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53rd Year, No. 36
First Snowfall Drops Mercury To 32 Degrees
Winter unofficially arrived on the KU campus today, as the season's first snow started falling at 11:15 a.m., and the temperature was down to 32 degrees at noon.
The snow is expected to subside tonight, with skies clearing. Kansas temperatures tonight will range from 10 degrees in the northwest to 25 degrees in the southeast. Tomorrow is expected to be generally fair with temperatures getting up to the middle 30s.
Today's cold wave came suddenly, in sharp contrast to yesterday when the temperature was up to 64 degrees. The cool air arrived, accompanied by strong north winds which reached velocities of 45 miles an hour in southwest Kansas.
Low temperatures this morning ranged from 22 at Goodland to 48 at Pittsburg.
Weatherman Richard D. Garrett, head of the Topeka Weather Bureau, said that no great amount of snow was predicted, but added that the weather would be "very raw."
Dr. Vincent du Vigneau of Cornell University was awarded the chemistry prize for discovering a process to make synthetic hormones.
STOCKHOLM —(U.P.)— Two American scientists won the 1955 Nobel prize for physics today and a third won the prize for chemistry.
Nobel Prizes To Americans
Prof. Willis E. Lamb of Stanford University and Prof. Polykarp Kusch of Columbia University won the physics prize for their work in nuclear research.
Dr. Du Vigneaud will receive $36,720 and a certificate. Prof. Lamb and Prof. Kusch will split the same amount.
Dr. Du Vigneaud won the award for his work which led to his discovery of how to purify hormones produced by the pituitary gland.
Awards will be made by King Gustav Adolph of Sweden in Stockholm. Dec. 10.
Prof Lamb said the only specific thing for which he could be honored with the prize was his work in the general field of micro-wave spectroscopy of the hydrogen atom, which was published in 1947. The work of Prof. Lamb and Prof. Kusch made it possible to produce micro-waves measuring only 10 mm.
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 1955
By using a special method of elimination, Prof. Kusch and his researchers were able to measure accurately the magnetic moment of the electron—the negative charged basic particle.
The discoveries of the two physicists, in terms of micro-waves and the energy levels of atoms stabilized the basic theories of the components of the universe, material and radiation.
220 Freshmen Vote UD To Noon Today
At noon today, 220 freshmen had voted in the freshman election. The election is for class officers and ASC representatives.
The polls will remain open until 7:30 tonight. The polling places and the number of votes cast in each: Marvin Hall, 50. Malott Hall, 49; Fraser Hall, 48; Strong Hall, 28, and the Student Union, 45.
BRING 'EM BACK ALIVE—The abductor of Touchdown IV, mascot for the Kansas State
Wildcats, is guarding his prize, which looks somewhat peeved.
Touchdown IV Is Found! Look For Her Saturday
By BOB LYLE and JOHN McMILLION
The missing Kansas State college wildcat, Touchdown IV, is in the hands of a group of University students who plan to return the mascot to Kansas State at the football game between the two schools in Memorial Stadium Saturday afternoon.
A spokesman said the wildcat has been well cared for and will be returned in good physical condition.
The catnappers plan to return the wildcat during the game if they receive a "clean bill of health" from officials of both schools, the spokesman said. If their plea for immunity is not accepted, the wildcat will be returned anyway—at an undesignated time during the game—and if possible without the culprits revealing their identity.
Done For School Spirit
"We want to return Touchdown IV at the game Saturday if we have the word of administrative officials at both schools that no action will be taken against us.
The entire venture came about as an attempt to bolster sagging school spirit at the University, the spokesman said. He said that it was believed that if a successful catnapping could be pulled off and the wildcat returned unharmed to K-State Saturday, student morale would be raised.
In revealing the motives behind the abduction of the K-State mascot, the spokesman said.
"School spirit at the University is it the lowest ebb in years. We thought this would liven the students up. If the clean bill of health is not given we still plan to return
the cat—but at an undesignated time during the game.
"We hope that the student bodies and the administrations of both schools will accept our gesture in the spirit in which it was offered."
In Lawrence Area
Touchdown IV is somewhere in the Lawrence area and is reportedly being fed a good supply of choice meat every day, the spokesman said. "He is probably receiving better care than he ever had at Kansas State" he said.
The catnapping took place early on the morning of Oct. 27 and was the climax of two weeks of planning and preparations. However in the final stage, the plans went awry when the wrong group of University students pulled off the deed two hours earlier than planned.
The catnappers attributed their success to a decision to strike when K-State least suspected it-before the K-State-Oklahoma game.
The original plan called for one group in several cars to arrive in Manhattan about 2 a.m., enter the cage, take Touchdown IV, and put him in a portable cage kept inside the wildcat den in Sunset Zoo in Manhattan. An elaborate plan called for the cat to be switched from one car to another enroute
Original Plan
to Lawrence to throw off pursuit by officers.
However the plan went astray when one carload of University students who thought the other conspirators had backed out of the catnap attempt went to Manhattan about 11:30 p.m. Oct. 26. The padlocks were sawed and the actual catnapping took place a few minutes after midnight Thursday morning.
