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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1948
500 Expected At Music Clinic
More than 500 music supervisors from a four-state area are expected to attend the Mid-Western music clinic January 13-15 at the University. The event will be sponsored by the School of Fine Arts, the School of Education, and University extension.
Seventy hours of clinic sessions will be packed into the three-day session with as many as four events going simultaneously most of the time.
A concert by 335 musicians, including the University band, orchestra, and a cappella choir will be given for the visitors.
L. E. Watters, director of music education in the Des Moines city schools, will be a guest conductor and will handle part of the work on the elementary level. James P. Robertson, director of music in the public schools of Springfield, Mo., will conduct the program for the secondary level.
The class sessions will include vocal instruction, demonstrations on the various instruments, and the care and repair of wind instruments by members of the music faculty of the School of Fine Arts.
Recreation at the U.S.C.C. conference, to be held at the University from Dec. 27 to Jan. 1, will be regarded as re-creation, according to Jo E. Anderson, senior student from Friends university, Wichita, and chairman of the recreation committee.
Students on the committee are from Kansas State college, University of Chicago, Tulsa university College of the Ozarks, Park college Hastings college, and Sterling college.
Recreation For USCC
The recreation for the conference includes mixers; a conference play; movies; a mountaineer party planned by the University of Chicago delegation; western roundup party by the Kansas State college delegation; a southern party by the University of Texas group; north woods party by the University of Michigan students; a conference New Year's eve party; and optional recreation period each afternoon.
Shreveport, La. — (UP) — E. L.
Hunt, who is 65, wanted an oil well,
so he went out and drilled one by
himself. It produces 25 barrels of oil
a day.
To Get It Done,
So It Yourself
He used an "A" shaped frame instead of a derrick and a rotary rig, powered by a car engine. Hunt brought in his producer at 410 feet, 10 days after he started drilling.
Altogether, Hunt estimated it cost him $800 to drill the well. If he had turned the job over to a contractor, it would have cost about twice as much.
Hunt did the work of a normal crew of five—contractor, roughneck, truck driver, swamper, driller and tool pusher. He took the equipment to the location, nearly 12 miles from his home, in a trailer.
Hunt, however, doesn't advise everybody who wants an oil well to go out and start drilling. He is a veteran of the oil drilling business.
Little Man On Campus
By Bibler
Missing Will Valued At Millions Stumps London Fortune Hunters
London—(UP)—If Sherlock Holmes could only walk the few steps from Baker Street to Grosvenor Square he would find a mystery worthy of his mettle.
That goes for other fictional detection wizards, including Perry Mason, Hercule Poiret, the Shadow and the Saint.
But at that it might be unfair to ask them to examine the Case of the Missing Multi-Million Dollar Will. Truth is so much stranger than fiction in this instance that even Sherlock wisely might prefer to go back to plucking his violin.
A government ministry gave permission to use a mine detector on
In one of those typical British town mansions whose severe facades mushroom back into Edwardian splendor, lived Mrs. Daisy Alexander, an elderly eccentric who stuffed her straggly hair under a lace cap and provled her great salons in a worn blue housecoat.
She was the daughter of Isaac Singer, the sewing machine magnate. In 1940 a German bomb demolished an adjoining room and Mrs. Alexander died suddenly thereafter, apparently from shock.
But the will could not be found. Then the search rocketed right out of the realms of probability. Cohen announced he was looking for a pet parakeet named "Bob" who was a "fluent talker" and pet of Mrs. Alexander. It was hoped that by placing him in the mansion he somehow might lead to the will. Bob was found dead and stuffed.
Mrs. Alexander, he knew, was worth between $12,000,000 and $16,-
000,000 and her estate was increasing by hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
Barry Cohen, her lawyer, took up the task of cleaning up her estate and was puzzled at the absence of a will he knew she made within a year or two of her death. The only instrument he could find was dated 1809 and disposed of only $2,000,000.
the floors and walls of the house. It found a hollow place, but nothing was in it.
A spiritualist wrote in that the will was hidden either in a tall vase, or a Louis XIV gilt settee, covered with yellow silk, with a crest of musical instruments.
Cohen would have discounted the letter except that those two objects had been in the house during Mrs. Alexander's lifetime and the spiritualist hardly could have known about them. A long search of rummage shops produced the vase, which was found to have a hollow bottom, but it was empty.
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A West African witch doctor started for Britain to use voodoo but was headed off. A member of a cult called "Dawson's Pendulum" offered to use a secret pendulum device which, he said, would stop as it pointed out the hiding place.
Meanwhile, claimants for the Alexander fortune began mounting up. Letters from alleged relatives came from the United States. Two of those who claimed relationship were Buffalo, N. Y., sisters, Mrs. Paul Houck and Mrs. Lurline Pischer.
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