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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1950
Arabella's Shape Is Dull But Her Brain Is Good
By SAMUEL H. PRICE
The University can rest assured that one national champion is on the campus in the form of Arabella.
a's game is tit-tat-toe and she performs so well at it
'it is impossible for anyone to beat.'
Outside of her ability to play tit-tat-toe she can't boast of much else as she has no looks or personality abella, you see, is a mechanical robot constructed by Maurice Mandelkehr graduate student from Kansas City, and Richard H. Harris, engineering senior from Lawrence.
To make a play against the machine her opponent touches a switch in any square he chooses with an insulated probe. The lights are lit according to the color the player chooses. This starts a system of relays working inside the robot which enables it to fully analyze the situation before making a move.
Mandelkehr pointed out that while the machine can't be beaten, it can be occasionally tied by an extremely smart player. When an opponent wants Arabella to move first he flips a switch and the robot automatically starts the game. Whenever given first choice Arabella always chooses the upper left square.
Arabella certainly doesn't possess the best shape in the world as she resembles a block of wood 19-inch tall and 23-inches wide resting on a base three-feet by two-feet. Inside she is a maze of contacts, relays, switches, and offers "chest" is divided into nine square corners by white bakelite. Two lights, one red and the other green, are in each square.
Mandelkehr first conceived the idea of Arabella last fall when he read a short article about such a machine being constructed at the University of California. However neither he nor Harris saw any plans, but invented Arabella themselves.
"The only difference between our robot and the California machine" Mandelkehr said "is that the California model can be beaten by a smart player, but it is impossible for Arabella to lose." "Speaking on the behalf of Arabella, we'll challenge that west coast contraption to a duel anytime—and we will win," he added confidently.
It took Harris and Mandelkeke about two weeks of spare time to plan the robot, and the actual construction took about the same length of time. All of Arabella's "guts" were taken from old pin ball machines that were either too old or too badly damaged to be used.
The machine's insides consist of 200 sets of contacts, 10 relays, about 50-feet of wire, and a pulse motor, all of which cost less than $15.
The name Arabella was suggested by Mandeleikher's wife, Donna, who also assisted in building the contraption. She got the name from a troublesome refrigerator they once owned.
"Donna also was our chief wire cutter and main flunky," asserted Mandelkehr.
Arabella will make her first public showing at the Exposition of Progress starting Wednesday, March 8, at the Music hall in Kansas City. Mo. She will be exhibited on the campus in the engineering exposition next month.
Mandelkehr and Harris said they will accept all challengers who tump them can beat their brainchild. In order to make sure that no desperate opponent tries to cheat by moving twice, Arabella has been designed to retaliate by moving twice in succession herself.
The two inventors plan to install switches later that will transform the ability of Arabella in degrees from a genius to a moron, so that it will be possible for players to win by their skill at the game. They have made no plans for commercializing the machine, which they consider possible with a few additions.
Oklahoma City. Okla. — (U.P.)
Francis James Clifford figured today it cost him about $50 a mile to travel the first 29 miles in his 1950 model car.
He collided with the driver of a 1941 model car and although no one was seriously hurt, the new car has $1.5 million of damages.
Who Wants New Cars?
The nine-year-old model can be fixed up for about £125.
Official Bulletin
Friday, March 3
First meeting of the Society of American Military Engineers, 4 p.m. today, Reading room, Military Science. All engineering students in the advanced army, navy and air force R.O.T.C. interested in organization attend meeting to elect officers and form charter.
Mennonite Fellowship election meeting, 2:30 pm. Sunday, Plymouth Congregational church. American Indian films.
Mathematical colloquium, 5.pm Monday, 203 Strong hall. Dr. I. N Herstein, A "Conjecture on Simpla Groups."
All students have paid admissions to "Ten Little Indians." Present I-D card for reserved seat, Green hall ticket office.
Candidates for I.S.A. elective offices must register before Friday, March 10 with Dick Krimminger.
Civil Rights Co-ordinating committee, 7:30 p.m. Monday, West Ballroom. Union. All organizations invited.
