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300 Arrested in African Police Raid
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—(UPI)—Armed troops and police backed by armored cars seized an African hostel near Durban today and arrested about 300 natives.
Officials said natives had taken control of the S. J. Smith Hostel near Lamontville, which houses about 4,500 Negroes, when agitators and intimidators forced white officials out Monday night.
WASHINGTON—(UPI) The Senate today rejected a Southern proposal to limit registration powers of federal voting referees to congressional election contests.
Police surrounded the hostel in the early morning hours today and advised those who wanted to leave to do so. The inhabitants were warned that gunfire would be used if necessary to force them out.
Senate Rejects Southern Effort
A proposed amendment to the pending Civil Rights Bill by Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-NC) was tabled on a motion by acting Republican leader Thomas H. Kuchel of California. The vote was 72 to 16.
Mr. Ervin's proposal would, in effect, have allowed court-appointed referees provided in the house-passed bill to register voters only for the election of Senators and members of the House of Representatives.
The bill, as approved by the House, would let the proposed federal referees register potential voters for all elections—federal, state and local.
Mr. Ervin said the measure thus tries to give the federal government power to pass on the qualifications of voters — a power he said was granted by the Constitution to the states. The issue, Mr. Ervin said, is whether Congress wants to "destroy a government of separate states.
Only brief debate preceded the vote to table Mr. Ervin's amendment.
In answer to a question, Mr. Kuchel said the referee provision as it now stands would apply to any election, even bond issue votes in cities and counties, if there was denial of voting rights.
Ervin said there was nothing in the Constitution which gives the federal government the right to register voters in state and local elections. He asked the Senate if it was "willing to sell the birthright of Americans to appease a few organizations."
The vote on Mr. Ervin's amendment came before Sen. Allen J. Elender (D-La) was scheduled to resume a one-man talkathon which was slowing progress toward a final vote.
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- But the guns were not used. Police said about 300 Africans were arrested and a search of the hostel turned up a large number of weapons, including hammers, hatchets and clubs with knobbed ends.
Negroes were reported fleeing Lamontville and other native settlements near Cape Town, some in search of food and others to seek refuge in tribal homes to avoid new beatings by club and whip-wielding South African police.
The native settlements were reported quiet but tense today, a national holiday.
Heavily armed police patrols and armored cars made an early-morning sweep through Nyanga where four Africans were shot by police last night. But deputy police commissioner Col. J. E. A. Reay said there would be no further patrols today "because it's a holiday and they wouldn't be coming out anyway."
White authorities insisted the resistance from defiant Negroes was melting and they expected little or no trouble today because it was a national holiday—the 308th anniversary of white settlement in the Union.
Africans fleeing the native township at Lamontville, near Durban, said they were going to their tribal villages in the southern Natal preserves.
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All-University Dinner To Be Held April 27
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The all-University dinner honoring the seven University of Kansas faculty members who will retire June 30 will be on April 27, rather than on the date previously announced.
Elden C. Tefft, associate professor of design, said the bronze-casting conference held here recently was a larger success than had been expected.
Colleagues and friends of the honorees must obtain tickets at the Kansas Union prior to April 26.
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Approximately 100 attended the conference, which was held Thursday through Saturday. There were representatives from every part of the United States.
Bronze Meeting Termed Success
Various panel discussions were held at the conference to demonstrate techniques of bronze-casting. Many companies who furnish bronze-casting materials sent specialists and engineers to act as a core of the panel program. Actual casting took place during these discussions and demonstrations.
The emphasis of the conference was on lost wax casting, which is a process revived and improved by Prof. Teftt. The process dates back to ancient China and has been handed down from generation to generation. Prof. Teftt said that he has rediscovered many working techniques of the process.
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Close Vote Approves City School Bonds
A $700,000 school construction bond issue was carried by only 212 votes in yesterday's special election.
The 5,430 voters broke a 1949 Law-
rence record for special elections
with a vote of 2,821 "yes" to 2,609
"no."
The bond money is to be used for seven construction projects. They include:
An addition and alterations to Woodlawn; an addition to Schwegler School; a new elementary school in Southeast Lawrence; a major addition to Lawrence High School and
Dentler to Speak in St. Louis
Dentler to Speak in St. Louis Robert A. Dentler, research assistant for the KU Bureau of Child Research, will present a paper at the annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society April 21-23 in St. Louis, Mo. His paper is entitled, "Socio-Economic Status Versus Family Status in the Study of Family."
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alterations on the LHS cafeteria plus work on the LHS grounds and parking areas; remodeling of part of Central Junior High School; construction of a storage and maintenance building; and acquisition of new building sites.
The Board of Education lists these projects as necessary to keep up with growing local enrollments. ___
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