Monday, May 7, 1956. University Daily Kansan
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State, National, Foreign News
Strict Security Measures Taken As Tito Visits Paris
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PARIS (UF)—President Tito of Yugoslavia arrived here today in an armored train for a five-day state visit that brought on the strictest security precautions seen in France in many years. The last Yugoslav ruler to visit France was assassinated in 1934 at Marseilles.
All leave was cancelled for Paris police and reinforcements were called into the city. There were unconfirmed reports that 80 Yugoslav exiles were sent to North Africa for safekeeping and that another 300 were ordered to leave Paris for the duction of the visit.
Security precautions for Tito were especially strong when his train passed through Italy where he has never been popular. Unprecedented numbers of Italian guards stood by as Tito passed near Trieste, occupied by his troops for 40 days in 1945.
Details of the Tito visit were not made public although there were reports that he may ask France for supersonic jet fighters of the kind recently sold to Israel. French papers carried full details of the plans of Italian President Giovanni Gronchi during his visit last month when security precautions were far less rigid.
Lightning Fires Gas Tank
NATO Divided Over 'Cabinet'
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (UP) — Fire threatened the Phillips Petroleum Company in Fairfax industrial district here last night when lightning struck a one-million-gallon gas storage tank. Firemen rushed to the scene of the blaze, which started at 11:47 p.m. and kept the flames from spreading to the other tanks. About 40 men fought the fire for more than three hours. Phillips officials have not estimated the loss.
Ike Approves Photograph
PARIS (UP)—Members of the North Atlantic Alliance were reported sharply divided today on an American plan to set up a "cabinet" to coordinate economic and political planning by the 15 member nations of NATO. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles suggested the formation of a cabinet during the NATO conference which ended yesterday.
WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower has approved a new official presidential photograph. The picture, of the unsmiling President turned to his right shoulder, was taken by New York Times photographer George Tames April 16, the night Mr. Eisenhower broadcast his farm veto message.
Navv Starts Vast Maneuvers
NEWPORT, R.I. (UP)—Two dozen Navy ships left port today to participate in one of the largest war maneuvers in Atlantic waters since the Korean war. More than 5,500 men will take part in the operation to test new convoy escort tactics developed since World War II.
Seen A Balloon Lately?
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (UP)-An elusive advertising balloon posed a threat to aviation in the Springfield area yesterday but disappeared before an air force plane arrived to shoot it down. The balloon sailed in at 15,000 feet from Fayetteville, Ark.; Sunday morning and was proclaimed a hazard to planes by civil aviation officials. It was trailing a 500-foot nylon rope.
2 Break Jackson County Jail
HOLTON, Kan. (UP)—Two prisoners awaiting trial in Jackson County district court broke jail here today and officers theorized they made their escape in a stolen pickup truck. Sheriff's deputies identified the two escapeses as John Morris, 49, Lincoln, and Fred Bennett, 20, Sailinas, Calif.
Methodist Church Discusses Divorce
Subcommittee Approves Bill
WASHINGTON (UP)—A House interior subcommittee approved a bill today to authorize a $75,000 study of direct highway and rail routes to Alaska from coast states. The bill, passed earlier by the Senate, would set up an 11-member commission to supervise the study.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UP)—A possible controversy over whether to ease restrictions on Methodist Church marriages of divorced persons was one of the last stumbling blocks today in a drive toward adjournment of the church's quadrennial lawmaking conference.
Conference leaders said the proposal probably would be among the last to be taken up before an expected late afternoon adjournment. Originally the conference had been expected to last as late as Wednesday. Present Methodist rules permit marriage only of the "innocent party" or remarriage of divorced couples.
DENVER (UP)—Defense attorneys said today they plan to appeal John Gilbert Graham's murder conviction despite the condemned man's statement that he would not face the ordeal of a second trial.
Attorneys To Appeal Graham's Conviction
A jury ruled late Friday night that the 24-year-old Denver man was guilty of first-degree murder for killing his mother, Mrs. Daisie King, 54. Mrs. Daisie King was one of 44 persons killed when a United Air Lines DC-6B exploded and crashed near Longmont, Colo., last Nov. 1. Graham confessed he planted a dynamite bomb in his mother's luggage to collect her insurance.
Navy Ships Collide In Fog
NORFOLK, Va. (UP)—The battleship Wisconsin and the destroyer escort it plowed into during a heavy fog limped toward Norfolk under their own power this morning as a tug stood by to come to their aid. The two Navy ships were making their way toward the huge Navy yard here where workers will repair the damage caused by yesterday's collision.
Truman's Files Examined
WASHINGTON (UP)—State department historians preparing a special report on the controversial World War II Potsdam Conference now have access to former President Truman's personal files. The historians have been in Kansas City, Mo. where Mr. Truman has his office--examining the papers and making photographed copies of some, it was learned.
H-Bomb Test Postponed
ABOARD USS MT. McKINLEY AT ENIWETOK (UP) - Atomic officials have postponed for the second time the explosion of America's first air-dropped hydrogen bomb. Officials announced late yesterday that the explosion has been tentatively scheduled for early Thursday morning. However, they have no assurance that the weather will be any better by then.
WASHINGTON (UP)—The Air Force has a new plane which飞盱 at 10-mile altitudes "as a matter of routine." The plane may prove valuable in detecting Russian nuclear tests. Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics , disclosed the plane's development Sunday.
New Plane Flies High
KATMANDU, Nepal (UP) — The Chinese Communists are carrying out a "reign of terror" in Tibet and the capital city of Lhasa is "full of fear," reports reaching here from the Communist-occupied nation said today. Reports said vast areas of the mountain theocracy were in revolt against the Chinese Communist "colonialists" and that tribesmen still were fighting the Reds.
Tibet Tribesmen Fight Reds
Algerian Rebels Hit Farms
ALGIERS, Algeria (UP) -Algerian rebels launched a series of coordinated attacks against European farms in West Algeria today. First reports said 20 Europeans were massacred. Authorities said that strong rebel commando groups struck during the night.
3 Face Tax Fraud Charaes
3 Face Tax Fraud Claims ST. LOUIS, Mo. (UP)—Former Truman aide Matthew J. Connelly and T. Lamar Caudle, an assistant attorney general in the Truman administration, went on trial on tax fraud charges today. Harry I. Schwimmer, former Kansas City, Mo., attorney, was also on trial with Mr. Connelly and Mr. Caudle on charges of trying to defraud the government in a tax case.
Senate Reviews Foreign Aid
WASHINGTON (UP) — Foreign aid chief John B. Hollister went before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today to plead for the administration's $4.9 billion foreign aid program.
North America's smallest bear is the black bear, which usually weighs between 200 and 300 pounds.
Hilton Hotel Planned For KC
KANAS CITY, Mo. (UP)—Plans for an 18 million dollar Hilton Hotel in downtown Kansas City were to be made in Chicago today. The hotel, which would be located on the block adjoining Municipal Auditorium, would have 1,000 rooms and be 14 stories high. The property is owned by the Kansas City Power & Light Co., which would option it to Hilton Hotels, Inc.
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