Gas Chamber Has Room for 7
Kansas City, Mo. (U.P.)—Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Heady could die together in Missouri's gas chamber.
There is room for two
The confessed kidnap-slayers of 6-year-old Bobby Greenlease, who demanded a record $600,000 ransom, are in custody here, awaiting formal grand jury indictment for violation of the Lindbergh Kidnap law. After the indictment is returned they will go on trial.
A death sentence would result in their transfer to the state penitentiary.
The potassium cyanide pellets of the gas chamber are swift. Death can occur within minutes, though it requires about 45 minutes before two physicians make the official death pronouncement.
Hall and his accomplice may be seated side by side.
Hall's clothing would consist of a pair of black shorts and a black mask. Thomas F. Whitecotton, director of the Missouri department of correction, said he had not decided how he would garb Mrs. Hall, since a woman has never been executed in the Jefferson City gas chamber.
The deadly gas permeates clothing and that is why the prison dresses the prisoners in so little of it.
"I would suppose she would wear something like a two-piece bathing suit," he said, "and, of course, a black mask."
Warden Ralph N. Fidson said the state employs no executioner. It is he who normally pulls the lever which drops the pellets into sulphuric acid.
When the pellets strike the acid, there is a brief bubbling sound and a single puff of milky vapor. The vapor rises and then there is nothing except death. At the end of 45 minutes, blowers clear the air so that the physicians may enter for their final examination.
Injured Student Returns to Classes
Laura Ann Shutz, college senior, who was injured Sunday in a motor car crash in Oklahoma City, returns day after classes at the University.
Miss Shutz, who was one of four students in a car returning from the Kansas-Oklahoma football game, was taken to an Oklahoma City hospital after the wreck, and Monday night was flown to Kansas City, her home.
She suffered a slight concussion and head injuries. Other students in the wreck, all of whom suffered minor injuries, were Fred VanBebber and Hubert Dye, business seniors, and Martha Jo Johnson, college junior.
Man, It's Paradise In Jail - No In-Laws
San Quetin, Calif. — (UP)— Lee Roy Javine, 36, a paroled convict, knocked on the gate of San Quentin prison yesterday and asked for his cell back.
"My in-laws are driving me nuts," he said. "I need some peace and quiet."
Javine was paroled in 1952 after serving nearly four years on burglar charges.
Warden Harley O. Tefts accommodated Javine.
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Page 4 University Daily Kansan Friday, Oct. 23, 1953
Kansan photo by Wilson Ayars
NO SUBWAY THIS—It's the west entrance to the recently refurbished undergraduate library. Strategically located turnstiles regulate traffic through the place which can accommodate 250 students simultaneously. When it's fully loaded, the library will contain 25,000 volumes. Currently, much shelf space stands a waiting.
rently, much shelf space stands a-waiting.
Two Freshmen to Debate At Emporia Debating Clinic
John Eland and Robert Kimball, college freshmen debaters, will oppose an Emporia State college debate team to demonstrate debating techniques at a high school debate clinic at Emporia tomorrow.
As at the two previous high school clinics, Dr. Giffin and E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, will represent the University.
This will be the third debate clinic that a freshman team has attended this fall, according to Dr. Kim Giffin, debate coach. A week ago Dennis Knight and Robert Brown, college freshmen debated against Fort Hays State college debaters at Hays, and two weeks ago Eland and Kimball debated against an Emporia State team in Kansas City.
Dr. Giffin is to analyze the high school question, Prof. Buehler is to discuss the labor-management problem as a subject for extemporaneous speaking, and both are to take part in a panel discussion of methods used in presidential elections.
"We can't say that we've won or lost the first two debates." Dr. Giffin said, "because a winner is not determined in demonstration debates."
The state motto of Texas is "Friendship." The name "Texas" stemmed from the Spanish pronunciation of a Caddo Indian word meaning "friends."
Library Wants Faculty Works
Watson library is requesting copies of faculty publications from year to year in order to maintain a full representation of the works of the University faculty.
Robert Vesper, director of libraries, said "it seems to me that these publications represent, among other things, the intellectual history of the University. Consequently, I think the library should do everything it can to acquire and preserve them."
Mr. Vosper asks faculty members to send to Charles Sargent, curator of the Kansas collection in the library, single copies of their reprints which they may still have on hand. In some cases the library already will have copies, and duplicates will be returned.
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Paint Remover Needed With J. Green Around
It probably hasn't been itemized, but the University has shelled out plenty of cash for paint remover over the last 30 years.
Before the Uncle Jimmie Green statue was constructed after World War I, this expense was minor. Since then, however, the building and grounds department has resigned itself to the fact that Uncle Jimmie inevitably will require at least two or three cleanings a year.
The latest job, pulled a couple of weeks ago, was one of the most artistic feats. In Jimmie-painting history. For he was decked out in white bucks, red pants, green coat, blue vest, and white tie. Usually the culprits are satisfied merely to stop on some paint and then run.
Every color in the book has been applied on Jimmie from lavender to baby blue. Occasionally, accessories appear. In past years, students walking by the law building on their way to early morning classes have seen Jimmie with cigars in his mouth and beer buckets draped on his arms.
The most daring stunt occurred several years ago in the midst of a host of statue-guarders. The force was placed near Jimmie because of a rising wave of anger among University and law school officials. They were getting plenty tired of the frequent paintings.
The protectors probably paid seant attention as a car roared down Jayhawk drive but must have been re-faced when it sped out of sight. For the driver slowed down for an instant when he approached the statue, then somebody in the back seat hurled a bucket of paint at the suffering Mr. Green.
Identification of the painters usually remains a mystery. The Lawyers have accused their rivals in the Engineering School of the dirty work
but proof has been meager.
Salt prairie has been established on past occasions, however, that pranksters from the Kansas State School of Applied Agriculture up the Kaw have had a hand.
It generally takes workmen from two to three hours to remove the paint from Jimmie.
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