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Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
52nd Year, No. 5
Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1954
100th Birthday Of Entomology To Be Observed
57 Bands to Parade Saturday
Fifty seven high school bands including 3,500 musicians will participate in high school band day Saturday. The units will be part of the Lawrence centennial parade set for 10 a.m. Saturday and later will assemble at Memorial stadium for the KU-UCLA football game.
MOTHS—Wallace E. LaBerge, assistant curator for the new Snow entomological museum, is pointing to a female polyphemus moth which is mounted and on display in the entomology open house. The moth was raised from a cocoon by Dr. H. B. Hungerford. The moth was put in a cage and the window opened one night and 187 male polyphemus moths were attracted.
Displays varying from chiggers under a microscope to a beating beetle's heart will be featured in the entomology department open house Friday and Saturday.
—Kansan photo by Sam Jones
The open house, which coincides with the Lawrence centennial, commemorates the centennial anniversary of entomology as a profession in the United States. Progress of the profession since its start in 1854 will be shown by movies during the open house.
open root well. In connection with the anniversary, the botany department has planned displays including one exhibit of over 250 selected flower paintings from the Walcott collection of the Smithsonian institution. Also on public display for the first time will be the reconstruction of a 270-million year old Kansas forest. The panorama is based on information from Kansas coal mine plant fossils.
plant tissues. The joint open house will also display many research projects such as DDT, source of the "wonder drugs", and microscopic anatomy of familiar plants.
Both departments will entertain visitors from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, and from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Winds Bring Cold Front to Midwest
A cold front swept the Midwest today. A chill 37 degrees temperature this morning relieved temperatures close to 100 of the last few days.
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A 64-degree spread in temperatures was recorded in less than 24 hours. State Weatherman Tom Arnold said north winds will keep Kansas cool for awhile although it will be slightly warmer tomorrow. The low tonight will range from 35-40 in the Northwest to 45-50 in the Southeast.
The five-day forecast for Kansas calls for normal temperatures in the East with high of 78 and a low of 50.
German Anger Mounts At Rearmament Delay
London, Sept. 21—(U.P.)Britain called an emergency meeting of the five Brussels pact nations today to seek a new way around French fears of a rearmed, sovereign Germany and mounting German resentment against French delaying tactics.
'Windfall' Pressure Charges Against Senator'Unfounded'
Indianapolis, Ind. —(U.P.)— Senate housing investigators said today they are convinced that Sen. John J. Sparkman (D-Ala.) exerted no undue influence in connection with housing "windfalls."
A witness before Sen. Homer Capehart's banking committee testified yesterday that it was "common knowledge"-although "purely gossip"—that the 1953 Democratic vice-presidential candidate helped push through an illegal loan.
However, Sen. Capehart said today that the committee is convinced that Sen. Sparkman is the victim of "rumour and gossip" and that the Alabaman only "was exercising responsibility to a constituent like any senator does."
In a day of televised hearings yesterday, the banking committee charged two young men cleared $2,471,072 on apartment construction in four states, an Illinois man "induced" approval of phony GI loans, and a former FHA state director had interests outside the law.
had interests Sen. Capehart attacked Federal Housing administration officials for "looseness" in administering the law. He said his committee uncovered thousands of cases where FHA
Sen. Capehart said evidence shows someone in Washington pressured the late R. Earl Peters, Indiana FHA director, to approve the loan. Several witnesses said Mr. Peters was hesitant about it.
were limited to 50 per cent of cost. Marvin L. Warner, 35, and Joseph Kanter, 30, natives of Birmingham and now of Cincinnati, were accused of realizing a huge windfall on 12 apartments in those two cities and in Indianapolis and St. Louis. Their total cost was $21,964,860, but loans totaled $24,435,932.
Sparkman was linked to a $3 million Warner-Kanter apartment in Indianapolis. Former FHA appraiser James Swan said it was "common knowledge," though "purely gossip," that Sen. Sparkman helped push a top-heavy loan through.
made excessive loans, which by law were limited to 90 per cent of cost.
West Germany reacted angrily yesterday when French Premier Mendes - France proposed a plan creating 12 German divisions but temporarily banning Germany from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Mr. Warner denied that Sen Sparkman was involved. He said a "windfall" on the loan represented "proper and legitimate" savings on construction.
"We're certainly going to keep after this thing, and if there was a mystery man in Washington intimidating Peters to approve the loan, we're going to find out who it was," Sen. Capehart said.
Representatives of Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg met to study widening their mutual aid pact to include West Germany and Italy.
Germans said they would not contribute to a "Foreign Legion."
