Page 6 University Daily Kansan Friday, May 7, 1954
Indochina Truce Plan Proposed by 3 Nations
Geneva, Switzerland — (U.P.) — France, Britain and the U.S. have reached general agreement on a four-point blueprint for ending the Indochina war, diplomatic officials said today.
France, which has most at stake in Indochina, plans to introduce the blueprint tomorrow at the scheduled beginning of peace negotiations.
Western sources said French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault sent the plan to the Frencie cabinet for final approval yesterday, shortly before Premier Joseph Landel won a vote of confidence from the National Assembly on his Indochina policy.
Diplomats in Washington said the blueprint would leave the Communist Viet Minh rebels in control of part of Viet Nam, one of the three associated states of Indochina.
U. S. sources at the conference said the blueprint calls for first, a complete withdrawal of Communist forces from Laos and Cambodia, two of the associated states.
Second, a complex armistice re-grouping in Viet Nam, largest of the states and scene of the major fighting. The Reeds would pull troops out of the Hanoi-Halongph delta area in North Vietnam and a No Man's Land would be set up under Indian forces in central Vietnam would withdraw to "fixed areas" and Red units in south Vietnam would withdraw companies or be disarmed.
Third, international guarantees against reinforcements of the Red strongholds during the armistice. Fourth, eventual free elections under supervision of the United Nations.
Ho Chih Minh's Communist rebels would not receive any territory they do not already hold, diplomats noted. The question now was whether the Communists would accept it.
Red China was expected to object strenuously to the fourth point of the plan because elections would be held under United Nations supervision.
Red China's Premier-Foreign Minister Chau En - Lai, discussing a similar proposal for U.N. supervised elections in Korea, has blasted the world organization as an aggressor in Korea.
Cachi has claimed that North Korea would suffer if its wartime enemy watched over the ballot boxes.
France was expected to make a final appeal for a "mercy truce" in Indochina, before starting the negotiations, in order to permit evacuation of wounded soldiers at Dien Bien Phu.
The French had hoped the Reds would agree to a truce before now, but sources said yesterday that the
Pershing Rifles Give Officer Gift
Norman Gates, engineering junior, was re-elected commanding officer of the Pershing Rifles recently and Capt. Calvin E. Glidewell assistant professor of military science, was given a going-away present.
Other officers chosen were engineering senior, re-elected executive officer; John Hunt, engineering freshman, training and operations officer; Eugene Gooding, graduate, public information officer; Pat Canary, engineering sophomore, company clerk, and Robert Cooper, college freshman, 1st sergeant.
Capt. Glidewell, who is leaving the ROTC unit this spring, was given a billfold and key case in appreciation of his work as the Pershing Rifles' adviser.
Chinese Communists relayed word from Ho Chu Minh's delegation that truce talks should wait until after negotiation begin.
Writing Contest Open to Women
Manuscripts for the Edna Osborne Whitcomb scholarship awards for short stories, poems, essays, and original compositions may now be submitted to the English department, 203 Fraser.
The competition is open to women English majors only, including Language Arts with English emphasis, in the School of Education. Contests must be at least partially self-supporting.
Manuscripts should be typed, identified by a fictitious name, accompanied by a sealed envelope with the fictitious name on the outside and inside contain the fictitious name, real name, address, statements that the manuscript is original work, the amount of self-support, and a signature.
The deadline for submitting manuscripts is Monday, May 17.
Judges for the contest will be Mrs Natalie Calderwood, assistant professor of English; Walter J. Messer, assistant professor of English, and Arvid Shulenberger, assistant professor of English.
Winners last year were Dorothy Shade, education senior, and Ann Ivesten Smith. 54.
First prize will be worth $75; second $50, and third, $25.
SUA Dinner Honors Board
The eight new board members of Student Union Activities were announced Wednesday night at the annual SUA recognition dinner.
They are William Buck, Ann Algie and Mary Ellen Lewis, college sophomores; Ruth Henry, fine arts sophomore; Jack Frost, engineering junior; Dean Graves, engineering sophomore; John Benson, engineering Hughes, education junior. They were presented by Ludwig Smith, engineering junior, and newly elected president of SUA.
China mugs with the individual names on them were given by Frank Burge, Union director to students who had done outstanding work on Student Union Activities. A special mug was presented to Mrs. Betty Dixon, past president of SUA.
Marilyn Hawkinson, college senior, and past president of SUA, presented the officers for next year. They are Ludwig Smith, engineering junior; president; Althea Rexroad, education junior, vice president; Rollin Peschke, college sophomore, treasurer, and Suzanne Schwantes, college sophomore, secretary.
"The Anatomy of Misunderstanding?" will be the topic of William Conboy instructor in speech, who will speak on the Sociology on the Air program Sunday. The broadcast, which is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, will be heard over KLWN at 3 p.m.
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Tokyo —(U.P.)— A Japanese medical scientist claimed today that the U.S. has exploded its fourth hydrogen weapon at the Bikini test grounds.
Fourth H-Bomb Was Detonated Scientist Says
The scientist, Prof. Yasushi Nishiwaki, said he based his report on a detailed Geiger analysis of rainfall.
The H-wepon was detonated about April 25, the Osaka Municipal Medical university professor said.
"I cannot tell for sure but from our past experiences I would say that a new hydrogen bomb has been exploded sometime before or after April 25 in the Bikini area," Prof. Nishiwaki said.
Prof. Nishiwaki said his earlier investigation showed an increase in radioactive rainfall approximately 12 days after the last two announced hydrogen tests at Bikin.
Rain fell in Osaka early yesterday, and Prof. Nishiwiaki said his Geiger counter pounded at 30 beats a minute, compared with an average five-beat count the two previous days.
But he pointed out that the test Geiger alarm was not as strong as the ones he recorded after the last two rounds tests. He reported 50 to 80-batt counts about 12 days after the announced March 18 and April 6 nuclear explosions.
He started checking rain in mid-March when the tuna boat "Fortunate Dragon" returned to Japan from the Bikini area, with 23 atomised fishermen and a hold full of radioactive tuna.
The ship was contaminated by the March 1 explosion, first in the current U.S. tests at Bikini.
Injuries suffered by the fishermen touched off extensive Geiger inspections of everything from tuna or horses arriving in Japan by ship from the South Pacific.
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Kappa Beta Dinner to Be Tonight
The annual senior banquet of Kappa Beta, student women's club of the Christian church, will be held at 6 p.m. today in the Student Union.
Dean Harold G. B.arr of the School of Religion will present a program of slides showing various missions in foreign lands.
The banquet marks the assumptions of duties by Mary Valentine, college sophomore, president-elect, who succeeds Barbara Shaw, education junior.
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