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Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily hansan
53rd Year, No. 49
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Monday, Nov. 22, 1954
118th Vespers Keeps Tradition Of Job Well Done
The 118th All-Musical Vespers held yesterday in Hoch auditorium maintained its tradition of fine student musicianship.
The Men's Glee club sang "Winter Song," by Bullard and "Shenan Mah," arranged by Bartholomew. Both the Women's and Men's Glee clubs, directed by Mr. Krehbiel, sang with exuberance and fun, giving the audience the feeling that the groups were really enjoying themselves as they sang.
Big Four Talks Urged in May
The French Premier stressed, however, that ratification was not the only condition for holding the East-West talks. Thetalks, he said, "must be seriously and honestly prepared by full exchanges of views, excluding all maneuvers of pure propaganda which could only sow disagreement, harden positions and finally compromise the success for which we all hope."
United Nations — (U.P.)— French Premier Pierre Mendes-France proposed to the United Nations today that a Big Four conference be held next May, but only after the Paris agreements rearming Germany have been approved.
Premier Mendes-France in a forceful policy declaration to the 60-nation General Assembly, suggested the May meeting after explaining that by that time the Paris pacts will have been ratified by all countries concerned "as is certainly the case with France."
Bingham's "Witch Teasing," and Vaughan William's "Sound Sleep" were performed by the Women's Glee club. Although the group seemed smaller than usual, the songs were well done.
About 400 students participated in the vespers. The program opened with the first movement of Tschakowsky's "Symphony No. 5 in E Minor." performed by the University Symphony orchestra, directed by Russell L. Wiley, orchestra and band director.
The A Cappella choir, under the direction of Dr. D. M. Swarthout, professor of piano, sang "Exultate Deo," by Palestina; "Dedication," by Franz-Cain; "Requiem," by Granville Bantock; and "Lo! In the Time Appointed" by Healy Willan. The A Cappella choir gave an excellent performance of the works to begin Prof. Swarthout's last season with the choir.
Ravel's "Trois Chansons," a group of three quaint French songs, was performed by the Chorale, directed by Clayton Krehbiel, assistant professor of music education. The second song of the group, "Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis," with Phyllis Nehrbass, education senior, as soloist, was especially well done.
Considering that the University band had just completed its football game schedule the day before, it performed competently its first symphonic work of the season. The band played the startling final movement from Shostakovich's "Symphony No. 5," under the direction of Prof. Wiley.
Kansan photo
DON'S MAD—"DUTCH" IS GLAD—Head MU football coach Don Faurot's doesn't look at all pleased while talking to KU's director of athletics, A. C. "Dutch" Lonborg, after students tore down the MU goal posts following Saturday's game.
Pep Clubs, Students Migrate to MU Game
Test Application Deadline Tomorrow
Several hundred University students attended the KU-MU homecoming game Saturday at Columbia going over in private cars and chartered buses
Tomorrow is the deadline for applying for the selective service qualification test which will be given Thursday. Dec. 9.
Application cards and information bulletins can be picked up in the registrar's office, 122 Strong. The test will be given from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Dec. 9 in the Union ballroom. To take the test students must make application.
Weather
right and early
State weather forecaster Tom Arnold predicts continued fair and lightly warmer temperatures over
forecaster. Tom continued fair and temperatures over the state of Kansas through Tuesday. Mr. Arnold said the temperature levels for this month were still above the November normal despite cooler temperatures last this morning.
Following the game a group of students tore down both goal posts.
The KuKus, Red Peppers, a n d Jay Janes made their official migration to the game. A chartered bus was taken by the pep clubs decorated with red and blue paint and "Subdue Mizzou" stickers.
The combined KU and MU bands played "The Star Spangled Banner" preceding the game under the direction of Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra. The bands performed again during the half-time ceremonies in honoring the Missouri homecoming queen and her attendants. Also at half-time the prize winning floats from the homecoming parade were displayed.
KU students and alumni filled two sections of Memorial stadium. During the game cheers were led in the stands by Bill Stevens, college sophomore. He attracted so much attention that the spectators were watching him more than the game.
A pep rally was held at 11:45 a.m. in front of the Hotel Tiger. A rally with several cars and the pep club bus was staged throughout Columbia and on the MU campus.
