SATURDAY. MARCH Ike s C Ripped WASHINGTON out of the Eisenho yesterday after So kill. By a 49-35 vote Ryukyu Stt Investigat By Air Foi NAHA, Okinawa (P) An in ternational uproar began building up yesterday in the case of two Ryukyu islanders wc unded while gathering scrap on a U.S. Air! Force gunnery range. Okinawa! newspapers said they were strafed [ by an American jet plane. Binishi Oshiro, 171, and Take mori Shimabukuro, 21, were in' a hospital in the port of Nago, 25 j miles north of here. Newspapers said one was shot in the leg and the other lost an arm. Hospital officials merely said they are in good condition. | The Air Force began an investi-j gation to determine whether firing practice was under way at the time and special warning signals were posted. The incident took place Thurs day on Ie Shima. where corres pondent Ernie Pyle was killed in World War 11. The island is ad ministered by the United States along with the rest of the Ryukyus and Japan wants them all back. The dispute is a long-standing political issue in Japan. Newspapers said the two island ers were on the range gathering scrap metal in defiance of off limits signs when they were ma chine-gunned by an American fighter plane. The story was published in mass circulation Japanese newspapers and picked up by the Soviet news agency Tass. Negro Students Convicted By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Courts in several Southern cities yesterday convicted a num ber of Negroes for taking part in demonstrations as the wave of discontent over segregated lunch counters appeared to be declining. Negro students at Columbia, S C., canceled plans for a march to the South Carolina State House tojjay. But a spokesman said “we will be back." At New Orleans, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Dallas, Tex., school board to submit a plan to desegregate its pub! is schools within 51 days. City Court of Montgomery, Ala., convicted 32 Negro college students, a former classmate and a woman faculty member of charges growing out of an anti segregation demonstration Tues day. The students were convicted of disorderly conduct end refusal to We Wifi Snterview 0n... Engineers: $ Electrical $ Mechanical $ Industrial SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SAEES ENGINEERING CUTLER - HAMMER Inc. Pioneer Electrical Manufacturers MILWAUKEE, 12. 1960 vil Rights Bill Apart by Senate (/P ) The Senate blasted a whole section ver administration’s civil rights program tthern members helped set it up for the ;he Senate stripped the 7-point administra- Ition bill of its first section, an out growth of the Little Rock, Ark., 'disorders of 1957. It then recessed until Monday, when the battle will be resumed. afing ed ce Section I of the bill sponsored by Republican leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois would have made it a federal crime to inter fere with federal court orders in school desegregation cases. It was knocked out on motion of Sen. Wayne Morse (D.-Ore.) after it had been broadened to include labor case injunctions and all [other federal court orders. ! The voting .climaxed a day | long debate on the move by Sen. Frank J. Lausche (D.-Ohio) to widen the provisions over the strenuous objections of Dirksen. I Southern opponents of civil jrights legislation, who protested that Section I was aimed solely at their section of the country, supported the Lausche amend ment and it carried on a 65-19 roll call vote. Sen. Joseph S. Clark (D.-Pa.) denounced the amendment off the floor as an “anti-labor move.” He told a reporter it was an attempt to “clutter up” the school inte gration section. Lausche contended the first part of the administration bill; tended to divide the country. "It has the indefensible weakness of speaking to the people in one section of the country, of telling them we are going to make special laws for them," he said. A supporter of the administra tion program. Sen. Kenneth B Keating (R.-N.Y.), said that “if the same one-two punch can be applied to the rest of the provi sions of the administration bill, iwe will end up with nothing at all.” obey an officer. Those convicted could receive six months in jail and a $lOO fine on each of the two counts. The faculty member was convicted of ! disorderly conduct and her hus band of disobeying an officer at the jail when he tried to see his wife after her arrest. Monday, March 14 For Positions In WISCONSIN THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA PI Sigma Upsilon RUSHING SMOKER Sunday, March 13, 1960 2-5 P.M. All 2nd Semester Freshmen Welcome COST CONTROL SYSEMS & PROCEDURES [Morocco [Threatened By Locusts RABAT, Morocco (JP) For, Morocco, this has been a winter of disaster reaching almost Bibli cal proportions. The Agadir earth- quake was the worst of the na- tion’s tragedies. Now