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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 1. 1957
British Order Iran Evacuation As Oil Dispute Goes To UN
Flushing, N.Y. —(U.P.)Great Britian carries her oil dispute with Iran to the United Nations Security council today, prepared to run head-on into a Russian veto in support of the Iranians.
The United States, whose W. Averell Harriman, was unable to settle the dispute as President Truman's representative in Tehran, again was cast in the role of mediator and held conferences up until meeting time seeking a middle course that would avoid a stale-mated show-down.
The British resolution asks the council to call upon Iran to comply with an interim injunction of the International Court of Justice. The court ordered both Iran and Britain last July 5 not to interfere with the operations of the vital Anglo-Iranian Oil company until the tribunal had handed down a final decision in the case.
Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Britain's chief U.N. representative, interrupted his vacation at home and arrived in New York by air last night. Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossa-degh was scheduled to fly here to plead his nation's case.
Iran's first move was expected to be to argue that the council is not competent to discuss the oil dispute because it is an internal affair concerning the Tehran government alone.
Then the Iranians are expected to demand a postponement to give Mossadegh—poised to fly here in Shah Reza Pahlavi's personal plane —time to get here. Such a delay was expected to be granted only if Iran agrees to hold the Abadan explosion order in abeyance.
Russia, playing herself for the high Iranian strike, was almost certain to veto any censure of the Tehran government. The Soviets might also attempt a "double veto" by voting to block the council debate on the ground of incompetency. This would mean a procedural battle.
Abadan, Iran—(U.P.)The evacuation by warship of the last British oil men in Iran was ordered today.
Gas, Cigs, Liquor Prices To Rise
Washington—(U.P.)-Cigarets, gasoline, and liquor will cost more a month from today.
The price increases will come from higher taxes on those and many other items.
The office of Price Stabilization automatically permits price increases to reflect new or higher excise taxes. In the case of excise taxes on the manufacturer's price, the retail price increase may be more than the tax so as to reflect the retailer's regular percentage markup.
A house-senate conference committee still must adjust many differences between the tax bills passed by the two chambers. However, most of the excise tax provisions were identical in both bills and not subject to change by the conference committee.
The new excise rates go into effect on the first day of the month beginning more than 10 days after enactment of the bill. Hence they will be effective Nov. 1 unless the bill fails to reach the White House in time for President Truman to sign it by Oct. 21. That is not likely.
Here are some of the increases due to begin next month: cigarettes, 1 cent a package; gasoline, half a cent a gallon; beer, $1 a barrel; 100-proof whiskey, 30 cents a fifth; wines, 2 to 25 cents, depending on alcoholic content.
You may not have realized it but a chess player has 169,518,829,100,-544,000,000,000,000 possible ways to play the first 10 moves in a game.
The 330 Britons, who had rebelled against London orders to "stand firm" against Iran's ultimatum to get out by Thursday, will be taken out Wednesday under protection of the Royal Navy.
They probably will leave on the Cruiser Mauritius, which has been standing off Abadan for several weeks, the Anglo-Iranian Oil company said.
The evacuation announcement was made after the oil men protested London's orders and said they would rather leave voluntarily than become "political pawns" in the Anglo-Iranian crisis.
The oil men told the A.I.O.C. management they were certain Iran would carry out the threat to evpel them from this southern oil center Thursday.
There was no announcement of the subject of Henderson's talk with the Premier. However, the U.S. was known to be trying to arrange an 11th hour compromise in the oil dispute.
British oil technicians in Abadan, site of the Anglo-Iranian Oil company's big refinery, sent a stronglyworded cable to the company's headquarters in London.
They said they are reluctant to stay in Abadan as "political pawns" unless they had some evidence that their action would help solve the oil dispute.
The cable said they would prefer to withdraw "gracefully," as originally planned, rather than be hustled out across the border by Iranian police.
British government promises that "adequate transportation will be provided if evacuation becomes necessary" were received with sketicism.
Supreme Court Begins New Term
Washington—(U.P.)—The Supreme court assembles today for the 1951-52 terms apparently ready to hold firm to a policy of stern justice for Communists.
The nine justices were scheduled to meet at noon for a brief, traditional ceremony to serve notice on the public that "the court is now sitting."
After admission of half a hundred lawyers, the jurists were due to retire for a week of closed-door conferences to scan the 350-plus cases accumulated during the summer vacation.
