Daily hansan
58th Year. No. 86
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Lumumba Men Killed in Kasai
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—(UPI) —Six followers of slain Patrice Lumumba were executed after their deportation by Congo President Joseph Kasavubu into the Congo's violently anti-Lumumbist Kaisi Province, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold told the Security Council today.
Soviet Ambassador Valerian A. Zorin charged that the Kasavubu government "is carrying out a campaign of systematic extermination of the national leaders of the Conpo."
He put full blame on Hamarskjold and Belgium for support of the Congo regime of Kasavubu, secessionist leader Moise Tshomeh and army strongman Maj. Gen. Joseph D. Mobutu. Zorin demanded the arrest of Tshomeb and Mobutu.
The six political prisoners were transferred from Leopoldville to Bakwanga, in the strongly anti-Luumbumbist Kasai Province last week.
Rajeshwar Dayal of India, Hammarskjold's special representative in the Congo, informed the Secretary-General this morning he had
The Council adjourned almost at once after hearing Hammarskjold's announcement. It agreed to Liberian Ambassador George A. Padmore's request for adjournment until 2 p.m., CST, to permit him to consult other African delegates.
Monday, Feb. 20, 1961
Moreau Names 13 To KU Law Review
The names of 13 first year law students eligible to join the staff of the Law Review, a publication of the KU Law School, were announced recently by Frederick J. Moreau, acting dean of the Law School. This is the equivalent of being placed on the honor roll in the undergraduate school.
The students are Linda H. Asay,
Topeka; Stanley R. Asuemus, Madison;
Charles A. Chartier, Clyde;
William P. Haas, Ness City; Thomas
D. Herlocker, Winfield; Charles H.
Hostetler, Manhattan; Richard T.
Ishida, Kealakekua, Hawaii.
David M, Mills, Arkansas City; Michael T, Mills, McPherson; Aubrey G. Linville, Salina; Kenneth G. McIntyre, Livonia, Mich.; Roger D. Santon, Marysville; and Bruce H. Wingerd, Marion.
been notified by "the so-called Minister of Justice of South Kasai" that they had been executed.
Hammarskjoeld protested the transfer of the political prisoners late last week in a stern note to Joseph Lieo, Premier of the Government of Congolese President Joseph Kasavubu.
Hammarskjold said the United Nations was "powerless in the face of such policies." He said it was "humiliating" to be confronted with such acts by the Leopoldville government and said it was for the council to judge "how these latest developments should influence UN actions in relation to the Congo."
Crisis Over Rule, Distrust
SALISBURY, Southern Rhodesia — (UPI) — Racial civil war threatened today in Northern Rhodesia on the border of the Congo. White and Black extremists exchanged angry threats of violence, and observers said it was almost certain to erupt.
(In London, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan called an urgent cabinet meeting. British troops, including four battalions in Kenya, were alerted to fly to Central Africa at the first sigh of violence.)
THE CRISIS revolved around the question of who should rule the Northern Rhodesia parliament and the feeling of distrust between Blacks and Whites. Extremists on both sides dared the other to attack. Blacks outnumber the Whites 10 to 1.
"It is not our policy to use force but we will do everything in our power to provoke African Nationalists into using it," said Col. Ian Cunningham, leader of an extremist White "Federal Fighting Force."
Acting Secretary Nalumino Mundia of the African's United National Independence Party replied: "When we call the country into action, we
Much of the heavily African population in Northern Rhodesia is centered within 10 miles of the Federation's 1,500-mile frontier with the turbulent Congo. There were fears that a violent clash on either side of the border might spill across the frontier.
UN to Appeal to Mobutu For Halt of Congo Crisis
LEOPOLDVILLE — (UPI) — The United Nations today announced Gen. Sean Mackeon would personally appeal to Congoleese Maj. Gen. Joseph Motubu to halt his offensive against the Lumumbist stronghold of Stanleyville.
The announcement followed reports that a new military strongman had seized command of the Lumumba faction of the Congo in a bid to restore peace to this shattered African nation.
