Anti-Reds Seize Romanian Legation
Bern, Switzerland —(U.P.)— A band of Anti-Communists armed with hand grenades and tommyguns seized the Romanian legation in a burst of gunfire today and vowed to hold it until Romania releases five resistance fighters from Iron Curtain jails.
The legation chauffeur, Aurel Fetu, was shot fatally during the brief attack in which the legation was seized.
The Swiss government said the anti-Commist refugees shot their way into the legation chancellery and the home of the Romanian Charge Daffaires, driving Communist officials out of the buildings in one of the most unusual incidents of the cold war.
The action placed neutral Switzerland in the midst of an international crisis similar to one in Copenhagen, Denmark, where police and detectives were besieging the Romanian legation in belief the Communists were holding hostage the child bride of a Romanian who these freedom.
Police said a band of five to seven Romanian anti-Reds stormed into the legation buildings and ousted the consular staff in a night attack just before midnight and achieved complete control of the legation early today.
A burst of gunfire chopped down the Communist legation's chaufeur, who touched off the shooting when he tried to block the invasion, officials said.
Swiss police, wearing steel helmets against the threat of further shooting, ringed the consulate buildings in a usually quiet Bern park this morning and arrested one of the anti-Communists who tried to slip out of the legation.
Two others were reported to have fled, but a holdout group remained
The Swiss cabinet held a special morning session and the foreign department, Switzerland's State department, held urgent consultations with advisers on international
law. They were seeking some means to which Swiss police could clean out the snakes under diplomatic protection that accerses the legation Romanian territory.
In the Copenhagen incident detectives could only ring the legation as they have for three days and nights since Ion Cimbu. 25, a legation chauffeur "borrowed" $850 in legations funds and asked authorities for permission to stay in Denmark. He said his 15-year-old wife, Maria Cimbu, was being held as a decoy to lure him back to Communism.
"We have nothing to lose," he velled.
A spokesman for the anti-Communists still in the building shouted in German to police that the band would hold out "to the last."
The spokesman said the five Democratic resistance fighters held by the Communists were Gen. Adion Aldea, Bishop Sudiu, Ilak Lazar, Anton Mursanu and B. Bretianu.
India Day Event Set for Friday
A show of Indian costumes and a speech on "Long-range Relations between India and the United States" will highlight an India day program at 7 p.m. Friday in the Jayhawk room of the Union.
The program is sponsored by the Indian Students club. Gardner Murphy, associate clinical psychologist will be the guest speaker. The master of ceremonies will be Shant Swaroop Tangri, graduate student.
An arts and crafts exhibition and refreshments will be on the program also. Several short movies will be shown, and the story of India in music will be given by Mr. Tangri.
It takes 10 tons of falling water to generate one kilowatt-hour of electricity.
YOUR EYES
should be examined today, Call for appointment. Lany lens or Prescription duplicated. LAWRENCE OPTICAL CO. Phone 425 1025 Mass.
John S. Garland, education junior,
was elected president of the German
club for the spring semester,
recently. Other officers are:
Donald Martin, college sophomore, vice
president; Johanna Forssberg,
college sophomore, secretary-treasurer;
Jane Ziesenis, college freshman,
and Theodore Wilkinson, college
junior, refreshment committee.
German Club Elects Semester Officers
Same Site May House 56 Party Conventions
Chicago—(U.P.)—Democratic leaders called for advertisers today to help them pay for the party's 1956 convention in Chicago's International Amphitheatre.
Meanwhile, Chicagoans mapped plans to talk Republicans into also holding their convention in the air-cooled amphitheatre, located next door to Chicago's world-famed stockyards.
If they succeed, the 12-thousand-seat amphitheatre will be the scene of the two big political conventions for the second time running.
The deal to rent the amphitheatre to the Democrats was closed yesterday in a meeting between Hy Raskin, representing Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler, Jacob M. Arvey, Democratic National Committeeman from Illinois, and William Wood Prince, president of the Union Stock Yards Company which owns the big hall.
The cost will be $6,500 a day and Raskin said an exposition will be held in the amphitheatre's north wing to help pay expenses.
Although the details weren't worked out, amphitheatre manager M. E. Thayer planned to invite 100 of the nation's biggest advertisers to set up exhibits.
The first $20 thousand gained from such advertising revenues will be knocked off the Democrat's rent.
Mr. Thayer said the Republicans will be offered the same deal when a big Chicago delegation presents the windy city's case to the Republican central committee next week.
Strong bids were also expected from Jesse Stone and Philadelphie deLartana, delusions.
Mr. Butler said in Washington that the convention had tentatively been scheduled for July 23. But he still hoped for an Aug. 13 date if state restrictions on when candidates can be put on the ballot can be overcome.
Red Truce Aim Called Sincere
United Nations, N.Y.—(U.P.)—Dipolomatic observers in Moscow reported today the Soviet government apparently was dead serious in its attempts to find some way of reducing the boiling point of the Formosa crisis.
