PAGE EIGHT
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1950
UMW To Trial For Contempt; Lewis Not Cited
BULLETIN
Washington, Feb. 27, —(U.P). The contempt trial of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers opened today with the union entering a formal plea of not guilty and waiving a jury trial.
Less than an hour later, the trial was recessed abruptly until 12:45 p.m., at the government's request. The reason given was that the government wanted to call as its first witness U.M.W. secretary-treasurer John Owens who, at the moment, was resuming contract negotiations with coal industry representatives.
Washington. Feb. 27. —(U.P.)—John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers went on trial on contempt charges today after failure of a desperate, 11th-hour effort to settle the crippling soft coal strike.
The union faced trial at 9 am on both civil and criminal contempt for failing to get the 372,000 striking miners to obey Federal Judge Ichmond B. Keech's back-to-work order issued two weeks ago. The union was liable to heavy fines. It has paid $2 million for similar defiance on two occasions in the past.
Mr. Lewis, who twice was fined for contempt, was not cited in the present action and will not be in court. Called out of town by the death of a brother, he did not take part in the last-minute negotiations.
As the miners stayed away from the mines for the fourth week, industry officials said they feared a complete industrial breakdown this week if the miners did not return at once. In many authorities were moremediately concerned with the plight of fuelless householders. Cold weather across much of the nation intensified the situation.
The coal shortage, worst in history, plunged the nation deeper into economic crisis. Some 150,000 workers in coal-consuming industries had been laid off; steel, auto and other plants were shut down or their production curtailed; some schools were closed, and many states and cities had taken emergency measures to save coal.
Prodded by government officials to reach an agreement before the trial, union and operators negotiators met for more than 12 hours in an unusual Sunday bargaining session. But they gave up early this morning, still unable to agree on terms that would send the miners back to digging coal.
Federal mediators had said early last night that they were more hopeful of a settlement than at any time in the 10-months-old dispute. But those hopes apparently faded as the night drew on. When talks were halted shortly after midnight, David L. Cole, chairman of President Truman's fact-finding board, said:
"We are still hopeful, but we were more hopeful earlier in the evening than now." Mr. Cole refused to say what the government might do next if an agreement is not reached soon. But it has been reported that Mr. Truman will move to seize the mines if the deadlock continued into this week. Mr. Cole would not discuss the negotiations in detail, saying it would not be fair to either party. But he said they "really negotiated on every point."
The bargaining talks were to resume at 10 a.m., this morning, just one hour after the trial begins. The Union is expected to base its defense in the argument that the strikers are acting individually; that top officers at the union have made genuine efforts to get the men back to work. Mr. Lewis twice sent messages to district and local headquarters ordering the miners to return to the pits.
Mr. Keech probably will take into consideration the so-called "Goldsborough doctrine" that a union is responsible for the action of its members.
On KFKU
TODAY
2:30—"News from Mt. Oread" by Tom Vernon
2:45—"Four State News Review" by
Emil Telfal
9:30 to 10—"Concerto Concert"— Beethoven's "Concerto No. 1 in C"
TUESDAY
2:30 to 3 "Art by Radio" with Miss Floyd, Flowers
9:30 to 10 "Symphonic Favorites"
—"Symphony No. 94 in G"
(Surprise)
WEDNESDAY
:30 to 3—An interview with Dr. Compton in observance of Religious Holiday.
9:30 to 10"Salon Soiree""Quartet No.4 in B flat Major" by Havdn
THURSDAY
2:30—"Pleasures of Reading" with Miss Furness, Gestured
2:45—"The Flying Carpet" narrated by Tom Shay
9:30 to 10—"Sharps and Flats"
FRIDAY
2:30 to 3—"Music by Radio" with
Miss Mildred, Seaman
9:30 to 10-"The Opera Box"—last Madame Butterfly by Paetie
Debaters Win Five Rounds
K. U. debaters failed to maintain their winning streak at the intercollegiate basketball game held in University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Feb. 24, and Feb. 25.
The team, which won only five out of ten rounds, competed against some of the best debate talent in the Mid-West, E.C. Buehler, pro-selection staff. More than 50 schools and 200 debaters participated in the contest.
J. Eugene Balloun and Jack Stewart, business juniors, won three out of five rounds, while Win Koerper and Heywood Davis, College sophomores, won two. The four students were declared champions. The question: "Resolved, that the United States should nationalize the basic non agricultural industries."
Participating in the separate speech rounds, Balloun in the ex-temporaneous division, Koerper in original oration, and Stewart in radio speaking, all received excellent ratings.
Koerper and Davis entertained with an accordian and guitar duet on the屏幕, the debaters Saturne, Professor Buchler accompanied the debaters.
Chili Supper Given By Newman Club
A chill supper, the first of three suppers to be given by the New-memorial bolic student group, was held at 5 p.m. Sunday at the Catholic church.
Money raised from the dinners will be used to remodel the church basement.
