SATURDAY. OCTOBER 20. 1956
Big Powers Pledge Sympathy
To Jordan on Border Dispute
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 19 (TP) — Britain, the Soviet Union and Iran gave full
sympathy to Jordan today after Jordan demanded that the UN halt “unprovoked Israeli
aggression’’ along their tense border.
dg Powers and Iran told the UN Security Council it must act to stop the con-
tinued dete
how far the
rioration in relations between Jordan and Israel,
y would go in support of a Jordanian demand for
Three
Killed
fudents
in Blaze;
Charged
Idaho,.Oct. 19 (fP) —
ts died in an ex
at a University of
>ry early today and
XGials called it arson
Arson
MOSCOW,
Three studei
plosive fire
Idaho dormit
University of
and murder.
Gov. Robert Smylie pledged
"every effort to catch the crimi
nal responsible.’’
At least eight other residents of
Gault Hall, a new $500,000 dormi
tory housing; 138 men, were
burned. Threb of them were be
ing treated at a hospital.
President D. R. Theophilus
called it ‘‘the university’s saddest
hour.”
It was the fourth blaze in a
campus dormitory in a week. Two
of the others, in Willis Sweet and
Chrisman halls for men, were
listed as arson. Wads of partly
burned newspapers were found
stuffed into davenports and mag
azine racks at both dormitories.
Killed in the fire were Paul
Johnson of Davenport, Wash.:
John Hudson, Idaho Falls, and
Clair Schuldberg, Terreton, Idaho.
Johnson, a sophomore, was
found in a shower room. A towel
was wrapped about his head—a
pathetic last effort to keep awav
smoke. Death was attributed to
suffocation. The other two, both
freshmen, were found in a char
red hallway on the fourth floor.
There were indications they had
tried to break a window to get
out.
"I can’t prove it, but I think
gasloine or some other petroleum
•was used to start the fire be
cause it moved so fast,” said Fire
Chief Carl Smith.
Campaign Confetti
Injures Ike's Eye
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
has suffered what his doctor to
day termed “a slight hemorrhage’’
of the left eye as a result of a
couple of scraps of campaign con
fetti lodging there.
Maj. Gen. Howard Ml Snyder,
the White House physician, told
newsmen he removed the confetti
from the President’s eye in Port
land, Ore., last night.
Referring to the eye, which was
bloodshot today, Snyder said:
• “It is-getting better, but he will
still have a red eye when he gets
into Washington tomorrow.
The confetti got into Eisen
hower’s eye yesterday afternoon
while he was motorcading
through Portland.
James C. Hagerty, White House
press secretary, first reported the
episode just as Eisenhower was
about' to leave the airport here
this morning after arriving from
Portland for a campaign address
tonight in Hollywood Bowl.
School Freedom Urged
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 19 (fP)—
Dr. Charles H. Boehm, Pennsyl
vania’s superintendent of public
instruction, said today school di-|
rectors should make every effort
to steer their programs away
from “petty jealousies and com
munity pressure groups.”
Dr. Boehm was one of the prin
cipal speakers at the opening of
the annual convention of the
State School Directors Associa
tion.
Area Official Sentenced
LOCK HAVEN, Pa., Oct. 19 f/P)
—A former Lock Haven alderman
today was sentenced to nine
months to three years in jail on
charges of perjury and extortion.
John P. Eckel, 50, was convict
ed in April of the charges. The
father of five children was the
unsuccessful Republican candi
date for mayor of Lock Haven
last year.
THE DAftY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
such as economic restrictions and
severance of diplomatic relations.
Rifa'i Speaks lo Council
Ambassador Abdul Monem Ri
fa’i of Jordan told the Council
Jordan will take matters into its
own hands if the UN cannot suc
ceed. He spoke nearly an hour to
support his charge that Israel has
conducted “acts of aggression”
against Jordan. More than 100
persons have been killed in recent
fighting along the Israeli-Jordan
border.
Meanwhile, dispatches from the
Jordanian sector of Jerusalem
quoted Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns,
UN truck supervisor, as saying
there may a major flareup in
Palestine. Burns said in an inter
view the situation is worse than
at any time since he arrived there
two years ago.
Israel io Speak Next Week
This was Jordan’s day in the
Council. Israel will present its
case next week, perhaps Thurs
day, after its delegate, Abba
Eban, returns- from consultations
in Jerusalem.
Israel has filed a cross-com
plaint charging Jordan with vio
lating their armistice and its
cease-fire pledges. Mordecai R.
