No Rest for Him-
Comanche Faces Battle Again!
A stuffed horse in the Dyche Museum of Natural History has Kiwanians in Lewistown, Mont., snorting and pawing the ground.
The horse is Comanche, sole survivor of the Custer massacre on Montana's Little Big Horn river. It has been "put out to pasture" in a display case here at the University.
Goy, Arn, reached in Topeka, said the Kiwanis club letter had not been brought to his attention, but added, "My recollections are that Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis ordered the remains to be kept in Kansas where the horse can be given the best of care. I know of no better jurisdiction in the case."
Lewistown Kiwanians have written Gov. Edward F. Arn of Kansas demanding that the horse, which was ridden by Capt. Myles W. Keogh when Custer and his entire command were wiped out by Sitting Bull and his Sioux warriors, be returned to Montana and placed in the federal museum on the battlefield near Crow Agency.
Jack MacDermond, president of the Lewistown Kiwanis club, asserted, "While it may be true that Dr. E. Raymond Hall, chairman of the KU zoology department and curator of the museum, has a personal respect and reverence for Comanche, we understand that the famous horse is little appreciated by students and other members of the KU faculty.
"Most people in Kansas never heard of Comanche," he continued, "and besides, we understand the gallant golding has been allowed to get dusty and moth-eaten in the KU museum.
"Keogh rode to fame and death with Custer, astiride Comanche in Montana," MacDermond pointed out. "If Comanche hadn't come to Montana, it would have been just another dead horse, and no one would ever have heard of it. Kansas university would not have wanted it. So why shouldn't Comanche come back home to Montana where it belongs and would be happiest?
"Horse heaven to Comanche is on the banks of Montana's Little Big Horn river.
"Besides, Kansas lured Dr. James McCain away from Montana State university to be president of Kansas State college at Manhattan. If we can't have Jim back, then the least Kansas can do is give us our horse."
Dr. Hall of the University zoology department asserted, "We're going to keep him. Possession is nine points of the law."
"Kansans are interested in the animal, for we have found that Comanche is seen more than any other exhibit in the museum. Hardly a day passes without some visitor asking about the horse.
"As to Comanche being moth-eaten, that's ridiculous. The horse has been treated with insecticide, and sealed in an air-tight case to protect him from dust. A machine has been installed to keep a constant humidity in the case.
"It is a misstatement to say that the horse hasn't been well kept. The horse was half-dead when found wandering on around the Little Big Horn battlefield. He was then brought to Ft Riley where he lived to the age of 31. We've always strived to give Comanche the best of care since he was brought to the University.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy was not available for comment.
When Gen. Terry's men reached the Custer battlefront on June 27, 1876, the day after the historic fight, they found Comanche wandering amidlessly. Shot seven times, the horse was near death. It was taken by the steamer "Far West," which lay at the timepoint of 15 miles and Big Little Horn rivers 15 miles north of the battlefield, and made portable in a special stall for a trip down the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers.
Arriving at Bismarck, in Dakota territory, Comanche was conveyed tenderly to Fort Abraham Lincoln, the post from which Custer and the 7th Cavalry had so proudly and gallantly marched away just five weeks previously.
When the 7th Cavalry was later ordered to Fort Riley, Kan., Comanche was taken along. In the winter of 1891-92, when the now famous horse was 28 years old, it went to what it no doubt thought
would be the "happy hunting grounds," and was mounted by Prof Lewis Lindsay Dyche of the University.
In 1947 the University resisted the efforts of the United States Army, or more specifically, of the late Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, to move the horse to the Fort Riley museum, so what chance does Lewistown have?
The University's claim is partly financial. When Comanche died, Prof. Dyche was called to the fort and officers asked what he would charge to mount the animal. He said about $400. Apparently the money was not immediately forthcoming, so Dyche said he would mount Comanche anyway, exhibit him at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, and then let the officers decide. In the meantime, the personnel at Fort Riley had shifted and the new officers were not particularly interested, so Dyche and the University retained possession.
Gen. Wainwright wrote the governor, the board of regents, and various generals. Former Chancellor Deane W. Malott resisted articulately. Comanche stayed in his glass case on Mt. Oread.
