Kansas State historical Society
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Topeka, Ks.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
52nd Year, No. 73
Wednesday, January 12, 1955
—Kansan photo by Dick Roberts
RIGHT IN STEP—Members of the Army ROTC band march along in near freezing weather in their fall review. They were reviewed at 4 p.m.yesterday by Col. Justice Neale, professor of military science and
tactics.
Ike Defends Nixon Against Smear Charges
Mr. Eisenhower said Mr. Nixon is loyal and patriotic and that he admires him. The President also told his news conference he is sure that Mr. Nixon never had challenged the loyalty of the entire Democratic party.
Washington—(U.P.)President Eisenhower today strongly defended Vice President Richard M. Nixon against Democratic charges that Mr. Nixon used smear tactics in the 1954 Congressional campaign.
When Mr. Eisenhower was first asked about recent Democratic criticism of Mr. Nixon, he fired back at the questioner a stern-voiced inquiry as to whether the reporter was basing his question on actual reading of Mr. Nixon's campaign speeches. The reporter said his question was addressed to Democratic criticism and not the content of Mr. Nixon's campaign addresses.
The President replied first by saying that he does not consider any political party in this country, other than the Communist party to be a party of treason. He said he thinks there are as many loyal Americans in the Democratic party as in his party.
He said he, himself has never indulged in sweeping condemnation of the Democrats and that Mr. Nixon, with whom he breakfasted today, assured him that he never has condemned an entire party. The Chief Executive said Mr. Nixon has questioned the Democratic handling of certain cases but never the loyalty of the Democrats.
work ...
Washington—(U.P.)—President Eisenhower said today that at first the facts in the Wolf Ladejinsky security case would have scared him, but he later altered his opinion.
Mr. Eisenhower last Oct. 28 praised Mr. Nixon publicly for his campaign role, saying "no man could have done more effective work..."
Mr. Ladejinsky is the agricultural expert who was refused security clearance by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson.
But Mr. Eisenhower said that later he discovered that Mr. Ladejinky had written a book highly critical of Communism and he indicated that this changed his feelings in the matter.
However, Mr. Ladejinskv—a Russian-born American citizen—later was cleared by the foreign operations administration and hired to help out with land reform in Vietnam.
Mr. Eisenhower told a news conference that when he first heard details of the case from Sec. Benson he felt there was reason to take what he called a jauniced view of the agricultural expert's case.
Rockefeller Gives Fund $20 Million
New York—(U.P.)—John D. Rockefeller Jr. has given $20,000,000 to a fund to educate Protestant ministers.
In a brief two-sentence letter the financier and philanthropist presented his latest contribution yesterday to the Sealantic fund, which he set up 16 years ago to administer various Rockefeller gifts.
The short, casual note said:
"Gentlemen:
"I am giving to your corporation as of this date securities having a present market value of approximately $20,000,000.
"The purpose of the gift is to strengthen and develop Protestant theological education in this country."
In December, 1953, Rockefeller gave $1,000,000 in securities to Harvard university for its School of Divinity.
Cold Air, Snow Hit Midwest
By UNITED PRESS
The icy front of cold Canadian air moved into the Dakotas and Minnesota. There was nine inches of snow at International Falls, Minn., an increase of one inch, and two inches of snow fell on Alexandria, Minn.
The Midwest, where winter weather has been a trifle slow turning up in some areas, braced today for a snowy cold wave.
While the Southwest and Dixie were battered by snow storms, usually chilly cities such as Chicago and Minneapolis, were recording their mildest winters in years.
The snow, while not up to the usual northern Midwest standards, was at least a return to normal for many areas.
State weatherman Tom Arnold anticipates temperatures will drop to as low as 5 degrees above zero in extreme northern Kansas before morning. Lows in the south likely will be around 20 degrees.
Skies were clearing in eastern Kansas and were generally fair in the west.
15 Killed In Air Collision
Cincinnati, Ohio—(U.P)-A Trans-World Airlines plane and a privately-owned DC-3 aircraft collided in flight and crashed in flames near here today killing 15 persons.
TWA officials said that 13 persons, 10 passengers, and 3 crew members, were aboard its twin-engined Martin 202. The plane had left the greater Cincinnati airport about 8 a.m. (CST) enroute to Dayton, Columbus, and Cleveland.
Mr. Gordon said the planes apparently caught fire after the collision and were aflame when they hit the ground, about a mile apart. He said parts of the planes and bodies were scattered over a wide area.
Howard Crigler, owner of the farm on which the planes crashed, said that the TWA plane hit the top of a hill and bounced into a wooded ravine, leaving a hundred-yard long trail of wreckage.
TWA officials in Washington said the accident was the first crash in its domestic service since December 1944.
The twin-engined DC-3 was owned by Castleton Farms, famous Lexington, Ky., harness horse farm. It was enroute from Battle Creek, Mich., to pick up the farm owners, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Van Lennep, to take the socially prominent couple to Florida. The pilot, Arthur Werkhaven, and co-pilot Eddie Anger were killed.
The collision was about two miles south of the greater Cincinnati airport, which is in Kentucky about 12 miles from Cincinnati. It is in a rural, hilly area, selected to escape the Ohio river fog which frequently closed the Lanken airport in Cincinnati.
