FrenchCommandos Storm Red Post
Hanoi, Indochina—(U.P.)-French troops at Dien Bien Phu surged from their trenches in a tropical rainstorm today and attacked Communist machinegun nests that had been harassing their defensive positions.
Commando-type squads of 12 men each, led by veteran Foreign Legion sergeants and corporals, splashed through knee deep mud to silence the guns covering the area where French and American planes drop supplies.
The French high command said it was too soon to tell whether the attacks ordered by Dien Biu Phu commander Brig. Gen Christian De
The raiding parties, operating in all directions, struck out after a night of sharp and bitter clashes at the edge of the defense perimeter and tore into the enemy machine-gun nests with knives and bayonets.
estries had silenced permanently any of the rebel posts.
When French and native Viet Namese troops succeeded in overrunning a Communist position, some of them unslung shovels to fill in Red trenches while their buddies covered the frantic digging operation against counter attack.
While the shock troops were cleaning out the enemy gun positions a 3,000-man force of French union troops was cleaning out Communist pockets within 20 miles of the besieged fortress.
The French high command has denied the force pushing up from the south was a "relief column," but reports from the front said it was mopping up rebels within a 15-mile radius of the road hub of Muong Khoua, 35 miles below Dien Bien Phu.
Interviews
Two job interviews will be held next week for graduating engineers. Persons interested may get further information and sign the interview schedule in 111 Marvin.
Tuesday
The Bureau of Reclamation. U.S.
Department of the Interior, will
interview civil and electrical
engineers. Friday
The Ohio Injector company will interview any engineering student.
Troop Control Bill Defeated
Washington — (U.P.)— The administration claimed a victory today with the defeat of a bill that would have put limits on the President's power to send troops into embattled southeast Asia.
Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr. declared "it was a vote of confidence on the part of the House that President Eisenhower will come to Congress before any decisive action is taken to send forces to Indochina."
The proposal, to bar the dispatch of troops abroad without congressional approval, was beaten 214 to 37 late yesterday only a few hours after Mr. Eisenhower condemned it as a move that would hamper his power to act swiftly in uncertain and fluid situations.
The House afterward went on to pass, 377 to 0, the $26,684,250,486 defenses appropriations bill to which the troop ban would have been an amendment. It now goes to the Senate.
Democrats attacked the big money bill as cut dangerously thin, particularly in view of the grave situation in Indochina. But they offered no amendments to fatten it up and voted for it on final passage.
Actually, the measure was cut $1.202,804,514 below what the President request and totaled $5,629,070,514 less than the services got for the current year.
Rep. Frederic Coudert (R-N.Y.) pleaded for adoption of his troop ban to reassert the authority of Congress to declare war. But administration forces denounced the proposal as dangerous and he was able to muster only a handful of votes.
Mortar Board Initiation Marks 42nd Year on Hill
By LEE ANN URBAN
The initiation tonight of 18 members into Torch chapter of Mortar Board will mark it's 42nd year on the campus. Initiation ceremonies will be at 7:30 p.m. in Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy's home.
Last night Mortar Board entertained freshmen women on the dean's honor roll with a Smarty party at Watkins hall. This year's members are planning a retreat for the new initiates at Lone Star lake
Torch society, honor organization for women, was founded here in 1912 by nine senior women, but it was not incorporated with Mortar Board until 1924. Since then the organization has grown in size and importance.
Junior women are selected on the basis of outstanding leadership, scholarship, and service by members of Mortar Board. This year a grade point average of 1.92 was required.
For several years Mortar Board was a secret organization. They carried on projects anonymously and announced membership in the spring of their senior year. In 1929 they revealed membership at freshman initiation ceremonies in the fall of their senior year. In recent years the new members have been recognized at the honors convocation in the spring of their junior year.
National Mortar Board standards require that no chapter have more than 20 or less than five members. No sorority house may be represented by more than three members.
Frances Hanna, Mary Ellen Stewart, Winifred Meyer, Barbara Becker, Dee Ann Smith. Joy Brewer, Julia Oliver, and Wanda Sammons, all college juniors; Letty Lemonn, journalism junior, and Mary Ann Kaaz, business junior.
The 1954-54 members are Althea Rexroad, Peggy Jones, Marjorie Englund, Tot Powers, Jann Duchossois, Alberta Johnson, Barbara Swiser, and Mary Demeritt, all education junior's.
Miss Rexroad and Miss Hanna were chosen president and vice president for the coming year by the outgoing members.
