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Daily hansan
Tuesday, January 18, 1955
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
52nd Year, No. 77
THE NEW LOOK IN 1912—This photograph from an early edition of the University Daily Kansan shows students in a 1912 fine arts class. Their subject matter may have been similar to 1955, but not their attire.
Concert Slated By Symphony
The Minneapolis Symphony orchestra, conducted by Antal Dorati, will perform on the University Concert course at 8:20 p.m., Sunday. Feb. 6, in Hooh auditorium.
The orchestra's extensive tours, begun in 1910, have given it the name "Orchestra on Wheels."
Tickets for the concert are available at the Fine Arts office and the Bell Music company. Students are admitted free with ID cards.
Mr. Dorati was director of the Budapest Royal Opera house at the age of 18. Besides being a symphony orchestra director he is also a ballet conductor and an arranger. He came to the Minneapolis Symphony in 1949 from the Dallas Symphony.
Alumni Set Nominations
The nominating committee for the 1955-56 officers of the Alumni association has been selected by the association president, Chester Mize Jr., Aitchison.
the chairman of the committee is Charles Curry, Kansas City, Mo. His group will select two slates of candidates for president, vice president, and a member of the board of directors.
The other committee members are Mrs. Alan Phares, Wichita; Mrs. Frank Warren, Emporia; Frank Harwi, Topeka, and Frank Pattee, Lawrence. They will meet here Saturday afternoon.
After the nominations have been made, the candidates will be elected by mail and announced at Commencement.
KDGU Off the Air, Will Return Jan.31
Radio station KDGU will conclude its broadcasting semester tonight. The station will return to the air Monday, Jan. 31.
At that time two new dormitories will be added to the KDGU listening audience, Douthart and Grace Pearson. A special program will be presented that evening for the two dormitories.
Seniors Fought Finals In Era of Button Shoes
By GRETCHEN GUINN
Back in the early days of the University Daily Kansan in January 1912, women fine arts majors wore long dresses with high starched collars to class, the coming of the circus was a big event, seniors almost petitioned against finals, and Woodrow Wilson gave a talk in the gymnasium.
The two-ring circus which cause so much excitement was the "Circus Maximus," given for the benefit of the women's dormitory fund. It was held on the basketball floor of the gymnasium. Students were the performers and girls sold red lemonade, popcorn, peanuts, crackerjacks, and chewing gum—but no cigars.
In the very first issue of the Daily Kansan students were trying to get out of final exams. The seniors of the College were "contemplating petitioning the faculty for a method of exempting them from spring examinations."
The seniors suggested that all seniors "who have made a grade average of 2. or better during the term's work should be exempt."
The principal argument they put forth was that it would "have the effect of raising the standard of class recitation for the term," thus better work would be done.
They argued, "The tests should be given two or three weeks before the end of the spring term in order that they might not come when the seniors were extremely busy." Faculty members pointed out that this idea was not good because the seniors were not likely to do much work after the quizzes had been given.
The seniors asserted there was no reason the plan could not work at KU since it had been successful other places—besides, Chancellor Strong was in favor of the plan as it was presented to him.
Senate Leaders Attack Knowland's Speech
Washington—(U.P.)—Key Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations committee took sharp issue today with Sen. William F. Knowland's attack on the results of Dag Hammarskjold's mission to Red China.
Sen. Knowland, Senate Republican leader who has disagreed frequently with administration foreign policy, clashed with that policy again yesterday when he told a Chicago audience Mr. Hammarskold's efforts to free 11 American fliers held by the Chinese Communists had been "a failure."
He voiced strong suspicion that the United Nations, of which Mr. Hammarskjoel is secretary general, would attempt to appease the Chinese Communists and said "no service is done the American people . . . by pretending the mission was a success."
President Eisenhower had expressed disappointment over lack of immediate success but had called for restraint and patience while the
Reaction to Sen. Knowland's comments showed renewed support in the Foreign Relations committee for Mr. Eisenhower's plea for patience.The furor also brought some new Democratic charges that there is lack of unity in the administration's foreign policy.
UN continues efforts to free the filers.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), a member of the Foreign Relations committee, declared that "the Republican administration should have one spokesman on this subject and not several—particularly when the several are giving different and conflicting statements."
Committee Chairman Walter F. George (D-Ga.) called for "moderation and great patience if we hope to accomplish anything."
