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Exposition, Relays Set for April 17,18
The 33rd annual University Engineering exposition and the Kansas Relays will coincide this year, April 17 and 18.
The two events are expected to draw nearly 20,000 people to the University. Several Scout troops and high schools have indicated that they are going to send groups to Lawrence for the events.
Several commercial companies will have exhibits. However, the principal amount of work is done by the engineering students who endeavor to show some of the facilities offered them at the University and some of the skills they have acquired.
day. The entrance to the exposition will be the front door of Marvin hall. The exposition will be housed in seven buildings.
The exposition, which is staged by the School of Engineering and Architecture, will have at least 1,000 students participating. The displays prepared by the students will come from 10 departments in the engineering school and from eight other departments affiliated with the school. The KU Research foundation, the Kansas Geological survey,
and the Boy Scouts also will have displays.
Sigma Tau, honorary engineering fraternity, will give an award for the best departmental display.
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50th Year, No.101
—Kansan photo by Chuck Zuegner
Monday, March 9, 1953
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
"TAKE AWAY LEON"—The battle-cry of unidentified campus hoods echoed in the new Memorial Union ballroom Friday night just before they kidnapped Leon McAuliffe, leader of the Western swing band that performed. He was found in the Hawk's Nest drinking coffee.
'Hoods' Kidnap Leon For Revue Publicity
The thugs held the audience at bay while a telegram was read stating that McAuliffe would be returned if tickets were purchased to the Rock Chalk Revue, Friday and Saturday.
The undersigned KU members of the Kansas Legislature want each of you and your coaches to know we glory in your splendid spirit, your determination, and the brand of basketball you are playing. We will be pulling for you to the end to be the 1953 Big Seven Champions!"
The message, which arrived today, signed by 23 KU members of the legislature reads;
Leon McAuliffe, western swing-band leader, was kidnapped Friday night at the Boot-heel Drag by Dick Klassen and his Rock Chalk hoods and was whisked into the night in a black sedan.
To Doctor Forrest C. (Phog) Allen and the members of the basketball squad:
Legislature Boosts Basketball Team
Members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity formed a posse, headed by Wesley Gish, to search for McAuliffe. After a long search he was found
Hugo T. Wedell, justice of the state Supreme court, last month posted a message to be sent to basketball Coach Phog Allen, telling him the governing bodies of the state are supporting their state university's basketball team.
The Kansas Legislature, or at least 23 of its members, showed today that they agree with almost every person on Mt. Oread that the most important current issue to be decided in this area is the Big Seven title.
First and second place trophies will be awarded in the men's and women's divisions for the best skits presented. The other houses participating will receive plaques as honorable mention. A first place moving trophy will be awarded in each division.
drinking coffee in the Hawk's Nest
The YMCA sponsored Rock Chalk Revue will be presented at 7:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 13 and 14, in Hoch auditorium.
The houses presenting skirts are Acacia, Alpha Phi, Alpha Tau Omega, Chi Omega, North College, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa, and Pi Beta Phi.
--was asked to join the singing. Also, much to the embarrassment of one later-cameron, the music was stopped and all of the Pennsylvanians rushed to the front of the stage to encourage him to hurry to his seat.
"Western Books 1952," a selection of the best-made books produced in the West, is scheduled to open Monday, March 16, in the lobby of the Watson library. It will remain there through March.
Library to Show Best-Made Books
Eighty-two books from 11 Western states were entered in the annual competition, and 33 books submitted by 15 entrants were chosen as outstanding by the jury.
Since its inception in 1938, the purpose of the exhibition has been to stimulate the production of fine books in the West by gathering together each year the best examples of the craft. A second aim is to acquaint the public with the quality and quantity of book publishing being done by Western printers.
The Rounce & Coffin club of Los Angeles, sponsor of the exhibition, is composed of booksellers, printers and librarians.
Listening Party Set for Union
A listening party for the KU-Missouri basketball game tonight at Columbia is planned for students at the Union.
The game will be broadcast in almost every room of the building with the Union's new public address system.
Primary purpose of the party is to discourage post-game rallies if KU should win, a member of the pep committee said. Free cokes and refreshments will be served.
If KU wins, a dance will be held in the ballroom, Bill Means, business junior and coordinator of the party, said. An extension of women's closing hours will be granted by Miss Martha Peterson, dean of women, if the victory dance is held.
Details of the party were planned by a student-faculty pep committee comprised of representatives from the four pep clubs, cheer leading squad, faculty and administration.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said today the administration "enthusiastically endorses" the listening party, adding "this is another example of how the new Union, with its specialized facilities, can serve the students."
