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Typhoon Kills 3,000 In Northern Japan
University Daily Kansan
Tokyo—(U.P.)A typhoon whipped through Tsugaru Strait in northern Japan last night, overturning and sinking 208 vessels and killing almost 3,000 persons, including 57 Americans.
The Americans were among the 1,042 passengers and 111 crewmen on the ferry boat Toyota Maru which was capsized by the 118 mile-per-hour winds in the strait between Honshu and Hokkaido islands.
More than 1,000 persons were killed in the sinking of the 4,300-ton railroad ferry, which caught fire before it sank.
Only one American survived. He was Pfe, Frank Goekeden, 21, of Dubuque, Iowa. He escaped through a port hole and fought his way ashore with the aid of a life preserver and a raft.
Goedeken said he was in "good shape." He injured a finger and suffered a lacerated arm.
The 57 Americans who were lost included 49 soldiers, two wives of military personnel, two other women, one male army civilian employee, a child, and two male civilians.
The missing civilians were identified by the Japan national railways as Thomas West, a representative of the Max Factor Cosmetic company, and Dean Leeper, Carlock, Ill., a YMCA secretary.
Authorities said that only 126 persons, including 13 crewmen, Goedken and Canadian missionary Donald Orth, of Ontario, survived the sinking of the ferry boat. Missing and presumed dead were 1,029 persons. The bodies of 12 Americans have been recovered.
The typhoon was the third to hit Japan within two weeks. It pounded along the Japanese coastline, but Tsuigaru strait was the hardest hit.
The Japanese Coast Guard liste 208 ships sunk in the strait. Along with the Tayo Maru, they said four train ferries of the National Railways Corp., a private freighter, two steamers, 29 lighters, 116 fishing boats and 55 other small vessels went down.
Weather forecasters were caught off guard by the storm. They had predicted winds of about 55 miles-per-hour in the Hokkaido-Honshu straight.
Authorities said more than 300 prewomen were lost in the sinking of the train carriers and the death toll from the other vessels probably was 1,500.
The Toya Maru moved into the center of the storm, where winds were estimated at 10 miles-per-hour from the front of Hidakode Hokkaido, to Amori, Honshu.
The ship lost speed and almost floundered immediately after leaving port. The captain hove to inside a rock and concrete breakwater and tried to ride out the storm anchor, but the winds and wave forced the ship into the open see
Official Bulletin
The deadline for submitting requests to
Student Council finance committee is Oct. 10.
Ph.D. French reading examination Saturday, 9 to 11 a.m., 107 Strong. Books must be submitted to Miss Craig, 109 Strong, by noon Thursday.
Fulbright meeting for all graduate
undergraduate students, 4 p.m., Fraser
Speakers.
Mathematical colloquium, 4 p.m. 50 Strong. "Linear Transformations." Prof.
Independent Student association, p.m. Room Union.
Mathematical Colloquium, 4 p.m. 2018 Strong "Linear Transformations," Prof.
*International club, 7 p.m. Jayhawk*
*roads, U.S. U.S. students inited:
    get acquainted*
Museum of Art record concerts, noon and 4 p.m. Montverdi; Madrigals.
Hillie foundation, "Rosh Hashanah"
        Eve service, 7.30 p.m., Damn-
        Chapel,
Kappa Beta picnic, Potter lake, 5:30 p.m.
Faculty Fulbright meeting, 4 p.m.
theater. All faculty invited.
Speaker.
Mathematics club, 7.30 p.m., 1520 Barrie
Policy discussion, refreshments,
games.
p.m.
K.U. Radio club, 7:30 p.m., Electrical Engineering department
Museum of Art record concerts, noon
and 4 p.m. Beethoven, Mozart sonatas.
Al Eteno se reune el Miercoles 29
septiembre; 4:30, 113 Strong. Que venga
de ella?
AGI members not living in a house which complied with the party, 7,30 and UU members.
where it was pounded against the rocks.
