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Storms, Floods Hit Wide Area in U.S.
Port Huron, Mich.—(U.P.)-Martial law was declared in Sarnia Ontario, today in the wake of a tornado which cut a 70-mile swath of death and destruction across southeastern Michigan and Ontario.
There were at least four dead and 39 hospitalized, with hundreds of others slightly injured by flying debris or damage was estimated at $2 million.
The weather bureau at Toronto, Ont., said the tornado whirled eastward over Lake Ontario during the night and dissipated early today at Watertown, N.Y. It was Canada's third tornado since weather bureau records were started 75 years ago.
Texas and Louisiana battled floods today and violent storms whipped across the Midwest.
The Chicaro weather bureau warned at mid-morning of the possibility of tornadoes late today in Indiana and Illinois south of a line extending from Quincy and Danville, Ill. to Crawfordsville, Ind.
Storm deaths for three days already total 19.
The floodwaters of the Sabine river rose menacingly today toward the top of sandbagged dikes protecting Orange, Texas.
"Orange will be hit hard" by the wcrst flood in the river's history, president of the Sabine river authority said.
An army of massive machinery 3,000 men, and 50,000 sandbags bulwarked the levees against the predicted crest of 9.5 feet at Orange, $1 \frac{1}{3}$ feet above the top of the leves, expected about 6 a.m. tomorrow.
Water rolled 4 inches deep over parts of U.S. 90 east of Orange when a seenge was carved in the levee
the torrenting, swirling water threatened a dike shielding 1,500 homes in the residential area of Orange.
Deweyville, Texas, and the surround-
ing area were covered with
tops to fly feet deep.
A wind and rain storm was believed to have caused the crash of a C-46 airplane east of Des Moines, Iowa, today, killing two persons. The Civil Aeronautics Administration said a violent thunderstorm that hit the area may have ripped a wing from the ship.
A windstorm struck Watske, Ill. 65 miles south of Chicago to 8 a.m. No deaths were reported but trees, telephone and power lines were felled.
GM,UAW Reach Pact Agreement
Detroit — (U.P.)— General Motors corporation and the CIO United Auto Workers today reached an agreement that will assure continuation of long-term contracts throughout the auto industry.
Negotiations opened Tuesday when the UAW-CIO demanded immediate settlement of pending issues. The union said it would refuse to consider re-negotiations of any long-term contract. Of the 16 contracts last year pact expires in 1955 unless revisions in the current contract were made by June 1.
In a joint statement, the company and union today announced amendments to their current pact. It included:
1. A 1-cent increase in the annual improvement factor.
2. Addition of 19 cents of the current 24-cents-an-hour cost of living allowance to the base wage rates of hourly-paid employees.
3. An increase of 10 cents an hour in wages of all skilled trades workers.
4. Transition from the "old" to the "new" governmental price index to govern operation of the cost-of-living escalator clause.
Nichols Gives Budget To Board of Regents
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, yesterday presented the University's budget request for the 1953-54 school year to the state board of regents at Topeka.
Figures on how much each school has been granted will not be made public until all budget hearings in the two-day session are finished.
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Refunds to Be Paid By Bookstore in July
Student Union bookstore patrons may get their patronage refunds after July 1, Verrey bookstore director, said today.
Rates for the refunds will be determined by the bookstore committee, he said. Refunds have amounted to 15 per cent of the purchasing sum in the past, with the amount determined from total profits.
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Dulles Questions Russian Motives
New Delhi —(U.P.)— U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today he sees no point in new "Big Four" talks while Communist armies remain in Korea and India-China and Russia continues to block an Austrian peace treaty.
Mr. Dulles' statement appeared to throw cold water on high hooves of British and French leaders that the United States would agree to a new top-level approach to Russia as an early sequel to the Big Three meeting scheduled this summer.
"I doubt that any important results could come out of a high-level conference which included the leaders of Soviet Russia so long as the Soviet bloc is promoting war and aggression in Korea and against Laos in Indo-China, and as long as in Europe they refuse to withdraw occupation troops from a small, in-offensive country like Austria."
He added that the United States although "entirely confident . . . that, if the Soviet Communist countries should start a general war, the end would be their own destruction," is concerned over the possibility that such a conflict might bring destruction to the whole world.
WDAF-TV Shut Down By Announcers Strike
Kansas City, Mo.—(U.P.)A strike of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists today halted operations of radio station WDAF and television station WDAF-TV.
Picket lines were set up at the stations before 6 a.m. when both were scheduled to go on the air. Engineers declined to cross the lines, paralyzing the broadcasting facilities.
The union and the Kansas City Star, operator of the stations, have negotiated for several weeks on new wage schedules. Union officials demand an incentive plan under which "artists would earn money as the company earned money."
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All UN member nations were represented except the Soviet bloc—Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, he said. "Although there were very slight political overtones, world politics played little part in the meeting." Dr. Murphy said.
"The assembly planned and approved the budget for the coming year, outlined a program of activity, and elected a new director-general to replace Dr. Brock Chism of Canada, who retired," he said.
Friday, May 22, 1953
Murphy Lauds Health Group As U.S. Good Will Builder
Dr. Murphy, who returned to Lawrence yesterday afternoon, has been one of three U.S. delegates to the World Health assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, the past three weeks.
"The World Health organization is a very fine example of pure practical international politics—one of the best ways the U.S. can build good will with other nations," Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said today.
