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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 22, 1952
Missouri River Flood Crest Moves Into St. Joseph Area
Kansas City, Mo.—(U.P.)—The Missouri river's record flood crest, rolling bluff to bluff in a sea 10 miles at some points, moved slowly today in the reaches between here and Rulo, Neb.
For thousands of weary men manning the dikes, this was the day of crisis, the U.S. corps of engineers said.
"Today will tell the story," a spokesman said. "If we can hold the remaining levees through tonight, the worst should be over for the St. Joseph area."
Prisoners' Riot Is Breaking Up
Jackson, Mich.—(UF)—Rioting inmates of the world's largest walled prison, held at bay by machine gun and tear gas squads, were ready to bargain for better treatment today with the lives of 11 terrified hostage guards.
More than 2,600 maddened convicts, staging a brawling and destructive stampede in the worst uprising to hit the southern Michigan prison, were driven back to their cellblocks yesterday by the blazing guns of state police.
Two-hundred troopers, under the personal direction of State Police Commissioner Donald S. Leonard, aimed their fire over the heads of the rampaging convicts, who for a time threatened to make a mass break for freedom.
In the clash of men, however, one prisoner was killed when shot through the chest and eight others were wounded by bullets. One trooper was felled by a head blow from a baseball bat.
"The bulk of the resistance has been broken," said Leonard as the riots were herded into cellblocks forming the huge walls of the sprawling pentagon-shaped institution.
Prisoners Demand 'No Punishment'
Rahway, N.J.—(U.P.)—A fanatical elique in control of 231 rebellious convicts at the New Jersey prison farm demanded a guarantee of no punishment today as the price of surrender.
Sanford Bates, commissioner of state institutions, said last night he had promised the rioters an inquiry would be made into parole board operations. He revealed last night, however, that the prisoners still were holding out for no disciplinary action.
The hungry, thirsty mutineers, who are holding eight prison guards as hostages in a ruined two-story dormitory, already had gained an important concession in their negotiations with prison officials.
Latest Atom Bomb Blasted in Nevada
Yucca Flat—(U.P.)—Hell burst loose from the skies over Yucca Flat this morning as America's latest model atom bomb exploded with enough force to devastate much of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles or any other big city.
The flash of the blast, the fireball of gigantic and incinerating menace, the busily boiling atomic cloud seething with radioactive poisons, came from a bomb bigger than those which destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki and brought the Japanese to surrender.
The bomb was dropped from a B-50 warplane at approximately 30,000 feet. It blew at around 3500 feet, pouring death upon any living thing which might have existed in the wide area below.
The blast was like a giant flash-bulb, or the far-off explosion of a phosphorous bomb, sending out fiery sparks from its arched top on the horizon. It lasted only momentarily—about long enough to say "pfft," then it was gone and seconds elapsed before, through the haze on the horizon, the familiar mushroom cloud began to appear.
The engineers were not yet ready to say that the front of the crest—stretching long and flat for more than 50 river miles—had reached St. Joseph. The river stage had remained stationary at St. Joseph for six hours, but engineers said they still anticipated a rise in the next five or six hours. That rise, they believed, would be small.
At Rulo, Neb., 54 miles to the north of St. Joseph, the level dropped 0.5 of a foot in two hours, but the engineers declined to say that the crest had passed even that point, yet.
The engineers estimated the total Missouri river flood damage will reach $45,800,000 from Rulo, Neb., to its mouth at St. Louis when the predicted 35-foot crest reaches there about May 1.
By that time, according to Kansas City district engineer Col. L. M. J. Lincoln, a tentative total of 635,000 acres of farm land will have been flooded.
Damage and acreage figures for the flooded area above Omaha were not immediately available.
Colonel Lincoln said an estimated 12,000 persons had been driven from their homes south of Rulo. A total of 605 houses were under water yesterday between St. Joseph and Kansas City.
Ike, Taft Clash In Primaries
Washington —(U.P.)— Eisenhower supporters viewed the New York and Pennsylvania primaries today as golden opportunities to pick up important delegate strength without much risk to their absent candidate's vote-getting prestige.
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., (R-Mass.), campaign manager for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, said the Pennsylvania voting left Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-O). in the same position as Eisenhower in the recent Illinois preferential primary.
In Illinois, Taft was opposed only by Harold E. Stassen, with Eisenhower getting relatively few written in ballots. In Pennsylvania today, it was Eisenhower vs. Stassen, with Taft publicly urging his supporters not to write in his name because the preferential voting is not binding.
In Pennsylvania, another 10 delegates-at-large already have been chosen. In New York, six will be named later by the GOP state committee and four by the Democrats.
The important balloting in heavily-populated New York and Pennsylvania involved choosing 150 convention delegates today-90 in New York and 60 in Pennsylvania.
It looked like a shoo-in for W. Averell Harriman in the Democra- tional side of the New York ballot- ing. The Mutual Security adminis- trator had the solid backing of 45 Democratic County chairmen.
In Pennsylvania, the Democratic preferential race was strictly a write-in proposition, with no names on the ballot.
