City Solons Hear Civil Rights Report
A Human Relations Commission should be established in Lawrence at the earliest possible date.
This recommendation was part of a report read to the Lawrence City Commission yesterday by Dr. Phil Godwin, Lawrence physician and chairman of an 11-member committee appointed in February by former Mayor John T. Weatherwax to determine what should be done about the human relations problem in Lawrence. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe was a member of the committee.
MAYOR TED KENNEDY said the City Commission would take action on the report at a meeting Tuesday, May 9.
The committee proposed that the commission consist of nine members, each serving a period of three years.
The commission, according to the report, should have advisory powers only with objectives to improve relations among local population groups, improve the city's reputation for tolerance, open the way for each individual "to develop according to his abilities without limitation," and help Lawrence benefit "from the fullest realization of its human resources."
THE COMMITTEE'S report said that in order to obtain these objectives the proposed commission should have the following functions:
- To advise the City Commission and other city officials on human relations problems and to recommend possible solutions.
- To study problems in order to obtain data for its work.
- To act "as a clearing house or as a source of referral when discriminatory situations arise, or act as a board of mediation, when and if appropriate."
- To consult with and obtain the cooperation of all public and private agencies which function in the field of human relations here.
- To enlist "all potential community forces to extend and make more secure human opportunities" for individuals and groups.
- To encourage community support for educational programs and "voluntary action designed to reduce tension and eliminate discriminatory practices."
Eichmann Held Nazi Power
JERUSALEM—(UPI)—An elderly witness peered through the bullet proof glass today and identified Adolf Eichmann as the man who told him in 1938 that he was going to clear all the Jews out of Austria
Maurice Fleischmann, 71 years old and now living in England, said he was the only survivor of a group of Jewish leaders Eichmann summoned to a meeting in Vienna to establish his authority over them.
The witness said Eichmann surprised them by speaking in Hebrew.
Before the witness appeared, the prosecution had jolted the defense by getting into the court record an affidavit alleging that Eichmann was a power behind the Nazi throne, issuing orders to the German Foreign Ministry and Transport Ministry.
The affidavit alleged that Eichmann and SS General Odilo Globočnik conceived the idea of the "final solution" — mass murder — of the Jewish problem. It added that Eichmann passed the idea to Nazi police chief Heinrich Himmler, who took it to Adolf Hitler, who issued the order.
Eichmann's entire defense is based on the contention he never made Nazi policy and was only a "small sausage" in the destruction of six million European Jews.
Fleischmann wore a black skull cap. He began his testimony standing the witness box, but, at the suggestion of the court, sat down. He stared directly across the courtroom into the glass box, and Eichmann, head cocked slightly to the right, stared back at him. Fleischmann said there were two meetings with Eichmann in Vienna in March of 1938, and the prosecution asked him about the second one.
IN AN INTERVIEW after the meeting, Dr. Godwin said he thought the proposed commission would be able to solve discrimination problems without creating tension.
"The Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy and the KU Civil Rights Council are increasing tension," he said.
"They are making a lot of noise, but there are other groups in the city doing more to solve the problem." He said he was referring to Lawrence church groups.
DR. GODWIN SAID the commission would function primarily in Lawrence discriminatory situations since it would be set up under the City Commission.
"The human relations commission could advise solutions to any university problems only if KU asked for advice," he said.
The University Theatre presents its opening performance of William Saroyan's "My Heart's in the Highlands" and Thornton Wildier's "Happy Journey to Camden and Trenton" at 8 tonight in Murphy Hall.
Plays Open Tonight
The productions will be presented through April 29 under the direction of William Kuhike, instructor of speech, and will conclude this year's theater program.
Simple, quite short and aimed more at the heart than the head. "My Heart's in the Highlands" concerns the struggle of a tenth-rate poet to maintain his integrity in a materialistic world.
"The Happy Journey" exemplifies the idea that we live in a world over which we have not a great deal of control. It has become a perennial favorite because of its fresh, quietly amusing, deeply human treatment of lower middle class, respectable, everyday folks.
Both casts include many familiar faces to the KU and Lawrence audiences, including several Lawrence junior high students.
