Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No. 67
Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1954
Currency Loss Baffling; Lie Tests to Be Tried
Washington—(U.P)—Secret Service agents said today they will begin giving lie detector tests immediately to employees of the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing in an effort to solve the biggest theft in the history of the heavily-guarded plant where all U.S. paper money is produced.
A night-long search of every nook of the huge engraving building turned up no sign of the 8,000 new $20 bills that disappeared from the bureau's vault sometime over the New Year's week-end.
Hopes that the $160,000 had somehow been "misplaced" faded with the completion of the search, and a Secret Service official said, "There is no longer any doubt in my mind that we are dealing with a carefully-planned theft."
They said it was "abundantly obvious" that the theft was an "inside job" and that employees who had access to the packaging rooms are therefore under suspicion.
Officials said that about 25 employees who work in the packaging rooms where the money disappeared will be asked to take lie detector tests.
The Secret Service broadcast a description of the missing money throughout the nation, and enlisted the support of all banks and other financial institutions. Officials said anyone who tries to circulate the stolen bills may find them "very hot money indeed."
The $20 bills are Federal Reserve
bank notes, drawn on the New York Federal Reserve bank. They bear the numeral "2" and the capital letter "B" in the left hand corner. Their serial numbers run from B90256001A through B9024000A, and from B90252001A through B90256000A.
Senate Leader Looks to Start
Washington—(U.P.)—Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland hopes the upper chamber can buckle down to its legislative work Friday or Monday at the latest.
He also told a news conference late yesterday that he will hold the Senate in around-the-clock sessions if any filibusters stand in the way of vital legislation.
Sen. Knowland indicated he hopes o call up such measures as Hawaiian statehood and the St. Lawrence seaway early so any filibusters can be broken more easily.
He also indicated:
1. The Administration still feels the debt limit should be raised, but Congress is not likely to act on this until it gets the President's budget message Jan. 21.
2. Among measures for early Senate debate may be the Bricker amendment—if some agreement is reached—and a plan to increase cotton acreage allotments. The Senate Agriculture committee will meet tomorrow on the cotton problem.
State Banner Replaces U.S. Flag on Strong Hall Standard
A new item has been added to the campus this year—the state flag of Kansas flying in front of Strong hall in place of the U.S. standard which has flown there since the early days of World War II.
The state banner, raised here for the first time last week, only recently was acquired from state offices at Toneka.
"A question concerning why we had no state flag was raised some time ago," Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, said this morning, "but the simple fact
was that we didn't have one and we
didn't know where we could get one.
"then know what"
"The way we learned from Topeka that we could have one, so now it will be flown daily in front of Strong."
The pole in front of Strong was erected during the war by the Navy so the service men could have daily flag raising and lowering exercises.
Mr. Nichols explained that when the Navy vacated the building the University let the flag pole stay rather than incur the expense of removing it.
—Kansan photo by Wilson Ayars
DOG'S EYE VIEW—The flag of Kansas, waving for only the second week in history at KU, now will fly daily from the flag pole in front of Strong hall. The banner was acquired from Topeka just two weeks ago and will fly from a pole the University did not build.
Panmunjom, —(UP)— Giant searchlights and loudspeakers will be used to guide 22,200 anti-Communist war prisoners to freedom in 48 hours after their release.
An 8th Army plan calls for the prisoners to stream on foot from their neutral zone prison camp along a railroad track that runs south to Munsan, advance headquarters for the United Nations command.
If the prisoners cannot wait until daylight Jan. 23 to march to freedom, they will be guided south by the beams of Army searchlights already mounted on hills along the route.
Huge barbed wire barricades are being erected to guide the prisoners into holding compounds just north of Munsan and about two miles south of the neutral zone.
If all goes well, all North Korean and Chinese POWs will be in Munsan within 48 hours after the operation starts, the Army believes.
The prisoners will remain in these holding compounds only as long as it takes the Marines and American soldiers to ship them out by truck and train.
Enclosures for the more than 14, 000 Chinese are east of the north-south railroad, while the nearly 8,000 North Koreans will be bedded down on the west side.
The Chinese will go to Inchon where waiting ships will carry them to Formosa, the Nationalist stronghold where they want to live. The ROK government will decide the destination of the Korean prisoners.
Kansas Editor Dies at 71
Lyons —(U.P.)— Paul Jones, newspaper editor, author, and historian, died shortly before midnight at a Sterling, Kan., hospital after an illness of several months. He was 71 years old.
For 36 years, he was editor of the Lyons Daily News, from which his paragraphs and editorsials were widely quoted. Since his retirement from active editorship of the paper about six years ago, he had written from his home a miscellaneous column called "Observations."