"Some equipment broke loose and started a fire." Goedeken said.
Museum of Art record concerts, noon
4 p.m. Bork Strikel trunk quartet No. 4.
Cost Accountants To Meet Here
A report on the 1954-55 economic outlook and a panel discussion on the value of cost reports to management are the main features of a special meeting of the Kansas City chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants next Monday at the University.
Then the ship capsized and only a few survivors reached the nearby shore.
Seven panelists will discuss "the values of cost reports to management" in the first session at 3:30 pm. After dinner, Dr. Leland Pritchard, professor of finance at KU, will discuss his predictions of things to come in the 1954-55 economic picture.
The meeting is being conducted in cooperation with the KU School of Business. One hundred persons are expected to attend.
The KU chorale, directed by Prof. Clayton Krehbiel, will provide afterdinner entertainment.
5 Geologists Attend Meet
Five members of the State Geological survey at the University attended a geological field conference in southeast and southcentral Missouri during the weekend. Three members attended the same area last week.
Making the trip were Dr. Frank C. Foley, director; Wallace Lee, subsurface geologist; Allison Hornbaker, in charge of the Geological Survey's southeastern Kansas field office in Pittsburgh; and Howard O'Connor and Kenneth Walters, groundwater geologists.
Geologists who attended the trip last week were Holly Wagner, Robert Kulstad, and Daniel Merriam.
The participants of this year's conference, the 17th annual regional field conference sponsored by the Kansas Geological Society at Wichita, studied rocks equivalent in age to those of the Arbuckle, Reagan, and pre-cambrian — or rocks 400 million or more years old.
The largest reptile in modern time is the leatherback, a marine turtle. Specimens have weighed almost 1,500 pounds and measured eight feet in length.
The State Geological survey of Missouri cooperated with the Kansas Geological society on this year's conference.
Dulles to Soothe Mendes-France In Talk Today
London — (U.P.)— Secretary cf State John Foster Dulles met with French Premier Mendes-France today in a dramatic last-ditch effort to win a compromise at the nine-power conference on German rearmament which opens here tomorrow.
Dulles' meeting apparently was an attempt to smooth American-French relations after the American secretary avoided stopping in Paris during a flying tour of Europe last week. Dulles' action on the trip was considered a snub by Paris.
Today's meeting was the first between Dulles and the French leader since the French assembly killed the European Defense Community treaty, which would have rearmed Germany in an integrated defense of Western Europe.
Dulles met Mendes-France at noon at the Kensington Gardens residence of the French ambassador to Great Britain.
British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden called first on the French premier to lead off the Anglo-American drive for a compromise. Informed sources said Britain was willing to go part way to meet French demands for stricter sanctions on German rearmament.
The United States, Britain and West Germany are largely agreed on details granting Germany her sovereignty and making her a member of the North Atlantic pact and the 1948 Brussels defense agreement.
informed sources said Dulles in his talk with Mendes-France was believed anxious to lay the groundwork for a compromise at the rearmament conference, which promises to be the most fateful for the west since Germany was divided by the Allies and Russia at the 1945 Potsdam conference.
An educational trust fund with the KU Endowment association by the Alpha Omicron Pi Alumnae Association of Kansas, Inc., has been established.
Trust Fund Set Up Bv AO Pi Alumnae
The income from the fund will be used for scholarships and loans to KU students. A committee representing the University and the sorority will select the scholars.
The initial gift to create the fund will be supplemented by additional contributions from alumnae and friends of the sorority.
Caracul, used extensively in making for garments, is the tightly-curled, glossy black coat of newborn Karakul lambs. The Karakul, a broad-tailed sheep particularly adapted to arid regions, lives chiefly in the USSR's Central Asia province of Bukhara.
