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University Daily Kansan
Monday. Dec. 14, 1953
Debaters Win in Last Pre-Holiday Tourneys
KU debaters won both divisions at Southwestern college, Winfield and John Eland, college freshman, won the oratory contest at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, in forensic tournaments Friday and Saturday.
The two tournaments ended pre- Christmas competition for the KU debate team.
Hubert Bell, and William Arnold, college juniors, won the senior division tournament at Southwestern. Bell and Arnold lost only once, to a University of Nebraska team.
Margaret Smith, college sophmore, and Robert Kimball, college freshman, won the junior division tournament at Southwestern by sweeping all eight debates.
Also at Southwestern, Bell placed second in extemporaneous speaking and third in oratory. Miss Smith was rated excellent in the discussion contest.
Speaking on the topic, "The Big Fight" between democracy and Communism. Eland won the oratory contest in the Arkansas tournament.
In the senior division, William Means, business senior, and John Fields, college junior, won four of five debates but lost in the semi-finals to the eventual champion, Central Oklahoma State college.
Eland and Gary Sick, college freshman, finished second in junior division debate, winning five but losing in the finals to Centenary (Shreveport, La.) college.
Debating procedure in both tournaments was practically the same, according to Dr. Kim Giffin, associate professor of speech.
All teams debated in four preliminary rounds before judges selected eight teams to compete in an elimination tournament.
All four KU teams were chosen for the elimination tournament, but only one team, Miss Smith and Kimball, was undefeated.
Sigma Delta Chi Gets 3 Members
Three University students last night were initiated into Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity.
They are Sam Teaford, journalism senior; Stan Hamilton, journalism junior; and Henry Christman, graduate student.
John Colt, news editor of the Kansas City Star, told fraternity members and their guests that the Greenlease kidnapping case, from the Star's viewpoint, "was very difficult to handle" and was "the biggest crime story in our history." He had to make a decision.
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whether or not we would print everything on the case or cooperate with the police and family," he said.
"All through the case, it would appear that whiskey was the motive power," he said. "Carl Hall would like to be regarded as the greatest kidnaper of all time," he said.
Independent Women To MeetTuesday
A meeting of independent women living in private homes will be held at 5 p.m. Tuesday in the Pine room of the Student Union.
Sponsored by the Associated Women Students, the meeting is part of an attempt "to organize independent women so they can become more influential in campus activities," Janice Mason, fine arts junior and AWS public relations chairman, said.
Plans now are being made to contact all women living in private homes and urge them to join the new group, she said.
They are represented in the AWS House of Representatives for the first time this year. It is the official law-making body for women students on the campus.
Farm Bureau To Fight Out Price Supports
Chicago — (U.P.) A floor fight over "flexible" or "rigid" form price supports was a possibility as the powerful American Farm Bureau federation began business meetings today at its widely-watched convention.
Spokesmen said the convention was expected to endorse flexible, or sliding, supports by a comfortable margin Thursday. But 14 state farm bureaus, with voting delegates at the convention, came pledged to rigid supports. Most of the 14 are in cotton, tobacco, or drought areas.
This was a shift in favor of the present rigid, 90 per cent of parity supports. In the past, only two or three states have come to the annual meeting in support of rigid supports.
Some 5,000 delegates from the 4b states and Puerto Rico were present as the convention opened business sessions with commodity conferences scheduled on livestock, fruits, field crops and dairy products.
Union Signs with Newspaper
New York —(UP)— The memborship of local 1 of the AFL stereotypers union has agreed to accept a one-year contract with major daily newspapers here giving them a $3.75 weekly "package" increase. The agreement was the same as that which ended last Tuesday an 11-day strike of AFL photo-engravers that closed down six major New York city newspapers. The papers were forced to suspend publication when editorial and mechanical unions, including the stereotypers, refused to cross picket lines.
Dulles May Ask Reds For Release of Three
Washington—(U.P.)-Secretary of State John Foster Dulles may press for the release of two American newsmen and a merchant marine captain when he goes to the Big Four meeting in Berlin next month.
Dulles is reported "extremely concerned" about the U.S. citizens held captive in Communist China and intends to do all he can to free them.
He may personally ask Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov to intercede with the Chinese. The U.S. previously has asked Russia to help win release of the Americans.
The Americans are Richard Applegate, a National Broadcasting company correspondent and former United Press reporter; Don Dixon, INS reporter, and Benjamin Krasner, American merchant marine captain.
They were seized last March while cruising on Applegate's yacht off Hong Kong. Since then, there has been no word of their fate.
There are now an estimated 100 U.S. citizens unable to leave China, 30 of whom are in jail.
U. S. officials believe the Reds have a mistaken notion the Americans are important officials and predict the Chinese soon may try them for "espionage." It also is believed that there is a chance they will be released.
released.
Since the U.S. does not recognize the Red Chinese government, it must ask the British to transmit requests to Peiping or ask the Russians to intercede.
If Dulles decides to bring the matter up at the Berlin meeting with the British, French and Russian foreign ministers, he undoubtedly would do it informally and not at a full session of the group.
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Boy Born Saturday With 2 Heads,4 Arms
Indianapolis, Ind. — (J.U.P) — The condition of a boy born with two heads and four arms was improved today.
Attendants at James Whitcomb Riley hospital said the infant, born Saturday to a Washington, Ind., woman, remained on the critical list after showing "slight improvement" Sunday.
man said.
Doctors at the Chicago Mater-
center said the live birth was "pri-
bably the first of its kind."
Doctors resumed tests to determine what organs are duplicated in the baby. At least two more days of testing were planned, a spokesman said.
The child was placed in an air lock to aid breathing after being rushed to Indianapolis by ambulance from Davies county hospital in Washington.
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