Yale Students Rooms Checked Bi-Weekly
New Haven, Conn.—(U,P)—Yale students dusted off their books today—but not for a scholastic examination
They were preparing for their first bi-weekly room inspection, held to see if they miss the 80 maids who were fired in an economy move last spring.
Robert G. Lundquist of Seattle said, "all the maids did was wake us up when we wanted to sleep."
Emergency Landing Saves 44 Persons
El Centro, Calif.—(U.P.)—The pilot of a non-scheduled New-York-to-Oakland, Calif., airliner was credited today with saving the lives of the 44 persons aboard when one engine of his plane caught fire in the air.
Capt. William I. Walsh Jr. of Los Angeles safely brought the smoking plane to an emergency landing here yesterday, eight miles west of his next scheduled stop at San Diego. There were no injuries.
Anti-Peron Politicians Seized As Argentina Cleans House
Buenos Aires, Argentina—(U.P.)An undisclosed number of Argentine opposition political party leaders were reported under arres today as a result of Friday's short-lived revolt against Presiden Juan D. Peron.
A group of Army and Air Force officers, charged with leading the uprising, were on trial for their lives before a special "supreme council."
The "supreme council" trying the officers had been ordered to reach a verdict in 48 hours. Their decision may be announced today.
Under the 'state of internal war' declared by Peron soon after the revolt began, the court martial may sentence the rebels to death. This penalty is invoked in Argentina only in times of extreme emergency. The last executions followed the 1930 revolt here.
Senora Eva Peron, wife of the Argentine president, was given a blood transfusion Sunday morning. She is suffering from anemia.
The doctor's report said her condition was "stationary." Senora Perron's condition was reported to have been worsened by news of Friday's revolt.
Washington — (U.P) — Twenty-five Republican senators have accused the Administration of trying to suppress legitimate news and using smear tactics to silence opposition.
A Saturday announcement revealed the Argentine First Lady was "rather seriously ill of anemia."
Free Press Stifled Republicans Charge
The senators said "there is evidence that no man can criticize our government today and escape intemperate reprisals."
Palace Bulletin Says King Improves
Issuing a "manifesto," the senators said they would fight to defend the fundamental freedoms of speech and the press in America.
London—(U.P.)—Buckingham palace said today "there has been further improvement" in King George VT's condition in the past 24 hours.
State Highlights
The announcement was the 12th bulletin issued by the palace since doctors removed all or part of one of the king's lungs Sept. 23. The bulletins have been consistently optimistic.
The exact nature of the King's illness and details of the operation have not been disclosed.
Six Persons Hurt In Freak Crash
Kansas City, Kan.—(U.P.)-Six persons were injured, five of them soldiers from Fort Riley, in a three-car collision at Stony Point and U.S. 40 in Wyandotte count ytoday.
The injured were taken to providence hospital. They were identified as Ralph Youngblood, 24, William Mitchell, 19, Wilbur Howard, 23, Henry Harrison, 19, and Henry Fouse, 24, soldiers stationed at Fort Riley, and Miss Marcel Moore, 28, of Kansas City, Mo.
David L. Price, Wyandotte county deputy sheriff, said a trailer-truck, loaded with cattle, hit a car parked to repair a tire. The truck then struck a vehicle in which the soldiers were riding. The woman was in the parked car.
Teenager Escapes Industrial School
Topeka — (U.P.) — Kansas highway patrolmen and Kansas City police joined today in the search for a 15-year old boy who escaped from the State Boys Industrial school Sunday.
The boy, Emory Simpson, of Kansas City, took a state-owned tractor and drove at full speed toward Topeka when he broke from the home.
He was first seen by Clyde Cook, director of the Boys Industrial school farm. Cook said he recognized the tractor and chased Simpson until the boy crashed the tractor into a service station. Simpson escaped from the wreckage and continued his flight on foot.
Hollywood Stars Make Headlines
Hollywood,—(U.R.)-Actor's Agent Sid Luft planned to ask for a jury trial today on a drunkenness charge brought as a result of an automobile accident and ensuing scuffle that witnesses said also involved his girl friend, Actress Judy Garland.
Palm Springs, Calif.—U(P),—Screen Stars Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis honeymooned today near this resort town. They were married June 4, but a stringent schedule of screen, television and personal appearances forced them to postpone their honeymoon.