Reds' UN Chief Suffers Seizure
United Nations, N.Y.—(U.P.)—Andrei Vishinsky, chief Soviet delegate to the United Nations, died suddenly today. He was 70.
Assembly President Eelco N. Van Kleeffens of The Netherlands announced that Mr. Vishinsky died at the Soviet delegation headquarters in New York after collapsing from a heart attack this morning. He suffered a severe "seizure" early today which prevented him from taking his place in the United Nations General Assembly.
Russian sources were uncommunicative.
Scholarships Set By Atchison Unit
A scholarship program which will involve $2,000 a year when in full operation has been established by the Locomotive Finished Material company of Atchison.
The program, to be supported by contributions of the Muchic foundation to the Endowment association, will be for sons and daughters of LFM employees both at the Atchison and St. Joseph, both plants.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said the new scholarships will be the largest program maintained at the University for sons and daughters of employees by a Kansas business concern.
The scholarships will be for $500
for the recipient's freshman year
and may be renewed for three
more years if satisfactory academic
standards are maintained. The
students in this way may receive
$2,000 for four years of study. One
new scholar will be named each
year so that the program will aid
four undergraduate students when
it is in full operation.
The recipients will be selected by the University aids and awards committee on scholarship, character, leadership, and promise of future success in the applicant's chosen field. Candidates will come to the campus in the spring for written examinations and interviews.
The Muchic foundation, established in 1946 by Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Muchic of Atchison, has provided scholarships at the University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in engineering and at St. Benedict's college in Atchison.
Vacation Hours For Library Posted
The following schedule for Watson library during Thanksgiving vacation has been announced by library authorities:
Tues., Nov. 23—7:45 a.m.-6 p.m.
Wed., Nov. 24—8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Thurs., Nov. 25—Closed
Fri., Nov. 26—8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sat., Nov. 27—8 a.m.-12 noon
Sun., Nov. 28—Closed
Mon., Nov. 29—Resume regular schedule
Schedules for departmental libraries will be posted on their doors.
KDGU Takes Holiday
Radio station KDGU has gone off the air for the Thanksgiving holiday and will not broadcast either tonight or tomorrow evening. The station will resume its broadcasting schedule Monday, Nov. 29.
But other informed sources said they understood the Russian diplomat suffered either a stroke or a heart attack. This could not be immediately confirmed.
Born to a bourgeois family of Odessa, which once boasted of connections with Polish aristocracy, he was educated to become a political official. '
He was the only minister in Soviet history to hold a czarist law degree. He also was the only old Menshevik to achieve high office since Lenin declared war on the Social Democrats a generation ago.
It was not until 1921, when he was 37, that he was admitted to the Communist party, first with a job in the food commissariat.
In 1923 he became a local procurator, and by 1925 was regional procurator of the Russian Federated Republic and was appointed to the law school of Moscow university, where later he became a dean.
Mr. Vishinsky presided at the Shakta trial in 1926 which involved the prosecution of 53 engineers accused of sabotage. Seven years later he was chosen to prosecute the foreigners and Russians involved in the Metro-Vickers trial.
In 1934 he was named chief investigator of the assassination of Sergei Kirov, secretary of the Leningrad party and No.2 man in the Politiburo. It was at Stalin's request that he became chief state procurator to take charge of the great purge trials of 1936-38. He never lost a case.
For his part in the liquidation of old comrades, Mr. Vishinsky was rewarded with numerous honors, including a Stalin prize of 200,000 rubles.
In 1936 he was appointed to the editorial board of the Stalin constitution. In 1939 Mr. Vishinsky was made a deputy foreign minister. He was present with the Russian delegation at Potsdam and Yalta. He also was active in the formation of new governments to take over eastern Europe.
Mr. Vishinsky believed himself to be a strict disciplinarian, and often said of himself: "I am a highly disciplined person."
He had a private villa on the Moscow river. In the capital he lived in a spacious apartment which is under close guard of the MVD. He was entitled, because of his high position, to a limousine and chauffer and a vacht.
Mr. Vishinsky was the man who held the center of the stage as spokesman for the Russian world. He always was at best with other diplomats. He carried his wit, but not his official grudges, from the tribune to the salon. Socially, he was described as affable and not indifferent to courtesy and grace.
He usually enjoyed himself at parties and was known as a better-than-average story-teller, with a flair for puns and epigrams. He was known to drink vodka sparingly and enjoyed waltzing.