201 YEAR
Kansas
Centennial
1863-1963
MIDWAY PRAIRIE
University Daily Kansan
Centennial Edition
58th Year, No. 121 SECTION A
100 YEARS
Kansas
Centennial
1861-1961
MIDWAY USA
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, April 17, 1961
Rebel Forces Invade Cuba
Cuban revolutionaries invaded their homeland by air and sea today and clashed with Fidel Castro's forces in a violent waterfront battle iust 90 miles from Havana.
United Press International
Fidel Castro . . . his opponents have attacked
Launching a long-awaited offensive against Castro, the revolutionaries invaded from the sea shortly after midnight. They struck into the swampy area around the Bay of Cochinos. This lies south of Matanzas Province.
SEVERAL HOURS after dawn the government internal radio communications system — commanded by the army — reported the invaders were dropping by parachute, planes were bombing and strafing the beachhead area, and two gunboats were supporting the assault.
This was the beginning of "the battle to liberate our homeland from the despotic rule of Fidel Castro and rid Cuba of international cruelty and oppression," said Jose Miro Cardona, president of the Cuban Revolutionary Council, in a statement released in New York.
mitter on a Caribbean island broadcast Miro Cardona's proclamation of revolt to all Cubans.
In the initial hours, the Castro-controlled Cuban commercial stations ignored the situation.
U.S. Reaction —
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Secretary of State Dean Rusk said today the anti-Castro invasion of Cuba was not staged from American soil but that the United States is sympathetic with the aims of those participating.
The powerful anti-Castro trans-
He pledged again that there would be no armed American intervention in Cuba. He hedged, however, when asked at his news conference whether this meant the United State was abandoning its traditional right to go to the aid of endangered American citizens.
Rusk said the Cuban affair was one for the Cubans themselves to settle but that the United States was not indifferent to the extension of Communist tyranny in this hemisphere.
Model UN Action Entangled In Web of Counter Voting
A volley of charges, countercharges and negative votes stopped all major actions in last weekend's Model UN sessions.
Early action in the General Assembly included:
- A refusal to discuss the Cuban question on the basis of Assembly incompetence on the subject.
- Rejection of a proposal for a united support of all nations behind the United Nations Operational Command and the Secretary-General in the Congolese situation.
- The passage of four minor resolutions by voice vote including congratulations to the Soviet for their man in space, the decision to hold another session next year, commemoration of African Freedom Day with eight minute observances and an expression of thanks to Evelyn Komarek, Ellinwood senior, for her work in distributing bloc materials.
The decision of incompetence in discussing the Cuban situation came following a Cuban resolution calling for censure of the United States for her economic actions against Cuba. An earlier Belgian proposal, which would have placed the matter in the hands of a five-country arbitration board was withdrawn Friday.
In Saturday meetings the Assembly took the following action concerning the Security Council:
- Killed by procrastination discussion and voting on a joint Nationalist-Red China resolution calling for a vote from the Chinese people on Communist or Nationalist representation on the Council.
- Defeated a resolution to replace France and Nationalist China with The People's Republic of China (Red China) and India in Security Council seats.
- Rejected an African proposal to enlarge the Security Council to twelve non-permanent seats with a complicated distribution system.
- Voted down an economic sanctions resolution against South Africa on grounds that the area violated a part of the UN charter.
The proposal for admittance of
Red China to the Council was submitted by the Ukrainian delegate.
"Red China has been denied her rightful place in the world," the Ukrainian delegate said. "How can a nation that is powerful, populous and ever-rising be legally kept from the UN?
"France is a shadow of her former self," he continued. "She is falling apart at the seams. She is not a power and she is not a leader."
THE DELEGATE from France answered:
"A nation that is working as France is on the atom can hardly be called a backward nation. France is a world power that cannot be denied."
The call for a Chinese vote on representation was proposed by Nationalist China.
"If the result of the election is in favor of the Red Chinese representation," said the Nationalist delegate, "we (Nationalist China) will give up all legal claim to the mainland and admit that government to the General Assembly.
The Ghana resolution calling for economic sanctions against South Africa was based on an alleged violation by South Africa of article 22 of the UN charter dealing with human rights.
As discussion was repeatedly postponed, the Nationalist delegation walked out of the Assembly charging that it was "biased."
Faculty members are not privileged, for if they fail to wear Western dress Thursday and Friday, they may be jailed. too
The Communist bloc walked out at 12:50 p.m. Saturday. Jim Coy, St. Joseph, Mo., senior and leader of the bloc said, "The Communist nations cannot stomach any more of the proceedings at this session. We are leaving."
Put those dollars in your garter, gal, there'll be a robbery!
The Assembly adjourned ten minutes later.
Campus Cowpokes Plan Centennial Observance
The women are encouraged to wear old-style dresses or square dance dresses. The men will be allowed to break out their boots and ten-gallon hats and Western shirts and wear them to classes for the two days. Beards will be fashionable, too.
