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Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Chest Drive Lags; 'Clean-Up' Set
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
53rd Year, No. 47
Thursday, Nov. 18, 1954
Kansan photo
GIVE TO THE CAMPUS CHEST—Tags are worn by Fred Heath, chairman of the drive, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, and Robert Kennedy, ASC president, as they make plans for the clean-up drive to-
Nasser Takes Over, Promises Open Canal
Cairo, Egypt—(U.P.)—Youthful Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser took over the functions of the presidency today and promised the West that Egypt will always keep the Suez canal open to world shipping.
Premier Nasser assumed the additional responsibilities in a swift move by the revolutionary council to consolidate its power following the overthrow of former President Mohammed Naguib.
London Fog Is Worst in Years
London — (U.P.)— The worst fog of the winter settled over most of England today in a patchy pattern of clear and fog-bound areas that forced London traffic to a crawl.
The fog was so thick at suburban Macbam that conductors walked aboard of their buses with flashlights while passengers on the rear platform rang bells to warn other vehicles.
vehicles. The fog began to lift after noon and airliners were given the goahead to land and take off. Only one plane had left London airport all morning. Airliner flights from the continent were delivered to Paris and a Pan-American flight from Frankfurt was sent to Prestwick, Scotland.
wkR: Seventh. Shipping operations on the Thames closed down completely after two freighters brushed against each other in the fog. Trains arrived in London half an hour late while motorists slowed to a snail pace.
Weather
The weather this afternoon, tonight, and tomorrow will be generally fair. It will be cooler in the east this afternoon and tonight, and warmer in the western and central sections tomorrow. The low tonight will be near 30 in the northwest to 40 in the southeast.
Some of those arrested implicated Mr. Naguib in the plot, and the 53-year-old general was removed as president last weekend for the second time in 10 months.
A member of the council, Minister of National Guidance Salah Salem, warned, meanwhile, that Egypt's patience with its fellow Moslem nations is coming to an end.
Mr. Naguib's office will remain vacant until the electorate chooses his successor. The council itself assumed his "executive powers."
The council was irritated when Iraq accepted U.S. military aid last year, when Saudi Arabi intervened to support Mr. Naguib in his contest with Premier Nasser, and when Syria opened its doors to refugee members of Egypt's outlawed Moslem brotherhood.
Police said the brotherhood's supreme guide, Sheik Hassen El Hodeiib, aspired to revive the office that ruled the Moslem world for a thousand years after the death of Mohammed, with himself as chief.
Mr. Naguib now is under police surveillance in the luxurious suburban villa of former Premier Mustafa Nahas.
Mr. Hodeibi, arrested with hundreds of his followers in a mass roundup, faces trial before the revolutionary tribunal on charges of conspiring to assassinate Premier Nasser and other cabinet members.
The roundup followed the abortive attempt on Premier Nasser's life when he was making a speech at Alexandria.
Film Tomorrow To Be 'Orpheus'
"Orpeus," a French film written and directed by Jean Cocteau, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch auditorium.
The film, based on the mystery of the death of Orpheus, is fourth in the University Film series. It will be shown with English subtitles.
The action of the film starts in the "Poet's Bar," gathering place of the French literary youth. The plot involves the meeting there of Orpheus, the poet laureate, and the Princess, who is actually a symbol of his death.
The events leading to his death and his coming back to life on orders of the Princess complete the mysterious cycle of Orpheus' life.
The University band will participate in halftime homecoming ceremonies with the University of Missouri band in Columbia Saturday.
An organ recital will begin at 7:15 p.m.
Band to Play At MU Game
The University band will form a football and play "Mr. Touchdown U.S.A." while the MU band forms a crown. After this both bands will form a cross for the queen crowning ceremonies and play the alma mater songs of the two universities.
Prof. Russell L. Wiley, director of the band said, "I am supposed to bring some MU band boys home with me because I have been told I won't be able to tell the KU boys from the MU boys. I am taking an extra bus to bring home the new recruits."
"I did my part, how about you?"
Every student who contributed to the Campus Chest will wear a tag bearing these words tomorrow when the chest steering committee stages a clean-up drive.
The Chest drive ended last night with a total of $2,325.35 which is $5,367.65 less than the $7,693 goal.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy issued the following statement today concerning the drive:
"It is now apparent that a final effort on the part of the KU student body is needed to make this year's Campus Chest drive a success.
