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Battle Touted in Houses Over Minority Leader
Washington — (U.P)—A bone-shaking Republican battle in the House of Representatives over the minority leadership in the 84th Congress was touted today on the basis of reports that Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr., does not want the job.
Some of Mr. Martin's friends were organizing a campaign to keep him as party leader and to prevent that responsibility from going to Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R-Ind.) who fear and suspect might be President Eisenhower's choice. They were confident Mr. Martin would continue, even if reluctantly.
Rep. Martin's retirement from the leadership, to become a less harried elder statesman in the House, could not fail to boost Rep. Halleck toward the 84th Congress minority leader-ship. Mr. Halleck is majority leader under Mr. Martin's speakership in the expiring 83rd Congress.
Mr. Halleck succeeded Rep. Martin as floor leader when Republicans controlled the 80th Congress. When the Democrats took over in the 81st Congress, Mr. Martin reverted to the leadership, displacing Rep. Halleck.
One of the organizers of the Martin-in-for-leader movement said that substantial opposition to Mr. Halleck has been developing.
"If Joe steps down now and Charley reaches for it, there will be a hell of a fight," a congressman told the United Press. "A group of old timers in the House will insist that Joe take on the leadership in the next congress. And when the chips are down, the 84th congress leader will be Joe Martin."
Mr. Martin said before this month's congressional election that he was of a mind to shuck the Republican leadership of the next house if his party failed to obtain a majority. He would have been pleased to continue as speaker. Martin was 70 years old Nov. 3.
There was some House anxiety that Mr. Eisenhower might intervene in the dispute through some of his White House aides. Washington remarked during the first two years of the Eisenhower administration that Mr. Halleck appeared to be considerably deeper within White House counsels than Mr. Martin. The President never disguised his admiration for and confidence in Mr. Halleck.
Blast Destroys Oklahoma School
Allen, Okla. —(U.P)— Allen's High school was a shamble today from a natural gas explosion touched off by the school superintendent's hunt for a gas leak with a lighted match.
The blast yesterday injured nearly 50 persons, most of them pupils, seriously enough to require hospitalization. There were no fatalities, although Fire Chief Harvey Butler said "I still don't see how they got out alive."
Hospitals in Ada and Holdenville where the injured were taken, said they had treated 46 persons by early today.
Superintendent J. N. McKeel who suffered severe shock, said he had had no reason to believe there was a general gas leak, and he was checking a heating stove connection with a lighted match.
During the 1907 football season the Nebraska team scored 323 points, playing a 10-game schedule.
Dave Brubeck's "Jazz Goes to College" is outselling Liberace according to a recent Columbia records' album division report.
Dimitri Mitropoulos and the New York Philharmonic Symphony orchestra recorded Shostakovich's "Tenth Symphony" for Columbia records five days after presenting the work at its American premiere.
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French Warships Sent To Rescue Vietnamese
Saigon, Indochina — (U.P.)— France ordered seven warships to northern Indochina today to rescue thousands of Roman Catholic natives reported fleeing from Communist persecution.
The Catholic refugees were reported fleeing to the sea coast.
Reports reaching here also said some 20,000 to 40,000 Catholic Vietnamese were attempting to escape by canoe, raft, and "anything that floats."
The mass flight was said to have been sparked by a Red crackdown on religion behind the Geneva ceasefire line.
Yesterday, a French ship saved 4,000 of the refugees from a rising tide that threatened the sandbank on which they had taken refuge off the coast.
To prevent loss of life in a rattle-trap armada of escape craft said to be forming in coastal waterways, French authorities ordered the seven warships to steam to Haiphong—the vital North Vietnamese port still temporarily in French hands under the terms of the Geneva truce.
The aircraft carrier Bois Belleau (Belleau Wood) headed the rescue mission.
Reports of the plight of native Catholics were received here just as Indochina's Red leader, Ho Chi Minh, was extending an invitation to former French residents of Hanoi to return to the Red-run city.
Ho extended his invitation and promise of "good treatment" to a correspondent of the semi-official French agency in his first interview with a Western newsman in almost a year. He promised Frenchmen would be "well received" if they returned to Communist Hanoi.
Mitchell To Resign Before Victory Fete
His words were hollow against the reports of the harsh treatment of native Catholics.
In 1910 Nebraska defeated Haskell 119-0, the most points ever scored in one game by a Nebraska team.
New Orleans —(U.P.) Democratic National Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell said yesterday he would resign in time for the election of a new chairman at a "victory dinner" here Dec. 3-4 of party leaders. Rep. Hale Boggs of Louisiana, James Finnegan of Philadelphia, and Paul Butler of Indiana have been mentioned prominently as successors to Mr. Mitchell.
Catawaba college, Salisbury, SC. scored in 89 consecutive football games.
