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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
52nd Year, No. 75
Friday, January 14, 1955
Louisville Editor To Give White Lecture
Norman E. Isaacs, managing editor of The Louisville, Ky. Times and 1953 president of the Associated Press Managing Editors association, will deliver the sixth annual William Allen White Lecture at the University on Thursday, Feb. 10.
He will speak at 3 p.m. in Strong auditorium on "Conscience and the Editor."
Mr. Isaacs has been a newspaperman since 1926, when he joined the staff of The Indianapolis Star. Before leaving Indianapolis in 1945 he was managing editor of the Times for eight years and chief editorial writer of the News for two years. From 1945 to June, 1951, he was managing editor of The St. Louis Star-Times. During this period the Star-Times won the University of Missouri Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism.
Service to 10,000 Since Jan. 1, 1952, Mr. Isaacs has been managing editor of The Louisville Times.
Vince Tulloch
In Indianapolis Mr. Isaacs was president of the Indianapolis Open Forum, moderator of the Butler University Forum and moderator of a weekly radio debate panel. He also served on the Mayor's Commission for Interracial Progress.
In Louisville he is vice president of the Louisville orchestra and is a board member of the Louisville Fund. He also is a member of the Governor's Commission on Probation and Parole and is a member of the National Probation and Parole association.
1951. In 1951 he was national chairman of Sigma Delta Chi's Freedom of Information committee, and in 1954 he headed the same committee of the Associated Press Managing Editors association.
Previous William Allen White Lectures have been given by James B. Reston, chief of the Washington bureau of the New York Times; Ernest Lindley, head of Newsweek's Washington bureau; Erwin Canham, editor of The Christian Science Monitor; Palmer Hoyt, editor and publisher of The Denver Post, and Grove Patterson, editor of The Toledo Blade.
The program for February 10 also will include the annual board meeting of the William Allen White Foundation, at 10 a.m. in the Journalism Building; and the annual awards luncheon in the Kansas Room of the Student Union, at which a Kansas editor will receive the Foundation's certificate for journalistic merit.
Senior Charged With Molesting
Kenneth Alan Bateman, education senior, was charged with assault and battery and molesting today at the Lawrence police station.
Bateman, who was taken into custody Wednesday, had confessed to four counts of molesting yesterday.
Hutchinson—(U.P.) Oklahoma will build a northern turnip route to connect with the Kansas toll road near Wichita, Milt Phillips of Seminole, a member of the Oklahoma turnip authority, told the Kansas Press association here today.
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Obey C. Hazelet, chief of the Law enforcement police, said today that there were a minimum of five cases of molesting attributed to Bateman, but that he had confessed to four. Chief Hazelet said the pattern or mode of operation was identical in several other cases, and that descriptions of automobiles involved in other incidents were similar.
Oklahoma to Build Northern Turnpike
Mr. Phillips, a Seminole publisher, called on highway boosters in all states to join in demanding that the Federal government aid in a national turnpike building program.
NORMAN ISAACS
Crafton Reads Lindsay Poems
"The Congo" and other poems by Vachel Lindsey, early 20th century American poet, were read by Dr. Allen Crafton, professor of speech, in the poetry hour yesterday in the music room of the Student Union.
Dr. Crafton spoke about Lindsay from his personal experience in knowing the poet when he lived in Springfield, Ill. He said that Lindsay was known as the "People's Poet" in his day and enjoyed wide popularity. He was considered a poet of democracy.
Dr. Crafton said that Lindsay was one of the first poets to write in the ragtime and jazz rhythms, often reading his own poems in a half-chant.
Lindsay wrote several poems about Kansas, Dr. Crafton said. "The Bronco That Couldn't Be Broken," one of the selections read by Dr. Crafton, was dedicated to the town of Great Bend.
No Deals Made With Reds, Says Hammarskjold
United Nations, N. Y. —(U.P.)—United Nations Secretary Dag Hammarskjold said today that "no deals of any kind for the release of 11 American prisoners sentenced as spies were suggested by either side in his talks with Red Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Lai.
He gave a news conference the first public disclosure of details of his mission to free the airmen and all other UN command personnel still held by the Chinese Communists as Korean war prisoners.
He refused to discuss the substance of his 13% hours of secret talks with Chou but replied to a question as to whether his mission was successful:
"If by successful, you mean that I brought the fliers back in the plane, I was not successful. If you mean that I achieved what I hoped to achieve, then I was successful."
Mr. Hammarskjold made it clear, as he did on his arrival at Idlewild airport last night, that the door "has been opened" for negotiations with Red China and that he hoped to maintain the contact he established with Chou.
But he said he would not be specific on the time or place of the next contact with the Red Chinese. That, he said, would depend upon developments.
The United States today meanwhile ruled out any deal with Red China to swap diplomatic recognition or a seat in UN for freedom of the Americans jailed by the Peiping regime. But officials in Washington did not veto the possibility of letting 35 Chinese students in this country go home if that alone is the Communist price for freedom of the 11 airmen.
The Last Roundup
Minor Cold Front Due Here Tonight
Classes will begin Thursday, Feb. 3.
