Nigerians Search For Missing Leaders
LAGOS, Nigeria—(UPI)—The provisional military government ruling Nigeria today was making "every effort" to rescue two ranking officials kidnapped during Saturday's abortive revolt by a band of junior army officers.
Maj. Gen. John Aguiyi Ironsi reported the surrender of 28- year-old Maj. Chukuma Nzugwu, reputed leader of the dissident officers who started the coup attempt.
Nigerian President Nnamdi Azikiwe, recuperating from an operation in a London hospital, said Monday he did not plan to return to Lagos until requested to do so by the interim regime. He had said earlier he would return as soon as possible.
Negro Joins Cabinet
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Robert C. Weaver today took command of a new federal department created to help order urban chaos.
With swearing-in ceremonies he became the first Negro ever to hold a cabinet rank.
The ceremonies completed the historic appointment which Monday received unanimous Senate approval, including that of one of the body's most vocal segregationists, Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C.
U.S. Increases Viet Nam Force
SAIGON—(UPI)—U.S. military strength in Viet Nam today soared to more than 100,000 men with the twin landings of thousands of fresh Marines and infantrymen from Hawaii and Okinawa.
U. S. Military Commander Gen. William C. Westmoreland was on the beach at Vung Tau, 40 miles southeast of Saigon, when the first elements of the 4,000-man 2nd Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division from Schofield barracks, Hawaii, moved ashore.
By nightfall, all of the men were ashore in an operation which went off without a hitch, a U.S. military spokesman said.
Await Word on Shrimpers
TAMPA, Fla.—(UPI)—Officials of Singleton Shrimp Co. awaited word today that two of its vessels had been allowed to leave a Cuban port where they have been detained since Sunday with nine men aboard.
Fleetmaster Bobby Canady said Monday afternoon he had talked with the skippers by radio-telephone and they reported they would be leaving either Monday or early today.
But no further word was heard from the vessels, the Penny Singleton and the Mark E. Singleton.
Canady said that the skippers indicated in their call that the nine seamen, all from here, were being well treated by the Cubans.
Market Compromise Proposed
LUXEMBOURG—(UPI)—Belgium today proposed a compromise to help end the dramatic split between French President Charles de Gaulle and his five European Common Market partners. Gaullist delegates quickly telephoned Paris for advice.
De Gaulle wants sole veto powers as the price for ending his six-month boycott of the market. He also would strip the organization's executive body of much of its power.
Vaughn Takes Over Peace Corps
WASHINGTON—(UPI) Jack Hood Vaughn today came home to the Peace Corps.
The 45-year-old Vaughn was named Monday by President Johnson to succeed Sargent Shriver as corps director.
Vaughn, presently assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, became regional director for Latin America when the Peace Corps was founded in 1961.
U.S. Forces to Three Million
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—The United States, digging in for a long war in Viet Nam, is expanding its armed forces to more than three million men.
Most of the manpower increase will be for the Army and Marines.
Support Increases for Mrs. Gandhi
NEW DELHI, India—(UPI)—Support mounted today for Mrs. Indira Gandhi as successor to the late Premier Lal Bahadur Shastri, who died last week of a heart attack at the Tashkent Peace Conference.
Already, hundreds of persons were visiting the home of the 48-year-old daughter of the late Jawaharlal Nehru to congratulate her in anticipation of her election at Wednesday's ruling Congress party meeting.
Observers here predicted she would get at least 400 of the 551 votes to be cast by party members who poured into the Indian capital for the meeting.
Jazz Workshop Added to Festival
Three collegiate jazz groups have accepted invitations to play in the 1966 KU Jazz Workshop, scheduled for Saturday. Feb. 26.
Groups from North Texas State, University of Scranton, and Bucknell University will participate in the one-day session along with two other groups as yet unnamed.
THE JAZZ WORKSHOP, which is sponsored by Student Union Activities, is an extension of the previous Oread Jazz Festivals, which were begun in 1964. The Workshop, says Blake Biles, Hutchinson sophomore and Workshop chairman, will give the musicians a chance to learn and improve rather than just participating for prizes as in the Festivals.
The musicians will perform at morning and afternoon sessions in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union where they will be judged and coached by three top professionals in the jazz field: Donald Byrd, trumpet, New York City; Phil Woods, also sax, New Hope, Pa.; and Clare Fischer, a West Coast pianist. Both sessions will be open to the public.
The two top groups will perform at a concert at 8 p.m. in Murphy Auditorium, each playing approximately 25 minutes. Byrd, Woods and Fischer will also perform along with other selected musicians from the groups.
PRIZES CONSISTING of music scholarships, a chance to audition for Columbia Records, and an opportunity to play in the Newport Jazz Festival this summer will be offered to leading groups and individual performers.
The 1965 winner of the Oread Jazz Festival, the KU Kicks Band, will not participate this year as only smaller groups have been invited.
Participants were chosen by a KU committee who screened applicants from a 22-state area by listening to tapes submitted to them by interested groups.
Block tickets for the evening concert will go on sale Monday, Feb. 14, and individual ticket sales will begin Feb. 21. Prices are $2 and $1.75.
Assisting Biles on the committee are Dennis McFall, Concordia sophomore; Doug Curts, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore; Alan Cunningham, Bartlesville, Okla., sophomore; Gary Shivers, Kansas City junior; Tim North, Emporia freshman; and Mike Ryan, Mission sophomore.
Court Tests Civil Rights Law
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—The Supreme Court today looked to U.S. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach to defend the 1965 Voting Rights Act against a massive attack by six southern states.
Katzenbach, author of the law, celebrated his 44th birthday Monday by listening to southern attorneys use such expressions as "the embodiment of tyranny" to describe his brainchild.
"The case before the court has roots which go deep," Katzenbach told the court earlier in his brief.
Bunnies Lose 'Vital Looks'
CHICAGO—(UPI)—Nine unhappy bunnies charged Monday they were fired from Chicago's Playboy Club because they had lost their "young, happy, vital looks. A management spokesman said it was true.
"They let me go because I'm not pretty enough to work there," said one of the group which ranged in age from 23 to 29. "I was pretty enough to work there for two years, but not now."
Wayne Gottlieb, speaking for the club, said he "was sorry to see the girls go, but the fact is, they lost what we call the 'playboy image'—a young, vital, happy look," he said.
"If a girl doesn't have it, she's not a bunny."
First in Draft
An entomology instructor from KU, Elmo D. Hardy, was the first man who was called from Douglas County in the country's first peacetime draft, initiated in 1940.
4 Daily Kansan Tuesday, January 18, 1966
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