Mr. MacDermond claims, "Montana never had a chance to get Comanche, nor did the horse have anything to say about its final resting place. It is time this injustice of more than 60 years standing be carried out and that Comanche be permitted to return to its Montana home.
"Knowing full well of the famed fair-mindedness and generosity of the people of Kansas, and realizing that a stuffed horse can't speak for itself, we of the Lewistown Kiwanis club have no doubt that they will insist on Comanche's return to Montana." he concluded.
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HORSEPLAY—Shown is Comanche, one of the outstanding relics of Dyche Museum. The Lewistown, Mont., Kiwanis club feels that Montana has prior claim on the famous horse.
According to the sources, the Russians indicated they were willing to let the Big Four meeting precede the Big Five talks if the West wished.
Russia Reported to Have Agreed on Big 4 Meeting
Officials in London said the full text of the Soviet note may not be published there today because of its length.
Paris—(U.P.)—Russia was reported today to have agreed to attend a Big Four conference on Germany if the Western powers would join the Soviet and Communist China in a round-table discussion of all other world problems.
Authoritative sources disclosed this was the gist of a Soviet note received in Washington, London and Paris. The Soviet note replied to the Western proposal of Sept. 2 proposing a four-power conference of foreign ministers on Germany and Austria to be held at Lugano, Switzerland, Oct. 15.
In Washington, the State department said it would have no comment until it has had a chance to study the full text of the Russian note.
The proposal of a Big Five conference, including Red China, was regarded by diplomatic observers in both Paris and London as a rejection of the proposal by the United States, Britain and France.
Soviet insistence on putting the Chinese issue into the long series of exchanges on Germany and Austria was apparently an attempt to screen Communist unwillingness to negotiate now on those two European problems, the sources said.
The sources also noted the Kremlin response would serve the further purpose of clouding continued Chinese and North Korean reluctance to arrange for the Korean political conference.
The note was received in the Western capitals as Prime Minister Winston Churchill, foremost proponent of a top-level meeting with the new Kremlin leaders, prepared to end a French Riviera vacation and return to London.
After three months of illness and convalescence, Churchill will resume active direction of the British government tomorrow when he flies to London from Nice. He will preside at a cabinet meeting Thursday.
Four Events Scheduled To Mark KU Weekend
A big weekend is ahead for the University, with the annual Night-shirt parade Friday night. Parents day and Band day in conjunction with the KU-Iowa State football game Saturday, and an all-student dance capping the activities Saturday night.
The Nightshirt parade is next year before the first home Big Seven football game. Traditionally, men students don nightshirts. Women wear jeans and pailts in the parade through downtown Lawrence.
Students will meet at 7:30 p.m. in front of the Union building, then march down to Massachusetts street where a snake dance will be held. Cheerleaders will lead a bonfire rally at South park.
Parents of new students have been invited to the second annual Parents day Saturday. The visitors will be shown phases of student life and various points of interest around the campus.
An informal reception will be held for the parents at 10 a.m. in the Union building. The chancellor, dean of students, deans of men and women, and members of the All Student Council will greet the students.
Fifty visiting high school bands will parade in downtown Lawrence from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday and form a massed band for pre-game ceremonies. The Iowa State college and Abilene High school bands will perform haftime marching exhibitions.
An all-student dance will be held from 9-12 p.m. Saturday in the Union ballroom. Gene Hall's orchestra will play. Admission prices are 75 cents a couple and 50 cents stag.
Bevan Scores New Victory
McCarthy Weds Jean Kerr In Glossy Washington Rites
The couple knelt as Father Awalt pronounced the words: "I join you together in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost."
The vote announced at the Labor party's 52nd annual conference indicated Bevan and his supporters had smashed the rightwing challenge to their power over the local sections of the party.
Margate, England —(UP)— Aneurin Bevan, leader of leftwing British Socialists and outspoken critic of the United States, scored a thumping victory today over supporters of Clement Attlee in elections for the Labor Party National Executive committee.
Washington—(U.P.)-Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy married Jean Kerr, his pretty former assistant, today in a glittering society wedding that formally ended his reign as one of the Senate's most confirmed bachelors.