"On Friday, a 'clean-up campaign' will take place on all parts of the University campus. Members of the pep clubs and others have been asked to solicit funds from all those students who do not wear the tag emblematic of a donor.
"It is my earnest hope that each member of the student body will understand his personal responsibility by contributing to this most worthwhile cause," the chancellor said.
Johnson Offers Alternative In Censure Move
Washington—(U.P.)-Sen. Edwin C. Johnson (D.-Colo.) today proposed a change in the censure resolution against Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy to meet arguments that a rebuke would dampen future congressional investigations of communism.
Sen. Johnson, a member of the special committee which recommended censure of Mr. McCarthy on two counts, offered the amendment as Senate Republican leaders canvassed sentiment on whether to suspend debate on the censure case pending Sen. McCarthy's return.
Sen. McCarthy entered the Bethesda, Md., Naval hospital yesterday for treatment of an injured elbow. Authorities said he may be there several days.
The Johnson amendment states that it is "the sense of the Senate" that the Communist party of the United States is "not a domestic political party in the traditional sense" but is part of an international conspiracy.
"This conspiracy poses a "deadly menace to the United States," the amendment says, and "appropriate committees" should continue to "diligently investigate, expose and combat" the conspiracy and members of it.
Sen. McCarthy's supporters have argued that the censure movement grew out of a Communist-instigated fight against the Senator and that censuring him would discourage future investigations of communism.
Before offering his amendment, Sen. Johnson said that he had intended to make a statement today on the censure recommendations, but had been informed that Sen. McCarthy is "quite ill."
$ \triangleright $ The soliciting will be carried out by pep club members and sorority and fraternity pledge classes. The Chest committee hopes that every student on the campus will be wearing a white tag by 2 p.m. Announcements about the drive will be made over a loud speaker between morning classes.
Money from organized houses will still be accepted in the Activities lounge of the Union today. Fred Heath, college junior and drive chairman, announced that pep club solicitors may pick up their materials in the information booth tomorrow.
The Campus Chest was organized for the benefit of nine organizations with each one to receive a certain percentage of the final total. The groups to receive money from the drive are the National Multiple Sclerosis society, the World University service, the YMCA, the YWCA, the Damon Runyon cancer fund, the American Heart association, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the Mental Health association and the Salvation Army.
This year's goal is higher than ever before, but last year the University of Nebraska with 7,000 students collected more than $9,000. The University of Colorado and Iowa State college collected more than $5,000.
Another statement endorsing the drive was signed by Bob Worcester, president of the Inter-fraternity council; Barbara Bateman, president of Panhellenic; Bob Kennedy, president of ASC; Fred Heath, chairman of the Campus Chest, and Margaret Smith, president of ISA.
"We, the undersigned, wish to indicate our wholehearted support of the Campus Chest clean up campaign. In order to insure the success of this effort the co-operation of all organized houses is urgently needed. Specifically, this group requests that the pledge class of your house solicit a contribution from all students that do not wear donor's tags at any place, on or off the campus, on Friday.
The statement reads:
Enthusiasm for a good cause can bring about a successful conclusion for the 1954 drive. Please instruct your pledges as to the method of collection and make every effort to create in them a desire to actively assist in this campaign.[4]
Mendes Hopes to Dispel Misgivings About France
Washington—(U.P.)—French Premier Pierre Mendes-France hoped in a talk with President Eisenhower today to start dispelling American misgivings about how firmly he stands with the West in the cold war.
Mr. Eisenhower invited the dynamic statesman and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to the White House for lunch and a discussion of a whole series of U.S.-Franco problems.
These issues range all the way from Russia's call for a 25-nation European Security conference to French hopes that the United States will help foot the bill for 170,000 French troops in Indochina.
But behind the formal policy discussions, there was the larger question of where Mendes-France himself stands on which France's long-range relationship to Russia and the West should be.
On his arrival last night from Ottawa, the black-haired Frenchman said he approached his talks here "in a spirit of optimism," that he believes "France and the whole free world are making steady progress on the road toward peace."
There is some apprehension here that Mendes-France has a deep-seated hope that some day France can become a sort of bridge between East and West. This would mean that the French would have to move away from the United States and in the direction of neutralism, if not closer to the Soviet orbit.