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Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, April 20,1954
51st Year, No. 128
—Kansan photo by Ken Bronson
VOTIN' TIME—Bob Derge, college sophomore, gets voting instructions from poll worker Gary Brabeck, college freshman, this morning at the Strong basement voting booth.
Red Pressure Forces French to Reorganize
Hanoi—(U.P.)—The defenses of beleaguered Dien Bien Phu shrank today to less than three-quarters of a square mile under constant Communist pressure.
The Communists were within 700 yards or less from the heart of the fortress.
The French high command said Brig. Gen. Christian De Castries had completed a radical reorganization of his isolated garrison. Pulling his troops back from several saliens. Gen. De Castries blocked out a rough circle around five positions for a do-or die stand against a third Communist attack.
Packed within the compressed aren were 11,000 French Union soldiers, dependent for supplies and reinforcements entirely on parachute drops which must be carefully aimed at the center of their narrowing defense position.
Against them are pitted at least 40,000 Communist rebels, well supplied and reinforced over bombblasted but still open roads leading from the Red Chinese frontier.
The French high command said the consolidation of the French forces in the smaller defense area was carried out during a hull in today's ground fighting. But Red 120 mm mortars and 105 mm howitzer harassed the defenders as they dug into their new positions and strung new barbed wire.
With the week-end abandonment of the two French northern outposts, Red gunners were looking down the throat of the garrison in its little, shell-churned valley.
The rebels hold about 300 yards of the now-useless 1,200-yard French airstrip. Another auxiliary airstrip to the south has been criss-crossed with Red trenches.
Humanities Lecture Set Tonight at 8
--weatherman asked for a n other chance. On lny Doniphan county, in the extreme northeast, received and rain. U.S. meteor o ol g is t Tom Arnold said it's simply a mat-
The fifth Humanities lecture will be given at 8 p.m. today in Fraser theater by Prof. Vladimir Nabokov, professor of Russian literature at Cornell university. Prof. Nabokov has written 10 books, including a critical biography of Nikolai Gogol, the Russian novelist and dramatist whom the lecturer will discuss.
--weatherman asked for a n other chance. On lny Doniphan county, in the extreme northeast, received and rain. U.S. meteor o ol g is t Tom Arnold said it's simply a mat-
Russia Defied By UN Group
United Nations — (U.R.)— The United Nations Disarmament commission defied the threat of a Russian boycott yesterday and overrode Soviet proposals that Communist China, India, and Czechoslovakia be admitted to a subcommittee on disarmment.
The Pre-nursing club will visit the Medical Center Saturday on a conducted tour. Those interested in going should contact Juita Marie.
Soviet delegate Andrei Vishkishny threatened to boycott the subcommittee when he warned that "difficulties for the Soviet Union as regards its participation" would result if the plan for a five-member subcommittee were adopted. He called the West's proposal, which excluded India, Czechoslovakia and Communist China, "one-sided."
Applications for the Associated Women Students Memorial Scholarship are now available at the office of Aids and Awards. The applications must be returned by 5 p.m. Monday, April 26.
The commission voted instead for a Western Powers proposal that Russia join the U.S., Britain, France and Canada in private talks on world disarmament.
The commission voted nine to one to set up the five-nation subcommittee. Russia voted against it and Lebanon and Nationalist China abstained.
The scholarship, given in memory of women students who lost their lives while enrolled at the University, will pay the tuition and fees of a woman student for the fall and winter semesters next year.
Pre-Nurses to Med Center
AWS Scholarship Blanks Now Available
McCarthy-Army Fight Expected To Draw Millions
Washington — (U.P.)— The Senate Hearings on Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's row with the Army are expected to draw the largest television audience ever to watch a governmental proceeding.
Only about 450 persons—including upwards of 150 reporters — will be able to squeeze into the red-carpeted Senate caucus room when the hearings open Thursday morning.
Television will take tens of millions to the scene. All networks cancelled regular programs in order to give full treatment to the "McCarthy show."
Each witness at the hearings will be aware of this concerted effort to let the public know.
The radio audience is also expected to be tremendous.
Balloting Steady As Election Opens
Balloting in the general election was steady this morning and by 10:30 more than 500 students had voted at the eight polling booths.
The Strong hall rotunda booth fee all others with more than a hundred votes cast. Fraser hall, with 80. Marvin 70, and Lindley with 65 had had more voters than the other four booths at the Union lobby, the Hawk's Nest, Green hall, and Strong basement.