Believe Sander Will Take Stand In Own Defense
Manchester, N.H., Feb. 27 —(U.P.) Legalized mercv killing is the issue in the trial of Dr. Hermann N. Sander—even though both state and defense are trying to keep it out of the case.
The words "mercy killing" keep popping up as witnesses recount statements that Dr. Sander allegedly made in explaining why he injected 40 cubic centimeters of air into the veins of Mrs. Abbie Borroto, his patient who was dying of cancer.
While the issue of whether a doctor has the right to end the suffering of a dying or incurably ill person may not be debated openly in court, it appears that the question is in the minds of most principals of the case. Particularly it is so in the minds of the residents of Manchester and surrounding surburban towns, including Candia, home of Dr. Sander.
There was a belief today that Dr. Sander may take the stand in his own defense—and if he does, then the issue of "mercy killings" would be brought wide open in the courtroom. Since the trial started, it has been assumed that Dr. Sander would not testify—that the defense would base its case mainly on claims that Mrs. Borroto already was dead when the injection of air was made and if she were not dead then 40 cubic centimeters of air were not sufficient to cause death in a human being.
In a sermon Sunday, the Rev. E. Leslie Curtice, pastor of the Candia Congregational church where Mr. Sander and his family attend, said that "society is about ready to agree that it shall be a lawful thing under certain conditions to permit a person a dignified death."
Following his sermon, Rev. Curtice said that "consciously or unconsciously Dr. Sander is spearheading an attack into this entire issue of a person's right to die."
However, Dr. Sander's defense has disclosed it will call a physician to testify he could not detect a pulse in Mrs. Borroto on the morning of the past Dec. 29, and before Dr. Sander arrived at the hospital. Dr. Sander may testify later.
He has been quoted as explaining his act in these words:
"I know it was against the law, but the law should be changed."
Even though Dr. Sander should win an acquittal, he still must face a possible reprimand by his county medical society, which is a unit of the American Medical association. Off the record, some A.M.A. circles have said that the notoriety caused by Dr. Sander has not done good for organized medicine.
Malott Speaks On Planning
Planning has become the shibboleeth of liberalism and the verbel solvent of the ills of the world, Chancellor Deane W. Malott told the Kansas City, Mo., Junior Chamber of Commerce Feb. 24.
"Thousands of bureaucrats are planning the economic, social, and political life of America," he said, "but let us examine the facts.
Oklahoma City, Feb. 27—(U.P.)—Two Colorado state mountain lion hunters took seven experienced "lion" dogs into the Oklahoma City zoo today in an attempt to flush an escaped leopard believed to be hiding near the pit from which he leaped.
"At the height of the planning activity we were plunged into an unplanned war. During the reconstruction Britain was dragged into an unplanned currency devaluation."
"In other words we have somehow failed to bring to bear on our problems sufficient intelligence and realistic thinking; we have failed to educate enough people in the unselfish and broad aspects of national and world problems to assure intelligent action."
"We have agricultural planning on the one hand, and 50 million bushels of potatoes of the other," the chancellor said.
Louis Lipovsky, graduate student, will discuss "The Biology of the Chigger" at the Bacteriology club meeting 7.30 p.m. Tuesday in 502 Snow hall.
Lion Hunters Fly Dogs To Track Wild Leopard
Life Of Chigger Will Be Discussed
The venture into the 20-acre enclosure, which is surrounded by a six-foot steel fence, came less than an hour after the dogs arrived here from Denver in a chartered airliner.
An investigation is being conducted at the University, supported by research grants from the United States navy department, to determine the importance of the chigger invasions. Owsky will show colored slides to illustrate his work on the life history and life cycle of the chigger.
Finding 33-Year-Old Check
Makes A Merry Christmas
Dighton, Kan. — (U.P.) — It was a bright Christmas for H. M. Yates. His son found a 33-year-old check made out to him that was still good.
Schedule For Religious Week
The $6.20 check issued to the elder Yates in 1916 by a farm insurance company was for lightning damage to a barn. It was discovered in a small metal box in the Yates' basement.
TUESDAY, FEB. 28
7 a.m. Breakfast, Union cafeteria, for Religious Emphasis week speakers, chairmen and committees, Student Religious council and counsellors, interested faculty and students.
9:30 a.m. Coffee, Westminster hall,
1221 Oread.
12:30 p.m. Worship service, Danforth chapel, "God and Rational Man."
12 noon Student luncheon, School of Engineering. Westminster hall.
"Skeptic's Hour." A. B. Martin,
Ottawa university,
English leong
4 p.m. Seminars:
"The Question Box," Father Gene Malcolm, rector of Grace church of Carthage, Mo. and Rev. Thomas O. Parish, pastor of the Central Christian church in Kansas City, Mo., 222 Strong.
