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University Daily Kansan Monday. March 29, 1956
Professional Police Needed, Congress Says
Washington—(U.P.)—Congress has decided after calm reflection that it needs a professional capitol police force, rather than bulletproof glass or electric eyes, to thwart any future assassins.
Four weeks ago today fanatism Puerto Rican Nationalists wounded five representatives in a wild burst of violence to museum owners' gallery in the House chamber.
Rep. Alvin M. Bentley (R-Mich.) most seriously wounded of the five was released from the hospital only yesterday.
A deluge of suggestions on how to prevent a recurrence followed the shooting. They ranged from searching visitors electronically to calling out the Marines.
For a while, suggestions for caging spectators behind bullet proof glass appeared most popular. Some even said the glass should be topped by wooden partitions reaching to the ceiling to prevent assassins from lobbing grenades from the galleries to the House floor below.
All these ideas have been discarded now in favor of a new, trained capitol police force to replace the 157 patronage police. Congressmen, always sensitive to public reaction, decided the average citizen wouldn't be pleased by more obvious security methods and might even be a little suspicious of lawmakers who do their talking under glass.
Capt. William J. Broderick, head of the capitol police, long had urged that the force be changed from one subject to political appointment to a career organization. He admits that even a trained policeman can't guarantee there won't be future attempts on the Congressmen. But he claims a professional policeman is more likely to spot a trouble maker. Many of the present force have had no police training of any kind.
Mr. Broderick favored the glass partition as an extra precaution. But Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr, (R-Mass.) said that idea has been discarded.
Instead legislation is being prepared to set up training, qualifications, and career provisions for the capitol police. The trained men would be taken on gradually as present members leave.
Meanwhile, the existing force is on the alert. Tighter gallery pass regulations are in effect. And a separate telephone system has been installed for the police.
Humanities Talk Set for Tomorrow
Dr. Rhys Carpenter, archaeologist from Bryn Mawr college, will give the fourth Humanities lecture at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Fraser theater. He will present talks today and tomorrow.
The schedule for today: 4 p.m., a talk on the "Odyssey" to combined sections of English 2 and 4, Fraser theater. At 7:30 p.m., a talk on "Adventures in Digging" at a coffee-smoker in the Jayhawk room of the Student Union, women invited.
Tomorrow: 3 p.m., a talk on climatic cycles and their effect upon culture; class in regional Climatology, 403 Lindley. At 8 p.m., the Humanities picture, "Spain Discovers Her Past," in Fraser theater.
Hospital Discharges Victim of Terrorists
Washington—(U.P.)-Rep. Alvin M Bentley (R.-Mich.), most seriously wounded of five congressmen shot by Puerto Rican terrorists March 1, has been discharged from the hospital.
Attaches said Rep. Bentley, 35, was considered far enough along the road to recovery to return home. They said he probably will be able to return to at least part-time work in the House of Representatives in about a month.
Wisconsin Group Has Recall Goal: 'Joe Must Go'
Sauk City, Wis—(U.P.)A citizen group, led by a country editor, moved today to organize a "Joe Must Go" club to direct a fight to have Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) recalled.
Editor Leroy Gore, who drew overflow crowds of from 400 to 500 persons to a mass meeting here yesterday, said the club would be registered with the secretary of state's office at Madison today.
A 20-man steering committee, selected at yesterday's meeting, will take over direction of the McCarthy recall campaign Gore began 11 days ago. He has already distributed about 20,000 recall petitions.
Every seat in a ballroom in this little town was taken, and some spectators were standing, when Mr. Gore took the speaker's stand yesterday.
The hall was decorated with "Joe Must Go" signs.
Mr. Core, editor of the Sauk-Prairie Star, acknowledged the great legal and practical difficulties in forcing McCarthy to stand for recall reflection. But he urged Wisconsin voters to back the campaign and "show the world" they want to get rid of the junior Republican senator.
"We have little fear of failure," he said. "We have failed many times, but we have never regretted failure when our cause has been just.
"While we are aware of the constitutional and legal problems involved, we are not ready to concede that all the hurdles cannot be jumped."
