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Serving the State The Weather University of Iowa 1\10 t1y fair and not mueh rha nre In temJlll!ratures Campus and today. lIIch today, ,&; Iowa City lo\\', 33. Friday fair and waf-mer. Rich Wednes day, 68; low, 27. Est. 1868 - AP Leased WiIe, AP Wirepholo - fly. Cents Iowa City, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1952-VoL 86, No. 140 • ,. • •• ounCI I es I In Stevenson Announces He Can't ~ I Accept Demo Presidential Bid (R') - OMAHA President Tru man toured by air middle Amer . B1,. The ~Ia&ecl Preas Ica's !lood disaster area Wednes. Gov. ~dlai Stevenson of Illinois day and found a Missouri river Frogman Drowns in Bathtub plun,ed the scramble fOr the straining mightily - but stm un Democratic presidential nomin successfully - to smash Omaha LONDON (IP) - A young man in a home-made frogman's outfit and Councll Bluffs with the worst was found lying in 12 inches of water in the bathtub of his apart ation Into deeper confusion Wed flood in their history. ment Wedne&day. He was dead. nesday with the announceml!n\ Upstream and downstream, the Nose clips of the breathing apparatus were clamped on the nose that he "could not accept" a bid "MI,hty Mo" - mlihUer than of the victim, John D. George, 25. to become his party's standard white man ever has seen her - Friends said GeOl'ge was interested ilt scientific experiments. was havln, Its way. bearer. Still packing a terrific wallop, The development came as Gen. the swollen marauder engulfed Dwight D. Eisenhower rolh!d UP new thousands of Icres and flood Draft Status of 2,000 a 157,000-vote victory over Sen. ed or threatened new towns 19 Robert A. Taft In a test of the crl.!!1a are.a moved southward. strength In the New Jersey pri Denes Floocl Students to Be Reviewed mary electiOn. But at Omaha and Council In Paris, Eisenhower said he Bluffs- there was defiance, The By PIlIL O'CONNOR was "very proud" ot the outcome. (Dall,. lowau Pbot.) line of defense ran alon, 23 miles About 2,000 SUI male students wili soon have their selective Some of his supporters said It Dt\ILl' IOWAN PHOTO was taken at the Soulh Sioux City, Neb., side of the combination brlda'e of levees which had never been nos expected to ,et such a test but service cases reopened by iocal drart boot·tls. meant the five-star general would Unldnc N·ebra.ka and Iowa. The volUDteerll above are pictured jlQt before they shoved off by boat lor which in recent days had been National regulations reqUire the rcopening or cases at the end of not have to undertake an aU-out work on the South Sioux Oily dike. the academic year for all youths granted educational deferments to campaign to win the Republican bolstered by a hastily-recruited att nd eolJeg . presidentlal nomination against army ot 8,000 men. the bard-stumping Taft. The Omoha river level passed Proposed Envoy Registrar Tcd McCunel said next year. the 28-foot mark, nearly four feet Wednesday that Gbout 1,100 SUI Students with "statutory" de Kerauver Hal1l AlUlouDeemen& 63 SUI Grads, higher than ever previously re ROBERT D. MURPHY, Mil students have "regular" educa ferments may further their Sen. Estes Kefauver ~mPllY corded, with the levees still tional deferments and an addi hailed the announcement llS "very Sioux City Slo~ly holdln,. The crest - maximum waukee, was nominated Wed chances or staying in schoot by M , day by President Truman to tional 900 have speclnl "statu- favorable" to his own condldacy flow - is due at 9 p.m. (CST) to be the first post-war ambassa tory" deferments. passing the quolitication test, but and Invited Stevenson's support Seniors Named day. dor to Japan. Murphy is now Rankln&'s Defi ned those who have already token ers to "switch to me." Ghostly vacant but sUU safe be ambassador to Belrlum but Is Stevenson had Jed the field In hind the hastily-bolstered levees A "regular" educational defer the exam arc not ellgible to take To Phi now in Washington for consul it again. terms of delegate strength tor lh~ Beta Iny nearly three-Courths of Coun ment is one in which a student Returns to Normal cil Bluffs, a city of 45,000, and tations. forthcoming Democratic conven has been granted a postponement About 62 sur students will take By JIM MARCH Sixty-three SU [ seniors and sections across the river includ tion In July, althOuah Kefauver graduates have been elected to Phi of induction by passing the na the qualification test here ned was far out In front In popular Daily Iowan Staff Writer ing East Omaha lind Carter Lake, tional college qualification test or Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic la. Thursday. votes In the various state primary society. 