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Campus fraternities and sororites had turned out the heaviest vote for the House of Representatives with about 400 Greek votes cast by 10:30. The fraternity vote exceeded the sorority tally by almost 250 votes.
In Senate voting, nearly 200 members of the College had voted by 10:30 to lead voters from all other schools. The School of Engineering had the second highest with about 75 votes.
There was no registration by party at balloting booths, but voters were required to state their class, living district, and school in which they are enrolled.
Ballots for certain school districts are obtainable only at designated booths, except that all students can vote at either Union ballot box.
Business students voting for candidates from the business school can find ballots in Strong, fine arts students in Marvin and Strong; education students in Strong and Fraser; law students in Green; engineering students in Lindley and Marvin; pharmacy and medicine students in Strong and journalism students in the Union.
Voters also received a ballot to pick the University's entrant for the National College Queen of America contest. Pictures of the candidates are in the information booth display case.
Art Authority to Talk In Spooner-Thayer
Class officer elections saw the heaviest balloting among the junior and senior groups with each of these classes registering about 125 voters by survey time. About 80 sophomore voters had voted.
James Roth, resident conservator of paintings at the William Rockhill Nelson Art gallery in Kansas City will talk on "Conservation and Restoration of Old Master Paintings," in a public lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday in the lecture hall of the Museum of Art.
Smutty Relays 'Floats' Call for Crackdown
The so-called "Age of Reason" began some 150 years ago. But events even today would tend to make one wonder if it still persists.
There is no denying that college students must have some method by which to blow off steam. Maybe it would be by writing letters to the Kansan; maybe by getting drunk; maybe by listening to jazz or a concerto; maybe by even participating in a "secret" group, for nothing builds up the ego like having something that everyone can't have.
But unlike many of the previous situations that bordered on the present one, the administration now has a lead to work on. Let's hope it keeps the ball rolling. —Clarke Keys
However much one might scoff at the idea that a University is continually being scrutinized, it is true. The action by several groups of entering floats that were in poor taste for the Kansas Relays parade Saturday did this University a great harm.
From the top of the administration—Dr. Franklin D. Murphy—down to many freshmen, the acts were considered uncalled for. And they would all be glad to see something done about the situation.
A University administration must put up with much that normally would not be tolerated in a normal society. But even a University administration must finally put its foot down. That time has come at the University, and the administration has given every hint that it intends to do just that.
McGrath to Address Honors Convocation
Dr. McGrath was U.S. commissioner of education from 1949 to 1953. He received the doctor's degree from the University of Chicago.
Dr. Earl James McGrath, president of Kansas City university, will speak at the Honors convocation at 9:20 a.m. tomorrow in Hoch auditorium.
The upper 10 per cent of the senior class in each school and the top student or students in freshman, sophomore, and junior classes of the schools will be announced at the convocation.
Students elected to honor societies will also be announced. The honor man of the year, if one is chosen, will be announced during the covocation.
The schedule for the morning:
8 a.m. classes at 8:00-8:30, 9 a.m.
classes at 8:40-9:10, convocation,
at 10 a.m. classes at 10:40-11:10,
and 11 a.m. classes will meet at
11:20-1:50.
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Indochina Seen 'Not Hopeless'
Washington — (U.F.)— Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N.H.) said today after a congressional leadership conference with Secretary of State John Foster Dales that the situation in Indochina looks "gloomy but not hopeless."
Sen. Bridges, chairman of the Senate Appropriations committee, was one of the 15 Republicans and Democratic congressional leaders who took part in a lengthy private meeting with Secretary Dulles on the Indochina situation and the forthcoming Far East conference.
Sen. Bridges told newsmen as he left the State department that it was "not in the wind" now to send American forces to Indochina. But he said no one could tell what the situation will be in the distant future.
Informed sources said Dulles arranged the bipartisan meeting to assure the lawmakers (1) that there will be no "appeasement" of Red China at Geneva and (2) that he considers it unlikely that American troops will be needed in Indochina. Following the congressional conference, Secretary Dulles scheduled a noon meeting with diplomatic representatives who fought in the Korean war.
Thundershowers previously forecast were conspicuous by their absence today in Kansas—but the state
Weather
ter of delay. The moisture should arrive tonight, with a scattering of thundershowers, mostly in northern Kansas. Arnold looks for additional widely spaced rains tomorrow in eastern and central Kansas. A lot of ground will be missed, but some sections should get appreciable moisture.