Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
'Remember Pearl Harbor'-?
Bv SAM TEAFORD
Ask anyone what he was doing on Dec. 7, 1941, when the news came that a bomber had attacked Pearl Harbor, and he will undoubtedly have a precise answer.
But what about the Japanese envoys to the U.S.? What were they doing on that Sunday afternoon 12 years ago?
At 2:30 p.m., Dec. 7, 1941, Ambassador Nomura and Envoy Kursu叫 on Cordell Hull, secretary of state, bringing a reply to a U.S. note of Nov. 26.
These negotiations occurred one hour and 20 minutes after the first Japanese planes had hit Pearl Harbor. The attack began at 1:30 p.m.
On Dec. 8, President Franklin Roosevelt, asking Congress for a declaration of war, said, "Yesterday Dec. 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan.
"The U.S. was at peace with that nation, and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor, looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific."
President Roosevelt told Congress that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor for two hours with planes and submarines, and that there was heavy damage to naval and military forces.
With only one dissenting vote, Congress answered by declaring war on Japan.
Negotiations between the U.S. and Japan had been temporarily suspended in July, 1941, when the Japanese were trying to get special privileges in Indo-China but peace talks were resumed that fall.
On Nov. 26 Secretary Hull gave the Japanese envoys an outline of what the U.S. considered a satisfactory agreement. The statement asked for a guarantee of territorial integrity for China, for Japanese recognition of Chiang Kai-Shek's government, and for withdrawal of Japanese forces from China and Indo-China.
An offer to negotiate a liberal trade agreement and to resume all normal relations was included in the statement. The only answer was the movement of more Japanese troops into Indo-China.
President Roosevelt addressed a special plea to the Japanese emperor Dec. 6, asking him to use his influence for peace, but again there was no reply.
When Nomura and Kurusu did bring an answer to the U.S. proposals, it was Dec. 7.
Pearl Harbor — (U.P.)—Today it was "business as usual" at Pearl Harbor, except for the Navy, the only organization to observe the 12th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that plunged the United States into World War II.
The Navy planned to hold brief, solemn memorial services on the superstructure of the battleship Arizona, which Japanese bombers destroyed 12 years ago today.
The "Japanese government regrets to notify the American government it is impossible to reach an agreement through further negotiations," the reply said.
The Arizona, still on the bottom of the harbor, is the tomb for some 1100 sailors who went down with her in the first battle of the Pacific war.
But the superstructure of the old battleship rises in the final defiance of destruction and the Navy has made it a monument to the men who died in the infamous attack.
exact moment Japanese bombers began wreaking havoc on the slumbering U.S. Pacific fleet.
Services begin at 7:55 a.m. Honolulu time (12:55 p.m. CST), the
A bugle will sound at 8 a.m. and the American flag will be raised on the remains of the Arizona.
Capt. P. G. Linaweaver, chaplain of the 14th Naval district, will then offer prayers for those who fell Dec. 7, followed by taps and a three-volley rifle salute fired by eight sailors.
Representatives of veterans' and civic organizations have been invited by the Navy to join in the observance and nine survivors of the attack who are now stationed here will place wreaths before the mast of the Arizona.
Other branches of the armed services have not planned any ceremonies this year nor will there be a community service at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific where many victims of the attack are buried.
Daily hansan
51st Year. No. 56
Toy Collection To Give Gifts To Orphanages
Christmas may mean much more to many needy children in Kansas if students will contribute to the toy drive this year.
The gifts will be distributed by Alpha Phi Omega, service organization of the Boy Scouts and sponsors of the drive, to the children in a number of orphanages throughout the state.
That long-forgotten toy truck or that discarded doll may not mean much to a college student, but it could brighten the holiday for some underprivileged child.
Probable orphanages and children's homes receiving the gifts will be an orphanage in Wichita, the Eighth Street orphanage and the Lifeline home in Kansas City, Kan.; Kansas Children's Service league in Topeka and the Goodlander home in Fort Scott.
To contribute to the drive, students can take toys to the Plymouth Congregational church, 925 Vermont street; Ed Cresswell, engineering junior, at 1129 Louisiana street; or place them under the Christmas tree in the rotunda of Strong hall.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Junior Woman Wins Legion Scholarship
The Kansas department of the Auxiliary, which conducts the Girls State on the campus each June, established the award this year to help a woman, preferably a former Girls Stater, to gain an education that can be used to further the citizenship aims of Girls State.
The first winner of the American Legion auxiliary-Sunflower Girls State scholarship in political science is Nancy Jo Jamison, college junior.
Weather
Monday, Dec. 7, 1953
A minor cool front is moving toward Kansas from the West. It will
cause little disturbance. There will be confusion and carelessness but no important amounts of moisture. The storm in the Texas Panhandle Fri d i a y
night which had posed as a threat to Kansas played out instead of building up as it whisked on into Missouri during the weekend. As a result, Kansas had a beautiful day Sunday, and more such weather is expected.
-Kansan photo by Frank Jennings
DECK THE HALL--Instructors and students of the design department decorated the huge Christmas tree in Strong rotunda Saturday morning. A large ladder structure was placed by the tree to enable decorators to place ornaments hung from the tree top.
rators to place ornaments hung from the tree to
Kline vs. UDK Rehearing Set
The Student Court will hold a rehearing at 7:15 p.m. today in 106 Green hall of the case of "R. D Kline" vs. the University Daily Kansan Board.
