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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Sept. 30, 195
Heat Wave Snapped In Midwest, Southwest
By UNITED PRESS
A record-breaking fall heat wave was snapped today in most of the Midwest and Southwest as fire fighters stood by to control forest blazes that killed a three-year-old child and threatened to wipe out an Indiana town.
Numerous weather records ten yesterday for the second day in a row in the country's midsection as hot, rusty winds blew over the area.
Forest and brush fires, fanned by the hot, dry winds, crackled through parts of Indiana and Illinois until hundreds of volunteers turned out to control or slow the flames.
One fire marched right to the edge of tiny Wilfred, Ind., and threatened to destroy the town's 20 houses before members of six fire departments. Boy Scouts, and other volunteers brought it under control late last night. It destroyed two barns.
A minor grass fire at Washington, ind., killed three-year-old Stephen Jenkins when it swept over a childrens lean-to where he had been playing.
Bulldozers hurriedly gouged out trenches around Wilfred at the height of the fire there last night, helping to stop the fire. Officials said the blaze, which covered 1,500 acres, threatened a Du Pont company powder magazine south of Terre Haute, Ind., for a time.
Yesterday was the second day that the autumn heat wave baked the midsection of the country. Nearly every weather reporting station in northern Wisconsin to Louisiana reported new records for the day.
But today the plains states were feeling the breezes of cool Canadian and Pacific air. Early morning temperatures dipped as low as 40 degrees.
McCarthys On Wedding Trip
Washington — (UP)— Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and his bride were off on their honeymoon today after a society wedding and reception that attracted much of the capital's top officialdom.
Sen. McCarthy said he will take about three weeks off from his Communist investigations to honeymoon in Wisconsin.
Close friends, however, said the couple had other secret plans and may wind up in Bermuda.
The senator and his 29-year-old bride, the former Jean Kerr, left on the wedding trip yesterday after greeting friends for two hours at a post-mutual reception at the plush Washington Club on DuPont Circle.
Temperatures outdoors rose to 90 degrees, and Sen. McCarthy perspired freely in his formal still-collared attire as he stood beside his wife receiving congratulations of well-wishers.
Vice-President Richard M. Nixon was in a front pew seat for the marriage ceremony at St. Matthew's Catholic Cathedral earlier, but missed the reception because of another engagement. His wife attended both.
Swiss Scientist, Son Dive 10,334 Feet for New Record
Isle of Ponza, Italy—(U.P.)—Prof. August Piccard, first man to explore the stratosphere more than 10 miles above the earth, descended almost two miles into the sea today to set a new depth record.
Piccard and his son Jacques dived 10.334 feet in a banana-shaped undersea craft that the 69-year-old Swiss-born scientist invented for exploring the ocean depths.
The Piccards beat the previous record of 6,890 feet by almost a mile.
Italian navy tests last week showed the ditch is 12,460 feet deep at the spot where the Piccats submerged
Piccard said before submerging that he and his son hoped to reach bottom in the Tyrrenian "Ditch," an underwater "Grand Canyon" over 12,000 feet deep 18 miles southeast of here. They decided, however, to return to the surface after almost reaching the two-mile mark.
Newsmen and Italian navy men aboard accompanying boats cheered loudly as Piccard's $80,000 craft, the Trieste, popped up to the surface at 10:33 a.m. (4:33 a.m. EST), two hours and 18 minutes after their descent.
They had to wait almost an hour before pressure valves forced sea water out of the submersion compartments to allow the Piccards to climb out and announce their new mark, which bettered the record set by the two French naval officers off Toulon on Aug. 14.
Piccard previously had made numerous descents in a bathysphere. The two Frenchmen used one of the Piccard bathyspheres in their August descent.
The big dive followed months of preparation during which the long-haired, bespectacled professor made repeated adjustments to the delicate system of valves and ballast which control the depth ship.
In the most successful of recent dives, the Piccards touched bottom off the Isle of Capri at 3.575 feet but said all they saw was a six-inch phosphorescent fish.
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Piceard gave no immediate details of what he saw in the depths today but said the bathysphere "functioned perfectly."
The Piccards rode in a bulb protruding from the bottom of the banana-like "balloon" chamber which is filled with gasoline.