68 Convicts Continue by the following scholastic rank- contests. SIOUX CITY - An lIir of relief came to residents at this tlood The homeless, nearly 40,000 in McCanel believes that local devastated city Wednesday, as the swollen Missouri river continued to They Were elected by the Iowa ing: Based on statements by dele Omaha and Council Blufts, wl!re draft boards will cooperate in recede from Il~ reeord-smashing crest of 24.3 feet. chapter and will be initiated May I. Freshmen - upper halt 01 granting educational deferments ,ates pledged, favorable or in lImong some 100,000 the Red Cross Holdout; 4 Officials Business was almost back to normal in nil but a relY blocks of the 19. Speaket· at the Initiation ban says have been displaced In the class of full-timc male student~. for next year. slTuctec\ to vote for II specl!lc 2. Sophomores - upper two city, and that in itself has boosted the mornle of the city's 85,000 quet will be President Virgil M. midwest by rampaging waters ot He said, "The big bulk of stu candidate at the convention, Stev. citizens. Ha,ncher. ( Held as Hostages thirds. ellSOn had 54, Kefauver, 40, Sen. the Missouri, MissiSSippi, Red ri dents are eli~ible, and I clon't see Hubert ' Humphrey of Minnesota, Three Sehoo1s Stili Closed The new members nre either ver ot the north and the Milk 3. Juniors-upper thrt'e-rourths. why draft b&ards won't ,ontlnue TRtNTON, N. J. (IP)-Officillls 23, and Sen. Robert S. Kerr of All but three .~c hool.!! were reopened and p~clr,tng plants and libera,l arts graduates Or seniors river In Montana. 4. Seniors plannln: to enter to cooperate since there Is less OP at Trenton state prison Wednes Oklahoma, 8. stockyards prepared It resumption or operations. who will receive degrees in June. The Red Cross late WednesdaY graduate work-uppcr half. position now than a year ago." . Across the river at South Sioux City, Neb., residents have been day wearily waited for 68 bar!'i Harriman COnaldertd Membership requires a scholastic boosted its nine-state estimate ot eaded convicts to answer a mes A "statutory" deferment Is one less fortuna Ie, however. standing of 3.2. families affected by midwest sage sen t in to them from Sanford in which the student has been With Stevenson out of the pic Shortly after the river hod risen to over 24.1 tect, the writer flooding to 28,583 - or some Completion of Addition ture, talk aro e that W. Avei'E'U Those elected were: Ilates, state institutions and agen given an induction postponement cruIsed about in the deserted city. Jo Ann Johnlon. Ackley; Jnck Morn. 114,000 persons. cies commissioner. to finish an academic year be At Oakdale Is Ordered Harriman, now head of the for Business places and houses in the stricken area stood naked in Am~s: Ralqh COCkRhoot.. Attantl~. Dunne Iowa lIardest Hit eign aid setup, mlaht step in as Plln~,rAu. BronJon; W8)'ne Daniellon, The rioters are holding four cause of satisfactory scholastic the muddy, swirling waters of the Big Mo. A few streetlights, those BurllnfCton; Annis Hulme. Cf'dnr Fall ~: By sta tes, the breakdown of DES MOINES-The state board the party's "liberal" candidate to John Bolin. Rlchord Chrillen.on and prison employees hostage~ in the standing. The student given one connecl~ by o\'erhead wil'ing, stili burned. The entire town had been 1I00d affected famllies listed Iowa of education was directed by the carryon President Truman's John Petro. 811 of Cedar R.pld •. of these deferments has not taken almost totally inundated. VirgInia \Vlse. Cherokee. Edward MArk. 14,068, Kansas 500, Minnesota institution'S printing shop. Batl!s state legislative interim commit- "tair deal" programs. told them he would consider their the qualification test. 'Adopts' outb loux City Clnrksvlllp: Robert Good. Jr.. June 2,639, Wisconsin 1,250, Missouri tee Wednesday to use its unallo- On the Republican side, Eis!'l1- Morken. EII •• beth 1I-10",all and Charles grievances if the men ,vere re Radio Cincinnati, Inc., said Wednesday night it had "aaopted" SlIlelio. all 01 D e~ Moines: Lllllnn Ro,e 1,850, Nebraska 3,875, North Da Boards Have Decision cated funds to compJete an addi- hower rolled up II popuiar vote MW. J~hn 1I~1t. leased unharmed. South Sioux City. E.thervJlle; Ft. Dodge; kota 1,456, South Dakota 2,120 Whether the student has a "sta- tion at Oakdale state sanatorium. of mO'l'e than 382,000 votes again~t Robert Hanlman. Fl. Madison. A spokesman said the company ",JII send messages appealing for i\1orIFlnn~ Craft. Hudson: Chnrles B f"ye.