Topoka, Ks.
Thursday, February 12, 1953
FINE ARTS SPEAKER—Bernard "Poco" Frazier, noted sculptor, will speak at a fine arts convocation at 3 p.m. today in Strong auditorium. He will show slides of cave paintings of France and Spain in the Museum of Art lecture room at 7:30 tonight. He is pictured here putting the finishing touches on the 11-ton Missouri bear which guards the new state office building in Jefferson City.
Poco' Frazier to Speak At Art Convocation
Bernard "Poco" Frazier, well-known sculptor and one-time KU track star, will speak at the Fine Arts convocation at 3 p.m. today
Work Delayed On Fieldhouse
Steel girders necessary to resume construction work on the University's $21\%$ million fieldhouse may not be available until October, Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the chancellor, said today.
Work has been halted since May 1952 on the project which was started in the spring of 1951. Construction first was delayed by lack of a government permit authorizing the purchase of steel.
Soon after authorization for the steel was received, the steel strike occurred. The Korean war brought about control of steel for defense purposes. After the strike ended, a backlog of defense orders further delayed the obtaining of necessary steel.
Even though raw steel now is available, Mr. Lawton said, several months delay will be necessary for fabrication of the giant steel beams. The fabrication process strengthens the raw steel so that it can carry the weight of a very large building.
Estimated completion time after the fabricated steel is available is two years,'Mr. Lawton said.
Weather
Partly cloudy skies were forecast for Kansas today, tonight, and tomorrow with a possibility of a few snow flurries in the $_{e}$ northwest. The weather buireau said the lows tonight would be in the 20s northwest to the 30s southeast and the highs tomorrow 35 to 40 east to the 40s wes t. Trees of n e a p i n
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were recorded yesterday at Olathe and Topeka yesterday with temperatures ranging from a low of 17 at Goodland to a high of 40 at Chanute, Dodge City and Hill City.
Slides and photographs of Mr. Franier's work will be shown in the Pine room of the Union at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Mr. Frazier has received numerous awards for his work. He designed 12 bronze door panels which were installed on the Campanile last spring.
Another project he just completed is "Mighty Mo." a massive 11-ton stone bear at the main entrance of the new 14-story state office building at Jefferson City, Mo. This is one of the biggest sculptures in the country carved from a single piece of stone, Mr. Frazier said.
He is conducting a two-day workshop in the School of Fine Arts, and is taking part in a series of conferences and discussions with design, sculpture, and architecture students.
He has also been elected to design a large ceramic mosaic for Holy Cross Lutheran church, now under construction in Wichita.
50th Year. No.84
London — (U.P.)— Diplomats believed today that Russia welcomed any opportunity to break with Israel as a natural climax to her violent hostility to Zionism, which she regards as a tool of American espionage.
Britain Thinks Russia-Israel Break Planned
It was believed here that Russia's action was a calculated move in power politics. It may, in the opinion of diplomats, presage an attempt to stir up Arab-Jewish enmity in the Middle East.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
In that event, Russia would try to induce the Arabs that she is on their side—and that they had better not enter the Allied Middle Eastern defense organization.
On Jan. 13, Moscow announced that nine Kremlin physicians, six of them Jews, had been charged with a plot to murder Soviet leaders. This was part of a developing Iron Curtain campaign against Jews—"Zionists" officially.
The bombing of the Soviet legation in Tel Aviv, and Soviet foreign minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky's prompt and vigorous retaliation, fitted in so well with developments in Soviet-bloc countries that some diplomats suggested communist agents staged it.
In any event, it is believed certain that in all Soviet-bloc countries the dismissal of "unreliable" Jews from posts of authority and influence will be intensified.
Then, in a note to Israel last week, Czechoslovakia warned it would not tolerate the presence of "Zionist agents." It repeated accusations made in the Slansky trial that members of the Israeli legation in Prague were guilty of espionage and other "hostile activities."
In that event, Czechoslovakia might move first. The Czechoslovak Reds started off their anti-Semitic campaign by staging the trial in which Rudolf Slansky and other Jewish Communist leaders were condemned to death as spies.
It is believed here that Russia's breach of relations with Israel may be the signal for similar action by satellite countries.
Poland, increasingly anti-Jewish,
might come next, it was believed.
The building and grounds workmen began cleaning TNE signs from the sidewalks in front of the Student Union, Green and Haworth halls this morning. Chancellor Murphy could not be reached and other University officials had no statement to make on the vandalism.
TNE Vandals Smear Campus
ASC Will Discuss New Vote Plan
Political reorganization of the campus will be discussed at the next regular meeting of the All Student Council, Feb. 25, at which time plans formed by a bi-partisan group will be made public.
The date of the meeting organization suggested by Dean Organization, who was unanimously approved by the ASC in its meeting last night. Other dates considered were rejected as "too soon" or "not soon enough," with
Canadian Artist To Lead Meeting
Dr. Charles D. Gaitskell, director of art in the province of Ontario Canada, will lead the fourth annual art education conference Friday and Saturday.
The conference will be given by the School of Education and Extension, and managed by art education students. Rosalie Thorne, education senior, is president of the art education club.