Kidron, deputy Israeli delegate,
told the Council, however, there
will be peace on the border if Jor
dan puts an end to attacks on
Israel. Kidron said the UN Char
ter does not require Israel to
suffer armed attacks upon its ter
ritory and population.
Rifa'i Urges Council Action
Rifa’i urged the Council to take
action under Article 41 of the UN
Charter, the provision dealing
with economic and diplomatic
measures against any country
found guilty of being an aggres
sor.
He told a reporter later that, on
the strength of his conversations
with Council members, the out
look was “very promising.”
“I can foresee the possibility,”
he said, “of passing a resolution
which will exercise in a more
substantial way the authority of
the Council.”
He said the Israeli raids into
Jordan could not be described as
border incidents.
Bulganin Sends
Letter to U.S.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (J s )
Soviet Premier Bulganin sent a
new message to President Dwight
D. Eisenhower today. The subject
matter was not made public im
mediately.
The message was delivered to
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles by Andrei M. Ledovski, So
viet Embassy counselor.
- State Department press officer
Lincoln White said .he did not
know the subject of the message.
It was the latest in a year-long
series of exchanges between the
Soviet and American leaders.
Previous letters in the series
have dealt y with the general sub
ject of disarmament, including
problems of bringing what Presi
dent Eisenhower has called “the
nuclear threat” under control.
Dulles told Ledovski the text of
the note would be translated from
Russian to English and presented
to Eisenhower after his return
here Sunday.
There was immediate specula
tion in diplomatic quarters here
that the message might have
some bearing on the problem of
trying to call off the testing of
nuclear weapons. This subject has
become the center of nationwide
debate between'Eisenhower and
his Democratic opponent for pres
ident, Adlai E. Stevenson.
Powell Secretary Guilty
NEW YORK, Oct. 19 UP) — Acy
Lennon, secretary to Rep. Adam
Clayton Powell (D.-N.Y.), was
convicted today on four counts of
federal income tax evasion.
He was the second, aide of
Powell to be found guilty on such
charges this year.
They did not say, however,
the Council to order penalties
Ike Says Adlai
Guilty of 'Folly 7
On Draft Issue
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 19 (IP)— \
President Dwight D. Eisenhower:
tonight accused Adlai E. Steven
son of “speaking incredible folly”
in saying the military draft is an
“incredible waste” of manpower
and money.
In a speech prepared for deliv
ery in the Hollywood Bowl, Eisen
hower said:
“I do not believe that any po
litical campaign justifies the dec
laration of a moratorium on com
mon sense.
U.S. Can Be Tolerant
“We might afford to be toler
ant—in an amused way—of the
current effort to sell senseless
economic panaceas in a political
bargain basement.”
But, Eisenhower said. “We can
not be very tolerant of the sug
gestion that’the peace of the world
can be bought on the same terms
and at the same counter.
Man of Folly
“And the man who today dis
misses our military draft as ‘an
incredible waste’ is a man speak
ing incredible folly.”
Stevenson made the statement
last night in a speech at Youngs
town, Ohio.
At the same time, Eisenhower
hit out at a charge by Stevenson
that the Eisenhower administra
tion had been marked from the
start by the “contagion of corrup
tion.”
Scorns Adlai Accusation
“I scorn this preposterous ac
cusation—and I condemn it as
false—because it is a baseless in
sult to the many men and women
associated with me in public serv
ice today, whom I know and trust.
“They are men and women who
—above and beyond all partisan
differences— command the respect
of the leadership of both parties
in our Congress, and the entire
American people.
“I say nothing of myself. I am
glad to await—with confidence—
your judgment upon such charges
next Nov. 6.”
LONDON, Oct. 19 <JP*i —The Su
ez Canal Users’ Association an
nounced tonight it had appointed
.. | . . Eyvind Bartels, Danish consul
POllSn TltOlSm general in New York, as its ad
ministrator.
