Tuesday, May 8, 1956.
University Daily Kansan
State, National, World News
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Cease-Fire Violations Threaten Peace In Middle East
ERUSALEM (Israeli Sector) (UP)—Gross-charges of cease-fire violations by Israel and two of its Arab neighbors today threatened the United Nations' structure of peace in the Middle East.
The U. N. truce team was deluged with complaints of clashes between Israel and Egypt in the south and Israel and Jordan in the east. Investigators sped at dawn to the scenes of the scattered incidents.
Israeli officials took a grave view of the new incidents. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion said that the "basic danger" of war still exists.
The outbreaks along the Gaza Strip were considered particularly serious. They were the first since the end of U. N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold's peace-making mission to the Middle East.
Authorities Debate On Train Wreck
AUKESHA, Wis. (UP)—Authorities debated today whether to bring charges against a driver who smashed his truck into a special train carrying 1,000 baseball-bound school children, injuring more than 100 persons.
Witnesses said the truck driver, 39-year-old Gordon Hinkley of Wales, Wis., sped his truck past six other trucks, through the crossing signals, and into the 16-car diesel train carrying the Portage, Wis., children to a game between the Milwaukee Braves and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Truman Wants Free Hand
Radford Issues Warning
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UP)—Missouri Democratic leaders have been requested not to name former President Harry S. Truman as a delegate to the national convention in Chicago. Mr. Truman said here Monday that he made the request because "I wanted to be a completely free agent when I go to Chicago to a Democratic National Convention."
Communist Threat Discussed
ASHINGTON (UP)—Adm. Arthur W. Radford has warned Congress the United States should not continue adhering to the Korean armistice while the Communists illegally build up their forces in North Korea. Radford said that the Communists in North Korea "have been steadily modernizing their forces in flagrant disregard of the Korean armistice."
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (UP)
—Acting President Julio Lozano met Guatemalan President Carlos Castillo Armas secretly over the weekend to discuss means of combating communist infiltration of Central America, it was announced today.
Sparkman Sees No 3rd Party
WASHINGTON (UP)—Sen. John J. Sparkman (D-Ala) said today that Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson's Democratic Party victory in Texas May 5 crushed the threat of third party in Dixie this year.
Five States Hold Primaries
WASHINGTON (UP)—Five states hold primaries today with national interest centering on Indiana, where President Eisenhower and Sen. Estes Kefauver were principals in a presidential preference vote. Primaries also were being held in Ohio, West Virginia, Florida and New Mexico.
Viet Nam 'Would Fight'
SAIGON, Indochina (UP)—The head of the American military mission in Viet Nam said today the Viet Namese would "fight to the last ditch" if the Communists attempted an invasion. Lt. Gen. Samuel Williams made his observation on the second anniversary of the fall of Dien Bien Phu.
Potter Lake was constructed in 1911 to serve primarily as a reservoir of needed water supply in case of fire.
Kansan Files For Congress
TOPEKA (UP)—Democrat Henry M. Smith, St. Paul, Kan., Monday filed for Congress from the Third District. The seat is held by Rep Myron George, Altamont Republican, who so far has no opposition in his own party.
Lower Gas Rates Possible
TOPEKA (UP)—Lower gas rates and refunds amounting to three million dollars may be in store for Kansans, Gov. Fred Hall's office reported Monday. If they materialize, the refunds would come from over-payments made by distributing companies to Cities Service Gas Company.
Big Fire Loss In Wichita
WICHITA (UP)—Fire raged through a warehouse in Wichita Monday causing damage estimated between $750,000 and one million dollars. The warehouse, belonging to O.A. Sutton Corporation, Wichita, contained some 1,500 central air conditioning units and a large amount of advertising literature.
Train Derails At Richland
RICHLAND (UP)—A spectacular column of black smoke swirled over Richland Monday when 21 cars of a Missouri Pacific freight train were derailed. One car of propane gas and six tank cars of jet fuel ignited immediately. Officials said heavy rains caused earthworks at a culvert to give way, causing the derailment. The engine and one boxcar made it across the culvert before it buckled
Methodists To Study Divorce
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UP) The Methodist Church's Family Life Council will make a four-year study of controversial proposals to ease the church's rules on remarriages by divorced persons. The church's general conference referred the issue to the committee Monday before winding up its 13-day quadrennial conference.
Wilson Denies Air Lag
WASHINGTON (UP)—Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson today categorically denied reports that Russia is "far outstripping" the United States in air power. Mr. Wilson disclosed to a Senate appropriations subcommittee that U.S. production of B-52 intercontinental jet bombers will build up to a peak of 20 planes a month.
French Troops Blast Algerian Guerrillas
ALGIERS (UP)—Angry French troops blasted a guerrilla nest in the hills of northwestern Algeria today, boosting casualties of two days of bitter battle to more than 250 dead.
Helicopter-borne French soldiers used mortars to pin down some 200 guerrillas cornered in a hilltop sheepfold until fighter planes arrived to smash the position with bombs and rockets. More than 100 Arabs, including some Moroccans, were killed and 67 were taken prisoner in the battle.
Navy Rocket Falls Short
WHITE SANDS PROVING Ground, N. M. (UP)—The Navy today launched its Aerobee-hi rocket, shooting for a new altitude record, but the rocket climbed only to 116.5 miles into the atmosphere, far short of a record and hoped for heights. A spokesman said there was no major malfunction and that the firing was a success for purposes of testing the performance of the rocket.
Navy Patching Up Ships
NORFOLK, Va. (UP)—Workers in Nortfolk and in nearby Portsmouth, Va., today began patching up the battleship Wisconsin and destroyer Eaton, damaged in a collision in foggy Chesapeake Bay Sunday. The Wisconsin's bow was badly torn where it rammed the Eaton while on a civilian joint operational exercise. The Eaton sustained complete flooding of one compartment and partial flooding of three others. A gun mount on the Eaton was also destroyed.
23,500 Freed In Poland
LONDON (UP)—More than 23,500 persons already have been released from prison under Poland's sweeping new post-Stalin amnesty program, Warsaw Radio reported today. The broadcast said resistance leaders who have been in hiding for as long as 10 years have voluntarily reported to security authorities.
Cyprus Trouble Expected
NICOSIA, Cyprus (UP)—British Gov. Sir John Harding today rejected an appeal for clemency by two Cypriot murderers, setting off fears that this Mediterranean island will be swept by another reign of terrorism. Immediately after an announcement that the governor had decided the two men must die, the government imposed strict security precautions.
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Lens On Tax Violations
WASHINGTON (UP)—This Presidential campaign is getting rough, as witness some remarks by Rep. Jim Wright (D-Tex) and a tax-fraud trial which began Monday in St. Louis. Mr. Wright reported congressional cloak room rumors that the Internal Revenue Service had been instructed to look sharp for income tax violations by big name Democratic politicians.
Thief Looks Ahead
EDMONTON, Alberta Canada (UP)—Mrs. Elizabeth Doucet reported to police the theft of a load of lumber and the 40-foot shed in which she stored it.
A Little Goes A Long Way
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UP)—Strip teaser Ora Lee Branch told police someone stole $1,500 worth of clothing from her automobile, including "jeweled g-strings."
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