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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 3,1946
Reinforcements From Leavenworth Fly To Alcatraz Where Prisoners Continue Battle Against Recapture
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San Francisco. (UP)—Marines and prison guards were using bazookas, demolition bombs, hand grenades and other weapons of war in the riot at Alcatraz Island.
Reinforcements from federal penitentiaries at Leavenworth, Denver and McNeil Island, Wash., were being flown to Alcatraz Island to aid the guard force which is battling prison rioters, a spokesman for the Justice department said today.
The number of reinforcements being sent was not revealed, but the officer said between 20 and 20 officers were going to the prison where a band of desperate convicts, foiled in their attempt to escape, are now fighting grimly to avoid capture by U.S. marines and prison guards.
Explosions of hand grenades were shaking the penintentiary at five minute intervals, Jack Dailey, UP correspondent, reported by radiophone from a police launch which is circling the "Rock".
*As the struggle continued in great fury, Federal Prisons Director James Bennett announced in Washington that the remaining rioters had been cut off "and it's only a matter of time now before the whole situation will be under control."
On the island, Warden Johnston issued a terse order to "shell them out." Bennett said in Washington, however, that prison authorities indented to take the remnants of the poisoning prisoners "without loss of life." He indicated officials would move with extreme caution to "prevent further injuries to guards."
The rebellious convicts, armed with an arsenal of guns, continued to exchange fire with maneuvering guards throughout the morning. A barrage of tear gas and smoke shells whistled through the barred windows of the prison's main cell-block. They exploded inside.
fight that now had no apparent purpose except continued bloodshed. Avenues of escape were blocked solidly.
Approximately 16 kidnapers, murders, robbers and armed crime-hardened federal felons were united in an apparent fight to the finish-
Warden Johnston early today named five convicts "as the ring leaders who seized arms and shot officers who were hostages in their plot to make a mass escape."
He identified them as Joseph Paul Cretzer, 35, bank robber and murderer; Bernard Paul Coy, 46, armed robber; Miran Aden Thompson, 29, kidnaper-murderer; Sam Shockley, 36, kidnaper-bank robber; Marvin Franklin Hubbard, 34, kidnaper, and Clarence Carnes, 19, kidnaper.
Two destroyer escorts and five coast guard cutters and patrol boats maintained a tight blockade around "The Rock" to prevent any convicts from escaping across the mile and one-half wide channel to the main-land.
The detachment of more than 20 marines, many of them battle-hardened veterans of the Pacific war, went ashore from a patrol boat at 6:18 p.m., more than four hours after a convict overpowered a guard, seized his submachine gun and rallied other inmates in an attempted break.
The majority of the 300 prisoners did not participate in the attempted break. They were herded out of their cells and into a yard where, under the watchful eyes of armed marines, they spent the night in the cold.
The riot started just after 2 p.m. (PST) yesterday when Coy jumped Burch and seized his submachine-gun, pistol and keys to the cellblock.
Five other prison officers noticed the commotion and rushed to the gun gallery. They were cut down by fire from Coy and several other convicts whom he had gotten out of their cells.
Battenfeld To Be Only Scholarship Hall For Men Next Year
Battenfeld will be the only men's residence hall in operation under the scholarship plan next fall, Dean Gilbert Ulmer, chairman of the men's residence hall scholarship committee, said today.
Other halls, Jolife, Carruth, and Templin, will be used as regular University dormitories to provide housing for the expected all-time high enrollment next semester. Templin will be occupied by women students and the others by men.
Awards to these residence halls, in effect a financial grant of almost free rent while attending he University, previously have been made on the basis of scholastic record, character, and financial need. The great majority of men students expected to attend the University next fall will have government financial assistance under the G.I.Bill, Dean Ulmer asid.
under the GSA. Briefly Under the original policies the committee cannot continue to grant awards to the great majority of such applicants, who do not qualify under the financial clause, he added.
Halls were kept filled during the war, with scholarship grants still in effect, because the committee believed there were enough deserving students enrolled who required financial aid, he said. Since the halls filled, some students who did not meet the financial need requirement were admitted.
"Use of the halls as dormitories is purely a temporary measure," Dean Ulmer emphasized. "After this post-war housing situation has been remedied, we expect to return all present scholarship halls to their original and intended use, plus several others for which funds have been raised."
A Chem Student Went Through K.U. on $75
The "Brains in Bailey's Barn" haven't restricted themselves to the chemistry laboratories, according to the humorous reminiscences of Dr. R. Q. Brewster, chairman of the department, at a meeting of the Chemistry club Wednesday.
Eating Exhibit A of a murder trial, a box of chocolates suspected of containing strychine, and wheeling a baby buggy down the dusty main street of Lawrence to meet a prospective student at the train station were only two incidents in the varied life of Dr. Bailey, former chairman of the department, Dr. Brewster recalled.
"The biggest failure of the chemistry department," Dr. Brewster quoted Dr. E. C. Franklin, former professor, as having said, "was to let William Allen White go into journalism, rather than chemistry."
College expenses for Dr. Hamilton Cady, former professor, amounted to a two-digit figure during the four years he was a student here. Seventy-five dollars cash, plus the money he received for commercial chemical analyses, paid his expenses. Dr. Cady was the professor credited, not with having discovered helium, but with having found a large commercial source of gas in Kansas.
The name "Bailey's barn," Dr. Brewster explained, fit the chemistry building at the time it was built. "It was a big barny building when there were about as many students in the University as are now in the department, but it has been outgrown for many years," he said.
The next meeting of the Chemistry club will be held May 16 with N. W. Storer, astronomy professor, as guest speaker.
Little Man On Campus
"For making our stay more pleasant both during the war and the following peace; for making the Red Cross facilities a source of pleasure and relaxation to all of us; for being mother to some of us and big sister to all of us; for being with us and helping us."
