Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, May 4, 1954
51st Year, No. 138
Committee Members Balk at McCarthy Talk
Washington—(U.P.)—Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) offered today to take the witness chair immediately in the investigation of his row with the Army.
Democratic members of the investigating subcommittee balked,
however, and efforts to speed up the hearings collapsed for the time
being.
A army command to stop the question of Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens was broached by Republican members of the subcommittee. They have been under administration pressure to cut short the televised spectacle, now in its ninth day.
As the subcommittee wrangled publicly about who was responsible for the delay—a haggle which delayed testimony for more than an hour—these high points were developed:
This proposal called for reducing the number of principals to the two "big names"—Stevens and McCarthy—was made by Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-III.) last night.
1. Army Special Counsel Joseph N. Welch reiterated his belief that if Sen. McCarthy were called after Sec. Stevens, the hearings could be ended with testimony by two more witnesses "at most."
Mr. Welch identified these as Francis P. Carr, staff director of McCarthy's investigating subcommittee, and Roy M. Cohn, the subcommittee chief counsel.
"It appears Mr. Welch has welshed on an agreement he has made," McCarthy said. "Apparently the people who instigated these hearings are now trying to prolong them."
2. Sen. McCarthy blamed the Army for the failure to carry out the orders to heartworms.
3. Sen. Mundt said McCarthy had agreed to take the witness chair immediately after Mr. Stevens but that the three Democratic members of the subcommittee balked at changing the rules of procedure. These, adopted before the hearings began nine days ago, called for the Army to wind up its case first.
The committee held a closed session at 10 a.m., and then met in public session from 10:47 a.m. to 12:07 p.m. It adjourned early so members could attend the joint session of Congress which was addressed by the Governor-General of Canada.
Only about 20 minutes of the morning session was devoted to testimony by Sec. Stevens—all the rest to wrangling over the ways to speed up the hearings.
Professor Gets Fulbright Grant
A University professor has received notification of his appointment as a Fulbright lecturer to Finland for the 1954-55 school year.
Dr. Arthur W. Davidson, professor of chemistry and assistant dean of the Graduate school, will lecture on physical chemistry at the University of Turku and in the Abo academy.
The U.S. government exchange program provides grants for American teachers to lecture in foreign universities.
Dr. Davidson has been a member of the KU faculty since 1921.
He is an associate editor of The Journal of the American Chemical Society and currently is chairman of the University section of the American Chemical society. He is also counselor for this region of the program of the Army Office of Ordnance Research.
In 1950 Dr. Davidson was appointed assistant dean of the Graduate school. In this capacity he is KU representative in the negotiation of research contracts with government agencies and foundations.
Lois Balding to Get AWS Scholarship
Miss Lois Balding, fine arts sophomore, will receive the Associated Women Students' Memorial Scholarship pfor 1954-55. The scholarship is awarded annually in memory of women students whose lives have been cut short by death.
Miss Balding, daughter of Mrs. Martha Balding of Reading, Kans., is a resident of Miller-hall. A music education major, Miss Balding is active in Sigma Alpha Iota, honorary music fraternity, and Wesley Foundation.
Look Out! Democrats Are Assembling Again
Washington (U.P.)——Democratic party leaders from all over are assembling here for a "Happy-Days-Are-Here-Again" rally to launch the 1954 general election campaign.
The two-day pow-wow begins to tomorrow and ends Thursday night with one of those $100-a-plate dinners which is expected to take place on Thursday of the chicken and peas, pistachio, and coffee actually consumed.
That sum would dispose of the current $100,000 deficit but for the fact that the party will pour it into the campaign to elect a Democratic congress next November.
The assembling party leaders are as happy and confident as Dodger fans on the first day of a World Series. The week of their meeting, chosen by chance, finds the Eisenhower administration and the Republic party in the greatest difficulty at home and abroad since the
The two-day affair is billed as a meeting of the Democratic National committee, but it is more than that. Former President Truman, Adlai E Stevenson, municipal and state officials, senators and representatives are booked for the program or the audience.
The National committee will receive preliminary bids from cities interested in housing the 1956 Democratic national convention. The Democratic Advisory council will have a breakfast meeting Thursday morning.
Mr. Stevenson, Gov. Dennis J. Roberts of Rhode Island, and Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson and House Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn, both of Texas, will speak Thursday night. Mr. Truman is likely to be heard from too.
The principal business of the two-day gathering, other than to raise political funds, will be a bruising discussion of all phases of the operations of President Eisenhower and his Congressional Republicans.
ALVIN S. McCOY
Alvin McCoy Winner of Pulitzer Prize
Alvin S. McCoy, '25, yesterday was awarded the Pulitzer prize for local reporting for his Kansas City Star articles which led to the resignation of former Republican National Chairman C. Wesley Roberts.
Mr. McCoy, Kansas correspondent of the Star, was graduated from the College at KU and has worked for the Star since that time. His work has included war correspondent duties in the Pacific theater.
The journalist was president of the William Allen White foundation for two years. He was replaced this winter by Clyde Reed of the Parsons Sun.
The only two-time winner in the list announced by Columbia university was Herbert L. Block, cartoonist for the Washington Post and Times-Herald. His cartoon "Herman's Hallowing" delicately told the two had always been "great friends" won him his second award. He last won the prize in 1942.
