Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Greenlease Boy Slain UNIVERSITY Daily hansan Kidnapers Caught; $600,000 Paid
51st Year, No. 16
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 1953
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Freshman Queen Action Tabled By ASC Senate
Dana Anderson, representative from organized houses, said postponement on the bill until after the freshman elections would give freshmen a chance to voice opinion on the matter. Anderson said freshman general elections will be held Wednesday, Oct. 28, with primaries Wednesday, Oct. 21, and petitions due Friday, Oct. 16.
The budget committee submitted the expected budget which was accepted.
A bill barring freshmen women from entering Homecoming and Jayhawker queen contests was tabled indefinitely by the All Student Council senate at a meeting last night.
In another action, a bill to raise parking fines from $2 to $5 after the fifth offense was defeated.
Eight faculty advisers were approved. They are Walter J. Mikols, assistant professor of physical education; Helen Lohr, associate professor of home economics; William Scott, associate professor of law; Joie Stapleton, associate professor of physical education; Neale Carman, professor of Romance languages; James Drury, associate professor of political science; Jack Heysinger, assistant professor of economics, and Kenneth Beasley, instructor in political science.
Jean Schanze, fine arts junior, and Robert Pope, graduate student in chemical engineering, were sworn in by president Richard Sheldon, college senior, to fill vacated Senate posts.
Robert Elliott, college junior; Robert Worester, engineering junior, and Darrell Fanestil, college junior, were named to assist William Wilson, engineering senior, with the Student Government congress.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy told a combined session of the Senate and House of Representatives that "one of the important jobs of student government is to try and teach principles of responsibility to the individual student.
"We have tried to implement what we believe in. The University, in instituting the freshman dormitory system, believed that freshman women are 'innocent until proved guilty,' and are capable of organizing their own lives," he said
PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEE QUIZZED —E. E. Hile (left) and H. T. Stucker of the Conair Consolidated Vulture Aircraft company of Ft. Worth, Texas, chat with Lawrence Kavitz in the first of a series of interviews with KU engineers.
Enroll in Engineering— Name Your Own Price
Are you a senior in education, business, fine arts, law, journalism or pharmacy? Have you begun wondering about a job after graduation? Are you beginning to worry about going out and meeting prospective bosses? If you are, then you're in the wrong school. Get in engineering, they come after you!
It seems too early in the year to start thinking about future jobs but it isn't so with the men of Marvin. Interviews started for prospective graduates yesterday and from now on until the end of school there will be more interviews.
It doesn't matter what department
Iowa State Group To Visit KU Campus
Iowa State revisits the campus this afternoon but on more friendly terms than Saturday. Thirty-five students and professors will visit the KU department of architecture as a part of a tour through this part of the country to inspect building fabrication.
Richard Anschutz, president of the KU student chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and Richard Jordison, instructor in architecture, conduct the visitors on a tour of the campus.
ASC1953-54 Budget
Expenditures:
Expenditures:
Appropriations...$2,000.00
Business Expense...500.00
Printing...$100.00
Jayhawker Picture...85.00
Rent...135.00
Service Charge...50.00
Business Expense...100.00
Miscellaneous...30.00
Conferences...100.00
Constitutional Reprints...200.00
Election Expense...600.00
Jayhawk Nibble...275.00
Publications (Student Directory, etc.)...400.00
Traditions and Cheerleaders...375.00
Total Expenditures...$4,500.00
Receipts:
Balance on Hand...$ 534.00
Activity Fees...4,440.00
Filing Fees*...60.00
Social Fines...50.00
Total Receipts...$5,044.75
you're in, you still are wanted as a prospective employee. This week's interview sheet showed that the three companies here for interviews were interested nieveryone. Aeronautical, mechanical, civil, electrical, industrial, chemical, metallurgical, geological, and petroleum engineers were all on the "helpe wanted" bulletin along with graduate physicists, geologists, and chemists.
The engineers love to tell of the aeronautical major who graduated last spring and stepped right into a $10,000-a-year job as a test pilot. That's unusual even for the educated engineer. Usually pay scales run in the $365-a-month level.
Chances are you'll be starting out next year on a pretty low salary unless you're on the ball or your dad owns the business. Not so in engineering.
Mechanical engineering graduates last June offer a fairly accurate yardstick for salaries. Of the 15 graduates, three were drawing better than $700-a-month starting pay. The average was $410 for an average week of 43 hours.
No doubt the great demand for engineers has pushed the payscale to these great heights. Other workers may come and go but the engineer is still positive for a job. An excellent example of this was shown last summer when Boeing laid off some 14,000 workers but their demand for engineers was greater than ever.
