Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Photo Tiff Arises As Cohn Testifies
Washington—(U.P.)—Roy M. Cohn testified today that he gave Senate investigators a photograph of Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens and Pvt. G. David Schine without telling them a third person had been cut out of the picture.
Mr. Cohn was put on the witness stand out of turn as a roaring controversy boiled up over the "doctored" photograph taken Nov. 17, 1953, at McGuire field near Fort Dix, N.J.
Mr. Cohn, chief counsel of the Senate Permanent Investigating subcommittee, testified the picture was taken at Mr. Stevens' request.
A moment before, Secretary Stevens had charged that the cut down picture showed that "somebody has taken it upon themselves to edit the information" going before the subcommittee.
Mr. Cohn testified that he did not know, when he gave investigators the picture, that a third person had been cut from the picture. He said he later learned the change had been made by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's staff because they believed the third person—an Army colonel—had no connection with the picture.
The photograph first became an issue when special subcommittee Counsel Ray H. Jenkins introduced it yesterday while cross-examining Mr. Stevens.
Army charges that the Schine-Stevens picture had been "doctored" and was a "fake" kicked off the roughest, noisiest uproar of the hearings to date.
Mr. Cohn, Sen. McCarthy, and Francis P. Carr, his staff director, have accused Mr. Stevens and his associates of trying to get the Wisconsin Republican to call off an investigation of alleged espionage at Fort Monmouth, N.J.
Mr. Jenkins asked Mr. Stevens yesterday if he tried to appease Sen. McCarthy by being "especially nice . . and tender" to Pvt. Schine, who was Sen. McCarthy's aide before he was drafted Nov. 3.
Mr. Stevens denied it. Then Mr Jenkins, introducing the picture, asked if he had not asked to be photographed with Pvt. Schine "alone." Mr. Stevens said he could not remember making any such request.
Today's session began with an unproar when special Army Counsel Joseph N. Welch dramatically told the subcommittee that the Schine-Stevens photograph was "doctored" and a "fake." McCarthy accused Welch of "lying."
Mr. Welch presented a larger picture, showing a colonel greeting Mr. Stevens, with Pvt. Schine in the middle.
Historian to Talk At Centennial History Meeting
A public lecture by Allan Nevins, Pulitzer-prize winning historian from Columbia university, will highlight the Kansas Centennial History conference Friday and Saturday.
Dr. Nevins will speak on "Kansas and the Stream of American Destiny," at 8 p.m. Friday in the Union ballroom. At the conference banquet that evening, Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama, will give his famous 'humorous lecture on "How Culture Came to Kansas."
The two-day program is sponsored by the Kansas State Historical Society, the Kansas Library association, the Kansas Association of Teachers of History and Related Fields, and five KU departments.
Fred W. Brinkerhoff of Pittsburgh will be moderator on a Friday afternoon symposium on "Collecting and Using the Materials of Local History." Discussants will be Kenneth Davis, Manhattan; Alan W. Farley, Kansas City, Kans.; Mrs. Garnette L. Street, Emporia, and Dr. James C. Malin of KU.
Three papers on Kansas history will be given Saturday morning, James C. Carey, Kansas State college, will report on "Juniata, Gateway to Mid-Kansas"; the Rev. Peter Beckman, St. Benedicts college, "The Transportation Problem in Early Atchison," and Sister Evangeline Thomas, Marymont College, "Ft. Harker, 1864-72."
George L. Anderson, professor of history, will lead an informal discussion of the place and relation of history in Kansas education and prospects for development of greater interest.
La Tertulia to Meet at 4:30
Comical skits will be presented by two groups of Spanish students at 4:30 p.m. today at a meeting in 107 Strong of La Tertulia, Spanish club. It will be the last meeting of the club this school year.
Indochina Reds Open Attack On Fort Near Dien Bien Phu
Hanoi, Indochina—U.(P.)—Communist troops today opened a new assault on isolated "Isabella" fortress which guards besieged Dien Bien Phu from the south.
The new assault began under cover of heavy artillery fire from guns pulled up to the fringes of the French defense positinos earlier today by Red artillerymen.
Violent isolated storms signaled the approaching monsoon season.
The high command said the fresh pressure was concentrated for the first time this month against the northwestern side of isolated "Isabella," which lies three miles south of the main bastion.
But French planes, including 25 newly arrived Corsair fighters on "loan" from the United States flew through the bad weather to attack rebel rear areas and supply routes.
Incessant fire from the Communist guns threatened the vital airlift to the besieged garrison and made it difficult for the French to launch any immediate counterattacks.
Red attackers pushed within 50
Paul Holden, 32, Greenleaf, Kan. chief pilot of the Civil Air transport airline, suffered severe wounds in the thigh and arm from Red anti-aircraft fire while dropping supplies to the fortress.
The first American casualty of the attack was Dien Bien Phu occurred Saturday.
