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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 2.1946
One Of Custer's Scouts Denies Men Were Drunk During The Last Stand'
White Crow, an Anikira Indian said Custer's men had been imbibing. White Crow said he ought to know. He had an uncle in the Battle of the Little Bighorn—known in the history books as Custer's last stand.
Bismarck, N.D. (UP)—An Indian claimed today that Gen. Custer's men were drunk when they made their famous "last stand," but one of Custer's scouts said there was a liquor shortage on the frontier in those daves.
On the night before the massacre," White Crow said, "a band of Indian scouts crept close to Custer's campfire and observed much firewater. When dawn broke the ground was covered with empty bottles."
His word was discounted by Jack Horner, 92, one of two survivors of some 1,200 scouts who served under Custer. He was at Ft. Lincoln, Neb., the day Custer and his men rode off to battle.
That was on June 25, 1876, when Custer and his cavalrymen were wiped out by Chief Gall and 3,000 Sioux warriors.
"That report is founded on legend, not facts." Horner said.
"I would have been numbered with Custer's dead if there had been enough horses to give every man a mount." he added.
When Chief Gall learned of this, White Crow said, he ordered an immediate attack.
Each man selected a horse, he said, until there was only one left. Two men bid for it himself and a woman bid for it. She was St. Joseph's I lost, because I was the worst.
"I lost because I was the youngest recruit." Horner said.
"The aged scout said that Custer liked a little nip now and then" but was strict in enforcing the rule of no drinking on duty.
White Crow, who has painted and written much of Indian legend, and Horner agreed on only one point—a big bay horse named Comanche was the only survivor on Custer's side.
Note: Comanche, sole survivor of Custer's last stand, is now in K.U.'s byche Museum of Natural History.
Dodge City Proposes To Rebuild Frontier
Dodge City (UP)—The Dodge City of "boothill" days when this western Kansas town was notorious as a frontier outpost may be reconstructed under a project proposed today by Mayor Bert Green.
Mayor Green suggested that a replica of the old "front street" be constructed. It would include a blacksmith shop specializing in souvenirs, a Front Street hotel with a front entrance a horse-stall for animals opened by rick rack hitching racks and several buildings constructed in the front manner.
Green estimated cost of the project at approximately $100,000, which he said would be a profitable investment for businesses catering to a tourist trade and possibly leasing the structures as moving picture sets.
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Men Should 'Scratch For a Living Like Rats,' Carlson Says
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Carlson, professor emeritus of physiology at the University of Chicago and retiring president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said that eating has become such a pleasant pastime that it has been overdone.
"If you leave rats on their own, they scratch around and eat only what they need." Carlson said. "They are like men, however. They will eat all you give them."
"I took one litter of rats and let them stuff themselves to their heart's content," he said. "Another group got the same diet but only on every second day. A third every third day, and a fourth every fourth day."
Carlson said that many scientist using white rats in their experiments were "off the scientific beam' because they let their rodents ea what they wanted.
He is engaged in studying the problem of whether undereating or overeating affects the life span of humans. And he has started by studying rats.
Carlson said the fasting rats scratched for food on the days their rations were denied them. They are restless and got a lot of exercise.
"Those fasting rats grew almost as large as those which stuffed themselves," he said.
"Rats are like men. Those which do not have to scratch for a living, who eat and sit and sit, do not live as long as they could."
Carlson said man might try to spend less time eating and more time "with his skull cap."
'Blankety-Blank'—Official G.I. Opinion of K-Rations
Washington. (UP) — The army quartermaster corps asked the G.I. who saw combat in World War II what he thought of "K" and "C" rations. The public relations officer cut out the swear words and made results of the survey today.
The GI's don't like beef or pork loaf, bouillon powder or lemon powder, the quartermasters finally discovered. Generally, they "diliked"rations used at the front, the army press release said.
The men said they preferred meat, crackers and biscuits, coffee, pork and beans, chocolate bars and cigarettes.
None of this information seemed to be new, but now it's official.
Spurs Jingle-Jangle At Horse Show
They strapped on their spurs and added a few modern touches to western riding Sunday.
The Spur club and equitation classes, sponsoring a horse show on the west intramural fields saddled themselves with a program calling for everything from horseback square dancing to a strip tease.
Gwennyn Gupton, doing the strip tease act for Eleanor Churchill, who fell from a horse and was slightly injured during another performance, galloped onto the field, removed a plaid shirt, and disappointed spectators by disobeying her horse instead.
Trick riders, Clarence Francisco, Carol Long, Martha Laffer, and Eleanor Churchill did high jumping on their horses. Caroline Merritt, Kathryn Eaton, Susan Wright, Patricia Foster, and Gayle Mott demonstrated English style riding. Carol Long, Martha Laffer, George Eisenhardt, Janet Belt, and Joan Hepworth, demonstrated Western style riding.
Two teams, playing basketball on horses, used rubber tires on the ground as goals. A sword battle and a square dance were program features.
Keeping things hot, Clarence Francisco ended the show by jumping his horse over flaming bales of hay.
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Atchison Mother Elected
Topeka. (UP) — The American Mothers Committee Golden Rule foundation today announced that Mrs. Sheffield Ingalls, Atchison, had been elected Kansas State Mother for 1946.
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Home Demonstration Awards
Manhattan. (UP)Four hundred and eighteen Kansas home demonstration units; the largest number in history, have received standard of excellence recognition for 1945 by the Kansas State college extension service, it was announced today.
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