the Moroc- . , cans are afflicted by a plague of present seven-cent air mai locusts. rate- Huge black clouds of the crop- 1 Post-card rates also would go destroying pests have crossed, * lorn three to four cents, un from the Sahara over the Atlas| de f proposed new scales to be Mountains into the Sous alley be-! subm,ttcd soon b V Postmaster hind Agadir and the lush plainsjGeneral Arthur E. Summerfield. around Marrakech. j Congress turned down a postal Officials describe the threat to ra * e increase lequest last year early fruit and vegetable crops as' an .d ' s n °t expected to vote one very serious. These crops, sold in■ this year with an election coming! the markets of Western Europe,! U P in November. [are important factors in Morocco’s' Eisenhower counted on the [shaky economy. The country has increase for 550 million dollars been struggling toward solvency ' extra when he figured his bud ever since gaining political inde-j get for the new fiscal year that ! pendence from the French in 1956. starts July 1. An i il u OCU '; t operations are harn- if Congress does not approve pered by lack of personnel. All the higher rates, the President’s disaster squads have estimated budget surplus of $4,- ened earm^“ 000 wIU be rcdueed & thal quakes, fire, and flood that killed _ , . , , _ , an estimated total of 12,000 peo- hif. special message to Con pie last week. gress, Eisenhower said: "Because Last October thousands were.the existing inadequate postal paralyzed after eating cooking oil|?' at ? s \ the Post off ! ce Department adulterated with oil for aircraft IJS l°smg two million dollars ev engines. For some the paralysis| er y working day. Responsibility will be lifelong. j ln the handling of our public af- In January more than 10,000! fairs demryds prompt action in persons lost their homes and at ,s session.” least 30 drowned in floods rush-’ The department’s deficits have, ing down the Sebou Valley area'increased astronomically since' north of here. [World War 11, the President said, Two more survivors were pulled'because the cost of everything it from the wreckage of Agadir yes-(uses or buys has gone up while terday, bringing to 15 the number;Congress has failed to keep pace found alive since Tuesday. with higher postal rates. 3 U.S.-Owned Sugar Mills Siezed By Cuba's Revolutionary Government HAVANA (/?) Cuba’s revo- agrarian institution now controls lutionary government yesterday and operates 32 of Cuba’s 161 seized three U.S.-owned sugar sugar mills, mills worth an estimated $lO mil- officials of Guantanamo Sugar ' I0 I n - , , ~ Co. issued a statement saying au- In reporting the takeover, the thorities had informed them the newspaper Revolucion said work- intervention would be of short ers at the three mills 1 have al- duration ways been victims of exploitation of Yankee functionaries who al ways maintained close relations with ex-dictator Fulgencip Batis ta’s officials.” The mills, located in eastern Cuba, are the Isabel, Los' Canos and Soledad. They are owned by the Guantanamo Sugar Co. of New York City. The takeover was a joint action by the Institute of Agrariah Re covery of Stolen Property. The Higher Postal Requested by WASHINGTON (/P) An urgent request for higher postal rates went from President Eisenhower to an unimpressed Congress yesterday. The administration wants first-class letter rates boosted | from four to five cents an ounce and an extra penny added to & m: >k ► r S \.V Open to Couples and Freshmen PAGE THREE Rates ike Cobalt Wafers Jo Be Used As Cancer Defense IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (IP) Fifteen little pills as big around as aspirin tablets and much thin [ner—but man, are they hot! They are cobalt wafers, 308 times as radioactive as the same amount of radium. Stacked one on top of the oth }er to form a rod the size of a pencil stub, they will be the world’s strongest known source of cancer-fighting gamma radia tion. The 15 wafers were op a train yesterday bound for Chicago, iwhere the Argonne Cancer Re search Hospital will use them in [cancer control research. Shielded |in a 2-ton lead container, they 'are the hottest 11 7 grams known !to medicine. I Phillips Petroleum Co. has been [“baking” the wafers for nearly four years, bombarding them with neutrons inside a reactor at the Atomic Energy Commission’s na tional reactor testing station in eastern Idaho The strong, tiny source of radi ation will allow scientists to fo cus the rays much as they would a thin point of light to kill can cerous tissue with minimum dam age to healthy tissue around it. The strength of the cobalt will allow shorter exposures. The cobalt has reached a spe cific activity of 308 curies per gram. One curie is the measure of the radioactivity of one gram lof radium.
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