Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
Friday, Feb. 5, 1954
51st Year, No. 81
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
—Kansan photo by Wilson Ayars
ANCHORS AWEIGH—By the grace of the President and Congress and through the person of Commander R. E. Farkas, USN, executive officer of the KU Naval ROTC unit, six insignes were this day commissioned in the U.S. Navy. Receiving congratulations from the Commander are (from port to starboard) Richard Verbrugge Jr., William J. Funkhouser, Marvin Mog, Laurence Helmstetter, Willard Schmidt and George Schulte.
BoydCompton to Speak On Indonesian Affairs
Boyd R. Compton, a member of the American Universities Field staff, will give a series of lectures on Indonesian life and the development of political institutions at the University from Feb. 15-24.
Mr. Compton went to Indonesia
Mr. Compton went to Indonesia in 1952 under the Institute of Current Affairs. He studied the language and various political and economic problems for seven months at the University of Indonesia. During 1953, he lived in Sumatra for six months, studying the Moslem community around Medan, a key economic center.
He traveled throughout Sumatra in a jeep, visiting the Moslem people of Atjeb just before the Atjehnese rebellion. The rest of his stay in Indonesia was spent in Java.
As an infantry officer in World War II, Mr. Compton made his first trip to the Far East. He had duty in the area of Tientsin, China, during early stages of the Communist rebellion. There he became interested in the current history of the Far East.
After his return to civilian life in 1947, Mr. Compton concentrated on Asian history and affairs. A native of Los Angeles, he attended Princeton university before his war service and in 1948 he graduated from the Princeton School of Public Affairs.
He received a master's degree in Far Eastern studies from the University of Washington in 1951. Mr. Compton translated a collection of Chinese Communist documents published under the title "Mao's China."
Mr. Compton is taking part in the AUFS program in member universities and colleges during 1953 and 1954. He intends to return to Indonesia to study regionalism in North Sumatra and broaden his knowledge in other aspects of Indonesian life.
Weather
Above-normal temperatures will persist in Kansas not only through
temperatures will
not only through
the weekend but
until Wednesday,
the state weather
bureau said today.
The five - d - a y
forecast anticipates little deviation from the present mild, dry
condition. It will be generally fair this afternoon, tonight and Saturday, and colder in the extreme east Saturday. The low tonight will be near 30. The high Saturday will be 45-50 in the extreme east to the 60s west.
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Alec Guinness Show In Hoch Tonight
"Kind Hearts and Coronets" will be shown at 7:30 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium. Alec Guinness is the star of the J. Arthur Rank production.
In this celebrated comedy, the actor portrays Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini. Swearing vengeance on his royal family, he accidentally murders eight contenders for the dukedom, while seeking that title himself.
Other British actors in the film include Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, and Joan Greenwood.
DebatersLeave For Tourney
Nearly 30 schools are entered in the tournament which is divided into an upper division for seniors and juniors and a junior division for underclassmen. John Eland and Gary Sick, college freshmen, will represent the University in the junior division.
Larry Tretbar and Dick Smith, college juniors, will represent the University in the upper division of a debate tournament today and tomorrow at Kansas State college, Pittsburg.
The KU debaters were idle during final exams, but some practice debates have been held recently to prepare for the tourney. During the first semester University debaters, under the leadership of Dr. Kim Giffin, associate professor of speech, had a record of 95 won and 12 lost.
After four of five preliminary rounds the tourney moves into quarterfinals, semifinals and finals in each division.
susiness School Sets Dance
A dance sponsored by the Business School association will be held from 8:30 p.m. to 12 midnight tonight in the Union ballroom. Chaperones will be Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Heysinger, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Jones, and Mr. and Mrs. Don V. Plantz.
Dyche Obtains Hippo's Bones
Cleo, a 4,200-pound female hip-popotamus from the Kansas City zoo, died Monday. KU officials were quick to act and were able to obtain her bones and organs for Dyche museum.
Cleo's hide, of no great use to science, is being kept by the Kansas City museum. It will be stuffed as a memorial to Cleo, who died at the middle-age of 28.
The University did not have a hippopotamus and needed one as a subject for research and teaching. Cleo's bones may reveal some missing links in Kansas' animal history. Fossil bones of the rhinoceros have been found in Kansas. Some have hippo tendencies.
KU Law Student Wins Bronze Star
First Lt. William S. Swearer, first year law, received the Bronze Star Friday morning and six other students were commissioned ensigns in ceremonies at the Military Science building.
Pope Pius XII Grows Weaker
Vatican City — (U.P.) The general condition of Pope Pius XII has weakened, the first official medical bulletin by his physician said today.
Dr. Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi said the 77-year-old Pontiff was suffering from the "symptoms of gastritis" and had a slight fever. He said the Pope's condition was weakened because he has difficulty in taking nourishment.
However, the doctor added that the Pope's heart is in good condition and the hiccups which accompanied the stomach trouble vanished three days ago.