Topeka—(U.P.)—A minor cold front due in Kansas tonight will end a fast two-day warmup, state weatherman Tom Arnold said today. He asserted Kansas may get a little rain or snow tonight or Saturday morning. Temperatures will turn moderately colder.
Activities Taper As Final Studies Begin.
With final exams looming into view Thursday, activities on the Hill are tapering off to make room for the intensified study preceding final week.
Students are making a last review of courses and beginning to plan next semester's schedule.
The University Concert band will present a program at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch, and a recital of American music will be given by Mu Phi Epsilon, music sorority, at 8 p.m. Monday in Strong auditorium.
The William Jewell Debate tournament will be held in Fraser and Green halls tomorrow during the day, and at 7:30 p.m. Forbes Air Force base will challenge the Jayhawk "B" basketball team in Hoch auditorium.
Winding up the semester's events will be the Big Seven swimming meet between the varsity and Nebraska at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in Robinson gym pool. "The Lady Vanishes," an English film thriller, will be held tonight in Hoch auditorium.
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Exams will hold the spotlight from Thursday, Jan. 20 to Thursday, Jan. 27. After a four-day pause between semesters, registration and enrollment will begin at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 31, and continue through Wednesday, Feb. 2. The top of the alphabet will enroll first.
Attack on Laos Charged to Reds
Vientiane, Laos—(U.P.)—The government of Laos charged today that Communist-led forces have attacked and captured two small posts in Northern Laos, in direct violation of the Indochina truce.
DAVID H. POPPER
UN Official To Give Lecture
David H. Popper, a State department officer, will be the principa speaker for the seventh annual Kansas United Nations conference Jan. 24 and 25.
Mr. Popper, who is director of the office of UN political and security affairs in the State department, will speak on "The Policy of the United States on Major Economic and Political Problems Before the UN." The conference theme this year is the role of the United States in the UN.
He is an alumnus of Harvard and held a Shaw traveling fellowship in Europe while taking graduate work. He was research associate in the Foreign Policy association of New York 1934-40. In 1941 he traveled in Latin America on a grant from the Rockefeller foundation and became associate editor of the Foreign Policy association. He is a veteran of 3 1-2 years in the U.S. Army.
After the war, Mr. Popper joined the State department. Through several positions concerned with United States participation in UN affairs, he attained his present position last October. He has been an adviser to the U.S. representatives on the Security Council and in the General Assembly of the UN.
Debate Tourney Set for Tomorrow
The William Jewell college seventh annual Blizzard debate tournament will be held tomorrow in Green hall.
Three senior and three junior division debate teams will represent the University in the tournament Richard W. Wilkie, speech instructor, is tournament director.
Foreign Film Set For 7:30 p.m. Today
An Alfred Hitchcock thriller,
"The Lady Vanishes" will be
shown today at 7:30 p.m. in Hoch
auditorium.
The University film series feature stars Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Paul Lucas, and Dame May Whitty.
The International Armistice Control commission immediately dispatched a mobile investigating team to the spot near Sam Neua, 187 miles northeast of Vientiane.
The government said the attacks took place last night.
World was received in Haiphong of a bloody battle between Communist forces in North Viet Nam and Catholic refugees who attempted to flee to freedom from their Red-run homeland two weeks ago. An investigating team had been sent to the scene to check on earlier, fragmentary reports of the incident.
The post reported it was under attack last night and appealed for ammunition and food. It failed to answer a radio call at 9 p.m. today and was presumed lost.
Of last night's attacks, the Laos government said that rebel Laos forces, helped by Viet Minh Communist soldiers, attacked the post at Noh Khan, about 18 miles north of Sam Neua. It was a small base, but important as the provisional seat of the government of Sam Neua province.
The other post attack was Houi Thao, about 15 miles from Sam Neua. It had such a small garrison it was unable to resist.
Viet Nam May Yet Be Saved
Washington — (U.P.) Informed senators today regarded Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' increased optimism over Indochina as a definite sign that South Viet Nam may yet be saved from Communist domination.
Secretary Dulles told the senate foreign relations committee at a closed door session yesterday that recent developments make the situation in Indochina "now somewhat more favorable than it has been."
He coupled the remark with a plea for the U.S. not to give up hope in areas where things "looked black" and not to limit its diplomatic and foreign aid efforts to areas where there is a "100 per cent chance of success."
Although Dulles mentioned no specific areas in the latter remark, most members of the committee felt it referred to the recent slight signs of progress in south Viet Nam.
Secretary Dulles also urged prompt approval of the Southeast Asia Mutual Defense treaty as notification to the Communist world that free nations of the East and West can work together.
Murphy To Speak In Topeka Tuesday
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy will speak on "Man's Humanity to Man" at the Family Service of Topeka annual meeting Tuesday night in Topeka.
Chancellor Murphy was named chairman of a 12-member committee on intergovernmental relations last June, in which the federal spending for public health was studied.
Roberts Escapes Criminal Charge
Kansas City — (U,P)—The Federal government dismissed the criminal charge today against Roy. A. Roberts, president of the Kansas City Star company. in its anti-trust action against the newspaper.