Tuesday, May 1. 1956. University Daily Kansan
State, National, World News-
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Sen. Alben Barkley Dies While Delivering Political Speech
Sen. Alben W. Barkley, (D-Ky) 78, collapsed and died at about 4:15 p.m. Monday before a stunned audience of 1,700 at a quadrennial mock national convention at Washington and Lee University.
He had just won long applause with one of the oratorical strokes that he was famous, by this comment on his youth. He went being Kentucky's junior Senator;
Clapping Stops
"I am willing to be a junior ... I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty."
Sen. Barkley after a pause fell to the floor behind the microphone. The outburst of clapping suddenly stilled.
His wife, the former Mrs. Carleton Hadley, who was sitting in the front row rushed to the stage and was one of the first to reach him.
Join In Praise
Dr. Robert Munger, Lexington heart specialist, reached the scene after a rescue squad had tried to revive Mr. Barkley with oxygen, and pronounced him dead of a heart attack.
The Kentucky Senator died while once again swinging into a campaign battle on behalf of his party, but Democrats and Republicans alike, stunned by his sudden death, immediately poured in their eulogies.
Former President Truman, under whom Sen. Barkley gained his permanent title of "Veep" praised him as 'a great Congressman, a great Senator and one of the greatest vice presidents of this nation."
President Eisenhower praised Sen Barkley for his "long and distinguished record of public service ..."
U.S. Song Begins May Day
MOSCOW (UP) - Loud speakers ushered in the May Day festivities in central Moscow by blaring forth an old American drinking song—"There's A Tavern in the Town." The melody last was heard here in 1945 when a spirit of good will marked Soviet-American relations.
Senate Starting Lobbying Probe
The General Gas Committee was created in 1954 to collect and circulate information favorable to the Natural Gas Bill. It has filed reports in the Senate and House under the Federal Lobbying Act, but its activities were not primarily designed to influence legislation.
WASHINGTON (UP)—Senate investigators began their widely heralded lobbying investigation today by seeking testimony from the head of a large industry group that favored the controversial Natural Gas Bill.
Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark) called Maston Nixon, chairman of the General Gas Committee, to testify before the special eight-man investigating committee. The Corpus Christi, Tex., oil man was the first witness to be heard in public session.
Air Chief Warns Of Red Bomber
WASHINGTON (UP) - Gen. Earle E. Partridge, air defense commander, has warned Senate investigators that a new Russian jet bomber may be able to fly higher than any U. S. interceptor now in use, it was learned today.
Gen. Partridge said, however, that the United States has some new supersonic interceptors coming along that will be able to recapture the defensive advantage over high-flying jet bombers.
Gaza Agreement By Egypt, Israel
JERUSALEM (Israeli Sector) (UP)—The United Nations announced today a major agreement between Egypt and Israel to end their border tension. But Israel immediately disclosed a new clash with Jordan.
A U.N. spokesman said Egypt and Israel agreed to the establishment of U. N. observation posts and Mobile U. N. patrols along the Gaza strip where a series of incidents recently bought Egypt and Israel dangerously close to war.
The agreement was worked out by United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in a series of conferences with leaders of Israel and the Arab nations.
The proposal to place observation posts on both sides of the demarcation lines does not require withdrawal of either forces a certain distance from the lines as earlier proposed.
Ex-Convict Held In Kansas Burglary
GALENA, Kan. (UP)—Ed Cory,
56-year-old former convict, was back in jail today, charged with burglary and larceny in a $1,200 supermarket burglary at Baxter Springs.
Cory denied he had any part in the crime, but Sheriff Bill Crain of Cherokee County said a heel print on the roof of the grocery matched one of Cory's shoe heels.
FBI Expert To Take Stand In Graham Murder Trial
DENVER (UP)—The prosecutor in John Gilbert Graham's first degree murder trial planned to put an FBI expert on the stand today in an attempt to prove that "foreign" metal fragments found in the wreckage of an airliner were from a bomb planted by Mr. Graham:
District Attorney Bert M. Keating introduced the fragments as evidence Monday and FBI agent Lloyd Hashman identified them as the ones turned over to FBI technicians at Washington, United Air Lines employees already had testified that the fragments came from the wreckage of a DC-6B that crashed last Nov. 1 in a sugar beet field near Longmont, Colo.
All 44 persons aboard the plane, including Mr. Graham's mother, Mrs.
Daisie King, 54, were killed. Mr. Graham is charged specifically with the death of his mother by planting a bomb in her suitcase and sabotaging the plane.
About 100,000 to 125,000 acres in North Dakota will be planted this spring to four recently developed varieties of 15B rust-resistant durum wheat.
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