Daily Hansan
50th Year, No. 105
Friday, March 13, 1953
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
—Kansan photo by Ken Co1
OH YOU KID!—A whirl passel of cute Phi Kappas swing into their routine for the Rock Chalk Revue at a dress rehearsal in Hoch auditorium before the big nights, Friday and Saturday. The skit is called "A Brief Burlesque" and represents what a "bloomer raid" might have been like. It may be hard work but everyone seems to think it will be worth it.
Rock Chalk Competition Opens Tonight in Hoch
Eight organized houses will compete for trophies at the Rock Chalk Revue which opens a two-day stand at Hoch auditorium at 7:30 tonight.
The eight houses entered in the competition are Phi Kappa, Acacia, Alpha Tau Omega, Alpha Phi, North College Hall, Phi Delta Theta, Pi Beta Phi, and Chi Omega. Awards will be made after the presentation of the revue Saturday evening by Dean F. J. Moreau of the School of Law.
The Phil Kappa group, under the direction of Donn Jensen, fine arts senior, will open the show with a western style history of the girls dormitory raids, "A Brief Burlesque." Centered around a "gal named Lou" the Phil Kappa skit revises the age old story of Dangerous Dan McGrew and offers a musical explanation as to how the famous panty raids got their start.
Life at KU is set to music in the Acacia presentation including the various phases of college life. The "big red team" is in the production although the lineup has been changed rather drastically. The Acacia skit, directed by Neil Peterson, engineering senior, also proposes an answer to the football game question that may replace the athletic scholarship.
Royalty on the campus is the theme of the Alpha Tau Omega skit, "The Prudent Prince." It is a tragic tale set in a milk bar to the background music of a lusty drinking song. Dave Conley, engineering sophomore, is the director of the skit.
The Alpha Phi's under the direction of Mary Lou Fuller, junior education, will present "Fantasy of Dolls," a refreshing skit with emphasis on rhythm and grace. The story is set in a doll shop and involves the "after hours" doing of two shadows.
Things really happen in the Chi Omega skit what a KU co-ed goes barefoot in the hills. "Take Yer Shoes Off Lucy," directed by Shirley Strain, is a "Ma and Paw Kettle" routine with little Lucy coming home from KU to see the old folks.
Pi Beta Phi has placed attention or what the women's military service can do for the co-ed in their presentation of "WOTC Shapes You Up." They tour the continent in song and dance and bring you back for a workout in pushups. Dana
Hudkins, college senior, is director of the skit.
A satire on college life will be presented in the revue by the Phi Delta Theta's, "Halls of Ivy" includes a short stop in the student council, at the chancellor's home, and student court. The skit is directed by Dick Sheldon, college junior, and Glen Opis, second year law student.
"Take Care of My Little Boy" presented by North College under the direction of Mary Al Rigor, fine arts freshman, is a satire on the pledging system of a fraternity. The story of rush week and initiation is set to music and dance.
The houses will compete for first and second place awards and a traveling trophy.
Dean Burton Marvin of the School of Journalism will speak before the Topeka branch of American Pen Women meeting at the Castle Tea room in Lawrence tomorrow at 1 o'clock. Lawrence members will be hostesses.
Marvin to Address Pen Club
Commie Attack Draws Protest
Washington — (U.F.) The United States today accused communist Czechoslovakia of a "provocative" act in attacking two American jet fighters over Germany and demanded "immediate compensation" for the U.S. plane that was destroyed.
The strongly-worded note delivered to the Prague government also flatly rejected as "falsification of facts" a Czech complaint that the two F-84 Thunder jets which were attacked had penetrated Czech territory.
The U.S. note was disclosed after Britain protested to Soviet Russia about the shooting down of a British bomber. The British called it an act of aggression and murder of British crewmen.
The government said the Czech argument was a false attempt to cover up its clear responsibility for the "inexcusable" attack.
The note stressed that radar reports made it conclusive that the American planes did not cross the border at any time as alleged by the Czech communists.
Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, director of the United Nations department of trusteeship and active participant in the field of international relations, is to speak at an all-University convocation at 9:20 a.m. Tues- day in Hoof auditorium.
Bunche to Talk Here Tuesday
Britain Rejects Russian Excuse
Lueneburg, Germany- (U.P.) -T he British Royal Air Force denied today a Russian claim that a Lincoln bomber shot down by two Soviet MIG jet fighters was over the Soviet zone of Germany when attacked.
A Royal Air Force spokesman said the bomber, which the Russians allege opened fire on the two fighters when ordered to land, was over the British zone of Germany. He said radar plots and German eyewitness accounts proved the bomber was not violating Soviet territory when the attack occurred yesterday.
Group Capt. J. Stapleton, operations chief of the British 2nd tactical Air Force headquarters at Bad Ellsen, said Soviet claims that the bomber had penetrated 72 miles into Soviet zone appeared completely false.
Six of the bomber's crew were killed. Three of the seven man crew managed to parachute to earth, but two of them died later of their wounds.