Anchorage, Alaska-(U.P.)—An Air Force C-47 crashed in the rugged Alaska mountain range 100 miles west of here yesterday, and officers said it was "very doubtful" whether any of the five men aboard survived.
Sight C-47 Wreckage
The Eisenhower forces were counting heavily on the two big states to cut down Taft's lead in "solid" delegates already lined up.
Wreckage of the twin-engine craft was spotted at the bottom of Merrill pass by three planes of the 10th Air Rescue squadron.
Tornados, Winds Rip Three States
News Briefs
Dallas, Texas—(U.P) —Tornadoes and violent windstorms which slashed through Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri left two persons dead and heavy property damage today.
At least seven tornadoes or violent windstorms were reported in the three-state area last night as torrential rains lashed Oklahoma and drudth-struck Texas.
At Dallas isolated flash floods closed some streets and drove motorists from their automobiles as water swirled four and six feet deep at low levels.
Washington—(U.P.) —The government today suspended price controls on 16 commodities now selling below legal ceilings, including wool, lard, and crude cottonseed oil, soybean oil and corn oil.
Lift Price Controls
The order, effective April 28, was the first major "decontrol" action since the government imposed a general price freeze 15 months ago.
Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall said the order may be followed shortly by a similar relaxation of controls on raw cotton, textiles and apparel. The office of price stabilization is studying those three lines, Arnall said.
Missionary Killed
Bangkok, Thailand—(U.R.) A bandit gang broke into a village church in northeast Thailand Friday night, shot and killed an American woman missionary while she sat at the organ, and seriously wounded her husband.
Mrs. Priscilla Johnson died almost instantly from three bullets in the chest when 19 men broke into the church and opened fire without warning. Her husband, Paul, was hit three times in the upper body. He had been conducting the religious service for the Christian Missionary Alliance.
Indict Warden Best
Denver — (U)P. — Colorado State penitentiary Warden Wren Boy Best, former deputy warden Oran W. Doole, and seven guards were under federal indictment today, charged with violating the civil rights of convicts.
The indictment included seven counts — conspiracy and alleged beating and torturing of six prisoners who were wlogged last July after an unsuccessful prison break in which two guards were wounded.
Stafford Cripps Dies
Mr. Cripps, who would have been 63 Thursday, was dubbed "Mr. Austerity" because of the belt-tightening measures he imposed on Britain in the years 1947 through 1950 as chancellor of the exchequer to save the country from bankrupty.
Zurich, Switzerland—(U.P.) — Sir Stafford Cripps, "Mr. Austerity" of Britain's post-war Labor government, died yesterday in a Zurich clinic after a long illness.
PanMunjom, Korea.—(U.R.) —The United Nations command disclosed today that it has opened six new camps for Communist war prisoners in South Korea.
Six New POW Camps
It was believed the UN command is moving inland those prisoners who wish to return to North Korea and Red China. The move also will break up bands of Communists believed responsible for the riots at the Koje岛 prison camp.
The Allies gave the location of the new camps to the Communists at a truce negatiating session today.
Reds Torture Priest
Hong Kong — (U.P) — A Catholic priest told today how the Chinese Communists forced him to undergo nine days of incessant questioning before he could make him "confess" to spying and organizing an anti-Communist ring.
The Rev. Robert W. Greene, 41-year-old Maryknoll priest from Jasper, Ind., told his story while recuperating from an ordeal that really began with his arrest in October 1950.
'Flat and Black' Label Began Series of Kansas Tradition
This province of Quivira is the best I have seen. The land itself is very flat and black . . . well watered by the rivulets and springs and rivers.
BY WILLIAM E. STANFILL
This was Coronado's description of Kansas when he rode across its broad expanse in 1541.
The name of the state originated from a Sioux Indian word, which, loosely translated, means "swift wind" or "south wind."
Three-hundred and thirteen years after Coronado first described Kansas it was made a territory of the United States, in 1854. The next
117 Midshipmen To Make Cruise
One hundred and seventeen University Navy ROTC midshipmen will participate in summer training cruises from June 7 to Sept. 5.
Twenty-four seniors, 30 sophomores and 10 contract students from KU will go on cruise "Able" in a fleet consisting of the battleships Missouri and Wisconsin, the cruisers Macon and Des Moines, the large aircraft carrier Saipan, ten destroyers, four minelayers, three high speed transports, and four oilers.
The midshipmen will be a part of a group of 5,100 from the U.S. Naval Academy and 52 colleges and universities having NROTC units.
One KU midshipman will go on cruise "Baker," which leaves Norfolk on July 18 and return on Sept. 5.
The other two cruises are "dry land" cruises and will be for NROTC juniors and NROTC marine trainees. One cruise, for the juniors, will be for aviation and amphibious warfare indoctrination. The other, for the marine students, will give training in ground warfare and leadership.
The summer cruises are divided into five groups according to classification and NROTC status. Cruise "Able" is for Naval Academy sophomores and seniors and for NROTC sophomores and seniors from 30 of the 52 colleges. Cruise "Baker" is for NROTC regular sophomores and seniors from 24 of the NROTC schools. Cruise "Charley" will be for contract NROTC seniors from all 52 of the schools.
