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Vol. CXIX, No. 120. Associated Press Sorvico,‘—
Alumni Day T+ Initiate
University Con.mencement
Promising Future Of University
To Be Emphasized Here Tomorrow
Former University of Georgia students started coming
back to Athens today.
Like the song of their college days, they came back to
“hear the Chapel bell and a Georgia yell,” but they came
back for something more, too.
Tomorrow is Alumni Day on the campus—the day set
aside for former students to observe the 150th birthday
anniversar yof their Alma Mater.
0f Compromise
UMT Bill Likel
WASHINGTON, June I—(AP).
Senate passage of a compromise
draft and universal military train
ing bill appeared likely today.
Senator Case (R-SD.), who won
a 2 one-day delay in voting yester
day, told a reporter he expected
passage today. Case had object
ed to a vote until senators received
printed copies of the bill.
“I did not have a knife out for
this,” Case said.. “I just thought
any measure that reaches into ev
ery family in the country should
at least be printed and understood
before the Senate acted.”
WASHINGTON,June I—(AP)
The Senate today passed a com
promise bill extending the draft
and laying the foundation for a
Universal Military Training pro
gram in the future.
Senator Russell (D-Ga.), who
suspended ' the Senate TWacArthur
inqury yesterday afternoon to
push through the cecmpromise
then, &greed with Case that pass
age should come today. :
Senate Democratic and Repub
lican leaders had made an infor
mal agreement to act on the meas
ure yesterday and then take-a re
cess today and Saturday until
Monday.
Russell Statement
“We had the votes tc force ac
tion yesterday but I have always
tried to respect the ircdividual
pleas of senators,” Russell said.
Russell used more than two
hours yesterday to explain to the
tew senators who remained on the
tloor all details of the compromise
worked out between the Senate
and House. .
Much of the debate centered
around the current nationwide
‘ests arranged by selective serv
ice for young men anxious to
qualify for deferment in order to
continue in college.
Both Russell and Senator Lyn
don Johnson (D-Tex.) assured
ouestioning - senators that local
iraft boards could- toss the results
of these tests info a wastebasket
il they wished to do so.
The local boards will have full
authority on deferments, Russell
explained, and results of the tests
'‘ay or may not be used as guides
for their decisions.
Proposed Extension
Russeil also explained that the
proposed .extension of the -draft
ct beyond July 9 next to July
. 1955 includes reduction of the
resent minimum induction age
rom 19 to 18 1-2° years and ex
tension of required active duty
from 21 t 24 months. :
He said that hoth the Senate
and House “are in compiete agree
ment on gccepting a permament
program of wuniversal military
training.”
Differences between the Senate
and. House about how and when
this program should start caused
the long delay in reaching a com
pbromise agreement,
The House provisions are writ
ten into the eompromise but Rus
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Sigma Chi Men
lonor Abit Nix
Today was Abit Nix Day for
University of Georgia Sigma
Chis.
The well-known Athens attor
ey is beirig ‘honored by his col
ege fraternity for his service to
he Delta chapter of Sigma Chi.
A banquet in his honor will be
iven tonight at the Georgian Ho
el with Bob Norman, a University
raduate and a member of Sigma
bl as the principal speaker. Nor
an was named Augusta’s Young
lan of the Year for 1950.
At the banquet tonight a seroll
xpressing appreciation to Nix for
s service to Sigma Chi will be
resented to him on behalf of the
hapter ‘and the alumni. It will
car the signatures of the active
hapter and the alumni who will
€ present.
The banquet is being held on the
e of Nix's class reunion. Sev
ral of his. elassmates are expected
(o attend.
Plans are being made to make
he award to a Delta alumnus an
annud} affair,
fl'—lnive‘rs;i‘t;bf Get;r_g;i—aP—Commencement Opens With Alumni Day Here Tomorrow
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Alumnl Day is the first in a
three-day series of commencement
activities which will officially
close the University’s Sesquincen
tennial celebration. The obser
vance has been underway here
since Charter Day, Jan 27.
Parts of the Alumni Day pro
gram will be much like that of for
mer years—the hand-shaking and
All Athens and friends of the
University are espically invited
to attend all commencement ac
tivities, according to William C.
Crane, secretary of the Georgia
Alumni Society.
reminiscing—but part of it will
have a distinetive flavor of its own
too. For one thing, old Georgia
graduates will do more looking in
to the future.
