Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, Dec. 15, 1953
51st Year. No.62
Courts Wrestle With Divorce Missing Ransom
By UNITED PRESS
By UNITED PRESS
In St. Louis today, Circuit Judge James F. Nangle delayed proceedings in a divorce suit pending against former police lieutenant Louis Shoulders on the grounds that a second marriage for Shoulders might prevent his bride from testifying against him.
And in Kansas City a federal grand jury continued to probe into events surrounding the Greenlease kidnaping in an attempt to trace more than $300,000 in missing ransom money.
Shoulders has stated he intends to marry his landlady, Miss June Marie George, with whom he vacationed in Hawaii recently. Both have testified before the federal grand jury in Kansas City, investigating the disappearance of $303,720 paid to Hall as ransom.
Judge Nangle took the divorce under advisement yesterday after asking attorneys for both parties whether there was "any hurry" in the case.
"It has come to my attention from good authority," Nangle said, "that if a divorce is granted, Mr. Shoulders might marry his landlady so that she cannot testify against him." He gave no authority for his statement.
Shoulders and his partner in Hall's arrest, patrolman Elmer Jarce was placed board charges of violating police regulations in their handling of the case.
Mrs. Shoulders testified at the St. Louis divorce hearing that her husband left her Sept. 2, 1952. They have been married 26 years and have three children.
An agreement has been reached,
she testified, whereby he will pay
her $200 a month alimony and turn
over their home to her. She seeks
custody of one son who is almost 21.
Among witnesses scheduled to testify in the grand jury hearing in Kansas City were Miss Barbara Cupp, 17, who was reported to have been at the St. Louis police station where Hall was taken after his arrest, and an unidentified St. Louis policeman.
Hall has continually maintained he had about $592,000 of the $600,-000 Greenlease ransom money with him when he was arrested Oct. 6 at the Town House hotel in St. Louis.
One witness, described as a "mystery woman" was identified as Mrs. Viola Freeny, former cashier of the hotel. She was the woman Hall said he saw in a parked automobile near the hotel when officers took him away.
Hall and his accomplice, Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady will die Friday in Missouri's lethal gas chamber for their crime.
The grand jury investigation opened yesterday and dealt primarily with events at the Town House hotel at the time Hall was arrested.
Swapping of IDs OK At All Home Games
Student identification cards will be transferable to all KU students on oakstein games. Earl Finkenstein will talk about Business manager, presented today.
ID cards can be transferred at the game if a student has both his own ID card and the transfer ID card. The transfer procedures will be the same used in previous years, Mr. Falkenstein said.
--this issue or their personalized covers.
CHANTEZ!—An unidentified group of itinerant carolers stood still last night for at least a 200th of a second. Similar groups have been inundating evening breezes with harmonious accord of a seasonal nature during the past week.
2nd Jayhawker Issue To Be Out Tomorrow
The Winter issue of the Jayhawker will be distributed from the information booth and outside the Hawk's Nest beginning Wednesday morning. Jerry Knudson, editor, said today.
The second issue of the yearbook magazine includes the organized houses' pages, which make up the bulk of this issue. Knudson said.
Featured are a picture story on the K-State football game, and the first installment of "The Joining Jayhawker," a special section devoted to student clubs, organizations, and activities.
Feature articles cover Home-coming and the ROTC branches of the University. The sports section includes a run-down on the football season, the resignation of Jules V. Sikes, the national cross-country champs, and a preview of basketball. Intramural sports will be presented in the third issue.
Students may purchase the annual at the distributing points for $5.75 if they have not yet done so. The Jayhawker office, in the Student Union is open from 1 to 6 p.m. each afternoon, where students may also buy the yearbook or pick up
Trend Sale Ready
Trend, Quill club publication, will be distributed on the campus tomorrow. The magazine will be on sale at the Information Booth and the Hawk's Nest.
The new issue will contain prize winning stories and poems entered in the recent Quill club writing contest. Editorial comment on campus problems will be featured.
"Sour Owl," campus humor magazine, will be distributed tomorrow, Tom Stewart, editor, said today. The magazine will be on sale in the Hawk's Nest and at the information booth.
Sour Owl Sale Set
2,300 Methodists To Convene at KU
Plans are nearly completed for the fifth quadrennial conference of the Methodist Student Movement to be held on the KU campus from Dec. 28 to Jan. 2.
Resistance of 22 Doesn't Weaken
Pamunjom, Korea (U.P.)—Twenty-two unrepatriated American prisoners of the Communists said today the United States kept them waiting too long for "come home" interviews.
The Americans, who have refused to attend talks which were scheduled to have begun last Monday, seemed angry over the two-and-one-half-month delay in summoning them to the explanation tents.
The Far East Air Force gave an American airman permission today to go to Pamunjam and attempt to talk to Cpl. Aaron P. Wilson of Urania, La., one of the 22 unrepatriated GFs.
Airman 1/C William L. Randall, of Olla, La., near Urania, grew up with Cpl. Wilson and dated his sister when on leave two years ago.
Cpl. Wilson's mother said today that his sister would also go to Tokyo in hopes that "if we can get that close, he will come to us."
President Syngman Rhee said today he could not understand why the U.S. Defense department refused to give Mrs. Portia-Howe of Alden, Minn., permission to come to Korea to see her son, Richard Tennison, a willing prisoner of the Communists.