Tuesday, April 27, 1954
Weather
Rain ranging from a trace $j0$ an unofficial $3\frac{1}{2}$ inches and hailstones from marbles to golf ball size were
listed today by the K an s a s weather bureau. The latest forecast omitted mention of any more rain in the next 24 hours. Instead skies were predicted to remain partly cloudy. Rounding out a week of April showers and rains.
the moisture soaked some sections of eastern Kansas while passing the west by. Kansas temperatures were lower for the time being, with a warm-up due tomorrow, said U.S. Meteorologist Tom Arnold. The maximums Monday ranged from 72 at Goodland to 86 at Wichita. This morning's state lows were spread from 41 at Goodland to 68 at Olathe.
yards of heavy barbed wire entanglements of the French defenses and defenders sallied out to weaken the rebel flank. Sharp fighting was reported.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No.133
Student Seeks Court Aid in Election Battle
-Kansan photo by Wilson Avars
DIAMOND NECKLACE—Richard Collins, second year law student, admires the oral cavity of one of his most recent acquisitions. Collins picked up four diamond-back rattlesnakes on a recent trip to Oklahoma, and plans to lunch on them in the near future.
Snake-Catching Called Rattling Good Pastime
By AMY DE YONG
For those persons who have "more intestinal fortitude than horse sense" the International Association of Rattlesnake Hunters awards membership cards to anyone who catches a live rattlesnake at Waynoka, Oklahoma.
This daring occupation has become a yearly treat for Richard Collins, third year law student, who startled crowds of students yesterday with his four live "rattlers," the largest of which is five and a half feet long. Campus policeman Ted Cox, who was tapping cars in the 30-minute areas, said he jumped into the street when his light tapping aroused the snakes in Collins' car.
Similar reactions occurred among many students who passed the car, but they crowded together to watch with a kind of fascinated horror when they learned that the snakes were housed in boxes with chicken wire across the sides. Collins admitted that he has a "good healthy respect" for the snakes, but he said there is a popular misconception concerning "rattlers."
"The snakes are not so dangerous as people believe," Collins said. "Their unpredictability is the dangerous thing," he continued. "It is difficult to get them to strike, but you never know when they're going to."
Collins has attended the annual snake hunt in Waynoka since 1949. A banquet opens the week-end program, he said, and rattlesnake meat is served to anyone who wishes to
taste it. The hunt is held on Sunday, with a headquarters in the prairie, and several thousand persons attend. The Waynoka Saddle club sponsors the hunt and pays 50 cents a pound for the snakes,
Hunters use a forked stick, a metal snake catcher, or their hands to catch the snakes, the student said. Collins said he caught a three and a half foot snake with his hands Sunday. "If they hear you coming they make every effort to get away," he said. The student said he was holding a smaller snake when he saw the large one going into a hole near him.
"I didn't have the gunny sack we usually keep snakes in," he said, "so I tossed the little snake over the bluff and grabbed the large one by its tail to pull it back out. The snakes are hunted on high, flat bluffs where the gypsum rock caves and cracks make excellent places to hibernate. Collins said the snake he tossed down landed near another party and was quite a surprise to the persons climbing up the bluff.
"The only thing that worries me," Collins said, "is the possibility that a snake might crawl out of the steep bluffs while I'm climbing up." He explained the steep sides require the climber to keep his face very near the bluff.
A law student who was one of those whose recent election to an All Student Council office was declared invalid by the ASC elections committee last week asked the Student court yesterday to declare the committee off-base in its findings, and to declare the election valid.
Gary Davis, second year law, filed a petition with the court. He questions the right of the committee to void an entire election. A member of the Married Students party, Davis said he was elected to the ASC house of representatives after receiving a majority of the valid ballots in the election.
The action in which Davis and all others elected in the polling last Tuesday were declared by the committee not to have been properly elected came after the counting of ballots. The committee decided that the proportion of invalid ballots cast in favor of each of the parties indicated that something irregular had taken place.
In the case of the presidential voting, the election of Fred Rice, college junior backed by POGO, was announced after the first counting of ballots. When the supply of improperly cast ballots was investigated, though, it was found that the AGI candidate. Robert Kennedy, engineering junior, would have won if these ballots had been counted.
The elections committee voted, with some dissension, that none of the ballots for president or vice president should be counted. Later, they also threw out the results of the senate and house of representatives elections.
Davis's petition to the student court yesterday challenged this action of declaring the entire election wordless. His petition states that on April 21, the date of the first committee meeting, the committee came together without having been properly convened, conducted their meeting without the authority of the ASC constitution, and then declared he election void. According to Davis's petition, the committee acted without considering any testimony or evidence.
The court has set Friday night for a preliminary hearing of the case.
Nancy Canary, education senior and president of the Class of '54, said today that this will be the only such meeting of the year, and that seniors who do not attend will have no opportunity to get the Senior Reminder, an information pamphlet with instructions about graduation activities.
All seniors have been excused by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy to attend the senior convocation to be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in Fraser theater.
Seniors Released For Class Meeting
Cheerleading School Now Being Conducted
Anyone desiring to be a cheerleader is invited to attend the Cheerleaders School being held from 4 to 6 p.m. today, Wednesday, and Thursday in the Student Union ballroom, Jack Byrd, head cheerleader, announced today. Tryouts for next year' cheerleaders will be Monday, June 3rd.
Mu Phi to Have Boke Sale
Mu Phi Epsilon, national music sorority, will hive a bake sale from 9 am. to 12 noon Saturday in Hunsinger's garage.