He underwent surgery last September but later returned to his home. He was taken back to the hospital Dec. 26.
Weather
More cheers for the Kansas
He was a student of Spanish exploration in Mid-America and was the author of the historical book, "Coronado and Quivera," published about 20 years ago. Recently he wrote on Indian life, "Blue Feather." He was chairman of the Coronado Quatro-Centennial commission in 1941 in a statewide observance.
More cheer-
weatherman. He
end in sight to the
st a t e's current
ultra-mild early
day in Kansas
Kansas tempera-
tures yesterday
rose as high as 54
degrees at Wichita
as the central part
of the state enjoyed the warmest readings. Afternoon maximums are expected to reach into the 50s again today. Tomorrow's highs, probably will be in the 40s. The low Kansas temperature early today was 24 degrees in Topeka. Most readings were just below freezing.
Ike Says Economy Basically Sound
Western Civ 3-Day Review Begins Today
Review sessions sponsored by the Western Civilization department will be held today, tomorrow and Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. in 423 Lindley.
Material in units 3, 4, and 5 will be discussed tonight; units 6, 7, 12 and parts of 8 tomorrow night, and the remaining material on Thursday. Jack Hines, proctor in Western Civilization, is in charge of the review sessions, which are open to all students preparing for the Western Civilization examination.
"The review sessions are intended to help students better understand the material they have read, but are not intended to replace the actual reading," Harrison Madden, Instructor of Western Civilization, said today.
Specific men and ideas in the Western Civilization course will be reviewed briefly, but the main emphasis will be upon bringing together the material into an overall picture of the development of our western civilization, he said.
Washington — (U.P.) — President Eisenhower gave the American people his assurance last night that the Government will use "every legitimate means" to sustain the nation's prosperity against any threat of recession or depression.
But he voiced a "persistent and reasoned faith" in the basic soundness of the economy.
Mr. Eisenhower launched his sharp counterattack against "boom-and-bust" fears last night in a nationwide radio-television report on his administration's accomplishments and plans on the eve of the second session of the 83rd Congress.
Republicans warmly praised the address and predicted that the principles the President outlined would be followed by specific recommendations which Americans would approve.
Mr. Eisenhower acknowledged that "changing circumstances"including the end of the Korean war and declining defense production-require economic adjustments. But he said these can be made "without encouraging disaster or without bringing about the economic chaos for which the Communists hope."
Democrats generally applauded his pledge to act promptly in case of a recession. They asserted, however, that his plan of action is borrowed from the Democrats. Some suggested that he should start moving now since a recession is already here.
He did not spell out the "legitimate" means he would employ to meet a recession threat. But he did say the Administration would not be indifferent to those in adversity "through no fault of their own."
And it is known that the government is prepared, if necessary, to alter its monetary policies, ease credit, place more orders for goods, and to take similar measures to pump new life into the economy if it shows signs of sagging.
"It is a program that does not deal in pie-in-the-sky promises to all, nor in bribes to a few, in threats to any. It is a program inspired by zeal for the common good, dedicated to the welfare of every American family—whatever its means of livelihood may be, or its social position, or its ancestral strain, or its religious affiliation."
Describing the Administration plans for 1954, the President said:
The future of the Rock Chalk Reveus as a YMCA project will be voted upon tonight by the All Student Council.
YMCA Review Sponsorship Goes to ASC Vote Tonight
By GEORGIA WALLACE
The bill to remove the Revue from the hands of the YMCA was initiated by Pachacamac political party. Pach members maintain that the Revue is a "benefit," because students not in the YMCA contribute their time and effort to what is essentially a money-making project for the YMCA. Since ASC rules allow only one fund-raising campaign each year, the Campus Chest, Pach members feel that the YMCA ought not to be allowed to sponsor a show without ASC permission.
started and built up the Revue,
FACTS members state, and now
the ASC wants to take it over and
completely cut out the YMCA.
The bill is opposed by FACTS party, whose members have argued that if raising funds qualifies a project as a "benefit," political parties themselves and many other campus organizations are violating the authority of the ASC.
Another question is whether the ASC has the power to take over the funds of the YMCA, and therefore the funds of other campus organizations engaged in money-making ventures.
They argue that the right of a private organization to funds earned by its own activities is an American tradition. The YMCA
The proposed bill would divide future Revue profits this way: $500 would be put into an operating fund for the Revue itself, and the remainder would be split two ways, with 48 per cent going to the houses, competing in the show and the other 52 per cent to be turned over to the ASC.
No use has been named for the menu with the ASC will get from the division.
Perhaps more important than the bill itself is the indication of what might happen in the future when parallel situations arise. The ASC has already set up a committee to look into the use of funds raised in other campus productions.