THURSDAY. OCTOBER 8. 1959
Iraqi Premier Wounded
By Assasin's Bullets
BEIRUT, Lebanon (^P)— Iraq’s revolutionary Premier Abdel Karim Kassem was shot
by an assasin in a Baghdad street late yesterday but escaped serious injury, Baghdad radio
reported.
Three shots hit the Iraqi strongman as he rode in his stati
the main avenue in Baghdad. Earlier reports said he had bi
Tic Tac Dough
Producer Fired
In NBC Probe
WASHINGTON (JP) —The Na
tional Broadcasting Co. has fired
the producer of a quiz show cur
rently on the aire because he
would not swear there has been
no coaching of contestants, House
probers were told last night.
The producer was named as
Howard Felsher of the television
show "Tic Tac Dough.” f
Thomas E. Ervin, vice president
and general counsel of NBC, told
a House subcommittee that in a
general checkup of NBC quiz pro-,
piams, he asked Felsher for a
sworn statement that no contest
ants on "Tic Tac Dough” • had
been given advance answers to
questions.
Ervin said Felsher would not
give such a statement, “So we
fired him.” .
In New York, Felsher could not
be reached for comment on Er
vin's statement
‘‘Tic Tac Dough” is one of sev
eral quiz shows whose production
was taken over by NBC after
scandals involving other similar
programs.
Two press agents for one of
these shows, the defunct "Twen
ty-One,” told the subcommittee
their lawyer told theni not to tell
New York authorities the truth
about whether' that program was
rigged by feeding correct an
swers to contestants beforehand.
Two contestants on “Twenty-
One” -gave additional testimony
yesterday that the show was
rigged.
Toft-Hartley Court Order
Will End Dock Strike
WASHINGTON MP) Presi
dent Eisenhower’s fact-finders
worked at top speed last night
to deliver to the White House a
ipport designed to send 85,000
striking dock workers back to
work under a court order.
The Justice Department offi
cials stood ready to seek the
Taft-Hartley Act injunction today
in Federal District Court in New
York City.
The three-man fact-finding
panel zipped through a public
hearing on the week-old Inter
national Longshoremen’s Associ
ation strike in I%' hours. Then
the panel members started) to
draft their report to President
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A medical bulletin broadcast
from the minister of health and a'
medical committee in Baghdad
said: “Kassem was hit by three
bullets in places which are not
dangerous. His injuries were su
perficial. The state of his health
does not call for any worry. He is
resting.”
Baghdad radio said one bullet
hit the upper part of one arm and
broke a bone.
Kassem was well enough to talk 1
on the radio. He said the attack
was made by traitors but did not
say how many might be involved'
"I am well," he said drama
tically. "We will be victorious
over the traitors arid criminals.
Traitors wanted to get rid of me.
I am pledged to God to serve
this country and not to let any
foreigner or greedy persons in
terfere."
Authorities clamped a curfew
on Baghdad.
The purpose of the attack, Kas
sem declared, was to leave the
Iraqi people divided and without
leadership.
A terse dispatch from a part
time correspondent of the Asso
ciated Press in Baghdad said
troops and military trucks started
patroling the streets after Kas
sem was taken to a hospital.
The official Baghdad radio did
not say what happened to the
assailant.
Whether Arab Nationalist fol
lowers of United Arab Repub
lic President Gamal Abdel Nas
ser had anything to do with the
shooting or not they will be
blamed for it by the Commun
ists.
No attempt on his life had been
reported since he came to power
15 months ago. At that time he
led a military coup which over
threw the monarchy, killing King
Feisal and Premier Nuri Said.
Eisenhower. Under-the Taft-Hart
ley law’s emergency machinery,
the fact-finders’ report must pre
cede court action.
If federal court agrees to order
an 1 80-day cooling off period, long
shore work gangs may,start to
morrow to move the piled-up car
goes which have been choking At
lantic ports from Maine to Texas
for the last week. The injunction
requires the 80-day truce for
working and negotiation.
The.jpanel heard sharp conflicts
of testimony in its high-speed in
quiry during the morning. Then
Chairman Guy Parmer appealed
to the parties to seek an early,
peaceful settlement.
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Conference
On Space
Seen Likely
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y (TP)
The United States and Britain
yesterday welcomed a Soviet pro
posal for an international sci
entific conference on outei; space.
This boost from the West virtual
ly assured that such a conference
would take place.
Vasily V. Kuznetsov, Soviet
deputy foreign minister, disclosed
the proposal m a speech to the
UN General Assembly Tuesday.
He said the Soviet Union would
seek a conference under UN aus
j pices as soon as possible. It would
I be along the lines of the UN con
jferences on peaceful uses of atom
jic energy—a plan advanced ong
'inally by President Eisenhower.
! • "We welcome this new depar
ture in Soviet policy and hope
'that it means cooperation in the
future work of the United Na
tions in the field of outer space,”
U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge said in a statement.
He declared the United States,
still supports strongly the estab
lishment by the present assembly
of a special UN space committee.
The Soviet Union boycotted a
committee set up last year on the
grounds Communist and neutral
nations did not have sufficient
representation. Kuznetsov said
l Tuesday the Soviet stand is un
changed.
Danger Believed Over
jfn Encephalitis Epidemic
| TRENTON, N.J. (£>) State
Health Commissioner Roscoe P.
Kahdle said yesterday visitors to
South Jersey and families there
should no longer fear getting a
deadly type of sleeping sickness.
He said the outbreak of eastern
equine encephalitis, which is be
lieved to have taken 19 lives and
made 10 others very ill, •‘seems
to be nearing its end if it is not,
in fact, over.”
Offer Tendered to Keep
Senators in Washington
WASHINGTON (A 3 ) Former
U.S. Sen. George H. Bender of
Ohio' says he. wants to buy the
Washington Senators if Calvin
Griffith is willing to sell the
American League dub.
Bender said he would go as high
as $7 million to buy the club and
keep it in Washington.
HEAT AftMY
Tories Expect Win
in British Elections
LONDON (/P) —Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s con
servatives, the odds-on betting favorites, nervously expected
last night to win five more years of power in a national elec
tion today.
The Conservatives, or Tories, were just a shade more
mfident than Hugh Gaitskell’s
Labontes. who also claimed they
could smell victory in the air. ,
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