The names of the dead and wounded were not released.
The Russian attacks on the British bombers came only two days after Czechoslovak pilots in Russian-built MIGs shot down an American F-86 Thunder jet along the Czech-German border. The U.S. has made a strong protest to the Prague government.
The shooting down of the bomber was the second British-Russian air incident yesterday. The British air ministry in London reported that a short time earlier another British bomber on a training exercise near Kassel in the British zone was subjected to a "mock attack" by Russian fighters.
The three allied high commissioners met this morning in the office of French high commissioner Andre Francois-Poncet in Bonn. It was believed the meeting was in connection with Communist attacks on allied planes.
Chuklov said a wounded member of the plane's crew parachuted into the Russian zone and had been taken to a hospital. The Russian letter also said the bodies of four other crewmen had been found in East Germany.
Court Upholds Judge In Excluding Press
New York —(U.P).— The state supreme court appellate division in a split decision upon upheld the ruling of general sessions Judge Francis L. Valente in excluding the press and public from the Minot F. (Mickey) Jelke vice trial during presentation of the state's case.
Roberts Calls Charges a Distortion
Topeka—(U.P.)—Republican National Chairman C. Wesley Roberts told a Legislative investigating committee today that circumstances around his $11,000 fee in a state transaction were deliberately distorted "to blacken my name and destroy my usefulness in my present position."
Roberts read a written statement to a nine member committee from the Kansas Legislature.
The former state Republican
Roberts said "certain individuals have made accusations that I did use political influence and that I did engage in lobbying."
"These accusations are absolutely false," he said. "I challenge these accusers to bring forth a single person with whom I was in contact in this transaction who will stand up to me and say I exercised any political influence, directly or indirectly."
chairman in his statement did not name the individuals he said joined a "calculated plot" to smear him.
Roberts received $11,000 from the Ancient Order of United Workmen of Kansas for his part in the sale of a building owned by the AOUW at the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Norton.
The special committee also is looking into the charge by some state legislators that the state may have owned the building for which it gave the AOUW $110,000 in 1951. The building is on state property and other witnesses before the committee testified it should have gone to the state cost free.
The 49-year-old former newspaperman told the committee his employment by the AOUW was "on a basis of public relations counsel and that is the role I strictly adhered to."
"That brings up the matter of my
compensation." Roberts said. "It was not a contingent fee—instead it was an alternative fee."
He said either the state would buy the building at a price suitable to the AOUW or the original $1,000 retainer fee would apply on Roberts' work as public relations counsel heading the insurance company's program to gain more AOUW patients for its building at the sanatorium.
Kansas law forbids lobbying by unregistered agents and prohibits contingent fees. Roberts said he did not register as a lobbyist in the 1951 legislative session and that he had agreed with Edgar C. Bennett, president of AOUW, that "there would be no lobbying."
"The proposal for the state to buy the building was left up to proper state agencies," Roberts said. He said the transaction benefited both the AOUW and the state.
Dr. Bunche is coming to this part of the country for the express purpose of speaking here. The engagement was made several months ago, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor, said today, but was not announced because of the uncertainty of his schedule.
Dr. Bunche's address will be "The United Nations and the World Crisis."
Because of the brevity of Dr. Bunche's visit—Monday night until
Originally Dr. Emche was contacted by Elmer Beth, professor of journalism, who was trying to fill the year's schedule of Humanities lecturers. When Dr. Emche replied, the Humanities state had been opened to Benjamin Burkinka. Murphy invited him to speak to a University convocation.
DR. RALPH BUNCHE
Tuesday night—the probability of his speaking to campus groups and classes is slight. Mr. Nichols said.
Dr. Bunche womn world recognition several years ago as chief U.N. mediator on the Palestine issues. His efforts are said to have been largely responsible for the end of the war in Gaza, and he is credited with the peaceful negotiations that followed. He received the Nobel Peace prize in 1950.
He was born in Detroit August 7, 1904. Dr. Bunche did undergraduate and post-graduate work at the University of California, Harvard University, Northwestern university, the London School of Economics, and the University of Capetown.
At least 35 honorary degrees were awarded to the humanitarian by American colleges and universities in the period from June 1949 until June 1952.
2nd Listening Party To Be Held Tonight
The broadcast of the NCAA playoffs at Manhattan will be heard in the Student Union tonight when the Jayhawks play Oklahoma City university.
KU's second "listening party"
will begin at 8:30 p.m. with dancing
in the ballroom all evening.
Records will furnish dance music
The game will be broadcast at 9:45 p.m. throughout the Union.
2 KU Rallies Slated For Regional Tilts
Two rallies have been planned for Kansas students in Manhattan today and tomorrow for the start of the Jayhawker's defense of their NCAA title.
At 6:45 tonight all Kansas fans are urged to rally in front of the Wareham hotel. Saturday's rally is scheduled for 7:30 at hotel. A car rally is to follow.
The University's 50-piece pep band is to attend the regionals and play for both rallies.
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