University Daily Kansan
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Thursday, April 6, 1950
STUDENT NEWSPAPER.
Lawrence. Kansas
Binaggio Murdered In Kansas City
Kansas City, Mo., April 6—(U.P.)—Charles Binaggio, 43-year-old north end Democratic political boss who unseated the remnants of the old Pendergast machine in this city's river wards in a dramatic power bid four years ago, was shot to death early today in his clubrooms on Truman road.
Killed with Binaggio was his right-hand man, Charles Gargotta, described recently by a special U.S. assistant attorney general as one of "the top mobsters in Kansas City."
Binaggio was shot four times, as he sat shirt sleeved at his reception desk. Officers at first believed he was hit only once but examination at the morgue showed one shot hit him in the forehead, two in the temple at the left side and one in his neck. All four wounds were powder burned.
Gargotta ran for the front door. The killer apparently raced after him and shot him down as he clawed at the door's venetian blinds. The wound in Gargotta's head also was powder burned.
The Pendergast organization was knocked out of control at the city hall here in the cleanup election in 1940. The divided party has never been able to recoup that loss, although Binaggio two years ago named his followers to key offices in the county courthouse and appeared to be gaining strength until recently in his bid to take over full party control here.
Police later issued a pickup order for a Council Bluffs, Iowa, gambler after a motorcar registered in his name was found outside the Democratic clubrooms where Binaggio and Gargotta were slain.
The gambler was identified by police as Homer Cooper, widely known in Kansas City as a dice dealer. Police said Cooper was known to have been in Kansas City in recent weeks, but when they went to his reported residence, they were told: "He's not here. He's gone to the state line tavern."
In Jefferson City, Mo. Gov. Forrest Smith ordered all state law enforcement agencies to enter the investigation of the slaying.
"Gang killings must be stopped in Kansas City," Gov. Smith said.
The governor wired L. V. Boardman, special agent in charge of the F.B.I. office in Kansas City, urging "your all out assistance in bringing about an early solution of the gangland murders in Kansas City."
Atom Expert Talks Today
Dr. Joseph W. Kennedy, co-discoverer of the fissionable element, plutonium, will give the eighth atomic energy lecture at 7:30 p.m. today in Strong auditorium.
Dr. Kennedy will speak on "The Significance of Radio Isotopes in Chemistry." He is chairman of the department of chemistry at Washington university, St. Louis, Mo. He received the medal of merit for work on the Manhattan atomic energy project.
'Ya Wanna Buy A Bunny?'
Dr. Kennedy's talk is sponsored by Sigma Xi, national honorary scientific society. The public is invited.
Just the thing to keep you happy over Easter vacation. A California plastics company announces the invention of a Humpty-Dumpty talking toy, "designed to delight the children and baffle the Easter bunny."
Engineered like a miniature "talking machine" this large egg-shaped device recites the full rhyme of "Humpty-Dumpty" twice at each playing. Which should quicken those long hours spent waiting for school to start again.
Muchnic Gives Scholarship
The Muchnic Foundation of Atchison has contributed $15,000 to the University of Kansas Endowment association for a scholarship in engineering, Chancellor Deane W. Malott, announced today.
Income from the principal will provide scholarships for engineering students who plan to enter industry after graduation. Scholastic standing and the student's need will be considered in making awards with scholarship receiving first emphasis.
William H. Muchnic, Chester L.
Mize Jr., and Guy I. Bromley,
Atchison, are trustees of the foundation.
The Muchnic Foundation may be awarded for students during their junior or senior years and one individual may hold it twice.
Acceptance of Muchenic scholarships will carry no obligation of repayment but the trustees expressed the hope that young men so helped will in turn help others when they are able to do so.
Between $350 and $400 a year will be available for award. By terms of the gift, the chancellor will appoint the scholarship selection committee.
Journalism Instructor To Study Case Method
Charles G. Pearson, instructor in journalism, left today to spend a week at Harvard university, Cambridge, Mass., studying casebook preparation.
he will collect case material next year for a book on reporting problems for use in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information.
