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Dulles Warns NATO On Soviet Aggression
PARIS (U.P.)—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned the North Atlantic Treaty Organization today that the Soviet Union has launched a new cold war offensive in the Middle East and Asia.
In an address to the opening session of the North Atlantic Council, Mr. Dulles said the new Soviet strategy is a serious threat.
Speaking to the assembled foreign, defense and treasury ministers of the 15 NATO nations, Mr. Dulles noted that the Soviets have the potential to act decisively.
He said the Soviets were offering both aid and technicians in the Middle East and Asia. He pointed out that Russia has huge stocks of arms to offer.
The Dulles speech reviewed in their entirety the Soviet's zigzags of policy for the past year.
He said the year started and ended with the cold war. He recalled that last year's annual NATO council meeting met under growing Soviet threats. Mr. Dulles recalled that his prophecies have come true that Russia would not carry out its threats against bringing Germany into NATO.
He pointed out that the conclusion of the Austrian treaty, the "pilgrimage" by Soviet leaders to Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia, and finally the Geneva Summit Conference all were part of a puzzling year.
He speculated that Soviet policy was triggered by "a mixture of sense and strength, fear and remnants of Stalinist philosophy."
He said he did not notice any desire on the part of the Soviet Union to return to the "direct action" of the first 10 post-war years such as the coup d'etat in Czechoslovakia and Berlin blockade.
Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mt. Everest, regards a much lower Himalayan peak, 22,310-foot Ama Dablam, as "the most fantastically difficult peak any of us have seen. It seems unclimable," he writes in the National Geographic Magazine.
Russia Rejects U.S. Food Offer
MOSCOW—(U.P.)—Russia said today it has tipped an American offer to sell the Soviets surplus American farm products because the West refuses to lower the barrier on trade in strategic goods.
A statement by the official Soviet news agency Tass confirmed that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov discussed the sale of American surplus farm products last Nov. 13 at Geneva.
But it said Mr. Molotov told Mr. Dulles it was not necessary to discuss selling farm products but rather to eliminate barriers to all international trade.
The Tass dispatch said of the Dulles-Molotov conversations:
"It was pointed out by the Soviet side that there was a generally-recognized necessity for the development of contact between the countries, especially concerning the restoration of normal conditions in international trade, and that it was necessary to discuss not the particular case of selling farm products but the elimination of barriers put up in recent years and the task of developing international trade specifically between the U. S. and the U.S.S.R."
The Soviet statement pointed out Russia is trading with many countries on "a mutual basis and on the basis of mutual benefits."
Popular Girl
HOLLAND, Mich. —(U.P.)-Isla Van Eenenaam was chosen homecoming queen at Muskegon, Mich. High last year. The students at Hope College here picked her to be their homecoming queen two months after she started college.
Lausche To Run For Nomination
COLUMBUS, O.-(U.P.)-G o v. Frank J. Lausche announced yesterday he would be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination next year.
The five-term governor announced he would seek Ohio's 56 delegates to next year's Democratic national convention. He would not say if he would permit his name to be entered in contests for delegates in other states.
"My statement speaks for itself," the governor said. The statement was a letter to a county Democratic chairman saying he would enter the May 8 primary for Ohio delegates next year.
Gov. Lausche, who often has expressed publicly his admiration for President Eisenhower, thus became the second person to announce to the country's highest office. Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic standard-bearer in 1952, has announced he will seek the nomination again.
Gov. Lausche, 60, a Catholic, had been expected to announce he would be Ohio's "favorite son" candidate. His announcement came the day before Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) was expected to announce he would be a candidate and seek delegates from Ohio.
Gov. Lausche, who has constantly ignored the Democratic organization, has been a consistent winner in a state which elects Republican senators, state officials, and a GOP controlled legislature.
Otto Braun Is Dead
LOCARNO, Switzerland—(U.P.)—Former Prussian Prime Minister Otto Braun, who left Germany when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, died today from a heart attack following pneumonia.
No major ieague baseball player has equalled or passed Babe Ruth's one-month output of 17 home runs hit in September, 1927, the year he set the seasonal record of 60 homers.
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Longer School Year Urged; Elementary School Aid Up
(Compiled from United Press by Daily Kansan Editors)
State Superintendent Adel F. Throckmorton recommended yesterday that the Kansas school year be lengthened to provide a full 180 days of classroom teaching.
U.S. Soldiers Look For War Dead
BERLIN—(U.P.)—The Soviets lifted the Iron Curtain enough today to permit 12 U. S. soldiers to enter the Soviet zone in a search for American war dead.
The soldiers entered the Soviet zone from West Berlin in a convoy of five army sedans and four trucks.
The Soviet sentry lifted a red and white barrier on Glienicker Bridge at 10 a.m. (3 a.m. EST) and the convoy entered without a hitch.
The armed Soviet sentry saluted each of the American vehicles smartly.
American authorities believe 131 American victims of World War II are buried in East Germany, most of the men fliers killed in plane crashes.
Permission to enter the Soviet zone today was granted the Army by the Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany.
The convoy was escorted into East Germany by Col. Emery E. Bellobby, chief of the U. S. liaison mission to the Soviet zone.
Jet Airliner Sets Speed Record
OMAHA-(U.P.)-A flight from Seattle, Wash., to Omaha was completed in two hours and 25 minutes for an average speed of 640 miles per hour by a Boeing 707—the prototype of the transports being built for commercial airlines.
The 1,350-mile cruise was made at 37,000 feet yesterday. The giant airliners are expected to enter commercial service within two years.
He said the latest figures showed only 11.3 per cent of Kansas elementary and high school pupils have a full nine-month term of school as defined by law, Kansas, he asserted, ranks 43rd among the states in pupil days spent in the classroom.
Mr. Throckmorton said the first step in lengthening the school year should be taken by local communities instead of enforced on a wide scale by legislative action.
"If teachers were to give nine calendar months of school service and were paid on that basis, rather than on the four-week month plan, solution to the problem would soon be reached," he wrote.
In Topeka today, Mr. Throckmorton said increased enrollment and improved teacher qualifications have combined to boost state aid to Kansas elementary schools to its highest level since the program went into effect in 1949.
State aid will total $17,585,870 this year. That amount betters last year's aid by nearly $300,000.
The money, obtained from the retail sales tax fund, is divided among the schools on the basis of an intricate formula including enrollment and teachers qualifications.
Hazardous Work
OGDEN, Utah (U.P.)-USO director Helen Mcmonald says the organization's success is heartwarming, but she's having trouble filling the ranks of junior hostesses. In a six-week period, 10 left to be married—five of them to servicemen they met at the USO.
Olympic National Park, a vast preserve in the heart of the isolated Olympic Peninsula of Washington State, is the only United States park that holds both snowcapped mountains and ocean beaches.