A witness said the impact of the crash "shook every house" in Lima-burg, Ky., the community nearest the tragedy.
Kentucky state police detective Robert Gordon, one of the first officers to the scene, said, "it looks like everybody is dead."
Lindsay Poems to Be Poetry Hour Topic
"The Bronco That Couldn't Be Broken," and other poems by Vachel Lindsay, early 20th century poet, will be read by Dr. Allen Crafton, professor of speech, at the Poetry Hour, 4 p.m. tomorrow in the music room of the Student Union.
Dr. Crafton, who lived in the same town as the poet and knew him, will discuss Mr. Lindsay, as a man and as a writer.
'Could Haves' Too Often Affect Historiography, Anderson Says
By IRENE COONFER
"Modern historiography is not always content to write and accept what has been done, but is too often swayed by what historians perceive could have happened and how those events will affect the future," said Prof. George Anderson last night.
Speaking in the second Humanities lecture series, Prof. Anderson said the most important and most immediate problem in the field of history is its survival as a unique part of the humanities.
"The humanistic historians labor, always seeking the truth of the past, and never really feeling that they can ever know it fully," he said. "The humanist historian also studies the past, but having failed to find the answers, he often becomes discouraged and postulates ideas of what is to come.
"The humanist must constantly connect the past with those events of the present, and predict what
"My plea is that history be studied for its own sake," he said. "Although I am not a humanist, I hope to be regarded as a humanistic historian."
GEORGE ANDERSON
will come. Practical and utilitarian,
he must identify himself with a
definite cause—he must formulate
an hypothesis before he gathers his
facts. Facts, he claims, cannot speak
for themselves, they must be used
to support a thesis.
pure knowledge is of intrinsic value in itself," he said. "The notion that anyone can teach history, such as the assigning of it in our secondary schools to the athletic coach, is the most disgraceful act of our present educational system."
"The principal point around which the conflict is raging is that
"Although the reviewers praise Mr. Schlesinger in glowing terms, and although it was awarded the Pulitzer prize, it is a true picture of functionalism," he said. "The only thing wrong with the book is that it is not the kind of history which fits into a humanities program.
Arthur Schlesinger's book "The Age of Jackson" was Prof. Anderson's example of humanist history. The book, published in 1945, was the outrowth of a series of lectures entitled "A Re-interpretation of the Jacksonian Democracy."
"It is the service of the humanities to keep men alive—but by facts and knowledge, not by the preventive medicine of conclusion rather than the priceless element of time," he said.
"Knowledge contains its own justification," he said. "The more the student knows of the true past, the better citizen he will become in the future."
Costa Rica War, With Nicaragua To Be Studied
Washington —(U.P).— A special inter-American diplomatic investigating commission flew to Costa Rica today to check into reported invasion of that country from neighboring Nicaragua.
The council authorized the investigation of the touchy feud at an emergency meeting here late yesterday. It also voted to call an extraordinary meeting of American foreign ministers to consider the reported invasion.
Meanwhile, in San Jose, Costa Rica, the government of President Jose Figueres sought to repel an invading force from Nicaragua, apparently composed of Costa Rican refugees and "mercenaries" from other Latin American nations.
President Figueres sent a force of 300 Costa Rican troops to Villa Quesada, 30 miles northwest of San Jose, where the invaders established an "airhead" yesterday with the reported collaboration of disloyal townsmen.
to Mississippi.
Nicaragua, calling the disturbance a revolt instead of an invasion, said in radio broadcasts that other Costa Rican towns also had fallen to anti-Figueres forces.
Costa Rica, ignoring denials that Nicaragua is supporting the attack, broke relations with that country yesterday.
Two clashes were reported between the invaders and Costa Rican forces in the Villa Quesada area, resulting in one wounded Costa Rican and "possibly several" casualties on the other side.
Reports that the invaders were reinforced by landing parties that traveled by boat down the San Juan and San Carlos rivers from Nicaragua could not be confirmed. Officials here said the invaders had not been positively identified, but added "Nicaragua was the only possible source" for the attack.
Nicaragua's president, Anastasio Somoza, said last night the "so-called invasion" is nothing but a "revolutionary outbreak in which only Costa Ricans are taking part." He said it was "nonsensical" to try to blame it on Nicaragua.
Engineering Group Elects New Officers
John R. (Dick) Martindell, engineering senior, was elected president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in a meeting held at 11 a.m., yesterday, in 116 Marvin.
Other new officers of the organization are Frank Dobbe, engineering senior, vice president; G. H. Jones, engineering junior, secretary; and Kenneth Medearis, engineering junior, treasurer.
YMCA. YWCA to Meet Today
YMCA, YWCA to Meet Today
The KU delegates to the YMCA and YWCA national convention held here Dec. 27-Jan. 2 will meet for an evaluation of the assembly at 5:30 p.m. today at apartment 16 East Sunnyside. They will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Allaway, executive secretaries of YMCA and YWCA.
Miss Hill to Attend Meeting
Edna Hill, professor of home economics, will attend an executive committee meeting of the Home Economics association in Washington, D.C., Saturday through Monday. Miss Hill is vice president of the association. About 12 home economists throughout the nation are members of the committee.