Mrs. Berman said she hadn't seen the sister, Dr. Antoinette Teoreuscu, since coming to this country with her and another sister 33 years ago.
Trouble Feared Over Phone Call
Los Angeles—(UP)—Mrs. Fedora Berman feared today that a long-distance telephone call she placed on her sister in Communist Rumania may have gotten her sister "into trouble."
"We chatted and then I very foolishly asked her if she would like to come to the United States," Mrs. Berman said.
She said she put the call through to the Bucharest physician yesterday after trying to make such a call for "several years."
Plane Crashes Bounces, Burns In Arizona City
"She replied, 'Oh, yes, yes,' and then I didn't hear anything more. They must have cut us off."
"That call must have been monitored," she said.
Phoenix, Ariz. —(U.P.) One person was killed last night when a light plane crashed, bounced against a house where a 10-year-old boy was shot, and then burned, only two blocks from a crowded drive-in theater.
Witnesses said they heard the plane crash in the yard of the home of Jack J. Halperin. They said the craft apparently struck the ground, glanced against the house, and then bounced back a few feet where it burned without exploding.
Dead was the pilot, Sgt. William A. Root, about 40, Decatur, Mich., who was en route from his home to Camp Cook, Calif.
The only occupant of the house was 10-year-old Martin H. Halperin, who was sitting on a sofa, looking at television when the plane smashed a six-foot hole in one wall.
The boy suffered a minor injury to his neck when partially buried by debris, but otherwise was not badly hurt, according to deputies.
The plane had taken off from Air Haven airport between Phoenix and Glendale, and was circling over the Indian Drive-In theater when witnesses heard its engine sputter.
Damage to the house was estimated at $1,000.
Persons at the theater said they rushed to the scene two blocks away and attempted to remove Root's body frame, but that flames drove them back.
The fire was put out before damaging the house.
Two Ships Collide In Night Voyage
London —(UP)—Two British warships darkened for night operations in NATO naval maneuvers collided last night off southern Iceland, injuring 32 men, the admiralty announced today.
The light cruiser Swifture and the heavy destroyer Diamond remained afloat and seaworthy foliated in collision 80 miles south of Iceland.
No deaths were reported and none of the injured was in serious condition.
Fire apparently broke out aboard the Swiftware following the impact with 2,610-ton Diamond but was brought to control quickly, the admiralty said.
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The scholarship, good for two or three years, carries a sufficient allowance to pay all expenses at Oxford. No restriction is placed on a Rhodes scholar as to choice of study. All applications should be made as early as possible in October, Dean Nelson said.
Applicants must have junior standing, he between 19 and 25 years of age, male, a citizen, and unmarried. A high academic record is necessary, but the applicant must also have a good record of participation in activities, such as athletics or debate.
Applications for Rhodes scholarships to the University of Oxford in England are now available in the office of the Graduate School, 227 Strong hall, Dean John H. Nelson said today.
Applications Available For Rhodes Grants
Thirty-two Rhodes scholarships are assigned annually to the U.S. by the British university. Eight district committees, each picking nominees from six states, are the final authority in making selections for the scholarships.
Nominations from KU are made by the University committee for Rhodes scholarships, headed by Dean Nelson. These nominees are in turn referred to a state committee, headed by Cancellor Murphy.
Two applicants are selected by the Kansas committee for consideration by the regional committee, which chooses four Rhodes scholars from a district including Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas.
"The University has had four Rhodes scholars since World War II." Dean Nelson said, "but one, Jim Logan, married and had to forfeit the scholarship. Ordinarily, if the averages worked out, the University should have a Rhodes scholar every five years."
First step in applying for the scholarship is to be approved by the
University. Next is application to the secretary of the Kansas committee, Emory Lindquist, President o f Bethany college. The application lists college training and must include three photographs of the applicant, his birth certificate, a statement of approval from the University, three copies of his transcript, a certificate from a physician, and a personal statement by the applicant.
If a third year of study is necessary and work during the first two years satisfactory, the scholarship may be continued for another year.
New UN Chief En Route
Honolulu —(UP)— Gen. John E. Hull, newy-appointed United Nations Supreme Far East commander, was en route to Tokyo today to relieve Gen. Mark W. Clark. Gen. Hull, accompanied by his wife, left here yesterday afternoon aboard a four-engined Military Air Transport Service Constellation.
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