"In any event, it is obvious that if 403,000 (the necessary number for recall) electors sign petitions for the recall of our junior senator, the McCarthy myth of invincibility would be thoroughly shattered."
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Several McCarthy supporters showed up in the crowd yesterday. One rose to ask: "Why are more people in Wisconsin today fighting Joe than are fighting the Commies."
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The club's steering committee included six weekly newspaper editors and a number of Republicans. The club will work to distribute petitions and collect money for $12,000 worth of paid advertisements in every Wisconsin daily.
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Memberships in the "Joe Must Go" club were sold for $1 apiece. The membership button bore a drawing of McCarthy driving through Texas in a Cadillac donated by Texas millionaires.
The advertisements will be in the form of "family petitions," with space for about six signatures.
Lawrence Banker Mum on Candidacv
George Docking of the First National Bank has said that he will announce in "the next three or four days" whether he plans to seek the Democratic nomination for governor.
Mr. Docking made this statement yesterday when he and other state Democratic leaders addressed a meeting of officers of the Democratic Second Congressional District committee.
ISA Ward Members Set Meeting, Election
A special meeting of members of the Independent Student association ward system, both men and women, took place today in Room 306 of the Union.
The ward system is composed of 15
members living in private
homes.
Barkley Back in Politics To Fight Sen. Cooper
The special meeting will be followed at 7:30 by a business meeting, at which officers for the coming year will be installed.
The Kansan can be a Daily Letter.
Paducah, Ky. —(U,P)— Abel William Barkley, who has never lost an election to a Republican, was back in the political arena today and Kentucky Democrats were overjoyed.
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Paul Badura-Skoda To Give Concert
After winning several important music prizes at American and European music festivals, Mr. Bodura-Skoda attracted the attention of such noted conductors as Furtwaenger and von Karajan, under whose direction he played in 1949.
Paul Badura-Skoda, internationally known concert pianist, will give a concert at 8:20 p.m. Wednesday in Hoch auditorium.
Mr. Bodura-Skoda's American tour in 1953 extended from the East to the West coast, and finished with an appearance with the New York Philharmonic - Symphony in Carnegie hall.
Library Announces Vacation Schedule
Schedules for the spring vacation have been announced by Watson library. Library hours for the vacation are: Saturday, April 3, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Sunday, April 4, closed; Monday to Saturday, April 5 to 9, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, April 10, 8 a.m. to noon; Sunday, April 11, closed, and Monday, April 12, regular schedule.
Schedules for the departmental libraries will be posted outside their doors.
MSM Elects College Junior
Wanda Sammons, college junior, was elected vice president of the Kansas Methodist Student movement Saturday in Hays. The annual conference was attended by 150 students from colleges throughout the state. Bill Preston, Southwestern college, wase elected president of the group.
Sen. Barkley announced he would seek the senate seat now held by Republican John Sherman Cooper, who is seeking his first full term. Sen. Cooper ran for unexpired terms in two previous races.
In announcing his candidacy Saturday night, Sen. Barkley said that when he left politics a year ago he "had no intention or desire ever to return."
But Kentucky Democratic leaders, realizing they would have to come up with an ace to beat Cooper, convinced the 76-year-old Barkley to run again.
Sen. Cooper disagreed. He said at Lexington that "I am in the race to win" and he quoted some figures to back up his statement.
"I think he is the ideal man for the job, and will render great public service. Sen, Barkley is so high in the esteem of Kentuckians that he will be the unquestioned victor," said Wilson Wyatt of Louisville, who was campaign manager for Adlai Stevenson in 1952.
Top issues of this election campaign were expected to be farm prices, farm drought relief, McCarthyism, tax policies and labor legislation.
In 1948, Sen. Cooper lost the Senate race by some 20,000 votes while Gov. Thomas E. Dewey was taking a 126,000 vote beating from President Truman in Kentucky. In 1952, Sen. Cooper ran 30,000 votes ahead of President Elsenhower.
Sen. Barkley's most serious drawback is his age. The former vice president is 76, but appears full of energy with failing eyesight his only apparent infirmity.
Sen. Barkley however, is rated the champion vote-getter of all time in this pivotal border state. He hasn't lost a race since he sought his first public office in 1905.
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