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Senators Urge Gifts of Food To Spain, Money to France
University Daily Kansan
Washington—(U.P.) Sen, H. Alexander Smith (R-N.J.) said today Congress should vote about $1 billion this year to help pay for the French fight against Communism in Indo-China.
The U.S. has earmarked $785 million for the French war effort during the current fiscal year ending June 30. A spokesman for the foreign operations administration said Congress is being asked to authorize about $800 million, for the next fiscal year.
Sen. Smith, who heads the Senate's Far Eastern Affairs subcommittee, said, "We are going to have to carry the greater cost of the war again. We'll have to spend about the same as we are this year."
The senator went on to say, "In fact, I am very optimistic about an ultimate French victory. The biggest weakness is Paris. If they decided to pull out of Indo-China it would be very serious."
Meanwhile, in Indo-China, French union troops routed two Viet Minh Communist rebel forces today in lightning attacks that removed the threat of encirclement of Luang Prabang, the Royal Laetian capital.
In Tokyo, Gen. O. P. Weyland said that B-26 light bombers are being flown to Indo-China to bolster the French air force, but he refused to say how many.
Though Red counterattacks were thrown back, French military observers said the new enemy tactics of infiltration and encirclement could be serious if repeated at a number of points around the city.
Gen. Weyland also said that a regular U.S. airlift now is flying supplies to 250 Air Force technicians now at work in Indo-China on an aircraft maintenance assignment.
In Seoul, Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor said he had no indications that ground forces from his Eighth Army might be sent to Indo-China to join the technicians. He added that he had not been consulted on the South Korean offer to send a 15,000 man infantry division to Indo-China.
Back in Washington, two Senators, Walter F. George (D-Ga.) and John J. Sparkman (D-Ala.) told reporters that this country would get embroiled in an all-out Asiatic war with Red China the minute it
Repatriation Effort To Dissolve Soon
Panmunjom, Korea —(U.P.)— Lt.
Gen. K. S. Thimayya said today
he expected his Neutral Nations
Repatriation commission would
approve its final report tomorrow.
Gen. Thimayya said the commission, which handled unrepatriated war prisoners, then would dissolve itself.
The Indian chairman announced that the commission would continue to operate under the guidance of remanents of the group "almost up to the 21st of this month."
Senior Swedish and Swiss delegates said they would leave Tuesday for their homes after approving the commission's final report on its assignment.
Alternate Swedish and Swiss delegates will be left in Panmunjom to complete details of the commission's dissolution, with delegates from India, Poland and Czechoslovakia.
Kansas City. Mo.-(U.P.)—A 31-year-old ex-convict was being held today in connection with the slaving of Miss Martha Thompson. 42, whose body was found Jan. 25.1953 along the bank of the Missouri river here.
Murder Suspect HeldinKansasCity
The man's wife and brother told police he admitted the stabbing to them.
The man was identified as Howard M. Nunn of 3002 Charlotte st. Kansas City.
Mr. Nunn admitted the stabbing in a signed statement, but said it was accidental and that he did not know he had killed her.
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sends any combat troops to IndoChina. The Senators were also opposed to the South Korean offer to send an infantry division to IndoChina.
> Washington —(U.P.)— Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D) suggested today that immediate arrangements be made for giving Spain surplus farm commodities in part payment for U.S. air and naval bases to be built in Spain.
Sen. Case said the plan would have the double advantage of reducing towering farm surpluses in this country and relieving a food shortage in Spain. He said he had out-lined his plan for food-for-bases to state department officials last week and that it is now being discussed by that department.
Case is chairman of a Senate Armed Services subcommittee which has been investigating the possibility of using farm surpluses to help pay for the construction of U.S. bases around the world. In a letter to the senator last week, President Eisenhower gave his endorsement to the objectives of the subcommittee.
Sen. Case also suggested that the transfer of food should not wait until the actual start of construction, which is scheduled for later this year, but it should begin immediately because of a severe drought which Spain suffered last year.
Case said that the foods could be exchanged for Spanish currency. The money would then be placed in a fund, to be tapped to pay for labor or material when construction begins.
Kansas ranked ninth in the country in total meat production on a dressed-weight basis last year, the American Meat institute announced today.
Kansas Ranks Ninth In Meat Production
With over one billion pounds of meat each, the nine leading states supplied 60 per cent of the meat produced in this country. The figures are based on Department of Agriculture statistics, the institute reported.
Although air-breathing and warm-blooded, porpoises live all their life in the water. The new-born are remarkably self-sufficient, able to swim, see, hear, "talk" (whistle) and even surface for their first breath of air unassisted, Natural History reports.
Monday, Feb. 15, 1954
Miscues Fail to Detract From 'Die Fledermaus'
By R. H. CHESKY
Performers in amateur theatricals would probably be the first to agree with the adage which deals with the best-laid plans of mice and men. Something always seems to happen that no one has thought to include in the advanced planning.
Miss Craft saved the day with her ad lib, delivered in the same thick. Russian accent used in her previous speeches and in perfect keeping with the situation.
Before the audience was aware that anything was amiss, the prince drew himself up to his full 5 feet 3 inches and said, "Marquis, you should not be so clumsse at Orlof-skee's house."
As it happened on Thursday, however, Prince Orlofsky stumbled and fell as he ascended the stairs, leaving Eisenstein to sit down unaided as the prince hauled himself back to his feet. As Carolyn Craft put it, "I just stumbled over my great, big, fat feet."
Also in the second act of "Die Fledermaus," the whole cast devotes several minutes to the glorious qualities of champagne. Prince Orlofsky, played Friday night by Linda Stormont, fine arts senior, leads in the tribute and tosses off healthy amounts of the beverage at each pause in the singing.
Those "best-laid plans" called for the prince to welcome Eisenstein to the party, escort him up a short flight of stairs at stage right, and force him bodily into a chair. All of this rough behavior, of course, was calculated to further embarrass the already confused Eisenstein.
The matinee performance on Thursday of "Die Fledermaus" was certainly a case in point. In the second act Prince Orlolsky, a Russian nobleman, played by Carolyn Craft, fine arts freshman, was acting as host. The prince, intending to use the soiree as a means of embarrassing the hero, Eisenstein, had just been introduced to that unfortunate young man.
Remember those plans we were talking about? Well, they call for Prince Orlofsky to throw an empty champagne bottle unconcernedly over his shoulder, where it is to be caught by Ivan, a servant, who just happens to be standing there. At the end of the next verse Orlofsky is to follow suit with his champagne glass, Ivan again making a shoe-string catch. On Friday night, though, Ivan was evidently befud-
dled. The glass broke in a thousand pieces all over the stage.
Edward Kindley, an education junior who played the part of Ivan, kept a dust pan and whisk broom just offstage during every performance for just such an eventuality, and it was no trick at all for him to remove all trace of his misdeed.
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Geology Chairman Named
Dr. Marcus L. Thompson will become professor and chairman of the department of geology at the University next September. Dr. Thompson, now professor at the University of Wisconsin, was on the staff of the State Geological Survey and taught at KU from 1942 to 1946 when he went to Wisconsin.
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