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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1963
End to Katanga's Secession in Sight
ELISABETHVILLE, Katanga, The Congo – (UPI) – Katanga President Moise Tshombe was reported moving today to bring his secessionist province back into the Congo and bring peace to this part of Africa.
Sources here said Tshombe will return to Elisabethville tomorrow to confer with United Nations officials on ending the secession.
Diplomatic circles in the central Congolese capital of Leopoldville said they hoped the last two days had brought a "turning point in Congo history."
These circles noted that although Tshombe has said it many times before and then reneged, they felt secession finally would be ended this time because the "military myth of Katanga is exploded like a soap bubble."
THIS WAS A REFERENCE to the relative ease with which U.N. forces cut through Katangese defenses in the latest series of actions to take all Tshombe's strongholds but Kulwezi, where he is staying at present.
Dispatches from Leopoldville said Congo Premier Cvillie Adoula has confirmed receipt of a letter from Tshombe offering reintegration of Katanga under certain conditions, including political amnesty for himself and his followers.
U. N troops kept alert near Kolwezi today pending proof that provincial President Moise Tshombe will carry out his agreement to end Katanaa's secession.
High U.N. military sources said the troops, poised 45 miles northwest of Jadotville, would continue their build-up.
THE INDIAN contingents could drive on Kolwezi should Tsomhame
fail to back his words with actions. Kolwezi, a mining center and air base, is Tshombe's last Katangese stronghold.
The Katangese leader announced yesterday in Kolwezi that he was ready to end Katanga's two and a half year-old secession, give the U.N. force freedom of movement throughout the province, and return to Elisabethville to work out plans for reunification with the rest of the Congo.
In his letter Tshombe also asked Central Premier Cyrille Adoula to sign an amnesty for Katangese officials, and to come to Elisabethville from Leopoldville for a meeting "to confirm the national reconciliation."
IT ALSO was understood that the letter urged acceptance of Tshombe's demand for amnesty.
Press Secretary Pierre Salinger declined to make the text of the letter public. He issued this statement:
"Upon receiving news of the letters which Mr. Tshombe addressed to Prime Minister Adoula and the United Nations on Jan. 14, the President wrote to the Prime Minister. He expressed his hope that Tshombe's announcement would be a decisive turning point in Congo developments and that all parties concerned would move with determination and understanding to bring about an end to the need for U.N. military operations in Katanga and move to the task of peaceful reintegration and reconstruction."
The White House confirmed reports that Kennedy had sent a letter to Central Congo Prime Minister Cyrille Adoula urging him to accept Moise Tshombe's offer to proclaim an end to Katanga's secession.
Freeze Continues Over U.S., Bringing Death and Damage
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The polar cold smashed records in New York state.
The temperature at Black River Falls. Wis., plunged to 38 below. At Lone Rock. Wis., it was 37 below.
Winter packed a frigid punch at the midwest again today, dropping temperatures to nearly 40 below zero.
Scattered snow fell over the eastern shores of the great lakes and northern plains. Rain swept the Washington coast.
BUFFALO, N.Y., recorded a 9 below reading, smashing a 70-year-old record for the date. Rochester, N.Y., tied the existing record with 6 below today.
Gale force winds hit Northern Oahu in Hawaii last night, stripping the roof off at least one home and causing power and telephone interruptions.
KU's stolen Manet painting is being held by FBI agents in Los Angeles.
Manet Painting Still Held by FBI
"We don't know whether they will return the painting immediately or hold it for evidence," a staff member of the KU museum of art said today.
FBI agents found the "Fortrait of Line Cannineau" Monday in a Santa Monica, Calif., home. They are holding William R. Basham, 31, accused of receiving stolen property. A preliminary hearing was set for Feb. 1.
Basham was arraigned yesterday and held in absence of $3,000 bond.
The sketch, by French impressionist Edouard Manet, was cut from its frame last August. It is valued at between $40,000 and $70,-000. It was presented to the University by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Curry, Kansas City, Mo.
The 19th century painting was insured for $40,000 by the Museum of Art but no insurance payment had been made previous to the finding Monday.
Basham is a maintenance man at a California bowling alley.
Already, nearly 100 persons have died as a result of the huge frigid mass.
The weather bureau held out hope of warmer temperatures from the Rocky Mountain region through the Middle and Lower Mississippi Valley. There were rising temperatures forecast also from Southern California to Georgia.
THE FLORIDA KEYS had 69 readings early today, and South Texas had readings in the 50s. But to the north, the picture was different.
