Daily hansan
60th Year, No. 50
Thursday, Nov. 29, 1962
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Demo Presidency Dispute Continues
Things have changed..
The president of the KU Young Democrats has said that the president of the KU Young Democrats IS president of the KU Young Democrats.
IN AN INTRA-PARTY squabble, Peter Aylward, Ellsworth senior, maintains his right to the office despite opposition from Barry Bennington, Cheney senior.
Bennington was elected president of the KU YD's at a meeting March 14, after which Aylward charged irregularities in the distribution of membership cards, used as voting credentials.
Aylward, who was defeated for president in the March 14 election, was elected to that office at a meeting March 28. after a petition requesting a special meeting had been signed by 28 persons.
HOWEVER, the KU YD constitution requires that a special meeting be called by the president. Neither Bennington nor Verne Gauby, the president who had preceded him, called the meeting. The special meeting was announced in the official bulletin of the Kansan.
"Even though the legality of our election is as questionable as theirs was, we were recognized by the Collegiate Council," Aylward said last night. The Collegiate Council is composed of Young Democrat clubs on campuses across the state. The council is a part of the Kansas Young Democrats.
Dan Hopson Jr., associate professor of law and faculty adviser for the Young Republicans, said, "As faculty adviser, I do not recognize either Barry Bennington as president of the club or Pete Aylward as president of the club."
"I FEEL that Mr. Bennington's election was tainted by irregularities and that Mr. Aylward's election resulted from a meeting called by Pete of his own supporters," Prof. Hopson said.
Confusion over the issuance of membership cards also caused a dispute over the validity of the March 14 election of delegates to the state Young Democrat convention.
An arbitration meeting was held March 23, to determine if there had been voting irregularities on March 14th. Witnesses testified that they had been given free membership cards by Bennington supporters before the election.
CHARLES H. OLDFATHER, professor of law, was asked by Prof. Hopson to arbitrate. He delivered a decision of "improper conduct" after hearing five hours of testimony.
Prof. Hopson explained the need for the arbitration;
"Under the rules of the state Young Democratic clubs, the Democratic county chairman (Frank McDonald in this county) had to certify the list of delegates to the state convention.
"Since a question had been raised about irregularities in the election, Mr. McDonald called me and said that he would certify the list only if I gave my approval.
"I THEN TALKED to Mr. Aylward and Mr. Bennington." Prof. Hopson said. "In order to resolve the dispute, they agreed to have Prof. Oldfather arbitrate the question of irregularities.
"I told them that if he found irregularities I would tell Mr. McDonald not to certify the delegates," Hopson said.
"Since Prof. Oldfather found irregularities, I refused to give my approval, and Mr. McDonald refused to certify the delegates," Prof. Hosson concluded.
Prof. Oldfather said last night, "The only question I was asked to arbitrate was whether there had been improper conduct in connection with the issuance of credentials for voting at that meeting.
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Party Blocks Adenauer Move In Cabinet Crisis
BONN, Germany — (UPI) — Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's own Christian Democratic Party (CDU) appeared today to have blocked his first attempt to solve the cabinet crisis caused by the controversy over Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss.
At the same time, there was growing pressure by CDU lawmakers on the chancellor to name economics minister Ludwig Erhard his successor. Adenauer, who will be 87 in January, has agreed to retire before the 1965 elections but thus far has refused to name a date or a successor.
POLITICAL MEETINGS continued today following Adenauer's failure to gain approval for a new post for Strauss. The Chancellor gave in to demands by his coalition partners, the Free Democrats (FDP) for Strauss' removal because of his role in the arrests of editors and the publisher of the news magazine Spiegel. They are charged with treason for obtaining and printing defense secrets.
The FDP does not object to the charges as such but to the way the men were arrested without consulting FDP justice minister Wolf-gang Stammberger, as well as to Strauss' action in arranging the detention of one editor who was vacationing in Spain.
Adenauer sought yesterday to name Strauss the CDU parliamentary floor leader, a key post in steering government legislation. But a large group of CDU deputies objected because they felt Strauss, as head of the CDU's small Bavarian affiliate, the Christian Social Union (CSU), should not头 the larger party in parliament.
