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Eastern Textiles Seen In Display at Museum
Embroidery from India is on display in the main gallery on the upper floor of the Museum of Art. The exhibition will be shown until Dec. 12.
Edward Maser, curator of the museum, said the display is part of the Thyler collection of textiles. He said th's is the first time textiles have been exhibited at the Museum to show a particular type of art work.
"Embroidery was an outstanding art among the women in the village of India," Mr. Maser said. "The styles are local, and can be classified on a regional basis," he said.
Most traditional of all, according to Mr. Maser, were the geometric patterns of the Punjab in India. He said the Kashmir region in Pakistan was noted for woolen shawls, and that the Rajputana region excelled in figure embroidery.
Thirteen shawls and wall hangings from provinces of India and Pakistan are shown. A wall hanging ladies and Peaceocks," is the most ancient of the textiles in the exhibit.
In connection with the display of textiles from India and Pakistan, a wall hanging from 18th century Italy and another done in the U.S. in 1776 are also being displayed.
New York — (U.P.)— Negotiations resumed today in an effort to end a strike of 400 AFL photo-emgravers that has idled 20,000 persons and halted publication of New York City's seven major newspapers.
Strike Still Idles Six N.Y. Papers
Negotiations between Local No. 1 of the AFL Photo-Engravers union and the New York Publishers' association recessed yesterday at an afternoon, four-hour and 35-minute session, with "no change in the situation."
A union spokesman said that even if a settlement were reached it would be impossible for the three strike-affected afternoon newspapers to publish today.
A statement issued by the Herald Tribune said:
The morning Herald Tribune became the seventh newspaper affected by the strike when it suspended publication last night "until further notice." It was not involved in the strike because its photo-engraving was sent out to a commercial firm.
"We take this action because it is clear that the continued publication of the Herald Tribune is being used as an instrument to obstruct normal collective bargaining. In this connection, a responsible union official involved in the current strike was quoted as saying, 'If the Herald Tribune is publishing and the Times is closed, it (the Times) won't stay closed long.'
The Herald Tribune said it felt that "the other publishers have done everything possible to reach fair agreement, including two offers to submit the issues to an impartial arbitrator or board of arbitrators."
All Herald Tribune employees were told to report at their usual hours and to handle their regular work so that the newspaper will be able to resume publication without delay when the strike is settled.
The strike against the other six newspapers—the afternoon World-Telegram and Sun, Journal-American, and Post, and the morning Times, News, and Mirror—begat at 7 a.m. Saturday when picket lines were established. Some 20,000 other employees, including mechanical and editorial, refused to cross the lines.
Early roads were sometimes surfaced by being planked or corduroyed, that is, floored with sawed planks or crosslaid with poles.
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Group Starts ToyCollection
The annual toy drive sponsored this year by Alpha Phi Omega, service organization of Boy Scouts, began yesterday and will continue until Christmas.
The toys are to be taken either to the Plymouth Congregational church or to Ed Cresswell, engineering junior, at 1129 Louisiana st. Later the toys may be left beneath Christmas trees in various buildings on the campus. Toys also will be collected by Alpha Phi Omega in the Lawrence community.
The toys will be turned over to the Kansas Children's Service league, which will distribute them to needy children in the Lawrence area.
Helping with the toy drive are the Independent Student association and the Inter-fraternity Pledge council.
Books which English I, II, III students are studying are on display on the second and third floors of Fraser hall. The display will be continued until Christmas.
Books In Exhibits Also Used in Class
The case on the second floor contains a collection of different editions of Milton's "Paradise Lost." illustrated by Gustaf Dore and William Blake. The case also contains special illustrations depicting the life and times of Milton.
The display on the third floor is books from the Ellis collection, a $400,000 natural history library left to the University by Ralph Ellis. The University acquired the collection only after a long legal dispute that was heard in three courts, including the Kansas Supreme court.
Applications Open For Scholarships
Applications for general scholarships in spring semester are being accepted by Myron M. Braden, director of the aids and awards office, 222 Strong, Deadline for spring semester applications is Dec. 10.
One exception, Mr. Braden said, is the ISA scholarship (Independent Student association), for which the deadline is Dec. 5.
General scholarships include the men's and women's residence hall awards and cash grants covering fees for the spring semester, Mr. Braden said. "There are not many awards open, but there are enough that any person who feels that he has need and qualifications should apply."
Pawtucket, R.I. — (U.P.)— A Pawtucket man thought he had raked up a potential bonanza along with some leaves on his lawn, but police said the seven billfolds were empty.