They noted the expressions of support given to Communist China by the Soviet leaders were couched in the most general tones and that Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulginan promised aid only "when the necessity arises."
They were much milder than statements by Chinese Communist Chairman Mao Tze-Tung and Premier Chou En-Lai warning the United States it would be "wiped clean from the surface of the globe" in any World War III.
Signs that diplomatic circles in Moscow still were active in search for a Fomosan cease-fire were seen in conferences yesterday between Indian Charge D'Affaires Prakash Kaul and Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov.
Both India and Russia favor a Formosan conference that would exclude Nationalist China. Britain and the United States oppose any conference at which Chiang Kai-shek would not be represented. The Peiping ambassador to Moscow expressed support of a 10-nation conference as proposed by Moscow.
Dance Tickets Give Chances on Album
A chance for a free album of Ralph Flanagan's music is the extra bonus offered ticket purchasers to the Flanagan dance Feb. 26 in addition to an entertainment filled evening.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and $ \textcircled{*} $
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday a drawing will be held and the person holding the ticket number corresponding with the number drawn will receive an autographed album of Flanagan's music. The number drawn will be announced in the Daily Kansan.
The nightclub atmosphere will be emphasized throughout the evening. Cigarette girls handing out free cigarettes, high powered cock-
"Music to Play & Sing"
Needed
Flanagan's appearance here will highlight the annual Night Club party to be held Saturday, Feb. 26 from 8 until 12 p.m. in the Union ballroom. Tickets are on sale for $2.50 a couple at the concession stand and information booth of the Union. The dance is sponsored by the Student Union Activities board. About 500 tickets have been sold.
Student Union Bookstore
needs a few copies of
ails spiked with soda pop. and se- luded side rooms for the whisper- ng of sweet nothings.
"Music to Play & Sing"
Dr. Jorgensen
sell—Please bring it in.
If you have a clean copy to
809 Mass.
Tuesday, February 15, 1955 University Daily Kansan ___
COLLEGE JEWELER
Journalism Scholarship Told
Establishment of a $200 annual Clyde M. Reed scholarship has been announced by Dean Burton W. Marvin, of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
The Parsons Sun, of which the late Senator Reed was publisher for more than three decades, will provide the award. Preference will be given students from the Parsons area preparing for journalism careers at KU. Clyde M. Reed Jr., is publisher of the Parsons Sun and beginning his second term as president of the William Allen White foundation.
Sen. Reed, who died in 1949 at
the age of 78, was elected U.S. senator in 1938 and re-elected in 1944. He was governor of Kansas 1929-31 and chairman of the predecessor of the Kansas Corporation commission 1921-24. Earlier he served 30 years in the railway mail service, becoming head of the railway adjustment division in Washington, D.C.
His forthright editorial policies and direction of the Parsons Sun after he acquired the controlling interest in 1917 brought about his election in 1953 to the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame maintained at KU.
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This week's column is devoted to a few of the many interesting letters that have been coming in:
SIR:
Maybe you can help me, I came up to college eight years ago. On my very first day I got into a bridge game at the Students Union. I am still in the same bridge game. I have never gone to a class, cracked a book, or paid any tuition. All I do is play bridge.
To explain my long absence and keep the money coming from home, I told a harmless little lie. I said I was in medical school. This made Dad (my father) very proud. It also enabled me to keep playing bridge. We were both terribly happy.
But all good things must come to an end. Mine ended last week when I was home for spring vacation. I arrived to find that Sister (my sister) was in the hospital with an ingrown spleen. Dr. Norbert Sigafoos, the eminent ingrown spleen surgeon, was scheduled to operate, but unfortunately he was run over by a hot-food cart on the-way to the scrubbing room.
"Oh, never mind," chuckled Dad (my father). "Harlow (me) will fix Sister (my sister)."
There was nothing for it but to brazen it out. I got Sister (my sister) apart all right, but I must confess myself completely at a loss as to how to put her back together again. Can you suggest anything? They're getting pretty surly around here.
Well sir, what could I do? If I told the truth I would make a laughingstock out of Dad (my father) who had been bragging about me all over town. Also I would get yanked out of school which would be a dirty shame just when I am getting to understand the weak club bid.
Dear Harlow,
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SIR:
Do you think a girl should kiss a fellow on their first date?
Blanche Carbohudrate
Dear Blanche.
Not unless he is her escort.
SIR:
Here is a rather amusing coincidence that may amuse your readers.
Just off the campus where I go to school there is a lake called Lake Widgiwagan where students from time immemorial have gone fishing. Thirty years ago when my father was an undergraduate here he went fishing one day at Widgiwagan and dropped his Deke pin into the water. Though he dived for it for many weeks, he never recovered it.
Just yesterday—thirty years later, mind you—I went fishing at Widgiwagan. I caught a four pound bass. When I got the fish home and opened it up, what do you think I found inside of it?
You guessed it! Two tickets to the Dempsey-Firpo fight.
Fleance Fat
Dear Fleance,
It certainly is a small world.
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