Thursday and Friday, all KU cowboys and cowgirls will be jailed if they fail to wear Western garb. Jay Richardson, Bartlesville, Okla., senior and leader of the vigilantes, says he plans no mercy for "city-slickers."
Today begins the celebration of the Kansas Centennial Week at KU. Sixguns, beards, levis, full length skirts and cowboy boots will again dominate the campus.
The Business Office will be the
A free square dance will kick off the Relays weekend entertainment at 7 p.m. Friday in the Memorial Stadium parking lot west of the Kansas Union. The舞会 is for students and faculty members.
Western life in early-day Kansas will be depicted Tuesday in the Drama Forum in the Kansas Union.
Poetry hour Thursday will feature Bill Kuhlke reading Negro poetry.
victim of an old-time bank hold-up, only the time is uncertain.
To climax the activities, the Relays Dance will be held at 9 p.m. Saturday in the Union Ballroom.
Wednesday a horse-drawn trolley will trot from Lewis Hall to the Chi Omega fountain and another is tentatively planned to run from the Union to the freshman dormitories.
Just one more thing, pardner, better swap that fancy hayburner you call a car and get a horse Thursday, because there will be no car traffic allowed on the campus.
UDK Presents Centennial Issue
This week has been established Centennial Week for the University of Kansas. The UDK, in honor of the hundredth anniversary of Kansas statehood, today presents a special centennial edition. In it the reader will find a sampling of the stories of great men and events that have been a part of Kansas history since pre-territorial days. The stories were all written and edited by journalism students.
Friday the UDK will publish a 40-page paper celebrating the 36th Annual Kansas Relays. A 16-page sports section and a literary supplement will be included in this edition.
KU Prof Dies
Funeral services for Walderdem Geltch, 77, professor emeritus of violin, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Trinity Episcopal Church.
Prof. Geltch died Saturday of injuries suffered in a fall two weeks ago.
Father John F. McLaughlin will officiate at the services. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Prof. Gelcht was chairman of the violin department of the School of Fine Arts from 1922 to 1949. He continued as professor of violin until his retirement in 1953.
Prof. Geltch was one of the founders of the KU musical vespers program. He became the first violinist to broadcast a concerto over radio in 1922 at the University of Wisconsin.
Concert and recital engagements took Prof. Geltch 300,000 miles through 45 states. He played at more than 130 American colleges and universities and presented numerous concerts at KU.
Prof. Geltch ended a 1939 tour of Europe the day before Hitler's attack on Poland.
Prof. Geltch is survived by his wife, Mrs. Marjorie Geltch, and two sisters, Mrs. E. Roy McNiece and Miss Irene Geltch, both of Lomback, Ill.
TWO WEEKS of intensive anti-
Castro sabotage inside Cuba preceded today's assault.
Rumsey Funeral Home is handling funeral arrangements.
Two major department stores were set afire Thursday. Saturday, Cuban Air Force pilots defected in a coordinated plot and used their B26's to bomb their own bases before fleeing overseas. While the air plot was unfolded, a force of rebel troops landed Saturday in Oriente Province and melted into the mountains to join guerrilla forces already operating against Castro there, rebel exile sources said today.
This morning's big assault came sometime before 3 a.m., EST, when radio reports of firing were received from Matanzas Province.
Radio monitors today heard a Cuban Red Cross appeal for ambulances "because there are many injured in Jauague Grande."
Jaguey Grande is about 17 miles north of the area invaded this morning by Cuban revolutionaries. It also is about 20 miles inland from the beachhead.
2 Comment on Cuban Invasion
Larry L. Pippin, visiting professor of political science, said:
Two faculty members commented on the landing in Cuba today.
Early E. Tippin, visiting sor of political science, said:
"A handful of counterrevolutionaries, no more than a few thousand at most, is trying to combat the biggest and best equipped military force in the non-English speaking portion of the hemisphere."
FELINA FARRAGUT, assistant instructor of Spanish, said she thought the invasion would be successful "with the help of other powerful countries but not for the Cubans by themselves."
She condemned the counterrevolutionaries saying "What would you think as North Americans about your countrymen who go to other nations to encourage people against your own country?
"It seems to me as though it is like the son who goes to find a neighbor to kill his family," Miss Faragut said.
Prof. Pippin said that the success of the invasion will depend on the will of the Cuban people who remained on the island and on the support the U.S. gives the counter-revolution.
"The powers that be in Washington no longer debate Castro "Si" or Castro "No," but the extent to which the United States should share in the bearded revolutionary's fall." Prof. Pippin continued.
"Washington is hampered by our treaty obligations but aided by the differences of opinion as to what constitutes intervention," he said.
PROF. PIPPIN said Latin American governments would rejoice in the downfall of the Castro regime if it were accomplished without overt United States action.
"Castro's strength in the hemisphere however, lies among its angry and impoverished masses," he said. "These people are yet to be heard from in regard to this invasion."
Miss Farragut said the defeat of Castro's government would be good for the small part of the population who enjoyed special privileges.
"For the largest masses of the population who have never known what human rights are, it would be a misfortune," she said.