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BUT DAHLING!-At the crucial point in a grapefruit race are Lela Raines, education junior, and Sally Lindemuth, college sophomore. The race was one of the relays of the first annual Sigma Chi fraternity Derby Day. At the right is an unidentified official.
100 Sorority Girls Compete at Derby Day
Derbies, a six-piece band, crazy costumes, and a smudge pot for the Olympic "eternal flame" made up the first annual Sigma Chi Derby day Saturday on the tennis courts behind the fraternity house.
More than 100 contestants, representing their sororities competed, while approximately 300 spectators comprised of housemothers and fellow sorority members, cheered their teams on.
Chi Omega won first place, accumulating 12 and one-half points. Gamma Phi Beta and Alpha Phi tied for second and third, each having nine and-one-half points, and Kappa Alpha Theta took fourth. A traveling trophy was given to Chi Omega.
Francile Aronhalt, education sophomore, representing Alpha Phi was the individual winner for the day. She was awarded a trophy. Certificates naming the contestant and the event wore were given to all place winners.
The Derby day began when Freebie, business junior, in shorts, derby and sweat shirt, carried the torch which lit the "eternal flame" a smudge pot. Welcome flags flew over the bleachers and Olympic winner stand.
May 18 has been set as the date for Senior day, Max Murray, business senior and chairman of the Senior day committee, last night told chairmen of other class committees:
Class to Discuss Senior Day Plans
Murray will explain all Senior day plans at the class convocation at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Fraser theater. All members of the Class '54 have been excused for the convocation by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
Monday, April 26,1954
Nancy Canary, education senior and class president, said other materials to be taken up at the meeting include making a decision on the class gift, an explanation of the financial standing of the class, and important information concerning events occurring about the time of graduation.
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Test Evacuation Held in Spokane
Spokane, Wash. —(U,P)— The 70-block downtown area of this city of nearly 180,000 was virtually emptied today amid the sounds of war in the nation's first test evacuation of a city.
About 18,000 persons took part in the drill as federal and city observers looked on, hoping to obtain information which may set a national pattern of defense against atomic or H-bomb attack.
The drill began with the "yellow alert" which started a "snowball" telephoning of civil defense workers to man their posts. Radio stations broke into broadcasts to announce the warning. Then "red alert" sounded and "Operation Walkout" began.
As the air raid sounded, rail and motor traffic was brought to a standstill and clerks and customers streamed out of stores to join persons on the sidewalks in walking out of the "destruction zone."
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All-U.S. Tournament Goes to KU Debaters
Bidault Asks Truce to Remove 1,000 Wounded
The anxiously-awaited 19-nation attempt to find peace for both Indochina and Korea narrowly had averted disaster at its outset by a last-minute compromise of Russia's demands that Red China be seated as an equal to the Big Four powers.
Geneva, Switzerland — (U.P.)— French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault appealed dramatically today for a truce to enable evacuation of 1,000 French wounded in besieged Dien Bien Phu in Indochina.
Mr. Bidault recalled that France had agreed to a Communist Viet Minh truce request for removal of wounded but said that all her own appeals for one had been ignored by the Communists.
The conference was opened in the former council chamber of the defunct League of Nations, overlooking Lake Geneva.
"I address today a solemn appeal to the conscience of the civilized world." Mr. Bidault added, "that the laws of war cease to be violated in this manner."
In an "appeal to the conscience of the civilized world" issued as the Geneva Far Eastern peace conference met in opening session, Mr. Bidault declared:
It marked the first time Red China had sat down with representatives of the western allies in a major world parley.
"It would be inconceivable that a conference meeting in Geneva should not open with a gesture to save from the hazards of combat the men who no longer can take part in it because they already have shed their blood. May my appeal, issued from this high place of peace, be heard."
Bidault's appeal was published after the conference's first meeting, to which newsmen were not admitted.
They agreed to rotate the chairmanship among the foreign ministers of Thailand, Britain and Russia.
A KU debate team won the highest honor that can be awarded a college team last week when it won the national debate tournament at West Point, N.Y.
The winning team was composed of William Arnold and Hubert Bell, college juniors, who competed against 32 top teams from all over the nation.
The teams that the KU team defeated in their quest for the championship were as follows:
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In the final round, Florida university; semi-finals, Central State College, Oka; quarterfinals, University of Vermont; pre-quarterfinals, U.S. Military academy, and the preliminary rounds, Wilkes college, N.C.; Howard university, Washington, D.C., and the University of Illinois.
The team lost two preliminary rounds to the U.S.Military academy and George Washington university.
So far this year Arnold and Bell have had 24 wins and 5 losses. The tournaments they have won are the Southwestern and St. John's college tournaments at Winfield, Kan., and the regional elimination tournament at Midland college, Fremont, Neb. They received a superior rating in a tournament at the University of Nebraska.
Both debaters are members of Delta Sigma Rho, honorary debate fraternity, and they tied for second place in the oratorical contest this year.