Kansas City defeated Rainbow A.C. 234-2 during the 1923-24 basketball season.
Hull Rejects Plane Charge
Tokyo—(U.P.)-Gen. John E. Hull, U.S. Far East emchant, angrily rejected today Soviet charges that the B-29 plane shot down by Soviet MIGS Sunday was over or near Russian-held islands.
"Not by the wildest stretch of the imagination could it be considered over Russian-held territory," Mr. Hull said. "At no time was it near the Soviet base."
Mr. Hull referred to the Soviet MIG base on the southern end of Kunashiri island, southernmost of the Kurile chain which was given to Russia n the now controversial Yalta agreement.
He said the plane also was "fired on without warning and did not return fire."
Two Red MIGs flew out of the sum and shot down the plane without warnings. Ten crewmen parachutited to safety but the 11th was killed. His death brought the number of Americans killed by Russian pilots in the Far East in such incidents to 36.
"A more flagrant incident would hardly be possible," Mr. Hull told newsmen.
The Soviet Union countercharged that the B-29 violated "state frontiers of the Soviet Union in the area of Tanfilevy, Kurrie islands" and fired first against the MIG pilots.
U. S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, sent a note to the Russian government yesterday strongly protesting the act.
But Col. Albert M. Welsh, commander of the reconnaissance group to which the plane was attached, said the B-29 did not intrude over Russian territory.
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Democrats Praise Harlan Nomination
Washington—(U.P.)Two Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today praised President Eisenhower's nomination of a jurist-appellate Judge John Marshall Harlan-to the Supreme Court.
The White House was expected to send the nomination of Judge Harlan, 55-year-old New York Federal Circuit court judge and a Republican, to the Senate today but it was not certain whether the upper chamber would act on it during the current session on censuring Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy.
Sens, Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) and Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (D-Mo.), members of the judiciary committee which must approve the appointment, praised the selection of a judge to succeed Justice Robert H. Jackson who died of a heart attack last month. Sen. Kefauver said he saw no "difficulties" in the way of Judge Harlan's confirmation.
The Tennessee Democrat said he has a "very high opinion" of Judge Harlan and said he was glad Mr. Eisenhower had selected someone "who has come up through the courts." Sen. Hennings agreed.
"By and large, it contributes to the strength of the court to appoint, other things being equal, an eminent judge whose decisions have so commended him to the country, as have Judge Harlan's." Sen. Hennings declared.
If confirmed, Judge Harlan will be the third Republican on the high court and the second justice to be appointed by Mr. Eisenhower. A former counsel to the New York State Crime commission, Judge Harlan is the grandson and name-sake of a famous justice who served 34 years on the court.
The White House was also expected to send to the Senate the nomination of Atomic Energy Commissioner Joseph Campbell as controller general. Mr. Eisenhower announced both appointments yesterday.
Mr. Campbell, 54-year-old New York Republican, was appointed to AEC last year. As comptroller general, Mr. Campbell would head the general accounting office—"watchdog" for congress on government financial matters. The term is for 15 years' at an annual salary of $17,-500.
If the Senate fails to act on the nominations at the present session, Mr. Eisenhower could give Judge Harlan and Mr. Campbell recess appointments and resubmit them when the new congress convenes in January.
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French Try To Wipe Out Terrorists
Algiers, Algeria—(U.P.)—Thousands of French paratroopers and African cavalry moved into the forbidding Aures mountains of Southeastern Algeria today in the start of "phase two" of a campaign to wipe out terrorist bands.
The French troops, believed to be half a division strong, were seeking 3.000 members of the black-turbanted rebel "Army of God" which unleashed a wave of violence and bloodshed more than a week ago.
Scores of patrols wound up the dusty canyons and ravines from a dozen different army strongpoints established in the mountains to end the terrorism and sabotage. Setting up the bases was phase one of the huge operation.
A French officer said the outlaws were grouped "in extremely fluid bands," and that "in order to make contact with them and wipe them out, we must use their tactics." This involved a yard-by-yard search of the forbidding mountain area.
Local authorities said terrorist sabotage had decreased since the troops appeared in the footballs. They also believed there was a direct connection between the decline of outlaw aggressiveness and the roundup of 400 Nationalist agitators and political extremists in Algeria's main cities.
However in Cairo, Algerian Nationalist Leader Mohammed Khider, a former deputy in the French national assembly, said the guerrilla war will continue and expand regardless of French measures. He said Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian nationalists were "completely unified."
The French meanwhile landed 740 more paratroopers, republican guards and gendarmes at the Algerian port of Bone last night.
In 1954 the International Association of Rattlesnake Hunters bagged nearly a ton of squirrining killers near Okeene, Okla. Much of the catch goes to biological laboratories for milking of venom, used in the manufacture of snakebite serum.
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