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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 30, 1957
State, National, International News
Anderson Takes Over As Treasury Secretary
WASHINGTON—(UP)—Robert B. Anderson Monday officially became the nation's 54th Secretary of the Treasury.
The former Navy Secretary stepped into the shoes of Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey as the nation experienced record prosperity and the Democrats increased their attacks on the administration's money policies.
Before the 11 a.m. ceremonies, the Senate Finance Committee resumed its investigation of the nation's financial structure by summoning Treasury Undersecretary Randolph Burgess. He faced tough Democratic questioning on the Treasury Department's decision last week to refinance part of the huge national debt at 4 per cent interest—the highest interest rate offered in a quarter century.
Anderson at confirmation hearings before Senators, hinted he will chart his own course. He made clear he is not irrevocably tied to the tight money policy which caused Humphrey's major headaches. But he said that is in the wait-and-see future.
The 47-year-old Texan did emphasize that his final accounting will be to the people.
"I have made no commitments; I have been asked for none," he said, "and I would feel under no obligation to anyone, except to the people, in the discharge of my duties."
Anderson isn't new to money. He also had managed the $300,-000,000 Waggoner estate which covers six Texas counties and deals in oil, cattle, etc.
He was a boy wonder from Burleson who graduated from law school and was elected to the state legislature on the same day—his 21st birthday. Between his Navy job and his new post he was board chairman of Ventures Ltd., a Canadian mining and investment firm.
GMC Agrees To Auditing
WASHINGTON—(UP)—General Motors Corp., reversing an earlier policy, agreed Monday to let government auditors see its books on all government contracts, regardless of whether performance has been completed.
GM President Harlow H. Curtice announced the decision in a telegram to Rep. F. Edward Herbert (D-La.) chairman of a House Armed Services Investigation Subcommittee. Herbert had threatened to use a subpoena if necessary to open the firm's records.
Curtice said he had not previously known of the issue, which arose when the firm's Cadillac division barred General Accounting Office auditors from its records on a tank contract under which work was being performed.
GAO said the firm agreed then to open the contract to audit only after the work was finished.
Herbert, making the Curtice telegram public, said the subcommittee was dropping plans to call Curtice for testimony.
BARSTOW, Calif. — (UP) — An insurance investigator reportedly has handed the FBI "new evidence" indicating the possibility that dynamite hay have caused the mystery blast aboard a Western airliner.
Evidence Given In Airliner Death
A heavily-insured passenger was lost 10,000 feet over the California desert in the explosion.
The investigator, who identified himself as with one of the insurance companies probing the incident, disclosed Sunday that he had uncovered the evidence and turned his findings over to the FBI.
FBI agents refused to confirm or deny the report. The FBI already had entered the probe to determine if federal laws against setting off explosives aboard a plane may have been violated by Saul F. Binstock, 62, retired Canoga Park, Calif., iieweler.
MILL VALLEY, Calif. — (UP) — Funeral services were held the Monday for Dr. John Earl Baker, the "Hoover of China," who died at his home Saturday at the age of 76.
Binstock's body was found in the desert Friday, the day after the explosion ripped a hole in a Convair plane carrying 12 other passengers and three crewmen. The plane managed to make an emergency landing at George Air Force Base despite the hole.
Binstock had taken out two flight policies totaling $125,000 before leaving Burbank, Calif., for Las Vegas, Nev. He was returning from the gambling resort when the blast took place in the lavatory of the plane.
In the years between, Baker earned the name "Hoover of China" for his service in famine relief. He directed the Red Cross in China during the 1920's.
Rural Reconstruction in Formosa, a post to which former president Truman appointed him in 1948.
'The Hoover Of China Dies'
The FBI confirmed Saturday that an unexploded blasting cap was found in the lavatory of the plane, along with what appeared to be burned toilet tissue. Binstock reportedly had entered the lavatory shortly after the Los Angeles bound airliner took off from Las Vegas.
His last service to China was on the Joint Commission on
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For 34 years Baker was a key figure in relief and industrial programs in China. He first served in that country as adviser to the Ministry of Communications in 1916.
He also served as chief adviser for the Ministry of Railways, manager of the Chinese-American wheat syndicate and Inspector-General of the Burma Road.
Britain's R.A.F.Sends Jets Against Rebels In Oman
SHARJA, Trucial Oman—(UP)—Britain's Royal Air Force sent 10 rocket-laden Venom Jets against Rebel fortresses Monday ending a two-day lull in the battle of Oman.
Traps Thief With Golf Club
INDIANAPOLIS-(UP)—An imaginative service station attendant captured a man who had just held him up by grabbing a golf club from his car and pretending it was a rifle. The surprised bandit, unable to tell the difference in the darkness, climbed meekly down from a rooftop and surrendered to the attendant and a police officer who had arrived just as the bandit learned the truth.
Monday's primary target was the fortress of Birkat, five miles west of Izki in Theoani interior. The R.A.F. said warning leaflets were dropped in the area in the past 48 hours.
The renewed fighter strikes underlined British determination to back up the beleaguered Sultan of Muscat and Oman despite condemnation from Russia and some Arab capitals.
Today's wave of jets comprised the largest single attack since the R.A.F. started hammering the dug-in Rebel forces led by the Imam of Oman.
The highlanders were reinforced from Kenya and East Africa. And Monday for the first time airmen from Kenya went into battle.
(In Beirut, Lebanon, a spokesman for the Sultan said 200 rebellious tribesmen are "cornered in a mountainous region and troops are encircling them...the rest of the country is enjoying total peace.")
British ground troops—the Cameron Highlanders — simultaneously built up their garrison in Buraiimi Oasis where the Sultan's own army was preparing for an infantry assault on the Rebel-held territory.
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Birkat is a big square-shaped fortress with two towers. Rebels hung out the Sultan of Oman's flag during the weekend in an attempt to prevent further attack.
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