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Sat, Dw. 22, 1915 THE MIWTAPOLIS STAR 3 On Worldwide News Front From the Star Wire Services U.N. Begins Holiday in Midst of Dispute Nixon Will Make Stop at Iceland SALZBURG, Austria Vice President Nixon arrived here today in a snowstorm to complete his survey of the Hungarian refugee problem. He prepared to fly home via Iceland where the big American air base was a recent 'political issue. No resolution was pre TRAFFIC Continued from Page One car driven by John Fruechte, Decorah, Iowa, struck the wreckage.

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP) Weary United Nations delegates headed home today for a Christmas recess after arguing into the night on troubles in the Middle East and other unfinished business. The latest round on the Middle East ended on an uncertain note when Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold announced that Israel planned a partial withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula by Jan. 10, but that he could not say When all Israeli forces would be out of the area.

Hammarskjold spoke in re ply to demands by Jordan and other Arab delegates as to how fast the Israels were pull ing out. The Middle East dispute was revived when ranee brought -fresh charges before the general assembly that Egypt had mistreated and deported her nationals. The Arabs quickly launched a full dress debate on the At Wirephoto GENERAL ENZ0 cordello, the baritine who attributed his recent firing by the Metro politan Opera to Maria Callas, offers his hand to her as they cross paths at Idlewild airport in New York. The soprano refused his hand because, she said later, Sordello refused to apologize "for what he said Sordello had attributed his firing to a note he held longer than she did during on opera Europe Oh the same plane, Miss Sordello for Nice, France. whole Middle Eastern situation.

Hammarskjold and the Unit ed States had tried all week to head off the squabble. Israel's Abba I ban added to the dispute by accusing I'gypt of deporting Jews of various A parade of Arab speakers accused Britain and Franco of "collusion" with Israel in the invasion of Egypt, United States delegate James J. Wadsworth made an 11th hour attempt to soft-pedal the controversy. He called for an end to "this phase of the dispute." Wadsworth added however, that the United States has received Information that foreign nationals have been mistreated In Egypt. He said the United States ambassador in Cairo had been asked tc convey to the Egyptian government American concern in this matter.

Was ready to make another test stratospheric and elec tronic equipment. The balloon was launched Wednesday be hind the Winzcn's plant and landed 22 hours later in a pas ture near Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Mrs. Winzen, dressed in slacks, sweater, boots and a coat, actually rode in the sky car I'A hours. She went aboard in Black River Falls, when it landed to change occupants.

With her were her husband and another employe or the firm. Of Poet Contrad Aiken and Composer Igor Stravinsky were announced Friday as new members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The academy is composed of a maximum of 50 artists, writers or composers chosen from membership of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. RIDE -UP Ballooning Top Sport to Bloomington Woman If ballooning ever makes a come-back as a popular sport, Mrs. Vera Winzen will be ail for it.

After soaring 10,000 feet in a helium-filled plastic bal loon this week, Mrs. Winzen flight. "It was the most wonderful experience I've ever "Hey, Mom look! They've got a brand new couch!" Time, Seeking to Buy WTCN Time, has completed negotiations for purchase of three radio-television stations, including WTCN radio and WTCN-TV in Minneapolis. Friday, the board of directors of Consolidated Television and Radio Broadcasters, which owns the three stations, approved the sale, If the federal communications commission and Consolidated' shareholders approve the deal, Time will acquire at a price tag of $15,750,000 WTCN radio and WTCN-TV, WFBM-AM-TV at Indianapo lis, and WOOD-AM-TV at Grand Rapids, Mich. On Oct.

11, the Crowcll-Collier Publishing publishers of Collier's magazine, the Woman's Home Compan ion and other magazines and books, asked the FCC for per mission to buy the three stations and radio station WFDF at Flint, (WFDF is not included in the Time purchase package) for $15,344,000. Collier's announced at that time that 90 per cent of Con- sohdateds shareholders had accepted its offer. On Dec. 14, Crowell-Collier a ced that it will tiiscontinue publishing Collier's and the Woman's Home Companion in January. Negotiations with Time, began only after termination of Crowell Collier's offer to buy 56.03 per cent of Consolidated's stock, according to Harry M.

Bitner, Consolidated's board chairman. WTCN radio and WTCN-TV are affiliated with the ABC network; WFBM is affiliated with NBC-TV network and ABC MBS radio networks; WOOD radio is affiliated with NBC and WOOD- TV is affiliated with NBC-ABC networks. Time owns or has "substantial interests in three radio- TV properties at Denver, Albuquerque, N. and Salt Lake City, Utah. FCC regulations limit ownership to five very-high fre quency (VHF) stations, so Time will dispose of one of its present properties before the Consolidated sale be comes final.

"Acquisition of the new stations," said Roy E. Larsen, president of Time, "is a logical out-growth of Time, long history and wide- ranging interest in radio and television. "Time, fully recognises its responsibility to maintain and strengthen the tradition of community service which has been established by Consoli dated in Minneapolis, Grand Rapids and Indianapolis. We will constantly endeavor to develop programing of both local and national interest in these areas." Lund apparently had been standing near his car. His body was hurled in front of the truck.