WEATHER
KANSAS—Increasing cloudiness and warmer with strong southerly winds tonight and Friday; winds 35 m.p.h. and occasionally higher Friday. Low tonight middle 40's; high Friday 70-75 degrees.
Six Trophies To Be Given For Best Floats
Six bronze trophy cups will be awarded the winners of the third annual Kansas Relays parade to be held Saturday, April 22, Bill Easton, Kansas trackcoach and relays director, announced today. These trophies are now on display at the Balfour jewelry company, 411 West 14th street.
All organized houses at the university are urged to enter a float in the parade and should have received instructions concerning the parade, Coach Easton said. If any organization has not received plans for the parade, please contact the student relays committee by calling K.U. 464, he added.
Three prizes will be given in the women's division and three in the men's division. The first, second, and third prize trophies are 12, nine, and six inches tall and have been engraved with the following: K.U. Relays Parade, Silver Anniversary, and the prize winning position of first, second, or third.
Balfour's display window shows the pictures of the 1949 winners in both the women's and men's division. The women's division winning floats were, Sigma Kappa, first; Chi Omega, second; and Alpha Omicron Pi, third. The men's winners were, Delta Tau Delta, first; Kappa Sigma, second; and Sigma Phi Epsilon, third.
The parade will start at 10 a.m. and is expected to attract several thousand visitors with its floats. The raleys parade has taken the place of the homecoming parade the past two years and has acted as second annual homecoming for relays visitors.
"This year's parade is expected to be the biggest and best ever held," Coach Easton said, "and we expect to use the silver anniversary theme to bring the greatest honor ever given the relays."
Graduating architectural engineering students are being interviewed today by a K.U. graduate, Andrew Glaze, Glaze Construction company, St. Joseph, Mo. He is looking for June graduates for his firm.
June Graduates Sought For Jobs
Mr. Glaze received his bachelor of science in architectural engineering in 1937.
35 File Petitions For KU Election
Names of 35 students filing for All Student Council positions and class offices were submitted to Wilma Shore, A.S.C. secretary, by the 6 p.m. Wednesday deadline. The names must be certified by the council's election committee.
ASC To Hold Special Meeting
The All Student Council will discuss nominating petitions for the spring elections at a special meeting at 7:15 p.m. today in 106 Strong hall.
Wilma Shore, secretary of the organization, urges all members to attend.
Physiologists To New Jersey
Six members of the department of physiology will attend the annual meeting of the American Physiological society in Atlantic City, NJ. from Monday, April 15, through Friday. April 21.
They are Dr. Kenneth E. Jochim and Dr. O. O. Stoland, professors of physiology; Dr. Parke H. Woodward, associate professor of physiology; Dr. G. N. Loofbourrow, assistant professor of physiology; Dr. Boyden L. Crouch and Richard P. White, instructors in physiology.
Three papers will be presented by attending members. Dr.Jochim will present a paper on "Comparison of Pressure and Flow Pulses in the Unopened Carotid Artery of the Dog". Dr. Stoland will present "The Effect of a New Synthetic Drug on the Blood Supply of the Heart." Mr. White will present "Studies on Heparin Release in Anaphylactic Shock."
The society meets each year as part of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, an organization composed of six national constituent groups.
Dr. Jochim attended the first meeting of the circulation section of the society when it was organized in 1931. The circulation section is an organization composed of physiologists working on problems related to the heart and circulatory system. At the 1931 meeting of the section, membership was only 12. Now it is more than 200.
Hampton Wins Oratorical Contest
Craig Hampton, fine arts senior,
urged the development of understanding your fellow man in an oration which won first place in the third annual Lorraine Buehler Oratorical contest held Wednesday night.
Hampton's forceful talk, "Angels Can Do No More," depicted life as an unending drama with the populace as spectators, participants and authors of this drama. He advocated a fuller understanding of human beings when the understanding will contribute to the everyday needs of fellow men.
