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Kansas State Historical Society Topoka, Ks.
51st Year, No. 17
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, Oct. 8, 1953
MOVE OVER SARG—Sarg, the Sigma Nu mascot, has a buddy now. His new pal, who will help him in his post as mascot, goes by the name of Madam Gardenia but more commonly called Skonk by the men at the house. Taking charge of the new arrival are (left to right) Jay Ott, college sophomore; Robert Wilber, college freshman; Dan Lindsay, college junior; Arlan Hurt, college junior; David Rich, college freshman, and Monty Greene, architecture senior. Don't worry Madam Gardenia has been descented and is a healthy
Reds Want Huts In Four Days
Pamunjom, Korea — (UP)—The neutral commission handling war prisoners told the Allies today to complete building huts for Red "brain washers" in four days or let the Communists finish the job.
L. Gen. K. S. Thimayya said in a letter he must know by 10 a. m. Friday (8 o'clock CST Thursday) whether the United Nations command was "ready and willing" to finish the construction by next Monday.
The buildings, when completed,
will be used by Communist "explainers"
who will attempt to lure 22,500
anti-Red North Koreans and Chinese back to their homelands before the Dec. 24 deadline.
Communist authorities have demanded extension of the deadline, but the United Nations command has refused to permit the talks to be dragged on after the final date fixed by the commission agreement.
The UN's adherence to armistice terms was believed to be one of the reasons why Gen. Thimayaya demanded completion of brain-washing huts so the long-delayed "explanations" can begin.
"The Neutral Nations Repatriation commission is not prepared to be a party to the curtailment of the period for explanations," Gen. Thimayya said.
Even if the UN accepts the NNRC's ultimatum and makes the facilities available to the Communists next Monday, the Communists will be at a disadvantage.
Observers pointed out that the Reds have lost 20 of the 90 allotted for "explanations" and must interview 22,500 men, whereas the allies have to deal with only 354 reluctant prisoners, including 23 Americans.
Gen. Thimayya also rejected a UN claim that the "majority" of the anti-Communist prisoners do not want to return to Red rule.
He also thumbed down a Communist complaint that the Allies had terrorized the Chinese and North Koreans into refusing repatriation.
Allies Plan Air Force Near Russian Oil Fields
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In his story of the kidnapping, Hall accused tattooed Thomas John Marsh, 37, of the slaying which he said took place at the St. Joseph home of his confessed accomplice, Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady, 41. Local and state police agencies said no official arrest order has been issued for March, although authorities in the Midwest and East are conducting their own local searches for the man.
Paris (LIP) Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther's headquarters announced today that the Allies soon will activate a new technical air force based within easy flying distance of Russia's Baku oil field
Humanities Series Set to Open Tonight
The first Humanities lecture of the year will be delivered at 8 p.m. today in Fraser, Canada, visiting Rose Morgan, scholarship professor.
The lecture on "The Arab Contribution to Civilization" will be open to the public.
Dr. Faris, a renowned Arabic scholar, is also delivering the weekly lecture series on the Arab world today.
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In his story of the kidnapping, Hall accused tattooed Thomas John Marsh, 37, of the slaying which he said took place at the St. Joseph home of his confessed accomplice, Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady, 41. Local and state police agencies said no official arrest order has been issued for March, although authorities in the Midwest and East are conducting their own local searches for the man.
Sons Select Fathers' Field
Two freshmen and a sophomore, sons of KU architecture graduates, are now enrolled in that school. They are Phillip Coolidge, Topeka sophomore, and James Feil, Prairie Village, and Edwin Kinney, Kansas City, Freshmen.
Three graduates of the department of architecture at the University must think they learned something because they have sent their sons here.
Raymond A. Cooldidge is a former state architect and now practices in Topeka. Louis George Feil is an architectural engineer with the U.S. Engineer's office at Kansas City, and O. Wilson Kinney, is a member of the Kansas City firm of Howarth, Scott, and Kinney, mechanical engineers.
Employees of the University and of housing and food facilities, who are required by the University to have tuberculosis x-rays taken, have the entire month of October to do so, instead of one week as was reported recently in the Kansan.
Emploves Must Get X-rays
- A spokesman for the supreme allied commander said the 6th Allied Tactical Air force, to be activated next Wednesday in Izmar (Smyrna), Turkey, will unite Turkish and Greek air squadrons under an American commander.
The new force's primary mission will be support of ground troops.
The new tactical air command will unite forces of two traditional enemies who recently staged joint maneuvers for the first time in an exercise designed to repel a simulated Communist "invasion."
U. S. Maj. Gen. Robert E. Eaton will command the new force, third of its kind organized within the Atlantic pact setup. He will operate from a headquarters adjacent to the ground force command post already set up in Izmar.
Supreme headquarters said Eaton has been ordered to train Greek and Turkish pilots to use American-built F-84 Thunderjets, whose 1,000-mile operational range will place the Baku fields within easy reach.
Gruenther himself is in New York today, to speak at the Alfred E. Smith memorial dinner on the dangers of a lag in the Allied arms buildup because of Russia's current "peace" gestures.
Police Believe Hall Greenlease Slayer
Kansas City—(U.P.)—A tattooed man sought in the kidnap-slaying of little Bobby Greenlease was reported to have been seen in half a dozen states today, but police officials said they were "convinced" that they already have the murderer.