Three inches of new snow fell on Michigan's lower peninsula. Marquette, Mich., has had 26 inches of snow and Calumet, Mich., 17 inches since the start of the storm.
Three buildings were destroyed by fire at Hancock, Mich., as firemen fought the flames in 13 below temperatures whipped by 40 mile an hour winds of Lake Superior.
Five hundred students rushed out into the cold at Moline, Ill., when a boiler exploded, but no one was hurt. Some were clad only in gym shorts.
The KU Endowment Association will lease land at 9th and Tennessee to the Kansas Power and Light Company. The property was recently deeded to KU Endowment.
KU Leases Land To KPL for Office
KP&L plans a 6,000 square foot, one-level Colonial style brick structure on the site. Construction on the office building will begin soon and completion is scheduled for late this summer.
Youngberg said the building will be completely subject to property taxes in Douglas County, as is true of all income property owned by the KU Endowment Association. The Association also owns, in the Lawrence area, several residences and the Sunflower Apartments at 11th and Mo. Sts.
KU Little Symphony Performs Tonight
The Endowment Association's total investment in the building and land is about $300,000 according to Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary of the Association.
The KU Little Symphony will present a concert at 8 p.m. tonight in Swarorth Instruct Hall.
This chamber group of faculty members and advanced students plays orchestral repertoire but also specializes in music seldom performed by the larger orchestra. It performs many contemporary offerings as well as obscure works of recognized masters.
YR Activities Hit High Gear
Kansas Atty. Gen, William F.
Ferguson will speak to the KU
Young Republicans at 8 p.m. Feb. 11
n the Kansas Union.
Reuben McCornack, Abilene junior and YR president, announced the meeting as he outlined club activities for the coming semester.
- Kansas Day in Topeka Jan. 29. An open meeting of the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas will be held the evening before. Kenneth McFarland, educational consultant for General Motors, will speak.
- Scheduled are:
- A state convention in March at Hutchinson.
- The Midwest regional convention sometime this spring.
- Election of KU club officers in April.
- At least one opinion poll and possibly two. The first will survey student reaction to the Eurich educational report. The other may concern medicine and other federal legislation.
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York originally was scheduled to speak at Kansas Day. But he has canceled his speech, and the new speaker has not been announced.
Beth to Make TV Guest Appearance
Why do some people choose to give up their privacy for publicity?
Scope, student TV station, will try to find out when they interview Elmer F. Beth, KU professor of journalism, at 5:30 p.m. today on WIBW-IV. Channel 13.
Larry Schmidt, Omaha, Neb., graduate student, will conduct the interview. Schmidt said he plans to question Beth on his recent Humanities lecture entitled "Privacy: Your Right to be Let Alone."
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Eleven Hurt On Carrier
SAN DIEGO — (UPI) — Eleven crewmen were cut down by the whiplash of a 300-foot cable that snapped yesterday when a jet fighter plane landed on the accident-plagued aircraft carrier USS Constellation. Three men lost legs.
Chief Aviation Boatswain's Mate Eugene Williams, 36, and Yeoman Apprentice Gordon D. Buckman had their legs severed by the snaking cable. Ensign Leroy Hudson Jr., 31, lost his right leg.
EIGHT OTHERS suffered fractures.
It was the third time the 75,000- ton warship was involved in a serious accident.
Fifty workmen were killed Dec. 18, 1960, when fire broke out while the ship was under construction at a New York shipyard. It cost $47.9 million to repair the damage.
TWO NAVY MEN AND TWO civilian employees of the Brooklyn Navy Yard were asphyxiated Nov. 6, 1931, in another fire in a machinery room when the Constellation was at sea on a shake-down cruise off New York.
The accident yesterday occurred during carrier landing training. A Navy spokesman said failure of the metal wheel on which the cable runs caused it to break.
Witnesses said the cable snaked across the flight deck mowing down everyone in its path like a giant scythe.
FOUR OF THE INJURED were flown to the Navy hospital here and others were taken there after the ship docked.
The injured were part of the flight deck crew standing by to assist takeoffs and landings on the nation's largest conventially powered warship.
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At Least 13 Dead In Airliner Crash
SAO PAULO, Brazil— (UPI) Four passengers were still missing today in the wreckage of a Brazilian airliner that crashed yesterday, killing at least 13 and injuring 32.
City officials said identities of 10 of the dead had been established. Three others were burned beyond recognition.
Four of the identified dead were residents of homes into which the Cruzeiro Do Sul twin-engined transport plunged last night after overshooting the airport in a driving rain
Credit for the comparatively small death toll went to Army medical corpsmen who happened to be undergoing a life-saving exercise near the crash scene.
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