Reds Claim Chinese Isle
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Taipei, Formosa-U.P.)-Red China today hurled an amphibious invasion force against the small Nationalist outpost island of Yikiangshan, in the Tachen group, and Communist Peiping radio claimed the Nationalist defenders have surrendered.
Tomorrow's Kansan To Be Last of Term
Tomorrow's edition of the Daily Kansan will be the last one printed this semester. Persons having information which they wish to be in the paper are requested to turn it in early tomorrow morning. The first regular edition of spring semester will be published Thursday, Feb. 3.
2-3 Inches Snow Expected Today
Snow, which moved in on the campus today is expected to continue until it reaches a depth of two to three inches. Hill traffic was hazardous, with cinders placed on some slopes to assist drivers.
Lawrence had received a snowfall of one inch with moisture amounting to .69 inch by 10 a.m. today, C. J. Posey, volunteer weather observer, said. The snow is expected to end late this afternoon or evening and will reach a depth of two to three inches here.
The Lawrence police department reported four minor traffic accidents this morning caused by extremely slick streets and highways. Highway conditions are hazardous over the entire state.
One death was reported in the state early today as a result of the weather. An automobile driven by Robert McGrath, 20. Delia, skidded on a snow-slick county road and plunged over an embankment, killing Mr. McGrath.
Over the state snow will end today in the southwest but is expected to increase in the southeast and become heavy in the southeast corner. Some blowing snow will occur in the west and central sections. Wednesday will be fair and cold in the east and partly cloudy in the west. Highs today will be in the 20s west and north to around 30 in the extreme southeast. Lows tonight will be 5-10 north and west and 15 southeast.
Winter conditions struck hard over most of the nation today. The California coast had winds up to 104 miles an hour, torrential rains, and heavy snows. The entire Midwest was hit by a cold wave which caused snow to fall from Texas to North Dakota. The high winds caused a Japanese freighter to go aground in Humboldt Bay, on the northern California coast. The vessel is said to be in no immediate danger.
Snowfall is expected to be heavy in many parts of the Midwest, especially in southern Missouri. In Kansas City, 15 minor accidents occurred between 7 and 8 a.m. as traffic jams tied up work-bound automobiles.
Snow in Kansas has reached several inches. Wamego had five inches early today. Four inches had fallen at Goodland, Colby, Hill City, Russell, and Ellsworth. Concordia had three inches. Garden City, Dodge City, and Wichita each had two inches.
The Red radio said the barren, rocky island fortress, 20 miles off the China mainland, fell to the invaders at 1 a.m. CST, a few hours after Communist landing craft hit its beaches.
Reports received in Taipei before the Communist broadcast was heard indicated that the lightly defended island had fallen.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's high military command met in an hurried, secret conference to discuss the grave situation created by the invasion.
If the Red claims of capture of Yikianshan prove correct, it would mark the first successful Communist Chinese invasion of any of the string of Nationalist-held offshore islands which form the outer defenses of Chiang Kai-shek's Formosa fortress.
(In Washington, President Eisen-hower briefed Republican congressional leaders on the situation by the invasion thrust.
Yikiangshan Not Strategic Dulles Says
(Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland refused to tell reporters whether the President expressed concern over the new development in the tense East Asian area.)
Military observers in Tokyo speculated the Red invasion might prove the first round in a battle for control of the strategic Tachen island group 200 miles north of Formosa.
Washington —(U,P)— Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today the island of Yikiangshan, which Red China invaded today, is of no particular importance to the defense of the Chinese Nationalist stronghold of Formosa.
Other sources belived the Chinese maneuver was intended more as a test of the intentions of the U.S. 7th fleet in that area than a serious effort by Red China to seize valuable territory.
The principal value of Yikiang-shan was its lighthouse, warning Shanghai - bound ships against treacherous shoals. The Nationalists were believed to have augmented the lighthouse with radar equipment for tracing the movements of shipping in the area.
The island has been regularly shelled by the Red Chinese by Communist batteries on nearby Toumen island.
His statement, which appeared to rule out any likelihood of U.S. military intervention in the fighting at this stage, was made at a news conference as the Pentagon received official reports that the island had fallen to the invaders. The reports came to the joint chiefs of staff from American military observers in the Far East.
Military sources said that the island could serve as a steppingstone for a Red invasion of the National-ist-held Tachens岛 group north of Formosa.
But Mr. Dulles indicated that he did not attach great strategic importance to the Tachen group of islands, either. He said these islands, about 8½ miles from Yikiangshan, do not appear to him to be essential to the defense of Formosa.