British community Mendes-France made it clear that France wanted British participation in any western defense network and blamed the death of the European Defense Community on the fact that Britain would not have been a member.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill also called his cabinet into session to decide how far Britain can go to meet French Premier Pierre Mendes-France's demands for more British commitments to Europe.
week.
In addition to the Brussels pact members, the United States, West Germany, Italy, and Canada will take part in the meeting on West German rearmament.
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The Brussels treaty nations, who signed their pact in 1948, were called into session by Britain to draw up a formula to present to the nine nations conference in London next week.
Iowa Is Challenged In Corn Husks Duel
Mendes-France stirred up new German resentment yesterday by opposing an Anglo-American effort to bring West Germany into the NATO.
Des Moines—(U.P.)—Iowa's secretary of state, Melvin D. Synhorst, thinks his state is corrier than Ohio and hopes to prove it.
Ted W. Brown, Synhurst's counterpart in Ohio, suggested a corn husks "duel" during halftime at the Iowa-Ohio State football game Oct. 16 after he grew a 13-foot stalk in his garden.
The centennial parade will go on Massachusetts from Sixth to Thirteenth streets.
All of the bands will mass for pre-game ceremonies to play the national anthem. Bands from Shawnee-Mission and Atchison high schools will give half-time exhibitions.
will be the farthest for the day
when he bands from Wakeeeney, Russell,
and Stafford. Out of the state
bands from Liberty, Mo., and William Christman high at Independence, Mo., will be in the parade.
Bands will come from: chawnee Mission, Atchison, Lawrence Sr. and Jr. highs, Gridley, Centralia, Basehor, Yates Center, Troy, Hollon, Caney, Onaga, Paola, Chanute, Olathe, Glasco, Alma, Columbus, Seneca, Pleasanton, Blue Rapids, Bern, Bonner Springs, Leavenworth Jr. and Sr. highs, Ottawa, Blue Mound, Waverly, Effingham, Sabeth, Silver Lake, Tonganoxie.
Keep Your Money, It's On The House
Highland Park and Seaman Rural at Topeka, Garnett, Wellsville, Council Grove, Oxage City, Rosedale at Kansas City, Osawatomy, Valley Falls, Winchester, Jewell, LaCygne, Wakeeney, Stafford, Cofeeville Sr. high and junior college, Russell, Burlington, Hillsboro, Humboldt, Peabody, Quenemo, Washington at Bethel, Liberty, Mo., and Independence, Mo.
Students do not have to pay for the Daily Kansan every day.
the Darryl The Kansan received a letter today suggesting that this announcement be made. Enclosed in the letter was a nickel found in one of the pickup boxes on the campus. Someone had evidently deposited the pickel when he picked up a paper.
nicker. Each student's subscription to the Kettering is included in his payment of incidental fees. However, the reporter enjoyed his coffee this morning and thanks the person who dropped the nickel in the box.
U.S. Scientists Develop "Super-Giant" H-Bomb
Washington - (U.P.)—The United States has developed a "super-giant" H-bomb with the explosive punch of nearly 45 million tons of TNT and the "probable" capacity to knock out a nation, a new book on the weapon said today.
"It itens doubtful that any people actually could survive the shock of say 1,000 'obsolete' 500-kiloton bombs," Mr. Shepley and Mr. Blair
The authors, James R. Shepley and Clay Blair Jr., of Time magazine, reported that the estimated power of the bomb is so awesome that officials decided not to risk setting it off during the Entwetok tests this spring.
When the first bomb fired during the tests released more than twice the destructive power that the scientists had anticipated, Mr. Shepley and Blair said the estimated strength of the "super-giant" was scaled sharply upward, "near the practicable limit of thermonuclear weapons, 54 megatons, 2,400 times the force of Hiroshima."
The government has never said publicly how much power it thinks the big bomb packs. But informed sources revealed last May that it way officially rated at between 40 million and 45 million tons.
wrote. It seems more than probable that no people could survive if one substitutes in the equation the potential 45 megatons of the thermonuclear bomb.
The book, "The Hydrogen Bomb" will not be published until Sept. 30. But a copyrighted, condensed version printed in the U.S. News & World Report—was made public last night.
In their account of the H-bomb's development, the two authors asserted that Russia went out ahead of the United States in 1953 largely because of a political struggle among some of America's leading atomic scientists and administrators.
They laid most of the blame for the delay at the door of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, famed father of the atomic bomb who was recently dropped as an Atomic Energy Commission consultant after being ruled a security risk.
They said he was "tragically and frightfully" wrong in his advice about the feasibility of the H-bomb. He and his supporters, they wrote, "almost destroyed" the balance of power between the United States and Russia, although they later supported the H-bomb program when the weapon's practicality had been proven.