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Malenkov Reported in Budapest
To Stiffen Policy Against Rebels
BUDAPEST, Uft—Former Soviet*
Premier Georgi Malenkov was re
liably reported today to be in Bu
dapest to bolster the government
of Russian-installed Premier Ja
nos Kadar.
An excellent source, who asked
not to be quoted by name, said
Malenkov, now a deputy Soviet
premier, arrived in the Hungar
ian capital last Friday.
This source said it was Malen
kov who advised Kadar to change
his lenient attitude and resort to
harsh measures against the still
striking Hungarian workers.
This was the explanation given
for Kadar’s two sharp speeches
broadcast Sunday and Monday in
which he reversed his former
conciliatory attitude in confer
ences with leaders of the Workers’
Council of greater Budapest.
Altho Kadar has stated explicit
ly that he will add only “non
partisans" to his presently 100
percent Communist government,
he conferred yesterday for three
hours with Bela Kovacs, secretary
general of the Smallholders Party.
Kovacs, who spent more than
seven years in Russian prisons
and is probably the only person
the Hungarian peasantry would
accept as their leader, had been
a minister of state in Imre Nagy’s
short-lived government which the
Russians overthrew.
Kovacs left for his home after
the talks, saying he needed to
rest for a week. He had been ill
* before coming to Budapest to join
Nagy’s government.
Smallholder politicians believe
Malenkov advised Kadar not to
tolerate the existence of other
political parties until the “Hun
garian Socialist Workers' Party,”
Kadar’s new Communist party, is
much stronger.
Administration to Ask
$4 Billion to Continue
Foreign Aid Program
WASHINGTON (if)—The Eisen
hower Administration is tenta
tively planning to ask Congress
for slightly more than $4 billion
to continue foreign aid for a 10th
straight year.
Such a sum would boost to over
$50 billion the amount of money
the U.S. has granted for food,
raw materials, weapons and tech
nical assistance to more than 40
nations since the Marshall Plan
was launched in 1948.
The new program, now being
drafted, would cover the fiscal
year beginning next July 1.
Appointments
Ambassador to India
AUGUSTA, Ga., UPV—President
Eisenhower today chose Ellsworth
Bunker, retiring president of the
American Red Cross, to be am
bassador to India.
Bunker, a Democrat, will par
ticipate in talks the President and
Prime Minister Nehru of India
will have in this country Dec. 16
to 20, Eisenhower’s vacation head
quarters here said.
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Education Commissioner
AUGUSTA, Ga., (At—President
Eisenhower today picked Dr.
Lawrence G. Derthick, now super
intendent of schools at Chatta
nooga, Tenn., to be U.S. commis
sioner of education.
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White House Liaison
At the same time, the President
appointed Jack Z. Anderson, for
mer member of Congress and
now an assistant to Secretary of
Agriculture Benson, to serve as a
White House liaison man with !
Congress. He will specialize in \
tending to farm legislation, as he j
has in the Agriculture Dept.
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Polar Bears Get in Act
At Guided Missile Base
WHITE SANDS PROVING j
GROUND, N.M., ltf>—An Army j
Signal Corps officer says polar,
bears are getting into the act at
the guided missile installation at
Ft. Churchill in northern Canada.
Maj. C. R. Cartwright has re
turned from the icy base with a
tale that the huge white bears
have been roaming at will thru
the area where 30 men have been
installing radar and communica
tions in support of the Interna
tional Geophysical-Year.
No one has been injured. Cart
wright said, but the men are tak
ing no chances. Rifles have been
handed out and M/Sgt. Casmir
Tatowicz has been put in charge
of the polar bear defense platoon. |
By DON GUY
McMURDO SOUND, Antarctica
W*-—An eight-ton tractor and a
toothbrush floated gently down to
the South Pole today.
They were dropped to-19 Amer
icans' building a U.S. scientific
outpost at the south end of the
world for use in the International
Geophysical Year program.
The tractor, dropped on three
100-foot parachutes from 2,000
feet, will be used to speed their
Interior Secretary
May Visit Alaska
Next Month
WASHINGTON (jv_A proposed
trip to Alaska next month by Sec
retary of the Interior Seaton is
still in the “hoping" stage, a de
partment source said today.
A final decision is expected
next week when the secretary re
turns from a trip to the Virgin
Islands, where he is to participate
Saturday in the dedication of the
new Virgin Islands National Park.
Still ahead also is an official
trip to Hawaii but this, it was
understood, will not be made un
til the Alaskan inspection is out
of the way.
The trip to Alaska would be
part of an over-all program un
dertaken by Seaton to familiarize
himself with all the areas coming
under the department whose ad
ministration he assumed in June.
He is also reported anxious to
discuss statehood with Alaskans,
meet with departmental employes
in the territory and consult with
various mayors and civic leaders
in Alaska concerning some of the
territory’s problems.
frank Sinatra Signs
‘Most Unusual’ Contract
NEW YORK, UP>—Crooner-actor
Frank Sinatra today signed a
three-year exclusive contract with
the American Broadcasting Co.
