MARCH 28,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Control Of Iran Is Russian Motive In Backing Kurds, K.U. Student Says
Khodagholi "Koli" Amini, Engineering freshman, was not surprised by the attacks of Kurdish tribesmen on the Azerbaijan-Kurdistan border in Iran reported by press dispatches recently.
Koli and his family fled to Tehina in 1942 when Kurdish tribes were attacking villages and being the inhabitants. His home is that one was in Khoy in the Azerbaijan province that is now under attack.
Guns and ammunition for the attack were supplied by Russia, Koli said. He saw one of the captured rifles.
"It was the same as the ones issued to the Persian army, taken away from them by the Russians, and then apparently given to the Kurdish tribe to encourage a revolution," he explained.
"These people were in favor of the Russians at first. When they saw that the Russians were really trying to stir up a revolution for the Russian good, they didn't like them. Now, only a small per cent are in favor of the Russians," Koli explained.
Koli is pessimistic about the future of his country. He is one of those who wants no part of Russia in it but sees no solution to the problem.
"Persia cannot wage a war against Russia because she has no equipment." Koli believes. "The Persian soldier is a good soldier. He can go for three or four days without eating and still fight well, but he has no guns and ammunition."
Russia's violation of the British-Soviet-Iranian treaty of 1942 by not removing her troops after March 2 has caused a change in Koli's choice of a career. Until this semester he planned to be a petroleum engineer and return to Iran to work. He foresaw, however, that "Russian control is inevitable" and is now planning to be a civil engineer and
planning to be a civil engineer and emain in the United States. He will not return home if he has to work under the Russian government.
"The Persian way of life is so different from the Russian," he asserted. "Even the religion of the people would not accept the Russian type of government."
Koli and his brother Sohrab, a special student in the College and a graduate of the University of Teheran, hope to find some news about their family in the newspapers. No letter has come from their mother, four sisters, or brother in Teheran for three months. If Teheran is occupied by the Russians, communication with their family and financial support from their villages and lands in the Azerbaijan province will be cut off. The Iranian situation is more than just another news item to the Aminis.
300 Pounds of TNT In a Two-Foot Pond Equals A-Bomb Bang
Washington (UP)—Explode 300 tons of TNT in a two-foot pond and you'll have one expert's idea of what the atomic bomb will do to Bikini atoll.
The expert, whose name was not disclosed, was quoted today by the Infantry Journal as believing that radioactive water would be swept as far as 170 miles way by ocean currents. He added that "the waters of the lagoon are expected to roll to a tidal wave 100 feet high."
3 New Oil, Gas Pools, Geological Survey Reports
There were 53 new oil and gas pools discovered in western Kansas during 1944, according to a report just issued by the State Geological Survey at the University of Kansas.
The 1944 Kansas total oil production was 99,853,000 barrels—only slightly below the record year 1943. Gas production reached the all time high of 143 billion cubic feet, mostly from western Kansas. Two new counties, Kiowa and Stanton, were added to the list of oil producers during the year. Barton county with 235 test wells drilled had the most activity, followed by Russell, Stafford, and Pratt.
Belgian 'Mom' Joins Gl's in United States
Hoisington. (UP)—A graying Belgian woman known to scores of American GI's as "Mom," paused here today on her way from Belgium to the new home they found for her at Ada, Okla.
Miss Reta Nulens explained that when the Germans, who had stripped her little pharmacy shop in Hasselt, Belgium, moved out, she felt the least she could do to repay her liberators was to take a "few of them" into her home.
The "few" she planned to shelter soon grew to 30. As one group moved on across the lowlands in pursuit of Hitler's forces, others came in behind them and Mom's house was always full.
Miss Nulens' knowledge of English endeared her to the lonely boys in a foreign land quite as much as the comforts provided in her home, she said. Soon her proteges began talking of moving her to the United States.
It started just as "wishful talk," she said, but one day Pvt. Nicholas J. Sebastian, Jr., Little Rock, ran a classified ad in his hometown paper. He offered the services of a good Belgian pharmacist.
Soon came a reply from W. A. Delaney, Ada, Okla., oilman who said he'd like to sponsor Miss Nulens' trip to the United States.
Miss Nulens will go on to Ada, where she tutor Delaney's 13-year-old daughter in foreign languages until she "gets acquainted" with America and is ready to return to pharmacy.
French-U.S. Aviation Agreement
Washington. (UP)—The United States and France today signed a new aviation agreement giving this country far-reaching commercial air rights in France and strategically-located points of the French empire.
France in return gained commercial entry to New York, Washington, Chicago, Boston, Puerto Rico, and the site of the United Nations organization.
Blind Man Finds Good Hunting WithDogPartner
Paden, Okla. (UP) — A blind couple—befied by fellow townsmen as "two of the happiest people on earth"—to date have found ways to solve all problems without any help from their neighbors. They are Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Hopkins.
The husband goes hunting even at night—and with the aid of a flashlight—yet he can't see. He hunts mink, opossum, and other animals, residents of this small Okfuskee county community will tell you. He takes his dog along, and his dog can see.
Here is the way he captures the animals, say neighbors. The dog will tree an o'possum and start barking. The blind man will begin flashing his light, and once the dog sees shiny eyes from the tree tops above, he will give the the signal to his master.
Hopkins will then scale the tree and run the animal out, usually with a stick, although some times he will grab it by the back of the neck if he can get close enough. He will toss it down on the ground and from there on it's up to his dog.
State Patrol Searches For Escaped Prisoners
Jefferson, City Mo. (UP) — The state highway patrol today alerted Missouri Law Enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for three prisoners who escaped from the Lacide county jail at Lebanon.
The escaped prisoners were identified as Cecil R. Sodder, 16, and John R. Bagwell, 15, who were being held as fugitives from the Kansas City jail, and Charles McDaniels, 37, who was to have gone trial on a forgery charge.
St. Louis (UP)—A new state-wide committee is being organized to sponsor an amendment providing for a one-house legislature for Missouri
Fur, from animals caught by Hopkins, is on display in a Paden store operated by Gordon Dovell who has a large collection.
Hopkins has been blind since childhood.
The three were among 11 prisoners who escaped from Missouri Institutions in the past 24 hours. Eight boys sawed their way out of barracks at the Missouri Training school at Booneville, Mo.
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