Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Monday, Oct. 12, 1953
Photo by Clarke Keys
ANOTHER ONE GOES UP-Workmen are now working on the basement level of Douthart hall. The women's residence hall is expected to be completed in time for the fall semester next year. The structure is being built on the site of Templin hall.
is being built on the site of Templin hall.
Slavs Mob U.S. Office Injure Official in Trieste
Belgrade —(U.P.)— An angry mob stormed the United States Information Service building today and seriously injured an American official as Yugoslav war ships moved into Capodistria harbor in the troubled Trieste area.
The demonstrators slugged an information officer, William B. King, who was an Associated Press correspondent during World War II They also seized news bulletins and built a bonfire near the damaged building.
American embassy officials lodged a "stern protest" with the Yugoslav government following the attack on Mr. King. It was regarded as the most serious incident since the United States and Britain promised Zone A of the disputed Trieste area to Italy Thursday.
Unofficial sources in Zone A
Claimed President Tidt had sent 25-
00 troops and 200 tanks into Yugoslav's Zone B.
Yugoslav demonstrators also destroyed what was left of the British council reading room which was damaged Thursday night.
The demonstrations followed a warning from President Tito that Yugoslavia wanted to settle its quarrels with Italy peacefully but would send troops into Zone A if Italian soldiers appeared.
Marshal Tito said his country hoped "common sense will triumph and a way out will be found."
He called for dissolution of the promise to give Zone A, including the great port city of Trieste, to Italy. He called the Western powers' decision to withdraw from the zone "unjust."
He said the Western powers should not sacrifice the Yugoslav people's love of peace to induce Italy to ratify the European army agreement.
The KU chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America recently elected Edwin Gould, education senior, first vice president; Willa Morton, education junior, second vice president; Glenna Williams, business junior, secretary; Betty Tudor, business junior, treasurer, and Ron Bartlett, college freshman, reporter.
Foreign Students Honored at Dinner
The Lutheran Students Association held its fourth annual dinner for foreign students Sunday evening. Following the dinner discussions were held on the subject "What does the university student want most?" About 100 attended the dinner at the Trinity Lutheran church.
FBLA Elects, Plans Year's Meeting Time
The group decided to meet at 4 p.m. the first Thursday of each month in room 8, Strong annex D. Anyone enrolled in a business course is eligible for membership.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Daily hansan
A men's bowling league is planned by Student Union Activities and Bascom C. Fearing, director of the Union bowling alleys.
Students and faculty members may participate in the league. They may enter as teams or as individuals but those who enter individually will be grouped to form teams.
SUA Plans For Bowling
Organized houses each are allowed one team in the league.
To enter the league, a player list of four players and one substitute, with one man designated as captain must be submitted to Mr. Fearing by 6 p.m. Wednesday. A meeting of team captains will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Union building, room 306.
Mr. Fearing said that there would be a mixed league and a women's league later in the year.
The nationally famous, "House on Magic Show", presented by General Electric and the School of Engineering will give two performances at 4 and 8 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium. There is no admission charge
Magic Show Set for Today
Osage, Miami, Shawnee, Johnson, Douglass, and Franklin counties were represented in the annual Parent- Teacher Association district meeting held in the Student Union.
P-TA Meeting Draws Six
51st Year, No. 19
Hall, Heady Confess They Murdered Greenlease Boy
Housing Office Help Available
If you're planning to bring your mother and dad or a guest down KU for a weekend, you'd better see Mrs. Ruth Nash, the housing secretary.
One of Mrs. Nash's jobs is to find housing for parents and guests in private homes. That's one of the many services of the housing office.
Westport, Conn. —(U.P.)—Sculptor James E. Fraser, who designed the "Buffalo Nickel" and several widely-known statues, died yesterday. He was 76. Fraser, a native of Winona, Minn., first gained nationwide attention at the age of 17 when he modelled "the end of the trail," showing a tired Indian on a horse. This and the buffalo nickel depicted scenes seen in his youth in the Dakota territory.