The network said the pact, cov
ering all his activities except mov
ie-making, is “one of the biggest
and most unusual” agreements in
show business history. The price
tag was not divulged.
It was indicated that emphasis
is to be on Sinatra’s acting talents
in a weekly half-hour program
over the ABC television network.
Turkey Accused
Of Planning to
Attack Syria
CAIRO, Egypt, OP—Anwar Sad
at, former minister of state, ac
cused Turkey today of planning
to attack Syria. He warned that if
Turkey carried out such a plan
she might find herself at war with
Russia.
Sadat sounded his charge in an
article in A1 Gumhurriya, a gov
ernment-backed newspaper.
The Turkish radio this week at
tacked Syria for accepting Soviet
arms, accused her of posting her
troops in a menacing manner
along the border of Lebanon, and
charged Syria and Egyptian
agents were trying to stir up
interal trouble in both Lebanon
and Iraq.
Sadat said Turkey hoped by an
attack on Syria to draw that poun
try into the Baghdad Pact, the
anti-Communist alliance in which
Turkey, Iraq, Tran, Pakistan and
Britain are members.
Sadat said this would be the
same as bringing Syria under
Western domination.
U. of Alaska President
Will Direct March of
Dimes in Territory
FAIRBANKS, UV-Dr. Ernest N.
Patty, president of the University
of Alaska, will direct the 1957
March of Dimes campaign in the
territory.
The drive will be held thruout
the U.S. and Alaska Jan. 2 to 31.
Dr. Patty said March of Dimes
funds are needed to continue re
habilitation and treatment for
children and adults already strick
en by poliomyelitis. Nearly 650
new cases have been reported in
the territory since 1950.
“The fight against polio does
not end with the discovery of the
Salk vaccine,” Dr. Patty said.
“The Health Department and pri
vate physicians thruout the terri
tory have been doing wonderful
work in vaccinating thousands of
persons, but the majority of The
population still is without protec
tion.” •
Tractor and Toothbrush Dropped to South Pole
construction efforts.
The toothbrush, wrapped in a
towel and tied to a bundle of oil
drums, will be used by T. Sgt.
Richard J. Patton, 31-year-old St.
Louisan who made history’s first
parachute jump to the Pole last
Sunday. He radioed back that he
had forgotten to pack his tooth
brush when he packed his ’chute.
The tractor made a perfect
landing and was observed in oper
ation soon after touching down.
Lt. Richard A. Bowers of Quon
set, R.I., and Harrisburg, Pa., the
leader of the largely Seabee
ground party, messaged the plane
making the drops that all was
well. He said his group was
spending its first night at the
Pole in a heated building. The
workers set up a portable wood
frame building covered with in
sulated fabric. It is heated by an
oil stove and equipped with cots.
They had been using tiny tents.
ANTI-U.S. FEELING IN
BRITAIN IS GROWING
OVER POLICY IN SUEZ
s By HAL COOPER
LONDON, Iff!—Anti - American
feeling soared to new heights to
day in Britain, Cartoonists there
lampooned President Eisenhower
mercilessly. A denunciation of
U.S. policy by more than 100 Con
servatives was before Parliament.
Othfr voices, however, called
for renewed efforts to heal the
breach with the U.S. caused by
the British-French dilemma in
Egypt.
In Parliament, the opposing
views were spelled out in motions
of the minority Labor and Liberal
Parties urging reconciliation with
Washington and by an influential
section of the ruling Conservative
Party attacking the U.N. Assem
bly and blaming U.S. Middle East
policy for “gravely endangering
the Atlantic alliance.”
Seldom In History
The Conservative motion was
signed by nearly one-third of the
Eden government’s backers in
Commons. Seldom in history has
so large a segment of the British
government party undertaken an
attack in this fashion on an allied
nation. It said:
“The House congratulates the
foreign secretary 'Selwyn Lloyd)
on his efforts to secure interna
tional control of the Suez Canal,
and deplores both the resolution
of the (U.N.) General Assembly
calling for immediate and uncon
ditional withdrawal of British
and French troops from Egypt
and the attitude of the U.S.A.,
which is gravely endangering the
Atlantic alliance.”
Trouble With Withdrawal
Four separate U.N. resolutions
have called on Britain, France
and Israel to pull their troops out
of Egypt. The United States sup
ported them. The endorsement of
the resolution by nearly a third
of the Conservative membership
of the House promised grave trou
ble for the government if it began
a complete withdrawal.
In France, too, public opinion
mounted against the United States
as a result of the Suez crisis. An
nouncement of gasoline rationing
that will let most French motor
ists have only four gallons each
month brought more bitterness.
Oil Pinch Fell
The United States was blamed
for not moving faster to supply
Europe with petroleum to replace
the cut-off Middle East supplies.
Britain and several other coun
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