An exhibition, collected by a London newspaper, is to be shown. It is part of a large group of paintings and drawings chosen from 33,000 pieces sent to the paper and is being circulated in the United States by the American Federation of Art.
Included are examples of the work of British children ranging in age from five years old to teenage on display in rooms 330-332 Strong.
Maude Ellsworth, associate professor of education, said one noticeable difference between these paintings and the work of American children was the subdued colors of the British pieces.
Other students in charge of committees are Joan Lodde, fine arts junior, tea; Patricia Clem, education junior, dinner; Margaret Waddell, fine arts sophomore, hospitality; Mary Lou Fuller, education junior, reservations, and Diana Cruse, fine arts sophomore, individual conferences.
Dr. Gaitskell, whose office is in Toronto, will speak three times during the conference. At 10 a.m. Friday he will speak in room 316 Strong. His second speech will be given at the dinner in the Kansas room of the Student Union at 6 p.m. Friday, and his late speech will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in弦隆 auditorium.
Following his talks, discussions will be led by Georgeann Ankrom, education senior, and Virgie Rawline, education senior.
Luncheon Series Set for Faculty Club
A tea will be given at 3:30 p.m. Friday in the Art museum in honor of Dr. Gaitskell.
A series of three luncheon addresses has been arranged for the Faculty club in connection with Religious Emphasis week.
The three faculty luncheons will be held Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. The speakers will focus their addresses on the theme for the week: "Faith—Intelligent and Imperative."
Dean Merrimon Cungimgim of the Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist university, will speak at the first luncheon. His topic will be "The Tough Part of Teaching."
Dean Cuninggim is a native of Tennessee and the son of a former president of Scarcit college. He has received a B.A. degree from Vanderbilt university, a M.A. in English from Duke university, as a Rhodes Scholar at Stanford University, as a B.A. degree with a diploma in theology, and from Yale university a B.D. degree and a Ph.D. degree in religion in higher education.
MERRIMON CUNINGGIM
Dr. Bengt Hoffman, secretary of the World Council of Churches in
Geneva, Switzerland, will speak Wednesday on "Can we claim that Christianity is Reasonable?"
Dr. Hoffman is a native of Sweden, Diocese of Skara. He holds degrees from the University of Gottenburg and the University of Upsala.
Having made four extensive trips into the Eastern Zone of Germany during the last two years, Dr. Hoffman is well informed on church activities behind the Iron Curtain and is an authority on the refugee problem.
Dean Harry C. Gossard of Eastern New Mexico College will speak Thursday on "Religion and Higher Education."
Dean Gossard is a graduate of Ohio Northern university and received his Ph.D. degree from John Hopkins. Following eight years of experience as a public school teacher in Ohio and New York, he served as a teacher and administrator at several universities before taking his present job.
those favoring the reorganization asking for an early discussion, so the reorganization, if passed, might become effective before the April 1 primary
Last night's meeting was shortened by the Council's unanimous decision to table action on any bills pending until the next regular meeting.
President Bill Wilson, engineering senior, resigning Feb. 17, said that two positions are to be filled at the next regular meeting. A vice president must be elected from among ASC members to replace Nancy Canary, education junior, who will succeed Wilson.
Also, Wilson explained, the president's own party, Pachacamac, is to select one person for the position of ASC representative.
Bill Nulton, college senior, moved that the ASC's three engineering representatives discuss with Dean T. DeWitt Carr of the School of Engineering the improvement of lounging facilities in Marvin hall, perhaps inviting the dean to speak before the ASC on the matter. The motion was unanimously passed.
In other business, the Council voted unanimous approval of $225 to be granted the International club. The figure was recommended by Lyle Anderson, business senior and chairman of the finance committee.
Monday Set for Spy Sentencing
New York—(U.P.)—Convicted atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, their last-ditch appeal for clemency turned down by President Eisenhower, will learn next Monday the new date for their execution in Sing Sing prison's electric chair.
Legal sources here said they believed Judge Irving R. Kaufman, who presided at the couple's 16-day trial in 1951, would set an early execution date, possibly during the first half of March.
In denying clemency, the President concurred with Judge Kauffman, who said in passing sentence April 5, 1951, that the Rosenbergs were "criminals and murder" when they passed America's atomic secrets to Russia.
The President said he had studied the case carefully and was satisfied that the Rosenbergs "Have been assured their full measure of justice."
"There has been neither new evidence nor have there been mitigating circumstances which would justify altering this decision," he said, "and I have determined that it is imperative to prevent the people of the United States, not to set aside the verdict of their representatives."
Julius Rosenberg, 34, and his wife, 36, parents of two young children, stoically received the news of the President's action in their cells in Sing Sing prison's death row. A regular program being broadcast on the prison's amplifying system was interrupted suddenly at 5:20 p.m. yesterday with the bulletin.
U.S. Observes Abe's 144th Birthday Today
On Feb. 12, 1809, a boy was born who, during his manhood, was to have a great effect in shaping the destiny of our nation.
Today we celebrate the anniversary of that man, Abraham Lincoln, our great Civil War President.
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