Emphasis
Tomorrow the emphasis at
Alumni Day will be not so much
the University’s colorful past as its
promising future.
Hatton Lovejoy, prominent La-,
Grange attorney and a member of
the class of '96, will be the speak
er at the alumni meeting in the
Chapel at 10:30. Mr. Lovejoy at=-
tended the University’s Centennial
celebration in 1901, and in his ad
dress tomorrow is expected to cite
progress since that time and make
a few predictions about the Univer
sity’s promise for the next half
century. 1
Commencement Program |
Saturday, June 2, ALUMNI DAY
9 a. m.,, Chapel, registration.
10:30_a. m., Chapel !M
Hatton Lovejé;y.” -
1:00 p. m., Arboretum lunch
ecn.
4:30 p. m. Georgian Hotel,
reception for alummi and and
faculty. Given by classes of ’O9-
212
Sunday June 3
3 p. m,, Stegeman Hall, Bacca
laurate sermon, Dr. Jehn 0.
Gross.
4:30 p. m., President’s Home,
reception for seniors.
Monday, June 4,sGraduation
9 a. m., Sanford Stadium, band
concert.
10 a. m., Sanford Stadium,
graduation exercises. Address,
Dr. J. Hillis Miller. Valédictory,
Michael Stablar. .
Several other alumni who also
attended the University centennial
celebration are expected to be back
on the campus. Statistics show
that 60 to 70 of these men are still
living.
Alumni Program
Officially Alumni Day will be
gin at 9 a. m. with registration in
front of the Chapel and Academic
Building. After the Chapel busi
ness meeting. where Mr. Lovejoy
will speak and new officers of the
Alurmni Society will be named, the
group will move to the Ag Hill ar
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City Schools Graduate
Kindergarten Classes
. Kindergarten graduation cere
monies were completed at city
schools this week. Each child re
ceived a certificate of graduation
from kindergarten and certifica
tion for advancement to the first
grade.
The following were graduated:
CHASE STREET
Roger Alexander, Bob Carey,
Steve Deal, Harry Escoe, Jimmy
Flanagan, Mike McKinzie, Neil
Marable, John Philbrook, Bobby
Prince, Bobby Sellers, Tommy
Carter, Gerald Stalker, Lamar El
der Jr., Bobby Fulcher, Milton
Bates. .
Sonny Abney, Clyde Aderhold,
Jim Bodie, Ray Bond, David Car
rence Collins, Wayne Culberson,
Marion Ivy, jr., Marion Perry
Vernon Phillips, Ed Saye, SKippy
Sells, Ronnie Bryant. Jim Bodie.
Wayne Evans, Peter Jones,
Bob Shields, David Simpson, Phil
Garrison, Lynn Schieb, Frankie
Bradley, Laddie Higginbotham,
Henry McLeéroy, Patsy Campbsll,
Joan Harrison, Laura Nelms, Car
ol Potts, Glenda Scarboro, Gwen
Skelton, Jake Scots. ..
Gial Spratlin, Chuka Tolbert
Rathryn Whitehead, Anne King,
Bonnie Cherry, Patricia Ann Hea
lan, Patsy Howington, Shirley
Noland, Laney Wheby, “Adella
Allyn, Patsy Burgess, Linda Bur
rough, Gloria Fulcher, Susan
Guest. :
Nancy Hardman, -Margaret Ann
Harrison, Gloria Jean Herndon,
Sydney Jones, Phyllis Kenny,
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Boyd Selected
For Regional
Education Work
ATLANTA—George H. Boyd,
dean of the Graduate School at
the University of Georgia, was one
of 16 educators who recently were
handed the job of channelling
millions of dollars worth of equip
ment and’ manpower into. the
south’s system of higher education
without cost to institution or tax
payer.. .
The equipment and manpower is
in public and private industries
and agencies over the South, and
how the channels are dug to flow
those resources into the education=-
al system will be an academic en~
gineering job undertaken by the
committee named by the Southern
Regional Education Board of Con
trol.
Russell S. Poor, chairman of the
University Relations Division at
the Oakm?' Lmfitur ite of Nuclear
‘Studiss, will' be chairman, ‘
The committee membership was
announced by John E., Ivey, jr.,
director of the regional program in
which 14 southern states are join
ed to improve higher education in
the region.
“Studies over the past two years
have convinced educators that a
great wealth of educational facili
ties not on any campus are going
to waste educationally here in the
South,” said Mr. Ivey.