Mr. Rhee said that if the defense department changed its policy and permitted Mrs. Howe to come to Korea, his country would extend her every courtesy and aid.
The military pay of the 22 Americans refusing repatriation still is accumulating and will be turned over to them if they denounce communism and return home, Army officials said today.
In all cases where family allotments had been arranged, the Army is continuing to pay them in behalf of the nonrepatriates.
Elevator Deaths Probed
Kansas City, Mo. —(UP)—A woman's coat and suit factory was closed today while authorities investigated an elevator accident in which two women were killed and 12 others injured.
University '53
Sikes' Resignation Rates No.1 Story
By ELIZABETH WOHLGEMUTH
The recent controversy over and the resignation of head Football Coach Jules V. Sikes today was named the top campus story of the year by the members of the Editorial class in the School of Journalism. Sikes was put under pressure because of this year's losing football team and resigned after the Homecoming game with Missouri.
The series of stories about last year's basketball team was picked as the No. 2 story of the year. The basketball team was picked early in the season to be only a fair team, but before the season was over it had won the Big Seven championship, defeating Kansas State twice, and taken the Western NCAA playoffs at Manhattan and second place in the national NCAA tournament, losing by one point to Indiana university.
dent housing groups and announced that Carruth hall would be torn down and Douthart hall built on its site, and a new 200-name dormitory would be built. This story was voted to the ninth position.
The damage suit this fall involving the University Daily Kansan and a group of students calling themselves "R. D. Kline" was picked as the 10th story.
The opening of the new Memorial Student Union was the third big story of the year. The Union was
The Board of Regents heard stu-
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy's appointment and trip as a special envoy to the United Nations World Health conference in Switzerland last spring was picked as the seventh story of campus significance.
Other stories considered by the class were the winning of the NCAA cross country championship, the resignation of Dean Paul B. Lawson, dean of the college of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the formation of an anti-discrimination group, the new enrollment procedure, the bill passed by ASC banning freshman women from being Homecoming and Jayhawker queens, the cut in the KU budget by Gov. Edward F. Arn, and the wreck of a hayrack injuring nine students.
The charge by American Mercury magazine that J. Allen Reese, dean of the School of Pharmacy, was pro-Red and his denial of the charge was the No. 4 story appearing in the Kansan during the year.
opened in February with an open house and a dance.
The series of stories about voting to keep or abolish the All Student Council and its eventual change to a bicameral form of government was voted the fifth place campus story.
The death of John L. Spencer, 19- year-old freshman football player, who died in his sleep of an undetermined cause, was picked sixth.
Eight of the top 10 stories occurred during the spring semester, with only two this fall.
The FACTS-Pach libel suit was voted to the eighth position. A cartoon appearing in the FACTS newspaper was judged libelous and FACTS was fined $50.
Dr. Edwin Price, director of the KU Wesley foundation and local liaison officer for the conference, said nearly all facilities of the University will be used for the activities of the 2,300 delegates coming from every state and including 200 foreign students. Dr. Price said more housing is needed for women attending the conference.
Dr. Price said "all states have accepted their full quotas of representatives."
All the auditoriums and theaters, the Student Union and 150 classrooms will be used daily for general meetings, fellowship, creative interest, and Bible study groups.
E. A. McFarland of University Extension is handling campus arrangements. The Union will serve approximately 7,000 meals a day during the meetings.
"Christ Transforming Culture" will be the conference theme. Dr. H. D. Bollinger and Dr. Harvey C. Brown of Nashville, Tenn., will direct the conference.
Jerry Gibson of Boston university is chairman of the planning committee. Richard Thompson, Springfield, Mo., president of the National Conference of Methodist Organizations, Corvallis, Ore., chairman of the National Methodist Student commission, also are on the committee.
Speakers who will discuss theological and educational aspects of modern culture are Dr. Ralph W. Sockman, pastor of Christ Methodist church, New York City; Dr. Nels F. S. Ferre, Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. Albert Outer, Southern Methodist university, Dallas, Tex.; Dr. Glenn Olds, University of Denver; Dr. Harold Ehrensperger, Boston methodist college; Dr. Melinda Methodist Board of Education, Nashville, Tennessee; Bishop Donald H. Tippett, San Francisco; Bishop Newell S. Booth, Elizabethville, Africa, and Philippe Maury, Geneva, Switzerland, general secretary of the World Student Christian federation.
Between general meetings the student will discuss experiences in fellowship, creative interests, and Bible study groups.
Dr. Charles S. Layman, Nashville, editor of Methodist adult publications, will lead the daily Bible studies.
Bishop Matthew W. Clair, St. Louis, will lead the New Year's eve celebration of Holy Communion.
This will be the fourth major national student religious conference on the KU campus in the past seven years. Twice the university was host to the quadrennial North American conference of the Student Volunteer movement and once to the Ecumenical movement.
Assisting at the conference will be 40 members of the KU Wesley foundation and Miss Helener Kane Currer.
Weather
The coldest weather of the season for the northeast corner of Kansas
is isue tonight.
T h e inrush of frigid air is expected to drop t e m p e ratures to around 10 degrees in the area.
Kansas minimsum
will range from COLORS that point upward to around 20 degrees as the entire state experiences a hard freeze. Not much warming will take effect during daylight hours tomorrow.