Their work is centered on a list of homes in which rooms are available for graduate and undergraduate students and married couples. The lists include location of rooms, prices, and other description.
Neither men nor women students have had any difficulty in finding suitable rooms this year, Mrs. Nash said. More than 50 rooms for men still are available and although the number for women is less, most students have found housing by now.
Mrs. Nash makes an inspection of student housing each year. "The minimum standards for housing are not made by the University; the landlords are required only to abide by state law," she said.
The law includes a requirement of metal fire escapes for all third floor rooms. Gas heaters must have chimneys or other type vents and must include gas pipes made of rigid material and not rubber or other flexible material.
"There has been very little rem gouging this year despite the lifting of rent ceilings," Mrs. Nash said. Rent is about the same as last year, the law of supply and demand keeping the prices down, she said. If a student is charged excessively, he usually finds out about it by comparing and talking with his friends, and any disagreement is usually worked out, she said.
Famous Sculptor Dies
St. Louis—(U.P.)—Carl Austin Hall and Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady have confessed they kidnaped and killed 6-year-old Bobby Green-lease, the FBI announced today.
--bags of caviar bought with the five million rubles, set out to find the New World.
SUA Seeks Talent For Future Events
Students who can dance, sing, play an instrument, or have any musical talent are invited to audition for the Student Union activities committee at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday or Thursday in the Union ballroom.
The purpose of the tryouts is to obtain a file of student talent to be used during the year at various SUA functions.
Those inested or who have questions regarding the tryouts should call Peggy Hughes at phone 415.
Five Communists Seek New Trial
Seattle, Wash., — (U.P.) — Defense Attorney John Caughlan prepared to ask a new trial for five Communists convicted on Smith act charges of conspiring to advocate violent overthrow of the government.
The five were convicted Saturday after a 25-week trial. All five admitted they were Communists.
Mr. Caughlan and his associate, Irvin Goodman, said they believed the defendants are "absolutely innocent."
The defendants were described by the FBI as the top Communists in Washington state. Federal Judge William Lindberg ordered them held without bond.
They are John Daschbach, head of the Washington Civil Rights congress; Terry Pettus, Northwest editor of the Daily People's World; Mrs. Barbara Hartle, organizational secretary of the Communist party's Northwest district; Paul Hawkins, Communist party's Northwest District committee; and Henry Huff, Northwest district chairman of the Communist party.
A sixth defendant, Karly Larsen, who said he left the party in 1946, was acquitted. Judge Lindberg will sentence them Friday.
Band to Hold Special Drill
The University marching band will hold a special rehearsal under the lights at Haskell stadium from 7:30 to 9:30 tonight. Busses will be at Hoch auditorium at 7 p.m. for members wanting rides to the stadium.
Ivan Columbovitch Was Here First
Just Like Beisbol
Bv SAM TEAFORD
Today, Oct. 12, is a day honoring the navigations of one Chris Columbus, but it is also a day that annually brings up the controversy as to who actually was first to discover America.
Columbus and his men, for want of proof to the contrary, are assumed to have been the first Europeans to visit America, although there is a story about Leif Ericson landing in what he called Vinland back in the 11th century.
But neither Columbus nor Erickson was the first to reach the shores of America, according to a new explanation advanced today by Georgi-Igor Dimitri Allesandrov Smith, the Lawrence correspondent for Pravda
"The man who really discovered America was a Rooshian," says GeoriGi. "This man's name was Ivan Columbovitch, and he discovered the New World in 1492-1492, B. C."
Smith of Pravda charted the route.
Asked to enlarge on this amazing revelation, Georgi explained Russian schools had been teaching this story for decades, "ever since Malenkov changed the textbooks last March."
Smith of Pravda charted the route. "First Columbovitbich is sailing from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, and then through the Suez canal." Informed the Suez canal was not built until many centuries later, Georgi said. "Rooshians are a very resourceful people."
