University Daily Kansan Monday, Jan. 19, 1953
Mossadegh Group Stages Protest Riot
Tehran, Iran—U.R.P.)—Sporadic demonstrations broke out in Iran today as supporters of Nationalist Premier Mohammed Mossadeg threatened to blow up the world's largest oil refinery at Abadan unless the premier receives an extension of his dictatorial powers.
The premier has asked parliament which sat an extraordinary session again today, to grant him a one yea extension of his special powers.
Premier Mossadgeh's followers set tomorrow as the deadline for carrying out of their pledge.
The entire population of the refinery town and vicinity went on strike today in support of Premier Mossadegh, who has asked for the dictatorial powers to aid in settling the Anglo-Iranian oil dispute which has idled the huge refinery.
Approximately 50,000 inhabitants of Abadan and the oil-rich Khuzistan province have been virtually unemployed since the British Anglo-Iranian Oil company concession was closed in 1951 by Iran's nationalization of the oil industry.
All offices and shops in Abandan were closed today and the people indicated they backed the Nationalists who threatened to blow up the refinery.
14 Still Missing In 2 Air Crashes
Tokyo —(U.P.)— Conflicting reports from the Orient said 14 Americans were missing today after a Navy Neptune bomber was shot down off the Chinese coast and a rescue plane sped to the scene from Okinawa crashed when trying to take off.
Authorities said Communist shore batteries shot down the Navy plane four and one half miles from the Chinese mainland.
Navy officials would not admit the Neptune had been shot down by enemy forces.
A Coast Guard plane picked up 11 survivors of the 13-man crew aboard the Neptune, but caught afire and dove into the ocean when it attempted to take off.
British and U.S. destroyers rushed to the crash scene after they heard a distress message from the Neptune pilot just before he crashed and picked up seven of the survivors, it was unofficially reported.
A Navy release from both Tokyo and Pearl Harbor said 13 men were aboard the Neptune and eight aboard the rescue plane.
Floods Rage In Coast Area
Eureka, Calif.—(U.P.)-Four flooding rivers, that have already killed six persons and left hundreds homeless in Northern California and Southern Oregon, isolated several communities today.
More rain was forecast for the flood area today and the swollen, churning streams were expected to rise again.
U. S. Highway 101 was cut off by floods a few miles north of here and telephone circuits to the northwestern cities were completely cut off.
Three trainmen were killed Saturday night near here when a Northwestern Pacific locomotive was struck by an avalanche of mud and rock and swept into the swirling Eel river.
Rains of cloudburst proportions, drenched some areas with as much as four inches in the last 24 hours and Klamath and Eel rivers in California. The river Umpqua and Willamette rivers in Oregon, surged over their banks.
The smaller coastal costal towns were feeling the full brunt of the elements as rain-swollen tributaries, rushing toward the ocean, met storm-driven tides from the sea.
Official to Interview Students
A representative of the North American Aviation company will interview students interested in becoming statistical analysts and scheduling workers.
Veterans Deny Spy Charges
Washington — (U,P)— Otta Verber and Kurt L. Ponger, two former GF's, pleaded innocent in strong firm voices today to charges they spied for Russia.
Government prosecutor Oran Waterman said during their arraignment that other persons may be in touch with other members of a Soviet spy net.
Waterman told Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff that the question of espionage indictments against other persons should be decided upon within a week or so.
Judge Holtzoff set March 2 as the tentative date for the start of the Verber-Ponger trial, even though the government requested a later date. Both Vienna-born Americans are in jail, unable to raise $50,000
Verber and Ponger, residents of New York, were arrested in Austria last week and flown here after they were indicted on charges of spying for Russia in a conspiracy with Yuri V. Novikov, second secretary of the Soviet embassy here.
Novikov, bowing to the State department's demand that he get out of the country, was originally scheduled to leave New York for Europe yesterday. But bad weather delayed arrival of his plane, and the flight was re-scheduled for today.