“For instance, committees of
prominent men from many of our
colleges have found equipment and
laboratories and highly trained
personnel at TVA and Air Univer
sity which could be of great aid
in research and in training of
graduate students. The student
could maintain his enrollment at
his university, but have the tre
mendous advantage of these off
campus facilities.”
Mr. Ivey mentioned a $300,000
hydraulics laboratory at TVA, and
chemical plants and laboratories
there valued at several million
dollars. Private industry plants
and other public agencies, he said,
represent “a gold mine of untapped
resources for our educational sys
tem.”
The committee will seek to find
such facilities that could be used,
and establish a system for college
and university use of them, It will
start work at a meeting in Atlanta
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Joyce Maxwell, Gial Nolan,
Jackie Skelton, Elsie Todd, Fran
ces Holsomback, Carolyn Partan.
COLLEGE AVENUE
Bettie Jan Gassitt, Sharon Mar
tin, Ann Chambers, Betty Jo
Crane Martha Gordon, Peggy
Stemetz, Lavarne Martin, Norman
Jean Farr, Patsy Cope, Brenda
Watson, Carlo Noel, Beverly Sauls,
Joann Woods, Joann McKee, Jane
Kenney, Dianne Johnson, Patsy
Arnold, Dian Nelms, Kay Steph
en, Judy Louise Davis, Carolyn
Barber.
Tommy Thompson, Peate Gear
ri, Luther Garrison, Roy Lee
Amos, Ted Anderson, Roy Butler,
Gene Casper, Bill Kittle, Donny
Williams, Bobby Vickery, Jimmy
Payne, Don Epps, Eddie Brock,
Butch Peyton, Dickie Nunnally,
Tommy McElroy, Jerry Bowen.
OCONEE STREET
Sandra Anderson, Betty Coile,
Alice Christopher, Sandra Davis,
Janet Gooch, Gloria Jean Hawk
ing, Connie Moore, Henrietta Mor
ton, Nancy Jo Patman, Allie Lee
Pelfsey, Maxine Pinson, Ann
Tanksiey
Eloise Toney, Maria White, Peg
gy Austin, Jimmy Charles Allen,
Larry Brown, Gene Daniel, Harry
Hancock, Bennis Hawkins, Billie
Morrow, Alvin &ather, Lloyd
Shelton, John 11s, Kempton
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SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST CGEORGIA OVER A CENTURY.
Mobilizafion Is
Facing New, -
Larger Problems
WASHINGTON, June 1-—(AP)
~—Differences over how to deal
with a flood of wage boost de
mands, a major strike threat, new
orders cutting the use of steel
and a proposal for stiffened eredit
controls were highlights of the
Economiec Mobilization picture to
day.
Wages
Economic Stabilizer Eric John
ston and the 18-man wage stabili
zation board differed sharply over
the relax the government’s four
months old wage controls. -
Aftet meeting with the beoard,
Johnston told reporters he would
like to have the board act imme
diately on cases that could be ap
proved under present policy and
to work out an over-all formula
covering the future. About 3,000
cases are pending.
Some members among the 12
labor and public representatives
on the WSB clashed with Johnston
on that, expressing the opinion
that while an overall policy
should be quickly devised to take
the place of the present ten per
cent ceiling, many cases have spe
cial features which must be con
sidered alone
Strike
A major strike threat brewed
in the electrical industry.
The dispute between Westing
house Electric Corporation and its
CIO and AFL employes may wind
up in WSB’s lap. If so, it would
be the first labor dispute to reach
the board since WSB was recon
stituted with dispute setting pow
ers.
The International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers (AFL)
threatened yesterday to join the
CIO in strike action against West
inghouse. AFL has 20,000 West
inghouse members, and CIO 51,-
000. Both unions are objecting to
conditions attached by the com
pany to a nine-cent an hour in
crease offer. Westinghouse said it
wants to make the increase con
ditional on WSB approval and on
increased price fathits products to
offset the cost of the wage boost.
The conference board of CIO
International Union of Electrical
Workers voted in Pittsburgh yes
terday to authorize a strike on or
after June 11 in a score of West
inghouse plants in seven states un
less the differences are settled.
- The" nt ‘ y
day to an order cu
usage in all major household ap
pliances by 30 per cent from a
year ago, effective July 1.