Mrs. Mae Mills, a student in 1987, is also overseas with the Red Cross. G.I.'s of the 38th field hospital on Okinawa recently bestowed the following citation upon her:
By Bibler
All Nominations Are In For Election Thursday
All the hats are in the ring for the forthcoming election. Deadline for nominations was midnight last night.
"They say she isn't very popular."
Ancient Pieces Chosen For Display in Thayer
A collection of some of the oldest things in Spooner-Thayer museum has been chosen as the May "masterpiece of the month," to be displayed through May 11 in the main gallery of the museum.
Also included in the selection is a string of mummy beads, fastened with a scarab clasp, which is the emblem of resurrection. Composed of small clay figures and symbols which represent gods, these beads were put into the grave to ward off evil spirits which might try to harm the dead.
From ancient Egypt have come many objects which have been unearthed in the tombs discovered in the past two centuries. Among these finds have been small clay bronze figures which make up the masterpiece group. According to the Egyptian Museum at Cairo, these figures may date from 1000 B.C. to 30 B.C.
Italian 'Stork Club' Founded by Student
The "Stork Club" set up in Leghorn, Italy, by Red Cross worker, Margaret Murray, a K.U. student in 1941, is not a night club for soldiers, but a temporary home for prospective mothers who are married to American soldiers.
Miss Murray notifies the G.I. father when he has become a parent and provides care for mothers and babies after their discharge from U.S. military hospitals there.
Arabs Mobilize For Emergency
Jerusalem. (UP) — The Arab higher committee warned the British government today, a day after the Anglo-American commission recommended admission of 100,000 Jews to Palestine, that the Arabs will defend themselves against any encroachment on their rights.
The warning came on the heels of an Arab higher committee adoption of a resolution to organize civil disobedience and mobilize Arab youth "for emergency service."
The committee already has proclaimed a general strike of Arabs throughout Palestine tomorrow in protest against the Anglo-American report.
The extent to which the Arabs were prepared to go in civil disobedience and youth mobilization was not clear immediately.
On the eve of the Arabic general strike, Jewish quarters denounced Premier Clement Attlee's statement in the British house of commons yesterday that all illegal armies in Palestine must be disbanded before 100,000 could enter the Holy Land.
Kappa Phi Meets Tonight
At Methodist Church
Kappa Phi, Methodist woman's sorority, will meet at the Methodist church at 7 tonight. The theme of the program is "Mission Bells".
Hostesses are Helen Ames, Arlene Andrews, Marjorie Austin, Susan Badgley, Josephine Barney, and Pera Beth Bauer.
A pledge meeting will follow at 8 p.m.
No State Benefits To Striking Coal Miners
Topeka. (UP)—The Kansas State Labor commission today announced that coal miners involved in labor disputes were not entitled to state unemployment benefits.
The commission said that following specific investigation of conditions they had reached a decision that unemployment benefits would not be paid to striking coal miners.
'Why We Say' Feature Begins In Daily Kansan
A new feature, "Why We Say," will begin Monday in your University Daily Kansam; to explain the obscure origins of common expressions which make our modern language so colorful. It is based n the theory that K.U. students at some time are curious about the background of the colloquialisms and figures of speech which roll off their tongues so easily and naturally.
A grant of several thousand dollars for research on tularemia has been made to Prof. Cora Downs of the bacteriology department by the National Advisory Health council of the U.S. Public Health service.
The University has not received final notice of the grant with an announcement of the exact amount of the grant, Professor Downs said, but it has been officially, approved as one of 13 Federal grants-in-aid for general medical research voted by the council at a recent meeting.
"Tularemia is of interest because it occurs in wild rabbits in Kansas. Professor Downs stated. "This grant will cover a part of an intensive and extensive study of the problem of tularemia being carried on at this University."
Other agencies are being asked to extend the study, Professor Downs added.
Professor Downs has published number of articles dealing with tula remia in scientific journals during the past 15 years.
"Why We Say" is the outgrowth of a lifelong hobby of Stan J. Collins. For many years, Mr. Collins has been delving through old records and books to track down the bases upon, which are built such everyday expressions as "take the cake," "win hands down," "grass widow," and "kick the bucket."
Flour Worth $25,000 Lost-
Atchison Warehouse Fire
The co-authors of "Why We Say invite your suggestions. If you would like to know the origin or some of your favorite expressions they will try to include it in the material appearing in this paper Simply write to them in care of editor, Daily Kansan.
Achison (UP)—Damage in a fi which destroyed the Blair Millin company's flour and bag warehous Wednesday has been estimated a $150,000.
To him, it has been a fascinating and never ending avocation and he explains that "kick the buckle" originates with the lowly pig and "win hands down" has nothing to do with the game of poker.
The estimate included $25,000 worth of flour, according to Blain Hackney, president, 36 of the company. Firemen stopped the flames in the two-story frame warehouse after 90 minutes and kept them from spreading to the adjacent building housing the grinding mill. The mill was not damaged.
Mr. Collins was graduated from the University of Detroit and was admitted to the state bar of Michigan. When war threatened, he did special espionage work for the F.B.I. and joined the U.S. Coast Guard in 1942. He was honorably discharged in January, 1946 with a commission of Lieutenant commander after 46 months of service much of it on convoy duty in the Atlantic.
Research Grant Given Downs for Tularemia
Lloyd J. Shawson, editorial artist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, does the interpretative work on the panel. His exceptionally fine pen and ink drawings effectively tell each day's story at a glance. He has done historical art work for many years.
Washington. (UP)—The Army discharged 789,000 men and women during April, bringing tz' 7,074,000th number returned to civilian life since the end of the European war.
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