Hammarskjold Dies in Crash U.N. Meets to Cause of Plane Wreck
U.N. Meets to Choose New Secretary-General
UNITED NATIONS — (UPI) — The United Nations Security Council will meet today to consider a successor to Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold.
The news of Hammarskjold's death in a plane crash in Africa was made officially known by Dr. Hernane Tavarese De Sa of Brazil, Undersecretary for Public Information.
The U.N. officer's voice shook as he announced that Hammarskjold had been killed.
A short time later, Liberian Ambassador Nathan Barnes, President of the Security Council, announced that the 11-nation body would meet informally to discuss a successor to Hammarskiold.
Barnes called the Council's closed session "to exchange views about the situation created by the tragic death of the Secretary General of the United Nations."
Tavares announced Hammarkskjold died when a chartered DC-6 plane, manned by a Swedish crew, crashed in the jungle bound for Ndola Airport, in Northern Rhodesia.
The news of the death of U.N.
Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold was received today with statements of shock and grief from leaders around the world.
At the Manhattan headquarters of the United Nations, Foreign Ministers of several countries had gathered on the eve of the crucial
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NDOLA, Northern Rhodesia — (UPI) — The only survivor of the plane crash in which Dag Hammarskjold died said tonight there were several explosions a board the plane before it crashed.
16th General Assembly. The blue- and silver U.N. flag in front of the World Headquarters was ordered lowered to half mast, and the gaily colored emblems of the 99 member countries which flank it were taken down altogether.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk, here for the opening of the Assembly session scheduled for tomorrow, and for Berlin talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, led the
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Dag Dies in Quiet Grove
By Ray Moloney
NDOLA, Northern Rhodesia — (UPI) — The wreckage of the plane that carried Dag Hammarskjold to death was still smoking in bits and pieces when I saw it late today.
It lay in a beautiful wood of young trees, with autumn leaves drifting quietly to the ground.
Thirteen other persons died with the United Nations Secretary General, including a woman United Nations employee.
(The woman was not identified in Ndola but in Ottawa she was said to be Alice Lalande, private secretary to Sture Linner, chief of the U.N.'s Congo operation.)
Most of the bodies were terribly charred and broken and, to the layman's eye, beyond identification.
Except the body of Dag Hammarskjold. His body had been removed before I reached the crash spot. But officials told me Hammarskjold's body was "little damaged."
The Secretary General's body, I was told, was easily recognizable.
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Daily hansan
59th Year, No. 2
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, Sept. 18, 1961
Wescoe Speech Includes KU Education, Traffic Plan KU's Record in International Affairs Unqualified Success Park.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said today at the Convocation that education is the only force available which can change the appalling and fantastic nature of the world.
The chancellor said that it is the responsibility of educators to lead in changing the world's nature.
"The University is proud of its record in international affairs," Dr. Wescoe said, speaking of an Inter-University program in Costa Rica.
"This program, we are told, is the only one of several such ventures that has proved to be an unqualified success.
"IT IS, IN SHORT, a model — a substantial contribution to international education — a substantial contribution to our national interest."
Chancellor Wescoe pledged that the University would strive to increase exchange programs not only in Latin America but also in East Asia and the Slavic and Soviet areas.
Speaking to the faculty, the chancellor said that he hopes teaching at KU is now regarded as an ultimate achievement.
He said he has appointed senior faculty members to a University Committee on International Educational Affairs, a committee to oversee, coordinate and stimulate our efforts in this area.
"THERE WAS A TIME, perhaps, when this University was looked upon as a stopping place for faculty on their way to better things. But that time has passed."
Chancellor Wescoe stated that the 1861-62 academic year will be the greatest year in KU's history.
"Public and private support for our ventures has reached an unprecedented level," he said.
"The sun has never before appeared to shine so brightly upon us.
"In the last academic year, for the first time, it was possible for the University to make a significant award for outstanding teaching," said the Chancellor.
Chancellor Wescoe
Dr. Wescoe then introduced Ar-
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By Carrie Merryfield
The program will limit traffic in the heart of the University to faculty members and students with on-campus parking permits, visitors and persons making business calls.
A controlled traffic program for Kansas University will be put into effect September next year.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the Chancellor for physical plant development and coordination. said today the plan would not greatly alter the parking on the campus, but would control the number of automobiles traveling on Jayhawk Blvd, Sunflower Road, Mississippi St. and Oread Ave. between 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. class days.
In his convocation address, the chancellor said the program would "allow the campus to be a limited access area during the classroom hours."