A regulation curtailing passen
ger car production even more
deeply—by one third or more—
was under study by Manly Fleis
schmann, Administrator of the
National Production Authority
(NPA). It may not appear this
week.
But another auto order, affect
ing June production only, was ex
pected today. It will ease, for
some motor companies, the 25 per
cent reduction previously ordered
for June.
A separate order affecting au
tomobiles only and altering the
method by which their manufact
ure has been restricted thus far,
has been prepared tentatively.
Its objective is the production in
the July-August-September quar
ter, of 1,200,000 cars. This com=
pares with about 1,895,000 autos
in the third quarter of last year.
However, the regulation, as now
drafted, would encourage the pro
duction of lighter automobiles and
would mean relatively more cars
for the same quantity of steel fed
into the assembly line.
Credit
A four-agency report released
by the White House asked that the
federal reserve board be given
emergency powers to increase the
amount of reserves banks must
hold. The report said the restric
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ATHENS AND VICINITY
Mostly fair and hot this after
noon, tonight and Saturday.
Slight chance of an affernoon
thundershower Saturday. Low
tonight 69 and high tomorrow
93. Sun sets today 7:39 and rises
tomorrow 5:22.
MAY SUMMARY
55 of an inch of rain was
measured during the month,
Only twice in the history of
Athens weather records have
smaller amounts of rain occur
red during this period—.ll in
1914 and .21 in 1936. Greatest
May rainfall was 11.36 in 1923,
Temperatures during the month
averaged 69. The highest was
92 on May 22, and the lowest
was 43 on May 8. There were 17
clear days in May, which is
double the average number of
clear days for this month.
GEORGIA—PartIy cloudy and
hot this afternoon, tonight and
Saturday. Chance of thunder
showers Saturday afternoon and
over south and west portion this
afternoon.
TEMPERATURE
SIS oio v v cinsndie BR
BNIRE oo oo i b 9
DR el e T 8
WO «.on. i v kanubie 18
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours ....ee .00
Total for June .......eeeoe <OO
Deficit for June ......c.sees .10
Deficit since May 1 ....... 4.13
Total since January 1 .....14.12
Deficit since January 1 .... 8.70
ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1951.
Reds Bolster Defenses At
Vital Massing Area Points
} Reds Bitterly
- Uppose Allied
Forward Unifs
By OLEN CLEMENTS
TOKYO, June 1-—(AP) —
Chinese Communists bol
stered defenses today in
ridge lines guarding their
vital massing area in Red
Korea,
An Allied tank patrol
rumbled back into Yanggu
at the eastern end of Hwa
chen veservoir on the eastern
front Friday noon for the
second straight day. It had
fought its way in Thursday.
Friday it met no oyposition.
Communist troops bitterly op
posed Allied patrois along the 125~
mile Korean front except at the
two ends of Hwachon reservoir.
Gains up to two miles were re
ported near Hwachon.
On the western front, an Ameri
can staff officer said Chinese ap
peared to be digging in to “resist
any further Allied advdnce toward
the Chorwon - Kumhwa - Pyong~
yang supply triangle.”
Reds streamed into new posi
tions north of the 38th parallel to
defend the concentration area,
starting point of their ill-fated
spring offensives. They filtered
into new positions by groups of
50 to 500. Some dragged new
artillery pieces through the mud
and set them up facing U. N. po
sitions.
An American officer said the ar= ‘
tillery movement may indicate the
Reds plan new attacks in an et-‘
fort to break up the U, N. coun
teroffensive. One purpose of the
big Allied drive was to try to
touch off a Red infantry attack
prematurely.
el it o
- aind : A~ o PO
B T patrol
‘fought ite way north of Yon
chon on the road to Chorwon,
Communist bastion in the west.
Tank traps and artillery halted
other armored units. And a hor
nets’ nest of Chinese resistance in
the hills tied up American infan
try in dozens of small but intense
day-long fights.
Across the broad central ap
proaches to Kumhwa, U, N. forces
held their ground against Red at
tacks, pulled back slightly or
slogged a short distance forward.
Allied units generally were held
close to the 38th parallel.
South of 38 Korean Reds drove
South Koreans nearly a mile at
one spot on the Hyon-Inje road.