Detective Chief James Chapman of the St. Louis police said it was "the belief of the department" that Carl Austin Hall, 37-year-old ex-convict, pumped three fatal shots in millions before he demanded and got a record $600,-100 in ransom from the child's parents.
Nixon Arrives in Honolulu, ConfersonStatehood,Drought
From descriptions published in newspapers and pictures shown on TV newscasts, persons in Minnesota; Ankeny, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Peoria, Ill.; Bass Lake, Ind.; Detroit, Mich.; Syracuse, N.Y., and New York City reported that they had seen a man resembling Marsh. A warrant for his arrest, possibly charging violation of the Lindbergh kidnap law, was reported being prepared by federal officials here.
Police described Marsh as a drunk who has served time for molesting children. His most identifiable features are tattoos on his right and left forearms. His exact location in the crime scene was in Hall after two years of planning, could not be reconstructed from Hall's confession released by police.
While Hall and Mrs. Heady were questioned in a St. Louis jail, authorities kept Sandra O'Day, 22, under wraps at the Jackson county jail here as a material witness. Authorities said the O'Day woman, whom Hall accuses stenogram $300,- be permitted to make money, would not be permitted to make her story public "until she gives it from the witness stand."
The slain child's parents, Robert C. Greenlease and his wife, Virginia, remained in seclusion, steering themselves for the ordeal of Bobby's funeral services tomorrow. A friend reported that the 71-year-old Greenlease is "holding up pretty well on sheer nerve," but the 45-year-old socialite mother would "have to build up her physical strength" for the tragic rites.
Dr. Newfield to Talk At Acting Workshop
Dr. John Newfield, director of University Theatre, will speak to tomorrow and Saturday at an acting workshop in Hutchinson.
Presented by the newly-organized Community Theater in Hutchinson called the "Prairie Players," the workshop will stress essentials to good acting. Dr. Newfield said the "Prairie Players" were organized as a result of a Community theater institute held there last spring.
Prof. Newfield said a similar organization is being formed in Concordia, and he may go there soon.
Honolulu—(U.P.)—Vice President Richard M. Nixon made himself available today to groups representing every phase of Hawaiian life in an attempt to learn as much as possible about the territory's problems and possibilities.
The 40-year-old vice president stressing constantly that he is acting as President Eisenhower's "eyes and ears," took immediate note of two problems uppermost in Hawaiian minds — statehood and a severe drouth.
Mr. Nixon and his wife, accompanied by five aides and three newsmen, arrived here yesterday from
He promised Hawaiians that statehood for the territory is "going to come very soon." He said statehood "will definitely be one of the must items on the legislative program for the 1954 congressional session."
San Francisco on the first overseas leg of a nine-week "good will" tour to the Far East.
Kidnapers Tell Vague Stories
St. Louis —(U.P.)— Police officials who questioned Carl Austin Hall and Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady in the Greenlease kidnaping said today there were too many discrepancies in the story they told for it to ring entirely true.
A search for Thomas John Marsh, a former convict with a record of sex offenses, was being pressed on the basis of Hall's statement that Marsh killed the Greenlease child.
Hall, ex-convict and mastermind of the abduction, and Mrs. Heady, widow of an Oklahoma gunman, were held here in lieu of $100,000 bond on a federal charge of extortion.
Hall said he turned Bobby Greenleave over to Marsh in a Kansas City parking lot after Mrs. Heady took him from the school on Sept. 28.
Hall said Marsh took the boy to Mrs. Heady's home in St. Joseph, and when he and the woman arrived there he found the boy's body in the basement. He said he buried the body in the back yard but maintained that Marsh "was the only one who could have" killed him.
The murder-weapon, a 38-caliber revolver, was also found in Hall's room. Police officials said they believe Hall cached most of the missing $300,000. The FBI, however, maintained tight silence on that question.
Police found $293,992 of the $600,-000 ransom, paid in vain for Bobbv's return, in two suitcases in Hall's hotel room where he was arrested. Another intensive search was underway for the rest of the money, about which Hall was vague.
A high police official said it was the "consensus of the department" that Hall and Mrs. Heady had the money hidden away somewhere.
Law Professor To Speak Today
Prof. Max Rheinstein of the University of Chicago law school will speak at 4 p.m. today in the Little theater of Green hall. His topic will be "The Impact of Divorce Laws on Family Life."
Prof. Rheinstein, before teaching at Chicago, was a member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute on Comparative Law in Berlin.
The lecture is open to the public.
Weather
Slightly warmer weather prevailed in Kansas today. There was
no rain and no prospects of any,
said the St a tate
Weatherman Tom
Arnold. K an s as
has just finished
the driest two-
year period in its
weather history,
Oct. 1, 1951 through Sept. 30, 1953 Low temperatures this morning ranged from 39 degrees at Leavenworth to 46 at Wichita. Lows tomorrow morning are expected to extend from the 40s in the northwest to the 50s in the southeast. Arnold said. Highs yesterday were spread from 63 degrees at Olathe to 81 at Goodland, an unusual situation in which extreme eastern Kansas was substantially cooler than the high plains of the northwest.