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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Dec. 9, 1963
Frank Sinatra's Son Kidnaped in Nevada
STATELINE, Nev.—(UPI)—Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnaped at gunpoint from this Lake Tahoe gambling center last night and police in two states issued all-point bulletin for two young desperados suspected of the abduction.
Young Sinatra, who was following in the footsteps of his famous father as a singer, was forced from his motel room shortly before he was to perform at a plush gambling casino. A young musician who was with Sinatra was bound and gagged and warned by the gunmen, "Don't move for 10 minutes if you want to see the kid again."
The FBI identified the two suspects in the kidnapping as Joseph J. Sorce, 23, and Thomas Keating, 21. They were armed with a sawed-off shotgun and a .45 caliber pistol and were described as "extremely dangerous."
The kidnaping was first reported by Gene Evans, a spokesman for Harrah's Club at Stateline's south shore, a plush gambling resort area near the Nevada-California state line.
Evans said the kidnapping occurred at a motel on the California side shortly before the young singer was scheduled to make his appearance at the Casino Lounge at 10 p.m. PST.
Frank Sinatra Sr., and the young singer's mother, Nancy, were notified immediately. The elder Sinatra departed from Palm Springs for Tahoe in his private plane, and his former wife said she was "keeping her phone open" in Los Angeles in case the kidnapers called.
Official Bulletin
Evans said young Sinatra and John Foss, a trumpet player with
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the Tommy Dorsey band, were in their motel room when someone knocked at the door.
Foss said Sinatra asked who was there, and a voice replied: "Room service."
The trumpeter said Sinatra opened the door and two men carrying weapons pushed their way into the room. Foss said they overpowered him, bound his wrists and taped his mouth with adhesive tape.
Foss said the two men and possibly a third who remained outside, forced Sinatra into the car and sped away. The musician said he managed to break his bonds and call for help.
Foss said the two men wore ski parkas, and said one of them referred to the other as "Joe." He said young Sinatra was wearing a white T-shirt, grey parka, dark blue overcoat and dark blue shoes.
KUGrad School Tops in Grants
The KU Graduate School leads the nation in the number of new National Defense Education Act fellowships authorized for 1964-65, according to an announcement by the U.S. Office of Education.
KU will be able to appoint 25 new NDEA fellows to Ph.D. programs in 10 departments. The Office of Education approved 694 programs at 156 colleges and universities and authorized 1,500 fellowships.
THE NDEA fellowships are designed to increase the number of well-trained college and university teachers.
NDEA fellows receive stipends of $2,000,$2,200 and $2,400 for the three years of their doctoral study. The school also receives up to $2,500 as a "cost of education" payment for each fellow.
Currently KU has 37 NDEA fellows in its Graduate School, of whom nine are in their third year. With the new authorization, Kansas will have 53 fellows next year.
The nation's top ten in number of fellowships authorized for next year are: Michigan State University, tied with Kansas at 25; University of Wisconsin, 24; Universities of Chicago, Georgia, Ohio State and Oregon, 23 each; Indiana, John Hopkins and Syracuse Universities, 22 each.
The Big Eight Conference universities were authorized 118 new fellows in 54 approved programs, with Kansas accounting for more than a fifth of the awards.
SAIGON, South Viet Nam— (UPI) — Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge said yesterday he would "consider seriously" a proposal from former President Dwight D. Eisenhower that he seek the Republican presidential nomination, although he has no plans at present to run.
Presidential Candidacy Considered By Lodge
Lodge, vice presidential nominee in 1960, said he had no direct word of Eisenhower's appeal and declined to say how he would reply to it. But there were strong indications that whatever his response, Lodge would not leave his post here until well into the new year.
"I have not received any such message," he said when asked about reports that Eisenhower wanted him to return immediately to the United States and begin campaigning. "If I did receive such a message," he added, "I would consider it and take a good hard look at it."
The 61-year-old ambassador said that at present "I have no intention of running" for president. He said he feels he can do the most good by continuing to serve here."
Informed sources here said Lodge, who took up his post at the end of August, would not consider resigning for several months because of the critical situation in Viet Nam.
MOSCOW — (UPI) – Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev today announced an "unprecedented" plan aimed at more than tripling development of the Soviet chemical industry in the next seven years in a crash program to boost Russia's farm and industrial production.
Khrushchev Outlines Agriculture Program
The program, under which 200 new chemical plants are to be built and over 500 existing ones reconstructed at an expense of about $45 billion, was outlined by Khrushchev to a plenary meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee.
Khrushchev also told the assembled Communist party leadership that two of his predecessors, Joseph Stalin and V. M. Molotov, sold grain abroad while people were starving in the Soviet Union.
KHRUSHCHEV said that as recently as 1947, Stalin kept selling wheat abroad even though there were critical shortages in areas of the Soviet Union.
"It is a fact," he said, "that in 1947 in certain areas of the country, for example in Kursk, people died of bunge and bread was sold abroad."
The Soviet Premier, in a speech of nearly five hours, told the western powers that the Soviet Union is not weak economically and warned them not to "put your knee on our breast" by imposing conditions on wheat sales to Russia.
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IN AN APPARENT reference to American grain dealers who are negotiating with Soviet representatives on the sale of up to $250 million worth of U.S. wheat, Khrushchev said:
"Those who think they will get fabulous profits by exploiting the present situation will be cruelly disappointed. Those who think the Soviet Union will be compelled to accept any conditions because there is no other way out will be cruelly disappointed.
"The Soviet state is so strong and powerful that only he who has lost his reason can think that he can hinder the fulfillment of our plans," Khrushchev said.
THE MEETING was not open to Western newsmen. Accounts of Khrushchev's speech released to the press made no mention of President Kennedy's assassination or of the new administration of President Johnson.
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