Arrested Rebels To Face Swift Trial
PARIS — (UPI) — Gen. Maurice Challe, the man who led the fourday Algerian rebellion crushed by President Charles De Gaulle, was flown back to Paris under arrest today to face a military court and possibly a firing squad.
Challe returned ignominally in a French Air Force Plane that landed at Villacoublay airport outside Paris at 5:04 p.m. (11:04 a.m. EST). He was hustled off to prison as De Gaule prepared to bring the "full powers" of French law to bear against him and his fellow-muti-neers.
DE GAULLE, ARMED with the dictatorial powers he assumed Sunday to cope with the rebellion, promised to move swiftly against Challe and his companions.
The president ledged through aides to take every measure necessary to wipe France and Algeria clean of
Daily hansan
58th Year, No.128
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Wednesday. April 26. 1961
Humanities Speaker Discusses Television, Film, Stage Similarities
The motion picture, television and stage entertainment are basically similar, despite different restrictions of space and lighting.
Kenneth Macgowan, professor of theater arts at the University of California, Los Angeles, made this statement 'at the Humanities Forum lecture last night. His topic was "Two Screens and a Stage."
Referring primarily to the film industry with which he has been so closely associated (16 years a producer), he said that "Hollywood couldn't have made any more blunders with the coming of TV than it did."
He said the movie producers began to worry about the television industry when the sale of movie tickets went down drastically.
"The cure for the TV threat to the movie was wide screen, curved screen, cinerama."
"Television was ignored, in the hope that it would go away."
"The motion picture is the only art form developed in modern times," he said. "Poetry began before writing
PROF. MACGOWAN SAID the motion picture had developed along two lines. The first was the "block-buster" or the spectacular that cost many millions of dollars to produce, and the second was the smaller sex-filled, horror film for the small theater.
and art and sculpturing were created almost with man, but the movies were not born until a very few years ago."
"The 'blockbusters' are shown on the road," he said, "with raised prices and lots of advertising and it usually makes money.
The second type is a cheap film, to attract people who like the thrill of the outer-space, science fiction story."
Prof. Macgowan cited "Around the World in Eighty Days" as an example of the "blockbuster," and "I Married a Monster From Outer Space" as an example of the second type.
"The motion picture moves and molds human emotions," he said. "We can hope and believe that the
Russian Exchange Students Arrive, Begin Busy Schedule
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Temperatures recovered rapidly today as winds turned to southerly over Kansas, but the weather bureau said another cold front would enter the state later in the day.
The eight university students from Soviet Russia will arrive to begin their visit at KU this afternoon.
High temperatures today were forecast in the 60s and 70s, with overnight lows again in the 30s and 40s as the new cold front passes.
The students were to arrive at Kansas City's Municipal Airport about noon today and drive to Lawrence.
The Soviet students, most of them affiliated with the Komsomol School, are to spend today, tomorrow and Friday visiting classes, touring the campus and meeting with University and civic groups.
They will travel to Kansas City Saturday to see the Athletics play the Chicago White Sox in an American League baseball game.
Weather
Two press conferences are scheduled for the students, one at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow in the Eldridge Hotel and the second at 10:30 a.m. Monday
Gamlet Mamed Ogly Aliev, 24; Nikolai Georgievich Baranov, 39; Yuri Evgenevich Bychkov, 29; Marv Mikhitarov Davytyan, 31; Vadim Vasilovich Koptilin, 30; Inga Sergeevna Runova, 30; Gumar Garifovich Telyashev. 30; and Yanis Izidorovich Vaidov, 30.
Miss Runova, the only woman in the group, works as a journalist for Komsomolskaya Pravda. Vaivod is a journalist with the Soviet youth newspaper, Padomya Yaunatna.
in the Kansas Union. The press conference will be handled through an interpreter who accompanies the students.
The meeting, which features an American Indian theme, will include a program of Indian music, dances and culture presented by members of the Haskell Institute.
The eight students are:
Koptilin is a reviewer for the Society for Dissemination of Political Scientific Knowledge.
The cultural-exchange delegation of Soviet students, which will arrive today for a five-day stay at KU, will experience the culture of the only "real" Americans—the Indians, at a joint meeting of the KU-Y and the International Club Friday night.
movie will present the problems of man and help solve them."
Prof. Macgowan compared the roles of the director of the stage play and the director of the motion picture.