Bevan and five followers captured six of the seven seats on the 27-member committee chosen by local Labor party branches.
The fiery Welshman polled a record 1,142,000 votes. It marked the sixth year in a row that Bevan has topped all candidates.
McCarthy, who is 43, and his 29-year-old bride, stood silently at the foot of the altar as the Rev. William J. Awalt began the ancient Catholic nuptial rites.
Two thousand guests—highgov.4
ermnment officials, diplamats,
and Congressmen—witnessed the simple
ceremony before the gem-encrusted
high altar of St. Matthews' Roman
Catholic cathedral.
The only non-Bevanite to win a seat was former colonial secretary James Griffiths. Griffiths won over Harold Davies, Labor member of Parliament, to prevent a clean sweep by the Bevanites. Griffiths also was the only pro-Attlee man to be elected in last year's elections.
President Eisenhower did not attend. But Vice President and Mrs. Richard M. Nixon, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and other representatives of the administration were on hand.
The senator placed a narrow platinum band on his bride's finger. Low organ music and the solo, Schubert's "Ave Maria," rose in the background and the nuptial mass began. The entire ceremony lasted only 35 minutes.
McCarthy is a life-long Catholic. His bride recently joined the church.
The wedding left only four bachelors in the Senate. Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.), who was another hold-out, was married two weeks ago.
Freshman Has Operation
Henry Abella, engineering freshman, underwent an emergency appendectomy Friday night at Watkins hospital.
ILA May Strike On East Coast
New York —(UP)—The die-hard International Longshoremen's association today called a strike of its 40,000 Atlantic coast members for midnight tomorrow unless shippers meet its wage demands.
The ILA negotiating committee threatened a walkout Thursday that could tie up cargo on the vast New York-New Jersey waterfront and at every port from Portland, Me., to Hampton Roads, Va.
The strike deadline coincides with expiration of the union's contract with the New York shipping association.
More than 1,000 policemen, meanwhile, patrolled New York piers where ILA Longshoremen were pitched against organizers for a new AFL union in a waterfront membership war.
Brooklyn Judge Sam Leibowitz warned yesterday that "violence and even murder" could be expected in the loyalty struggle between the ILA, which was ousted from the AFL for gangsterism and corruption, and the new union chartered by the AFL last week to replace it.
The judge issued his warning after police confiscated 20 baseball bats and 40 bludgeons found in a sound truck being used by AFL seamen in an appeal to cargo-handlers to desert the ILA.
About 1,200 Brooklyn Longshoremen attended a mass meeting last night to hear union leaders loyal to ILA chief Joseph P. Ryan urge them to stick with the orphaned union.
At the same time, however, two ILA locals with a total membership of 1,500 men voted to bolt to the new AFL union. Members of Local 975 in Brooklyn voted 3-1 for the switch and members of Local 895 in Manhattan voted 5-1 for the change.
The ILA's new wage demand called for a 13-cent per hour increase, including 10 cents in actual wages and the equivalent of three cents an hour in welfare benefits. Last week the union had scaled its demand down to a total increase of 10 cents, while the shippers had offered a total of 8 1-2 cents.
The parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Dunn, and their 20-year-old daughter, Barbara, appealed to Cpl Jack Dunn, one of 23 Americans handed over to Indian neutrals near Panmunjom.
Baltimore — (U.P.) — The heartbroken family of a Korean war soldier who refused repatriation made a tape-recording urging him to change his mind today.
Family of Red GI Tape Records Plea
Both Mr. and Mrs. Dunn were haggard and sleepless from nights of worry when they made the recording in a private session. They said they are convinced young Dunn is not a Communist. They added they are willing to pay their way to Korea to appeal to him, if they can get permission to make a flying trip.
Fritz Elected New KU Band President
Richard Fritz, fine arts sophomore, has been elected president of the University concert and marching band.
Other officers are Emily Wolverton, fine arts junior, vice-president; Ellis Evans, college sophomore, social chairman; Jo Anna Sellars, fine arts junior, delegate at large; Alta Joyce Bryan, education senior, publicity chairman; Frank Vacin and Larry Havlicek, education seniors, student directors, and Don Shaffer, fine arts sophomore, freshman trainer.