Concert Set for Tonight
Robert Londerholm, second year law, and Joseph Balloun, third year law, brought action under the name of "Kline" against the board earlier this year, but the Student Court ruled in favor of the defendant in a motion to dismiss charges.
The court reconsidered the original ruling on Nov. 23 and decided a rehearing was necessary because four faculty advisers had not been present. In questions involving the constitutionality of provisions of the All Student Council, faculty advisers vote with the student justices of the court.
Wednesday night the Student Court will meet to decide on questions arising under traffic violations.
Group Tours Jewelry Shop
Debaters Win 7; Get Top Ratings
Advanced jewelry and silversmithing students of Carlyle Smith associate professor of design, took a field trip to Salina Friday to visit a jewelry shop owned by Phillip Rose, who is the only registered gemologist in Kansas.
The University symphony orchestra will present its annual fall concert at 8 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium.
Both KU teams were given a superior rating by judges of the tournament. Of the 34 teams which entered the tournament, only two others, one from the University of Northwestern and one from the University of Marquette, were rated superior.
Winning 7 of 8 debates, two KU teams were given superior ratings and Kenneth Dam, business senior, was ranked first among individual debaters in an invitational tournament at the University of Iowa Friday and Saturday.
Larry Trebar and Richard Smith, college juniors, won all four debates. They defeated teams form the University of Illinois, the University of Iowa, Wayne university, and the University of Indiana.
Dr. Giffin said the tournament judges did not attempt to decide which of the competing schools was first, but instead rated teams and individuals.
All four of the KU entries were given superior ratings. Judges rated the debaters as superior, excellent, good, fair, or poor.
In discussion Smith was ranked in the superior class with 11 others. Dam was rated excellent in discussion.
Dam and Letty Lemon, journalism junior, won three of four debates, defeating teams from the University of Texas, Depauw university, and the University of South Dakota. They lost to an Iowa university team.
Dr. Kim Griffin, associate professor of speech, and debate coach, said competing schools all entered two teams in the tournament, except for Iowa, which entered four two-man teams.
President Plans To Speak at UN
Tucker's Town, Bermuda—(UP)—President Dwight D. Eisenhower prepared today to take the world into his confidence in an historic speech on atomic and hydrogen bomb warfare before the United Nations General assembly.
The President will climax his Bermuda meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French Premier Joseph Laniel by flying directly to New York to make his first address to the United Nations tomorrow.
Mr. Eisenhower's decision to accept a long-standing invitation from UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to discuss atomic warfare overshadowed the Big Three power's agreement to send their foreign ministers to Berlin next month for a conference with the Russians.
The subject of Mr. Eisenhower's address will be "the perils that confront the world in this atomic age." The perils, about which the President has been acutely conscious and wanting to tell Americans and Russians for a long time, will be outlined in a broad manner.
The speech will be broadcast and televised nationally.
Crazy Kenton Concert Was Great!
By COURT ERNST
Man, it was the craziest! Hoch auditorium was the swingingest Saturday night as the cats really pickd up on that cool Kenton stuff. Those guys blew the greatest!
Stan Kenton's "Festival of Modern American Jazz" concert was enthusiastically received by a large and extremely responsive audience. With the opening applause and the loud ovation that greeted the Kenton theme song, the band members looked at each other in mild amazement and seemed to sense immediately that the crowd was really with them.
Stan Kenton undoubtedly has 17 of the finest musicians there are in his band. He gets wonderfully exciting sounds and brilliant technical performance from five trumpets, four trombones, five saxes, guitar, drums, and bass, as he often sets the pace and mood himself with the piano.
Next was Candido, specialist on the Bongo drum, who really wowed the crowd with his intricate, fascinating rhythms. Lee Konitz, a very shy and unpretentious-looking man, was featured on the alto sax
with solos on "Lover Man" and "In Lighter Vein." The tunes gave him great opportunity to demonstrate his versatility on the instrument.
Slim Gaillard, "Mr. Vout" himself, was the comedy highlight of the evening with his "Minuet in Mosquito Knees," in which he played the piano with the back sides of his hands and rambled through his own version of the vout language.
The Kenton crew bowed out in favor of Errol Garner and his trio. Mr. Garner has great finesse at the keyboard. He has a wonderful ability of taking a simple and popular melody and adding just the right amount of rhythmic variation to the piano. The trio played "My Heart Stood Still," "April in Paris," "Frenesi," and "Lower."
Then came the moment one
Dizzy Gillespie took over the band with his trumpet next in another comical high spot. His numbers, "Shooby Dooby" and "On the Alamo" were spiced with his own personal Gillespie humor and hilariously unassuming manner.
sensed the crowd had been waiting for—June Christy, Miss Christy is a former Kenton vocalist, but has joined the band several times the last few years for concert tours. She proved she still has what it takes, for never once did she falter or "goof." Her voice was ever steady, ever sure, and she held the crowd right in the palm of her hand. She was the perfect climax to this show in singing "No Moon at All," "Something Cool," a moody thing she gave everything it needed and more, "Whee, Baby," "My Heart Belongs to Only You," and "Moon Tune," a bop version of "How High the Moon."
It was a wonderful evening of musical adventure. Mr. Kenton has assembled the best musicians there are in this business of modern American jazz. Although he has many outspoken critics, he also has many fanatic fans. As he himself has said, "We're as proud of our profession as doctors or lawyers, and we're here because we're trying to the best of our ability to do something for it." This is all he needs for complete justification for his presence.