Steve Mills, College junior, won second place with a speech entitled "Heads or Tails" Alan Kent Shearer, College junior, and Donald Dirks, College freshman, tied for third place. Shearer's oration was "Across the Rio Grande" and Dirk's was "My Uncle."
As winner of the Lorraine Buehler
contest, Hampton was awarded a complete set of the "Encyclopedia Americana" by E. C. Buehler, professor of speech. He will also take part in the Missouri Valley Forensic league tournament at the University of Wichita today through Saturday.
Mills received a $30 cash award for second place. Shearer and Dirks received $10 apiece for third place.
Judging the contests were F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law; F. M. Davis, professor of law; and Richard Schiefelbusch, professor of speech. Ernest Friesen, College senior and first place winner of the 1949 contest was chairman.
Other participants in the contest were Thomas Oliver, education sophomore; Win Koerper, Thomas Payne, Orval Swander, and Beverly Stapaule, College sophomore; Edwin Glasscock, College senior; and William Van Almen.
- The spring election will be held Wednesday, April 19.
Melvin Clingan, Pachacamac-N.O. W., and Miss Shore, non-partisan, have filed for presidency of A.S.C.
Pettitions for A.S.C. seats are divided into two classes - men and women.
Miss Shore has turned the petitions over to Harold Edmondson, ejections committee chairman, for certification.
Men who filed for council seats are as follows:
District one—Warren Andreas,
Dale Helmers, Dean Wells, and Joe
Wimsett, Pachacamac-N.O.W. Walter
Brown, non-partisan.
District two—Bob Kleist, Damon Simpson, Sam Wilcoxen, and Bill J. Wilson, Pachacamat-N.O.W.
District three—Jack Howard and Ralph McClung. Pachacamac-N.O.
W. Roger L. Davis, non-partisan.
District four—Tom Fritzlen, Pachacamac-N.O.W. Bob Bennett, nonpartisan.
Dr. John Ise, professor of economics, will speak on "Problems of Investment" at a dinner meeting of the Kansas section of the American Society of Civil Engineers at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 14.
Women who filed for the seats 'are as follows:
Names filed for class officers—all of them Pachacamac-N.O.W. candidates—are as follows:
District three—Georgia Ginther and Barbara Hagan, Pachacamac-N.O.W. Maxine Holsinger, non-partisan.
Senior class—John Amberg, president; Lorraine Ross, vice-president; Hal Edmondson, secretary; Betty Jo Bloomer, treasurer.
Ise To Talk To Engineers
District one—Pat Gardenhirefri Patricia Glover, and Marcia Horn, Pacachacam-N.O.W. Helen Maduros, non-partisan.
The meeting will be held in the Kansas room of the Union. All engineering students and staff members are invited to attend. Dinner reservations may be made with Maxwell Ravdal, president of the University chapter of A.S.C.E., or Dwight Metzler, assistant professor of civil engineering, 2 Marvin hall. Tickets are $1.25 a person.
Junior class—William Schaake, president; Emalene Gooch, vice-president; Vernon Sutton, secretary; Sammy Johnson, treasurer.
Sophomore class—Karen Hall, president; Philip Heowen, vice-president; Marilyn Hanson, secretary; Billy Todd, treasurer.
A. S.C.E. members from Topeka, Manhattan, Kansas City, Wichita, Salina, and other points over Kansas will attend the meeting.
Those interested in attending only the speech at 7:30 p.m. will not need a ticket.
George Lamb, national director of A.S.C.E., is expected to attend. Mr. Lamb is a graduate of the University in civil engineering.
Youth Week Observed
Eight University students are participating in a youth week at St. Luke's Methodist church this week. They are Louis Welton, College senior; Eugene Combs, engineering senior; Margie Harrison, and Richard McClain, College juniors; Claude Ellison, College sophomore; Curtis Herron, Belva Elrod, and Jannith Lewis, College freshmen.
Miss Lewis is program chairman.