The Sliderule Romees must have something that make them so valuable. We've tried but as yet we haven't found out what it is.
Mortar Board Dinner Slated
The alumnae chapter of Mortar Board will give a dinner for 16 undergraduate members at 6:30 p.m. today at the home of Mrs. Skipper Williams, 641 Louisiana street. Alumnae from other colleges now living here may call Mrs. Fred Montgomery at 2501 for reservations.
By UNITED PRESS
Breaking with staggering suddenness, the report that the 6-year-old boy's body had been found were denied by local law enforcement authorities in Et. Joseph.
The 9-day-old Bobby Greenlease kidnap case came to a crashing end today with discovery of his decomposed body in a shallow grave in St. Joseph, Mo., and the arrest of two persons in St. Louis.
Hoover also disclosed that Bobby's father, Robert C. Greenlease, 71-year-old millionaire Cadillac dealer in Kansas City, had paid $600,000 ransom. He said a great portion of the money had been recovered.
He indicated that perhaps the boy had been murdered before the ransom had been paid. He had been shot.
Hoover announced that the ransom had been paid by the boy's frantic father last Sunday night.
The case was shockingly similar to the Lindbergh case, from which the present Federal kidnap law grew. Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., 19-month-old son of the famous flier, was kidnapped March 1, 1932 near Hopewell, N.J. Ransom was paid, but when the boy's body was found it had been reduced almost to a skeleton.
Meager details of the negotiations were disclosed here shortly after the tragic news was announced.
Robert Lederman, Tulsa, Okla., and Norbert O'Neill, Kansas City, both partners of Mr. Greenlease in the automobile business, called newsmen to the lawn of the Greenlease mansion in suburban Mission Hills. Kan.
Mr. Ledermann said that he and O'Neill were the contacts with the kidnapers for the family. He said the money, in cash, was paid "on a bridge" somewhere between Kansas City and St. Louis at 1:05 a.m. Monday, Oct. 5.
Hoover quoted Hall as admitting that he shot the boy. The body was found behind a residence owned by Mrs. Heady in St. Joseph.
More than a week ago, on Monday, Sept. 28, at 11 a.m. CST, a plump, 35-year-old, auburn haired woman hailed a taxicab at a south Kansas City business district and ordered the driver to the exclusive Catholic Day school, the French Institute of Notre Dame de Sion a short distance away where Bobby was in the primary grade.
Mrs. Heady has a criminal record. Hall was paroled from the Missouri prison last April 24 from a five-year robbery sentence.
The two in custody in St. Louis, the FBI said, implicated Thomas John Marsh, 37, who was released from the Missouri penitentiary two years ago.
The woman re-entered the cab 20 minutes later with the unsuspecting boy and went to a southside drugstore parking lot. From there they were believed to have driven away in a late model Ford bearing Kansas license plates.
It was not until an hour later that the nuns telephoned the Greenlease home to inquire about the 45-year-old Mrs. Greenlease's condition and discovered to their horror, she was not ill. Mrs. Greenlease answered the phone.
Ordering the taxi to wait, the woman told a nun that she was Bobby's aunt, that his mother had suffered a heart attack while shopping, and that she had come to take him home.
The Greenlease household immediately went into seclusion. Mr. Ledterman, Mr. O'Neill, and Greenlease's adopted son, Paul, 35, took turns as spokesmen for the stricken family.
The kidnap announcement touched off a continuing torrent of rumor, false reports, and crank telephone calls. Newsmen swarmed over the broad lawns of the Greenlease neighbors on day and night assignment. Twenty-four hour stakeouts were stationed at police headquarters.
At first, Mr. Greenlease appeared outside the hugh brick house occasionally. His voice was strong, his step sure. The grieving mother was under the care of her physician constantly, part of the time under sedatives.
Dr. Donald Black said the father "had a brief interval of collapse, but has regained his composure." He administered no sedative, either to the father or the mother.
In St. Louis, it was learned that police and FBI agents arrested Hall in his room at the Congress hotel. Mrs. Heady was picked up at an Arsenal street address.
University Senate Groups Chosen in Initial Meeting
The University Senate, all-University faculty governing body, yesterday appointed committees in its first of four school year meetings.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy presided over the group, which includes all professors, associate professors and some administrative officers.
New members of the senate advisory committee, elected by the senate by mail, are George Anderson, professor of history; M. Carl
Slough, associate professor of law; and Ethan F. P Allen, professor of political science. They succeed Elmer F. Beth, Florence Black, and Donald G. Wilson. New secretary of the senate is Ernest Griswold, and William Cottle is associate secretary. Former secretary was N. W. Storer.