Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year, No. 30
Tuesday, Oct. 27, 1953
6 Debate Teams In Tourney After Payne-Dam Win
Only six teams remain in the debate squad tournament, after Howard Payne, college senior, and Kenneth Dam, business senior, defeated Mariorie Heard, engineering soho-
more, and Mary Ann Curtis, fine arts sophomore, in the opening match of the third round yesterday.
Payne and Dam now are tied with Richard Smith and Larry Tretbar, college juniors, for the tournament lead. Both have three wins and no losses.
Two teams have two wins and no losses, but hasn't competed in the third round. They are Letty Lemon, journalism junior, and Margaret Smith, college sophomore, and William Crews, business senior, and Dick Sheldon, college senior.
John Eland and Gary Sick, college freshmen, have a record of one win and one loss, as do William Arnold and Hubert Bell, college juniors.
Today in the third round Trethat and Smith will oppose Eland and Sick, and Crews and Sheldon will meet Arnold and Bell. Both debates are this evening.
Five teams were eliminated in the second round, and one has already been knocked out of the tournament in the third round, but the finals won't be staged before the debate with Missouri university here Thursday.
Dr. Kim Giffin, debate coach, said he had hoped to pit the team winning the squad tournament against the invading Missouri debate team.
"Because the tournament won't be completed in time, we'll have to choose the team that has done the best work so far to open the intercollegiate season," Dr. Giffin said.
Churchill-Ike Talks Sought
London —(UP)— Prime Minister Winston Churchill said today there "are few things I would like better than to have a few quiet and informal talks" with President Eisenhower.
Answering questions in the House of Commons, Mr. Churchill said also that Mr. Eisenhower would receive an enthusiastic welcome whenever he was free to visit Britain.
Laborite Arthur Lewis asked whether Mr. Churchill had arranged to see the President and whether he would invite Mr. Eisenhower here to discuss the international situation.
"I am always considering whether there might be an opportunity for a personal meeting with the President of the United States," Mr. Churchill replied, "and he is well aware of the enthusiastic welcome he would receive whenever he feels free to come to this country.
"Our two governments will continue to keep in close touch with one another about the general international situation."
Hungary's Premier Admits Food Lack
Vienna, Austria — (U.P.) — Communist Hungary's new premier, Imre Nagy, has acknowledged that his Red regime has failed so miserably in food production that there is a generate shortage of bread.
It is unprecedented public admission of failure, he told a special assembly of agricultural experts in Budapest that "insufficient bread production is the first and most important problem we have to face."
Present production, he confessed,
"cannot satisfy the needs of the people."
MERRY MASQUERADERS—Here is the troupe of Mozart's "Merry Masquerade," which will open the 1953-54 Concert Course series at 8:20 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch auditorium. The opera will be presented by Boris Goldovsky's Opera Theater group.
U.S., Reds Battle Over Germ, Torture Charges
United Nations, N.Y.—(U.P.)—Russia and the United States squared away for a new propaganda battle over documented U.S. charges that the Communists used merciless torture to obtain false germ-warfare confessions from American fliers captured in Korea.
The Russians faced almost certain repudiation-for a second time-of their well-worn charges that U.S. planes dumped disease germs on North Korean civilians.
The United States charged before the United Nations yesterday that "Soviet personnel" helped Chinese and North Korean Communists extract the widely-publicized "confessions" from American prisoners. Affidavits from 10 repatriated prisoners were submitted to back up the charges.
Soviet delegate Jacob A. Malik replied immediately to the charges, saying the American fliers repudiated their "confessions" to save themselves from punishment for treason.
The UN general assembly's main political committee resumes debate on the germ warfare issue tomorrow. The Russians will make a new attempt at adoption of a once-defeated propaganda resolution aimed at embarrassing the United States.
Introduction of the 10 American "case histories" at yesterday's session made defeat of the Soviet proposal all the more certain. The United States offered no resolution of its own, but stood on a resolution adopted last spring calling for a neutral investigation of the Communist germ warfare accusations.
The Soviet resolution would call on all nations to ratify the 1925 Geneva convention outlawing bacterial weapons. The United States never has ratified the convention on the ground it lacks any enforcement power and is only a paper agreement.
The story of how American captives suffered inhuman torture at the hands of the Communists was laid before the world assembly by Dr. Charles W. Mayo, a member of the famous family of doctors who founded the Mayo clinic. He is an American delegate to the UN.
Mayo said Russia took active leadership in the propaganda campaign to convince the world that the Americans were using bacterial weapons in Korea. This, he said, was calculated to discredit the United States in the eyes of the free world
The Communists rejected the UN-approved resolution, which would have sent neutral inspection teams to communist China and North Korea.
and thus to help isolate it from its allies."
Mayo reminded the 60-nation assembly that Soviet chief delegate Andrei Y, Vishinky "is an authority on this subject." He referred to Mr. Vishinky's role as chief prosecutor in the Communist purge trials in the 1930s when many Red leaders "confessed" to political crimes.
Mr. Vishinsky was not in the UN chamber at the time.
'Arab World Today Lecture Is Tonight
Dr. Nabih Amin Faris, first visiting Rose Morgan professor, will give the sixth lecture in the series "The Arab World Today" at 7 p.m. today in Strong auditorium. He will speak on "Moslem Seets and Schools of Thought."
Although the lecture series is a course conducted for student credit, the public is invited.
Mozart Opera Set In Hoch Tomorrow
The 1953-54 Concert Course series opens at 8:20 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch auditorium with Mozart's opera, "Merry Masquerade" by Boris Goldovsky's Opera Theater troupe.
