Daily hansan
60th Year. No. 100
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, March 11. 1963
PAINTING RETURNED—Henry A. Fitzgibbon (second from right), head of the Kansas City office of the F.B.I., returned the Edouard Manet painting to the University of Kansas Museum of Art Saturday morning. Pictured with Fitzgibbon are (l-r) Marilyn Stokstad, director of the Art
Museum; Gerald Bernstein, curator; Fitzgibbon, and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe. The portrait was recovered by the F.B.I. in Santa Monica, Calif., and returned to Lawrence by plane from Los Angeles Friday.
Stolen Manet Masterpiece Back Home in Art Museum
The Edouard Manet painting which was stolen last August was returned to the KU Museum of Art Saturday in a formal presentation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The presentation of the "Portrait of Line Campineanu," valued at over $40,000 was made to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe by Henry A. Fitzgibbon, special agent in charge of the Kansas City office of the F.B.I.
Gerald Bernstein, instructor of art history and curator of the Museum of Art, returned the oil painting to the KU campus by plane from Los Angeles Friday. He said the portrait of the little French girl is damaged extensively. There are 27 separate abrasions on the painting.
ONLY ONE MARK is on the face of the figure, though. Bernstein called it a pinpoint abrasion.
Marilyn Stokstad, director of the museum, said restoration work will be done on the painting by James Roth of the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City, Mo.
The Manet painting was stolen from the Museum of Art on or about Aug. 27, according to F.B.I. officials.
William R. Basham, 31, of Santa Monica, Calif..
was arrested by federal agents on Jan. 14, after the painting was recovered from his apartment. He was charged with the theft.
BASHEM PLEADED INNOCENT to the charge at a preliminary hearing. Later, however, Lawrence police found in their records that Basham had received a ticket for illegal parking on Aug. 27, north of the Museum of Art.
On Feb.15, Basham changed his plea to guilty on a federal charge of "concealing and storing a painting known to be stolen."
Last Monday Basham received a sentence of 10 years in a federal prison, but a Los Angeles Federal court agreed to review the sentence upon submission of a report by the United States Board of Parole at the end of 90 days. The court can either affirm the maximum sentence or direct a lighter one.
Fitzgibbon said when J. Edgar Hoover, director of the F.B.I., was notified of the theft, he said the "entire resources of the F.B.I. were to be put into this investigation to locate the portrait and identify the person responsible for this theft."
The $23\times17_{-1/2}$-inch Manet painting was given to the KU Museum of Art in 1958 by Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Curry of Mission, Kansas.
Sixteen Teams Remain In Bowl Competition
The KU College Bowl Tournament began yesterday at the Kansas Union with the playoff of two of six elimination rounds.
Twenty matches were played, four in the first round and 16 in the second, eliminating all but 16 teams.
TEAMS THAT WILL return next week for the third round are:
Alpha Kappa Lambda, Douthart, Beta Theta Pi, Miller, Sigma Chi Pearson, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Gertrude Sellards Pearson Councillors, Phi Delta Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Joseph R. Pearson, Foster, Jolliffe, Pi Kappa Alpha, Stephenson, and the Unmarried Unorganized team.
The closest match in the tournament was between Alpha Kappa Lambda and Kappa Sigma. The contest, tied at the end of regulation play, was decided in favor of
THE WIDEST MARGIN of victory was gained by Joseph R. Pearson, when they defeated Alpha Chi Omega, 450-80. The JRP team is the same one that was the runner-up in the tournament last year.
AKL when that team answered a "sudden death" toss-up question after the official time had expired.
The Phi Delta Theta-Templin match was almost as close. It was tied up to the last toss-up question, which was answered correctly by the Phi Delts.
STEPHENSON, last year's champions, are also competing with the same team that won last year. In their game yesterday they defeated Pi Beta Phi.
Weather
Because the same questions were being used for several rounds all the members of the teams were
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While blinding snows swirled across the Midwest today and $100,000 tornado smashed through a small Texas town, southwest of Dallas, Kansans are enjoying a sunless day.
The weatherman seems to favor northeast and central Kansas over parts of Nebraska, Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa where snow warnings have been issued. Occasional rain and showers are predicted in northeast and central Kansas with the high in the 40's and the low tonight ranging in the 30's.
