Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No. 137
Monday, May 3, 1954
-Kansan photo by Jim Baird
YOU NO LIKE?—Ranen Sinha, foreign student from Calcutta, India, tries an Indian mask on Elaine Arnold of Kansas City while Raden Ismaoen, of Indonesia, tries an American cigarette in a solid ivory cigaret holder, in front of the Indian display booth at the Foreign Students' carnival Saturday night.
Foreign Student Show Includes 19 Displays
Bv SIF ELGHAMMAR
Approximately 1,200 persons attended the Foreign Student festival, including a display and international entertainment in the Student Union ballroom Saturday.
Promotion of understanding and lowering of barriers between nations was the purpose of the festival. Through cooperation with Lawrence firms, friends, and embassies here in the U.S., foreign students presented a picture of their wavs of life.
Nineteen displays, with some countries grouped together, made up the exhibition. They included India, Japan and the Ryukyu Islands; Pakistan, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq; England, Ireland, Canada, and South Africa; Bolivia, Peru, and Chile; Switzerland and Italy; Costa Rica; Austria; China, Malaya and Formosa; the Philippines; Venezuela and Colombia; France; Mexico; Germany; Sweden, Norway and Finland; Indonesia; Saar, Luxembourg, Holland, and Belgium; Brazil and Israel.
A sign listing the distance from Washington, D.C., to the various countries was placed in the middle of the ballroom. Flags of nations were displayed around the stage.
A modest-looking gray piece of rock on Israel's display was considered a highlight of the exhibition. It was a 3,000-year-old stone used as a loom weight for spinning and was found by the historical walls of Jericho in 1908. Here one also could see the Bible in Hebrew, and Lebanon showed a 100-year-old handwritten copy of the Koran.
Delicate handmade figures of ivory representing gods and godesses, 2,000 years old, attracted many persons at the display of India. Iran showed handmade Persian rugs. England showed Scotch kilts and a plate with steak labeled "favorite English dish before rationing." The public was assured that the steak was displayed with the permission of the Student Union cafeteria.
A 16th century enameled casket from Limoges was the top item on France's table, along with the different French perfumes. Handmade wood sculptures from Indonesia picturing dancers, farmers and noblemen of this culture was another exhibit. Sheer pineapple
fiber materials from the Philippines also were dislaved.
The program centered around an international carnival theme with Imitaz Khan, graduate student from Pakistan, as the carnival barker and Genevieve Villie, graduate student from France, as the ticket girl.
Banned Athletes Deemed OK Again
Program chairman was Virginia Moreno of the Philippines.
Five suspended University trackmen today were reinstated after a 10-day disciplinary ban on their track activities.
All five were sent home without having competed in the Drake Relays. Their suspension was ordered by track coach Bill Easton, because they had violated curfew.
The five were William Niered, education sophomore; W i l l i a m Brown, college junior; Donald Sneegus, business junior; Leon Wells, engineering sophomore; and Robert Stinson, college sophomore.
Athletic director "Dutch" Lonborg said the five have complied fully with the recommendations of Coach Easton and a committee of senior trackmen. Mr. Lonborg did not say what the "recommendations" were.
Fair weather came back into the picture today—and just in time. Heavy rains throughout the state
Weather
brought m a n y
Kansas rivers to
tangerious stages.
(See page 7 for
a roundup story on
the weekend rain-
f a l l). The
warmth which is
in the western
end of the state
today should be statewide tomorrow. High today: 45 to 50 in the northeast, 50 to 55 in the extreme southwest. Some chance of a freeze in this area tonight.
Army Considers Dickenson Fate
The 23-year-old Crackers Neck Va., soldier, is accused of having been a collaborator and informer while a prisoner of war in North Korea. He returned to this country after first rejecting and accepting repatriation.
Washington — (U.P.)— An eightman military tribunal began deliberating the fate of Cpl. Edward S. Dickenson today.
The eight members of the court martial began their deliberations after a 45-minute charge from Col. Richard F. Scarborough, an army legal officer who presided over the proceedings. Col. Scarborough told the court it must find Cpl. Dickenson innocent of any of the seven counts for which there is a reasonable doubt of guilt.
1 Day Added To Art Show
Popular demand has made it necessary to hold the Delta Phi Delta art festival over until to morrow evening, Eldon Tefft, instructor in design and supervisor of he show, said today.
The display, held annually in Fowler grove if the weather permits, lost hands-down to heavy week-end rains, and was set up in a large kitchen where what was supposed to have been a two-day stapd ending tonight.
A large field of entries are grouped in five divisions: oil, water color, sculpture, drawing, and miscellaneous.
