Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ka.
Daily hansan
Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1956.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
53rd Year, No. 92
Reds Bid For Eden's Support At April Talks
LONDON—(U.P.)—Russian leaders hope to enlist Prime Minister Anthony Eden's support for a new "summit" conference with the United States when they meet April, it was reported today.
Diplomatic dispatches from Moscow said Communist boss N. S. Khruschev and Premier N. A. Bulgainin also will make a firm bid for "a treaty of friendship and trade" with Britain.
Official sources said the Soviet rulers will find Mr. Eden fully prepared to meet their new diplomatic offensive.
The prime minister and President Eisenhower agreed at their meeting in Washington earlier this month on means of meeting any new "divide and conquer" approach from the Russians.
Will Make No Deals
They made it clear that Britain will make no deals during the Khruschev-Bulgarian visit that might weaken Anglo-American unity.
Observers said Foreing Minister V. M. Molotov's cryptic weekend reference to "new opportunities for better understanding" probably indicates a new attempt to soften up the western anti-communist alignment.
More Diplomatic Meetings
They said the "friendship andade" proposal is a substitute for the non-aggression pacts Russia offered the United States, Britain, and France earlier this month, which were firmly rejected by the West.
More Diplomatic Meetings
Soviet officials here have hinted
strongly that Khimchev and
Mongolian hope to spend more
time during their visit here in diplomatic conferences than had been
planned originally.
Communist diplomats say frankly they expect the Soviet leaders' visit to Britain to initiate pressure for new Geneva-contact cases between East and West, despite the failure of last year's meetings in the Swiss city to produce any worthwhile result.
They envision exchanges with Mr. Eden on both Anglo-Soviet relations and wider international issues.
Senior Receives $1,200 Scholarship
Don Inde, Hope senior, president of the Roger Williams Fellowship, has received one of the two Edward J. Frost scholarship from the Andover-Newton Theological School at Boston, Mass.
The scholarship of $1,200 is based on scholastic standing, activities, references and dedication to the Christian ministry. The Andover-Newton Theological School is a Baptist-Congregational seminary.
Bridge Tournament To Be Held Thursday
The 1056 National Intercollegiate Bridge Tournament will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Student Union Card Room.
The contest is open to undergraduate students only. Participants must register as a pair with the hostess at the information desk in the Union by Wednesday night.
Production Crew Jobs Open
University Player members who need points and all others interested who are not in the University Players may sign up for production crews. The lists are posted on the theater bulletin board in Green Hall, or contact Charles Dodrill.
HERE IT COMES—The first load of concrete slides down the chute into the forms for the walls of the new Fine Arts Building. The concrete is being poured on the north wall by workmen of the Harmon Construction Company. All the footings have been laid previously.
Construction Company. All the footings have been laid previously
—(Daily Kansan Photo)
Cincinnati Orchestra Will Play 2 Concerts Wednesday
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will arrive in Lawrence Wednesday to give two concerts under the sponsorship of the KU Concert Course.
Directed by Thor Johnson, the orchestra will be heard in a young people's concert at 3 p.m. Although it is a special performance for students of the Lawrence public schools, Dean Thomas Gorton of the School of Fine Arts said that KU students also will be admitted on ID cards.
The second concert at 8:20 p.m. will include Berlioz "Carnaval Romain" Overture, Charles T. Griffes "The White Peacock," Sir Edward Elgar's "Enigma Variations," and Shostakovich's "First Symphony." Both programs will be presented in Hoch Auditorium.
Tickets for the concert are on sale at the fine arts office in Strong Hall.
Directed by Alfrd Hitchcock, the film concerns a California family that is visited by an uncle from the East. The uncle, portrayed by Joseph Cotten, is followed across the country by a couple of gangsters, creating the customary Hitchcock suspense.
Hitchcock Film To Be Shown Next
Members of the family Cotten visits are Teresa Wright, her father, played by Henry Travers, and her mother, played by Patricia Collinge.
"Shadow of A Doubt," a University Film Series picture, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Hoch Auditorium.
Fencing Club To Organize Tonight
An organizational meeting for a KU fencing club will be held at 8 p.m. tonight in 101 Robinson. Men and women who are interested are invited to attend.
The club will be open to non-fencers as well as those experienced. Other fencing clubs in this area have expressed interest in holding fencing matches with KU, so the club will provide an opportunity for competitive fencing.
Nixon Opponents Gain Support
The arguments against Mr. Nixon include: He is perhaps the most controversial figure in American national politics. He is to young-43. The vice presidency will be of unusual importance if Mr. Eisenhower seeks and gets a second term. Democratic condemnation of his campaign tactics have hurt his position with the public.
WASHINGTON — (U. P.)— The movement to bounce Vice President Richard M. Nixon off the 1956 Republican ticket has won some powerful support close to President Eisenhower.
The foregoing are basic in the stop-Nixon effort. They add up to the belief, or fear, of some influential persons that Mr. Nixon would cost the national ticket votes if he were on it again this year.
The President fielded Democratic complaints against Mr. Nixon's 1954 campaign tactics with a note of congratulation on his speeches and campaign line.
There is no evidence so far that Mr. Eisenhower is impressed by the arguments for dropping Mr. Nixon in 1956.
Mr. Eisenhower also is on record that an individual nominated for president should refuse the nomination if he were not satisfied with the party's choice for second place.