Eerie Silence Marks Stalin's Funeral Rites
Armed Forces Fete Planned by ROTCs
Moscow—(U.P).At noon today (3 a.m. CST) the body of Josef Stalin was carried into the mausoleum in the Red Square and placed beside that of Lenin
--was asked to join the singing. Also, much to the embarrassment of one later-cameron, the music was stopped and all of the Pennsylvanians rushed to the front of the stage to encourage him to hurry to his seat.
An Honors Day parade, speakers, and open house at the Military Science building are tentatively planned for Armed Forces dav. Mav 16.
Project officers for the army, air force, and navy will be Capt. John S. Mace, associate professor of military science; Capt. Carl V. Applegate, assistant of air science, and Lt. Cmdr. V. H. Brown, associate professor of naval science.
Capt. William R. Terrell, professor of naval science, will be the local project officer for the event. Coordinating local project officers will be Col. Edward F. Kumpe, professor of military science, and Col. Lynn R. Moore, professor of air science.
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Hawaii Statehood Seen by April 1
The prediction was made in the face of opposition from some Democrats and Republicans in the House.
Washington — (U.P.)— Republican Congressional leaders confidently predicted, after meeting with President Eisenhower today, that the House and Senate will pass a Hawaiian statehood bill by April 1.
Senate Republican leader Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) said the President wanted the bill considered promptly and disposed of by the Congress.
KU Air ROTC Team One of 4 Winners
The Air Force ROTC rifle team is one of the four winners in the 45-team 5th Army area match, MSgt. Harold G. Swartwood, rifle team coach, said today.
This qualifies the AFROTC team for competition in the National Service match, a postal match to be fired before March 31.
3,500 Hear Waring Concert
The mood of the show was set early when, in the second selection. "Where in The World," the audience
By JACKIE JONES
One of the largest crowds of the year in Hoch auditorium, about 3,500, attended a Fred Waring concert Saturday evening which topped the expectations of even the most ardent Waring fan.
The Pennsylvaniaans, on their first nationwide tour in 13 years, were rewarded with applause which called every performer back for an encore.
Not only were the musical and vocal arrangements entertaining, but the show was given an added lively touch through the antics of Polev McClintock.
One of Waring's greatest recording successes, "You'll Never Walk Alone," received a tremendous ovation, and the chorus and orchestra had to take several bows before the enthusiastic crowd would let the show proceed.
Doris Johnson, harpist with the Pennsylvanians, played a lively tune,
"Shangrall," which was followed by "Nuterracker Suit."
"Tenderly," and was recalled for the encore number, "Lover."
One of the favorites of the show was Bernardine Read, '50. She sang
Another performer who stopped the show, was Frank Davis. His two songs, "Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley," and "Ol Man River," gave the audience its biggest thrill.
After the show he said that it takes 133 people to put his TV show on the air from New York, but on this tour there are only 56 persons. Even eight of his performers were left in New York because of lack of space on the plane.
The concert closed with the audience singing Waring's well-known arrangement of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
The eerie silence in the great wind- swept square was shattered by the thunder of guns.
Men, women and children in the square and in the streets leading to it wept bitterly.
The echoes of the guns died away. The national anthem was played and the nation observed five minutes of silence—five minutes during which all work, all traffic stopped.
Then for three minutes sirens on factories, trains and ships sounded a final salute.
A silence almost uncanny in its completeness stilled the capital during the two-hour funeral ceremony.
Through the silent streets came Premier Georgi M. Malenkov and other leaders, along with Communist notables from other countries.
At dawn in the sub-zero weather endless masses of people congregated along the route from the hall to the Red Square.
The city was festooned with flowers flown from the sub-tropical black Sea areas. Black bordered flags fluttered in the wintry wind from all buildings.
At exactly 10 a.m. Malenkov and the other pall bearers lifted the coffin to their shoulders. They carried it down the marble stair case to a gun carriage--for Stalin was also a warrior.
In front of the gun carriage formed 25 rows of mourners—delegations of workers, representatives of the armed forces and others, holding aloft huge wreaths bearing inscriptions.
Malenkov and other members of the new ruling Presidium, including L. P. Beria, V. M. Molotov and Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, and members of Stalin's family followed immediately behind the gun carriage.
The hush was almost eerie here, in the square where Stalin used to review his troops from the mausoleum of Stalin's own grave. "Mausoleum of Lenin and Stalin."
Then Malenkov and the other pall-bearers descended to the gun carriage.
They took the coffin into the mausoleum. The guns thundered, the troops marched past and it was over.
Weather
Rainy, cloudy spring weather came to Kansas on the weekend, depo-
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ing traces of moisture at Hutchinson, Wichita, and Dodge City last night a n d early today. More rain, light a n d scattered, was expected today and tonight, beginning in the south and extending e a s t
Walmart temperatures Sunday melted most of last week's heavy snow. Topeka and Wamego were the only points reporting snow still on the ground today.