(Continued from page one) The 15-nation group, spear
to Moscow. Khrushchev is re- head of the West in seeking in
ported to have taken part in the ternational control of the dis
|Se —. 10n ' puted waterway, announced in a
There have been many indica- brief communique it also had
tions that the Soviet leaders arc opened two banking accounts—
concerned over the speed of “de- one f° r administrative purposes
Stalinization” in Poland, which and One into which all nations
might carry the country and its may pay tolls for their ships pass
party much farther toward inde- ing through the canal,
pendence than the Kremlin in- In New York, Bartels called the
tended earlier this year in ap- post "a tremendous challenge but
proving the doctrine of “many one I will do my utmost to fulfill
ways to socialism.” Communist with satisfaction to all.”
doctrine holds that socialism must Bartels, 40, is expected to come
precede the “building of com-; to London to take up his duties
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Japan, USSR Sign Treaty
To End War, Boost Trade
MOSCOW, Oct. 19 (/P) —Japan and the Soviet Union
signed a declaration today to end their 11-year state of war
and agreed upon a formula to boost trade between the two
countries. Russia promised to support Japan's application for
membership in the United Nations, gave a conditional pledge
|to return tiny Habomai and Shiko
| tan islands and agreed to resump
:tion of diplomatic relations.
Trade Protocol Agreement
In a trade protocol, each side
granted the other- most-favored
nation treatment. Under that for
mula each will give the other as
good treatment as it gives any
nation m customs duties and regu
lations governing exports and im
ports.
Izvestia, the Soviet government
newspaper, said a five-year plan!
had been drawn up for an ex
change of $76 million worth of
goods, a 30-fold increase, in the
first year, and $320 million worth
the following year.
Soviet Paper Praises Plan
Izvestia said this would greatly
ease Japan’s economic difficulties.
It attributed these to a “policy of
embargo” under American leader
ship and said this embargo policy
cut across Japan’s “traditional
commercial ties with the Soviet
Union, China and East European
countries.”
The end-the-war declaration—
a.peace treaty—was signed in the
Kremlin by Premier Nikolai Bul
ganin and Foreign Minister Dmit
ri Shepilov and by Japanese Pre
mier Ichiro Hatoyama and Agri
culture Minister Ichiro Kono after
16 months of negotiations.
Hatoyama Cites Pledge
Crippled and ailing 73-year-old
Premier Hatoyama, who came
here a week ago to wind up the
negotiations, hailed the ceremony'
as putting a “happy end” to his
campaign pledge last year to re
store diplomatic relations between
Russia and Japan.
Speaking to more than 1000 So
viet and military officials and the
entire diplomatic corps crowding
the glittering banquet hall, Bul
ganin said he was sure the end of
the state of war would serve “the
interests of our two peoples, the
interests of peace and security in
the Far East and the whole
world.”
Declaration to be Ratified
The-declaration, which is sub
ject to ratification by the parlia
ments of the two nations, pledged
Russia to return the tiny Habmoai
islets and Shikotan Island just
north of Japan upon conclusion
of a formal peace treaty. It set no
time for negotiation of such a
treaty.
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PAGE THREE
31 Survivors
Rescued In
Mid-Pacific
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19 OP)
—A crushing, hapov bedlam wel
comed today the 3i men, women
and infants who waited through
nearly five tense, prayerful hours
before the mid-Pacific ditching of
their plane and the swift safe res
cue of all aboard.
The 24 passengers and seven
crew members stepped off the
rescue ship, the Coast Guard
cutter Pontchartrain, into joyful
embraces of wives, husbands and
families crowding the dock.
When there was a chance in the
crush of welcome, they told of
calmness ... of prayer . . . and
of a sure faith in survival and
rescue last Tuesday, some 1000
miles out in the Pacific.
“We had plenty of time to think
and pray,” said Mrs. Louise
Walker of Oakland.
“We talked and prayed,” said
Mrs. Richard Gordon, of Silver
Spring. Md., who came down the
gangplank carrying Maureen, one
of her twit two-year-old daugh
ters.
On the terrible” ditching im
pact, Mrs. Gordon said. Maureen
flew out of her arms "like a foot
ball.” Maureen hit her head on a
bulkhead of the Pan American
Stratocruiser, but was not badly
hurt.
Richard Gordon, able safely to
hold their other daughter, Eliza
beth, said he felt convinced from
the very start of the waiting that
| they “would come out of it.”
I Mrs. Walker said she, too, felt
■this sure faith. ¥erv soon after
iCapt. Richard Ogg, of Saratoga,
Calif., told that passengers “an
ocean ditching was indicated,”
flares from the Pontchartrain
streaked up into the sky.
“We knew the Coast Guard was
there, ready, just like Capt. Ogg
said,” Mrs. Walker related.
Ogg said he had given the pas
sengers the full story of their
plight without delay. Two of the
plane’s four engines had quit.
“Ditching is likely,” Ogg told
them. “But we have everything
under control, and you will be all
right if you follow instructions.’*
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