Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
50th Year, No. 74
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, Jan. 15, 1953
HOUSING GROUP MEETS—Members of the All Student Council committee on student housing met Wednesday evening in preparation for a trip today to Topeka where they will meet with the state board of regents and present reasons for housing improvement at KU. From left to right are Fred Rice, college sophomore, Jane Snyder, engineering freshman, Board Chairman Dean Glasco, engineering junior, Winifred Meyer, college sophomore, and Donald Hortor, college senior. —Kansan photo by Phil Newman.
40 Injured as Train Crashes in Station
Washington —(U.P.)— A runaway Pennsylvania passenger train crashed at high speed through the barriers at Union Station today and the engine and two coaches plunged through the concourse floor to the lower level.
More than 40 persons, all passengers, were injured. At least three suffered serious fractures. Others were treated for cuts, bruises and shock. After treatment many were released from the hospital.
Officials said apparently no one was killed.
The train was the Pennsylvania's "federal" from Boston. As it made its approach to the station shortly before departing, electric engine's air brakes failed.
gifts an all-around skill. Conductor T. J. Murphy of Baltimore rushed through the speeding train warning passengers to brace themselves. Witnesses credited him with preventing many injuries.
The train hit the barrier at 8:28 a.m. EST. Witnesses estimated its speed at 55 to 60 miles an hour. It smashed the station master's and the concourse union newstand, and imperilled crowds waiting before the gates.
Army Nabs 2 Accused Spies
Washington — (U.P.) - Two Americans have been arrested in Austria as spies for Russia, the justice department announced today.
The two—Otto Verber and Kurt L. Ponger, both of New York City—were charged with conspiring with Yuri V. Novikov, second secretary of the Soviet embassy here.
Verber and Ponger, both naturalized citizens, were arrested in their native Vienna yesterday by U.S. Army intelligence officers. A military plane is flying them to Washington for arraignment, probably later today. Verber is a former U.S. Army officer.
The Americans were charged with conspiring with Novikov, a former Red army officer, to pass defense information to Russia. The indictment said they planned to deliver to Russia "documents, writings, sketches, plans, maps, notes, instruments and information relating to the national defense of the United States" and that they tried to obtain intelligence and counterintelligence information about the U.S. Army and Air Force.
Weather
Cold wave east portion tonight, colder elsewhere with temperatures falling to around 5 below northwest to 10 above southeast by Friday morning.
Crash Involves KU Professors
Two University professors were involved in an automobile accident late yesterday afternoon about two miles west of Lawrence on U.S. highway 40.
A car driven by Raymond Hopponen, 31, assistant professor of pharmacy, collided with one driver by Mrs. John Carter, about 60, Ft. Smith, Ark. In the Hopponen car were Charles Peterson, also an assistant professor of pharmacy, Mrs. Peterson, and their son, Thomas, 5
The Carter vehicle was struck in the left rear end, causing it to run to the left shoulder, where Mrs. Carter was thrown from the driver's seat. Professor Hopponen said his car had a smashed front end.
Mrs. Carter suffered a brain concussion. She was admitted to Lawrence Memorial hospital, where attendants today reported her condition as fair.
Professor Hopponen said his vehicle was headed west when he saw the Carter automobile attempt to pull off on to the right shoulder of the highway. He said he tried to pass Mrs. Carter, saw he couldn't, and decelerated in order to pull in behind her car.
Professor Hopponne was uninjured. The Petersons suffered minor cuts and bruises. The Douglas County sheriff's office estimated $500 damage to each car. No charges were filed.
Washington — (U.P.)—The Federal Communications commission today granted permits for construction of 11 new commercial television stations, including the first authorizer in Montana and North Dakota.
Mrs. Carter's husband was located in a Little Rock, Ark., hotel by the sheriff's office.
Missouri Awarded Television Permit
The commission said only three states—New Hampshire, Vermont, and Wyoming—now have no TV grants but applications are pending for stations in each of those states.
The University of Missouri was awarded a permit for a channel 8 commercial station at Columbia, Mo.
The All Student Council housing committee met with the board of regents at 2 p.m. today to present the housing situation.
Regents Hear Dorm Problems
Dean Glasco, chairman of the committee, said "we are expressing the situation to the board of regents in hopes that the people of Kansas may know the problem and understand it."
The report to the board of regents will be divided into three aspects: physical, sociological, and psychological.
The committee, formed Nov. 17, has spent 13 weeks studying the housing problem in order to present the housing case to the regents.
The main point of the case will be that if KU doesn't get better housing, especially with the increasing enrollment, students will turn away from the university.
In Topeka today are Glasse, Winifred Meyer, Frederick Rice, Jane Snyder, and Don Hortor, committee members.
New Budget Cut To Hit Research
The group operated so completely underground that it apparently spurned contacts with the more blantant neo-Nazi political parties which have periodically sprung up in West Germany.
Naumann is believed to have escaped from the Berlin bunker in which Hitler committed suicide as
Influenza Drop Seen at Watkins
The research program of the University will bear the brunt of any cut in the proposed budget for the 1953-54 biennium, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor, said today.
The outbreak of influenza and other respiratory infections that has hit at large sections of the midwest is taking only a slight toll at the University. In fact, the disease seems to be on the decline at KU.