Santa Monica, Calif.,-(U.P)-Ava Gardner was undergoing a "complete physical check-up" today in St. John's hospital, and her doctor said she has been suffering from exhaustion and a loss of weight.
Hollywood,—(U.P.)—Actress Peggy Dow, 23, made plans today for her marriage next month to oil heir Walter H. Helmerich III of Tulsa, Okla.
Cloquet, Minn., —(U.P.)- Movie Actor Franchot Tone today was fattening up on home cooking today while his new wife made plans for a personal appearance tour. Tone will accompany his bride, Barbara Payton, to New York where the tour begins.
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Bradley Tours Front As UN Hits Communists
Eighth Army Headquarters, Korea — (U.P.) - United Nations forces hurled back the Communists in the air and on the ground today as Gens. Omar H. Bradley and Matthew D. Ridgway toured the Korean front.
American jets shot down their 114th Communist jet fighter of the war and damaged three others in a 67 plane dogfight high over northwest Korea. The rest of the enemy formation fled north to Manchuria
South Korean ground forces at the same time captured the third crest of a hill mass west of "heartbreak ridge" on the east-central front and sent the remnants of North Korean battalion flees north.
Allied artillery and tank guns almost ceaselessly pounded the last remaining Communists clinging to the ridgeline. Dead Chinese already littered the ground over which the three-day battle has raged. In one small sector, 35 Chinese bodies were counted.
On the west-central front, however, Communist troops all but stalled U.N. forces on the third day a drive to clean out a ridgeline west of Chorwon. Despite the stiff resistance, the Allies stormed up one minor height.
Bradley, chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, and Ridgway, supreme U.N. commander, arrived by plane at an advance Korean air base from Tokyo.
They apparently spent the night in Korea. The blacknosed Constellation in which they flew to Korea returned to Tokyo Monday night without them.
The generals came to Korea for a personal look at the war and to discuss Allied strategy with Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, commander of the 8th Army, and his top subordinates. Van Fleet met them at the airport.
Communists Told To Quit Bluffing
Tokyo—(U.P.)—The United Nations told the Communists today to stop bluffing and make their choice between an "honorable armistice" and all-out war.
The U.N. command sounded the warning while waiting for a Communist reply to its proposals to shift the suspended truce talks from Kaesong to Songyon, eight miles to the southeast in the middle of the western front "No-man's-land."
Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, hinted at a press conference Sunru that the cease-fire talks will break down altogether unless the Communists agree to shift them from Kaesong.
The new U.N. warning was in the form of a "Voice of the U.N. Command" broadcast to Korea and Asia.
"The Communists must realize that the time for bluffing is over," the broadcast said.
Sea Control Needed For Security
Washington—(U.P.)—Adm. William M. Fechteler, chief of naval operations, said today that with control of the sea the United States could invade and occupy certain strategic areas in Russia.
With such command of the seas,
he said, there is "No possibility
whatsoever" that Russia could strike
back and invade this country.
"Control of the sea is essential to the United States," he said. He added that he questioned the ability of any enemy "seriously to jeopardize" U.S. existence by intercontinental bombing.
His views were given in a copyrighted interview with U.S. News and World Report, a weekly newsmagazine.
Russia's "greatest threat" to
American command of the sea, he said, is the submarine.
"I don't think it is quite generally appreciated that we pretty nearly lost both World War I and II through this submarine business,"
No Word Yet On Job Offer To Kansas State Professor
Weber was offered that position Sept. 29. He was out of the state today and unavailable for comment.
Manhattan, Kan.—(U.P.)—Administrative officials at Kansas State college said today they had received no word whether Dr. A.D. "Dad" Weber would accept the presidency of South Dakota State college at Brookings.
he said.
Fechtler estimated that Russia had about 300 submarines, "vastly more than the Germans had at the beginning of World War II."
In event of war, he said, the Navy is prepared to atom bomb Soviet submarine bases. He said such attacks would be one of the Navy's principal uses of the atom bomb.
In addition, he said, it would be part of the Navy's mission to strike overland at enemy air bases which could threaten U.S. ships.
By deploying carrier forces along the east coast of Siberia, around the north Cape of Norway, the Mediterranean and Aegean seas, Fechtler said it would be possible to strike at Russian bases 550 miles inland.