GraduateNamed College Head
A graduate and former instructor at the University has been named acting president of Emporia State college.
Dr. John E. Jacobs was named to the position by the board of regents to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. David L. MacFarlane.
Dr. Jacobs received his bachelor degree from Pittsburg State Teachers college. He majored in educational administration at the University, receiving his master's degree in education in 1935 and his Ph.D. in 1942.
Dr. Jacobs has been principal of the junior high school in Lawrence, and vice principal of Liberty Memorial high school. In 1945 he was appointed professor of education at the University and principal of University high school.
Prior to his appointment, Dr Jacobs was administrative assistant at Emporia.
Washington — (U.P)— Senate committees today completed approval of all Eisenhower cabinet appointments except the challenged choice of Charles E. Wilson to be defense secretary.
Senate Approves Cabinet Members
In quick succession, committees approved Sinclair Weeks of Boston to be secretary of commerce, Herbert Brownell Jr. of New York to be attorney general, and George M Humphrey of Cleveland to be secretary of treasury.
Other approved appointments were John Foster Dulles of New York, secretary of state; Douglas McKay of Oregon, secretary of interior; Ezra Taft Benson of Martin Parks of Chicago, secretary of labor, and Arthur E. Summerfield of Michigan, postmaster general.
TAKING THE OATH—These four students are shown as they are taking their oath of office in the Douglas county courthouse. They ran for the offices of constable and justice-of-the-peace in the November election. They are (left to right) Charles Hyer, business senior; Jay Oliver, pharmacy senior; William Johnson, education junior, and Lymon Frasier, college senior. Oliver and Frasier were sworn in to the offices of justice-of-the-peace, and Hyer and Johnson were sworn in as constables. The ceremony was officiated over by D. F. Mathia, deputy county clerk—Kansan photo by Ken Coy.
Ike to Become 34th President of U.S. In Colorful Inauguration Ceremony
By VELMA GASTON
Dwight D. Eisenhower, complete with Homburg hat, will become the 34th President tomorrow in the 49th inaugural ceremony.
As a large flag was raised over the balcony at the scene of the ceremony, Chancellor Livingston held up his hand and shouted, "Long Live George Washington, President of the United States." This settled the question and became the custom.
The ceremony will be witnessed by the largest audience in history, through the medium of television. The inauguration of President Tru-
deman was scheduled for time television was not available to all sections of the country.
The first inauguration of Washington in 1789 was held on the balcony of the Federal hall in New York. Members of Congress could not decide on what to call Washington, "His Highness," "Elective Majesty," "His Mightiness," had been suggested.
Washington's second inauguration was held in Philadelphia as was the inauguration of John Adams who succeeded him. The Adams ceremony lacked the spirit of the crowd that had existed at Washington's inauguration. The crowd surrounding Independence hall was not cheering Adams but the reining Washington. But it was the warm, farewell banquet was held in honor of Washington and the newly inaugurated Adams sat alone in his office.
Jefferson's inauguration lacked a crowd to cheer him as he became the top executive of the nation. He rode horseback and without even a servant accompanying him to the scene of his inauguration.
The first President to be inaugurated in an out-of-doors ceremony was James Monroe. A temporary building had been erected following the burning of the Capitol by the British, and Congress thought the building to be unsafe, with the crowd that would attend the ceremony. The out-of-doors ceremony belatedly became the custom.
President Monroe, however, was inaugurated indoors the second time because of the severe weather. The president was for the first time at this inauguration.
The first President to come to the scene of his inauguration by train was William Henry Harrison, who arrived on the Baltimore and Ohio
John Quincy Adams was the first President to wear long trousers instead of knee breeches at his inauguration.
railroad, which had just been completed.
Guards were posted along the streets to protect Lincoln from any would-be assassins' bullet at his exciting inauguration. The ceremony, however, proceeded smoothly.
Grant's two inaugurations were unique. The first inaugural parade was the largest and most spectacular of any that had preceded it. People rented windows of buildings centered on the streets for enormous sums.