In an interview with the Daily Kansas prior to his address, the chancellor explained the program.
He said no campus streets would be permanently closed and "no barrier to the flow of traffic is involved."
"The principal reason for the control is to make the main streets on the campus safe for the walking students," the Chancellor said.
FIVE CONTROL STATIONS will be installed at points around the campus next summer. A portable barrier over half the street will direct traffic to the control booth where a policeman will admit or refuse access to the campus.
Students and faculty members with parking permits inside the
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Cause of Plane Wreck In Africa Not Known
NDOLA, Northern Rhodesia—(UPI)—Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold was killed today in the crash of his United Nations plane on a personal mission to bring peace in the Congo.
The Rhodesian federal government announced that the 56-yearold Hammarskjold perished in the burning wreckage of his whitepainted DC6B which smashed to earth early today. He was flying to a rendezvous with Moishe Tshombe, President of the Katanga government whose warriors are battling U.N. troops.
THE DEATH OF THE COOL and courageous Swedish diplomat, for the past eight years the Secretary General of the world organization, dealt a tragic and stunning blow to the U.N. on the eve of its critical 16th General Assembly in New York.
The plane crash achieved in its way what Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had been seeking by political pressure—removal of Hammarskjold from his post.
A ground party found the bodies of five other persons and one gravely injured survivor. The bodies of seven others of the 14 persons aboard the plane were not immediately recovered.
THE FOUR-ENGINE PLANE had taken off from Leopoldville carrying Hammarskjold and a small party of U.N. aides last night on a flight to Ndola.
Tshombe, head of the rebellious Katanga Province, was waiting for him there. The Katanga forces were reported over-running troops of the U.N. attempting to take over the province on behalf of the central Congo government.
Hammarskjold had hoped to reach a cease-fire agreement with Tshome to halt the Congo bloodshed.
SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT a plane believed to be Hammarskjold's contacted the Ndola control tower. It circled the field and they flew away.
Early this morning the Rhodesian government ordered a massive air search and the United States put all its planes in the vicinity at the disposal of the United Nations.
The wreckage, still smoking, was spotted seven miles north of Ndola. It had hit a low ridge with a force that spilled wreckage over a wide area.
Tshome returned to Katanga after being informed of Hammarskiold's death.
ONE OF THE PLANE'S four engines had been damaged Friday during an attack by a Katanga jet on the airport at Elizabethville. The DC6 was sitting on the field at the time.
"This is very sad news," he said. "I regret it deeply.
"I had much esteem for Hammarskjold. He did much for African countries. In the crisis between the Congo and me, I had confidence he would help me find a solution."
THE DEATH OF THE SECRETARY General was expected to throw the United Nations session — opening tomorrow — into chaos and confusion in an attempt to pick a successor.
Khrushchev had demanded Hammarskjold's removal and replacement by a "Troika" Secretary General committee — a threeman group composed of one communist, one western and one neutral.
The U.N. charter does not provide for Hammarskjold's immediate successor. The Secretary General is chosen by the General Assembly on the basis of recommendation from the 11-member Security Council where Russia can exercise its power of veto.
THE PLANE, the "Albertina," was equipped with radar, automatic pilot and other mechanism for night flying. It was piloted by a Swedish U.N. officer, a Captain Hallonquist.
Also aboard were Heinrich Weischoff, director of political affairs in the U.N. Secretariat, and legal expert Vladimir Fabri.
There was no immediate explanation of what caused Hammarskjold's crash. The plane carried an all-Swedish crew. There was enough fuel for more than 12 hours of flight — far more than necessary for the flight from Leopoldville to Ndola.
FIRST REPORTS WERE that only two of the plane's four engines were found near the wreck.
Lord Alport, Britain's high commissioner (ambassador) to Rhodesia, took off for Ndola this afternoon along with the chief of the Rhodesian civil aviation organization, a Colonel Barber. Barber was to head an investigation of the tragedy at the scene.
Even as word of Hammarskjold's death was being flashed around the world, the military situation in the Congo worsened.
IRISH U.N. FORCES at Jadotville were overwhelmed and were reported being held by the Katanga warriors as hostages.
Their defensive perimeter, which had held out gallantly since last Tuesday, fell at noon on Sunday. Three Irish were wounded and two were shell-shocked. A cable received from the Irish commander today said his men were being well treated and allowed to keep their sidearms.
Two relief columns of Irish and Indian U.N. troops which tried to reach Jadotville were pulled back to Elizabethville. They were strafed on the way by Katanga jets and five men were wounded.