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Weather
Variable cloudiness this afternoon, turning cloudy tonight. Fog will set in again tonight and early tomorrow.
Warmer tomorrow with lows between 40 and 45 and highs generally near 60.
Customs Hold Art Exhibition
A pair of KU curators may have to turn art thief to rescue four crates of paintings from customs in Kansas City.
Museum of Art curators Marilyn Stokstad, professor of art history, and Gerald Bernstein, art history instructor, set out for Kansas City in a truck early this morning to retrieve the crates.
THE CRATES have been in Kansas City since before Thanksgiving but U.S. officials have refused to release them pending further authorization from the artists in Central America.
"There should be no problem," Prof. Stokstad said, "Original paintings for exhibition are supposed to go through customs free of charge.
"The artists filled out a form listing the works they had enclosed in the crate," she explained. The U.S. Customs Bureau refuses to accept this as proof of originality. This could take weeks.
"I WONT LET a little red tape stop me. I'm prepared to throw a real feminine fit, call Congressman . . . " Prof. Stokstad vowed.
The paintings are part of the Pintores Centroamericanos exhibition scheduled to open Sunday at the KU museum.
Prof. Stokstad spent the summer in Central America meeting artists and encouraging them to send their works.
She made arrangements with 25 artists from Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Panama to participate in the exhibit. Artists talked to their friends and 34 sent paintings.
THE EXHIBIT was planned as part of the University exchange program with Costa Rica, Prof. Stokstad explained.
Faintings range in style from the Honduran "primitive" Valasquez who Prof. Stokstad describes as a "tropical Grandma Moses" to the abstract expressionism of Armando Morales.
"These artists are not at all provincial. Their works show a complete awareness of developments in Europe and the United States. Many of them have studied abroad," she said.
Andrews' Final Chance Today
WICHITA — (UPI) — A federal appeals judge today will hear the final plea for a stay of the execution of convicted triple-killer Lowell Lee Andrews.
Andrews, sentenced to die for the Thanksgiving, 1958, shootings of his parents and sister at their Wolecott home, likely will go to the gallows at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow unless U.S. Circuit Court Judge Delmas C. Hill halts the execution.
JUDGE HILL will be asked to halt the hanging pending an appeal of Templar's decision to the full circuit court sitting in Denver, Colo.
Judge Hill agreed to hear the final plea for Andrews at 1:30 p.m. in his chambers here after U.S. District Judge George Templar yesterday refused to stay the execution and rejected a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
Andrews' only hope if Judge Hill rejects the stay would be for a reprieve or executive clemency from Gov. John Anderson, who has indicated that he will not stop the execution unless new and important information on the case is forthcoming.
Thus, for the second time in two days, Washburn University law professor James R. Ahrens, who represents Andrews, will go against assistant attorney generals armed only with frequently-used allegations which have been consistently rebuffed in Andrews' four years in courts.
Chief among Ahren's often-used attacks is the charge that a confession by Andrews to a family minister was gained by coercion. He has repeatedly alleged that the Rev. V. C. Dameron assisted law officers in getting the "confused 18-year-old boy" to tell of pumping over 20
"Orchard," "Stuart" Tryouts Tomorrow
Open readings for major roles in two KU theater productions will be held at 4:30 tomorrow in the rehearsal room of Murphy Hall.
Male students may read for Pishchik in "The Cherry Orchard" and for Liecester, Melville, and Davison in "Mary Stuart."
"The Cherry Orchard" is a major theater production. "Mary Stuart" will be presented in the experimental theater.
Kashmir Settlement Hangs on Talks
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan—(UFI) Pakistan and India were reported ready today to announce plans for direct talks aimed at settling their bitter dispute over Kashmir and other issues in the face of Communist Chinese agression.
Informed sources said simultaneous announcements were expected in Rawalpindi and New Delhi that Pakistan President Mohammad Ayub Khan and Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru will try to settle differences between their two countries.
ONE MEMBER of the National Assembly said the signs indicate the general anti-western attitude of the Pakistani people over western arms aid to India in its border war with Red China.
The reports came as "Yankee Go Home" slogans appeared on the walls of the National Assembly Building as American Envoy W. Averell Harriman conferred with Ayub in talks described by American officials as "crucial."
