Show I IIran Student Shoots ki Iran leader TEHRAN Iran March 1 19 l Wi Dr Abdul Hamid former former for for- mer nier education minister and close friend of the late Premier All Ali was shot and wounded wound wound- ed by a student he had caught cheating on an examination A Communist tie up with the attack attack attack at at- tack also was sought Police arrested the gunman a ayoung ayoung young oung Moslem l divinity student at the University of Tehran and began an n investigation to determine determine determine deter deter- mine whether he was a member of the Communist party party- the bitter enemy of The year old e educator d u c cat a t o 0 r president of the university low law faculty had been the target of frequent leftist student demonstrations demon in the past two years The rhe shooting occurred on the university steps Police also sought to determine deter mine if the student Abdul Hossein Qumi was linked with Islam th the fanatic Moslem 1 group from whose ranks came the gunman who assassinated assassinated assassinated Premier March 7 7 however had not been involved in the oil nationalization nationalization nationalization national national- dispute which was responsible responsible responsible re re- re- re for the p pre premiers premier's r e m i e r is s death A witness to the shooting Monday Monday Mon Mon- day said Qumi pointed the gun at See Pa Page Pago o 2 Column 4 I i Student Shoots Wounds Former Iran Minister Continued from ra Page e One head but it failed ailed to fire He lie then chased him around an automobile in front of oC the building and shot him once Inthe in inthe inthe the small of oC his back Condition Fair At the hospital a doctor said the thc bullet had been removed and condition was fair during his first tenure tenure ten ten- ure as education minister in 1949 1919 and 1950 introduced a drastic drastic drastic dras dras- tic press law which the parliament parliament parlia ment passed after an attempt to assassinate assassinate S Shah h a h Mohammed 1 Reza The law since repealed provided provided pro pro- vided for or the jailing of oC editors and suspension of newspapers by hy executive action before a n trial appointed to the education post again Feb 5 1951 despite much opposition from most newspaper newspapers He resigned resigned re re- re si signed ned with the rest of s 's cabinet after the premiers premier's as MOSCOW M bI 0 S C COW O W March 19 W At- At Pravda reported Monday londay in di dis dispatches dispatches dis- dis patches from Tehran that American Amer ican oil companies are outbidding outbid d. d ding each other for Iranian oil nil with the highest bids coming from the Arabian American Oil I Company The Communist party newspaper newspaper per quoted the Iranian newspaper newspaper newspaper per as saying the bidding reflected greed of American companies for Iranian oil The Pravda dispatch also added that stocks of American companies I were rising while Iranian Anglo I oil stocks were falling The dispatch said U. U S S. S Assistant Assistant Assist Assist- ant Secretary of State Stale George 1 C. C McGhee was in Tehran as a mediator mediator mediator me in Mn the oil dispute Pravda credited Iranian press reports as saying Premier Hussein Hussein Hus Hus- sein Ala was having difficulty I forming a government because I of reluctance of leaders to join his cabinet and because of rode inde indecision with regard to the government government govern govern- II ment program |