Nine university contract midshipmen will go on cruise "Charley" in a fleet consisting of the cruiser Pittsburgh, four minesweepers, and a transport.
This cruise will go to Carribean ports, leaving Norfolk Aug. 10 and returning Sept. 5.
The aviation-amphibious cruise will have 35 midshipmen juniors from KU going to Corpus Christi, Texas, for aviation training on June 27. From there they will go to Little Creek, Va., for amphibious training. They will return from the cruise Aug. 8.
seven years was marked by violent controversy over whether Kansas would enter the union as a free or slave state.
The Free State faction eventually won out. In July of 1859, 52 men met at Wyandotte and pieced together a constitution. It was approved two months later and on the eve of the Civil War, Jan. 29, 1861, President Buchanan signed the bill admitting Kansas to the union.
Next in order to becoming a full fledged state of the union Kansas needed a state seal. Again bickering marked the adoption of both a design and a motto for the seal.
The highlight of the bickering came when "We Will" was proposed for the state motto. A legislator promptly moved to change that to "We Won't."
The problem of a suitable motto was finally solved when John J. Ingalls, later U.S. senator, proposed a simple blue shield design with the motto, "Ad Astra Per Aspera," translated "To The Stars Through Difficulties."
The legislature adopted the motto out chose a different design for the seal. After combining the two the great seal of the state was made official on May 25, 1861.
Since 1861 the state has officially adopted certain emblems, works, and objects as being symbolic of the state's character.
In 1903 the sunflower was selected by the Legislature as the state flower. They felt that the sunflower was symbolic in that it recalled frontier days when its bright and hardy petals, pacing the march of the sun, cheered travelers and pioneers on their westward journey.
The 1927 Legislature declared the meadow lark the official state bird from an election by Kansas school children in 1925. The election was sponsored by the state's Audubon society. This Legislature also adopted the official state flag.
A rectangle of deep blue, the flag has as its center the state seal stripped of its outer band of lettering and topped by the military crest. The twisted gold bar surrounding the seal signifies the Louisiana Purchase.
In 1937 the Legislature named the Cottonwood as the official state tree. Called the pioneer tree of Kansas, the cottonwood often encouraged a homesteader to stick it out until he could prove up his claim
The most recent thing to gain official state recognition was a song, "Home on the Range" became the state song by act of the 1947 Legislature. The words to the song were written by Dr. Brewster Higley, a pioneer Kansas physician at Smith Center, in about 1872. His nearest neighbor, a local druggist named Dan Kelly, picked out the tune on his banjo.
Sixteen students with all "A" grades are among the 101 whose names appear on the fall semester honor roll of the School of Engineering and Architecture, it was announced today by Dean T. DeWitt Carr.
The honor roll represents the upper 10 per cent of students in the Engineering school. The lowest grade-point average in the group is 2.20. All 'A' is 3.00, all "B" is 2.00.
Heading the dean's honor roll with all "A" grades are:
Seniors: Amos Don Glad, John Kaaz
Jack Long, Robert Miller
Juniors: John Transeau, Ronald Wigington. Ed Richardson.
sophomores: Harold Bergsten, Hugh Bowden. Joseph Dontigan, Lee Douglas, Dina Gaskell, Jim Simmons, Phillip Greene.
Freshmen: Delbert Jones and Dwight Harrison.
Others on the dean's honor roll:
Paul Opplinger, Gene Koenigs, Joe Russell, Gary Corman, Albert Nees.
Seniors: Sloyd Davis, Don Drummond, Ed Simpson, Duane Dumwoodie, Damon Simpson, Charles W. Stephens, Jack Lukey, Dorothy Juthey, Philip Peterson, Dearen Dearing, Gary W., Swift James Merrill, Ralph Indin, James Amend, George Pefferkorn
Walter Teagarden, Willis Althearn, Dick Gibson, Leonard Urban, Robert Ashley, Robert Bracy, E. J. Blair, Henry Ford, George Pearris, Charles Steele.
Juniors: Holder Conner, Bert Larkin,
Jim Stewart, Bill Behrman, Max Harris,
Gregory Cannon, Mahlon Ball, LeRoy
McKeage, Leland Duvall, Richard An-
schutz, Joe Christy.
Bill Pearm, Keith Macvoy, John Mann,
Doyle Miller, Joe Francis, Robert Sutton,
Scott Phillips, Franklin Hamlett, Joe Wilkus, Paul Wilhelm, Billy Brown.
Sophomores: Lt Ning Ma. Gene Rogers, Lawrence Kravitz, George Brickleendrigan, Marissa Greene, Bob Lamb, Stuart Knutson, Jack Jester, Thomas Ying, George Lund.
Freshman: Charles Peterman, Lewis Philips, Roger Heiskel曼, George Daniels, Lerion Schrig, Ed Freeburg, George Leone, Ben Dalton, LeRoy Herold Lawrence T
Ronald Justice, Bob Kennedy, Dick Brackman, James Duncan, Marshall Smith David Conley Robert Terry, Doug B. Smith, David Conley, Richard Morris, Lynn Stewart.