Rajewshwar Dayal, special U. N. representative in the Congo, told a news conference that Mackeon, Congo U. N. military commander, would meet with Mobutu "somewhere in the equatorial province" tomorrow.
He said Mackeon will try to get Mobutu to agree to talks with Gen. Victor Lundula, commander of the rival Congolese forces. Reports from Stanleyville indicated Lundula had grabbed the reins of power from self-styled Premier Antoine
The reports, not officially confirmed, said Lundula had sent peace overtures to Mobutu, who has supported the regime of pro-Western Joseph Kasavubu and Premier Joseph Ileo in Leopoldville.
Sizenga who has been supported by the Communist bloc and its friends.
If Lundula proved able to hold the followers of slain Premier Patrice Lumumba it could mean the first major break in the monthslong power struggle that has left the Congo bloodied, bankrupt and hungry.
Dayal said Mackeon will fly on to Stanleyville from his meeting with Mobutu.
Weather
Considerable cloudiness and warmer today. Partly cloudy and mild tonight and Tuesday. Highs today 45-50. Lows tonight in 20s. Highs Tuesdays around 50.
The University of Kansas String Quartet will present a program of quartets by Mozart, Beethoven and Debussy at 8 p.m. today in Swarthout Recital Hall.
String Quartet To Play Tonight
The quartet includes Raymond Cerf, professor of violin; Karel Blaas, assistant professor of viola; Raymond Stuhl, associate professor of cello and Theodore Johnson, instructor in organ and theory. Mr. Johnson, who joined the group three seasons ago, plays a violin.
George L. Brown Jr. told the audience at the Lawrence Brotherhood Banquet that he would not raise his daughter here because of discrimination. Mayor Weatherwax called Brown's speech a "stinging indictment."
Lawrence Indicted For Discrimination
Mr. Brown, who was born and raised in Lawrence, is the assistant city editor of the Denver Post and a Colorado State Senator. He graduated from the KU School of Journalism in 1950.
Foreign Students Say Americans Are Cold
"THEERE ARE THOSE who think discrimination doesn't exist in Lawrence." Sen. Brown said, "but I wouldn't raise my daughter here. The young would be confused—admitted in one quarter and denied in another.
"I think American students should make friends with students that don't belong to their sorority or fraternity, even if it means being ostracized," she said.
American students are complacent, cold and lack individuality, said three foreign students at the Current Events Forum Friday.
Catherine McIntosh, Monrovia Liberia, junior, said KU students need to be more friendly.
Miss McIntosh said American students don't try to make friends outside of their social groups.
"You go to museums alone, you have coffee alone and you sit alone," she said. "When you enroll, you are all made colleagues. Why not talk to each other and cut down loneliness?"
Miss McIntosh also criticized the racial prejudice of Americans.
"There is no social association with Negroes," she said.
She also criticized sororities and fraternities, referring to them as closed social groups.
"You have to follow the rules of any society you live in if you want to enjoy your stay," Miss McIntosh said, "but the foreign student is
completely confused by these American rules."
Ronald Haertel, Lubeck, Germany, graduate student, said students here are not progressive and have little rebellion in their souls.
"One thing every foreign student sees is American wastefulness—not just material wastefulness, but the wasting of opportunities and people." Haertel continued.
"American students are up on a pedestal," he said. "They are handed just what they want. They are not used to fighting for it.
He said that what goals American students do have seem small and petty.
"Why do you work in college," Haertel asked his audience, "to retire by forty so you can drive big cars and watch TV? This is a well-rounded life?"
American students let many opportunities pass them by, he said. Students must jump in now and do things, or they will never be done. Haertel said.
College students between 27 and 23 are trying to build their own culture, according to Alice Kalayan. (Continued on page 8)
"You have made progress, but you are a long way from the goal of fair employment and housing. Many Negroes have left because they couldn't find work. Others left because they couldn't develop. They wanted an equal chance, not favors."
He recalled his experiences after the war: "I came back after WW II and tried to find a job. One of my classmates said 'Gee George, you qualify, but I'd lose my job if I sent you out there.'
