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Lewis Halts Coal Strike But Not Action Of Court
Washington, April 12—(UP)—John L. Lewis today dramatically called off the four-week soft coal strike 23 minutes before he and his union were scheduled to face contempt charges in federal court.
charges in lieu of a contract. He gave his 400,000 miners the signal to return to work in a six-word telegram which advised them that their disputed pensions had been granted in a compromise settlement, and agreement is
"Pensions granted, agreement is now honored," Lewis wired the miners.
Lewis said he accepted the agreement "somewhat regretfully," but did so in the national interest.
Meanwhile, the courts were preparing to act against Lewis. Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough ordered the union leader to stand trial at 10 a.m. Wednesday on a contempt of court charge.
Settlement of the pension issue, which touched off the coal strike on March 15, was reached at an early morning conference of the three trustees of the United Mine Workers Welfare fund.
Goldsborough ruled that the settlement of the coal strike this morning did not clear Lewis from the contempt charge.
is wretched. It was reached by a 2 to 1 vote.
Lewis and Sen. Styles Bridges (R.—N, H). the new "impartial" third trustee, voted for the pension plan. Ezra Van Horn, representing the operators, voted against it.
The settlement provides a pension of $100 a month for miners aged 62 or older with 20 years of service and who retired after May 28, 1946.
Under the settlement formula, Lewis was forced to yield a little frost his original demands which called for $100-a-month pensions for all miners and former miners aged 60 with 20 years' service. The original Lewis demand would have made any miner eligible no matter how long ago he had retired. Operators had objected to that proposal and also wanted retirement age set at least 65 years.
The contract signed last July provided for a pension, but left details to the three-man board of trustees. Inability of the original trustees to agree on a plan resulted in the strike.
The word from the coal helix was that the miners probably would go back to the pits with the night shift late today. But some local union leaders said the miners would not go back while Lewis and the union faced contempt charges.
Today's settlement was not expected to have any immediate effect on the government's order to reduce operations of coal-burning railroads to one-half of normal effective Thursday.
Dance Will Honor KU Relays Queen
The queen of the Kansas Relays will be honored at a dance April 17. Sponsored by the All Student Council with the co-operation of the athletic office, it will be from 9:30 p. m. to midnight in the Union ballroom.
Charlie O'Connor and his orchestra will play. Admission is $1.75 a couple. Men are asked to wear suits or sports coats and slacks, and women street dress.
Athletes competing in the relays have been invited to the dance, Charles D. Johnson, dance manager. said. Students attending the relays from other colleges and universities have also been invited, he said.
The queen will be presented to those attending, Johnson said, John A. Moorhead will be master of ceremonies. Mary L. Peckenschneider and Gregory Simms will sing.
WEATHER
Kansas—Mostly cloudy today with scattered light showers southeast and extreme west becoming partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow.
2 Polling Places Added For Thursday's Election
Two polling places, in addition, to those announced, will be used in Thursday's all-school election, Lynn L. Leigh, chairman of the election committee said today.
The two polling places will be in the recreation room of the Union. One will be for District I, the College, and one will be for District II. Engineering.
Third Mock UN Will Be May 1
The third annual University United Nations mock conference will be May 1. Gov. Frank Carlson has sent a letter to the International Relations club, the campus organization sponsoring the event, notifying them that the week of April 25 to May 2 will be U. N. week for Kansas.
Students at the conference will discuss such current and explosive issues as Palestine and German trusteeship, Robert D. Judy, president of the International Relations club, said at a meeting March 9. Also a pageant entitled "Sunday in Latin America" will be presented by the International club, foreign student organization.
The mock conference is structurally arranged exactly as the U. N. at Lake Success, New York. The same procedure is used in voting, and in presenting matter for the agenda, Judy said.
The purpose of the student U, N. is to give college men and women knowledge about the cultural structure of nations, and to present and analyze both sides of questions about current issues, Judy said.
Thirty five nations will be represented, and campus groups and organized houses will need committees of students to represent specific nations.
Pachacamacs Want Thiessen For ASC Chief
Patrick Thiessen, College senior, will be Pachacamae candidate for president of the All Student Council in the election Thursday. Thiessen is chairman of the student war memorial committee, and is president of the Owl society.
Other Pachacamac-N.O.W. candi-
dates are: Bruce Bathurst, senior
class president; Robert Stroud, vice
president; Laurabelle King, secre-
tary; and Marjorie Stark, treasurer.
Marilyn Smith, sophomore class president; Douglas Paddock, vice-president; Amberberg, secretary; and Russell Harris, treasurer.
Forrest Griffith, junior class president; Mary Baker, vice-president; Bernadine Read, secretary; and Ronald Weddle, treasurer.
Candidates for A.S.C. representative from district I are Ernest Friesson, Alan Ken Shearer, Evan Wilson, Lee Reiff, Doris Jane Tihen, Joan Marie Bushey, and Mary Margaret Wolfe.
District II candidates are Samuel McCamant, Ralph Kiene, Robert Thaver, and Jack Fink.
District III candidates are Donald Helm, Anne Ellis, Elizabeth Ann McCune, and Alvin Ward. District IV George Lowe.
Pachacamae includes all social fraternities on the campus except Alpha Kappa Lambda, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Kappa, and Phi Kappa Sigma.