—Kansan photo by Chuck Zueener
50th Year, No.150
MADAME BUTTERFLY—Mary Lee Haury, fine arts senior, as Madame Butterfly chooses a flower from the basket carried by her maid, played by Harriet King, fine arts junior, in yesterday's Opera Workshop production of a scene from Puccini's opera. It was one of four excerpts from operas presented in Fraser theater by students in the School of Fine Arts
Capt. Virgil Gordinier To Head Navy ROTC
Capt. Gordinier will assume command of the unit Sept. 1. Lt. Cmdr. Victor H. Brown, president administrative officer, will take charge of the unit during the summer months. Capt. Terrell joins the staff of the KU Endowment association this summer.
The new commandant, a native of Pratt. Kan., attended the University during the academic year 1920-21 before receiving an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.
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Capt, Gordinier is now serving on the staff of Rear Adm. A. M. Bledsoe, commandant of the 15th Naval district, in the Panama Canal zone.
Capt. Virgil F. Gordinier, has been chosen to command the Navy ROTC unit following the retirement of Capt. William R. Terrell this spring.
The captain and his wife, the former Mary Kridler, also a native of Pratt, will be accompanied to his new command by their 20-year-old
the WHO, one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations, will include malaria control, enforcing an international quarantine law, declaring illegal the use of heroin in countries where it now is legal, and control of smallpox.
The program set up will be administered by committees of technical specialists in each nation, Dr. Murphy said.
Asked if he would be a member of the U.S. delegation next year, Dr. Murmurry said, "The policy in the past has been to appoint new delegates each year but there is some feeling now to retain delegates for several years. I do not know if I will be appointed next year."
daughter, Mary Elizabeth, now a sophomore at Hood College, Frederick, Md.
Capt, Gordinian has served as an instructor at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., and has been assigned to headquarters, 13th Naval district, Seattle; Destroyer base, San Diego, Calif.; staff, commander in chief, United States Fleet, and the office of Naval Operations, Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C.
During World War II, Capt. Gordonier commanded two destroyers and a transport division. He took part in campaigns in the Solomon Islands, New Georgia, and Kula Gulf, and served as a task force commander of the Atlantic fleet. He was commanding officer of Adm. Solberg's flagship, the U.S.S. Wharton, during the atomic tests in the Pacific.
Medals and service awards Capt. Gordinier has received include the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, Yangtse Service, American Defense, American Area, Asiatic-Pacific, European-Africa-Middle Eastern area, World War II, China Service, Navv Occupation (Japan), and Philippine Liberation.
Weather
The expected storms in Kansas
in Kansai a s t night failed to develop, as a squall line played itself out to the north. M i n o r rainfall occurred in eastern Kansas. Chanute had a hot overnight low temperature of 75 degrees and Emporia had 74. The weather bureau
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weather bureau said indications
today were that the rain was past. Fair to partly cloudy skies, were predicted through Saturday. High temperatures tomorrow should be 70 to 80 degrees.
Hotly Debated Tidelands Bill Becomes Law
Washington — (U.P.) — President Eisenhower signed the controversial tidallands bill into law today, but served notice that he opposes giving states offshore oil rights beyond their historic boundaries.
The new law gives coastal states title to offshore lands out to their historic boundaries.
Mr. Eisenhower said in a statement that the new law recognizes the "ancient rights of the states in the submerged lands within their historic boundaries."
The President invited 12 senators and 34 representatives—including leaders in the fight for the bill—to watch him apply his signature. It was a turning point but by no means the end of the tidelands controversy.
The new law gives coastal states title to submerged lands out to their historic boundaries. These lie three miles seaward for all states except Texas and western Florida, whose boundaries are recognized as 10% miles into the Gulf of Mexico.
Opponents who have charged that the law amounts to a multi-billion dollar give-away of federal resources already have started wheels spinning for court tests aimed at killing it off.
Former President Truman twice vetoed similar legislation. The Supreme Court has held, in a series of decisions, that the federal government, "not the states," has "paramount rights" to the offshore lands, commonly known as the "tidelands."
Even before the new tidelands measure went to Mr. Eisenhower's desk, three states—Rhode Island, West Virginia, and Arkansas—served notice they would fight it in the courts.
However, Congressional advocates of state ownership, anticipating a new legal test, wrote a "court-proof" clause into the bill.
2 Men Captured In Topeka Robbery
Topeka—(U.P.)State and local officers captured two young men in an alfalfa field west of Topeka today and held them in connection with an armed robbery of a grocery here yesterday.
The men fled on foot from their automobile on State Highway 10. They ran into a wooded area near Mission Creek. Col. Hugh Edwards, superintendent of the Kansas Highway patrol, fired shots at the car before the men abandoned it.
They surrendered without returning fire, officers said. Police Patrolman Dudley Weed, who was with Edwards, said a .30 caliber rifle and a pistol were left in the automobile.
Arthur Hamrick, 21, Salina, and John Davis, 24, Minneapolis, Kan., were booked at Topeka city jail on a technical charge of vagrancy.
ROTC Officer Hurt In Swivel-chair Fall
Capt. George Ziman, assistant professor of air science, was taken to Watkins hospital yesterday when he suffered a head injury in a fall at the Military Science annex.
Capt. Ziman struck his head against a book case when a swivel-chair skidded from under him as he stood up. He suffered lacerations and a mild concussion.
Dr. Byron Walters, the attending physician, said Capt. Ziman would be released from the hospital today.