Ward T regular meeting, 6:30 p.m.
Monday, Fraser hall. Members please note change of time.
I.S.A. Wards T and Z, 7 p.m.
Monday, 206 Fraser hall.
I.S.A. Council, 7:15 p.m. Monday,
Pine room, Union.
S. A.M., 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Pine room, Union.
Y. M.C.A. election for 1950-51 officers, Thursday, March 9. Nominations by petition due Thursday. Call "Y" office for information.
Sociology club, 4 p.m. Tuesday.
English room, Union. Mr. Charles Warriner will speak on Rockford project. Everyone invited.
Wilson County club, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 15, 110 Strong hall. Important.
Jefferson County club. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 15, 210 Strong Election of new chairman.
There will be an important meeting of the secretarial staff of the Jayhawker at 4 p.m. Monday, March 6.
High School Leaders Here
The associated Women Students is sponsoring the all-day affair. The purpose is "to acquaint outstanding high school seniors with the responsibilities of university leadership," said Margaret Granger, chairman of the A.W.S. committee planning the day's activities.
Approximately 50 outstanding senior high school girls from 50 Kansas schools will be on the campus Saturday for observance of High School Leadership day.
Registration will begin at 9:30 am. Saturday in the Union lounge, Following registration Chancellor Deane W. Malott will deliver a welcome address in the Pine room of the Union building at 10:30 am.
Grace Gwinner, education senior,
will lead a round table discussion
on leadership at 11 a.m. in the Pine
Moscow, March 3 — (U.P.)—The United States has charged Russia with holding 38 American citizens in the Soviet Union, but Russia has agreed with a claim that only one is an American, it was disclosed today.
US Says Reds Hold 38 Citizens In Soviet Union
The controversy over Americans in Russia was revealed in a note presented to the American embassy by Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei Gromyko. The Soviet note was in reply to two recent American notes demanding release of the Americans.
All except one of those claimed as citizens by the United States or other nationalities or were stateless persons, the Russian reply said.
The Russian note said however that four other Soviet citizens whose families were in the United States had received a commission to leave the Soviet Union.
It did not identify the one person admitted to be an American.
The latest American note on the subject was sent to the Russian foreign office by Mr. Kirk last Oct. 4. It asked the Soviets to ascertain whether American corporations, claiming American citizenship, and permit them to leave the country.
U. S. Ambassador Alan Kirk was on a month's vacation in Europe and the East and other members of the American embassy declined to comment.
Mr. Gromyko's denial that 37 of these were entitled to American citizenship contained a countercharge that the Americans were holding "tens of thousands" of Russians in Germany and Austria, and at least three in the United States.
The three Russians held in the U.S. are children of a Soviet citizen named Cholokian, who left the United States for Armenia in 1947, the Soviet note said. The children, it said, were being kept in Catholic children's homes.
A Note to 24-40 Club Members!
The note said Russia would decide who was a Soviet citizen, not the United States.
"The decision concerning citizenship of Soviet citizens belongs exclusively to the competence of Soviet authorities," the Russian note said.
It also charged that the United States in 1949 arrested a Soviet citizen, Pavel Butsko, and kept him in prison seven months without informing the Soviet embassy.
Omaha,—(U.P.)—Burglars with an eve to better sleeping robbed W. H. Woslagers home. After ransacking the house for several articles of clothing and a radio, the slumber-minded thieves stripped the sheets off Woslager's bed and carted them off, too.
You asked for him ...
Luncheon will be served in the Kansas room at 12 noon. Miss Martha Peterson, assistant dean of women, will talk on various phases of college life at the luncheon.
With An Eye On Shut-eye
so now we're happy to tell you that
Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, will talk on "Ideals of Leadership" at 1:30 p.m. This will be followed by an open discussion. A social period in the Palm room until 4 p.m. will conclude the day's events.
room. Mortar board, senior women's honorary society, is organizing the discussion.
HERMAN WELDERS
Electric lights were not introduced to the University until 1888.
will be back Sat. night, March 4
Tale Of Sunken Treasure Indian Lovers, Told In Thesis
The legend of an undiscovered cache of gold buried somewhere in the Great Dismal swamp of southeastern Virginia is one of the stories told in a thesis by Robert Morrison, instructor in economics.