The top suspect in this first major Nazi plot to re-establish Hitler's "thousand year Reich" is Dr. Werner Naumann, 43-year-old former state secretary in Josef Goebbels notorious propaganda ministry.
Dr. R. I. Canuteson, University health director, said this morning that the outbreak here is nothing like it has been in other sections of the country and at other universities. The University of Minnesota, the University of Missouri, and DePauw University were the hardest hit schools in the nation this week.
British Nab 6 Ex-Nazis For West German Plot
Bonn, Germany — (U.R.)— Six former high-ranking Nazis—two named in Hitler's will as "heirs" to high posts in the German Reich—were arrested today by British authorities who charged them with plotting, probably with help from East German Reds or even with Moscow itself, to overthrow the West German government.
Albuquerque, N. M.,—(LUF)—Federal Bureau of Investigation agents today took over investigation of the death of a 71-year-old Kansas traveler whose partially decomposed body was found by Isleta Pueblo Indians in a drainage ditch late yesterday.
The health service is offering influenza vaccinations to university students and faculty members in an attempt to stop any large outbreak of the disease here.
Following 28 admissions of respiratory infections Monday, Tuesday's admissions dropped to 20, and only 13 reported to the hospital yesterday.
FBI Investigates Kansan's Death
Hospital admissions here have dropped off since the start of the week offering some indication that conditions are improving on the campus.
Dr. Canuteson said that about 100 persons took advantage of the vaccination offer yesterday and that 50 had reported to the hospital for shots by 11 o'clock this morning.
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FBI agents said the body of Ely Bert Tarbutton, missing since Oct. 18, 1952, when he left his home at Maple Hill, Kan., en route to Los Angeles, was found near here.
German sources said the group also was believed to have accomplices in "Fascist organizations" in Spain and Argentina.
An official British announcement said the group was plotting to seize control of West Germany and maintained contacts "within and without" West Germany.
British security officers and military police swooped down secretly during the night to seize the six suspected ringleaders of the conspiracy
Highly placed British sources in London added that it was believed the arrested "heirs" to the Nazi Reich had close contacts with East German Communists and "possibly with Moscow itself."
Soviet troops closed in on Berlin in the latter days of World War II.
British authorities said the group was considered particularly "dangerous" because it appeared to be the first post-war Nazi organization "which has money." The source of its funds was not disclosed.
Members of the ring were said to have hidden their activities behind a smoke-screen of "commercial transactions" which enabled them to travel widely in Germany and sometimes "abroad."
1st Theater Talks Set for March
The first University of Kansas Community Theater institute will be held here March 6-7 to stimulate interest in and to help organize community theaters in all sections of Kansas.
Subjects presented during the two-day institute sponsored by the department of speech and drama and the University theater will be of a practical nature including such items as organization, finance, stage technique, and public relations.
Gov. Edward F. Arn's budget committee Tuesday trimmed $1,178,-937 from the University's request of $12,593,937 for operating expenses in presenting the proposed budget to the State Legislature.
the State Board "In general if the proposed budget is adopted, University operations will be reduced slightly below the current year," Mr. Nichols said. "The cut will be placed entirely on the research program and there will be no cut in any other service. There will be no expansion of staff or services."
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University officials believe a misunderstanding in the use of $1,133,000 in federal funds two years ago is the reason for the cut in the requested budget. The funds were accumulated from federal payments for education of World War II veterans.
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Mr. Nichols said the University feels that its requests were conservative in recognition of the financial problems facing the new legislature. The expansion requests were minimal and included just three items.
1. A few new instructors will be needed in the Engineering school next year to meet the 47 per cent increase in next year's sophomore class. Engineering freshmen take most of their work in the College, but their Engineering work begins in the sophomore year.
2. An expansion of the Geological survey was contemplated, primarily in the field of secondary oil recovery, a very important item in Kansas.
"The governor's budget eliminated every penny for such advances," Mr. Nichols said.
3. A need for expansion in other off-campus services, including the two research bureaus, was also felt.
"The proposed budget is based on the fact that inflation has stopped, a fact that is contrary to most opinions," Mr. Nichols continued.
He explained that if enrollment continues to go up, as it has been doing all over the country, the University will be forced to cut back more to provide the necessary instructors. Also if inflation continues even on a reduced scale, the University will be hit again.
He explained how the University planned to use the federal funds two years ago for lasting improvements, but the 1951 legislature cut the budget by the funds on hand and officials were forced to use the money for operational expenses.
This year the University doesn't have any large federal backlog from World War II veterans, but the budget committee neglected to replace the more than $1 million dollars it took away when the funds were on hand.
"We are hopeful this misunderstanding can be cleared up." Mr. Nichols said. "The University will have its hearing before the Senate ways and means committee within the next month or six weeks and it is possible that some of the money may be regained."
Arn Budget A Single Bill
Topeka—(U.P.)-The entire budget recommendation of Gov. Edward F. Arn was introduced as a single bill in the Kansas House of Representatives today.
House floor leader Joseph M. Eves of Lakin, one of four authors of the bill, said it would take the place of 75 or 80 separate appropriation bills.
The governor's budget recommendations were for nearly $73 million for the fiscal years 1954 and 1955, beginning next July 1.
Rep. Eves said the bill could be amended in any section. All figures contained in it were those recommended by the governor, he said.
Rep. Leslie R. Thomson, of White Cloud, said he believed the omnibus appropriation bill was unprecedented in the legislature.