Daily hansan
58th Year, No. 53
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday. Dec. 5, 1960
Bomb Tip Routs Gamma Phis Out In Wee Hours
By Linda Swander
A mysterious phone call to the Lawrence police at 3:45 a.m.yesterday brought police to the Gamma Phi Beta sorority house to check the premises for a bomb set to go off at 4:15 a.m.
Dectivective Vernon Harrell of the Lawrence police department accompanied by another Lawrence police officer and two campus police arrived at the sorority house at 3:50 a.m. and asked all the women in the house to leave so a search for the bomb could begin.
POLICE OFFICERS said a man called and said he had just planted a bomb at the sorority house and it was set to go off at 4:15 am. The police checked outside of the house first because they felt if the bomb had been planted it would not have been inside of the house.
Detective Harrell said the police doubted the presence of a bomb, but they would search the house to make certain there was no danger.
Members of the sorority, the housemother and weekend guests waited next door at the Chi Omega Sorority House while police checked the first floor, basement and grounds. The women were asked to return to the house after nothing was found. They went through their individual rooms to check for anything unusual. No bomb was found.
BRENDA NOTHDURF, Wayne,
N. J., junior and Jean Erickson,
Kansas City, Mo., senior, were the
only women awake when the police
arrived.
"I was surprised to see the police standing at the front door when I answered it. When they told us about the phone call. Jean and I immediately woke up the rest of the women." Miss Nothdurf said.
"It is a strange feeling to wake up in the middle of the night and hear someone say that the police are downstairs because someone said there was a bomb in the house," said Andrea Ash, Kansas City junior.
"THE WHOLE house wanted to believe the phone call was a practical joke, but the possibilities of disaster were too great," said Melinda Kirkman. Russell junior.
"It is hard to believe someone would enjoy this type of practical joke," said Mrs. Ralph Park, the housemother.
Emily Taylor, dean of women, said she thought the bomb hoax was an unfortunate incident. She said this is the second such occurrence this year.
Cold Air May Halt Temperature Rise
TOPEKA —(UPI)— Cold air pushing down into Kansas from the north today was expected to halt a rise in temperatures and cause increasing cloudiness.
The weather bureau said afternoon highs would vary from the 30s in the northwest to the 50s in the southeast, followed by overnight lows from 15 to 25.
The storm which moved through the central plains over the weekend did not produce such violent weather as the last storm. Precipitation over western and north-central Kansas was generally less than .25 of an inch but southeastern sections received some substantial rainfall last night. The heaviest amount was 1.32 inches at Independence.
GERALD BERNSTEIN
explains Picasso print.
Fleischmann Collection Opening Held Sunday
More than 250 students, faculty, and Lawrence residents were on hand to see the vastness and variety of the Fleischmann Collection of modern paintings, prints, and drawings at the opening exhibition Sunday at the Museum of Art. The collection will be on display through Jan. 28.
THE 114 WORKS representing 75 greater and lesser known artists span four decades and unfold several exciting movements in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The brilliant "Dedication to Mozart" and "Room with Rose" by Raoul Dufy are examples of the early 20th century movement, "Les Fauves." It features loose vibrant color.
Dufy was influenced by Henri Matisse, one of the leaders of the Fauve movement. One of Matisse's works represented in the Fleischmann collection is a colored print, "Three Vases with Flowers."
Matisse was in turn influenced by Paul Cezanne. Cezanne is represented in the collection by an etching, "Head of a Girl."
THE "KISS of Death," an etching by Edward Munch, was another item at the exhibition which attracted attention.
"How gruesome," one woman commented.
The picture shows a skull kissing the cheek of a young woman.
The collection includes three works of Pablo Picasso, one of the most famous painters still living today. "Women," a colored lithograph, is a bright abstract representation of a woman.
GERALD S. BERNSTEIN, curator of the museum, has been preparing the works for more than a month to ready them for the exhibition.
"There was the problem of what to write in the catalogue, which rooms to use and which paintings to show," he said. "We tried to choose those works most typical of each of the artists."
Mr. Bernstein was interrupted several times during the interview by students and faculty members who wished him well in his new position. He greeted each visitor warmly and stopped to explain some of the paintings or to direct people to the rooms showing the collection.
"THEE IS a need for a modern art show on this campus and this part of the country," he said. "We
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Defense Setup Change Asked
PALM BEACH, Fla. — (UPI) — Sweeping changes in the American defense establishment, including abolition of the Army, Navy, and Air Force secretaries, with a possible annual saving of $8 billion were recommended today to President-elect John F. Kennedy.