Charles A. Lindbergh, the famous "lone wolf" of early aviation, was awarded the Pulitzer prize for biography. Lindbergh's third book, "The Spirit of St. Louis," brought the $1,000 biographical award.
"The Teahouse of the August Moon" by playwright John Patrick won the 1954 drama prize. Patrick's prize-winning comedy concerns the struggles of Capt. Fisby, a young American army officer, with the red tape and rehabilitation plans sent along by higher-ups. David Wayne stars in the Broadway hit.
Mrs. Walter M. Schau, San Anselmo, Calif., amateur, took this year's Pulitzer award for photography with dramatic shots of the rescue of two truck drivers from the cab of a truck which was dangling off a California bridge. It was the first time the photography award, had gone to a woman and only the second time an amateur had beat the professionals entered in the field.
Weather
It will be partly cloudy and warmer this afternoon, tonight and
Wednesday. T he
high this afternoon
will be 55-60
in the northeast-
ern part of the
state to the 60s in
t he southwest.
Lows tonight in
the 40s. T he
highs Wednesday.
70 in the northeast to the 70s-in the southwest.
Runoff Election Set Tomorrow
Pending action by the Student court and POGO party the All Student Council runoff election will be held tomorrow as planned.
Dick Meyers, college sophomore, POOG that all POGO senate and house candidates, a still will be on the ballots, have been withdrawn
Art Museum Has 3 New Exhibits
A medieval Italian altarpiece, a Flemish wood sculpture, and an early American painting of the "Lady of the Lake," are three recent acquisitions to the Museum of Art.
Given by Mrs. Caroline S. Walker in memory of her mother, Mrs. Edwin W. Shields of Kansas City, the italian panel represents the Madonna and Child and Saints. It is by Lippo Dalmasio of Bologna and is the oldest painting in the museum.
The second work of art is a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Simon Hurwitz of Lawrence. Featured as the masterpiece of the month for May, the wood sculpture was once part of a large altarpiece, probably made in Brussels, Edward Maser, museum director, said.
"It represents St. George baptizing the pagan king whose daughters he had saved from the dragon," he said.
A pictorial representation of Sir Walter Scott's poem, "The Lady of the Lake" is the third new showing.
Sides in the elections dispute had until noon today to file briefs to the Student court, which will meet at 5 p.m. today to decide whether the court has jurisdiction to declare the April 20 election invalid.
If it reaches a decision on the matter, the court would have to meet again tonight to declare the election invalid.
Fred Rice, college sophomore, and Nathan Harris, college junior, withdrew their names from the POGO party slate as candidates for the presidential and vice presidential seats respectively. Rice gave his health as his reason for throwing in the towel, and Harris asserted that there was too much expense involved in campaigning.
The POGO party has been given until 9 p.m. today to submit new candidates for only the presidential and vice presidential seats. Ballots are scheduled to be printed at 10 p.m. But Meyer's announcement leaves the action in doubt.
"To obtain candidates who would be as good as Rice and Harris would be impossible at this late date," Meyers said. "To submit second-rate candidates would be more of a detriment to us than an advant- ture. Therefore rates have withdrawal all our candidates from the election."
Polls will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow at nine voting places selected by the ASC.
West Wants South Korea To Agree on Election Plan
Geneva—(U.P.) The U.S. and 14 other nations which fought communism in Korea today pressed the South Korean government to agree to a compromise plan for elections under United Nations supervision in both halves of divided Korea.
Meanwhile a five-man Communist Viet Minh delegation arrived by air to take part in the Indochina phase of the conference.
Indochina peace talks are expect-
bed to get underway within 48
hours.
The Western bloc was attempting to hammer together an acceptable elections plan for Korea to counter the rejected Communist Formula.
Previously South Korea, strongly backed by the U.S., had argued that free elections already have been held in South Korea and the United States to be done to hold similarly free elections in the Communist North.
The first hint that the West might now consider an all-Korean election formula came last week from Australian Foreign Minister Richard G. Casey.
Britain and France it was learned, backed Mr. Casey's view, and informed sources said the U. S. has indicated it would go along if President Syngman Rhee's South Korean government is agreeable. U.S. Undersecretary of State Walter Bedell Smith met today with South Korean Foreign Minister Pyun Yung-Tai and discussed the compromise election proposal with him.
However, there was little hope that the Communists would accept even such a compromise.
The key feature of any Allied election plan would be United Nations or some other adequate international supervision. The
North Korean and Red Chinese Communists already have made it clear they would reject such "outside interference."
The arrival of the Viet Minh delegates set the stage for an early start to the second half of the conference talks — the efforts to find a way to end the shooting war in Indochina.
The Western Allies yesterday removed obstacles standing in the way of the talks during a meeting with Viet Nam Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dinh.
But unauthorized action taken late yesterday by Red China threatened to delay the opening of the talks.
The Red Chinese announced at a press conference that Mr. Chou had joined Mr. Molotov in inviting the rebel Indochino to the peace negotiations. Mr. Molotov previously had agreed the rebels would be invited only in the name of the Soviet Union.
British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had insisted on excluding Red China as a signatory in order to prevent the Peiping regime from emerging as an equal power at the conference.
The U.S. delegation, headed by Undersecretary of State Walter Bedell Smith, declined immediate comment on the announcement, but it consistently has opposed putting Red China on the same level with the Big Four.