"WE BOTH knew that my skin color had offset any other qualifications that I had.
"In college, I worked at odd jobs. I was trying to earn enough money to buy a sports jacket and slacks. I was working in this one restaurant when a well-dressed colored couple entered and walked toward a table. The owner went up to them smiling.
"He said, 'Sorry folks, we don't serve niggers out here, if you want to come back to the kitchen?'
"I quit the job.
"I remember those hot summer days we stood outside the fence of the swimming pool watching our white friends giggle and splash in the water. We climbed over the fence that night and swam in the white folk's water. The next day the white children didn't seem to mind swimming in a color-contaminated pool. We giggled to ourselves because they didn't know.
"NEGROES can tell you that they don't need fancy studies, but action."
He said that he was shaken because remarks that he used eight years ago on discrimination could still be used today.
"Negroes are not satisfied." Sen, Brown said. "Those that are, are the Uncle Toms of our society. I hope that they are disappearing. They are the ambassadors between white and Negro, the ones that stay-in-line. They are the obstacles to an honorable solution in the desegregation problem.
He said that Brotherhood Week is set aside to do what people do not do the rest of the year. He added that some do, and the ones who do answer the question "Am I my
(Continued on page 8)
Hoch Rocks
By Carrie Merryfield
Brubeck Swings Way Out
The piano player leaned back, his impatient fingers plunged toward the keyboard and the Dave Brubeck Quartet crashed into music.
They took a theme, tossed it around, played hide-and-seek with it until they tired of the bauble called jazz and then reached a grinding halt.
Brubeck reached for the microphone and introduced the men responsible for the smashing, singing, pleading and begging tones.
Paul Desmond, saxophone player and composer; Joe Morello, drummer, and Eugene Wight, bass viol, smiled a thank-you. Then the quartet eased into another number.
Desmond's lips eagerly sought the mouthpiece and his slender fingers hurried over the shiny gold keys of his sax. Eyes closed behind the horn-rimmed glasses and he seemed to sail into a cool, far-out world beyond the footlights.
Brubeck watched him for the cue. As the leader smiled with the mood of the music, little laugh lines around his eyes deepened until his eyes closed into a squint and he burst into a jubilant "Yeah."
Then it was Brubeck. Laughs were over for awhile. He tensed, shoulders hunched closer to the keys, worry lines appeared in his forehead and his foot no longer tapped the pine floor, but cruelly pounded it.
Concentration, discipline, soft, loud, then abrupt quiet and the tinkle of eerie high notes.
With his back to the audience, Brubeck handed the musical toy to Wright. Strong hands plucked and pressed the yellow and blue viol strings. Up and down, back and forth, pulling each note from
Wire brushes were replaced by flashing drum sticks. He pushed his glasses up, grabbed the theme and roared into an endurance race. Would he give out first or would drum heads break from vibration and abuse?
an agreeable companion, he improvised until he lightly discarded the plaything to Morello.
Morello accentuated the beat of the bass drum and the tingle of the cymbals with a chomp on his gum. A fiendish grin appeared on his lips and he ordered every sound, time and tone from his drums.
At his command, the beat ran rampant through an auditorium that was not large enough to swallow the sound. Echoes collided with the walls and were pitched back to finally he absorbed by the red curtains and captured by the audience.
Applause unlimited, spiced by whistles and calls of "more, more" assailed the Quartet after each number. After the 15 minute encore, they put the worn-out bauble called jazz away to be recalled at their next concert—tonight in Iowa.
After the concert, Brubeck patiently posed for photographers, received congratulations from gushing admirers and wearily answered questions for curious reporters.
His tired face showed the strain of the trip from Lancaster. Penn, to Lawrence, Kan.
"You know of the airline strike," he said. "Well, man, our flight was canceled and we had a rough time gettin' here."
He paused to catch his breath and continued:
"It's too far to drive and we couldn't walk. so man, what d'ya do?" We drove to Washington, D.C., about four and one-half hours from Lancaster then caught our flight."