Topeka, Ks.
Friday, April 22, 1955
RELAY QUEEN AND ATTENDANTS—Mary Coe Carter, college freshman, has been selected as queen of the 30th annual Kansas Relays. Her attendants are Kay Tucker, Fort Hays Kansas State college, and Carolyn Burch, Bethany college. The three girls will appear in the parade tomorrow and reign over Relays and the dance in the Union.
KU Freshman Arrested ForCentervilleRobbery
Bv LARRY HEIL
An 18-year-old University freshman confessed orally to robbing the State Bank of Centerville Tuesday, April 19, after being arrested in the Jayhawk cafe about 7 p.m. yesterday, W. G. Simons, special agent of the FBI, announced last night.
He is Byron Eugene Byerley, engineering freshman, of Centerville, whose name was turned into Douglas county Sheriff Billy Hodson by Acacia president Bill Troyer. Byerley had been a pledge of the fraternity.
He is being held on $15,000 bond and will be arraigned before U.S. District Commissioner Edward R. Delich in Kansas City, Kans., sometime today. He was still being held by Douglas county officers this morning.
Troyer said he became suspicious after Byerley borrowed the car of Gary Graves, college freshman, the night of the robbery, brought it back early the next morning muddy and dented, and began spending "a lot of money." Byerley told Graves he wanted the car for a date, Troyer said.
Trover contacted Max Fessler, associate professor of economics, faculty adviser of the fraternity, yesterday, and the two gave Byerley's name to the sheriff.
FBI agents from Kansas City and Douglas county sheriff's m e n searched Byerley's room in the Acacia annex yesterday evening, and waited for him at the fraternity house at dinner time. When he failed to come to dinner, they found him at the cafe and arrested him.
He was charged with federal bank robbery.
The robbery occurred about midnight Tuesday according to Centerville authorities when the robber went to the home of bank cashier James B. Warren, 24, in Centerville, and forced him at gun-point to walk two and one-half blocks to the bank.
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Warren did not have a key so the two entered through a window.
The robber took about $400 from cash drawers, hit Warren four times on the head with his Colt 38 automatic pistol, and left. City police in Ottawa spotted his car early Wednesday morning, and fired at him but lost him.
FBI officials in Kansas City said this morning that $307.57 of the money was found in a culvert north of Ottawa. The money, along with the pistol was found in a coat and cap in the culvert, as Peverley had told authorities. In contrast, even—pennies, dimes, quarters and half dollar pieces.
Everley was carrying 15 hours in the School of Engineering this semester. Officials of the school described the youth as a friendly person who seemed to get along with his fellow students.
The car was chased again on country roads northwest of Ottawa by 25 police cars from Franklin and Calgary, but was lost on the muddy roads.
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Beyerle will be tried by a federal grand jury, or the U.S. District court in Kansas City. It was not known last night whether kidnapping would be added to the robbery charges.
Members of Acacia fraternity described Beyerley as being average, not too studious, and a good mixer. He was depled by the fraternity before the arrest, according to Trover.
The maximum penalty for federal bank robbery is 25 years imprisonment.
LAWRENCE KANSAS
Floats, Tours, Queen Are Relays Features
With fair weather and 80-degree temperature expected to extend into the weekend, the Kansas Relays tomorrow will mark the beginning of an activities-packed day.
At 10 a.m., the 1955 Kansas Relays parade will travel down Massachusetts street depicting the theme, "Speed Through the Ages."
The parade will feature 28 floats, nine bands, the Relays queen and two attendants, and five ROTC military units.
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce has donated floal trophies to be awarded the first three places in the women' and men's divisions. Decisions will be announced at the Relays during the afternoon.
Ten sororites and 14 fraternities have entered floats in the parade
thus far. Lawrence high school and North College hall also are entering the competition.
The parade will originate at 6th street and run to 12th street.
The 35th annual exposition sponsored by the School of Engineering is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to noon tomorrow. Dale Trott, engineering junior, is chairman of the event.
Exhibits this year will show the training engineers and architects receive and will emphasize the achievements of engineering science rather than novelties.
About 1,500 high school athletes are expected to compete today in the 51st annual Kansas Interscholastic Relays at Memorial Stadium.
The Relays queen, selected from candidates from Kansas colleges and
Big Seven schools, will be announced today, and will be crowned at 3 p.m.
Mary Coe Carter, KU college freshman, was chosen today as Queen of the Relays from among 11 finalists.
The queen and her attendants will reign at the Relays dance tomorrow night. The dance, featuring the Jay McShann orchestra, will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight in the Student Union ballroom.
The Jayhawk Jubilee, a University program for high school students will start with registration in the Student Union lounge. Among the activities planned throughout the day are bus tours, open house in University schools and departments, and visits to spots of interests on the campus.
Engineers Expect 35,000 to View Their Exposition This Weekend
Approximately 35,000 persons, both visitors and University faculty members and students, are expected to attend the 31st annual Engineering Exposition, being held today and tomorrow in conjunction with the KU Relays.
Housed in 10 separate buildings, the Exposition will have 25 displays, with the work having been done by about 1,400 students.
The general chairman of the Exposition is Dale Trott, engineering junior.
Guided tours through the entire show will be available. The hours are from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to noon tomorrow.
The architects will show a room modeled after those of the 1890 era, contrasted with a modern room showing how science has improved the home.
Groups from 20 departments again are competing for the Sigma Tau trophy. It was won last year by the civil engineering department, which this year will show the curriculum and supplies needed by a civil engineer for the four year course. The civil engineers also have an exhibit showing concrete light enough to float on water.
The industrial design display will show design products in production for contemporary living.
Correlated drawings of engineering models and closed circuit television will highlight the engineering drawing display, while the department of applied mechanics will show several things, including a compression test of wood, a tension test of paper, and the application and use of electrical strain gages.
Pre-Relays Dance Set for Tonight
An all-University pre-Relays dance will be held tonight in the Student Union ballroom sponsored by the United Veterans organization. Music will be furnished by the John Carlos combo and entertainment during the intermission will be by the Sigma Kappa trio. Admission will be 50c per person.
the mechanical engineers' display is one that is of current interest—showing a model atomic reactor power plant.
The story of an airplane-from the blueprint to the production line, is the exhibit of the aeronautical engineers.
The department of electrical engineering is giving a practical display on the use of electricity in modern living and the cost of running electrical appliances.
The Army ROTC is showing an exhibit that should be of special interest to persons living in the immediate area around Lawrence. The display is two scale models showing the effects of both floods and droughts.
Moving to Lindley hall, there is the geological engineers' exhibit—a topographic table showing various types of land forms as they might occur at some stage of geologic development. Also in Lindley is a display showing the birth of an oil well, which includes the leasing procedure, and a model rotary rig and pumping unit and tank battery.
—Kansan photo by Pete Ford
NEW MACHINE READY-Don Hill, left, engineering senior, holds a casting just completed by the die casting machine which has been set up for the engineering exposition. The $10,000 machine was donated to the school by Carl and Ruth Rice of Kansas City, Mo. Looking on from behind are Alvin Trowbridge, engineering freshman and Faul G. Hausman, chairman of the shop practice department.