This will be the first performance of a Mozart opera in Lawrence. The Opera Theater has received national acclaim, seven sold-out seasons, in Boston.
the performance will be conducted by Mr. Goldovsky, who is also responsible, with the well, for playing directions, and will play the piano in the orchestra.
Other cast members are Adele Addison, the soprano who recently was judged a career performance winner for an appearance with the Chicago Symphony; Jacqueline Bazin, 1952 winner of the Huntington Beeben Young Artist award; Marguerite Willeau, who has appeared frequently with the Boston Symphony orchestra; Suzanne Der Dieran, 1949 finalist of the Metropolitan Opera auditions of the air; Nancy Trickey, a CBS radio and television performer; Jacqueline Langee, featured in the original "South Pacific" company on Broadway; John McCollum, Dimitri Mitropoulos' selection as featured tenor for his "Carmen" and "Boris" presentations with the New York Philharmonic, and Raymond Smolover, who has sung leading roles for several seasons with the New York City Center Opera Company.
Composed by Mozart at the age of 18, "Merry Masquerade," was intended to satirize the stuffy, outmoded conventions of 18th century opera buffa. It had its first performance in 1774, and was an instant success.
Traffic Safety Conference Holds Session at University
Students showing their ID cards will be admitted free to tomorrow's performance. Other attractions on this season's Concert Course series are the Agnes De Mile Dance Theater; the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra; Anna Russell, concert comedienne; Paul Badura-Skoda, pianist; Clarama Turner, contralto, and a special performance of the "Caine Mutiny Court Martial" starring Henry Fonda, John Hodiak, and Lloyd Nolan.
The Kansas Conference on Traffic Safety Education, comprising 16 state organizations interested in traffic safety education, met today in the Student Union.
The role of the Podesta is being played alternately by Mac Morgan, concert and radio singer, and Arthur Schoep, the American baritone who recently returned from a concert tour of Germany and Holland.
Organizations represented were the University, Kansas State Highway commission, Kansas State Highway patrol, the office of Kansas State Superintendent of public instruction, Kansas State Teachers association, American Red Cross, Kansas Farm bureau, American Legion, Kansas Congress of Parents and Teachers, Kansas Association of Insurance Agents, Interstate Commerce commission, Kansas Motor Car dealers Association, Kansas Highway Motor Carriers association, Automobile Clubs of Kansas, Kansas Medical society, and the Kansas State Board of Health.
Each organization reported on what it had done during the past year and on future plans.
The story is set on the 18th century estate of the fabulous Podesta of Lagonero, a haughty, ancestor-conscious nobleman who boasts a family tree growing in his back yard. The action takes place in the garden, boudiors, and wine cellar of the Podesta's estate.
The group discussed possibility of a state-wide teenage congress on safety such. as those successful in
other states. Plans were made for the Governor's Safety conference Nov. 2 in Topeka.
"The purpose of this informal organization which meets once a year, is to let the other groups know what they are doing in their separate organizations and to endorse and promote joint programs," Frank Stockton, director of special projects and conference chairman, said.
"The first session was held in 1950. Since then we have supported driver education in the high schools, adult driver education, school patrols, bicycle safety, and community safety councils." he said.
Special projects sponsored by the group were the school bus driver training program and the highway carrier driver training program.
AROTC Names Honor Students
Distinguished Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps students were announced today by Col. Thomas B. Summers, professor of air science. He said, "The men were chosen on a basis of academic achievement, AFROTC achievement, and aptitude for future Air Force service."
Students designated were Robert R. Ball, college junior; Joseph E. Balloun, second year law; Wayne R. Blount, business junior; Darrell Q. Brown, college junior; John R. Bunten, business senior; Marvin Carter, engineering senior; Robert M. Clawson, engineering senior; Kenneth W. Dam, business senior; Hubert M. Dye, business senior; Delbert Fillmore, business senior.
Richard Foster, engineering senior;
Harold Henson, college senior;
John E. Hoffman, engineering senior;
Milton N. Hogue, pharmacy senior;
James L. Houghton, third year law;
Jerry C. Ivie, business junior; Douglas Kay, college senior; Charles Clarke keys, journalism senior;
Jack Kirsch, business junior; Dietrich N. Klassen, business senior; Robert L. Lamb, engineering senior.
George Mayberry, engineering senior; Homer R. Mentgomery, education junior; Frank H. Redkey, business senior; Lynn R. Osborn, graduate; Gerald C. Schafer, business senior; Paul W. Walter, business senior; Kenneth W. Wegner, graduate, and Norman G. Wilson, engineering senior.
Set Sunday Recital By Belgian Organist
Flor Peeters, Belgian organ virtuoso and composer, will present a special organ recital at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Museum of Art.
Mr. Peeters, who is organist at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Belgium in Malines and director of organ at the Royal Flemish conservatory in Antwerp, has been hailed by American and Canadian critics as one of the leading organ composers and one of the world's greatest virtuosus. The concert Sunday is free.
The Latest in Civil Defense
The Latest in Civil Defense
Topeka —(UP) — Topeka High school student Gary Gettler was asked yesterday on a history class quiz to list the best means of defense in an atomic attack. He answered: "Stormy weather."
Weather
Kansas can expect partly cloudy skies tonight and Wednesday, with using temperatures. The low tonight
m a y reach 35,
with highs in the
6 0 s tomorrow.
State weatherman
Tom Arnold predicts
no further hurricane
night or tomorrow.
Yesterday, a
few sifting flakes of snow at Goodland melted as they fell. Salina had the coldest reading of the season—an early morning low temperature that reached 24 degrees. Clouds kept the eastern and western part of the state warmer, but a mid-Kansas area bounded by Salina, Hutchinson, and Emporia had freezing temperatures.