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World News Capsules —- — • Great Britain Yields to Demands; Close Their Consulate in Iran Compiled by Tom Jaeues (From the Wire* of the United Fro** and Associated Pre**) Urcat Britain yielded to Iranian demands Monday and closed all its consulates throughout the country. A British embassy spokesman said nine British consulates were dosed, effective Monday morning, lie said these included .Belgian consulate sections whose interests were represented ■l>\ the British counsels at Tabriz and Khorramshahr. Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, meanwhile, announced he lill reply in a radio broadcast today to an ultimatum of the unatical haidayan Islam sect threatening t<> assassinate him inlcss he frees its imprisoned leader. During the weekend, Mossadegh accepted a plan under which ie will receive $23,(XX)>000 in United States “Point hour’’ aid. Fierce Red fire on the Korean front ... forced back United Nations raiders on the western sector of the line Monday. The U.N. raiding patrol first attacked a hill northwest of Yonchon, only to be thrown back by intense small arms and mortar fire. I On the eastern front, U.N. patrols fought four engagements with Communist units and killed 24 Mods and captured 5 others in a 20 minute fight. Had weather impaired the air activity for another day. A 'Price of Peace' spending budget. . . ... calling for $85,400,000, was handed to Congress Monday by the president. It was capped off with the announcement of a mammoth future expansion of the U.S. atomic weapons program. The new budget provided a record $1,775,000,000 for atomic energy In fiscal 1953, but its really big items were $51,200,000,000 for our armed forces and $10,500,000,000 to help build up our allies against the [Communist meanace. 1 Pesidernt Truman conceded that his budget will involve a heavy burden on our taxpayers, but that the price of peace is prepardness. Twenty-four Indo-Chinese were wounded ... .. . Monday and government buildings were damaged by seven time bombs which Communists terrorists planted in the crowded streets of the southern Indo-Chinese city of Haigon. The terrorists used a new technique. They attached plastic time (bombs to bicycles, rode the bicycles into the crowded center of the city, and abandoned them beside government office buildings. This is the second time in less than two weeks that rebel Viet Minh [bombs had spread terror through mid-morning crowds. ♦ ♦ ♦ Communist activities in Los Angeles . . . .. . arc being Investigated, and the first hearings by the House Com mittee on Un-American Activities got under way Monday. The hearings will deal largely with the extent of "Red infiltration" !nto legal, medical and to other professional groups in the Los Angeles area. Red activities in Hollywood, put under the committee spotlight sev eral times before, would play but a secondary part in the latest study, one source said. There is fighting in Egypt again . . . m ■ • ■ find the government promised a full investigation of the killing Of an American nun, just as British troops raided a big guerrilla ammunition depot Monday. Four Egyptian guerrillas were killed and a British officer was seriously wounded. The guerrillas fired with Sten guns when the British troops surround ed a cemetary where the ammunition was stored. ' U.S. embassy in Cairo said Acting Egyptian Foreign Minister Ibraolm Farag Pasha promised American Ambassador Jefferson Caf fery that he would investigate the death of the nun. ♦ ♦ ♦ Truce talks reached a dead end . .. ... Monday with both sides refusing to budge. Only a major policy change by the United Nations or the Commu the endurance contest and lead the negotiations from ? of> :apse. Each side served notice Monday that it will not yield on the two main issues blocking an nrmistice the U.N. demands for voluntary repatri ation of war prisoners and for a ban on military airfield construction. At the same time, the U.N. denied a Communist charge that Allied planes deliberately bombed and strafed a properly-marked Communist delegation convoy on the Pyongyang-ICacsong road last Friday. Congress rejected $5,000,000,000 in new taxes . . . .. . even before it reached them Monday. President Truman’s own Democratic tax spokesmen in Congress refused in advance t hike rates. The outstanding fact in the fiscal policy which the president and Congress together establish for the nation is that the treasury is in for more deficits and the dollar for more devaluation. Poor but 'capable' high school grads ... .. . may be able to attend college through scholarships and loans totalling more than $30,000,000 a year if Congress approves President Truman’s request to help thousands of students. Written aptitude tests would determine who gets the payments, and a "means” test would determine how much. The youth could choose his own college. Architecture School Chooses Top Plans for Garden Center The University's School of Arch, ltecture and Allied Arts was re cently selected as the location for asembling and Judging competition plans for a garden center which were submitted by departments of landscape architecture in colleges and universities which participate in landscape exchange problems. Three blue seal plans, the high est awards, were selected. All were submitted by the University of California. Three red seal plans, second awards, were chosen. Two of these were submitted by the University of Georgia and one by Iowa State. Fifty plans were received for the garden center competition from 8 of the 14 schools which are mem bers of the exchange organization. The following schools were repre sented: University of Massachu setts, University of Georgia, Ohio State university, Iowa State col lege, Michigan State college, Kan sas State college, Texas A&M and the University of California. The University of Oregon divi sion of landscape architecture is a member of the Landscape Ex change Organization, but did not submit any plans for this particular competition, hence the staff and facilities of the school were utilized for the judgment. The decision to compete in any one problem rests with the individual school and the schools used for judgments chpnge with each problem. The jury here consisted of F. A. Cuthbert and H. H. Sebold of the division of landscape architecture; W. S. Hayden, architect, of the School of Architecture; Clarke K. Hamlin, architect, Eugene; W. Riley Matsler, superintendent of parks and recreation, Eugene; and Miss Edith Schryver, landscape architect, Salem. G. S. Jette, di vision of landscape architecture was secretary and adviser to the Jury. A selection of the J,etter draw ings was made by the jury for circulation to the member schools, accompanied by the comments of the jury on each, as recorded by the secretary, G. S. Jette. Representatives Asked For Political Convention Neil Chase, publicity chairman for the mock political convention scheduled for May 2 and 3 on the campus, has requested that living organizations elect one representa tive for each state they were as signed in the list published in Fri day's Emerald. Representatives are asked by Chase to contact Bob Ridderbusch, 5-9644. A correction has been made to the pairing list released Friday. Capson four and Phi Kappa Psi have been assigned West Virginia and Maryland. Phi Kappa Sigma and Delta Upsilon will represent New York and Nevada. All-campus Vodvil Petitions Wanted Petitions for co-chairman of the all-campus Vodvil show to be held in conjunction with the World Stu dent Service Fund drive spring term have been called for by W8SF chairman Joanne Sloan. Petitions may be turned in at Delta Gamma by 5 p.m. Thurs day. The two chairmen will represent the ASUO and WSSF interests in accordance with a stipulation set up by the ASUO Executive coun cil last spring. Physics Professor To Attend Confab W. V. Norris, professor of phys ics, will attend the national meet ing of the American Association of Physics Teachers at Columbia university Jan. 29 through Feb. 2. Norris, who is also a member of the national executive commit tee of the organization as a repre sentative of the Oregon section, will preside over one of the after noon panel discussions. Representatives of 12 sections will speak on the past and future functions of the APT during the panel discussion. The title of the panel is “The Activities and Ob jectives of Regional Sections”. During his trip, Norris will visit Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Schenectady, N.Y. in connec tion with a microwave research project at Oregon. Top of the morning! that's the way to start the day in ... reading the news features, sports, reviews and editorials in your joalktilw EMERALD NEWS FONES: 217 - 218