Friday. April 30,1954
University Daily Kansau
HIT IT!—Keiji Tajima (left) and Sachiko Sugawa of Japan practice a Japanese dance which will be part of the Foreign Students Festival here tomorrow. Exhibitions of handicrafts, pictures, books, and other items from the foreign countries will be on display in the Union ball- room from 2:30 to 10:30 p.m. tomorrow.
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One hundred thirty foreign students from 44 different countries will participate in a Foreign Student Festival in the Student Union ballroom tomorrow. $ \textcircled{1} $ ___
The festival will start at 2:30 p.m. and continue until 10:30 p.m. A program of international entertainment will be given from 8 to 9 p.m.
The purpose of the festival is to acquaint Americans with the areas of the world which are represented by KU's foreign students. A crosscut of the globe's culture can be seen in the different displays comparing the day-long exhibition.
Handmade trays of bronze from Lebanon, native jewelry made of shells from the Philippines, little Japanese dolls, Swiss cowbells and cuckoo clocks, and kitchen utensils from India will be among the exhibitions.
6 Women Students Join Home Ec Clubs
The Germans will feature "Young Germany After the War" and typical Brazilian plants can be seen in Brazil's display. The exhibition also will include photos, books, and magazines.
Many of the foreign students have received most of their display material from their embassies
Six senior girls in home economies have been initiated into the American Home Economies association and the Kansas Home Economies association, both professional organizations.
Those initiated are, Barbara Moser, LaVonne Godwin, Doris Koker, Patty Soden, Georgiana Flynn, and Dianne McFarland, all college seniors.
Thelma Iden, president of the Home Economics club, was initiated in Topeka at the recent state meeting.
in Washington, D.C., and from their home countries.
Foreign students in their native costumes will guide the visitors at the festival. Music from different countries will be played during the day.
The evening's program will feature a number of international talents. It will include a German choir, Scandinavian folk dance, French singers*, Japanese dancers, an excerpt from a Shakespearean play, a Philippines bamboo dance, a skit about Switzerland, dances from Chile, Venezuela dances, and a Vienna waltz.
The festival is the first of its kind on the campus and has been planned for about two months. Six graduate students have been working on the committee. They are Imtiaz Khan, Pakistan, Sirpa Tomari, Finland, Herbert Kisler, Austria, Heliton Haydt, Brazil, and Lakshmanan Neelakantan, India. William Butler, assistant dean of men, and assistant foreign student adviser, has cooperated with the student group.
at Harzfeld's the DUSTER-RAINCOAT with
the pixie cap.
In Beige, Pink and Navy $1095
AUFS Specialist To Lecture On Far East
A specialist on the Philippines who returns from a year of study in areas of the Far East will be the fourth member of the American Universities Field Staff to give a series of lectures to University classes.
Albert Ravenhot begins Monday a ten-day schedule in which he will speak to students about Far Eastern affairs he has been observing since the beginning of World War II. In 1933 he lived and worked primarily in the Philippines, but he also visited Hong Kong and Formosa.
The speaker visited the University during the initial stages of the AUFS program in 1951. Having spent his early years on a Wisconsin farm, he served as a war correspondent in China, Burma, India, Indochina, and the Philippines throughout World War II. After returning to the United States in 1946, he became associated with the Institute of Current World Affairs.
Mr. Ravenholt took a year of advanced studies in Far Eastern affairs at Harvard university as an Institute associate. He returned to China in August 1948 just at the time that rapid changes took place in Chinese society as the civil war there approached a climax. His work took him to Formosa, seat of the Chinese National government, Hong Kong, and the Philippines before he returned to the U.S. in 1950.
Weaving Conclave Opens on Campus
About 55 persons attended the first conference for Beginning and Advanced Weavers in the Student Union today.
The conference will continue through tomorrow, sponsored by the School of Fine Arts, design department, and University Extension.
Several University faculty members are on the program as lecturers and demonstrators. They include Thomas Gorton, dean of the School of Fine Arts; Arvid Jacobson, associate professor of design; Miss Betsy Swigart, instructor in design; Miss Marjorie Whitney, professor of design; Dr Edward Maser, curator of the Museum of Art; Miss Helen Ladd, reference librarian in Watson library; Miss Evelyn DeGraw, assistant professor of design, and Miss Ruth Franzen, textiles instructor in home economics.
Program chairman is Miss Virginia Moreno, graduate student from the Philippines.
There is no charge for the festival.
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