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KU's previous record at the West Point national tournament goes back to 1948 when KU's team went as far as the semi-finals. In 1951 KU entered the quarter-finals and in 1949, 1950, and 1953 teams entered the pre-quarter finals.
The national question debated this year was, "Resolved, that the U.S. should adopt a policy of free trade."
in commenting on the win Dr. Kim Giffin, debate coach said, "I think the team should be commended for the tremendous amount of hard work they have put in this year. I think their long preparation has had more to do with their winning than anything else—unless it was their will to win."
The Sigurd S. Larmon trophy signifying the national championship, was awarded the KU team at Grant hall at West Point.
Winning first place in the tournament this year assures the KU debate squad of an invitation to the national tournament next year, Dr Giffin said.
Stevens Both Praises, Blasts Fort Monmouth Investigation
Washington — (U.R.)—Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens admitted today that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's investigation of Fort Monmouth, N.J., "speeded up" the army's suspension of some personnel, but he said the inquiry caused "a lot of harm in a lot of ways."
He said the way the investigation was conducted was "not fair to the Army, and not fair to the American people."
Secretary Stevens made the statement in his second day of testimony at the Senate Investigating subcommittee's televised hearings on the Army-McCarthy dispute.
Subcommittee Counsel Ray H. Jenkins turned the questioning to the Fort Monmouth investigation, which Sen. McCarthy conducted last fall, in an effort to establish that C. David Schine was engaged in "vital" work at the time he was drafted into the Army as a private last Nov. 3
Secretary Stevens said a number of times that the Army had "a close
relationship with the FBI' on the Fort Monmouth situation before Sen. McCarthy began his investigations.
He conceded, under examination by Mr. Jenkins, that Sen. McCarthy's hearings may have "speeded up" the suspension of some Fort Monmouth employees as possible security risks. He said that the Army was already conducting its own investigation and "ultimately" would have ferreted out all the security risks.
He denied that he had tried to stop or discredit the McCarthy investigation.
Mr. Jenkins tried repeatedly to get Secretary Stevens to say that Sen. McCarthy and his committee had performed a "vital" or "invaluable" national service by investigating Fort Monmouth. Secretary Stevens refused to make such a sweeping statement, and finally said:
Schine was an unpaid consultant to
Sen. McCarthy's group at that time.
The Army has accused Sen. McCarthy, subcommittee counsel Roy M. Cohn, and others of bringing extreme pressure on the Army to get special treatment for Schine.
"I think it would have been fat more effective if he had not pursued publicity tactics that were used" at Fort Monmouth. He added that the publicity at Fort Monmouth "did a lot of harm."
"A great deal of misinformation and excitement was caused," he said.
Secretary Stevens said the alleged espionage that Sen. McCarthy and his staff investigated at the Signal Corps laboratory at Fort Monmouth, N.J., was "a greatly over-exaggerated situation."
Indochina Aid By U.S.Hinted
Geneva — (U.P) — Authoritative American sources said today that President Eisenhower may ask Congress "in the very near future" to approve U.S. intervention in the Indochinese war if necessary to prevent military disaster.
In Washington. Rep. Alvin M. Bentley (R.-Mich.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs committee, said he believes the President will request and get congressional approval to send U.S. troops to Indonesia if it turns out there is no other way to save the country from Communist conquest.)
These sources said the President is studying the possibility of addressing a special message to a joint session of Congress, requesting permission to order U.S. air and sea power to strike at the Communist forces in Indochina.
According to these sources, the special presidential message would be dispatched if the U.S. leaders decided to act and if the situation still warranted it.
The message would cite actions taken by the U.S. government in 1947 to guarantee the independence of Turkey and Greece and President Truman's order for intervention in Korea in 1950.
The proposal was reported laid before Mr. Eisenhower following an urgent warning by French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault to Secretary of State John Foster Fulles and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in Paris on Saturday.
Mr. Bidault warned that unless U.S. air power was thrown into the fighting immediately, not only the beleaguered garrison at Dien Bien Phu, but the entire Red river delta area around Hanoi might soon be lost to the armies of the Communist Viet Minh.
Spring Jayhawker Distribution Started
The Spring issue of the Jayhawker will be distributed today. Students may get their copies at the information booth or in the Jayhawker office by showing subscription cards, or they may purchase the four-issue book for $5.75.
A traveling trophy will be given to the organized house having the highest percentage of Jayhawk purchasers. May 15 is the deadline for house percentages to be turned into the Jayhawk office. In case of tie, the house turning its percentage first will be the winner.
Weather
Kansas early today rounded out a full week of rain, with some moisture falling somewhere in the state
on each of seven straight days. More is in prospect, said weatherman Ric h a r d Garrett. There were unofficial reports of a fine two- inch rain at Satanta. Charleston, between Garden City and Cimarron, had an unofficial inch and a half rain during the night. The forecast is for the showers to shift to Eastern Kansas tonight and tomorrow. Kansas temperatures yesterday ranged from a maximum of 92 at Hill City down to the 80's in eastern areas.