No Matter What
Senate Says Soldiers Can't Buy Out of Army
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Washington—(U.P)—The Senate Armed Services committee has voted to repeal an 1890 law under which two GT's recently tried to buy their way out of the army. $ \textcircled{4} $
Lt. Col. V, M. Wallace told the committee the old law is "out-moded." Besides, he said, it conflicts with the draft act.
Few persons probably would ever have heard of the law if it hadn't been for Cpl. George C. Noonan Jr., of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Pfc. Hugh Lucas of Dallas, Texas.
The soldiers, both stationed at Fort Sill, Okla., read about the law and its "but-out" provision in a newspaper feature story.
They learned that the old act authorizes the President to fix terms and conditions under which a man in uniform may buy his way out of military service.
But the late Franklin D. Roosevelt had used his emergency powers to suspend the act in 1840. The suspension was scheduled to expire April 1 along with various Presidential emergency powers.
Noonan and Lucas watched the papers to see whether congress would keep the law inoperative. April 1 came and went, and they saw nothing to indicate the suspension had not lapsed.
At the time of the law's suspension, a man who had served one year could have bought out for $120. The rate fell off with additional years of service.
So they applied at once for permission to buy out under the law. Their hopes were dashed, however, when they discovered that Congress shortly before the deadline, had temporarily extended sundry Presidential emergency powers and in so doing had extended the buy-out law's suspension.
But suspended or not, the old law is still on the books and conceivably could go in effect again.
That is why the Senate committee decided it had better be repealed.
Jerald Hamilton, member of the music staff at Washburn university, will present the third in a series of recitals to be played on the Baroque Organ in the Museum of Art at 4 p.m. Sunday.
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The program will open with the "Suite Medievale" by Jean Langlais. Also on the program will be "Muzete" by the 18th century French composer Dandrieu, the 17th century German composer Buxtehude's setting of the Lutheran Chorale "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland," and the "Prelude and Fugue in A minor" by Bach.
The program, open to the public without charge, is sponsored by the Museum of Art and the School of Fine Arts.
Hamilton Recital Slated for Sunday
Prof. Hamilton, organist and choirmaster of Grace Cathedral in Topeka, is a graduate of the School of Fine Arts.
Library Receives Rare Book, Picture
A rare eight-volume edition of Shakespeare's works and a photograph of the late Prof. C. G. Dumlap have been given for the new rare books room of the library, Robert Vosper, director, announced today.
The donor is Mrs. Iris Calderhead Pratt, Frijole, Tex., a member of the KU class of 1910. Mrs. Pratt is the wife of Wallace E. Pratt, also an alumnus, who is the retired vice president of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey in charge of geological exploration.
The Shakespeare edition in calf binding is the product of Lewis Theoebald, an English playwright and Shakespeareian editor who died in 1744.
New Teachers To Meet Staff
Music: Theodora Ericsson, Sally Lieb, Otis Simmons, Karl Abbott, Betty Thies, Allane West, Norma Birzer, William Oldham, and Mary Penfield.
Students who have been practice teaching the past seven weeks will meet at 9 a.m. Saturday with their supervisors and Karl Edwards, director of student teaching.
Physical education: Betty Clinger, James Dinsmore, Bradley Keith, Dean Kelley, Thomas Ridder, Dean Smith, Kenneth Reid, Shirley Thomson, Kenneth Buller, William Huntley, Robert Bell, and William Farney.
Mathematics: George Chaney, and Stanley Holm.
Language arts and speech correction: Marese Ball and Ann Wagner. Business education: Joan Fink and
Elementary grades: Delores Commons, Marilyn Hentzler, Norma Mock, Marilyn Roberts, Kathryn Todd, Gayle Grandbender, Anna Hollyfield, Gay Bonney, Hazel Davis, Patricia Hessling, Georgia Tipton, and Rosemary Scheuerman.
The returning students and the subiects which they taught are:
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Language arts: Curtis Harris,
Laura Leaderbrand, Barbara Orendor-
do, Jo Pownall, Max Whitson,
Carla Haber, Shirley Jarrett, and
Jannith Lewis.
Business Education, Joan Pink and
Marlene Shaw.
Science: John Hawken and Harold McCord.
Social studies: Robert Huff and Neal Morris.
French: Arlee Taylor.
Home economics: Joy Hutcherson.
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Irwin Gaston, graduate student, executive secretary of the YMCA, and Richard Scott, college junior, president of the YMCA, will attend a Church Vocations conference this weekend in Chicago.
YM Officers to Attend Chicago Conference
The conference is designed to show the relation of the church to the contemporary critical problems of society. A field trip of Chicago social agencies will also be made.
Friday. April 24.1953
Tornado Whirls Into Texas, Arkansas While Rain, Fire Cover Other Areas
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A tornado whirled into Texarkana, Tex., early today, tossing a house 100 yards and doing considerable property damage. No injuries were reported.
The wind storm swept eastward into Arkansas after striking the border city.
Rain also was reported in the Ohio valley and northern New England, but fair weather in the Great Lakes area threatened timberlands in Wisconsin.
Meanwhile, showers and thunderstorms extended from central Texas to the Canadian border and as far east as the Mississippi valley today as a complex low pressure moved down the Rockies.
One of the worst fires in the state in more than a year burned about 2,100 acres of grass and timber near Adams, Wis., yesterday before fire fighters brought the blaze under control.
Central Wisconsin was the most seriously threatened area, but trees in other parts of the state also were tinder dry.
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