NCAA Operation Is Forum Topic
The recommendations resulted from a study requested by Kennedy during the recent campaign and conducted by Stuart Symington (D-Mo) and a committee of five members, including four former officials of the defense department.
Mr. Lonborg also explained that it would be possible for the Big Eight to force KU to forfeit its games with Colorado and Missouri if it was decided that Bert Coan is ineligible because of the NCAA charges against him.
Operations of the NCAA and its infractions committee were discussed and the merits of athletic scholarships were defended Friday at the current events forum. Arthur C. Lonborg, director of athletics, pointed out that the NCAA infractions committee may investigate an institution on almost any grounds including rumor.
When Denis Kennedy, a Lawrence graduate student, spoke out against athletic scholarships, Charles H. Oldfather Jr., professor of Law and secretary of the KU athletic board, pointed out their value.
Prof. Oldfather explained that sports provided a rallying point for alumni and students alike and were important for university spirit. He said that athletic scholarships might better be referred to as "athletic grants."
After the forum many students continued the discussion in small groups.
Agitation Wanes In New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — (UPI)—White parents brought 17 children to classes in an integrated school today and angry housewives abandoned their blockade around the building.
The smallest crowd of hecklers since integration began stood in front of William Frantz Elementary School today and made little effort to stop the children from entering.
But at McDonough 19, the city's other integrated elementary school, three little Negro girls were all alone for the seventh straight day of classes. A white boycott there remained complete.
PRINCIPAL aim of the recommendations according to Symington, was to streamline the defense department to meet the needs of the nuclear space age by eliminating "the arbitrary and ridiculous division between land, sea and air."
The basic recommendations submitted to Kennedy:
Elimination of the departmental structure of the Army, Navy and Air Force, although retaining the three services as separate military divisions. This would abolish the three civilian service secretaries, their undersecretaries and assistant secretaries.
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Replacing the joint chiefs of staff with a joint staff, the chairman of which would report directly to the secretary of defense who would then report to the President.
The civilian command of the defense department would consist of a secretary, a deputy secretary, an undersecretary for administration and an undersecretary for weapons systems.
Three directorates for research and engineering, procurement and production and installations of all armed services would be established under the undersecretary for weapons systems.
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Creation of the new departmental job of assistant to the secretary of arms control, the occupant of which would represent the department in planning with other departments, principally the state department.
Reconstruction of the joint chiefs would involve appointment of a chairman of the joint staff, who would serve as principal military adviser to the President and the defense secretary. The chairman would preside over a new "military advisory council" composed of senior officers taken from their services or from retirement with the understanding that they never would return to their individual services. This was designed to relieve the members of "service control with their consciences as the deciding factors."
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Establishment of three basic unified military commands: 1. Strategic. The offensive command to react in case of general war and/or nuclear attack. 2. Tactical. To react in case (Continued, on page 8)
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Delta Sig Mystery Man Case Solved
Frank Huntley, alias Robert Sutton, the young man who lived with the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity for a week under false pretenses, has been caught.
Presently he is being held in the county jail pending trial, which should be sometime this month. The charges, according to the information bureau of the county jail, include forgery and car theft, and in addition there are two federal detainers against him.
IT ALL BEGAN last October.
Huntley, or Sutton as he was known to the Delta Sigs, told them that he was a transfer student from Louisiana State University, and that his father was soon coming to KU from LSU to teach in the history department. And so he was accepted, until one day a couple of weeks later Sutton calmly drove away in a 1959 Ford packed with sweaters, a raincoat, two gold fraternity pins, a blazer with a fraternity crest, $5, leaving behind a string
After Sutton's quick departure the Delta Sigs were left holding the bag. They began checking. The registrar's office reported that Sutton wasn't enrolled. The history department reported that no one had heard of his father. And LSU said that they had never heard of the Suttons. Next the police department was notified, and that was the end of it until Nov. 10th when Sutton was picked up in
Eugene, Ore., and brought back to Lawrence on Nov. 15th.
SUTTON HAS two federal detainers against him for desertion from the Air Force. He escaped from a stockade somewhere, but the county jail information bureau didn't know where. He has written several bogus checks and stolen a car from Baton Rouge, La.
Now Frank Huntley—Robert Sutton is cooling off in the county jail. The trial date has not been set.