State, National, International News
Monday, Dec. 10, 1956 University Daily Kaisan
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10,000 Hungarian Fighters Battle Soviet Troops
VIENNA —(UP)— Some 10,000 armed Hungarian freedom fighters were reported locked in a pitched battle with Soviet troops in the hills north of Budapest today.
Reports reaching. Vienna said the freedom fighters involved belonged to the "Corvin" legion which has been hiding out in the Gelert and Buda hills since the last uprising. They were believed to be under the command of Maj. Gen. Bela Karoly, one of ousted Premier Imre Nagy's top military aides.
The reports indicated the guerrilla legion attacked Russian tanks and infantry dug in among the hills after the government of Soviet-sponsored Premier Janos Kadar announced martial law Sunday.
Other bloody clashes during the past 36 hours were reported from the coal mining region of Pecs, near the Yugoslav frontier in the South.
The government admitted Sunday that at least 2,000 armed rebels were harassing the Russians in the Pecs area.
Similar flareups were reported from the Attabanya mining region west of Burdapest.
Austrian businessmen who left Budapest this morning said there was sporadic shooting in the capital throughout the night.
Everywhere in Hungary, the workers were on strike, although the general strike called by the now-outlawed Budapest workers council was not scheduled to start until midnight. Those on strike today included employees of the MTI, official news agency, and the telephone service.
Diplomats Begin NATO Sessions
PARIS —(UP)—British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd called on Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today to lead off a week of diplomacy aimed at patching up NATO.
Dulles ducked a formal "Big Three" meeting and was meeting separately with Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau. It was understood they were discussing a "little Marshall Plan" to pump U.S. billions into Suez-weakened Europe.
Tomorrow the curtain goes up on the main event—the 4-day NATO Council meeting. Diplomats were agreed it would take more U.S. dollars to keep NATO strong, but they also agreed it would take more than dollar bills to paper over the various splits in the 15-nation alliance.
Egyptians Attack British Patrol
LONDON — (UF) — Egyptian underground fighters in Port Said attacked an 8-man British patrol early today with hand grenades and machine guns, injuring one soldier. Seven Egyptians were arrested.
It was the first outbreak of anti-British violence since the military occupation of Port Said, and authorities feared there would be more as Anglo-French troops evacuated the captured city.
Tension was rising daily in the city and there have been increasing reports of arms and ammunition smuggled to underground fighters in Port Said. Most foreigners have left in fear of Egyptian vengeance.
Death Toll Now 622
TOPEKA- (UP)—The record-setting traffic death toll in Kansas today was hiked to 622 for the year. Five deaths were reported over the weekend. Motorists were driving to a new record daily this year, having already surpassed the old traffic fatality record of 611 set in 1951 and equalled in 1954.
There are 230 acres on the Lawrence campus proper, 25 acres at the Medical Center in Kansas City, and 1,900 acres of adjacent land and reservations belonging to the University.
In 1866, Lawrence ranked as the second largest city in the state. It claimed a population of 10,000. Leavenworth with 14,000 was the largest.
Americans Observe Human Rights Day
Thousands of Americans from coast to coast paused in prayerful meditation today for the victims of what President Eisenhower called the "brutality in Hungary." He urged Americans to observe United Nations Human Rights Day by lifting their hearts and their pravers to the oppressed people of Hungary.
A separate musical department appeared at KU in 1377, but the most important development in the musical history of the University came in 1884 with the arrival of William MacDonald as the first dean of the department.
"On this Human Rights Day," the President said, "it is for each one of us to recognize anew that we are brothers in our Father's house, and each is truly his brother's keeper."
Pickets Halt Star Publication
KANSAS CITY; Mo. —(UP)— Pickets paraded around the Kansas City Star Co. today, halting publication for the third straight day. Signs carried by the pickets alleged the newspaper was unfair in that it discriminated against independent carriers. Members of the mechanical crew refused to cross the lines.
In a statement issued Sunday, The Star said it had been notified that a vice president of the International Pressmen's Union would come here because of the failure of pressmen to report for work.
The protest actions caused cancellation of the Saturday editions of the paper, the news section of Sunday's paper and today's Kansas City Times, the morning edition of the Star.
KU had its first football season in 1890. The season record was one win and two defeats.
Canadian Airliner Down; Fear Loss Of 62 Aboard
VANCOUVER, B. C. — (UP)— Seventeen aircraft were pressed into a desperate search today for a Trans-Canada Air Lines North Star as fears mounted that it may have plunged to its doom in one of the worst disasters in Canadian aviation history.
Sixty-two persons, including 59 passengers and a 3-member crew, were aboard the 4-engine Montreal-bound plane, which was presumed to have crashed sometime Sunday night in the snow-choked Fraser Valley east of Vancouver. A TCA spokesman said that if all 62 died, it would be the greatest toll of any air crash in Canada's history.
Among passengers listed were football players, Mario DeMarco, Mel Becket, Gordie Sturtridge and Ray Syrnyk, members of the Saskatchewan Roughriders of Canada's western conference. The airline refused to state if there were other football players aboard the plane, pending notification of next-of-kin.
Ike Finishes 1958 Budget, Starts Talk
AUGUSTA, Ga.—(UP)—President Eisenhower today completed his financial work on the 1958 budget and began the laborious task of drafting a budget message for the new Congress.
Budget Director Percival Brunidge who conferred with the President here over the weekend, said as he flew back to Washington, "we have finished the totals."
Mr. Brundage declined to guess—for publication—at the size of the new budget, saying, "after all this work, we'll just have to wait for the printed version."
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