Chapel a Memorial To Former Student
When Elizabeth Ann Scott, '51, and Paul Nelson, medical senior, were married August 29, it was a fitting first ceremony for the Tillman O. Peters Memorial chapel in the new Methodist Student center.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson organized and publicized the campaign to collect funds for the chapel as a memorial to their graduate, Tillman Peters, who graduated from KU in '50. Mr. Peters was killed in action in Koree Oct. 15, 1952.
A physical education major, Mr. Peters was an active member of the Wesley Foundation and served as vice-president in 1949-50. The Army called Mr. Peters out of school near the end of World War II, but he returned to finish his education. After his graduation he directed physical education in Rawlins, Wyo., grade
Mr. Peters' parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Esco Peters, Utica, and his visitors, Mrs. Bonnie Brown, Utica, and Mrs. Avis Rees, Fresno, Calif, gave the stained glass windows, the altar, and the altar furnishings in the chapel.
school until he was sent to Korea in the summer of 1952, where he served as a first lieutenant in the infantry.
Designed to seat 65 persons, the chapel has a simple modernistic style. A special feature is the unusual stained glass window resting on a white stone altar in the front of the room.
Donations are still being received by Mr. and Mrs. Nelson to make the entire chapel a memorial to Tillman Peters.
A bronze plaque on the door bears the name Tillman O. Peters.
Monday, Sept. 27, 1954
IAWS Convention To Convene Here
KU has been chosen for the bi-annual convention of the Intercollegiate Associated Women Students to be held here April 6-10, 1955. About 550 women students repre-
Policy Debate Resumes in U.N.
United Nations, N.Y.—(U.P.)—T h e United Nations General Assembly resumes its general policy debate today amid growing indications President Eisenhower's atoms-for-peace plan may come up for discussion before the end of the week.
Australian Foreign Minister Richard G. Casey, Nationalist Chinese Foreign Minister George K. C. Yeh, and the Philippines Brig. Gen Carlos P. Romulo, former president of the 60-nation General Assembly, were slated to speak at the morning session today.
Prospects were, however, that the general debate would be halted temporarily some time after today to permit committee work on the Assembly's 8-18-item agenda. Mr. McCarthy will present on the agenda by the Assembly Saturday and the United States asked that it be given top priority.
General agreement from many delegates to the U.S. request indicated the atom-for-peace formula would be the first item discussed by the 60-member political committee.
Russia has appeared eager to debate the U.S. plan in the United Nations, with Soviet delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky going out of his way to emphasize that the Kremlin has not turned its back on the proposal and was prepared to discuss it further.
America's new robot telephone exchanges for long-distance use a tape-punching machine that goes into action as soon as the call is dialed. It takes down the number of the caller, the number being called, and how long the conversation lasts. If there is a busy signal or no response the tape records that fact. Later the tape is fed through other machines to figure the monthly bill.
About 350 women study senting 300 universities across the country will meet to discuss problems that arise on campuses, big and small, and the way these problems can be solved.
The convention will make its head-quarters in the Memorial Union and all meetings and workshops will be held there.
Visiting delegates will be housed in North College and Corbin halls. KU women, who have charge of all the arrangements, will be housed in organized women's houses close to convention headquarters.
Miss Margaret Habein, dean of instruction and student services at the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., and former KU dean of women, will be the tie-up speaker of the convention.
Ernestine C are y, author of "Cheaper by the Dozen," and Allen Crafton, professor of speech at KU, will be speakers.
The Army's first successful signal system was field-tested during a campaign against hostile Navajos in 1860. The expedition -led by Colonel Faunterley -used flags and orches in wigwag fashion to indicate letters of the alphabet.
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The original academic gown was a "decent habit" a full length of dark cloth which, with the tonsure, was required dress for students in most medieval universities. The hood was a common part of civilian dress and had no special significance.
The world's output of butter was estimated at 3.6 million in 1950, notes a Twentieth Century report. Australia, New Zealand and Ireland use nearly two-thirds of their milk for butter, the United States only 27 per cent.
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