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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 11. 1956
State, National, World News
Nat (King) Cole Attacked By White Men At Concert
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. (UP)—Negro musician Nat (King) Cole promised today his show would go on in Dixie despite the intimidation by three white segregationists who pounced on him while he was singing to a packed audience and attempted to abduct him.
Mr. Cole received a slight back injury in the on-stage melce last night but came back to finish his singing performance after being treated by a doctor.
His manager, Robert Schwartz of New York, said Cole would go right ahead with his scheduled tour of southern states.
The men who attacked Cole were intercepted by police before they could carry out their apparent plan to abduct the Negro musician. They were hustled to jail and charged with inciting a riot. Three others were booked on the same charge as accomplices.
Kenneth Adams, 35, a member of the Anniston, Ala., white citizens council board of directors, was identified as the apparent leader of the attack on Mr. Cole.
Police said they had been tipped there might be trouble at the municipal auditorium where Mr. Cole was scheduled to appear before a packed audience of 3,000 white people.
K.C. National Guard To Dedicate Armory
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (UP)— Kansas will dedicate its newest and largest national guard armory May 5 with Army Chief of Staff Gen. Maxwell B. Taylor participating in ceremonies' for the million-dollar plant.
Financed with the aid of a $500-000 Kansas City bond issue, the armory will provide headquarters for eight guard units. It is the 28th occupied since 1953 in Kansas, continuing program of erecting armories for its guardsmen. Ten others are under construction and financing has been completed for three others.
7 Die In Separate Alaskan Air Crashes
ANCHORAGE Alaska (UP)— Seven persons were killed and one other seriously injured in two separate plane crashes in southwestern Alaska the past two days.
All six persons aboard a Cordova Airlines plane died when the craft crashed Monday and a bus pilot was killed and his passenger injured when their light plane crashed yesterday.
Polio Foundation To Continue
NEW YORK (UP)—Basil O'Connor has no intention of shutting down the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis when polio is beaten. Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the nationwide Salk inoculation program which has brought his dream of conquering polio nearer reality than ever before.
Canadian Ambassador Quits
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UP) - President Eisenhower today nominated Livingston Merchant, assistant secretary of State for European affairs,
as the new U.S. ambassador to Canada. Mr. Merchant will succeed R. Douglas Stuart, whose resignation was announced by the White House today.
Missiles To Ring Okinawa
FORT BUCKER, Okinawa (UP)
—The U.S. Army will ring Okinawa, America's Pacific island fortress, with eight Nike guided missile sites to bolster defenses against an air attack, it was announced
Governor Fills A Vacancy
HALSTEAD (UP)—Paul N. Wilkinson is Halstead's new justice of the peace. He was appointed by Gov. Fred Hall Tuesday to fill a vacancy.
Some 20 million of the 57,000,000 passenger car drivers in this country are women.
Hearing Continues In Marine Deaths
PARRIS, ISLAND, S. C. (UP)—The bodies of six teen-age Marine recruits lay in flag-draped coffins today while a court of inquiry got the facts from their buddies about a sergeant's "discipline" that took them on a march of death by drowning.
The three-officer court, sitting in the administration building of this 25-square-mile recruit training depot, heard testimony from numerous six-week trainees from the ill-fated 71st platoon.
Sitting with his counsel as a party of the hearing—now in its second day—was quiet. 31-year-old S/Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon. Last Sunday Sgt. McKeon, an eight-year Marine veteran, marched 73 members of the platoon through the moonless, windy night into a salt creek swollen by high tide.
Chicago Hotel Fire Kills One
CHICAGO (UP) — A fire in the Atlas Hotel on the edge of Chicago's honky-tonk district last night killed one man and sent 150 persons fleeing to the street. The dead man was identified as Ernest Lewis, a 35-year-old transient.
First To File For Elector
TOPEKA (UP)—A Lawrence lawyer, George K. Melvin, todav was the first Kansan to file as a candidate for Republican presidential elector. Mr. Melvin, a former state senator, paid his $10 filing fee Tuesday.
Stevenson Wins Confidence Vote
CHICAGO (UP)—Adlai E. Stevenson won a home-state Democratic vote of confidence over Sen. Estes Kefauver and raced neck-and-neck with President Eisenhower in the Illinois presidential primary today.
A late surge of Eisenhower votes from downstate Illinois and Chicago suburban towns brought the President's total on the GOP ballot almost even with Mr. Stevenson's Democratic count.
Mr. Stevenson and the President fought it out in a state where the Democrat is former governor but which Mr. Eisenhower won when they were rival presidential candidates in 1952.
62 Killed In Clash On Moroccan Front
ALGIERS. Algeria (UP)—French troops trapped a strong band of Algerian rebels near the Moroccan frontier today. At least 62 men were killed in the battle which still is raging, authorities reported.
Reports reaching field headquarters said reinforced French troops were trying to cut off the rebel escape routes to the interior. The reports said at least 52 rebels have died in the fighting since yesterday afternoon. French losses were given as 10 dead and at least 10 wounded
2 Posts Appointed By Pope
WASHINGTON (UP)—Pope Pius XII has appointed a new auxiliary bishop for the west coast. Msr. Thomas E. Gill was appointed auxiliary to Archbishop Thomas A. Connolly of Seattle, Wash. and The Very Rev. Fichard Ackerman auxiliary to Bishop Charles Buddy of San Diego, Calif.
A large refinery can process enough wax in one day to coat 6- 110,000 milk cartons.
SEOUL (UP)—U. S. authorities charged today the Communists "wantonly launched an attack" across the truce line against a South Korean outpost on the "Iron Triangle" front before dawn yesterday.
U.S. Charges Communists
Michigan State University at East Lansing is the oldest institution in the world devoted to teaching scientific agriculture.
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