"Religion here and Abroad," Rabbi Nathan Hersfield, assistant rabbi
"Christian Love and Marriage",
Rev. Charles Edward Brubaker,
Presbyterian student pastor at the
University of Arkansas, 206 Strong.
at congregation B'ani Jehudah, Kansas City, Mo., and Mr. Herman the administrative assistant in the Methodist Commission on World Peace. 210 Strong
7:30 p.m. Speaker's Panel, Grade School auditorium in Sunflower village, Rev. Parish, Dr. Martin, Rev R. W Albert, pastor of the first Unitarian church in Lawrence, and Dr. John Patton, preschool university pastor.
"Science Related to Religion," 200 Strong.
6. p.m. Speakers at organized houses.
7 a.m. Breakfast, Union cafeteria (Same as Tuesday.)
12:30 p.m. Worship service, Danforth chapel, "Humility."
8:39 a.m. Coffee, Westminster hall,
Junction, Student lunchroom, School of Business, University of Toronto
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1
4 p.m. Seminars. (Same as Tuesday.)
6 p.m. Canterbury club, Congregational student group dinner and Fireside forum, Father Malcolm, speaker, Parish house.
6 p.m. K.U. Disciple fellowship dinner, Rev. Parish, speaker, Myers hall.
6 p.m. Roger Williams, foundation banquet, Dr. Martin, speaker, English room, Union.
6 p.m. Hillel foundation dinner,
Rabbi Hershfield, speaker, Alpha
Epsilon Pi house, 1247 Ohio.
6. 15 p.m. Westminster fellowship and Lutheran Student association banquet, Rev. Brubaker, speaker, Kansas room, Union.
Simmiederer, secretary of 6:30 a.m. Y.M.C.A banquet, Wil-
Metropolitan Y.M.C.A. in Kansas
City, Mo., speaker, Palm room,
Union.
THURSDAY, MARCH 2
7 a.m. Union cafeteria
(Same as Tuesday)
12:30 p.m. Worship service, Danforth chapel, "I Dare You."
9:30 a.m. Coffee. Westminster hall.
School of Education. Wunich school of
Education. Wunich school
4 p.m. Seminars. (Same as Tuesday.)
6 p.m. Speakers at organized houses.
The leopard bounded out of a 20-foot pit Saturday. An intensive search by more than 100 riflemen, aided by spotter aircraft and walkie-talkie radio was delayed until the dogs got their chance to catch the 175-pound jungle-born cat. City Park Superintendent R. R. Murphy said the dogs appeared to be the best bet as the hunt for the beast got underway in a gray dawn. Earlier today, the Daily Oklahoman and Oklahoma City Times announced they were importing lion hounds here from Dryden, Tex., by special airplane. The Denver Post chartered the plane to bring the Colorado dogs.
The organized hunt for the tawny, black-spotted animal was renewed at 7 a.m., only four hours after having been halted to enable the weary officials to get some sleep. The weather suddenly changed during the night. A moist south breeze chilled the gathering posses but the dampnish trend was welcomed by the dogmen.
A former University Daily Kansan executive is now the city manager of Oklahoma City where authorities are directing an intensive hunt for the escaped leopard. He is William Gill, Jr., '37, editor-in-chief of the Kansan in 1937 Mr. Gill served in the Naval Air Corps and saw action in the Pacific.
World-famed "cat man" Clyde Beatty said in Mexico City that the leopard probably could be captured alive "if there was someone there who knew how to do it." He said he was sorry that he couldn't fly to Oklahoma City to help. He suggested that the hunters first find the leopard, then set up a box trap with a live goat for bait.
Mr. Murphy's instructions to about 100 huntsmen on hand at the start dealt mainly with how to follow the dogs if they caught the scent.
Brookfield Zoo at Chicago keeps its six leopards behind steel bars in frame and stone houses, and Ralph Graham, assistant director of the zoo, said he was "puzzled" at why the Oklahoma zoo permitted a leopard to roam in an outdoor pit. "Leopards are known as climbers," he said.
Zoo Supt. Julian Frazier said a chunk of horsemeat containing a patented sedative compound was placed near the abandoned leopard pit last night after two men reported seeing the animal reenter the zoo. The bait was gone this morning but Mr. Frazier said it might have been eaten by raccoons and skunks which frequent that part of the zoo.
Mr. Beatty differed with animal trainer Mabel Stark, who suggested at Thousand Oaks, Calif., that searchers box the leopard in and a piece of canvas. Mrs. Stark said the leopard would be so frightened he wouldn't leap over the canvas. But Mr. Beatty argued: "It's pretty hard to catch a leopard that way."
"We hope he got some of it." Mr. Frazier said. "If he did, he ought to be pretty groggy by now. Mr. Murphy estimated that the leopard must have ranged upwards of 25 miles in the three days and two nights it has been loose. "The leopard actually was seen from airplanes several times yesterday," he said. "But by the time the men on the ground got there the cat was gone."
The weather conspired all along to assist the leopard. Only spring-like temperatures have been experienced since the jungle cat's escape. Mr. Frazier had hoped temperatures might fall low enough to kill the tropic-loving animal or force it to return to the zoo to take shelter. The black-spotted leopard was brought to the zoo from India several weeks ago.