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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1951
Coronation Stone Is Returned To Ancient Arbroath Abbey
Arbroath Abbey, Scotland (U.P.)—The historic coronation stone stolen from Westminster Abbey last Christmas morning was returned Wednesday to ancient Arbroath Abbey.
The stone was laid on the altar of King William the Lion by three unidentified men almost 631 years to the day that Scotland proclaimed her independence of England in the historic "Declaration of Arbroath."
James Wishart, custodian of the abbey, said the three men "left two envelopes on the stone, which was covered with the St. Andrews flag." "In the excitement," he said, "I forgot to ask them their names. They shook hands with me and carried the stone to the high altar."
Police removed the stone from the abbey, 45 miles northeast of Edinburgh, Scotland, to police headquarters in the town of Arbroath.
The ancient 400-pound stone was used centuries ago as a symbol on which the Scottish kings were crowned. It was removed from Scotland to England by Edward I in the 13th century. Since then the kings of England have been crowned in a chair in which the stone was embedded. Use of the stone in a coronation chair signified that those crowned monarchs of England also were monarchs of Scotland. Legend said Scotland never would attain independence until the stone was returned to Scotland.
The two letters left with the stone were addressed to King George VI and to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland. The letter to the king asked that the stone be
Endocrine Study Granted $11,000
Dr. William C. Young, professor of anatomy, has received a grant of $11,000 from the United States Public Health service for a year's study of the physiology of reproductive processes.
The grant will support a fifth year's fundamental research on the endocrinology of reproductive behavior and gestation. The work is being done with guinea pigs in the endocrine laboratory at the University.
Dr. Young said that after the fifth year, which begins June 1, the project would be evaluated. A decision will be made then whether to continue the study along the present ones or to develop a new project.
Three students, each a candidate for the doctor of philosophy degree, are working on the project under Dr. Young. They are Donald H. Ford, Jerome A. Grunt, and Roy R. Peterson.
U. S.P.H.S. support for Dr. Young's work in the past four years totaled 62,000.
returned to its "proper disposition." The letter addressed to the king said in part:
"Humbly sheweth that in their actions they as loyal subjects have intended no indignity or injury to his majesty or to the royal family, that they have been inspired in all they have done by their deep love of his majesty's realm of Scotland and by their desire to compel the attention of his majesty's ministers to the widely expressed demand of the Scottish people for a measure of self-government."
The letter addressed to the church said in part:
"The persons who have removed the stone now restore it to the people of Scotland within this sanctuary associated with the vindication of our liberties. . ."
"We ask that the representatives of the church now speak for the whole people and arrange that the stone of destiny be retained in Scotland."
Big Wheat Areas 'Dead', Says Expert
Wichita (U.P.)—Some 55 per cent of the total wheat acreage in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico "is dead" and the "rest doubled," A. W. Erickson of Minneapolis said here recently.
Erickson, a member of a private crop reporting service, charged that government reports of a record year are prompted because "they want your income tax money."
Erickson, speaking at a joint meeting of the Kansas Farmers' Service association and the Farmers' Cooperative Commission company, said that 20,000,000 acres of the 36,000,000 planted in the six-state area are already dead.
Following a similar report made by Erickson in Garden City, Kan. last month, Robert E. Post, crop statistician for the agriculture department, said the figures were "highly exaggerated," and that damage in southwest states had been "offset by prospects of higher yields in other areas."
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A veteran of both world wars, General Morgan entered World War II as a colonel. He rose through various assignments to chief of staff to the supreme Allied commander in the Mediterranean theater, Field Marshal Alexander.
The 59-year-old general was previously in this country as chairman and army member of the British joint staff mission in Washington, D.C.
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