At his second inauguration in 1873, the problem of heat for the temporary wooden building used for the inaugural ball was overlooked. The women were forced to cover the formal seating boots. He was and many of the guests left before the evening was designated to end.
Taft became president in one of the coldest inaugural ceremonies. A blizzard and severe weather allowed few spectators to be on the scene of the inauguration
and parade.
Calvin Coolidge was the first President to have the oath administered by his father, a notary public, Coolidge was called from his sleep by a message telling of the death of President Harding and the oath was taken at 2:47 am. in the Vermont farmhouse where he was born.
His second inauguration was the first ever heard on radio.
Harding, four years earlier, was the first to have a public address system. Hoover's inauguration was the first to be heard around the world on an international radio hookup. At Harding's inauguration, automobiles were used for the first time.
President Roosevelt's third and fourth inaugurations made history because it was the first time a President had been elected for a third and fourth term.
Tomorrow's inauguration will be especially memorable for Kansans because Eisenhower will be the first Kansan to be elected President.
The prisoners seized control of the prison last night, setting fire to buildings and smashing windows. They called the prison a "flophouse." The department of P.O. grievances as the price for the release of their captives.
Prison authorities made no attempt to quell the riot during the hours of darkness but more than 500 police armed with riot guns and tear gas stood by at dawn for orders to enter the building.
The governor, in Washington for the inauguration of Dwight Eisenhower as President, telephoned to Prison Warden John, W. Claudy.
Gov. John S. Fine warned the rioters "there'll be no deals and no compromises until order is restored."
Seizing five guards as hostages, the convicts smashed windows and set fire to buildings last night in a demand for "a better life" They later released one hostage.
4 Guards Held Hostage InPittsburghPrisonRiot
Pittsburgh, Pa.—(U.P.)—More than 1,100 rioting prisoners held four guards as hostages in Pennsylvania's Western penitentiary today in a defiant demand for "a better life."
Throughout the night, the convicts set small fires in their cell
Convict leader Albert Roman of Pittsburgh, serving 12 to 15 years for armed robbery and parole violation, handed Mr. Claudy a typewritten list of 13 grievances, ranging from a demand for a guarantee of no punishment for the rioters to a monthly inspection visit by the Allegheny County grand jury.
blocks, apparently to warm themselves in the 36-degree breezes sweeping through smashed windows. Major fires touched off earlier in the prison buildings were all under control.
The accused, Sofia radio said, were charged with being members of a U. S.-financed espionage ring whose object was to overthrow the Bulgarian Communist government.
London - (U.P.)-Communist Bulgaria today put on trial 10 alleged agents of an American espionage agency, which Bulgaria's Red leaders said was directed by U. S. secret service agents in Turkey.
Reds Try 10 Alleged Spies
Thirteen B-29s from Okinawa using electronic-aiming devices smashed a troop and supply area at Hongwon which reconnaissance indicated was a key storage point for frontline supplies. The target embraced
Seoul, Korea—(U.P) —American Superfortresses and fighter-bombers blasted Red supply lines and troop concentrations today as Allied tanks on the central front shelled Communist fortifications for the fourth straight day.
U.S. Planes Blast Red Supply Lines
bombings over 200 acres. Marine warplanes whirled bombs, naplam, and bullets at 2,000 Red troops trapped in the open north of Kumhawon on the Central front in mid-day.
The Red troops were caught in the vicinity of Sniper ridge where Allied officers thought it possible to capture them with a new assault, against Allied positions.
230 buildings spread over 200 acres.
Other fighter-bombers raked the coast in close supporting missions.
American Sabre jets, outnumbered eight to five, fought two brief battles with Red MIIGs late today.
A road bridge southeast of Yngadok was wrecked by F-80 Shooting Stars, which also scored four hits on a rail bridge at Huichon.
Reconnaissance planes, meanwhile, reported that last week's seven-day raid on a bridge complex near Sinanju has forced the Communists to use laborers to carry supplies across the river.