Letdown
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Providence, R.I. — (U.R.)—Pembroke College's class of '54 disclosed in a class skit that its new motto is: "Be Prepared for Kinsey."
Jefferson City, Mo. (U.P.)-Authorities indicated today they may have a new clue to the missing $300,000 Greenlee ransom money.
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Ransom Money Clue Hinted By Authorities
The possible new clue lay in a detailed signed statement given to officials yesterday by Carl Austin Hall and his accomplice, Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady, in their death row prison ceilings.
Circuit Attorney Edward L. Dowd and St. Louis Police Chief Jeremiah O'Connell took the statement to learn more about a "mystery man" mentioned in Hall's original confession. They reported their efforts "well worth the time."
The two officials said the new statement would be taken to St. Louis for comparison with "other statements" including those by Louis Shoulders, resigned police lieutenant, cab driver John Hager, and Patrolman Edward Doland.
Hall first mentioned the "mystery man" in his 37-page confession to FBI agents. He said the man was in the vicinity when the case broke and about the time it became known that more than half the $600,000 ransom money was missing.
Those arrested were Gerald T. Lambkins, 19, former St. Joseph. Mo., hotel employee; Mrs. Betty Robbins, 25, Philadelphia, and Bennev Bruce Hatfield, 18. Sedalia, Mo.
Hatfield, a high school senior, was charged with mailing a letter to Greenleaze Oct. 13 offering to reveal the hiding place of the ransom money for a guaranteed payment of $10,000.
Meanwhile, in Kansas City, the FBI announced the arrest of three persons charged with attempting to extort money from Robert C. Greenlease in connection with the kidnapping of his son.
Lambkin was charged with making two telephone calls from a St. Joseph hotel to the Greenlease home during the time of the ransome negotiations.
Mrs. Robbins demanded $4,000 in a letter dated Oct. 6, which promised safe return for the Greenlease youth.
Noted Architect Talks Next Week at KU
Richard Buckminster Fuller, Jr., a pioneer in sphere building construction and designer of the 93-foot Geodesic dome which covers the court of the Ford Motor company's rotunda building in Dearborn, Mich. will lecture at the University next Monday and Tuesday.
Next Monday at 2 p.m. he will lecture in Strong auditorium on "Comprehensive Resources and Design Strategy."
Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1953
Class Whistle Blows Almost as Long as Wind
By VALERA TEBEN
Like the hip flop prairie,
the high-waisted which will blow
The old factory whistle has signaled the end of class hours for 41 years, except on two brief occasions. Twice it has been replaced, and twice it has made a comeback.
So the original whistle was put back to duty and has been there ever since. Rumors then hinted that a third attempt would be made to replace it by using the 53 carillon bells of the World War II Memorial tower to announce classes.
Installation of the whistle in 1912 marked the beginning of the 50-minute class period. A number of instructors were opposed to the change on the ground that the noise of the whistle would be disturbing. One month later, however, they joyously acclaimed that the whistle and the 50-minute hour brought order to the class room. During that semester, tardiness and delay in the opening of class sessions were greatly reduced.
A few years after its installation atop the boiler building of the University heating plant in 1912, it "blew off." A second whistle was used for a few months, but it screeched so badly the old one was welded and put back in place.
In May 1945, it was replaced by a third whistle, which was salvaged from a German transport scuttled in Leighhorn Harbor, Italy. This war souvenir was obtained by a former KU student, Capt. Robert A. Haggard of the United States Maritime service. It was used about three weeks—long enough to announce the surrender of the Nazis, and to call a special assembly of students in official observance of V-E day.
Built on the organ principle with three adjustable tones, the captured Nazi whistle proved unsatisfactory. It wasn't loud enough, and caused classes to be held overtime. Furthermore, there was something about its tone that "made people sick every time it blew."
The whistle formerly was used as a campus fire alarm, but townspeople kept the power house phone so busy asking "Where's the fire?" that workmen could not get the water pumps into operation.
The custom of blowing the whistle a half hour before classes started in 1914 when the University held devotional services each morning. The daily chapel program was discontinued in 1946.
Reports also show that a "rising" whistle was blown at 6:30 a.m., and that KU once had a curfew—an 8 to 9 p.m. whistle. The present whistle schedule went into effect in September, 1946.
The class whistle is almost as accurate as the naval observatory time signal, by which the master clock is checked every day, W. C. Sanderson, maintenance engineer
at the power plant, says. The whistle is seldom off more than 15 seconds.
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It is now blown automatically by an electric motor attached to the clock, except on special occasions when it is blown by hand. The steam comes from the same boilers that provide heat for University buildings.
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