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Crowing Demands Among Russian
University Students for More Freedom
' By EDDIE GILMORE
LONDON Lf)—Mounting reports
from Russia suggested Saturday
night \here is a,growing demand
among Soviet university, students
for more political freedom.
“Their basic demand is for a
liberalization of the political sys
tem,’' said a Western diplomat
who has been receiving uncen
sored accounts from the Soviet
capital. “And it’s clearly worry
ing the Kremlin.”
The informant said Soviet se
cret police had arrested a number
of Moscow University students
for forming what the police call
“an underground political organi
zation.”
As far as Western embassies
can tell, the students set up in
formal literary discussion groups
which turned into forums for
strong criticism of the Soviet
army’s destruction of the Hun
garian rebellion.
“Then," said the informant,
“these students begin asking the
obvious question—why can’t we
have more political freedom?”
That was when the secret police
moved in.
Disturbed by the student un
rest, Nikita S. Khrushchev, first
secretary of the Communist Party,
was reported recently to have
threatened to expel members of
Moscow University’s student body
who didn’t go the party line.
One report reaching London
said Khrushchev told a group of
Russian students how Communist
Party leaders handled unruly Ro
mania students. It quoted him as
saying:
“They told them that if they
didn’t like their institutions they
could go and work—and others
would take their places.
“Did these comrades (the Ro
manian party leaders) act cor
rectly? In my view they did.”
The London diplomat said there
is a growing curiosity among Rus
sian students about events in Yu
goslavia, Communist China, Po
land and Hungary.
“The Russians envy the rela
tively liberal political freedom in
Yugoslavia and China and appar
ently see some chance of it devel
oping in Poland and Hungary—if
their own people ever leave Hun
gary alone.”
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New Military
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Dependent Care
Act Now Effective
SEATTLE—Physicians in Alas
ka have chosen Washington Blue
Cross as their agent to administer
the physicians’ portion of the new
Military Dependents’ Medical
Care Act passed by the 84th Con
gress to become effective Dec. 7,
1956.
Under this act, dependents of
America’s uniformed services—
Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force,
Coast Guard, and the commis
sioned co: ps of the Public Health
Service and of the Coast and Geo
detic Survey—will be eligible for
care in private hospitals and treat
ment by non-military doctors.
Mr. Kretchmer, executive direc
tor of Blue Cross for Washington
and Alaska, said the new law pro
vides up to *365 days of hospital
care in semi-private accommoda
tions, and full hospital services
when hospitalization is required
for acute medical conditions, sur
gery, contagions disease, emer
gency treatment, maternity and
infant care.
In Alaska, Blue Cross will pay
the doctors and hospitals directly
for the care and treatment given
the dependents and, in turn, will
be reimbursed by the government.
Herbert Hoover Jr.,
Resigns Post As Under
Secretary of State
AUGUSTA, Ga., IM—Herbert
Hoover Jr. resigned Saturday as
undersecretary of State, effective
about Feb. 1. President Eisenhow
er picked Gov. Christian Herter
of Massachusetts to succeed him.
Eisenhower accepted Hoover’s
resignation with deep regret and
heaped praise upon the son of the
former President.
Young Hoover wrote Eisenhow
er he intends to resume his career
as an engineer. He has been in
government service the last three
years.
Elizabeth Taylor Recovers
From Spine Operation
NEW YORK, W)—Screen star
Elizabeth Taylor, who underwent
a five-hour operation Saturday
for a crushed spinal disc, has been
described as in good condition.
A spokesman at Harkness Pa
vilion of Columbia-Presbyterian
Medical Center said yesterday
Miss Taylor was “resting com
fortably and appears in good con
dition.’’
The actress, 24, recently filed
suit for divorce from British actor
Michael Wilding. She formerly
was married to Conrad Hilton Jr.,
son of the hotel magnate.
Miss Taylor plans to marry im
presario Michael Todd when her
divorce from Wilding becames
final.
| Rigid Controls
Imposed By Reds
On Hungary
• Continued from Page One)
The Red regime ordered mili
tary trial for a variety of offenses
punishable by death and dissolved
the major workers’ councils that
had trier’ to negotiate for Hun
garian freedom.
The Vienna telephone exchange
would not accept calls for Buda
pest, saying there was no contact.