He was being taken to a hospital at La Crosse, when he died in the ambulance. Dowds wife suffered a broken elbow and was hos pitalized. Fruechte was treated for cuts on a leg and his face. The fourth holiday season fatality in the state was an unemployed father of five, Marvin Lockrem, 28, Route 1, Northfield. He was killed Fri' day night when his car skid ded on an icy patch near Den' nison, and plunged Into a ditch.

Those four deaths brought the state traffic toll for the year to 617. Only two full years in the past have seen worse records in traffic. The 44th victim of the year in Minneapolis was Mrs. Clara Kranz, 68, 2622 Newton avenue who was riding with her husband Quirin, 71, when their car collided with one driven by Wayne Phillips, 35, 3023 Queen avenue shortly after 9 a.m. Friday.

The accident occurred at Thirtieth and Queen avenues N. Mrs. Kranz was crushed against the windshield of the car when a 100-pound sack of sand her husband had in the trunk was hurled against the back of the front seat by the impact. A Minneapolis man, John A. Rusch, 33, 109 Twentieth avenue became the first Wisconsin holiday weekend fatality Friday night when his car skidded off an icy road near and smashed into a tree.

Gordon R. Niggeler, 36, 3734 Fremont avenue was charged with drunk driving when his car sideswiped the car of Clarence Drulenski, 33, 2917 Thirty-first avenue who had stopped for a stop sign at Twenty-sixth and Washington avenue N. Nieggler's automobile then continued across the intersection and hit one driven by B. Wade Smith, 49, 2000 N. Fair-view avenue, Ramsey county.

Smith suffered. a possible broken nose. Nieggler was treated for back and rib in juries. Druleaski was not hurt. Murl M.

McCurg, 38, 522 Newton avenue was charged with drunk driving when his car struck Henry Lola, 4515 Portland avenue, at Third street and Broadway at 11:30 p.m. Lola suffered abrasions. Paul A. Bruneau, 4047 Twenty-sixth avenue suffered head and hip injuries when his car collided with one driven by Regina V. Ku-rilla, 5148 Forty-second avenue at Forty-sixth street and Forty-sixth avenue S.

at 10:10 p.m. Bruneau was charged with drunken driving. A passenger in his car, Paul Hibbs, 5432 Xerxes avenue suffered a head injury- known, she said. She thinks she may be the first woman to have made a flight in a plastic balloon, although several women years ago went up in rubber-canvas balloons. As vice president In charge of production and personnel at her husbands firm, Winzen Research, Bloomington, Mrs.

Winzen enthusiastically welcomed the chance to ride in an open sky car under a 41 -foot-diameter balloon. Purpose of the flight was to sented during the debate which hinged on British-French requests that Hammarskjold obtain assurances their nationals would be treated properly in Egypt. In commenting on Israel's withdrawal, Hammarskjold said he had been informed Israeli troops would be pulled out at the rate of 15 miles a day within the next few weeks, lie said he told Israel this was not adequate and re quested a new schedule. Israel then told him, he said, that partial with drawal was planned by Jan. 10 and the final puliout at an unstated date.

The assembly approved over bovtct bloc objections an appropriation of the first 10 million dollars to pay for the U.N. emergency force now pushing forward into Egypt. The vote was G2-8 with 7 abstentions. A Soviet spokesman declared all expenses should be charged to the in Egypt. The money will be raised by assessment of U.N.

mem bers in accord with the scale used for raising the annual budget. Under this arrangement the United States will put up one- third of the total. The assembly will decide later how to raise the remainder of the expenses of the force. Meanwhile, the U.N. went ahead with the task of clear ing the canal, A United States spokesman said four German salvage ships had sailed down the canal to El Cap, 23 miles south of Port Said.

In Port Said itself, the British and French approached completion of their puliout in compliance with assembly requests. The spokesman also Ire-ported agreement had been reached for British salvage vessels to remain at Port Said to help clean up the waterway at this key point. tit i tan per plant (includ.i d.liv.ry) T)49 COME IN SUNDAY! OPEN 9 am TILL 1 0 p.m! Nixon came here from Vienna by special train. Following the pattern of his previous days in Austria, Nixon first shook hands with the Austrian officials gathered to greet him, then hurried over to talk with the groups of private citizens on hand for his arrival "Do you mind if I go over and meet some of your people?" he asked a local official In a moment, Nixon had shaken hands with about 20 persons who turned out in the snowfall to see him. Nixon's fondness for handshaking raised a question about his visit to Iceland Sunday.

Someone asked if he would shake hands with Iceland's two leftist ministers: Communist Trade and Fisheries Minister Ludvik Josepsson and pro-Communist Health Minister Hannibal Waldimarsson. United States Deputy Attorney General William P. Rogers, who accompanied Nixon on this trip, replied, saying: "The question is, will they shake hands with him?" Iceland recently reversed its demand that American troops be withdrawn from the island. Washington made it clear the Reykjavik government changed its mind after the Russians smashed the Hun garian revolt. Rep.