Two inches of fresh snow fell at Goodland while the rest of the state remains cloudy. In southeast and south central Kansas, the weather is cold with drizzle or light rain. Little change in the temperature is forecasted today in Kansas with expected temperatures ranging in the 40's and 50's and the low tonight in the 30's.
Kansans may look forward to a slight warming trend over the state tomorrow with temperatures ranging from 45 to 50.
Adenauer 'No' To Bidault's Asylum Plea
BONN—(UPI)—West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer today spurned a plea for political asylum from Georges Bidault, leader of forces seeking to topple French President Charles de Gaulle.
Bidault had appealed to Adenauer as an "old friend."
Bidault, fugitive former French Premier who was picked up in a police raid yesterday, also sought asylum from the Bavarian state government, but government sources said Adenauer's refusal to even accept Bidault's letter apparently closed the door to him in all of West Germany.
THE CONTINUED PRESENCE of Bidault in West Germany could put a severe strain on relations between France and West Germany.
Possibilities were mounting, government sources said, that Bidault will be declared an undesirable alien and deported across the border to a nation which would accept him. Switzerland and Austria have been mentioned as possibilities.
The former French Premier asked both the Bavarian state government and Adenauer for asylum. The contents of the "old friend" letter to Adenauer have been widely published in German newspapers.
Bidault was subjected to hours of interrogation again today at the Bavarian resort village of Steinebach, where he was picked up at dawn yesterday. He was whisked in a police car to his rented hilltop mansion for lunch.
BIDAULT IS SOUGHT by the French government as the leader of the underground National Resistance Council (NRC), which is dedicated to overthrowing De Gaulle's regime. He asked the Bavarian state as well as the federal government for asylum.
Bidault made his plea to Adenauer in a letter written as an "old friend," but the Chancellor would not accept the letter. It was returned to the sender, Deputy Government Press Chief Werner Krueger told a press conference.
IN PARIS, French government sources said France will not ask
West Germany to extradite Bidault, French officials said they saw Bidault's request for asylum as meaning he personally is abandoning his campaign to overthrow De Gaulle's regime.
The French officials said Adenauer apparently has three possible choices; grant Bidault political asylum and guard him against any French or OAS kidnap attempt; give him the choice of the frontier to which he wishes to be conducted; or persuade him to leave Europe.
Bidault, 63, was placed under police protection in the villa where he was discovered. He immediately asked Bavarian state authorities for political asylum, and said he had mailed a similar request to Adenauer.
Bidault was taken from his guarded villa this morning for more questioning about his activities in West Germany. The former premier appeared tired and slightly stooped as he left the house.
BIDAULT'S APPEARANCES in a filmed interview over the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) network last week aggravated the already chilly relations between Britain and France. It resulted in widespread criticism of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government by the British press and opposition politicians.
It was not immediately clear whether Bavarian police actually were hunting for Bidault when they found him yesterday morning in a three-story stone villa, 20 miles from Munich.
Toynbee to Speak Here Next Monday
Arnold Toynbee, British historian, will speak here next Monday. Elmer Beth, professor of journalism and chairman of the Humanities Lecture Series, announced today.
Toynbee, presently a visiting professor at Grinnell (Iowa) College, will talk on "An Historian Looks at the World Today" at 8 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium.
He is expected to arrive about noon Monday, Prof. Beth said, Plans for an afternoon discussion with Toynbee are being made by George Anderson, chairman of the department of history.
Toybee, who was knighted in 1553, is best known for his "A Study of History" which now includes 12 volumes.
THE 74-YEAR-OLD historian was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, part of Oxford, and was Fellow and Tutor at Balliol College from 1912-1915.
From 1919 until 1924 he was Koraes Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language, Literature and History at London University.
He was director of Studies of the Royal Institute of International Affairs from 1925-1955, and served as director of its Foreign Research and Press Service from 1939 until 1943.
Toynbee was research professor of international history at the London School of Economics, 1925-1955, and was director of the research department of the British Foreign Office. 1943-1946.
He was a member of the British delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946.
TOYNBEE HAS received honorary doctor of literature degrees from Oxford, Cambridge and Birmingham and honorary doctor of civil law degrees from Princeton and Columbia.
Arnold Toynbee
Toynbee will be accompanied by his wife.