Gunman Misses Nasser In Assassination Try
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By UNITED PRESS
Egypt was in a state of emergency again today, this time because of an unsuccessful attempt on the life of young Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser.
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A plumber who lives in a suburb of Cairo fired eight shots a the 36-year-old Egyptian strong man yesterday while the premie was speaking at Alexandria.
Premier Nasser escaped injury but two men sitting near him on a balcony overlooking Alexandria's Republic square were wounded.
The plumber, Mahmoud Abdel Latif, said the Moslem brotherhood, an outlawed organization, assigned him to assassinate the premier. He said he tried to shoot the premier in Cario last week but couldn't get Premier Nasser in his pistol sight.
Pro-Nasser demonstrators set fire to the Moslem brotherhood headquarters in Cairo's El Gueduella district, the building's doors and windows.
Police rescued a number of brotherhood members inside the building after the headquarters had been partly gutted by the flames. None was injured.
Brotherhood leaders, who have accused the premier of selling out Egypt in the pact which calls for withdrawal of the British from the Suez Canal zone, were being rounded up or put under house arrest.
Other international developments:
Nice: Search parties have all but abandoned hope of finding the wreckage of a U.S. Army C-47 which crashed Sunday in the Alps with 21 Americans aboard.
Naples: Authorities feared flash floods in the Salerno area have killed more than 300 persons. If so, it would be Italy's most disastrous flood. Some 273 persons died in the 1951 flood, the country's worst until torrents of water began pouring down the mountains into Salerno yesterday.
Sheppard Jury Nearly Chosen
Cleveland - (U.P.) - The showdown battle for final selection of the jury to try Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard on murder charges reached the halfway mark today when his attorneys ordered dismissal of Juror No. 9, Victor F. Filimon, an oil company engineer.
Both prosecution and defense attorneys now have exhausted half of their allotted six peremptory challenges.
Filimon was the only college graduate among the 12 members of the panel. Sheppard's attorneys had been given two previous challenges to dismiss women.
Common pleas Judge Edward Blythin and the lawyers for both sides agreed that a full panel would be selected without the need of drawing additional names.
Sheppard, 30-year-old oestopath charged with the Independence day bludgeon-murder of his pregnant wife, Marilyn, 31, has dictated two rejections for the defense.
In the search for oil and gas, the Texas petroleum industry spends an estimated $60,000,000 annually for geophysical exploration.
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Peggy Hopfer, education junior, was elected vice president of Phi Sigma Chi, national pep club, at a convention held. Oct. 16 at the University of Wichita.
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Representatives attended the convention from the University of Kansas, Kansas State college, Washburn university, Iowa State college, University of Omaha, University of Nebraska, and University of Wichita.
Phi Sigma Chi holds meetings twice a year to give college pep club members new ideas. Last year the meeting was held at KU; next spring it will be held at K-State.
Maribeth Schellenberger, WU sophomore from Buhler, was elected corresponding secretary of the national organization. Only two officers were elected at the meeting.
Wichita's basketball coach, Ralph Miller, spoke at the meeting. Workshops and a business meeting comprised the rest of the program. Six Jay Janes from KU attended the convention.
, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1954
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how it is manufactured in the plant and the military requirements that must be followed. Mr. Schloesser later showed a movie and slides of, among other things, the four principle types of turbo jet engines.
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