As told by Smith of Pravda, this story of a great voyage begins in the lovely fishing village of Vodka-on-the-Rocks in the year 1521, B. C. Leon, father of Ivan Columnovitch, was a fisherman, but fishing was not to be for Ivan.
"Being no square, Little Ivan is quickly deciding the world is round," Georgi said, "and soon he is wanting to prove it. Naturally his father and everyone else in the village does not think the world is round, and they are trying to convince Little Ivan he is wrong.
Within a few days Ivan supplied with a new fishing boat and three
Despite tremendous obstacles, Columbovitch and his faithful crew reached the Pacific coast Oct. 12, 1492 B. C. He put ashore landing parties at several points and traveled along the coast for a month before starting the return trip.
Back in Russia again, Columbovitch was acclaimed a national hero, according to Smith of Pravda. Wined and dined from one end of the country to the orther, Columbovitch was finally brought before the People's government.
"But Ivan always knows he is right and soon he is growing up and becoming a man. At last he can make the great attempt to prove the world is round, so, he is going to People's government for help."
The Russian government, overjoyed by Ivan's proposal to discover America and prove the world is round, made available the rights of Ivan and gave Ivan a letter of introduction to Julius Rosenberg, according to Georgi.
Asked to comment on the new world, Columbovitch said, "That capitalism is worse than they say it is. I'll never go there again."
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said both confessed that Hall shot the 65-year-old son of a wealthy Kansas City car dealer in the state of Kansas. This laid them open to prosecution under the Lindbergh federal kidnapping law and its maximum penalty of death.
Confronted with a mass of evidence against them, the pair broke down in a St. Louis city jail and admitted they dug the boy's grave and bought lime to put over the body even before they kidnapped him from an exclusive Catholic school in Kansas City Sept. 28.
The boy's body was found in the flower-covered grave behind Mrs. Heady's home at St. Joseph Wednesday, the day after their arrest in St. Louis.
Hoover, who announced the confessions in Washington, said a nationwide search for an ex-convict, Thomas John Marsh, originally named by Hall as the boy's killer, had been discontinued. Hoover said Hall and Mrs. Heady absolved Marsh of any part in the crime.
Mr. Hoover said the pair said the murder took place on U.S. Highway 99, across the Kansas state line from about 12 miles south of Kansas City.
The FBI said a mechanical pencil like that carried by young Bobby was found at the site of the murder. Other evidence includes blood stains found in Mrs. Heady's station wagon, which Hall had tried to eradicate.
Mr. Hoover also said the station wagon, used to abduct the boy, bore a bullet hole which was found to have been fired from a revolver in Hall's possession when he was arrested.
The Justice department previously had thought the boy's murder had occurred in Missouri and officials were planning to turn Hall and Mrs. Heady over to state authorities for prosecution. State charges of kidnapping and murder have been filed against them.
The confession of Hall and Mrs. Heady sent officers on a renewed search of the St. Louis area for the missing half of the $600,000 ransom. Officers earlier had said they believed it was hidden somewhere along the Meramec river bottoms southwest of St. Louis.
They said Hall either buried the money or hid it somewhere in the area, possibly in one of the thousands of caves in the Meramec valley.
Although Hall's latest confession cleared Marsh of any part in the crime, arsoner Eloise Burkeen a prosecutor, speculated that the missing ex-convict was slain as an innocent "fall guy" in the kid-naping.
ISA Ward. Members to Meet
A Ward, Members to Meet
Ward I, composed of all independent men living in private homes north of 13th street, will hold a meeting at 7 p.m. today in the Pine room of the Union. Following the meeting, the Independent Student association will hold an all-member meeting at 7:30 p.m. in room 306 of the Union.
Weather
The Kansas weather forecast calls for partly cloudy skies tonight and
Tuesday sending temperature down. A slightly cooler day is expected today with the possibility of rain developing by tomorrow. L ow s tonight
should range from the 40s in the extreme northeast to 50-55 in the southeast. Highs Tuesday will be in the 80s in the west to near 80 in the east. Yesterday's temperature extremes in the state were 90 at Garden City and 40 at Goodland.