Topekans To Perform Here
Musical groups from Topeka High school will present a concert at 10 a.m. tomorrow in Hoch auditorium.
Lester Davis, who won first rating at the district music conference, will play a piano arrangement of Mendelssohn's G Minor concerto.
Other groups who will perform are the band, orchestra, a cappella choir, and chorus.
Little Man On Campus
Colombia, Russia Break Off Relations
"Have you ever attended the University before?"
Soviet Agents Arrested In Bogota Delegates To Continue Conference
Colombia broke off diplomatic relations with Russia today, charging that Communists including two Soviet agents inspired a bloody three-day insurrection that broke up the ninth Inter-American conference and caused at least 300 deaths.
The Colombian government radio said oday that 15 foreign agents, in-
Soloists Picked For 'Messiah'
Solists for the performance of Handel's "Messiah," to be given May 2 in Hoch auditorium, were announced today by D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts and director of the concert.
Ruth Russell has been chosen as the soloist rosa. Miss Russell, daughter of Prof, and Mrs. F. A. Russell, received her degree in voice under Alice Morricre in 1945. She was a soloist in the Bach “Magnificent” at the 1946 Berkshire Music festival, for the Yonkers Choral society, and for St. Marks-in-the-Bowerie Episcopal church. She also sang with the Robert Shaw Collegiate chorale.
Minerva Davis Is Contralto
Singing as contraltto solo; will be another Lawrence woman, Minerva Davis, now a member of the voice faculty of Texas State Teachers college. Following her graduation in voice from K.U. in 1942, she won a three year fellowship at the Juilliard Graduate School of Music, New York.
Miss Davis has appeared as guest soloist on NBC and CBS network programs and has toured Canada and the eastern states with the Radio City Music Hall orchestra.
To Sing, Tenor Role
E. M. Brack will handle the tenor role. Since leaving K.U. last year he has been a student of Paul Althouse, opera and concert star.
While serving in the army, Mr. Brack sang the tenor role in "Elijah" and "The Messiah." He also sang the tenor part in "The Messiah" with the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra.
Charles L. Sager, now head of the voice department at Washburn university, will sing the bass role. Mr. Sager received his degree of bachelor of music from K.U. in 1930 and his master's degree in 1936. He has studied with Sarcedote in Chicago, Herbert Gould at Drake university, and Sol Alberti in New York.
2 Candidates Added To Election Slate
The names of two candidates for office in the all-school election Thursday are being put on the ballot by the petition of independent voters, Elizabeth Webster, All Student Council secretary has announced.
One petition names Arthur S. Ruppenthal, education sophomore, as candidate for president of the A. S.C., and others name Frank G. Pomeroy, business junior, as an independent candidate for council representative from District III, business and fine arts.
W.A.A. Sponsors Play
Women's Athletic Association is sponsoring a high school "Play Day" at the University Saturday. All high schools in this district have been invited to send delegates.
The delegates will be guests at the Kansas Relays in the afternoon.
during two transactions, were designed "in the act" and some were taken alive. The radio added that three foreign agents were arrested while trying to foment disorders.
In Bogota, delegates to the ninth Inter-American conference decided today to continue their meeting despite the interruption of the revolt which wrecked their headquarters in the capital.
Will Finish Work
Spokesmen for the 21 conference delegations said that the delegates are going to finish their work to show that they are not "at the mercy of any transitory emergency occurring in any of their countries."
Hunger spread through the ruined Colombian capital today after the wild weekend of rioting, looting, and burning which was touched off by the assassination Friday o fa Liberal party leader. It will cost millions of dollars to repair the city and an estimated five years to put it back into normal working order.
President Perez warned his countrymen that failure to co-operate with the new government would be interpreted as "an act of treason."
Today a semblance of order was returning to the shattered capital and the coalition government of President Mariano Ospina Perez appeared to have the insurrection in hand.
Perez Warns Nation
The confederation, in pamphlets and handbells distributed through the underground, yesterday called on all working men and women to take part in a general strike. Such a stroke, the confederation said, is necessary as a demonstration against "reaction and Yankee imperialism."
There was no word yet as to whether the Communist-dominated Workers confederation would remand its call for a general strike, but thousands were returning to work anyway.
Reports received by the state department in Washington indicated that the future of the coalition government depended on whether the workers went back to work.
The official government radio continued hamming on the theme that the revolution was Moscow-inspired, probably in an effort to break up the hemispheric conference. No Americans Listed Read.
No Americans were listed among the 300 dead. Thirty women attached to the U.S. delegation and about the same number connected with other conference groups were evacuated by U.S. army planes yesterday.
Americans had a less severe food problem than other delegations or residents of Bogota. U.S. air force planes flew army rations in late yesterday and they were being distributed today.
Music Fraternity Inducts 11 Members
Phi Mu Alpha, honorary music fraternity, imited 11 persons April 10. Members attended a banquet at the Hearth after the ceremony.
Members initiated were Bobbie Robertson, Jean Hall, William Jackson, Neill Humfeld, Charles Jeffrey, Richard Hamilton, Ralph Campbell, Charles Wiley, Rober Tawney, Richard Porter and Louis Cunningham.