Kansas State Historical Society
Topoka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, Feb. 7, 1956.
53rd Year, No. 82
Gov. Hall Probe Committee To Be Elected
TOPEKA—(U.P.)—Election of a seven-member legislative investigating committee to inspect Gov. Fred Hall's administration will be held today and 36 Democrats appeared to have the balance of power in the House of Representatives.
The Democrat representatives agreed yesterday on a middle-of-the-road approach. They met in secret caucus and decided to push for both Hall and anti-Hall membership on the committee.
Timing of the election is based on publication of the resolution creating the investigation. Signed by the governor, it becomes law on being printed in the official state newspaper, the afternoon Topeka State Journal.
With the 86 Republicans in the House split in Hall and anti-Hall groups, the Democrats could be the difference. The anti-Hall advocates in the Senate have exhibited enough strength to decide the outcome in that chamber.
Gov. Hall, in signing, challenged the legality of an inquiry ordered by a legislative session limited to appropriations and taxes. The investigation resolution calls for $75,-000. Gov. Hall asked the Attorney General to file a test case in the State Supreme Court.
Dulles Replies To Red Letter
WASHINGTON — (U.P.) — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today that Russian Premier Nikolai Bulganin's latest letter to President Eisenhower was intended as a propaganda gesture.
Prem. Bulganin also proposed similar pacts with Britain and France. British Prime Minister Anthony Eden cold-shouldered the proposal at a news conference here last week, recalling that Russia had denounced a similar treaty with Britain and France only last year.
Consequently, Mr. Dulles told his weekly news conference, the United States will be in no great hurry to reply to Prem. Bulgainin's renewed call for a 20-year U.S.-Russian non-aggression pact.
Mr. Dulles said the second Bulganin letter, delivered last Thursday, was apparently intended to counter the effect of Mr. Eisenhower's polite but firm rejection of the premier's first letter two weeks ago.
Mr. Dulles said the United States drew these inferences from the fact that Russia chose a spectacular way of handling Bulganin's first letter to the President. He noted that Russia followed the unprecedented course of delivering that letter personally to the President, thereby getting the maximum publicity.
New Deal: Soldiers Can't Hire Officers
SEOUL, Korea (U.P.)—The Army called a halt today to the practice of enlisted men paying officers to pull guard duty for them.
The going rate for two hours of guard duty ranged from $10 for le伙tenants to $25 for colonels. The practice was taken up by the U.S. 24th Division to raise money for the March of Dimes fund.
One officers said the Army felt the practice was undignified.
ROBINSON'S NIAGARA FALLS—The melting snow on the roof of Robinson gymnasium forms a waterfall-like icicle down the side of the building. If the present warm-up continues, it will probably turn into a real waterfall—(Daily Kansan Photo)
Audience Enjoys Ride On Whirling 'Carousel'
A standing-room-only house showed its appreciation by calling the cast of "Carousel" back to the foot lights five times last night after its opening performance in Fraser Theater. The musical will be given at 8 p.m. today, Wednesday, and Saturday.
Dale Moore, Olathe graduate student, plays the part of Billy, a carousel barker who loses his job. He falls in love and marries Julie Jordan, played by Merrilyn Coleman, Lawrence junior. He is about to give the whole thing up and return to the carnival when he learns that Julie is going to have a baby. Fearing that the baby might be a girl, Billy realizes that he lacks the money to make her a respectable member of the community.
Kills Himself
Aided and abetted by Jigger, played by John Wesley, Ulysses sophomore, Billy tries robbery. This fails and rather than be captured he kills himself. On reaching heaven he is given only a glimpse of the back gates while being interviewed by Starkeeper, played by Frank Laban, Lawrence graduate student. During the interview Billy is allowed to watch his daughter, Louise, as she plays on the beach. Because of the difference in time passage between heaven and earth, Louise is now 15.
Mrs. Tomi Yadon, Lawrence junior, plays the part of Louise. The entire beach scene is a ballet in which Louise is trying to decide what kind of life she should turn to.
Billy is granted one last chance with his daughter to help her decide. Paralleling the marriage of Billie and Julie is that of Carrie Pipperidge, played by Barbara Blount, Larned senior, and Enoch Snow Jr., played by Glenn Pierce, Lawrence sophomore. Their marriage not only proyides much amusement for the audience but also 9 children in 15 years. Instrumental in bringing the couples together is Nattie Fowler, played by Beverly Runkle, Pittsburgh sophomore.
Billy is granted one day on earth with his daughter to help her decide.
The attitude of the audience toward the efforts of the 52-member cast and the 28-piece orchestra was summed up by a woman who remarked after the show, "Orchids to them all."
Miss Gordon's Course Starts
Miss Caroline Gordon, visiting professor of English, will lecture on the common elements found in the works of the great writers of fiction at 7:15 p.m. today in 205 Flint. The lecture is open to the public.
The lectures are offered as a course, English 97. Approximately 60 persons are enrolled in the course. Miss Gordon's latest novel, "The Malefactors," will be published this spring.
She has taught at the University of Washington, the University of North Carolina, Columbia University, and at the annual University of Kansas Writer's Conference during the summer of 1949.