In the air three more Russian
type jets were shot down. This
brought to six the number re
ported destroyed in 24 hours by
swift American F-86 Sabre jets
and a B-29 superfort. One air
fight flared near Pyongyang, North
Korean capital and far south of
the traditional jet battle scenes,
Planes Crash
Two American planes—an F-80
jet and an F-51 Mustang—crashed
and burned Friday afternoon be
hind Red lines. The Fifth Air
Force said the pilots could not
have survived. It did not say
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NEW HIGH TENSION LINE
Completion Of Georgia
Power Project Nears
Georgia Power Company line
crews are just completing the con
struction of a new high tension
electric transmission line into Ath
ens,
In announcing its completion,
L. M, Shadgett, power company
vice-president, stated that this
was the third step of an extensive
transmission line construction pro
gram which has been under way
in the Athens area during the past
year or two. The initial step in
this particular program was the
construction of a line into Athens
from Winder on the west. The
second step was the recent com=-
pletion of a similar line into Ath
ens from the Union Point-Warren
ton area on the southeast, while
the line just completed into Ath
ens from Commerce on the north
represents the third step. All three
of these new lines operate at 110,-
000 volts.
Practical Effect
The practical effect of these
new lines has been to greatly
strengthen the electrical system
bringing power into Athens to
augment the output of the three
local hydro electric generating
plants, and to make Athens the
key point for the control of the
flow of glgctfip power over the
transmission lines of the Georgj_a
Power Company in northeésst
Georgia, several additional em
ployees have b&n transferred to
Ainens to exercise and supervise
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COMMUNIST RESISTANCE STIFFENS— United Nations forces (black arrows) are
meeting stiff resistance from the Reds all across the Korean front. The Communists
are trying desperately to keep the Bth Army away from their triangular build-up
area (shaded portion), but Allied tanks and troops are advancing on Chorwon and
Kumhwa, which form the triangle’s base. United Nations units seized the Hwachon
dam (1) sealing the Reds escape route to the north. B-29 Superforts bombed
(blast symbols) Pyongyang, the apex of the “Iron Triangle.” (NEA Newsmap).
Secretary Of State Dean Acheson
Appears Before Senate Committee
Annual Poppy
Sale To Be
Held Tomorrow
The annual Poppy Sale for
the benefit of disabled American
veterans will be held here to
morrow under the sponsorship
of Frank E. Mitchell Post 2872
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
All proceeds of the sale will
go to the disabled veterans. The
poppies, miniature replicas of
the poppies that “grow in Flan
ders Field,” are made by dis
abled men now in veteran’s
hospitals.
. .
Newsprint Prices
Up $lO Per Ton
TORONTO, June 1 — (AP) —
Abitibi Power and Paper Co., Ltd.,
today announced a $lO a ton in
crease in the price of newsprint.
This brings the New York price to
sll6 a ton and the Canadian price
to sll2,
this control. ‘
These new transmission lines,‘
together with the substation or
terminal facilities which are nec
essary to control them, are an im
portant part of the Power Com=
pany’s multi-million dollar pro
gram of expandinf its physical
properties to handle the pheno
menal increase which has taken
place in the use of electric power
during the past several years, and
the further increases which are
anticipated during the next few
years. These increases are parti«
cularly heavy in this section of
the state of which Athens is the
hub, Mr. Shadgett stated, the Pow
er Company’s experience being
that this section is now and will
probably continue to be the lead
ing user of electric labor saving
devices on a per-capita or per
customer basis, indicating con
tinued and healthy growth for the
business and industrial and eco
nomie conditions of this area,
Construction Details
Discussing some of the construc~
tion detail of the new 110,000 volt
transmssion line which has just
been completed into Athens from
Commerce, Mr, Shadgett mention«
ed that the structures supporting
the five heavy overhead eiablu
w what know as 2-pole H
trsfi'é étz%xcgn'l;?, gsinf ereosoted
pine poles 50 ft. to 70 ft. in lonfth,
the three heavy aluminum ele¢-
trical conductors being supported
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Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
WASHINGTON, June I—(AP).
With Secretary of State Acheson ip
eir witness chair, senators in
‘ into the dismissal of Gen.
ur today debated
‘ cr,,h‘nDb.&ibnc a 1949
State Department ument deal
‘ing with Formosa.
Discussion of this Issue delayed
the questioning of the cabinet of
ficer.
At the start of the session,
Chairman Russell (D.-Ga.) of the
combined Senate Armed Services
and Foreign Relations Committee\
announced Acheson had an 18-
minute statement he wished to
make. Russell said it dealt with
over-all policies and the dismissal
of MacArthur.