He said the director and producer on the stage has three weeks to study the play, build the emotional level to his desire, check all imperfections, watch and make changes at dress rehearsal and he usually has opening night on the road before going on Broadway.
But he pointed out that on the sound stage, all this must be done within 30 minutes to three hours.
"THERE ARE FEW retakes, because they are expensive," he said. "The director must study every actor at once, remember what happened in the last scene and keep in mind the emotion character of every role as it develops. He must be his own audience."
Prof. Macgowan expressed the belief that the young people of today were not learning to love and appreciate the theater as they once did, because of TV and the movies.
"Some of the magic is lacking in TV and movies," he said, "because the feeling that runs between the audience and the stage is gone. But I don't think the theater or the movies or TV will ever die out. Quality goes up each year, not down."
Thursday Deadline For ASC Petitions
Petitions for the All Student Council committees are available at the ASC office in the Kansas Union and must be submitted by 6 p.m. Thursday at the office.
Interviews for the committee will be held by ASC members this Saturday and Sunday.
The positions and student and joint student-faculty committees are the regulating and governing bodies of major campus activities. They are public relations, Campus Chest, labor, housing, traditions, student athletic seating board, social, Statewide Activities chairman, and NSA coordinator, ASC secretarial staff, human rights, People-to-People, peace corps.
Disciplinary, commencement, orientation, eligibility, athletic board, calendar, convocation and lectures, film series, lecture series, traffic and safety, health publications, Union operating board, World University service, student leadership training.
any and all disloyal elements and said he would do so without "pity or mercy."
As Algeria itself was restored to complete military and civil control of the French government, the victorious but grave De Gaulle met with his cabinet and set in motion a swift series of actions.
All other ringleaders of the revolt that failed also were reported in
First, Information Minister Louis Terenoire, his press spokesman, announced the seizure of Challe and his return to Paris for imprisonment and military trial.
Algeria at a Glance
Military revolt in Algeria collapses; four generals who led it reported arrested.
France expected to move shortly to get peace talks started with Algerian Moslems.
U. S. officials express relief at end of revolt but fear new maneuvers by Russians to stir up Moslem rebels.
De Gaulle sends Algerian Minister Joxe and military commander Gen. Olie to Algiers to consolidate victory. Forces loyal to De Gaulle guard the city.
THEY WERE BELIEVED to have gone there this morning by truck along with some of their paratrooper supporters. But precise details on their present whereabouts and fate still were lacking.
government quarters to have been arrested in Algeria. These quarters said they understood the others—Generals Raoul Salan, Andre Zeller and Edmond Jouhaud—had been arrested at the Zeralda, a Foreign Legion base 15 miles from Algiers.
The 55-year-old Challe, serious of face, was taken immediately by car from the air force base at Villacoulay, 20 miles outside Paris, to the capital's grim Sante prison, an ordinary criminal jail.
Less than 18 hours earlier, Challe and his fellow insurrectionists still were issuing defiant messages in Algiers against the French government and De Gaulle's plan for a negotiated peace with the Algerian Moslem rebels.
It was a shameful homecoming for the man who had been commander of NATO forces in central
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Congo Siezes Katanga Head
By William Anderson
COQUILHATVILLE, The Congo — (UPI) — Congolese central government troops arrested Katanaga Province President Moise Tshombe today when he attempted to leave a "summit" conference of Congo leaders. He was siezed at the airport as he attempted to board an airplane to return to his capital at Elisabethville.
The troops also took Tshombe's European advisers into custody at the airport.
THE ARREST came as Tshombe attempted to walk out of the conference for good. He delivered an ultimatum two days ago to Central Congo President Joseph Kasavubu and threatened to boycott the conference unless it was accepted.
This correspondent was beaten by Congolese soldiers as he, tried to reach the airport to cover Tshombe's flight. He was released only after personal intervention by Central Congo Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko.
TSHOMBE'S ULTATUM demanded that Kasavubu:
—Denounce an agreement he made last week with the United Nations covering the reorganization of the army.
—Join in a protest to the UN over a shooting incident earlier this month between Tshombe's white-officered troops and Ethiopian troops at the Northern Katanga town of Kahalo.
—Refuse to allow any Congo leaders who had not taken part in the Tananarive conference early last month to take part in the present conference.