in her hotel room today. UNITED NATIONS, N, Y., <A>) The U. N. Assembly over whelmingly condemned the Soviet Union last night for crushing Hun garian independence and called on Moscow to withdraw its armed forces immediately from the re volt-torn land. It was the first time such a judgment had been returned by the Assembly against and U. N. member. The vote in favor of an Ameri can-backed resolution slapping the Soviet Union for its actions in Hungary was 55 in favor, eight opposed and 13 abstentions. The Soviet bloc voted against the reso lution with the exception of Hun gary which was absent. The Soviet Union angrily de nounced the resolution and began a drive to bring charges against the United States for allegedly in tervening in the Soviet bloc coun tries. This will likely be debated later by the Assembly in the course of its regular work. By its decision the Assembly called for the third time for the Russians to get out of Hungary. This time it added the judgment against the Soviet Union in the following words: Declares that, by using its armed force against the Hungari an people, the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub lics is volating the political inde pendence of Hungary; “Condemns the violation of the charter by the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub lics in depriving Hungary of its liberty, and independence and the Hungarian people of the exercise of their fundamental rights.” General Strikes Bring Warning Of Death Order VIENNA—UP)—Hungary’s Communist government- smarting under a general strike and continued street demonstrations—decreed last night mandatory death for all per sons convicted of crimes under its newly issued martial law decree. At the same time—in a broad cast from strike-bound Budapest —it identified two of the labor leaders arrested in the Commun ists’ attempt to stem the surge of popular feeling against the Sov iet-supported premier, Janos Ka- dar. The two were Sandor Racz, pres ident of the Budapest workers Central Council, and Sandor Bali, a council member. They were charged with numerous offenses, including the organization of “pro vocative strikes,” but did not^seem to fall under the martial law de cree. That decree, issued Sunday over the signature of President Istvan Dobi, listed murder, manslaughter, arson, robbery, looting, damage to public plans, and utilities and all attempts at those crimes, along with illegal possession of arms, ammunition and explosives. The President, a figurehead, issued a supplemental decree yesterday to make the death sentence manda tory. “Both Racz and Bali have been playing a leading role in turning the Budapest Central Council into a tool of the counter-revolution,” the radio annoucement said. “They have attempted with every means to hamper the restoration of or der, tranquility and peaceful life. CONGRESSMAN WALTER JUDD — Wednesday after noon speaker at the Second Planetary Session held in the Ballroom of the MSC. An authority on the Far East, Dr. Judd has a far reaching knowledge of the Far East and its problems. He spoke on “Where Do We Stand in Our World Relations.”