Telephone service between Buda
pest and Moscow resumed on a
limited basis. But AP correspon
dent Harold Milks reported at
tempts to telephone the hotel
where Western newsmen stay in
Budapest or the home numbers of
Hungarian resident correspon
dents met with the reply: “Those
numbers are out of order.”
Word seeped thru that police
were controlling traffic strictly
in the Budapest area in an appar
ent effort to halt the movement of
any anti-government groups or
arms for them.
Two Fire Alarms
The fire whistle was sounded
twice today. The first, very early
in the morning, was to the home
of Don Croft. The second, at 11:15,
was to the Dean Martin residence.
Causes of the alarms in each
case was a stack fire, and no dam
age was reported at either.
Hammarskjold
Blocked in Effort
To See Hungary
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UP>—j
U.N. Secretary General Dag Ham
marskjold expressed doubt Satur- !
day there would be any purpose
in his visiting Budapest unless he
could do so soon.
He did this in a report to the
General Assembly on his efforts
to get observers into Hungary or
neighboring countries and his ne
gotiations to go to Budapest him
self. He disclosed that he had
written Austria, Czechoslavakii,
Romania and Yugoslavia for per
mission to send observers to those
countries for investigation of the'
situation in Hungary.
Hammarskjold recalled Hun
gary cabled him last Monday that
it would welcome him in Buda
pest “at a later date appropriate
to both parties” and that he sug
gested Tuesday he could be there
Dec. 16.
“I have not received any official
reaction to this suggestion,” he
said. Many delegates have sug
gested that Red Hungary is stall
ing him off in an effort to get re
bellious elements under control
before he arrives.
A U.S. proposal to freeze out
Hungary’s delegation meanwhile
ran into opposition from a group
of Western delegates. They con
tend present action should be lim
ited to a rebuke.
Princeton University
Gets Young President
PRINCETON, N.J., M—A 37
year-old professor here is to be
the new president of Princeton
University—the third youngest in
the school’s 210-year history.
He is Robert Goheem, India
born father of six, who was ap
pointed Friday to succeed Dr.
Harold W. Dobbs when he retires
next June.
The surprise choice of the as
sistant classics professor from
Princeton’s own ranks came after
a year and a half of canvassing
passible presidents among *the na
tion's outstanding educators.
40.000 Cases King Crab
From Bering Sea
Packed by Japanese
SEATTLE, I*—Forty thousand
cases of king crab had been
packed through Aug. 3 by the
Japanese factory ship operating
m the eastern part of the Bering
Sea, the Fish and Wildlife Service
said, quoting Japanese reports.
A case consists of 48 half-pound
cans.
The Bering Sea operations for
the season were ended by that
date.
The total pack by Japanese fac
tory ships operating in the Bering
Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk came
to 377,000 cases by Aug. 1. That
compares with a total 1955 pack
of 260,850 cases. ,
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Farm Price Support
Cost Government Over
$100 Million a Month
WASHINGTON UPi—B arm price !
support operations cost the gov
ernment more than $100 million a I
month for the four months end- j
ed Odt. 31, compared with a net!
loss of $240,514,622 for the same1
period of 1955. For the fiscal year |
which ended June 30, the loss was
computed at $974,767,365.
As of Oct. 31, the department
said, the government had $8,101,
286.000 tied up in price support
operations. This included $2,878,
434.000 in outstanding crop loans
and $5,222,852,000 in surplus crops
owned by the government.
No Payments Made Yet
To Claimants for Losses
Under Gold Closure Order
From the Bulletin oi the
Territorial Dept, of Mines
It develops that contrary to an
October release quoted in Alas
kan newspapers, no payments
have yet been made to any claim
ants for lasses under the war clo
sure order L-208.
Jessen’s Weekly quotes George
Nugent of the U.S. Gold Commit
tee in Washington D.C. as stating
the above and also that if and
when the government’s liability
in the matter is finally affirmed,
hearings will be held to determine
amounts of damages in pending
cases.
Mr. Nugent is of the opinion
that in case of the government’s
affirmed liability, Congress might
pass a special jurisdictional act
waiving the statute of limitations
to permit the filing of additional
claims for a limited time. The
deadline before which the existing
claims had to be filed was Oct. 15,
1953.
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