Duncan Sandys, British Secretary for Commonwealth Relations.
was reported flying back here from Walapalindi today for urgent consultations with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Harriman, U.S. Ambassador Walter McConaighy, Gen. Paul Adams and Paul Nitze of the Defense Department stayed behind and continued the conferences with Ayub today after Sandys took off for New Delhi.
Both Sandys and Harriman, who is surveying the situation for President Kennedy, conferred last night with Khan.
PAKISTAN has been concerned that the fresh arms supplies pouring into India from the west to stem Red China's border invasion someday may be turned against Pakistan in the dispute with India over Kashmir.
Harriman sought to assure Pakistan on his arrival here yesterday that there were extensive safeguards against this.
"The tide is running in a favorable direction toward making a settlement of the problems between India and Pakistan, including Kashmir." he said.
With the cease-fire on India's border still effective on the 8th day after Communist China initiated it, both nations were pressing a diplomatic offensive to win over key non-aligned nations.
MRS. SIRIMAVO Bandaranaike, Premier of Ceylon, has invited five other non-aligned nations to a conference in Colombo sometime in December to try to settle the Sino-India border dispute.
Reports from Ceylon said Burma, Indonesia and Cambodia have accepted and the United Arab Republic and Ghana are giving the idea favorable consideration.
India is sending Lakshmi Menon, minister of state for foreign affairs, to Colombo next week to talk with Mrs. Bandaranaike. Reports from Ceylon said Peking is sending its Vice Foreign Minister Huang Chen.
Both India and Red China have been using their ambassadors and direct messages to give their versions of the border war to foreign governments.
bullets into his mother, father and sister.
AHRENS ALSO has charged that Andrews was insane at the time of the killing, and that the state and Gov. Anderson have denied Andrews' constitutional rights by refusing to order a re-examination of his sanity. A three-man panel adjudged Andrews legally same prior to his trial in Wyandotte County.
Judge Templar rejected those points in his hearing yesterday, saying that at no time has Andrews denied killing his parents, and that he found nothing reprehensible about the manner in which the confession was obtained.
The judge added, "Over four years have elapsed since these terrible killings . . . and that is a long time."
ANDREWS HAS been rejected twice by the Kansas Supreme Court. Two federal districts courts have rejected habeas corpus petitions. A state district court rejected a habeas writ. And the U.S. Supreme Court has twice refused to give him a hearing.
Andrews was a pudgy 265-pound student at the University of Kansas at the time of the killings. Friends described his as "quiet and reserved, never a leader."
After the triple slaying, a classmate who attended high school with Andrews in Kansas City felt that the youth had lost his identity in the mass of students.
"He was no longer somebody everybody knew, as had been the case in high school," he said.
"I think he might have gotten the idea that to be a big person up here you have to have a car and money."
A FELLOW CHURCH member in Kansas City pointed to Andrews' weight problem which, he said, developed after high school.
According to one of Andrews' three confessions, he killed his family to get inheritance and insurance money from his 50-year-old father, a mechanic for Trans World Airways.
The KU student was a month behind in his rent his landlady said.
If Andrews keeps his ntn date with the hangman early tomorrow, he will be the first person Kansas has executed since 19, 16, 1954, when cop killer Merle W. Martin went to the gallows, and only the 29th person executed legally in Kansas in a century.
A maximum of 13 witnesses, including the executioner and representatives of certain specified news media, will be allowed to attend the execution at the state prison at Lansing.
'Wonderland' Cast May Get The Bird
Jed Davis, assistant professor of speech and drama, is thinking of adding a stork to his "Alice in Wonderland" cast.
The production's queen of hearts, Julia Callahan, Lawrence graduate student, is expecting her first child and the baby is a month overdue.
Prof. Davis today packed up the queen, the mad hatter, the white rabbit and the rest of the University Children's Theater cast and took them to Kansas City, Mo., for a five-performance run at the Music Hall.
If the queen should find herself making her debut at city hospital instead of the Music Hall, Jane Hess, Rogersville, Mo., graduate student, will take her part.
The play is a sort of juvenile mystery built around seven episodes of the traditional "Alice." The crime centers around the theft of the queen's sugar tarts.