By DEAN EVANS
Church Schedule
CHURCH OF CHRIST
1501 New Hampshire
W. Taylor Carter
W. Taylor Car Bible study. 10 a. m.
Morning service, 11 a. m. Sermon Your Conversion."
Communion, 11:45 a. m.
Teacher's Training class, 6:30 p.m.
Evening service, 7:30 p.m. Sermon:
"Persecuctions in Italy."
FIRST BAPTIST
8th and Kentucky Rev. George C. Fetter
Student Bible study class, 9:45
a. m. Topic: "Christianity vs. Marie."
Communication service and sermon,
1. m. Topic; "Jesus Reverence
for People"
Youth fellowship. Dr. Harold Barn will speak on "Christian Love and Courtship."
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST
SCIENTIST
1701 Massachusetts
Sunday school 9:30 a.m
NORWAY SCHOOL, 9:30 a. m.
Momning service, 11 a. m. Subject Man."
WEST SIDE PRESBYTERIAN
Daniel Knox Ford, minister
Bible school, 9:45 a. m. Lesson
Bible school, A Center of Christian Influenc
Morning worship, 11 a. m. Sermon,
"Our Protestant Heritage."
Evening service. 8 p. m. Sermon "The Foolishness of Preaching."
IMMANUEL LUTHERAN
10th and Kentucky
(Missouri synod) 10th and Kentucky
Bible class, 10 a. m. Subject:
"Book of Revelation."
Worship service with Holy Communion, 11 a. m.
Gamma Delta, 5.30 p. m., 17th & Vermont, Speaker: the Rev, Lester Draheim, Topic: “Bringing Christ into our Public Institutions.
CALVARY BAPTIST
Co-operating with Southern District commission
Operating with Southern Baptist convention 10th and New York Bill O'Dell
Sunday school for the entire family, 9:45 a.m.
University class taught by Leo Poland
Morning worship, 11 a.m.
Mission team of The Rev. N. J.
Westmoreland and The Rev. Roy
Dittmar
University Bible study led by Leo Poland, 7 p.m.
Evangelistic service, 8 p.m., sermon by the Rev. Mr. O'Dell, "What Is Man?" 8 p.m.
Woman's Missionary union, 8 p.m. Monday, with Mrs. Kennedy, 1123 Oregon street
Wednesday Prayer service, 8 p.m.
The legend holds an element of truth, for there is some factual basis for the story. In the 17th century, a French ship, loaded with gold, got into the French troops in North America, was chased up the Elizabeth river by a British man-of-war, and ran aground near the swamp.
The French sailors burned their ship and plunged into the swamp, carrying the gold. According to the legend, no one ever came out, and the gold lies buried somewhere in the swamp.
Another legend of the swamp told in the thesis concerns the love of an Indian warrior and his beautiful maiden. Her father would not consent to their marriage, so the couple eloped to the Dismal swamp. There they are still seen today, gliding across the waters, then taking to the sky, leaving the trail of a meteor behind them.
Mr. Morrison says the swamp is blood red in color, due to a resinous substance secreted by the juniper trees which grow in the swamp. The 600 square miles of the area are exotically beautiful, but somewhat dangerous to amateurs, since all of the four types of poisonous snakes in the U.S. are found in the swamp.
The swamp played a big part in the history of Virginia, and had an early influence on the legends and literature of the South.
Before the Civil war, Longfellow wrote the poem "Slave in the Dismal Swamp," and Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Dred." an anti-slavery novel with a Dismal swamp setting.
Mr. Morrison wrote the thesis after spending the summer of 1947 exploring the swamp and learning about which are connected with the swamp.
The swamp was discovered in 1584 by the first explorers of Virginia, and was explored in 1728.
Mr. Morrison was graduated from Davidson college in 1944, and received his master of arts degree from the University of North Carolina in 1947, writing the thesis while there. He was an instructor at the University of Illinois in 1947-48, and since been at K. U.
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