Senator Knowland (R.-Calif.)
protested that the committee had
agreed in advance it would dis
cuss the possible publication of a
Dec. 23, 1949 State Department
memorandum to consular officers.
The memorandum has been de
scribed by Knowland and others
as advising the consular officers
to be prepared for the fall to the ‘
Communists of Chinese National- |
ist-held Formosa. ‘
Memorandum Content |
It was said to have contended
that Formosa was of little strate
gic value to the United States.
Secretary of Defense Marshall
and the Joint Chiefs of Staff all
have told the committees the
island should not be permitted to ‘
fall into hostile hands. .
Acheson has contended the
memorandum, classified as “confi
dential,” should not be released to
the public.
Knowland noted that the report
on President Truman'’s Wake
Island conference wifih MacArthur
last October, which had the high
est classification of “top secret”
already has been made public in
the hearings. He contended the
State Department document also
should be made public.
Senator MeMahon (D.~Conn.)
complained that Knowland had
brought the document before the
committee while he was absent.
He and Knowland are members
of a subcommittee to examine such
papers and make recommenda
tion as to whether or not fhey
should be made public.
“I had no notice from the sena
tor from California that he was
going to bring this matter to an
issitée in nry absence,” McMahon
said.
He added it was “a procedural
matter regarding one of probably
a thousand documents that may
well be considered in the course
of this investigation.”
It was the 24th day of hearings
by the two committees.
Non-Members Present
Among the non-members of the
committees on hand at the outset
was Senator McCarthy (R.-Wis.),
one of Acheson’s sharpest critf®s
in Congress. McCarthy said he
had supplied “a lot of material” to
Republican colleagues who will
question the Secretary of State.
Acheson is the seventh witness
?,{ th’ hearingst Those hearg pre
ously were MacArthur, Secre
tary of 'ffg{e,,fi fi:z‘shallg Gen.
Omar Bradley, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the other
mem of the JCS—Gen. Iszv
ton Collins of the Army, Gen.
Hoyt mdonberg:f the Air Force,
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“ HOME
EDITION
In Oil Dispufe
THERAN, IRAN, June I—(AP)
—President Truman intervened
personally today in Iran’s eil
crisis. He sent a letter to Premier
Mohammed Mosedegh urging that
negotiations be instituted with
Britain for settlement of the pre
sent “explosive” situation,
British Foreign Secretary Her
bert Morrison offered on May 19
to send a high diplomatic missiop
to negotiate all outstanding differ
ences between Iran and Britain—
mainly the problems arising from
Iran’s insistence upon natiomaliz
ing her oil resources, including the
big Anglo-Iranian oil company.
President Truman’s letter was
delivered by U, 8. Ambassador
Henry F. Grady at Premier Mos
sadegh’s home this morning. Mes
sadegh reportedly is sick in bed
with a fever.
Informants in Tehran said the
Presidential note apparently was
inspired in Washington from the
State Department and not by sug
gestions from diplomats on the
scene. This seems to emphasize the
importance President Truman at
taches to the oil situation. An ear
lier U. S. Statement said the erisis
is threat to the uniiy of the whele
free world.
The President’s note reportedly
urged negotiations within the
principles of Nationalization. Na
tionalization has been made law
in Iran, but is not yet effective.
Ifan has shown no dispositien up
to now even to talk about nego
tiating.
Today, however, reports eircu
lated that Premier Moessadegh had
summohed an emergency session
of his capinet after meeting Grady.
These reports said he would read
the President’s letter to a special
session of Parliament tomorrow.
Red Casualties
WASHINGTON, June 1-—(AP).
Total enemy casualties in Korea
through May 30 reached 1,133,410,
the Defense Department estimated
today.
This represents an increase of
,108,006 since May 23.
The total is made up of 682238
battle casualties, 138,880 non-bat
tle losses and 149,417 prisoners of
war through May 16.
To reach the revised gramd to
tol the Army added 162,875 enemy
combat losses and counted prison
ers of war for the period May 17~
May 30. 2 L e e
Comparative totals for all of
the United Nations forces im Ke
rea are not available. The last
Defense Department figures for U.
S. battle casualties through May
26 totalled 67,427. .
General Omar Bradley festi
fied last week that U, S. casualties
totalled 141,955, of which 72,679
are classified as non-battle lesses
due to mjugy, disease and other
factors not directly caused by en
emy agtion.