Negro Girl Barred As Safety Action
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.—(U.P.)—The University of Alabama barred Negro student Autherine Lucy from classes today to prevent further violence and insure her safety.
The possibility of establishing an educational tour to Europe for some University student through the All Student Council membership in the National Student Association will be discussed at the meeting of the ASC at 7:30 p.m. today in the Student Union.
ASC To Discuss European Tour
If approved, the trip to Europe will be awarded to an undergraduate student. Expenses for the tour would be paid by the ASC with the trip being handled through the National Student Association's travel program.
Two other important items on the agenda are the establishment of a student advisory board to the chancellor and voting on a bill to have a permanent committee of the World University Service on the campus.
Adlai Favors Integration
LOS ANGELES—(UP.)-Democratic presidential hopeful Adlai Stevenson says he favors integration of public schools because it is the law and because he has opposed school segregation for many years.
The former Illinois governor told a news conference yesterday that de-segregation of public schools was "the law of the land" under the Supreme Court's ruling and therefore had to be obeyed.
Mr. Stevenson made public a telegram he had sent to Franklin H. Williams, San Francisco representative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Mr. Stevenson said there was degregation in Illinois schools during his term as governor. At that time, he said, he placed himself on record as against segregation.
Former KuKu Head Still In Hospital
Donald Pat Smith, Eureka junior, who was injured Dec. 22 in an automobile accident, is still in the Basham Hospital in Eureka.
Mr. Smith's condition is improving, but it is not known if he will return to school next fall.
Engineer's Paper To Be Presented In Electronics Show
He was president of the KuKus.
James R. Squires, Lawrence junior, has written a paper that has been selected for presentation at the Southwestern Institute of Radio Engineers Conference and Electronics Show at Oklahoma City, Feb. 9-11
Squires chose as his topic, "Electronics as an Aid to Research in Artificially Induced Atherosclerosis," and it is based on research conducted at KU during the 1953-1954 school year by Dr. Kenneth Jochim, assistant dean of the School of Medicine.
The winning paper will be one of the four student exhibits and 43 professional research works shown at the conference. The show will be held at the Oklahoma City
Auditorium, and is one of the area's chief attractions for engineers, manufacturers, researchers, and educators.
Since the paper was written in 1954, it has won a cash first prize in a student paper competition sponsored by the Kansas City chapter of the Institute of Radio Engineers last spring and it also took first place in competition sponsored by the joint student chapter of IRE and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at KU.
Twenty-three color slides, a lighted blown-glass "artery" for use as a blackout display, and a model showing what an artery must do to function efficiently, make up the display.
- University trustees voted in emergency session last night to use "police powers" to exclude the 28-year-old Negro girl from classes following tense demonstrations in which eggs and rocks were hurled.
Her attorney, Arthur Shores, said in Birmingham the trustees' action appeared to be "planned." He won a federal court case to get her admitted to the University as its first Negro student.
National Guard Refused
Dr. O, C. Carmichael, university president, called trustees into emergency sessions last night about the same time Gov. James E. Folsom refused to send National Guardsmen. Dr. Carmichael warned the violence might force the university to close.
The tense hours of Miss Lucy's third day of classes yesterday were followed by a third midnight demonstration during which one egg was thrown at Mrs. Carmichael and two pelted police Chief W. C. Tompkins.
Highway patrolmen spirited Miss Lucy from the campus a few hours earlier while decoy autos were pelted with eggs and rocks. She was not harmed.
Three men will face disorderly conduct charges in city court here Feb. 13 in connection with the demonstration.
Literature Burned
The defendants are Ted and Earl Watts and Kenneth Thompson, none of them students, who allegedly took part in the mob action.
Students spurned literature handed out by members of proregregation white citizens councils picturing interracial marriage ceremonies with shouts of, "This is Communist stuff, let's burn it." They started a bonfire on the steps of a campus building.
The trustees said they would exclude Miss Lucy from classes until further notice because of violence and "threats of violence participated in by outsiders."
High clouds formed over Kansas today and the U.S. Weather Service said the state may get some additional rain or snow later in the week.
Miss Lucy's attorney said last night's demonstration "wasn't as bad as it was made out to be" He said Miss Lucy was now in hiding in the country and complimented University officials for being "very nice" and "most cordial."
Weather
Precipitation may begin in southern Kansas Wednesday evening.
Temperatures rose above freezing in all the state Monday and melted part of Kansas' snow cover. The range of maximum readings was 35 degrees at Olathe to 44 in Wichita. Overnight, the lows were spread from 15 at Russell and Hill City to 28 at Pittsburg.
Today's forecast-generally fair today and north tonight and Wednesday. Increasing cloudiness south tonight and Wednesday, with some light rain or drizzle likely extreme southwest by Wednesday. Warmer central Wednesday. High today in 40's. Low tonight in 20's.
Y Group To Hear Ceylonese
Sri Ratnam Swami, Matale, Ceylon, graduate student, will speak to the International Commission of the YWCA and YMCA on "Ceylon and the Changing East," at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Pine Room of the Student Union.