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Reds Protest Marshall Receiving Nobel Prize
Oslo, Norway—(U.P.)—Communists staged a demonstration against Gen. George C. Marshall while the former U.S. secretary of state was being awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in Norway yesterday.
Agitators showered the audience with leaflets tossed from balconies of the large hall and shouted anti-Marshall and anti-American slogans.
The demonstration began at the moment Marshall arose from his seat to accept the award.
King Haakon VI and Crown Prince Olav witnessed the demonstration staged by the Reds as the former American secretary of state was presented with the prize in recognition of his statesmanship in fathering the post-war Marshall Plan for rehabilitating war-torn European nations.
As Chairman Gunnar John said:
"On behalf of the Norwegian com-
utteral have the zoom.
I have the real gallery of
the hall interrupted with the shout:
"No. No! This is no action of
peace."
Persons standing near the person who shouted grabbed him and dragged him out of the hall.
But before they seized him he showered several hundred leaflets on the startled audience below.
Another agitator shouted a similar protest from the opposite side of the hall and began tossing leaflets from the gallery.
He also was seized by members of the audience and was thrust outside where a small group of street demonstrators were assembled.
Gen. Marshall had just been lauded in the presentation speech as an humanitarian with "a clear and passionate understanding that the only objective to be obtained by war ... is to make another war impossible." He was selected by the Nobel committee as the man who did most in 1953 to promote brotherhood among nations.
The leaflets attacked both Gen. Marshall and American policy:
"We protest" they read. "Who is Marshall?"
"Marshall is the general who gave the decisive contribution to the fact that more than 1,000,000 persons were burned alive by the atom bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki—the bomb which was thrown at a time when the outcome of the war was decided.
"His work is war and preparation for war," the leaflets said.
"Through the Marshall plan and the Atlantic pact he has contributed to dividing the world into hostile blocs."
The two demonstrators were handed over to police. Their names were withheld but police described them as "youths, about 20-years-old."
The solemn presentation ceremony continued when the agitators had been quieted and removed from the hall.
Students interested in studying
numents in Europe may discuss their opportunities with a field representative of the Institute of International Education tomorrow.
William Allaway will meet students between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. in 209 Fraser.
Mr. Allaway will also talk with students interested in scholarship opportunities besides the Fulbright program.
More borax is produced in the southwestern United States than in any other part of the world. Chile ranks second, notes the National Geographic Society.
Knitted apparel tends to stretch out of shape when hung for long periods. Hand-knit dresses should be folded no more than twice and stored in a drawer rather than hung in the closet.
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should be examined today. Call for appointment. Any lens or prescription duplicated.
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Phone 425 1025 Mass.
Influenza vaccine available at Health Service, 8-12 and 2-5 daily except Saturday afternoon and 10am. For students with diabetes and members of families over 10 years of age.
Official Bulletin
Phi Beta Kappa Tea, 4 p.m., Jayhawk
Initiation and speech by Dean Lawson.
TODAY
Cerule francais—Reunion de Neol, a sept heures et demie dans le Petit Theatre de Green hall. La Nativite. Tout le monde est invité.
"Versammlung des deutschen Verelens,
dem eisernen Eiemm: Music
Bösendorf. Alle wilkommen."
Zoology Club; Staff-Students Christmas party and holiday, 101 Snow Pro-duction, and refreshments.
KU Mountainteering club meeting, 7:30
in the Swiss Apse. Slides on climbing
in the Swiss Apse.
KuKu meeting, 7:30 p.m., room 306,
Memorial Union. Election of officers.
German Christmas Choir rehearsal,
4 p.m., 306 Fraser. Last rehearsal before
mativity play; every choir member should
attend.
WAA Initiation, 4 p.m. 4:30 meeting of all new members in Robinson gym.
AWS House 4 p.m. Prife Room. Unihood
Brotherhood-
TDD, F30 p.m. Fraser.
Swarad and Blade meeting, p.a.
Chrisman Christian Science Organization, 7 p.m.
KU Christian Fellowship, 7:30 p.m., 32 Strong, Speaker, Andrew Steinhouse, missionary in San Diego, Chile. Everyone welcome.
KU-YMCA Bible Study Group, 7:30 p.m. room B, Myers hall. "The Prodigal Son" lesson. Bring your Bible. Reinhold Schmidt, leader.
Sociology Club, 4 p.m., Strong E, room 17. Coffee
Roger Williams Fellowship banquet, 6 Oct.
The Kansas River association, Tickets.
**KU** Westminster fellowship annual
Christmas tree trim and pancake supper.
Newman Club: Day of Recollection and spaghetti supper 11:45 a.m. First service. Supper from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in church basement. 90c per person. Home of
LSA, India dinner, 5:30 p.m., Home of
Bruce and Mrs. Albert.
Ys' Group meeting 9 p.m., Henley
house; Psychotherapy, Fad Pot
Time? Coffee?
Thursday, Dec. 10, 1953 University Daily Kansam
Red Peppers, 5 p.m., Memorial Union ballroom. Plans for basketball season.