Weather
Considerable cloudiness northeast, partly cloudy elsewhere today and Wednesday with snow flurries northeast today and light snow or snow flurries northeast Wednesday. Warmer southwest and extreme west today. Colder northeast this afternoon and tonight. Low tonight near 15 extreme northeast to 25-30 southwest.
Senate Plans New Look At Lobbying
WASHINGTON—(U.P.)—Joseph Wishart, chairman of the Nebraska Republican Finance Committee, told Senate investigators today how oil lobbyist John M. Neff contributed $2,500 to the committee's campaign fund last fall.
Humanities Lecture Is At 8 p.m. Today
Dr. Ernest L. Stahl, professor of German literature at Oxford University in England will present the fourth Humanities Lecture at 8 p.m. today in Fraser Theater.
Dr. Stahl, visiting professor at Cornell University, will speak on "Schiller and the Arts of Music and Poetry." Dr. Stahl's talk is based on the writings of Johann Christoph Schiller, German poet who lived from 1759 to 1805.
Dr. Stahl was born in South Africa in 1902, moving to England in 1925 to study at Oxford after receiving B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. In 1935 he became a lecturer of German literature at Oxford. He is on leave from that position for one semester to lecture at Cornell. This is his first visit to the United States.
Dr. Stahl has written five books and a number of articles concerning German literature.
AFROTC To Visit Forbes
Thirty Air Force ROTC students will get a first-hand look at the Strategic Air Command Friday when they visit Forbes Air Force Base at Topeka. The field trip is the first in a series designed to give freshman and sophomores a better understanding of the overall mission of the air force.
The cadets will receive a short briefing on the mission of SAC upon arriving at the base. The students will then take a look at the B-47 Stratojet simulator, tour the survival school, and view jet engine and aircraft mockups, and the code room.
Next will be a tour of the reconnaissance technical squadron, where the cadets will see air photography and intelligence facilities.
After lunch at the officers' club, the cadets will be briefed for an actual mission in the KC-97 tanker, which will carry them on an air-toair refueling of a B-47 Stratojet SAC's intercontinental atombomber. The cadets will watch the refueling from the refueling compartment of the KC-97.
YW-YMCA Plan Trip To Mexico
A car-plane trip to Mexico City and Acapulco, Mexico during Spring vacation is being planned by the YW-YMCA. Anyone interested may go.
The trip will last from March 31 to April 8. Those going will travel to the Mexican border by car and take a plane to Mexico City. They will spend 5 days there. Tentative plans include visits to the University of Mexico, the Floating Gardens, the National Museum, the Palace of Fine Arts, the Chapultepec Castle, the Ruins of Tenocitlán, and other places of interest.
The cost of the trip will be $80 per person. A meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Room 305B of the Student Union for those interested.
Mr. Wishart, a heavy-set, bespectacled man, gave his version of the contribution in a closed session with the staff of the blue-ribbon Senate committee which has been investigating Mr. Neff's rejected $2,500 contribution to Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D.).
The special committee planned to question Wishart later in public session. But it wasn't clear whether he would appear today or Wednesday since he also has been summoned to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the Neff incident.
Meanwhile, Senate leaders set the wheels moving for creation of a new bi-partisan committee to conduct a "far-reaching and thorough" investigation of lobbying and campaign contributions.
Proposal Approved
The Senate Democratic Policy Committee unanimously approved the proposal late Monday. The Republican policy committee was expected to act today. With the backing of the leadership, the proposal almost certainly will be approved by the full Senate later.
Informed sources said Sens. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.), John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.), John L. McCellan (D-Ark.) and Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.M.) are likely democratic members of the new special committee. Whether all would serve appeared to depend on how big the Senate decides to make the group.
Let To Veto
Sen. Gore was reported likely to be named committee chairman since he now heads a Senate elections subcommittee which had planned a similar inquiry of its own.
Sen. Case's disclosure of the contribution from Mr. Neff, a Lexington, Neb., attorney and lobbyist for Superior Oil Company of California, led to President Eisenhower's veto of the natural gas bill and provoked demands for the widespread inquiry into lobbying and campaign spending.
The special committee already investigating the Case incident heard one version of Mr. Neff's gifts to his home state campaign treasury at a public hearing Monday.
Donald R. Ross, who resigned as United States attorney for Nebraska because of his association and close friendship with Mr. Neff, told the story. Mr. Ross said Mr. Neff, employed by Superior Oil Co. in connection with the gas bill, gave the state GOP treasure $2,500 and tried to give another $2,500 after learning that Nebraska's two Republican senators were not interested in accepting the $5,000 for their campaign funds.
Orchestra Adds 8 New Members
The 68-piece KU symphony orchestra has eight new members, Russell L. Wiley, conductor, said today.
The orchestra will accompany the concert band on a tour of southeast Kansas and northern Oklahoma cities March 19 to 23 and will present its spring concert here March 25.
The new members are Max Jensen, Overland Park freshman, violin I; Cynthia Cramm, lola freshman and Joyce Nehrbass, Lawrence sophomore, violin II; Allen Long, Ottawa senior, viola; Milton Messick, Topeka sophomore, cello; Clyde Morris, Topека junior, oboe; J. P. Feighner, Wellsville freshman, basoon, and Ron Thatcher, West Orange, N.J., freshman, trombone.