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Train Robber Makes Getaway Good, Cops Say
Centralia, Mo.-(U.R.)-Officers today said they believed a bandit who obtained $200.000 in gems in a startling holdup aboard a Wabash railroad train had escaped from the area, as clues failed to uncover his trail today.
Mr. Gray, who was reported in good condition at Mexico, Mo., hospital after he was shot in the right foot, said the man suddenly confronted him with a gun. Mr. Gray said he thought the weapon was a "toy pistol."
Only a meager description of the man who held up and wounded John Gray, 55, New York diamond importer and salesman, as he sat in the train, was available.
Then the bandit seized Mr. Gray's brief case and fled, as the train halted at the station here.
A dining car steward said the robber wore a checkered topcoat and was of medium build.
Mr. Gray said the imposter fired one shot and missed. Mr. Gray began hitting him with a magazine and the man fired again, wounding him.
After the bandit alighted from the train, a Centralia resident. Walter Wilkerson, saw him enter a late model car in which a woman driver waited.
Mr. Gray, and presumably the bandit, boarded the train at Kansas City, Mo.
Mr. Gray said the diamonds were contained in four wallets and an envelope in the brief case, along with about $4,000 in cash.
Joe E. Ellsworth, FBI agent at Kansas City, said the "factions uncovered so far" did not give the Federal Bureau of Investigation jurisdiction.
BethCompilesNew Journalism List
The first national directory of college teachers of journalism published since 1947 has just been completed by Prof. Elmer F. Beth of the William Allen White School of Journalism.
The directory was distributed as a supplement to the winter 1954 issue of Journalism Quarterly, official publication of the Association for Education in Journalism, of which Professor Beth has been secretary-treasurer since 1947.
The directory gives data about 954 journalism staff members in American four-year colleges and universities, including 645 members of A. E. J. The gathering, editing, and publishing of the data took five months of work.
Leadership Day Set for Saturday
Approximately 100 outstanding high school senior girls will attend the annual AWS High School Leadership dav Saturday, March 27.
The girls will hear a speech by George B. Smith, Dean of the University, and a Mortar Board panel discussion.
Dean of Women, Miss Martha Peterson, will speak at a luncheon in the Union ballroom followed by a panel discussion on "Try the Transition from High School to College."
The girls, housed in North College and Corbin halls, will be guests of AWS at the Rock Chalk review.
Jean* Letterer, college senior, is chairman of the planning committee. Other members are: Joan Rosenwald, Eleanor Hawkinson, LaRue Sibley, Nancy Darnell, Shirley Martin, and Jeri Lynn Sanders, college freshmen; Frances Hanna, college junior; Judith Cgrane, education junior; Sally Yoder, college sophomore; Sheila Haller, college sophomore; Ina May Brewster, college sophomore; Kathleen Knauss, college junior; Edith Jechims, college sophomore, and Martha Nienstedt, business junior.
Bounties for the scalp of bobcats were offered as early as 1727 in Massachusetts. The reward was 30 shillings for each adult.
Students Worked Together To Pay for Student Union
Monday. March 22.1954 University Daily Kansan
The University's Student Union is truly a "student" union, as shown by the history of the building.
By NANCY NEVILLE
William J. Baumgartner, professor emeritus of zoology and a member of the original union committee, recalled in an article in the January Alumni Magazine the various activities of faculty members, Lawrence people, alumni, and especially the students who believed in the idea of a student union from the beginning.
After World War I various groups on the "Hill" advocated a war memorial for the University. A stadium, union, chimes, and residence halls were all suggested. The YMCA board apparently was the first organized group entering into the discussion. They felt a union building could do much for a university community, besides furnishing a center for YMCA activities. Meanwhile, plans for a stadium were progressing.
A visit to the University of Michigan student union by Prof. Baumgartner and the YMCA board encouraged the union idea. Plans to have KU's union include a cafeteria, dance hall, lounge rooms, conference rooms, and a recreation floor were being visualized.
Realizing that the two campaigns among students and alumni, one for a union and the other for a stadium, would probably not succeed and would tend to neutralize each other. Prof. Baumgatrner proposed a joint campaign of a million dollars to be equally divided between the two structures.
The students passed a motion that the chancellor should appoint a committee representing faculty, students, and Lawrence people to manage the campaign.
One student suggested that a goal of $160,000 for student contributions be set. With an average of $40 per student the goal could be reached, since there were four thousand enrolled.
Through the help of Kansas City alumni, the plans were fairly well set by the fall of 1920. The student committee set a plan to solicit every student on the campus, followed by solicitation of the Lawrence people.
Prof. Baumgartner pointed out in his recollections it was the students themselves who believed in the idea of both the stadium and union, despite the skepticism of the faculty members.
The traditional rivalry of the lawyers and engineers was part of the campaign. Runners back and forth between the two schools announced the average contributions that had been secured.
Now, Watch the Birdie
Denver—(U.P.)—The Denver Police department's identification bureau drew "double duty" yesterday. The ID crew snapped pictures of 150 detectives and uniformed policemen before they discovered their camera was out of order.
Students to Investigate Washington,PointsEast
With a motto of "Let's Investigate Washington," nine students will attend a Wahsington and United Nations seminar during spring vacation.
The seminar is sponsored by the American Baptist Student movement, and includes a three day session in Washington, D.C., and a two day session in New York. N.Y.
While in Washington, the group will hear talks by representatives of both major political parties and Washington correspondents. Tours of the major governmental departments and evaluation sessions will complete the program.
In New York the study group will be briefed by members of the UN secretariat and then will visit sessions and departments of the world organization. On the final evening of the tour they will attend a Broadway play.
Those going from KU are Roland Anderson, graduate student; Donald Montgomery, college senior; Lawrence Shroust, Mountain Samtyton; Roger Brown, Orville Matney, college freshmen; Mildy Dixon, college freshman; Ina May Brewster, college sophomore; Donald Fine, engineering junior; Vaughn Moore, college sophomore, and the Rev, Ernst Kline, pastor of the Lawrence First Baptist church.
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Queen Entries Due In Relays Contest
A queen candidate to represent the University in the Kansas Relays contest will be selected Tuesday, Harlan Parkinson, business junior, said today.
Any University woman student may enter the contest by submitting a glossy print picture of herself at the Student Union Activities office before noon Tuesday.
Candidates will be scheduled for an appointment so they may be interviewed by the three local judges, on beauty and personality. Final queen selection from candidates of the 23 Kansas colleges and junior colleges competing will be made March 31.
She Got up and Walked Away
Levittown, N.Y. (U.P.)-Police today were confronted with a new twist in the old hit-and-run situation. They are looking for a little girl who ran away after she was hit by an automobile driven by Mrs. John Warren of Levittown.