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On Capitol Hill-
Bricker Bill Backers Beginning Last Stand
Washington—(U.P.)—Bricker amendment backers geared for a last-ditch drive today for public support of their controversial treaty-control proposal.
Showdown voting on the amendment begins in the Senate next week.
Sen. John W. Bricker (R-Ohio) has appealed to his supporters throughout the country to "make their voices heard in Washington." He hopes a surge of mail might swing over some Senators now on the fence.
The drive for public pressure came as Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland (Calif.) pressed for a "please everybody" compromise at the President's weekly meeting with his legislative leaders.
Knowland and Sen. Homer Ferguson (R.-Mich.) said they "hope" to get a compromise soon. But sources close to Bricker said there is practically no chance of an agreement between the Ohioan and the President. Instead they said there is a "good possibility" Bricker's forces might team up with those of Sen. Walter F. George (D.-Ga.) whose compromise proposal is strongly backed by the Democrats.
Other developments:
Coffee: A Senate subcommittee launched formal hearings on zooming coffee prices today. But Sen. J. Allen Frear Jr., (D.-Del.), a member of the special banking subcommittee, said if housewives used more milk and coffee substitutes they could do more than Congress to keep coffee prices down.
Monday, Feb. 8, 1954
Economic: Sen, James E. Murray (D.M.ont.) planned to introduce an "anti-recession" bill today to boost the minimum wage to $1.25 an hour and cut the "straight time" work week to 35 hours.
Farm: Chairman Clifford R. Hope (R-Kan.) of the house agriculture committee said the growing stock-pile of government-owned surplus butter is "the toughest immediate problem facing congress." But he said the administration will not let any of it spoil or to go waste."
Subversion: FBI Chief J, Edgar Hoover, in testimony before the House appropriations committee made public today, said Communists are doing everything possible to conceal their subversive activities. As a result, Hoover said it now takes about 10 agents to trail Communists whereas it used to take only one.
Taft-Hartley: Former Rep. Fred A. Hartley Jr., (R.-Ill.) co-author of the Taft-Hartley labor law, said many of President Eisenhower's labor proposals are unnecessary, will hamper administration of the law, and are too favorable to labor. He made the statements in testimony prepared for the Senate labor committee.
Barbara Klanderud, college senior,
was chosen Miss Secretary at
the Executives ball of the Business
School association Friday evening.
Klanderud Honored At Executive Dance
McCarthy: Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall endorsed Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.), as a GOP speaker and as an "asset" in the party's drive for victory in the November elections.
The two students were elected at the ball. The Varsity Crew played for the dance, which was held in the Kansas room of the Student Union.
Seceba will try to revive the 4-party coalition which enabled deGasperi to govern for seven years after World War II. However, opposition from the right wing Socialists and the left wing of his own Christian Democratic party is expected to frustrate his efforts.
Lawyer Becomes Italy's Premier
Two other men—ex-Premier Alcide DeGasperi and Social Reformer Amintore Fanfani—have tried to restore stability to Italian politics since last year's indecisive general elections, but they enjoyed even less success than Pella.
Rome —(U,P)— Former Interior Minister Mario Secliba, who helped crush the Communist upsurge in Italy after World War II, agreed today to try to form a government that could stem a new rise in the Red tide.
While a total of 400 first moves are possible in chess, only 22 are recognized as practical by experienced players.
The hard-boiled Sicilian lawyer whose riot squads wrecked Communist attempts to "govern by strike" went to President Luigi Enaudi's official residence shortly before his appointment as premier-designate.
Political observers conceded him little chance of forming a successful cabinet. They believe he will fall to the same leftist forces, within his own party and outside it, that forced Premier Giuseppe Pella out of office seven weeks ago.
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