Winners, in their respective divisions are oils, Sam Van Meter, fine arts sophomore, "Still Life with Green Cloth;" watercolors, Barbara Beers, fine arts junior, "Afternoon Phenomena;" drawing, Norma Glass, fine art artist, "Drawing of Head"; sculpture, Sally Schroeder, fine arts junior, "Trimidianian;" and miscellaneous, Dean Glasco, engineering senior, "Gaiete."
McCune Gets Ashton Award
George McCune, college junior,
has been named to receive the $70
Charles H. Ashton memorial scholar-
ship for the 1954-55 school year.
The scholarship memorializes the
late Prof. Ashton who was for
many years chairman of the depa-
tment of mathematics.
Court Backpedals On Elections Ban
No decision was made by the Student court in the Friday night hearing on the appeal of the All Student Council elections committee's disputed ballot decision, but the court did dissolve the injunction forbidding the ASC to make plans for a new election.
In a closed session Friday afternoon, the court decided to lift the injunction. This absolves the committee members from showing cause why they shouldn't be held in contempt of court for following ASC instructions to proceed with plans for a new election set for this Wednesday.
Next Tuesday the court will consider briefs presented by both sides, the committee and Gary Davis. Davis is appealing the committee's decision to throw out all results of the April 20 election. The briefs will consist of the two parties' views on the student court's jurisdiction in the case.
At the hearing Friday night, four and one half hours were consumed in arguing the question of the court's jurisdiction. The committee protested the court had no power to invalidate an election, and could not review the process by which an election is declared void by the committee.
Kent Shearer, third year law and chief justice of the court, asked the counsel for the elections committee whether or not the resolution passed in the ASC, which backed up the decision of the committee to throw out the results of the election, was opinion or more than that.
The ASC counsel answered that resolutions of this type have been used in the past by the ASC, and that the court has no jurisdiction to deal with the election of representatives.
Next Tuesday's session will be to find out whether or not this second statement is true.
The new election will probably be held May 5.
The counsel for Gary Davis argued that Chancellor Murphy is still responsible for actions of the ASC, and the student court has been set up by him as a "watchdog." The counsel for Davis said the court must have the power to utilize this delegated authority to administer over he ASC.
Senior Fees Now Payable
The senior dues cards have arrived at the Business office, so it is possible for seniors to pay their class dues. Each senior must have a receipt for his $3.00 dues. The $12 diploma fee may also be paid at the Business office.
Helicopter Official to Speak
Mr. Charles Seibel of the Cessna Helicopter division will address the Aeronautical Seminar class Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the Aero building. Mr. Seibel is an authority in the field of helicopter design, and holds several patents on his rotor inventions. The public is invited.
Stevens Denies 'Covering Up'
"I want to make it clear that I'm not covering up for anybody at any-time," he told Senate investigators.
Washington —(U.P)—Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens denied today that he would "cover up" for anybody who might mishandle cases of subversion in the Army.
Mr. Steven's flareup came during the eighth day of the Senate investigations subcommittee's inquiry into the Army-McCarthy charges and counter-charges.
The Army secretary's protest was directed at Sen. McCarthy who, he said, had repeatedly charged the Army with "covering up."
The Wisconsin Republican also has accused Mr. Stevens with trying to impede investigations of subversives in the Army.
One phase of Sen. McCarthy's questioning of Mr. Stevens involved the honorable discharge of Maj. Irving Peress, an Army dentist described as a "Fifth Amendment Communist" by the Wisconsin senator.
It was interrupted frequently by legalistic wrangles in which sub-committee counsel Ray H. Jenkins insisted that the present investigation could not pass on the merits of the Peress case.
The eighth day of testimony produced these other highlights;
1. Mr. Stevens asserted he cannot recall ever notified Sen. McCarray that he was awaiting only the Senator's approval before removing Maj. Gen. Kirkle B. Lawton as commander of Fort Mouthmouth, N.J.
2. The secretary said he has no information to back up some new dispatches which stated that Mr. Schine enjoyed filet mignon and champagne at the Sork club in London, where he was been "peeling potatoes" at Fort Dix, NJ, during basic training last November.
3. Mr. Stevens insisted he could not recall having asked that Sen. McCarthy's Fort Monmouth investigation—of alleged Communist espionage at the New Jersey radar laboratories—be stopped. He has testified before that he did want Sen. McCarthy to suspend his investigation so the Army could make its own inquiry.
Mr. Stevens said he first heard of the Peres case in a memo given him at a fuel stop in California when he was returning from the Far East early in February.
—Kansan photo by Jim Baird
VOT ISS?—Walter Steffan, college freshman, takes a close look-see at a piece of sculpture in the Delta Phi Delta art exhibit in the Union lounge. "Keeper of the Owls," by Bruce Bigelow, fine arts senior, won third in its division.