Robert Wilson who has been accompanying Nixon, said the reason for Nixon's scheduled six-hour stopover is: "Everybody goes through Iceland. Nobody stops there." However, the brief visit was believed directly connect ed with the new arrange' ments to let the Americans stay on Iceland. Nixon winds up his tour of Hungarian refug camps with a visit to several camps today in the Salzburg area and across the border in West Germany. The vice president says the United States must do more than it has done to help solve the refugee problem. He is ex pected to recommend to Pres- dent Eisenhower that Ameri ca take in more than the 500 refugees already ap proved.

Nixon today pledged American help for refugees who fled east European Communist countries prior to the Hungarian revolt. He made the promise on a visit to the Glasenbach refu gee camp five miles south of Salzburg. SUMATRA Continued from Page One contact "people there." It made no other comment on the move by the army group. There were no reports indicating the coup was spreading to other points in the Indonesian Archipelago. There are 500 Americans on Sumatra, but there were no indications any of them were affected by the power switch.

There were no reports of anV clashes between the army officers and the authorities whom they replaced. One report said the formal takeover of power was without in cident. Spiraling inflation which has been gripping the whole country has had special significance for Sumatra. One of the main disputes between the island and the central government is that Sumatra produces 50 per cent of Indonesia's wealth but gets back only 7 per cent. In Indonesia, Sumatra is second in size to Borneo, part of which is a British crown colony.

Sumatra has a population of about 12 million persons. Sumatrans complain that their size and importance entitles them to some degree of autonomy and they want one of their own people named governor. company to discuss the matter. But Hoover, through a spokesman, is just as insistent that Zeineddine assured him there was "no obstacle" to beginning repairs that would permit resumption of the flow of Middle Eastern oil fson's GARDEN LOT 22nd and Lyndale Ave. So.

Aiken The world premiere of a filmed comedy about prison life will be held in a prison. The picture, "Puglic Pigeon No. 1," will be shown Dec. 27 to the 3,000 inmates of Green Haven state prison at Storm-ville, N. Y.

A Capital Airlines flight carrying 44 passengers and four crew members slid to safety on a blanket of fire-fighting foam at Charlotte, N. Friday night with a defective landing gear. The plane made the emergency landing after circling Charlotte two hours while ground crews spread the soapy foam blanket over half the runway. Crew members said the passengers reacted calmly to the threat of disaster. Singer Ezio Pinza got his Christmas gift wish being able to spend the holidays at home with his wife and three children.

The basso was discharged Friday from Greenwich hospital, Stamford, Conn. He had been a pa-ient there since Dec. 3 after Pinza suffering a second heart seizure Milton and Rosalie Schwartz were free today in Philadelphia, after serving all but five months of their sentence for the abortion death of food chain heiress Mrs. Doris Jean Ostreicher. A 13-year-old boy struck down on Chicago's northwest side when a hearse ran wild after its driver died at the wheel, was reported in critical condition at Belmont hospital.

A state trooper was injured seriously and a state senator was charged with leaving the scene of an accident on highway 41 south of Terre Haute, Friday Trooper Jay Dennis was injured when a car struck him as he was questioning another driver. State Sen. Paul Boyle was arrested at Sullivan, an hour later and charged with public intoxication and leaving the scene of an accident. FOREIGN Cunard Line officials Inspected the liner Queen Mary at Southampton, England, in an effort to learri why the ship suddenly began to rock and roll in the middle of the calm Atlantic. On a earlier run this week the big ship suddenly quivered and set up a vibration that shook it from side to side.

It calmed down within a few minutes and completed the trip without further incident Six members of the Greek Cypriot underground organization EOKA have been sentenced to life imprisonment in Nicosia on charges of plotting to overthrow the government. They were arrested Oct. 4. and what he accused me of. duet.

The tw singers left for Callas bound for Milan, Italy, Stravinsky WEATHER Continued from Page One so thick during the night that passengers who were "stood up" by canceled air flights could not even take buses or cars back to the city. They stayed at the terminal all night. The fog lifted this morning in parts of the affected area. Air service resumed at New York's LaGuardia airport and from airfields from Washington southward. Fog also lifted at Kansas City, but heavy clouds obscured the sky.

However, the Chicago weather bureau said there were indications the thinning in the midwest was temporary. The fog cleared temporarily at Chicago's midway airport, but an hour later visibility again was zero-zero and air travel was at a halt. Weather bureau men said the fog was created by coli-sion of huge currents of mild moist air from the Gulf of Mexico with colder air pushing in from the west. Indications were that this mixture would bring heavy snows to Nebraska and southern South Dakota. This snow will not hit Minnesota, local weather bureau men said.

There is little prospect of snow for Christmas in Minneapolis, the weather people said. Temperatures all over the midwest and east were far above normal for the season. The city's low during the night here was 31. This was the reading at 1 a.m. and at 2 a.m., 3 a.m., 4 a.m., 5 a.m., 6 a.m.

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