Wesley Foundation Christmas caroling. 8 p.m. meet in Student Union lobby.
South Bend, Ind. — (U.P.)— Congressional investigating committees came under fire yesterday for failing to provide adequate protection for the rights of witnesses.
Symposium Blasts Congress Probes
Telford Taylor, former chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trial and a critic of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) said witnesses before Congressional committees often plead the Fifth amendment "because of some misunderstandings."
Rep. Kenneth B. Keating (R.N.Y.) told a symposium sponsored by the Notre Dame Law college that Congress, not the courts, should provide safeguards for witnesses who "are in need of definite protection and vindication for their rights."
Some innocent of "reprehenishens conduct" are motivated by fear, he said, and others by a "misguided notion" that they are challenging committee powers on principle.
Abe Fortas, former undersecretary of the Interior, said Congressional committees — "or more properly their chairmen"—have "fallen short" of standards of objectivity, impartisanship and fairness.
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Wilson Cutback Of Military May Be Altered
Washington — (U.P.)—High defense sources said today the hard facts of arithmetic may force Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson to back down somewhat on his order for a 10 per cent cut in the manpower of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.
Secretary Wilson, last week-end overrode their objections and ordered 10 per cent cuts into effect for the 1955 fiscal year, which begins next July 1.
Secretary Wilson has contended that "support" troops in all services except the Air Force can be cut without impairing combat efficiency. The services, in particular the Army, reported they could not make the mampower sslashes and still meet their present world-wide commitments.
Along with this "year-end" manpower goal, Secretary Wilson set a figure for the "man year" strength of the Army—the average number of men the Army was to have in fiscal 1955—which is important in working out the size of the military budget.
Army officials took one look at his figures for "year-end" and "man-year" goals; did a little arithmetic, or did they check that the two figures didn't bibble.
They said the "year-end" strength would have to be cut even deeper in order to maintain the "man-year" average set by Secretary Wilson. Defense department officials agreed that one figure or the other would have to be revised, and so informed him.
Secretary Wilson was reported to be reluctant to cut the "year-end" strength of the Army any further, since the Army already is protesting the figure as inadequate. On the other hand, he was loath to raise the "man-year" figure, would make a corresponding increase in his figures for military spending, which are due to go to the White House next week.
Secretary Wilson and his aides worked late last night in an attempt to find a solution to the dilemma.
"We're getting closer but still no solution," said John A. Hannah, assistant Defense secretary in charge of manpower.
The average depth of the ocean below sea level is 12,450 feet, says the National Geographic society.
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Airliner of Future May Be Piloted by Robot Brains
Washington-In 25 years, perhaps sooner, an airlines passenger will leave New York by jet at noon and arrive in Los Angeles—also at noon.
His plane will be flown by robot electronic brains. On arrival, a multiengined helicopter will take him to a downtown heliport.
United States aviation, 50 years after Kitty Hawk, is about to enter this era, Emory S. Land, president of the Air Transport Association of America, writes in the December National Geographic magazine. He predicts such a trip and gives details.
Vice Adm. Land and Dr. Dryden both are trustees of the National Geographic society. Their articles are a timely commemorative of aviation's advance since the Wright brothers' first powered flight on Dec. 17, 1903.
Today's scientific progress in the air foresees much more radical developments—passengers and freight traveling "several thousand miles per hour"—Hugh L. Dryden, director of the National Advisory committee for Aeronautics, says in the same issue.
"I believe 1956 will see a jet transport introduced in domestic operation and another placed in service by a United States trans-atlantic carrier." "Adm. Land writes. He adds that Boeing will probably test-fly a jet transport in 1954.
"In 10 to 15 years jetliners of American manufacture may replace most piston-driven aircraft on transcontinental routes. and big multiengined 50-passenger helicopters will replace fixed-wing aircraft on many routes of less than 300 miles."
Electronic advances in the last five years have made jet operation feasible, the ATA president reports. One airline already dispatches hypothetical "Paper Jets" cross-country daily as training for real jet flights.
Helicopters will be an important
part of a billion-dollar air fleet to be built in the next 10 years. Midity heliports are now being planned.
Children Book NeedStressed
"Children must be led across the bridge to great books, and the teachers, librarians, and parents must act as this bridge." Mrs. Frances Clarke Sayers of the University of Michigan said in a talk recently in Strong auditorium.
Mrs. Sayers has made the study of children's literature her life work. She taught at the University of California before going to New York in 1941, where she was superintendent of work with children in the New York Public library until 1952. She now teaches during summers in the Library school and the School of Education at the University of Michigan. She has written five books for children 8 to 10.
"In order to interest children in books, you must be interested in them yourself," she said. She advised librarians to learn as much about an author as possible by reading all his works.
"These books aren't boring; as a matter of fact, adult books can't begin to match the fantasy in children's books," she said.
Mrs. Sayers' appearances in Lawrence are being sponsored by the University, the Lawrence Parent-Teacher association, the Association for Childhood Education, and the Kansas State Teachers association.
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