The second group arrived at the zoo later and spent two hours attempting to coax Touchdown IV's substitute, used at the Oklahoma game, from the safety of a concrete den in the cage. They reported that the cat was "highly nervous" and finally gave up the attempt and returned to Lawrence. The catnapping was discovered about 9:15 a.m. Thursday.
The cat is now in a temporary hideout while the conspirators await developments from their plea and administrations of the two schools.
In Temporary Hideout
Employees of the building and grounds department spent most of yesterday morning washing off paint jobs on various buildings and statues around the campus. Seven of the 13 students arrested by campus police between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m. were identified as K-State students.
Joe Skillman, chief of campus police, said all those arrested were released. He estimated that about 22 carloads of K-State supporters ran wild while the understaffed University police force attempted to round up the painters.
Lawyers Staging Private Homecoming
The lawyers aren't decorating early for Homecoming this year. They have their own celebration scheduled for tomorrow.
Activities will be centered on the traditional football game between the lawyers' Jim Beam team and an independent squad. This year's foe will be Jolliffe Hall. The game will start at 4 p.m. on the intramural field.
Queen candidates are: Gamma Phi Beta,pegny O'Neil, Kansas City, Mo., senior; Alpha Phi, Barbara Teas, Salina junior; Chio Omega, Nancy Walker, Wichita sophomore; Delta Gamma, Kay Renfrow, Overland Park sophomore; Kappa Kappa Gamma, Marion McCoy, Overland Park senior; Alpha Chio Omega.
will be chosen from candidates of 12 sororites. Dr. James B. Smith, professor of law, will present the queen with a trophy during the ceremonies. John J. Jurcyk, Kansas City, Kan., second year law, will be master of ceremonies.
Myrna Schneider, Ellinwood sophomore.
A law school Homecoming queen will be crowned during halftime ceremonies at the game. The queen
Delta Delta Delta, Sylvia Haskell,
Norborne, O., sophomore; Kappa
Alpha Theta, Margaret Campbell,
Kansas City, M., senior; Pi Beta
Phi, Lois Alberg, Topea junior;
Alpha Omega Pi, Marjorie Fischer,
Lawrence junior; Sigma Kappa,
Dona Benscheidt, Hutchinson son-
ior, and Alpha Delta Pi, Jacqueline
Kimmel, Hiawatha senior.
A pep rally was held this morning as part of the pre-Homecoming celebration. Another is being planned for tomorrow afternoon.
Air Liner Crash Claims 44 Victims
LONGMONT, Colo. —(U.P.)— A United Air Lines four-engined DC-6B airliner crashed in a flaming explosion on a farm 35 miles north of Denver last night, killing all 44 persons aboard.
The plane had taken off from Denver's Stapleton Municipal airport less than a half hour before it crashed at 8:10 p.m. CST.
One of the casualties was Dr. Harold Sandstead, deputy secretary of the U.S. Public Health Service. The only casualty from the Kansas-Missouri area was John Des Jardins of Kansas City, Mo.
All Bodies Found
Three hours after the crash, searchers had accounted for the bodies of all the victims among the wreckage scattered over a two-mile area.
There was no immediate explanation of the tragedy, the second major airline accident in less than a month. The other, on Oct. 6, also involved a United Air Lines plane, a DC-4, which crashed into Medicine Bow Peak in southern Wyoming killing 66 persons in the nation's worst civil aviation disaster. The Wyoming crash site is about 100 miles northwest of Longmont.
Besides the Wyoming crash last month, one other major airliner has occurred in the immediate area within recent times. A United Air Lines DC-6 crashed into the Crystal Mountains in the front range of the Rockies only about 50 miles northwest of last night's crash on June 30, 1951, killing 50 persons.
Onother UAL plane smashed into Elk mountain during a blizzard in January, 1946, killing 20 persons. The site of this crash was only 20 miles north of the Medicine Bow accident in southern Wyoming.
KU Students NabbedAtK-State
A number of University students were arrested early this morning on the Kansas State College campus in Manhattan for burning a large "KU" on the football field, smearing paint on tennis courts and buildings, and generally disturbing sorority and fraternity houses.
Nine KU students were arrested by Manhattan police, who turned them over to Donald K. Alderson, dean of men, at 3 a.m. today. They are Charles E. Steven, Hutchinson freshman; Warren H. Degeler, Kansas City, Kan. freshman; Joseph E. Janicke, Winfield sophomore; Joe J. Stotler, Iola sophomore; David W. Wheeler, Marion sophomore; James N. Snyder, Leavenworth junior; Henry L. Regier, Kansas City, Kan. junior; Harper H. Barnes, Kansas City, Kan. freshman, and Robert J. Allison, Glenview, Ill. freshman.
Kansas Artists'Art To Be Housed In Union
Plans to house paintings by Kansas artists in the Kansas Room of the Student Union were disclosed today by Edward Maser, art museum director.
The University's collection includes works by Raymond Eastwood, professor of drawing and painting, and the late Birger Sandzen of Lindsborg.