The medical analysis was published in the Vatican City newspaper Observatore Romano because of world-wide concern over the state of the Pope's health, Vatican sources said.
The doctor's report said:
"From the 25th of January, the Holy Father has had, together with a slight fever, symptoms of gastritis, preceded by insistent hiccups.
"An objective clinical examination has excluded any other possible reaction of eritoneum, and laboratory examinations have given normal results, excluding the possibility of excessive nitrogen in the blood and damage to the heart.
"It is hoped that soon special radiological examinations may be repeated to ascertain the condition of the gastric part, and of the other nearby organs, which so far have produced normal results.
"The general work, has suffered a further depression due to the tiring gastric disturbance and difficult nourishment."
Andersen's Fairy Tales OK- But Not in First Editions
Springfield, Ill.—(U.P.)—State officials who stamped Hans Christian Andersen "for adults only" weren't trying to protect the kiddies from the immortal Danish story-teller, they said today.
"The 'flags' we put in books are to help inexperienced librarians follow standard practice." he said.
They were protecting Andersen from the children.
He said books like "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"—Jules Verne's science fiction thriller of the last century—would now have to be stamped "Y" also, meaning they could be checked out to children over 13.
He said all books marked "Y," in the standard catalog of fiction, a library science reference, which means they are meant for readers over 13 years old, and all books not in the catalogue were stamped.
But there was an explanation. In fact, several of them. Secretary of State Charles Carpentier, who is also state librarian, said in Chicago he was "following standard practice" and professional librarians would laid him.
A spokesman for the state library said a 100-year-old volume of Andersen's classic fairy tales was stamped to save it from the grimy fingers of grade school youngsters.
That didn't explain why the state library also gave the red ink treatment to "Pilgrim's Progress," "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," "Alexander Botts the Tractor Salesman" and many other books, many of them classics like Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
But Joseph H. Belair, a Carpenter aide in Springfield, had a different explanation.
He said the library staff decided to put the stamp on all books in the adult section of the state library and then go back later and remove it from certain books which were okay for children.
He also said the adults only stamp was only intended for truly adult literature and some "Y" books were stamped through error. He said in such cases "the stamp will be taken out."
How did the library workers overlook the "Y" marking and stamp the books for adults?
"That's what I don't understand either." said Belair.
Mrs. Helene Rogers, assistant librarian who actually runs the department for Carpenter, said it was all a "misunderstanding."
Spokesmen said there actually were 10 volumes of Andersen in the children's shelves of the library, which serves community libraries throughout the state, and the children could read those.
The Bronze Star was awarded Swearer for heroic achievement in military operations against the enemy during action near Kumhwa, Korea, in July 1853. Lt. Swearer was battalion intelligence officer during an attack by the enemy. The citation said his heroes made possible the safe withdrawal of the forward elements of the battalion.
The six ensigns sworn in by Commander R. E. Farkas are William J. Funkhouser, engineering senior; Laurence T. Helmstetter, college senior; Marvin W. Mog, business senior; Willard M. Schmidt, engineering senior; George S. Schulte, college senior; and Richard J. Verbrugge jr., engineering senior.
They received their commissions in completion of Naval Reserve requirements. Becoming automatically eligible for action duty, the six seniors have been given new assignments in various Naval Reserve activities.
Funkhouser will go on active duty with the USS O'Brien, Helmstetter with the USS Porterfield, and Schulte with the US Edidorado. Verbruggue will be stationed with the USS Bradford, and Meg and Schmidt will be sent to Athens, Ga.
Swearer's citation said that "Prevented from reaching the observation post positions by heavy enemy artillery, mortar, and small arms fire. Lt. Swearer continued to remain in the zone of action gathering information from forward elements of the infantry and relaying information of the enemy and the friendly situation to higher headquarters while under constant enemy fire.
"Handicapped by heavy traffic of troops displacing to the rear and by darkness, Lt. Sweater made numerous trips forward to secure information from supported infantry elements."
Berlin — (U.P.)— Western Big Three ministers agreed today to outright rejection of a Soviet "peace" and election plan that would transform Germany into a satellite of the Soviet empire.
West Ministers Reject Red Plan
The three western foreign ministers held a noon meeting at the British High Commissioner's residence to prepare their reply to Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov's German proposals.
They agreed that;
1. The five-point plan put forward by Mr. Molotov yesterday is unacceptable in every way and must be rejected outright.
2. The East-West deadlock on Germany is so complete that there no longer is any hope of reaching agreement in the present conference on German unity or a peace treaty.
3. The West will refuse any face-saving device such as turning over the Molotov plan to experts for further discussion, if the Russians should make such a proposal.
Mr. Molotov's impossible demands and the West's refusal to consider them meant that the Big Four conference was all but dead.
A high conference source said the time had come for finding a graceful way to tell Mr. Molotov that further debate on German unification was useless at this time.